skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd agree that the Twitter Kerfluffle is what surfaced it, but keep in mind that this has been on the radar since at least last year[1] (actually earlier[2]).

The timing of this release is hardly coincidental, but it's been on the minds of the politicians for long enough that this reads to me more like an opportune time to push something forward that's been brewing for a while, rather than an off-the-cuff reaction.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/us/donald-trump-twitter-f...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/us/politics/twitter-shado...
You can use ROOT (or cling standalone) as a C++ REPL if you want to. It works surprisingly well, at least until you segfault it.
> it’s pathetic how anyone tries to defend Trump by pulling a “kleptocratic business practices” card

Nailed it, but know your audience. Most of the people here are engineers, who lean center-right and are particularly vulnerable to conspiracy theorizing and authoritarian impulses, which is why they consistently defend the behavior of the worst president in US history.

https://www.machinedesign.com/news/article/21819513/the-poli...
Thanks :-)
Semi-failures are interesting as well
Remember that Kennedy won because the mob stuffed ballot boxes for him.

The only thing that's changed every election is that you're 4 years older an paying attention.
> Well easier than bundling pytorch on an embedded device.

I don't follow - wouldn't nimtorch also require bundling pytorch on an embedded device?
I don't see why they should be.

If someone uploads their library of child porn encoded to base64 split across tons of tweets, do you want Twitter to have a choice between removing that content and continuing to operate?

We have 3 options here:

1. No moderation allowed whatsoever on a site without a court order. That obviously leads to a terrible, toxic community with lots of reprehensible content that the average person wouldn't want to participate in.

2. A good faith effort at moderation. This allows the most reprehensible, highest-impact content to be removed and allows users to participate in the moderation process.

3. No content can be published without moderation, on any site anywhere. Want to post a Facebook status? Have fun paying $20 for the privilege of waiting 48 hours for a human to review it.

All of this is irrelevant though, because this executive order is not targeted at censorship. It's targeted at a private individual who voluntarily, for free, passed on a message from one person to many other people and decided to tell them "this seems fishy, you might want to read up on it."
Your comment is so weird to me. Did we check the same page? Are you and alt account that is trying to promote that page?
Thanks! I'm very curious about the Rust web space even though it seems to still be in a formative stage. It sounds like you guys are really on the cutting edge
Even if HE used it that way it would still most likely be pinging me about useless crap. Trump can lose the presidency faster than facebook can turn into twitter.
Sort of like how my brother built a pool in his dorm room out of plywood and tarps.

On the second floor.

Maintenance was not amused.
Quite a bit of mind reading and assuming there. Your bias is clouding your cognition.

Your article seems to be about electrical/mechanical engineers btw, which is probably a small subset here.

I'm sure geographical location matters the most and job title is negligible, personally it's pretty liberal here to me, like most of the internet.

To burst your echo chamber, Obama imo was the worst president in history, up there w/ Truman.

Notice how that's my opinion and I don't try to force it on you or present it as a fact.

Insulting people never wins any minds over.
congratulations! that was quite an adventure you went on and it might feel discouraging now but you are essentially set up for success the next time you start a business.

just keep those lessons in mind and if you don’t make those mistakes again, i think you will get to ramen profitability at least.
That's a ridiculous bar for being impressive. And yet, totally possible. https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=win2k.cfg&mem=192&gr...

The current version of jslinux is wasm, but the original was just a few JavaScript files and could easily have been a single HTML file.
Trump's Executive Order on Social Media: It's Legally Meaningless
> Did running a ‘cat’ really take more time in '95 than fiddling around the ‘<file’?

It does now for a sufficiently large file. And it's even more extreme when the recipient can do things with a file that it can't do with a pipe.

Which isn't to say it's worth bitching about the rest of the time.

Edited to add a silly example:

$ time cat /dev/zero | tail -c +5000000000 | head -c 10 | xxd
00000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ..........

real 0m2.808s
user 0m0.348s
sys 0m4.849s
$ time </dev/zero tail -c +5000000000 | head -c 10 | xxd
00000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ..........

real 0m0.006s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m0.004s
Me and my team made that plugin. It initially came from the same org that makes Bazel (rather than the other way around), but I think there's now a small team in the Android org that support it.

Nevertheless, Gradle is currently much more popular than Bazel for Android development so it makes sense that this is where the focus is.
Newsom proposes ditching environmental review when converting hotels int housing
Year One – Tips, Challenges, and Insights Building an Indie Product
You need a safe environment. And you need people who realize the best idea is the one that most in the room will find a bit crazy at first.

The rest is time and iteration.
That example seems like something you can fix yourself by keeping offline backups of content that you need (general gd practice for all digital content).

