skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it shouldn't reach the client in any case. But providing secrets to applications isn't really a well solved problem in my opinion. Even if it is just an environment variable for the server process it could get exposed.

If a clients needs an API key I would think to route the requests through the server and add the key information at that point, but I am not a web developer and not sure if that always scales for any use case.
Well, kinda. Apparently they dug up the original unpunctuated norman french text of the treason act, then read it so that it had a comma between two clauses, changing its sense, allowing him to be charged with treason:

> or if a Man do levy War against our Lord the King in his Realm, or be adherent to the King’s Enemies in his Realm, giving to them Aid and Comfort in the Realm, or elsewhere,

They also either forged or published a bunch of pretty saucy personal diaries, as a way to blacken his name.
Isn't the free-market answer to this problem for users to move to other social media platforms that moderate in a way they prefer? The problem here is how powerful and walled-off Facebook and Twitter are, making competing difficult if not impossible. Perhaps if we solve that problem, everyone can get what they want.

I think saying that, on principle, companies should not moderate content at all is equally absurd as it would allow malware, CP, abusive content, and spam to run rampant. All we're really arguing about here is to what extent do we want these platforms to moderate content. Should they be limited to only removing illegal content? What's the line on "illegal" (no company could afford to consult lawyers for every post they remove)? What about spam, which is not necessarily illegal but disruptive to the service?
What's technically or morally wrong with using a VPN, again?
lol, you are funny. think you are the one who can be easily controlled. Putin does not even speak english. The delusional with this one is strong.
It's not even going Luddite. Look at the other pages linked in the web ring. There are some slick websites.
Not a reason related to their human rights.
This is exactly what's going on. Twitter censors one type of opinion and elevates another. People with the opinions which are currently being elevated are terrified of the potential loss of social power.

For what it's worth, I think this fear is misplaced. Unless Elon can figure out how to run Twitter without ads, woke-bigotry is safe as long as advertisers are using woke politics to distract from their evils.
>I suspect most of the commenters supporting the right of a private company to moderate content is completely contingent on what those moderation policies are.

Of course it is. Reading "Rules for Radicals" helps calm the nerves when you see previously anti-governance "anarchists" cheering for governments and private corporations. You make your enemies play by their own rules, then disregard the rules when they're no longer useful to you.
> I don't advocate that speech shouldn't have consequences.

By that definition the entire world is an absolute free speech paradise already.

You can say anything you want. Sure you might be canceled, jailed, fined, killed, tortured, or anything else -- depending on what you say, who you say it to and where you say it. But you're absolutely free to say it!
I think you're right. But that only proves that I didn't know what the word meant!
When are we going to bite the bullet and require governmental licensing for algorithms? I know HN hates the idea because we're all too busy using algorithms to ruin people's lives for profit, but it needs to happen and it will happen sooner or later.
Who decided depends on who you ask to propagate your opinion. If they disagree with it they don't have to restate what you say.
> UKIP is "far-right?" That's a very strange way to describe them, but whatever.

I was simply going by Wikipedia's definition[0].

I don't know anything about your YouTube link.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party
There were other, "lone-er" geniuses than Einstein such as Newton. As the centuries passed, the chance of finding like-minded individuals increased or decreased based on society, health, ... Ancient Greece had a set of philosophers and we only see a shadow of what they actually did. Rome, similarly, but it's been dependent on the amount of free time that's enabled thinking. And, of course, thinking has been more or less discouraged over the centuries.

And it seems like Europe is damned lucky to have had the work of the Greeks passed through Muslims both in Spain and the Middle East to fuel the Renaissance. This greatly augmented what was left from the Romans directly. Sad that the promise of these groups were ended by waves of conservatism and "them" (both externally and internally).

Check out Burke's The Day the Universe Changed #2.
How much time have you spent in South Africa?

When I was there I never talked to a single British or Afrikaans that I would ever describe as white supremacist, or even racist. Everyone of them at some point voted ANC, mostly in Mandela‘s time.

However, going through Durban, I saw the dead remains of Namibian immigrants who were just necklaced in a almost 100% black area. Almost all the murder or violence there is white aggressors. I was forced out of Escort one day for being white. And our car was attacked by bottles and rocks in Mooi River, very presumably because we were the only white people around, although I didn’t ask specifically.

Slandering someone you don’t know as white supremacist because they are a South African white, is really messed up.
I mean, those distractions haven't really gone away, they've just been replaced with advertising.
Some stripe engineer's side project after hearing Stripe invested >100M in Fast.
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You've ignored the point. Twitter made the claim that they made a mistake, should they be held to your standard that "you have to offer evidence to prove that claim."
> you have always had the right to create your own web site and say whatever you want

Try it. The DNS providers will delist you, cloudfare will ban you, AWS etc etc. You’ll lose your bank accounts too.

