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>What's surprising is how often I encounter fellow Americans mistakenly asserting the first amendment extends beyond government and into the private sector.

I've only ever heard people complaining that people misunderstand the first amendment. I've yet to see someone say they believe the first amendment governs and protects against private censorship.

However, I constantly see people conflating the concept of free speech and the first amendment. Free speech is an ideological principle, not a law.

If you read the first section of the EO it is clear that they are attempting to make an argument that Twitter, by moderating/curating/screening, is no longer protected by section 230, as defined by the famous 90s court cases regarding prodigy, aol, and compuserve. [0] [1]

Spurious argument or not you are mischaracterizing the situation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prod....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeran_v._America_Online,_Inc.
no one denies that voter fraud is possible. the more important question is whether voter fraud is a serious threat to the voting process, and there's no evidence of this.

collecting ballots from the mailboxes of dead people is not exactly a scalable enough way to rig an election for the democrats to warrant serious concern — especially considering how the hardest-struck communities vote democratic anyway. and besides, if you wanted to request a ballot for your sick roommate to perpetuate voter fraud, you could already pull that off in most states.

mail-in-ballot fraud concern-trolling is a long-established propaganda effort that doesn't have to be addressed on a case-by-case basis
>On one hand, how would it benefit their/Lime's business to have loads of people owning electric scooters and bikes

I see these as different use cases. I own an eBike which I use for commuting. I also use Lime bikes (before they shut down) to get around the city. The key difference is storage. If I take MY bike, I have to very securely lock it up, carry a heavy lock and chain around, and worry about whether my destination has storage. As such, it only gets me between work, home, and occasionally the store.

On the other hand, I use Lime bikes to get across the city anywhere. If I'm going to a brewery or a concert or whatever, I just get close to my destination, find an out of the way, and get off the bike. It's significantly easier.
If you want to use a lot of resources without paying the cost of providing them, you are the definition of a bad customer. Your service provider isn’t your VC, not lest of all because you aren’t giving them equity. Bad customers should
always be fired ASAP so they don’t damage the business.

Ideally a business provides a service it’s customers are happy to pay the costs of, and not just the costs, but also a significant profit. That leads to a virtuous circle where the business is incentivized to continue to invest in the service, adding more servers, engineers and support personnel to add more valuable features for its customers.

Otherwise it’s just a matter of time before they post that farewell letter and give you the phase out date the servers are shutting down.
I get an interesting article emailed to me every day from Thinking About Things [0], so I use that to go down some rabbit hole.

[0] www.thinking-about-things.com
Also interesting to note that Tarkovsky hated 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Done, actually. I just thought it was a good title, did not mean to mislead or direct to something that wasn't relevant.
That's what's actually fairly impressive about C# being #1 on plaintext. Both ASP.NET and Kestrel (the frontend server) are both fully in managed code.
Adding fact checking is not censorship. You have the right to say whatever you like, and everyone else has the right to have opinions about it.
I think you explained it right. Over the last couple of years I started working from home more and more to the point that I'm considering going full remote after this pandemic.

The way I see it is an evolution from old-school thinking to the future of work. Going remote IS going to be the future that we like it or not. Every year our collaboration tools become better and better and as new generation come into the workforce they will increasingly start by being remote first.

It is as if you drove a car after using horse your whole life but a subset of people want to convince you that everyone should go back to horses because it's easier to have that "feeling of camaraderie" with your engine.
That's a way to avoid having to test the law, certainly. What happens if you don't do that, though—if you have a public-use area, and none of it is a "free-speech zone"?
I wish we could fine them for this. All of that landfill waste and they could have at least given them away... Really a shame.
That's exactly it. Twitter disseminated the president's words as he wrote them to everyone that wanted to see it. They also said it was wrong.

Fundamentally the whole exercise is an attempt to conflate Twitters (first amendment!) right to speak its own opinions with somehow "restricting" the rights of their subscribers. And that's insane. Just look at how many people in this very thread are buying into the frame by discussing what big companies should be allowed to censor, when of course nothing of the sort occurred at all.
I'm surprised the FEC isn't involved as well. It would seem like a donation in kind to block candidates and elected officials from twitter.
Obama has a huge advantage over Trump and Modi. When you make a new account, Twitter normally suggests following Obama. That gets him followers for zero effort. On the other hand, new accounts that immediately follow a bunch of people like Trump get hit with random annoying account restrictions that might cause a person to hesitate or even delete their account.
There's two competing lenses of thought that bookend your struggle:

On one hand, Sam's point is basically described by Paul Graham's essay on "Narrow and Deep" ideas [1]. You want an idea to have a few passionate users rather than lots of lukewarm users, because there's an activation energy to building a habit and if you're only lukewarm you're not going to get over it. As PG put it, "Sum that reaction over a whole population, and you have no users."

