skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Because it creates echochambers and it weaponizes the term hate speech.

Okay, so that's the downside of curating your platform. You need to contrast that downside with the upside of taking action.

Reasonable limits on Free Speech are plentiful, and there's an easy false dichotomy in believing that you can either censor everything or censor nothing. Is there a middle ground where we establish a solid rule set where we get most of the beneficial effects are retained, but a plurality of voices remain?

Also a note:
>It's not going to change their beliefs one bit.

This isn't supported by research and it's antithetical to your first line. If platforming isn't going to change beliefs, then why care about it? Just move over to Gab, Voat or any of the other offshoots created for deplatformed groups. Have you visited them? They're cesspools.

Overt changes in social acceptability and norms cause populations to reconsider their views, which is why people are upset by being deplatformed in the first place.
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It would be great to get case studies with some information on how they use the platform into the docs. GUN sounds reasonable from the description but it is really difficult to visualize using it in a larger app.
6371km is the radius of the earth :)
This is bullshit, sorry. The links you provided don't even appear on the first page of links to codementor.io, judge yourself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=codementor.io

The first [flagged] link is from Nov 20, 2017:
[flagged] [dead] [[[WATCH]]] Atlanta Falcons vs. Seattle Seahawks NFL Live Online TV 19 Nov 2017 (codementor.io)
1 point by rashel on Nov 20, 2017 | past | web

Yes, most of the links are dead. But judging from the titles and the links i could find via web most if not all are legit. I could find way more spam links from medium.com.

[edit] I stand by my words: it is bullshit. The OP sounds like all links from there are spam which is not the case.

I just sent this topic to hn@ycombinator.com to look into it. I don't believe this can be intentional.
Nobody doubts gravity, so it doesn't make sense to declare belief or disbelief in gravity to put one's self on a certain side of the gravity issue, because there is no gravity issue.

People double global warming, so it makes sense to declare belief or disbelief in global warming to put one's self on a certain side of the global warming issue, since it's actually an issue of contention.

It doubly makes sense if you want to alleviate the knee-jerk responses that will dismiss what you're about to say since people seem to respond emotionally rather than logically to such a contentious issue.

Prefacing the side you're on in this case is like going up to a guard dog at your friend's house and saying "It's ok buddy, I'm on your side. Don't worry." in a soft non-threatening voice.
It's always better to email HN mods to ask them about this stuff.
An ALS patient's dilemma: End his own life, or die slowly of the disease?
I see inefficient-yet-hybrid SUVs in Pittsburgh, yet more-efficient-yet-gasoline-only subcompacts would be banned. I frequently see people who won't alter their own wasteful practices (always buying new things, instead of re-using or repairing old ones, for example), yet virtue signal by buying green, driving hybrid, etc. If you really want root out the causes, we need to measure all the contributors, including people's life choices (living in suburbia, eating meat, etc.). Pretty soon it becomes clear how draconian that would be. Cost is a pretty good proxy for all of that, yet leaves people free.
>Not having cash on hand and being forced to make due with less is surprisingly effective.

This is exactly what the Democrats want and push with their agenda. They would rather raise taxes and make every one poor in order to feed into a larger government. Government programs that sound good, but don't actually work out on paper. By keeping the masses poor it's easier to sell them on "social programs" that would assist the poor but never really do.
I’m pretty sure it would be somewhere within the Google Play Services blob. You should be good if you build your own AOSP, although binary hardware drivers might have the ability to do shady things.
It's not a list of tuples, it's a list of dictionaries.
> Even without Google or Apple, they police have the cell service providers

Important to keep in mind that additional information provides corroboration at least in the mind of the jury and also detracts from issues regarding the information.

This is illustrated by one of those Datelines' (or 48 Hours don't remember) that I saw recently. They exhumed a body to determine if the deceased was buried with contact lenses on. They then had some expert do tests with pigs to determine that it was really a contact lens and not something else. It was very clear right off that it was (anyone who has worn contacts would know this and additionally they even were marked with numbers on the lens). But the expert still went to this long and drawn out trouble (buried dead pig's eyes with lense on) that they clearly didn't have to do. Reason? You spend more time in front of the jury with a long story and it detracts from the problems with the story to begin with (someone iirc said 'she never goes to bed with contact lenses').

Similar and unrelated is restaurant food. Put a lot of vegtables on the plate and a fancy sauce swirl to detract from the small piece of meat or fish you have given the diner.
Lack of comments just makes it a data interchange format. It’s comments which make things human readable.
Paul Krugman and Barack Obama receiving Nobel prizes was the wake up call I needed to realize how many "honors" are actually the establishment rubber stamping their avatars.
True but those three cities aren't any cheaper than SF, esp given local salaries.
A good overview of his music is this top 20 article on the 25th anniversary of Selected Ambient Works Volume II
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/28/aphex-twin-bes...
If you really must bring it, get or make a Faraday cage pouch and test it by calling your phone from another device.
I’m assuming you’re just joking but think about location tracking the next time you want to attend some demonstration for example.

