skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The protection isn't moral, whatever that means to you, in nature in the first place its practical.

Even with expensive manual review of all user generated content our society is so litigious and litigation so expensive that nobody could afford long term to offer user generated content. Basically without forcing liability for content to be between the person wronged and the person responsible for the wrong doing the internet as we know it basically can't exist.

Moderating nothing instead means communities turn into cesspools of hate where an increasing number become afraid or disinterested in engaging. Meanwhile increasingly evil and radical ideas become normalized in the context of these echo chambers damaging our society.

Furthermore the idea that if they must choose between zero interference and full responsibility is a false dichotomy invented from whole cloth not in support of neutrality but as a last ditch defense against inevitable social change.
If you assume VPNs don't keep logs forever, then a VPN is very strong protection. Seems like all the anti VPN arguments are predicated on the VPN keeping exhaustive logs of every request. Given the volume of data and the incentives of businesses, i feel like thats probably not true for many VPNs. I generally believe them when they say they don't log, because its just more $$$ on storage that provide 0 value to the company unless they are required by law.
Normally I agree with treating code as a means to an end rather than an end to itself but I take a certain enjoyment in crafting in some way aesthetically pleasing code as well. I even find that if the code is "ugly" that there frequently might be a more eloquent and objectively better way of doing things. And a little time hand formatting I think is worth it if you're maximizing understandability and readability.

Not arguing about style is nice, but having to resort to this brutalist architecture style of code formatting doesn't seem great to me. "Its just holding people, who CARES what the building looks like!"
Was in the Navy in the early 90s and concur with everyone on the quality of training being incredible. The NEETS Modules were designed for independent study and were incredibly useful. The last one wasn't on electronics... it was on Blueprint Reading has been outrageously useful in life for me.
Special is right. It's full of non-standard behavior I've had the pain of fixing because you need to target iOS, e.g. needing Safari-specific attributes to capture scrolling in a modal.
> Although there are a lot of VPNs out there, we felt like you deserve a VPN with the Mozilla name behind it.
Don’t get mistaken by their name. I’m a German, and here in Germany people who identify with Antifa call for and execute physical attacks on other people. People of this ideology have hate in their heart. They even hate democracy. They are beating up people who peacefully demonstrate for maintaining our democracies. Would you have guessed by their name that Antifa was that brutal?
I feel a bit different: Email is a standard. You are talking about an app. Send later is the job of the application,not the standard. Same with reply all. Intelligent priority inbox is _hard_ but i. Principle the same.

When you use gmail you conflate the standard with the app.
Law follows morals, so first we need to determine what we actually want.

Dog lovers forum is not at issue here because it doesn't matter to how society functions, giant twitters and facebooks on the other hand very much matter and should be re-evaluated.
And not all browsers support basic features like Datepickers etc. (I'm looking at you Safari)
2 years since gliechtenstein disappeared
Ethan, if you're out there, please post to let people know that you're alright.
Did rookie robinhood trader commit suicide because of bad UI?
You can take that even further as the sewage systems in Europe didn't recover until the 18th/19th century.
Formatters don't have the understanding like the developers do. Certain changes that might increase the understandability for a human might get obliterated if they don't conform to the rules of the autoformatter.
Why is impartiality a desired characteristic?
If you're just going to move the goalposts, then this discussion is pointless. But in good faith, I'll try one last time:

>Your first listing is an apartment. Shouldn't have to explain why that's not a house.

It's not an apartment, it's a condo, which is a form of housing.

>Your second listing has an estimated sale value of nearly $1.7m.

At $1.7m sale price you're still close to the 30% rule and still have more than 5k/mo discretionary spend, which again, is more than most americans make monthly, period, even before paying for a house. The fact that you think this would make you "poor" is absurd and quite frankly, insulting. I'm sure my friend who owns that house in Sunset and has a boat and goes on nice vacations all the time will be bummed to hear that he's apparently "poor". I'll also let my Nob Hill friend know, too. Tell me, do you think commenting on their pic from the St Regis Bora Bora is a good way to break the news to them that they are actually poor?

All of this is also completely ignoring the fact that this is talking about someone making $250k/yr (which is near the beginning of their career for a FAANG engineer) paying for this house by themselves, when in reality the expectation in the entire rest of the world is that you shouldn't be expecting to buy a home like this until your 30s or 40s. There's a reason "starter homes" are a thing, and these listed homes are not that. You have incredibly warped expectations if you think that the target market for these 3br, 3bath homes are 25 year old single people. If you were an engineer in your 30s, you're looking at an income more like 300-400k at a FAANG, and if your spouse also has an income, these houses are trivially affordable.

