skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is actually an equivalence here. Maybe it isn't "money as speech" but it's certainly "dominant market position as speech."

In the former case, one is worried that a company's right to spend their own money and control their own communications (or hire others to communicate on their behalf, which is standard practice), will lead to outsized political influence.

In the latter case, one is concerned that a company's right to control others' use of their product, because they happen to operate a platform that hosts a substantial fraction of the entire public discourse, will lead to outsized political influence.

The private property defense being deployed here is so facile that only a Libertarian could actually believe it. In practice you will not be allowed, for example, to simply buy real estate at a choke point and exercise your private property rights to determine who is allowed to come and go. Public rights of way will eventually be established if you inconvenience the public enough.
Unpoly examples wrecked my back button. Had to click back like 15 times to get back to HN... Is this a permanent issue because of the way it’s implemented?
How is this reconciled with lern_to_spel's reply to my comment, where they claim this is already implemented and there already are such third parties? Are Google searches right now that use AMP exposing users to risks because they are currently requesting assets from potentially untrustworthy third parties?
I like Twitter, I really do. But Jack's statement make no sense.

If Twitter wants to step over its bounds as a platform, then it will absolutely be scrutinized as such.

What I find incredibly dishonest is that Twitter's head of "integrity" is a well-known troll who has on multiple occasions called Trump a nazi and more. How can we take their "integrity" seriously when it is led by someone with such an extreme political bias that there is no doubt this will impact what gets censored or not.

IMO this is not Twitter's role and a very slippery slope.
We need to fix GDPR’s biggest failure: broken cookie notices
I share this viewpoint personally. My view of America, and indeed Americans, changed radically and permanently after the Iraq invasion.

It revolts me to see GWB on the talk show circuit, being buddys with Ellen and the media portraying him as some cutesy old geezer on to show off his amateur paintings.
I feel like this is fake or some internal draft that was never going to see the light of day.

But if its real, i wonder what will happen to silcon valley. Part of the reason why internet companies like the united states is the legal environment is conducive to making online services. If that goes away, will companies move to other countries
For anyone who wants to post their opinions on whether OOP is good or bad, may I suggest briefly explaining what you consider to be "object-oriented programming"?

I've seen in a lot of threads like these, people often end up talking past each other, because one person's idea of what an "object" turned out to be different from someone else's.
Every time I see the “Microsoft <3 open source” stuff I get really suspicious, and this kinda confirms that I’m right to be. I’m grateful of their more open culture these days (dotnet alone is a big achievement) ... but I feel like there’s been a number of incidents like these which snap me back to reality and remind me they’re really just paying lip service to the idea and don’t truly buy into open source.
Also known in python as "if your class has only two methods, one of which is init, it's a function" in the "stop writing classes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0

EDIT: typo, changed link
"Everyone living in California gets a ballot" is an outright lie. We can address bias once the lying stops.
Am I crazy? I still don't see any word play. Is there a homonym, or specific phonetic reading I'm missing? Tried:

- Infect-being

- In fact being

- Etc.

Thanks for the help.
Dunno if you know, but the ZZT community had a revival of sorts with the release of the reconstructed source code. Unfortunately it's on discord, but a few mzx people hang around too.
Unlock magic of CSS and front end development
Yeah. Makes the rest rather unneccesary.
Wait until you notice half of her torso in the dead center of the photo.
It makes production builds for legacy browsers (such as IE11). Only during development is modern browser required.

https://www.snowpack.dev/#legacy-browser-support
Lending app publicly shames you when you’re late on loan payment
How Big Data Analytics and AI Can Help Boost Bee Populations
Thanks for the feedback. I'm thinking of ways to implement this, as getting the salary data for each listing is probably the hardest thing to do at the moment. This was just the mvp and 'll be adding more features soon!
What's most interesting about this is what Professor Jacobs omitted, and the stuff he omitted happens to be related to his circle of friends.

Set up a Google Alert for appropriate keywords, this could get really interesting in the coming months. That's all I can say, sorry.
I would suggest looking in to the origins of the “company” for professionalization of the military in the renaissance. Before that it depends on where you were, but lords were generally responsible for raising and arming vassals for the kingdoms campaigns. The level of equipment and training varies, but there are interesting examples like english yeomanry.

