skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low density != housing crisis. A 3bed with a pool on a golf course can go for like ~$200k[0] there, which is more than affordable on the florida median income of $52k. Compare to San Francisco where a starter home regularly goes for a million+, and it's not like the commute is any easier.

[0]https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/11136-Oak-...
Even though we might be cynical about politics - it's really important. It's how people express their voice through legislation etc.. It's as 'American as Apple Pie' type thing.

I disagree with this ruling.

They need to ban the fake ads and memes, not 'Vote for Joe Schwartz for City Alderman'.
What good or service is "Donate to fight cancer" advertising?
American Cancer Society is a good example of an organization that is clearly, unambiguously political, but which most people probably don't want banned.

Ultimately, every position you can possibly advocate - including the position that you want people to purchase something or donate to someone - has packaged with it some vision of how society might best operate. In other words: in a society where decisions are made in a political way (which is a good thing), every message is political. Every message.
Political ads are by rough estimation about 1.1% percent of all revenue

(calculated from https://articles2.marketrealist.com/2019/05/why-facebook-con...)

So not a lot, but still it's 1%
The discussion is over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21401973
Very. How do you enforce it and what defines a political ad? Who gets to be the judge, jury and enforcer? A contract Twitter employee making less than $20/hour in a low-tax country like Ireland?
My impression of Dorsey is that he doesn't really know anything but me makes statements (like the OP, and the Bitcoin gunk, and making Twitter more "conversational") that don't make sense or stand up to scrutiny, but use a bunch of words that try to convey a position of leadership on not topics.
You call the originator of the EM drive a crank; I am proposing that the widespread adoption of your dismissive attitude is in large part the cause of the current scientific stagnation observed by the author.

I also suggested that the other large cause of the current stagnation is that we do not have enough scientists pursuing outlandish theories - we should hear about things like the EM drive far more frequently, and we should be excited about new ideas, not dismissive of anything foreign to the current 'groupthink'.

Also, returning to your first point, the author pointed out just the opposite to the point you're attempting to make:

> With fewer experiments, serendipitous discoveries become increasingly unlikely. And lacking those discoveries, the technological progress that would be needed to keep experiments economically viable never materializes. It’s a vicious cycle: Costly experiments result in lack of progress. Lack of progress increases the costs of further experiment. This cycle must eventually lead into a dead end when experiments become simply too expensive to remain affordable. A $40 billion particle collider is such a dead end.
Some time ago there was a story about how BMW sent a DVD to a guy who asked for the GPL software in his i3 (BMW's electric car)[1]. It was also discussed on HN [2].

[1] https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/03/bmw-are-complying-with-the-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11384968
The Portland Timbers literally use the Cascadia Flag. I mean, it's a joke to imagine that political messages are banned.
That's the author's conclusion in the final paragraph of the final entry.
It is not enough because the true goal of moderation is not to hide content people don't like, but to lock out people the majority of people don't like so they can't communicate or work together to spread their (probably hateful) message.

Putting it on a blockchain is abdicating responsibility for any and all content, saying "hey, we just wrote the code, we don't store or propagate any of this ourselves."
It's the full addressing of the host... but you're right, I guess it was a bit of a non-sequitor. The only parts you have to actually know are the xx/xxx, which is roughly the same amount of bits. They could even both be, say, "42", so you're remembering the same thing for both.
I am in San Francisco, last mile vehicles are a good solution to the theft problem since you are going to carry them with you.

It does nothing for the fact that the roads are often in a pretty bad state and more importantly that you share the streets with cars.

I already had an asshole bump his car on my legs apparently voluntarily. I know that some riders wear gopro constantly in order to document this kind of occurrences.
And even aside from these extreme morons, inattentive drivers are pretty dangerous.
I can't wait for the day where there will be a dedicated segregated bike lane on market. That will be a good start.
It's almost as if those companies shouldn't be operating at the margins that they currently do...
I really think you win the internet for the day with that last phrase :)
I would call it a flaw in America's democracy. In which only the current land owners get a vote and have unchecked power. You are right, it is not fair, but a fairer solution is not quite clear either.
Wow. That's gotta be a lot of money they're leaving on the table, no?

I totally support it. But I've also got to be brutally honest: I wonder if this is a sincere moral stance on Dorsey's part, or more of a business calculation that, leading up to the lightning-rod 2020 election, accepting political ads ultimately has the potential to do more damage to Twitter's reputation than the money would make up for -- or have them wind up being on the wrong side of, and in the subsequent targets of, whoever does win.

