skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the most part, I support platform neutrality. I don't agree with all the Google censorship of misinformation and "misinformation" on their platforms. I think Facebook should have less evil algorithms (it seems designed to encourage polarization), but I wouldn't want censorship or commentary their either.

This case is an exception. Twitter drew a line in the sand. It is in exactly the right place.

The PoTUS is threatening to shut down elections in November: he seems to be doing everything in his power to have a national emergency then when people can't vote, to shut down post offices, and to ban voting by mail. Any other problems with the PoTUS, we should address in the ballot box and through citizen activism (not through corporate activism). But when the PoTUS tries to shut down the ballot box or shut down citizen activism, that's different.

I don't think he's likely to be successful, but I didn't think coronavirus would hit us this hard either. In January, it was a manageable billion-dollar problem. We did nothing. Now, it's a multi-trillion dollar problem. Right now, Trump trying to cancel the election is a manageable problem too; by his personality, if he doesn't get traction, we're done. He'll move on. But if he does get traction, we'll have a completely different scale of problem on our hands.
It was disappointing. But such is life and I would not have had the experiences of working for other companies if they had hired me. In Latin “Amor Fati” means to love your fate. Accept what happens and move on.
I had an interview once with a team that was all remote and the person on the other end had literally just crawled out of bed a few minutes earlier

I treat interviews as a two way street hence the word "inter" and it definitely behooves both sides to be on best behaviour.

You'd think that an industry full of analysts and theorists would have understood the game theory of interviews by now?
To me there's a sliding scale between productivity, where you use a heavy framework like Django and Rails to do everything for you, and control, where you write boilerplate to stitch all your favorite single-purpose libraries together using your preferred patterns.

They each have their purposes. Django will get you to market fast with all the features you need, and keep you there for a long time. But it forces (through its library structure) and encourages (through its common patterns) ridiculously tight coupling.

I work on a Django Monolith now that runs an org needing to grow beyond it. We need something not quite offered by a Django library, or we need to move something with different scaling needs out to another service - it's all miserably difficult, because they followed all the Django recommended best practices The framework controls you, you don't control it.

Now we're back to writing boilerplate to enforce a semblance of clean architecture onto it. It's kind boring sometimes, but once a domain gets refactored out of the Django way, our ability to deliver features quickly and safely in that domain goes up 10x.

The "Fat Models" recommendation is one of the most destructive in my opinion: https://django-best-practices.readthedocs.io/en/latest/appli..., along with Django Rest Framework "Model Serializers". A JSON serializer that talks directly to the database is just madness.
PRC's influence is shocking. I remember that some Taiwanese officials attended a conference in Amsterdam called "we make the city" and even local neighbourhood politicians were not allowed to officially meet them, let alone take pictures with them.
Don't forget that the largest shareholders of Twitter, after its own founders are the government of Saudi Arabia acting though Walid bin Talal. Censorship is not unknown in Saudi Arabia.
Shoot ... I submitted this because I thought it would show me previous submissions. But the last (only?) submission was 10 years ago, so I guess it's OK to have another.

In case you're interested in the discussion from then I've got a link to it, but maybe you'd like to think about it for yourself first.

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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1480002
As someone who had to write letters for information or ask experts over the phone in the 70s, 80s, and part of the 90s (BBSs in the late 80s to 90s for me), you'd have to have good luck finding the person with the bit of specialized knowledge you sought, and hope they had it. A nostalgic note: Our sixth grade teacher made us pick four big companies and write letters to them asking for information about them and their products. I remember being ecstatic getting letters, pamphlets and even items from them. Toothpaste from Colgate. The pamphlets were so much more informative than the marketing material today. They were pitched to a smarter audience possibly purchasing agents, etc. hTe fastest response was almost three weeks. The rest came a month and later.
Archive link in case Twatter tries to edit history:

http://archive.is/QlbCF
Hasn't the other side been #NotMyPresient and throwing a tantrum about the validity of the last election? Trump is not a trailblazer in this regard
It seems to not matter though as his supporters either 1) don't watch the sources sharing the truth, 2) don't have critical thinking mechanisms for integrity, and/or 3) decide it's "fake news" without critical thinking trying to determine if Trump is the propagandist or whomever Trump claims is the "fake news."
I have struggled with both points of the argument for a while now. In general, I'm inclined to agree with your assessment that this would be a glaring overreach on the side of the feds. It's also apparent that social networks have a tendency to cater massively to one side of the increasingly divided political spectrum, as proven with experiments like Gab. I've always liked the idea of having a Twitter clone that bases their philosophy on the 1st amendment, but in reality, all it did was to attract the polar opposite of the /r/politics subreddit (to put it lightly), rather than to facilitate free and open discourse.

