skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, I think you're asking a good question! I think your interpretation is correct - a good sign for a platform is if it has a small base of passionate users who love the product.

For some more context, the How to Start a Startup course is pretty good -- here is the lecture I think is most relevant: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec06/

Any statement like this isn't going to apply in all cases, and you bring up some good examples. But it's a good general principle.
Thank you!
After reading several contradictory and confusing articles, I found the actual order very clear. I would encourage others to take a look.
Has it just been decided by Twitter now that the truth is that mail in ballots are 100% secure and anyone questioning our election integrity is just spreading dangerous misinformation? Seriously?

It seems like a really open-ended thing to fact check.

I wish we had asked more questions about election integrity before 2016. I think it is better that we have a robust discussion about this NOW, before the election.

The most important thing about elections is that they be trustworthy by the majority of the population. Without sufficient transparency and oversight, actual security is meaningless. The Computerphile did a two great videos about the dangers of electronic voting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

It seems like mail in ballots re-create the same problems with electronic voting, except that we are just adding an extra layer to it.

But, I know that countries like Germany and Switzerland have instituted some fairly robust means of securing mail in voting -- none of which we are considering. Simple things, like having the affidavit be on the same piece of paper as the ballot, and having ensuring chain of custody of the ballots by only having postal workers pick them up directly from voters.

Are we allowed to express our concerns about this? I for one do not want to make things worse this time around. Is the discussion about this really ending because Twitter decreed it so?
I recall that at the time the movie was made, nothing was known of the Typhoon class except for spy photos of the portion above the waterline while they sat at the docks. One notable error from the movie was a fight scene between the rows of missile tubes. In reality, the submarines had two pressure hulls stuck side-by-side and that space was filled with water.
Apologies if this is a stupid question; I'm a foreigner so I can't understand freedom like Americans do.

But if the first words are "Congress shall make no law", does that mean that the President and his executive orders are not bound by the First Amendment?
I did implement a version of this in Houdini a couple of years back, that and a short thread of what Houdini was lacking in this case: https://twitter.com/preetster/status/1265679970006757376
I'm not convinced it does have any bias against mainstream political ideas (obviously it is biased against things like white supremacy). This just lays bare that the "free speech" advocates are nothing of the sort.
I self host my blog with WordPress. It's easy to use and works well enough. No real complaints other than the lack of vim bindings in the editor, although I imagine there is a plugin for that.

There is a small twist to my hosting. I host my blog alongside a number of other apps I have built with DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes offering. Not for everyone but I like it.
Skin in the game.
I work in a lab which publishes in both CS and biology journals. Biologists require Word. Most our people hate it more than LaTeX, since in LaTeX it is at least difficult to break the template accidentally. Often the writing starts in GDocs, then gets moved to LaTeX, then converted to Word and cleaned up manually.

I'd love Word if it had that one feature, disable direct formatting, to enable changing formatting only through styles.

BTW Latex with embedded Markdown is a rather pleasant combo after you have it set up properly.
Fox News is subject to liability and lawsuits if they publish defamatory statements on their platform. And that statement by Pew says nothing about the leverage and influence that Twitter enjoys on the national conversation.
Trump would still be president between the election and inauguration.
Any tips on getting started with Discord?
That word oxidization or oxidation is really misleading! It's not that the atmosphere was oxidized but the opposite - CO2 was reduced to produce free oxygen molecules. I think it should be called "oxygenation" instead.
Brave Browser Launches Encrypted Video Calls Before Zoom
Other way around, obviously.
Are you okay with having your app's binaries string dumped by unknown parties where upon they find the underlying Python source code? Some basic encryption (or tokenization) would be better, since few would expect to go looking for it.
Is providing fact-check links to the tweets of a specific person or group considered editorizing? Twitter said offering fact-check was not editorization, but the critics said that fact-checking a targeted group was. I have yet to see anyone clarify that key difference.
Show HN: K-ordered unique id in decentralised manner for Go
Mapping an interval of integers to the whole 64-bit range, fairly?
new platform "used by a lot of small number of people" is usually the real trend. As new platforms are quirky and buggy only people who use it a lot can power though all the issues and guide you to a product that works for a large market. They also have enough emotional connection that they can evangelize your product to the wider market.

The "used a little by a lot" people don't have the attachment or deep need to work through issues and they give up after some time. They also can't be bothered to evangelize for you.

Of course, sometimes there is no market beyond the small group. Even then, it is easier to make a business (revenue > cost) in the small "used a lot" market than the other case where people won't pay.
But does the US government even now buy any of Twitter's advertisement?
Twitter doesn't have a monopoly on short messages posted online, and it's no real loss if I don't use Twitter at all. The closest internet company to being a monopoly is clearly Google, and that's because it's nearly impossible to avoid them. Twitter ain't there yet.
> What is and isn't fact is for people to decide by themselves based on evidence.

