skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who knew that the right wing would be the one trying to limit free speech of private companies??
It's not just about software security, a simple USB device can fry its host (your computer).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Killer

https://hackaday.com/2015/03/11/killer-usb-drive-is-designed...

https://hackaday.com/2015/10/10/the-usb-killer-version-2-0/
Yeah this is going to impact things for a while most likely.

When I finished college, the 2008 recession had not happened yet, however there were definitely warning signs in the job market even after I graduated. Many of my friends from college were laid off before or during the downturn, I was stuck in a very dead end job just trying to make ends meet. I wound up not getting a job fully utilizing my degree until I had almost reached 30.

Lots of folks in this area were in similar boats; they aren't starting families until their mid or even later 30s because they had stumbling blocks due to the 2008 crisis.
Reader Mode Standard
Does a lightweight CSS framework exist targeted purely at readability and accessibility ? I would like to be able to write some text and have it be both readable and accessible.
Twitter could put "Everything trump says is false!" underneath every Trump tweet and it would still be perfectly legal.
I don't have a home _office_, an actual area dedicated to doing just work stuff, with hardware dedicated only for work stuff.

Working remotely probably should include that.
Should breitbart.com be forced to allow liberals comments?
As a counter, if you look at the code, there's a lot of DOM api calls littered throughout which obscure what is going on. This could be relieved by pulling out the DOM manipulation into common constructs that all parts of the app use, but then you're creating your own framework/library and might be better off using a battle tested one.
I personally appreciate the people I work with remotely now more than when I was in the office as I don't need to engage in needless chit chat and so every meeting is much more productive.
Twitter is not a monopoly therefore every web site would be considered a public web space.

And so if I run a knitting forum I am not allowed to restrict people who want to turn it into a pornography one. And how would it work for spam. This could end up in a situation where a large spammer could force websites to not remove spam.

It sounds unworkable and over the top just to protect some people who aren't even having their rights impeded.
I was quite surprised — only a few days ago in fact — to discover the standard Python library has no support for Olson (as in tzdata) timezones. Time arithmetic is impossible without them.

The ipaddress library also has no support for calculating subnets. It is quite hard to go from 2a00:aaaa:bbbb::/48 to 2a00:aaaa:bbbb:cccc::/64. It would be less weird if the essence of the documentation didn’t make it sound like the library was otherwise very thorough in the coverage of its implementation.

Can anyone write a PEP? Maybe I should get off my behind and actually submit a patch for proper IP calculations? Or maybe I missed it in the documentation (which, aside, I wish wasn’t written with such GNU-info style formality.)
This is great, thank you.

Do you speak Russian? How long did it take you to learn?
Honestly, Microsoft should just buy Docker and ends Docker misery forever.

And Microsoft seems to be the best fit when comparing to AWS or Google as potential acquirer.
Right but using graal native instead of kotlin native you can have kotlin calling Java code and compiling to a binary
He can't be serious. Based on how much he's on it, it's obviously his favorite site. Just look at his numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_on_social_media#R...
A lot better than the shitty Word docs that Microsoft provides. Thx @op
This is a nice theory but are there any instances of Nazis being converted to normies because someone told them they were wrong on the internet?

Instead what seems to happen is that normies get pulled into Nazi content because the recommendation algorithms on these sites see heated discussions as engagement and try to feed it.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/politics/trump-twitter-social...

> consistent with a draft order whose text CNN first reported last summer
Some predictions are known with enough certainty that they would be very accurately called facts. Example:

Fact: The sun will rise at 5:50am in San Francisco tomorrow.

False: The sun will rise at 10:00am in San Francisco tomorrow.
It should be noted that SameSite was broken with Google Sign-in because Google themselves never set the None attribute before they reverted the rollout in April. [0]

This is a killer for all federated login systems.

[0] https://github.com/google/google-api-javascript-client/issue...
Executive branch powers have been increasing at least since the Great Depression, arguably beginning with or before Teddy Roosevelt.
Google posted an update saying that the problem is restricted to their local tools, and not PageRank, so that's good.

But many places still use PageSpeed, and I wouldn't bet anything vital on clients noticing iframes.
As josephcsible said in a post parallel to yours, affine types can do this for you. If not, though... if you never mess up and keep a reference to the old one, you're good. I don't care when it's garbage collected; if there's no reference to it, it's not going to be used. But if anybody, ever, keeps a reference...
I have been seeing warnings about this in the dev console for a while now.

