skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would need a growing network effect to follow on to that alternative platform for it to be a true challenger to the mainstream social networks. Otherwise it will stay in the fringes of the internet.

Although it is more difficult to censor a decentralised social network, attracting and migrating existing users from other social networks with a growing network effect on to a new platform is even harder.
Thank you for putting that together. Is there a git repo for covid-19.direct or similar?
Isn’t this effectively sending your friend a torrent link to a pirated game so they can avoid paying for it? NYT oughta sue for this.
Not really - there is certainly a "problem" of major social media platforms banning abusive/hurtful behavior, and for whatever reason, such behavior seems to not be evenly distributed across the political spectrum, but there is not a big problem of them banning ideas or good-faith or even mostly-good-faith debate. You can find tradcaths on Twitter, threepers on Facebook, tankies on YouTube, and literally /r/politicalcompassmemes on Reddit.

Certainly no platform is anywhere close to banning the ideas or platform of the Trump campaign or the Republican Party - they get debate and discussion but they certainly are not censored. They are firmly within the mainstream.

(I also think, in a broader sense, that people need to not rely on big for-profit tech companies for unpopular ideas. I think it's good for society that everyone from the boogaloo folks to the Unabomber get to be able to publish their ideas, even - and perhaps especially - when those ideas involve violent revolution to the social order. But I also think it's foolish to expect platforms that are profiting handsomely from the stability of the social order to fairly convey those discussions, especially if any of those ideologies gets close to making a difference. So, even if I thought that we had a problem with the big tech companies censoring discussions, it doesn't seem like a problem worth solving.)
A country where people give excuse such as "second amendment" on the topic of gun control when kids get slaughtered in schools I don't think US citizens have the ability to think of a revolution. Revolutions require amalgam of intelligentsia and people with courage. The elites in US(and some other countries) have successfully dumbed down the general populous and rendered them ineffective of revolutions. The people in US will be sold more guns and underground bunkers to hide and kill intruders than to join a revolution.
Library for recoil state manager to persist and rehydrate store
In politics it often doesn't matter if policy doesn't actually work, it's frequently about sending a message. Especially when elections are around. It's not like they are ever tied to measurable outcomes.

Plus even if the courts decline it will then further fuel the victimization, which conspiracies and radical groups historically feed off of.

I've always believed creating martyrs over online speech is a minefield for radicalizing people. No longer venting into the void people become increasingly angry and isolated. The long term implications of this worries me a great deal.

I also don't believe our only alternative means allowing (legitimate) hate speech, as a more limited approach has worked in countless other scenarios without the endless scope creep we're witnessing. But today this debate seems to be long lost, Twitter et al are full steam ahead, and now we can only witness the implications and hopefully adapt...
My local store sells 3Kg of potentially bruised apples for the price of 1Kg non-bruised.

I often buy the bruised ones and cut off the bruised parts before eating. But I make this choice because while I do see a lower value in bruised apples, I don't see the value lower by a factor of 3. I usually cut off just 10-20% of the apple.

If I paid full price for a bruised product I'm right to feel taken advantage of.
Yes $300 million every year to Mozille but WHAT SABOTAGE !
Kids? I'm probably old enough to vehemently request that you kindly get off my greensward.

But let us not get bogged down with ageism, the real question is what kind of monster uses both cyan and magenta text-shadow diagonally offset against each other???? !!! .... ?

:-)
Firefox for Android?

I got:

Don't f* with paste, Disable WebRTC, Dark Mode, a couple of image savers, NoScript, AdBlock Plus, Privacy Badger.

I recommend https://filterlists.com/ if you use any blockers, it's an easy way to subscribe to lists.
This is a good example of the contradictions within AMP that limit it's usability as a technology. Unless AMP was really intended as a privacy tool this whole time and I just didn't know it, publishers probably "should" know the same amount they would get to know if you visited one of their actual pages, if you are visiting an AMP for the purpose of consuming their content rather than merely searching for it. But if that disrupts the smooth functioning of AMP, well, now we're just exhibiting an architectural shortcoming that's baked into AMPs philosophy of how to serve content.