On the other hand, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube et al are undoubtedly massively influential on the public opinion and their corporate position on political topics - Yoel Roth's recent tweets serve as a decent example, showing clearly that this person cannot be an objective "fact checker" - essentially create a public forum where I am not able to exercise my first amendment rights (and, legally speaking, rightfully so). I cannot help but to find this very concerning.

YouTube (despite numerous issues with their interpretation of free speech), for instance, starting linking Wiki articles under videos that cover certain topics or are uploaded by certain channels. Videos by the BBC show a notice that the BBC is a British public broadcast service, simply informing the viewer about the fact that any bias they might encounter can be easily identified (feel free to switch "BBC" with "RT"). I've found that to be a decent middle ground between outright suppressing views by a corporation pretending to be the authority on certain topics and broadcasting everything without any context.
I’m assuming Section 230?
I'm in Dublin but I'm looking to either move up to a FAANG (well that plan went the Titanic way) and/or relocate to Germany. My impression too is that German IT companies don't care so much about age but there are other handicaps for me there (e.g. not speaking German).

Not much age bias in Berlin IT job market? Weird. I mostly see start-ups there. That might be interesting.
Yeah but you have to work for the military, with all of the ethical conundrums that brings. Plus you usually need citizenship and a clearance.
I trust Google the same way I trust any company I deal with whether they are a SaaS company or my local butcher. I trust them to act in their own self-interest. Hopefully that will be inline with my own but if not be prepared.
You can either be a 'platform' for other people to speak, where you aren't held responsible for the content you host, or you can be a 'curator' where you control the content and are responsible or what you host.

The trouble with Twitter (in some people's view) is that they play both sides- they're just a public platform when there is something illegal that they're hosting, but they're a curator when they don't like what you've posted.
I'm old enough to remember when conservatives accused the left of being against "free speech".
"I view most politicians from both parties, DNC, and RNC to be corrupt, controlled by special interests." the problem with this is the scale of it as it is not equal.
Tattoos?
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"It is crazy to see how well he knows his base"

There's a very loud contingent of his base right here on HN.

Weren't all of the nuts supposed to have migrated to Gab or whatever? They stay on Twitter because they seek legitimacy, and know that if they're all together the critical mass of idiocy would be overwhelmed and they would be seen for what they are. Instead you have the fake PhD lady, guy who pisses in his own mouth, and the liar-in-chief all debasing Twitter in an unending torrent.

The internet is decentralized. These people can go elsewhere.
Aye but with no one in charge, how can the masses protect themselves against ever-increasing disinformation campaigns?
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, this app doesn't work at all with the TalkBack screen reader. Not sure if the problem is with CL REPL or Qt. Apparently, according to the Git commit history, Qt introduced accessibility support on Android (and iOS) in 2014. I'll have to dig further when I have time.
Can this even be considered a free speech issue? They aren't deleting his tweet, only displaying it alongside a fact check. Of course you can try to call into question the impartiality of the fact check but that is a long way from not deciding not to show the content.
It would make it clear or not whether the site tries at all to restrict certain recommendations like harmful content at least and the model would be different and less subject to top-down rules / policies like recommending government propaganda sites over independent sources. It could be used in later, better worded and targeted subpoenas for how said filtering and censoring works. It would also show if there exists a special promotion system for a company’s own products and so forth. In many respects, it acts like an org chart and to determine _what_ to scrutinize with more concrete actions as regulators and the public. It provides a map and that’s better than a black box or Skinner Box where we are the subjects.
Nothing. Facts don’t matter Only feelings. His tweet hurt our feelings
This looks minimal, but a random page that I've visited [1] duplicates article's text 6 times across different meta tags. Sure something that can be improved.

[1] https://herman.bearblog.dev/why-i-journal/
> Trump is one of the few people that "freedom of speech" doesn't apply

No, Trump is one of the few people that the first amendment of the constitution of the United States doesn't apply. Free speech is broader than any specific law, whether you think people deserve it or not.
A "conservative" government threatens to shut down private businesses. Wait, what?

Maybe the billionaire hotel magnate from New York should arrange a leveraged buyout of the business he doesn't like, and shut it down when he owns it.
Well, I spent years doing C, then Java, and now I'm a CTO at a tech company that's a React/Typescript/Ruby shop. However, I needed to sit down and spend the time to actually learn those technologies.