A cookie associated with a cross-site resource at [url] was set without the `SameSite` attribute. A future release of Chrome will only deliver cookies with cross-site requests if they are set with `SameSite=None` and `Secure`. You can review cookies in developer tools under Application>Storage>Cookies and see more details at https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592 and https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032.
The nice thing about Trump having the emotional self control of a toddler is that we don't have to wonder if this was really part of some larger plan. We know without a doubt that this was because Twitter subtly showed him an ounce of disrespect. Tech companies should therefore realize the futility of trying to negotiate with this administration.
As a government official, you cannot take action to try to impede someone's access to your official statements. That is independent of the platform, and independent of how much work someone has to do to still access the information.
I'm reminded of this cheeky comic from 2009[1], which shows Obama in the caves Mt Doom with the ring, inscribed on it "executive privilege" and "state secrets". Not wanting to forfeit its power, he decides to keep it. Now here we are, with executive orders flying out the door.

Slowly, surely, we have allowed an unprecedented growth in executive action. Haven't we decided already that it's okay to be in a perpetual state of war since 2001? Why have we allowed the military industrial complex keep us embroiled in foreign wars for half of our lives?

And if you want a glimpse at how powerful and non-partisan this complex is, look at the pushback the president received when he tried simply to pull out of Syria.

1. http://thisishistorictimes.com/2009/02/one-ring-to-rule-them...
I've grown to hate Twitter's complicity in... whatever the hell we should call the political world we live in right now, but right now I'm just amused. Because I'd like to think the people who created Twitter or are working there probably have a conscience and Anti-Trump leanings, but they've let him get away so much that they are now part of the scum they probably despise.

You know how people can be reserved in the real world but say the weirdest shit on Twitter? Honestly, Trump is such a coward, I think without Twitter he wouldn't have dared spit the venom he's been spitting left and right, because he would've had to go in front of a lectern to be heard instead.
Well, I guess it’s easy to argue that it’s so common that beginners would expect to open files as text. You can see how it would evolve that way.

Now I’m more familiar with it I’m careful to be explicit with the decoding when using text to make it super obvious what’s going on.
Seems like a low quality article. The author doesn't seem to recognize that Lakka is using the default RetroArch UI.

Recommending the Flatpack version of Steam is also questionable; not every game will work with it, and it seems to have issues with game controllers on some distros.

TBH, I don't know that I'd recommend Steam on any distro but Ubuntu. Developers pushing out quick Linux builds without understanding what they're doing seem to have a bad habit of dynamically linking against Ubuntu libraries, which may not necessarily match other distros.
> Most people totally miss the point.

Because 'free speech' is literally _all they know_ about the subject. If they did look it up, they would literally see the very first words of the first amendment: "Congress shall make no law (...)".

Literally about the legislative branch. Every other consequence of the First Amendment comes from that. Other laws can be more specific and may grant more rights, but this just specifies what the government can't take away.
What does one have to do with the other?

Anyway, here's a workaround for you. Right click the pdf hyperlink > Save As.
limitations of SSAS and traditional OLAP-thoughts on upgrading SSAS to big data
Amazon workers track virus cases because Amazon won't share full data
Looks fantastic! I like the Iceberg model.
> Bingo. Checks and balances

By that you mean games, actual checks and account balances from bribes right? Just another mafia state style leverage play here.
If no changes had been made, it does seem that the ultimate deaths directly caused by the virus would have been a lot higher, yes.

Once one starts thinking about indirect deaths, especially those caused by attempts to contain the virus, the picture becomes much murkier. And of course, all of this is being done under circumstances of grave uncertainty.

We'll likely never really know. My guess, though, is that the "lockdown" is probably working against us, at least at this date. And clearly some containment measures, like moving infected people into care homes for the old and disabled, appear in retrospect to have been disastrous.
I'm sorry but you have a fundamentally flawed model for how Trump (and many in the GOP) think about the world.

You're operating under a principle that says that people are essential equal in terms of rights and that there is a moral obligation to consistency. The old Golden Rule, and everything. Under that framework, it's stupid to punch someone in the face unless you also want to get punched in the face, because your principle of equivalence says that you should be prepared to receive anything you give.

But these people have an entirely different model. There is no right and wrong. No fairness, no consistency. It is simply a model of power. If you have the power to do a thing, you can do a thing. And if others don't have enough power to do the same back to you, their loss.

You wouldn't get irate that the Earth pulls the moon out of its orbit more than the moon affects the Earth. It's not "unfair" that the Earth has more mass. It is simply a fact, and that fact determines how those planetary bodies act.

The mentality of authoritarians is the same with respect to power. The universe has granted power to some and not others, and the only moral code is to use what you have to do what you can get away with.

