skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Carmack's success is due to id Software incubated at Softdisk. The reality of that success, at least in the beginning, was an already established stream of revenue, a ready assembled team, and proper leadership. The brilliance and innovation of Carmack came later. They had day jobs, revenue, and product/market fit already established before spinning out of Softdisk to launch id. That isn't enough to account for the super stellar success they would later enjoy, but it fully explains launching a successful business. There isn't any magic or secret sauce there.

> The problem with this way of thinking is that existing markets are probably efficient enough

Oh, that's certainly not true. The challenge there is the expertise to see the current dysfunction versus the risk of solving for it. Solving for the dysfunction often comes at competition for the limited resources required for current practice of art and rejection from just about everybody. Knowing this there is a choice to be made:

1. Sustain the current practice with current income and no change in risk

2. Proceed with the solution knowing that failure is probable and that a startup begins with a financial valley of death (burns cash without the revenue to make up for it) while knowing the greatness of the idea is financially irrelevant.

I say the greatness of the idea is financially irrelevant, because disruption requires some degree of originality and originality scares the shit out of people. That means the idea will burn money churning in frequent rejection until it achieves some manner of market assistance.
This fundamental question has already been addressed by the courts many times.

The answer is yes to your first question. A private company is not required to make available "Official Statements" (whatever that means) using its own resources. The government (in the US at least) must pay for publication and dissemination of "Official Statements."
‪Comedian Roasts Mitch McConnell for Suggesting NY File for Bankruptcy
The Unix Operating System (1982) [video]
Nothing is "free", there are always constraints and opportunity costs. For example if there's a rally in DC, how many people can go there? It costs a lot of money, they have to get time off work, organize transport and lodging, etc.

Sure, there are material differences between - let's say local politics, where the bar is showing up at the town hall - and getting on Twitter. But that difference is becoming more and more meaningless. Especially that the nexus of power seems to be shifting away from the physical and more toward the virtual/digital.
Talk on Unix philosophy, Shell, pipes
Governor 'shooting the messenger' in Arkansas PUA data breach
So said 'disabled'
Known anti-trump bias as in "known" solely due to the presidents blustering in that direction?

Is there concrete evidence of bias? Being critical isn't the same thing
Newspapers are publishers, and are subject to rules and regulations for being publishers.

Twitter would not be mandate to open up access to everyone. Instead, the proposed legal changes would merely treat them as publishers, if they act like publishers, and therefore twitter would not have liability protections anymore.
Where have Fox News editorialised users content?
I think the basic idea is "if you need multiple lines,you should declare a proper fuction", so I wouldn't stand on one foot until multiline anonymous functions in python.
> They didn't remove his message. They merely pointed out it was misinforming the public.

Why should a private company have this power? I don't think that people who run a successful website automatically are qualified to fact check the president and insert blurbs directly in his messages. That needs to be regulated some way.
There seems to be wide variation in tooth enamel in the general population. I have colleagues who have never been to the dentist, hardly brush and have never had a dental problem; other colleagues who brushed and flossed several times a day and ended up with full dentures before they were 25.
I think you should go and get help if you do not understand why people on newsgroups often prefer to stay anonymous.

And if you are as you say major security guy as you claim you probably already checked all the software you allow to use for security breaches. So you either found the problem and got rid of said software or you're just full of it.

And if your business recommendations to your company are base on "attitude" picked from internet chat or shall I say you personal likes why don't you submit this conversation to your employer.

And finally the last thing I feel like doing is promoting my business/services to people like yourself.
>> Forget Twitter, and substitute “gmail deliverability”? Without that, you cannot run a business.

I was going to say it's not really about access but censorship. Using gmail as an example is nice because I do appreciate their spam filtering which spammers might consider a form of censorship (lack of deliverability). And yet I'm against platforms like twitter censoring things. The spam situation quickly leads into another set of arguments with me about traceability.
I believe Guido was against it as he is mostly opposed to the functional style, as a matter of fact he was opposed to lambas but begrudgingly added then after many requests.
Feed structure and content aside, is writing and applying a custom TOS that covers content not editorializing/publishing?

This is the crux of the argument from the political right at the moment: Twitter is deciding what sort of content is and is not allowed on their platform according to some sort extrajudicial rationale. I don't understand how that isn't publishing.

I'd bet any definition of publishing includes exerting control over which content to display, when to display that content, and where. These companies do all of those things.
Raw I presume?
Rocket (Rust) is the framework on my new project, and the benchmarks clearly show that speed improvements would be very welcome. If anyone here wants to work on this area, please contact me and I'll be glad to boost the Rocket numbers together.
Key quote from the article:

> I asked [Governor] Hutchinson more broadly if he had concerns about the message he’s sending about when citizens should report web vulnerabilities.