On the other hand, you have Geoffrey Moore's "Crossing the Chasm" [2]. This has the critical observation that early adopter & mainstream populations are different. About 10% of the population has an early-adopter mindset: they will try anything because it's new and cool. Those are the people Sam says you should be hanging out with in this article. But your experience with them doesn't generalize, because most people don't think like that. Most people are self-interested and have short attention spans: if it doesn't deliver clear value to them with minimal hassle, they aren't interested.

The set of world-changing products really exists in the intersection of these two worldviews. Products that had lots of passionate early adopters but failed to cross the chasm include Lisp, LiveJournal, RSS, VR (both times), and cryptocurrency. Products that aimed for too mainstream a market and only had lukewarm users include WebTV, grocery delivery, and smartwatches. In between are products like the iPhone, where the PDA market had been sitting in early-adopter limbo since 1991 but technological changes finally made it practical, or YouTube, where streaming video had been in early-adopter limbo since RealAudio in 1997 (?) but cell-phone video, Flash, and easy web uploads made it practical in 2005.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
because they're a platform not a distributor, or however the argument goes
That’s quite interesting! When my mouth is closed, at least half of my tongue is always naturally touching the roof of my mouth. Despite my oral hygiene not being the best (I brush my teeth every day, but rarely floss), I’ve never had a cavity (I did have to get my wisdom teeth removed though). I notice it’s much easier for my mouth to produce saliva when my tongue is touching the roof of my mouth, which definitely helps (quoting the linked article: “saliva buffers the teeth against acid attack and bathes them in calcium and phosphate to remineralize their surface”).
Contrary to cp, dd can report progress (status=progress switch)
"The ideal of free speech and its merits applies just as well to private actors and we should try to live up to it whenever we can."

What exactly does this mean if it doesn't apply to actively telling people when and where they can speak?
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Neural Network creates South Park character responses to tweets
One of the better clickbait titles I've come across on HN
Totally valid points - but this is why oversimplifying the entire issue into "Private sector bad! Public sector good!" (or vice-versa) is a terrible idea. However, oversimplifying what big companies like Apple do as pushing ads is just as bad. Think about the supply chains involved in building an iPhone, and how the individual components are manufactured - it's decades beyond the roots in government (and remember, projects like the Internet still depended on private companies to actually build most of the hardware).
Yes! Flac support is important, thank you for the suggestion. I would expect it to be already supported https://caniuse.com/#search=flac and I am just using web audio functions it should decode fine (but it's not). Maybe I am overzealously filtering for formats!

And performance is fine, but it can be so but soooo much better! Like just by adding sprinkling some wasm or asmjs in the "onaudioprocess" loops, to speed up the buffer traversing loops and escape the dreaded garbage collector!
I thought this was a pretty good article that didn't over-sensationalize SaaS products, while still explaining how they can lead to success.

It sucks that the OP's website didn't "blow up", but then again, most micro-SaaS's are not meant to go viral like that.

One point I would add is that there should be more promotion other than just posting on HN + PH. If that's where your launch stops, you may not be realizing your full potential.

Another little nitpick; The domain they used (EarlyBrd.io) was kinda weird due to the unconventional spelling. Yes, you don't need a dot com, but it should still be something you can mention in conversation and have the other party instantly understand & be able to spell, without you spelling it out for them.

Lastly, why does everyone here seem to care more about post titles than actual posts nowadays?
Early 2000s: Remember when everyone wanted to try to build a business on the idea that "internet + non-technical-business = $$$$$" ?

Early 2020s: Remember when everyone wanted to try to build a business on the idea that "internet + some software a random person might pay $5 for = $$$$$" ?
> The 25 vs 15 dollars issue means their business sucks unless they have a value add on top?

As I am buying "less desirable produce" (from what I can tell it all came from normal cases that a restaurant would order, I think this fools some people as they aren't used to seeing produce that still has dirt on it and is less presentable like that) I would expect more of it for my money, not less. I understand they have to pay for shipping but it's not as if I don't have to go to the grocery store anyway, maybe I just don't see the value proposition, for us it just wasn't there.

>If you were getting 15 lemons per week, maybe contract the vendor and try to address the issue?

Even if the product was more evenly distributed it wasn't enough for it to provide value for me. That point was just the final nail in the coffin.
Is markdown anything other than syntax? But yes quite a big part on (mostly) pagination is missing, which will need to be added.

I still think this is easier than merging the commonly used LaTeX packages into one code base and then building a proper IDE and a method to output to HTML.

Much better to start with markdown, extend KaTeX to support whatever you still need for math notation, and then work on making pandoc output to PDF (or equivalent) natively.

