skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, great, I posted a similar comment.
The term is actually "Mojibake", not "emoji baked". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake#Etymology
Twitter matters to political discourse, knitting doesn't.

Doesn't matter. Twitter is a privately owned platform not a public one.

SCOTUS has already said that simply being open to the public does not make a business a public platform, see Pruneyard v Robins, applying this reasoning to privately-owned malls.

And yes, that makes all the difference, since SCOTUS has repeatedly held that publicly owned spaces like public parks and main streets are subject to first amendment requirements.
Especially after Equifax, I'm a big believer that one of two things needs to happen when it comes to the kinds of databases that are used to decide whether people have access to critical things like housing and credit:

1. The government takes them over and runs them

2. The companies' high-level execs automatically have personal liability for mistakes when they accept the job

Since the latter is unlikely to ever happen, it's pretty clear to me that these kinds of things shouldn't be permitted to be handled by private enterprise (and I very much lean libertarian and believe that private companies are better than the government at most things most of the time). Capitalism is great, but it just doesn't work when there are human rights considerations (and I would say access to housing very much qualifies).
My experience is that displays that silently stop updating is a more common property of digital readouts. :-/
Ok, fine then wait and see new legislation that will be put in place soon to regulate these social media monopolies.
They might have more followers, but I'd be interested in seeing that in relation to how often those accounts tweet (tweets per year?).
Better Writing, Better Communication; 10 Years, 300 Posts, 200k Words
Tested right now: 8 seconds of a white screen, then the blue logo appears for 2 seconds, and finally, at second 10, mails start to appear..

That is why I always test my apps on older hardware.. That, and because i only have old devices.. :)
Antarctic ice sheets capable of retreating up to 50 meters per day
This is obviously not true; Twitter was widely used long before Trump and the vast majority of the current user base does not follow Trump at all.
What about client side rendering via MathJax? You could have your LaTeX code embedded in your markdown and MathJax could substitute it for appropriately rendered symbols as necessary.
at least for your specific example, I would argue that "facebook apps" never took off. facebook games did, but they are a qualitatively different class of application that just happened to use the same platform that the facebook apps did. multiplayer online games were always popular, and facebook happened to implement them well enough to catch on within the platform.
Am I the only one who wants multi-lined anonymous functions in Python? I find myself really wanting to reach for arrow functions sometimes while writing Python, and end up disappointed that they aren't available.
I would say SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt) is not ready for prime time yet, as it lacks cross-device identities.
Hello, 5-month-old account. Please take the time to substantiate your assertions. For example, I assert that you're observations are ridiculous and here is some empirical evidence on which I base my assertion:

"There were only three areas in which Rehnquist showed any interest in enforcing the constitutional guarantee of free expression: in cases involving advertising, religious expression and campaign finance regulation. Rehnquist was 2.6 times more likely to invalidate laws restricting commercial advertising than laws restricting political or artistic expression. He voted to invalidate campaign finance legislation 67 percent of the time, and he voted to invalidate restrictions on religious expression 100 percent of the time. Indeed, in non-unanimous decisions, Rehnquist was 14.7 times more likely to vote to invalidate a law restricting commercial advertising, campaign expenditures, or religious expression than one involving any other aspect of 'the freedom of speech, or of the press.'"[1]

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-09-06-050906...
I don't trust articles written in Word.
I was going to mention Tcl. I suspect that the richer the semantic model of the language, the more challenging it is to provide a straightforward C API.
Apples and oranges - Xcode is 8.3 GB, Android Studio is 0.8.
Sky Cultures
Ok. My normal account is apolitical and I don't know if I would call myself a Republican, more of a conservative maybe.

Regardless, for me this goes back to the Covington Catholic incident. Nick Sandmann sued the Washington Post, NBC, and CNN for defamation and settled. He had a pretty strong case. I think being able to sue for defamation is reasonable and not necessarily indicative of big government support.

But Twitter can't be sued but that was where the videos of him were posted and it was where a Twitter mob formed and peopled doxed him and started to call for Nick's head. I remember seeing it all happen in real time on Friday on Twitter. By Sunday the news outlets were running with it.

At that time, Twitter wasn't flagging content as misleading however, they were banning harmful rhetoric. I guess to me that sort of activity that happened in January 2019 is harmful rhetoric. The ability to let an angry mob defame someone like that and even threaten someone is something Twitter should take responsibility for. Every other publishing platform is held to those standards. If Twitter is profiting from the use which may include activities like defaming someone, then it makes sense that victims are entitled to some compensation from them in addition to any users. Although I appreciate there are fine legal arguments to be made here.

