skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to say something similar. The panels do look nice but don't seem much different than those of the West pre-digital era. I seem to recall that the nuclear ice breakers were a point of pride for the USSR, so it's likely that the panels received an above-average level of attention and are atypical.

I don't think that the appeal is just nostalgia though. Modern control rooms and equipment racks just don't have the pretty-looking hardware that the older ones do. Control rooms usually have big displays with network diagrams on them that aren't sexy anymore, along with a bunch of workstations. Equipment racks usually are dominated by LCDs and membrane switches that look a bit chintzy, no big pushbuttons in chromed bezels anymore.
notion is a proprietary format, unfortunately. I also want to keep things in local storage for security reasons
I learned this over and over again in college. Cramming is never as effective as smaller chucks of daily studying.

Learning a new mathematical technique or programming paradigm is similar to exercise. Your brain needs to develop some "muscle" memory for a new way of thinking to stick.
This is a valid argument, but it seems like the proper government response would be to use the tools that were designed to address issues like this such as antitrust law. We shouldn't be bestowing governmental responsibilities on these companies just because we let them become monopolies.
Roam is closed-beta and a proprietary format.
Social media are the broadcasters of this age. I see no reason why they should be exempt from the same rules and regulations as old school broadcasters.
Key Senate Democrat withdraws support from House measure on web browsing data
I do like that now Google lets you downloads the fonts, so you can serve from your own CDN without having to hunt them down or download them manually from their CDN endpoint. One thing I'd like to see Google do is add icon font sets to their repo.
That is not editorializing. Day in and day out journalists print news stories that have been fact checked and contain links to source information. And then there’s the opinion section. It’s clear which Twitter was doing, and it wasn’t editorial.
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I am really sorry, but looking at your website, I did not understand what's the purpose of your company. Reading up your comment, it does not make much more sense to me. Are you somehow like snipcart?
+1

These are the exact steps taken by authoritarian democracies (typically third world phony democracies).

The last 4 years have been nothing short of a nightmare.
Most music-related applications wanting to offer generic hardware support and hackability. Midi is an amazing standard. It allows you to hook up a synthesizer from the early 80s to your 2020 laptop (via a midi-capable audio interface) and control almost anything in your modern DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). And if your Web browser has support for it, control a software synth or any application as well.

In addition to just musical instruments, a huge number of different hardware still use midi. I'm personally interested in DJ-world where things like DJ- and light-controllers use midi and therefore are very easily remappable and very hackable (if the sw is built correctly).

I've wanted to build some DJ-related sw myself that would work via browser but the fact that currently only Chrome supports the standard has so far kept me off it. I'd very much like to see Firefox supporting Web midi.
It's seriously discussed to give Mars a "protective" magnetic field like Earth has, by putting a powerful magnet in the L1 Lagrange Point.

We could get something like that for Earth if our field is out for maintenance for a while.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/245369-nasa-proposes-bui...
> That protection requires that they are not editorializing content.

Please cite the law that says that, because it's certainly not S230.

S230 was specifically made to empower sites to moderate, editorialize, and remove content as they see fit for their platform.
Twitter is _the_ place where political discourse happens. It's an unfortunate state of affairs for some that it happens to be a private company with a bias. And for better of for worse it does have a bias.
My counter argument to yours is that Twitter has a major anti-progressive bias. This can be shown by the number of people that have been banned due to responding against racism.

Since you're not a progressive, you can't counter my claim as there's no way you would know about any anti-progressive bias.
Even if that’s your take, doing this with an executive order feels like a totalitarian move.
I don't think the executive action targets the fact check label on Trump's tweet specifically. I think Twitter did something that really pissed Trump off and Trump is using Section 230 as leverage and a way to extend the narrative of "Twitter is plotting against me so don't believe everything you read."

This is neither here nor there but I have considered my self a republican for the last 28 years of my life. This president's actions make me feel physically ill.
Twitter is in a very winning situation. Before Trump took office and started tweeting a lot, the relevance of Twitter was often up for debate. Now they're a place where people get the latest updates from a world leader. That's great for Twitter.
also kivy ... https://kivy.org but both of those are more ux oriented, and with a different focus than this afaics.
Can you provide some numbers? (I follow SF news, not NY.)

Several Asian countries csn do 100% of the tests they need because corona was not "uncontained."