>Or is it that you don't want snippets to appear in the search results and just want a list of links without any evidence for why they might be good matches for your query?

Is that how you feel about regular search results?
He is possibly going to try to strip valuable protections from the entire internet because Twitter is fact-checking him. Imagine what kicking him off would entail.
The big companies often end up ghosting the guys they don't want to hire. A long time ago, I was an intern and got fully ghosted by Nvidia. It was very annoying but my life probably worked out better for it.
> Can anyone give a tl;dr of what the implications actually are?

Were it allowed to be executed, the biggest implication is that the US has become an executive dictatorship where the laws adopted by Congress can be rewritten at whim by the executive (under the pretext of “clarification” that is 180° opposed to both the text and the actual intent of the law demonstrated by the legislative history), and the Constitutional order and structure of government is a dead letter, which absolutely dwarfs any policy implications.
The problem is that then it would turn into an arms race - the spammers would use that information to perform reconnaissance and learn what gets through and what doesn't.
> Bruised apples are perfectly edible.

And you have to eat them fast, because they get bad more quickly compared to non-bruised apple. And that is big difference, between apple that I can eat next two weeks and one I can not.
Linux Modules with Azure IoT Edge on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise
Do you think publishers aren’t allowed to comment on the validity of what they are publishing?
The Collapse of Rush Hour
Indeed in a parallel universe but in the end they'll lose those battles one after the other because they are on the wrong side of history.

People on the right need to be more vocal here and elsewhere, we can't let the children and their feelings, run the ship or it'll end badly.
That's 100% true.
This is incredibly telling about the state of affairs in the macOS development group. The bug was reported early for a beta (burning a technical incident ticket, even) but still shipped in the final release.

At this point it feels like Darwin macOS can't be saved even when it shares most of its code with Darwin iOS.

What will happen to the iOS app market space when macOS degrades so much that developers can't use it anymore? (I refuse to believe serious developers would put up with an iOS-ified/iPadOS-ified Xcode with the current UI paradigms in those OSes)
Hm, would that be permitted by the order? (At the very least, they'd have to preserve all the content he's already generated, but I could see Trump arguing that a platform that kicks him off "removes or restricts access to content" that he'd like to post but can't.)
As they have left trump’s false claim up, just with a note below it, doesn’t that still leave the reader/viewer as the ultimate arbiter of truth?

The reader can decide for themselves whether Trump or the other linked sources are more trustworthy.
There is really nothing to it. A Lisp interpreter runtime can be made to interpret a subset of Lisp.

It is very much more impressive that you can make a whole computer out of nothing but NAND or NOR gates, but still the same sort of thing.
I wonder if letter grades would be the way to go in relevant countries. Most people have internalized what a “C” means pretty well, even taking grade inflation in to account. Hell, that’s the whole reason 10 star rating systems are bad, as people treat 7 like it should be average and 5 is a failure.
It's interesting how much all of this depends on some people's ability - or lack thereof - to look at and contemplate life beyond their bubble.

I mean... I'll admit that when it was just something in China, I didn't pay a ton of attention. But when it hit Italy - a modern, wealthy country with great health care, and honest reporting... it was obvious that it was real, and serious. The image of the army trucks carrying away bodies from the hospital will stick with me for a long time.

If you haven't been hit hard, you're lucky, and it's likely because things got shut down early.
Executive Order Is Expected to Curtail Protections for Social Media Companies
n^0 is also an exponent. Do you consider constant time to be exponential growth?
They have a civic integrity policy, per that article. That gives the leeway to decide something like misleading voters requires adding a link to the tweet but not fact checking everything every person says.

