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You are absolutely correct about /s/Lenin/Stalin. I realized the mistake when it was too late to edit.

I did have my share of discussions with Trotskyists, especially in Europe, so I wouldn't say only stalinists are left nowadays.
> What free speech advocates ignore here is that even they generally draw a line somewhere. Death threats, defamation, pedophilia, sharing bomb making materials etc are usually accepted by everyone to not be acceptable.

Assuming we're talking about the abstract concept of free speech (as opposed to 1A, which dictates what the US government is allowed to censor), the "line" is around expression of ideas. A death threat isn't "expressing an idea", it's coercing someone with violence. Similarly "harassment" which you didn't mention, falls out of bounds of speech because it violates another's right of association (you have the right to speak, but you can't force me to listen). Pedophilia obviously isn't an expression of an idea, although pedophilic advocacy, while repugnant, is still in bounds of free speech by definition.

Whether platforms are obliged to adhere to a "free speech" standard is a different question. Personally, I think so much of our speech is flowing through a handful of these large platforms that they are the de facto public square, and should be regulated accordingly or broken up. Even if they could articulate a clear moderation policy and enforce it fairly, simply having that much power to determine who sees what content for so many citizens is concerning. Even if you're a liberal or progressive and thus largely enjoy the alleged bias in platforms' moderation policies/enforcement, recall that in 2016-2017 we were virtually certain that Russia was manipulating Twitter to influence the US presidential election--if you believe Russia can indirectly influence our elections via Twitter, then it necessarily follows that Twitter can directly influence our elections and surely that's too much power to give to a corporation.

> 'But those are different' is usually the argument here. But why though? Because they cause harm? Doesn't inciting racial hatred cause harm?

I think the issue is that many don't trust platforms to enforce their own policies consistently. On Twitter for example, one gets the impression that it's okay to incite racial hatred toward whites, Asians, Jews, and even "ideologically diverse" blacks/etc, which is to say that the policy is neutral but the enforcement is biased--and that biased enforcement constitutes harm. Of course, a racist might respond "Good, we should punish whites, Asians, and Jews for their race because historically other whites, Asians, and Jews have enjoyed various advantages because of their race", but presumably the goal is to minimize racism.
>If you oppose the idea that Black Lives Matter, that's a white supremacist talking point.

No it's not. It's a factual, logical talking point. If you oppose the idea that Black lives matter, then you're being a racist. Black Lives Matter != Black lives matter

>If [anonymous, spontaneously organizing locals counter-protesting white supremacists aka] Anti-fascists oppose you...it's because you're being an asshole.

"We call ourselves the Anti-Bad Guy squad and we label our opponents Bad Guys. How can people not understand this? We can never be terrorists because we're fighting the Bad Guys. It's so simple to understand. Everything we do is justified because of our name."[0]

You've become so predictable (NPC) someone meme'd you years ago.

[0] https://img.ifunny.co/images/9417ddbc95c84c211735c10ddb52b2a...
How does twitter.com make JPEG profile images transparent?
"More effective discourse" is probably far too aspirational a goal for lawmakers/government. It's also probably too subjective.

Less violence, on the other hand, is a clearer goal that aligns with existing laws against violence, so it has a firmer basis, in line with existing restrictions on speech. It also gives you a non-partisan measuring stick.

Private platforms, on the other hand, will have more flexibility in trying to maintain, say, discussion quality as a goal (see HN's stated moderation goals vs Reddit's). Or disinformation, or language/profanity, or whatever else a private moderator may choose.

The government telling those private parties that they can't set their own standards, though, seems like a particularly terrible direction to go.
I don't claim that original intent has any bearing on copyrights/patents being enforceable or legitimate. Similar to the 18th Amendment vs. the Volstead Act, the Constitution merely authorizes the power to the state, while specific laws of Congress handle the details.

I'm making the upstream normative claim: so long as we have intellectual property (there are certainly moral and practical arguments against it), laws passed by Congress should reflect that intent: that temporary artificial monopolies also carry positive externalities to society at large. While incentives for creation are certainly part of that story, I think there is a strong case for reforming that balance: shortening copyrights, limiting/eliminating patents on software and business methods, and strengthening fair use and consumer rights.
There's more to that story ... in fact, the metadata special device was not the magic bullet we hoped it would be.

The real magic bullet was changing the "freezing" process where we transform 'borg' the python script into 'borg' the binary executable.

You'll see a full writeup of this in the Q4 technical notes :)
does web components have a usable templating language? last time I checked there was some kind of mysterious slot update thing that made interface code 2-3x bigger
As Thiel says, (in whatever form it ultimately takes) the free market is a selector for monopolies. At peak capitalism, you still have start ups competing with an increasingly low chance of success excepting scandals...which are inevitable in large organizations.

