skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to need to see some evidence for this. How is it that I was reading science papers and media reports on them daily at the time, covering all these things you claim were censored?

Droplet vs airborne was a frequent debate, as were the costs/benefit of lockdowns and especially the potential side effects of the vaccines. Information at the time moved lightening quick, things were barely even published before being all over the media.

The lab-leak theory was not taken seriously, but it wasn't censored. I remember several high profile articles on it.

Your narrative sounds like some fantasy.
The future of AI/ML depends on the reality of today – and it's not pretty
But you will note in the cost column that the ones making money are on windows/mac. Its possible to sell commercial software on linux, just not desktop software as such. Between the small and very fragmented marketshare between the distros there is a pretty strong user distaste for commercial offerings. Which means the headwinds for a successful product are a lot worse. If one wants to create a new filemanager/whatever a far better plan is to target windows/macos as the primary offerings/focus rather than linux in the beginning. I guess some of that is application specific (ex a git frontend might work) but one better have a reason other than "I like linux" if they want it to be something other than a hobby.
a large contingent of the voting public, the same contigent that support public housing and are against private housing, see enforcing nuisance and public order laws as (race|class)ist. until enforcing laws against disadvantaged minorities in their own homes and neighbourhoods becomes acceptable again, public housing with under-market tenants will continue to rapidly degrade into hovels like NYCHA.
>I doubt most consumers ask for a native look. It's more like an HN meme.

So you're ok with a mp3 player that takes 6 seconds to start up, is janky when it starts, takes 300MB of RAM, every row item is 100px high and every interaction with every UI element takes a noticeable delay on the order of 100x milliseconds?

And you're gonna tolerate the same story with the file explorer app, the archive/zip app, the WiFi SSID selection dialog, etc?
The evidence of safety isn't the issue it's that nuclear accidents however rare have huge implications so stick in people's minds. We're bad, mentally, at appreciating low level dangers that are diffuse like minor pollutants which kill slowly or degrade people's health over time. What does stick in our minds well are singular big events like terror attacks, Chernobyl or Deep Water Horizon.

Even our legal systems address singular events better than low level harms because it's harder to deflect blame because the damages are so immediately identifiable; Fukushima and Chernobyl destroyed their closest cities and areas overnight in ways that they'll likely never recover from and the effects of their poisons are rapidly identifiable.
This is where I really feel my age. Every message board and chatroom (bbs, forums, irc, icq, aol, et all) on the young internet was virtually uncensored and a 100% free for all, yet we all mostly got by. You went to the places you knew to go to. The communities mostly self moderated by kicks/bans. It worked really well.

So whats changed?

Well, I have my thoughts, but one thing is for sure, as soon as the platform itself tried to start moderating, that's when things really started changing.
> eg the UN defines inequality as "fewer women in college than men"

Do you have a reference for that definition? I can't find it.
> people will be saying it on the radio, TV where by law swearing is not allowed to be broadcast.

Depends where you live.

"British public no longer give a fig about on-air swearing, Ofcom says"

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/apr/03/british-public...
It's not just apartments, also Condos and other shared buildings..so would a duplex count?

As someone who doesn't smoke and hates the smell of both cigarette and weed, this is great but if someone bought a one half of a duplex and then couldn't smoke at home? Seems a bit overreach. With property prices rising, fewer people can live in single family homes.
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Show HN: A UI Framework with a Unified Interface for Variables and Methods
About two months ago, I introduced TargetJ, a JavaScript UI framework. A lot has been done since then, and I have got a lot better at how to describe it. TargetJ provides in nutshell a unified interface for variables and methods, called target. They become the building blocks of components instead of relying on direct usage of variables and methods. This new concept provides more flexible and easier development solutions for various aspects such as animation, loading data from external APIs, handling user events, and more. I invite you to explore TargetJ if this is your first time or not and see how it can simplify your development process. You can find the github repository at https://github.com/livetrails/targetj
Right! And there was always dog poop everywhere too :(

And I remember watching E.T. in the cinema when it came out and you could barely see the screen for the amount of cigarette smoke.
Great that the alternative today is renewables then. No need to compare against fossil fuels.
In case you didn't read the article, the class is 50.9% women.
Thinking about this scenario I'd suppose disabling features would be the way to go - disabling individual methods doesn't look feasible and I imagine that it should be done at the configuration level (what I mean here is that you need an easy and quick way to switch the feature flag, rather than recompiling/redeploying). But then the code would have to be built as well to support such feature.
It sounds like in both cases the US government asked facebook to spread lies, and they complied
Zuck Vs Elon on the 2028 presidential ticket would be.... something
> Censorship, beyond what’s required by law, is doomed to fail.

Censorship, as you call it, is a requirement for any platform. It's better to call it moderation. Without it platforms would be 99% spam. I assume you support "censoring" spam so that means you support some level of moderation.
Really? Aren't gore videos legal? That's just one example.

