skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Air conditioning has more to do with controlling humidity than temperature. Besides, cars are highly-variable environments, and a thermostat setting is a poor indicator of a person's comfort. Maybe the sun is shining on me and I want cold, dry air blowing on me, even though the cabin temperature technically matches the seemingly-reasonable thermostat setting. Maybe a window is open, and blasting the AC is pointless. Maybe I'm driving past a stinky chicken farm and I want to turn on recirculate mode so I don't gag.

I don't care about a specific temperature setting, all I care about is relative comfort. A little warmer or colder by tweaking the temperature dial, dryer with the AC button, maybe a nice 80/20 split between my face and my feet—manual controls can do that, and going from my older car to newer thermostatically-controlled ones is always a frustrating experience because there's a disconnect between the input method and the desired output that makes this more difficult. Ironically, these systems usually have too many buttons, and that's largely why they're hard to use. Just give me three dials (temp, fan speed, blender) and two buttons (AC, recirculate).

Also, air conditioners are power-hungry and significantly affect fuel economy (and power output in ICE-driven cars). I don't turn it on unless I need it.
> I mean, I even disagree that there's major 'anti-conservative' bias at all.

Are you a conservative yourself?

I'm gonna take a guess that you are not so how would you know?

It's a real question, no trick.
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That's actually kind of funny right there. Politically, internet access is being championed as a fundamental human right (I.e. being classified as a need).

Yet we still have people trying to define what activity on the Net constitutes the necessity that access is supposed to fulfill.

I understand where you're coming from though. I just wanted to point out the amusing dichotomy that stood out in my head.
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Here is a WHO report from February saying the same thing:

> Modeling is a helpful tool to try to account for missed cases, such as those that are mild cases potentially missed in current surveillance activities, and the time lag between onset and death. Using an estimated number of total infections, the Infection Fatality Ratio can be calculated. This represents the fraction of all infections (both diagnosed and undiagnosed) that result in death. Based on these available analyses, current IFR estimates range from 0.3% to 1%. Without population-based serologic studies, it is not yet possible to know what proportion of the population has been infected with COVID-19.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
8/10, very promising. feels like Cooledit/Audition, which was for a long time the best of its class (Pro T
Tools is the industry standard but that's based on long years of hardware-lock-in). Allow local instances and add Lua or similar user scripting and you've got a winner. Well done.
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If Dorsey banned his account, it would probably be a shitshow. Right wing trolls would come out in droves (even more than they do now).

If Twitter did ban his account, what about other equally bad but smaller accounts? How many can they ban?

It seems like Twitter is in a lose-lose situation here.
The problem with Twitter and Facebook is that the lines are getting blurry with regards to public vs private. Like it or not, a couple tech platforms are the de facto new town squares. Not saying I have any answers, just saying it's definitely not a clear issue anymore.
There is a book titled "Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques". The last edition was published in 2006, so it's fairly dated by now. I found it very interesting back then, but it wouldn't have much about more recent tools or ideas.

There is a summary of the book here https://www.ethos3.com/books/thinkertoys-a-handbook-of-creat...
This requires trust that 1. Google understands how users perceive the experience and then 2. can operationalize something that may be rather personal into repeatedly measurable elements.
They don't necessarily get uglier, as many are insulated/painted/renovated/etc. and become quite presentable, especially if they become a bit more individualized.

But one thing that is noticeable that blocks built earlier (50s/60s) are usually better than those built later (70s/80s). Better quality material, more thought to living spaces around them, playgrounds, etc.
I'm terrible at it! For years, I've organised a day a week to work outside the office and outside the home. I know I need a planned task saved for that day, and I need physical separation. Covid is a giant pain in the ass and I hate it because it makes that "not in office" time no longer special and focused/effective. It's just one huge slog of Slack, Zoom and mail hell.
Within the same pod sure, they share the same netns. I was talking about individual container comms.

With rootless podman they use slirp4netns and all get the same IP, with rootful podman or Docker a bridge network is established so that containers that aren't in the same pod can communicate with each other.
They can have an independent group of fact checkers to act as a jury of sorts (Facebook did something like this for a while, idk if they still do).
Thanks for the link, a great talk
We have the same microwave.

I also hate that "feature".
Whichever that gives me the most personal space.
Because everything is tribalism now.

