skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>One side says not using someone's preferred pronouns is intolerant to their gender identity. The other side says being forced to use them is intolerant to their religious beliefs. Now what? Tie goes to the one with the most guns?

Except the paradox of tolerance clearly states that simple disagreement isn't intolerance, nor does it prefer censorship in all cases of disagreement, so your scenario isn't a refutation of it:

In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress
the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational
argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly
be most unwise.

What the paradox of tolerance considers to be intolerance, and thus open for censorship, are views which do not allow for rational debate, or respect the existence of opposing viewpoints, but which resort to violent suppression of those viewpoints and the people who hold them:

But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it
may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational
argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to
listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer
arguments by the use of their fists or pistols.

That seems like a clear principled line to me.
The ACLU sued in order to force the local government to allow the marches to take place. They were quite literally demanding that a platform (the city streets) be provided for the speech they wanted to have.
Any system that outlives the author has intrinsic value that others recognize. So make a page that others want to keep alive.
Fake shutters make me angry (2018)
Well it is cloudy outside today.
> But my lawn is not a platform.

Sure it is. It's a platform of one.

Or are you now saying these rights kinda depend? If so, what's the threshold? What makes your lawn special? Does it need to be a particularly big lawn? Do you need to have control of a lot of different lawns? I'm really confused. You seemed so certain that free speech was an absolute right, and that I can force others to amplify my speech, but now here you are suggesting there may be caveats...

> Free software is not really about free speech, but usually both philosophies are held together since they are somewhat related.

According to you. I certainly don't see them as being connected whatsoever.

Maybe your real problem is you and FDroid see the purpose of open source and free software differently.
What about biological or habitual adaptation, maybe call it acclimation? People in different climates will have different ways of maintaining homeostasis relative to the weather and technological adaptations they have available for it. If you live your life in high heat environments, your habits and to some degree your body will adapt to keep you cool.

If heart attacks are a significant component, then maybe some of these deaths can be explained by what amounts to shock from one's baseline?
Ask HN: Favorite Learning Videos?
What are your favorite learning videos that are free that have been so helpful to you, that you would have paid for them if they were not free?

For me right now, their is a channel Adobe in a Minute that is helping me to get up to speed learning adobe premier pro.

Khan Academy has been super useful for kids.
You are already using Github. Someone tells you you need to publish exactly the source code that your company's deploying. The repo containing that code is not on Github. The easiest way to get ahold of that code, with any certainty that it's exactly what's actually running, but nothing else, is to grab the archive that's sent to the production servers for deployment.

Here you are with a hammer, and a screw. You just need to get this done so you can go back to doing the dozen other things you'd hoped to get done this week. You could find some file hosting somewhere. You could unzip the file. You could do a lot of things. But here's this hammer, and here's this screw. You already have the hammer. It's free. You don't even need to walk across the room to get it, you're already holding it.

BANG, BANG, BANG. OK, good enough, next task.
Zooming in web browser is using the computer wrongly (TM). Just as using terminal or VDI client in web browser. It's wrong because security sucks, and bloat gets even bigger. These activities should be done through separate and well restricted dedicated applications.
> Why do US people always put so much emphasis on never talking to the police?

There are two classes of damages police can enact on you in the US, both of which makes interacting with them in any capacity dangerous.

The first class is that they can completely ruin or end your life. This includes anything from killing you, leaving you with lifelong injuries or stress disorders, felony charges, etc. Anything that permanently scars your enjoyment of life.

The second class is non permanent, but extremely inconvenient damages. These are very common, take little effort or thought on their part, and ranges from impounding a car, charging you with a misdemeanor, harassing you, taking large sums of cash from your person, disturbing your house or belongings, trespassing you, holding important belongings or documents as evidence, etc.

Either of these classes of damages can be the result of an interaction with police, stemming from saying the "wrong thing", "acting nervous", "acting suspicious", being in the vicinity of a possible crime, being accused of witnessing an event, being too close while they are conducting police business, "making them feel uncomfortable or unsafe", being the victim of a crime, etc.

Each time you speak to police, you risk a chain of events occurring that result in one of these two classes of damages. It's just not worth it. They aren't worth talking to, given some of the possible outcomes.
> Wouldn't a thief that knows enough to ask you to do a factory reset also know to ask you to disable Find My iPhone ?

No idea, I guess not! This was several years ago, I think Find My iPhone was relatively new.

> I mean you're even prompted to do so during the "erase all content & settings" process, right ?

I don't remember being prompted.

