skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well Obama...I am pro free speach

And I empathize and understand people who talk about free speech in its most unadulterated way.

But there are tradeoffs and costs, lots of them have been already detailed so I'll focus on something else: productivity and initiative.

Social media lifted the veil on really how easily manipulated the avg. individual is. There is no turning back from that, no turning back from not knowing that information, it's almost like when you first get the concept of mortality and that one day you are going to die.

And those using social media to manipulate the avg. individual could be left-wing, right-wing, independent, greens, libertarians etc. But as we are seeing these days also billionaires with an agenda , cults, religious movements, corporations, NGOs, Secret Services etc.

For a person trying to make a living in this world, that's really scary, it damages productivity because given all the above people become extremely defensive and think twice before taking any initiative....they could become the target of some cult or political movement with just a simple action such as firing an employee or speaking their mind about something.

And the attack could come from every side or even multiple sides
>> >> billionaire Elon Musk has been mounting a hostile takeover bid of the popular service Twitter

>> That's some pretty incompetent reporting.

What's incompetent about that? It seems to be exactly what he did...
Well you can't, can you? They can just point to another violation or, more plausibly, vague "violated site wide rules". That is kind of the point.
> Well-fed, housed, clothed, educated, wealthy, happy people don't decide to make war

I have not seen rigorous evidence for this.

> the appetite for war is waning as civilization advances

Agree with this.
When the Pentagon is regularly putting out reports saying "congress is giving us too much money, this isn't sustainable for society", it's time to sit up and take notice. They started doing that about a decade or two ago.

Congress uses the Pentagon as a pork barrel jobs program, buying votes. "Vote for me, I'll make sure the factory producing that troop carrier stays open." Next year: "vote for me, I'll make sure the proposed upgrade program to the troop carrier goes through" etc.

The only reason Susan Collins has a job is because she's kept Maine's shipworks in a diabetic coma.
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I mean they are different in terms of force curve and all. Sure. I wouldn't tell cherry red and silent red apart just by their feel, and silver vs red might be hard as well, but all other types I had at home are pretty distinct.

And I am not a mechanical keyboard afficionado. I own one mechanical keyboard for well over a decade. But I had to do with cherry switches on a non-keyboard related electronics project.
It's not (just) the economy, stupid
ISPs are private businesses too. Would you be fine with ISPs regulating speech?
Software stack is not that bad, you can write naive algorithms in all languages. Typically just eliminating some inner loop calculations (like VoxelCanvas.js line 189 should just be a single addition) can give you double digit percent speed boost. I believe there are many more optimisations just waiting to be employed, but like I said, this is a toy project in a "hey look, it works" stage, it's very nice already.
> but you can't be great at both

My latest discovery - Raku - does try, and with not bad results. Also, Scala and Ammonite work quite well. Clojure and Babashka, too.

> There simply isn't such a thing, even in theory.

That's a very strong claim. What makes you think it's impossible to design such a language? The fact that none exists currently doesn't mean that it can't exist.

> arguing seriously and with some merit that it's just two languages tied together at the hip.

Just use Racket :-) It's a bundle of tens of languages anyway, so nobody will complain if you add one more. https://rash-lang.org does this. Due to how Racket works, you can write scripts for that shell in anything from Scheme to Typed Racket to Datalog to Brainf*ck (and more, obviously).
The phrase 'threat to democracy' in this context at this time ought to be a red flag that someone's trying to pull a fast one. Remember when people only wanted to add 'hate speech' to the exception list (things that 'free speech' supposedly 'never meant')? Now it's expanded to hate speech and 'false or misleading information'. And I'm seeing this messaging pretty frequently in a variety of public fora.

Obama is just changing his tune with the wind.

https://youtu.be/mi5da2AhDCY

Where are all the politicians raising the alarm about plutocracy as a threat to democracy? (I know there are a few who do, at least nominally.)
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Such people are simply outing themselves as having never possessed such principles to begin with.
"If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."
HTCPCP was published in the late 1990s, whereas IBM-Microsoft collaboration on OS/2 was in the late 1980s to early 1990s.
Renat from Kraftful here. Great to hear! Awair is actually one of the companies that just started using Kraftful Analytics in beta.
You can translate this to modern world. "I wish I'd spent more time arguing with strangers on internet"
https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Company-Publications/R...
> No, they list out exactly what they may censor like porn.

The issue is not whether there is a listing, the issue is what the list is for. The part you clipped out before the list is:

“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of”

This is a negative law providing immunity from liability arising under other (federal or state) law, not one imposing liability itself.