You can call the right hypocrites for doing a 180 on corporate property rights and demanding a 21st century fairness doctrine.. but didn't the left do a 180 as well?
A problem with editorializing or fact checking is that it must be applied consistently, with equal effort, across all viewpoints; otherwise there is a perception of bias.
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why would Twitter ban their most popular user? not in a million years... they need him just as much as he needs them.
There's a lot of discussion in this thread, but I think it all comes down to the fact that we are all individuals with individual preferences. What is comfortable for you, may not be for your coworker. Great companies try to reconcile those differences with proper communications channels in place, bad companies try to exert control over something they don't understand.
Hah! Serves them right.

I think pharma pursued left-handed ketamine because they could patent it and charge a king's ransom for it, whereas your dog's vet has a bottle of right-handed ketamine for $5.
Unless hes right and social media compagnies are actually biaised against conservatives. OH WAIT.
This seems overly simplistic to me and premature. You are declaring "null and void" something that you haven't seen (at least I was unable to find the actual text just now).

Obviously any President has lots of legal options when deciding how any law is applied and interpreted.

It appears that this is a shot across the bow from a political standpoint or to use another military metaphor, Trump is attempting to shape the battlefield on this issue and there are indeed lots of legitimate issues regarding Section 230.
In a world without Section 230 Twitter would be more likely to censor Trump to avoid liability for what he says. But I think the real goal to intimidate platforms into allowing right-wing disinformation propaganda, it's disgusting behavior from a president.
> What examples of this unfairness are being referred to? I never understand why journalist don't press harder and follow up with obvious questions. Same with "many people are saying" style statements.

The "unfairness" is a fact check that got attached to a couple of his tweets: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12652558351245393....

Journalists do press him for details, but they get answers like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNlSRd2w5IA.
That own executive will attack any industry he doesn't agree with at any point he pleases. It's how he has done it for years in business and it's how he will do it in politics for as long as he isn't prosecuted and removed from office. As long as the Republicans keep supporting him and have a majority he will just continue to pull more and more crazy stunts and get away with it.
Depends what they're doing with those rights. See Citizens United vs FEC.
Twitter is _the_ place where political discourse happens not just _a_ place where it happens. It's an unfortunate state of affairs that they happen to be a private company with a bias.
Official page for the EO: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...
does anyone know a simple app that allows hyperlinking within notes? I want to create a roam-style knowledge base, but atom is a bit too heavy for my purposes. I prefer to keep things cross-compatible and future proof with .txt or .rtf, but to my knowledge, neither allow hyperlinking to documents
I hate the term "these people" some of "these people" meet some of your criteria but not all. You would likely place me in the category of "these people" because I believe social media favors the left side of arguments. I believe in a fair an open internet, let ideas be shared and stop censoring. Every group is a hypocrite, but everyone feels justified in their hypocrisy. It would go a long way if we stopped dividing each other up into camps.
It would be, if the owner began editorializing the content, because the point at which they get involved, they lose neutrality, and therefore Section 230 immunity protection.
Well, I guess there are a variety of reasons for that. I mean, maybe you just didn't... gel with those particular courses or professors responsible for teaching your computer science at that particular university.

That wouldn't necessarily mean you were bad at the subject. Just that you didn't learn well in that particular environment.

Alternatively, if you've got ADD and find it hard to maintain focus, maybe you just didn't care to work as hard in college as you then did in the internships and roles you took on afterwards. We've all had companies and organisations where we've been good/bad culture fits (like Amazon as mentioned in your post). Perhaps your college/classes were a poor fit as well.

Alternatively, it could simply be an age or maturity thing. I'm sure many people here would do much better at school or university if they returned today, simply because they'd take it a bit more seriously and have more years of experience under their belt.
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Just realize that AWS / GCP / Azure have already gobbled up vast swaths of website hosting in all forms and are growing along with some free CDN and DNS providers.

If google said, we want to track people, and brings android, chrome, dns resolvers, network infrastructure, google cloud compute, AI systems, google analytics which these media sites voluntarily, google play services etc to target and track you - they probably could.

EVERY single person (including you) who claim they don't use google, if you dig down, they often are lying and do. And if you don't, some of the people you email or interact with do, so indirect profiles can be built.

AMP solved a need for a lot of users, which is the janky, slow ad filled websites that media sites in particular had become. So there is an actual end user reason people like AMP - it's a better user experience in many cases. This is where AMP is ruining the web gets hard to support. For most folks they don't perceive they are giving up a lot more in terms of privacy, and they are getting a lot.
Ask HN: What could an alternative to the C standard library look like?
My understanding of compiler history is that before the C standard, compiler
vendors created their own C libraries that shipped with their compilers. Code
written to be compiled with one compiler likely would not work without
modification using another compiler.

