skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about it being compulsory, but the system being unverifiable end-to-end and any criticism of that being laughed at.

If you put it into business terms, would you trust an employee or vendor who told you that everything was alright, did not allow you to perform checks and audits and mocked both your and external partners concerns [0] about it? I don't think so. If the government is indeed for the people and not vice versa, then this is not acceptable.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs Tom Scott's video about e-voting. Funniest rebuttal I saw on Estonian social media was that we are secure, since he is talking about e-voting, but we have i-voting. So I guess once we will call it c-voting, it will be even better...?
They used to censor language and 'ideas'. You could not attack Christianity, or present civil figures (ie the President, the Flag) in a bad light. Hollywood up to 1970's was very much about projecting morality in the classical sense. (Edit: Cohen Brother's 'Hail Caesar' depicts this hilariously with 1950's Hollywood execs in a funny meeting with various Priests and Rabbis trying to get approval for a big '10 Commandments'-like epic. Hilarity ensues as the various sects begin to argue about God ...)

1970 - 2010 it was mostly just language i.e. this or that word.

We are now back to censoring 'ideas' but it's the other side of the fence. NYT called for banning 'Paw Patrol' (kids cartoon) for its 'normalisation' of the social roles of police, 'COPS' was dropped because of its ostensible 'glorification of police'. Which I can possibly understand in an intellectual sense, but pragmatically it's completely ridiculous. 30 Rock, one of the smartest and best comedies every madd - and it's not even 10 years old - is already getting episodes banned.
400 advertisers, who are the largest brands, have already boycotted Facebook. And the stock is near all time high (it recovered the losses this week) and Zuckerberg is pretty much saying he won't change nothing. So there you have it. Very likely this will hurt advertisers more (since they now have lower ROI) vs. Facebook whose large base of performance driven and small advertisers (who don't have much brand to speak of) will take over.

Only thing which matters in the end is whether users continue engaging with Facebook. Money will flow thereafter. If users don't engage, even if the money is coming in for the time being, it will raise red flags across the board. This is why Twitter is such a shoddy stock to own - since their user numbers have been stagnant since 2013 regardless of how strong their ad business is.

This is social media 101.
There is a distinct difference between people lived in real poverty and wanted a better life for themselves and more importantly their children than people simply being born into the poor area of their country. Surrounded by near instant gratification at a very good cost.

Compare the two and you will see their spending on all needs and wants is different. It won't just be the food they eat. One will plan long term for their gratification and the other will simply take what they can afford right now, that later comes from always having that option.

Go look back a hundred years or more when the Irish; my ancestors; got here. Many came here in debt to others working bare subsistence levels and they would have similar habits to your Ghanians, as in tomorrow isn't a guarantee so plan for the worst. I expect that the second generation after the move the attitudes will change but that is heavily influenced by culture
I made a weekly zoom quiz that stores questions: text, audio, image, video links as json files and it works fine when parsed with Gatsby.
While it's true that you can't back up with a towed vehicle, the advantage of the RV is that you don't have to -- only takes a few minutes to pull the pins and free the car and generally when I'm towing the car, I want to use it, so I'm going to unhook it anyway when I park, may as well unhook it before I back in the space (especially since I typically want to back in all the way and put the car in front)

But as you say, different use cases for different people - if you already have or want a truck (or other tow vehicle), a towed RV makes a lot more sense. But I don't want a daily driver that's large enough to be a tow vehicle and it makes no sense to buy a tow vehicle that's only used for towing.
If your question is “where do you draw the line”, the answer is always somewhere.
So if you ask people if they’d be happier living in California or the Midwest, most people say California. Actually the regions have comparable life satisfaction, but people say California because they think of the weather and fail to take account of other things, such as the fact that California is full of tedious hippies.

The author does not cite research about about how "tedious hippies" make people sad, nor demographic evidence that California is "full of" them.
I tried that for a while. Then I realized I spend most of my time on Twitter, FB, etc. hiding or deleting ads. So I just deleted all of my social media accounts.
> your capacity to publish anything you want is restricted by the policy of whoever hosts your servers, and their ISP, and their ISP's ISP.

this is obvious and anyone still unironically pushing the "just make your own" narrative is aware of it but has no other comeback
For those who are curious about the confederate flag - that is displayed, that isn't the confederate flag. It's the Battle flag. I know everyone wants the confederate flag removed but that isn't the confederate flag which is being removed.
Yeah lowdb or even https://github.com/LokiJS-Forge/LokiDB will probably be much more performant/more featureful.
Not an expert, but have experienced some pretty bad government services. I like the public market for private entities + gov entitlement route over public option. Seems like entitlements make it harder for a hostile administration to divest.

