skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care what your "experts" have to say.

I follow the news very closely and I make my own decisions based on first hand sources and comparing left & right wing secondary sources.

Keep blindly believing in your "experts" and mind reading, you're living in the dark in your echo chamber.

Just because you surround yourself with articles and people that think like you doesn't mean the other ideologies that challenge you go away.

Believing that your side is right and the other side is completely wrong is a danger sign.

Trump was elected so clearly a large amount of people agree with his politics...

- edit @ sammalloy - I hit a limit so I'll reply to the below comment here:

First off, the wiki article you linked has a 2014 Quinnipiac poll where Obama is polled as the worst president since WWII.

Second off, you can't fact check an opinion. I think your misunderstanding of that highlights the crux of this entire twitter issue.

You and Jack Dorsey can keep your fact checks, they are flawed in logic.

- edit @ beirut_bootleg:

As I stated above, I follow both sides and the leads. I'm here debating in this liberal echo chamber so I'm clearly not hiding in a bubble.
If I wanted stable and safe I'd use Ada. You're still not selling me on Rust.
Now we need to seen the programmer schedule around the world! I don't think I start before 10am.
Utterly banal gibberish that might have excited the imaginations of money-hungry Stanford grads 15 years ago, but this type of fluff has not aged well.
Here's why the suggestion (in Randall's “form letter”) to use `<file command` was bad in 1995, and is still bad today. In bash, if you type `<file co` and press TAB, you don't get command completion on `co`. You get filename completion. If you type `cat file | co` and press TAB, you get command completion.

(Bash has behaved this way for as long as I can remember, and I just verified it in bash 5.0.3 on a Pi.)
"Sell to businesses, not individuals. Businesses have deeper pockets than individuals"
Back in the early '00s, I designed a social network architecture which was fully decentralized. The only people whose information I'd have would be my friends', and vice-versa. I never built it, mind you, it was all a thought experiment. But I still think that sort of thing ought to be how it works.
Legally they can probably get away with it, since it has happened with other ISPs. The technical reason this doesn't happen is due to your connection a website being encrypted.
Hi, what host OS are you running? I'd like to be able to send over a build with symbols so we can profile it (or on macos use the process sampler). Let's also try `adb shell top` next time this happens; we found that when networking state changes, sometimes, the virtual radio gets in a bad state and starts spinning.
Now I'm wondering how FreeBSD handles damaged RAM differently, and the speed hit it takes for doing so.
Because those framework are not written in PHP but C++/C library.
>This is obviously not true;

Follow numbers matter little, if at all. In fact follower numbers are a rounding error in this context. Trump's tweet's reach is on the order of billions of people; hundreds of news organizations cite his tweets on a weekly (sometimes daily) basis, and orders of magnitude more bloggers do so as well.

It's absolutely true, but people may not like to acknowledge that.
Python 3 threw away pattern matching in function heads; used to be able to deconstruct tuples. I had just discovered that feature in Python 2 when I realized 2 was about to go EOL, and upon porting my code I discovered the change.

A sad day for this Erlang enthusiast.
Probably exec speed of the VM. From the changelog:

> Added support for using Hyper-V as the fallback execution core on Windows host, to avoid inability to run VMs at the price of reduced performance
Trump knows what he’s doing in taking on Twitter
Do you feel the same about email spam filters?
> unixy tools are generally used in pipelines

Yeah, for this reason I won't write ‘<file’ at the front even though I've heard of it before. I'm in the Unix game for good command-line pipelines among other things, and bending over backwards to sidestep the pipeline isn't really in my plans.
> If there was ever a time for a plague, this was the best time economically.

(The best time: "so far")

Hehehe, that might actually be true :)

But I'm not sure that there is a fixed number plagues that we must endure, maybe they could have been averted :D
(Whether at epicenter in China or in local communities around the world)
The rabbit hole goes deeper: some early stage VCs and angels only invest in Harvard or Stanford dropouts.
B2B vs B2C aren't two starkly different things - it's a spectrum between them.