The C standard obviated this portability problem, and arguably standardized
problems of its own. Functionality that became standardized, such as strcpy and
scanf, now considered unsafe and best avoided, is retained for backwards
compatibility. Some functions, such as strtok, modify static buffers and are not
re-entrant. Manual memory management is still du jour, without any standardized
alternatives such as an interface for reference counting.

The C standard also lacks implementations of common data structures and
algorithms, which keeps the language light and easy to learn, at the cost of
often needing to reinvent the wheel.

C isn't going anywhere. Many lament the unsafety of the language, and for good
reason. However, it's often the lowest common denominator in ABI compatibility.
The performance and explicitness of C is unparalleled in a lot of tasks. At the
same time, it's rather easy to disable the standard library during compilation,
and link to a different one.

I've been wondering for a while, has anyone recently (or ever) attempted to
create a competing C standard, or language based on C with only a different
standard library? What are the pros and cons of such a project? If you could
start fresh on the standard library, could a modern perspective and different
design choices yield a better language? How different could the result look?
Has something similar ever been done with any other language?
> Because seems to be presenting themselves as a neutral platform

Eh? Twitter bans accounts _all the time_. It hides stuff from search, and hides potentially explicit content behind an "are you sure you want to see this?" It is in no way a neutral platform. Fact-checking world leaders was originally conceived by twitter as an alternative to just banning them when they get dangerous.
No it's not. Twitter currently enjoys immunity from section 230 of the communication decency act. That protection requires that they are not editorializing content. Fact checking content is a form of editorializing. If you want to do that, no protection and you are open to lawsuits. This has bi-partisan support and they are simply reining this in which is long overdue.
can you imagine the horror on HN if this were really a thing?
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If I remember correctly, there was never any conclusive proof that voting fraud happened with the insecure Diebold voting machines in 2004.[1]

Those machines stored voting tallies on unencrypted compact flash cards, and there were massive other flaws in their security. But those machines were so insecure, that it would be difficult to prove fraud even happened if it had occurred.

Twitter chose a the wrong tweet to fact check. They are now asserting that a black-box mail voting system that has never been tried on this scale is secure, and we should just stop asking questions.

If I said that I was skeptical of the outcome of the elections that were conducted with voting machines made by Dick Cheney's company, in swing states, running Windows 98, am I going to be fact checked?

I'm really amazed at amount of trust people on HN are putting in mail in ballots.

Voting by mail can be done securely, but there are major problems with the current proposals. Just because Trump said it doesn't mean it is not true. My understanding is that the current proposals do not meet international requirements of transparency to qualify as truly fair.

[1]: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/03/diebolds-politi...
IMO it's when you start curating and suggesting in complex ways rather than simple "most popular having (user-provided) tag X" ways. Throw in other stuff like monetizability but denying that to some creators, and IMO Youtube is way over the line and the rest aren't far behind, because they can't resist using their position to manipulate what the user sees—there's too much money in it.
We need to learn how to live with Covid19?
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You say this very glibly but are you sure the question doesn't deserve more thought?

Everyone has a twitter account? How many people would you lose in transition just via friction? If he spewing hate via twitter to spewing hate via instagram/facebook then facebook might ultimately find themselves pressured to do something about it especially if a major US company had been cratered in an obvious repressive act of tyranny. Zuckerberg might lack in character and backbone but do you really believe all its employees are equally lacking?

If he moves to the neo nazi land of gab might even less of his followers follow? Can gab even handle increasing its userbase by 80x?

Do you think the nature of the platform doesn't matter at all as far as engagement or value of engagement? People engage on twitter a lot already even without the president. Familiarity implies normalcy. On twitter his crazy crap is bookended by all the more normalcy of people's regular lives. If it was surrounded by white supremacists and crazy it wouldn't carry the same cache and would turn off a good chunk of the moderates.

I'm going to call it. He can't pull the trigger on Twitter even if he was allowed because it would reduce the effectiveness of his messaging by half.
The "big bet" is on the phase 3.
From day one it seemed to me like Trump's main goal was desecrating the federal state institutions. Seriously, the guy seems as if he cares only about stepping on the constitution and laws. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't POTUS executive orders only serve to direct the federal government, his employees? Twitter is definitely not a federal agency. Why are a lot of people treating this situation like Trump is able to circumvent the legislative branch?
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There are alternatives. For instance my smaller team has a very brief daily stand up now in a video call each morning.

