skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It worked on the same major platforms. One thing that probably extended its life somewhat was that it provided access to some Windows-specific DRM technologies on non-Windows platforms, not entirely unlike how Flash was once the most reliable cross-platform way to play video in a browser.
I agree that Trump sucks. Rhetorically, worst president. But as policies and outcomes go, there have been worse. Hoover? How about the fact that we banned alcohol for over a decade? Bush started a ruinous war on false pretenses. FDR incarcerated Japanese Americans in internment camps. LBJ and Vietnam. What about the chain of corporate owned presidents that allowed, and encouraged, outsourcing of manufacturing? That certainly hurt coronavirus response. SK and China were able to make their own PPE. US factories have dwindled over decades. Trump didn't create that mess. Clinton and Newt Gingrich did in a bipartisan sell out of the working class.

Read a history book and gain some perspective. You lack it.

By the way, you left out affordable housing. That is a huge generational theft, and is the worst in areas like California, where baby boomers used zoning laws to prevent an adequate supply of new housing from being built.
Calpers is like a king with no pants everyone pretends to respect them but they are as dumb as money gets
Yeah it's pretty interesting we are sitting here arguing about free speech nuance(with people who lack a basic understanding of it as would have been taught in high school civics TBH) and weak-man arguing if the POTUS tweet was really inaccurate based on the purposeful vagaries of the first sentence while rest contained straight up factual errors(lies?).

While we are doing this the most astonishing thing happening is actually the extent to which the POTUS is constantly lying and spreading miss/disinformation. Every day. For more than three years now as you point out.

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump is the single greatest source of lies and otherwise false and purposefully misleading information in most peoples lives. Perhaps even greater than all other sources combined! That and the amount of effort spent discussing this for years is incredible.
Their lawyers will have a hard time justifying that none of the original source was used to create their new win-get project, given that the author of appget has met with the engineering team directly.

So if it were GPL, microsoft would likely need to license their new winget project under GPL, which would be a win/win for open source.
I think he was just pointing to the larger problem. If we accept the premise that these companies are unable to be unbiased and accurate with the application of their rules at scale, which we have every reason to believe, then the problem is the platform itself.
To clarify, they did fix the reimbursement issue but ignored the interview update issue.
Tutorials for CherryPy Applications
https://i.imgur.com/oDHwxQB.jpg
I don’t think their target audience knows either.
That reminds me of how pizza deliveries in Washington increase when there is a "crisis" [1]. Maybe that's one of the things you were referring to.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clint...
That's due to the over reaction: the lockdown
How many steps of the scientific method should scientists need to get through before they can make policy? Throughout this pandemic we've been getting whipsawed by "science". Is a few months really enough time to do all the science on a question as difficult as the efficacy of masks during a novel virus pandemic?
All of the people I've discussed it with say that they think masks are dehumanizing. I suspect that there's an association with criminality too.
The big advantage I could see is that it runs C#, which has broader application than ActionScript.

My impression is that Silverlight's whole packaging & delivery model was envisioned to be more wide-spread but didn't take off. Microsoft was thinking that you could write one program, and then easily package & distribute it as a web app (via Silverlight), or a Windows Phone app, or a native Windows app, or an Xbox app. But... Windows Phone died, Xbox never grew from a game platform into a home multimedia platform, and C# did not achieve popularity for user-facing desktop apps. Plus Microsoft churned Windows APIs a few times.

I could easily see an alternate present where Silverlight was more successful for a longer time, if the timing was different or if a few events broke a different way. But I doubt that alternate present is better than this one.
It depends on the region. This sort of study is still greatly needed in places. Like Australia, where the official statement is: "Surgical masks in the community are only helpful in preventing people who have coronavirus disease from spreading it to others. If you are well, you do not need to wear a surgical mask as there is little evidence supporting the widespread use of surgical masks in healthy people to prevent transmission in public" [ https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/coronavirus... ]

Check out Australian news sites to see all the maskless people.
It's untested in court.

GCC is written specifically to prevent this sort of firewalling of the compiler to prevent it from being plugged into another piece of software and avoid GPL requirements.
I don't Twitter and I don't follow Trump, so I don't know the answer. Does Twitter fact check every Trump tweet? Does it ever find any to be factual? If Trump tweeted that he loves the Jets, would that get fact checked? If he tweeted that FEMA has done a superb job in guiding the WHO through this whole pandemic, would that get fact checked? Or do only some tweets get the treatment?
The Good and Bad of Chiplets
I think this is one of those easily over-thought of things.