Also, can we get some common sense here? You're posting on hacker news. You're allowed to post a very narrow set of things here. There are no shitposts and memes, that's half the content of the internet being censored on this platform. Are you not outraged?
Sure, the terrorists will dive right down the mile deep shaft to get non-weapons-grade material. /s

Nation-states don’t have any problem getting uranium…and weapons proliferation isn’t a concern with any nuclear power. In other words, these could be installed widely in suitable US, British, French, Israeli, Russian and Chinese locations with no concern at all.
“Waxy” is the normal taste for chocolate produced using vegetable oil instead of cocoa butter or otherwise skimping on the dairy content (one of the main reasons why cheap US chocolate is so awful), but I don’t think that’s new in the last 3-4 years.
Nice. A real SVG sparkline would use polyline or path, though. Not much point in using Unicode glyphs.
GFCI requirements will interfere with the legality of many modern-day multi-wire branch circuit plans, yeah?
I've been thinking about this and there might be ways to do it without regulations.

The "big gun" without regulation would be if the likes of Apple and Google (and/or Visa / MasterCard) telling the card issuers that they have to use these security standards. But in my "ideal world" I don't like giving Visa/MC even more "power", however in this case at least it would be kicking the card issuers and not the consumer (same could be said for Apple/Google)

The other way would be to hit the US card issuers in their pocket via class action that they were not using these security practices which could have protected customers from fraud.

But yeah you are right, until external forces (be it the card networks, digital wallets, lawsuits, the feds, etc) make entities do the "right thing" they will often just do the bare minimum.
Linus at KubeCon+OSSummit: AI's Value in Software Development is Code Review
Or instead of Linux they could join something FreeBSD-based, like ravynOS

https://ravynos.com/

> We love macOS, but we’re not a fan of the ever-closing hardware and ecosystem. So, we are creating ravynOS — an OS aimed to provide the finesse of macOS with the freedom of FreeBSD.

Imagine former Apple employees joining them! That’d be so awesome!
Most colleges and university are majority women. The one I went to had 2 women for 1 man. This was unambiguously a mistake.
Some of it is probably a matter of deliberate policy choices. Other aspects include an organic shift away from engineering disciplines (like mechanical engineering) that were historically very heavily male dominated. I don't know the exact current ratio at MIT without looking up (pretty close to equal) but it was something like 1:7 50 years ago even though women were admitted since I think its founding.
Most games, for instance, do not offer accessible user interfaces on any level.
I have productivity software that is 30 years old that I can still install and run today either on windows or wine. This is because it doesn't need to connect to the internet in order to install. Any software from the last decade or so is far less permanent.
I moved across the world (from Perth, WA) to work on open source software with some of my heroes (Bud Tribble, Andy Hertzfeld, Susan Kare) at Eazel. It was only a short time run, but I'm still in the Bay Area, still friends with many of the people I met there.

And I still use the software that I worked on at Eazel most days, which I can't say for anything I worked on since then.
> virtually uncensored and a 100% free for all

> self moderated by kicks/bans

Also smaller communities tend to be easier to keep from becoming a cesspool
Lots of other issues also such as page up/page down on keyboard not working and mouse scroll wheel is very slow(it behaves as if acceleration is turned off).
In larger companies ICs that are on the technical track also have leadership.
I think you can see how this would go by looking at an Eazel that already emerged and found substantial success. Does this sound familiar?

- Founders from early Apple and Apple spinoff General Magic.

- Built a new Linux-based operating system.

- Their OS used an all-new, consumer-focused UI toolkit and userspace, and avoided playing around with any of the existing concepts from legacy linux distros, using GTK or QT, etc.

- They were acquired by Google.

- By many measures, the Linux operating system they built is the most popular OS on the planet, with more devices than macOS, iOS, or Windows.

Even with all that success, I'm not sure I'd say they had a major influence on the existing open-source linux distro "desktop environment" community.
That's not what the parent is claiming, merely that facebook lost all credibility
This is a third rail of conversation, regarding gender equality and equity, so please hold your downvotes if you differ from my positions. Some might value the perspective, and I feel we all could learn something here.

I can guarantee you that way more men applied to Caltech than women did. That means the most talented and impressive young man who applied and didn’t get in is objectively more talented and impressive than the least talented and impressive (though still extremely talented and impressive) woman who applied and got in.

This also means that on average, a man on campus is more qualified to be there than a woman on campus (the top 100 of say 20000 is going to be more qualified than the top 100 of say 7000). In pursuing equality, the admissions group has achieved the greatest inequality in school history from a different perspective.

I submit this also is unfair to women. Imagine yourself with a case of impostor syndrome and having the mathematical understanding to back it up. I’d want to know I earned it and deserve to be there just as much as anybody else there. Some do and have, and there’s no way to know who those some are.