The biggest companies are basically utilities and that will not change anytime soon. The market has resulted in this condition. The government has to play catchup, as usual.
It gives the other person the feeling that you actually listen to what they are saying IMHO.
Does Google search seem down or slow for anyone else (as of 2021-09-29)?
If there was a cheap and effective vaccine against heart disease that would reduce the yearly death rate by 90% and require no other change in lifestyle then yes, I would be for banning misinformation and lies about that too.
I was tempted to do this but am concerned that VLANs are not a security boundary, this might expose the switch’s control plane to WAN, and the Pi has a failure prone micro SD card. The Pi 4 CPU is faster than most consumer routers and can shape a gigabit!

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-02/bh-us-02-co...
In practice, video inspired image compression techniques (i.e. HEVC Main Still Picture) will do a significantly better job on that masonry brickwork image.

The algorithm is already looking for patches of image that have moved by possibly hundreds of pixels (to sub pixel accuracy) both within a single frame, and across multiple frames.

Basically, it'll find a patch of image that, when shifted horizontally and vertically by a certain amount, looks pretty close to the patch of image that it's trying to encode. The compressor will then say "just copy that region that you decompressed half a frame ago to here first, and now the residual values I give you are differences between the first patch and the second."

Even if the brick / mortar phase is slightly off (e.g. from perspective or lens effects), this will give you about an order of magnitude more compression efficiency (and perceptual quality) than anything that tries to use color depth to preserve edges.
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The Emacs maintainers seem fairly conservative about changes to the Emacs runtime, but they have managed a number of extensive changes. It even has JIT compiling now.

Partly this is because the nature of the Lisp language makes these changes easier, but it is also the case that many “extensions” are actually included with Emacs. There are over a 1.5 million lines of lisp code that are included in the Emacs repository, though most of them are not enabled by most users.

Other extensions come from a wide variety of sources (and of course many users write their own code), but over the last 10 years most of them have been moved into installable packages hosted on elpa.gnu.org. There is a little over a million lines of code there.

It takes just a couple of minutes to check out both git repositories (for Emacs and ELPA), so any time you want to change something in Emacs it is quite easy to search all of that and find out exactly what, if anything, you might break.
Off topic, but as an astronomer I have to dispute your characterization of the development of heliocentric theory. Around the time of Copernicus and Galileo heliocentrism was a radical idea, but it also had a number of problems. Astronomers of the time expected that if heliocentrism was true and the Earth was moving we should observe parallax of the stars as the Earth orbits the Sun. But no such parallax was observed (and it took another three centuries before telescopes were good enough to measure this phenomenon). In fact it was more than 150 years before any direct proof of the Earth's motion was found (from a measurement of the aberration of light at the end of the 17th century).

Of course Galileo was put under house arrest and Bruno was burned at the stake, but in the case of Galileo, the reasons were more political in nature (going out of his way to insult the pope), and in the case of Bruno it was because of his heretical theological ideas (like the idea that the Trinity doesn't exist) rather than his scientific ideas. That doesn't excuse the Church's actions, but they really just weren't all that interested in the science.
https://archive.is/Ao5oG
The reason so many blogs have "stock images of people in suits doing business" is because when the article is submitted to a social media app, the app scrapes the blog looking for an image to use as a thumbnail for the link. Pages with no image, get a default thumbnail and users don't click it. The entire reason so many pages on the web have some generic image from unsplash is because of these thumbnails.

This means that the main meaningful way users will see the image is resized as a thumbnail, so before you start dithering, you should really test to see how the resized dithered image looks. Odds are good it will not look good.
I have wondered lately whether the anti-vax movement gains much of its power from the fact that most Americans don’t have a primary care physician anymore. I think almost any skeptic is convinced once they speak with a doctor they trust, who has read their chart. But most folks just visit doc-in-a-box places for their medical needs, especially in the last 10 years. I think this is bad for a lot of longer-term (public) health outcomes, one example being vaccination rates.
This is a bit gatekeep-y. Who defines what is trash and not significant. There are 7 billion people on earth, do you think the same things need to be equally relevant to everyone? Something you might find trash can have enormous impact on someone else's life. One of my favorite entertainment products is pro wrestling, many, many people consider it trash. Should it be thrown out?
Monopolies like Youtube should be prevented from censoring content.
With the traffic and gravity that YouTube etc have, they're almost as powerful news broadcasting tools as the classic news media.

True, they're a private company and liable for some things, but they all try to squeeze out every last cent before a government intervention.

Banning content like crypto, anti vax, gambling etc is understandable, but all the people without a voice will think they are silenced because they know the truth.

If we as society accept that, we should not claim to be any better than china, Russia, Cuba, it's just a slightly different approach, the end result is the same, undesired content is deplatformed.