And for the record, it seems like fairly normal discourse on Twitter to expose people with personal information for specifically being racist, misogynist, etc. without any evidence required and people usually condone this. This definitely can be damaging and I think people who are victims of this justly ought to be able to recover losses. Twitter doesn't seem to have much interest in stopping it like they do other forms of harmful speech so I think victims ought to be able to get justice and that has nothing to do with Trump's tweeting habits.
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No experience with Ukraine or Poland, we're based in Algiers and Paris and focused on ML. Our clients are in France and Algeria.

My point was that it's not automatically cheaper as many people I talk with in Algiers assume that our clients in France come to us because we're "cheap offshore services" and we're not.

Our clients come to us because we hold their hand from the moment they want to understand the value of this, to ideation on where in their business this can have an impact, to working with them to execute in that space learning their systems and all, to making sure they have good results. We've shipped products for banking, telcos, energy, rail transportation, and other domains.

We're a tiny company so we're very flexible and can make decisions very fast and clients seem to like that enough to come back and refer people to us.

So, that's the context for us. Not sure how it goes for dev or Web dev or mobile as it is something we did for our clients, but not something the company is focused on. As in, sure, we'll make a mobile application if the client needs it, but it is a vehicle of ML capability. I'm saying this to give more info from someone in such a company, on another continent, albeit in a field and a budget that may not be what you're talking about.
> Why would it be bad idea?

Because whether you want it to or not, it empowers trolls.

The following is counter-intuitive, it goes against our best nature, it's even tragic: you can't high-road a troll. Trolls are in a race to the bottom, so being on the high-road is setting yourself behind.

You want to fuck with Trump? You're going to have to either force a race-to-the-top narrative on him and his followers (not even a pandemic could), or beat him in a race to the bottom. Or just shoot him.

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That being said, having it be ML would at least lend itself to "take with a grain of salt."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23342161
That's not how these kinds of "facts" work. If someone tried to use this during some kind of proceeding the court will determine this. (Using a jury or not, expert witnesses or not, doesn't matter.)

Usually fact checking "services" like snopes.com, politifact, or WaPo with the pinocchio heads, have a consistent model about what they are willing to touch, how they approach it, and how they determine factualness, etc.

Just throwing out that Twitter is or isn't _the_ platform makes no sense.
I've been doing a few more informal tests (haven't had time to do a 1-2 day burn-in), and I've seen most CPU-intense operations are 3-5% faster (some more so) on the 64-bit release.
Personally I'd avoid currying and go with a function with three params, like:

const labelizeElement = ...
const labelizeRelation = ...

const groupByLabels = (labelizer, set, element) => ....

const groupByElement = (set, element) => groupByLabels(labelizeElement, set, element);
const groupByRelation = (set, element) => groupByLabels(labelizeRelation, set, element);

This makes it slightly simpler to create a binding function around groupByLabels which fixes, say, the middle argument. I also think that avoiding the chained use of the => operator makes the code more readable to the average JavaScript dev.

C++ has (strange looking) support for the bind pattern in its standard-library now [0], and Python3 has functools.partial but it only supports left-to-right binding [1] (not that there's any particular reason to avoid lambdas).

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/functional/bind

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html
TiddlyWiki https://tiddlywiki.com/
doesn't make any sense, this is for adding animations to apps, not a proprietary format for distributing animated content
It's not inconsequentially low. However, n the individual level, it's about the same risk of death as you face over a normal year. It's worth quite a bit of effort and sacrifice to avoid multiplying that individual risk by the entire population, but a lot of people talk like it's a megaplague they need to avoid catching at all costs.

By all means, everyone should try and find ways to thrive inside, and wear a mask when they go out. I see people propose that in-person social activity should just be forbidden or strongly discouraged until a vaccine comes - that would be a severe and harmful overreaction.
Exactly. Politics is the mind killer. Would they have the same opinion if Twitter was a right-leaning Trump-mouthpiece that was disproportionately quelling left-leaning voices? Take a step back and recognise you can agree with Trump's action and not necessarily admire the man.
What's RX?
Trump targets social media companies with executive order
Original title was too long. It was:

Trump targets social media companies with executive order after Twitter fact-checks his tweets
> "Caution: this Tweet is unadulterated horseshit."

Except it's not. Trump is right here; most of the confirmed voter fraud is on mail-in and absentee ballots, despite being less used than in-person in the past decades. Switching everyone to mail-in will cause a sharp uptick in voter fraud.
I wonder what would happen if Twitter banned Trump, would be the ultimate social experiment.