This isn’t a game to the other side, we have freedom in theory but little in practice.
I see. I guess my country just doesn't have that kind of school, so we don't use the word.
https://medium.com/@okcupid/the-case-for-an-older-woman-99d8...

> As it is, men between 22 and 30 — nearly two-thirds of the male dating pool — focus almost exclusively on women younger than themselves. I’ll be investigating this phenomenon today, with gusto and charts. Ultimately, I’ll argue that they would be well-served to expand their search upwards, to women in their thirties and forties.

> The bar chart here shows how the woman to man ratio changes over time. As you can see, it’s basically flat. In a better world, this would imply that older people don’t necessarily have a harder time finding decent mates than younger ones, as the composition of the dating pool holds relatively steady from age to age. Put another way: a 45 year-old woman shouldn’t in theory have a harder time finding a date than a 20 year-old, because the female-to-male ratios at those ages are equal (roughly 11:9).

> Of course, we all know that 45 year-olds do have a much harder time, because the male fixation on youth distorts the dating pool.

> As you can see, men tend to focus on the youngest women in their already skewed preference pool, and, what’s more, they spend a significant amount of energy pursuing women even younger than their stated minimum. No matter what he’s telling himself on his setting page, a 30 year-old man spends as much time messaging 18 and 19 year-olds as he does women his own age. On the other hand, women only a few years older are largely neglected.

I don't want to pollute the thread with more quotes. Check out the graphs, it's illuminating; the data backs the assertion of the comment you replied to.
There is a difference between a civil discourse and abuse filled with obscenities. There is also a difference between fair moderation and suppression of dissent.

When I post on HN anything about Trump or vaccines, HN doesn't add a note to my post informing readers about the 'correct' view on the problem. HN does restrict personal insults, and does it consistently for all sides of the conversation. That is fair moderation. Because it is fair, I don't feel that my (or anyone) right for free speech is limited here. The spirit of free speech principle is not violated.

Twitter, on the other hand, was applying their rules very selectively, discrediting views that they consider 'incorrect' with various notices, and blocking or restricting users with political views they don't like. That's suppression.

Of course, Twitter, like other plaftorms, DOES have the right to run their platform as they see fit, private company and all, but here comes another facet of this problem: everything can formally be a private platform, yet everything can be run by the government. It is not a hypothetical situation, in Russia every remaining media source is directly or indirectly controlled by the government. Putin's best friend, an oligarch, owns all social networks in Russia, and can just shut down any user that tries to oppose the war. No, not censorship, free enterprises.

It is a known fact that oligarchy can merge with the government very closely, and do become a de-facto cernsorship arm of the ruling party, while formally retaining their rights to block anyone who's views they don't like. This is not a theoretical problem and this is what happening now.

So the free world is not facing a difficult problem, how to balance the possibility (and dire necessity!) of having a public discourse on painful problems faced by the society with the rights of the commercial platforms that this discourse takes place on. I'd prefer Twitter to be politically neutral than trying to actively taking one side. That would be better for them, for their users, and basically for everybody. And it is actually fully within their rights.
And just like that, Twitter engineering might somehow develop the same poor culture and work-life balance as Tesla and SpaceX. If I was there, I'd be groaning at this news.
Have they not always been 300% more concerned as an org with landing sales/enticing people than actually delivering a well-polished product?
it should be firmware for a distro to install on chromebook. macbooks i thinks also have firmware, not a bios.
Thanks for the feedback.

I don’t know what to do about pricing, only that I’m leaning towards a freemium model where hobbyists and occasional users pay nothing.

It is a cloud-based service with ongoing costs to pay and work to be done, so I think it’ll be subscription-based.

I would love to do this full-time if there is enough interest to justify the effort.

For now, I’m really excited about welcoming some real users other than myself and getting lots of bug reports and feature requests. Please give it a try and get in touch with me over email!
> I don’t code for GPUs but it seemed pretty straightforward to me:

I don't know all the words that are being used in this tweet. But the words I _DO_ understand are being used incorrectly, which is a major red-flag.

1. The temperature issues are non-sequitur, but that's where the discussion starts. There are a whole slew of power-configuration items on modern chips, none of them discussed in this set of twitter posts.

2. TLB is a CPU-issue, traditionally. I understand that Apple has an iGPU that shares the memory controller, but GPU-workloads are quite often linear and regular. It is difficult for me to imagine any step in the shader-pipeline (vertex shader, geometry shader, pixel / fragment shader) that would go through memory so randomly as to mess up the TLB. If you're saying the TLB is the problem, you need to come forth with a plausible use-case why your code is hopping around RAM so much to cause page-walks.