By the way, I am a rationalist and never believe conspiracy theories, but I do get a good laugh out of them at times and how the people use counter arguments helps me to think in more perspectives.
>but the FAANG index in which each company is worth at least $100 billion has pretty much beaten everything else since 2009.

The companies that have seen the largest growth, amid the longest bull market in history, have beaten everything else?

Isn't that pretty much a tautology?
This is some of the dumbest clickbait yet, and even more annoying is that I clicked on it.

Is it ever okay to get high with a client? Duh of course it is. In the same way it is sometimes okay to drink with a client. Or share a meal with a client. Or go skydiving with a client. Context is everything. Why can't we just let people be people and not be so uptight about made-up rules?
It would be useful for people to look up what the definition of a cult is and try and determine which side of the Covid vaccine debate that applies to.
A plausible hypothesis, but needs data.
How good is the battery life for the prototype headsets? If the headset is small enough and lasts long enough, I could totally see myself tossing it in my backpack instead of a laptop.
>socket_domain [ ipv4 | ipv6 ]

>By default, a listener will attempt to listen on all supported IP protocol versions.

>If you do not have an IPv4 or IPv6 interface you may wish to disable support for either of those protocol versions. In particular, note that due to the limitations of the websockets library, it will only ever attempt to open IPv6 sockets if IPv6 support is compiled in, and so will fail if IPv6 is not available.

From the manual. Huh, seems like I might’ve misunderstood this paragraph. But I was only ever able to access the broker if the browser was using an ipv6 address. I’ll have to test again I suppose. Still, the performance and reliability was not good.
Vaccination was developed over 200 years ago, and it saved millions of lives ever since. Only the most crazy people would dispute its effectiveness or insinuate that some sort of hidden powers wanted to poison humanity.

Now when did this group of crazy people become so large that they start confusing people who don‘t have the intellectual capacity to get informed by reading serious sources.

My gut feeling tells me it is not about vaccination per se. But that‘s another topic.
> How do you propose to deal with unpopular opinions that turn out to be correct with this method?

Multiple tiers of signal (forums open to wider ideas that are, perhaps, more private than YouTube. Additionally, academic forums where people with relevant background can hash things out). I don't think the "everyone can see everything" Facebook / YouTube / Twitter model has been proven to work for difficult and sensitive topics.

YouTube is just not one of the places the messy conversations are safe to have. It's a cat-video host, not a pathology research organization or academic community (nor does it seem it wants to be).

> Also (and related) how do you propose to deal with corruption?

I don't know, but I think there's a burden of proof that the open model prevents corruption (assuming open is what we have now). It's massively vulnerable to propaganda and information distortion based on amount of effort put into amplify signal, not truth of information in signal. People with little background in a technical subject to lean on when exercising their critical thinking are very vulnerable to the notion "Everybody is saying it, so it must be true," and when you couple that to bubble effects I worry we see bad results.

The "wisdom of crowds" was always an experiment. It's possible for the experiment to fail.
"Some day I hope there will be a Raspberry Pi with two network interfaces."

You can do this right now with an CM4 attached to the seeed studios dual ethernet carrier:

https://www.seeedstudio.com/Rapberry-Pi-CM4-Dual-GbE-Carrier...
I don’t see the connection
Tho this might be true, I wonder how would one utilize this technique?

For example, if you have someone who is total avaxx, how should you make him feel in order to change his mind?
It's a piece of tangible performance art, which is unusual and not the medium they expected.
> Ojeda said that he had been invited to Rustconf this year, which was a good sign, but then his submission on Rust in the kernel was rejected — a less-good sign. The consideration of Rust for the kernel was then highlighted at that conference, though, so there is definitely some interest in the Rust community at some level.

Why was the submission rejected?
There is a tutorial for Windows assembler somewhere - it taught how to make OLE calls directly from asm. Somehow I thought it looked MUCH simpler in asm than in C++. No pesky types and no weird cast errors.
> Who cares if they do more than 150 FPS

I don't, but you said "almost C like".
Even though this is awesome as it affects everything using the LLVM toolchain, I fear that for Rust, percentages won't suffice. Rust needs multi X speedups.

Rusts zero cost abstractions aren't free at all, you pay with compile time, and they ain't cheap.
Yeah, this ends up being compelling from the business side as well. If you have mission-critical systems running on OSS software then it is absolutely worth it to have access to the maintainers in case you run into serious issues or need a bugfix prioritized.

From the maintainer side it can be a bit tricky though. Typically the finance will want to pay another corporation, so the maintainer would need to create some sort of legal entity to bill with. The other potential issues would be around legal liability in case something goes sideways. You run the risk of getting sued if you don't provide a level of support that some corporate client is expecting.
I'm sorry to hear that. I just recently became a parent myself so I can imagine how much that would suck.

