skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. C is an absolutely terrible programming language that we use because it got their first. I sincerely hope that C (and bad C++, so probably C++ as well) is phased out over the coming years purely because it's too dangerous to use it in critical software (One life lost to memory corruption is too many). This probably won't happen, but I hope it does.

JVM is pretty complicated and not open source(? I'm not entirely sure who owns the standard, if there is one). WebAssembly has the advantage of hindsight and being able to be designed to completion rather than evolved
In my humble experience, people with PhD, especially those who spent a lot of time in academia, tend to be very result oriented. I'd say too result oriented.

As an example, I ask a guy to implement me a LinkedList during the interview. The result usually works, but designwise... Oh, my god...

And that makes a perfect sense: once an article is published you usually don't need to maintain your code for another decade.
Me too, and that's a good point. Judging from comnents above, I don't think viewers today (who weren't used to life before the internet and mobile) don't really grasp the level of foresight required at the time to be so spot on (with the exception of the phone booth still being a thing).

I'm sure there's another name for it, but I call it the "Bob Dylan Effect". Basically, if you were born after or too young to remember something having a revolutionary and influential in scope as Dylan was (for music and culture), the impact becomes so woven into the fabric of life that in the wake of the revolution, it's difficult for most people who didn't live through it to grasp the magnutude of the impact.

I have a lot of friends who hear Dylan and say "meh, sounds like the same old folk music, I don't get what the big deal is about". But that's the point! Where do you think that sound and approach to music came from? Seems to be the same case with the internet and mobile. Everything seems obvious now, so the ideas of people who really were ahead of their time, simply seem (to some people) like obvious inevitabilities, when that's not at all the case.

Note that something like the moon landing doesn't fall into this "Bob Dylan affect". The moon landing today is still as captivating as it was when it happened. That's because the space race didn't persist, and people aren't taking vacations to Moon City, so we're not really in the wake of a space revolution. But, you bet your sweet bippy that in 80 years, well after Musk gets humans to Mars, there will be someone saying "meh, what's the big deal - of course we were going to get to Mars"... when in reality, without a visionary like Musk, we'd still be floating around the planet and moon poking weightless blobs of water (a.k.a. videos I can't stop watching once I start).
Just fyi, about "Matrix" (not directly related to this specific post, but I still wanted to mention something about it...):

I started testing "Matrix" using the "Riot" app on Android and the web-frontend ~4 weeks ago and so far things look good, which I think is fantastic!!!

I was especially happy to see that I could not read messages posted prior to me entering any encrypted chatrooms => gave me a real "good general feeling".

The "Riot"-app for Android (using it on SailfishOS) is so far quite intuitive and it did never crash so far. Battery consumption is relatively heavy (I used to charge my phone once per week, now it's once every ~3-4 days) but I guess that other users that have more frequently an active Internet connection (because of other apps) will be impacted less.

All in all I'm beginning to think to try to push it to my friends - I think that the first attempt might be to use an encrypted group chat for special themes (e.g. discussions about algorithms, stock market discussions, etc..., all what we do not dare to post in Whatsapp) to have a technical advantage vs. Whasapp & Co. .
Twitter took over a user’s account and joked about reading their DMs
What happens when employees pay off their student loans and start getting less compensation than their coworkers who still have student loans?

I would expect they'd leave the company for another that doesn't discriminate against people who don't have student loans. This seems like a policy that will have good results in the short-term and bad results in the long-term.
You're right that some of these terms have ambiguity, but your example is silly - it's well-accepted that the term "white nationalist" stands on its own and means something different from "white and a nationalist."

But even setting aside your specific example, I don't believe that ambiguity should paralyze us into inaction. I think it's fair to say "OK, we'll ban anyone who advocates distributing political power based on race, with the white 'race' getting the most power... when people cross that line won't always be clear, but we'll do our best." For private action especially, we should not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I don't think that's quite right. The issue there is that the company town wanted to be an actual town- they were providing services, inviting people to move in (including people who didn't directly work for them), and generally saying "anyone who wants to can be here"- they were very explicitly trying to create "public spaces".

Facebook is not the same thing- people aren't moving there and people don't live there. I know we want to pretend that digital and physical are similar, but this particular case that everyone is citing was very specifically about the company towns and precedent afterwords has been pretty clear.
will neo-nazis be able to side-step appropriate regulation by framing hate statements as questions?
Why could not companies do this direct via a salary sacrifice scheme and is this post tax or pre tax.

