skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The future of Silverlight and Flash died when mobile phones rejected browser plugins. No amount of good choices from MS/Adobe would change that.
One factor is that Trump says a lot of dumb things, and almost none of them are true.

Instead he seems to say whatever outrageous thing that can get attention so he's the center of the news cycle. Once again, it worked.

When he actually does something to silence twitter, I'll be upset too. But I'm not falling for the "big crazy talk ploy" again.
Once you take out racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, religious bigotry, etc., from modern conservatism, is there actually anything left? It's not really surprising that conservatives would turn out to be the biggest victims of "political correctness" based censorship. I'd be happy to be corrected about what modern conservatism stands for, if my impression is incorrect.

I'm distinguishing the modern conservatives from the conservatives of the bygone era who favoured neoliberalism, with its ideas about free markets, small government, balanced budgets etc., which does have an academic pedigree, but which seems to have been largely discarded by both the left and right.
Same for me, I’m 44 and the recruiters never stop messaging me.
I notice this too. A ton of mental energy gets siphoned due to just corralling and confining my thought processes. I think at work office it's just easier to a) be mentally primed for work b) stay on task and not get distracted.
Something like: militia groups across the country decide to go into their nearest big cities and start killing anyone they view as political opponents. Or maybe high ranking elements in the armed forces decide enough is enough and start a coup, plus a violent crackdown on ensuing protest. The country is swimming in rage and weapons. It’s just a matter of time.
We don't need to go far to the conclusion of that line of questioning: Twitter actively deletes spam accounts and takes measures to block troll factories from using their platform, and this is not controversial.
> Attaching a disclaimer to the speech of another though is not straightforward.

From a free speech perspective, it's straightforward, private parties can choose to relay (or not) whatever viewpoints they want, and can choose to relay those viewpoints with or without commentary.

From a “what’s an ideal policy” perspective, maybe it's not, but “your policy is not ideal” isn't an exception to free speech justifying government intervention.

> How can they even be impartial

Private actors aren't required to be impartial. In fact, the whole premise of the marketplace of ideas is that private parties will be partial in choosing which ideas to present and how to present them.
> I don't see how telephone companies transporting your phone calls is much different than twitter transporting your tweets. Yes, it is not exactly the same. It is slightly different. But only slightly.

Twitter is not transporting your tweets, they are storing them and distributing them to anyone who asks to see them (given a very loose definition of ask).
Perhaps more like ordering 100 lunches for your 100 employees and forgetting that 20 of them moved to night shift?
My favourite portal for discovering sites like this is something I discovered just recently here on HN: https://wiby.me/

It never fails to amaze me how much amazing stuff is out there online, hidden by a thick layer of top search results, and even more than that, the sheer amount of individual and collective effort that has been put into each of these sites. Someone mentioned the word "niche" and there is certainly some weirdly (or wonderfully) specific content you will find in the Wiby.me index. Lots of sites that haven't been updated since 1998, but still have an enormous and encyclopedic list of everything related to some topic (like the characteristics of different types of tomatoes, or how to build a motorcycle from spare parts or whatever). Some of it may be a little out of date, but a lot of it has been submitted for indexing precisely because of its timelessness or continued usefulness.

Whenever I feel hopeless about the current state of the web, I find this is the perfect antidote!
I don't think so. This uses the GitHub API via browser side Javascript to auto generate a page, listing and rendering the READMEs in your recent repos. Plus listing and rendering the .md files in a special "blog-posts" repo.

This is similar to what some big companies do to render a projects page. A copied Twitter's[1][2] a while back when it was simpler[3][4].

[1] https://twitter.github.io/

[2] https://github.com/twitter/twitter.github.io

[3] http://antoncohen.github.io/

[4] https://github.com/antoncohen/antoncohen.github.io
And risk losing your 100s of k a year career for a $250 Amazon gift card. Knock yourself out.
I always wondered if gravitational fields are more like the electromagnetic field lines.

But instead of only being polar based, north and south poles, the gravitational field lines instead would emanate everywhere in all 3 dimensions.

So that no matter where you are on the surface of the planet, you will always be at the converging point of your field line. Hence the term, being at the bottom of the gravity well.

And other things, like mass, will affect the strength of such gravitational field lines.
I’m based in Tokyo and one of the most frustrating things for me personally is that ~90% of foreigners (or people who are visibly foreigners) are not wearing masks when out and about. This despite the fact that the Japanese are almost uniformly wearing them. We are, after all, in the middle of a pandemic.

Is this down to the WHO’s early messaging fumbles, misplaced machismo, ignorance, or what? When foreigners here don’t wear masks, they should know that the door is then open for Japanese people to lump all of us in together and say: “look, foreigners don’t give a fuck.”
> The reality is that the conservative party actively works to curtail voting because they are in the minority and it's the only way for them to stay in power.

