skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A good question to ask yourself early in the process of thinking about an idea is “could this be huge if it worked?” There are many good ideas in the world, but few of them have the inherent advantages that can make a startup massively successful. Most businesses don’t generate a valuable accumulating advantage as they scale. Think early about why an idea might have that property. It’s obvious for Facebook or Airbnb, but it often exists in more subtle ways.

This reminds me of David Heinemeier Hansson's talk at Startup School waaayyy back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

The gist: funders tell founders all the time to catch a wave. Go big or don't bother. The reason is that the funder must have a big payoff and small outcomes don't cut it.

But there's plenty of room for a small, well-run company with no aspirations of getting bigger. I believe the analogy was: best Italian Restaurant in the city.

The other advantage of thinking smaller than "huge" is that success is so much more likely because the competition tends to be less intense.

Maybe the author and I have a different idea of "huge," but the examples suggest otherwise.

If you're looking for a community that embraces the small startup idea and has developed a lot of material for exploring it, check out Microconf:

https://microconf.com
I have this too. I'm 40 now and over the years I have come to understand it not as anxiety per se. But more as sensitivity. I am extremely sensitive to body language, emotional content, background noises... Details... When I'm in a large group of people there's so much information coming in that it quickly becomes exhausting. If I've slept well and am generally looking after myself I can do large groups for hours at a time. But if I'm tired, it quickly leads to exhaustion which then leads to confusion and anxiety. I also get classified as extrovert in psych tests. And I do love people, it's just they are generally too intense for my poor overly tuned nervous system. I often think I'd do well with a mood stabilizer/anti epileptic.
Don't forget the infinite pages books that expand as you read them. Until you drop them that is, and have to start again.
> ... does anyone feel comfortable with so called "fact checking"?

This has nothing to do with any real person, but is just a hypothetical situation pertaining to this question in your post:

Let's say an account X with many followers calls you a pedophile. You're not, of course, so you responded and said you weren't, but since the followers tend to like X, they don't listen to you. X's followers then dox you, find your address, and start making threats to you outside of the realm of social media.

Does the model of "the people decide what is wrong and what is right, what is true and what is false, what is fact is and what is fiction" hold up here?
I want to suggest that all of this has more to do with you and your individual preferences than the way things work for everyone else.

* what's the scale of the forums that work fine?

* what if other people want to consume more content than "a few bloggers" produce and recommend?

* when you say "does better", what do you mean?

* is the best medicine made by pro bono pharmacists? are the best buildings made by off-duty carpenters? are the best movies made for free? with the best special effects? are the best novels free? the best graphic designs? would everyone agree with your assessment of what is 'best'?

"I left these platforms for a reason." Yes, and other people stayed for reasons too.
@realdonaldtrump took executive action to fight online censorship
Orignal tweet was too long to use as title. It was:

President
@realDonaldTrump
just took executive action to fight online censorship by tech corporations, including social media platforms.
> When an industrialized, Western diet was followed

What specifically in the diet is the thing that causes it?

Because there is not just one "industrialized, Western diet", there are hundreds or thousands of them.

The article posits "soft, sugary". What is Price's theory?
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I'll chew thru those links.
That was due to the scope of the breakage, not number format. A good way to handle that and maintain predictability is to constrain breaking changes, yet defer them to 4.X.
>thats an interestating take, considering trump is trying to stop the selective editorialization of individuals covered by the first amendment.

Again, the first amendment protects those individuals from being censored by the government. Twitter is not bound by the first amendment. They're allowed to editorialize content. They're allowed to curate, moderate, deplatform and ban people.

However, Twitter is also protected by the first amendment, and Trump's executive order is an attempt to erode those protections.

>are we really taking twitters side of this because we hate trump so much?

No. I believe in the right of platforms to censor content as an extension of their own freedom of speech and association, because that still leaves the internet itself free. If one objects to Twitter's behavior, one can always find a new platform or create one. However, when the government attempts to assert censorship over the entire network, that reduces freedom for everyone.
PHP 7.0 (which was released in Dec 2015) featured a new core with dramatic improvement in performance over PHP 5.X.

PHP 8 is due for release in Dec 2020 and will feature a JIT compiler which is expected to improve performance even further.

Regardless of what people think of PHP, it's nice to see the PHP community tackle performace and resource usage as a major priority. A contrast to parts of the development community who seem to care very little for performance and resource usage.
If you are using my product to harm others, I should have the right to try to minimize the damage you cause.
The article makes two points/claims.

- Soft foods leads to small dental arches and thus crowding

- carb-rich (i.e. Western diets) lead to decay

Basically, you're agreeing with the article.
We don't have to speak in hypotheticals here. There are plenty of examples: voat, gab, TD, etc. What laws are/were being pushed by liberal politicians to use the force of law to shut them up?

