skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Citizens United is the example that shows it's more complicated than that. Once limits are removed, then the same power structures that make and keep powerful entities powerful can continue to be reenforced if checks are not put into place to limit the power money can have in being a vector or amplifier for free speech.

What paying for expression has come to is that you can dominate discourse simply by paying more. So if you have money, you can buy influence even more directly than by paying for bribes and courting legal ramifications.

The reality is marketing works, and that is to say, people's opinions can be changed quite malleably by just inundating them more-and-more with the idea you want them to adopt, whether it's seeing a movie, listening to an album, or adopting an opinion.

Freedom for all cannot exist where power can buy influence in this fashion, and that's where freedom to pay for expression is more complicated than, say, printing my own newspaper and sharing it with others. It lets you also gain the system and buy-up all options of expression (e.g., all ads in a newspaper or website) and in the more insiduous ways, buy "grassroots" influencers through sockpuppet accounts.

I don't have a solution, but it doesn't mean there's not a fundamental problem when we make freedom to pay for expression free of roadblocks to dominating behaviors.
I don’t think the age of their account should be a factor in the validity of their arguments.

It would be one thing if our rights were restricted so that we could never pay for reach of expression. That seems like it would be a violation of free speech. But in this case (as noted) it’s a private entity enforcing their own legitimate policy exclusively on their own platform.
> For me personally it is Python, the delay between solving a problem and having it translated to python in my head is slim. You probably feel the same way about your own favourite programming language.

I feel that with Ruby, which I do a lot nowadays and love

WIth regards to Python, it is the things like having to write 'self' on each class method, having spaces as part of the language syntax, inconsistent Object orientation (len(string)?? instead of string.len ) and the neverending Python 2 vs 3 pain.
Maybe if you stopped considering women with previous relationships as some sort of "damaged goods" you'd have better prospects.
So far, the "we can't do that" defense has worked for companies that provide E2E encryption. The government may change the rules, of course; they keep talking about it.
Looks like another Macron. Well done.
Synecdoche
I don't follow politics nor do I follow these discussions, but I wonder how many people are influenced from a politic ad vs how many people are influenced from bots. I'd _guess_ bots are much much much much more influential.
I don't think defending genocide is a valid political opinion and anyone should be ostracized for holding it.
NSBase[0] markets itself as Access replacement using sqlite as backend. It's built using Lazarus IDE and has lua scripting. It's free and works on Windows, Linux and Mac. I haven't taken it through the ropes to see how good it is.

[0]http://www.nsbase.neuts.fr/en/
> When asked, I would give people my opinion that maintainable code is more important than clever code. If I encountered clever code that was particularly cryptic, and I had to do some maintenance on it, I would probably rewrite it.

It would be great to see some examples of this rewriting. I feel that we see a lot of examples of converting repetitive code to terse code, but fewer examples of "de-clevering" code.
> I'm not sure how you can be annoyed by Python, but not by VB.

I think it might be that back when I worked with it I was young and did not know better. Nowadays I assume that if someone put me to do something in VB6 it will be super painful.
Even ignoring any possible trust issues with Microsoft's ownership of Github, I think the tech world's reliance on a single host is rather dangerous. For instance, there's a story from today about the Spanish gov't ordering Github to remove a repo[1]. And there were technical issues for Chef when someone removed their code in protest of ICE[2]. Git can be decentralized, and that's one of the good things about it, but we the community (myself included) are not decentralizing very much. Github isn't really to blame, since they made a pretty great host and made so many things easy to do with it. It's in their best interest to get every using it. But it's not necessarily in the community's best interest to be relying on it to the extent that we do, to the extent where people deduct mental points for non-Github projects. I say this having done such mental deductions myself in the past, but now I think alternatives to Github are necessary and should be celebrated. Don't necessarily stop using Github, but if you keep using Github, mirror the code to at least one more host, be it Gitlab or elsewhere.

Or maybe it's just inevitable that what was once distributed always becomes centralized again? (To that end I'm reminded of the book The Master Switch by Tim Wu. He discusses similar cycles happening to various "information empires".)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21395629
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21025037
I'd probably do a web app myself

Running on? Wait, you mean I have to get IT to set up a server for me? Who's responsible for maintaining that? Backups? They're going to do that for something used by only 10 people that saves us maybe 20-30 hours a week? How much are they going to charge my department for this?
I have the same doubts. I think it'll inevitably happen, eventually, but the timeline may be wayyy longer than people seem to think.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a small settlement for research or something in my lifetime. Maybe something like what we have in Antarctica.
To me, the best "old internet" site is Wikipedia. Although they also partially succumbed to madness of breaking the web (opening images in JavaScript popups?? breaking the "Back" browser button??) it's mostly a well-done clean HMLL/CSS site which has everything you want. I even treat it as "slow news" source [1], instead of MSM.

