skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "no bare pointers, ever" is overly dogmatic. Raw pointers still have a place, especially in game programming. The standard smart pointer types cover many common situations, but do not cover all situations (nor do I think were intended to).
Is

> end-to-end encryption support

> multiple independent client implementations

something that your average user really wants? Most people don't use encryption, and are fine with the standard Mail app on their phones.
Yeah, I'm certainly not saying it isn't advisable or even important. I'm just saying it's not the same thing as replication.
It's a non-trivial problem that would teach you a lot about Go.
Haven't thought about this similarity - it's a nice one!
glofish>"You may find this hard to believe that but there is very little evidence that masks work for this particular disease,"<

glofish is right, there's little evidence that masks work for Covid-19. Peruse the following and other articles:

"The Face Mask Debate Reveals a Scientific Double Standard":

https://www.wired.com/story/the-face-mask-debate-reveals-a-s...

>"COMMENTARY: Masks-for-all for COVID-19 not based on sound data":<

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commenta...

>"Do face masks really reduce coronavirus spread? Experts have mixed answers:"<

https://www.livescience.com/are-face-masks-effective-reducin...
Google Chrome (and some Chromium forks) will also be supporting custom DNS-over-HTTPS providers very soon (it's already being rolled out to some users).
I run a Yahoo-style directory for blogs and articles I find: https://href.cool/. I'd personally like to see more personal directories rather than big monolithic directories of everything - those tend to collect spam.
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I don't see it that way. There are thousands of languages now. It's wise counsel to people (like me!) who hope to introduce a language that actually gets used. If you can't "check those boxes" on this handy checklist, well, maybe you gotta spend more time at the drawing board.

For those of us that are going to do it anyway, with no expectation of becoming popular and widely-used, I would treat it a stimulating challenge rather than a slammed door.
> Anything that could help a person like me, who could really use help on this.

Maybe a self help book or a therapist? Your responses feel like they're coming from a place of frustration with your own situation. If that's the case then I'm sorry you're having a hard time. I'm not the right person to ask.

Good luck, for real.
The Way Out of Post-Truth
As once said by Billie Eilish “duh”!

More seriously: Arms dealers are not exactly benefitting from facilitating peace making efforts either, so economically this makes all the sense in the world to me.
How do you "lose" your aliases?
I just deactivated my Twitter account. I encourage others to do the same. Twitter is fun in a mindless sort of way, but it's time to find a less toxic platform to express ourselves -- or better yet, we can just create our own websites. If you build it, they will come.
It's in my chrome://flags/#dns-over-https currently 81.0.4044.138 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Re 2., since when IP is address tracking a reliable method of attack attribution?

It's like trying to assign blame for a terrorist attack based on where the jacket dropped by a terrorist was made. Maybe it was made in their home country. Maybe it was imported. Or maybe they purposefully wore a jacket made in a different country and dropped it on the scene to confuse you.
There is no reason for them to be censoring how-to videos, even if those how-to videos are for illegal things.

This isn’t “cut them some slack” xor “revenge porn”.

This is the automated (mis)application of a rule against educational videos, a rule that should not exist in the first place.

Censorship platforms are inherently dangerous.
> To be clear: I do not think that the behavior shown by internet mobs is effective at causing businesses to behave better.

Neither do I, and I'd be interested to hear how you think people could do better.
Good god in every other thread there is the standard propaganda about the "CCP".

> They directly keep out foreign competition like Facebook

As opposed to huwaei that's welcomed with open arms in the US? Lots of countries keep out foreign competition to protect their own industries. It's the smart thing to do. We actually pioneered it in the 1800s.

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

So you can copy the chinese government. Not only that, the chinese government copied the US, germany, japan, korea, etc. Protectionism is how every major economic power became a major economic power. Airbus wouldn't exist if it weren't for EU copying "the chinese government".
Goddamn MBA types making a quick buck to get their bonus. This never works out too well for the company involved. Boeing for example.
> they were mathematical models and not black box.

Wow... talk about changing the definition of something to fit your world view.
Yeah, people can take things too far. There are definitely safe ways to go to a store, if the store is taking precautions. I'm not so sure about indoor restaurants right now in the US, but I guess you could make a case for it.