Well, that's the tactical reason.

Bigger picture, conservativism is about narrowing and liberalism about broadening and equalizing access to the levers of power; conservatives for narrowing the franchise both because of immediate tactical advantage and because of fundamental ideological reasons.
read the whole page, still don't understand how it works or what it does.
You can always claim your machine had malware that includes this to all emails. Would be nice if the order of the filler words was random so you couldn’t search for all of it and end up on this page.
This is simply ludicrous. I was around in software during the .com bust in 2000, and again during the financial crisis in 2008-9. At both times there were plenty of chicken littles saying all software dev would be outsourced to India and China. Both times software dev positions came roaring back with even higher salaries than before.
This is great signal. It's a shame instead of saying any of this, the President makes wild accusations without any citations.
The lack of follow up is indeed rather frustrating. On the plus side, the article reports that they kept the people in quarantine 8-12 days after the testing round. From other sources on the Web, "on average symptoms appear after 5 days and most people with symptoms had them by day 12". While the study has probably accounted for most of the symptomatic cases, a 30 day follow up would be of great value, including to validate the incubation period estimations.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/coronavirus-incubation-period
> most people expect that someone in that position will not post clearly false messages

Who the hell actually expects that from any elected politician, let alone Trump?

Is the idea that all politicians constantly controversial among other adults? I thought we all knew this?
The question is, what are you moving to?

This is the hardest part. I think a lot of people feel this way, but it's taking that next step. Is it sys admin (or Zeus help you Dev Ops)? Is it some kind of database work?

The hard truth is development pays pretty well or at least better than average. Finding something similar at middle age is a challenge.
Free speech and its protection predates the modern concept of governments. Free speech is about ensuring that there's a broad pool of ideas in society so that it doesn't stagnate into a degenerate vertical of narrow beliefs.

> bet we disagree on who the controlling demographic is

I don't have a horse in the race. All I'm saying is that there is a bias due to the existence of a controlling demographic, and this undermines free speech when that demographic is able to censor what's visible to the average internet user. As a proponent of free speech, I'll fight for it even if it means that it unleashes views that I disagree with - that's the exact purpose of it. The most terrifying part about accepting censorship because you happen to agree with the censors, is that the censors will change over time and you will eventually find yourself on the receiving end.
Not to me, but to some people, definitely.

I was about to hire a guy and discussing him with the president, it came up that he was into ASICs for crypto mining (years before it was a big thing)... president didn’t like it, figured the guy to be a get rich quick type and through his direction we passed over hiring him.

Turns out in this case, it was a good call, but right or wrong it was enough to push the guy back in the pool as he was already on the edge anyhow.
These sources fail to prove that Twitter fact checking is wrong.
I have worked in one of those so called social networks. Yes Google, Facebook,Twitter in the heard of Silicon Valley the majority are liberal companies. Hard to talk about religion, 2A, traditional family values without being treated as a racist or a Trump supporter... There is a case against Google (YouTube division) from PragerU which claims yes you can't be a public forum and restrict people's opinions, you can't have it both ways. In a nutshell, private companies are that and should be regulated if they control the narrative (politics)
Isn't this completely usual corporate behavior? Even if the little guys building stuff make attempts to do the right thing, like contact and include people from outside who made the thing they are building upon, then at some level, at some stage, the arrangement gets stalled into oblivion to the point that the thing is already done and nothing can be handled gracefully anymore.
> For society to resume, measures designed to reduce aerosol transmission must be implemented

This is an opinion piece disguised as science. It’s presumptuous of a science writer to make determinations about whether and how society will be permitted to resume.

If we want people to be perfectly safe we’d also ban fast food, meat, alcohol, nicotine, driving and sex. But the goal of society is not to keep people 100% safe. Why are we okay with having our liberties trampled over an illness that the CDC estimates has a 0.26% death rate?
> I'm not talking about protected speech, or the first amendment.

You're not intending to, but by giving the government the ability to regulate political speech you are.

And yes; telling Twitter what they can do with political speech is governmental regulation of protected speech. You're giving the government to decide what forms of protected speech get extra special protection, which is a form of regulation.

> I am suggesting that Twitter might be a monopoly, and subject to the common carrier doctrine, on "being the watering whole for the entire media/political class".

So, I can declare any company a monopoly if they have cornered a specific user base, no matter how vague? Is Slack now a monopoly because they're popular in tech offices? Can I regulate declare Reddit a monopoly for sports fans and regulate it as such?

