skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You keep going back and forth between 'political speech' being the same or different, but you hallucinated that as having anything to do with the discussion.

I definitely never varied my own view on this. You most likely misinterpreted my first comment and the quote ">", or worse, you're being intentionally dishonest.

In any case, go read the EO. Right now, your opinion amounts to, "Trump bad, therefore removing a comment that spams racial slurs is the same as editorializing a comment that states a political opinion."
That's fair and I probably used to walk around more with a Bluetooth headset during calls when slides weren't involved. Being on video has probably become more normalized the past few years. I still do it sometimes but not as consistently.
Don't be sad to be a Republican. Elect better Republicans, and kick out the carpetbaggers.
It's disturbing to me that people have picked this up and are running with it as saying something about Twitter and its rights or responsibilities. It appears to me that was simply about the rights and responsibilities of public officials whatever (private) means they use to communicate.

From the previous thread:

"Just because Twitter allows people to block stuff, doesn't mean Trump gets to block stuff.

In a "normal" government, they'd pick a vendor with software that would let them make official policy statements in a way that complied with the laws around people having the right to reach out to their government officials.

Just 'cause twitter's software lets him do something doesn't make actually doing that thing legal, moral, or ethical.

This judgement makes perfect sense and is completely reasonable when you remember that technology is a mere tool designed to serve humans. Just cause you can do something in a tool doesn't make it right."
Agreed. Most people I know say that you're supposed to job hop frequently.
Latex status:

https://github.com/zadam/trilium/issues/287
No problem at all - just pointing out the context of my comment
I recently learned about the highly polished white limestone 'cladding' or 'casing' stones

Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza#Casing_s...

> Casing stones

> At completion, the Great Pyramid was surfaced with white "casing stones"—slant-faced, but flat-topped, blocks of highly polished white limestone.... Visibly, all that remains is the underlying stepped core structure seen today.[citation needed] In 1303 AD, a massive earthquake loosened many of the outer casing stones, which in 1356 were carted away by Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din al-Hasan to build mosques and fortresses in nearby Cairo.[citation needed] Many more casing stones were removed from the great pyramids by Muhammad Ali Pasha in the early 19th century to build the upper portion of his Alabaster Mosque in Cairo, not far from Giza.[citation needed] ...
Scrappers will get as much value as they can out of the things they take, whether that's selling something that works, breaking it down into parts that can be reused, or going all the way to raw materials.

VCs are willing to take risks, with some justification: people can only innovate if they're given permission to fail.
n-gate.com is a nice change from hn.
Agree with many comments. If music were the way to describe society everything went to the hell. The problem is not only the computers usage in the music, is that in terms of composition, lyrics, emotions, everything sucks.
Any of these songs are crap that someone with the most basic knowledge on a DAW could make. "Roses" which is the less shity song sounds like a crap version of "Moonlight" from Gaullin.
It would be awesome to have a complete musical review something like genres, rhythms, duration, "instruments" you know even if those are drum loops and synths, etc.
In Ruby that looks a lot like what the article says is an anti-pattern.
If you think USB is complicated, try FireWire. So many modes!
Decomplecting abstraction
Little Snitch will be fine. They will use the new API.

https://blog.obdev.at/little-snitch-and-the-deprecation-of-k...
Why is it up to the company to decide what is defamatory or untrue? If you read the rebuttal twitter posted on his tweet you’ll see it boils down to “no evidence”. This doesn’t mean his claims are not true, it means there’s no evidence they are. These are very different concepts. So now twitter is running around saying it’s untrue when legally it hasn’t been proven untrue. They should instead take a hands off approach and let people think, read and decide for themselves.
Never said it had to be the language developers themselves to implement a modern OS, my implied meaning was the vocal proponents of the languages. I think that was fairly clear, and I don't know why you've jumped to that assumption.

