skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free speech the concept is different from the First Amendment, which is different from private companies and private property.

The fringes will always be there, they're just more visible and vocal now. The real issue is whether a platform will choose to be moderated or not, and what tools it offers to users to control their experience. All major platforms are still working on that balance, especially as they become increasingly dominant mediums of expression.
Billionaires and governments are natural enemies.

Why would I care about Koch's views towards government?

Would I ask Harvey Weinstein about sexual assault and harassment?

Would I ask a creationist about evolution?

Would I ask a pro-lifer about women's reproductive rights?

Would I ask an Iowan farmer about agricultural subsidies?

Would I ask Coca Cola about diabetes?

Would I ask a reality TV star about presidential powers?

Would I ask Rupert Murdock about journalism?

Would I ask The Sinclair Group about media consolidation?

Would I ask a white supremacist about race relations?

Would I ask members of John Birch Society about voting rights?

Would I ask members of The Federalist Society about balance of powers?
pando is seeking to expand outside of sports. id expect them to have something like this soon
Is there any confirmation if next year we should see macOS 12 or 11.1?

I hope it’s the former, as that will make yearly updates to macOS more consistent with iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS.
The post office does indeed have a legal monopoly on first class mail.
That's totally incorrect. That conspiracy began on 4chan's Politically Incorrect board.
How else will it grow and expand to better serve their customers?
They can slap a proxy on the front to change it back to what they need.
Perhaps the chanter was being ironically racist, but I think its pretty hard to see Trump's retweeting of it as ironic.
Sounds like a private enterprise deciding what they want on their property, to me.
In history, large numbers of people have committed grievous mistakes under the notion of "It's popular so it must be the right thing." Axis powers during WWII, e.g.

"You can in fact fork Bitcoin today and attempt to create a market, will your new coin be valued as a Bitcoin and derive its current ~9000 USD price?"

Yes. They're called shit coins. I'll make 21,000,000 shit coins in my currency and sell you one for $9,000. You can, make your own shit coins and just sell one of your shit coins back to me for $9,000. Money need not exchange hands.

How about this? I will sell you an arbitrary magic number for $9000. It's value is only good inside those that trade these magic numbers. The only difference between my offer and bitcoin is that many people are trading these magic numbers.
Yeah let's start by banning the US military accounts, the og antifa
Now imagine if those words I gave you were in Vietnamese, or some language you don't speak.

Math notation sucks because none of it maps to things non-mathematicians know.

I'm struggling to see how someone could conclude the latter statement from the former. Why is it reasonable for Vietnamese to be unintelligible to non-Vietnamese speakers, yet unreasonable for mathematics to be unintelligible to non-mathematicians?
why would I want to help the USPS at a cost to me?
Mississippi Drift – Floating the Mississippi on a homemade raft (2008)
Are you sure it’s not the opposite? Plenty of students can solve a set of equations. But when you start asking them about trains speeding in the night...
It also happens to have pretty great compatibility with various tracker music formats like .mod, .s3m, .it and so on.
A group of communists? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion
What if Google and Twitter deside that those "alternatives" are hateful for disagreeing politically and stop linking them on their platforms making it extremely difficult/impossible to find them?
It seems to me they’re talking about the small hamlet as a center of defense, not just the city. After all, medieval farmers didn’t walk from the city to their fields every day. They generally lived in outlying hamlets and villages, and brought goods to the city on market day. Nonetheless, the population was concentrated in the villages and not dispersed in homesteads or something. Most of London, for example, is actually outlying towns that were gradually absorbed into the metropolis.

You could also suggest another reason the population was concentrated, that was probably at work in the new world as well: if you’re the local aristocrat, and your job is to tax the peasants and muster them in wartime, it really helps to have them all in one place.

As for the Greeks, what’s funny is that they were hilariously bad at siege warfare. In almost 30 years of on and off warfare, neither Athens nor Sparta was ever seriously threatened until the very end. And while it’s totally dumb to compare a bronze age epic with actual history, let’s be real, the Romans would’ve finished off Troy in a month.
Can anyone explain what is happening with the downvotes on this post? Almost every single top level comment has been downvoted to almost disappearing.
QAnon is not a person; it's a moral panic.

It's a massive group of people LARPing about the most serious crimes anyone can be accused of and it focuses on new people nearly every day. No trials. Weak evidence. No way for the accused to face their accuser. It's as bad as the worst of "cancel culture".
They also foist last-mile delivery off on the USPS when they can’t be arsed to do it their damn selves, probably because it’s cheaper to leave small packages at the post office than drive a truck of their own a couple miles out of their way to drop one package.

Source: FedEx does this to us all the damned time. UPS generally delivers to our door in a brown truck. I don’t know about DHL.

Let’s not pretend that other couriers offer the same service as the USPS (specifically universal service) in a competitive market while also turning a profit.
"A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on", that old adage.