What is the general principle that will decide whether or not a company should be regulated as a monopoly? And how in the world do you define the "media" class in order to regulate companies like Twitter?

Only 22% of Americans use Twitter daily. That is not a monopoly, period.

> but I think we can all agree that you can't just start your own Twitter and have the same unique position of political influence.

Sure, but that's no argument for an expansion of government power.
The whole reason the U.S. had to go into lockdown was because of the failure at the federal level to contain this crisis.
Would it have killed them to actually say what it is in the title of their self promotion?
C is not C++ is not Java. Different mindsets.

I haven’t found any of them difficult to learn though, I code in all three along with Python, almost daily. I think it’s mostly just doing - I get the books out all the time.
News of Pandemics: Then (1918) and Now (2020)
it's racial essentialism?
Ah, of course. Terrible when the Chinese do it, just terrible.
I know I already said good night, but you haven't engaged with that common carrier concept at all. Check it out.
We've been through all of this already with Ma Bell.

Good night.
Why does the "red faction" control no forums? Doesn't that seem odd to you? There's no reason they couldn't. Why don't forums aligned with their values attract broad participation?
Boeing was ahead when building the dreamliner, but "The A350 XWB is the first Airbus mostly made of carbon fibre reinforced polymer." -Wikipedia
The most cynic part of this story is sending him an email the day before the launch with a heads-up that WinGet was launching.

And the icing on the cake is the "btw, we are giving you the exclusive so keep it secret".

Like, wtf. He ain't TechCrunch. Why the fuck are they giving him that exclusive? Nothing yells "we stole your stuff, but dude it was open source so you really can't complain, and thanks for the idea" more than that.

You can't make up this shit.
It's harder to feel optimistic about the future when there's an idiot in office who's actively trying to dismantle everything that's good about the country.

Trump still being in office points to a systemic failure of our government, which nobody is really talking about changing. Sad to feel optimism in a country with a failed government.
I'm sorry that I unfairly characterised your position.

My perspective is that universal worker's rights (like the 40hr week, paid maternity leave, minimum yearly vacation weeks) help prevent the "trap of moloch" (context: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/). The kind of system traps that ends up screwing human beings. The purpose of work, money, capitalism, government is to benefit human beings. When the pursuit of system goals ends up getting in the way of human needs then the system is broken and needs to be fixed. When we define good baselines there is no competitive penalty for organisations that provide sane benefits.

Taking vacations as an example, we need laws to define some vacation minimum because it seems self evident that all human beings need some level of downtime in their life. If we don't define a minimum then competitive pressure will squeeze this out such that only the well off ever get time off.

Our systems need human-shaped holes carved out in them to prevent the things that make life good from being optimized away.

My perspective is slightly different than yours; I suppose I believe that every child has the right to enjoy their first few weeks of life in as peaceful an environment as can practically be arranged and that all parents deserve time to physically and mentally recover from childbirth and have time to adjust to the reality of a new child.

I think this is absolutely beneficial to the child and I still maintain that in the steady state it is not actually redistributive because everyone receives the benefit and everyone pays for every other person to get it.
Yes. He is throwing this particular tantrum specifically in order to influence the 2020 election.

As with most of Trump's dumber scandals, he has already literally confessed to his impure motives.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-mail-v...
This is not true, there is a large amount of case law in the US that discusses what is and is not allowed in the context of free speech.
http://archive.today/QHT8m
Flash was a lot of fun to use. The possibilities were endless. Especially because web isn’t what it is today.
I used to do a lot of flash banners for Vodafone. It was a lot of fun and made good money whilst I was doing my MSc too.

I eventually picked up Flex because flash was all the rage and did a really nice UI for an exhibition that was in the museum for a year. I think you’d still need to use something like imagemaps now for what I achieved with flex and flash together
Note the date on that essay: it's from 2001. It has indeed come up in court in the last 19 years. For example:

https://wiki.fsfe.org/Migrated/GPL%20Enforcement%20Cases
lmgtfy ?
Spotify literally does not work is some countries.
It seems like most people here believe there is no evidence of mail-in voter fraud (for some reason...). Here’s a huge list of convictions for ‘fraudulent use of absentee ballots’: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/p...

Edit: some might think this list is comprehensive, but the first page says it is a ‘sampling’, a 400-page sampling.
I can't really take anything seriously anymore:

> Aerosols can accumulate, remain infectious in indoor air for hours

I remember Michael Osterholm said CoV2 wasn't airborne, but respiratory, and he made the distinction airborne viruses stay in the air for hours (like Measles). "Aerosols" would indicate they mean respiratory but then they talk about it sticking around for hours.

