skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you point to a single time that banning the speech of Nazis has led down a vast slippery slope of further speech bans, particularly in a vaguely democratic country?
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Instagram is hardly a reliable benchmark given that it has been widely criticised for its suppression of Palestinian content. [1]

[1] https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...
Maybe we can pitch to Max Verstappen to use Git to store his sim racing setup configs.
Why suggest AI when simply paying a social media manager for his twitter account would be a normal thing to have done at his level of wealth?

Which is something he has obviously done with his grind-centric videogame accounts and actual livestreams of him not knowing how to play on those accounts?
> the only time there's something bipartisan is when it's to do Israel's bidding

The gay marriage bill was at Israel’s bidding?

I worked on the TikTok bill. I really don’t care about Israel. While it’s tempting to see everything through the lens of your pet issue, it’s myopic to believe everything is motivated by a single cause, particularly a foreign-policy line.
I'd live a Lenovo with a Mac trackpad. I owned a P1 and the trackpad was horrendous.
I didn't provide an example because there's already a ton of other responders with examples. The claim is clearly false, but it was presented as emphatically true and I was wondering why.
Philosophy is mostly autophagous and self-regulating, I think. It's a debug mode, or something like it.

It's not eating AI. It's "eating" the part of AI that was tuned to disproportionally change the natural balance of philosophy.

Trying to get on top of it is silly. The debug mode is not for sale.
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This particular blog doesn't heed device settings and, as such, forces light mode on its readers.

The author also changes their mind halfway through and decides the problem is actually color contrast, not dark mode.
That's too bad. It shouldn't necessarily even need to charge the battery when parked, so much as have smarter battery management logic to get the car into lower power consumption states when parked and to more aggressively maintain the 12V charge when operating.

We resorted to installing a big master cutoff switch on the negative battery terminal in the trunk of the Camry. So if there is no plan to use the car again in the next few days, we electrically isolate the battery.

Then, we have to go through a longer "boot up" process to reactivate the car for its next use. Use the mechanical key to open the trunk, restore power, then enter the cabin and go through multiple cycles with the START button to let all the computers power back up...
I think the more specific argument is to avoid sudden changes in brightness.

Neither dark mode nor light mode is the one true “main” option. We had dark mode for a long time with terminals. Then light mode a long time with word processors and the web and OSes. And now we kinda have both.
Anthony Hobday [1] has some pre-defined color combinations on his website. Sharing, since I find it related.

[1]: https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/containercolours/
The physical equivalent would be if the Chinese intelligence apparatus opened an auditorium where they said "come sit here and let us read your mind and we will feed you what advances our national interest".
The most baffling thing is that someone implemented deciseconds as a unit of time. Truly bizarre.
I didn't understand what the article meant by "The perfect Bayesian equilibrium, according to those who have studied Mafia, is voting randomly according to a pre-set public rule."
Russia Slashes Engine Production as Domestic Airliner Production Flounders
Bytedance is privately held. With a 20% stake by founders and employees.
Divesting according to the bill terms would have them giving away portion of their most precious IP that is the fyp recommendation system. Any reasonable company would refuse to totally divest and create a competitor just because a government said so. Also TikTok makes money for advertizing to the entire world not just the US.
I very rarely stumble across sites that genuinely force dark mode.. they usually respect "prefers-color-scheme dark" (as they should).
To work around light mode we have Dark Reader extension. Is the author frustrated enough to make a Light Reader extension?
So that's a discernable difference. I'm wondering what LGBTQ rights were eroded under democratic governments.
> The actual meaning of democracy is the "power of the people". Nowhere that implies a western-like electoral system.

Correct. “we” used to do it simply by killing the leaders that were disliked. Elections are a bit friendlier than that :)

You might enjoy this Zizek video on the border between the west and the balkans: https://youtu.be/bwDrHqNZ9lo . I think he captures the sentiment well.

> I'd argue in your average western democracy the people have very little power, with lots of symbolic processes to reinforce the illusion.

This was Chomsky’s whole point in Manufacturing Consent.
Can someone share a guide or how to for detecting the device’s preference and honouring that? That sounds optimal.
It is similar to GitHub, it's a fork of Gitea whose site has screenshots: https://about.gitea.com/

(couldn't find any on Forgejo's site)
A "protest" is implicitly a demonstration by people who are unsatisfied with the status quo. As far as Taiwanese are concerned, Taiwan is already independent, so a protest to support its independence would be a bit redundant - and if there were one, it'd probably be referred to as a parade or a rally, not a protest.
We've again came to full circle, with so many posts damning "no dark mode" sites back then. Maybe there is enough audience now for a "BrightReader" browser extension?
You really can't tell the difference between Americans doing it and a foreign nation doing it?
> can the government actively interfere with my communication by banning the platform?

