skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The effects of both can be seen from Russia this week. Their massive disinformation campaigns and combined with effective near-total suppression of free speech has 60% to 80%

So your first example that springs to mind to prove the simplistic and facile nature of free speech absolutism is a disinformation campaign that expressly rests on the extensive control of free speech within a certain information venue in order to promote that disinformation? How does this make any sense whatsoever?

> It already converted Hungary to an authoritarian state, and France is now very close to falling to an authoritarian party...

And what, exactly, is the information which is not being censored which has resulted in what you claim are objectionable and dangerous results in Hungary and France?

> The ability to deliberately manipulate the public conversation with tens of thousands of fake accounts is not free speech, it is freely amplified lies [2].

So why equate it with free speech aside from to assemble a strawman which you then proceed to knockdown to make your case after just emphasizing yourself they're two different things.

What?

> requiring a private platform to amplify any particular speech is just as un-free.

Is that actually being proposed? Because I haven't seen anything like that?

> you are FREE to make your own competing platform.

This is observably false based on what happened to Parler and Gab. The truth of the matter is that big tech is very hostile to competition and will to the extent they are able outright forbid it. The only way to actually build competitive platforms that do not push their ideological agenda and circumvent their attempts to stop you is to do what Odysee has done, and even there, they're fighting a case against the SEC as we speak, so it's not like they're being left to simply go about their business.
That's what they said about facebook in the beginning. And that's also the exact same thing they said about facebook acquiring whatsapp.
No matter how many times I look at the title, even after watching the video, I keep reading "Heatsink Skydiving".

Was disappointed at the lack of skydiving, but skiving was cool too I guess.
The article says the the average down payment contribution by parents is $89,000 in Australia. I was curious about the American number so I looked it up. Apparently it is $39,000 in the US as of 2019 prices.[0]

[0] https://money.com/parents-adult-children-house-down-payments...
I was just looking at Adam:One (DNSthingy), a comprehensive gateway with focus on filtering “bad things” add-on for Pfsense/BSD when I saw this post.

You got bigger problems after Password Managers.

Just polished up the transparent Squid/SquidProxy/custom-ICAP-servers-to-block-DNS-over-HTTPS/Default-Deny-firewall for my home.

It seems to me that we are losing the war on Zero-Trust home-based content filtering (with the onslaught of Webroot port 7777, and DNS-over-HTTPS, and even AVG 443 for DNS.

You all hear me? I am (and probably we are) losing control of the HomeLAN/home-net via the onslaughts via circumventions of Zero Trust Model.

And this new DNS RTYPE SVCB and HTTPS by Akamai CDN, Apple iPhone/iPad, Cloudflare, and BigIP/F5 is making this gateway (and me) losing it all.

https://filters.pluckeye.net

https://adamnet.works

https://docs.diladele.com/tutorials/transparently_filtering_...

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https...
The main change new technologies bring is that we can now see that a great many people disagree with us.
Selling software is more like selling the blueprint to a house than selling the actual house itself. The blueprint may need to be customized for the local situation, just as software users may need to configure their software for their particular use case. Software runs on hardware, and probably the major cost should be the hardware, not the software.
I believe that's what Google does.

I'm not confident that it makes a big difference, because in the face of anything "idiot-proof", nature will provide a better idiot.

It is really easy to A/B test having a small static button vs a large, flashing, jumping button with sound, and measure engagement as "ever clicked the button". It passes statistical power and significance since most of your users now click the button, even if none of them did before. The failure here is that the button is simply annoying, and clicking the button is not a legitimate engagement with the feature, hence the statistical power to answer the question "does a flashing button promote engagement with the feature" is actually zero.
Also in the US, where you can be sentenced to 41 months in prison for browsing a public URL at AT&T, and where the the Governor of Missouri wants to make it illegal to view the html source of a web page (because some state web site leaked all the SSNs of their teachers in some hidden html or something).

If I found something like this on a site I don't think I would notify anyone. Too risky. Maybe over TOR if they have a contact page or something. But it is hard to be anonymous these days.
My book is written in French and covers the technique most dear to the Bob mentioned in the article (not giving more specific details here), if you read French don't hesitate to email me and I will send you a link. My computer scientist background can be mostly seen from the research elements of the book (I have references and tips going back two hundreds years in the past) and the fact that I got my editor to let me typeset it in Latex.

The next ones will be in English (and Latex if my English editors agree with it...) and might get out within two years, keep you eyes open for a Nestor.
Lisp has symbols, because they were used in symbolic expressions (s-expressions) as named entities. In the programming language Lisp these symbols serve also as identifiers for functions, variables and other things. Thus a symbol originally had an internal structure made of an association list (a list of keys and values). That association list then had various entries, including a print name -> the thing to print when a symbol gets externalized. Since symbols can serve as function names, these symbols also had functions stored in their association list. Different function types could be stored under different keys.