More impactful would be access to any accounts which you only have access to with Twitter/Facebook/Google/etc federated login (like OAuth). It's very significant if you can't access your email/cloud/DNS accounts if you make a gray area ToS-violating comment/video on YouTube.
The FCC commissioners are channeled through the 2 parties, Pai was “an obama appointee” but mcconnell had recommended him. Starks is Democratic Party affiliated.
the goal isn't for it to "work", the goal is to force Twitter to spend a lot of money defending itself so that the executives and investors, who are already wary of going against the president that gave them a bunch of tax cuts, give in and let Trump do and say whatever he wants (and punish his enemies).
I didn't think I'd ever see whataboutism or the word hoax in an executive order, but here we are.
> the wiretapping happened in Trump's offices in Trump Tower

No, Trump was never wiretapped.
Tell me about it. I thought bluetooth was complicated, until I finally caved and got a wireless headset. Being linux only, I found out that controlling simple things like the led's on the headset required really weird manual commands. I eventually gave up and found a package in yay that did the hard work for me but I was awakened to the weirdness and complexity of the usb spec.
'my org', 'my team' or 'my reports' for all below; 'my direct reports' for those immediately below.
Core2Duo laptop for Android dev is almost same thing like using 80386.
Come to Spain and you'll listen to sweaty Latino rubbish all day long.
The problem is defining what those "non-discriminatory terms of service" are and applying them evenly to everyone. That's why Facebook is making a theoretically independent content review board - things aren't black and white, especially in today's climate in which people just deny facts. Trump's issue with Twitter illustrates this point - he's just factually incorrect about a lot of his voter fraud claims, but he calls it discrimination against his view point and he's got millions of people who support him in that.

So where's the line? I think anti-vaxxers should be censored because their viewpoint causes actual harm to people, but they would obviously argue otherwise. You can say that anything that causes harm is not permitted and call that a non-discriminatory term of service, but whenever you apply it, the person you're applying it against is going to claim discrimination.

A lot of people don't like FB's stance of letting anything go in terms of political ads, but they don't have a good alternative, because otherwise any stance they take will face claims of discrimination. In that case, I think the government should be defining what is acceptable content for political ads and leaving it to FB to enforce, but of course the people in government are more biased than anyone.

It is, to say the least, a tough problem.
> The press can be held liable for false claims by those they affect. For example, Nick Sandman was able to sue CNN for the Covington coverage, and settle, because CNN was liable for publishing incorrect information.

However, if CNN has a comments section on their website, they aren't liable for the posts made by random people in the comments, even if they moderate those comments. They have the same section 230 protections as twitter.

> Whereas, twitter claims to not be a publisher or part of the press, but instead relies on being a platform or utility like a telephone, to avoid this kind of legal liability.

If the content of the "Fact Check" posted by twitter is illegal (e.g. libel), Trump could sue them in court for libel and win damages, regardless of Section 230.

Section 230 protects twitter from liability for its' USERS posts, not for the posts twitter itself makes.

@jack can be sued for anything illegal he posts on twitter, twitter the company can be sued for anything they post on @Twitter that is illegal.

Any lawsuit against the fact check would be laughed out of court of course as its clearly protected political opinion, and corporations have 1st Amendment rights to express their political opinions (see Citizens United).
I'm baffled by how short sighted and ignorant this line of thinking is.
> the accusations are certainly well within the bounds of mainstream debate

This is subjective. “Wild” could mean out of the mainstream or false.

Vaccine effectiveness and the Earth being a sphere are within the bounds of mainstream debate. They contain sides that are wildly inaccurate.

Sometimes a mainstream debate levels wild accusations.
I'm not a defender of the "modern web" recursive dependencies approach to building js sites, but the one thing the web platform seems to do better than Android is let the developer focus more onto their own logic, rather than reimplementing basic boilerplate activities. Sadly I've never really found a "one layer higher" overlay for the Android APIs to let developers take advantage of good boilerplates by default - I'd rather not pretend I'll implement data loading from an array or db into a scroll view better than someone else that has thought it through and understands the platform, because I know I won't!
Wearable tech can spot coronavirus symptoms before you even realize you’re sick
Yes, I feel like PEP 615 for timezones is about 20 years late.
Hire people on upwork to promote it for you and when you've connected with them sell them the same tool for their own needs.
One can dream.

I never understood why cubicles took on a bad rap. Who doesn’t like their own room? It’s your own room in the office.
Completely fair, and maybe the idea isn’t the right way to do it, but I am frustrated with the cancel power that many companies wield in our society and hadn’t seen this proposed anywhere. And corporations are controlled by people, usually a small number of people with unbelievable ability to wield power:

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5839cf32e4b000af95ee5b68
Yeah big files need all kinds of fun special attention like ripgrep or zgrep
It's seems a wild accusation that Twitter is abusing their power, and engaging in "deceptive or pretextual actions".

Their "get the facts" link is not deceptive. Suggesting that it's a pretext of silencing Trumps viewpoints is a wild accusation.
> If there was ever a time for a plague, this was the best time economically.

