skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When reddit first launched, the media and mainstream leaned a bit more right. Reddit had people with pretty heavily left leaning views and also borderline anarchist libertarians flocking to it. Gay marriage and legal weed were actually not incredibly mainstream ideas back then and people who supported these things were often pushed out of many places, but virtually everyone posting on reddit supported it and topics like it popped up daily, mixed among programming news. There was also batshit sovereign citizen stuff and videos of people walking out of court because the court flags had gold fringes and that meant it wasn’t legit, and quite a few people on reddit praised stuff like this.

Now the virtually everybody out there already supports gay marriage and legal weed, and those are a baseline for everything left of center and basically mainstream thought now. Everybody right of that gets pushed out of communities, so whenever some new community pops up, you get a whole spectrum of right of center as well as sovereign citizen types again looking to settle down and establish a community like left of center people did with places like reddit all those years ago. One bad thing for these new communities is that the internet is far more accessible now, and the more extreme members see their chance to finally talk, and those with extreme opinions like talking a lot.
>Is it just a decision of whether I want to give my data to the American government or the Chinese government?

iOS dev here. Facebook does the same with their SDK which is included in basically every iOS app. Google does the same with the Firebase SDK which is also included in every app. There are also tons of other SaaS companies offering their own plug-and-play analytics SDKs, of which marketing managers are eager to shove down the engineers throats as many as possible. It’s not uncommon for a single app to host 6-7 different analytics SDKs from various vendors. And this is on iOS, the supposedly “privacy conscious” platform. On Android it’s total Wild West...
You know someone’s a wanker if you see Parler on their phone. Could be useful in this way.
You can, but if you actually start from those recordings and then delete them and claim that it's too dangerous to publish actual evidence that somebody said X when journalists keep claiming that they said X, that's a little suspicious.
The one thing I haven't seen mentioned here is one of the motes that stopped all this in the 90s, open source. And of course the only way to stop open source is to have devices that can't run whatever the user wants.
you think they would dare upset the CCP?
I dislike this framing because I think the important thing here -- the need to resist false equivalences between different platfroms -- gets papered over, when it's a really practical and important question with real implications. I don't think 'all platforms are bad' represents forward motion in a conversation about what platforms are able to do differently to make them better than others.
That was a bit like voat, which tried to champion itself as a reddit alternative
> Also what's up with this new trend of having the main content width-restricted, but not the header [0]?

For extremely wide screens it obviously looks awkward, but the idea seems sound in principle.

IIRC, the reason you'd want to restrict width of content is that it's hard for your eyes to track back all the way left, to the start of the content, when you need to go down a line. But the header is just a single line, so it doesn't have this problem.

In the case of very wide screens they should probably restrict the header width too, just not quite as much.
What's the point of doing a shrink, but keeping the die size the same? Power efficiency, using a new fab?
Very good question. I've been thinking about a central way to manage keys. There doesn't really seem to be one, and it would be a big point of attack because an attacker might abuse it to add their own key.

Right now what I do is I just log into my servers and copy the list :P I don't have that many anyway.

The openssh people are also advocating certificates now, which means you'll have to set up a PKI, which will take care of revocation and such.
Oh, but they definitely do exist. On 08chan, 0chan, and millchan they do not have post moderators. Anything goes including illegal content.

https://imgur.com/NakH7Rd
FB is also not doing enough to stop spreading false misinformation and propaganda. I have seen a anti-EU page sharing lots of untrue and simplified claims. It is censoring people so after I asked them to provide sources and proofs of these claims or attempted to explain some of them myself, they blocked me. They keep only anti-EU fan comments there. And I can't even report the page to FB as there is no "misinformation" report category. This is slowly polarizing the society and amplifying anger.
> For me, picking Rust and the JSON-based IPC were huge red flags and this post-mortem confirms that. But what I find odd is that many are still not willing to accept the conclusion that using Rust for a UI-intensive app is a bad idea.

This postmortem says Rust was, and still is, a great fit for the problem domain for which it was used.