I keep a digital file system the same as my parents used to keep their filing cabinet. Alphabetized folders. Each person in the family (me, wife & kids) has their own folder with all their stuff in it. I have every important document scanned and saved as PDFs. The physical originals live in a real file folder of the same name and organized structure inside the filing cabinet in the closet.

Product receipts for warranties and docs, insurance declarations, taxes, credit card agreements and scanned card copies, etc all organized as you’d typically see in a real filing cabinet with their digital PDF counterparts inside a digital folder.

This is all stored using iCloud Drive (we’re an Apple family) that’s accessible from all my devices. It’s actually been a life saver several times while on travel. Wife lost her passport once coming back from Mexico, being able to pull up a PDF scan kept us from being trapped outside the country.

Some things we really don’t need a SAAS product for. Just create folders and take care to keep them up to date and organized as you would an old school filing cabinet.
Will the chiplet model ever work?
> And thanks to the ingenuity of a few space-obsessed billionaires, we might be poised to destroy it sooner rather than later

And that’s as far as I’ll read. How does garbage like this get printed?
> Linus is adamantly against that clause.

oh i didnt know he was adamant against the clause - i thought that he didn't want to force it upon the many existing users of linux.
fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK the new york times
Let's Talk Social Media
This is different though because the concept of “design” or “teleology” gets reduced to history by evolution. This undermines the idea that humans can goals either, but if you undermine the idea that humans can have goals, you’ve eliminated the basis of doing science, leading to contradiction. You can bring goals back and say well evolution/biology only has apparent goals but humans really do have goals, but that’s actually a really hard task philosophically!

The bird/plane case is different because to the ignorant, they may only know of birds, but you can explain that there is a more fundamental category of “flying thing” and a plane, like a bird, fits into that category without being a bird itself.

With design you have to say, well there’s design and apparent design and for some reason biology has apparent design but humans have real design. It’s a tricky problem!
Ask HN: If you were “too early”, were you right or wrong?
I often see companies that fail reason that they had a great idea, but they were "too early" for the market. But I wonder if being "right" at the wrong time, simply means you were wrong?

For example, I remember reading about an example where a person put together a ridesharing algorithm years before Uber and Lyft. Some people would say that person saw the future or that they were "right all along". But then there's the argument that they worked on something that had no potential at that time, ie: years before the modern cellphone was widely used.

I also know someone that had built a "cloud kitchen" a decade ago. They could've been "right", but ultimately at that time, they failed.

Maybe this thinking is too dichotomic, but I do wonder if there's a thoughtful way to consider these situations with hindsight.
Well, take a look at the following examples of convictions made for ‘fraudulent use of absentee ballots’ (and other forms of voter fraud): https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/p...

I suppose the pandemic is a valid point for wanting to vote by mail, but concerns for voting integrity are still there. I think there should be an easy-to-implement contactless yet in-person way to vote (maybe similar to how you get a coronavirus test), which would avoid the rather drastic action of allowing universal mail-in voting. Know that there are many states who ban / regulate it for good reason.
I mean, that kind of makes sense. But instead, why not hire 5,000 when times are good, stash away the rest of the cash, and then just keep all the great people you have when business is down?

It seems like retaining people instead of hiring up a bunch of new people and possibly losing some of your best people would be a better approach.

Sure, the other guys might get ahead of you a bit during the boom times, but you'll get a good jump during the bust and be much better positioned to take advantage of the next boom.
In the part of America I live, you cannot enter buildings or public spaces without a mask. Not everyone has the same policies.
No one's asking you to compare. He's just saying winget works exactly the same as appget. So you can read that article about appget to learn how winget works.
> Honestly somewhat insulting that they made him go through a full external interview loop.

Wait, what? So if someone is a "name brand" celebrity, they should get to jump the queue and coast by with an "informal chat?" How is that fair? I don't care if I'm interviewing John Carmack, he's getting the same evaluation process I would give to any other senior candidate. Software Engineering's got enough problems with interviewing--it doesn't need an aristocracy that gets special treatment.
Part of their mission is to inspire the next generation. So if it doesn't add to the cost or make it more hazardous, making it look good / futuristic can have a positive payoff if some 10 year old kid looks at it and decides to go into a STEM field and invent something cool.
I don't think that's a failure of the NT subsystem approach, I think that's just that Linux turned out to have a massive and changing ABI surface and Microsoft didn't want to try and recreate the whole thing by clean room reimplementation. Yes, there were some difficulties because of different underlying primitives, but in my outsider's opinion, they could have made it work if they've been wanting to spend the time and effort.
I already said this goes beyond Trump. Others have been censored before, and they won't be the last. Trump is the only person in a position to actually do something about it.
I believe the intention was simply to illustrate that complexity can evolve from simplicity. It's quite a bit more difficult to build a working example that relies on actual natural selection.
Fun fact, 30-40% of the food in our supply chain is wasted. So, we're actually not too far from that. Sure, the meals aren't directly wasted by the company and rather through the supply chain. But, the waste is still there and is surprisingly high IMO.