But I wouldn't be surprised if it's happily both.
This is exactly the situation in the realm of ASICs. Patent situation is a fucking minefield, so whenever a startup arises, the oligopoly smashes it to pieces and then buys out. This was actually the same for compiler technology (remember shitheads Borland?) and it was only pushed back by a large community and social traction. Unfortunately the realm of engineers (electrical, mechanical) is MUCH smaller to gain such traction to change things. So the situation is quite hopeless.
For a less negative view, I recommend the podcast by Sean Carrol, another physicist: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/

There's a broad spectrum of topics there, and quite a few episodes talk about the foundation of physics, including the quantum measurement problem (several episodes about that, in fact), string theory and several cosmology topics.
Honest question: if someone modifies the software of their car, will it still be street-legal?
Bazel supports visibility declarations your private internal provider can be marked package, or even library-private.

> Tensorflow

Tensorflow is a perenial special case at Google. It's a great tool, but it's consistent disregard for internal development practices is costly. A cost I've had to pay personally before.

> Then you are incompetent and bad at your job

No, I just don't have the time or interest in reimplement language analysis tools when I don't need to.
Aerial Photos of the USSR's Giant Nuclear Detection System
Excellent start from Twitter.
That strikes me as rather churlish. Moving on is the whole point- even the company who employs the Python guy can't seem to move on. Seems relevant IMO.
That's the difference between GPL and AGPL. GPL only requires source distribution if you distribute binaries, not if you run your binaries on your own server responding to requests from users. AGPL requires source distribution for any network-accessible service.

(Unsurprisingly, there was a very very strict rule against using, coming within 100 meters of, looking funnily at, or even thinking in a passing way of any AGPL source internally when I was at a particular large internet company that was otherwise pretty open-source-friendly...)
It's primarily the end tags, yes, but there's also the className shorthand in reagent that's nice.

[div.btn.blue.p-4 {:disabled true} "Button Text"]
Reading the first and last two posts, the outrageism is definitely far less present in the latter than the former. You should at least read the sixth post as well, which evaluates how deserved Sparta's military reputation was (spoiler alert: it wasn't).
This is why the GPL is toxic. If you include it your software someone can request your source code and then compile it and release it for free.
What it takes to nail a digital interview
Anyone who charitably reads what he writes.
Yeah, but then they could be ordered to take it down. I think the idea is to be censorship resistant in such a way that the company itself cannot make exceptions when pressured by a court, but I'm forgetting if that's me reading between the lines or if Dorsey explicitly talks about censorship resistance.
I started to write with Dbase 1 and 2
I'm not sure I agree with this. How much assembly would you actually have to write to bootstrap a Lisp? If I understand correctly, not much. And you could cross-compile from some other platform for as long as needed as you use the Lisp to write the OS.
I am the opposite, I don't like Python but I love JS.
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There is no other way, at least in advertising. Google is monopoly. You can make some extra by charging directly but it's not for every business.
Nice! I'll check it out.
> The FEC has pretty clear rules about what constitutes a political ad, and presumably Twitter will be using those.

I know that the FEC maintains guidelines for what Coordinated Communications, but I've never heard of this definition of "political ad" - can you provide a link?
For FB political ads make about 1% of revenue, if I am calculating correctly (source https://articles2.marketrealist.com/2019/05/why-facebook-con...)

I know you asked for Twitter but I guess it's similar. Zuckerberg also considered dropping political ads altogether, as they are controversial
Well, twitter makes let's say $1Bn per year, so they could spend 15000 man years per year and still be breaking even.
>Seriously, there's not much more to it than that.

Do you really think that everything comes from that 2006 film? I learned about that civilization more than 30 years ago, when my primary school teachers taught me about classical Greece and its legacy. There is a long Hellenistic tradition that takes Sparta and Athens as the embodiment of two models worthy of historical study.
From what I recall in the JRE and Sam Harris interviews, Jack seemed very reasonable. I think Twitter is something that's gotten away from him (certainly from what he'd like) and is being run by the inmates to a significant degree.
it isnt that important for me either, and imo shouldn’t be...BUT

when you are in a formal setting, people like to code review, and in that case, in the absence of some special diff tool, people will complain they can’t review your ui changes in github and suddenly your format matters alot more than before
> epigenetics

Hey, it's hard to refactor API's constantly because requirements keep changing. Commit more, or commit 'better': choose one for evolution. ;-)

Joke aside, epigenetics in our funny imagery here stand out as "interface" to me —how a particular (DNA) codebase reacts and presents itself differently to different environments, different i/o and somehow manages to share this on-the-fly engineering with descendents.

Biology truly is fascinating from an engineer's standpoint.
This seems plausible. But if this is true, then why haven't their been more successful suicides at this prison?
The best political ads does not sound political at all.

Yet these could subtly touch on subconscious minds of potential voters to move the needle toward specific party, movement or candidate.
Did it really? How?

