skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically there were two modes of distribution, "publishers" and "common carriers".

Publishers (like newspapers) had full control over their content, and also had full responsibility for it (e.g., if they printed something libelous, they could be sued).

Common carriers (like the phone company) had no control over the content, and no responsibility for it, either (you couldn't sue the phone company if someone used the phone to plan a crime, for instance).

Google and their ilk want to have it both ways. They want the full control of publishers, and the zero responsibility of common carriers.

Historically, power without responsibility has invariably been a recipe for abuse.

I think they should have to choose one or the other.
As a government censor it is very pleasing to see commercial companies go above and beyond like this. In the old days I would have to threaten legal action before they instituted preemptive policies. Now all I have to do is wait for an internal group to raise an inclusion/exclusion/psychic violence issue and they'll grant themselves all sorts of broad policing authority. Saves me a whole lot of trouble I can tell you that much!

</sarcasm>
I’ve never worked with fiber optics but I wonder if that’s the point of the recirculating loop i.e. use a shorter fiber but run the signal through it multiple times to simulate a longer length.
Google will gladly distribute public PDFs that say the elimination of Jews "must necessarily be a bloody process," presented as truth with no evidence.

Why do they get to be the arbiter of what information deserves presentation as truth with no evidence, when they allow Mein Kampf to be presented as such?

This is all assuming that setting a file to public in Google Drive is considered "presenting it as the truth with no evidence."
I don't really remember all the facts, but it seems that you cherry picked some of them so it happens to point at Mossad directly.

If i remember correctly it's unclear which particular agencies Epstein could be a part of/have cover from, so it's better to not point at Israel alone
We don't know that happened to them, or to any other human species for that matter.

But we're pretty sure we obliterated a entire species in our way up the food chain ( giant marsupials for example)
if you have a day or two in one spot, it's easy enough to purify surface water with a 50-gallon food-grade drum for settling and a few capfuls of bleach. they operate in pretty remote wilderness and may even be upstream of the cocaine labs where there won't be too much contamination.

the process can be accelerated with a simple gravel and sand filter, and if you're thirsty enough nobody really minds crunchy water
It's even in the name, it's google's drive, not my drive, why would i expect otherwise
There are ethical concerns but I think we'll just learn to live with it.
Forging signatures are easy and have been around forever but signatures are still used for very important purposes (even electronically now!).
It may take a while for the legal system to catch up and using voice recordings as evidence may be tricker than before.

But on a more exciting front, I think synthetic voice can be made like fonts.
Celebrities and voice actors will be able to sell their synthetic voice like how fonts are sold today.
You'll be able to change the voice of your Alexa, Siri to a voice you downloaded from a marketplace.
Netflix may even let you select the narrator's voice for your favorite documentary.
Hundreds of years later, people may be watching a documentary in Morgan Freeman's voice while having no idea that he was actually a famous actor in the past.
True, solar and nuclear need a bit more tech, but wind and hydro are quite simple they need a bit of wire, magnet and something to spin.
"If you want your left-wing gasoline create it. Shell,Citgo, Exxon,etc are in no obligation to give it to you. Go and extract your own oil and refine it."
I just want something like this for my next kidney transplant, I'm so sick of the meds, yes I'm blessed to be alive and living a really good life, but man the 2nd kidney is starting to give me anxiety. Context: Transplant isn't a cure to my autoimmune disease, it will slowly pick away at the graft and have me needing another. Love reading about this kind of stuff.
> I don't understand why most functional governments didn't eventually have a monthly care package of "here's your masks, hand sanitizer, the latest newsletter, and your stimulus check".

Partly because it isn’t the role of government to “give” you things you might want while they are paid for with foreign debt in box.
Do you mean ads?
"Man, I really wish people would focus on discussing something more impactful than the same old procedural arguments".

Hah! By saying that you're also not focusing on the real issue. Got You! Hypocrite much? /s
If you can traverse interstellar space you are pretty much required to "live off the land" as you go and especially so once you reach your destination. This means you possess the ability to produce all of the energy, food, material, etc. required for a civilization to exist from what is present in either interstellar space or a solar system. If we put our sci-fi hats on we can imagine a perfect system of recycling and matter conversion that can keep a massive generational ship functioning with the only input being hydrogen scooped from the space it crosses. If you possess that level of sophistication then you really could live anywhere. That gives you plenty of living space with little motivation to pre-emptively attack others.
I like to wander around art museums, and on one visit, I shared a gallery with what seemed like a private tour group.

One woman was conducting the tour for three people, when they stopped at one of these all-white paintings.