What you don't want is to interview for a React job with only a cursory/tutorial knowledge of it, and try to fall back to "well I'm an expert at 10 other languages, it's all easy". A lot of companies are looking for that expertise now, not to spend 6 months training you on the job, especially at a big salary and title.
Okay, so I think there's some nuance there, I think there's a pragmatic line to draw - I don't think someone has a right to say anything on twitter, I just don't think that's twitters role is to be neutral. But I think there's a line where we go from a product that's curated and moderated - something like twitter, to something that is truly infrastructure. The DNS example is great, I don't think a DNS company should be able to refuse to service based on the content that's being served because the role of the DNS is simply to resolve a name to an address. What's served on that address is immaterial. I think we draw a bright line between those two types of things, although I'm sure it's more difficult than that when we're trying to design a law.
> This isn't going to end well, and unless Twitter is going to exercise this impartially (which is impossible given a human is involved), they are going to lose their platform status, and justifiably so.

This isn’t how the law works, and Trump’s enemies, the Democrats, control the House of Representatives.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects the ability of online services to moderate content, this has been repeatedly upheld by the courts. The only way it could change is if the Senate, House, and President agree on a new law and pass it.

If you want to learn more, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
I’ve actually heard of studies suggesting it’s specifically not an LRU. That each time you remember something the memory is rewritten (via proteins) so that memory is less and less accurate they more you remember it.

One of my all time favorite podcasts is about it: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91569...

I’m sure science has progressed but I listened to this many years ago.

You might dig it.
They also don't have any excuses in the way that kids / pets / aging relatives push older workers to get out of the office.

It's 5pm and I need to pick my kids up from practice -- so I'm out.
“I know words. I have the best words.” — Sadly, an actual quote by President Donald J. Trump.
Where has Cygwin or Git Bash been falling short? As far as I can tell, these days it's not particularly hard to assemble most of the Linux CLI environment in a Linux-like UX on Windows. And these days with process based isolation support on Windows you can even package the dev setup in a Docker container for easier setup.

I really don't get why they went the VM route with WSL2. It seems to totally wipe out any advantage that WSL had over the other VM products.

They're not deprecating WSL1 yet. You can still use it. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-faq#what-w...

But if you're looking for reasons, here are some officially stated ones. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-about

I/O performance and support for using Docker inside WSL seem like big ticket items. I'd agree with them that the trade-off of convenience sharing files between the two OSes for better support running Linux things in WSL is worth it.
Sublime doesn't really use Skia anymore, as per this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23312357) comment.
It's got nothing to do with voter fraud which is another conspiracy tagline for his base to hang their propaganda on. His whole intent is to make it harder to vote and reduce voting % as much as possible in order to amplify his rabid base votes who will move heaven and earth to vote and keep their racist dear leader in power.

This isn't news to anyone, he's openly said Republicans would never be elected again if it was easier to vote.
I was just about to let the 2020-003 Security Update run on Mojave, but after this warning I will leave that well alone.

Apple had a great OS once, but now they are losing me more with each update. Can't buy new Mac HW either any more, since it will be systematically unable to run the 32-bit SW I need. Apple forcing decades-long users off their platform to Windoze and Linux is just bizarre.
You can't discuss logically with apple fanboys.
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I notice this post is flagged.

HN will do what it do, but I can't escape the feeling that in an era where a President uses Twitter, HN will become less relevant as a technological discourse destination if it lacks the will to touch the ramifications of technology and politics combined.
For reference I'm developing https://ossia.io in Qt (widgets), it does not pan out too bad I think (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OSSIA/score/master/docs/sc...)
Here is an open-source, 3D-printable quadruped with (almost) direct-drive actuation:

https://open-dynamic-robot-initiative.github.io

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.00093.pdf

Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkXU-5Oupg4
No, nothing else was familiar. The story was "St Dragon and the George"
Yes true, was inspired by this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319800

If I still could I would change the title to correctly reflect it's age.
Dear Microsoft (2016)
So you're telling me that The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, set out to prove how rampant an issue voter fraud is (as this is a seeming tent-pole of Trump's push to delegitimize any election that goes against him) and they came up with a whopping 1,285 cases across the entire US?

What I see is that they've proven that voter fraud is not a problem in the United States. And, by extension, that there is no problem with mail-in-balloting leading to voter fraud. Looking at two states that only vote by mail, they have 27 cases of voter fraud in THE LAST TWENTY YEARS.

Voter fraud, whether in person or by mail, IS NOT A PROBLEM. It's simply Trump working to sow the seeds of insurrection should he lose in November.
Absolutely. There's a big curve to understanding Django, Rails, .NET well enough to be able to prototype a real application. There's an even bigger curve to doing that in a maintainable way.