But social has supercharged the whole affair, as you say, in speed and scale. Curation cannot solve it, but can it have some role in moderating it? What other tools do we have to throttle the damage? Do we need to axe social media entirely?
Since the only validated interface with have with charities is through the mail (they have to keep an updated address with the IRS) we send them payments on monthly consolidated paper checks. Sending on a greater frequency would be much more costly and administratively painful for them.
White Power! Oh...did that hurt someone’s feelings? Hmm..

All Power!! Crap...someone else has hurt feelings..

Just show respect to others, set an example, and turn the other cheek when needed. Hate generates hate which generates hate.

When you begin bringing up Trump in a topic completely unrelated...I feel sorry for you. So many people have so much hate in their lives, it’s really sorrowful.
And most people aren't keen on eating Soylent for every meal...
Altavista had access to the same web that Google had.

Google created a better mousetrap and the world beat a path to its door.
Completely anecdotal, but I went from 50B to 2B per point using the compression feature. Mind you this is for slow moving sensor data collected at regular 1 second intervals.

Prior to the compression feature, I had the same complaint. Timescale strongly advocated for using ZFS disk compression if compression was really required. Requiring ZFS disk compression wasn't feasible for me.
Do you propose Twitter does no curation then?

Is it a question of where do we draw the line, or whether there should be a line?
Which legal obligations that it's competitors don't have? If you're talking about the requirement to pre-fund their pension fund, my understanding is that UPS and FedEx (and all private corporations) were already required to do so. I think it's more accurate to say that PAEA removed an artificial advantage that USPS had.

OTOH, FedEx responded to MAP-21 and similar pension funding laws by getting rid of their pension fund which I suppose isn't something USPS can do as easily. On the third hand, UPS is still able to afford pensions for union employees.
> It's been encouraging to see companies grow a backbone and crack down on harassment and hate campaigns

Grow a backbone, or fold to public pressure?
The USPS receives no government subsidies and for example pays property taxes. There are a lot of government mandates about what they can or can’t do, but it doesn’t currently receive federal funds.
I would keep a chunk of it on hand for day-to-day, and leave the rest in an interest free banking account, if your country has those, or a high interest banking account if our country doesn't have those, and just sit on it until the market bottoms out from covid. Then pour the saved money into a "safe" stock such as a major bank and enjoy the ride out of the doldrums as the markets become invigorated.

Yes, I realize the markets are kinda doing well right now if you completely ignore how much they dropped earlier this year. But if we get a second wave (and we very most likely will) consumer confidence will go through the floor and take the market along with it. That's the bottoming out I'm expecting to happen, and am preparing to take advantage of.

I'm doing pretty much this exactly right now. A lot of my cash that could be on stocks is sitting there waiting for that bottom side. All my current trades are with money that's already in the market.
From Oxford Dictionary:
“a political protest movement comprising autonomous groups affiliated by their militant opposition to fascism and other forms of extreme right-wing ideology.”

A far left wing group that utilizes militant and terrorist techniques as forms of protest (as stated above)
I think all time travelers should be welcomed on Twitter with welcome arms, be they from 1933 or 2933.
I disagree pretty strongly. Rather than layoffs, most of these people could be retrained. Cutting costs of < 1k people is not a serious cost cutting effort, it’s juicing short term numbers.

Probably most of the cuts are very political, with certain darlings being given freedom to restructure and layoff according to their whim.

I think the story that companies do this for efficiency is mostly bullshit. That’s just the excuse.
Sweden's schools follow national educational guidelines so they are more like what we call charter schools in the U.S. than the voucher system some districts have in the U.S. and what DeVos argues for. Also, Sweden's students perform more poorly now than they did before vouchers were implemented, though of course people argue over the cause of the decline.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/is-sweden-proof-that-...
How Oura Became the Hottest Device of the Pandemic
First of all, from this link:

> was a militant anti-fascist organisation,

emphasis mine. People who self-identify as anti-fascist nowadays have little to do with communism. Why not link this page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism

Second of all, is "communist" a slur on HN? Is that supposed to sound scary or something?
They had an effective monopoly, until their control of supply was broken: http://www.paulzimnisky.com/a-brief-history-of-de-beers
What makes you so sure it is causing more issues than it solves? We can do a LOT of things in the browser that we can't do with the pure html document model.
> Preference goes to TypeScript-written packages.

Indeed, the only thing worse than no typings is wrong typings.
There are a few different contingents that frequent HN and bother to look at the comments on posts like this, which results in equal numbers of downvotes on wildly opposing top level comments.
The phrase "more ... than any other account" is hyperbolic at best. The repetitive drumbeat to try to paint Trump as Hitler-esque is strange. Among other things his ability to communicate is severely lacking.

Since we apparently are expressing wishes now, I wish that twitter just didn't exist in the first place.
Can’t they target Amtrak instead?
AFAIK that's the origin of the "QAnon" shit too, so I'm not sure that really contradicts much.
1. The community is divided because society is divided. Each side downvotes the other.

2. HN users tend to downvote tedious, repetitive flamewar.
This is most important imo. We are granted certain protections with USPS that will likely never exist with private carriers.

The USPIS needs probably cause to open your mail, as it's protected under the Fourth Amendment.

