skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > Except that it’s not a public space and the harm is far less than a beating.

> As in "you can't speak any more, because your website is offline". A gag is the offline equivalent.

Again, a private company choosing not to use their resources to support your speech is not a gag. You are still free to pick any one of thousands of other options and you are free, even encouraged, read their terms before signing any contract.

Your Gmail comparison is similarly invalid: beyond the extreme rarity of that, when you choose to accept Google’s terms for getting free email service you are, well, accepting their terms. People have chosen for decades to register their own domains to avoid needing to update addresses and outside of uncommon legal situations this will avoid needing to do so.
Yes, agreed on all points. The parent’s post is exactly what you expect to see happen when the point gets read strictly as being made through the lens of the false dichotomy of left/right, Democrat/Republican, etc. They construct an arbitrary measure which defends their in-group and then without prompting bring in an example of their out-group being worse.

The broad point I was trying to make is exactly that government dysfunction is NOT tied to a singular political party’s attacks on the institution of government. It’s something deeper and more fundamental, represented in both parties.
Love the change. I really like the "annual commitments" pricing - I love it when I can pre-reserve a certain amount of performance and get a discount for it.
Actually, it's five, or even six. systemd doco is bad at including /usr/local/ .

You are pointing to the wrong manual page, incidentally. It's resolved.conf(5). This fails to list /usr/local/lib/systemd/resolved.conf.d/ , which is scanned before /usr/lib/systemd/resolved.conf.d/ (and if configured /lib/systemd/resolved.conf.d/).
Free Tax Filing by Patriot Act team avoid dark patterns of TurboTax
>Really? I'm pretty sure there are thousands of years of philosophical and religious traditions that teach something along the lines of "looking for happiness in the external world is a bad idea, instead try working on yourself"

The author is referring to the common man, whom we in the west have been conditioned to think much more highly of than is evidently deserved.

It should not be controversial to say that people by and large are ignorant.
remember how they used to steal and upload your entire phone book without any sort of permission or warning a few years ago?
Yeah, it's terrible that people can be fired for literally no reason in this country. This wouldn't have happened in a country that has any semblance of workers' rights.
I would tend to agree, but a handful of people have a handful of reasons why they like it, and so removing it completely isn't as much of a no-brainer as adding a permission dialog is.
That 5 years of traitorous heritage, it's very telling that's the part of their culture they want to focus on...
The mortar makes me cringe.
> Or it's an argument that a voting system should have both hand-counting and digital counting, because rigging both counts is at least twice as difficult as rigging one.

Unless the party rigging the counts is the one currently in power. Which in my opinion is the main risk, however minuscule and unrealistic.
If that's what you got out of this, I'm not sure what to say.

I even used the SCUBA shop, which is next door, for reference.

No-one that I've seen has advocated that the OK sign be abandoned for divers. I've been mid mouthful at a restaurant when a server has asked how my food is and I've made this sign and not been called a racist.

However, should I and half a dozen of my buddies, armed an in full tactical gear, standing 10 ft from a BLM protest, waving my Confederate flags, all choose to make this sign for a photo, then a _reasonable person_ may choose to interpret this as "we know exactly what we're implying here, and we're not all just telling the cameraman that "everything is perfect"."
My First Month as a Contractor
Obviously some of this is subjective, but the main points of frustration are the terrible standard library, the type system requiring you to use things like ===, !== to prevent crazy type conversions, the total lack of advanced built-in data structures, and the fact that you pretty much need to use transpilers to use all the language features, things like coffee script to get a sane type system etc. JavaScript lugs around a lot of legacy and it leaks out in bad way. That, and I absolutely detest the whole npm ecosystem and most of the rest of the typical JavaScript toolchain. That said, I appreciate its ubiquity, and it does have some nice things lik very good support for functional, reactive and/or async programming styles.

But like I said, I may not be entirely objective as I work almost exclusively in C++ and backend Python these days, so JavaScript is pretty far outside my comfort zone anyway.
I don't think that laws that dictate companies how they have to manage their property are inherently bad.
> Consumer protection law should protect consumers, not their convenience.
My comment was targeted at the claim that mild censorship on privately owned platforms should be regulated in such a fashion, because their users depend on it. If you sign up for something, you should know what you sign up for. It's perfectly alright if you disagree with their measures. That doesn't mean you should call upon a body of law to penalize them. If Mrs. Fisher doesn't like the fact that her landlord is asking her to lock the door on her way out, she shouldn't be lobbying for the OPEN IT act. She should settle matters responsibly, or... move?

