skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't the WiFi and Bluetooth beacons provide more accurate and more granular points of data than polling GPS for this purpose?
The news media are decidedly less pro-free speech than before. They could afford to promote free speech back when they had a monopoly on people's attention when it came to news. Now that Google can direct you to any number of independent sources, the news media feels threatened and wants to censor unapproved views so they can maintain the Overton Window.

Noam Chomsky: "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
> all we've gotten is mass suffering

Do you really think there was less suffering 100 years ago? By what metric specifically?

Over the last 100 years poverty rate has been steadily decreasing, hunger rate has been steadily decreasing, life expectancy has been steadily increasing. All over the world.

Capitalism uplifts both rich and poor.
Exactly what I was researching only a few weeks ago. Did not find anything satisfactory. This looks very promising.
Thank you for sharing. What's odd is usually my memories are kind of banal. I think it's emotional triggered, like how I felt during that stage of my life, but even that's kind of a stretch for me. I'm sweeping my yard, and all of a sudden a memory I had from 20 years ago of me in a subway station comes to me. Maybe it's the heat of the day and the heat of the subway, and their memories are stored close to each other in my neurons and a stray electrical impulse activated it...just wild speculation.
Maybe if they’d done so sooner we wouldn’t have had the KKK.
Linked to last years by mistake. This is the updated extension https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/12/2022-19...
they mean as opposed to menu-driven software.
Well, it's already a well-established principle that, when you take taxpayer money from the government, the government gets to attach conditions to it as they see fit. That's not a violation of any individual rights.
The budget of ~60 million is huge by Indian standard not by Hollywood where >200 million is now increasingly common.
I don’t see how this is inconsistent with what they’re saying. These people are asking their colleges to not provide a platform, not that the speakers should not be allowed to speak anywhere.
> It either create a publicly owned town square on the internet or collectively stop valuing/using these platforms so much.

Great. How do you intend to accomplish this, practically speaking?
You're taking the analogy too literally. I was merely responding to the question posed by MBCook in general, not in this particular case. Performing an operation in the user's device is inherently more intrusive than performing the exact same operation in the server.

Incidentally, this scanning using hashes is indistinguishable from malware. Someone other than the user is instructing the device to perform operations that under no circumstances will benefit the user. Would this be tolerated if the list of hashes included copyrighted files, or prohibited books? I'm constantly disappointed by how effective "won't somebody please think of the children" is.
Unfortunately the default prompt start on HF ("My name is X...") is completely out of domain from the training set (i.e., nobody starts an image prompt like that) and the model goes off the rails. Before putting a model like this in production, we'd definitely need more guardrails in place.
I think this relates to management mentality when management are engineers.

Scenario: we should upgrade our .Net Framework from 4.6.1 to 4.7.0. and the answer is: why is that necessary? It's a lot of effort and extra cost.

Ok...

Now 4.8.0 comes out... The effort is doubled.

.Net Core 1.. 2.. 3.. and the effort seems impossible, and you'll have to rewrite a lot of your code base.

Now .Net 8 will be released next year, and you're still stuck with the old .Net Framework. This is not to say that every app needs to be updated, but the ones that do will require huge effort.

/rant
100%
Freedom of speech in the terms of the first amendment is the government not infringing on your speech (like, throwing you in jail for criticizing it)

It has zero to do with what you can say on twitter, or if the people you’re deciding to say something to band together and decide you’re an asshole who should be ignored or fired.
Ok. So it’s ok to restrict it?
Isn’t shouting an exercise of speech?
On the contrary, we should all forget the "1619 Project".
At least you get a crappy android now. Not too long ago they were peddling gold encrusted dumbphones as some kind of a tasteless luxury item

Edit: they still have those too https://www.vertu.com/products/signature-v-black-gold-diamon...
We've always been at war with Net Neutrality.

"The ability to organize grassroots movements, whether locally or across the globe, is made possible by an open Internet. Since its creation, the Internet has become the world’s megaphone for free speech, protected by the principles of Net Neutrality, which require internet service providers (ISPs) to give everyone equal access to everything you use the internet for -- email, watching videos, listening to music, or signing petitions on Change.org.