Plus soak the rich that neoliberalism helped create. Article didn't address this, but tenants of neoliberalism like free trade are helpful for peaceful negotiations among countries and global cooperation
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That's not a bad idea - I may go the same route.

I like go for a lot of reasons. But these idiosyncrasies really drag the language down at times.
I think it's good to disclose financial interests if you're making a point about a company, like disclosing if you are an employee.
Would this make https illegal??
Java can compile quickly, a few minutes at most when C++ would take hours, so I am tempted to say that's not a problem.

The startup time is negligible in my experience (few seconds for JVM or python imports). I have to take over slow starting applications from time to time and it's always because of loading data and doing stupid shit on startup, irrelevant of the language. It's not a problem for production because server application only reboot once in forever.
Do you have an opinion on NodeJS + Typescript backends?
The reason for it not being enabled by default is probably twofold: code size increase/performance decrease, and it's not a feature which is used often especially not for the majority of targets.
With the rise of TikTok, I wonder if Instagram is past its prime as well?

Most of my friends have stopped posting photos to Instagram, and just occasionally share stories now. But for short-form video content, TikTok seems to be growing much faster.
I think it is all listed here: https://android.googlesource.com/

It's interesting to see how they call out repositories specifically for different manufacturers (ex. Samsung, Sony).
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This, more or less. Even if someone wanted to powertrip like crazy they literally wouldn't be able to do much. Delete 100 comments? Wait 15 minutes and another 100 will replace them.
I think he means he's buying put options at 210 expiring on 7/10
It's really easy to back up the server and never lose passwords.
Is this related to flang?

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/master/flang/
It is great until your charity gets acquihired by a big think tank/bigger charity/international aid group and most doctors/charity operators are not known for their talent at scaling software.
The podcast presented by the professor of that course is also excellent. It's called The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos.
Very cool!

We’re using GANs to generate synthetic transactional data that preserves temporary and causal correlations [0].

[0] friends link to avoid paywall: https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/generatin...
While hard to say quantifiably, from what I’ve seen almost any new backend service is written in Go (apart from ML-related, which Go doesn’t support). Given that many-many older services were implemented in C++ and Java, these still dominate.

Weird quirk of using Go at Google is that any backend service at Big G mostly copies protos, and in Go you end up with these many-page inline protos initializations, which are unreadable.
Nobody was ever hiding that the boycott is for July; the call for the boycott says so in the first line. Some companies decided to go for more than a month but that's their choice.

> On June 17, Color Of Change along with the NAACP, ADL, Sleeping Giants, Free Press, and Common Sense Media called on Facebook’s advertisers to hit pause on ad spending for July 2020

> https://colorofchange.org/stop-hate-for-profit/
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Of course they will. It's called performance marketing for a reason. You can track your marketing invest down to the penny. Who cares if they're evil. I believe that this is mostly a small little kindle that will burn out soon, and not a huge wildfire for Facebook.
The difference is that your DB is the FS, and each JSON file is an individual record. You're not storing each table in a single JSON document.
The article didn’t really articulate a causal relationship. It appears to be more “here are some differences, therefore they explain it”. I’m not discounting the validity of these being the cause, but at the same time this article doesn’t prove or really infer it from the graphs.
There's some ugliness to acknowledge here in the fact that user remapping of controls is not yet implemented. That being acknowledged.

The easiest place to hack would be https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/blob/master/Machines/ColecoV... — change the Input('#') to declare a key you prefer (e.g. Input('-'), and then change the corresponding case statement within the block starting on line 62.

If you follow that approach, you'll have modified the ColecoVision so that it declares a joystick with a minus key rather than a hash key, which it's hard to imagine the host binding getting confused about.

If you'd prefer to look at the other side of the interface and figure out why your host isn't posting '#' properly then you'll see the SDL fragment at https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/blob/master/OSBindings/SDL/m... — it takes the first character of whatever SDL provides as the string input produced by a key (and always posts only to the first joystick).

You'll see similar logic for the Cocoa port at https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/blob/master/OSBindings/Mac/C... varying only in that if Cocoa doesn't provide typed characters then it defaults to the first fire button.

I definitely need to go back and look at this stuff again. As I said, it's sort of a model that did make sense but has become overloaded. I think I need to switch to an internal representation of joysticks and joypads that preserves some information about layout (even if it's just number of rows of fire buttons, number of fire buttons per row, whether there's a start/select, whether there's a number pad, etc) and work forwards from there.
Could be this threat a fake one???