EDIT: That having been said, your characterization of the listing itself is also very wrong. It's not a narrow list of things “like porn”, it applies to anything the provider or user taking action “considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected”.

Two important points to note there: first, it is not a set of objective content classes that can be censored, it is entirely based on the subjective consideration of the party acting; second, one of the subjective categories for which restriction by a provider or user is protected under the same harbor is “otherwise objectionable”.

So unless you can find a case of Twitter restricting content that Twitter provably did not in good faith find objectionable on some basis, your claim that their restrictions are outside of Section 230’s protection is equally wrong to your claim that being outside of that protection, with no other regulation, would be a basis for punishment under the law.

> The problem is that they can't do more

Yes, they can, unless there is some other source of liability. 230 is a safe harbor, not a restriction on providers
Leveraging social media to create a divide is a symptom of the problem.

The underlying problem is the sheer amount of money and power to be gained by winning in America's 2-party system. So much so, that winning at all costs is the norm.

Winning at all costs, includes (but is not limited to) leveraging bots, PR firms and activists on social media to make one side fear and hate the other.
A lot of it is that language models need a lot of training data to work.

If pronoun X were as commonly used as "he" or "she" than a language model would learn it as well as "he" or "she". If X is used 0.1% as often then the language model is going to have trouble.

You could make a synthetic data set where "he", "she" and X occur all about 1/3 of time and the model would handle X pretty well in certain ways, but would make other mistakes because it thinks X occurs too often.

It's a basic problem of language models that they conflate syntax and semantics and thus get the meaning of things wrong. They come to conclusions like "Tyrone is a thug", "Fat people are transgender," etc. (When do "they" get to put A on their passport for Adipose?)
I want to slap a bunch of side projects on a small VPS. With Go, this is no problem. Scp the binary (which includes an embedded SQLite), configure it to run as a systemd service, add it to my reverse proxy rules.

I’d love to use Clojure for this, but it doesn’t seem well suited to running in a small, shared environment. Or is it now that there’s AOT?
I believe some people have written WASM networking using a WebRTC data channel as the transport.
The problem is that the founders of the US were exactly speaking, acting and promoting against what the State stipulated.

So…
Ah, yeah, I can agree with that. I don't have the same experience as you, but if yours works for you, I'm glad.
Dogs also hunt scorpions. Dogs are not immune to scorpion stings, they're just ignorant.
It seems to be the other way around though. Modern scientists getting upset for schools teaching creation myths. To be honest I think it's a bit arrogant to say there's no value in these myth and dismiss them as nothing but fairy tales. Because they tend to delve deep into philosophy, raise questions of what we are, and what it means to be here, and there's definitely value in studying these kind of things.

Obviously evolution should be taught as well, but it's a narrow mindset to assume we actually have it all figured out, can proclaim an objective truth about our existence, and everything else is just non-sense.

Because you have to admit, there are so many things we don't really know, and we can't be pretentious, like nothing ever could possibly challenge the paradigm of our current understanding. Like for example the picture of the pyramids in the blog post, how did those exactly came to be? Well nobody knows. Another thing that nobody knows, is how exactly atoms and particles work, and it really demonstrate the fragile legs on which we're standing here. It means we don't actually have working model of our reality. Which is pretty big deal if you want to proclaim things as true.

Not to come across as too wacky, but some of these old spiritual texts are really interesting, they don't have to be taken at face value, but there's some buried wisdom there that makes them worth mentioning in schools I think.
Time was once a POTUS that had served two terms already was done, they would go into retirement and you would hear very little out of them. Maybe they’d be trotted out for an endorsement or party morale boosting speech but that was about the extent of it.

I liked that.
Because our democracy wasn't stable for 250+ years before social media was invented??

Social media is not the same as a free press, freedom of speech, etc. Equating the two is quite dangerous, imo.
I'd delay that discussion until a time when ISPs don't tend to be regional monopolies.
I think that you can disagree as long as those two events have « space-like » separation.

As you say, they could be events that happened in the past and are in your past light-cone. (As long as they happened far enough from each other - or close enough in time.)

But one of the events could be your meeting now and here and the other event could be elsewhere. You may disagree on whether that event has happened already or not. Without having any direct confirmation yet, of course. But you may determine later that it was before and after your meeting at t=0.
This is very wrong. Supply shocks also create inflation and governments can do little about that. The alternatives to fiat money such as gold standard currencies convert growth into deflation which is economically and socially devastating.
Leaders of the websites have no problem with this. Jack Dorsey was asked about it by the congress, and he just told them to make a law and Twitter will follow it. Mark said the same thing basically.

