skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks really cool! I can't wait to check it out.

I've been using various personal wikis for years, and this hits most of what I am looking for.

But, I'd like to offer some suggestions.

- It would be cool if you would consider some tweaks for how the text is rendered. It can still be Markdown compatible, but for example allow linebreaks to be interpreted as linebreaks. Text used for reference often has different needs than what is being exported to HTML.

- Git integration. I just use git for syncing my knowledge bases. It makes the most sense for my multiple devices, and it is very rare that I even have conflicts and can't automatically merge differences.

I actually have a script that lets me use Dropbox or another syncing provider to sync my working tree, separate from the repo itself, so that my history isn't polluted with excessive automated commits, but it is still tracked relative to where it was checked out, and resolved automatically. That way you can have the strengths of git without the drawbacks.

You may also want to check out git-annex/datalad. I combine it with my home grown Markdown wikis for embedding references to files in my wikis, keeping my git history just pure text. One of my goals is to bridge file management with text management.

I'd be happy to share any of this if you're interested. I've had plenty of free time recently to further develop it.
Right, my point is that the symptom X is often an implied one.... it isn't expressed in the diagnostic test explicitly, because the diagnostic test is run only when someone has symptom x.
The CCP should realise this is not 1962 and they cannot just keep needling India directly or via pakistan for stroking their egos.
Obsidian seems very cool. One thing I noticed on install as someone with a Windows device is that the install location cannot be specified. It would be great if your team supported this as it's pretty standard for many Windows apps and aids in system organization. I was able to move Obsidian and the obsidian-installer and things seem okay but I have no idea if this will break the updater at a later point in time.
I run my audio through Reaper before sending it off to the conference call. There's an equalizer to drop the very lowest frequencies that are generated by traffic, appliance motors, etc. Next is a 'gate' that cuts off the signal if is quieter than a certain level. This catches low volume things that the equalizer doesn't. You can also add a 'compressor' to fill out your voice. The effects can be rearranged to achieve different tones. There are countless plugins you can use to modify any aspect of the audio.

If you're into advanced calls and using OBS (Open Broadcaster Software), it has these basic effects built-in as well as many different ways to present screens, windows, images, videos, and other media to the conference. Green-screen support is awesome.

https://www.reaper.fm/

https://obsproject.com/

Both products are Linux, Mac, and Windows friendly.
> Modern ... Silverlight

No. Just, no.
They really should have positioned Silverlight as a portable .net environment that runs everywhere, and not as a "flash substitute". I liked it.
Could you add the releases on Arch Linux's AUR? Downloading a binary from a website is not something Linux users often do. I couldn't find Obsidian on the snap store[0] either.

[0]: https://snapcraft.io/search?q=obsidian
It makes more sense when you consider that 'systems programmer' doesn't mean 'writes operating systems' (especially back then) and the line between application and systems programming was quite blurry (double especially back then).
PBS SpaceTime is such a treasure and wonderful example of what YouTube can be.

I highly recommend anyone interested in cosmology, astrophysics, and theoretical physics follow them - informative videos that are very well presented.
Don't spend your capital.
Microsoft buying a big chunk of Apple (admittedly to stave off antitrust claims that there was no competition in the OS market) is a major reason Apple is alive today.
to add to your interesting points:

"If you reject the food ignore the customs fear the religion and avoid the people you might better stay at home." - James Michener?
May we also have modern reimplementations of Bob and CORBA?
These laws made sense in the pre-social media days.

The fact that 3 billion people (from a quick Google search) are now using social media means that the goal posts have changed. 3 billion people are using the services of private companies to make their voices publicly heard. They think that they are exercising their right to freedom of speech by using something so accessible and ubiquitous. As accessible as public squares used to be.

To turn around and say "sorry, social media might be really easy to use and might be the primary form of communication for most people in the first world, but private companies should be able to control that" is very disingenuous.

The reason this is so tricky is that there is simply no historical precedent for this level of hyperconnectivity. But I certainly reject the idea of using the old laws of public vs. private companies to dictate how we as a society use the publicly accessible and readable internet.
Is there a feasible way to ask an organization if they're aware of a vulnerability before you put in too much work on it? Can the query be ambiguous enough to avoid a free service rendered?
Ah the answer of all idealistic people. Double down. Always double down.
The "career bureaucrats" had every opportunity to make sure people didn't die, and they failed. You can really just go through the list of wrong information offered at precisely the worst time: subways, nursing homes, masks, the relative safety of being outdoors, etc.
> "He's saying if you're African American and don't help defeat Trump in the election, you're an Uncle Tom. It's my opinion and belief that this kind of equivocation is not good for reasoned debate or America."