The US would need to be able to do 10-50 million tests per day to get there, plus tracing. Hope is not a strategy.
Again, this has been drafted since at least last summer and has little to do with the recent twitter news.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/politics/trump-twitter-social....
> consistent with a draft order whose text CNN first reported last summer
The use of the phrase "bells and whistles" seems pretty ironic here.
Never thought I'd see the day when conservatives are arguing for nationalization of private corporations.
>I really prefer meeting folks in person

I mostly don't do that in an office but I do for traveling/events which are pretty much off the table for an indefinite time. I meet far more of my colleagues at events than I do at my company offices. That's the difficult thing for me right now.
still a bit too heavy for my purposes, but it looks like it may be the only option. I was trying not to resort to `.md` files, but that may be a more future-roof option to be honest.
I decided to give it a shot any way. It seems cool.
For normal (high profile) people engaging in this sort of thing, they'd just delete their accounts. A while back, presumably due to questions over Trump, they said they weren't going to delete world leader accounts, but they might fact-check harmful lies.
Mozilla (and Chromium) could mirror Top X Google Fonts directly into the user's font system and entirely eliminate remote calls for a small size increase in the browser installation.

(Or Microsoft and Apple could do it in OS images.)

You can do it yourself, even, but unfortunately font loading timings are a deanonymization vector with its own privacy implications and it would take a concerted group effort to install similar font sets locally to avoid those privacy issues.
Might be a good thing for them to get picked up by a company which would continue working to make the tooling better. Docker seems to have been struggling as an independent company.

This wouldn't be the sort of acquisition where MS takes what it wants for itself and kills the product. Not mentioned (unless I missed it) in the article is that Docker has been putting in a lot of work to make the tooling work well with WSL 2. So, having a foot in both Windows and Linux.
I can keep things on local storage and preferably in `.txt` or `.rtf`
> (By the way, it’s useful to get good at differentiating between real trends and fake trends. A key differentiator is if the new platform is used a lot by a small number of people, or used a little by a lot of people.)

As a one-time founder, I feel embarrassed to have to ask this; but in the spirit of no-stupid-question and also that there's gotta be someone else wondering the same -- which one is the real trend and which one is the fake trend?

By way of interpreting sentences in a normal way, I would assume "used a lot by a small number of people" is the real trend and "used a little by a lot of people" is the fake trend (going by order of mentions in both sentences).

However, I struggle with this a bit. Dapps were used a lot by a small number of people as of a few years ago (think the cryptokitties trend), but it didn't exactly pan out as a real trend IMO. In other cases, yes, when early adopters love a product and use it a lot, that tends to become a real trend. On the other hand, Facebook apps in 2008 (when they were smaller apps like Superwall and such, before games took over) were somewhat "used a little by a lot of people" at the beginning. I think it wasn't until games took over where the "used a lot" (by a large number of people in that case) really took off.
One of my first blog posts; Tell me what you think... or if you find any spelling errors.
There's a functional mechanical switching relay, the kind triggered off of the clicks of a rotary dialing wheel, attached to two phones at the communication museum in Frankfurt https://www.mfk-frankfurt.de/ and you can dial one phone from the other, and see the relays move as you enter the numbers.
Contrast with submarine-launched cruise missiles: “A left mouse push fires it. Kinda crazy really. We actually asked for a great big red button, but they wouldn't give us one.” — http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3078097.stm
> YC once tried an experiment of funding seemingly good founders with no ideas. I think every company in this no-idea track failed.

How many people did they try this with? Most startups fail, so it will be interesting to see whether they funded enough of these. I think there's a rule of thumb about the upper limit on a probability that isn't observed, but I can't remember what it is.

As for generating ideas, the founders I've come across have tended to know some industry well enough to understand some of the problems. Often this is very specific industry stuff, including understanding which experts are needed and what customers to focus on.

Of course there's plenty of people who have grown up in some industry, but I think the other ingredient you need is enough general knowledge about business to be able to put some pieces together: how to get funding, what a corporate structure is, how to do certain mundane things like pay taxes. The intersection can be smaller than you think, because a lot of corporate types are comfortable where they are, plus they feel (rightly or not) that the job is providing a fair bit of the business infrastructure they need to use their expertise.
We should think about linear computing axioms.
The order does not say that they don't have the right to fact check. It simply says that they don't have the right to fact check and enjoy section 230 immunity.
Wow, where to start. To summarize you said I'm poorly socially adjusted and a bad leader. Solid conversation starter ;)

I agree that humans are social, but I'm not sure why you think we all need to get our primary social interactions at work. Even then, there is work social interaction literally all day long on Slack and other tools.

I think it is healthier for people to have their primary social interactions not tied to work. If a persons primary social ties are all work related it makes it harder if they are laid off or move to a better opportunity. I also find that looser work social interactions make it much easier to keep things completely professional. I shouldn't have to like to Joe in order to work with Joe and accomplish our goal.

I can't wait to get out of my house either, but it's certainly not to head back to an office after many years of being remote. I miss seeing friends, going to dinner with my wife, and rolling in Jiu-Jitsu.

