jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How so? Just going from a dictionary definition:

> censorship: the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.

Nothing here says it's only censorship if done by the government. Legally in the USA there's a stark distinction between government & non-governmental censorship. Even then sometimes private entities fall under restrictions like in the case of the FCC & public broadcast networks (see Janet Jackson nip slip, the inability to curse during certain TV/radio programs at certain times, etc). Now whether all of this desirable or not is politically debatable & one we should have. That being said under the current legal structure Twitter is probably in the clear.

I'm generally more curious how these kinds of actions by tech companies don't violate section 230 though. In the early days of the WWW, that was the reason given for not moderating such speech - "if we start moderating any speech then we're not a safe harbor and we have to moderate all speech". Does this mean that these tech companies that are doing moderation expose themselves legally somehow? Or does it just mean that the previous arguments were done in bad faith? Or were there laws passed to refine section 230 in this regard?
We spent a lot on food (I goof around with cooking) and there is no way it is costing us $32,000 to raise both our children. Even if you normalized for the premium we pay on our mortgage to be in a neighborhood with good public schools, I don't think we're in that ballpark.

I wonder how much of this is just people sending their kids to absurd private schools.
NASA is all about scientific research. I'd rather the people there be occasionally creative than be stiflingly corporate.
No it wasn't. I live in London.

Also from the article:

"London saw wild scenes of a weekend mass exodus before the start of a Christmas lockdown and travel ban sparked by a new, more infectious mutation of COVID-19."
Something Alan Kay has talked about multiple times is how sometimes raising the complexity of your building blocks slightly can reduce the overall complexity of the system. He uses the example of modeling orbits with circles vs ellipses. Ellipses are more complex building blocks, but yield an overall much simpler model for how orbits work (not to mention the correct answer).
In the Weimar Republic, KPD and NSDAP parties representation in the Bundestag, as distinct parties with relatively large representations.

In 1932, the KPD had 360k members, 5m+ votes, and 14-17% of the electorate. From 1928, the KPD was basically the Stalin party. They believed that the SPD (most analogous to modern-day "Democrats" in USA) were fascist, let alone the NSDAP.

There is no modern equivalent to the KPD in contemporary American politics. The most left-leaning elected officials in the Bundestag-equivalent would have been SPD members. The fringe militant people on the left in the USA do not have any political representation at the federal level, mostly because they do not exist in meaningful numbers, certainly not anywhere approaching 10-17%.

I think that 10-17% might exist on the right (it is probably closer to 5%), but especially after this year, it will become clear that the Republican Party (more analogous to the CDU, historically) is not their party.

If history is cyclical, Trump will form his equivalent of the DNVP shortly, which will not be radical enough for the people storming the Capitol today. This election and transfer of power might be the American Dolchstoß moment, in retrospect. I really hope we've learned.
This is not the way to divulge important information so I'm going to have to assume you're a fraud. shrug
Not sure if you replied to the right message, but yeah there are safety risks that's why we evaluate them in trials. Favipiravir also has pretty bad side effects (teratogenic effects -thalidomide like). That's why we run these trials, and using already approved drugs or more widely developed drugs will mean we're dealing with known evils as opposed to unknown evils
Singapore?

Anyway, we have constitutional democaracy where I live, and almost every article is qualified by "unless law tells othervise". Even speech is restricted, you can't say anything you like in TV, it's regulated and has an oversight bureaucracy. It's just made so that law is not targeted at any particular party, but on particular behavior.
I'm using a stock rom Android 9 . My phone is a one plus 6 . Maybe it's an issue with notch compatibility .
It would have a different aim than Wikipedia. Wikipedia, is, above all, a source of knowledge. That's where I go when I want to chain-read about the German Revolution of 1918. It doesn’t have the emotional and sociological theme I’m describing.

VD on the other hand would be a real-time, K-clustered map of the human experience. If you go to the entry for Love, you’d see people from all over the world sharing what loves mean to them, anecdotes and all. Crowdsourced feedback would surface the best entries to the top. Political topics would solicit good-faithed micro-blogs with the specific aim of humanizing each other and learning why we believe in what we do. You'd be able to go back in time to see where people's minds and hearts were at on a certain day. Algorithms and strict moderation would ensure that diverse viewpoints are shared and treated in good faith. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think if there’s a dictionary for swearwords, there’s certainly room for a dictionary of the human experience.

Check out the below study published in Nature in 2019. It makes the claim that cultural values of openness are what give rise to democracy, rather than the other way around. We need more of that openness right now. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0769-1
Hey Nathan, sorry you feel that way.