And yet people here on HN say, unselfconsciously, "If only people would stop voting against their own interests" all the time, which is pretty much the same thing. Offensive though it is, it seems to be what he and a lot of his base are thinking.
Re-licensee all your appget code as GPL v3. Everything about it. It might put the wind up them a little. They hate GPL.

Good example of the strength of the GPL for projects you want to be open and don't want mega-corp to embrace and close.

BSD, MIT etc if you're fine with that being done for the project.

There are other dimensions for licensing, this is just one consideration of many in your decision.
> This issue goes beyond Trump. People have been de-platformed on various social media sites. Twitter has taken on the role of the virtual public space. Twitter is performing a public service in their publishing of tweets

People who have been de-platformed can always go to Gab (I know they had issues being dropped a few times but my understanding is they have adopted a decentralized approach and resolved it). It is freely available on the internet. The only reason people are using Twitter instead of Gab is that the marketplace prefers the lightly-moderated Twitter to the complete free-for-all of Gab. Edit: again, Trump is a billionaire, he could easily fund more Gab servers and blast it out to his followers and get his message out.

> People don't go out and protest anymore because they do it online.

I invite you to visit Washington DC whenever the virus is over and see the large in-person protests that regularly happen in the nation’s capital.

Never mind that there’s a physical riot / protest going on yesterday and today over police brutality, today, in Minneapolis.

> And they don't go out and protest because they feel like their voice is being broadcast enough through social media. And yet to have that censored by private companies is unacceptable when that in the modern day use case.

So the reason they aren’t going out in person is because they aren’t being censored. Look at what is going on in Hong Kong over the past year if you want to see what happens when people in the modern internet-connected world are actually angry. You get millions on the street, not just posting online.
If that best matches my query, then yes.
Aha! but the way to win is not to play the game! Sorry, couldn't resist the dad joke.
> and waddayaknow, every language people actually use has that built in

The point was never that people don't use coroutines or recursion. It is that neither solves fundamental problems and are closer to syntax sugar in that are something that people can reach for instead of doing what they want directly.

> Using what primitives? Oh yeah, more library cruft that would have been more concise and less error-prone than if the language gave direct support.

If you synchronize using data structures, that would mean you aren't using primitives.

> Oh yeah, more library cruft that would have been more concise and less error-prone than if the language gave direct support.

Why would that be true? Lock free hash maps and queues can fit in single file zero dependency headers. You think that's cruft? What about an entire language to solve something you can do without tying yourself to a bare bones ecosystem that no one knows.

> As soon as you're relying on somebody else to solve the tricky problems, you're letting them define the language in which you express your own logic

Meaning you want to not use a different language and solve all your concurrency yourself? The whole idea is to not keep solving concurrency in ad hoc ways. Also guess what, the moment you step in to a new language, you are going to be solving a _TON_ of old problems yourself.

I am not sure why you are so upset and invested in this. You seem to be arguing against yourself with respect to your conclusions and the flimsy rationalizations for them. These aren't actually problems that take a huge number of lines to solve, they just have to be done well. Throwing out everything from syntax highlighting and completion to debugging, to IDE support to libraries written in the same language is always a painful experience. Including a few files for data structures and task graphs is much less so.
This is literally what Apple does and HN goes gaga over it. Literally only first party core services are allowed and given special privileges.
Not hopelessly pedantic, it's very true. It's just that I've always hated Outlook and I'd honestly forgotten about it when I wrote that original comment.
You know people making 500k/yr on HackerOne? That seems way higher than what I would estimate from anecdotes.

Unless you’re talking about private exploit sales, which is totally different.
I mean, they already enumerate that child porn isn't allowed, but kitten pictures are. We're just negotiating the boundaries. I'm advocating for the widest possible boundaries, because I think it creates the least possibility for the selective abuse that you're worried about.

Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier

What would be novel in twitter's case, is that rather than recognizing that the phone company is a natural physical monopoly and hence must not refuse service to the politically unpopular, twitter is more of a natural social monopoly because of network effects. It would be an expansion of the doctrine, but it's arguably justified to the extent that you can't just go 'start your own twitter'.
Before November.
Just want to say: this post is a great way to do user research
Also they can't just roll anything back, the URL has been missing for almost 2 years since they rewrote the image search frontend
I agree. The website is constricting its audience.

Gatsby is a static[1] site generator of sorts. It compiles your source code/text into a HTML site at design time. So you don't have to rely on setting up a database and server for your website. It is not quite like other static site generators like Hugo or Jekyll. They use markdown files which are compiled to HTML. Gatsby instead uses javascript files with functions that return HTML that is rendered as a page. By using a programming language to define web pages, the designer gets some flexibility when creating a static site.