As far as leadership goes, I don't subscribe to the dominate method of leading. If I have to stare someone down to get them to do something we have already gone off the rails somewhere along the way.
> Easily, reliably, and quickly playing audio is table stakes for Windows and Mac OS. They've been doing it for years. But instead of improving one or two audio APIs, on Linux it is time for a new audio server that will, but doesn't, solve all of the problems of every predecessor.

I mean, I have currently 5 soundcards on my desktop computer, 1 pro over PCIe, 2 pro over USB, 1 standard HD Audio and 1 output in my screen's HDMI, and I can assure you that even on windows it's definitely not a smooth ride between WASAPI, ASIO, MME, WDMKS... things crash or get stuck routinely, and I sometimes get random loud buzzes or no sound until I reboot. With my band we had tons of issues with a M-Audio card on windows fixating itself on the wrong sampling rate as soon as a desktop music playing was launched (this includes web browsers), entirely preventing playback on Ableton Live for instance.

It's barely better on macOS, e.g. look at that shit: https://github.com/OSSIA/score/issues/778. macOS also sacrifices some low-latency when comparing the same hardware on it versus Linux (with raw ALSA or JACK) and Windows with ASIO.
If, for example, you go on a voyage to the North Pole, you will travel on a Soviet / Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Let_Pobedy

You'll also end up with a lot less $$ in your wallet:

https://www.quarkexpeditions.com/expeditions/north-pole-the-...
The contrast in comments between the 2017 version vs. this 2020 post is fascinating so my thanks :)
For what it's worth I strongly agreed with the author at the time and feel doubly-so in 2020.
> That protection requires that they are not editorializing content.

It doesn't. Here is its text:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
Most people, if they spent their time at work trolling and shitposting instead of doing the job they were paid to do, would simply be fired.
You actually can do this in on public property; see for example the Westboro Baptist Church, which funded itself in part by winning lawsuits against government entities that tried to stop them.
this is bad science
Will try it out, thanks for the heads up.
I'm sympathetic about bleeding-edge dependencies, but just handling fairly mundane Python dependencies is really easy with venv, pip-tools, and good standards across projects. Of course you always have containers for actual deployments.

When you say beginniners, I think it depends on whether you're referring to programming neophytes in general or professional developers who are new to Python specifically. In the latter case, I actually think it's really important for newcomers to Python to get into best practices like this very early on -- indeed, pretty much immediately. Otherwise they're going to end up either being unable to use any interesting dependencies or being unable to distribute their work in a way that is easy and convenient for others to hack on. Do this with a bunch of people simultaneously and it's a big problem.
Who should host this discourse instead? The government? A perfectly impartial Vulcan? CNN? Fox?
Until the tools, devices and technology needed to access the internet are free and universally available to all without restriction, these sites/services are no more of a public square than a country club is a public park.

And no. A public library terminal is not universal access...
I also enjoy their universal subscription but I recommend trying Rider if you like ReSharper. Outside of small solutions, I find that ReSharper requires more patience than I can muster. The type-and-wait is significantly worse than I remember from classic Mac all-in-ones from the early/mid 90s.
This came up when the "fact check badge" was discussed here yesterday.

I fully agree. Ban the president for literally no other reason than the lulz. Just to troll him. But then they did the typical limp dick liberal thing and tried to to high-road a troll, once again giving the troll the upper hand.

You can't high-road a troll. Now they're stuck in a position of having to maintain their haughty better-than-thou "white knights of facts" position for as long as they can, all while being attacked from every angle. Every time they try to position themselves as knowing better, the facade cracks a bit. They'll be dealing with baseless accusations, but each one will still push the point that maybe they don't know what they're doing. That maybe it was a bad idea.

When dealing with a troll, just say you did because you felt like it and leave it at that. If someone calls you dumb, double down. You wanted to, so you did. No regrets.

Seriously, people (liberal especially) have no understanding of trolls whatsoever and it's a massive unpatched security threat to the country.
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Touchscreens are just evil in any sort of physically involved environment, e.g. a car or even a kitchen stove. You can have ‘good-looking and functional’ (with physical controls too), but touchscreens in such a setup are rather ‘good-looking and dysfunctional’.

Game controllers are the perfect example of ergonomically-tuned physical controls with sleek looks. And afaik the US military uses Xbox controllers in drone control or something like that.
The responsibility to provide customer support is the same, but the judgement for failing to provide the support is different depending on the excuse for not providing it.

E.g. "I couldn't hire more customer support agents because I'm broke," and "I am one of the most profitable companies in the world, but I still refuse to hire more customer support agents because I'm a monopoly and don't have viable competitors so it doesn't matter anyhow"...
Part of the premise is directing the agencies not to spend money on those platforms that violate the EO.
The owners of printing presses have even more power, but the government does not mandate open access to those machines for dispensing speech. Unfettered access to twitter is not akin to free speech.
Be careful not to allow yourself to be identified as a libertarian. That will get you ostracized by both sides, almost violently so.

