skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your problem is not with the actions taken against gab but with the lack of consistent actions taken against similar cesspools.

There’s nothing I can do about that. Nothing will be achieved by hooking onto this in a whataboutist format, it’s just irrelevant.

I read your post as a hopeless grievance but rest assured that I have concerns of my own about how much leeway is given to left leaning platforms as well. But that doesn’t invalidate how bad Gab is. This world view is consistent.
Britain to carry out ‘offensive’ cyber attacks from new digital warfare centre
There's a whaling museum in Lahaina on Maui, which has lots of good stuff. I happened to visit it one time while a book group was reading Moby Dick and it made a great impression.

https://www.hawaii-guide.com/maui/sights/whalers_village_mus...
Since we are commenting on an article that, whatever its other virtues and vices, is extremely well-researched, you might want to take a few minutes to look up the "fact" that you're claiming in your second sentence. The tl;dr is that "The Cooling Earth" was always a minority view among climate scientists; it was actually a competing theory to the anthropogenic global warming theory, as they both started in the 1970s; that one of the theories (global warming) persisted while the other (global cooling) faded quickly can be plausibly explained by both theories offering testable and mutually exclusive predictions, one set of which turned out to roughly match the data and the other of which didn't match it at all. That we are talking about global warming now and stopped talking about global cooling is not a sign of a "scam to scare people," it is a sign of science working the way it is supposed to.
ML and data-science relies on software to work. Nobody is going to do data-science and ML by hand, so already you have a demand for software engineers and computer scientists to build tools and implement algorithms and information pipelines for the data-scientists and businesses who want to leverage ML.

I think there might be a bit of a misconception of what existing software engineers did. Very rarely were they focused on designing inference models or performing data analysis. Most of the time the business side of things, like a business analysts, or people working on the business problem would perform analysis manually, and come up with business rules and logic. Software engineers could help them leverage more powerful techniques by building them tools that help for data analysis, like BI platforms, or data stores that can do bigger and more complex queries faster. Or they could help them with letting them know of techniques, generally known as old-school AI, such as edit distance algorithms, graph algorithms, logic rule engines, expert systems, etc.

So nothing has really changed, except that there is even more demand from businesses who want software engineers to help them setup tools and pipelines for them to experiment with ML and have data scientists analyze their data.

What it would take to get rid of the demand for software engineers is to be able to automate their work, and ML is far from able to do that. It could one day, but we are talking about a computer that can reprogram itself successfully, and that can also understand the requests of the user in how it should reprogram itself. And we're talking not just reprogramming, but it should also be able to replicate itself to other machines and all that, since most use case today involve distributed system, as no one computer has the compute needed for the scale we operate at. Things like GPT-3 show some promise, but as it stands today, you'd need a software engineer to inspect and review everything it generates, which would take almost as much time if not more.

I think what is far more likely is that the offer increases, that is, that there eventually is just a lot more people with the ability to perform the work of software engineers. This will probably happen as a combination of more people joining the field, and the barrier to entry becoming smaller. The latter could be helped a little bit by ML, if it can deliver better auto-complete for example, but I think it largely is just driven by frameworks, PAAS, SAAS and IAAS, library, and all other type of code reuse we've been building for years now.
> Toleration doesn't imply support. That's the whole point of toleration.

Except that in this case we're seeing people who feel entitled to everyone else's support demanding it under the guise of tolerance.

Think about it. We're talking about a federated self-hosting social networking service, and how a group renowned for a political leaning that lies somewhere between authoritarian and full-blown fascist, not to mention the significant amount of racism, is not benefiting from being able to freely connect to each and any node made available by anyone in the world. It's not tolerance that's being expected, but benefiting from having free access to everyone else's services.
If you're wet and in 54 degree F weather, you can get hypothermia and die after ~6 hours if you can't seek shelter or adequate apparel. People die in the wilderness like this often, as do people without homes. Rain and wind are sufficient killers.
You're probably correct in this case, but not in general. The authors of [1] could have quietly run a money printer but elected to seek reforms instead.

[1] https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/1029sechft...
I am very interested in this because there appear to be studies with conflicting conclusions (e.g., https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1510037 says 1,000 ppm causes cognitive decline). This has made me want to run some experiments.
Good to know. I'm am getting rid of biometrics asap
5 passionated students vs 1000 bored ones ?
There are no victims of hate speech. There are victims of hate crimes, like murders, rapes and beatings. Speech doesn't cause physical harm, violent actions do. Thus, violent actions must be stopped, not words.

Oh, and if you will claim that speech insites actions, i ask you one thing: who determines what hate is? In Russia, talking about corruption and opposing Putin is extremism and hate speech.
New Sex Toy Standards Let Some Sensitive Details Slide
I think philosophers have done an amazing job [1] already but in the end each individual and community will have to decide for themselves; there's really no alternative.