Freelancers are a notoriously difficult market to sell to as they perceive every dollar spent as coming out of their wallet.

Compare that to a large enterprise company where the person making the buying decision is going to take home the same salary at the end of the week whatever the decision ends up being.
Surely Trumps most valid recourse would be to not use Twitter? Why is anything else close to appropriate? There are certainly better and more important things for him to be focused and working on at present.
I'm not from the USA but I thought the President was supposed to serve the country, not the opposite way around. From the outside this looks like a personal vendetta not a proportionate or necessary action.
No matter what the outcome is, remember: We should keep telling ourselves that it is possible for someone, somewhere unaided by typechecking, memory safety constraints, static analysis, and fuzz testing to write safe C.

We haven't found that person yet, but if we stop believing that person exists, then why are we still writing in these languages?
What doesn't make sense to me about that is that the web & email starting out as 'used a little by a lot'. Over time, these not only became better (many innovations for web, mobile access for email), but also ingrained in our life and society. That then paved way for things like social networks that eventually became standard communications. I believe most major communications products seemed to have followed that trend.
> only that it's good enough

Well.. How about another case I just learned of today? 'Cause it kinda doesn't seem like we're even at "good enough":

> “Invalidate the election. Let’s do it again,” said Rev. Kenneth Clayton said amid reports more that 20 percent of all ballots were disqualified, some in connection with voter fraud allegations.

[..]

> In addition to apparent problems with the vote count in Paterson, NBC New York has shown video of ballots left out in building lobbies, of one voter handling many ballots, and reported on postal workers reporting finding hundreds of ballots at a time stuffed in mailboxes in Paterson – and even in a neighboring town, Haledon.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/nj-naacp-leader-cal...
They already ban users. This change would fine companies that ban racists and conspiracy theorist because some conservative claimed oppression of free speech.
B2B means selling to other businesses instead of to individuals.
The fastest google fonts are the ones you don't import.
Fantastic toolset.
I found the posts by Leyla Acaroglu [1] an excellent introduction to systems thinking and many of these concepts

[1]: https://medium.com/disruptive-design/search?q=tools%20for%20...
Wow ! Also integrates the browser back button a history of the countries I select
I think if I look at this any longer I might slip, fall down and break a hip!

Embarrassing how old I am when pretty much ALL of these songs sound like absolute trash to me. Repetitive auto-tuned, formulaic, mysoginistic, materialistic, mundane, simple-minded steam pile of fermenting dog poo.
Redmond startup powers all-electric first flight of a Cessna turboprop
They have none except Trump's Twitter feed.
I Fit the Description (2015)
One of the zsh options which changes this behaviour is called CSH_NULLCMD, which seems to suggest it is possible to be csh compatible in zsh.

$ setopt cshnullcmd
$ < task >task2
zsh: redirection with no command

`man zshmisc` and search for "REDIRECTIONS WITH NO COMMAND" for all the gory details :/

Edit: inverted csh compat logic in my head :(
That's interesting. I am an iOS developer, and find development for browser deployment to be a mountain of hokey crap and flavor-of-the-week frameworks all so you can kind of cajole MOST browsers to more-or-less show what you want where you want it on the screen.

And then you have to write all the serialization and back-end support on the server side, or use yet another flavor-of-the-week stack to broker all of the back-and-forth.
Having real arrays would make both the compiler faster and array operations faster.

range and mod types as in Ada would also squelch a bunch of C's shitastic undefined behavior bullshit.

And your comment about just implementing it via a feature flag would be the way to go.
Self-hosting is your best bet, in my opinion. Personally, I use Sendy[1], but
other options are Mailcoach[2], and Mailtrain[3], both options I am considering
switching to.

While they all offer the option of tracking opening, clicks, and whatnot, you
can disable these features easily.

The same can be said about hosted solutions, though, so maybe take a look at
Buttondown[4], if self-hosting is not an option for you.