In a way, they have outperformed Google at Google's vision of organizing the world's information. That's why I try to donate as much as I can every year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kincade_Fire
So you don't use any Free Software at all?
I have noticed the same thing, but not from age, instead I attribute it to ux/ui.

People used to know how to type a url into an address bar. If they didnt type it correctly it didnt work. They knew how to type an email address. Now for the life of people, its actually uncomfortable to type example.com without a space into an address bar and go directly to a site and not to google. They purposely put a space between the words because they only know how to search for terms. (This could also be a semi-unconscious learned safety behavior to avoid typos in domains.) The same applies to autocomplete in the TO field of email programs. If a name doesnt autopopulate, "well that email must not exist, because autocomplete isnt suggesting their name."

As fields started thinking more for us, and the raw structure of paths has become more and more hidden (websites to apps, chrome overall shrinking and hiding protocols), I dont think its fair to attribute "well I cant find the url" to cognitive decline. Our interfaces are purpose hiding this stuff and making us depend more and more on fuzzy representations of structure.
My guess is that they probably have a hard time recruiting sr engineers from FAANG. I don't think they can really compete, can they?
Ask HN: How do you provision and orchestrate bare-metal servers in 2019?
I don't think it's the same thing. Linkat is still starting with a file that exists in the filesystem.

In my silly world, unopen() would just take any fd (socket, file, pipe, etc.) and create a file system binding which anyone could open. Kind of like how /proc works on Linux today.
Guards at this prison have raped and beaten inmates. At least some of them have been convicted. There's no real reason to believe that they would be acting based on some kind of higher-level planning. https://gothamist.com/news/prisoners-endure-a-nightmare-gula...
> Madrid insists they couldn't allow Catalonia to become independent even if they wanted to.

Which may or may not be a correct interpretation of the Spanish Constitution, but what the US Constitution does or does not allow regarding either secession or Congressional grants of independence is not really germane one way or another. They aren't even products of the same legal tradition such that analysis of one might be illuminating on the other.
The absolute failure of the courts to enact justice in the Epstein case is a great example of why people should think for themselves and not outsource their sense of right and wrong to third parties.

I personally do not believe that Gates (one of the most successful people to have ever lived) was naive enough to not know who and what Epstein was. I also see Gates' attempt to hide his relationship with Epstein as further evidence of wrongdoing.
GPL is transitive, so does that mean all software in the Tesla becomes GPL? If not, please explain. GPL has no linkage/classpath exception.
It's the first thing I'd try... because I've seen it done in movies.
Thank you, the way people bring out the pitchforks merely over guilt-by-association is one of the worst parts of social media.

I swear we're going to have to relearn all of the lessons we learned over the centuries of developing civil society, all in the name of some strange utopian perfectionism we're putting on every popular person. Mob justice is rarely good justice.
Another frontier is light/matter interactions. This is an area where a ton of progress has occurred in a wide range of areas. And that work often has direct implications. I worked on a microscope recently that coupled 6 different lasers into a single fiber for fluorescent illumination. The tools we got to work with... some are from 100 years ago and are still great, others, like spatial light modulators and other light-conditioning tools are really amazing. These days you can reproduce the Michelson Morely experiment (technically VERY challenging at the time) in an afternoon. Or do a basic quantum eraser experiment with $2K in optical components(!)
>People make this point every single time this comes up like they've contributed something interesting or new, it's exhausting.

Almost as exhausting as people saying it's exhausting.

>No one has said the constitution applied to Twitter. Everyone knows the first amendment applies to governments only.

Odd way for the GP to open up an argument then.

>One thing about the first amendment is that it doesn't have conditions. This type of thing that Twitter is doing will be full of them, ie selectively defining what's political or not.

If everyone knows that it doesn't apply, then everyone should just leave it out to begin with. Also, in implementation, it absolutely has conditions. 0/2.

>Yet free speech still has a huge cultural role in western countries that goes well beyond government charters, for very good reasons. That's the reason why it's embedded in law in the first place, not the other way around, we didn't start caring about free speech because the US constitution adopted it, nor should we dismiss it where government rule ends

Huh? It was added because the founders had first hand experience with government suppressing rebellious rabble rousers who threatened their power. It guaranteed freedom of religion, the press, and assembly. Of course that's what they were fighting for. In what way did it go "beyond government charters"?
>> if you cannot get them to the fight, with the equipment (e.g. siege tools, ships) they need to win the fight.