It sounds like your pediatrician is taking extreme precautions to protect their healthier patients and don't see the risks of treatng a fever worth the value it could provide.

Do you feel that the doctor would feel more comfortable treating all patients if everyone on the planet were vaccinated?
If only vaccine mandates were a new thing...

I remember having to provide vaccine proof to get my kids into public school, when enrolling them into college. How is this a new thing? Why is it such a big deal now? Why are these people kicking up such a fuss now?

The reason: GOP makes money and gains power by proving people will believe anything they say. This is a blind power grab and the only reason it is an issue is because it is a great talking point. Tucker Carlson and the like are only doing this to get money, why no one sees that is beyond me.
I've also been vaccinated twice and think that this is a slippery slope we have been going down for quite a while.
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No: the words of Halprin were not that "information will be censored that denies that «vaccines save lives»". And if such position existed, I want to hear about it: it may come from a fool, it may come from someone reliable, I cannot know in advance.

And "saving lives" must be put in context: it is a generic objective, not a justification for censorship.
mRNA vaccines and UGC platform censorship are both on topic for "tech" and "science".
And this is one of the origins 1974 Chevrolet C10 Custom 3MT: Regular Car Reviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeT6LspPPFQ heavy cheaply made piece of shit with a cult status
But we do expect any company which raises VC money to pay out to the VCs according to their shares when a buyout happens. That's because VCs don't buy code, they buy a risky promise of future wealth.

By contrast, public funding for code is buying code (at least in theory).
And what exactly is the difference in your mind between "moderating" and "censoring" here? They seem exactly the same to me: both involve some other party deciding what is and is not acceptable to be published.
I have a few small-time OSS projects, the most popular only has ~50 stars on GitHub.

A couple of years back, someone asked if they could donate $250 to me - that was the first (and until now, only) time anyone did such a thing. I was really happy about it - not so much about the money, but more the fact they liked the project so much they were willing to hand over money.

Anyway, I asked if they could donate it to a charity instead, and I suggested a few that have personal meaning. They were quite happy with that, and actually donated $500 instead :)
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Yes?
If we continue to allow explicit censoring this will become normal.
As Upton Sinclair wrote:

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
oh, true. found some pro marijuana sites that said it came from marijuana, but per more reputable sites it's just contained in marijuana, but derived from hemp. Thanks!
>the FAANG index in which each company is worth at least $100 billion has pretty much beaten everything else since 2009.

In some sense I think this speaks more to the way that the US regulatory framework allows dominant players in a given market segment to retain and reinforce their dominance.

You can argue that these type of investments are "quality" or "safe", but the reasoning behind that label isn't going to be based on any kind financial analysis. There's no path to dethroning these giants or constraining them in any significant way, and as a result they're insulated from market fluctuations that might crash the price of a smaller player.

That's all without going into the feedback loop of safe investments -> more investors -> higher price (or price stability) -> upgraded safety rating -> algorithmic rebalancing of index funds -> higher price -> etc.
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No I think it's quite fair to view the PPC platform as anti-vaxx - the PPC has openly rejected provincial mask mandates and embraced disinformation. Bernier himself has avoided making any direct statements but he has surrounded himself with virulent anti-vaxxers.
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I am American, but I believe the American view of "we must allow everything so that important things aren't censored" is wrong. I believe it is possible to avoid the slippery slope and just ban certain things. For example, Nazi images are banned in Germany. In a sense, banning anti-vaccine propaganda is an even more important issue.
We use cloudmqtt at work and we've been really impressed by the price and quality of the product. You made it not worth hosting our own instance!
Sadly, NPR is a bad example because they are hardly publicly funded and their content is pretty biased (I'm a moderate liberal and NPR definitely feels like it's left of me, even if they're typically more civil than other media outlets).
Here's not vague at all: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

Maybe Sweden was lucky.
Homosexuality in general was effectively banned by dominant platforms in the US for quite some time! It was a BIG DEAL to people when gay characters started becoming more common in mass media.

But note the order it happened. The privately-set standards moved with the times much faster than the government ones did!

Writers/tv execs/etc heard both the pro-equality arguments as well as the anti-homosexuality arguments and made their own choices as they were persuaded to. Many states, on the other hand, never legalized gay marriage before the court decision overruled their laws.

So that seems to show that we should empower private parties to have control over what their platform shows, over either the government or just the loudest mobs (there were MANY protests/boycott threats/etc from religious groups over this). The market gives this the advantage over the government here: the private publisher can test what sells, and over time is going to be increasingly forced to move with societal changes, while the government is much more likely to be captive to small-but-loud contingencies (especially in a gerrymandered world).