Re peasant revolts these were almost never popular class uprising AFAICT. It looked a lot more like a commoner or minor noble taking on a warlord position against the local rulers. Think of afghanistan or parts of NE africa for equivalants.
Using genomics to help avoid a second coronavirus wave
This is true about voting rights (enfranchising more voters is almost always good for the left), but gerrymandering in the US is a cross-party issue. There are plenty of examples of what the Supreme Court called "affirmative racial gerrymandering" that carve out districts to ensure more Democratic candidates get elected. Examples start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering_in_the_United_S...
Condescension is not a good look when you're conflating conservativism with paranoid conspiracies and equating really basic fact-checking to censorship.
If the author's intention was simply to make a good package manager system, why would he? There is one now that is supported by Microsoft.
COVID-19

Edit: To clarify one could argue Boeing's problems are due to COVID-19 infections not due to a MD infection.
> What most young people or people on the left seem to want very badly is for tech companies to remove viewpoints they disagree with. Unfortunately the reality is that this is in fact political censorship. And it will lead directly to the type of censorship that China has.

Trump is in power and he has repeatedly requested that cable news be censored by the FCC.

2017: https://www.wired.com/story/fcc-chair-finally-says-agency-wo... “FCC Chair Finally Says Agency Won't Censor Trump's Enemies: Six days after President Trump suggested revoking broadcast licenses, FCC Chair Ajit Pai says agency won't act based on content.”

2018: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic... “Trump suggests revoking NBC's broadcast license amid attacks on 'fake news'”

2020: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/2017/web/hero_images/Redacte... his campaign threatens to sue TV stations who allow an ad against him to be aired

So just saying, let’s not just blame young people or people on the left. There are very loud right wing voices demanding that the media be censored in their favor as well right now by government force.

Personally I’d be more concerned at this point about government censorship than twitter adding a link to a post. There are many different websites on the internet, but only 1 US government.
How does it help the left and hurt the right? Serious question.
I'd argue that if increasing turnout to be more representative of the population as a whole hurts your party then there's something fundamentally flawed with what your party is offering to the populace.
This seems pretty neat, however it looks like it freezes up when I open a vault inside of WSL. I can't make new files at all.

Worked fine on a regular Windows folder.
> How did a professor of Internet law get a hold of a draft EO?

A leak.

> Are these things widely circulated before signing?

Something with this content would probably need to be coordinated between at least White House counsel, DoJ, and counsel for all or most of the agencies being given tasks under it to get the language right and make sure it was as workable as possible given the intent, so it would be in a large number of hands. Even if they were all fairly reliable partisan political appointees (and it’d be unlikely that there wouldn't be a lot of permanent staff involved), those are in some ways the most dangerous since, well, reliable Republican partisan attorneys and people who support a hands-off approach to regulating speech of business entities have a pretty big overlap.

Trumpian corporatists who think that all of society (whether government, business, or otherwise) should be united in reflecting the will of the head of state, at least as long as the current incumbent holds that position, or pay the price for disloyalty, aren't the norm even among Republican partisans. As much as Trump would like to fill the whole administration with them, there aren't enough of them remotely qualified to fill the needed roles.
> Deciding what constitutes incorrect or disputed information in a political climate absolutely does.

Absolutely not. Absolute means something and you're being hyperbolic, at best. It's the human condition to make selective decisions, including meta-decisions. It does not make you or I an arbiter of truth because we do it, nor does it make Twitter or youtube arbiters of truth. This is "equality of outcome", territory which is nonsense.
love this.

may I suggest you go open source and then charge a low monthly fee for your sync service?

open source really solidifies the "forever" tagline and I'd consider paying <5$ month (I'm Canadian & not paid nearly as well as many ppl on here...)

also I'm not stingy on the "open source" vs "source available" stuff. Im just a code hoarder.

i know your going against cloud integration but cloud + mobile has to be a consideration
From a business standpoint, being proactive about misinformation being spread is going to make them stand out as a seemingly more moral company. More people will read and engage. The perception of the feature is slightly muddied right now because the fact check is being painted as politically biased. But the bigger picture is that helping people vote and be more informed helps people of every political background. If a tweet had the wrong date for election day and twitter had fact checked that, would correcting that be wrong as well? And would everyday consumers support a company that doesn't do fact checking or one that does?
The level of contempt for paying customers on display is nothing short of stunning. With the price premium they get, they could afford to deliver superb quality and outstanding service. Instead they pocket the difference, every time.

What is most remarkable is that the customers keep coming back anyway.
He's not claiming that his approach was "completely novel". He's claiming microsoft identified his way, that already existed, was the way they wanted to go, toyed with bringing him in to run it and then got overwhelmed by internal Not Invented Here / We Can Do It Better and threw him under the bus.