Everybody who reads HN regularly with an interest in OS design and security and application security has heard of [0], and [2]. [1] simply says that Microsoft is "exploring" Rust, for an "experimental" rewrite of a low level component. That's it. No shipping code yet. I agree its a good step forward, but let's not overstate the impact just yet. If you consider that "validation enough", that's fine, but many others will disagree at this early stage, especially in context of displacing an entire ecosystem of C/C++ based systems and languages.

Lastly, Redox is a great example of what I'm talking about, people actually putting their money where their mouth is, and I think it's great to see. It also has 0% adoption outside of a small group of developers right now, and clearly has a long way to go. However by shipping a libc in order to support C programs, they risk exposing application security issues in exactly the same manner as the type of systems they are trying to replace (surely), unless they are prepared to develop additional proven mitigations.

Kudos to them for trying, but it remains to be seen whether they even get enough momentum to threaten, yet alone displace the incumbents. Surely history has shown that those platforms with the "killer applications" are those most likely to succeed, and that many elegant and better designed systems than UNIX/Windows have lost out to pragmatism on the part of customers/consumers.
Yeah, I'd much rather read this:

def can_buy_stuff(user):
if user is None:
return False
balance = user.get_balance()
if balance is None:
return False
balance_credit = balance.credit_amount()
if balance_credit is None:
return False
return balance_credit > 0

Edit: something like Swift's optionals and nil-coalescing syntax might make this easier to read:

def can_buy_stuff(user):
return (user?.get_balance()?.credit_amount() ?? 0) > 0
Whether it's Guantanamo Bay, legalized for-profit slave labor of prisoners, migrant toddler concentration camps, or mass incarceration of black people, we have plenty of our own gulags for you to romanticize.
Wow... just let people enjoy things.
I just see that as a non-argument. No one in their right mind returns null instead of Optional.empty() and I've never seen it done in the wild.

Regardless in kotlin you can simply do:

val s: String? = null
return s as String

or

val s: String? = null
!!s.trim()

and lose all safety around nullability. Both hinge on a rogue developer not following best practices.
Didn’t the EU just make cookie banners illegal in the last couple weeks?
I think it is pretty clear that fact checking is a form of editorializing. It seems that Section 230 was being applied even if the intermediary was editorializing the content.
The best example is what happened when Alex Jones found himself deplatformed -- although I think the simplest answer there is "too little too late".
Does Investing in Content Demonstrably Increase Sales?
I totally get where you're coming from, but I follow people on GitHub exclusively because I want to see what code they're working on.

I'm not following them because we have reciprocal social arrangement where we're "friends", or because I want to chit-chat with them, or see what they're eating, or what asinine 280 character fragments of streams of consciousness that they emit into the void, or to participate in the typical "best foot forward" profile stalking and preening BS that I can't stand about social media.

GitHub is a social network, no doubt, but it is not social media and I hope that does not change.
> repealing Section 230

I don't see how this is repealing anything. It seems like the order is saying that if a company wants Section 230 protection, they have to be very strict about not editorializing anything, and if they do even a little bit, they have to go all the way.
Remote Work Digest: May 29, 2020
Preaching to the choir my friend, this is the correct path.
I’ve toured the Savannah. It’s docked at Baltimore, MD, and they do tours one a year (but not this year). And yeah, the control rooms are very retro.
> So it's not true that he denied them service "because" they were gay.

So it's cool to discriminate if you offer something that's separate but equal?
"town squares" are not law.

Private property is sometimes public space, especially in Twitter's home of California.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v....
Rony Abovitz is stepping down as Magic's Leap CEO
Duplicate thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23345379 (with arxiv link)
Also writeoffs.

Those bikes have been depreciated to a specific value and selling or giving them away might contradict that.

I'm sure Uber tried to sell the whole passle off to companies who do this kind of liquidation thing. The fact that Uber had to destroy them tells me that either A) Uber is making a lot more money by pulling the batteries and motors and selling those while cruching the rest or B) nobody wanted to touch them and Uber got stuck doing this themselves.