Is it worth sacrificing merit for optics? Maybe it is, but we ignore this double-edged sword (even and especially one of its edges) at our peril.

Until equal numbers of men and women apply, deviating from the application gender percentages will disadvantage everybody.
Elon was born in Africa and is not eligible to be president.
Women in a lot of places are barred by legal or cultural methods from going into higher education in a way that men just aren't. Especially in the US less men go to college but they definitely aren't barred from it in the same way. This isn't to say that specific interventions targeting young men aren't important, just that it's not really the same concern at all.
No it doesn't. A standard EU Socket is not certified for 24/7 3.2kW.

You should max. pull 2.7kW.

For everything else you need a blue eu socket or camper socket.

I learned this due to my EV which is able to be charged through a normal socket but it regulates it down due to this on purpose and has a temperature sensor build in as well.
Platform decay can happen all by itself, enshittification is the result of a person or system, the enshittifier, which takes action to reduce things like quailty & value.
CMU 15-445/645: Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2024)
Could you elaborate? I think it’s fine? Although I have always subscribed to the “Two Scoops” philosophy and keep my templates as stupid as possible. Use a variable, simple conditions, etc. Anything more complex should be handled at a higher level.

Go templating on the other hand, that drove me bananas.
Could be… I pretended it’s point to point protocol (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol), but really I just couldn’t think of a good username that was available here when I signed up…

EDIT: I’ve misunderstood your comment, I don’t have any alternative accounts on hacker news!
Wouldn't the obvious solution be to make the apartments airtight, so as to avoid everything from smoke to cooking smells to whatever bothering your neighbors?

Isn't second-hand (passive smoking) shown to not increase cancer[0]?
Really trying to understand this "we don't like something so we will ban it for everyone!" thing.

Isn't your home supposed to be sacred? Sovereign?
Aren't the YIMBY people always telling me that apartments are just as good as Single Family Homes and only people who hate the planet want to live in SFH?

[0]: No Clear Link Between Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/105/24/1844/2517805
I stumbled on an obscure question years ago on one of the sub exchange sites that dovetailed precisely with something I'd been working on for years. All the proposed answers were subpar so it was like I was born for this particular question. After cracking my knuckles and preparing to reply I realized I couldn't. I didn't have enough karma or whatever. And that was the end of that.
My only USE for a notebook would be to use with my Ruby code. I have zero use for Jupyter with Python.
People disagreeing with you is not censorship.
I'm not interested in the axiomatic derivation. Just search for "illegal interview questions" and things like "residency" or "where candidate lives". I'm confident there's a way to handle this, but just Leeroy Jenkins-ing it with "what's your nearest Metro stop" probably isn't it.
at least it makes dating easier for guys at schools like caltech now which is a non-trivial plus
Show HN: Supertree – interactive visualization of decision trees in Python
Hi All,

I would like to share with you a new Python package for interactive decision tree visualization. It is called `supertree`. It visualizes decision tree as interactive graph, where you can collapse and expand selected nodes. You can zoom and pan though large trees. It works with Scikit-learn, Xgboost, and LightGBM.

The package works in notebooks: Jupyter Lab, Jupyter Notebook, Google Colab. You can also use it in Python scripts and save output trees to HTML.

The package is available on pip: `pip install supertree`.

You can find code examples on the GitHub: https://github.com/mljar/supertree

Happy exploring!
> - I do not know if there is a clean, ethical way to "run the social media"

My hand-wavy proposal:

1. there needs to be something akin to a constitution where all players involved (users of social media, social media companies) can express some shared set of values. For example kids shouldn't get depressed, data should be private, widely spread information should be reasonably accurate.

2. There needs to be a few institutions with enough power and checks and balances to be able to steer the system towards these values.
Country club membership is not a free speech issue. I thought this was an obvious enough example everyone could understand. But I guess the tech companies have polluted the definition and nobody remembers civics class.
Multiple Errors in an OTEL Span
>But how does one become say, a first class lawyer, or a teacher, or any of the 99% of human skills that do not have easy performance metrics?

Presumably you break the job down into the various parts and then focus on training those parts. Like lawyering and teaching involve a lot of public speaking, which can be practiced and improved.
AI junk. "Redditor Investigator" is hallucinated and CrowdTangle has been discontinued.
Is anyone claiming it's illegal or that the constitution demands that?
On the upside this error indicates that the writer just doesn't know Chicago, instead of the increasingly common issue of articles being written by (de)generative ai
>> "Be honest: You haven't really heard anyone claim that height and IQ are the same thing, have you?"

I cannot imagine what your motivation is for making such a bizarre and out of place accusation but I won't participate in whatever it is you're trying to do here.
>And this is how we get trump as president.