Basically, I'm just saying I found the grandparent a bit... overkill ;-)
That is a little more complex than, "Here's a .exe, it will save files into your My Documents. Click Export to make a zip, import to read someone else's zip." Plus generating instructions on how to do that would have been tough, and this way should be much easier to spread the app around.

Basically, you don't have a bad idea, and if I were a couch expert or were not on the other side of the world, I might have chosen that. But since I know C#/WinForms well enough, and if we went with the browser I would have to support mobile phones and I don't want to support mobile phones for this use case for a lot of other reasons.
I'm surprised Uber considered itself a software company at all. They are a contractor management company.
Hearthstone and some other online games only allow you to say a handful of positive messages to your opponents. Of course, what happened is that this somehow made interactions MORE toxic, since any time I say "Good game" or "Well played!" my opponent assumes I'm being sarcastic, and starts repeatedly blasting me with the same emote again and again.
Sure. But Paulchap made a general statement without any of those distinctions. People often make such broad statements of belief when they're trying to make their position sound powerful and important but end up contradicting their actual beliefs. If you restrict it to a certain case or list a bunch of exceptions, it sounds less fundamental or important and makes it look more arbitrary. But that's more honest.

Most people's beliefs about right and wrong are arbitrary, not based on any fundamental principles, and there really isn't much of a defense for them other than "well, that just happens to be what I believe."
> In C++, you get an error at runtime

Your statement implies that errors for using invalid values are guaranteed at runtime as a feature of the language. That entire statement is incorrect.

You really don't get errors... I literally pasted a link to a working, non-erroring example in the comment that you responded to. You clearly saw the code. Did you click "run"?

You only get an error at runtime if you add "-fsanitize=undefined" (or "-fsanitize=enum"), where the compiler will inject some code into your binary.

But the error doesn't actually stop code execution: it just prints a warning!

Here is a link with the sanitizer enabled, and no warning is even printed for using an invalid value: https://godbolt.org/z/NA7FNQ

So, not only is the sanitizer not even comprehensive, it's not actually a feature of C++. It's a best-effort feature from the compiler to add a non-standard runtime code sanitizer to your binary. Warnings for using invalid values are not guaranteed.
In The Netherlands we have an iconic train which must have been inspired by the 747.

https://www.ns.nl/binaries/_ht_1533730717772/content/assets/...
That's great when my threat model is "there's a firm boundary between my devices and everything third-party". Now that that's been punctured, it's a nightmare.
This is surprisingly hard to find info about, but here is one part of it: https://www.svd.se/salde-uppgifter-till-porrutpressare
The current set were built in the 1980s, these ones will likely have a similar lifespan, so who knows? If you had to pick a non-747 Air Force One today it'd probably be a 777 or 787, although it'd be fun to see a C-5 in AF1 colors.

In 30 years the President may hop around in a custom SpaceX Starship.
"... the show that portrayed earnestness as the only sin and taught that mockery is the ultimate inoculation against all criticism." https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/14/south-park-tweet-leaves-fans-...
A distinction without a difference if in both cases the conclusion is democide.
Could documentation be better for devs who speak English as a foreign language?
I work at a mid-to-large-size tech company as a technical writer. For a while I have been wondering whether we could be doing more to help software developers who speak English as a second language -- but as I am a monolingual English speaker, I have minimal first-hand experience with this problem domain.

I'd love to hear from developers who speak English as a second language about their frustrations with software documentation. Do you have a harder time consuming documentation? If so, how? What about when you're writing docs? Are there any tooling solutions you use (or that you wish existed)?
Not very.

But it's what the Constitution provides. It guarantees you the right to express your thoughts using your own resources. It does not force others to do it or make it easier for you.
Its a california university.

California is ranked in the top 2 states in the country for corruption, crime & fraud.
so you mean they can use coded language to spread hate without being discovered?

Almost like a dog whistle, that only some can hear...
I noticed that your swift libraries will be ready so that refined attention based models can be put on device for iOS . Will you also support android also ?
Not after the third time.

In an interface you're intimately familiar with (like your TV remote, your car, or a plane if you're a pilot), you should spend zero time finding things, because you already internalized where everything is. Low information density interfaces prevent gaining familiarity and remembering where things are.
Probably a 777. It's smaller, but not by a lot. Plus the current AF1 should be in the air for many years still.
It's frowned on in a lot of the US too.