Our larger department has a Monday check-in and a Friday check-in wherein our boss's boss speaks to each one of us—checks in with how we're doing, whether we need anything, if we're stuck or whatever, and also raises questions to us that have come up in their own work. That is often mixed with more congenial banter and chats. Sometimes we throw in a game of Jackbox or something.

My own team has taken to at least a round of something like Counter Strike for the last hour of the day each week. Sometimes almost every day depending on our work load.

Combined with Slack my immediate manager and higher-level bosses are as reachable as ever.

I'm sure once things can safely open up again there will almost immediately be some kind of meet up for drinks and whatever because of course that can't quite be replaced, but I don't think being remote most of the time has to be such a social handicap.
> I don't know if Dorsey is making the right call here, but he has clearly thought about it a lot, and discussed those thoughts publicly.

Similarly, I'm conflicted. I understand Jack's argument, but I'm not sure he's making the right call here. It is highly unlikely Trump could build a platform or co-opt one that has the reach of Twitter. And arguably, the terms of service should apply equally to everyone on the platform. Trump has engaged in hate speech and targeted his followers against individuals in a way that probably destroyed their lives (death threats, etc.). IMHO, Twitter should enforce their TOS against all users in a fair and equal way, regardless of whether they are POTUS or a normal citizen.
And ignores the importance of execution altogether. It’s hard to do $thing before you even know what it is.
> This is about the President being angry that Twitter fact checked him and using executive power to create a chilling effect against any platform doing so in the future.

That is the impetus in this case, but that doesn't mean it doesn't border on questions we've been slowly grappling with for some time now, nor does it mean we have to ignore that question.

> the basis for authoritarian laws meant to stamp out that menace

I'm not sure it's authoritarian to remove their liability protections, is it? In a sense, I think it's an interesting question, if you're willing to editorialize content on behalf of your users why should you get safe-harbor protection? You clearly are willing to put the man power and technology into it, shouldn't you then be liable for content posted on your site?

> It's about Americans hating "the left" so much that they'll support an obvious violation of the First Amendment as long as it silences their ideological enemies.

What's the obvious First Amendment violation here? If you act as a conduit for certain types of speech, you're liable for that speech. We're just bringing "content neutral providers" into the same realm that everyone else already was.
>* Rising youth unemployment

Before COVID?

>* Little hope of owning property

This realistically only applies in a few hot cities in the US and to low income groups. The middle class still can easily achieve home ownership in most of the US.

>* Rapidly increasing inequality

This is just a political talking point. It has no realistic impact on the day-to-day life of the bulk of the population. Whether Jeff Bezos has 1 billion or 1 trillion doesn't really matter to someone making 90k living in Chicago.

>* Healthcare system where serious sickness can lead to financial ruin

Again, this doesn't apply to a huge portion of the US population because they have health insurance. Remember that the reason that healthcare is so hard to change in the US is because it works for the majority of the population.
> You know, it would be pretty funny if Twitter banned Trump's account because of some TOS terms have or something

I mean, if section 230 were to be weakened, they would probably _have_ to, to protect themselves from liability. For libel, for a start.
I didn't see the data that supports the "50% of crimes" statement.

Can you make it more obvious?

I saw whites are ~70% of arrests, and for violent crime arrests of a juvenile, blacks are 50%, but nothing like blacks commit 50% of crimes.
The weird thing is that, a year ago, if you asked me where "private companies should be able to make their own decisions about what content they publish" falls on the spectrum, I would have considered it to be right of center.

I guess it comes down to whether these justices are ideologically "right-leaning", or just Republican partisans.
If you are ever in Berlin absolutely pay to go up the Soviet radio tower. The one that looks a bit like the Space Needle. The room you enter before you board the elevator is stunningly beautiful.

In fact, generally it's a far more beautiful structure than most such towers. The interior design is especially impressive.
I’d much rather platforms like Twitter just ban users who violate the TOS even if they’re politicians. If you’ve ever followed Twitter accounts of local politicians you can see that it provides a framework for civil debate without restricting speech.

What our president doing is abusing opponents using his popular twitter account as a megaphone while violating the TOS.
No one side has a monopoly on conspiracy theories. The Russia collusion was something spun for years by the networks where people under oath said one thing privately and another publicly.
So an "iceberg model" is about trends and patterns over time? That's adding a dimension to the iceberg's ocean and I think the analogy breaks. Usually icebergs are to describe partial occlusion.

Also alarming is that in the example for that model QA is something that happens post-release. If so, I expect quality to be a looming iceberg.
Cool stuff but what's with the logo? The branding is a bit too Affliction-esque for something usually associated with elegance...