And do companies get relief on their SS payments for doing this.
From what I understand, Australia (and other nations) don't give their citizens explicit rights, such as to personal and property privacy.
Just to be extra clear, the chances of someone lying to the NSA in a letter are really, really low. Given that we can compare the response to the NSA to what is expected and it matches, we can make some inferences that the software running on the servers is as presented.

In contrast, if you received an NSA letter for keybase and they delivered similar information, you couldn't make any suppositions about the server's code.

To be extra, extra clear, to me, the future of the private internet is further verifiability of remote systems. That begins with Open Source. I concede that we aren't there for most parts of the systems we use today, but we are getting better (see attested contact discovery in Signal as one example).
That's one of the biggest things that lawmakers here couldn't seem to understand - tech companies have high mobility across borders. Even if a law has no teeth, why would Microsoft store data in Australia when the next country over can still serve data for the region? It just creates too much risk, from a privacy and PR standpoint.
Startups will be more adverse to founding in Australia as well. It just creates a black mark on their record from the start. These data laws were very poorly planned by the Australian Government.
If we really want a genderless assistant voice bring back the novelty voices from Mac OS X like Zarvox, Pipe Organ, and Cellos.

https://youtu.be/Z4hqUxb9MmY?t=186
Neutral might not exist.

> It seems to me that Facebook and Twitter are trying to have it both ways.

Of course Facebook and Twitter are trying to have it both ways, and, indeed, all ways — there are many more ways for people to communicate, or stances to take, than “both”.

Platforms like FB and Twitter hope to be the communications backbone of the world. The problem is, the world has opinions on what kinds of communications are acceptable. These platforms try to stay neutral, but the people are not.

Neutral does not exist. It's all relative.

In a polarized world, a neutral platform will die because either side won't like it. In a more interesting world, it might still die because people don't like people who don't think like them.
Google Cloud Now Supports DNSSEC
Lots of clueless closeted politicians use it.
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The question comes down to square footage in my opinion. I have one apple store in easy driving distance which was designed in the late 90s/early 2000s for the needs of late 90s/early 2000s apple. I don’t have the numbers on me, but i think I don’t need them to say far far more people are using apple products and services in my area today vs 2003.

No matter how cleverly they organize the store, there is simply not enough space.
So far, that has not been the experience in Oregon. First, doing that is a Felony with teeth.

Second, the system has a way for the voter to get around coersion. They can submit their vote, and fail to do a valid signature, or even just do it correctly.

Once they have voted, they can contact elections, have that vote invalidated, and or request another ballot to vote correctly. If they want to, they can do that in person, at the elections office, and or tell their story.

It's hard to coerce tons of people, which is needed to impact an election. And those who take part are all at real risk for hard time.

The actual is much different. People will gather to vote together. Our family does this, and will often have open door times. Young people have come to do it and learn about stuff. People tend to take it seriously. The votes differ, and that's OK. Democracy. (and the ones in the minority can totally gloat, should it turn out they made the right call. All good.)

So, we get the voter guides out, make sure people understand, and they, themselves cast their votes, whatever those votes are, we seal them all up and either mail, or take them to the drop box, or elections office.

Most people I know take a while to vote. They have the ballot, and work through it as they have time.

That is what I do personally.
Can you please clarify why you say "equity is worth at most $0"? If the company is successful surely the equity is worth something.
The problem with buying your own train is that you don't own the rails that you are dependent on. At least in Europe you have to submit a letter to an agency and request timeslot reservations some time in advance if you want to go for a ride.
I find there are 2 kinds of PhD holders in engineering, those who are diligent and capable and were able to follow through on a difficult problem for years; and those whose problem solving abilities are so impractical that they stayed in school for as long as possible.

The first is worth their weight in gold, the second is fairly easy to detect after a few git check-ins.

Actually I lied, there's a third kind, brilliant people that get bored with their job and write super-complicated frameworks to satiate that boredom. That's not restricted to PhDs but I see it more often with them.
So they claim.
> With this technology you can fly at Mach 8, easily..

In an SR-71?
If a single party in a chat has their keys reset that's not a MITM attack because a MITM would need to rekey to both parties. If the two clients communicate via at least one uncompromised service to communicate that their counterparty's keys have been reset, they might be able to detect a MITM

Keybase's example Cozy Street is not a MITM attack (i.e. an attacker has inserted themselves between two parties and can get the plaintext), it's just impersonation.