It is different from a dynamic[2] hosting application like Wordpress where you have a database entry which is queried and rendered into a page at run time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_web_page
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_web_page
I think you are wrong it saying that there doesn’t exist an avenue to excercise free speech on the internet. The internet in and of itself is arguably the best tool ever developed for expression of free speech. It’s the distribution to a mass audience that becomes tricky, but any and every media/medium before the internet had the same challenges to the individual.
great clarification of wording!

natural selects without forethought for form, yet gets fantastical forms, yet in biomorphs that is precisely how i select, and that is how i get fantastical forms. this would seem to imply natural does indeed somehow select for form

i really don't get why this doesn't undermine dawkins argumemt
And this is done to tackle the horrendous battery issues.
> The only reason people are using Twitter instead of Gab is that the marketplace prefers the lightly-moderated Twitter to the complete free-for-all of Gab.

No. The reason people are using Twitter is because most other people are using Twitter. The network effect is very real and very strong on social media.

If you wanted to protest something, would you go to the least populated public space that people are gathering, or the most populated?

We have allowed the most highly populated places where people share ideas, to be controlled by a private company. That is not in the spirit of freedom of speech in the slightest.
He has since noted it. What do you think now?
If the world is better overall it's due to technological advancement, not due to governance. Our current president is Trump, an idiot who completely mismanaged the coronavirus pandemic, lied about how well he was handling it, refuses to be televised wearing a mask while mask-shaming others, and spends his time peddling conspiracy theories on Twitter, and now threatening to shut down the platform for fact-checking his blatant disinformation. We have probably the worst president to ever disgrace the office next to Andrew Jackson, so yea people are pessimistic.

Also this is the first time in our history that the youth are expected to make less than their parents. The older generation stripped away pension plans, affordable university, affordable healthcare, job stability - basically everything that was working well, and sold their kids off into student loan debt.
You won't trick me with that again!
> “most people”

For “most” do you mean in terms of population count?

For “people” do you mean registered voters ?

Republicans would win every election if that was the case
Oh, hey Dan!

The mice seem to have become popular around 1890, so that was after Japan had opened up. No idea if the mice actually came from Japan or China though, haven't been able to find much of anything about them that isn't in the linked article.
> most people don't vote. but they still support Trump.

It's like the IRL version of claiming support from lurkers.

> They would support any republican candidate

Republican Party identification is pretty constant at 25-30%, below both Democratic and Independent.
An individual website is not the internet.

Anyone who uses the internet has a choice of millions of websites. Everyone using twitter and seeing the twitter notification on Trump’s tweets knows that twitter placed it there. If they were outraged, they can use Google and find alternative social media sites like Mastodon or Gab.

Trump could do the same.

There is simply no comparison to a “public square” since there are easy, accessible alternatives to get the messages out over the internet.

If you want to talk about “public square”, perhaps the easiest comparison would be internet access itself. If ISPs cut off Trump’s internet connection for posting wrong think, that could be seen as a free speech issue I think. But even banning him from any specific individual website is simply a matter for that website’s owner to decide.
> With production halted for indefinite time for the 737 MAX

I just saw this: "Boeing resumes production of its troubled 737 Max airplane " https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/27/21272478/boeing-737-max-r...
Boeing resumes production of its troubled 737 Max airplane
So they finally did something about his endless lies after four years. Well, well.
So, you want to make political beliefs a protected class?

Would that make political parties illegal?
Half the matter in the universe was missing
The problem is your response is effectively cherry picked.

Every /person/ in existence tailors something for their audience, and this is now indistinguishable from genuine interest.
Hey dvtrn! That's high praise, thank you. =). I'm glad it's been useful.

It's my pleasure to meet you. I also remember reading your comments here on HN (I enjoy your sense of humor). Feel free to HMU anytime, even just to talk wiki-shop.
He mentions this at the bottom of the article. He followed up and continue to get radio silence, even to the point that HR ignored his request for reimbursable expenses.
>The reason free speech exists as a concept is because of a historic understanding that there fundamentally cannot be an unbiased arbiter for 'good' or 'bad' speech.

I thought it was to protect citizens' rights to hold their governments accountable.

>On the other side of this, the internet is increasingly controlled by a particular demographic with a particular definition of what things like 'hate speech' mean.

Hilariously, I agree with the wording but am willing to bet we disagree on who the controlling demographic is. Everyone remembers the stronger emotional reactions.
The cognitive overhead of something like rust in non-systems programming is pretty much understated in HN discussions.
> No. The reason people are using Twitter is because most other people are using Twitter. The network effect is very real and very strong on social media.