Source: https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs
Seems like a short sighted move since image search is one of the few times I'll jump from DuckDuckGo to Google. Probably won't bother if I can't pull the source image url

https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=google+images
> I wouldn’t opt in and now I cannot block Google tracking at the DNS level thanks to this.

How do signed exchanges break blocking Google tracking at the DNS level? You already need to have google.com unblocked in order to get a results page that serves an exchange from Google.
> As a US citizen, I would prefer to have 0 such convictions

great, but what does that have to do with providing evidence that

> There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent."

is not substantial nonsense based on zero evidence, but more importantly (given that this thread is about "lying"), that

> The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one.

isn't at all true?
> The order would task the Commerce Department to petition the Federal Communications Commission to open a proceeding to reconsider the scope of the [Section 230] law, the people familiar with the document said. It also would seek to channel complaints about political bias to the Federal Trade Commission, which would be encouraged to probe whether tech companies’ content-moderation policies are in keeping with their pledges of neutrality.

James Grimmelman (law prof) points out on Twitter that the FCC and FTC do not actually have any authority over Section 230 and cannot "reconsider" it.

https://twitter.com/grimmelm/status/1265853617053093889
Stay out of Toronto there's no way to live in that city
They don't have a choice of millions of websites. Like I said in another comment in a thread with you, the network effect is real. People go where there are other people. Nobody goes to an empty street to protest. What would be the point in that? We have allowed the most populated spaces for people to express their opinions to be controlled by private companies.
Has anyone done statistics on whether horses today are faster than eg in the 19th century (when records ought to be good)? Is it increasing linearly or asymptotically? Are horses running (ha) into fundamental physical problems preventing further evolution?
This is cool! Did you document the format or is it really limited to what we see on the front page?
And zero of them are better than github's gist with dark mode and proper markdown support.
This comes pretty close: https://wowthemesnet.github.io/mediumish-theme-jekyll/

I’m not sure how up to date the design is compared to the current styling of Medium, but it’s a good start.
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Do you still use IRC?
You try finding a PAPR in stock for sale to anyone who isn't a purchaser for a medical provider or first responder agency right now..

True story: I almost bought a 3M PAPR last fall because I wanted it for a "The Expanse" prop replica space suit I've been thinking about building. Decided that a few hundred bucks was too much to spend for the look of something alone, though. That would've been the best gratuitous purchase I ever made, in hindsight. Of course I probably still wouldn't be able to get filters for the thing, and properly caring for and disinfecting non-disposable hardware like that is nontrivial...
In some sense this is a good problem to have. With on-prem you used to have very limited resources to start with, so cost efficiency is a baked-in requirement. With cloud providers you seem to have limitless resources and the new problem of cost optimization arises.

Admittedly there’s difference between optimizing fully-controlled resources and cloud provider managed services. For one, low visibility into cloud service internals makes such optimization harder.
Perfecting Behaviorism: Neural Nets as Subjects and Trainers (2019)
I didn't bother, because the concept of "common carrier" is an extremely poor fit for what you're looking for.

The basic problem you're going to run into is that common carrier status was designed to ensure equal public access to limited resources. In most cases this will either be a physically limited resource (railways, pipelines, power lines, long haul fiber) or access to resources that were actually created by the government (radio frequencies, highways, licensed taxicabs). Common carrier status is frequently also applied where eminent domain was used to create the infrastructure in the first place.

Basically, common carrier was designed to solve the problem of limited infrastructure, and their application to telecommunications has been spotty. I would remind you that ISPs are not common carriers under US law. Ma Bell might've gotten broken up, but the power of the FCC to do that was actually repealed in 1996.

The problem is that social media networks aren't a limited resource, at all. The damn things keep popping up, closing, and buying each other. I've had well over a dozen social media website accounts so far at least, and that's probably under counting.

So any attempt to declare Twitter specifically a common carrier is going to have to center around this idea that they have a monopoly on media and political figures. Of course this is an extremely vague concept; how do you decide who is a "media" or "political" figure? And what percentage of them must be on a site before that site should become a common carrier? What if they’re on multiple social sites at once? And how exactly do you define what is and is not censorable wherever media figures are present? And how in the world would you codify this into law in a way that wouldn't be overturned as unconstitutional?