> silent shedders

We are told there are asymptomatic people who spread the illness, but there is also tons of research to show they may not (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32405162/) or that some of them weren't even asymptomatic; they had symptoms but no one asked (can't find that link).

This whole pieces seems like a long article to say "wear a mask," but all of us see people who wear a mask incorrectly or wear a cloth mask that isn't very effective against viral matter (https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1342) and most people don't wash them daily, so they can build up moisture and bacteria (https://publichealth.uic.edu/news-stories/commentary-masks-f...). A lot of people treat them like a fashion accessory or just a thing they have to do and hang them up when they get home.

When states mandate masks, you're no longer asking people, and you brake the social contract. A lot of people do it just so they aren't shamed. A lot of people who don't wear masks do it as a political statement. When you boil it down ... it's all either political or shame.

There is a lot of explicit social conditioning and behavior modification going on here and it's sinister. I'm sick of pre-pubs that get contracted the following week and everyone going into hyper panic mode always. There are tons of secondary effects (people not going in for regular cancer screenings (https://unherd.com/thepost/professor-karol-sikora-fear-is-mo...), suicide attempts (https://archive.vn/N18t9), heart conditions, etc.) that will catch up with us.

I went into more detail earlier this month about getting fed up with our terrible information situation. This is not a time of honor:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-hon...
I love Sonarr, it has saved me so much time, and is truly a great project. Thank you for all your hard work.
> some higher ups decided no, they don't need to hire you

Total misjudgment on their part. Thanks to this one HN post they already lost in terms of developer good will way more than his potential salary would be.

Every time anyone who uses WinGet, who read this, will think 'oh, yeah, that's the tool that Microsoft build their version of behind original author's back, while stringing him and ghosting for few months".
Maybe someone here can explain it better to me; why was silverlight a thing?

Flash had its problems, but why would anyone instead use another proprietary system that works on fewer platforms?
> Here’s a list of tons of convictions on fraudulent use of absentee ballots (and other forms of voter fraud): https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/p....

wait, 938 convictions over what looks like is over two decades? Just in the presidential election years that's something like 625 million votes. That's very little fraud.

(and there's some nonsense in there if it's trying to present itself as voter fraud...like the California cases of candidates misrepresenting their home address. What does that have to do with any voters?)
The author makes a distinction between the "commercial web" and "small web" but I can't help but wonder if some overlap is possible.

I've recently been tasked with building a website for a small organic food distributor in Oregon. I don't think the traditional image heavy "commercial web" fits well with their company culture and image but am struggling to find examples of "small web" commercial websites to show them as examples of a different way.

It would be nice to see another post discussing how we might bring the small web to the commercial one.
Never tried dynalist. Used Workflowy.

Workflowy is strictly an outliner. It's like Gopher--hierarchical, unlike the Web, which is a graph.

Feature-wise, Roam is more like a graph. You can really easily link to other concepts, and rename pages (and everything renames). It also has a page generated daily, for things you want to write down.

Feeling wise, you get to write things and collect them and organize them later. I think it's more condusive to how people think and research. You might have a piece of data, but you're not sure where to put it yet. Most other note taking systems forces you to categorize first.
I'm still not convinced that this isn't a prank video and the entire GE Lighting channel isn't a parody, based on this video alone.

It sounded like they reused the same 10 seconds of video half a dozen times.
It's a bit lame to say recruiting must have dropped the ball. If you've engaged with someone, you're inspired by their technology, etc., etc. then handing them over to recruiting for a rejection is pretty weak.
This entire thing has showed what happens when political leaders don't properly evaluate risk. It's difficult to do so when something new comes along. I think Wendover did a great job of address this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtX-Ibi21tU
For what it’s worth, nobody who actually works in security uses it, and they mostly cringe when others do. That and “cyber” are pretty good smell tests that you’re interacting with someone who is very out of touch.
When I tried updating to 10.15.5 today, the update failed and dumped me into system utilities. I was able to restore from my Time Machine backups luckily. It's unfortunate that issues such as this are becoming the norm for MacOS.
It would probably sting less if they didn't ghost him. Not giving the benefit of the doubt to Microsoft on this.
Looks like Framework and Windows only: not so modern.
Free speech's western society roots come from ancient Greece. The whole point now and then is to protect people from political persecution by the government.

I feel most people arguing for "free speech" applied universally to governments and private parties don't really understand the classical nature of it very well and how it functions as a pillar of democracy. If they did they would understand the paradox it would create when the restrictions placed on government are applied to private parties..
Trump is using his position of authority to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt about the legitimacy and reliability of mail-in voting. There's a strong possibility that this will result in _at least_ one person deciding not to vote if they're unable or unwilling to vote in person in this year's election. By definition, this is interference.