They might also not have been that smart. In addition to my phone and cash, they took my debit card (I was able to convince them to let me keep my various other cards like driver's license, train pass, etc.) and asked for my PIN, but I just called the company and canceled the card within the hour. They didn't take any of my credit cards, my (admittedly cheap) headphones, or (fortunately) think to check my backpack with my $1000+ work laptop in it.

I figured they were looking for a quick buck, and it was easier/faster/safer to just grab the cash and the phone than to be thorough and risk someone wandering or driving by. I am also very lucky, I know people who've been robbed in that same area and got beaten up pretty badly, even while trying to comply.
I suppose I've assumed that the modern definitions of fascism that I've encountered which separate the symbology from the actual purpose and limitations of the legal dictatorship in Roman Republic are sound. Which is why I consider people who relinquish power after the end of a single term not fascists in the way we typically describe the fascist dictators of the 21st century, who generally passed laws to cement their absolute and open-ended authority before they were exposed to being ousted by the normal political processes.
Search for a period (just ".") and pick any of the things youtube recommends (don't press enter on your "." query). These are the kinds of videos it tends to suggest to kids. Someone else posted a detailed explanation on why but tldr is that kids are curious about things that they don't understand and adults exploited this curiosity.

Edit: And also this trick is known by a lot of kids according to a friend I have that works at a public school
> A few years ago, Forbes wrote that "Software ate the world, now AI is eating Software"

As far as I know, AI is Software, so this type of reasoning really confuses me.

I think it is possible that "developers" might have some of their work find automation using AI and ML, but Computer Science will obviously stick around as long as computers are around.

For example, someone has to code the algorithms which are used to teach the computer how to learn. Someone has to code the pipelines for capturing data from the physical world into the digital world. Someone has to code the storage and exchange of that data to the ML models, and someone has to plug the inference into the production processes and systems. Someone has to put alarms and monitors around all these things to assert their operation. Someone has to code the UIs and interfaces that users will use to interact with all those systems. Finally, someone needs to code compatibility and optimizations of all these models and their implementation to continue to work and leverage new hardware capabilities.

If people think that developers were spending 90% of their time hand tuning business rules and coming up with manually implemented inference and decision models they are highly mistaken. That could have been 5% of the job in some circles, but 95% of the job has always been all these peripheral tasks.

If anything, there will be even more work now, since ML models require a lot more periphery to develop, train and ship.
> Can there be a use for AI-generated code, and can that take over things like generating user-facing forms and website?

Sure, but...I'm not convinced there's any advantage over writing deterministic generators for things like that.

On one hand, you have something that produces a predictable output for a given input (modulo bugs in the generator, which can be corrected over time).

On the other hand, you have a black box that could misinterpret some non-obvious aspect of its input and produce completely unexpected output. Its training data will need to be carefully curated and maintained over time, similar to how a deterministic generator would need to be maintained, but, again, without the same degree of certainty as to what it's going to produce.

Honestly, the black box approach just seems like a nightmare to me.
If they installed and configured Mastodon they can link Mastodon's repo and let people access the code there.

If they made some changes they have to let people access their code, a git repo or a tarball, anything will do.
This comes up every year. It's not true.

It's only true by value, because records cost a lot more than CDs do.

By unit sales, CDs are still outselling records, and both are irrelevant when compared to streaming revenue.
> Given all the crap that Windows users put up with, be it malware or system updates randomly breaking things, I think a fair amount of people might find it worth the effort to give Linux a try.

This. And I would be wrong to say that running Windows is easier - it is not. It just has the vendor support to make it a little bit easier with respect to some hardware, sometimes.
This is exactly what I was getting at. In the case of commercial software so long as the suspected violation occurs at a company with a license agreement that allows these audits then they can be audited at the drop of a hat.

I can picture an open source project knowing that a company must be using their code but not really having a way to prove it in front of a judge ("their software is behaving suspiciously similarly ours"). These projects are unlikely to have the resources or desire to go through the legal steps necessary to get an audit granted by a judge.

Or in this case, they at one point were using the software in violation of the license, but if they claim that they are no longer doing so and have obfuscated the front-end so it's not possible to prove anymore... I'm curious how that would play out.
Win10-Initial-Setup-Script Archived
Engrave you website on a rock and establish a religion around it
Some youtube guitar teacher said the streaming generation is even less commited than the CD era. The kids come up with a spotify generated playlist and ask "how to play .. that".
> Well, I'd argue that the one imposing on others more loses.

In which case the party trying to impose censorship always loses.

> The real debates are about physical harm, economic harm, etc., in which case it's far less fuzzy figuring out who's wrong.