Where do you reach the conclusion that Rust is bad for UI-intensive apps? That claim appears to have no relation to the post-mortem as Xi didn't use Rust for the UI in the first place? Things might have been better if Rust was used for the UI if anything, as attempting to be native instead was one of the problem areas.
I don't know about that. This is fairly obviously an attempt at doing an end-run around Trump's tweets being labelled fake or doctored (if they are) and to have a Trump friendly medium to reach the voters ahead of the elections so they get to control the message. Trump's brand of politics has relatively little to do with the conservatives as we've come to know them through the ages, it's more of a takeover of a political party by an outsider than anything else. Many people who call themselves conservatives are loath to be associated with Trump and his cabal. Though of course they likely don't mind ramming through some supreme court justices that will vote along their preferences.
No. Sex is not a more accurate term. Sex is a more accurate term for whether or not someone has a dick or a pussy, to use the vernacular of the right. I've never heard someone say "you should care whether I have a dick or a pussy". People use the word gender because they're essentially trying to say "yes, I have a dick, I want to act and feel like a woman, and I don't don't deserve to be subjugated or murdered for it (or vice-versa in sex/gender)

Yep. There are biological and physical differences between dicks and pussies, glad you got that figured out like a third grader. No one is talking about that except you. People are talking about the experiences that individuals with "gender dysphoria" have in society. You can call them mentally ill if you want, I don't care, but I think they deserve respect and protection. And, regardless, the discussion requires more nuance outside of "there are biological and physical differences".
Y Combinator+reduces+investment+size+to+$125k,+cites+economic+concerns
What are you referring to? I find IRC irritating, personally.
Normally work profiles get created by an MDM application but I believe it's also possible to create one locally. I know the appaloosa app can do it.

You definitely don't need gsuite. It works with any MDM. We don't use gsuite in work but O365 and it works fine there.
Why do children rarely develop severe complications from Covid-19?
Twitter will hit you with a suspension and a demand for a phone number shortly after signing up. It hasn't helped with the troll or bot problem.
See also, for more of your Pico-8 needs:

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740711

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14174427

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14128946

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14046487

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13667272

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598182

(...2017 was a big year)

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13100468

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11185855

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10317026

2020 bonus thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22342295

Others?
You said, I quote, "it doesn't make it OK (sic: to fight back just because they abuse you)".

Sounds pretty authoritarian to me.
My first test of any text editor is to open something like 4-gigabytes log file with one gigabyte line. If editor works fast, it's good. So far very few editors pass this test, so most are not suitable for general use, only for some niche use like editing tiny text files.
What does it mean that an AI is unbiased? Would it mean that the AI classifies race correctly on average? Or something else -- e.g. zero misclassification error for a specific race?

With bias, it's helpful to define what property is desired, and then measure the discrepancy from that.
There are conservatives outside the US (although some, or many, are also Trump fans).
Those are cases where the supreme court has found restrictions on speech to be justifiable, in case you thought it was just a grab bag of random stuff.
Care to explain the Zawinski test? Google gave me zip on it.
After researching this for a while, it seems there is no documented, native option to do this. The only option is to unlock all SSH keys all the time, which makes them less secure than the passwords for websites managed by the exact same keychain. Which, in my opinion, is weird.

Do they employees at Apple use a different system altogether? Because the built-in one doesn't seem very secure. Or maybe I am using it wrong, who knows.

In a similar vein, is there an exhaustive manual for macOS? It bugs me that Apple machines cost a small fortune, the OS is full of nifty features, but there is no non-superficial manual shipped with it.
As usual with anything that isn't open source, I have significant doubts about the longevity of this. Making a few questions on each article and putting them in Anki is probably more effective and also pretty much certain to still work in a few years time, for free.
actually the supreme court has ruled that fighting words, pornography etc, are all perimissable to be banned within the scope of the 1st ammendment.

it’s very specific legal terminology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words
To be clear, that would be a privacy issue (a malicious server could tell what keys you have), but wouldn't allow a malicious server to log in to anything else with your keys. You don't send the private key when you log in.
The app is also extremely good at avoiding censorship, which I find highly ironic for a product made in China. I once tried to block TikTok at the DNS level, and I realized that if you block any of their DNS names, the app will start using encrypted DNS over HTTPS via 8.8.8.8 to circumvent your efforts.
It's not clear it's a bastion for free speech.

According to this tweet, folks are getting banned for imitating politicians.

https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/127659055637488025...
Where Did My Ambition Go?
i understand your point perfectly well, but I think we've gotten to the crux of the disagreement, at least.

I'm thinking about this pragmatically: a model is explainable if you can explain the model to some people you need to explain it to. I mean this in a fuzzy, "arbitrary", natural language sense -- the test of it is to try to give the explanation. I don't think metaphysical questions about the nature of explanation itself are really relevant.

Whether this is true definitely does depend on what data, which people, what context, but it's possible to try to make techniques that will be generally useful in many contexts.

Getting into the broader issues, I think Newtonian physics is absolutely more explainable than quantum physics. For example, I've seen court cases around car accidents where consultants had to come in and explain basic mechanics (F=ma, friction, etc.) to the jury without reference to any math; and they did an okay job of conveying the essential ideas. By contrast I've never seen a math-free explanation of quantum mechanics that wasn't a complete mess.