3. In fact, everything they say about GPUs in the thread is blatantly wrong at its face, or possibly some kind of misstatement about the peculiarity of the M1 Apple iGPU.

4. I realize that mobile GPU programmers are always talking about this "tile-based rendering" business (popular on Apple / Android phones), and I've never bothered to learn the details of it. But I can almost assure you, even in my ignorance, that this has nothing to do with TLBs at all.

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The argument simply does not track with reality, or my understanding of GPUs in general.

The vague advice I've heard for GPUs on mobile systems is to learn about the peculiarities of tile-based rendering, and to optimize for it specifically, because that's the main difference in GPU-architecture between Desktop GPUs and Phone GPUs. But nothing discussed in this set of twitter posts seems to match what I've often heard about iPhone/Android GPU programming.

I've seen the experts advice on Android/Apple phone architecture / tile-based rendering. I don't know it, but... I think I can recognize it when I see them talking. This set of twitter posts is not an expert talking.
> Which means we need another standard, one that defines Holocaust denial as impermissible but discussions of being gay as fine.

We actually have, and that is the Declaration of Human Rights.

Holocaust denial denies the very thing why this Declaration was formulated and accepted by all civilized nations. Discriminating against gay people violates Articles 1-3 of the Declaration.

The problem is that the US, its constitution being way older than the Declaration, has a far wider understanding of "free speech" and the responsibilities associated with it.
> is my free speech being impeded because Twitter allows these people to block me?

of course not. if you choose to block me, i am not prevented from communicating with others.

> What about the algorithm, if Instagram's stories feature tries to show new videos based on people's interests, can I sue them for not showing my videos to other people?

the algorithm is the problem: if you subscribe/follow, you should see all the content (this is how facebook used to be).
Along these lines, I've always liked the system Randall uses for What If: https://what-if.xkcd.com/
I can't imagine Musk can make Twitter any worse than it is. As much as I would have liked it to be a medium that elevated humanity, with some exceptions, it's served to be quite the opposite. I'd be pleased if Twitter disappeared from existence, but maybe Musk either improves it or leads to demolish it, and by no means would I suggest standing in the way.
> it's pure the guy with the more money wins

From the seller's viewpoint, this is exactly the intended result. Get the highest possible price -- which equates directly to "guy with more money wins".
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The previous VP engg of twitter was also a white guy from south africa. (mike montano)
UTF-16 isn't fixed length. It's sort of an extension of UCS-16, which was fixed length, but couldn't give you more than 64k codepoints. Internal representation is... complicated. java.lang.String uses UTF-16, but .class files use UTF-8.
there is already ABV and DANTE in the pro audio world. you are not aware of it because you probably are not in the recording/audio/music business.

bluetooth sucks because it was invented by a bunch of guys in suits and consumer electronics companies rather than people who understand latency, performance etc. i designed my own protocol in the 2.4ghz band and wrote firmware and middleware for it and it deals with all the weaknesses of BT.

BT should have been designed by those who design the products and applications and deal first hand with end users.
The Side Effects of Tailored Digital Experiences
Yeah, the idea that if an offer is not twice the IPO price it's not a good offer, doesn't make much sense.
I'm sympathetic to the argument that Facebook/Twitter/etc. are too large and have too much power for lobbying/influencing public discourse, although I think if anything making them a public utility would make that situation far worse as opposed to just breaking them up or something else to make the market more competitive

But also just because they are big platforms why does that give people a right to be on them? Is my speech less free because I have a smaller audience?
This deserves reposting (by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=onlyartists):

“It fits the current Western media narrative but misses the the point if you view every CPC action as security against threats to its control.[1]

They genuinely care for people and are doing this for their people's best: it comes on the heels of similar laws targeting addictive online gaming and restricting students access to this around a year ago. It's not about a battle between big tech and government for control (a decidedly Western projection), it's more China being innovative about the real threat to people's well being that tracking, and optimized recommendation can do. We know the threat in the West, just our system cannot do anything about it, because of the "freedom" of liberal democracy's lobbying system's and free market principles. The central government is acting on this because they can. Like most everything CPC does, it is an experiment: e.g, Hainan FTP is the nation's "biggest testing ground for addressing institutional weak links" and "Hainan plays the role of a testing ground for China's opening-up and helps ensure economic security" [2].