What I’m saying is it’s not binary. There’s a spectrum.
I am not OP, so sorry if this is unrelated.

https://gitlab.com/ternaris/marv-robotics

https://ternaris.com/marv-robotics/

https://github.com/regularcoder/deepfield

https://developer.salesforce.com/forums/?id=9060G0000005eHrQ...

https://github.com/deepfield
I am interested (and kind of depressed) to think - is there actually a legally defensible upper hand that exists here?
Yes - but the order directs the Secretary of Commerce, the NTIA, and the FCC to make some regulations to clarify what exactly that means. I don't think the text in this order, by itself, purports to change how any court is interpreting Section 230, yet - just how executive-branch departments interpret it.
Hence WebAssembly + WebGL/WebGPU.
>Per our Civic Integrity policy, the tweets yesterday may mislead people into thinking they don’t need to register to get a ballot (only registered voters receive ballots). We’re updating the link on @realDonaldTrump’s tweet to make this more clear.

That might be the worst possible answer. That isn't what people on the left found objectionable with that Tweet and specifically signalling that out isn't going to assuage the complaints coming from the right.
I'd ditch Instacart if there were something better pretty quickly, but it's been a nice, low stress way to get food and essentials.
I’m curious what do you use block transclusion for? When I used Roam, I did occasionally have a need to link to only a small part of some note, but that happened so rarely that I happily traded that in for the Obsidian-specific features (md based, offline-first).
I seem to recall we had a court ruling (non-SC) earlier that said officials that use social media can't block other users on there... something about it being a public forum or such. But if we treat it that way, then does that have implications on what people can expect in terms of limits on speech?
The point of an interview is to figure out the capabilities of a candidate. If they are already known, it makes most of the interview process pointless.
Right but then they omit links which verify his comments.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/us/politics/as-more-vote-...

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/close-results-in-pater...
If not then all it takes is a temporary majority to rectify the situation. Plus they still have potential antitrust laws to contend with if they really want to tango. I just think that on Twitter's part, they have far more to lose by doubling down on their Ministry of Truth than disbanding it as a concept.
We live in such strange times. The party that for decades bemoaned moral relativism has, because of its skepticism of global warming and other supposedly liberal narratives, convinced a large swath of Americans, conservative and liberal, that the truth itself is relative, or at least to pretend to believe so. That's why people are so quick to disavow being "arbiters of truth" despite that once upon a time it was assumed everyone acted as an arbiter of the truth--who would dare give their voice to non-truths?

I keep returning to the notion that conservatives have become the standard bearers of radical leftist philosophies, such as poststructuralism's arguments about the non-existence of objective "truth". Republicans seem hellbent on proving this out. I've been arguing this for the better part of 20 years, though only recently did I stumble upon similar opinions, such as the satire piece, "Foreword to Newt Gingrich's Post-structuralism for Republicans: TrumpTruth and How to Make It, by Betsy DeVos, US secretary of education".
Ironically, back in the 1980s techies were fiercely pro-free speech and anti-censorship. The older companies like Apple and Microsoft still have some remnants of this culture, whereas newer ones like Google etc. are curiously ambivalent about freedom of speech.
A Voice Tech Startup Is Gathering Data to Build a Coronavirus Speech Test
From other comments I understand Snowpack as:

Development: Creates many ESM-Files. Firefox/Chrome can load them.

Production: Bundles&Minimizes these ESM-Files.

One Question: There is a JS-Error, only occuring in IE11. "t._x is undefined". How do I debug that?
The whole fight behind voting really is political. It helps the left and it hurts the right. It’s like gerrymandering. Sure, people have the right to vote and should be able to, but that’s an intellectually dishonest way of representing changes in voting.
It actually is, since they are both about the company's right to spend it's resources at its own discretion for what is clearly core political speech at the heart of what is protected by the First Amendment.