On the other hand, I can see why being gaslit for a few months would make lots of people neurotic. The sky was really falling for awhile before anybody in power in the US seemed willing to acknowledge it. Personally, I've lost a lot of faith in our public health departments to have the freedom to tell it like it is, or to have the budget to do anything about it. Being in New York City for the last few months probably doesn't help.
I think we can learn a lot from what Japan did to limit the damage from the virus. I see 2 that get ignored from the discussion and were very important to the results now. 1) They took it seriously from the start and were ready to implement procedures that limited the transmission early on. 2) The citizens were ready to do their part too such as masks and social distancing. We need to keep that in mind.
Here's mine; I'm pretty proud of it. It's JavaScript but the only meaningful dependencies are Express (basic HTTP server) and a markdown parser. It's basically a hand-rolled static site generator + a static file server. Both of those are trivial to do with JS/Node. I over-engineered the static file serving a little bit in hopes of keeping files cached in memory, but that bit can easily be replaced with Express' built-in static file serving middleware.

https://github.com/brundonsmith/website
Excuse my ignorance, but isn't the overlay network setup problem one that has problems at almost every level of the stack? If there is not any definitive technical problems to overcome, why is it not possible to create a mobile app that friends and family could use as their own private network?

Isn't the internet supposed to be every node acting as it's own server and client simultaneously anyways? Is the problem just the inability to truly decentralize discovery, registry, and identity authentication of nodes in the network? Or is the problem that most ISPs don't want people operating services out of their homes or off of their phones?
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> "why implicitly promote objectification of women by explicitly being ok with (crazy in my opinion) the personal choice of objectifying onseself?"

your need to caveat your comment with "Serious question / Genuinely Curious", if forthright, should have given you pause in the way your question was phrased, as it indicates some underlying apprehension. that impulse should be a bright red flag to think more carefully about how to squeeze out ambiguity and obviate the need for such caveats.

as is, your phrasing is overly certain, a priori assuming its own correctness, and thus primarily phrased to project an internalized, negative connotation onto others and moreover challenging those others to disagree.

alternatively, you could have just asked "hey, isn't calling yourself a bitch objectifying to women?" in this phrasing, you'd be proposing a similar position, but also signaling uncertainty, which invites the alternate perspectives your "Genuinely Curious" preamble seems to angle toward, rather than challenges.
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I hadn't read that spam pass statistic before.

IIRC, FB also got MS Messenger chat access for FB messenger for a period of time after MS' investment, then that abruptly ended (likely the day the initial agreement expired.)
But he could have put it on Vimeo as well.
She mentioned it really took off after the SAP acquisition. So it's possible.
April Dunford's book, Obviously Awesome, is very good and worth reading if you're a founder or marketer (or both.) We reverse engineered her workshop and did it as a team at the end of last year for my startup. Was very much worth the day.
I just use M-x doctor
>HIRE SOME PEOPLE. they have huge margins, it would take very little for these companies to hire some people to review content.

Agreed. That's something that's frequently said about Google and Facebook... That their volume is so large, they couldn't possibly do a better job with customer service. Given that they each make billions in profit every quarter, I find it hard to believe that improving customer service is unfeasible or too expensive.
But this very much was the main focus of AI only a few decades ago. If AI has changed that much such that AI 20 years ago is no longer AI now, perhaps modern AI researchers should find a different name? I very much mean this. Previous-generation AI was very much about graph algorithms, whether via LISP, Prolog, RDF, reasoning expert systems, parsing, etc. These are all graph concepts
It is not linked in the article, but here is a link to the PDF of the GAO report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/706908.pdf

"Improvements Are Needed to Enhance the Internal Revenue Service's Information System Security Controls" (https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-411R)
You have a federal government, Europe's union isn't that.
Except spinning rust is staring at the prospect of flash storage eating their lunch. Flash isn't THAT far away.

If these increased areal density techs don't pan out, they are done.
Why "Can't Hurt Me" is so popular?
Smart sells an electric convertable, just not in the US.
That’s very helpful, thanks!
What was the prototype priced at?
I meant this:

https://i.imgur.com/tZh6p0x.png

As far as we know, it's slowly being rolled out and not behind any flag (unfortunately).
Ah, I see, thanks. Honestly I haven't thought too hard about who is included in the acronym / why. I know I've heard arguments about, e.g. whether AMZN should be in there based on size and influence vs pay, etc. I didn't know LinkedIn paid on that same level, that's interesting.
Still waiting for that ublock origin web browser.
The solution is really very easy, add more human moderators like other companies do. But that would cut into their profit, so they don't.
Very interesting. Anthropometry is fascinating!
I literally (not figuratively) setup NextDNS yesterday and so far it's been great. The documentation is awesome, and love the features available. The only mild feedback I have is that the "Setup Guide" doesn't provide enough context about what's going on, and the implications of setting up on my PC vs mobile device vs router. It says:

"Follow the instructions below to set up NextDNS on your device, browser or router."