Since Lisp symbols serve a central role as identifiers and structured objects, they are not like what Ruby uses. Lisp uses symbols also for named interned things, but that is only one purpose.

In Common Lisp symbols have a name, a value, a function, a package and a property list (a list of keys and their values). By default in a call like (mult 1 2 3), the global function will be retrieved from the symbol and the function will be called with the arguments. The property list sometimes will be used by an IDE to store information about the symbol: like where it was defined, what its definition is and similar.
At work: why do we have 9 different ways to identify a physical location? Because there are 5 different teams that need to do that, and our team hasn't gotten around to re-inventing the wheel like the other teams have.
Yup. He's also removed people from Tesla beta programs if they say anything negative about the company. He's also accused people of being pedophiles for saying negative things about them- going so far as hiring people to try and prove the baseless accusations.

Elon is not a free speech advocate. He'll pretend to be occasionally, but that's not the same thing.
No I'm not conflating these concepts.

No, you can not create your own website. Take this Parler debacle: booted off appstores, AWS, DNS providers, Cloudflare, etc.

Go build your own internet, we're in a free country? Not that I have sympathies for Parler folks, but I was horrified when people even here were cheering at Parler's demise. Don't you look somewhat ahead? Don't you see how many centralized gatekeepers are now everywhere? The potential of abuse to quash dissent is immense, and the possibility of all gatekeepers closely allying with the government is not alien to me. I have seen this happen right in front of me. When it will happen in your country, it'll be too late.

The reality is that some companies are so dominant in their respective fields, that it is in the interests of society they should not discriminate anyone if they don't like their views. Google and Apple should not be the ones to decide if the user can install the app on his device, even if this app is made by a militant far-right neo-nazi group. DNS providers should do their technical job and not engage in censoring websites spreading views they don't like.
When people look to solutions of the free market this is an interesting example.

We knew lead from petrol was poisoning everything -- deformed babies, ruined ecosystems etc. and yet the price incentive ensured it would never be dropped as a consumer product -- people kept buying leaded petrol as the cost would always be externalized somewhere else. The government had to step in and and ban the practice. Why didn't the free market solve this particular problem?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson looked at Clare Patterson's work (the whistleblower of leaded petrol being harmful) in an episode of Cosmos. Highly recommend it -- very interesting episode.
This is just software folks trying to speculate about economics and not finding the right sources to make sense of things.

The KEY distinction between software and house is abundance vs scarcity.

Once software and house both exist, software can be used all at once by every single potential user. But the house can only be lived in by a few people at a time. Everything else about the economic distinctions flows from these facts. The "marginal cost" idea is correct but is a symptom of the fact that houses are *rivalrous* and software is not.

I gave a talk about this recently with further context at LibrePlanet (so it's aimed at software-freedom advocates, keep that angle in mind): https://framatube.org/w/ssYsun1bEXuL1nm5cT9ckw
Office for National Statistics – Words to Watch
The mucosal immune system in the respiratory tract is the first line of defense against covid. An interstitial injection does not train the mucosal immune system, while a nasal vaccine does. To prevent any infection, the mucosal immune system needs to be primed.
And docs shared with me can’t be moved into my filesystem
> 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?

It's not that easy. You want to be where your audience is. People are on Twitter since there is a huge (potential) audience. Thus if the moderation only affects a small group and majority doesn't even notice others being moderated it is a tough game.
Exactly. Better things are overshadowed by more established things all the time.
> This morning, a few hours ago.

surely you must recognize that you are likely in the minority of e-mail users?

> Just as there are plenty of phone service providers

two or three, really. and many areas in the US are limited to one or two.

> If they are all blocking/refusing you service, that would be quite a story, and I might change my opinion, but I've never heard of that happening.

didn't trump's twitter platform get banned from all the common cloud providers? is it that much more ridiculous to think that they would be unable to colo with anyone?

to be clear, i'm personally happy that it doesn't exist, and this isn't the same thing. but just because i don't agree with it... i know it's not the same thing as what we're talking about, but i don't think you don't need to squint too hard to see the parallel and the precedent.

> but I don't see how you'd ever be completely blocked from using a phone

indeed, i'd still be able to use my nokia 3310, and predictive text my way around social life, but it would be an incomplete existence (these days).

in any case, you don't need to be blocked from using a phone. you need only be blocked from using the various platforms that people use today.
Yep. That's actually one of the main points of infinitesimal theories -- all the standard theorems have infinitesimal analogues and vice versa. Rounding to the closest real number in an infinitesimal theory is the same as taking a limit in real theory.