Please do link to government documents or quotes from elected officials.
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Woah this site is something else. I'm having a really hard time following. What does it do? What is a token?
> But on the individual level, it's about the same risk of death as you face over a normal year.

It's surely not. Even the "normal" averages include people who have big problems. If you are an individual who is not in the group of people with big problems, and if the virus can make you sick, your risk gets up significantly, as soon as you risk being infected. Because, for example, you can know that you personally aren't in the risk group of people tending to commit suicide.

The currently known estimate of "people who get the virus and have no recognizable symptoms during all phases of infection" is just around 20% across all the age groups. Knowing that younger than 45 aren't being only 20% of population, it doesn't sound so trivial.

The same (that one can know that catching virus increases risk) is for some of the people with big problems, even if they are young: it is known that some of those (who have some big problems) are hit much stronger by the virus, e.g. those with diabetes: without the virus they can safely expect to live for decades more, with the virus, they can immediately expect much less. And no, not only overweight people have diabetes.

And the above analysis is only for young people. But being old enough (and that is even for those being above 45) and catching the virus increases the risks of permanent health damage or death many times, according to all statistics we have.

Finally, no age group can expect to have "no problems" as soon as the health system collapses, and that is why the strict measures were introduced in most of the world -- it is a reasonable goal to avoid that much.
"Rust is still unstable, so it will therefore never be stable"

"There were X new features in Rust's sixth year. I will now compare that to the count of new features in C's forty-eighth year"

"People who are using new tools are interested in 'shiny' things. I am using the word 'shiny' to suggest that their motives are cognitive weakness and neophilia. It cannot be that these developers have contexts and needs I have not yet reasoned about."

"I don't care about safety and segfaults, which means no-one should. I am never involved in safety critical software and therefore safety features are not useful."

And finally, if I may make a cheap shot:

"I would like to mount a robust defence of C based on its spec, well known for lack of Undefined Behaviour"
The problem I see is 9/10 startups have stupid ideas but manage to pocket millions before the company crashes and burns. How do you get ideas like that will let you live well, but not necessarily be a good business? Doing sensible businesses just isn't viable in SV these days.

> Stay away from people who are world-weary and belittle your ambitions.

OK maybe that just is me.
And that's totally fair, because the hired the person, vouched for them, submitted them to editorial scrutiny an, still, decided to publish defamatory content.
> But, having null checks here and there makes your code unreadable.

if user is not None:
balance = user.get_balance()
if balance is not None:
balance_credit = balance.credit_amount()
if balance_credit is not None and balance_credit > 0:
can_buy_stuff = True
else:
can_buy_stuff = False

Actually I think that's very readable

user: Optional[User]

can_buy_stuff: Maybe[bool] = Maybe.from_value(user).map( # type hint is not required
lambda real_user: real_user.get_balance(),
).map(
lambda balance: balance.credit_amount(),
).map(
lambda balance_credit: balance_credit > 0,
)

Much better, isn't it?

No?!? That's much worse.
Could any Atom users explain what it is that made you choose Atom over another text editor?
You're using a bad argument. Dental amalgam literally contains elemental mercury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_(dentistry)#Compositio... That alone is cause for concern, although it does not mean it's necessarily dangerous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_amalgam_controversy
All this means is that any server can choose to present any bytes, even with TLS, as a response to any request. This isn't a novel observation.

If a signed exchange includes a URL, that URL must be signed for the browser to respect the field.
Stocklist – Best way to follow the stock market
Discussion in progress: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23342161
It's not clear why this is a binary category at all. If we want to treat first-party content differently from third-party content, just do that?
Sure, I'm not contesting that. It is a different question if freedom of speech regulations apply to Twitter or not.

But freedom of reach is a part of freedom of speech.
You should really go watch the flat earth documentary "Behind The Curve". The reaction of flat earthers to their experiment failing to support the flat earth theory resulted in them deciding they needed to do a different experiment.

The reality is that conspiracy theories are far more about socialization and communities than they are about facts.
Trump signs order that could punish social media for how they police content
Original title was too long. It was:

Trump signs order that could punish social media companies for how they police content, drawing criticism and doubts of legality
Companies should not need a financial incentive to develop new products. They already have an existential incentive to do so. This also creates a barrier to entry for small companies that don't have the resources to ensure compliance and claim the benefit. It also subsidises product development engineers - a profession that is doing well already. I'm an engineer so I appreciate the artificial wage inflation, but if I take that hat off I don't think it's appropriate for the government to subsidize us.
Chew toys.