Trump has millions of followers on his email lists. He could send out an email or SMS tomorrow inviting his followers to begin posting on a new Donald Trump Gab or Mastodon server. Edit: heck, he could even post it on his twitter!

He chooses to post on twitter instead. He doesn’t even try to use an alternative website.

This is not about restricting his free speech, this is about him trying to drum up controversy.
Boeing has been bloated for a while. Seems likes covid was just a good excuse to lay off.
> I mean, they already enumerate that child porn isn't allowed, but kitten pictures are.

Child porn is unprotected speech that does not enjoy first amendment protections. What you are advocating for is giving the government control over forms of protected speech, which is a whole different ball of wax. Creating precedent that the government should regulate acknowledged protected speech is not a good idea at all.

> What would be novel in twitter's case, is that rather than recognizing that the phone company is a natural physical monopoly and hence must not refuse service to the politically unpopular, twitter is more of a natural social monopoly because of network effects

Twitter is not a monopoly.
Sounds like you may need glasses.

I sometimes won't be able to write, not because I have nothing to say, but I associate writing with pain (I have bilateral tendinitis).

Similarly, you may have eyestrain but not be conscious of it.
You also had to buy those games.. the shareware titles were five bucks. I never asked my mom or dad to fork up for the additional episodes either
The last time I checked, the only closed source parts were some profile sync keys and some media codecs.
This sounds a lot like Macromedia Cold Fusion, from back in the day, no?
On today's modern internet, you can express just about anything you want.

The issue is that if you express 'wrongthink', then the 99.9% of platforms will prevent your idea from spreading, even if it would have otherwise spread or become popular.

This is how censorship has changed form. It's no longer about stopping someone form saying something, it's about preventing certain views/ideas from ever being allowed to spread or become viral or reach a wide audience.

Twitter is notorious for soft-censoring posts, where only connections 1-2 hops away from the author can see them, and then they don't exist. Those posts, no matter how much they resonate with people, can never spread to a large audience.

If we backport it to the real world, it's a bit like saying, sure we still have freedom of speech. You are welcome to go and say anything you want inside this soundproof box with room for only 1 person.
Could these be a second side to the story that maybe he didn’t interview well or some other reason?
Did you get azure credits after all? Looks like they 'forgot' about this as well.
I don't have a dog in this race; I'm not partnered with any cloud provider. I will say that based upon what the article discusses, they save a bunch of money on AWS Glue by... running their own ETL pipeline inside of ECS instead. What's the maintenance burden of that decision? It's certainly not zero.
WHG II is Gates's father, so his grandfather would have the same name, and the date would be fine.

I can't find much info on WHG I, but it seems like maybe he was a banker, which would make it surprising if he was writing about mice.
It would be completely different and give his ridiculous nonsense an appropriate context. Think about how every NBA game, breakfast show, mayonnaise commercial, news outlet shows people's tweets to make people feel connected through social networking. It's hyper-branded as Twitter, as tweets. Fox news and OANN are not going to be able to give the cultural relevancy to kkknet or whatever they'd call their alternative.

Social media companies always act like they are completely guiltless in the rise of the harmful far-right, but these far-right people exploit their inventions to obtain cultural relevancy. The right truly struggles to create culture on their own
Is Trump lying though? Here’s a list of tons of convictions on fraudulent use of absentee ballots (and other forms of voter fraud): https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/p...
Republicans have had full control of the house, senate, supreme court & FCC a couple of times and no action has been taken on it
This is correct in theory but not in practice. Commodity bug bounties have become somewhat of a failed experiment. For most companies, they cost more than they are worth, and that cost doesn’t even come from the reward payout.
I grew up in the suburbs of Washington DC. My suburb still 30 years later still looks exactly the same, just with less local businesses and more big chains, and more homeless people. There is still no viable public transportation accessible without a car. Needless to say I left a long time ago (to NYC, where I saw firsthand the subway get worse and worse every year and is currently in a dire state).

I ended up leaving the U.S, and was surprised to learn that public transportation and not needing a car is pretty much standard in the rest of the world.
Why is SF such a hellhole? Discretionary review
This is hilarious. You pop into a thread out of nowhere to advertise your Evil Conservative blacklist, and literally the first person you accuse has a Wikipedia cite showing that you're completely wrong.

One might think you'd engage in some self-reflection...? Have you no decency, Senator?

I think I'll pass on using your blacklist, thanks.
I'm suggesting that Twitter might be a monopoly in the field of "being the watering hole for the entire media/political class". The argument hinges on network effects, I'm not saying it's ironclad, but I think we can all agree that you can't just start your own Twitter and have the same unique position of political influence.

If that's the case, the common carrier concept is helpfully already fleshed out for us in the law.

Good night.