skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like if Twitter fact-checked one tweet from a high-profile Democrat for every one they did of a high-profile Republican, there would be a lot less outcry over the situation. I know the president happens to be a high-profile Republican, and as a result he's a more salient target for fact-checking, but lying and being wrong are both bipartisan strategies. The accusation is that Twitter is almost completely staffed by Dem voters and that they're biased as a result. Everyone knows the premise of that accusation is true, so a little formal knod to dispel the conclusion would be welcome.
> Current wait is 8-12 weeks on a Y, and only a week or two on the rest.

Here in Europe it's August for all of S/3/X.
Good point.

Leftists think you're misgendering someone who thinks he's a woman if you call her a biological man, normal people see it the opposite way (that doesn't mean you need to not be nice and call her "she", but actually thinking one can change biological sex is insane).

That's why everyone should be able to say whatever they want, and people can discuss the merits of what's been said.
How can a statement about the future be empirically wrong?
SpaceX – Acquired [audio]
They expected 15 hours worth of work on it.
hmmm can't you screen record using Quicktime?
Although, if this is for a lecture, you might have to overlay a layer of audio on top.
But i'm not 100% sure about this, best of luck.
Amidst Covid-19, Do Technologists Feel Safe About Re-Entering Offices?
>(unless you consider HN social)

Yes, yes it is. What else would it be? What's the difference between sites like HN and reddit, and facebook?
I think courses covering professional ethics are now fairly common in CS degrees. For example, here is the current course at Edinburgh: http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/20-21/dpt/cxinfr10022.htm
This could be an extinction level event for the right. They have managed to circumvent the conventional media by going directly to the masses. If social media is mediated by the highly educated, and typically left leaning staff; there will be no way for the right to send out there message. The left leaning staff think they are doing the right thing, but what they are doing will extinguish the oxygen to the other side.
Trump didn't say "it will lead to more problems", he said that "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent". There's absolutely no evidence of that, and it's not true that "The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state".

There's no justification at all for that tweet. He's saying that mail-in votes will lead to substantially fraudulent elections, eroding the trust in the process. One could even consider what he's saying as dangerous to the democratic system itself.
What kind of oversight could even work though? We have the Queen in my neck of the woods but that is not exactly accountable and never does anything to check poor governance and only rips off taxpayers. We also have non-confidence votes which can bring down a Prime Minister, and it seems to work (in minority governments at least).

How can a separation of powers approach still check itself? Like different term limits, VP powers, congressional army? Banning factions or breaking up parties that get too big, banning private donors? Rooting for the American experiment to get sorted!
Likewise.
Firestore client API is nice and convenient, but it is so limiting on queries. One has to know the limitations and plan ahead on how to model the data around them, or risk the ability to do even some fundamental queries [0].
[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47251919/firestore-how-t...
ESET: Turla has updated ComRAT backdoor, now uses Gmail web interface for C&C
Original title was too long. It was:

Turla has updated its ComRAT backdoor and now uses the Gmail web interface for Command and Control
>If you have someone in your own network that thinks highly enough of you, the entire interview process can sometimes end up being as quick and painless as grabbing a coffee.

I was laid off immediately after 9/11 and I had lunch with an acquaintance of mine; I was a client at a prior job. This led to a job offer in about a month. (It was a very small firm and it just took them a while to decide if they wanted to bring someone on full-time.)

In the meantime I had some other get-togethers. Sent a bunch of resumes around. Etc. Crickets. And my current job came from basically sending an email to someone senior I knew at the #1 company on my short list.
"transformative catalyst for the business" is the reward, for a tiny risk of 0.2% market cap.
SO we are to be ruled by experts?

Show me the model produced by he experts that has been right? Show me the science behind the idea of quarantining the entire population in order to slow the spread of Covid-19. There is science behind quarantining sick people - but not healthy people. Show me the science behind the social distancing - 6 foot rule? I mean really - where IS the science to those things? These experts are self-proclaimed. I am more than willing to listen to a bridge builder tell me why I need to use a certain kind of steel as apposed to another - but many of these experts that we have been listening to lately are anything but experts.
Some things to note about variolation wrt Coronavirus:

- About a 2% death rate when used with Smallpox (compared to 20-30% without variolation), so we could expect mortalities from variolation with Coronavirus.

- You actually get infected with the virus, and are contagious, though the effects are lowered and you gain an immunity to the stronger/regular virus. So you'd still need to self-quarantine and people would need to still wear masks/do social distancing and close places with lots of people.
pricing rarely has anything to do with cost to produce, especially for goods are aren’t perceived as commodities
the problem with trying to find platforms that give more money to contributors is that the big platforms which take more money have more money for marketing. Historically big sites with low payouts have out preformed smaller sites with higher payouts. you need to find a way to both give out more money to contributors but also out advertise the big names to win in this space.
> Is it really _censorship_ to fact check tweets?