[1] https://sendy.co/

[2] https://mailcoach.app/

[3] https://mailtrain.org/

[4] https://buttondown.email/
Followers are largely irrelevant, here. Trump's tweets are cited on a weekly basis by hundreds of publications globally. More people view trump tweets not-on-Twitter than on the platform.

Obama has 118M followers, whereas Trump's tweets have reach on the magnitude of billions of people. Had Obama been a Tweeter-In-Chief like Trump while he was president, his tweets would've had a similar reach.
I think this is more in reference to yesterday’s discussion about Obsidian...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598

There have been a few knowledge base/markdown discussions lately.
Genuine question: what apps/technology is growing quickly with DeFi that can't otherwise be practically executed (for whatever reason) outside of a blockchain? I've yet to see a killer example.
> If twitter is no longer just providing a platform for its users to provide content but is now providing content itself, then yes, it should be held to the standards of a publisher, much in the same way it is responsible legally for the ads it publishes.

Every website provides their own content alongside user generated content. As you point out, Twitter is responsible for the ads they publish, as they're the party publishing them. Likewise, Twitter is responsible for the content of the disclaimer they put on Trump's shitpost, which was quite reserved. This is already the longstanding case.

This new line of argument is akin to saying that HN should be directly responsible for all users' comments because dang downvoted a post. It's nothing more than a hamfisted outburst by Trump trying to remove the protection from a company as some sort of summary punishment because the executive doesn't like what the company itself has said.

If this were a bill before congress, it would be worrying. As it stands, it's just pathetic. At least this instance of Trump not listening to expert advisors just results in us having to read and debate his tripe, rather than another 100,000 Americans dying.
This is a classic example of blaming users for not being able to understand/remember/intuit a mess of wretchedly hostile design with no consistent logic or standardisation.

Vintage operating systems like TOPS-20 and VMS (up to a point) would go out of their way to be friendly and helpful. Conscious effort was put into this.

Unix shell commands seem to be the opposite - random feature accretion with deliberately obscure magic-spell UX.

What percentage of the population can define what "catenate" means without looking it up - never mind work out what "cat" abbreviates without being told?

How about left/right precedence and data flow? Why do some commands/operators have left precedence while others have right precedence? How about switch standardisation? Are the switches '--' or just '-' or maybe just a letter? Can you pipe subcommands to variables or not? [1]

And so on. Of course users don't immediately produce minimal solutions. Most users won't, most of the time.

[1] It depends on the shell. Mostly not reliably, because you often get different behaviour inside a terminal command and a shell script.
Except... it is. In their ruling the court _directly_ compares social media to other venues for public gathering. I'm not claiming that they explicitly rule it to be one way or the other (they don't), but they do repeatedly make direct comparisons that would appear to lean that way.

Except the text of the case itself literally does not do that. You need to read the actual text and not just the summary. Importantly, every time in the case they reference a "social media" website and a form of expression that could occur in a public forum, it is with respect to how the appellant would use that website--to freely express himself under his own first Amendment rights, and they contrast that with the government's attempt to restrict that expression. And as I pointed out, these activities were expressly addressed in the mall cases I cited, in which the courts said it didn't matter that such activities could occur in a mall, what mattered was that the malls were privately owned facilities. (And that is why I keep bringing the cases up--because malls are the closest analog to Twitter. They let people come in and at the time of these cases had millions of customers/visitors annually--on a relative basis, they were more a part of American life back then than Twitter is now.)

I would also note that the president appears to be targeting Section 230 protections which is quite a different beast.

The Section 230 protected are provided by congressional law, so it's not a different beast. The President does not have the power to target section 230 protections. The executive agencies could arguably make rules to change those protections, if they adhere to the administrative rulemaking process and their rules do not contradict the express text or purpose of the law.

I previously pointed out that a reasonable argument can be made as to why that precedent should not apply.