The only thing both sides agree on is that they don't have anywhere near enough input in your life.
I'm not sure it's a good thing to be in the "Bolsonaro, Maduro, Trump" list together but they seem to have a lot in common.
He said they were all bad developers.
If enough people feel that it has a bias, and are discontent with it, they are free to start their own platform. They are also free to not moderate their platform, or even moderate it with whatever bias they so choose.

This has happened a few times (Voat, Gab) and the utopia of a hands-off content platform has never played out to anything other than a cesspool. Popular platforms remain popular and useful because they have the power to make editorial decisions.

I also assert that the world is not locked in to Twitter today, just like we were not locked in to Digg a decade ago. Users will flock elsewhere if they sense a need.
Sure but the mall would certainly be within its rights to put up a sign saying "the president might not be telling the truth today."
> Newspapers have restricted what they publish for centuries.

Absolutely. And they don't say "we're just a platform transporting information", they restrict what they publish.

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

They do. And they get sued for it, and they can lose, see Gawker. Precisely because they are not like Twitter.
Zim Wiki is what you're looking for. It does a good job at linking different notes/pages and stores everything in a directory structure of plain text files. You can sync your notebook by Git or other means.
Ruby did something like this around the same time Python did. Ruby's was a bit smaller, but overall a roughly similar amount of breaking changes. They forced you to think about encodings more with Strings, they changed the signatures of several operators, they changed some of the syntax for case statements, they drastically changed the scope rules for block variables, they restructured the base object hierarchy, etc. In both cases, it was a deliberate decision to make a clean break. I think Ruby's big break didn't make as big a schism mainly because Rails was very supportive, and Rails holds an enormous amount of influence in the Ruby world.

If Python 3 had been introduced as a separate language, I'm pretty sure everyone would have said "Why isn't this just called Python 3? It's 99.9% the same as Python and it's by the same people and they're deprecating Python in favor of it."
I already do something I like, so not much.

That said, a FAANG or bank would pay twice as much, at least. And I’ve deliberately avoided that out of preference for startups. So perhaps in that sense I’ve already taken a 50% cut.

And only regret it when looking at time-to-retirement projections.
We really have reached the stage where "facts have a well-known liberal bias", haven't we?
That's totally fair. I'm not against OOP per se. OO and FP are both tools that, if they fit the task, should be used in a way that's not dogmatic. But obviously you wouldn't try to turn a flat-head screw with a Philips head screwdriver!
In a similar vein here's Jerry Nadler discussing paper ballots susceptibility in NY circa 2004: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3zxnnJHKu8
I've always wondered: are there any efforts to bring manpages into a modern, easy-to-write text format such as Markdown? I'm sure there are people who would like to write manpages, but are intimidated by the relatively arcane file format & folder structure [0].

We wouldn't want to break existing pages, and surely it would have to be a cross-distro effort, and maybe Markdown isn't the perfect format without modifications. But it's always felt like a natural evolution to me. I suspect some developers (like: most Go program authors) would gladly supply a manual if the workflow were more familiar to people.

[0]: http://www.iitk.ac.in/LDP/HOWTO/Man-Page/index.html
He keeps it only because of his current title. I would not be the least bit surprised if he loses it the second another person is elected president. He will definitely lose it once another person is inaugurated.
Section 230 grants sites the freedom to moderate content. You've got it exactly backwards.
The google.com domain would also probably trigger autofill recommendations from some password managers, which would make things even more convincing and seamless.
Why is this the First Amendment issue? Trump was not blocked from tweeting. Twitter just added one small sign next to his tweets.

Even Trump owns his tweets and Twitter owns the rest of the webpage.
> they need him just as much as he needs them.

Not if he's threatening their business, and I think you overestimate how much Trump brings to Twitter. I'm sure he drives a level and engagement and discourse, but that's still going to be there to a large degree even if his account isn't. It's not like people aren't posting news clips about him from other websites all the time.

Trump is one of many thousands of popular people driving engagement on Twitter, even if he's high up on the list (but he doesn't have the most followers, he's not even in the top 5 apparently.[1]) On the other hand, Twitter is the one preferred platform for Trump to speak to his followers. Press briefings and official statements are a distant second. The fact that he announced his official plans to counterattack Twitter on Twitter first says it all.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_Twitter_...
How does that work? I'm interested in the number of votes but I figure once I've cached the feed file that won't change.

Are you using hnrss?
But they lose their power over you.
The parent is maybe just thinking of a rumored iPadOS port.
Broadly speaking no, but I don't recall them often being on that side of a given debate.