1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/toleration/
Mixmello – create remixed versions of your Spotify playlists. Open source
Please don't post canned arguments to HN. They point to super-repetitive/generic places, and those usually get nasty, as indignation rushes in to fill the curiosity vacuum.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Penny Dreadfuls Got Victorian Children Reading
The foregone conclusion doctrine also is something folks should know about.

"while the content was itself not protected, the act of production could be testimonial irrespective of the content. The court reasoned, “[t]he act of producing evidence in response to a subpoena nevertheless has communicative aspects of its own, wholly aside from the contents of the papers produced. Compliance with the subpoena tacitly concedes the existence of the papers demanded and their possession or control by the taxpayer.” The court thus recognized that, in some instances, the Fifth Amendment protects the act of production.

Despite the act of production principle, the court in Fisher reasoned that “[t]he existence and location of the papers are a foregone conclusion, and the taxpayer adds little or nothing to the sum total of the Government's information by conceding that he, in fact, has the papers. Under these circumstances ... ‘no constitutional rights are touched. The question is not of testimony, but of surrender.’” This is referred to as the “foregone conclusion” exception to the “act of production” doctrine. In short, the Fifth Amendment is not implicated if the government knows of the existence, possession and authenticity of incriminating evidence, because the production thereof contains no testimonial import. Both the act of production and foregone conclusion doctrines are important to our understanding of how the Fifth Amendment protects against the compelled production of our passwords"

https://www.lawfareblog.com/fifth-amendment-decryption-and-b...
Maybe a better question is, what would HTML have looked like in the time of Shakespeare?

<doth whence="bæc">Forsooth!</doth>
Dang man, that is amazingly cold.
This is so theoretical, I don't think it has any value. Meanwhile, consider the effort involved in destroying all data stored in S3 vs destroying the entire ETH blockchain. One is expensive, possibly only achievable by a national superpower, the other is virtually impossible without destroying the planet.
I live in Rural TN and we too neglect to lock our doors (and our cars, I might add). In fact, my in-laws leave the keys to their cars IN THE CAR, and unlocked.

I'd argue this has a lot more to do with high trust local communities, rather than high trust "societies". Maybe I'm nitpicking, but the implication seems to be that somehow "American society" (whatever that means) is inherently low-trust. But the fact is America is so diverse, trying to create a useful comparative analysis there is difficult.
Epic Games Ends Alternate-Friday Vacation Policy, Angering Staff
NASA Plans February Moon Launch with Giant Rocket
The Stratus recommendations for structure marking would be a bit harder to defeat.

Here's an excerpt from an old Stratus presentation[0] on writing robust software.

Add TYPE, SIZE, VERSION, and OWNER to data structure

TYPE: Unique number for each different structure

SIZE: in bytes

VERSION: Changed whenever structure declaration changes

OWNER: Unique ID of owner, must be independent of structure contents; can be UID, least significant bits of clock, etc.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20170303065858/http://ftp.stratu...
Please don't create accounts to post flamewar comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Would you care to take a guess at which field of study makes one an expert in figuring out what most people think?
I was like you for a really long time. Then, I watched someone do stuff in Magit that took longer or I struggled with to get perfect in the terminal. Took a few weeks to get comfortable, but once I did, it was really nice.
More intense weather leads to more crop damage, changes in precipitation patterns and average temperature affect the range and numbers of insect pests, etc.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/warmer-wetter-climate...
I can’t imagine that clock recovery would make a huge amount of difference.
First, there's a lot of developers scratching their own itch as you say. Second, there are probably more paid developers for desktop work than you think. They work for Red Hat, Suse, Valve (not necessarily directly employed by them), AMD (excellent drivers these days), Blue Systems (a philantropy organization supporting mostly KDE), the Qt Company, etc.

If you add up all the paid developers working mostly for the benefit of desktop Linux, and "partial" paid developers whose work somehow benefits desktop Linux, it's probably several hundred at least.
The shelves have been pretty sparse for the last year or so!
> So having a platform deny access when it values such spirit is somewhat disagreeable.

If Android required a platform for software distribution, I might agree, but Gab can (and does) post their APK right on their website. So Gab is experiencing no curtailment of their speech rights by FDroid refusing to traffick in their speech, nor are the users experiencing any curtailment in their right to use their device, or the software, as they see fit.

You'd have more of a leg to stand on if this was about iOS and the Apple store, which doesn't allow for any kind of sideloading.

But Android? Sorry, I have no sympathy and I see no hypocrisy in FDroid's actions.
I have done some hacking on Wayland and most of the comments there about Wayland are misleading or wrong. I could go through that list but I don't know if I'm really interested to do that unless the author reads the feedback and could be convinced to change their article. It is really exhausting to deal with online misinformation unless it's stopped at the source.
I have two specific needs for remote data connections (uploads in both cases). In one, satellite connectivity makes a ton of sense, and I think we are on the cutting edge of it being viable. This need is fairly tolerant of low bandwidths & high latencies.