It is definitely nice to have multiple routes to the same answer though to help verify that some stupid mistake didn't infect the results.
> Btw, as far as I can tell, TPUs are really just a variant of GPUs with an emphasis on lower precision?

GPUs and TPUs have substantially different architectures, it’s not accurate to consider a TPU an a variant of a GPU. See https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3360307, particularly section “Contrasting GPU
and TPU Architectures”

looking only at the matrix multiply units (and ignoring the hardware multithreading in GPUs that was deliberately not part of the TPU architecture):

TPUv3: 2 cores, 2 128x128 matrix multiply units per core

V100: 80 cores, 8 4x4 matrix multiply units per core
> Twitter became a negative-sum game of people competing to debase themselves in service of narrative in exchange for nothing but the approval of others who had already done the same.

I'm trying to imagine this statement actually both having meaning and corresponding to reality and failing.
Most major companies have communist party officials embedded into the corporate structure, so if a party member is found to be negligent, they would be arrested/removed from power.
Isn’t that the current state of things?

If musk makes this purchase it won’t centralize power any more, but it will draw attention to how centralized that power is. Which is a good thing
So discussing the Hunter Biden laptop and whether or not the Steele dossier was a hit job by Hillary and co., whether some Covid policies made sense or not, whether it's fair or not that people who grew up as boys or men and take hormone treatment as they transition to females are fair in competing against biologically female athletes are all outside enriching discourse? The above is not to take sides, but rather allow discussion to find what makes sense. At times any of the above were taboo subjects.

Imagine some ideologue on the other extreme of the political spectrum were to take over (Musk is in my view, mildly libertarian) and suppressed talk about abortion rights, gender equality, police violence, drug liberalization, etc. That's what the extreme left is doing but obviously they have their own, different sacred cows.
> The only way to avoid this outcome is to install a desktop client and sync the folder.

Except the google desktop client is utterly flaky. They make Dropbox look good.
So, essentially, the mother of all acquihires?
We do code reviews in our interviews and it’s very effective in 20 min of being an indicator whether the candidate is going to be a good programmer
computer scientists are not programmers. programming is an activity that a computer scientist might do but is not necessary to have a CS career.

it is a fact that the industry wants programmers because shit has to be built. so they force everyone into that role if they can. at least that is my view.

i think that you should not get into this just to make money. it is a myth that you just become a programmer and you are guaranteed to get rich. so many people push kids into STEM or tech so they can also get rich just like that guy in the newspaper. a recipe for disappointment.

generally, unless you get really lucky with equity or your own business, i think there are other careers like law, finance or real estate where you can make a lot more money with a lot less intellectual power or effort.
I joined Twitter fairly recently and am mostly following journalists and thought leaders for subjects I'm interested in, and a few high quality creators. There's an odd gem but there's still a ton of noise per signal.

I don't think Dorsey has any idea what he's doing and I think even less of Musk. The value to society that can be derived from a platform like Twitter is completely separate from the value it can bring to investors.
IIUC the way the server (Graphana/Minecraft) and the proxy described in the OP interact is the following: All incoming packets pass through the proxy which is running WireGuard in user space and which then passes them on to the server (which only listens on 127.0.0.1):

> By setting the whitelist setting to 127.0.0.1, you only allow connections from the Grafana authentication proxy to be able to bypass Grafana’s normal authentication mechanisms.

Since the proxy runs WireGuard in user space it will take care of assigning the IP addresses itself (after successful authentication), meaning no IP address spoofing or network interface "confusion" is possible.
> from the academic biotech sector

Yes, academics will rewrite proprietary software. Collaborating is what they do, and Free Software is done basically the same way they do everything. They would rewrite it if it was free too.

Business will have a harder time doing the same.
And "reeducating" non-Han minorities is also for good of its citizens? Those who disagree with the party?

A benevolent authoritarian government could be very efficient and good, but we still reject authoritarianism because it is bad.
The Taiping Rebellion in Qing China between 1850 and 1864. It was started by a man called Hong Xiuquan who failed his mandarin examinations, fell into a psychosis of some kind, and came to believe he was the brother of Jesus. The cult he started was wildly successful and turned an entire province into a cultist theocracy before being quashed by the Qing.
Proton: Evolving Privacy for the Future
BT was designed to be a general purpose peer to peer wireless communication protocol.