If it was a real MITM attack both Alice and Bob would get rekey notifications, unless they both confirm whenever they get a rekey notification a MITM attack is possible.

I also think that crypto is stuck in the early 90s by thinking real world meetups are the only way to authenticate keys. If you know what your chat friend sounds and looks like, willing to submit a video, and don't think your adversary can fake such a proof, a simple video of you reading your pubkey/safety number is sufficient. Is that scalably practical? no but it is possible.

That said: keybase is doing cool novel work, I commend them for advancing the state of the art.
Library Rules: How to make an open office plan work (2018)
New ERNIE language representation tops BERT in Chinese NLP tasks
From TFA:

>The development represents a rare, high-profile example of CFIUS undoing an acquisition that has already been completed. Kunlun took over Grindr through two separate deals between 2016 and 2018 without submitting the acquisition for CFIUS review, according to the sources, making it vulnerable to such an intervention.
> That student who breezed unchallenged through algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, will breeze through calculus, too.

I took calculus last year (AB Calc BC, 10th grade), and I can say that my experience was certainly a counterexample. I did OK, but it was definitely a marked difference from "breezing through" algebra.
YF-12 development film. Check out the avionics test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1FLEbAbl4Q
"it merely means it should implement them better" this is the theory of every government committee, ever. In practice, generally, _it doesn't happen_.

I believe private companies are usually better, but still highly dependant on size and a number of other factors.

I definitely don't have faith that FB will wield this well, and the worse part is it will probably pretty hard to find out from the silenced parties when they f!@# up until much later.
I don't know, I thought it was pretty spot on. I thought 140hz sounded consistently male.
> That was considered a violation of their anti-bullying stance. Knowing her, it wasn't. It was sarcasm.

That line is grey and I'd argue that your friend's comment, while obviously hyperbole, does not respect human life.

There was an article posted about cyclists that points out the danger ous dehumanizing others; that comedy / hyperbole help group think achieve it.
> It's looking like you don't think Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are on the left

Relative to the center in the US they are on the left and also, if not on the authoritarian side, at least not on the libertarian side either.

> and you don't think Rand Paul and Clarence Thomas are on the right.

Paul is, rhetorically at least, a right-libertarian. Thomas is a partisan Republican who is quiet enough on ideological issues that I wouldn't try to place him other than somewhere vaguely on the right.

> Perhaps you are calibrated to a non-US definition.

No, actually, my degree is focussed on the US political space, not that it really matters (the US center is way to the right of the developed world, such that what is by broader standards a center-right faction has recently been dominant in the left-most of the two major parties, but that just affects position on that axis, not what the axes are; it's also true that US politics seems unidimensional due to the two party system, so all variations often get characterized as left-right even when they aren't and only weakly, if at all, correlate with left-right variation.)
> As best I can tell there's no way for individuals to send amp emails.

If this is true, then I celebrate it! It means that I can have my mailserver simply discard all AMP emails and be confident that I'm not missing anything aside from spam.
This may sound snarky but it's actually something I would really like to know: Are there any serious applications of planar graph theory?
TvTropes calls the phenomenon you're describing "Seinfeld is unfunny". Worth a read if you haven't come across it before:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...
> 1. WASM is an open standard

So is the web, but that didn't stop anyone from extending it in incompatible ways and all implementations being subtly different enough that you still have care about which one you're running on and, oh yeah, it's also becoming dominated by a single player who steers the whole thing pretty much wherever they want it.
Hmm, perhaps I was thinking too fine-grained.
That's seriously not ok on HN, regardless of how wrong you think someone is. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, Rust isn't.

Maybe you should read a bit more on its docs [1]. I quote:

However Rust does not prevent general race conditions.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html
Yes, I should have said the "analogous" Chinese, Islamic, or African-American content, e.g. like the sibling suggests with Zionist content.

The thread this spawned reminds me of why I don't usually chime in on these issues. But what many replies are missing is that Facebook says they already ban "white supremacist" content under existing rules. They don't need a special rule for that. Just like they don't need a special rule for terrorist content that's violent.

But they ARE adding a special rule for "white nationalism", for the reasons given in the post.

I'm not saying they are wrong. I'm just saying that you can't really use the argument "they can go set up their own servers" to justify it, as the grandparent did.