In the US alone the covid19 death count is currently at around 100k, with 1.7M reported cases brewing up.

If anything, the economic consequences are the trade-off of not getting an even larger death count, which is already quite high.
Been using it since late february, or early march on insiders channel... been incredibly happy with it and surprised how well it's been working for me. Both wsl and docker have been really nice overall.
Personally I think that Twitter inserting their own articles is overstepping their own role. Nobody goes there to view what Twitter writes, nobody goes there to care about Twitter opinions. Them doing this forfeits their status as a public square, now they are publishing their own editorialized content, and not as Tweets but as privileged inserts in others Tweets.
Pretty sure older Unixes wouldn't do "cat debian.iso > /dev/sdg" correctly, though not sure. If nothing else, 'dd' will pad out the final block, which can be handy.

Also, if you have lots of RAM and the file isn't too big, 'dd' can pull the whole thing into RAM before the first byte is written, which could be handy if you have a read I/O error.
Clicked on four countries in Western Europe and then the United States and they were all the same pop song... not sure what I was expecting I guess
> countries as diverse as Ireland, the UK, Netherlands, South Africa and Australia

These countries are in a common cultural and linguistic sphere.
I used to work for the Republican party and am - literally - the guy that drew the 2000 Texas congressional map which laid the groundwork and provided the blueprint for the GOP to disenfranchise voters at the the state and federal level in 48 states for the last 20 years.

I am 100% better and smarter than every Trump supporter on earth. All of them. Border, 2nd ammendment, rising China...if you want to talk policy I am most certainly your Huckleberry.
Modern Rule-Based Models
Anyone know how to find all songs between certain number of streams? Say 10 million and 100million?
Following your position to completion, you’ve just admitted that you’re willing to be personally targeted on social media, mentioned in an order of the United States government, and pilloried in the liberal media for the actions of your employer because that’s “within the bounds of mainstream debate,” right? Should someone take that as a cue to scan your company’s LinkedIn until they find a job title close to their gripe, then drag that person through the media before they’ve had a chance to get their boots on?

You glanced at a Node dependency of the particular gripe once, so your skin in the game under these rules of mainstream debate is sufficient to dox you and threaten you and your family with death based on job title alone. Am I understanding your position correctly? If so, are you perhaps molding your definition of mainstream debate to suit your political beliefs?

Bold of you to dismiss that aspect so out of hand when you advertise your employer on HN, as if it couldn’t happen to you.
> They continue to be used everywhere because they offer a consistency that's impossible to get otherwise.

That sounds backwards to me. Using standard fonts is how you achieve consistency. Using a custom font for just your webpage is not helping me (the user) get consistency at all. That's what 'standard' means.

(Frequently, custom fonts also hurt readability, which is why I hit "reader mode" on nearly every webpage these days. Every single day I run across webpages with custom fonts that I literally struggle to read.)

The situation is just like early versions of Mozilla or Java, where they used the same UI toolkit on all platforms for "consistency". Eventually, programmers realized that users tend to switch between applications more often than they switch operating systems, so the way to achieve consistency for actual users is to match the local environment.

> Variability in system fonts means [...]

Yes, all of those are real problems. That's why I've set up my web browser in a way that results in legible text for me. As per the Pottery Barn Rule, if you use a custom font, you're taking responsibility for all of these issues -- and you're going to screw up at least some of them (or something you didn't think of), and I'll hate your webpage for it.
I think your skill is really valuable. I am the opposite end of the spectrum. I'm an engineer and I think a decent programmer and a creative guy but when it comes to generating business ideas I'm just dead as a zombie.
Just redirected to a temporary signup...tl;dr is that I was doing some funny stuff with Flask in a docker container...
Interview with Veteran, Entrepreneur, and Investor Alfred Munoz
> The press has regulation though. The press can be held liable for false claims by those they affect.

Dude, Twitter attached a facts check link, and did it to a shitpost by Trump with a boatload of unsubstantiated entirely made-up claims that arguably are profoundly anti-democratic and against the very core principles of a liberal democratic nation.

Attaching a facts check link is suddenly something requiring regulation? Perhaps in fascist dictatorships where the mighty dictator uses the repressive power of the state to shield himself from any oversight.

This is the sort of shitshow the world expected from the likes of Khadafi, not the president of the US of A.
Not a fully featured blog, but my https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog
how do ya mean? I don't put out a lot of content so any feedback is good.
I suspect it is futile to persuade y-combinator's types that your own dreams of amassing wealth and power might be biasing your views on this matter.
It's really unfortunate that appeals to morality are brushed aside because your neediness for wealth and power and status is so overwhelming.
It is exactly the same phenomenon at work within the Chinese Communist Party.
Your desire to use technology to push others beneath you and oppress them is no different than that of the CCP.
The only difference between you and them, is that the population you seek to dominate has not been beaten into submission with generations of violence.
The American people cherish their freedom and are heavily armed and they hate you as much as the people of China hate the CCP.