It's literally the new cuddly microsoft Embracing, Extending and Extinguishing this guy's work.
According to this source (perhaps not completely credible) she called then French President Mitterrand and threatened to nuke Argentina if he did not give her the codes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/22/books.france
Isn't this like asking "is it weird to feel ill during an illness"? What I mean - shouldn't humans be able to cope with these situations as "sad", but not "depressing", as depression reduces their ability to move forward?
I'm fairly new to Unity programming in C# and I was surprised a few months ago that everything in C# must be in a class. As far as I can tell there is no such thing as just a function.

Now I have I have a class with some static functions in it.
Thanks, I'll have a look at that asap and see if i can pin point the issue.
He's not "telling" the courts anything, he's telling the FTC, FCC, etc to interpret 230 as intended, where a social media site can now be interpreted as a publisher and not as a neutral platform if they engage in active editorial decision making (i.e. feed manipulation, shadow banning, editorial injections, etc). If Twitter wants to challenge the Federal Government on this, they'll have to do battle in court. In the meantime, the Federal government will withdraw all paid advertising from the platform if they choose that route. He's also holding the FTC out, which deals with antitrust law. So Twitter could hit 3 different ways. In my opinion, they have far more to lose by fighting this than simply letting users choose who to follow and who to engage with and what speech to listen to.
Here's Debbie Wasserman-Schulz in 2008 saying mail-in voting leads to fraud: https://twitter.com/M2Madness/status/1265698785813987328

Why does the entire liberal establishment (and its "free" press) insist on the non-sensical notion that mail-in voting is _less_ prone to fraud than in-person voting? The DNC doth protest too much, methinks.
It’s less the text of the law (though it’s vague and meant to function as a pretext for the CCP to take my action in the name of “national security “) and more that they’re inserting it into Article III, which they legally cannot do. It functionally kills HK’s Basic Law.
Thanks for sharing. I actually wonder now if your experience happens fairly often, and Keivan's experience infrequently, though they're fairly similar circumstances. Integrating OSS or OSS concepts into a program vs a library have different implications but the engineering work required is the same. WinGet on paper, as a product, meets all of the requirements desired by the community. To appreciate the toll it takes on your competition in the OSS community is just alien compared to rules around corporate competition, where in the US there is effectively no scrutiny around imitation. It's a natural place for a team at Microsoft to land. I wish in your case that you didn't have to find out third-hand, but it does seem satisfying to think a bespoke game engine had that much reach!
Not the GP poster, but I have also lived in the Eastern Block before 1989. I was surprised by the lies. Everyone had to lie with a straight face, otherwise risk being arrested. We had to lie that everything was great, the party wonderful, while in reality we needed heat, food, books, general shopping items, the right to travel and study abroad (outside the Eastern Block) and the right to speak freely.
> gerrymandering in the US is a cross-party issue.

Not in the last ca. 20-30 years, it certainly isn't.
That's partly how Qt's QML works (which makes it a breeze for UI): https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtqml-syntax-propertybinding.html
Can't find anything. Think that might be the case.
Just an addition to that:
Don't use the cheapest possible provider available if you get a VPS to use as an email server; chances are the spammers are doing the same thing and that your emails will be sent straight to spam.

DigitalOcean, OVH and Hetzner are especially difficult. It is possible to run an email server there, but getting the IP reputation up will be a tedious process and some providers will simply reject sent emails simply for using one of those hosts.
Original HN discussion for previous article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821478

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15425324
The political party that is for giving away free stuff is more preferred by people too lazy to vote.
I know a bunch of accountants. Yeah they aren't as stupid as MBA's or economists.
It was an answer to both java applets and Flash, which obviously were someone eleses technologies. Among other things, it supported a pretty good ui system with XAML and easier threading than ActionScript.

So if you desperately wanted to do the "render stuff client side to a canvas on the web using a good programming language" then Silverlight wasn't half bad. The programming model/layout/concurrency handling etc was every bit as good in 2005 as modern js/react is 15 years later, but the tooling was much better. Think of it as vb for the net. You could fire up your development environment and create a new interactive app and compile it to a single deployable file in minutes.

I used it quite a lot, but that was for things like internal apps. It was pretty good as a deployment model for e.g. a complicated dashboard on an intranet page.
This could be argued infinitely, I think. I do appreciate your points; yes, simply adding code - by default or by itself - does not resolve those things I mentioned. But, it's important to view my comments within the context of what we were talking about, which was the defacto development style that grew around Delphi, especially in the early days (before their libraries got smarter). In the case of my "SELECT *" example, this was quite often literally the case - queries were not optimised in the least bit regarding the columns and rows that were being retrieved (mostly due to lack of awareness or laziness). In terms of correctness, you can bet that business rules were usually sprinkled around the UI in a happenstance kind of way, rather than being collected in a relatively well defined, easy to verify and unit test business object, say. Again, while I do agree in theory that "more code" does not necessarily solve anything, these are the kinds of practicalities I am arguing about, not on a pure level. The tooling was great for getting things done instantly, but encouraged a laziness that caused a counter revolution which went too far in the opposite direction.
Let it die. Free up lots of skilled engineers to work in smaller more productive enterprises. E.g. the Nokia collapse [1]. The growth a few years after the dinosaur death is significantly better for society than keeping the beast alive on life support.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/10/surviving-nokia-how-oulu-...
What is your evidence that children actually do transmit the virus efficiently?

