skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious how someone can support banning books while simultaneously railing against "cancel culture".

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
True, but it's not empirical research.
Also,

"although cognitive ability was related to more affective prejudice toward relatively conservative groups and less affective prejudice toward relatively liberal groups"

You can also use this study to write "Cognitive ability linked to hatred of conservatives."

lmao
That that is a very limited view of the concept / principle of free speech,

While it may be technically correct in the context of US Constitutional law, people that make this claim expose their opposition to the wider concept of free expression and likely would be the first ones to support an amendment to weaken the 1st amendment
For what it’s worth I love all S S Rajamouli movies I have seen. And like them or not, they are crazy successful.

(I haven’t seen this one yet though)
I can list a litany of people deplatformed. All of them are on the left.

Selection bias does not a good argument make.
Hey have you heard about https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/create-jobs?

Disclaimer I work for Google on Cloud Run.
Au contraire: HN’s interface. I know no one who is displeased with the simplicity of design except designers themselves*. Just like premature optimization for engineers, it feels like designers are building for themselves rather than their customer.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

-Hendry Wadsworth
This movie is apparently available to U.S. audiences only on Netflix with a Hindi dub. I'd really like to see it in its original language with English subtitles. As well, the total size of the UHD stream is about 14 GB which isn't going to be the best quality for a 3 hour runtime.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Bluray/comments/v3fzni/rrr_bluray/

I'll watch it anyway. Looks like a fun time.
This is the “if you don’t like it, go build your own multi-billion dollar monopoly internet service” argument. And then it’s just one more step to call for public-private partnerships in combatting “misinformation.”
There is absolutely such thing as a climate refugee.
> So next time you spot a headline that warns you of the disastrous mental health effects of digital technology or how the internet might degrade your mental capacities to those of a lake-living vertebrate, remember these common journalistic fallacies. If it sounds too sensational to be true, it most likely is

It seems like the writer is really splitting hairs here. So someone who doesn't gamble online but doomscrolls Twitter is not addicted to something? The author seems to avoid the meaning of screen time (e.g. gachas, reddit, etc) with a literal interpretation of the word. This particular quote strikes me as rather weird given the credentials of the author:

> The fact that phone use triggers dopamine releases in the brain is sometimes used as an argument that tech companies are hijacking our brains. Screens are often compared with hard drugs, and are frequently called “addictive.” The thing is, everything that makes you feel good involves dopamine. Receiving a text from your grandmother or ticking off an item on your to-do list also triggers a release of dopamine, so does having a tasty meal.

This reads like a Phillip-Morris headline on the reason "cigarettes aren't any worse than soda". There's a distinct difference between the dopamine hit I get in order to fulfill a biological necessity and one I get because of UIs designed in a lab. If it wasn't dopamine these ad agencies are targeting why do many studies produced by them mention increasing the addictive ability by raising rewards? The science is pretty much conclusive on spaced reward mechanisms. The author here seems to be deliberately obtuse, going so far as to commit the same fallacies they are trying to show are misunderstood.

Sometimes I wish blog posts had to state conflicting interests. Something smells fishy here.
Why would you judge in a vacuum? There's statistics, and traffic fatalities is (one of) the most dangerous thing (for young people). That's cars.

There's 112 and ambulanses if you need to a hospital urgently. Everyone doesn't need a spare "what if my neighbor gets a heart attack" rush to the hospital car at home
wow, that's your retort/sales pitch for GPS only tracking? it truly needs some work.
But then you’re on android
Are they arm drivers, or can arm Windows use x64 drivers?
Exactly, not being able to put a giant sound system in the city center blasting rave is hampering my freedom of expression!