The third paragraph has a footnote stating that the 3 para above were "heavily inspired" by the "Eat Dirt" chapter.
I'm assuming you didn't see this first footnote.

And a bit later, I do link to the manual as well (which is what you saw, I guess)

Not my intention to copy Duncan's work. A big red disclaimer hurts readability, and not attributing the source would indeed be plagiarism. I think I struck the right balance.

I use that example because I love how it shows the concept I was trying to explain pretty well. It's not the main point of the post.
> On a side note, I would say upwards of 75% of people in Tokyo are wearing masks

I’d say more like 50%, but I think it used to be more, so now I wonder if everyone simply ran out...
The problem is programmers crafting the language to their own mental model. One solution is languages that don't allow much abstraction. The other solution is to craft a shared mental model. This latter approach is the more powerful in my opinion.

Taking the example of adding maps, you (where "you" means the language designers or language community) just need to define what `+` means for primitive types and the composition follows naturally. What does adding maps mean then? It means adding together the primitive types found under each key. If everyone agrees 1) there is a `+` operation and 2) what it means for primitives, there isn't much room for confusion. At some point you might want to give this concept a name and then you have basically reinvented monoids.

This is one of the differences between my experience in untyped functional languages (primarily Scheme) and inexpressive languages (primarily Java) and typed functional languages (primarily Scala). In the former each abstraction was a perfect snowflake crafted to the specific situation. In the latter we just reuse existing abstractions. The problem with the former is you have to learn the meaning and idiosyncrasies of each new abstraction. In the latter you can leverage your existing knowledge in new domains.
The way I understand you could use phaser and matter.js together, matter being the physics engine for phaser. Out of the box matter.js already has a renderer so I simply didn't want to learn 2 frameworks at the same time. Once I reach a point where matter is not enough I'll consider a bigger more feature rich framework like phaser or pixi.
Hmm. You may be on to something. Thanks dang have a good night and will try to remember your comment before I post next time
In Germany's case the main explanation from lead virologists is that they are testing much more and were lucky to catch it early.
Germany had from the beginning a capacity of about 100k tests per week. Now they are increasing that.

So in conclusion, for Germany the number of infections is a bit closer to reality, where in Italy and Spain that number is/was much more far off.
Yep. I attribute more than a bit of my programming success to adsorbing this ethos from my small business-people parents. When they explained why they'd spent the evening or more to track a sub-dollar discrepancy, because it signaled *trouble, could be hiding something much bigger, well, it all clicks.
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In an article that tries to tell us we're doing it wrong, doing it right would be nice.
It would be cool if the author could elaborate on this conversation:
"As the conversation developed, I eventually agreed that many of the public cloud services were not user friendly and had an overly high barrier to usage"

...as I read through the article is sounds like it was probably around bare-metal needs - still, elaboration would be nice here :)
Ok. How would you quantify "meaningfull contributions" ?
Haxe uses the first syntax, as does AS3. So it's not like "other languages" are universally opposed to this order.
2025, Q2: Airbus remote execution vulnerability discovered. (Did you just assume 100% reliable HW+SW, on Hacker News? That's some serious handwaving...)
I'm sorry you got downvoted. It wasn't me, i just posted a facetious (joking, not very well thought-through) comment. I am indeed flexibly vegetarian/freegan, but i'm used to ribbing and being ribbed about it :) (haha geddit ribbing haha)

My comment was made in an understanding spirit, and indeed, i am clearly a proponent of ethical meat if someone is not prepared to go without :). So no, i personally don't think it's silly at all (what is silly, however, is downvoting a random person on the Internet with whom you do not agree on the subject :p).

Peace and kindness and all that, and have a nice day :) Thanks for the informative link! Maybe i'll send it to some of my more staunchly carnivorous friends.
RUN! Don't walk but RUN! That's a horrible environment to work in and you deserve better. I've worked with a ton of talented developers and I'm hiring more. If I ran into a developer like you mention I WOULD never hire them and if they did slip through I'd push very hard to have them shown the door quite quickly. "Rock-Star"'s can be more productive than less talented developers but they will never beat a great team.

Secondly not all great dev's have that attitude, not by a long shot. In fact in my experience those with that attitude are emperor's with no clothing types.
Fine. You authorize the whole crew, not by fingerprint and not by code, but by voice recognition and secret code words per person.
Then you allow the override to be overridden by a majority (recursively). Sounds way better than making the door break when a majority of people kicks at them. It is faster than remembering and entering codes, and cannot be overridden by one sick authorized person.
An attacker would have to control the whole crew to make them do what he wants, to a level where they actually speak the secret words. In an event where the crew anticipates a crash, giving in on pressure would be the worst option to take.