That is why Twitter is linking some facts to go along with the President's tweets.
The problem is not the existence of anti-trust laws and other regulations - these things are good. The problem is the blatant political use of these tools. If a company becomes a problem to the Trump regime, they will use the full array of existing laws to prosecute them, at the same time when they are dismantling legislation that targets their allies.
People have created framework wrappers for this:

Rect: https://github.com/linkstrifer/react-rough-notation
Svelte: https://github.com/dimfeld/svelte-rough-notation
Vue: https://github.com/Leecason/vue-rough-notation
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Because it does not happen the same day.
The legacy OTA broadcasters were granted exclusive licenses to large chunks of a scarce natural resource (RF spectrum). Their public service obligations are essentially their payments on those licenses. Cable channels are under no obligation to carry news programming, for example, and are allowed to swear.
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As far as I understand stripping these protections from social media companies will strongly encourage them to do far far more editorializing.

This is bad for the companies (more liabilities) bad for freedom of speech (fewer views are expressed) and also bad for the president and his party (since social media companies already lean against them).

Trump is an idiot.
That sounds like Obsidian, which was submitted to HN yesterday: https://obsidian.md/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598)

It supports links to other notes and to files: https://obsidian.md/features
Trademarks normally work under a "use it or lose it" policy, so it's slightly different to avoiding typosquatting like you could with a domain, in that you actually have to demonstrate usage of it to maintain the registration.
Not at all, they're directly at odds in this case. The President using presidential authority to restrict what twitter can say on their own platform is directly violating the first amendment to restrict twitter's free expression.

You can argue that twitter is also restricting others' free expression, but that is their right, while the government preventing twitter from doing so is a 1A violation.
If we're just thinking of ways voting can be corrupted, in-person voting can be coerced too. Boss forces you to take a photo of your ballot as you vote in the booth, etc.

In reality, several states have had mail voting for years- Oregon for decades- without coercion being a problem. Millions of votes cast without the problem you suggest. It's not a problem, despite using our imaginations to come up with ways it can be.
ideas beget ideas. yeah, waves tectonic shifts are real. and hyper-iteration begets ideas. & filters good ideas from bad ones.
Amy Cooper played the damsel in distress. That trope has a troubling history
> Without further investigation, this graph can bait people into jumping to misinformed conclusions.

Likewise with the data you've linked. Submission of data to the UCR database is completely voluntary and does not represent an accurate picture of crime in the United States:

> "The totals provided in this table reflect only those persons arrested by law enforcement agencies that provided race information to the UCR Program; therefore, the totals may not match those shown in other arrest tables for the nation." [0]

> "It is incumbent upon all data users to become as well educated as possible about how to understand and quantify the nature and extent of crime in the United States and in any of the more than 17,000 jurisdictions represented by law enforcement contributors to the UCR Program. Valid assessments are possible only with careful study and analysis of the various unique conditions affecting each local law enforcement jurisdiction." [1]

I.e., you can't expect to get any kind of meaningful analysis by dumping a table of raw, incomplete data into a thread.

[0] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

[1] https://www.ucrdatatool.gov/ranking.cfm
A good documentary that outlines how social media becomes more of a publisher is The Creepy Line. https://www.thecreepyline.com/ The movement to rein in the abuse of Section 230 has been going on for a while, but is finally starting to pick up steam. Odds are, given that this is an election year, they had this ready to go in the background if Twitter tried pulling something like they did yesterday, which is why it only took a day be signed.
That doesn't matter because we can't even start talking about S230 until we agree that what Twitter did was editorializing, which it wasn't.
He can't control the narrative if he depends on what journalists choose to report (or not), and how the story will be editorialized.

Twitter gives him direct access to his electorate, which is extremely valuable.
> dominant enough that they are essentially utilities

If that statement is true then it's a sad day in America. That means that competition is dead and monopoly wins.
Great move by President Trump, social media companies think they can ban/shadow ban anyone for anything that they don't like, it's time for some reality check.
This. Being right or fair is not Trump's goal here.
They also cut off the corners on his profile picture, listed a bunch of replies from users in a particular order (almost definitely not curated by humans, but it _could_ be?), reserve the right to make those replies more or less visible in relation to the tweet, added some widgets which make it very easy to report (and hide) an abusive tweet... The content he provided is a <=280 character string. It is reproduced verbatim.
That also depends on the markup.

