skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also like to cite Ben Franklin, writing about the time more than 250 years ago, about him being one of a very few printers in the whole new nation, and facing the same dilemma:

"In the conduct of my newspaper, I carefully excluded all libeling and personal abuse, which is of late years become so disgraceful to our country. Whenever I was solicited to insert anything of that kind, and the writers pleaded, as they generally did, the liberty of the press, and that a newspaper was like a stage-coach, in which anyone who would pay had a right to a place, my answer was, that I would print the piece separately if desired, and the author might have as many copies as he pleased to distribute himself, but that I would not take upon me to spread his detraction; and that, having contracted with my subscribers to furnish them with what might be either useful or entertaining, I could not fill their papers with private altercation, in which they had no concern, without doing them manifest injustice. Now, many of our printers make no scruple of gratifying the malice of individuals by false accusations of the fairest characters among ourselves, augmenting animosity even to the producing of duels; and are, moreover, so indiscreet as to print scurrilous reflections on the government of neighboring states, and even on the conduct of our best national allies, which may be attended with the most pernicious consequences. These things I mention as a caution to young printers, and that they may be encouraged not to pollute their presses and disgrace their profession by such infamous practices, but refuse steadily, as they may see by my example that such a course of conduct will not, on the whole, be injurious to their interests."

From "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin", written between from 1771 to 1790, now in public domain.
They too switched to misinformation, direct control of media, supression of independent media, etc.

This kind of transparent content removal is not what dictatorships do.
The body of opinions designated as scientific racism has changed over time. Giving the parent the benefit of the doubt, I took their statement to be referencing traditional scientific racism, such as that which rested on craniometry and other bizarre pseudoscience.
But it will be known well in advance and can be mitigated by simply shutting the grid down for a few hours. Only places which will experience difficulties are those having a large fraction of nuclear power since a reactor can't be quickly restarted once shut down, so power will restore only in some days.
Oh man, I did something similar once. Folder with customer files also had a temp folder that needed cleaning, so I wrote a program that went into the temp folder and deleted everything recursively. For some reason, the temp folder had a folder named ".." (no reason how anyone managed to create that). So I ran the script, and upon hitting the ".." folder, it started deleting regular customer files. Good times...
The "Out of Beta" podcast which you co-host (and document your Summit journey) has been a blast. Thanks for that and good luck with Summit.
Systemd is the very manifestation of NIH and reinvention, they are incapable of using existing tech.
That's very inspiring to know! And thanks for the kind words!
You're arguing a different point than the person you're responding to. You're correct of course, on the point that aggregators only function so long as they have content to aggregate. But that doesn't mean that aggregators don't also promote further market consolidation. I don't think many people are arguing that publications like AP, Bloomberg, NYT, Reuters, Fox News (I know I know, but you can't pretend they aren't a major org), CNN, etc. are dying. What's dying is /local/ newspapers that might not offer robust world views but nonetheless often represent the most comprehensive source for stories of local significance like police controversies, local government corruption, community happenings, etc.
GNOME, essentially. If you want to run a fully-functioning GNOME on your distro, you have to be running systemd. Or have the time and patience to maintain a large patch set to work around the systemd dependencies.
Checks notes..yeah this works.. also checks notes.. nope this isn't reddit. (seems more like a reddit comment, an observation not a critique).

I think honestly humanity is being squandered by income inequality. Imagine if money wasn't an issue for anyone. Imagine that we had a HUGE appreciation of science so much so that 90% of kids grow up to be scientists and explorers.

Surely that would get us to have higher and better technologies and also get us further in space flight. But instead elites would rather the potential scientists of the future 'know their place' and remain there in poverty never getting a degree/etc...
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> It's several orders of magnitude more complex. It's more difficult to understand and reason about because its internal state is a black box, and the number of interfaces and file formats to understand is again orders of magnitude more complex.