What's important is to get a bipartisan concensus about it.
Which would be a really bad argument, considering that their front lawn is not designed for public use, while Twitter actually requires it.
Is that "worst critics" in the sense that they make the strongest arguments, or "worst critics" in the sense that they make the dumbest arguments?

I'm all for my "worst critics" in the sense that they force me to consider my thoughts. But my "worst critics" who just say stupid things don't improve my life the tiniest bit.

Of course in the case of Twitter, they're all making Musk money, which isn't the case for any of my critics.
With ISPs I think of the precedent of TV and Radio being censored from their inception, pirate broadcasting non-withstanding. Are we going to say free speech was lost in 1920 when you couldn't say ** on the radio?
We need more tools to get us away from Oracle... and better towards to PostgreSQL
I think you’re missing my point. Great games can exist on any hardware. But great hardware gives you no guarantee of great games.
There was a recent YouTube video on how this process was used in horses to anti venom.
> If people lived and thought and partied and slept, had friends, raised family, and weren’t too miserable, I’m not sure how variations in IQ distribution really matter much?

I was addressing a claim about the absence of differences in IQ, not a claim about whether differences in IQ are or are not important in the first place.
The paradox of tolerance is that if you let people promote an "opposing view" to some people's right to exist as equal citizens, you drive the people they are attacking off your platform, no one wants to advertise on you & you become 4chan.
"America was founded by a group of slaveowners... Who wanted to be free."

—George Carlin (1937-2008)
Talk about a loaded question! I'll take the bait... As a gay man whose life coincided with the gay liberation movement -- and also as a scientifically-minded person, I think there are two answers.

Biologically, a woman is a human with two X chromosomes. This would be the best scientific answer I would give if someone asked me that question.

Socially, a person can choose to be perceived in any role they wish and which is accepted by those around them -- or not! In other words, social gender roles like other roles are varied around the world and over time. If someone feels more comfortable in a different role, I'm certainly ok with that.

I don't think one is able to change one's biological status but society has accepted that people can live in a different role than their biological status.

* Edit: I should add that I have two trans family members.
Absolutely. I don't use Howdy but I came here to say the same.

I remember being impressed by the quality and honesty of the project and began my search for similar projects for fingerprint authentication.

I sadly couldn't find anything that works. I use LM 20.3 on an ASUS Vivobook and apparently PAM doesn't support my in-built fingerprint scanner.
Interesting. What would cause demand to increase literally everywhere?

Btw, respect to your username.
> By making absurd claims about the feasibility of the Pinephone as a daily driver

Where did I make this claim? I said that I use it as a daily driver. It's possible, though not for everyone yet.

> Also, is your goal to get people to use GNU/Linux phones or is it to maximize the overall adoption of Free Software?

It's the same goal. Adoption of Free Software without using it on the phones will not help much. There are more people using smartphones than computers. I also don't see how one is a "radical shift" while the other is "gradual steps". It's the same to me. People are going to switch to new type of smartphones slowly: first developers, then early adopters, then theirs friends and then the rest. Same for Free Software.

> HN audience is large and diverse enough to the point that it makes no sense to think as some homogeneous group of people who are interested in tinkering with their phones.

This is true, but these people are "hackers", i.e. interested in though-provoking things and intellectually curious. I don't expect that they would just buy a new phone with a new OS without doing any research and believing a random comment on HN.
Suddenly carving feels like quality time
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Linked both below the image and in the third paragraph of the post, but there aren't many more excuses, just a lot of repeats, and the article gives more context then the curators notes at that link.
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> How would you prevent abuse of the downvoting button?

I wouldn't have downvotes on tweets, only on comments.
Yes, people would sometimes downvote things they just disagree with, but I'd rather have more containerization than endless flame wars.

If you want quality debate, find a tweeter whose followers want the same thing. Or have you debate off Twitter.

> Switch to the "regular" feed that shows only content from people you follow.

My main gripe is that I want more people to discover _me_ :-D
But in general platforms like Tiktok make it much more inviting for new people to contribute. Being a low-follower-count tweeter is not fun.
Yes, this is my point. You could make a similar argument about the social media oligopolies.
>That is not the way that any court I'm aware of has ever interpreted Section 230, and it's not the way the original author of Section 230 has ever interpreted it either.

I'm not a supreme court justice.

>Section 230 is not a list that describes the only things you are allowed to censor. It's a regulation on the government that prevents them from treating proactive moderation as liability for unmoderated content.