Would he create his own app?
I noticed that if I quit the app via the usual mechanism, it takes less than a second to load. However if I fully power cycle the device it’s closer to 5 seconds.
The exact same can be said for liberals. They are against a single, privately owned bakery from discriminating against gay people but they are perfectly fine with a social media company with a near monopoly censoring conservatives.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-1/q...

edit: deleted - the link did not support my claim.
I was fairly disappointed when Oragenics abandoned their modified streptococcus treatment, designed to replace the most harmful bacteria in the human mouth with a non-damaging one.

https://www.oragenics.com/technology-pipeline/lbp/smart

Last I heard, the few people who had tried the treatment are still completely free of decay and gum issues, but it's been a long time and there's no follow up, sadly.
Twitter is so much bigger than your neighbours back yard. Debates between most major public figures don't happen in your neighbours back yard. And it doesn't matter what the law is now, think about what it represents to people first then the future law comes from that.
That button would serve handily as a meeting terminator.
Twitter isn't suppressing Trump's tweets. They're still publishing them...along with a notice that the statements in those tweets are lies, with links to sources documenting the falsity of those statements and the true state of reality (i.e., that mail-in voting is not unconstitutional).
Can't track the usage this way, though.
The talk is about rolling back special privileges that platforms get. Privileges that you and I don't have. If you publish something illegal then you bear the consequences. If a user on Twitter does it then Twitter doesn't bear the consequences, but the user does instead. Doesn't this mean it's the user that's expressing speech rather than Twitter?
> You can’t export your data or do “data takeout” from a suspended account, sadly, and you can’t view your DM history either inbound or outbound.

This is a big problem.
So we've done some testing, and it looks like this certificate needs to be removed from the root ca bundles of Ubuntu 16.04 and earlier, as well as Debian 9 and earlier, even if these hosts are otherwise up do date (including the root certificate bundle). We've gone head and rolled out a fix, but I guess consider this a heads up.

I mean, Debian 9 isn't that old.

Its relatively easy to test -- create a host using an older, affected distribution, set the time forward to, say, 6/1/2020, and run 'curl https://crt.sh/' . You should get a ceritifcate expired error
If people didn't have a weird aversion to VR and headsets were way more comfortable this would totally be the solution. Once we get comfortable AR glasses with decent resolution, software for remote teams is going to be a huge business.
Counterexamples:

Suppose a phone company (Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, etc.) decided to scan your speech for political content, then degrade your phone call quality if the algorithm decides that you seem to oppose the lobbying efforts of the company.

Suppose a package company (FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc.) decided that political items for one party would simply be destroyed, with the tracking number disappearing from the system. When you order a box of lawn signs for Biden, they never show up. Alternately, the packages aren't accepted for shipment, or they arrive with deliberate damage.

That's the private sector. Is this the world you want?
If I need to speak to everyone in my team daily or even weekly,it means the whole thing isn't working and it would fall apart as soon as I walk through the door. I do trust people in what they do and I don't micromanage. I'm always available if anyone needs help or any kind of support or advice,but it doesn't mean I'd walk around daily asking how's work every day. Again, this depends on a role as well,as for instance, I do spend a lot of time discussing technical aspects with the business analyst.

[Edit]
The above applies to office environment,where I could see all my team in one place and there were lots of 'hints' that could tell whether I need to have a chst with someone: difficult call, challenging situation, too much work,issues at home and etc.All this is almost invisible when working remotely. Casual calls are necessary to check on people and to make sure they are fine.
What measurement would you suggest we use to approximate the number of people whose communication is under the control of a particular organization?

>If someone opens up the Facebook app for 5 minutes a month they are considered a MAU. Suggesting that browsing an app for a few minutes out of a day is comparable to authoritarian control over 1.4 billion people demonstrates a complete lack of perspective in reality.

Your strawman is what lacks perspective of reality. The average FB user spends 30-60 minutes on Facebook each day, depending on the source.
No it is not.

Let's not post this generally incorrect type of post.
I suspect it’s also to do with Python’s history as a scripting language. Because of Perl’s obvious strengths in this area, any scripting language pretty much has to make it very easy to work with text files. Ruby does something similar for instance.

Even languages like Java now recognise the need to provide convenient access to text files as part of the standard API, with Files.readAllLines() in 7, Files.lines() in 8, and Files.readString() in 11.
Well, he's trying it.
Phrasing in dicta isn't the same as a legal holding, though. It's a legitimate point, but not a dispositive one.
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It’s important to be in the right kind of environment, and around the right kind of people. You want to be around people who have a good feel for the future, will entertain improbable plans, are optimistic, are smart in a creative way, and have a very high idea flux. These sorts of people tend to think without the constraints most people have, not have a lot of filters, and not care too much what other people think.

The best ideas are fragile; most people don’t even start talking about them at all because they sound silly. Perhaps most of all, you want to be around people who don’t make you feel stupid for mentioning a bad idea, and who certainly never feel stupid for doing so themselves.