Of course, "a wizard did it" is even easier to explain, and may be appealing for that reason, but ultimately that model will turn out to be totally useless.
If your mask got infected while wearing it, then you would have gotten infected had you not been wearing it anyways. So even if your poor hand hygiene renders the mask unhelpful, wearing the mask doesn’t overall increase your risk.
I would only think that's the case when the language of the file you're editing is unknown, so you would have to do some server-side analysis of the entire file and make an educated guess. For example, https://github.com/github/linguist. But if the language is known in advance, then you could send the grammar rules to the client.
I thought of microfinance as sourcing ng $1-2k from people in the first world (like myself) and distributing it to businesses in the third world with no real expectation they would ever see the money again. I didn't think it was about making a profit loaning money to these people. WTF!?
https://www.w3.org/TR/social-web-protocols/
My understanding is that in this case it's GCC's optimizer evaluating the expression at compile time in a way that gives a different result to if it's done at runtime.

EDIT: GCC gets it wrong with -O0 (when it's evaluated at runtime) and right with -O2 (when it evaluates it at compile time)

Clang appears to get it right when evaluated at compile time or runtime.

Clang uses the divsd instruction; GCC uses the fdiv instruction – so this really is SSE vs x87 FPU.
Unsure: compiled to use SSE instead of x87 for fpmath?
I'm surprised that a "Free Speech" network would demand that its users indemnify it against liability arising from their speech. Here's Parler's ToS:

> You agree to defend and indemnify Parler [...] from and against any and all claims, actions, damages, obligations
losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to all attorneys fees) arising from or relating to your access to and use of the Services. Parler will have the right to conduct its own defense, at your expense, in any action or proceeding covered by this
indemnity.

Twitter has no similar clause, because 47 USC § 230 provides computer services with a pretty good shield against liability of this kind. I'm not sure why Parler would include such a clause.
Their 500 Exception homepage does not exactly inspire confidence.
> Also on security problems, check this recent facebook SDK issue - https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1374

Is that a security problem?
The sorry state of the FDA and drug development and deployment as a whole is in my opinion due to a preponderance of two types of people: Type A will happily bankrupt their customers while giving them heart failure in order to reduce allergy symptoms by 10%, and Type B would rather let ten thousand people die in unmedicated screaming agony than have a drug show up in a news story saying it killed three of them, regardless of how many hundreds of lives it saved.
Because it's now getting exceedingly rare to find a program that was not compiled with at least SSE instructions enabled. So the x87 FPU is simply not used then.
rust (default settings, amd64) gets 0.501782303180000055
So, just syntax highlighting is not compelling to move out to a server. But part of my idea is that if you have async to hide server latency, so it's not slowing down typing, maybe you can do a much deeper analysis than just surface syntax. Right now you get basically instant coloring and then much slower but more accurate feedback that's generally comparable to an incremental recompile. I was thinking that a language server might be able to give you quick feedback on some aspects of your program before having to do all of it.

Perhaps an even better motivation is indentation. When I use editors with regex-based indentation (the norm), I'm regularly annoyed when it gets it wrong. Being able to budget a few milliseconds or tends of milliseconds to do indentation that exactly matches what rustfmt or gofmt would recommend would be worth it, imho.
No. Plenty of conservatives outside of the Trump bubble. But not many on Parlor, I’d wager.
I don't think it is reasonable to judge whether a product in development currently scales well.
But often these sites start doing the right thing and then restrict it, tkaing a step backward.

Before: https://i.imgur.com/sgODcLW.png

After: https://i.imgur.com/8j7P1YE.png

The latter is objectively worse. I understand that > 1080p monitors are a small fraction of your user base, but that's still not reason to not test your UI on larger resolutions, for a site as big (and prominently used by devs with large screens) as GitHub.

My eye still has to jump back and forth long distances if I want to fork the repo for example.
When I had the bug in March my symptoms would be sparse during the day and suddenly get worse from 1AM to 6AM. Similar for my partner. Cough would ramp up, cold sweats, fever, and my throat would turn into a sun bleached garden hose full of glitter. We both also had a loss of smell but it wasn’t the primary symptom that bothered us.

Anecdotal, but possibly related.
The terms of service PDF is really clear on what and what is not allowed.

Particularly interesting were links to the US Entity list of defined terriorist organizations. Downloadable in a text file (and it's large).

Since it's not pseudo-anonymous like Voat, and is also being endorsed pretty much by politicians, I think it won't fall into the same traps. I think it's going to become a de facto pipeline to politicians though.