> “Well the question is, do you see a vulnerability or did you find a vulnerability? I think we’ll let the investigation speak for itself on those points.”
Maybe if I had gotten some of the karma from the repost it would have cleared the bar. This argument is circular, and I know you have to make a judgment call, but this feels like the wrong way to go about a fair, transparent system. Perhaps that is not a goal of HN, but from my few interactions with you on this site, I think you probably care a whole lot more about HN than I do, and I care too! Thanks for all you do.

Edit:

Why not do it like a lottery with more than one winning ticket sold? Share the karma pool among the OP and the reposters. Just an idea.

Or, let the reposter keep the karma, but put a byline saying something like 'first posted by user123 on jan 2, 1969' with a link? I care far more about attribution than karma. I care about making good posts, but if someone else gets the credit, why would I bother? If no one will see it, the intrinsic value to me is something I already had. To share is to be seen. If a tree falls in the forest with no one around to hear it and all that.
A word of caution, a few times I've gone to bed with Android Studio and the emulator up; and woken up with my machine's fans running full speed and the thing about to melt down; the emulator can do funky things like take 600% of your cpu for no apparent reason after sitting there idle for hours.
Why does it need to be removed? Shouldn't it just cleanly expire and be ignored?
That's because people are countering this argument,

>if you're not physically present near them, they will forget that you really exist as a human and a social peer. It's unfortunate but it's true

and the assertion that if you are different you must be autistic.

The much less inflammatory argument that all else being equal, you are more likely to bond with someone with whom you share physical proximity is probably not worth arguing against.
What's wrong with using a nested named functions instead?

You may already be aware, but not everyone is: they capture variables from outer scopes in exactly the same way that lambdas do.
I'd happily take a 60% paycut if I could instead work full time directing my independent game development company.
paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03830

code: https://github.com/probcomp/fast-loaded-dice-roller
Pruneyard v. Robins says the private owner of the mall can kick you out. But note that state laws may provide state-level free speech rights separately from the First Amendment (and several states have such laws).

In contrast, a public space like a public park is subject to free speech requirements, which is why the Westboro church can scream vile racist things from a playground.
Actually ECS Fargate 1.4.0 just switched to Containerd!

“Containerd is replacing Docker as the container runtime”

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-fargate-launches...
>No, they're not. You have to visit the Twitter website or otherwise pull the data from some source to get tweets.

Would you make this same argument when it comes to privacy? Technically it's your computer sending your data to Google/Facebook, therefore you are giving them permission to use your data, because you're so generously providing it to them. Technically this is true and any real privacy solution would have to address this point, but it's clearly not what is done in legislation.
zim desktop wiki
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/
On this page you'll see them. Check the "Porting to X.X" items under each release:

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/index.html

Keep in mind they have deferred a number of them because of the impending EOL of Python 2.7. There are fewer breaking changes during the latter 3.X series, which should resume in 3.9 or 3.10 now that Python2 has passed on.

Here's a commonly mentioned one:

Changes in Python Behavior: async and await names are now reserved keywords. Code using these names as identifiers will now raise a SyntaxError. (Contributed by Jelle Zijlstra in bpo-30406.)

Note: I think this is a bad idea, I'd rather all these small breaking changes and parser be deferred to 4.X. But they need to be small breaking changes, of course, not a new language.
I feel like we need some clarification about what "consistent" means here. If we're talking about having the typography shown to user A look exactly the same as that shown to user B, why does that matter? (And why do the major font rendering differences between Windows and macOS not matter?)

If we're talking about having the typography on user A's phone look the same as on user A's desktop, that seems a bit more reasonable, but the rest of the UI is necessarily going to be drastically different save for perhaps the color scheme.

Or is the "consistency" that matters here about making sure the website is pervasively using the same typography as the advertisements?
Imminent, I think.
> It would be as simple as you write if social media companies would take responsibility for the publishing rights for what they publish

What do social media companies "publish"? In this case, the only thing twitter published was a link to information about mail-in voting[0]. That's it. They did so in the context of a tweet. So at worst, twitter would be liable for any illegal content in either President Trump's original tweet, or in the content I linked at [0]. That is what current US law says.

To change that would require an act of congress or a supreme court ruling. The court is unlikely to rule in favor of Trump[1], as the conservative justices favor businesses rights. So that leaves a new law/amendment to the existing law. That would need to pass the house, which seems unlikely as well.