So there are many rules that have always limited expression.
"e.g. bank is purposely setup as unlimited liability legal structure"

Why would they want to do that?
Find a criminal defamation statute in Ohio. I don't believe you can, but I stand ready to be surprised. Civil procedure is not technically a form of prosecution. And students can have a goal of damaging the bakery, but to be liable for defamation, they have to:

(1) individually succeed in causing countable damage to Gibson's, and

(2) do so by circulating false statements of fact --- for instance, you cannot sue someone for defamation simply for pointing out something somebody else said: "I read in this flyer that Gibson's assaulted a student" is not defamation, even if the flyer is.

People have a lot of weird ideas about what happened here. The court filings are on the Internet; you can just go read them.
It was not far ahead of its time. It was relevant then.

It's still relevant-ish now, though the left-leaning hackers would likely embrace state agents in our own day and age. The bully would have to be a foreign adversary.
Hong Kong Speech Therapists Jailed over Children’s Books Ruled Seditious
Not sure. We had a period of “goodbye HN” posts. You can hopefully find them in the search results unless they got purged somehow. Those have stopped, haven’t seen one in many years. Basically people could sense they were in an unhealthy bubble and decided to cut ties. Good for them.

That fellow who would regularly post graphs of HN traffic/topic patterns at us to disprove peoples theories hasn’t posted it in many, many years. I guess he either woke up to reality or shrugged and moved on.

A few old timers remain here and there. I think we just got tired and fatigued of the bullshit.
I suppose they can ban mining, possession, trading of crypto-currencies on a per crypto-currency basis using specific criteria, one of which might be the algorithms used.
Persuasive and well written. It certainly seems applicable for example to the anticommunist fervor that the US dealt with in decades past for example. On the other hand that passage seems uniquely inapplicable to our modern times which are more free of societal oppression than almost any time previously.

Neonazis, communists, would be anarchists, followers of 1000 cults and political groups many mutually offensive to one another can all be heard at least by millions of like minded individuals even if the rest of society isn't interested. You can even maintain a presence on public social media while advocating for evil and crime so long as you maintain a public face where you keep within bounds and talk about the obvious illegality in private.

It is the lack of societal suppression indeed that is so disturbing to conservatives that they agitate for the large scale restructuring of society to restore the "proper order" greatly to the disadvantage of many.

Their speech is dangerous. It's not a given that they will be defeated. Establishing some standards on platforms to deny them a mass audience while still keeping the wide open internet free for anyone to use seems virtuous.
My neuroscience professors referred to Principles of Neuroscience as "the Bible" as well. I think that's testament to how good these recommendations are.
Freedom to vocalize extends to both sides. You are free to vocalize your opinion, and dissenters are free to vocalize theirs.
Nope, it's simply information, free for everyone to read :) I'm neither selling or arguing for/against anything.
Domain registrars and webhosts are canceling accounts based on content, so no, not anyone can use the internet to communicate.
'None of the defendants opted to give evidence or call witnesses. Defense lawyers argued that the books were merely children’s tales or fables, and that the charge was unconstitutional—that is, inconsistent with the freedom of expression and of speech guaranteed by the city’s Basic Law.

In his 67-page verdict, Judge Kwok said he concluded that the books depicted the wolves as evil and the sheep as kind. He said they wouldn’t have been considered seditious if not for specific references in the first book’s foreword to the 2019 protests, months of unrest across the city that began in opposition to an extradition bill.

The books would lead children to believe that the government of the People’s Republic of China is made up of wolves and that Hong Kong’s leader is a wolf “masqueraded as a sheep at the direction of the Wolf-chairman,” the judge wrote in his verdict.

“The children will be led into belief that the PRC Government is coming to Hong Kong with the wicked intention of taking away their home and ruining their happy life with no right to do so at all,” he wrote.'

And we know that's not true. /s
I remember trying out a similar device someone was selling at the Lollapalooza festival in Phoenix, AZ in 1993. Could be the same guy?
It's just that this almost never happens.

It's always the excuse for why unlimited surveillance should be granted to the state, but we know from 20 years since the "patriot" act passed that it doesn't ever help.