Yes. Foreign-ownership rules have been a thing in America for almost a century [1].

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/general/foreign-ownership-rules-and-poli...
I wish it was easier to get your CA installed in trust stores. Even for devices you control it's annoying but even worse if you want to share your services with mates at your house or over VPN etc. In the end it's just easier to go with LE certs for all practical cases.
Democracy is not a new concept, just current implementation is different. Democracy, in some form, dates back over 2500 years to ancient Athens (circa 5th century BCE). Around 1500 years ago (~500 CE), formal democracy as it existed in Athens had largely faded, particularly with the decline of the Roman Republic (509 BCE – 27 BCE), which had elements of representative governance.
It struggled with corruption, inequality and power struggles, so all the problems that are getting stronger with time in our democratic systems.
The idea of democracy reemerged during the Enlightenment (17th–18th centuries) and became formalized in modern political systems - United States (1776) and revolutionary France.
We live in cycles, democracy probably will fade again, and again it will be considered anarchic and unstable until the cycle repeats itself.
Well, better do nothing then!
> the 1st Amendment doesnt say the speech can be overridden by a compelling national security interest, which is the argument here.

No it isn't. The argument here is that it isn't a restriction on speech at all.
Not about pit stops. They talk about pro drivers with highly trained reflexes, looking at a red light knowing that it will turn green in the next 3 seconds, so they must push a pedal to the metal as fast as they can. If they react in less than 120ms is considered a jump start.

As for 100WPM, which is a very respectable typing speed, it translates to 500 CPM, less than 10 characters per second, and thus slightly above 100ms per keypress. But Ctrl+C are two key presses: reacting to type them both in under 100 ms is equivalent to a writting speed above 200WPM.

Even the fastest pro-gamers struggle to go faster than 500 actions (keypresses) per minute (and they use tweaks on repeat rates to get there), still more than 100ms for two key presses.
A handy bookmarklet to find & preview any site's feed (before subscribing):

https://feedreader.xyz
After the ban, Pornhub displayed a message asking people to contact their state representatives. I reckon it's a self-interest thing.
> As of January 19, the Protecting Americans from Foreign
Adversary Controlled Applications Act will make it unlaw-
ful for companies in the United States to provide services to
distribute, maintain, or update the social media platform
TikTok

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/TikTok_v...

Please do some research next time before spreading lies.
> the government would make Jack Daniels (picked a random liquor brand, nothing against JD specifically) illegal, while still allowing consumption of all other liquors

…alcohol is licensed and regulated. Jack Daniels can be sold in a way moonshine cannot.
Yes, a court could reach that conclusion.

It's the PA supplier would be in a better position to argue that their rights are being violated. Especially if a single customer was targeted because of their political views / protected characteristics etc.

The problem with the TikTok scenario is that no specific group is being targeted for restraint. And the government does have the right to regulate trade. E.g. there are embargoed countries, export controls, etc. The fact that you can't sell raw milk across state lines is different from a hypothetical restriction on selling raw milk to, say, people named Todd.
I agree with this. Default, unconfigurable light mode has been around for a while, and infrastructure like the Dark Reader plugin is around to address this. There is no such thing for light mode, though.

In my opinion, light mode is better than dark mode in most situations. The only situation dark mode is better than light mode is when you're sitting in a dark room with your screen as your only light source, and most of the time that's not really a healthy situation to be in. Dark mode is a crutch. Turn on a light or go to sleep.

Light mode might be annoying to read in no-light environments, but dark mode is nigh impossible to read in high-light environments. Ever try to read a dark mode UI on your phone on a bright summer's day? Can't read a thing, even with brightness cranked all the way up.
That’s not what people mean by discovery.
Also; because system mode happens to be dark, doesn't mean that the users would like dark mode by default. Every dark mode is not equal, and I'd like to start with light mode if possible.
That's an interesting problem. I'm thinking about creating a local-first RSS Reader that syncs using github. It seems doable to create a personal feed based on my feed and publish it also to github.
Why do you think The Rule of Law exists? Large groups of angry people often make bad decisions with long term consequences. We have known this forever.
Assuming the best case scenario of feeling the slap in 90ms, it would leave 10ms to abort the command. Or did the 90-180ms range refer to something else?
There is no way the President can commit that these services will not accrue massive fines throughout his non-enforcement period.