Both the left and the right are unhappy with different aspects of that, but neither wants to face up publicly to the fact that they can't have what they want without cutting the heart out of the First Amendment.
Safari and Edge also support ES modules.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=es6-module
The problem is making yourself completely dependent on a single supplier.
The actual mechanism by which a signed exchange is implemented is prone to man in the middle attacks by removing the Signature field wholesale. You are not requesting info from nytimes.com, you're requesting info from amp.google.com and trusting that the backing data is accurate. There's no need for a certificate to be presented at ALL! Unless it can be determined that such a header should exist, there's no way to verify its absence.
No but we are certainly a very litigious society and I'm sure there's an army of lawyers out there salivating over potential lawsuits against Twitter.
>There are parts of Microsoft that understand open source. Most parts of the Windows team ain’t that

The story goes that the new Microsoft understands open source at the top.
A windows package manager is such an essential component of the operating system that it is visible at the top. Even more, Github, npm - package managers are at the core of their strategy.

How big is the risk that the new Microsoft is just lip service and they won't respect the GitHub and npm community either?
> Over-diagnosis is only an issue in cases where prevalence is below the false positive rate (technical term is "sensitivity") of the test. That is not the case here.

The term "overdiagnosis" is actually ambiguous. As [1] points out, the word is used in two different ways: (a) to argue that the diagnostic criteria (such as in the DSM-5) are overly broad, and are labelling people as having a "disorder" who shouldn't be so labelled ("pathologising of normal human experience"); (b) to argue that the diagnostic criteria are being systematically over-applied, where people who don't actually meet the formal diagnostic criteria are nonetheless frequently being given the diagnosis.

[1] https://aifs.gov.au/cfca/publications/diagnosis-child-mental...
Yeah if you look at business facing apps I think between the apps that can be web (so they will) and the apps that can't be C# because of perf (games etc) you have a pretty small selection left. That doesn't mean C# has failed in that niche, far from it. But it's not a very visible niche because it's not what consumers use. The use case is bespoke LOB/PoS/Internal apps. Just like VB.
Such a joy playing around with your tool!
> Yes, take it from the conservative folks at CATO

CATO is right-libertarian, but more libertarian than right. Describing them simply as simply “conservative” in this context is a bit misleading.
Fox News will be wholly empowered by this. This EO is a reaction to attempts to fact-check the White House, and Fox News is in a different line of business.
Landlord-friendly, self-install solar and battery kit
Judges can’t really challenge this law; they don’t have standing. A judge can’t just decide to issue a ruling on something; there has to be a case for them to rule on.

The way this will go is: Twitter sues, judge almost certainly issues an injunction, Trump administration appeals, and we go from there.
Slaying Dragons in Notepad
I use tldr[0] for that.

[0]: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/
Maybe they can just give the customer more direct control. It wouldn't require anything complicated: simply allow me to select any substitutes I would be happy to accept. (Make this optional, and leave the current system as the default.)

If they want to make it easier, they can give me the list of items they would consider as substitutes, and allow me to add/remove items. And they can remember the choices I've made in the past.
Yup, really! I had a USB-to-Serial FTDI 232R with an actual device running in Silverlight back in 2012-ish. Just made a demo, but it worked.
Japan enacts high-tech 'super city' bill
Yes. Microsoft really dropped the ball on this one.

So much of what Microsoft has been doing — GitHub, .NET Core, NPM, Visual Studio Code, Windows Subsystem for Linux, etc. — has been to build goodwill with “developers! developers! developers!” Taking the resources to do an acquihire (or hire + bonus) right is small relative to the PR hit.
One problem for me is if I get a request like that(to build above). I'm like "can you draw me a picture" lol... serious response. I'm unfortunately a "give me a design I'll build it" sort of person at this time mostly. I mean usually with clear enough feature definition, I can come up with a UI/UX on my own. Other thing which I think makes sense is I ask them what exactly they want it to do, then I can scope out the work/get an estimate on how long/much to complete.

Anyway there are a few examples like this where I lost out on work because I'm not a business man where I'm like "sure I can build you a car" and it's not just a box with wheels. I gotta be like "what type of engine/motor does it use?" "What do you think it looks like?" etc

edit: the other thing I'm bad at is I try too hard, try to show everything, all my capabilities... that's like the feature thing, too many features.