While many in this thread appear to be assigning the behavior to status seeking, I suggest it has far more to do with convenience seeking. We have the sad truth of poor, honest, hard working families keeping down up to four jobs and still needing to rely on food banks to make ends meet. There are too many factors to say how prevalent but this is a thing that exists in at least some cases.
Not only do I believe that social media websites should be able to remove content arbitrarily, but that they ought to remove as much content as they can arbitrarily as possible.

this, combined with new government regulation such as EARN IT will make it as difficult and frustrating as possible to communicate on the web, and this will help people move from worse, censorship-prone forms of communication to more robust forms of communication on the internet.
I wonder if the limiting fact to cargo capacity is weight or volume. If it's weight then perhaps the additional freight offsets those costs rather than saving fuel.
The previous generation was delivered in 1990, so who knows what the airliner market will look like in 2050.
Running an electric train on a transatlantic -- or transpacific -- trip causes an awful lot of environmental degradation, too.
The Abstract Wikipedia idea is a great advance.

> knowledge is encoded in machine readable format and that we can start to write programs over this knowledge graph

But surely that abilty has been the goal of wikidata from the start?
As a sibling comment pointed out there are different forms of accountability. Voting and protesting are forms we're familiar with in the US and Europe, but there are other ways too.

In Singapore, you can more easily submit written feedback to the government, I've heard that things like potholes actually get fixed faster this route than in the US where you might have to string some activism to put pressure on the city.
> As candidates & parties become more competitive, the difference in their voting shares tends to narrow.

This reads like a pure American exceptionalism.
I agree that the claim that All Jews are necessarily Pro-Israel is false. But I don't think that was what the author meant. His claim seemed more like "Israel is a Jewish state, and does misdeeds under that banner", which I don't think anyone would disagree with.

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/7/31/17623978/israel-jewish-n...
You and I had a very different 13-14.
Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking
It was also why Boeing was, until the MAX debacle and COVID, also scrambling for the NMA, and why the MAX was so large.
Illegal and immoral. How can anyone trust these people with personal data and access to your devices?

We have allowed empires to be built on scummy business practices that are fundamentally user hostile. We are under no obligation to maintain them.
Your conclusion here is that these people were all making this sign for non-nefarious meanings.

On the contrary, it is contextually highly/entirely likely that they were _actively_ choosing to use it in a political manner. They _themselves_ were choosing to imbue political meaning on it, as much as anyone was choosing to _take_ meaning from it.
You have no idea what you are saying. You need to go deep to have sane arguments.

If FB loses 100M users in US, they are actually going to lose their shit vs. them losing 100M users in APAC. Get real. The fact of the matter is no user in US (where almost all the uproar is) is leaving

ALso, most people knew about FB having majority of its spend from large advertisers. The stock fell because Wall St felt that the boycott will go deeper (or will impact usage numbers) but it just fizzled out with some big brands. And that doesn't matter. So it is back up again.
> If it met the needs of the company, particularly to the desired level at the times these features were requested, I don't think there's a valid critique of the developer's architecture beyond iT's NoT DoNe CoRrEcTlY.

I'm pretty sure the cascading series of "his next problem" sentences implies that there were plenty of problems with the architecture that weren't identified ahead of time, and they had to encounter and then fix as a series of bugs.

> And still, there's a lot to be said for keeping your developer's entertained so they stick around.

There's a difference between keeping your developers entertained and letting them infect production with ill-conceived projects that cause problems for all those that interact with them.

This project is reimplmenting something already solved multiple times. There are many document stores, and JSON interfaces and addon to traditional RDBMS, so what was being solved here, other than letting someone scratch an itch at the expense of the division he's working in. You're better off giving him 20% time for his own projects and calling it a day if you really think entertaining your developers is important enough to warrant it.

There are times when rolling your own is useful. Generally when there's some extreme requirements for space or performance, but even that becomes rare when the area is mature and explored thoroughly. A database, even a JSON document store of some sort, is so mature that to make it worth while for one person to roll their own when it seems to need all the common features (locking, remote access, different clients), that to actually recoup the cost of building our own (much less the future cost of troubleshooting and bug fixing) is almost impossible unless you're somehow hired a genius workaholic for peanuts.
I agree with you. For those same reasons it’s reasonable for HN commenters to be “pessimistic” about a library with no track record and no discernible take on why it deserves to be production ready.
Syncthing can save revisions, and is open source -- I remember now

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/versioning.html

Lots of config options
> How many more votes would the party in second place at the last election have needed in order to have won instead?