Of course it has been abused verifiably many times & countless times that can't be verified.
Link to a PDF with good typesetting: http://employees.oneonta.edu/blechmjb/JBpages/m360/Professio...
... who then hires the cheapest contractors they can find to do the work. The developers working on the $million sites may very well have far less app development experience than a 2nd year CS student. The CS student is also motivated to make a reasonable effort for good marks; the contractors know they will get paid, regardless of what crap they deliver.
Yes, the front page of their website says it filters messages "based on content" so that's obvious.

Sounds like a boilerplate warning for people that wouldn't consider the security implications.

(FYI, your email provider may have access to the contents of your email. I assume that's a "no" for you "dog?")
Similarly biology teachers aren't allowed to teach intelligent design unless it is a part of the curriculum, you can't just teach whatever theory you want without the school boards permission.

I don't think that biology teachers should teach intelligent design, and I don't think that is a free speech violation.
Those articles reaffirm more the extreme political mentality of vox and slate than any political leanings of the director.

That these websites practically thrive on conjuring up issues even where none exists should surprise no one.
> senior design projects that put out what I'd call "standard bootstrap + rails websites" ... which are ridiculously superior to even any single page on most bank's websites.

Oh sweet summer child. You have not known the sharp pain of regulatory constraints, split stakeholder constraints, legacy enterprise constraints, COVID constraints. You know not of capacity planning, SOC2, or international banking law.

You have not known the one million lines of code repositories (PLURAL).

You do not see behind the summer rain. To the endless blizzard of business logic behind the frontend. To the third party vendors, evil so vast if it were written down the generations beyond could never forgive.

I envy you greatly.
Two theories of change:

(1) An increasing number of Americans see free speech as a positive rather than negative right. In other words, “Facebook must host whatever I want to say”, not just “The government can’t arrest me for insulting the president.” That’s a controversial expansion of the right to free speech, creating a lot of debate and disagreement.

(2) The internet means Americans are more exposed to non-Americans. At least some of those people come from countries where free speech is seen as a right that should be balanced against other rights, like privacy. That makes it seem like fewer people support free speech than in the past.
Maybe not full longform courses, but there was A LOT of great free content.

Have to open a laptop to replace the hard drive? No service manual? Just google "XY-123 laptop disassembly", and you'll get a video. Now, a "XY-123 disassembly course", only $1.99.
> Only Fuji's terrible software and commercial offerings like Lightroom do a decent job. Darktable, for example, doesn't.

What trouble have you had with Fuji RAW + Darktable? I've been using it without trouble, but I wonder if I'm doing something wrong?
Why do you need to coordinate your hand and eye to use a scroll bar? Don’t you use touch to scroll or a scroll wheel?
I started with Adams, and I still like him, just think he's not much for prose - whereas other comic writers are. That said, many sci-fi writers I like weren't much either, e.g. Asimov is very crude, it's all about the plot and ideas.

I think Gaiman is the best of the three in that aspect.

Pratchett is somewhere between Adamd and Gaiman in that respect imho. Though I could never like any of his work...
The trick is to talk about "screens", rather than e.g. tiktok, facebook, twitter and the like.

Of course the screens aren't to blame.
There’s a lot of discussion here on the topic of cancel culture, deplatforming and the responsibilities of private entities.

It may be useful to clarify in our responses if we mean the above or our ability to express ourselves free from persecution by the government.
I live in San Francisco. We don't exactly have the tallest buildings, but I can assure you from years of tracking runs in the downtown area here and nearby forested areas, GPS gets very screwed up unless it has a clear view of the sky. This is with a variety of Garmins, Apple iPhones and Apple Watch. I'm looking forward to the newer devices with L5.
The media and the Democratic party more broadly is controlled by liberals, not the left per se. Liberals are essentially centrists who espouse moral claims that nominally align with left ethics, but who do not engender the conditions necessary to materially satisfy those claims (including providing accurate information about the issues being discussed), on the basis of radical individualism (ie neoliberalism).
I can't speak as to what generally makes a good tech demo, but I can say that as a JS dev, I looked at your website, watched the video a few times, and still can't figure out how your product is different from the built-in debugger in IntelliJ and VSCode.