The other need requires low power, high bandwidth and low latencies. Satellite is completely nonviable as of now. We might need an upgrade in the physical laws of reality to make it viable.

I imagine 90% of most people's usage would be closer to the latter case than the former. Denser constellations might make the former more palatable in the long run.
It very well might. The extraordinary ways we’re able to preserve knowledge might slow the rate of change, or perhaps increasing interconnectedness between different cultures will accelerate the rate of change.
Like a lot of people, I don't buy a lot of music anymore now that streaming is so easy. But when I do buy music, I buy a vinyl. And it's not because of the sound quality, because I can't tell the difference.

I buy vinyl because I like having a large version of the album artwork. Most vinyl albums come with a digital copy of the music, which is what I use to actually listen to the album (if not on a streaming platform). I rarely listen to the actual vinyl version.

There's not really a reason for me to buy a CD. I can just buy the digital version and store it on my Plex server if I want just the music. If I want the physical copy, I want it to look really nice so I go with vinyl.
Unless things change drastically at the NRC, we're not likely to have a SpaceX of nuclear in the US. Somebody like Seaborg might pull it off though.
"- To commit you `commit`, to undo a commit you `reset --hard HEAD^`"

You're not meant to delete commits like that. Git encourages you to stop "lying about the past", and you will run into a fair amount of trouble if you try to do so with shared history. You don't remove a commit "backwards" and change history; you add a new commit that undoes the previous one (git revert)
This video from asianometry has the info on the water issues for TSMC

https://youtu.be/Dq04GpzRZ0g
Where can I read that global warming is likely to increase the number of extreme cold events? Is it mentioned by IPCC?
you could host 100% on blockchain.

host the domain on unstoppable domains (https://unstoppabledomains.com/)

store the images and single page site on IPFS
https://ipfs.io/

https://docs.ipfs.io/how-to/websites-on-ipfs/single-page-web...
It makes sense, because judging people by their skin color is wrong, no matter who does it or who they do it to.
Just a "smaller scale" version of those billboards/coverings in the high street on empty shopfronts we've seen for years...
This question always reminds me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project - preserving the Domesday Book digitally by way of a laserdisc. The technology used became obsolete almost immediately and the actual book, now 935 years old is still fine.
i think i threw mine out
Agreed. I know the names of the fund managers I'm invested in and would pay close attention if they ever changed.
Actually, the US declared war on Germany after Germany declared war on the US.

12/07/41: Pearl Harbor
12/08/41: US declares war on Japan
12/11/41: Germany declares war on US
Jellyfin user, this looks very much like something I've wanted. How's Jellyfin do with finding metadata for these sorts of files? Getting the full title, date published, grouping by creator, anything like that? I'm pretty sure TVDB has listings for some long-running and fairly famous Youtube series, but it'd be nicer to have a general solution that worked for any Youtube video that Jellyfin finds. Plus getting it to find Youtube video metadata by TVDB entry would probably require some manual filename & folder structure editing.
Yep very valid points
It would be interesting if YC ran two instances of the same HN app at different URLs, to see how the content & communities diverge over time. But it would only be interesting if you launched them at the same time, due to the effect of domain authority.
No, it's not. It's a fact. Seeing as how you have the means to comment on Hacker News, you can easily fact-check this for yourself if you're concerned about its validity.
I'm certainly looking forward to it. There's good content for kids on youtube, but it's drowning in a sea of low quality or downright creepy imitations, and I don't think the algorithm can tell the difference. And the ads aren't much better.
> Because there is no principled way to draw the line.

In this case the line is pretty clear, and very crisp.

You're talking about a political group that advocates overthrowing the results of free and fair elections aimed at subverting a democratic regime by installing a dictatorship whose supporters are very adamant in their embracing of racist world views.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Let’s talk about PAKE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18259393 - Oct 2018 (98 comments)
Hear Sounds from Mars Captured by NASA's Perseverance Rover
Local Distributed Rate Limiting
Apparently, Ethereum is going to get rid of the proof-of-work chain history when it turns completely proof-of-stake.

"The new chain is not going to hold information from what happened in the Ethereum chain before the merge" [1]

[1] minute 1:31:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW0QZmtbjvs
100% agree, however a lot of the banks seem to not have picked up on this yet.
Really interested to play with dlisp if/when it is open sourced!
Is it though? Because it seems like the questions can only be answered with better empirical data. As the author said, the studies of this are unimpressive and the data insufficient.
If a mobs screams racist obscenities at someone is that a hate crime?
Activism Uncensored: 400 Arrested as Environmentalists Target Biden
> As a reasonable person, I think that overt racism, opposition to public health measures, attacks on voting and democracy and unwillingness to accept responsibility for damage to the environment we all share are simply not reasonable points of view.