An Anti Virus company can create non-existing threat and market themselves among Mac users.
"there is some preference among buyers (call it racism if you will) not to live in a black neighborhood"

I will. That is racism.
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I wonder how much loose Fed policy is funnelling into these IPO and 2ndary offerings. Honestly, that or like infrastructure is fine by me for things freshly printed money to go into. Investing in science always pays off in the long-run. Our leaders should re-read Science The Endless Frontier, by Vannevar Bush (https://nsf.gov/od/lpa/nsf50/vbush1945.htm)
twat

(I'm not calling you a twat, I'm pointing out that twat is probably the problem.)
Perhaps a better sounding title is “Help cure a neglected disease prevalent in Africa” ?

Leishmaniasis is not restricted to the African continent so the slightly longer title of: “Help cure a neglected disease prevalent in developing countries” may be more accurate.
I would prefer to work in C++, but it doesn’t matter really: the problems you are solving at the big project are mostly unrelated to the language.
It's not profitability for profitability's sake. It's a positive number on a budget balance sheet. At the end of the day, they have some kind of budget to spend on stuff. The sum of the expenses has to fit the budget. If this comes out as a net positive, they can spend more elsewhere, like on unemployment benefits or schools or whatever else they're planning to need money for in the future.
I've had a similar thought about really extreme "social justice warrior" stuff: I've seen it as a kind of unintentional troll that has worked to surface all the racism latent in the culture.

Yes, I do think a good number if "pomo" types and really extreme SJWs are nuts. No, there is nothing these people could say or do that would cause me to embrace Hitlerism, neo-monarchism, race nationalism, or any of the rest of this ludicrous nonsense. One thing being nuts does not make it reasonable to embrace other things that are nuts.

I see the fact that some non-trivial number of people have embraced these kinds of ideologies "in reaction" against SJW ideology as evidence that they were always latent racists and fascists to begin with. Either that or they're lazy thinkers who are easily provoked/trolled into taking irrational reactive positions. Either way the people who have jumped on these bandwagons have failed some kind of test: either a test for the decency of their beliefs or an IQ test.
Sorry, can't answer your questions - I don't live in Quebec, so my exposure is purely from reading the fine print notes for Quebec and seeing how they differ.

They may very well not actually be compliant with the laws. I'm a bit surprised that Amazon hasn't even bothered to adjust the billing for their 13-month cycle, that can't be the case for every company offering 13-month first yearly cycles, can it?

Most recently I was looking at credit cards (HSBC, is particular) - it seems they can't waive the fist year's annual fee in Quebec, so they instead offer Quebec customers an additional welcome bonus of points equivalent to the annual fee.
FB should offer a "limited-time" discount for advertisers, subsidized by rate hike when those boycotting return.
To the surprise of no one who isn’t a hopeless naif, Parler has turned out to ban and censor far more than Twitter ever did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23684512
offending other people should never be the standard. By your definition we should ban South Park because it offends nearly everyone, so fsck your sensitivities.

The confederate flag should be banned because the kkk and other white supremacists adopted it, rebranded it as their own flag, and most importantly, no one cared to stop them. Try that with the Irish flag and see what the Irish have to say about it.
To the contrary, it would be a superset. The point is that it is not restricted, but would also require additional distinctions that aren't even present in English.

Although, there may be some cases where truly identical meanings in English are collapsed into one. For example, the arguable lack of difference between "it isn't" and "it's not". (Things that are quotations could me marked up as such to not disturb the text in its original language, but quotations could still be translated into other languages.)
Really, thanks for sharing this. I just perused the docs and its got me excited to get back into Java development again!
I tried. I held a meeting to talk about the code. I found the problems hard to predict and hard to describe. It was decided that after the meeting he would work more on making his code less hacky and more production ready.

But the real answer is that our team was very siloed. No one knew what anyone else was doing. The other problem was that he was actually solving real world problems, and he was a very high performer. He got stuff done. Arguing to start over a project that's already working is a difficult position to hold when talking to management.
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Boomers have the money, though. And advertisers like people with money.
Not exactly. Development of both started at about the same time, but it was a coincidence. Flang is a standard compiler, whilst LFortran is more geared towards interactive use à la Jupyter, or source-to-source compilation.

Here’s a demo of the Jupyter notebook-like interface: https://mybinder.org/v2/gl/lfortran%2Fweb%2Flfortran-binder/...
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While it's emotionally pleasing to see racists being kicked out of online platforms, another side of me feels wary of these tactics.