You say "time travel", but unless I missed it, your demo keeps going forward in time, stepping through breakpoints. Any debugger can do that.

The interesting part here is the time travel, but I don't see it happening. What does the back arrow do? What happens to a previous state if a future line of code changes it? What happens when you step backwards through a loop or recursion? I think I envisioned something like the time-travel in the Redux devtools extension, but I don't see that.

Your front page has a lot of words but a pretty low signal-to-noise ratio. Instead of long paragraphs of fluffy text, followed by a rambly video, can you show it in a simple animation or two? Kinda like this: https://tailwindcss.com/ If you can make it an interactive actual demo, that would be even better (even if you faked it and all you could do is push back/forward and not edit the code or breakpoints).

For example, it can show what a basic ecommerce product page, or controlled SVG graphic, or anything... what would stepping forward and backward do? Also, how does it work (or not) with my existing repo/framework/toolchain/IDE? Does it only work for simple single-file scripts, or can I integrate it into my existing complex project (the kind that would actually warrant a debugger)?

I don't know if your product is meant to be targeted towards dev end-users, or whether you want to team up with Codesandbox/Codepen or the like to integrate directly into their web editors. But if it's meant to be targeted to devs directly, I just don't have enough information to make a judgment on what it does, how it works, and if it's worth trying out.

Focus on your differentiating features... show us the magic of time travel, not how a basic breakpoint works.

Edited to add: We don't want long-winded stories. Every week, we already spend hours evaluating a million NPM packages and JS tools and frameworks... you have like 5-10 seconds to convince someone that you actually made something useful and novel. Use that time and space wisely, above the fold and in simple, easy to understand bullet points or graphics/animations. Save the long copy and detailed videos for detailed pages that you drill into.
Show HN: Stablediffusiond
I created a basic Stable Diffusion runner / queue system.

It uses RabbitMQ to queue up JSON requests and then fires those off to Stable Diffusion which stays loaded during the lifetime of the listener. This speeds up requests to Stable Diffusion, and allows you to run it all locally without relying on the more bloated projects that currently exist.

Its final form is intended to be a daemon process, but I just wrote this, so we're not there yet.

In order to make this happen, I also wrote three classes for Stable Diffusion which wrap some of the code found in the main stable diffusion branch called txt2img.py and img2img.py.

I have a PR open with CompVis but it remains to be seen if they will accept the request.
@dang Instead of Bitdefender's blog, can we link to the story to which Bitdefender is referring?

https://www.propublica.org/article/you-snooze-you-lose-insur...
The author makes some good points about the media not being scientifically rigorous, but really doesn't offer any evidence to support their claim that claims about tech addiction are wrong. In reality, all they are proving is that "some" claims are exaggerated or unsubstantiated.

Cynically, this "guest post" was published on a blog by the guy who wrote the book "Hooked: How to Form Habit-Building Products". It's a brilliant book, and you can use the patterns in it to build good products, but a lot of the patterns in there underpin the foundation of many of the dark patterns we see in products today.
Serge Daney on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979)
The GPUs will be repurposed to mine other PoW cryptocurrencies.
I’m going to head the likely discussion off the pass: like articles on nutrition or fitness, discussions on screen time inevitably devolve into share-fears where everyone is describing and possibly advocating their own lifestyle approach, and it’s very subjective.

And that extends to responses to TFA. Personally, I think this article does a fine job dispelling some of the hysteria around screen use. But on the other hand, it probably goes too far towards minimizing the effects of ubiquitous hyper-stimulation. Part of it is segments like this:

> A popular view is that screens are like cigarettes—the less you consume the better. That simply isn’t true. A more nuanced comparison would be that screens are like food—it depends on what you’re consuming and how much.