Without Net Neutrality, ISPs can choose what you see online, favoring some sources or blocking others. For example, if someone launched a petition on Change.org against a company like Verizon, Net Neutrality prevents Verizon from blocking or slowing their customers’ access to our site."
Do you see something different than I do?
I see a typical orange two-man tent
I think it’s more about what makes a substantive comment

while it may be an outstanding pun, commenting that it is doesn’t really add to the discussion. it feels rather like a reddit comment chain, which isn’t inherently a bad thing, but also isn’t really the culture on HN
> I have not heard any group calling for free speech to be blocked. Who is calling for people to be arrested for what they say? Or to be blocked from being able to say it out loud?

That sounds like the logic behind "free speech zones". Yeah, we're not blocking protests, or arresting legal protesters. You just have to protest in a designated area 5 miles away where it won't disrupt everyone.
One think that different is activism acting as censorship. If big corp doesn’t censor whatever the issue of the day is, you have groups who influence these media to censor.

You have registrars who take it upon themselves to decide what’s acceptable and not. That’s like pac bell refusing to print someone’s phone number in an old phone book because they disagreed with them.
All of those things are implemented as dedicated hardware, though. There is no GPS process looping and reading individual bits out of the air to assemble them into GPS packets. People regularly do all of these things on tiny microcontrollers with no OS.
Tuber or not tuber, that is the question.
Well yes, why wouldn't they be? It's to their advantage that nobody talks if they are not very good at talking.

Lets imagine a workplace with two teams with two not very intelligent leaders, and two intelligent up and comer. One team leader goes "I'm open for suggestion, talk to other teams, talk to my boss" and he's replaced in a year. The other boss goes "We need to enforce a hierarchy, only juniors speak to seniors, only seniors speak to me, only I speak to other teams" he might have that job for YEARS as the other managers go "wow that guy suddenly started delivering results and I thought he was dumb, I guess I was wrong".

If you imagine both team leaders are smart, than the smart team leader who allowed open communication will probably outperform the one who didn't since they're not threatened by the junior regardless.

If you're not very smart, coming up with ways to make people less free to speak can show wisdom.
This also has to do with platforming.

And it's not just about progressives, my university (Harvard) disinvited a progressive speaker after pressure from the CIA.
I think you need to familiarize yourself with the scenario more closely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

Regulating corporations is common and I suspect you fully support regulation in many circumstances (such as utilities). It seems bizarre to me why people think speech should somehow be exempt.
> It explains simply how the various fallacies of religions are explainable and unwrappable.

It might be a very good book, but that sort of comments is divisive and does not show as understanding and hence, doss not sell the book, to me at least.

The question of God from an anthropological perspective is fascinating, as it emerged all around the world in completely disconnected populations and societies, yet to answer the same set of questions: how did we happen to be? Why? Are we accountable for anything?

It does not suggest any existence of God, of course, but it does suggest something deep that is that somehow, sentient creatures require answers to what they deem beyond them and typically, Homo Sapiens did/does invoke variations around the idea of superior beings to answer these questions.

As such, I do not understand why some so-called atheists continue to throw stones at religious people instead of showing curiosity at the larger phenomenon.

Religious institutions, though, are a well-organized scam around the beautiful anthropological and philosophical question of God.
> all publicly available interview questions (published on leetcode, interview prep groups, or anywhere else) are prohibited.

And how thoroughly is that prohibition enforced? Do you scrape libgen, for instance? Coursework on university websites? Mathoverflow? I'm guessing not.

Personally, I have asked people old "folklore" questions in interviews, and probably will again. They're not on leetcode, but anyone who paid attention in a sufficiently good CS program has seen them before - and honestly, I don't really care to filter those people out, given the overall state of the candidate pool.
> I have not heard any group calling for free speech to be blocked. Who is calling for people to be arrested for what they say?

The way it works is: "Sure I support free speech, but saying X is not free speech and saying it should be against the law because its offensive and might incite violence or something."

If you object, they trot out Popper quotes about tolerating intolerance.
That is perfectly in line with freedom of speech. Is the government showing up and arresting the speakers? No? Then freedom of speech is intact.
This post is so sensationalist and right on the heels of that other article about BW’s new funding that hit the front page. I have to question the motives of OP and some of the commenters.

I’ve happily used BW for years without problems. My experience is so far removed from what’s been posted here that I find it hard to take seriously at all. What an incredibly low quality post that does not live up to the standards of quality I expect on HN. There’s a proper way to voice concern and criticism, and this post is simply not that.