No, you didn't. The ADA (1990) and Civil Rights Act (1964), are older unrelated laws governing different issues. The CDA was passed in 1996, and so jurisprudence and the law itself already incorporated existing understandings of both of those laws...as well as the SCOTUS cases addressing the exact points you raised in your comment (i.e., the mall cases you keep dismissing). The CDA was written in a world where private facilities were not public forums as a result of multiple SCOTUS decisions saying they weren't. And the law reflects that.
Its ben there unofficially for a while: https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=14096
What's impressing to me is that in the most "IO-bottlenecked" benchmarks: 'Multiple queries' and 'Data updates' (on Cloud) Drogon is smoking the next best frameworks.

What's up with that?
“The target market is planes that fly regional routes out of smaller airports, carrying 5 to 12 people distances from 50 to 500 miles.”

I think the engine is the magni500:
570 kW / 750 shp https://www.magnix.aero/products/#
Spotify is one of those services that it never occurred to me wasn't already truly-global (i.e. penetration into all markets.) But so many of the countries on this map are dark. (And aren't available in the raw chart data, either.)

Is there some other more-popular music-streaming service in these other markets, that's keeping Spotify out? What do they use in China? In Russia?

Or is music-streaming as a whole, just not popular in some markets? (I guess that could make sense for sub-Saharan Africa, given low Internet connectivity; but it's surprising that it also holds for the northern parts.)
https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/archive/mast...
https://notebag.app/
> makes you a better systems administrator

Better because you move past the ‘<file’ every time you decide to correct the first command in the pipeline? Such better, wow.
> These numbers are largely irrelevant if we dont compare them apples-to-apples with the numbers in their proper cohort.

Within age cohorts, COVID’s death rate is approximately the same as the chance of dying from other causes in the next 12 months.

Put another way, you should be less worried about COVID than you are about dying of something else before Jun 2021.
This is a pretty good atticle, and the product is actually quite solid (maybe a tad overpriced), but this right here is a rookie mistake:

> In January, 2019 I launched to HackerNews and some subreddits ...

Really? That's a "launch" these days? At least scrounge up a few hundred bucks and throw up some Facebook ads. Reddit and Hacker News have some of the most cynical and thrifty readers out there. Networking and getting the word out is half the battle. With such little effort put into the launch, OP could have been selling a dollar for fifty cents and no one would've cared.
No, the annual death rate for the age group 18-45 is not 1000, it’s around 150. That is, even in the group of adults least affected by Covid-19, it would be near the top of the list for causes of death. In the most affected group (75+), the casualty rate is nearly 100 times higher.

It would be around the murder rate in Cincinnati (if all victims were 18-45 and the infection rate was equal to NYC)

I don’t have a narrative - I don’t pretend to know what the best course of action is.

But I am pointing out some of the glaring factual errors repeatedly made by people who are dismissive of the severity of this disease.
Someone that spends too much time at the bar might mistake that for the town square, as might someone who spends too much time on Twitter.

The more foolish aspect of this is that the President doesn’t have a direct means of striking back against what Twitter actually did (post a Get the Facts link), so he’s trying to punish them by reinterpreting Section 230. This EO definitely has some teeth, but there are provisions in it that I can’t wait to see in court.
If you're planning on posting in these threads, scrub your bio here first to avoid having your email messed with.

I've discovered some interesting new websites!
> If, like me, you believe the solution to the stranglehold that the current social cartel has had for the past decade is to build new, competing platforms, and encourage their growth

I think that's half of it. The other is a lot of time. It seems pretty clear to me that different age groups use social media in different ways, and I'm not sure it's a behavior that stays with the cohort as it ages, or is associated with that age itself.

My teenage children use whatever social network they feel like and don't really care for Facebook or Twitter. Does that change as they get older, or does it mean that in 10-20 years those companies will be less relevant (unless they buy the up-and-comers, like Facebook did with Instagram)?

