skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been meaning to write down an extensive description of a Swedish forum which describes itself as "Real freedom of expression". Obviously, the forum is only in Swedish but with English allowed, but I think it's the best and worst forum in the world, especially for discussions around sensitive topics you cannot really discuss without a lot of feelings in the real world.

You literally have far-leftists discussing with nazis, among computer nerds, among gardeners, among pedophiles, among drug users, among economists, among car fanatics and everyone in-between. Literally any walks of life is present on the forum.

It puts a huge weight on anonymity, and really strict moderation about the rules and puts quality above quantity when it comes to what gets to stay on the forum.

It's text only (with allowed URLs) which presumably covers the forum a lot better when it comes to people trying to take it down.

Of course it's not without its problems, which it has been in Swedish media a lot for, but it also has a ton of benefits in that it allows all these different people to communicate and discuss with each other. I think one big cornerstone to the success of this forum is it's really strict moderation of the messages.

I'm sure 99% of all the Swedish people already know what forum I'm talking about, as it is the most popular forum in the Nordics, but for the rest of you, the forum is called Flashback Forum and started as a kind of revolutionary fanzine back in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashback_Media_Group

It is a really radical place (compared to how discussions are usually held in Sweden) so worth highlighting. Yours truly also used to moderate some of the categories in the forum so happy to answer any questions. Seeing the current atmosphere on the internet where discussing topics with people you disagree with is really difficult, I've been thinking about maybe trying to replicate something like Flashback but for a world-wide audience.

Ultimately, like most problems, this is not a technological problem but a people problem. The moderation has to be 99% right for this to even work, and the moderation team needs to have proper tools available to do their job, and everyone on that team has to be 100% aligned. I think this is probably why Flashback ended up so successful.

> This is because even if you do it right, no search engine will index your content.

Flashback is pretty much a "anything goes text-only forum" but even with that, Google ranks Flashback really high in Sweden. It's unlikely you search for anything on Swedish Google and there are no hits from Flashback on the first page or two.
i am wondering what is state doing with parallel non state actor hezbollah? how is the lebanan state allowing non state actor to wage wars with foreign nations on its behalf?
I don't know what that is supposed to mean. There are norms of warfare and these attacks fall within them.
So literally all of the USA’s drone killings in the Middle East are terrorism? I’m ok with that definition.
There's no NWProtocolRAW class so no: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/network/building-a...
There are so many caveats and variations in jobs that it’s basically impossible to truly talk about any one job from another.

At my current job, everyone I talk to sits next to me. It’s meaningfully easier IRL than over zoom. We still work hybrid. But that wasn’t true for me in 2022, when I would’ve been much happier to be remote 24/7, because my team was global.

Not to stir the specter of laziness, but I’ve noticed our recent college hire gets nothing done when he’s remote. Then on Tuesday morning, he comes in with a TON of questions. So it’s clear we haven’t figured out how properly share knowledge in a remote setting. This is (probably) an organization/management failure, not an individual’s fault. But in the short-term, RTO would improve productivity.

Amazon is famous for churning through employees. I’m guessing a significant percent of the org has a tenure under 24mo, and many are college hires. They probably see value in oversight and training by RTO. (And I’m sure the attrition doesn’t hurt their bottom line either)
It is likely that they were authentic Icom devices. My understanding is that it is common for commercial radios to be programmed by distributor. Or Gold Alpha gave a good deal on pagers and radios and then were intercepted from warehouse.

I don't think Icom would ever put name on generic radio, they make all their radios in Japan. It is like Toyota putting name on another car.
The IDF has killed orders of magnitude more civilians than Hamas.
It worked very well as a layoff for me. The contrast between open office with 15 tables and quiet room dedicated for work was dramatic. I will not work in places with open offices anymore for sure.
Countries often scrub their history books of things they're not proud of. I grew up in the US and not once was the 1921 Tulsa massacre covered in school.
Being linked to Hezbollah carries certain occupational risks.
But it stops a third wrong.
>AI didn't just occur in 2021. Nobody knows how much text was machine generated prior to 2021

But we do know that now it's a lot more, with a big LOT.
After close() was called on a file descriptor, that descriptor is gone as long as close() returns something other than EBADF. So if what you've closed is not a "regular" file, you can't even re-open it to retry; and what writes would you even have to retry anyhow? Not to mention about the position to seek to.
Your genetic data is probably most accurate / valuable PII there is. Assuming multiple relatives use the service and at least one of them leaks online identity the whole jig is up.