A couple more sentences there would be super helpful..
This makes me think of a talk with an AI-optimistic Microsoft sales guy I had a few years ago. His argument was essentially the same:"Look, it's no problem to have an AI curate everything for you because the algorithm will just know what you want, even if your habits are unusual!"

Of course this hasn't happened yet and I doubt it ever will. Maybe I'm just insane, but most of the recommendations from services I have fed data for hundreds of hours (YouTube) are actually repulsive.
I don't think they are really doing their best. If other Google's support forums are any indicator of their effort, they are mostly trying to automate the whole process as much as possible which then causes errors like this. Which makes sense from the SV software engineer perspective, but really is unfathomable to the normal user who then has to live in fear if some malicious teenager decides to ruin their channel.

Instead of actually trying to create the best customer service, to me it feels that they treat it like a fun ML problem that they want to solve with magical algorithmic pixie dust.

Yeah I know it's terribly expensive to keep a horde of content reviewers, but then it would be nice for Youtube to be upfront about it that there is maybe a human in the process, but most likely not. I guess honesty is not anymore a valuable commodity in this world, yet it would feel nice sometimes to hear the truth, not some lawyer jargon to avoid all responsibility.
It’s one thing to enable people to seek out extremist communities on their own. It’s quite another to build recommendation systems that push people towards these communities. That’s putting a thumb on the scale and that’s entirely Facebook’s doing.

This is one example, and it’s quite possibly a poor example as it is a partisan example, but Reddit allows The_Donald subreddit to remain open, but it has been delisted from search, the front page, and Reddit’s recommendation systems.
> What if, instead, you had a personal AI

I was in agreement with you until I read that. People don’t need to have content dictated to them like mindless drones whether it is from social media, bloggers, AI, or whatever. Many people prefer that, though, out of laziness. It’s like the laugh track on sitcoms because people were too stupid or tuned out to catch the poorly written jokes even with pausing and other unnecessarily directed focus. It’s all because you are still thinking in terms of content and broadcast. Anybody can create content. Off loading that to AI is just more of the same but worse.

Instead imagine an online social application experience that is fully decentralized without a server in the middle, like a telephone conversation. Everybody is a content provider amongst their personal contacts. Provided complete decentralization and end-to-end encryption imagine how much more immersive your online experience can be without the most obvious concerns of security and privacy with the web as it is now. You could share access to the hardware, file system, copy/paste text/files, stream media, and of course original content.

> And isn't that how the internet used to be?

The web is not the internet. When you are so laser focused on web content I can see why they are indistinguishable.
So Neal Stephenson wrote a book about this - at least the good half of the book - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell

It's 20 years in the future where facebook and similar services are much, much worse. Wealthy people pay for editors to remove misinformation from their feeds. And the country gets bifurcated with coastal elites having access to editors and flyover country ("Ameristan") has turned into a conspiracy plagued wasteland.
This was the first video that popped into my head after watching the video from TFA. I've seen similar ones in the past for talking points against political candidates and such. One that sticks out was "gravitas", a word parroted by media everywhere during an election cycle some years ago. This is a big part of why I avoid "news" anymore.
tl;dr version - Desktop DB product. She called customers, found most were not using, one was and was crazy about the product. Product "repositioned" around that use case. End of story.

I am sure there is a lot more to Dunford's book that this article reveals but IMHO product positioning is the wrong takeaway.

Product positioning, which sounds management consultancy speak like "product strategy" is top-down. Implies near perfect knowledge of the marketplace, customer use cases, existing alternatives..... Anti-thetical, if not opposite, to the Lean Startup method. Lean implies you have incomplete information but you map out the profitable niches by experimentation. You want to build that which is needed, not build and position it later.

Recommend Robert Fitzpatrick's Mom test instead. http://momtestbook.com/. He also has an youtube channel.
Are you on IPv6 by any chance? I got the same thing, despite being in SoCal. I saw that the site was showing my IPv6 address, so I checked a couple of location databases and I'm getting results that are way off. A couple say New Jersey, one says "North America" and leaves it at that. I think that might match whatever Cloudflare is using since the dot is just in the middle of the US, i.e. Kansas.

Regardless, it's showing me as connecting to the LA server, which is almost undoubtedly the clostest PoP, so I'm not too concerned.
But if the alternative medicine is widely known to work, it means the effect is powerful enough that a cheap RCT done at a local medical university should be more than enough to demonstrate it.