And actually your read is wrong: the President does have an obligation to enforce laws, it's just in practice there are all sorts of ways one can effectively bury this obligation under claims of different prioritization. They are not really allowed to come out and just say: "I am choosing not to enforce this law because I disagree with it."
Thanks for posting this, it's an interesting perspective that I hadn't considered before. Ideally, sites would respect user preferences such as prefers-color-scheme and prefers-reduced-motion. And, in fact, I just checked MDN and see there is prefers-contrast:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
Surely you see the difference between someone having Strategic weapons in their garage, and the government forcing someone to take a medicine that they don't want to take, right?

>but the point still stands

On what, exactly?
I think what you raise is something the courts should consider if the government were trying to shut down a platform because of what it's users were doing on it. But it's not a live issue in this case. There is no allegation that the US seeks to suppress TikTok because of what Americans are posting on it. TikTok isn't saying the government is doing that and I don't believe the government is seeking to control the speech of TikTok users. The consern seems to be more about who controls the algorithm and data collection (a foreign state with adversarial interests) and it seems to me that it has nothing to do with anything Americans are posting on TikTok. I mean the content on TikTok isn't all that political or revolutionary
Why is this not reliable for other topics than Palestine?
It’s literally an egg, not a UFO that is egg shaped but literally an egg like the kind in kitchens around the world. Notice: if the egg is 20 feet long then the blades of grass are massive. The hammock looking cradle carrying this “UFO” ridges would have to be 10 to 12 inches apart. Oh and the rope(?)and the cradle holding the egg are of the same material.

You’re carrying a priceless UFO and you just dump it on the ground on the grass?

Why use this hammock cradle thing when you could use a proper net?

This hammock sticks to the egg, it’s a green coloured bandage.

I’m not even going to touch on the pure crazy crap the UFO “whistleblower” said in the interview.

This is all a grift.
> They are the result of a particular time and place.

Absolutely, it can't go one forever.
But it might go on longer than you think ;)

To be fair, we've already seen things change: today most entry level jobs are gated by degree requirements.

It's no longer enough to just be computer savvy. Probably because there increasingly a lot of computer savvy people today.
That is not really the problem.

mktime() parses the time string which lacks any information on time zones

then the article uses timegm() to convert it to unixtime on the assumption that it was in UTC

also it's about C
I saw that and I was curious if they don't get you the job, then what is their angle?

Are they getting devs to build apps for their clients for free as part of the bootcamp?
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Yes. But we're talking about children too - not just adult voters.

And the app collects every click, every face photo, all contacts, every keypress on external links, everything. The full social graph, shaping the trends of the younger generation.
YouTube pays creators based on advertising deals making some topics far more valuable, while other topics have become very sensitive to advertisers. That’s related, but different from censorship.

Creators are still free to use YouTube as a platform to discuss sensitive topics with a very large audience without paying per viewer, unlike say advertising or standing at a street corner talking to passersby. As such YouTube is still supporting the discussion and distribution of said content.
Still not quite right, not in a modern state. Law has always been sovereign power, and in the modern period the entire state is the sovereign (think Leviathan.) It is strange that Americans seem to think these are personal powers.
What are planets, in this context?
That's really interesting. I've thought about trying to replace ROS with GRPC before too. I could never find a report of anybody actually doing that in the robotics space. Can you share more? How did it go? What pitfalls did you run into?
Thanks for that. I hadn't followed closely because right now I don't have a real desire to go back to Gitea. I'm glad to know that deadline to commit is coming up soon.
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier, Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. -Eric S. Raymond
So what does that say when they’re even more underrepresented on TikTok as GP showed?
Not at all. Asking quality questions is probably the most important skill to have - if you want to grow your expertise in anything or wisdom in general.

And thi OP post is a good example of a bad question.
Well yes, in the sense that not all Unix epoch seconds are equally long...
Yeah, Trump himself signed the executive order to ban TikTok.
That's good. So it should be banned on military bases, why not elsewhere?
The physical access industry is a complete, unmitigated clusterfuck.

Even if you have a system which is more secure than UID-only (i.e. not at all), e.g. using DESfire EV1/EV2 (and assuming they use it correctly) to have a non-trivially clonable access token, 99.9% still use what the industry calls "non-transparent readers" (simply because "transparent readers" were invented in like 2023), which is to say the actual card/NFC reader out in the insecure area has the DESfire master key in it and performs the challenge/response and only reports the decoded UID back to the access controller over some wires. Which is obviously completely insecure and open to all sorts of tampering. The physical access industry puts tamper contacts on the card readers for this reason.