I suspect Uber got stuck. LiPol batteries are a liability and probably nobody wanted to deal with them.
Some site are like that, plus talking about the voting system is against the rules, and even if you get plenty of upvotes, you can still be throttled or banned by a moderator.
Duplicate thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23345449 (with github link)
According to its architecture description ¹, there are no containers or virtualization involved in Deno.

I found deno::CoreIsolate in the source ². Userland process isolation seem to be provided by V8 Isolate.

The execution and security model remind me of recent trend in FaaS, in particular running WebWorkers (or similar), WASM, etc. Found a fascinating presentation about how V8 is used at CloudFlare ³.

"..using V8 isolates instead of containers or VMs, achieving 10x-100x faster cold starts and lower memory footprints.."

---

¹ https://deno.land/manual/contributing/architecture#schematic...

² https://github.com/denoland/deno/blob/2610ceac20bc644c0b58bd...

³ Fine-Grained Sandboxing with V8 Isolates - https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cloudflare-v8/
Don't get stuck optimizing a local maxima, which is very easy to do if you're using AB tests.

Surely if there is one thing we have learned from the culture of comparative testing in recent years, it is that assumption is the mother of all #$%& ups.

Everyone commenting in this discussion to the effect that all sites should use system default fonts is making a huge assumption that using other fonts does not have a material effect on anything that matters to the user and/or the site owner. And yet, both in industry and in academia, lots of research has been done that did observe changes in outcomes even from relatively subtle (at least to an untrained eye) changes in typography.

If someone wants to argue that they personally do not like web fonts then of course they are free to block them. Any major content blocker on their platform of choice will do this easily enough. But if someone wants to argue that everyone else should avoid web fonts, they had better bring data. In this entire discussion, I don't see much of that, only personal preferences and the odd anecdote about a bug in a specific situation.
Oh, my team has tried the new stuff. It's terrible. Especially with the viewmodel stuff. Hidden bugs, no documentation, constant API changes. Hell, you couldn't scope a viewmodel to a nav graph until recently, which defeats the entire purpose of the whole thing.

It's just frustrating that 10 years later, we still have nothing that is remotely capable of the things an iOS ViewController can do.
Magic Leap CEO steps down
You are greatly underestimating (1) the effort it took (in committees, over decades) to get CSS where it is now (and DSSSL, XSL-FO, and all the related work in this area) and (2) the vastness of the gap between where the Web platform is after all these years vs. where TeX already was before the Web even existed.
as the wise men say, what an incredible journey!
I feel like your idea in (1) is not that unachievable with finite resources. It depends how far you took it but requiring tests to pass in a few mild perturbations of the target environment wouldn’t be that expensive in a lot of cases and not even that hard to set up. Sounds like this deserves a name like “perturbative testing” to me if it doesn’t already have one.
Rather than what I do not like, how about what I like:

1) Videos that are about 15 minutes.

2) Being able to download the text of the video

3) Being able to download the power points

4) Pertinent exercises - with an optional video to show one solution

5) Good volume control - on first video I set my volume and I do not need to change it for each video - I know sounds trivial

6) Being able to skip back 15 seconds

7) I really like it when they have a 'Explore more' page with links to learn more indepth on the topic.

8) If it is a 'Read', then I prefer a PDF that is ideally even number of pages (to print both sides)

9) If it is a 'Read', then font size 12

10) All material that I might print, be organized with the idea that I would print it - no DOS windows of all black that will chew up all my ink

11) Nice feature would be a questions section

12) Easy to, at a glance, see where you left off the last time
This looks really cool, by the nature of my user name I must greedily request vintage sampler modes. :)
Which, in essence, is repealing it. It’s saying, if you do anything, it’s editorialization. That was how it was before Section 230.
What about using alpine and htmx together? So you get the front end reactivity as well
This is the conclusion I think I am coming to on this issue. So long as only verifiable facts are presented as a counter point, then it isn't really even editorializing, let alone censorship. Editorializing is defined as presenting an opinion - if you present a verifiable primary data source and nothing else, you are by definition not editorializing.
I’m at Sr. engineer so any promotion will have major trade offs. I don’t know if the 20% increase in pay and expectations and responsibility is really worth it anyway. I’d much rather work a shorter week.
Didn’t the Egyptians write it down? But we still have no idea how to understand their hieroglyphics. Or how they even figured out their math.
> What were the desirable/sexy features of OpenFirmware anyway?