If you want to consider second order affects of this flex/ability, here's my take: They have the mandate, the political will, and the real power to enact these experiments / innovative reforms and this is another. Their governing system is constantly evolving. That flexibility is why I think they will win, if you want to compare governing systems: they can simply afford to take more risks, and thereby iterate/zero-in on more correct solutions by exploring the state space of governance, more effectively than less flexibile/more brittle/more stymied-by-existing power-players, "Western liberal democracies". It's good for China, and sad for the West, but I think it's a teachable moment for the West: that I hope can encourage/inspire the West's own period of "reform and opening up"

[1]: Tho understandable from a Western PoV given combative rhetoric of late--it does seem insecure, right? Tho that point is more a voice that wants to be in command of how it is narrated, rather than have Western propaganda (driven by the West's own insecurities about China) misrepresent it

[2]: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202204/1259272.shtml“
Lead byproducts are spewed all over the neighborhoods surrounding small airports.
> The moment he tries to sell billions of dollars of stock it’d tank.

Hence the implied threat of doing so if they don't agree to his terms.
I wish my house had an on-going development agreement. Instead, I have to find skilled labor and negotiate the work every time I want to change something! Which leads me to often changing it myself and ending up with a worse result for it!

Also, that relationship is pretty much what you can get for several months when commissioning a house in a subdevelopment or similar. Every month or week, you come by to have another conversation on a
different set of customization options.
> If you’re building software - particularly new software that hasn’t already found a market -this underscores the importance of being good at what you do: if you’re just average (or more precisely, just median), you’re creating zero value.

I have a hard time selling my cool app, now i wanted to go back to my ex-boss. (tear of not yet unemployable)
>How large is Twitters non-Western user base anyways, in percentages?

Japan and India alone account for 14.0% and 5.6% of Twitter's users, which together are higher than the amount of users in the US at 18.4%.
They are backed into a corner here. They don’t have a choice. Elon’s got ‘em.
I would recommend "The Trilby Connection" by Antony Jacquin (coupled with his book "reality is plastic") to start in hypnosis as entertainement. It is fairly well explained and focuses on close-up meaning that you can start practicing it now without needing a stage. Once you are confortable with that, you can start researching stage hypnosis.

Hypnosis for pure mentalism is different (when you are not explicitely telling people that you are using hypnosis). This is where you might want to complement your mastery of the basics with some NLP books such as the one given by an other commenter (or Steven Heller's "Monsters and Magical Sticks"). Note that a lot of NLP is not evidence based but you are fine if you keep with the founder's work on hypnosis.

(fun fact, I got started in hypnosis with some hypnotherapy books)
> We've never had a situation where fake news can and does spread the way it does today, where authorities are being undermined like this and casually dismissed by people with no knowledge of the respective fields, etc

Real authorities don't need society to defer to them as such. Their mastery over nature--the power of their ideas to deliver tangible outcomes--makes their authority undeniable.

It's the people whose expertise is of marginal real-world value who insist on deference to their "authority." At the limit, it's the clergy that insist on social norms to defend their claim to authority. Today, you'll find those sorts of folks mostly in the social sciences, insisting that their PhD in XYZ studies entitles them to speak authoritatively on issues of general concern: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm.
When I write math papers I often use proof assistants such as Coq to leverage my programming background to avoid some pencil and paper proofs altogether and rule out many sources of human error. If you consider yourself better at programming than proving, definitely take a look at proof assistants to leverage the former to enhance the latter.
Generally speaking, I have no complaint. Only yesterday my nodes lost public v4 IP and I have to go into portal and add v4 IP back. Since it's free tier the public IP changes. V6 IP was not affected.
This is my first try on generative Art. The tree is procedurally generated with L-system. I am also put the source here: https://github.com/kelvinkoko/hanamijs feel free to play with it and welcome for any suggestions and comments :)
> their support is almost nonexistent

#1 reason why I will never use GCP. With regards to their advertising services, last year their support took a grotesk turn - or account managers told us, that we have to create tickets to get help (which in fact mitigates the need of having account managers in the first place)
And if don't you believe on principle in the right of private companies to moderate content -- you arrive at even more absurd outcomes.

Like the idea that a private company has no such right, for example,
I recall reading a similar HN comment before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19414771

I browse the internet full screen, which often makes text blocks far too wide. It's hard to read long lines. Yes, in principle, I could resize the window for every website, but in practice that would be annoying to do.

Given current browser capabilities, on my own websites it would probably be best to set a maximum text width rather than a fixed text width. That way I can still adjust the window size to be smaller if I want to.

In the future, it would be nice for a user to set their own desired text width (similar to setting the serif or sans-serif font) which could hypothetically be available to websites in CSS like this:

max-width: preferred-width;
Your sentiment was my first instinct as well, that the only power worth that kind of money is the power to erase history. It's not about who's got the most bullets, it's about who controls the information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk0Mzci2Sks