I think Trump definitely has the ability to put that to the test though, and that you're right in that he's got a lot of pull to cause at least a short term shift based on the narrative he expresses.
Protestors Criticized for Looting Businesses Without First Forming PE Firm
I think that was the GE model. Here is the Westinghouse version.
https://nationalswitchgear.com/Products/WH-TYPE-W2-CIRCUIT-B...
> Finally, a good test for an idea is if you can articulate why most people think it’s a bad idea, but you understand what makes it good.

It seems that all reduces to find if you have some information asymmetry to take advantage of
It'd be worthwhile to give pkgsrc a try.
that's probably what your parents were saying about the music you listened to when you were young, too.
Spoiler: a massive pile of Ofo (yellow), Mobike (orange) and Bluegogo (blue) bikes scrapped after China's share bike boom went bust.
Hmmmm maybe I should retract my previous comment then
How Napoleon Bonaparte’s delayed funeral came to be
> What happens (first-amendment-wise) when a company town has a literal private-property town square? Could the company control speech in "its" town square?

Thankfully, we don’t need to imagine what happens: the Disney Corporation has a modern company town (Celebration, FL)[0]; they control a pair of HOAs (one each for residential and non-residential owners). Lexin Capital manages the literal town square, and while I can’t find anything on the topic, I would imagine standard private property rights would apply to the land they own.

[0]: https://celebration.fl.us/celebration-community-governance/
Don't get me wrong, campus enrollment will still be limited. Online certifications have no limits. All Harvard has to do is internally stratify their degrees, online vs on-campus, and have it say so right on the diploma. They could serve 100x the current enrollment count and still remain exclusive.
I felt exactly the same way when I listened. Makes me sad.
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If you get access to an IBM RS/6000, another thing to play around with on it is the original AIX operating system.

Imagine a Unix that got an IBM working-over. When the RS/6000 workstations first came out, AIX was a big contrast to the more seat-of-pants workstation Unix of SunOS 4 (this was before Solaris 2).

Some of the AIX changes weren't only enterprise-y server management OS abstractions, but fun: AIX included a nice GUI hypertext browser for its documentation, in 1990 (possibly earlier).
The core premise of the arguments being raised is that Twitter is being politically biased (citation needed), and that something should be done to make Twitter politically neutral since Twitter is such an important faux public square.

The problem is enforcement. How exactly will we make Twitter be politically neutral? There are two basic ways: you either eliminate Twitter’s ability to moderate at all, or someone has to define what speech is immune from moderation in the name of political neutrality.

The former is disastrous for the quality of these platforms. All kinds of anti-social and unpleasant behavior is protected speech, as is pornography and violent material. I think we can all agree that Twitter is within its rights to say “no porn here”, so we don’t want to set the bar at protected speech.

If we decide that twitter can moderate some but not all protected speech, then someone must legally define what protected speech is immune from moderation, and what protected speech is not. This represents an expansion of government power, as you’re giving the government the power to decide what types of protected speech is more important than other types of protected speech.
Pretty sure you'd say that about songs from whatever decade you grew up in, if those could be sorted by "most listened to" as well.

Top40 is already pablum, but it still has some tiny amount of curation (and therefore elitist dictation of taste) driving it. This chart, meanwhile, represents pure populist sentiment—it's "what the people want to hear." And populist sentiment has always been pretty much all of those things you said.
I sort of agree with you, but robots.txt is a thing.

I know it seems impossible but nobody has to use Google.

Are there any copyright implications of amp? They're essentially republishing your property.

Does the original publisher get their ad revenue?
The best indie launch I've seen was the initial launch of Balsamiq.

It was played off as "meh" by Peldi but it was masterful. I had launched a product 2 years before and until then, I couldn't understand what I did wrong.

I obsessed over what he did. Every single thing. Trying to find where he got "lucky". There was no luck.
pyenv manages the actual Python installation. It has nothing to do with virtual environments and does not replace them or manage them.
It's referred to in the article.