I’d like to hear dang’s thoughts. I believe the title should be edited and the OP text should probably be as well. To the OP, you missed the mark here, but I believe you can do better on your next post. Hopefully my criticism isn’t received too harshly as it’s intended to be helpful.
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Regardless of your stance on this topic, this is a bad example. Regulating what teachers are allowed to tell students in the course of their employment as teachers is not a freedom of speech issue, any more than the owner of a fast food restaurant requiring their employees to upsell is a freedom of speech issue.

Yes, there are higher ideals in play in the first case, but that does not make it a freedom of speech issue, legally or even ethically. Employers can regulate what you say while working for them on their time, and that holds whether the employer is private or public.
> He’s just kind of a normal-ish OK guy who’s not a compelling foil to Homer.

I’ve heard that the idea behind Flanders was to invert the “wacky neighbor” trope (think Kramer) that was prevalent in sitcoms at the time.

Being a normal and competent father is what makes him a foil to homer. I think both versions of the character are good.
Hidden in your notion of free speech is the expectation that I shut up when you say something offensive to me or don’t agree with - “Brushes off people saying something offensive about them”. That’s what I’m taking an issue with.
Self driving cars are just a little early. They won’t work until gradually they will, which is a threshold we’re arguably already crossing. So it doesn’t really belong on the list. And machine learning is massively successful and growing. Otherwise it’s a pretty good list of bullshit.
they write software, and sold it. if source code is open source, they can't required people pay for it. I just guess.
Just a github issue.
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The right to free speech also imposes an unenforced responsibility to use that speech wisely. The internet and smartphones enabled people to easily and quickly:

- Send true threats to people, which were always illegal.

- Publish things that are legal, but far more uselessly divisive and stress-inducing than if they'd needed to take time to edit it.

- Wake up and immediately read ambiguous language uncharitably as a threat.

the rise in the irresponsible publishing and uncharitable reading of speech has led more people to decide that we can no longer have nice things.
I've recently found mxroute.com , next best thing to self hosted
Well, you can't fladerize if you start in final flanderized state
> Forcing private entities to host speech they don't want to goes against what I define as freedom of speech.

What if the private entity is suppressing speech at the behest of the government?
It's amazing to me that $300 is the threshold of 'cheap' phones. Apple really has pushed up the baseline price for flagship devices.
Vertu was originally using Blackberry OS, but now is based on Android.
Saying that Malcolm Gladwell might enjoy an article is a superb putdown. I’m going to steal this.
> > people who advocate for exterminating Jews and returning Black people to slavery

> Literally no one does that. You are imagining things.

You are obviously not a serious participant here. These people exist. They existed before the internet, and the internet has, to my great disappointment, only enabled their spread.

There's a ton you could read, but maybe start with Neiwert's "God's Country" and "Alt-America", which document the pre- and post-Internet versions of America's white supremacist movement.

> Abusive is a relative and in this context meaningless word.

That is also embarrassingly ignorant. If you'd like to learn something, maybe try Citron's "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace", Warren's "Targeted and Trolled", Jeong's "The Internet of Garbage", and Bancroft's "Why Does He Do That".
One alternative is to have your own domain, but run email on a service like CloudFlare, Mailgun, or even Google. If you get cut off, you can change provider and redirect the DNS records.
5m is within the design spec of L1 GPS, so you’re getting it as designed. GPS was never designed to be mm level accurate. The new L5 frequency aims for 30cm accuracy.
:: If you really want to scramble your noodle, look at the recent spate of state laws placing restrictions on speech and notice the lean of the parties that control those states.

This isnt a left vs right issue. The media is controlled by the left, so naturally it is made to seem like a left vs right issue. Both sides want to restrict different types of speech.

A perfect example of the left restricting free speech is the https://bdsmovement.net/ Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement, which is literally non-violent political speech. The Left has widely supported and passed laws which literally make it illegal to personally boycott goods:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws

The odd thing is -- the same groups support boycotts against some countries (Iran, Iraq) but oppose even boycotts at a personal level against others.
Colleges are public locations that have historically allowed free speech. Court cases have been tried and lost trying to restrict this free speech.

I think then you see the issue - "These people are asking their colleges to break the law and restrict the speech of others."

You can argue that the laws should be changed to stop the current concept of free speech though.
Advanced radar spoofing is exactly the kind of tech an army would test on itself without telling all units.
People on HN and in this thread in particular have such a one sided view of this issue. For some reason people here only think the left is attacking free speech when the truth is that free speech is under attack from both the left and right. One of those two has been much more effective translating these attacks into laws which I would expect to be the most concerning for proponents of free speech and yet it is always "what is happening on college campuses" that scares people more than "what is happening in state legislatures".
> Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still vulgarly, held in dread, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities. But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannising are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political functionaries. Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.

> Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own. There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

~ John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Speaking of a multipurpose home server, how do you guys compartmentalize it so that one faulty or vulnerable app doesn't take the whole thing down?

Docker/containers used to not be hardened enough. Are they now?

Virtualization/VMs used to be the answer but it adds both performance and management overhead. Is there a good system here?

Or something else entirely? Like old school separate users.
>Android on the other hand…

Yeah. Hence why Kotlin is a dead end and React Native is more or less the new standard.
Thread on radio signals analysis during the death of Queen Elizabeth the II
It’s not. If another form of government were to take over and decide that progressivism is dirty and society takes the cue, that’s not freedom of speech. It’s insidious censorship none the less
I think it's a mixed bag. The media also knows that articles about "censorship"/"woke culture" in college campuses get a ton of engagement so they are also driving a lot of the ire there.
How are you defining corruption here?
I'm shocked that Vertu are still about - that said there's a classic idiom "money can't buy taste". The aesthetic of Vertu's devices is just so gauche, I'd imagine the traditional Coutts customer would abhor it.
I seriously don't understand how websites with TREMENDOUS funding end up so bad. I have literally watched seniors in college, who three years prior did not know how to "int i = 1;", do senior design projects that put out what I'd call "standard bootstrap + rails websites" (which are fine! just specifying how EASY it is nowadays to make websites that don't suck) which are ridiculously superior to even any single page on most bank's websites.

Look, I'm a data engineer by day, I understand how bad UIs happen. I use Airflow, for God's sake, and heavily customized Airflow at that (where we've honestly only kind of roughly kept pace with the UI quality. like I said, I get how bad UIs happen).

But seriously. I try to be charitable. I can understand how page flows might be janky, how you might need a few redirects as they pass you through decades of legacy systems, etc.

But by God, there are some pages where I seriously cannot figure how they made that specific page, alone, in isolation so bad. The only thing I can come up with is they either a) contracted it out to someone who is literally not as capable as someone 2 years into a CS degree, or they've split the page among multiple teams who all wrote little scraps of HTML and JS and then some poor soul had to weld them all together and that's how it ended up.

Is it really just that they all hire huge incompetent contractors who "nobody ever got fired for hiring etc etc" and then they invariably fuck it up? I don't get how that doesn't get disrupted by either SaaS or just someone making a contracting shop that actually finishes projects correctly.
It sounds to me like their claim is (or should be) that T-Mobile should've had a 4th box, "become an AARP" member, as an alternative. As it stands, T-Mobile seems to be misleading people by suggesting they don't have that option. Though I guess I can see why neither of them would actually want to say this out loud.
If you look beyond your short-sighted screed, you will typically find that most immigrants to the US value American ideals more than many Americans. In some cases that is caused by idealism, and in others it's having experienced governments which are actually oppressive.
Crypto is, I'd argue that much (not all) of what I've seen in "AI" is also.
> 100% Freedom of speech in the terms of the first amendment

Freedom of speech is a principle, not an amendment. The first amendment exemplifies the principle of freedom of speech, but does not define the bounds of that principle.
Not embarrassing, its a deliberate strategy to keep the platform moving forward.
Agreed. Same in Japan, where the basic zoning allows for triplexes with low impact businesses allowed as a percentage of the square footage, having setbacks to ensure you don't put three stories on the edge of your property blocking the neighbors sun all day. As a result they have walkable neighborhoods with character and variety.

It's disappointing that NIMBYs in the U.S. have basically forced all new construction to big single use single family housing developments on the edges of urban areas. They say they are opposed to large developers, but large developers are the only ones who can navigate the current zoning regime. As a result we car dependent housing developments with no character and no variety.
> I don't even know how to respond to this.

Apparently by complaining about the CIA... which very solidly rooted in the unaccountable civilian "steady state". The NSA, while technically military, is run by civilian private contractors at the pleasure of the civilian executive branch. The major role military personnel play is to press the enter key, kicking off hacking scripts they didn't write, because we don't want Booz Allen Hamilton directly committing potential acts of war. Finally you end your response with an example of the military actually enforcing the law against transgressors within its ranks... so not a very logical response.