If it can't, then frankly, you don't really know it works.
So stay on Facebook. Keep in mind that while you're trying to patiently and politely engage, Facebook continues to build a profile about who you are and how to manipulate you. The more you feed it, the more it learns and knows how to use yourself against yourself.

In terms of civic duty, this definition of American civic duty made me laugh:

Citizenship connects Americans in a nation bound by shared values of liberty, equality, and freedom. Being a citizen comes with both rights and responsibilities. Civic duty embodies these responsibilities. Such civic duties help uphold the democratic values of the United States.

The problem with civic duty is that I feel mine is to tell people to stop using Facebook... but others... well, they are going to show up at a state capital carrying military grade weapons because they don't want to wear facemasks in a pandemic. Would you like to patiently and politely engage with them? I sure as hell wouldn't because they focus more on their perception of "rights" while ignoring their responsibilities.

My point is that civic duty in America is a pretty romanticized concept that is certainly not based in any reality in 2020.

When I did use Facebook briefly back before 2012, I found it disappointing that my "christian" extended family members would send me incredibly hateful memes about how Obama was a muslim terrorist or satan in a tan suit. If that is civic discourse, no thanks. The one upside is that I haven't spoken to them in almost a decade and never plan to again.
Lots of people here are reporting lower-than-expected speeds with the Cloudflare tool compared to other speed-test sites.

I thought it was pretty well known at this point that ISPs optimize traffic for speed-test sites and throttle a lot of regular traffic, especially during heavy-traffic times like the after-dinner Netflix bump. Since this is a new tool, a plausible explanation for lower speeds is that not all of the ISPs' network engineers have had a chance to prioritize Cloudflare's speed test traffic on their routers along with the other speed test tools.

Part of me wonders if this is part of a ploy by Cloudflare to avoid throttling by ISPs. If they design it right, the ISP can't tell the difference beween the speed test and regular CDN content, which would be extremely clever.
Would be nice to have manual IPv4/v6 switch.
I think you're giving them too much credit for "monopoly status". I know a LOT of creators who make a lot of money with digital video (including myself) who don't have much to do with YouTube.

I know YouTube is called the "second most popular search engine", but it's not a monopoly when it comes to digital video.
I'd love to see retro styles make a comeback for other industrial designs too.

Wouldn't it be cool to have a transparent iMac-style laptop with modern internals?
I used Ff since the early Phoenix days. Sadly, some ten years ago, the organization was taken over by the wrong people. And now, it's a sjw group that cares more about politics than anything else. It's really a shame, because the world very much needs a second major browser engine. Just that these people and their political games destroyed the one organization that could have developed it.
I didn’t think you meant that numbers are functions because you said: “multiplication is a function so one [multiplication] is just a specific instance of the other [function composition]”.

Thus I thought your point was that, since multiplication is a function, it’s a form of function composition. But that wouldn’t follow, for the reasons I said.

As for multiplication being “composed” addition, addition being “composed” succession, etc.: The multiplication function (at least of integer arguments) is composed of addition. Function composition is a function that returns a composition of two other functions. The way you’re using the term blurs the distinction between the thing that is composed and the thing that does the composing.

Function composition is a specific operation that takes two functions, f and g, and returns the function f∘g defined by the behavior (f∘g)(x) = f(g(x)). The function which does function composition is not itself a composed function, and the act of multiplication is the act of a composed function, but not an act of function composition.
Personally I don't think Facebook should censor anything except spam and posts that break the law like direct threats of violence and child abuse. However, I do think they have a responsibility when it comes to paid content and the algorithms they use to push content on people. Its one thing to have an uncensored forum where people might be exposed to things they seek out, and entirely another thing for Facebook to choose and collate what people are seeing. Once they do that, they share responsibility for the content people see, rather than just being a platform.
I already don't get ads on youtube, so I don't see why I should pay for this when I can get all of the benefit with none of the expense.
While I love to hate on the preprocessor -- and did so publicly once in The Unix Hater's Handbook (p. 211) -- item 4 is silly. The whole point of many macros is to circumvent referential transparency! This is true even in a language with real macros, like Lisp. ("Real macros" operate on a syntax tree representation, not on character strings.)
> I frankly do not have many (any?) pro-choice friends

Did you mean to say "pro-life" here?
I was born in the 80s in Moldova. Other guy in here is much younger than me.
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It's not that easy, though. Safety regulations are completely different now compared to 1957, using your Porsche example. Bumper and ride heights, crumple zones, etc. All these factors would make it very difficult to just recreate vintage vehicles while still being street-legal.
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