It's confusing, because these people often use words like "right" and "fair", but they are using them purely as tools of power for the effect using the words has on others, and not under any actual belief in them. My kids when they were toddlers would cry "not fair" any time they didn't get their way, because they learned that claiming something was unfair was sometimes an effective strategy to sway parents. It's the same thing.
Because a different landlord is happy to only take $400 of it, and another landlord is happy with only an additional $300. In aggregate, you will find some equilibrium under $500.

From another perspective, why doesn't food cost 90% of our income anymore? Why didn't food prices go up in perfect lockstep with every productivity improvement and rise in wages since 300BC? Because there are people out there willing and happy to sell it for less, no other reason.
I'll say to you what I end up saying to everyone who has this view, read the The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

I can guarantee that if you read that book and look at the data, you'll change your mind.

Believe me, it'll cover every single talking point you probably have.
Much better examples than Twitter.

If I have the right to every website then how about password-protected ones. Do I then have the right to demand that Apple give me access to everyone's iCloud website ?
With the CT system I can monitor the CA's issuance, with DNSSEC I can't retroactively monitor if someone has changed the DANE keys and intercepted traffic.
Network effects have a lot to do with it. Conferences will give you style files that only work with Latex, and some require the .tex sources when you submit your article.
I think it may actually be a way to empower companies to gain more access to information. If the companies are responsible, then they will want to sue the users for violations and personally identify them. A side effect is that they will have some government agency deciding what is acceptable or not. Much like China.
How does that work out though in practice?

If I go to a bar and there's some guy screaming about his Nazi ideology and the owners don't kick him out, I'm going to just move on.

If some social media platform is full of trolls and hatred and such... people are just going to go away. It becomes a 'race to the bottom'.
> In the US, the Chicago School of Thought says a company doesn't do anything wrong from a market position until customers are charged more

> In the EU, monopoly is gauged by how much choice and diversity is lost, even in the face of free product. I am very much aligned with the EU view of monopoly.

Interestingly the US used to have the EU viewpoint as well, until the 1970s. Robert Bork was one of the main people behind that.

For those interested in a deeper look at Antitrust in America, Planet Money had a great three part series on the topic [1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/20/704426033/anti...
> But it still suggests that if the virus had been allowed to spread uncontained

In the US, it is spreading uncontained, because we don't test and trace in any meaningful way. The question is when do we confront that reality and stop pretending otherwise?

It appears people's acceptance of "flattening the curve" for ventilators has morphed into waiting for a vaccine, which normally takes 18 months.

As I've said before, the US needs to test and trace just nursing homes/hospitals and stop the lockdown otherwise, since the mortality rate for younger people is near zero. The US economy is not setup for tens of millions of long-term unemployed people.

In the case od Newsom's reopening slides, I'd like to see dates attached to each slide instead of non-specific "when adequate testing is available", which may never be true in the US. (By omitting dates, Newsom preserves his White House run at the expense of California residents.)
How does this limit the free speech of private companies? Does a company have free speech?
The parent comment says "closed not only under concatenation and Kleene star, but also under these other four operations". That divides the closure properties into two sets, obvious and nonobvious. The obvious ones are obvious because they are regular operations -- concatenation and Kleene star are operators defined by the language of regular expressions. Intersection isn't.

I'm pointing out that set union belongs in the obvious group and not the nonobvious group. Like concatenation and Kleene star, it is one of the operators used to define what a regular expression is.

To show that regular languages are closed under intersection / complementation / string reversal, you need to do a proof. The proof of closure under set union is just that it's part of the definition of regular expressions.
Im not sure I agree with the conclusion.

Why not compose with the repl, then write tests at the end?

The common fear hear is that “you be motivated to write the test, or the test will be less good”

For motivation I never found it to be a big issue, and for the quality of the test, writing it after often produces better results. You get more time to think about _what and how_ you want to test
Absolutely. To get a slice of that thinking. Here's Rush Limbaugh:

(backstory: Trump has been repeatedly peddling an absolutely baseless claim that his TV critic Joe Scarborough murdered his employee couple of decades back. Her husband is now pleading that Trump is causing irreparable damage to their family). Anyway, here's Limbaugh:

“The thing here is when you get to Trump and his conspiracy theories, he does it in a really clever way,” he proclaimed. “And this is where people don’t get the subtlety of Trump because they don’t think he has the ability to be subtle. Trump never says that he believes these conspiracy theories that he touts. He’s simply passing them on.”

Asked by his producer whether he thinks “Trump cares whether Scarborough murdered anybody or not,” Limbaugh replied that the president doesn’t care but is tweeting about it “because it’s out there.”

“So Trump is just throwing gasoline on a fire here, and he’s having fun watching the flames—and he’s having fun watching these holier-than-thou leftist journalists react like their moral sensibilities have been forever rocked and can never recover,” he concluded.
> There's no reason to expect rogue upgrades of dependencies to work out of the box

If they don’t work, they are broken. Of course it can happen, but the opposite approach means never being able to do it.