That is one area where modern warfare is very different than ancient warfare. Siege weapons were not normally 'brought'. They were created when and as needed. An ancient engineer could turn a forest into a trebuchet, something akin to a modern engineer building a fighter jet out of rocks. So too with food. Ancient armies lived off the land. They pillaged and took what they needed. The concept of moving food to feed an army on a distant shore was just not an option as recently as WWI.
I hope that some day the 90s demo scene and its music gets a documentary film made about it before all the pioneers pass away. It's such a special cultural moment. The early steps into the distributed artistic movements we take for granted today.
oh her questions were more reasonable than others, like for example the question about the sexual orientations of Libra association member boards. Still, her question about what constitutes a political lie is not representative of 99% of political lies , which are usually more subtle and subject to debate. Also, his response "we should let the people see for themselves the lies and judge politicians accordingly" was not really countered at all.
Yeah, he already did step down from being the BDFL.

PSF now has an elected steering council to replace him.

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2018-Jul...
I’m not sure that comparing Russia to the US in this instance is any less “stupid”.
And maybe a lot earlier than that;

> researchers have discovered that Alzheimer’s Disease is preceded by DECADES of gradually worsening glucose hypometabolism.

> Brain glucose metabolism can be reduced by as much as 25% long before any memory problems become obvious. As a psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of college students, I find it positively chilling that scientists have found evidence of glucose hypometabolism in the brains of women as young as 24 years old

- https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/diagnosis-diet/201...
> Odd way for the GP to open up an argument then.

I am the OP and I specifically referenced the first amendment as an analogy to highlight the dangers of grey areas, which are the things the constitution avoids by making them absolute. Which is where all the risk remains with this sort of policy, and the reason why it's relevant to Twitter.

Saying the first amendment doesn't apply to private companies is meaningless in that context.

Context matters. Pigeonholing a tired counter argument where it doesn't fit isn't contributing to this conversation. Although I suspect you didn't actually read the comment before replying, only the first sentence.
I don't see what was "flamewar style" about the grandparent post. Are you referring to the mention of "Vegans"? I took that to mean Vegans as in citizens of Las Vegas. People say Angelenos to refer to inhabitants of Los Angeles. I believe that was the spirit in which the reference to "Vegans" was intended.

edited to correct the spelling of Las Vegas
Well, if you're talking GUI stuff, nothing in Nim compares to Qt. But, I did routinely use Qt for console, server, and headless embedded stuff. The Qt environment compensated for lots of C++ shortcomings up to recently. I think I've seen a Nim linkage to QML (Qt's newer Javascript UI markup language). But, I've never been all that keen on it. Depends what you need in a GUI. QML worked well for me on android/ios apps. I guess I'm just old school when it comes to desktop apps, and I can bang out a Qt gui app in a hurry for the desktop. A few times, in D, I'd written all of the logic for the application in D as a console app with a command handler that worked on stdin that would generate the same Qt data model on stdout that a Qt GUI app would use to populate its model-bound tables and whatnot. Worked surprisingly well.
But, to end this treatise on the state of nim gui stuff... I've had some fun with nimx, but keep trying the more native stuff. give 'em a try.
In iOS 13 it's worse, because they just changed all of it up. Now shaking and the old gestures for moving the cursor or getting the copy/paste menu don't work either. Instead it's three-finger directional swipes and pinches and long-touching a caret to pick it up and whatnot.

There are a couple of problems with that. One is that now instead of coordinating one finger you have to coordinate three, which may not be as easy for someone older. To be fair I think all of the gestures do have a simpler secondary alternative somewhere, but that brings the next issue.

iOS (and everyone else) quit documenting stuff a long time ago aside from in help snippets, over the idea that everything was "discoverable."

Aside from the core issue of expecting a user to "discover" complex and rarely-used gestures with no affordances, what happens when you "discover" they don't work anymore?

I guess you get to discover the help entry via Google, or find it in a Tom's Guide "35 things you didn't know you could do..." type article...once you finally realize they changed and that it isn't just you screwing it up.

We really need to create the equivalent of CUA for phone interfaces. Prior to that being broadly adopted, we had to deal with all kinds of variant menu structures and shortcuts in DOS-based and early GUI apps. After that, it was easy to move between things and (eliminating the entire freaking menu bar aside) things have stayed pretty stable since.
The "superbug" would probably need to take the form of essentially "encrypting" the genes to make them impossible to recognize, but somehow still having a way to decode them.

Could happen, but might also be evolutionarily difficult.
Yes, and freedom of expression includes people who created account 3 months ago, who decided to amplify his message which are then read by you here. In order to do that, the person paid for internet, electronics, invested time and thought into this practice.