In the past I didn't know what value is, until I had to pay taxes for being self-employed ha. And based on my w2 rate wow, I can charge quite a bit but it still seems too much... but I suppose it's not from an individual's perspective rather a business perspective which has more money presumably.
Of course the fight behind voting is political!

But that does not mean anything is allowed in politics. It's about time Trump was seriously challenged on his lies.
Media Sensationalism, Big Tech Bias Extended Lockdowns
Apple is routinely bashed around here, and rightly so.
Why Should You Learn Rust? – Better Programming
Sweden undertakes study to find if nicotine in snus protects against coronavirus
I'm not American and not familiar with Section 230 in any detail, but I do run a forum where I consider moderation, legality and responsibility of content. Could Twitter apply some level of automatic editorial response on particular topics rather than flag particular posts or users?

e.g., if it suspects the tweet is about COVID-19 (whether mundane or outrageous), it links off to a broader information and fact-checking page about the topic. Likewise for voting fraud or any other hot topic.

What if it were independent of the tweet itself and just one of a small selection of header links like Reddit and others are currently doing with COVID-19?

Edit: Also, could they differentiate the levels of editorial based on tier of account? e.g., claim platform-status for the bulk, but accept legal responsibility for anything by the largest accounts which saw immediate moderator review.
Is anyone using this in combination with a plain ole' server rendered app? All the examples seem to build on a SPA example where you have a single index.js entrypoint for your entire app. What about a Rails/Django project where each page loads a few scripts it needs?

That usecase has been stuck with the "global jQuery plugins" approach for ages and it feels like <script type="module"> + something like Snowpack would really improve it.
Totally agree, even under COVID circumstances. If it wasnt for the weekly shopping trip I would never have realised that for a lot of people life was carrying on nearly as normal.

Online shopping feels too much like work (as in it feels like I am at work). I find that wondering around grocery stores is a good way to reset my brain.
It's one thing to believe the poster but why does the poster believe an anonymously sent "Executive order draft" and publish it ?
Interesting idea. Does anyone do this for Azure?
- freedom of expression

- freedom of association

- freedom of religion

- freedom of the press

- the right to privacy

- the right to a democratic, representative government

- the right to a fair trial

- freedom from cruel and unusual punishment

The CCP is one of the most oppressive regimes on Earth, depriving its people of even the most basic of rights and freedoms.
Oh yeah, I feel you! I was also on DALnet, and saw the exodus to other networks, EFnet, IRCnet, Undernet, QuakeNet... But as you said, they just didn't feel "right". I.e. some of them had "weird-looking" services as opposed to the DALnet's ChanServ, NickServ etc... :-)

Do you remember "PHP-Nuke" craze, everyone was creating community portals where members were able to post news, polls, etc...

Good old times :)
Mails sent from dialup IPs are almost guaranteed to be classified as spam (probably to prevent spam sent by malware). Many servers won't even accept such mail at all.
1. Sure, the market will take care of it at some point in the future, but at this point in time those entities are monopolistic.

2. It's simple, liberals are more prone to downvote and censor than conservatives.

3. They reach their followers, Twitter, FB and Google reach everybody.
Winfoom – Proxy Facade for NTLM,Kerberos,Socks and Proxy Auto Config
As a former engineer on the Silverlight team, this is enjoyably fun...
This is specifically true in the US at this moment, but it does not need to be so. The reason for this is that the GOP has less popular support (all polling on policy issues they are doing badly), but the voters they have are very dedicated and will go to much greater lengths to vote.

Also votes are suppressed in specific areas which does not good in a democracy. People should be able to choose their leaders, it should not be leaders are able to choose their voters.

What I mean to say is that having good voting access should not be a political issue in a democracy.
Did George Washington Use Ketchup? (2012)
Ask HN: Are you going to adopt Blazor this year?
Server-side Blazor has been around for a little while now and it was announced last week that Blazor WebAssembly is now production-ready. Have you started adopting either one or do you plan to any time soon?