It was not designed to solely carry audio. It just sort of morphed into being primarily used as an audio exchange format (because it's "good enough"). A little bit like how USB morphed into a peripheral bus even though it was designed to be more all encompassing (USB Ethernet, for example). In fact, the USB protocol is somewhat mucked up by the fact that it was designed to be a network instead of a more direct connection.
If the individual's goals were to be a computer scientist, then all is well. But if by their own statements of what they want out of computer science it is clear that they will not find there, or only find as a very small part of CS along the overhead of everything else, like the minor in mathematics that usually automatically comes with a CS degree, which they did not expect, then maybe it's ok that I offer a little insight into what CS really is. Because it's math, and anyone interested in CS must understand this, that CS is math, and programming is not computer science, and that studying computer science does not mean becoming intimately familiar with how a computer works. It's pretty important.
I was exposed to several word processors at the time, and choose PC-Write[0] (shareware pioneer) as my primary tool. After becoming an advanced user of vi and nroff for various tasks (programming, desktop publishing), I found PC-Write to be the best tool when migrating to the PC world.

"One unusual feature of PC-Write was its implementation of free form editing: it could copy and paste a block of text anywhere."

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-Write
Here is a one page visual diagram (GPL licensed) I created a while back to show a large number of statistical classification metrics in a way that reveals an underlying symmetry. It also shows synonyms for metric across fields.

https://github.com/xpe/statistical-classification-metrics/bl...

(PDF and OmniGraffle versions also available)
> Any time you write a program, you are also writing a proof.

True, and (mostly) irrelevant. When I write a program, I am also writing a proof, but I don't care about it as a proof. It proves something that I am completely uninterested in proving. But as a program, it's a program that I am interested in running.
It seems like a “bad king, good king” argument when the problem is that maybe a monarchy isn’t that great in the first place .
WAT?

https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/4e57eb8d7e0ca00fe99...
more than a year ago
You can respect privacy as much as possible while collecting the required data. For instance, Apple does collect some location data but they don’t connect it to your identity, it is associated with a random number that is replaced every so often.

So they do get the benefit of the data while maintaining some balance with your privacy interests. Now if you compare that to their main competitor Google, who just collects everything they can and keeps the data forever, they can justify posing as a privacy respecting company.

If you want, you can see exactly what data Apple collects and how they use it when you use Apple Music:

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-music/

Compare to Spotify:

https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/privacy-policy/

Spotify builds a profile of the kinds of content you listen to, so third parties can serve you ads related to it. There is an opt out but it does not opt you out from this behavior.

Spotify obviously has to do this because they offer free, ad supported accounts. Apple does not have to do that because they don’t offer ad supported accounts. That is why Apple can justifiably pose as the privacy respecting company, compared to Spotify.
I would like to know on what basis this is objectively true rather than subjectively. If he's a better choice, surely you can defend it.
I know names are superficial, but I can’t help pass off the rant.

“Netflix” already sounds 1990’s, they’re stuck with that but they’re apart of FAANG so who cares.

This company chose Net- in 2014, while jumping the -ify fad. Too much
There are some projects like Snapcast[1] or SoundSync[2] (disclaimer: I'm the creator of Soundsync) to let multiple devices communicate together on the same network. The transmission-side isn't that complex: you choose an audio codec, transmit chunks of data and add a synchronization layer (to keep multiple outputs in sync and to correctly delay video playback to match the soundtrack). The bigger problem is building an ecosystem big enough to make it attractive. Bluetooth sucks but is everywhere.

[1] https://github.com/badaix/snapcast
[2] https://github.com/geekuillaume/soundsync
How would he be better? Is he just your preferred asshole?

I don’t see anything in his tweeting patterns to give me any sense that he’d be an improvement.
Plenty of server-rendered apps have been caught putting private data in responses. In this very same comment section people have mentioned the story of a state website that included teacher SSN's in hidden fields[1], and OJFord shared a story of a server that included a full env var dump in error messages[2].

This sort of thing happens all the time to all sorts of services. Rather than just blaming JS, it's far more productive to think of technical controls that could catch this. For example Taint Checking[3] or scanning server responses for API keys.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31026374

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31026415

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_checking
“Allowed”… I think you mean “forced.”

If you have to fly certain small planes, there is no legal alternative in most places.
You can add an escalation clause[1].

It says that you'll pay $500k, but if they can prove they have an offer for more, you'll pay more.

There's a hard limit (you won't pay more than $X) and there's a step (meaning your bid goes up in increments of $Y).

1. https://www.thebalance.com/should-you-use-an-escalation-clau...
Not related, but CA has banned gas-powered lawn equipment (mowers, weed destroyers, blowers). Sort of the "small airplane" thing first.
move to zoho.com FFS
> Why didn't the free market solve this particular problem?

Information asymmetry & greed. And consumers who would fail the marshmallow test.
Pants do not smell after 5 days of wearing them at your desk..
Hate speech is explicitly exempt from U.S. Free Speech protections.

That’s not true. The US restricts speech that incites imminent criminal behavior. That’s all.

The ACLU is famous for defend a Nazi rally through a Jewish town of Skokie, IL.

That ACLU is dead now.