The physical access industry is generally extremely tight-lipped about how their garbage actually works. Half the reason is that they know they're selling insecure garbage for a lot of money, the other half is that the industry genuinely believes not documenting stuff increases security. The third half is that having documented and open systems would mean their franchise/installer people would maybe not be able to take their fat cut in some cases.
It’s sad that we have to assume this is the agenda for all offerings that don’t allow paying current price x years in advance (possibly including adjustion for expected inflation). Leaves a very sour taste, especially in the case of hardware devices
And in this case they'll just accrue (massive) fines.
Thanks. I'm going to use that to remember it now.
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> The only situation dark mode is better than light mode is when you're sitting in a dark room with your screen as your only light source, and most of the time that's not really a healthy situation to be in. Dark mode is a crutch. Turn on a light or go to sleep.

It's always been strange to me how many people without a medical reason for doing so want to sit in dark rooms like cave trolls, but there we are.

At least now operating systems all have switchable modes that get reported to the browser. The browser can/should adapt to whatever setting the OS reports.

But UI design is, with a few islands of rationality in history from people like Paul Fitts, mostly a cascade of poorly applied vibes and fads. First people say that contrast is bad, so then people don't use enough contrast. Then people say that brightness is bad, so people don't use enough brightness. Then people realize why contrast and brightness were important all along and the circle of life continues.
I'm assuming that the "use dylan" is there for similar reasons as to why you declare that a package uses :cl in common lisp: This way if you want to define your own functions that replace those in the language (eg. a custom + function) then you can simply omit importing the dylan namespace and define those without worry of conflicts.
Your light mode privilege is showing but seriously, maybe instead of writing an article with a tone about everything that's wrong with a preference you have you could instead. do what every dark mode user has done and like you said.. just override the css. And then write an article with a tone about how you accomplished it. This just feels like complaining for the sake of complaining.
Which is fine. The whole point of the divestment was to NOT use the CCP-controlled recommendation algorithm.
Indeed. https://youtu.be/BBwepkVurCI
> Originally, if you typed an unknown command, it would just say "this is not a git command".

Back in the 70s, Hal Finney was writing a BASIC interpreter to fit in 2K of ROM on the Mattel Intellivision system. This meant every byte was precious. To report a syntax error, he shortened the message for all errors to:

EH?

I still laugh about that. He was quite proud of it.
Yes, that was quite the weird ad. I read HN every day so I don't think I missed it but why advertise the "training course" a couple weeks after the application ended? Quite suspicious.
> and never actually does anything new afaik, it's just Gitea under another name, while taking money too

This is really unfair to the many people who spend their free time working on Forgejo, please stop spreading nonsense. They have worked hard on "boring" improvements like translations, accessibility and proper unit and e2e testing, but also UI improvements, federation support, and other genuinely new features (asset quotas, wiki search, ...). Take a look for yourself: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls.

Regarding the money part, Forgejo is not monetized. It is a true FOSS project (recently re-licensed as GPLv3), not open-core like Gitea. The only funding they receive is from donations and grants, they are not selling a product.
Even assuming everything you state to be true, moving sales to a less developed area also means selling for lower price in most cases. That is an incentive at least to try and comply with regulation. Only that the US is notorious underregulated.
I don't think the idea is to buy crypto locally, and then donate the crypto to Trump. The purchase is the donation. You just wake up one day and decide to purchase some shitcoin. The seller happens to be Trump. He walks away with your USD, and you can keep what you bought or just throw it away.
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SCOTUS, as they've done in many recent cases, is artfully skirting the substance of the issue.

How is this ban actually enforced? By fining American companies for serving specific content. That is the First Amendment issue. SCOTUS simply asserting that it's not in order to make their ruling convenient does not actually make it so.
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It's not "give away" when they get to charge the market price for it. They presumably also wouldn't inherently even have to split up the company, rather than e.g. do an IPO for the entire global enterprise.
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Seems like a fashion thing, but the Linux distribs I've recently checked out all defaulted to a dark mode. Fine for night but a pain to read normally :(
OK, but how does this invalidate the point that billionaires are off-topic for FOSDEM?
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The article is about mapping Philosophy into AI project management.

> Philosophical perspectives on what AI models should achieve (teleology), what counts as knowledge (epistemology), and how AI represents reality (ontology) also shape value creation. Without thoughtful and rigorous cultivation of philosophical insight, organizations will fail to reap superior returns and competitive advantage from their generative and predictive AI investments.
I've been sorely tempted to do that with my compiler many times.
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/timegm.3.html

It's not posix, but it's pretty available
If that's the case then did Trump just lose popularity by doing this or is the idea that Trump's teflon-y nature going to keep consequences off him?
Also, a lot of homelab people are experimenting and gaining experience with stuff they run in production or at work.

Those people are extremely likely to be using ACME in the wild.

Running it in your homelab makes a lot of sense to me.
It’s like America is rapidly turning into 90’s Russia and people are cheering for it.
The ultimate consequence of that interpretation would mean that the executive does whatever it wants since all enforcement of court rulings or laws fall to the executive.