One of these things is extraordinarily not like the others.

You don’t think it’s reason to have debate about public health measures.

That is definitely something I strongly disagree with. Now look, I’m double mRNA vaccinated against COVID19, and I gently advocate for others to do so.

Do I think governments should mandate COVID19 vaccination? Absolutely not, and there’s a massive amount of health debate to back up my, what I consider, reasonable position.

I’m Australian, so found this podcast between Canadian psychologist Jordan B. Peterson and former Australian Deputy Prime Minister from 1999 to 2005 John Anderson, intellectual heavyweights railing against mandatory vaccination and lockdowns particularly relevant

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-jordan-b-peterson-...

Your proposition is that I shouldn’t be able to listen to two people have such a conversation. My government should ban this sort of dialogue?

That is an absurd position.
Adobe will put U.S. employees on unpaid leave if they're not vaccinated by Dec 8
Erm, then pay some truckers to haul empty containers to some space in the middle of Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Idaho, Iowa, etc.?

If the problem is empties clogging things up, move the empties. America isn't exactly short of empty space without zoning restrictions. In a week, the yards will be empty.

This seems like a problem that money can solve. The fact that money isn't solving it is extremely suspicious.

Either it means that we don't have enough truckers because they're treated and paid like shit or it means that somebody is making money on things being clogged.

Why are the capitalists all running to the government to break regulations instead of throwing money around? Things that make you go "Hmmmmm."
In where I live, there's a sweet wine made from a grape from greece, which recipe and genetics has been conserved for a few hundred years because one rich guy stated so in his will, so he gave away a building (was an hospital, now a museum), and in exchange, their heirs must recieve 2 boxes of 6 bottles of such wine each year, or otherwise the building lease is off.

Something like that might work
Endow a university to start an archival server project.
NiMH is around 90% efficient too. Lead-acid around 85%. Also, li-ion don't do well under high discharge rates and can drop to <70%. It's not a perfect cell technology by any means.
You have to be really careful when citing numbers like these.

A typical American "manufacturing" firm primarily does design and supply chain management, with the actual physical task of production and assembly outsourced. So if they can get the foreign production for $100 and they sell the product for $300, then their design and supply chain management is worth $200 and we say that the US has a strong manufacturing base because of that $200 contribution to GDP.

Thus Boeing and Maytag are considered US manufacturers, because they are American companies that produce physical products. But both of these companies outsource most production. But as long as they earn a big spread between their costs of outsourcing and what they sell the finished products for, it will appear as though US manufacturing is strong.

Therefore the US is at incredible risk in its manufacturing base, with the contributions to GDP held together primarily by preventing IP theft. The moment the suppliers can set up their own shop or sell enough IP to local rivals, they will be able to sell the identical good for $150, undercutting the US manufacturer and then they have to either exit the market to some other product line where IP protections are stronger or just go out of business.
Interesting. It was happening for all of my folders, IIRC, although it’s possible the ones I tried happened to be pinned. I don’t use the pins on purpose anyway.
Can scientists start giving the warming in approximate extra joules in the atmosphere instead of saying 1°C? It would be a rough measure, but like giving volume as "number of VW beetles" or data as "number of libraries of Congress", a large number of joules is something more easily compared than a single degree C.
Ideals can be compromised though. I'm increasingly pessimistic about cryptocurrencies bringing us positive change. The digital ledger, which was intended as a tool for democratization, can also be used to monitor and oppress. Which is just the kind of thing those in power like to do.
If you buy vinyl to put on the shelf 5. becomes an advantage and the others are purely theoretical!
> Couldn't you just self-ID to one gender, have your cake, self-ID back to your original gender and eat it too? It's not like there's a centralized record enforcing your gender. It's all the honor system.

No, I don't think you could. There's a certain assumption of good faith on the parts of the people you interact with—but once you demonstrate that you aren't acting in good faith, I'm not sure why anybody would believe you, or keep you around.

> No prescription from a doctor, no legal name change, nothing. Just a tweet and you are done. Nothing is falsifiable.

That's kind of like any sort of fraud—when you're applying for a school or a position, you can make up all sorts of things about yourself. If that's the route you want to go, I'm sure there are easier things to lie about. Just—don't claim that you invented post-it notes.
Seems to be full of finance-obcessed man-children and brogrammers.
Vinyl is about active listening. Yes, it's much easier to put on a CD or stream the music, but when I want to sit down and really listen to the music... Vinyl is the perfect medium for that ritual. It's about the more visceral experience, not the fidelity or simplicity.
I doubt governments will allow payments without KYC. I think even for citizens that's a bad trade off. I feel much safer if I know whom I am doing business with.