Nobody is talking about laws against violence or monopolization. Charging someone with a crime for beating you with a billy club is not censorship.
What is the benefit to this? Why don't you just make your own UK corp? Then you can write off a load of stuff against the company, get VAT back, and decide what dividend you want to get.
I'm still not clear on what problem you're trying to solve, but if you have a messaging system with root secret password that's used to protect message confidentiality, you cannot have information about that password stored on servers. The verifier a PAKE uses to check password validity in an augmented PAKE reveals information about the message-protecting password.

Maybe I'm unclear about the application here! But what I'm reading is a proposal in which the deployment of a PAKE could make the system drastically less secure on the whole.
You weren't originally making a statistical point, you said:

>Absolutely nothing can last in a liberal society that believes moral progress is possible

Which is clearly not true.

In any case, toward the more general claim that this post is making, which I will summarize as "Authoritarian societies are statistically better at preserving works in general" this is also demonstrably not true in the wide statistical sense. They are just as likely (if not more) to deliberately discard works that disagree with the general ethos of that society. Heresy is not really a big deal in a liberal society, but it will get some books burned and practitioners slaughtered (reducing social transmission of ideas) in a autocratic theocracy, for example.
I don't know, I see plenty of users unironically defending ideologies like communism in Mastodon.

They seem to tolerate some specific kinds of intolerance.
my tiny startup talks to lawyers and uses sense

this isn't some casual side project - it's a company!
As far as I'm aware, there's an attack where you can determine how correct a password is based on how long it takes to get denied. For example, take a simple algorithm where you check the password character by character, and return as soon as you encounter a bad character. This means you can detect a subset of a correct password.
What definitions do you believe are conflated? What "worst possible light" do you believe is being assumed? I don't think influencing the market means complete control over production. I don't know how you see that idea as inherited from Marx though and if it were, it would be fallacious to reject it on those grounds. To be clear though the authors that Cory is citing reject Marx in the first pages of their book and I myself have no interest in Marx other than historical.

We don't call increasing efficiency "power seeking." Yes, I think many anti-capitalists would respond to that by saying that "there is no ethical consumption in capitalism" and that these problems cannot be solved by consumer choices.
First Scientific Taste Analysis of All Major Caterpillar Cakes
Can you tell us more about what transformations are on the calendar?
Adam Savage did a pretty cool tour video[0] where he went through the Third Man Record's vinyl production process. It's not a particularly deep dive into the processes used, but it gives a great idea of how much work it takes to publish truly analogue recordings. Plus, Jack White makes an appearance to chat about the ways digital recording shaped music production.

I don't really like vinyl that much either, but I love music and simply can't help but respect the few people dedicated to such an arduous process.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF4A4wdnXkU
Well yes. But if say Nazi Germany were annexing Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and finally France, should the USA do something about it?

Because popular opinion in the 1940s (even after France's collapse into pro-German "Vichy France") was "Stay neutral and don't join the war". That is to say, we were "tolerating" the events and trying to keep our hands clean of it, and we ultimately only joined after Pearl Harbor forced our hand.

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Its not hypothetical. There were other groups who "tolerated" the Nazis. IIRC, its a common criticism of the Catholic church for not going more anti-Nazi than they did (they were more neutral as well). Hard to criticize them IMO when the US tried to be neutral for so long though!

Eventually, there's a line that is crossed and we must become "intolerant" of other people's actions. Nazi Germany is perhaps the last example where the country truly unified itself against that threat, but... even as late as 1941 (well after the fall of France), USA was nominally neutral in the conflict. Was that the correct move? Should we have "Become intolerant" of the Nazis sooner?

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Don't believe me? Look up Charles Lindberg (yes, "Spirit of St. Louis" pilot for the first Trans-Atlantic flight). Look up the speeches he gave for the "American First Committee", a popular antiwar group in 1940 and 1941. USA was 100% willing to give up on France and Britain back then, and it was incredibly popular despite the atrocities that continued in Europe.

It all of course changed when Japan made a strategic blunder on December 7th, 1941. But remember: USA was largely reacting to Hitler's rise with a big "should we even care" ?? If it weren't for Japan, I don't think we would have joined the war in earnest.