--

I worry that many will take away the wrong lesson, i.e. that every idea has potential, no idea is stupid. Many companies are trying to inculcate this into their cultures thinking they can replicate SV's success by being more open. I think most will quickly find this to be an untenable way to live, because it's only half the picture.

I think the real take-away is more nuanced. Open unconstrained environments tend to produce the very best ideas (not just good ideas), and it's important not to kill new ideas too early. That said, all those ideas eventually need to be tested against the crucible of reality. Generate lots of ideas, but be ready to ruthlessly edit and kill those that don't work in reality. As pg said, innovation is two-step process -- and those 2 steps (generate, then edit) are discrete, not to be mixed. High infant mortality during ideation means good ideas get killed. But loose or no filtering at all means you're throwing good money after bad.

My improv teacher tells me that to produce great work, we have to work out of abundance (lots of ideas), and also work out of failure (fail a lot). Abundance in itself is not enough, nor is failure on its own.
Discussed on the frontpage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23342161
> But it still suggests that if the virus had been allowed to spread uncontained, death tolls would be several times what they are now.

There's a presumption there that everyone is equally susceptible to the virus at any given viral load. There are likely people whose bodies are inhospitable enough to the virus that it never reaches a titer enough to trigger any sort of test. What percentage of the population is this? 1%? 20%? 60%?

If it were allowed to spread uncontained, death tolls would certainly be higher. But can we really say "several times"? I'm not sure. Maybe, 1x more, on account of if california were as bad as new york. But still, we don't really know.
If that is the case, then so be it. At least that would be the correct way, even if I disagree with it. These are in no way monopolies. You have an enormous amount of choice when it comes to where to post whatever it is you want to post, regardless of whether anyone follows you there or not.
Statement by FCC Commissioner Starks on Section 230 Executive Order
Biting the hand that feeds him. I think this is a strategic miscalculation.
It is a report dated 19th February! Also note that this estimate is based exclusively on the Chinese data(!) and that it practically confirms that the Chinese data were usable for the estimates even as there were doubts spread by the media and politicians. Specifically in the same report it is written (1):

"Using an estimated number of total infections, the Infection Fatality Ratio can be calculated. This represents the fraction of all infections (both diagnosed and undiagnosed) that result in death. Based on these available analyses, current IFR estimates range from 0.3% to 1%."

And then:

"Without population-based serologic studies, it is not yet possible to know what proportion of the population has been infected with COVID-19."

So even without the population-based antibody (that is what "serologic" means) data, and only using the Chinese data "as of 11 February" available to the WHO the estimate was quite good. The range depends of course also on the age structure of the population -- the countries with much more young people would have closer to the lower number, the others closer to the higher.

1) Edit: the parent post quoted the same segment later too
The same Weston A Price? https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/sbm-weston-prices-appalling...
The page you linked doesn't contain explanation at all, what is a very important part of fact checking (if it can be automated, it can be tricked). It should probably contain a mix of automatic links with multiple independent human fact checkings that explain why a side should be picked over the other.
They were probably waiting for one of the social media platforms to screw up somehow.
Right, I understand what MIDI is for, but usually music software has these real-time requirements on performance and the browser runs javascript, so... What are the applications for web midi? People aren't mixing their music on the browser nowadays, right?
My Chromium plays audio to my external and internal cards fine without Pulseaudio, I have just ALSA and don't know who still uses OSS (no judgement, I just use the default). I think your comment can only have an adverse effect on the conversation if you don't give specific examples.

(Nitpick: Linux has nothing to do with Pulseaudio, it's just the kernel.)
“I’ll review the final Executive Order when it’s released and assess its impact on the FCC, but one thing is clear: the First Amendment and Section 230 remain the law of the land and control here. Our top priority should be connecting all Americans to high-quality, affordable broadband. The fight against COVID-19 has made closing the digital divide—and helping all Americans access education, work, and healthcare online—more critical than ever. We must keep our focus on that essential work.”
wow that's a pretty cool app
It also helps with annotation without modifying the webpage. The annotation based bookmark apps out there modify the actual content of the page whereas PageMarker keeps your notes and comments isolated from the page. The browser extension will allow you to add and view your pages side by side
Growing up in Nigeria, my grandmother encouraged me to chew bones and consume bone marrow. It's quite common and also a badge of honor as a kid if you can open a bottle of pop with your teeth. I often get compliments on my teeth and have no issues as an adult.
And to think, just this morning you were claiming the text of this order was probably a forgery because it was so shoddy and inconsistent.
Should YCombinator be responsible for the comment you just posted here?