Should be perfectly legal to demonstrate but if you’ve got you’re phone on you someone will know you were there and protesting for X.

That’s very valuable information not just for law enforcement but also for marketing/advertising and also for more scummy stuff like influencing your political choices (eg Cambride Analytica style).

I don’t have my phone on my when I attend events that could “leak” my political or ethical choices.
Indeed.

And the point of the article is that JSON is fine for data, but configs are not data. Configs are code.
Placing global warming on the same tier as gravity is a stretch. One theory has hundreds of years of math and scientific experiment and exploration behind it. And the other is a 2-3 decade old hypothesis built on weak modeling that's not very predictive, I might add. The climate is a complex system and we don't have a model of it that works as well as the Gravitational constant.

If you're gonna downvote, would love to see you point to a specific climate model, and the math behind it...that has the predictive capabilities that the Gravitational constant does about how the universe works.
About 20 years ago I stayed for two weeks on a rural rice farm in Goa.

The toilets fed directly into the pig sty. Very directly down a short chute add though a hole. An eager pig snout poked through the hole could make contact. Never before nor never again have I been so startled.
It's an extremely short term solution to make everyone feel happy and warm inside without any long term results. The lack of impulse control won't sudden vanish once the refund arrives, and they will be back in that situation again a few short months after.
Haskell actually could help a lot with JavaScript. Functional programming, writing stateless functions, function parameters, and generally manipulating functions, are valuable and useful concepts in JavaScript and React, and Haskell forces you to learn and understand them. Alternatively, F# could fill that niche if you prefer its syntax.
I've always wondered if a reasonable cap on child support/alimony would help - such as the median US income. This could possibly make wealthy men more likely to have more children and also potentially help keep families together.
Scientists were saying that if something wasn't done in the late 80s climate change would be irreversible and catastrophic. The people in charge couldn't be arsed and here we are. You can bet that when my generation sits down to write the history books they won't be kind to our elders.
Ah, but my confusion just deepens my point, haha.
You choose how much is withheld. There is no versus. But I'm afraid the vast majority do not realize this and accept the default.
I don't care so much about writing idiomatic code anymore. For example I tend to write python like javascript. Mostly only use lists and dicts (JSON basically), while ditching the whole OOP/class concepts for the most part. What I prefer is more or less a language-independent style, which makes it easy to port code at least between languages with similar paradigms.
No need to take it so literally. Moving to the next development or town over is different from moving out of a country or state.
Social programs do help the poor. If not for food stamps and free school lunches, many of the poor would simply be left to starve to death. Indigent healthcare, federal student loans, welfare, housing assistance, all of it helps the poor, objectively.

And I would be thrilled to pay more taxes if it meant I could go back to college or have health insurance without risking a lifetime of debt either way.
I don't know what you mean by "this is bullshit"? It's clear those links were posted.

There are very many links to that domain posted by accounts that have only one submission and no comments, and that feels like it's an attempt to game the system.

If you think the site doesn't deserve to be blocked you should, as the guidelines ask, email the mods to let them know, and they can tell you why it's blocked.
I just tried to answer your question of why it might have been banned given what I can see, and that's my guess: at some point some bad content got submitted from it, so it got banned. If you don't want the answer, don't ask about it. If you want an answer from the site operators, or want to suggest to them the ban might not be appropriate anymore, contact them directly instead of posting on HN.
His current live show is a bit intense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj9URI2aKgM

But it's also very rare for him to tour
What makes you think that Trump's administration is/will be "sending people to die in space"?
1950s Quiz Show Scandals
It's also nice to not have your CI/deploys depend on third-party sites being up.
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> so people rot in jail for the love of money.

ftfy
Yes, this is a crucial mistake. People love to understand things by analogy, but analogies are limited.

I might explain a filesystem and folder structure to someone by using an analogy that uses paper folders etc. But crucial understanding is lost when I do this. There are significant differences between the systems that make certain rules that apply to one system not apply to the other.

Another reason this is not a useful analogy is if we see information as government property, I am using government property each time I identify myself using my ID card or even my name and date of birth. Surely we should now pay tax each time we do this (or the government should license it to us).

Furthermore, in the specific case of the government, which works in service of the people it governs, government owned information is at odds with its purpose. The government got this information from, and uses it in service of, its citizens. As much of it as possible should be public. For instance, land-surveying information should be public, as well as free (with respect to rights).