I wish these conflicts could be resolved peacefully.
But, unfortunately, they cannot.
If you want a civil war, you will get one.
You are on the wrong side of history.
You will lose!
Sure, blame the internet, rather than yourself
Are Censorship Free Platforms Doomed to Become Den of Trolls? Gab’s Case
TuxURLs – A neat Linux news aggregator
What are you wanting in VMWare or VirtualBox you don't get in Hyper-V? I'm just curious... In general with WSL2 and Docker integration, I've been exceedingly happy myself.
OP here. Inlining CSS won’t work as the request is UA-sniffed.
Hello. Thanks for asking.

I made a number of simple games that are based on shows that I am a fan of . . I saw many similar apps and also my app was accepted so I thought it was ok.

Then the horror came . . All were banned suddenly. I realised what’s up and stopped. Then I continued with my regular apps which are compliant.

A few days later while trying to submit an update for my compliant app, the termination came . .

Considering that the banned apps were all before I realised the mistake and after which I no longer attempt to make any more of such, termination is kind of harsh. There wasn’t any intention to break the rules.

I wanted to explain but I am just not getting through . . :(
Unlike restaurant delivery, grocery delivery services are right now operating mostly on non-exclusive contracts with the upstream chains (because the chains are big and have a lot of negotiating power; and because the chains have a real need to partner with different delivery services in different markets, because no delivery service exists everywhere the chains are yet.) There's no real market for delivery from mom-n-pop produce markets, and so there's nobody for grocery delivery services to bully into accepting an exclusive contract with them.

If you can get the same groceries from the same store no matter which portal you order through, then the portal itself is a commodity.
A lot of toothpastes and mouthwashes? Any that you can find in local stores? I have to order mine from Amazon.
> Obama was the worst president in history

Do you know why there isn’t a single, reputable and reliable expert in a relevant field that agrees with you?

Believing everyone else is wrong is a danger sign
https://mindhacks.com/2018/06/17/believing-everyone-else-is-...
The estimate of the death rate has been 0.5% since Feb.

By quoting 5%, the author of the story is conflating case fatality rates (percentage of diagnosed people) with death rates (percentage of infected people).

The only story here is that a surprising fraction of the media and policy makers are completely incapable understanding basic statistics.
I heard some old guard person at Mozilla talk about these benchmarks last year when Rust's ACTIX was on top, something like "whatever is the latest framework can take advantage of all the latest methods and libraries to become the fastest", at the time I took it to mean ACTIX being the fastest has more to do with it being new then it being written in rust.

Given a newcomer is at the top again that seems to ring true? Does seem odd older frameworks wouldn't keep up with that game, but perhaps once they get the publicity and user base they can worry more about features than having the highest benchmark?
WSL2 uses Hyper-V and Docker with WSL2 integration has been exceedingly nice imho.
That's a point. But it might be that large-scale fraud hasn't really happened yet because the opportunity hasn't really happened yet.

We're starting to hear a few accounts of "ballot harvesting", and I suspect we'll go through several generations of fixes before this becomes as reliable as in-person voting.

(Personally, I don't really care. I give my ballot to my wife to vote anyway.)
I love reading about and visualizing about mental models. This site is great for quickly and concisely internalizing them! Thank you for making it!

Another great resource for folks who like reading about these: https://fs.blog/mental-models/

I've actually read the mental models series of books put out by the above author, and I also highly recommend those for a deeper dive.
Partially, mainly points be addresses have gotten some but slow improvements.

E.g. the part of rust but having a side is a think the rust community doesn't like to much either so there is long ongoing with to slowly and steadily get to a point where you can have a spec. And that had gotten a bit more traction this year I think.

Also I think there are by now more alternate rust compiler projects, through no real alternatives and work in alternative non llvm backers. (Like there is the idea to have a cranelift backed allowing much faster but also much less optimized rust debug build.).
> It is huge.

Currently. Might not be long after this change to Section 230 enforcement.

> Twitter matters to political discourse, knitting doesn't.

I don't follow this logic. There are substitutes for Twitter, even banned users can view publicly posted content on Twitter, and the CDA Section 230 has nothing to do with "political discourse" -- it describes all content.

I'm also fascinated that you used the word "political" and not "policy". All things "political" could vanish tomorrow and the world would be better off. Not being able to discuss policy issues/ideas would be tragic.
at least in the software industry promotion is not easy. Your current employer is not too incentivized to give you a promotion. They are however incentivized to bring in that guy who did great in interviews so they might get an instant promotion to the next level while you're going to get your 3rd "maybe next cycle" response from the promotion committee.

What I learned from working at large tech companies is that the only way up is out.