She was describing the potential meaning behind the work, and noted that sometimes the artist expresses textures, or covers some background work.

It's hard to describe, but I felt this sort of absurdist joy when I watched all four of them lean in very closely for half a minute, only to discover absolutely nothing unique about the work in its texture or color.

Maybe sometimes art isn't made for the observer, but the observer's observer.
Intel might spend $30 bln to slim down
> At least with C/C++ you KNOW you've got a problem, and have to reason about the problem carefully. With Rust, you THINK you've solved the problem, but have you?

Having written C and C++ for about a decade and Rust for about 2 years now, I don't think this is accurate: people don't reason any more carefully about C and C++ than other languages, and neither language (even in their safer subsets) encourages methodical safety thinking.

This is in direct contrast to Rust's absolute requirement that you annotate anything that isn't already safe by construction with an `unsafe` keyword. You might be wrong about the safety of whatever you're constructing, but that alone is a significantly more methodical and careful approach to encapsulating the "weak" parts of programs.
we gain immunity in the sense that we no longer accept every image as representing absolute truth

GPs whole point about body image is that, as a society, we don't have that immunity. Basically no one has a healthy ideal of what a good body image is because we never even get to see them.
New housing developments almost always will raze a decades old building with 3 or 4 apartments per floor for a shiny new building with 1 or 2 "luxury" apartments per floor. This is partly due to zoning (affordable housing is effectively illegal at a municipal level) and partly due to the housing market (the working class cannot afford to purchase new housing, they must rent the old).
Trade is essential the continued survival of all countries, free market or not. Otherwise the concept of embargoes wouldn't work.
Yeah, well that's fine and all. But you're also not exactly talking about the ancient Chinese practice of submitting to the Emperor either. There are no Chinese emperors, and kowtow is not a contemporary custom. So, no, you aren't doing what you are saying you are doing. You are using the word to have the meaning it has acquired in Europe and America.

So why is it that when we talk about Western relationships with China the word kowtow comes up so often? What does it add? Why does it suggest itself? Maybe wrestle with that for a while.

This isn't about you.
This recently got worse, they claimed to have the OK from his widow. Turns out not so much ...

https://twitter.com/OttaviaBourdain/status/14158894550057164...
No I will not.

Life isn't a computer program that you can define with EXTREMELY specific if statements, like HN likes to believe.

So I'm happy with statements such as "Content that is demonstrably false" from google. And I can be in favour of supporting more regulation, but also against regulation that's demonstrably harmful even if I can't write you an extremely specific definition of what harmful of "demonstrably false" is that would cover every single imaginable edge case.
I'm honestly surprised by these comments. You can't demand that everyone works without also demanding that there is demand for all work.

You know, there is a free lunch in the sense that there is no point in increasing productivity when you have already saturated demand and therefore increasing demand (even through artificial means) allows increases in productivity to become viable again. We've seen it with slavery and societies with a huge lower class. The middle class and above don't value labor because it is so plentiful and therefore don't use it efficiently and end up wasting it on useless things. Zombie companies are the extreme case of this. You have so many "useless" people working on bullshit jobs that you can have entire "useless" companies!

"It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; but if there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, the above would be better than nothing." - some dude
If you're saying US companies (that classify as whatever you're defining them as) should be forced to carry all legal speech, no matter how terrible or cruel or provocative it is, I'd be okay with this, and that means literally all spam, and that admins would not be able to moderate any legal speech. If it's any less than this, I'm not okay with what you're advocating for.

And effectively this would turn these sites into platforms that are so filled with trash they will be unusable. And the chaotic part of me would love to see that happen. But it means basically the end of these companies to function.

Realistically, I think we should keep to the standard we've had in the past: we can't compel companies to host speech they disagree with, and we should take strong measures to limit their anti-competitive behavior and break them up into competing companies if necessary (like we did with telecom)
No one will ever be able to explain op-amps to me satisfactorily. I am too dense. But I am endlessly fascinated by them. Analog circuits have (re)kindled a love for electronics in me.
Probably. And reframing it that way would make sense, for some people. But it’s not what I was interested in when looking into it.

My question was "Could this lead to some improvements on the best experience I’ve had so far in VR?"

Not "What does this mean for devices I have never cared for?"

But I definitely see your point; it’s just not what I am interested in ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Unfortunately, mathematical systems without some mathematical (i.e. non-"logical") axioms are quite limited

What's an example without any axioms? It doesn't seem like you can do anything without say ∀x: x=x (which I believe is reciprocal identity.)
This historical example comes to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town.
> Between 2010-2016 was the golden age for these companies actually being free and open.