When I was admining Solaris boxes, it had useful boot-from-net options, both RARP and later DHCP-based JumpStart: this was many years before PXE. When I started using Mac OS X, during the pre-Intel days, all the various Mac hardware used OpenFirmware as well so that knowledge transferred over. OF was also used on IBM's POWER systems, and the OLPC "XO" computer used it with x86 chips.

If ARM ever wanted a common 'BIOS' system for their ecosystem, the OF could be a good choice (there are BSD-licensed options):

* https://www.openfirmware.info/Open_Firmware

UEFI is the other main pre-OS system out there.

More generally OpenFirmware allowed for platform-independent device drivers:

* https://www.netbsd.org/support/hardware/ofw.html
K1 comes from veggies. K2 is almost exclusively from animal products (except for natto, yum!).

Apparently our bodies can synthesize some K2 from K1 but my understanding is that's quite variable and should not assumed to be adequate.

There's a fair amount of research linking arteriosclerosis to a deficiency of K2, so it's part of my supplement regimentation. It's definitely worth researching if you're interested in optimizing your health in a very lazy manner :-).
I think this is a good article, and worth the time to give it a read. When Deno was first announced I was not sold on this aspect of the system.

Over time though, and after having wrote a barely-above-trivial app in Deno. I've started to come to the conclusion that Deno's form of dependency management is a fresh perspective which ties closer to how browsers work and is a welcome simplification. The article covers a few ways that you can get production/reproducible builds out of the box which is usually people's first worry.
The models have not yet been released, and it looks like someone has already asked about it in the issues: https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/issues/1
It’s not a question of laws used, more psychological factors. Some people seeing those statements made by twitter may believe them blindly. We need people reading into important topics like this and forming opinions without being bated. Part of the problem you’ll also see in this thread. The downvotes here set the tone for the comment the viewer is about to read. Why is it’s view changed at all? Nothing this commenter said was offensive yet on some sites their comment would be hidden entirely.
I would've thought we'd at least be "over" the auto-tune thing by now, but it's more popular than ever!
You're in good company! There are countless linear loudness controls out there. My "favorite" from years ago was Logic Audio. Hopefully they fixed it a long time ago.
> Working remotely, I do not even speak to my boss every week now. I am a microservice outputting work.

I've spent this past week rubber ducking with my boss. I think we've spoken MORE since we both started WFH because he's got less distractions now he isn't in the office.
Just set up-history=false on your links
I’m reminded of when Jazz became a thing and practically everywhere said “it’s not classical, it has no soul, etc. and therefore sucks”. It’s pop music because... well... it’s popular. You may not like it, but a lot of people do. There’s nothing wrong with that.

Adam Neely had a really good video showcasing newspapers and editorials denouncing the Jazz genre when it appeared. It seems to have been taken down, unfortunately.

Basically, as you get older, selection bias regarding music becomes more prevalent, and you forget the bad music you liked and end up only remembering “the classics”. Just because a song charts doesn’t mean it’ll last.
Can't Twitter fact check falsehoods that he stated in support of his prediction?
Nice to see Jared Kaplan branching out into ML. He did fundamental work on CFTs/bootstrap in physics.
> removing a comment that spams racial slurs is the same as editorializing a comment that states a political opinion

This is an appeal to emotion attempting to twist the position of those who oppose this EO, but, hopefully, that won't fly in a court of law. We shall see.
Would you be equally upset to review the list of top-selling paperbacks? Would the answers support the idea that all new literature is trash?
I love that room. It would be right at home on the original starship Enterprise.
Interesting how many Puerto Rican artists are trending in many countries.
Another example is the mask generation function for rsa-oaep.
Google makes sharing Plus Codes easier to simplify addressing system globally
They are in part the same, as the Supreme Court has ruled.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Ag...