As a user I 100% disagree. Before systemd I had to learn a few dozen of different config formats for various things * various distros, now all my systems are configured in a reliable & simple way, for init, network, timers, etc etc
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What you're not taking into the account is the standard of living though. This is totally how some rural communities in Poland worked not that long ago, and you could also say "but hey, Poland is fairly compact, you could drive from the village X to a larger city which has stores in like 30 minutes, what's the deal?", forgetting that for a long time the only vehicle in a village might have been an agricultural tractor, a lot of "daily business" travelling was still done with a horse and a cart. Besides, those rural communities had staples produced locally - my auntie always had a cellar filled to the brim with potatoes, milk from a cow, eggs from chickens, they'd butcher a pig from time to time so a freezer was usually full of meat, local bakery would get a delivery of flour from elsewhere. It's just that "hopping over to a town nearby for shopping" wasn't really an option until mid-90s at least, when the market got absolutely flooded with cheap cars and people found the ability to afford them.
> I'd buy one in a heartbeat

I see what you did there.
I've been using Jed as my primary editor for the past 20 years.

Originally because it was faster than Emacs while providing the same experience.

Then because I loved how its automatic indentation works ("tab" properly indents the current line), and I still can hardly use an editor that doesn't behave in a similar way.

Finally, the language extensions are written in ("slang") is great. It feels familiar, is readable and is easy to pickup, unlike Emacs Lisp.

Jed and Piknik are the two first things I install on any new computer.

Today, in order to write Rust code, I use VSCode, but for everything else, Jed remains my go to editor.
Slackware, the Longest Active Linux Distro, Finally Has a Patreon Page
Coronavirus has changed dating apps “irreversibly”
Netflix's CDN doesn't run on AWS.
The case for a free and open web is terminal. Assange, christchurch, numerous political commentators. Liberty is deflating into traditional culture and we are all being pinned down into our most basic identities for the sake of the coming command economy in the 2040s. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Same thing in Portugal, but with ridiculously stereotypical Portuguese music.
>There are plenty of real scientific arguments against gay marriage or gay rights at large

Such as?

>You just dont ever hear them because everyone who ever so much as hints at them gets banned immediately.

Then where do you hear them?
To expand on it: I can't really compare the magnitude, because I don't have a good sense for how much of an issue it is in the US, but yes, states do sometimes disagree with each other, have differing interests depending on local factors, want funding allocated to their projects, and they do occasionally squabble with the federal government over authority (especially when they want federal funding for things that are their area of responsibility). They also have quite an effect on how politics inside and between the political parties work (which I feel like in other countries the largest cities do instead?)
> 3: (2000's) - Effective books - (e.g. effective c++, effective java)

The author refers to that as the "2.5 era".
Last release was 2016, and I think Patrick Volkerding also had health problems.

Let's hope for a fantastic new release! Slackware is idiosyncratic (if only because it stood still where all other distros moved on long ago (PAM, systemd)), but it is really nice to use.
As you are probably aware that the author of the article is the designer of the D programming language.

For background reading of the design of D programming language, this is a very interesting and insightful paper on the history and the origins of D programming language up to 2018 [1].

[1] http://erdani.com/hopl2020-draft.pdf
You can see a significant portion of the book on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Design-Patterns-Brain-Frie...
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I guess discipline and consistency.
I have very little understanding of how an ECG works. Can you ELI5 why a single-lead ECG recording can be off by 30 seconds, and what that means?
The problem is, the "protection" and "regulation" quickly become tools to eliminate your political enemies. In some ways this is already happening in the western world.

We are becoming what we used to oppose against to.
Working fine here (UK).
AWS bandwidth costs, even with their volume pricing tiers, are >10x as much as you'd pay than if you'd bought it directly.

On a small enough scale, it doesn't matter so much. When you're paying millions a month, it matters a huge deal.

Even on a micro scale:

* Vultr, DigitalOcean are 2-4x cheaper than AWS (and they are established companies with a track record of reliability, as well as 20+ locations around the world)

* Even AWS offers "Lightsail" which are significantly discounted VPSes with included bandwidth that costs more than the Lightsail price! Their ToS prevents you from using it as proxies... lol.

* Want to save money on S3? Get some colo space, buy some Enterprise HDDs and set it up on RAID, and your opex is going to be 5-10% the cost of S3. Or SSDs if your access patterns require it. Set up some SMART-based email alerts and an offsite backup procedure, and it's absolutely reliable enough for the vast majority of business use cases. P.S. even S3 silently loses files...

* Using CloudFront? It might be easy and integrated, but it's absolutely not going to be the cheapest or best value. It's really marked up, heavily. Spend a few hours talking to leading competitors and you'll get a quote for half your CloudFront bill, if not less; often for a better CDN.