So the issue is not tying it to your online identity, but rather them keeping a resource which becomes more valuable as the time goes on. So why is that an issue... most obviously because of genetic predisposition. There is always a temptation to sell diseases you are predisposed to insurers (and maybe employers... ugh). After that you can imagine someone figuring that genetics affects any number of things (sugar / weight / addiction) and sell that to advertisers...
That's exactly the opposite of what the author wanted IMO. The author no more wants to be a part of this mess. Aggregating these sources would just makes it so much more easier for the tech giants to scrape more data.
Given the embarrassingly bad security practices of hardware vendors (see recent secure boot key leak) do the spy agencies require deliberate backdoors anymore? I have lost count of the number of times Cisco has shipped a hardcoded admin password.
> Is Codon free? Codon is and always will be free for non-production use. That means you can use Codon freely for personal, academic, or other non-commercial applications.

I hope it is released under a truly open-source license in the future; this seems like a promising technology. I'm also wondering how it would match C++ performance if it is still garbage collected.
Because of the political will. Russia doesn't care, they never investigate nor prosecute their military for war crimes. Ukraine does.
I feel like there was a SSC article kind of about this, where he used the analogy of witches. If you create a space that allows everyone, and witches are banned from everywhere else, then you're going to attract a majority of witches to your platform, and you'll become primarily a witches hangout in no time.
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." -- Pericles
Hosting your own with the limited scalability it entails is the only way to go.

For a true freedom-of-speech arena to exist anywhere, it requires a focused, detached, impassionate intellectuality from its participants, and an understanding/agreement that speech in and of itself is not equivalent to anything in the real world (speech may represent X but it is not X). This is a mindset and really a skill, and it is not one everyone has or even wants, and not one a lot of societies care to specifically nurture.

Individuals with this mindset can gather in places, but places really dedicated to the "craft" require heavy filtering, because this intellectuality is typically actively discouraged and often suppressed with great energy, so genuine "practitioners" are rare. Ruler-subject dynamics seem to be how large human groups tend to work and emotion is much more easier to guide people with than pure intellect/logic, hence the rarity.

You cannot trust yourself either: even in a non-totalitarian society where it's possible to get around that roadblock at great personal expense, it's quite likely that you may think you have the required mindset, but really would rather use the arena to vent things that you cannot in less free places; most likely because some consequence of your society's ruler-subject dynamic that you are in is A) being more visible than normal to you (subjects in a perfect society would not care that they are not the rulers, no society is perfect) and B) causing you discomfort.
Moshi: A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue
Maybe everyone was implanting bugs and blamed the other party for being too sloppy and getting caught.
I always laugh when I see people post cartoons that utterly and confidently conflate the 1st amendment and freedom of speech.
what even is the burden of proof anymore
Massive, massive L for Israel. No one in their right mind is going to use Israeli tech or products going forward. They just devastated their own economy.
> Meta for all the seemingly unnecessary internal stuff they do.

Netflix would like to have a word.
I regret the situation led to the OP feel discourage about the NLP community, wo which I belong, and I just want to say "we're not all like that", even though it is a trend and we're close to peak hype (slightly past even?).

The complaint about pollution of the Web with artificial content is timely, and it's not even the first time due to spam farms intended to game PageRank, among other nonsense. This may just mean there is new value in hand-curated lists of high-quality Web sites (some people use the term "small Web").

Each generation of the Web needs techniques to overcome its particular generation of adversarial mechanisms, and the current Web stage is no exception.

When Eric Arthur Blair wrote 1984 (under his pen name "George Orwell"), he anticipated people consuming auto-generated content to keep the masses from away from critical thinking. This is now happening (he even anticipated auto-generated porn in the novel), but the technologies criticized can also be used for good, and that is what I try to do in my NLP research team. Good will prevail in the end.
if you tell someone you're moving, a generalized first question they would ask is "where?" not "what".

move Fiji belongings
Many companies work on the assumption everyone is replaceable because upper management doesn’t know or/and doesn’t care who is valuable.

Most of the downsides of losing critical staff aren’t visible short term. The opportunity cost and loss of sustainability is never factored in and later attributed to employees not working hard enough.
There is a surprisingly large plethora of TOR-only messageboards where you can freely discuss 'real subjects' like narcotics preparation and distribution, software piracy, stalking techniques, CSA fantasies, racial supremacy theories and murdering your neighbours to your heart's content.

Discussion boards for these things seldom proliferate on the regular internet because of the immense amount of real criminal liability.
"There are a ton of companies out there that meet your criteria"

But are any of them hiring, and what are the odds of being hired? The market is trash right now. If it wasn't, Amazon wouldn't have pulled this shit.
Because it's not often apparent where useful innovations will come from. If we could predict in advance what will be useful and what won't, we would surely save a lot of money and effort but life isn't that easy.
Apple's iPhone 16 already selling at discount in China, as AI delay cools demand
Isn't regression a basic AI? Most traditional ML algorithms are advanced regression models (how we draw the line/planes)
Unfortunately for them, pigeons fly slower than radio waves.
They already are.