I think it's good to get familiar with a variety of ways of building applications over a career so you can pull from the best of them to, again, be able to focus on _business problems_ you have and can solve. To me that includes a sustainable development model and system architecture.
PSA:

Vitamin D deficiency is a strong factor, not for getting Covid-19, but for bad outcomes.

It's especially common for people with dark skin, since that blocks the ability of producing Vitamin D from sunlight.

If that's part of what's happening to the Navajo, I don't know, but you should probably eat Vitamin D pills, especially during this indoor lockdown, and if if you have dark skin.
How is reddit silencing conservative voices? Downvotes don't count. There's plenty of conservative and right leaning subreddits with a lot of activity.

Just because there's not as much traction or acceptance among the users of reddit for conservative or right-wing ideas, comments etc. doesn't mean Reddit itself is actively silencing voices. You can't force people to not downvote things they don't like or agree with.
Well, Facebook and Twitter are currently used in cyberwarfare to destabilise western democracies and the result is pretty impressive, because it works.

Give people their Facebook but remove the algorithms from the timeline and close all groups to make it harder for people to spread misinformation and group together to celebrate it. Or close it all together, social media doesn't have that many upsides. My observation from more than ten years with those tools.

No idea where the problem lies in Twitter but marking tweets with lies and conspiracy stuff is a step in a good direction.
Trump could start his own Mastodon or Gab server for his legions to follow him on. His campaign certainly has the resources.
I hope they take Trump head-on, and declare an affirmative right to freedom of the press that does not violate safe-harbor policy.
In fact the US government has employee programs that specifically hire 55 and up.
When you boil it down, all those other factors are also luck.
"There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!"

The claim is not that it's easier to commit fraud. The claim is that allowing vote-by-mail compromises the integrity of an election. That's why it's important to show that voter fraud is quite rare (your link includes cases back to 1990 at least) and has a fairly high chance of being detected. Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Utah conduct elections entirely by mail. Trump voted by mail!
Does this mean you consider scale to be irrelevant to this situation? Because that's pretty much what the difference boils down to. You mention "media" as s singular entity but in reality the media of the past was a mosaic of thousands of individual outlets, newspapers, radios, TV stations. Today FB is a singular entity with the combined power of most of those together. Do you agree that changes the game?

FB has almost every eyeball now. Can you say the same about your fake Necronomicon? Book of spells? The media that controlled your mind?

The last statement is basically one against any form of control or regulation. If people use the x to make themselves worse that's a failure of people not x. Sometimes people need help.
To clarify, he didn't call Trump a Nazi. He said there are "actual Nazis in the White House" which could be a reference to staff or appointees.
Incorrect :)

I use SuperMemo via parallels on my hackintosh. I know a lot of other people also using parallels on Mac.

On Linux, a kind soul got SuperMemo working via wine: https://www.supermemopedia.com/wiki/SuperMemo_for_Windows_un...
(though were I still on Linux I’d probably stick to VMware because of a few features that don’t work)
Aarogya Setu – India's contact tracing app for Covid-19 has been open sourced
The more recent weakrefs addition does allow you to observe finalization: https://v8.dev/features/weak-references
This has a good impact on the economics of testing. If each test device paid for can find one positive case, there's motivation to expand testing.
There is trend in American conservatism to take increasingly hostile and indefensible positions, and that trend has been met with counter trend that increasingly marginalizes those voices. Arguing for limited government is not likely to get a huge reaction from any given public platform. But arguing in favor of debunked conspiracy theories that make false allegations or defending the president's frequent personal attacks on individuals can and probably should be met with downvotes. Just like any personal attack should be.
SpaceX NASA returning human spaceflight to United States today (canceled)
lol what, he is biased for pointing out misinformation from a prominent public figure, after years of Twitter being criticised for allowing false information to proliferate?
twitter is a private organization. Regulating the speech of private organizations is a dangerous slope to be on.
The caveat is not to overdo it though. Learning calculus from not-the-best book is still way better then dreaming around and procrastinating on which textbook really is the very best. (Same with workouts, diets etc.)

And in terms of popular non-fiction books, like Harari or so, they are best thought of as textual Rorschach tests. He throws up topics and connectioms, activates certain parts of your mind and you can now fly from there. Even if you know a lot of background, many such books can be great thought stimulants.
This is silly. Everyone knows there are facts. What you're replying to assumes this already.
Reservations are prisoner of war camps from the 19th century that persist to this day. It is more illuminating to compare them to other similarly situated people around the world in terms of their social services and freedom to develop self governance
> It is in exactly the right place

If they start fact-checking everybody, it is. Otherwise, they're just campaigning for the other side.