To prevent attackers from muting all but the required majority of crew members, sensors all over the plane must be able to record any emergency code words spoken in the event of an attack, which will enact certain security measures (depending on the code word could lock or unlock the possibility to enter the cockpit, notify air security etc). This system should of course not be able to be deactivated.

And if you really wanted to make things sure, you could install majority-authorization buttons on every seat setup to be pressed by a percentage of boarded people within a period of mere seconds, which would allow the people on the plane to make a decision. For an attacker it is not possible to make all those people press the button, since he would not know who is not complying.

Of course you can also have some remote mechanism of unlocking, although the security implications of remote authorization and transmission of commands would be complicated to get right and open too many attack vectors.
It's not just Italy. Places outside of Silicon Valley, within the USA have the same outlook.

Personally, I think this 'failure as a badge of wisdom' is one of the 'secret' ingredients for the 'Silicon Valley' recipe.
Do you know what you get without failure culture? Italy.

So it's one or the other then? No spectrum in between, just pick one? Interesting to know.
You say you were confident and cocky during the interview. Think back. Did you mis-represent the depth or breadth of your knowledge and experience? You were aware that you lacked experience. Did you make the hiring committee aware as well. If you represented yourself as something you are not, that might explain a little of the attitude from others. Not excuse it, just explain it.

If you represented yourself honestly during the interview process and they hired you anyway, then someone had confidence in your ability to learn. Check in with those people and see if they think you are picking things up at the rate they expected. A good manager will check in with you if you are moving a little slower than expected. A great manager will check in even if things are going as planned. Good managers are rare, great ones even rarer. Reach out to your manager if s/he hasn't reached out to you.

Even if you represented yourself honestly, there are going to be some jerks. Period. Some people will be of the opinion that someone with more direct experience should have been hired. It wasn't their decision and they are not your boss.
For Common Lisp there are two very good books: Practical Common Lisp (available for free on the web[1]) and Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (PAIP). For scheme, there's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs[2] although it misses some topics like macros.

[1] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
[2] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
In one case, after a radioactive byproduct of an Illinois power plant leaked into his constituents' well water, Senator Obama sponsored legislation to require nuclear power plants to report all abnormal leaks, not just ones they determined to rise to 'emergency' levels. The power company, Exelon, believed that the leak arose from "millions of gallons of water that had leaked from the plant years earlier but went unreported at the time" because the leak was not considered an 'emergency'. Faced with stiff opposition to the bill from industry and Republicans, Obama "removed language mandating prompt reporting and simply offered guidance to regulators," and added "new wording sought by Exelon making it clear that state and local authorities would have no regulatory oversight of nuclear power plants." Exelon subsequently became a big Obama supporter, with exectives in the company becoming important fund-raisers, and direct corporate contributions of $227,000 to his Senate and Presidential campaigns. The full Senate never voted on the bill.

In the other case, Obama, now elected President, fails to follow through on reform of an agency he had decried while running for office, and instead continues to allow the foxes to mind the hen house, as detailed in the Rolling Stone article.

What do the two articles have to do with one another? As you say, there's no "good guy" or "bad guy" template to lay over them. But there is a tension, or ambiguity, between whether Obama is a populist reformer, or a conservative (in the original sense of the word) pragmatist. These two articles show how Obama is good at rattling his saber and mobilizing the base while on the campaign trail, while also being willing to make deals and accommodate industry interests in order to get things done (and perhaps not incidentally accrue contributions to his campaign coffers).

This is a far subtler picture than the socialist caricature painted by the right, and the Messiah caricature painted by the left. It is probably incorrect in places. But these two articles help me to put that picture together. I think Obama would've been comfortable with the moderate Republicans of twenty years ago, ideologically and temperamentally. Today's moderates seem to need to play more strongly to their left- or right-wing bases than they used to in order to get elected. I'm starting to see this playbook, and starting to see Obama (and Clinton before him) as being a master of that playbook.

I'm no student of politics or history, this is just the gestalt I see.

(EDIT: delete first sentence, edit last sentence of next-to-last paragraph)
Am I missing something obvious against backtracking the headers to the server immediately before your own? If the IP of that machine differs in future emails, ask for confirmations?
Yeah, we actually just revealed the new plans on Friday.
Thiel says immediately afterward that the average CEO he funds makes $100K-$125K, so when he says CEO pay should be low he isn't exactly talking about ramen. I would be extremely suspicious of any CEO who makes more than this and still considers herself to be running a startup.