Again, the median family income in SF is less than $100k, and they seem to be doing fine. For you to sit here and try to argue that "$300k isn't enough" is ludicrous and reeks of ultra privilege. You need a reality check.
At my company, there are developers who have been there 30+ years. They have seen a lot...

Insurance companies change slowly. We still have COBOL, mainframes, etc. Applications that cost $10k/minute if they're down.

Part of the equation is job security. You eat enough shit, put up with enough mgmt BS, but you get a steady paycheck, decent benefits, and little threat of downsizing.
Show HN: Sudoku with Friends
My partner and I like to collaborate on the New York Times sudoku puzzles everyday. Recently, I had to visit my mother and we had no good way to do the puzzle. I decided to build this little app so that anyone can collaborate on a classical sudoku puzzle with their friends. I also built a sister chrome extension that converts the NYT sudoku puzzles into .sdk format: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-york-times-sud...

The UI is basically identical to the NYT sudoku page except for the number pad which I'll be adding soon.

Hope y'all enjoy, if you want to boot it up locally or help me add features the source code is available here:

https://github.com/davefol/sudoku-with-friends

and here:

https://github.com/davefol/newyork-times-sudoku-importer
Maze ransomware gang demand payoff from wrong company
Thank you for this very succinctly worded version of what I have been thinking about. Is there a generic term for this sort of provocative rhetoric?
Because I've been in my career for 20 years and am in a good place. I have moved jobs, a lot.

What I wish I knew back then was that being "staff" could (and likely should) be carried over to the next company.
Funny, I had always associated the three arrows pointing at a downward slant with them.
> "pissed on from a height"

I've never heard that expression before. Was it translated to English from some other language?
It's 14 words, in the same way that "And if you check out some of her other tweets on this, such as" is 14 words. And where is the proof that there were 88 versions of this ad? The Media Matters article has a link "ran 88 ads" that points to [1], but there are only 3 ads on that page.

This "evidence" is a Rorschach test. People see what they're predisposed to see.

1: https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3878791
I believe that's called "lisp".
What's infuriating is Apple's inconsistency. Some apps offer subscriptions outside of the app store and are still there (including Basecamp!)
> even if he was openly anti-Putin and supported opposition in any way

This implies he does not support opposition in any way. This is not true. He does support opposition rallies—when they are held to support his cause, true, but such is political climate in Russia that publically supporting those who vocally oppose the state policy is a domain for very few and quite brave.

When Libertarian Party of Russia was organizing a rally in 2017 to protest Telegram ban, Durov contacted the Party himself. (I'm a member of LP RU.)

I don't count on Telegram security but Durov's public image and actions are certainly noticeable and appreciated by opposition.
I really like the turbolinks approach - you simply write HTML and then include the script in your head tags. However, I'm still hooked on Markdown. So I am still prerendering HTML - and then doing the routing with Hyperapp. (See https://href.cool/Tapes/Africa for an example - you get a prerendered static HTML page, but it uses JavaScript from there to render the other pages.)

The ultimate approach is Beaker Browser though. You can actually just write your whole site in Markdown (/index.md, /posts/batman-review.md, /posts/covid-resources.md) and then write a nice wrapper for them at /.ui/ui.html. This means you can edit posts with the built-in editor - and people can 'view source' to see your original Markdown! It's like going beyond the 90s on an alternate timeline.

(A sample of this is this wiki: hyper://1c6d8c9e2bca71b63f5219d668b0886e4ee2814a818ad1ea179632f419ed29c4/. Hit the 'Editor' button to see the Markdown source.)
Maybe I'm missing something, the article isn't very clear. One of the reasons why we have front end apps pulling from an API is because it allows for interoperability.

The same API that serves data to the web browser can serve that data to mobile apps and to third parties as well.

The idea of bringing HTML rendering back on to the server just doesn't seem useful to me.
Perhaps the parent's use of "contradictory" wasn't so great; I would say "hypocritical" would be better. This isn't about doing anything legal or illegal, or violating or not violating anyone's terms of service. It's simply pointing out that Apple, when given a choice, would rather use an external payment processor (in order to pay lower fees) when building an app for a platform they don't control... while at the same time denying people the ability to do that on their own platform.