We aggressively scan packages for drugs, explosives, certain precursors, etc.

And forms of this attack have already happened in the past, including intentional food tainting and anthrax.

Yes, you should scan your mail, physical or digital.
It's a 26% decrease in relative terms, but looking at the study shows that it is a 0.5% decrease in absolute terms (1.6% vs 2.1%). A 0.5% decrease is great and should be applauded, but I think the article framing of this being a breakthrough is misleading and even goes against the conclusions of the very paper it is reporting on.
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It makes me wonder how Israel can achieve something like this while simultaneously not being aware of the Oct 7 attacks.
Depending on vulnerability impact and difficulty fixing it, some vendors may choose to release a fix even after EOL. Generally EOL means that users should not rely on getting an update (but it still may be released as an exception).
Valkey 8.0.0 Is Out
to my knowledge and understanding it is the first valkey release that include features not just bug fixes!
This release is fully compatible with Redis OSS 7.2.4.
Clearly, you can write whatever you want in the textarea of any web form—the notes field of pizza hut's web delivery app, just as an absurd exampe—except that no one (or very few people) will ever read it. So, I'm assuming that free speech on the internet implies a broadcast model in your view.

Different jurisdictions have different definitions of free speech. Some jurisdictions have a right to free speech by certain standards, others do not. If your definition of free speech is a protected mechanism allowing you to say literally anything you want to say, with the expectation that literally everyone who wants to can hear it, then the answer is no.

In practice, you can shoot your mouth off about pretty much anything and have a very large audience—larger than, say, Thomas Paine did. That's provably easy to do on the internet today.
Maybe it's not "AI delay" that's dampening demand. Maybe people just don't need a new phone.
Not really. Not all violence is terrorism. Not all bad things are terrorism either. But terrorism is always bad. Ukrainians killing Russian soldiers isn't terrorism. Hezbollah trying to kill Israeli civilians is terrorism.
Nowadays it's fairly easy to exclude people from roads: just put up a sign that says you can only use them if you paid. (You can also use a camera and some machine learning to catch offenders; or otherwise cheap overseans workers who manually review footage.)

> Most [roads] spend most of their time with excess capacity and are not rivalrous.

Most cars sit around idle most of the time. I'm not sure what your argument shows?

> And they're usually a natural monopoly, too. Not to mention that the acquisition of land to make a road is often problematic.

That's a different discussion. Though I'm more optimistic.
It is Hamas who is to blame for these deaths. Launching rockets from densely populated areas.
You realistically can’t starve the beast that is healthcare. The costs will go up disproportionately, and they do, in basically every advanced economy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
I wouldn't be surprised if this went well beyond Lebanon. It's time to start really scrutinizing our tech supply chain. I won't use any Israeli tech going forward.
A front yes. A front for who though? Was it a front for Hezbollah that got infiltrated or a front setup by Israel fit for purpose.

I have no sympathy for Hezbollah but empathy a plenty - I've been on that side of a security breech and step one involves tearing things apart; things that are the problem and invariably unless you've got ice water in your veins you'll tear apart things that are not the problem as well.
Let's consider SEO practices as an example. SEO spam probably IS very likely always reviewed by a person before publishing.

It is still biased and garbage anyway, because the reviewer only cares about its effect on affecting ranking algorithms, not the heritage of digital human history.
Do we know the percentage of the total devices used by Hezbollah that got attacked? I guess even if all of them were destroyed, it hardly does any dismantling. But I would expect this operation to open a window of possibility to do some other actions.
Well, this goes way back:

There is no free speech on the Internet. Ultimately, it is a peer system and your speech is carried at the pleasure of those who own the means.

If our speech is worth carrying, it will be generally carried.

Even when we choose to set up as a peer, we are still in it together with everyone else. Get too toxic, and they may just turn their backs.

Some say that is all a great argument for municipal networks, and in the US, the First Amendment carries some weight. Even then, free speech is threatened right now with cancel culture.
This:

> 100% emotion and 0% analysis

I love the irony of it.
Nearly everyone is replaceable. There is some cost, some transition pain, but everyone is replaceable. Irreplaceable employees is a management failure. This is totally going to drive out employees. But I do wonder if we have data on who is actually quitting over RTO. Is it actually their top-performing employees?