The property analogy is too limited. We need to understand information as something different.
Everyone sent into space was for a political reason. Whether or not you think it's a stupid-ass reason is more of a reflection on yourself than the message.
> "The food is still shit"

Mate ... it's the UK, what do you expect?
You have to pre-declare how you choose the best offer. Final procurement order is oftentimes made into existence after many rounds of rejection by procurement overseeing committee.
At the end of the day I think it matters because high tax states have already been subsidizing red states and one of the pressure release valves was that they weren’t taxed twice on the same income. I.e:

https://www.apnews.com/2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c

So you remove this pressure valve and skew those numbers to an even wider margin and you have, I would say justifiable, consternation about what we are doing here when the people who have been paying the bills are asked to pay more.
He was really ahead of his time in terms of the electronic music sounds he uses. He was also known for unique methods of sound creation (like programming... A toaster? Stuff like that... Can't recall specifics atm).

It takes careful, perhaps repeated listenings. My favorite time to listen to his stuff is while tripping though. From his 'weird' bleeps and bloops emerge something new entirely.
> cook something else, not just rotate dish-ware.

As a developer you are the chef. If all you can make is spaghetti, is it the kitchen's fault? OP makes the point explicit: the language shapes the way you approach problem solving.

When declarative, functional and procedural programming all yield the "same fucking spaghetti", you might just have missed the point.
He never mentioned capitalism or communism in the two childhood classics you know well. Yet I am fairly sure he knew of these systems. We could draw parallels so the details were best left out.

I am not sure if the details of the zero hours contract of the person hired by the mega-corp the government outsourced the provisioning of room 101 rats to would have helped with the story.

During WW2 the government in the UK did a fair bit of outsourcing. In fact, it was only with the post WW2 Labour government that major parts of the UK economy were nationalised. He did write about the duties of children to report thoughtcrime, I am sure that if he had over-added details about corporations instead of keeping it simple then the subtle details of how it is would not have been beyond Orwell.
Unrelated to the topic at hand, but have you used speech to text to write this ?
I miss Facebook
It's important to look at the actual indictment [1] rather than all the commentary about it, because everyone involved seems to have an axe to grind thanks to Assange's colorful character.

The indictment charges Assange with conspiring with Manning to unlawfully gain new access to a protected government computer system. Specifically:

* Assange gave Manning a CD to boot from on the target computer, containing tools to copy the protected password data.

* Assange received a copy of the password hashes from Manning, and attempted to crack them.

Regardless of what reasons the Obama administration had to proceed or not proceed with the indictment at the time (which we are not privy to), these are very clearly defined criminal offenses in the USA, with much precedent behind them. Had Assange not provided the hacking tools, and had he not attempted to crack the passwords, this indictment would never have happened.

Press freedom and protecting your sources is not the issue here; it's about conspiring to hack a government computer.

[1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-julian-assange-indictme...
> There is plenty of truth to much of the china situation, not just FUD.

Yet FUD is all we get and people eat it up like the best thing ever.

Even here on HN barely anybody questioned the Super Micro narrative, even tho that Bloomberg story was super sketchy from the very beginning by not disclosing who did that audit, just like their inability to produce a sample of the chip.

Trump also never "bounced" on China, China is pretty much the only thing he doesn't bounce on, it's been his one constant since the election [0] and just because he throws an "I love China" in there, does not reflect or change any of his policy decisions. This is much more "I love my enemies because they are so stupid" posturing [1] than an declaration of actual sympathies.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDrfE9I8_hs

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/10-times-trump-attacked-chin...
The problem with not using JSON is that the alternative almost always is "some proprietary format" or "an undefined dialect of something that looks like a well-known format".

I consider that significantly worse. With JSON, you at least can assume that the person reading it will understand what the file means. With a proprietary format, especially the popular "key=value" format, it gets super murky - what are the rules for quotes in this dialect (are quotes required, optional, or interpreted as part of the value, which escape characters), will white space be included, etc.

Lack of comments does seem like a very valid point.

I don't see the issue with readability. It is not great but still OK without syntax highlighting, and superb with highlighting (which works because it's a wide-spread standard format, not some weird custom dialect).

The strictness is mildly annoying, but violating it will make the config obviously invalid, which means it can be rejected instead of silently breaking production because you used a single quote and this dialect's parser only considers double-quotes, so your single quote was considered part of the string.

I don't know of many projects that use programmable configs, and many attempts to achieve this resulted in horrendous nightmares.