[0]: https://twitter.com/i/events/1265330601034256384

[1]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200528/01321044592/two-t...
Certainly it depends on the application.
Not at all. No matter how much power you have over HTML elements using flexbox, HTML still has the ultimate say over how the document is split into HTML elements.

In a desktop-publishing program, you can just highlight some text in the linked source, and make it bold, and the layout file will remember that that part of that paragraph should now be bold (using a targeting heuristic that will mostly work unless the paragraph is severely changed.)

You can't do that with CSS.
You have to look at social media like a newspaper that publishes letters to the editor. They're the editor, you're writing letters. The editors are free to throw away crazy letters, edit letters for length, syntax, and content, or discontinue the section entirely. That's what free speech is. If a newspaper won't publish your letter to the editor, you can make your own newspaper and publish whatever you want.

You need a really good reason to take away Twitter's editorial control over Twitter. Please provide one. (The best I see so far is "Twitter is really popular, so they shouldn't be allowed to edit their own website." I am not convinced that that is a good justification for limiting the freedom of the press. If that's where we want to go, I would be the first in line to make sure Fox News drops their conservative bias and gives liberal viewpoints a fair shake. Does that sound good to you?)
Drudge Report Linking to This Armenian Guy's Site Instead of the NYTimes
Hm that's hard to accomplish with simple text files. You can checkout Emvi [1]. That's not exactly what you're looking for but you can link everything using the @ key and export to HTML and markdown.

[1] https://emvi.com/
Hacker threatens to publish MSU files, student information if bounty not met
I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich
The difference is that stores and malls invite the public in for a limited non-protected purpose - shopping or other commercial activity.

Twitter invites the public in to exercise free speech, which in a public space would be protected. This invites an analysis that Twitter may be a quasi-public space that offers some 1st Amd. protections.
Maybe on average, but dental care can suck when you need a lot done. Root canals, crowns, and implants are expensive. And dentists often expect payment in full up-front before doing any work.
We could speak daily and not have it be micromanagement. There is just not anything to speak about most days. We did good morning in the chat for a while, but that just died after the first few weeks.
The only study I'm aware of on that is on Youtube's recommendation algorithm, which found the opposite is true - it tends to steer people away from radicalization.
Deno Is a Browser for Code
Do we have a terminal "renderer" for Markdown? That doesn't make too many assumptions? The could be a start. Or perhaps a utility which renders Markdown as troff.

Anyway, you should probably ask the author/maintainer of groff about these matters: James Clark, whose homepage is http://www.jclark.com/
> This is exactly what Trump said in the tweet.

No, that is not what he said. This is the tweet excerpt:

> "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."

"substantially fraudulent" is not 0.0000001% of ballots (that's napkin math of ballots since 1980). If mail in ballots are 10x more likely to be used in fraud, then 0.000001% is not either. This is factually false and the "fact checking" was applied as such.
Wow, thanks! That's exactly what I want, with a demonstration code example. I'll be using this.
Changing all existing man pages (in all distorts, languages, etc.) seems like a “boil the ocean” solution - perhaps easy on the technical side to automate conversion of 1000s of pages, but harder on the social side of persuading most
distros to use a new format.

A tool or family of tools that convert various other formats
to the groff format might be a more accessible project.
Maybe that can be implemented via an API. So I can have some code that can dynamically call this API-as-a-marketplace and decide what's the bests shipping API to use, then it would rewrite itself to use that API.

Say goodbye to vendor API lock-in!
I'll look into this, thanks.
Your own data disputes your own argument.

First - you've unfairly cherry-picked a statement. Here is the full context: "Even when officers report civilians have been compliant and no arrest was made, blacks are 21.2 percent more likely to endure some form of force in an interaction. Yet,
on the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we are unable to detect any racial differences in either the raw data or when accounting for controls."

So right there in the very same para as your 21% argument, you have the author indicating that for more extreme violence there is no difference in police treatment among races.

Literally he's saying that "Shootings of Black men due to racism is 'not a thing'"

Second - that in some instances police are actually more likely to 'lay hands on' African Americans, by 21% actually disproves the narrative that 'African Americans' are in prisons etc. mostly due to disproportionate violence by cops.

The data presented in the article in question shows that Blacks are 2.5x more likely to be 'shot' - which is 'extreme violence'.

From the research, this would suggest that African Americans are probably involved in crime or situations which 'getting shot' is the unfortunate outcome.

Even if you apply the '21% disparity' - which would be unfair because the research indicates that's only for 'low violence situations' - that still does not explain the 250% disparity among races. Not even close.