The right to pay for something using money is inherent as the right to spend another resource such as time or labor.
It may be an issue of Apple simply not disclosing specific Apple Card numbers. Right now in their earnings release to the SEC [1], Apple only lists net sales by category for iPhone, Mac, iPad, 'Wearables, Home and Accessories' and Services

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0000320193190...
if you really want to read more, check out https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/aducanumab-analysis.html

There's a reason I went back to being a software engineer at an internet company working on ML models that actually work- clinical trials have a long way to go before they produce results that can be really trusted.
"1 suicide and 3 attempted suicides"- that's actually both an insanely low attempt rate and an insanely high completion rate/attempt.
Do you mind explaining that further? I don't know what happened with GoPro.
Being a former Parisian, I can object here you can be a medal fields winner and not having a clue about economic problem. Paris is facing quite sensible issues right now ( higher debt, untidy streets, insecurity,etc...) and for now all he's proposing here is very similar to what any others politician would offer to get elected.
Parisians need some radical changements and for now I haven't heard anything from him tackling the right issues but just big promises and gifts for all ( please note that this also applies to the others candidates as well).
would already greatly diminish the effect. Two hops away is a magnitude or two less of exposure.

When Spain changed organ donations from opt-in to opt-out the rate increased from 30% to 9x%. That's one tick of a box.

I see these comments a lot and I don't know if people purposefully try to downplay the role of smart design because they pursue an agenda or if people seriously don't recognise how significant small changes in design can be.

If we'd manage to hide false information behind two clicks we'd have done the world a great service.
> This is nothing but a copout solution.

Who's solution is a copout?

You're saying that it is inconsistent for Twitter to not accept payment for political ads, but a print newspaper to do so. This is correct. But that inconsistency reflects the fact that the decisions are being made by different people.

What would be a non-copout solution that twitter could implement?
It might be better to think of it like this:

A distribution of Linux you happen to use (like Debian) might be entirely freely GPL components. If you ship anything that includes those, you are also required to provide (or at least provide if asked) a copy of the source code, For that Component.

If you have a proprietary program that happens to run inside of that Linux distribution, but otherwise does not use GPL/etc sources, that doesn't need to be distributed as such. It's generally better for your customers to not stand in the way of them fixing things/using newer versions of the free upstream, and re-combining in the provided application to form a new version of the whole. That's one of the issues later versions of the GPL tried to address.
Russia past and present is an illustrative example of a government determined to be oppressive.
I am talking about investing in battery installations for grid services (i.e. buying and building battery installations) instead of building natural gas peaker plants or building other more tradition infrastructure. I am not saying they should have made equity investments in battery startups.

I don't see a reason why they couldn't rate base and make a return on battery installs. Instead they only wanted to building the same stuff they always built (more power plants and more transmission).
It depends on your usage.
If you're parsimoniously checking for data, the website will not be hostile.

If your usage requires higher frequency against a given website, you'll indeed need a proxy (which we'll be rolling relatively soon, when there is demand for it).
The target is $87.5 billion +/- 2.5 percent. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
This is really interesting, because it seems that in some cases (ex. NRA or EFF) it doesn't actually matter what the ad copy is. It's very clear why they're soliciting donations (to lobby for their ideological viewpoint).

So in your example, I think it's absolutely clear to most adult Americans what "Donate now" means. It means "Donate now so that we can fight for your gun rights" or "Donate now so that we can fight for a free and open internet".

I do worry that Twitter is just ratcheting up the difficulty they're already facing with political speech on the platform.
Net income was?

Also this BS about stock buybacks and dividends to become cash neutral is stupid. They should be betting on moonshot things that will be the next iPhone instead of all of this financial engineering.
But only focusing on the good is definitely a trend that happens a lot--it's called romanticizing. And the ultimate thesis here is that Sparta has been heavily romanticized in modern culture: to modern people, Sparta is the epitome of a proud, independent, martial ethos, when in actuality it was a society led by indoctrinated child soldiers whose military prowess was middling at best and whose military reputation was overrated, even contemporaneously.
I honestly wouldn't read anything in this bug in terms of development quality. Catalyst is buggy and poorly supported. Developing for Apple products is often-time an exercise in workarounds, hacks, and undefined behavior fun. These issues only get worse when you get to be the size of Twitter and the app architectures starts to get more complicated to support a large team. The iOS application patterns are not super evolved or friendly to scale.
There are obviously times when mob justice goes too far. I do not think Epstein is one of those cases. He was a sex trafficker for the rich and powerful. His associates should be investigated and their attempts to get the media to bury the story should be pointed out.
My IT department intercept TLS and break half of the internet in the process.

So they can get fucked in my opinion. I’m not convinced that the issue lies with the website.

Infantilising your users is exactly why contempt exists for sysadmins.

And I say that as a sysadmin.
It's easy to blame Facebook, it is well known Zucky needs the money, rent is not cheap in California.
I'd still love to take that risk...