This move absolutely will drive out some of their best talent… but the job market isn’t great. Genuinely, are there many desirable workplaces left that are remote? Amazon pays extremely well, I can’t think of many organizations that can afford to compete.
Glass isn't good enough for extreme non-reactivity, e.g. for containing ultrapure water used in semiconductor fabs. The real gold standard for non-reactive chemicals is PTFE, which is a PFAS. This shows that lumping all PFAS together as "forever chemicals" makes no sense. So long as you never overheat it (easily confirmed with an IR thermometer), PTFE is one of the safest food-contact materials you can get.
Wasn't this a good part of what the 2023 writers strike was about?
One reason might be this is directly targeting Hezbolla personnel, and does minimal collateral damage.
In which platform and on which instances have you felt your freedom of speech to have been restricted?
The USA spies all the time on everybody so by your own def they should be not really an ally of anybody.
California governor goes on AI law signing spree, but demurs on the big one
> At some point all of this will become so awful that nerds will create new and quiet corners of real people and real information

It's already happening. There is a growing number of groups that are forming their own "private internets" that is separated from the internet-at-large, precisely because the internet at large is becoming increasingly useless for a whole lot of valuable things.
You are joking, but that's probably the truth... Or at least that's what the NSA wants us to think!
No. That's one definition, but not the only one.
Hezbollah is not a country though.
Uh, having entrenched trade relationships across oceans dramatically reduces the chance of war. Trump launched the tariffs to reduce "dependency" on China because it was the "dependency" that held back the typical rhetoric that leads to war.
Yeah, got it. Can you recommend some good real projects or web apps to check out for design inspiration? I want to see how design principles are executed in real applications. If they are open source, that's even better—I’d like to check out the code as well
So you would not call an ambulance, when you need one?
The primary reason why Israel is widely considered an ally is their extensive intel network across Arabia and possibly half of Africa. No one matches the Mossad and the semi-private private intel industry of Israel in terms of capabilities.

Another reason is that Israel is a relatively stable, Western aligned democracy in a sea of dictatorships, kingdoms, fiefdoms and failed states... which are all organized in OPEC. The US needs a powerful Israel as a check-and-balance against OPEC - a credible threat that if OPEC ever repeats another Oil Crisis, they'll get putsched away.

> They routinely spy on the US, and according the the CIA, spy on us as aggressively as the Chinese and Russians do.

So what, I'm German, y'all spied on Schröder and Merkel as well, and it's only thanks to Snowden we actually know of that.
AI is a poorly defined term. That’s about the full discussion
> Free speech conversations tend to devolve very quickly into americentrism

In fairness, the US has about the strongest free-speech protections, so that kind of makes sense?
I think it should not be considered terrorism to the extent that the attack targeted legitimate military targets during a time of war — broadly speaking, combatants and other parts of the organization that affect its ability to wage war. Terrorism, at least least in my view, is an attack that either intentionally targets civilians or is truly indiscriminate, and is aimed at producing political cha age by causing fear.

By those definitions, I think this is clearly not terrorism. (Though we might learn more information about who was targeted that could change this assessment.) Admittedly, my definitions only imperfectly track the way the word is used in the west, but I think that's only due to frequent misuse of the term for political ends.

I would worry about a definition of terrorism that creates an incentive to avoid this type of warfare in favor of dropping bombs.
It means that those behind it will get the same treatment as known criminal getting away from punishment by the law due to technicalities.

More precisely, the Israeli politicians will not get sentenced by the courts of law but the Jewish people will suffer from increased antisemitism, politicians supporting the country of Israel will get unpopular and Israel will lose support. Israeli business will be considered risky.
Offence vs defence.
> Mankind barely noticed when the concept of massively organized information quietly emerged to become a means of social control, a weapon of war, and a roadmap for group destruction.

From IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black.

Imagine the "massively organized information" that will be available to people in power in the future. It doesn't have to be a genocide for it to be useful to them. People in power today are fully on board with "social control" and it's so uncontroversial that they talk about it openly.
They made an early bet on CUDA (17 years ago!), long before it was cool to use GPUs for general computing. It paid off handsomely and soon overtook all their gaming profits.

I don't think anyone else was really trying that back then, except maybe Sony with their Cell processors in PS2s (but that was never really popular aside from a limited few supercomputing experiments).
The platforms don't decide what is legal, but they do have the right, and in many cases the obligation, to moderate their platforms. They can be held liable for allowing CSAM for example. And these platforms have business goals that can be in conflict with, say, allowing anti-LGBTQ or Nazi content.
Yes. This was already implemented quite a long time ago by Cobb (2022 - they called it Project Green Speed), the settlement is just now becoming public. Many tuners air-gapped their tuning computers and hoarded old AccessPorts. However, in exchange they don't get new features, and since Cobb is an end-to-end locked platform (flashing, editing, and logging must all be done using the Cobb tools), this is a fairly significant price to pay.
Do LGBT people in Russia deliberately target non-combattants with shocking levels of violence?

If not, then the definition might still hold meaning and Russia's appellation might be ridiculous.