To me, that sounds like a compelling argument in a hypothetical anti-trust suit against Apple where a plaintiff is claiming that Apple's requirement to use Apple's in-app payment system for all payments in iOS apps is anti-competitive behavior.
I also found the whole 14 words, 88 ads to be somewhat suspicious. I try to be careful about my pattern matching, so when it comes to that I'm open to the idea that it wasn't intentional. But taken together it does seem rather too coincidental.
It is still their position - that persecution complex is just their rationalization for their hypocrisy and abuse of power.
>but it is a first-page hit on an image-search

Every single instance of an upside down red triangle on an image search for "antifa symbol" is a screenshot of a post from the Trump campaign. There is no use of the symbol without referring to that campaign post.
A couple thoughts:

1) I was bummed I couldn't actually try Mailbrew Mobile yet :(

2) That said, I hadn't heard of Mailbrew before and I love the idea behind it. I visit 4-5 sites as part of my morning and nightly routine, but I also find myself getting sucked into them as a method of procrastination (like right now haha). I hope this can help!
That just seems like poor design, although admittedly in this case it could be that the lots essentially go to the road. Ideally you would have a grass strip between the road and the path that people can put bins on, park on and so that the driveway won’t make the path uneven.
This is a fun phrase, that as a non-crypto person seems reasonable, but I always wonder if there's something of a confirmation bias.

> The reason why that statement exists is because there are _countless_ examples of teams coming up with their own, new cryptographic mechanisms that either break...

But aren't there _countless_ examples of this in crypto made by cryptographers?

I'm not playing devil's advocate, I don't really have a stake here. :)
I did not have to, I had the chance to be the "natural choice" when a trader left the desk.

I joined the desk as a computer scientist. They quickly gave me the opportunity to develop the strategies with them and thus to understand/know the business.

At the bank for which I was working, this kind of move is not uncommon.
There is a difference between distributing an app and forcing people the developer to pay for the underlying service it offers.

Especially if you opt to not use any of said platform services.

App distribution != online services. They are two distinct markets.
They should be rushing far more given the last 5 decades of progress.
OP here: Not meaning to be inflammatory by this post, but I can't help thinking part of the blame for this should be on Robinhood.
I have fond memories of creating images with Grunge fonts in some pirated copy of Photoshop and then positioning them with HTML tables and Dreamweaver.
Formatters are a way for one person who likes the formatters output to enforce their will on other who might not necessarily like that.
And in the darkness combine them?
> The models haven't been significantly updated or reconsidered since, even though the development patterns have been mandated by law to become much less dense, while street standards have also greatly increased, meaning much less tax base to support much more infrastructure.

This sounds like the utter lack of critical thinking which might result in a failing grade for a college term paper, so what gives? As in, what is the thinking with which sane people could justify using such models and/or approving estimates?
If you wanted to describe what was wrong, in a way that I can reproduce it, I could file a bug, yeah
> I personally don't get why any developer would prefer Windows over Linux

Because windows now literally has all the stuff Linux has plus a lot more.

The only reason for a well paid developer to prefer linux over windows for a desktop OS is that you don't need any of the extra stuff (a decent desktop experience, hardware support and a commercial end user software eco system) or that you have some fundamental objections concerning Microsoft's business practices. These are good reasons, but experience shows that most people don't care enough about things like privacy to give up convenience or shiny things.

Apple may be in for a tough awakening. They profited enormously from providing the desktop OS that a very large fraction of the technical elite has been using for a long time. MacOS still is still smoother than windows in some regards, but the writing is on the wall: linux completely dominates the server but is as hopeless as ever as a general purpose desktop OS, but windows no longer sucks for software development. It used to be that macs had the unique selling point of offering a nice desktop experience on good hardware coupled with something close enough to linux that you could use it for a very wide range of software development tasks. But new hardware is developer hostile and macOS drifts further and further away from linux (ever more lock-down that directly breaks developer workflows and tooling and ever more diverging user land with a mix of ancient GNU and irrelevant BSD tooling). By contrast windows now includes an ultra-high-fidelity linux layer with excellent tooling and integration to "core" windows and Microsoft also owns the world's most popular editor and code hosting solution.

I'm amazed how well Microsoft has managed to find back to its embrace, extend, extinguish roots. It is both a technical and a strategic marvel.
Can you self-host Webflow-generated content?
We agree here, I also don't think that communication should restricted because twitter is based in california.
I took another pass at the copy on the website. Does it help? (you may need a force refresh)
Reason for most of these is the optimiser. What if you have eg. 2 tables t1 and t2 which are structurally identical and have

select *
from parameterised_t
where parameterised_t.x = 99

where parameterised_t is either t1 or t2 passed in as a param, the tables can still have very different statistics. The optimiser needs to know statically which it's getting.

Of course, if t1 and t2 are structurally identical, you should not usually be splitting them into 2 tables, they should be one table partitioned logically with some predicate (an extra column) rather than physically (having 2 tables).

- Can't parametrize the SELECT list or ORDER BY clause.

ditto but worse.