* Trying AWS Rekognition, or other ML-as-a-service products? Hire some data science intern and they can copy/paste the leading open source project from GitHub, train it on your data, and you'll quite possibly get better results than generic ML solutions... for as low as 1/100th the cost. (Real example).

Yes, you gotta maintain it, but I find that people generally think maintenance is a bigger monster than it actually is.
AWS has huge profit margins: where do you think it comes from? Hint: it makes it from you.
You should really get an SSL Cert. They are free these days
Aha, another Apple developer who remembers that! So I wasn't confabulating.
And if that's all it did, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Instead it is becoming some sort of self-appointed "userland middleware", which nobody asked for. People resent "better init" turning into "henceforth home directories will behave differently".
True, my objection was primarily to the idea that we should completely write-off any potential learner. A teacher’s job is not to do research, but to choose the best available known method for the situation. If that doesn’t produce results, it’s not the teacher’s fault; instead, it’s a call for researchers to search for new methods.
And the powers that be want to call for violence (and often do) so why do you want to restrict everyone else from doing it?
> As far as I know, YouTube is the only serious option at the moment for general video content.

Are they? There's Vimeo, Facebook, Pornhub's SFW option, Twitter can host short videos, there's a metric shitload of porn hosts, and if you're in for premium service every major CDN offers video hosting/distribution.
Why rent, when you can buy?

If you’re spending $100k per year on cloud services, then in 10 years, you’ll have spent $1 million. How many software licenses and hardware can you buy for that?

Granted, some services are only online, so you’re at the mercy of your provider on what they want to charge.
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Twenty odd years ago, we had a system like that though, despite there being multiple grocery stores in walking distance. Some people have mobility issues meaning they can't walk / cycle to the shop, but a grocery store on wheels is fine. It was called the SRV Wagen, which stood for "sell rationally together" when the scheme was started in the 70's. There are still 100 of these vans active last year apparently.

Anyway, think of it differently, instead of a need, why not a want? It's not that different from having groceries delivered to your home. Maybe not as scalable, but it's a valid buisiness model, especially in rural areas.

Nowadays I think it's becoming more of a need again; with the migration of people out of the small towns, more and more grocery stores have decided to pack it up because they just don't get enough customers anymore. A mobile shop that frequents multiple towns every week is a valid replacements.

And as another commenter mentioned, it's not limited to just groceries; we also had a fishmonger, and everyone remembers the ice cream truck. I don't see why hipster food trucks don't actually truck around either.

A more recent example, an ice cream truck would park out front of office buildings and ring its bell. A tiny coffee trike would park in the train station in the morning, then do the rounds at the office buildings nearby throughout the day. The important thing with those services is that they consistently appear on the same day and roughly hour, and that they have some kind of audio cue.
I think this subthread is talking about the complexity of a system's implementation, not that of its user interface.
re 1 and 2: awesome! I'm excited and will be trying out Horizon my next design.

re 3: I was more thinking about the plane spacing. Like say I'm making a board where I want to carry a high-speed clock signal. If it's single-ended, chances are the transmitter has a 50-ohm output impedance, and the receiver has a 50-ohm input impedance.To get the cleanest signal, I want my trace to have a 50-ohm _characteristic_ impedance (which is a function of the trace-width, distance to the closest plane layer, and PCB substrate's chemical properties).

Trying to model it accurately is a huge pain in the ass, and probably not worth attempting. But it could be nice to have a rule-checker that says something like "for your PCB dielectric constant of 4.7 with 10mil spacing to the nearest plane, your trace should be 18mil wide to get the desired impedance".

There are a bunch of these calculators out there - but it would be super cool to do some rudimentary constraints as DRC!
>> It feels like nobody looks at your GitHub profile though

Of course they don't. Unless you built something that many other developers use, nobody will know you exist. The industry is extremely competitive.

Given your current optimistic frame of mind, I would say yes, there is hope for you but you're going to have to work yourself to the edge of insanity to get a shot at getting your GitHub profile noticed at all.

If I were in your position, I would try to work in some area of software which is related to your expertise (mechanical engineering). That can give you an upper hand.
> The average American has no access to good bread at retail, with some frozen stuff at a supermarket bakery probably being the best available

Huh? It’s very common for larger supermarkets to have their own bakeries (even in small cities) in the US. I get fresh bread at the Safeway in my city...
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Play chess.