Seems like a superset of JSON that remains a subset of JS (like JSON5) can address most concerns, and can still be syntax-highligted with a JS highlighter.
On a related note, SpaceX's Dragon apparently can apparently be SSH'd into according to an engineer I spoke with.
Hopefully the connection is well secured.
Shh, and definitely don't tell him that if a house sells in one week, it was underpriced.
As a counterpoint, sending people to space for stupid-ass political reasons resulted in one of humanity's greatest technological achievements that allowed us to put the plaque up there in the first place.
I learned the hard way the unit of measurement you use for R when calculating distance between two lat,long coordinates is what you get out. So if R is in meters, you aren't calculating the distance in miles. Hehe...should have paid attention in math class (to be fair to myself, American math education is horrible).
https://openflights.org/ uses the Haversine formula (and much more!) to not just compute distance, but plot great circle flight routes on a world map:

https://github.com/jpatokal/openflights/blob/master/js/great...

There are a lot of interesting edge cases regarding routes that cross the dateline, the North Pole, etc. Most of the code was taken from Movable Type's incredible library of lat/long code:

http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
This is so far down my list of coding concerns I’m already done interacting with this thread.
make gave me a lot less trouble than cmake, I just wished that it had a debugger which remake has!
Actually both. It was crazy when I read from a person that he preferred paying his rent over eating, but it actually makes sense: if you get to the street, and not able to clean yourself, the chances of getting a job goes down dramatically.
> It's also fun to hear non-technical people at work talk about "Jason files".

I usually go the other way; Jasons I know have their names represented as "JSON" in my mind, and sometimes in written form.
This example is a little bit softer than the ones I mentioned. 'Latin' German is, I assume, letter-for-letter identical to blackletter German, just with noticeably different glyphs. Given, say, a box of correspondence, a German who'd never been trained to read blackletter could probably puzzle it out.

Akkadian and Sumerian were thousands of years old (and, obviously, long dead) when they got wiped out. And while Mycenaean Greek is not much different from classical Greek (with a gap of only a few centuries), it is written using a writing system entirely unrelated to that of classical Greek, which we assume was originally developed for some other unknown language because it fits Greek so poorly.

> “if we're to trade with the rest of Europe, those nations must understand German writing”

I don't see why this would make any difference. We trade with Japan (and had been doing so for centuries before Hitler). Recognizing the letters in a German contract isn't much good if you can't understand the words.
> The bad tablet experience on Windows is entirely the fault of app developers

I don't think so. Microsoft should make easier to develop for tablet mode if they want adoption, the DPI issues happen also in Microsoft applications! The Win32 APIs are a legacy mess and Microsoft has a long tradition in delivering lot of frameworks which ends in failure (WPF, Silverlight, etc).

BTW, Google Docs copy & paste in tablet mode doesn't work in Firefox either.
The government doesn't hold anyone's money hostage. You are free to adjust your W-4 withholdings any time you want. They even have an online calculator to estimate your tax burden and set your withholding properly.
Using Secrets in Docker Builds
why don't you share the code that they wrote? I'm interested in seeing the code produced by people in academia. Anyway, once you reach enough mastery in your craft using one language or another is just a difference in deciding what level of abstraction you can work at and this is determined by performance requirements.
There’s No Substitute for Print: Some Joys Can’t Be Digitized
Well, you won't really see anybody using the original NC outside of DOS emulation. Midnight Commander and Far are spiritual successors, hence why I'm counting from mid-90s for them, not from mid-80s.

I suppose it could be seen as vi to Vim, though.
http://adilapapaya.com/docs/shelljs/
But a Google or Apple smartphone can potentially contain the contact information about third parties who don't own Apple or Google smartphones themselves.

Take a young person with an iPhone. Their 95 year old grandparents might not have a single piece of technology from 1990 onwards but because their grandson has their phone number, address, and birthday in his iPhone those people could potentially be vulnerable to tracking/snooping/violations of privacy.
Whoops, misread previous comment as "how does he live", as though he 'didn't get' rdj's music, and couldn't fathom how he made a living... Ha ha...
Generally I’ve found that those who forget history tend to condemn others to repeat it for them.
People are already doing that with Patreon. Seems to work.
Musk sounding confident about their self driving as usual.

>I'll be shocked if it's not next year at
the latest that having having a
human intervene will decrease safety (22:32)

Like how we got rid of elevator operators because automatic is safer.

>with a full self-driving car computer the rate of improvement is exponential (24:26)

>Tesla is vastly ahead of everyone (30:11)
Is the language, or the languages library?
It's mostly a question of what you're familiar with. JSON using [] and {} to denoting list vs dict isn't fundamentally easier than "-" and a prefix-less list of key:value pairs. YAML has a bunch of extra complexity, but IMHO this difference is really not it.