Seriously - kids often chew on pens and other random household objects. Something less likely to make a mess/be gross or dangerous would seem preferable.
Temporal Understanding of Cybersecurity Threats [pdf]
Considering how many ceramic fillings I have bitten into pieces, I have grown much more respect for my natural teeth. I had to replace one filling with a gold tooth to prevent it bitten into pieces again.
Overall they are amazing in stability. If we could figure out some better way of preserving and repairing them, they should still be the best solution.
> Considering Google still has not produced a really popular language

What about go-lang and dart?
Not sure if it applies to fonts too but https://decentraleyes.org
Let’s say hacker news could be sued for me posting a comment threatening to kill you and refusing to remove it.

Because in many states (maybe all?) they can be.

Remember, websites are only given immunity if they fail to remove “sueable” content.

Will they (hacker news):

a. Prescreen all comments, like a publisher prescreens manuscripts, or

b. Just do away with user-submitted content, or

c. Let everyone say whatever they want in an orgy of freedom with no moderation whatsoever?

Privately owned media sites will never, ever be a public square just because people use them the same way my yard isn’t a public square because you can walk across it on the way to ring my doorbell so you can ask to put a campaign sign in my grass.

Is the President of the United States of America sharing a video calling for the death of his political opponents a “sue worthy” event? What if he gave a speech saying that? Or published a presidential decree calling for it?

Some people see bigots saying “whatever dude it was just a satire joke” for what it is: bullshit.
The legal limits of Trump's executive order on social media
We are all equal now in that nobody knows what the buttons do.

Seriously, how hard is it to learn what "OIL" means?
Samesite won't break it if you set it none. Eg samesite=none Google failed to set it before the official rollout.

Reason is that sso effectively uses an iframe or popup to a 3rd party auth provider (Google, Microsoft, Auth0...) Provider saves a cookie with that state (from something like accounts.google.com) and usually reads it back from first party context.

If samesite is not set to none, supporting browsers are not allowed to write cookies on the auth domain from the firstparty context, and so the firstparty scripts don't think it ever happened, even though it did. First party scripts can't read it and so sso failed.
This makes sense. ML is also a high value specialty right now. I believe that general web/mobile development services are a totally different ballgame due to the proliferation of talent, free (and good) tools, etc.
> is writing and applying a custom TOS that covers content not editorializing/publishing?

For the specific TOS in question I see no way this counts as that. It is simply banning things like pornography, hate speech, and cyberbullying among other things. How that becomes "editorializing" is crazy to me and doesn't seem like a good faith argument.

> I'd bet any definition of publishing includes exerting control over which content to display, when to display that content, and where. These companies do all of those things.

The exerting here is incredibly minimal at best though. There is also no literal editing of material, affiliated writers, or strong voice selection done by Twitter. At the end of the day, the users decide what they want to see so long as it applies to the TOS. This is wildly different from any publisher such as a news outlet.

If we stretch the definition of publisher to its ends, comically so, we can absolutely get Twitter and Facebook under it. We'd also eliminate any prior meaning of the word.
>But the current fact-checking approach is flawed as it requires human judgment, which is hobbled by people's biases and potential lack of topical expertise.

This is a true statement.

>A better approach may be to offer a resource page that shows every news article on the topic, with guidelines on political leaning

...seems to just introduce another level of bias. Every "media bias" website touts "objective analysis" while in the FAQ they admit to relying on a panel that they assure you is 100% objective. How do you guarantee that these ratings are not "flawed as it requires human judgment, which is hobbled by people's biases and potential lack of topical expertise"? See: allsides.com[1] and Media Bias Fact Check [2].

Looking at your employee page, you seem to have exactly zero employees with any significant background in journalism. What "topical expertise" does Factual provide that a layperson doesn't have? How do you minimize human judgement?

This reads to me as "You shouldn't use Facebook because you're the product, not the customer, which leads to bad incentive alignment. Use Twitter instead."

[1] https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-rating-method...
[2] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/methodology/
The workflow I described goes for mobile and tablets just as much as desktop; for the cases where a keyboard is not connected please mentally replace "cmd-l cmd-c" with "tap in address bar to select, tap copy".

Also, others might share an amp link from their mobile devices, which I then end up clicking in a desktop slack/mail/messages app, and there we go again with the amp virus even on desktops.
Trump’s Order on Social Media Could Harm One Person in Particular: Donald Trump
That site is the definition of midwit pulp. Citing rationalwiki, referring to raw meat as "dangerous", vast overconfidence compared to the actual predictive power available. Sure, WAPF has some wacky stuff, but they also have some obviously good advice, and for most of the disputable claims they make, we don't actually have especially good evidence that they're wrong, so it's not something I'm going to waste energy arguing about.
Again, that's a very idealistic "role of the government" that assumes there will never be anyone who interprets what should and shouldn't be allowed differently from you, or in a way that harms you.