EKS on EC2 costs EC2 costs + flat money for control plane, so that might make more sense than running your own Kubernetes on EC2. (although I have no experience to say how much time this actually saves you)

Managed Kafka costing 2x the cost of EC2 infrastructure? Probably not worth it.
These being shippo & patch? Or RapidAPI?
he's doing what he was elected to do.
Again, parallel universes.

For half of the people out there, believe it or not, this is Trump sticking up for people's free speech on Twitter.

For the other half, this is Trump attempting to eliminate free speech on Twitter and other places.

In my opinion, eliminating the protections could have a negative effect on free speech. But it also seems like a very bad outcome in general for the companies that they would want to avoid. So it seems like this is being used as a threat to try to get them to take free speech more seriously, so they can avoid that policing.

Another thing is the website or whatever collecting instances of censorship. That seems to indicate that they are genuinely trying to help reduce censorship. Does it not?
There have been rulings protecting free speech rights in shopping centers. There have been rulings protecting free speech rights against HOAs. There are certainly many cases where a private company has tried to leverage power over free speech and lost and this is one of those cases.
if everyone is making $70k, everything simply becomes more expensive (so it doesn't matter if they make $70k or $700k)
What is and isn't evidence is for people to decide by themselves based on facts?
No account needed. It just works off local markdown files.
When family talks to me about covid spreading exponentially I am pretty sure they mean n times n, or n^2

Yes we all know the technical definitions with respect to software and algorithmic complexity. But the lack of sympathy/empathy on display with how a common definition of a word can be misconstrued by someone without an academic background in tech is kind of surprising (ok well maybe not so surprising but c'mon folks, we are all human)
When does the line blur and it becomes micro-managing if speaking daily?
That's not real political discourse, that's programming. Also major networks regularly quote Twitter.

The thing Twitter has is that it is a public forum where people who disagree can meet. I'd hate for it to become an echo chamber like Fox news.
They've always all been open, and you've always been able to get them. https://github.com/google/fonts
You know you can disable notifications right? That gives you the same peace of mind. If it's someone important you just tell them hey, I'm in the middle of x, I'll get back to you at y time. Most bosses respect healthy boundaries, and if they don't that's usually a red flag.

Not everything needs to be responded to right away, my mind was blown when I first saw an eisenhower matrix. I encourage you to check out this! https://www.google.com/search?q=eisenhower+matrix
Do you have website visitors in Europe or California? If so, you better be documenting what you're doing with those IPs much clearer than "might help finding offenders".

Under Europe's GDPR, IP addresses are explicitly classified as personally identifiable information, and must not be recorded except for clearly identified and documented valid purposes that you communicate to your visitors and regularly review: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

California's CCPA currently doesn't apply to smaller companies, but imposes similar requirements: https://secureprivacy.ai/what-is-ccpa-and-how-to-become-comp...

Security is explicitly a valid purpose, but I doubt "might help finding offenders" is clear and specific enough to be compliant. I'm not a lawyer, but ethically, you need to explain to your visitors how long you're storing IPs for, what you do with them and what you promise not to do with them, who you share them with, why you need raw IPs and not just salted hashes, etc.
Agreed, but also -- if it's an issue of antitrust law, use antitrust law! Not the CDA by way of an executive order.
Stay away from people who are world-weary and belittle your ambitions. Unfortunately, this is most of the world. But they hold on to the past, and you want to live in the future.

Here's an idea - if most people are world-weary (not true in my experience), maybe you should go and find out why and then try to figure out what you can do to make it less so (get therapy in your case Sam Altman).

What's your track record Sam Altman, besides burning through other people's money and thinking most people are world-weary and need to be distanced from?

Here's from his wiki:

In 2005, at age 19,[9] Altman co-founded and became CEO of Loopt,[10] a location-based social networking mobile application. After raising more than $30M in venture capital, Loopt was shut down in 2012 after failing to get traction.

So his track record is creating yet-another social-network, how original, burning through someone else's money and failing.

Please tell us more Sam, you've clearly proven yourself to be an original thinker and capable operator of burning through other people's cash.
Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship
A lot of regularly repeated things you must do don't even seem based on evidence. Like the bible everyone says to follow suggests all these overcomplicated things, it comes off as written by pretend lawyers.
I would not add common data structures or an interface for reference counting. C has no generics so there is no good way to implement these. You could use macros, but that would be abominable. You could use void* , but that leaves a lot of performance on the table (see: qsort, bsearch).

What I would do is purge null-terminated strings from the standard library and use exclusively pointer-and-length strings. (const char * str, size_t str_len). That would be a massive improvement, especially to the IO library, which currently has to support both null-terminated strings and pointer-length strings (since only the latter allows binary IO).