Not at all. Free speech in both cases. He is free to say what he thinks, we (us as individuals, Twitter as a company, everyone) are free to say we think he is talking complete and utter balderdash if that is what we think.

A president trying to silence Twitter's statement about what he has said by intimidating them is an attempt at censorship though.
The product is being forced to use AMP.
The story of quantum and particle physics is more accessible to most people because of its interplay with modern (i.e., post World War I) popular culture. People may not know the technical details, but they've heard of the players (Einstein, von Neumann,...) and they've seen the impact on the world (Manhattan project, World Wide Web). This gives them some basis for relating to news about particle physics. Maybe if we lived in a different world (underwater?), everyone might have heard of Kolmogorov instead. Then we'd be treated to lots of arm-chair speculation about whether Navier-Stokes solutions exist...

Even if one doesn't find the physics intrinsically interesting, one can at least appreciate the engineering achievements.
What all media (except Reuters...) failed to report: free Supercharging seems to be gone for S/X.
Looking forward to seeing whether this contains a microcode or OS patch to fix what appears to be an Ice Lake CPU bug:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-2310

Read the whole thing. It really appears as if there is a virtualization-escaping CPU-crashing bug in Ice Lake (10th generation) Intel chips that was discovered because it exclusively crashes when used with Jetbrains IDEs.

Sounds unlikely, yes, but seriously read the whole thing.
Tesla is going to get a huge amount of free publicity today. First from the SpaceX manned launch today who are going to be driven to the pad in a Model X and then later this evening from Jay Leno's Cybertruck test drive episode.
I couldn't disagree more-- with the "slowly" part, that is. As some people might say, "there are no brakes on the Trump train". Enjoy the show!
His speech is still there it just has a commentary beside it. Nothing in 230 requires a company to be either neutral or hands off with user content to get protection from civil liabilities for moderation.
> unless you consider HN social

Why wouldn't we? Pseudonyms? Reddit is considered social, I think, and that tends to be even more difficult to map to IRL identity.

Edit: just barely not inb4!
I think the position of this article requires a poor assumption with regards to the "marketplace of ideas." It assumes a majority of rational, fact-checking, good-faith actors which is just not the case in the real world. And without that particular check in place, falsehoods gain an undeserved advantage in the "marketplace of ideas."
public expression, on the NFL's property, under the NFL's name... Nobody believes Kapernick should be denied the right to say and do what he wants to say and do, but if I take actions contrary to my employer's best interests, on company time and property, my company can't restrict my right to speak, but they can sure tell me I can't do it on their property anymore, and they can terminate my employment as well.

As for the gun issue, nobody in the gun crowd liked that comment from him. Some have even argued they're not going to vote for him going forward as a result. But when the alternative is people who literally believe that the second amendment doesn't exist, doesn't say what it says, and don't believe that the SCOTUS rulings that have come down on it have any effect, what choice do they have?
For people that treat a "Fact Check" as an automatic "filter out this information" (I think there is a huge subset of the population that does, people don't thoughtfully take into account Fact Checks, they just treat them as a rebuke), it has the net effect of censorship. The move by twitter is kind of dumb in that sense because the population has already polarized into groups that think anything trump says is false, and those who do not. They are just basically putting an official seal on which side of that argument they land.
Trump threatens to shut down social-media platforms after Twitter fact-check
Trump plays no game but his own. There is no world to him except what he perceives, even more so than 99.9% of people his own self-supporting delusions drive his entire existence. No one can puncture that bubble, at least not that I've seen.
Mojave will be good for a long, long time to come. I run El Capitan on one machine and it still gets security updates. Homebrew sometimes gets confused trying to find an El-Cap specific formula but that's usually fixable.
For photos there's also istockphoto (the classic who started micropayments, now owned by Getty Images), and for vectors there's Adobe Stock (where I used to buy when they were still NL-based Fotolia/before they went all-subscription and raised prices). There are also indie type foundries left who haven't bought out to Monotype and who don't insist on draconian analytics to gauge prices but on trust.
You don't, you just need to provide a way to get them (you can even specify that requests must be sent by post and charge postage for the response on a CD). It's not a 'workaround', it's literally how the license is supposed to work.
But there is an upper limit to consumption. I know we keep pushing to see how much we can consume, but ultimately some FPS times the number of seconds in a day..
What amazes me about the US, is that there's no accountability for any actions.

If I start lying to me team at work, I'll have a very uncomfortable meeting with my boss.

If our sales people start lying to clients, the company may get dragged into courts.

If head of state lies when publicly addressing the country in many other countries, they'll be held accountable before congress.