> If there are security issues, 99% of that should rather be solved by safe language usage and security perimeter or encrypted channels

There is no mainstream language or operating system out there that solves "99% of security issues" unless you are talking about formally proven systems etc.

> The deliverables are provided and guaranteed by the vendor.

As I explained in the GP, this only happens for systems with support contracts.

For most software out there, this isn’t the case. Mainstream software vendors don’t guarantee you anything at all, for good reasons.

> Modern methods involve a pipeline, and no rogue upgrades that haven't passed multiple stages of tests and security checks.

That is not "modern". That is how it has always been done since the 80’s. Again, for software properly supported.

I am not sure why you talk about "rogue" updates, since nobody has mentioned such.
Visual Studio has a big footprint only if you choose to install everything. I don't see the point in doing so. Are you developing for every available platform and in more than one language?
I have always championed the right to free expression, whether that is an individual hosting content or a company deciding what content it wants to host and how to display it. The government should play no part in either case.
Yeah, I feel it. And as if I needed another reason not to get on a plane these days.
To repeat my comment from a different thread:

If we accept corporations as people, I wish some of the ones with actual power had the backbone to do a bit of civil disobedience, instead of rolling over at the first sign of trouble. Twitter should double down and add a fact-check sticker to every single Trump lie, past and current — to hell with lawsuits and the FCC. Otherwise, we'll "maybe parts of this sound reasonable" our way straight into a goose-stepping, thought-shaping, Republican-ruled dictatorship. Surely, even the people who scoffed at this idea a few years ago can see this future taking shape.

I am aghast that there's any support for this in the once-countercultural Silicon Valley. It's abhorrent and shameful, and it makes me fear that maybe the gravity well is already too large to escape. Meanwhile, people like Zuckerberg and Musk are tripping over themselves to appease the ruling party.

(Just a reminder that earlier today, Trump retweeted a video declaring that "the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat." I suppose this is one of those good old fashioned Republican values that our liberal bias works so hard to suppress.)
It seems highly unlikely you have a memory leak as it doesn’t sound like you are observing continually increasing memory usage.

I’ve worked a lot in C# and JavaScript and I’ve only had to watch out for memory leaks with event aggregators for messaging between UI components.

So the UI has a button to start a use case. Each time the user goes into the use case a new object is created which on construction registers a callback against an event type with the event aggregator.

The memory leak occurs if this callback is never de-registered on completion of the use case, since the callback is holding onto a reference to the new object created at initiation of the use case.

If the use case is called repeatedly (think something like a check-in terminal), eventually the memory is exhausted.

On backends I’ve only ever worried about potential memory exhaustion from things like unbounded caches.
> Regulations never help.

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Intellij has an automatic translator that works really well though
Interesting.

The theory that I heard was that it was the end of "snowball earth" that drove it.

But https://www.nature.com/news/what-sparked-the-cambrian-explos... suggests that your version is better supported by current research.
Newspapers have restricted what they publish for centuries.

They don't allow libellous, defamatory, salacious or inappropriate comments for example.

So it sounds 'new tech' hasn't really changed anything.
The main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23342161
How would you monitor that your DNS provider hasn't changed your DANE records and intercepted traffic?
I want a fully accurate simulation of sitting in front of one of these control panels, and a tutorial that explains what every single thing does.

There's so damn many knobs and buttons, and I have no idea how to interpret what everything is.

Surely someone else out there would pay for ReactorControlSimulator 2020?
In case anyone wants to listen to this instead of reading it: https://playthis.link/https://www.wired.com/story/remote-wor...
A typo: that should've been ‘ergonomic research’.
Even smart, highly qualified people (which Bob is) are prone to cognitive bias. One such bias is, the more you have espoused something, the more fervently you believe in it, and the harder it is for you to acknowledge any shortcomings of it.

So I agree with the parent ... his writings are in many cases harmful. They're a mix of good and bad, but often net harmful.
That is true for your value of time.

For others, they may think it is fun to take three beat-up old bikes and turn them into one good one and a pile of recyclable parts.

One man's trash is another's treasure...

(& Yes, Uber has no excuse for this kind of nonsense. That is exactly what As-Is-Where-Is-Not-Fit-For-Any-Specific-Purpose warranty & law is all about. Repurpose before recycle...)
Self Hosted WordPress. No plugins. just a simple theme with caching enabled and also behind cloudflare. Works good enough for me.
DNS doesn't resolve somehow. works now.
Care to provide some evidence to back this assertion up?
what if it has just values (like an enum)?