The C locale library is really awful. printf() needs to have a way to choose between locale-dependent and locale-independent formats, and the latter should be the default.

strcmp(), strcpy(), and strcat() would all be gone because without null-terminated strings these can be replaced by memcmp() and memcpy().

It would also be nice if the IO library allowed creating memory-backed files, since this is a very common extension and would make FILE * more useful for defining APIs that take or output to streams.

Would add a standard interface for getting a directory listing.

Make char unsigned by default. (Currently it's implementation dependent, and usually signed, which is almost always incorrect).

And I would get rid of isupper() and other functions that can't handle multibyte characters.
Like it or not, a couple tech platforms are the de facto new town squares.

I'd agree, but de facto is not de jure. And if we're going to make them into public spaces legally, it's certainly not going to happen through an executive order. It would require an act of Congress, similar to the restrictions and obligations placed on broadcasters.
> You can’t test everything.

The problem with that (tautological) statement is that too many people read it as: "you can't test everything, so don't bother testing anything".
Without S230, Twitter and Facebook would not curate or moderate any content - you'd be constantly bombarded by a torrent of spam, vitriol and disinformation.

With S230, companies can remove the worst, most obvious ofenses without fearing being held accountable by the things they didn't find.
Which facts you choose can show bias. Let people supply sources in replies.
> I quite frankly feel I'm only doing it for the money.

I think this describes everyone's relationship to work. If your current employer stopped paying you would you keep showing up? If the more fulfilling job stopped paying you, would you keep showing up?

Usually if I decide I want to change jobs I am looking for something that is both more fulfilling and higher pay rather than one or the other. If I did not have to work, I wouldn't.
Why can't they?
I've seen a lot of people on social media tout a 0.5-1% death rate as if that's inconsequentially low, which is baffling to me. 0.5% of the US population is 1.6 million people. Even if you make a lot of optimistic assumptions - a slow enough transmission rate to continue providing a normal standard of medical care, herd immunity at ~60% infected, etc, the number of deaths is still extremely high.

Unless this is revised substantially downward as we get more data, there is no clear return to normalcy without a vaccine.
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> Perhaps they did it to antagonize him. CNN is probably Trump's least favorite news outlet.

That's the point, me thinks
There is ample evidence supporting the theory that the standard western diet high in refined carbohydrates is the root cause or at least primary contributing factor of many of our society’s most common health disorders.

I heartily encourage everyone to try radically different (but nutritionally complete) diets for a month or two, if for no other reason than to see how your body and brain responds. Go vegan, try keto/lchf, try carnivore, try soylent, try sated. See what, if anything, it gets you.

I like spending 80% or so of my life in ketosis (usually for 2-8 weeks at a time), due to the many small changes it causes in my body and mind.

One of the interesting side effects (for me) is a significant reduction in dental buildup, and after a few weeks of not eating sugar, much of the existing buildup (if I haven’t had a professional cleaning recently) will spontaneously crumble and detach.

It surprised me when it happened.
Can you elaborate on the issue/fix?
> I disagree. The growing wage inequality between the rich and poor has many other factors.

I didn't mean just one specific visa, e.g. H1B or any other. I mean that globalization has allowed large companies to play all sorts of games like moving their manufacturing and service centers to the lowest wages countries, their headquarters to tax shelters like Ireland or the Caymans, and lobbied laws to ensure a never-ending supply of foreign workers and recently immigrated citizens to push wages for the jobs that can't be moved.

Meanwhile, employees can't just move to some country to take advantage of lower COL, or declare their 'official' residence in a tax shelter. We can't even import drugs from Canada or pay the same price for digital goods like Steam games offered to low wage nations.

> I agree with you on moral grounds but that is not how capitalism works.

There is no strict rule that says capitalist economies can't enforce equal playing fields for capital and labor. If the US or any other high wage country weren't beholden to the wealthy, they could easily pass laws that forced companies to pay tariffs for any goods and services developed in countries without similar labor laws, environmental protections, and even tax rates.
The Supreme Court has ruled that it “does not disable the government from taking steps to ensure that private interests not restrict...the free flow of information and ideas.”

See the case here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-44.ZO.html

The full text: "The First Amendment's command that government not impede the freedom of speech does not disable the government from taking steps to ensure that private interests not restrict, through physical control of a critical pathway of communication, the free flow of information and ideas."
A lot of folks[0] are saying yes, they are official statements. But I'm not a lawyer either.

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=are+tru...
Yes, Cowen's follow up to "The Great Stagnation" is "Average is Over" that follows the same line of thought.