On of the bigger problems is bridging the gap between unpaginated HTML and paginated PDF. However if you start from the LaTeX side you'll need to deal with decades of technological debt as well.
Media Sensationalism, Big Tech Bias Extended Lockdowns – RealClearPolitics
if you're removing off-topic comments and spam, you're already moderating. see also: doxxing, child pornography, etc.
The ‘useless cat’ shtick is dumb. Unix command line is based on connecting programs in pipelines. The first step of a pipeline like that is handing the file to a filtering/processing util (or whatever else). Like, if I decide to use awk instead of sed, I shouldn't have to dance around the ‘<file’, because the ‘<file’ is the first step and awk/sed is the second.

(Edit: another comment provides a different example: putting in ‘cat’ instead of ‘head’—or often, switching back and forth a couple times.)

The ‘useless cat’ bunch of dorks are just astoundingly oblivious to the actual interface of the system. Instead, their argument is the hilariously nitpicky ‘omg one more process, it's so slow’. Did running a ‘cat’ really take more time in '95 than fiddling around the ‘<file’?
Copywriting is one tool of many in a bootstrapper's arsenal.
Lived for a while in an apartment building put up about 1910/20, so indeed pushing a century. Solid oak doors. The banisters (railings on the stairs) also solid oak. Duplicated would cost a fortune today with newly cut wood.
From the text:

// Twitter now selectively decides to place a warning label on certain tweets in a manner that clearly reflects political bias. As has been reported, Twitter seems never to have placed such a label on another politician’s tweet. As recently as last week, Representative Adam Schiff was continuing to mislead his followers by peddling the long-disproved Russian Collusion Hoax, and Twitter did not flag those tweets. Unsurprisingly, its officer in charge of so-called ‘Site Integrity’ has flaunted his political bias in his own tweets. //

As far as executive orders go, this one strays pretty far from the legalese into just making a bunch of wild accusations.
And both together could fit on a hard disk you could buy 23 years ago.
Do you have a source for the starch-ivore comment? Id like to do some research. Thanks.
This post may be immoral if it hopes for the next big thing. I wonder if it does more harm than good for the world. If someone is to indeed invent the next big thing after the Mobile Phone, for sure they don't need this kind of motivational post. For "smaller" ideas, yes, read ahead. But think it is immoral to encourage a wide audience to shoot for the stars, and try big ideas that have a 0% chance of succeeding and 100% chance of causing lost time and effort, and even financial, social and personal hardship.
how will that number look when you first autoconvert via 2to3?

I did two migrations of >500k loc projects in an afternoon each, and admittedly some days of testing to gain confidence since there where few unit test. But i found it to be very smooth sailing.

I was very familiar with both projects, so that helped a lot.

EDIT: I also want to add that i did this using python3.5, when to ecosystem seemed to be at a sweet spot of dependencies supporting both 2 and 3 mostly. I guess if one has been waiting until now, the divide between library versions will be a lot bigger.
I know I’m asking a lot, but could you share more about this google doc? How is it organized, do you both edit it, do you use comments, etc?
Exactly this and I'm surprised that I had to scroll this far down to find this comment.

Extract this scenario out into meat space. Imagine if a town was running a bulletin board where anyone could post town news and a citizen posted a flyer talking about town crime statistics that were wrong. A town employee noticed and posted an addendum identified as being from the town right next to the flyer saying "actually the real data is X". Should town employees not be allowed to do that?
> Yeah, sure, strictly speaking any interaction, any expenditure of energy/attention/resources on the troll is a "win" for the troll.

I don't think you have a much developed "troll framework" in your mind.

I believe you're a good, noble person, and I really want your life to be amazing for that. Unfortunately, what you said implies you think trolls are just trying to take energy. That they have no point. Seemingly, you're missing even the most basic and fundamental aspect of trolling: to show the other person is also a self-absorbed asshole who cheats and lies when they can, but then on top of that is too weak to admit it to themselves.

Trolls pick on "holier-than-thou" people because they live in a self-centered illusion about how good they are. The truth is, we're all garbage, selfish beings that do everything for ourselves and take credit for anything we can get away with. Fact checkers included.

The only way to approach a troll is as a fellow stupid piece of shit. So ignoring trolls is a pretty POS move... ignoring anybody is shitty. But to really show you're a piece of shit, you have to same something lame before you ignore them like: "ur mom." You need to prove not only that you don't give a shit what they say, but also that you've got no "good human" bubble to pop. Whoever says the most loses.
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The science of psilocybin and its use to relieve suffering
Is there a word for "Creating a solution for a problem that doesn't exist?" The descriptive linguist in me thinks we can start calling that a blockchain.
This is a symptom of a larger problem. The Constitution and thusly the election system is woefully out of date and needs a formal rewriting based on a more general and modern consensus of ideas and principals. All of these issues could be irrelevant with an updated and more precise rule of law and government. I think we can all agree that any document which counts some people as 3/5s needs to be reassessed.
Not even close. You need a whole directory tree of random junk and a whole passel of build tools before that XML file does anything. Meanwhile on the web I can open any text editor, type some random HTML without any boilerplate, possibly even with some inline JavaScript code, save it with a .html extension and it's already a single page app.