The Terms of Service sound like the vision of a social media network after a Section 230 crackdown.
Pretty much every house in the US is built on imperial. Unless everyone in the country wants to tear down their house and rebuild for solely the purpose of moving to the metric system then there will Imperial stuff tools manufacturing and such pretty much forever.

Cars and machinery are Imperial as well but they have much lower lifetimes than houses.

I remember reading somewhere that just changing speed limit signs would cost more than 100 Billion to change and that was a modest estimate. I wish I could find where they did the math.
Favoring a certain style of government doesn't mean you have to be a fan of every politician advocating for that style of government. It's like a quote from one of the main characters on The Newsroom.

>First off, I'm a registered Republican. I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barrometric pressure, and not gay marriage.
We've banned this account. Doing this kind of thing will get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
More explicitly: Sonic has run quite a bit of their own fiber all over the city. Sonic can also use AT&T fiber, which they do in parts of the city that they don't have fiber in.
your houses don't all have more than one room?
That's interesting because my intuition points in the opposite direction. By blocking emotive content I am less exposed to things that will swing my views towards extremes. I bet there is whole field of research on this topic that I know nothing about. I wonder what the consensus is amoung those that study these things?
So if this is the platform for the conservatives - what's the platform for the liberals?
I'm not an expert, but therapy helps in understanding why we react the way we react.

It could help you answer:

- What I feel when I'm deep in thought?

- Why I manifest muscle tension in those periods?

I would give it a try for 3-4 months.
Why are people still trying to build businesses on the idea that people need a new way to talk to each other?

It feels like these solutions cater to the lazy or the distract-able. All of these businesses start looking so shiny and inevitably are masticated, then digested, and then reach the final state associated with excretion.

Free services just fuck their users.
I think it is. Facebook remotely crashed all their apps. The SDK depends on the information from the server on startup.

The facebook SDK shares a lot of information on startup that the OP in the comment points tiktok of doing.

https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1374#iss...
It looks like you've been doing a good job of staying within the site guidelines lately, for which we're grateful, but please don't backslide like this, regardless of how bad anothre comment is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh, has Mastodon been successful? I haven't heard much about that.
"The composition of the nuclides may indicate damage to a fuel element in a nuclear power plant. RIVM has made calculations to find out what may have been the origin of the detected radionuclides. These calculations show that the radionuclides come from the direction of Western Russia."

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
He got 60 million votes in the last election, and nearly all will do so again. They may loathe him but they loathe him less than any liberal opponent. He sees that as support and acts accordingly.

It may not be "conservatism" in some outdated sense of the term, but people who use that label vote for him in droves. Linking the two is not unfair.
This time is different. At least cultural revolution was a bottom-up movement backed by only a few elites in power. The movement was terminated quickly by moderates after Mao died. The whole nation has ever since been reflecting on the movement and on how to prevent it from happening.

This time in US is different. This time the elites, the scholars and especially the scholars, the media... They collectively endorsed and encouraged the mob justice and the cancel culture. I'm pretty pessimistic this time. I think this is the future of the US since people who do have a platform do not speak out and will not speak out.
Agreed, the UI in the after picture is awful. I really doubt it's intentional there, unfortunate that there's an oversight like that.
> Are conservatives regarded as indistinguishable from Trump fans these days?

In the US, sometimes conservative is used as a synonym for Republican in the same way that liberal is used as a synonym for Democrat.

There is also a different political science meaning for the words conservative and liberal that don't map to the two major political parties.
What does it mean the communities are ephemeral? Because reddit archives is one their strengths. Public Slack channels are lame to me because of their limits.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2321/
Oh, they got me again with their site :-D
"Trump fans" is just very emotionally loaded language, and "conservatives" seems like a pretty reasonable neutral replacement.
“If you can say it on the street of New York, you can say it on Parler.”

Even if his claim were true, he's going to hit the same problem Twitter did: profitability. Twitter doesn't censor because its CEO is some kind of bleeding-heart softie, it censors because advertisers won't engage with it unless it meets a certain reputational standard.
Ikebana.website
This is just you choosing which part of right-wing ideas you like.
I could make the exact same argument with the left.

"Yeah, saving trees and whales sounds fine, but they should stop it with all the LGBTQ, BLM, socialist stuff"

You can't have a civil discussion with those people either. In fact it's getting increasingly difficult to have civil discussions with anyone (HN is an exception because everyone is on their best behaviour, but to a large extent this results in self-censorship; you can see that the least politically correct comments are made with throw-away accounts).