I mean, how many non geeks have ever heard of GitHub?

However the project got publicity. it could have used a different backend.
Cause money makes the world go 'round?
I was wondering how he was going to explain this in 140^w 280 characters...
Wired ran an article demonstrating that this happened. https://www.wired.com/story/how-americans-wound-up-on-twitte...

I shouldn't have to google for someone as politically active... ...you're literally working to elect someone president.
Nothing about who created this or what tech is involved.

In fact, this page has SFA but marketing nonsense as is the linked webpage at lightning-lambdas.
Here are the official Dutch stats on trips per annum, split by means of transport.

https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/83499NED/t...

vervoermiddel = means of transport

fiets = bike

per persoon per dag = per person per day

Verplaatsingen / aantal = Trips / number

Afstand / km = distance / kilometres

Reisduur / uren = Trip duration / hours

(source: I live part time in Amsterdam. My partner and I have 5 bikes there, despite being there a few days a month)
This is going to sound argumentative and I don't mean it that way.

> normally security would get pinged with alarms especially if the cameras were tagged as critical

Unless you've worked on prison infrastructure before I'm not sure how you could know this with any level of confidence.
We've moved the comments there.

But this one was earlier. Why did the same submitter post the same story twice in two minutes?
Yes, Tesla would continue to be bound by the GPL for the new versions as well. However the GPL does not require you to offer the source to the public or any third parties at all that did not aquire the software legitimately. If I'd sell a custom Linux kernel to Microsoft, I'd not be required to give you the source for it, if you ask for it. Your Windows example doesn't really apply here, as Windows isn't GPL licensed.

The big question is whether punishing users by no longer providing any updates after asking for sources is a GPL violation in itself.

From the GPL FAQ [1]:

> If I distribute GPLed software for a fee, am I required to also make it available to the public without a charge?

> No. However, if someone pays your fee and gets a copy, the GPL gives them the freedom to release it to the public, with or without a fee. For example, someone could pay your fee, and then put her copy on a web site for the general public.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#DoesTheGPLRequi...
Twitter bans all political advertising
Sometimes answers like these can be confabulations. My father will make up anything as an explanation when you ask why, even when it's obviously not true. He still scores ok on the mmse, for now at least.
The quote you posted just seems intentionally dismissive. The truth is that whether any content is political or not depends much more on the views of the audience than it does the content itself. Outside of ads that political campaigns would want to run directly, this means that twitter will be arbitrarily deciding what content is political (and therefor not allowed), and what content is non-political (and therefor allowed). The only possible outcome is that twitter moderates the content based upon whatever political perspective they choose to adopt for this.
The difference is that it's easy to have "a private org can set its own logically inconsistent policy" (and every possible policy except "everything is allowed" is logically inconsistent) but impossible to have "we will only allow universally agreed upon good things in this space".
one may ignore

the prescriptions of the form -

but not blithely
busterarm is almost certainly referring to chinese "bots".
Is there a modern and/or open alternative to this? E.g a SQLite + electron or local web client thing where you could build a simple inventory or similar but you should also be able to scale it to client server when the need occurs 10 years down.

Note that any number of cloud startups don’t count as an alternative to access. When these things start it’s as an excel sheet with data that no one will go through the enterprise hassle to get cleared for anywhere but their own hard drive. This needs to sit above excel but still local. You need the entire business case and business value while it’s still in a local directory.
I wish he had a controlling share.
It'd be interesting to better understand the control for this research.

The main premise here is that "those receiving pension benefits" (i.e. no longer working) have faster cognitive decline. But is there a correlation between the kind of work you did and receiving a pension? Perhaps the word "pension" means something a bit different here, but in U.S. English, we usually use it to mean a company-sponsored retirement plan, and that is something that is less common than it once was.

Could it be that if you had a job where you knew you'd get a pension, maybe you didn't have to try very hard while you were working? That is, maybe you spent the last decade coasting and taking it easy before you retired.

All of this could be invalid speculation if they just mean "retirement benefits" of any kind?
If you include it your software someone can request your source code and then compile it and release it for free.