And then, once that happens, now you have no recourse - even if you build another platform, it ends up controlled by the same regulators.
> Am I the only one who wants multi-lined anonymous functions in Python?

Lots of people want them (lots of people don't, too), but no one has come up with a great syntax that plays nice with the rest of Python and saves you much over named functions.
Any chance some of the codemon used could be shared?
Ideas become better when refined. Sometimes over the course of years. You can assemble a larger composite idea under the umbrella of a single vision, comprised of many smaller ideas.

There's of course a balance to be struck depending on the idea's scope and urgency. Both may change with refinement.

Idea generation is both a learned skill and intrinsic to a person's circumstance and psychology. Ample unstructured time, low amounts of stress, and an affinity for day dreaming tend to help. Over time you grow to actually enjoy deep thinking as recreation.

I've noticed whenever I'm focused on a particular idea, it kind of forms a lens that shapes my world view. Anything I then encounter I view as a puzzle piece, which my mind attempts to reconcile into the larger puzzle that is the foremost idea in my mind at the time. It's a very similar dynamic to PG's musings on the subject.[0]

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html
Talking as an outsider, what's really weird to me is how the things Trump clearly says or does on a whim result in serious, deep debate in all the media and public forums.

He goes "I will build a wall spanning a continent to stop mexicans" and you see deep debate about how effective it would be, the price, the logistics of it... it's clearly a dumb idea, why does everyone pretend it's not and engage in deep consideration of it?

Now I'm seeing the same thing. Extensive debates about public opinion, the first amendment and the difficulties of moderating a service with millions of subscribers, when it is painfully obvious that the only reasoning by the president is "they messed with me so I'm going to get revenge".
Why would it be counter-intuitive? What exactly do you mean by our best nature? (What kind of behavior, bias, habit, etc goes against it?)

Oh, you mean "fact checking" empowers trolls. Yeah, sure, strictly speaking any interaction, any expenditure of energy/attention/resources on the troll is a "win" for the troll.

I don't want to "fuck with Trump", I want Twitter et al. to provide some sanity, the proverbial common sense, a grounding for reality. Even if that's just the tyranny of them damn techno-elitist valleywags.

I want twitter to empower me. The users. To help the users to spend less time on trolls. Basically Twitter, by investing in fact checking, helps others. And that's a big win in my book.

Trump and the usual populist will fizzle out. But it'd be nice to prevent the next one, and the next-next one to gain a foothold by spreading lies uncontested. (Yes, of course they'll just find the Twitter of that decade, or do some other media hack, parasites always find the weak spots, but none of this means Twitter and the various online community providers have to capitulate and just give up because trolls.)

Twitter is obviously less moderated than, let's say a subreddit, or HN, because it has a very direct financial dependence on a basic level of drama. And they're trying to rope-walk between irrelevance and first-past-the-post idiocracy.
I wouldn't consider increasing the labor pool by 10% a small effect.

Regardless, and once a company has figured out hiring remote for Canada, then why not add Mexico which through NAFTA/USMCA has sorted out IP type issues. Then once MX has worked well why stop there and repeat across South America. So, the reality is likely increasing the labor pool size every year for the next decade. Those annual small changes compound and lead to dramatic changes over the long term.

Take a look at what happened to manufacturing jobs in the US over the past few decades. Remote work has the potential to transform things just as much.
They are commonly referred to as a breaker control switch. Some types have a position indicator that is separate from the rotary switch mechanism to show actual breaker state rather than requested breaker state.
I have the opposite experience; Most of my close friends are online friends whom I met twenty years ago playing online games. It was decades until I saw them for the first time IRL, yet I consider them my closest friends. The only difference between my online best friends and my IRL best friends is that I mostly chat all day with the former, but chat in one long session with the latter (when we go out for drinks).
I've had many issues with OS X audio on Catalina - all of my USB audio devices skip and pop on it. It's also a pain to
configure, with options bizarrely hidden in the MIDI app.

Windows probably has the best audio stack of them all (battle tested, easy to use UX). In comparison, JACK/pulse are pretty good as well and people use it professionally. Like most things on Linux, the initial UX is a bit of a pain, but once you get past it you get amazing customization, even more so than Windows.

These are the only abstractions I'm aware of on Linux systems - and they are simply built on top of ALSA which is the
kernel's core sound API. Almost all desktop environments simply install PulseAudio, and you never have to worry about
sound.
What are you talking about? Trump is the one going after Twitter's right to free speech with this executive order. Liberals (and probably, hopefully, and if so, rightly, some conservatives) are the ones arguing for free speech right now.
I must give Perl 6 another look, I was using 5 up until about 2009 when I replaced it with Ruby. Be nice to see what's been done in that time.
Rare flank steak or tri-tip, cut along the grain. They will have to rip it by pulling. Healthier and tastier than overcooked meat.