For starters, being deplatformed from major online players today would have serious consequences. Although it's true that these platforms are "private property," the entire society has become too reliant on them to be seen that way. I think it's dangerous when platforms function like a public utility and is yet allowed to do whatever it wants because it's technically private property. If platforms want to censor, there should be at least more oversight than what we have today.

Another problem with censorship is that it's not always about being right or wrong. A lot of the time, it's more about power or popularity. Thankfully, many corporations today are in favor of diversity and inclusivity, at least on the surface. However, things do change, and it's not always for the better. There are worrying trends of growing authoritarianism worldwide, and I think now is a good time to consider how censorship could be used against us.

Finally, racists are racists and no amount of censorship won't change what they are. I think Snowden had a point when he said that the answer to bad speech is more speech, not censorship.
That's the new thing. When a film doesn't agree with the reviewer's political biases, he never admits it. Instead, the movie is terrible and nobody should see it.

Remember Joker and the terrified reaction to it? It got panned in review after review. I watched it and it was fantastic. I immediately understood why it got bad reviews because it correctly pointed out how the media are the source of many problems in our society.
People already take those drugs. Drugs are everywhere and have been for a long, long time. When I was a teenager, it was easier for me to get marijuana than alcohol. Why because one was regulated.

Why do you think the world will flock to drugs if they were simply made legal?

Drug addicts (people who need to get high) will find an alternate high if they can't get illegal drugs.
There's something about a SPA for a blog that feels completely wrong...
I think it might be a joke.
"consequence" doesn't necessarily imply a punishment or something at odds with your freedom.

For example: If you bad mouth a friend, they might no longer be your friend. This isn't a punishment for your actions or a restriction of your freedom.
I can't fault you for it even, don't get me wrong. It's almost as if a large segment of the population have just never tried other beers.
They are _very_ clearly acting as publishers as well.

When you connect to twitter do you see the same monolithic platform that everyone else sees before you each sort it as you please?

Of course not.

You see a specific-as-possible individual experience published just for you.

Edit: Twitter clearly needs and should have the ability to manage the content they publish.

But they also clearly function like a platform in significant ways.

It does not make sense to try to argue that Twitter is either a platform or a publisher and nothing in between
Japan has not treated homes as investments lately.

This was not always the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble#As...

In the '80s until about '91 there was a huge real estate bubble in Japan; house prices tripled or quadrupled over less than one decade. Could it be a coincidence that the short-term rate set by Bank of Japan went from a 9% in 1981 to 2.5% in 1991?

Your link shows that real estate prices remained nearly flat in Tokyo since 1995, but at that point Japan was already in the trap of zero rates and sky-high house prices. Prices simply couldn't go any higher. People were already taking 100-year mortgages in Japan in 1995 [1]. Salaries were not going up. Nikkei was going sometime up, more often down; and kept doing that for 2 decades.

On a comparative basis, real estate in NYC and London were much cheaper in 1995. But they steadily went up, and up, and up. Now they exceed Tokyo. Rates are about zero too. We are where Japan was in 1995. Except for the 100-year mortgages. Don't be surprised if they'll make an appearance though.

[1] https://homeguides.sfgate.com/longest-mortgage-7677.html
> Facebook is for boomers.

I can confirm that, I've been told this by my niece.
> Another challenge was how to prevent servers from being overwhelmed with DDoS attacks. That would have been achieved by using the Tor API to generate custom onion addresses for each user and vendor that they could bookmark. The only site that could be DDoS'd would be the landing page. It also allowed for an easy route to horizontal scaling.

If the market were compromised and the URLs exposed, this would make it easier for a bad actor to connect a user to the URL, right?
Haha this is so funny, reminds me of the migrant caravans that passed through Mexico last year. At first people received them nicely but opinions quickly soured once they became very entitled in their attitudes. Particularly I remember a video of a woman complaining they "[We] are being fed beans, like if we were pigs or some animal!!" Needless to say, this was poorly received by us Mexicans.
They're probably referring to this: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/internet-hass-hetze-101.htm...
Oh, I understand. I suppose it makes sense, if for instance one needs to store a bunch of parameters somewhere, it might as well be a JSON file.
Have you seen a 10nm product from Intel with your own eyes?
At the risk of being controversial... I'm going to go ahead and say that Japan doesn't care about racism like America does. Japanese people are extremely racist, but you just don't know it because Japan is 99+% Japanese with <1% being ethnic minorities.

But the ethnic minorities that _do_ live there live in segregated apartment complexes, etc. to prevent "mixing with the natives".