5.8% of the total votes [1] but winning the election is just part of the game. This time around the winning party isn't in power because the runner ups formed a coalition.

> Is there a mechanism by which the election could be run again (before the winners of the election have a chance to prevent this)?

Several - the previous government would still be in power for some time to react, the president has to sign off on the winners, the defense police could intervene, and then there are the courts. None of these entities depend on the newly elected government.

> both hand-counting and digital counting

That would certainly be more secure, but like all security it would be a trade off.

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[1] https://rk2019.valimised.ee/en/election-result/election-resu...
Covid-19 Causes ‘Hyperactivity’ in Blood-Clotting Cells
I assumed it was job posts in the vein of "new code written in Go" or "migrating systems to Go", kinda like when somebody says "monolith moving to microservices" but actually you spend 95% of the time working on the monolith.
You can disable it by turning off "Handoff" in your iOS settings
Even if you wrote the articles in a subset of English like the https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and then used ML to translate into other languages and then formed a feedback loop with the translation so that the original author could have some assurance that the translated texts were valid, this would be huge.
Bless him. I love it
As if there is any difference. Whomever can pay 4x the price of a ticket is going to be someone distasteful. Oh wait, are you that far up the hierarchy that there's a meaningful difference from where you're at? Shoot, I suppose so, if you even knew this, it means you've sat up there. When that happens, business class looks normal and first class is where you want to be. The back on the plane, in economy? shudder you mean they exist? Ewww....
> both of which are IMO much more usable for an untrained user

That's the key though: almost everything in life except random websites is operated by users with various degree of training - either through frequency (TV remote) or explicit lessons (cars, planes). If you have to use a tool more than a few times, this minimalist trend is making the experience worse.
Great slippery slope argument, next time check your facts though, the Pyramids weren't built by slaves my dude.

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyrami...
I don't disagree. No free person should be compelled to live or not live in a specific area.
You can do this with Julia. Julia has an insanely good interop with essentially any language you can name, including cpp and Fortran. You will go through julia but hey, for linear algebra it's the shit.
If UK has FPTP, why isn't it a two-party system? I thought Duverger's Law means that its third party would die out to be more like the Green or Libertarian party in the US.
I believe the alternative to phasing out air travel isn't finding another mode of transport to replace it but instead asking whether or not in a world with teleconferencing and the internet if it's worth the damage to be physically moving people around.
The worst is the implicit social shame when you tell people you would prefer to use something like signal or telegram to mitigate risk.

This shit is on literally every platform, it's inescapable, and at this point necessary to participate in society.
The owner was going to repaint it to no longer have that, interestingly https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-bubba-wats...
Fair point. I didn't realize the FDA had already started looking at the wearable space in such detail. Pretty forward-looking / perceptive of them.
Certainly. Question is, now that you are at your current age, don't you feel that if you practice meditation now, it would you bring more benefits compared to back then?
I work for a startup and live in Tijuana.
Done well these ladders can provide a somewhat objective backbone to justifying performance reviews and promotions across a large org. That said, ladders are generalizations by definition and cannot tell the story of an individual. It gets even more complex when you realize that the highest functioning teams will have differing and complementary personality traits and approaches.

While everyone wants objectivity and fairness, the functioning of a creative team exploring new problem spaces is squishy, and relative contribution is subjective. Attempting to force objectivity through rigid adherence to a fine-grained rubric is dehumanizing and will likely lead to box-ticking behavior and losing sight of the actual business goals. What you want is an engaged manager who is tuned into the team, hearing all the feedback, and able to synthesize that into a fair performance evaluation. If you don't have that level of trust with your manager then no amount of documentation and formality around the process will save you.
Poo and disease everywhere!
What?

"Don't let them use customized cars" is extremely different from "ban them".
What BS dude. Using all sorts of arguments/biases to defend your viewpoint ehh?

Instagram is almost all millennials. FB has a good mix of both millennials and boomers. And no one is leaving. Not even millennials.
No, this will not be removed. Just like "we might kick you for any reason or without reason" is not a clause you can test-violate.

This specifically sounds like the clause you'd use to kick sites like The Daily Stormer out that are just universally despised and put a large amount of political pressure on whoever enables them, no matter if they're just a "neutral transit provider" or not.
Counter anecdote: I’ve spent 20 years around PA and I’ve seen it plenty of times throughout the state. Just recently I saw a set of half confederate half American flags near the Water Gap, which was new for me. It’s uncommon in most of PA but it’s pretty common to see handful of Confederate bumper stickers on a drive across the state.