(Also, an off-topic peeve: Informative headlines are always appreciated. I wouldn't have clicked if I didn't see your name there.)
While it is not something I would suggest in most situations, this guy seems close enough to pond scum to deserve it. (Personal note: at my first programming job, decades ago, I was paid from the owner's wife's personal checking account for the last few months, after one of my company paychecks bounced. While I'm sure there was some tax fraud going on there, I didn't see any reason to cause the guy any more grief than he was already going through.)

After securing further employment, turn him in to the IRS, with as much supporting documentation as possible.

See http://www.bankrate.com/brm/itax/news/20030221a1.asp for a bit more info on the IRS bounty program.

If you would feel guilty about the impact on the other "contractors" at the company, share any eventual payoff with them.
One of the sadder sentences I've seen lately:

"Orban, creating the program as a public servant, received no additional income from the success of the plan"

From following the link to his article, it does look like it helped his career some at least.
Not everyone needs so many minutes. In my iPhone usage, for instance, I could get away with almost no minutes at all (especially considering my thousands of rollover minutes). If I could, I'd just buy an unlimited data plan without voice and use Skype for calls. Sadly, AT&T seems to be going in the opposite direction by ending unlimited data. Maybe one day they'll instate rollover megabytes.
I have 300 minutes a month with free nights/weekends. I use maybe 50 minutes in a normal month. I use mostly email/SMS/chat because all of those things are free.

Mind you, I don't run a business or have family in different time zones, but it is very possible to use essentially no minutes and still communicate just fine for social purposes.
Well I don't. Generally I like education but education can only go so far.

How do you help the people without the wherewithal - for whatever reason - to understand their actions and the actions of those around them in the bigger picture, while still treating them as discerning adults? I am not sure you can...
My uncle worked at the National Institutes of Health for about 35 years doing bioinformatics and protein structure modeling. In FORTRAN. Always in FORTRAN. He knew other stuff, but the bulk of his work was always FORTRAN.
Its easy. Just code when you are in your teens
I don’t mind Kotlin itself so much, but the Java baggage it brings and the general weirdness that is possible when developing for Android in Java/Kotlin can get irritating. If not Rust, it’d be nice to be able to instead write Swift or some other modern compiled language suitable for UI work.

This is actually an area where iOS is more flexible. Because UIKit is C-accessible, it’s feasible to develop bindings to it for other languages, and even autogenerate them. It’s too bad the same isn’t true of Android Framework.
Doesn't matter: the industry has moved-on.

They had to make it open decades ago. Now it's too late.
Haha. Good luck taking it off people. Anyone remember what happened to Yahoo after they pulled work from home?
I personally dislike the hybrid approach because it means everyone still has to remain in the greater Bay Area.

Surely there have to be more people like me that enjoy the bigco work but want to live in more human friendly places where we have an actual shot at establishing roots and living real lives.
If you think doxxing low ranking federal law enforcement for the high crime of doing their job is _your duty_, then I don't have much to say to you. Antagonizing your government over low stakes is not freedom fighting.

You can be civil with people who don't share the same agenda as you. Shocking thought in today's society, I guess.
Sounds like a pretty solid moat around the business model.
I can type about 70-80 WPM on my qwerty in typing tests. The limiting factor in my work isn't typing speed, it's my ability to form thoughts and to express them to the computer. So switching to a faster keyboard does absolutely nothing for me.
This is a great example of what separates entrepreneurs from other people: the ambition and belief that precedes any action at all. Given the list of people identified as self-made men, I would hazard a guess that there is a long way to go.
I think the idea is more about finding different colors that go well together. If you randomly take a bright green and a bright blue they might not be a good match, but if you take the green and blue from the frog on that picture, they will work better together.
Great post, and I wish more entrepreneurs were this reflective.

It would have been nice if he at least paid homage to Ayn Rand, who he has clearly read and was influenced by (along with millions of other people.) I know it's fashionable these days to read Ayn Rand, and then discard her by the time you're 18, but she was a pretty important figure in helping turn the tide he's talking about.
Check the previous sentence: MtGox was included in the Winkdex right up until they went bankrupt.
I would loved to have this a few years ago, when we built dattabank.com (desktop backup), we used plain rsync in cygwin through a Multiplatform GUI based in Qt 4.8.x.
More or loss what you are doing :)
Sadly we run out of steam, tough local market here in Argentina, I'm always thinking in making the code open source, but not sure if it worth it to anyone.
I believe you’re supposed to keep applications on file for a year.
Don't we have other forms of surveillance, installing of cameras/microphones in people's homes and sting operations that could help catch people?

I think that demanding citizens incriminate themselves is an especially lazy form of justice.
That's exactly the point. The GPU is not on the path to the hardware screen. If you play a video full-screen, chances are it's not involved at all.