But that’s a straw man. No one is talking about the dangers of Khan Academy or Duolingo. They’re talking about the addictive nature of social media and other infinity pools of content and engagement. That’s what the danger of screens is about.
Any for profit usage of unlicensed works for an AI image dataset will have to paid for eventually.

Maybe not soon since Silicon Valley will convince people (maybe legislators) that this is all “magic” and that somehow a for profit AÍ has the same rights to remixing as a human.

But it’s not a situation that can be maintained. This AÍ responds to queries about artstation, which means it must’ve used art from artstation for it’s dataset. How is this legal? Do I lose my right to claim my art as proprietary data because it’s been posted on a art sharing website?

If this is allowed it leads only to one conclusion - any output that can be mapped to an ML construct will be mapped, and all human output will be fed into it so it converts the knowledge of X million humans into profit for 30 AI engineers. The idea of this is absurd and almost sickening to me. You will essentially make all human output that can be mapped to an ML construct into compost for sole profit of a few thousand or a few million AI engineers.

Plus if people don’t get compensation for their output, how do you expect them to continue?
The fear (for me) is that this make a blow for pre-paid.

I have never get a plan in all this years, and wanna stay like that. But this stuff make even more easy(?) to force to get into one (the amount of SPAM I get for my carrier to please pay monthly is amazing, and with this stuff I worry if will be easier to get trapped).

P.D: I reluctantly use cellphone, mostly for development (I made mobile apps), and rarely if ever move out.
Pierce is specifically excluding dynamic typing from his definition. He goes on to address this point in the introduction to the book:

> The word "static" is sometimes added explicitly—we speak of a "statically typed programming language," for
example—to distinguish the sorts of compile-time analyses we are considering here from the dynamic or latent typing found in languages such as Scheme, where run-time type tags are used to distinguish different kinds of structures in the heap. Terms like "dynamically
typed" are arguably misnomers and should probably be replaced by "dynamically checked," but the usage is standard.

A static type system is syntactic insofar as the syntax itself is what is being analyzed, not the actual runtime behavior.
The author is a well known "guru" of designing addictive loops in products. He used to run an event at Stanford called "How to Build Habit Forming Products".

His arguments are sound in this case, but likely only tell part of the story. Similarly however, I think the general narrative of "social media bad" also only tells part of the story.
This is, like, fractally wrong. Circumstantial evidence is admissible, and that isn't the problem with this evidence.
Looks very iffy...
the lack of not being able to find something not yet loaded or recently unloaded is infuriating to me. I file shitty pagination systems with no Show All in the same category.
On macOS Safari/Chrome and Win11 Edge, after adding my ebook and entering into it, I see a large broken image (cover.jpeg failed to load) and I don't seem to be able to scroll or see any text.

I get this error in all browsers: "TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'o.getBoundingClientRect')". Since it's working for others, I can imagine my ebook has an unexpected format.
Could someone explain to me why the mass downvoting of the above comment is not hypocritical? I believe it is, but would be interested in hearing opposing thoughts.
Most phones since 2013 or so for GLONASS, and most after 2017 or so for GALILEO, at least in the US. These constellations needed US approval to be allowed as supplemental data, and it still requires an initial lock to GPS before feeding them in. GLONASS is only one of the constellations not broadcasting a civilian second band.

Additionally, Beidou is still banned and blocked in firmware while in US even though the satellites are broadcasting, since this constellation lacks US approval (partially because the other constellations are 1-way systems broadcasting to receiver and Beidou is a two-way system, that can be used for tracking and likely emergency response). Here's some slides about BeiDou's technical details, specifically note the 2-way messaging since all anyone's been talking about is Spacex/Globalstar: https://www.gps.gov/cgsic/meetings/2020/geng.pdf