As a bonus, all the tools to debug it (even with a device simulator or remotely on a real Android device) are already installed as part of the browser, and the browser itself is a download of less than 100 MB.
Yeah, but the animation editing resembles of the same thing done in MM Flash. And I haven't seen that in many many years. That's where the thought came from, not anything else.
Figma in Quarantine
Well you could mark every div with an individual tag, and then have a realllllyyyyy big css file. ^^'
Extending free speech laws to cover companies which acts as public forums is not the same as the government telling companies what they are allowed to say and do. If you think that free speech laws are fine for governments then you should also think it is fine for certain companies which grew too powerful and influential.
I'd be curious to hear real lawyers weigh in on this, but... that sounds pretty dubious to me. Executive orders aren't laws, they don't get interpreted by courts in general and they absolutely don't override existing case law! I mean, who cares what the executive branch says about section 230? We know what congress wrote, and we know how the judiciary has interpreted it, because we've already had that fight.
> surely it would have to be a cross-distro effort

No. Each person that wants to write a manpage just needs to decide on their own what format they want to write it in and use a tool that converts that format to nroff. There's no need for coordination amongst anyone, and this way there's no risk of breaking existing manpages.

There's multiple such tools. Here's one:

https://github.com/mvertes/txt2man

It's in the main repos of at least Archlinux and Debian.

> maybe Markdown isn't the perfect format without modifications. But it's always felt like a natural evolution to me

I don't think Markdown supports the indentation conventions of manpages.
It also seems likely that quick geological events are rather slow on a human time scale...

So we'll hopefully have hundreds of years, if not thousands of years to prepare.
In the years I have worked in an office I have never built a genuine relationship with anyone. And not from lack of trying. I talk to them every morning and share interesting things I found / projects I have worked on / hobbies. Usually I get a little bit of conversation back but I have never gotten to the point where I would invite someone from work out to the pub on the weekend. I haven't ever seen anyone else get to this point either.
That's an anecdote, not data. The last article I read about this calculated that around 20% of new drug approvals came directly from government/academic research - and that's usually repurposed older drugs (which is actually a good place to focus, since it's cheaper and big pharma isn't really interested in resurrecting off-patent molecules).
Be aware that this article is by now over a year old.

While I respect him a lot for a lot of the work he does some of the thinks in that article are IMHO just not right (and hadn't been a year ago either).

E.g. yes cargo is somewhat mandatory but no rust doesn't refuses to play along. It's just that if you try to integrate rustc in the same way you would do so for a C/C++ compiler it wouldn't work because they way rust build thinks it's very different. So the best way to integrate rust into another build system is through cargo, which had been extended with such and other use cases in mind (emitting metadata etc.).

Also in practice you often have similar problems for C/C++ projects which requires you to use that specific build system or port and maintain houndred of lines of <make/python/..> code. Worse the isn't a standard way to do thinks like running tests or seeing which features so exist.
> Aspnet core using a "rawdb" adapter doesn't seem like what I would interperet as "realistic".

Why not? I don't think using raw SQL instead of an ORM is particularly uncommon.

The "platform" benchmarks (aspcore-rhtx-pg, aspcore-ado-pg) that appear to skip the ASP.NET Core framework entirely and write raw HTTP responses are definitely not realistic though. I'm going to assume that these are mislabeled because this filter is new and not all the benchmarks have been updated yet.
Like the UI on Tesla screen! Can this tech also track my tires lifecycle?
I've been using Unix in one form or another since 1986, and I was today years old when I learned about 'grep -c'. I've probably done some form of 'grep foo | wc -l' once or twice a month every month over those 34 years.

While I'm sure that says something about me, it also says something about the depth and complexity of Unix/Linux. There is a LOT there, so it's not surprising that people find less-than-optimal ways to solve their problems.
I live across the country from my dad and miss him quite a bit even though we havent seen each other in a long time. We chat weekly or so.
Reminder: The FCC is currently 3-2 Republicans. Starks is a Democrat.
It's mind-numbingly strange how the Trump administration is reacting to Twitter attaching a "get the facts" link with attacks with accusations of being "fundamentally un-American and anti-democratic" and, ghasp, censorship.

US citizens need to step up because the whiffs of fascism are getting stronger.
Lactobacillus Reuteri supposedly fights off Steptococus Mutans, (the decay causing bacteria.)

Xyletol gum is also claimed to fight S. Mutans.