It helps you think strategy before execution. It also helps you keep focussed on the bigger picture.

In the last 2 years, I have gone from being ranked 800ish points to now 1200 on chess.com and it has definitely developed my thinking.
You've really missed the point
Not at all. The parent that I originally responded to stated

> We have a myriad of evidence that societies that suppress the truth for "the public good" [end badly]

To believe that that statement is relevant you must believe that "covid-19 is caused by 5G towers" is, or could be, the truth. Otherwise you have to defend the much stranger position, that societies which knowingly suppress information that everyone knows is false don't end well, which is silly, I know of no society that has ended badly due to its attempts to suppress things that everyone agreed were false. (and by this I mean factually false, not ethical concerns etc.)

If you don't believe that, then you agree that by suppressing Icke, we aren't suppressing the truth, so there is no danger. If you do believe that, you are misinformed, and it's a good thing we're keeping disinformation away from you.

Now, you might argue that I've constructed a catch-22, and you'd be correct if I thought that this was a generally applicable solution, but I don't. While not every piece of information is obviously untrue, some are. "Covid-19 is caused by 5g towers" is one such piece of information. It is also, apparently, dangerous when people believe it.

There's lots of other opinions that I find distasteful or whatnot that I don't believe should be deplatformed because they are clearly false, that is reserved for things which are clearly false.

There's no issue of censorship here, because on the off chance that Icke is right (which again there isn't), he could do a study and submit a paper to the relevant academic circles, and resolve the issue. In other words, society again, isn't suppressing truth, they're suppressing cranks. Which is reasonable. Cranks are bad and distract us from getting actual work done. Most of the time we can just ignore them, but every once in a while a crank gets ahold of an idea that is both wrong and, when believed by a small but fervent group, can be dangerous to everyone. In those cases, keeping the idea from catching on further is good.

Again this applies only to things that are provable in nature, not things of the form "we should overthrow the bourgeoisie".

So yes, the central point is that nothing Icke says is anything remotely approaching the truth. In other words, libeling a concept should be reasonable to deplatform, since libeling an individual certainly is.
Nice puzzle but the problem seems to be reduced to a problem of safely distributing keys, in this case behind the menu (what if I'm in another country?). Also, it's similar to one-time pad [1] where you generate a random key with same length as the message and XOR them. This achieves perfect secrecy with the question on how you distribute keys.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
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>> Do you have evidence that the truth more often than not win over lies?

>The existence of technology as well as science.

Simply put, the second statement is not evidence to satisfy the request in the first statement.
> very sparsely populated

That's very relative. With 72 ppl/km^2, I wouldn't call Croatia "sparsely populated".
Well, you will only have to worry about mutable global data if that's what your solution calls for. Essential complexity vs accidental.
I agree with what you say here. Freedom of speech does not obligate YouTube to give anyone a platform, as they are a private entity. It does not obligate anyone to listen to you. What the top level comment is saying though, is that just because there is no legal requirement, doesn't mean we can't "ask nicely" or otherwise strive towards the idea that the predominant video platform refrain from censorship.

There is no legal obligation for YouTube to listen to us, but there is no reason we can't ask for less censorship. If they say no, then they are well within their rights, but we don't have to be happy about it either. Just because we can't legally force change doesn't mean we must abandon the cause. The most optimistic scenario would be if public sentiment changes enough such that YouTube feels they are being seen as unfair and it is damaging to their reputation/bottom line, perhaps we may see a change in their censorship policies. This is an ideal to strive for, and uses social/economic pressure as opposed to legal pressure. It is like your obligation to be a helpful neighbor or to be a caring friend. It's not by force of law, but people are expected to do it because it's "the right thing to do." In the same way, when you're the predominant video platform on the internet, the right thing to do is not to censor opinions you disagree with.
I was oblivious to these happenings. A cursory Google search led me to this, for anyone who's interested:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daniellecitron/2014/04/27/the-c...
There are still a few places in Scotland which operate on such a system (I spent a bunch of time in one of them growing up and still go there at least once a year). There's a fish van and a meat + fresh produce van which comes on a (relatively) predictable schedule. Nearest supermarket is 2-3 hours drive, more due to road quality than physical distance, so people still go there semi-regularly and generally run big deep freezes.