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"Tolerance", keeping neutral, etc. etc. is the wrong answer sometimes. I think we can all look back with shame upon the US's reluctance to kick Hitler's ass. Like, we Americans make fun of Chamberlain's appeasement, but its not like our country did much about the situation until a few years later.
Adaptations change. They will and must. Live is change. I think too many folks on here are too young to remember the very same green doomsday scenarios which we were mentally tormented with and NONE of them panned out. Not buying it. The planet will warm. Faster. Live will go on. The real focus should be on making life multi-planetary asap. That's more important in the long run than anything else.
I wasn't talking about my perspective or your perspective though, this would be the perspective of the majority of Ubuntu users and Windows users. (Disclosure: I don't use either of them, I use Debian and I don't have popcon installed)

I'm not sure what you mean you can't sniff packets coming from a Windows machine, Wireshark should just work there as it does on Linux.
>Not sure if masterful troll or not

Social media in a nutshell.
> "people I want to work with are too busy trying to do a thing with the resources available to them versus looking for a longshot silver bullet."

Right on. Most people I'd co-found anything with in a heart beat are too busy with 101 things already. The question isn't who I would want to work with, but how to convince them that this venture is worth dropping everything else in the world for.
> Well, I'd argue that the one imposing on others more loses.

For the preferred pronoun question, which one is more imposing? Getting other people to call you by your preferred pronoun, or refusing to call people by their preferred pronoun? You can make plausible arguments for either side.
The claim is usually that diamond is the hardest material, which for the most part it is.

Strength is usually defined by the application and usually focuses on tensile / compressive strength. This is also why rebar is used in concrete, concrete has excellent compressive strength, but poor tensile strength.

There's lots of metrics for strength, also resistance to fatigue is often an important metric.

Diamond has excellent hardness, and compressive strength (diamond anvils), it's very poor in most other metrics of strength and evaporates above 450 degrees, so it's not good for anything hot.
If the music industry could figure out a model where you bring a vinyl record to the store, and they give you a lossless digital copy, then that would be the best of both worlds. Basically the record serves as a physical license key.

You could also have a smart turntable with a camera on it, that automatically cues the digital version of any known record.
I think you're being disingenuous, I don't use my lawn to distribute other people's apps/signs, it's not its purpose, and I don't advertise it as such.

Also:

>FDroid is a small enough platform that they should be allowed to do whatever they want. But then it's OK to point out the perceived hypocrisy in having a free software platform that censors apps they disagree with.
Hing Kong is a completely different situation, it's always been mainland Chinese territory as Britain only leased it. Full mainland control was always the plan, it was just a matter of time. Also the political administration, elected under a system implemented under British rule, supported the recent changes.

I'm in no way justifying what the CCP did to Hong Kong, but frankly it was inevitable. That is not the case with Taiwan, which has a population and democratically legitimate government completely committed to independence.

An invasion of Taiwan would be much more similar historically speaking to the German invasion of Poland, or the Korean war. It's utterly and completely unacceptable, and would be legitimate grounds for total war. Should China succeed in conquering the island it would not be possible to counter-invade, but an indefinite blockade of transport into and out of China and total interdiction of it's air and sea traffic both civilian and military would be entirely proportionate and the minimum I would expect. See the blockade of North Korea for an example. We'd buy our phones and video games elsewhere.
> You are making a statement that religion excuses people from cruel actions

Well then you completely misunderstood me
It's more like: the website is blocked, but you can go to about:config, set some obscure boolean flag, and then you can access the website.
I don't really feel like it counts as a visualization unless you can recognize the music from the video.
Roku should add Odysee to their platform, and dethrone youtube already. Time for decentralized solutions.
That's only because our media does not scrutinize the other side with the same intensity. You have literal communists LARPing about the coming revolution on reddit alongside entire subreddits dedicated to celebrating deaths among so called "plague rats", on a platform where the TOS ostensibly state that there is no tolerance for such behavior. But it's not surprising given that for a brief period last year the TOS explicitly stated that hate against the "majority group" (i.e. white people) is totally fine.

If this were legitimately about extremism it'd be one thing, but the way it is shaping up, one side's extremism gets a pass, and that bias is toxic to a functioning society. The same way that excuses were made by all of our institutions for the nationwide, year long protests during a pandemic. Our institutions have clearly chosen a side.

And I'm not necessarily saying that the act of deplatforming gab is demonization, but what I am saying is that this one sided demonization/dehumanization is used as an excuse to target platforms like gab.
About third-party drivers, especially from random Chinese vendors, I like to treat them like they don't exist. Mainline drivers tend to be higher quality, and they are more or less guaranteed to keep working indefinitely. The only exceptions I currently have are an nVidia GPU in a secondary computer (GPU compute box) and a Brother printer. Both have a long history of working well, and have packages, not tarballs or Git repositories that need compilation. The Brother drivers are also user space only.

So, IMO, if you are doing it right, it's more a matter of research and less a matter of compiling your drivers from an obscure repository.