As HN is fond of saying, judges are smart enough to see through attempts to hack the law.
Japanese city to set ordinance against 'smartphone zombies'
I love the cozy warm fuzzies that 'face-to-face bonding' bring up. I'm sure those same managers pushing for that bonding would be just as sensitive and show just as much concern for the team when they 'reorganize' and layoff part of the team.
Yeah some kind of bridge between the two would be great. They both seem to have different areas of specialization
I think you're correct about the importance of the context in which the expertise exists in.

But even so, I think it's clear that with more broad documentation, we are in a better position to pick up the expertise of the past.

So in the future, all the wonderful, nutty youtubers that keep alive old arts and give demos would be especially invaluable. Not just in clarifying specific techniques and knowledge, but by demonstrating a general approach to problems that existed at the current time.

I've been watching all sorts of things the past couple of months like this: People making vacuum tubes, repairing vacuum tube equipment, older mainframe technologies like ancient versions of MVS, machining parts on equipment from the '30's.

None of it is how-things-are-done in a cutting edge factory or step by step directions on how to reproduce an important cultural artifact, but from the perspective of future people, it will be a valuable aid to gathering that context.

One I'm particularly reminded of is Clickspring on youtube who is building an antikythera mechanism. Even though we have the partial artifact, so little is known concerning metal working technologies of the time that it seems to be an anachronism completely alien to its time of origin.

His approach is to explore what technologies would make sense to a working craftsman of any era (which also could be surmised to have existed in the era). It's interesting to watch and it has apparently born fruit in terms discovering academically important information about the device.
The SNOBOL4 Programming Language [pdf]
Over the last 3 months I’ve come to believe increasing human urban density is correlated with increasing viral illness. Over the next tens and hundreds of years, this bodes poorly for the viability of Tokyo/New York/Mumbai/Seoul and others.

I’ll offer that only Tokyo may yet survive another couple of hundred years of widespread, infective zoonotic diseases, as Japan’s astonishingly low fertility rate might halve or quarter their population by the year 2200.

Curious what others think about long term population trends vis a vis human health?
What is this and why does it take the top two spots on HN?
Even though this was the GPT-3-generated text that humans most easily identified as machine-written, I still like it a lot:

Title: Star’s Tux Promise Draws Megyn Kelly’s Sarcasm

Subtitle: Joaquin Phoenix pledged to not change for each awards event

Article: A year ago, Joaquin Phoenix made headlines when he appeared on
the red carpet at the Golden Globes wearing a tuxedo with a paper bag over
his head that read, "I am a shape-shifter. I can't change the world. I
can only change myself." It was a promise to not change to fit into the
Hollywood mold: "I think that's a really special thing, to not change
yourself. I think it's a really special thing to say, `This is what's
inside of me, I'm proud of it, and I'm not going to be ashamed because of
the way that someone else thinks I should be.'" Now, it's the Oscars, and
Phoenix is at it again. But this time, his publicist is saying he'll be
wearing a tux no matter what.

Megyn Kelly was not impressed, and she let him have it on The Tonight Show.
"You know, I feel like, I feel like you could have worn the tux," she says.
"But you're saying you're a shape-shifter. I don't know if you can change
your tux, but you can change your mind. You can change your mind. You can
change your mind." Phoenix says he did, but it didn't stick. "I was like,
`Okay, I'm going to wear a tuxedo to this thing.' And then I thought, `I
don't want to wear a tuxedo to this thing.'" Kelly goes on to encourage him
to change his mind again, but Phoenix says it's too late: "I'm committed to
wearing this."