I have seen multiple independent studies from different countries coming down with a very similar conclusion that children are not good vectors for this thing to spread.
Or it's a named stateful or immutable data container with validation? You don't always want to use primitive types. But I am not a Python dev.
A static class in C# isn't really a class, it's just a namespace to hold functions.
Well currently the GOP is overrepresented due in part to states' rights (states have more weight than people do, so less populous states have overrepresentation in the form of the Senate).

Same goes for popular elections vs electoral college. This is skewed towards the GOP which is why Trump won despite losing the popular election.

Call it what you want (balance of power, "minority rights", or whatever), but some people's votes were just counted as less of a vote.

I mean you could apply your argument to defend dictators or monarchs. Democracy of course will of course be hurtful to Maduro (of Venezuela) but helpful to his opponents. That's an odd way to frame something that simply shouldn't necessarily have been in the first place. It's not as if God made the world evenly divided between Left and Right. It's a constantly shifting line between how Left and how Right and sometimes one side is simply more wrong than the other.

I mean if we decided that somehow Left and Right should always be evenly power balanced we wouldn't have such Leftist policies such as universal suffrage or the abolition of slavery.
Let's not play coy with this false discussion about mail-in ballots. We both know that's not what this is about.

Twitter does not fact-check Democrats. The end.
There was a time when I used to think the same, then I found my backups were corrupted (or stopped because run out of space, etc) just in the moment when I needed them.
Your link goes by means of Google; here's a direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0
Can you define fascism? Only Italian were ruled by fascism per se, but we use the term to described other authoritarian regimes.
Should we wait 50 years and the collapse of democracy to find a new name for this phenomena? Or could this debate be just a diversion?
So NextDNS is free to sell metadata. What is the extent of this metadata - is it like ‘this user spends 10 hours a day actively using the internet’, or ‘this user consumes a lot of streaming video content’, or this user ‘watches netflix every friday evening’, or ‘this user uses duckduckgo instead of google’? Can these examples be considered metadata?
I remember this. This was actually demo for WPF/E (WPF everywhere - but more like the browser tab became the window host rather than any cross platform tech) which came well before Silverlight was released/planned. Hosted in browser WPF - it was the full WPF essentially. It was basically a binary plugin for IE8 (I think it was 8) and certain Firefox on Windows only (had to have .Net 3.5x SDK for WPF too), that used some nasty signed ClickOnce shit to run xbap apps. It was horrid. Silverlight started from scratch if I remember correctly and didn't even have <TextBox/> or similar until v2 or 3, by the time Silverlight was up to building LOB apps it was already dead in the water - HTML/JS frameworks were more popular, iPad had already said no to Flash/Siverlight, .Net was stalling (IronPython/IronRuby killed around same time)..
> He's not "telling" the courts anything

Yes, he is. He is telling the FCC, etc., to issue regulations “clarifying” section 230; regulations clarifying law exist specifically to guide the courts in application, and courts grant such regulations (where properly authorized under statute) great deference, which Trump clearly hopes to benefit from.
On my HP laptop with factory installed Windows 10 with the latest updates, opening or closing the CD/DVD device consistently causes the screen background to change from the Autumn scene to black. Hitting the keys Start-Tab shows small version of whatever screens (sessions, whatever they are called -- can have multiple such screens), each with its proper background and a left click on one of those will give a correct screen. In addition the background of the screen from Start-Tab has Autumn, and a left click on part of that background give a correct screen.

When this error first occurred, just after a Windows 10 update, in Firefox a Web page caused Windows to display a pop-window about a security problem. The Autumn background went to black, and the desktop icons were scattered across the desktop. I ran a "quick scan" and a "full scan", and they found no problems. I put the icons back where they belong, and they have stayed there.

Looks like the most recent Windows 10 Home Edition update has a bug that causes the screen background to go to black.

Starting Firefox puts up a pop up window asking if I want to permit Firefox to "change" my system or some such. As this popup is displayed, all other windows have been minimized, and the screen background is black. If I left click on the push button "No", then Firefox runs and the background and all my windows are restored.