> - Can't (explicitly) throw exceptions.

and that one's a bitch, and quite unnecessary.
A set of standard contracts where you can read explainers about them can go a long way without needing really hard to change societal reforms like this. I hope one day creative commons makes a privacy policy wizard that most people understand.
I don't think picking a fight with Apple as a PR strategy is a good move. The rules on the app store are very clear, if you're charging a subscription for functionality you're providing through an iOS app, that subscription must be available through Apple's payment system. I know people don't like that, but it's not unexpected. So given that Hey knew the rules, it seems a bit manipulative for them to submit their app and then go on a massive PR campaign about how outraged they are. I understand that they may feel that the app store rules are unfair, but this whole fanfare seems ridiculous to me. Instead they seem to think that they're going to benefit from picking a fight with Apple - it reminds of small youtubers who make expose videos about big youtubers to try and get people''s attention.
Russia in the process of amending the constitution right now to, among other things, specifically declare priority of Russian law over any decision of international courts.
Fascists were not exactly fans of anti-fascists, so while I'd definitely agree that Antifa isn't currently repressed, this has not always been the case.
You assume that they have the same values and definitions of transgressions. That just plain isn't true no matter how "obvious" it is that something is or isn't one.

Besides blaming them for being unable to stop state actors is a bizzare form of victim blaming - complicity would make sense sure but not inability to stop it. Asking to be both stronger than and weaker than states at the same time is an unusual demand.
There is zero chance of 100% replacement of fossil fuels with renewables. Zero. Without a Thanos solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkj_91IJVBk&list=WL&index=5&...

EDIT: I mean, you guys are downvoting these comments, and I'm sorry to tell you things you don't want to hear, but would prefer that you respond with contrary information rather than downvoting. Happy to alter my views and engage in information sharing.
I said I was being charitable earlier because I think only a truly monstrously evil person could believe any property could have worth comparable to a human life, and I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt that you are not such a monster.
Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space
That definitely may come into play. But I think the bulk of the 2-3x (or more cost inflation) for the average project is larger factors that no particular entity is trying to "cheat". Just a gradual creeping up of expectations and willingness to tolerate higher and higher costs.
I got RSI when I was 12. AT 45 the only things that keeps it away are frequent breaks, smart ergonomics, and resistance exercise. And I only discovered those things in the last 5 years.
The attempt at hidden messaging in the way the "who is it" question is posed, is _exactly_ the problem.
Reading through all these comments I see a lot of people saying "it stops the debate about style!"

It seems like people are having more of an issue with bike shedding than actual code formatting.
That's fine, let me install software without going to the App store.
If I was working for the Russian's I'd push abolition (I assume they push Defund the Police in a big way)

Like you say "abolition sounds dangerous or radical".

Almost by definition Conservatives will vote hard as possible the other way.

If the idea is correct, you can't educate people on complex topics like this anyway. It needs to be iterative.

It also sounds nothing like it is. Sound bites matter when Twitter controls the discourse.
Nope. I'm saying that if I had children, I'd tell them the above.

I'd argue it's ultimately a much more effective way to combat racism/bigotry/whatever, unless you accept the Critical Race Theory definition of racism, which I do not.

The military is probably the best evidence that this works. They take black, white, hispanic, and Asian Americans and put them through rigorous training together. In the end, nobody gives a crap what the other people look like or where they came from - they're your brothers and sisters and you trust them with your life.

Dehumanizing people, calling them out, invoking the mob, getting people fired... these are all tactics that are doomed to stoke animosity, not reduce it.
See DARPA'S N3 program for a variety of minimally invasive approaches to brain stimulation.
Yeah I definitely had to open some issues to understand how it works. I have multiple virtual servers as well and wasn’t able to get it to break out links by virtual server.

I figured it’s fine for my needs since I literally have nothing on my domains. I could see it being frustrating for power users.
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I began developing apps the "old-fashioned" way over a year ago. My day job is React but for my side businesses, it's all PWA and Rails. Light React/Vue (depending on my mood) when I need a fine-grained interaction or a slick animation.
I'm glad this is the case. I've been a Rails developer for close to 10 years now, but 3 or 4 years back I got sucked into the React world. I bought right in and my company quickly adopted the "React on Rails" pattern. Looking back, it was one of the worst professional decisions I've made in my career. Now we're back to server side rendering and StimulusJS on the front-end when needed. Productivity is way up, and developer happiness is way up. With new tools like https://docs.stimulusreflex.com and https://cableready.stimulusreflex.com I'm very excited about what can be accomplished with minimal JS.

(Note: I still think React is an awesome library! I'm sure there are devs that are super productive with it too. It just wasn't the best fit for me and my company)