It was in the early part of the 2010's that Google, Twitter and others started censoring Islamic content in the name of antiterrorism and stopping the spread of extremism on their platforms.
> ”Maximum security prison” - which is rather the regular security jail

IIRC, he was in a SHU, which is closer to the former than the latter.

> where he had been taken off suicide watch, and whose camera system, which was covering his corridor, was out of order. Plus the guards didn’t really seem to pay much attention.

That's definitely conspiracy theory fodder, but little more than that.
A friend had 5 months turnaround time in 2019. There weren't any issues with the PR, in fact the maintainers have not commented on it and merged it directly. Just after 5 months.

Meanwhile updates to existing entries were handled within hours. Since then the PSL has just been this thing that shouldn't be centralized if some people get preferential treatment in my mind.

Happy to see they seem to have gotten better at getting through PRs in the timely manner, despite the sudden iOS surge that hit somewhat recently.
I never understood that logic.

You can write perfectly safe code in C where virtually everything is unsafe in the sense of the unsafe keyword.

To my understanding, the idea of unsafe is that you now leave the guard rails that Rust provides and have to think for yourself.
They can only be sued now because they are trying to filter out content. Therefore anything remaining is intentional.

I think it would be better to not take proactive filtering based on what they think is misleading and to instead rely on legal judgements to remove info.

Misleading people isn’t illegal (in the US at least, currently). There are situations where it is and that would be a good line for Google to take.

Now I want them to be sued enough times to make them stop doing this.
The lack of an "and" between "delete inflammatory content" and "block users" unambiguously makes it a list of three items. The oxford comma, while useful, is not necessary here.
I wish they'd show the outputs next to the source, not just the input. They've created something convincing looking, but how true is it to what was actually there?
With respect, no speech should be illegal, regardless of how absurd, abhorrent, or inaccurate the speech is to anyone. Free speech is fundamental to a truly free society, full stop.
As the article points out, the real top 3 is:

1. BBK (Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, and Realme)

2. Samsung

3. Xiaomi
YouTube would be literally interfering with a democratic election. If threat is too strong a word, fine. But you can't deny that they are actively participating in public elections. We want that? We want to privatize democracy? I don't.
Disingenuous headline! Scientists have been saying climate (and local weather) would become more extreme since at least mid 1970's, politians and much of Capital chose to ignore and sideline the science. Obviously climate is terribly complicated, so 'worse' should be enough for rational people to respond.
The article mentions Choco, the wettest place in the world. Daily rainfall and a banana leaf should do you right.
All your competitors need oil to be competitive, control of such valuable resources otherwise up for grabs is of high strategic priority.
No, EndeavourOS is a nice, easy installer for Arch. You use Calamares and either select packages, or groups of packages in GUI, or/and provide a list of packages in a text file for Calamares to pick up during the install. You can even ignore Calamares altogether and just use Live OS to install Arch kind of the usual way, but from a comfort of a graphical environment; i.e., multiple pseudo TTYs, no need to configure WiFi, with a full-fledged GUI browser (Firefox), etc.

Manjaro Live OS can't be used to install vanilla Arch. Manjaro uses its own package repositories that differ significantly from the Arch repos, in terms of versions (which are held back for at least a couple of weeks) and in terms of which packages are available (quite a few AUR packages are present in the Manjaro's repositories).
Isn't US Civil Rights movement notable for its nonviolence overall? MLK emphasized asserting basic human rights, so that the violence of the state should be seen more clearly by contrast.

The US revolutionary movement might be a more clear example where violent action was decisive.
If advertising works on average, then there is a discussion about ethics that is worth having.

Falling back on individual responsibility might be popular but it is absolutely a cop out. We're playing a numbers game with public health in an adversarial environment. Relying absolutely on what individuals could or should do isn't going to help us win that game.
Actually, there are no ceramics in Chobham armor.

https://below-the-turret-ring.blogspot.com/2016/03/chobham-a...
Your tax money at work: govt attacking citizens who didn't hurt a fly.
You've got a fantastic point. It reminds me of Chinese history, full of war between clans until it was finally United.

What I keep thinking about is that we are all... Humans. Like, the same animal, same way of thinking etc. And yet our answer so many times is conflict.

The only reason conquerors didn't kill all the conquered was for taxes and slaves and so on. Imagine if resources were not an issue ( advanced enough tech) and you wanted to avoid confrontation.