Not sure how this got derailed into a "trump vs harris" discussion. The comment I was replying to was arguing about the "power" of the presidency/vice-presidency. That's entirely orthogonal to whether you think harris is a good candidate or not. Indeed, you could even argue harris is a good candidate for not being powerful, because she's doesn't narcissistic and will defer to staffers/experts rather than sticking to her agenda to the bitter end.
Jupyter is a rebrand of iPython, so you were right the first time!
Zuckerberg vs trump, would also pretty much be Facebook vs x
It's funny because Facebook's news feed in the last couple years is unusable, filled with AI slop and clickbait. Twitter similarly requires aggressive use of block + mute to eliminate scams, clickbait, and other content I'm not interested in.

I don't know if this is due to their changes in moderation policy, or if AI has overwhelmed them, but I vastly preferred the old news feeds
dang, consider adding [2001] to the title? This is a long-defunct company.
I believe that the system prompt offers a way to fix up alignment issues that could not be resolved during training. The model could train forever, but at some point, they have to release it.
Some took my comment to mean "why would anyone use Dokku"?

This project looks great, and is obviously far less complex than Kubernetes. I was asking for advice about my particular situation. I wasn't saying that someone should choose Kubernetes over Dokku.

Though, I do see many advantages of Kubernetes for a homelab environment, mainly that you get experience using K8s which can transfer to a professional context.
Thanks for that context. That makes a huge difference to me. I'd march in the streets for your right to do something I detest inside your own house, and protesting the extreme lengths someone would have to go to in order to enforce a ban. No smoking in a building shared with a bunch of other people? Bummer for the smokers, but yeah, my asthma agrees with you.
To defend the humans here, I could see myself thinking
"Crap, if I don't say 1+1=3, these other humans will beat me up. I better lie to conform, and at the first opportunity I'm out of here"

So it is hard to conclude from the Asch experiment that the person who says 1+1=3 actually believes 1+1=3 or sees temporary conformity as an escape route.
“During their dialogue, both tech leaders probed each other’s intentions for expansion. “I remember him asking me whether we were planning to start something on a global basis, on the global level, go for international expansion. I said no,” Durov recalled.

Zuckerberg similarly denied any plans to target Durov's domestic market, yet both moved to expand their respective reaches shortly after the meeting. “We both ended up doing exactly that in two or three weeks,” Durov noted.”

https://www.benzinga.com/news/24/06/39223122/telegrams-pavel...
Before literally everyone was aware of the numerous low effort ways to exploit others on the internet

Now the moment a vulnerability is known, be it social or system, it is exploited by many actors.

The moment a new business idea appears to work, it is an overnight saturated market

The internet is now driven by hustlers and monetization all the way down

RIP AOL COMOUSERVE PRODIGY GOLDEN ERA
It's relevant right now because there's recent increase in the amount of government-directed censorship and propaganda on the social media platforms at the moment. Take a look at Reddit. Look at what's happening in the UK or with the EU threatening to imprison Musk for allowing Trump to be interviewed.
Yeah this title is pretty terrible. The HN guidelines [1] state

please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

This title smells pretty linkbait to me. Especially since "no smoking in your apartment" would have been more accurate (it also applies to homes you don't own, e.g. if you are renting).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It also props up the price of various goods to keep them profitable to produce so farms don't go under by limiting the amount produced to avoid big gluts of produce.
I can't speak for the original commenter, but it's been widely noted that the university system isn't a very exciting or innovative place to be. Between the strict dogma and the high costs, many are moving on. Google, for instance, claims it doesn't look at your undergraduate degree. The best startups have long been run by dropouts.

My guess is that the school has trouble finding capable students of any gender that want to pay the expensive tuition. State schools like Michigan, Maryland and Berkeley have top notch programs that cost a fraction of Caltech's.

Are parents of girls more likely to buy into the Caltech dream? Perhaps. I suppose this batch of statistics might be said to prove that claim. But in general, females are much more risk averse and so are their parents. This suggests that Caltech is a "safe" choice. Not a bad thing to be, but it's not where the innovation and the exploration happens.
Yes, it's arbitrary, 20 would also make the same point, 0.1 would not.

If you're saying "we must censor abhorrent viewpoints for the good of society", I'll just counter that your viewpoints are horrible and must be suppressed, while mine are good and must be amplified. For the good of society.
Kinda like Crowdstrike ?

(a low blow I know)
How is it clickbait? Individuals can own a unit in a condo or apartment building.

>My downstairs neighbor smokes heavily and burns incense all day and night, and it's bad enough that I'm seriously considering moving. Sometimes I can see smoke visibly rising from the floor. This would not be a problem if the city I lived in had common-sense laws against smoking inside multi-unit buildings.

That sucks, I wonder if your building is up to code?

As someone who dislikes the smell of smokers, I like the idea of the law but I worry about allowing the reach.
Indeed. Nobody would describe a 150 billion dimensional system to be “simple”.