But US seems to be about absolute freedom, and not about following ANY rules, no matter how basic. I never get why people accept such a system.
Just to distance myself from the current "conservative" establishment, I would argue that their views are not conservative so much as they are a relatively newer form of fascism. Typically with fascism there is nationalism that prioritizes the citizens of the nation above all else, but with this new "conservatism" in the US, the nationalism is a bit more race-based. But other than that it's much more close to fascism than what we in the US typically considered "conservatism".

Maybe we need a new word for it altogether?
Free supercharging is not on the X or S now. That is a significant change.

Supercharging Max/
Payment Type200 kW max; Pay Per Use
They give free ads to Trump by providing him a platform in the first place! He doesn't have to use that platform.
While I agree with the main thrust of the article (Chesterton's fence, etc.), the author seems to take as a given the fact that Netflix is sliding back into becoming as expensive as cable, because the content providers are setting the prices.

But Netflix's value is not from competing against cable on price, it's competing against piracy on convenience.

Content providers will never again see the same profits, because the de-facto price of content is zero. It's too easy to pirate, and morally grey enough that people are willing to do it.

Netflix got so big because it captured the market of people who were willing to pay for the convenience. If this gets too high they will just go back to pirating.
PeerTube sounds interesting, but going to their website I am lost. Why all those promotional videos and descriptions and confusing links? I expected to just see the videos in their directory and be able to search for videos, something like the YouTube interface. And I'm a technical user, I imagine the average user would close the page instantly.
Under the hood we are just postgres. At the moment every user is on their own Postgres database with some additional plugins and defaults: https://github.com/supabase/postgres

We are already working on High Availability, and we'll give a very simple point-and-click for replication too (so you can create multiple DB's close to your customers/audiences)
One avenue that has been taken by Youtube for example with the Coronavirus news is to not try to detect lies/truths but just detect the controversial topic and add a banner under the video with a link to official sources. It's much simpler to implement. A disadvantage is that it becomes so ubiquitous that people probably don't care about the link.
The C# preprocessor is unnecessarily restricted. It has a few features but it feels very arbitrary what they include or exclude. I think they didn’t like the idea but couldn’t avoid it totally so they did something half assed. I bet a lot of frameworks that need reflection could be replaced with macros if the preprocessor had a few more features.
I was in the social media support for one of the candidates during the Democratic primaries. Because of that we had direct access to twitter and the DNC social medial group.

We noticed David Rothkop who had a decent size following and contributed to MSNBC and the DailyBeast was a registered foreign agent of the United Arab Emirates [1]

David Rothkopf had made some wild accusations against two presidential candidates who were most critical of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

We asked Twitter multiple times that if anyone is a registered foreign agent and is constantly commenting on the US primaries and elections, that twitter should flag that account with some indicator or icon.

All Twitter's government public relation person did was to give us some lip service and didn't do anything about it.

[1] https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6596-Exhibit-AB-20180927-1.pdf
Not worth the $400B more it cost to build it.
One X was a lemon and spent months in the shop. The second X was better but still needs a warranty repair every few months. The 3 is better still but has had six or seven service visits.
It will do all of those things in the right circumstances though.

Dual-stacked eyeball ISPs see over 50% of their traffic go via native v6. If they're CGNATing then that corresponds to a substantial drop in the amount of traffic that needs to be CGNATed, and therefore also a corresponding drop in the cost of the hardware needed to do it.
I got my BS in CS 13 years ago and I had to take a dedicated ethics course and also several of my other courses had ethics components. I don't know how common it is but certainly many colleges/universities have been doing it for quite some time.
This argument makes me pretty uneasy, since it seems like it can essentially be used to censor whatever you want. If e.g. the people fighting for climate justice get branded as ecoterrorists, wouldn't removing their 'propaganda' be ok under that line of thought?

I think the right to free speech isn't some enshrinement of the right to spew garbage, but the realization that restrictions of free speech can very easily be turned against 'good' causes.
I basically can't look at my phone screen when doing TTS for full sentences, it does something to derail me and I basically cannot finish a sentence, similar to how DAF trips people up. Am I alone in this?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_Auditory_Feedback
If you're wanting to combine that with e.g. asciinema - you can front-load a shell script via `asciinema rec -t "Some Presentation" -c ./presentation.sh`
Anecdotal:

My mother-in-law works at a hospital adjacent to a large reservation. They're treating large numbers of natives.

She says people from the reservation refuse to practice any social distancing or wear PPE.
Well, I don't think it can be see as a positive even if human beings are the ones to fact-check.

Who is someone working for Facebook or anyone else to flag my messages because they think they're not factual?

This is crazy.
Allowing him to post on their service with a counterpoint stitched right underneath his misinformation is far preferable for him to alternatives they could choose.