Sending a near light speed bullet to explode a star seems a good trade-off to keep your dominance.
Let's not forget that there are other languages that are memory safe and might be good enough for many tasks, so limiting the comparison only with C/C++ feels unfair to me.
> Please tell me why a private company should be forced to host content that they fundamentally disagree with.

Prior to the civil rights act, companies didn’t serve certain people based on their race because they disagreed with that race.

It’s not that Google should be forced to carry stuff, they should be forced to not discriminate because they don’t like it. ISIS propaganda is illegal and should be taken down for that reason.
>But isn't the flip side of all this censorship a reduced ability for people to tell bullshit from reality?

No. People have limited processing cycles in their heads, and you never notice the bullshit you fall for, so you can't correct for errors you're making. Critical thinking skills are great, but they don't provide you expert-level knowledge in every field, nor can they. Sometimes your educated heuristics are just plain wrong and someone else has better information you don't have access to. I see this all the time here with content in my field - developers just get law wrong all the time.

You might remember an era when email inboxes were FLOODED with a deluge of dick pills, get rich quick schemes, Nigerian prince scams, and other low-effort, low-value content. Sure you might be able to avoid clicking on garbage, but the general health of your inbox declined dramatically.

Does that mean society is going to end because we've trampled upon the rights of the latest Cialis replacement to spam my inboxes? Probably not.
Crash your iOS 14.6 keyboard by trying to delete: 睷睷睷
Do you have data to support that by any chance,
I’ve heard old axioms, but nothing more than that.
Are there any studies on "I can tell from some of the pixels"? Over the years I keep coming across both people (and myself) on internets being correct on 'shopped photos while masses belivied in. Is this just down to familiarity with software and a health bit of skepticism?
I wouldn’t prescribe veg, but certainly make it tax-free.
Most use capital to refer to power/wealth, so Bohemians still are not terrible at capitalism in that regard.
That doesn't make it OK to lie.
If every house had a 3d printer, or a milling machine, or a small chip fab, or insert home manufacturing machine here, they would be far less dependent on a handful of established players for things like replacement parts etc. And much more immune against government regulation seeking to control thme and what they can buy/own/do.
Apple probably realized that selling monthly, renewable subscriptions to "the cloud" allows them to squeeze more money out of their users than a one time sale of a NAS appliance.
Imagine if Britain had this same technology when the USA was founded... It of course would have quickly cracked down on communications and it would have done so in the name of "peace" and "what's right"...

This idea that thinking critically of a government and even believing that perhaps the government as it stands today is not the government "of and for the people" (sure could be interpreted as anti-democracy by that same corrupt government)... And maybe that's not correct, but who is the government to say that we can or cannot challenge them in public discourse as it is supposedly protected under the first amendment?

This is indeed an insanely slippery slope and people willing to trade their freedoms because they think it's for the ultimate good, I think are really making a mistake... it's not difficult to understand that this is one of the first steps of an actual fundamentally corrupt government... This is easily open to abuse and vast interpretation.
Do you have a source for this? My understanding was that DU armor was the only difference in armor on export versions (Kuwait, SA, Egypt).
> I am grateful that I have a symmetric ftth connection. Information (correct or incorrect) needs to be free - as in Free to be expressed; Free to be ridiculed; Free to be disseminated; Free to be discussed; Free to be exposed to the light of day.

You have a symmetric FTTH connection for now. Host something somebody considers too offensive and they'll get your connection pulled. We don't hear about this because essentially nobody hosts their own stuff at home, but all it would take is identifying the ASN of your IP address and making a sufficiently loud noise on Twitter.
That's crazy.

Twice in the last week a comment of mine got blocked on Facebook for violating policies. In the first case, I posted a link to an EPA website and a screenshot of a graph posted on it, showing a reduction in smog in the last 10 years compared to 1987. In the second, I pasted a screenshot of something from the CDC's COVID Tracking site and a link to a British research paper on the efficacy of the vaccines wrt the delta variant. In the second case, my link was broken somehow, which might have contributed to the problem somehow?

They never went back up.
Oh c'mon. Don't be thaaaat blinded by ideology.

People love to shit on Oracle, IBM, etc when they bungle yet another big project that was supposed to fix something.
If you download with Galaxy, can you remove the game from Galaxy and play it without Galaxy/DRM?
I actually laughed out loud.
You are putting words in my mouth.

In fact, if humanism is about human agency, then I am saying that police officers who give themselves the right to shoot people are violating humanism because they violate the agency of others.

That said, rejecting God, rather His principles, will lead to authoritarianism because as man turns away from the principles of correct living, he becomes more of an animal and must be governed. Thus, authoritarianism arises.