I suspect that there's simply a LOT of white nationalist content, and it has a practical damaging effect, but nationalist content of other kinds isn't that widespread or damaging, and they want to allow it for free speech reasons (and probably because they aren't qualified to make fine judgements about various nationalist movements). That seems reasonable.

Anyway, Facebook gives the "right" reason for the ban (a value judgement), while the parent comment was pushing a reason that's besides the point, IMO. It felt like a "backward rationalization". But yeah it's more of a nitpick, so I regret spawning this thread, which became very political :-/

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Even so, let me throw something else onto the pile. A few days ago I watched this documentary on Netflix:

Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski

https://www.netflix.com/title/80109551

It's too complex to summarize, but it's about a very talented sculptor who was also a Polish nationalist (for a significant period). It came out in December and was produced by Leo DiCaprio, because his father was a friend of the artist in LA.

I googled for reviews afterward, and this was one of the best summaries that I found:

https://www.counter-currents.com/2019/01/a-patriot-without-a...

Only after reading the whole article did I realize that it's from a white nationalist site (if you read "about this site", it's very clear).

The long and short of it is that it's a subtle issue, but most people seem to view it in black and white. If Facebook banned this content, it would be a mistake IMO (although I don't use facebook). But their decision might be the right thing overall. They have a hard job, and people like the parent were trying to apply some strict principle to it, when in reality there's no such thing.
AT&T of that era could see all these futuristic possibilities, but couldn't see it's own demise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Corporation#Acquisition...
It's not scheduled or anything but it could still happen if it were desired.
Yes. Besides being fast and small, it connects very quickly, does seamless roaming and works without keepalives, making it incredibly well suited for mobile clients.
Personal attacks are not ok here. We ban accounts that do this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19505358. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN.
If we do get there, I hope we can ban the most dangerous speech of all - religion.
There was reasoned debate from ballpark 1932-1938, when the Nazis have roughly 40% of the vote to go into a coalition government then somehow levered that into total control of the German state but that's more evidence for your argument.
Move to Vancouver (half-serious, but it's a good option)
White nationalists = nationalists that think that white people are better than other, but we have guys from ICGJC and other afrosupremacist groups, etc. Why not ban them all?

1984 is mentioned as a reference to the dystopian world of propaganda and Facebook / Google are quickly turning into corporate Ministry of Truth.
> The 40 seconds part is something of a theoretical construction that just means if you're surprised enough that you only try to fight the plane with yoke elevator control alone (unlikely in my pilot, but not 737 pilot, estimation), you've got merely 40 seconds and that very well could induce panic.

So it's like "you only have 4 seconds to turn your car before it leaves the road, if you don't use the steering wheel"?

The trim control is right there on the control column, it's a fundamental control! Positing that the plane will descend and the yoke will get progressively heavier without the pilot attempting trim control is ridiculous.
In principle, Facebook has never branded itself a bastion of free speech.

In practice, we've seen a lot of examples across YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter where things are blanket deplatformed under the guise of policies like these, and it's concerning.

One thing is for certain - Facebook can't possibly do a worse job than YouTube has at policing content.
White nationalism, white separatism, white supremacy, and hate groups are not a spectrum; they are the same thing. There's no difference.

There is a difference between orthodox Islam and extremist violence: just because some violent extremists are Muslim doesn't mean all orthodox Muslims are violent extremists.
I am Basque. Here a Basque is anyone who works and lives in the Basque Country, no matter the race.

Fuck off with your American Ethnics bullshit to define a country.

Your race wars won't work here.
Easier to set up, faster, safer and it does not restart connection when you go from Wifi to mobile.
EHR is one of many reasons I'm no longer a volunteer EMT. I could enter a new patient record on paper in about 15 minutes. After we switched to EHR, it took 45 minutes. The UI was just horribly designed. It was a web form from 1995; it looked nothing like the front end of a modern consumer-facing UI from Silicon Valley. But all EHR software is enterprise software, so it doesn't have to compete on usability.

As a software engineer, I felt insulted by being forced to use this crap. And sad for my healthcare colleagues who just assumed it had to be this way.
> Knowing her, it wasn't. It was sarcasm.

Did she know that the person she directed that comment to did not know her?
It is .. but I'm glad they do. It enabled our society to keep up the knowledge on it also it could invite business to innovate on it.