So yes - unfair policing exists, and it's a problem, but the much bigger problem seems to be the inherent amount of crime.

That's what the data is indicating:

+ No racial disparity in more violent situations
+ Racial disparity in less violent situations
+ Quite substantial differences in the amount of crime

That American cops are somewhat too aggressive is without doubt, that racist cops exist is without doubt, but the extent to which they are, and to the extent to which it's systematic or 'bad actors' and the extent to which affects actual criminal behaviour is in doubt. There is also no doubt there is deep social malaise in the African American community.

The 'popular narrative' seeks to lay the blame mostly on cops, which the data does not support, also, it seems to ignore the 'Elephant in the Room' subject of the vast amount of crime in the community, which is also unfair.

Most Americans want to improve the situation, I think that narratives that support the nuance reality are more helpful towards that end.
While I'm not sold on the premise even the most fervent Rust fan has to concede that idiomatic Rust changes several times a year which is nigh unsustainable for any large codebase and no cargo fix is not a reasonable solution.
West LA?
I welcome the terser type hints for generics. I was wishing for something terser, like:

{str: [int]}

being equivalent to what is currently dict[str, list[int]] in the PEP, but I guess it will have to do.
Mercury (or rather, Thiomersal) hasn't been used in the vast majority of vaccines since the 90s. It was completely safe as far as we know, but was removed as a precautionary measure during a push to remove all sources of mercury from food and drugs.
> adding a non-virtual method does not break ABI at all for instance.

Ctors/dtors can break ABI as well: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/XAx00v
If Twitter were a physical space there would be regular violence that would have to be shut down. The role of the government is to break up the violence if it occurs.
Last year I came up with a new term for a type of developer: The Medium Developer. Medium in that they have a medium amount of experience (3-7 years, not that all in that range fall in this category), and Medium in that they have a medium amount of talent (not bad, not great), and Medium in that the religiously consume and spout Medium articles. They are the most zealous type of developer I've encountered. They believe TDD is the One True Way, or they think CI/CD with iterations in the minutes where you constantly commit to master prevents all bugs, or that SOLID is the word of the developer gods.

They are awful to work with and be around. All of those concept I mentioned have benefits in them, but not as a religion. Medium programmers lack nuance and deep experience and are dismissive of those that do, they see it as weakness. When their favorite technique doesn't take them to the holy Nirvana of software, they lash out at other, less zealous developers and blame their lack of discipline.

Completely shitty people - I just hope they grow out of it. But they are seductive in their intensity and (bad) managers love to hear how they have a simple solution to all their woes - rather than software development being inherently difficult (because you only have to do a specific hard things once, but that's another discussion!)
You are confusing empathy with US public healthcare policy.

The first considers populations of individuals, the latter 300 million.

And no, I'm not here to debate. I'm here to reinforce the message that policy needs to be considered at the national level, not the individual level.

I can see from the hundreds of downvotes I've received in the past two months that very few people are considering the larger picture for society. I call that selfish.

I seldom refer to IFR and CFR because the testing data is unreliable, so I use mortality numbers. If you feel that you're good with statistics and have accurate enough US data, please do some analysis and let people know. (I actually wasn't cherry-picking, but a more complete analysis should include mortality by age range.)

For the record, I have no preference for the Democratic or Republican parties, and would like to see corona policy depoliticized. Mixing corona policy with the upcoming elections will not turn out well.
"fortran 77" - username checks out.

On a more serious note, I have been dipping my toes into Rust and it seems fun. I suppose, I'll have a more considered opinion of it once I actually build something substantial with it.
Question sort of answers itself, does it not?
If you act as a conduit for certain types of speech, you're liable for that speech.

There's some merit to that position, but things like adding a fact check (which you might or might not agree with) do not incur any sort of civil or criminal liability. You make good points, but we should also engage with the reality that the president and his supporters are demanding a quality of representation/protection for their political views that they don't have any particular entitlement to, and for which no mechanism currently exists in law; it seems (going by the general tenor of their arguments over the last few years) like they want to bring back the 'Fairness Doctrine' that obtained for broadcast media up to the Reagan era to create some protected space for their viewpoint.
Yes. Telecom is not completely private sector as they are regulated as utilities, and for good reason.

Courier services are pretty much private entities that have liability due to the fact they do not own the things they are delivering (this is a really nuanced topic). Lying about the practice and doing it transparently would be different stories.

I don't think social media is as nuanced. If you don't like it, go start your own or use one of the many that do not censor legal content. The burden of reproducibility is very low.
Where exactly is there liability for misinformation?

Fraud and libel come close, but there are important requirements in both cases beyond truth value.