Honestly, the contortions required to make Twitter a common carrier are so strained, they strike me as something started with the end goal in mind.
That was just MS sending "Thoughts & Prayers" for the death of his multi-year efforts that they've cloned & looking to extinguish & claim originality credit for with their celebratory announcement.

Not clear if they were trolling or just tone deaf.
Thanks. I'll expand on it. In the meantime perhaps try out the demo. That'll give you step by step examples.
Circle Medical (YC S15) is hiring an iOS engineer in Montreal
Warning: funny license.
Are you okay with the most populated spaces for people to express their opinions, that have de facto replaced the public spaces used for protest and expressing views in times gone by, being controlled by private companies? Are you okay with those same private companies using their effective monopoly on 3 billion social media users' ability to express themselves to censor opinions they don't like?
Trump has an email and SMS list with millions of supporters. He can also post on facebook whenever he wishes, or address the nation in prime time speeches that will be carried on TV channels and live streams. He can also continue to post on twitter, as twitter didn’t delete any of his tweets, so he can use network effects on twitter and simply post Gab or Mastodon links and try to get his enormous base of followers to use another platform.

His speech is not being suppressed. In fact, he’s probably the person who has the least problem in the entire country of being heard or noticed.

Edit: by the way, ask MySpace, AOL, MSN, or other failed once-popular social networks how well the “network effects” worked out. People know how to use a different website if they actually care to do so.
The Linux Subsystem actually doesn't use the NT subsystem technology that you're thinking of. They did end up inventing a few new kernel concepts (like pico processes) in order to do WSL v1.
Definitely a classic brainrape.
"Open source" is both a license and a development model. You're talking about a license, but someone interested in workflow longevity will probably not be satisfied with a source dump from a dead company. They're looking for a community which knows how to maintain it.

As JWZ once said: "You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of 'open source,' and have everything magically work out." Has there ever been a case where a company as its last act released their software as open-source, and a community formed and picked it up?
that is pretty cool, it's like a virus hello, world!
This blog post is incredibly silly, IMO.

The reason wages are being cut is because revenue has dropped through the floor, and companies have to make their books balance. This is not an incredible mystery.

The comparison to the 2008 financial crisis is not relevant; that was a financial crisis that affected availability of capital. The coronavirus is an operational crisis, so of course operations (which includes salaries) are more heavily affected.
Right. That was the point: it is not enough to just understand how something was made. You have to be able to recreate it too. And building a similar system in just a bit different way to avoid potential copyright or patent claims is hard. If the system is complex, it is hard squared.
Since when do international companies care about laws? If they did, tax havens wouldn't be a thing.
Because the death rate is way higher than 0.26%. If the CDC really thinks it's that low for the general population then they are wrong. The general consensus I have seen, based on antibody tests in New York, Italy, Sweden, and Spain point to a death rate between 0.75% and 1.25% for most developed nations. For less developed nations (which, to be fair, is most of the world) the death rate will be lower because there are fewer old people. I agree that we don't have to shut down everything, but everyone should be wearing masks as much as possible in public. Public smoking is highly restricted, at least partially because of the risks of secondhand smoke, and the risks of COVID-19 are way higher than that. People can do what they want at home, but we have to share public spaces. It's not right for someone else to make decisions that endanger me and my family just because they don't care about the risk.
I am also a user who loves AMP, the same way I loved RSS. The reason I love AMP is one of the same reasons I loved RSS. RSS aggregators allowed instant loading of content across multiple sites. AMP enables the same thing but with a richer experience. It doesn't simply spell out how to make web pages fast. It makes them instant, which is impossible without something like AMP or RSS that allows safe prerendering with publisher opt in.
Right, depends on various factors obviously.
Hmm. It is a rather arbitrary condition that we should be able to prove that voter fraud swung an election before we should be worried about it. There are a lot of recent convictions, which should not happen at all. And I don’t see how a ‘small‘ amount of evidence can prove the point against the evidence.

It should be worrying that this is happening at all. Our vote is one of our most precious forms of expression. This list of convictions is just the ones the author knew of, the ones that just got caught.

Oh and I would love see any evidence on the disenfranchisement you mentioned to update my worldview with. Don’t worry, if you give me a little bit of evidence, I won’t take it as proof that you are ‘wrong’.
There are few hard technical problems, there are many hard people problems.