Why do you think it's ethically bad?
Every time I see someone complaining about bots, its because there are a lot of likes for something they personally dislike. Not saying bots on the internet are not a problem, but I think lots of people are quick to blame bots instead of conceding that others may disagree with them. Its also virtually impossible to prove accounts as "real" or "bots" without some ID verification in place. People kinda do it via clustering/graph analysis, but I think even those are iffy at best.
The pathologist from the article, it is important to remember, contradicts the NY ME's report, and has been hired by Epstein's family, who have a wrongful death suit brewing. He's hardly an unbiased source, and unlike the NY ME, he's retired and (while he has a reputation to protect as a human being who cares about such things) he has no career to protect by not screwing up the details on this one.
This is a longstanding problem in audio engineering, along the lines of "how does one un-bake a cake to get the eggs?" There's always going to be artefacts and distortion ranging from unpleasant to extreme, hence audio engineers when mixing from stems/channels will do a stereo instrumental mix and a mix with vocals.
Not surprising any longer... There's a whole class of Mac Mini's (including the latest revision) where if you install Catalina, the HDMI port dies.
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
I completely agree with what you're saying about the difficulty of cleanly separating political vs nonpolitical speech, but for specifically the case of U.S. political issues, one could imagine a hack of defining political ads as "anything that would need to be reported to the FEC as an expenditure."
Groups threaten to sue U. of California over SAT, ACT use
Twitter will refuse all political advertising
Anyone want to suggest alternates? What's the "whip it up in a few hours" for "power users" today?
I will admit a love/hate for Access. Namely, from years of teaching Microsoft Office as Intro to Computing. Access was always the section that was hard to convince students they'd ever need and worse yet outright made the class logistically harder for Mac users.

I will say, however, Access has SOME benefit to Information Systems education, especially in a general IS class. These students are marketing, accounting, etc. and so Access offers these students a quick dip into the world of DBs to understand how they operate without requiring they set up a local server or import some complex SQL statement.

This is a super niche group though, one that does not warrant much support. If someone were to develop an online Access-themed learning environment that taught those same basics, it would have the exact same benefits without the tangled Office requirement.
There have been arguments (e.g. by Bruce Perens [1]) that this kind of behavior violating the GPLv2 section which prohibits the addition of further restrictions to the license, when the grsecurity team started doing similar things with their Linux patches.
However this isn't really something that has been explored too far beyond that (at least to my knowledge). I'd personally tend towards this being more of a gap in the GPL's protections though, as forcing continued access to further updates would open a massive can of worms. Because then you'd need to figure out what is and what isn't a disallowed punishment for sharing GPL'd source code for any future contract between the two parties.

[1] https://perens.com/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-c...
Complete is hard to define, no language stops evolving. But Go language is perfectly suitable for large projects, and is pretty much my Go-to nowadays. (Pun intended)
That's not an argument. My argument was the preceding statement. Maybe you should work on identifying what is and is not an argument before attempting to formulate your own.
You have not justified that 15000 people is enough to moderate all the content.
Except Sparta doesn't seem to have actually been particularly successful militarily, instead relying more on a reputation for military success, according to this analysis.
All ads are adversarial.

Whenever you see an ad, remember that they've diverted funds from improving the quality of their product and paying their workers well, and instead decided to use that money to try to deceive and manipulate the public into forming a positive impression.
There was no "dbase 1", it started as "dbase 2" because Ashton Tate didn't want the product to sound premature.
> Will they also ban politicians?

I don't think they will. 'Politicians ban' will be equivalent to banning free expression, and twitter is against that.
Sources for what exactly? I never said that. What I said is that we have a very well credentialed and highly experienced expert saying A, and then we have random internet guy contradicting him with nothing to support his claims. You think taking what you say at face value would be the reasonable thing to do?
And if you are willing to throw out the fissiles, why not a Nuclear Salt Water Rocket? [0] (warning: engineering realities may make this impossible) (one of a very short list of possibilities for a buildable-within-a-century torchship)

Other downsides include "using it for take-offs will leave a large crater that will glow blue for several hundred million years, as will everything downwind in the fallout area", but who really cares about takeoff areas? (That's for the silly plebs left behind on the ground to worry about - you're headed to SPACE!)

0: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php...
Yes, if you are modding the battery controller itself or if it (the controller) is so fragile that it blows up the battery on request (i.e.: on "wrong" input).

In the first case: uhm, yes, you knew the risk?

In the second case: Sue everyone from coder to distributer and take the refund from whomever is deemed finally responsible by courts.
Why are Democratic party elites so desperate for a 2020 centrist candidate?
That's also an interesting phenomenon. There are a large number of Chinese citizens on the internet who will shout down with comments any message counter to the party line there.

They are real people, aren't they?
I didn't say that was the argument to the contrary.
Expert in their field versus random forum commenter is obviously a he said she said.
And that people could be put into suicide watch as a punitive measure. So suicides are rare despite all the flaws because most people on suicide watch aren’t suicidal.
Love the analogy. I'm a SE with a English degree. Maybe that is why I care so much (more than those around me) about editing code and finding the readability sweet spot.
> Would you rather choose a company that doesn't comply with local laws?

If I made an app which mocked the King of Thailand, and Thailand demanded Github remove the app because it's against Thai law to mock the King of Thailand, what would you want to happen? How about an app which helped Uighurs avoid concentration camps, which China demanded the removal of?