Those alternatives would be "censorship" (in some sense; not any real legal sense).

This is not censorship.
There’s a difference between you or I saying something incorrect (willfully or not) on the Internet and a world leader doing the same. Twitter already distinguishes famous people, world leaders, etc. in a variety of ways. It seems reasonable that this would be one of them, given that the potential reach and impact of anything they say far, far exceeds that of your average Tweeter.
They're trying to boost sales with price cuts:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-prices/tesla-cuts-p...

All car manufacturers have seen sales decline due to the coronavirus pandemic.
‘“If you were Walmart, the thing you would most want to do is have the government shut down your competition, and that happened,” Cramer said on “Squawk Box.”

‘“Now those boutique stores have lost a base of customers and ... a base of workers who really were the people who might have known the customers. The big guys won,” Cramer said.’
Pascal/Delphi code is soooooo clean to read and code in!
And it's quite modern: https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction.html
I am also shocked when people call HD (1920x1080) panels "shitty". Even though I am using a pretty hi resolution ultra ultra wide, HD still feels like the bleeding edge for me.
Trump's claim was that there _will be_ fraud if we have mail in ballots.

Unless Jack Dorsey knows the future, I'm not sure you can fact check something that hasn't happened yet.
That article was 8 years old an deals mostly with people who vote absentee.

States like Oregon and Washington have systems in place to make sure every ballot is counted. You get 18 days to send in your ballot, you can check online to see if your ballot has been received. If not, you have plenty of time to request a new one.

Oregon has been voting by mail for almost 20 years. In that time they have sent out about 100M ballots with only 12 cases of voter fraud found.
+1 The Apple experience is frustrating at best and usually flat out wrong. Especially for use cases it is supposed to be good at like hands free driving where accuracy is paramount to use case's success.
Under a doctrine of free speech, politics has no "clearly false messages". There are only "messages". You are, however, allowed to state that a message is "clearly false".

Thus if you wish to say that the world is flat, then you are allowed to say so, and others are allowed to state their supporting or opposing arguments on the same topic on the same forum, and everyone is allowed to listen.
Are message boards / BBS / forums?
How to Write an Installable Django App
Has there ever been a time in history where politicians weren't slimy lying weasels? I feel like a lot of people came of age during the Obama era, which had a friendly media, and never realized the truth about how presidents usually are until we got to the Trump era and the media started doing its job again. Does anyone remember how we got in to Iraq?
Your solution is to ban humans from talking to more than 5 others at once?
Show HN: Guide to Freelancing in Sweden
When I started freelancing, I spent a ton of time figuring out all the rules and regulations, how to do accounting, how taxation works, how to pay a salary, how to find gigs etc etc. I tried distilling this into a single guide, hoping to save others some time.

Please let me know if you have some feedback!
I'm curious what you mean by "literally nothing there", considering dozens of people have been charged and found guilty/jailed with crimes relating to the investigation, many of which were part of the Trump administration or working closely together with them [1]. Paul Manafort, the chairman of Donald Trumps' 2016 campaign is currently serving a 7.5 year prison sentence relating to this investigation.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2018/dec/...
The rabbit hole goes deeper.

If the movie describes reality then it does it pretty well and then apparently reality can be described as a joke.

If the movie satires reality and we cannot discern the satire from reality then reality was already a joke to begin with, we just didn't know.

The question is not how did we get here or how did this happen? But how do we get out of here? :)
More incredible is that they don’t seem to have a system for “this account is being actively targeted” because even after this somewhat public attack and “fix”, the same creator just got attacked again with the same thing on another video.

Tweet 4 hours ago from that creator:
https://mobile.twitter.com/gamefromscratch/status/1265579494...
A/B testing is illegal in the EU?
It'd be pretty cool if we had a general system in place for capturing the spread of future diseases.
Too bad this post has already been removed from the front page of HN. It barely survived 30 minutes.
Since at least 2011, the Dutch test wastewater of cities for traces of drugs, such as cocaine and XTC, and use this to inform public policy.

Already in 2009 it was known that coronaviruses can survive and remain infectuous in sewage water for up to two weeks.

Early covid wastewater research mostly focuses on waste water and stool as a possible infection vector, and in March 3rd the WHO suggested that COVID patients use their own toilet, to avoid spread through aerosolization during flushing, and to increase chlorination efforts of sewage systems.

From the first outbreak of SARS-CoV, it was found that apartment plumbing can be an infection vector, and due to this, in Hong Kong, people suggest closing the toilet lid before flushing.
Momentum Isn’t Magic–Vindicating the Hot Hand with the Mathematics of Streaks
You are waiting for Berlin to go up right? Or is that next year?