So why does section 230 exist?

In a situation like if you are CNN. You publish lies on your platform like Nick Sandman is a white supremacist. You are liable as the publisher.

If someone on twitter says nick sandman is a white supremacist like so many celebrities did. Twitter is not liable, they aren't the publisher.

If section 230 was a negative right. If you were CNN, you would legally become like twitter but censor every subject to the point that people can only say nick sandman is a white supremacist. You aren't liable anymore right? You can say whatever you want right?
IBM was and is the worst when it comes to Draconian rules.
I think the judgement was because of the firing. If he hadn’t been fired, it seems unlikely for any lawsuit.
Windows Hello can be used as a 2fa for some websites, without a fido2 USB, is there anything like this for Linux?
Runops (YC W21) is hiring a dev advocate to help fix security tech
Looks like it was bought by a museum that intends to digitize and make it public
https://www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on/news/248/bronte-parsonage...
Very few Republicans have been banned from Twitter. Nothing has been done to the party as a whole.

Trump personally was banned for numerous violations of their policy, and given far more latitude precisely for being President. There remained a great many Republicans on Twitter -- despite their crafting a narrative that they were being singled out for their beliefs.
> ...but maybe they did mean in their specific life, rather than every human's life.

Yes, it's something I can do in my life specifically. I recognize not everyone is able to do it depending on work (I couldn't drive for Uber/Lyft/[insert food delivery service of the week here] with a KaiOS device, but neither am I trying to do that), and there are some downsides in terms of having to carry separate devices for other functions (typically a pocket camera for photos, and CDs in the car for audiobooks), but they're nothing I find particularly objectionable.

The reality is that I'm just dropping back to a 1990s or early 2000s way of doing things, which I lived through, and find a better way of handling things than a smartphone-mediated-always-on world that's become the default - not because people have thought through it and want it, but because it's the most profitable set of defaults to the tech companies and app vendors involved.

> The phone is for the latter. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't be productive, I'd just be feeling bad.

I find boredom quite useful. I typically have a paper notebook and pencil in my pocket anymore for those times.
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ISPs are utilities. There is only one internet, just as there is only one power grid, only one road network, only one water distribution network. But there are many social media platforms, and it's easy to start new ones. That is the reason that private censorship on social media platforms is acceptable but censorship by ISPs is not.
Well to be fair, Democrats won in "landslides" in 2008, 2012 and 2020.
Both my note and the download you discuss are clear about this.

You have linked to the the package insert, not the label, and it clearly states at the very top

HIGHLIGHTS OF PRESCRIBING INFORMATION
These highlights do not include all the information needed to use
TEZSPIRE safely and effectively. See full prescribing information for
TEZSPIRE.

As I wrote in my comment:

> ... this kind of info is on the label (prescribing information) even if it doesn’t make it into the short summary (package insert, typically only a dozen pages or so) given to patients. Doctors do read those, you know, and within their specialities know what kinds of things to look for.

You are simply quoting the short summary and drawing a conclusion based on the limited information that appears on it. Perhaps the author of the blog post made the same error. The doctor reads the actual prescribing information and the evaluation population must be specified there.
Meh, now it works too fast, almost unplayable, I can't even steer properly, one keypress and speed is already +4. I believe it's after some change in code.
Connecting two rotary phones (via 40 volt battery) is the easiest thing. They work as-they-are without modifications. When the phone is off-hook, the dialling rotator makes pulses and when the phone is on-hook those pulses cause the bell to ring. But not very loudly, because the real ringing pulses are 80 volts.

Source: I am rotary-telephone-era Telecommunication Engineer.
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Baseless racist accusations that led to multiple real-world violent attacks aren't "opposing views": they are blood libel.
What is a Build Engineer? Is that something specific to video game consoles?
"P."?
It's whatever your culture wants it to be.

Words are an extension of a culture, and as a culture undergoes a shift, so do its words. Eventually the culture will settle upon a communally agreed upon definition and life will go on.

There's little sense in worrying over it, since it's beyond any one person to control.
Welcome to the effects of class socialization. You appear to have about the mix of Fussellian Middle and Upper-Middle preferences and attitudes (plus a bit from his Class X[1]) that's essentially standard on HN.

[1] Which, unfortunately for his hopes, turned out to just be a fashion wave in the Upper-Middle and was eventually, partially, incorporated into it—I dunno if he just let optimism get the better of him, or truly didn't recognize totally normal Bohemianism when he saw it.
So with camera only how do you determine if a paper bag on the highway is empty or full of metal objects?