Meanwhile at Fedex or UPS, the little old nosy lady at the counter can bust into any package she finds "suspicious". And you have no recourse.

I'm not sure how many people realize this.
> I won't pretend tsconfig/webpack or any other bundler out there is "fun" to work with

For me, Parcel is fun to work with. Rollup is my favorite for more advanced or customized pipelines, but Parcel has a silky smooth workflow for the typical bundling tasks in most projects. I've started using it for Node.js as well (since I want to avoid ts-node) but it seems best for frontend-only projects and components. Speaking as someone who has managed to avoid Webpack thus far despite its status as the "industry standard".
QAnon has been associated with at least one murder, several kidnappings, and a number of terroristic threats:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon#Incidents
https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/01/08/mother-t...

No "antifa" movement has been associated with the same degree of violence and coordinated harassment. There are not tens of thousands of "antifa" members sharing lists of public figures they believe have been or should be executed and fabricating evidence against those figures.
The root issue is trust. All curation does is move the "trust" requirement from the poster to the curator, but it doesn't solve for it. In fact, it arguably makes it worse since it concentrates power and reduces inputs.

I think social media needs to reform along our naturally developed behaviors. Small communities with some proximity and a measured flow of information. The instant global stimulus with anonymous accounts is clearly making us lose our minds.
Vim, like math notation, is optimized for efficiency. That's great for power users, but it's not what you would use if you wanted to teach someone how to word process.

Vim is a text editor, not a word processor. Additionally, Vim is a tool designed for power users. Mathematical notation is also meant for power users. When we teach mathematics, we introduce the notation gradually, so students have time to pick it up. This is a process which takes decades from Kindergarten through PhD. Just as a Vim user would scoff at being forced to write in Notepad, a mathematics PhD would scoff at being forced to express their ideas in Kindergarten-level mathematical notation.

try imaging Vim where each file mandates its own special keybindings. That's math notation for ya.

That's how Emacs works, and how Vim works when you install filetype-specific plugins.
HN has had a problem with bigotry and white supremacy for a long time. That's why.
Potential upstarts can't get funding to start their business, because investors know you'll just bully them back out of the market.

Unless they find another billionaire with pockets as deep as yours, and a willingness to wage a price war for years.
that's the bunny, thanks very much
Might as well make it part of the language officially and get rid of the need for transcompliers.
Can you outline what the hard benefits are of a corporation paying $2.50/employee/month are, for the corporations and/or employees and/or charities?

According to your website, I can set up an individual account not tied to my employer and it's free to do so.

Can you also explain what the process looks like of connecting an individual account to an corporate account? (ie: I have a Charityvest account and my future employer has a corporate account)
Just because something is not free doesn't mean that a private organization should be entitled to sell it. In many cases this just becomes an additional friction to everyone. For example, health care is something that everybody needs and is not free. But this doesn't mean that paying a private company is the best option. Companies need to profit from health care to exist, which in turn drives up costs for everyone and makes the economy less competitive. This is clearly happening in the US.
Another interesting notation is iverson notation. See Notation as a Tool of Thought[1]. Here's the inner product (note that this is actually general inner product):

c ≡ u +.× v

1. https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm
Linux Foundation starts new group to build pandemic-popping software
Your entire post history is just you repeating the same talking points from a clear side of the political spectrum. But it’s not “hate” when it aligns with your beliefs, I suppose?
The number of replies that are failing to understand that you're being sarcastic is slowly convincing me your statement is unironically true.
...said the person when Hitler finally banned the dangerous and destructive Communists and then the Jews from public life.

It’s amazing how few people understand the implications of banning people from public life. They think it’s easy and can’t understand why anyone would object.

Total ignorance of history resulting in a total lack of awareness.

If you think something as vital as free speech and censorship are simple and “not so hard” this is a good sign you’re missing something huge. In general, if you can’t convincingly argue the other side, you’re not sufficiently intelligent or informed and should educate yourself or refrain from advocating your clueless point of view.
There's also a lite version of Facebook for those who want Messenger without an app.

https://mbasic.facebook.com
Japan ends state of emergency with no lockdown
HAHAHA...some how I was down voted for pasting google’s search result. Way too funny..
You could start with the guy who charged into the pizza shop back when this all began. Fortunately he didn't kill anyone but he's now in jail after sincerely believed children were being abused and that it was being covered up.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-man-with-assault-rifle-d...
Since they mentioned the Alaska bypass, they're probably talking about areas that are only accessible by air. There's a situation kinda similar to the epacket thing with China. USPS subsidizes package delivery in isolated areas to the point that it's cheaper for the sender than deliveries to urban areas
"QAnon" is generally used to refer to the conspiracy believer movement, not the supposed instigating figure behind it, who is just "Q".
Forget whatever this nerd wrote: Bernal Díaz del Castillo
wrote the Iberian Anabasis.
Did you get your list from https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organizatio...
UNC campuses must submit plans for 50% budget cuts as Covid worst case scenario
Predicting the Biodiversity of Rivers
They’re not what we would call charter schools. For example, you can use school vouchers in Sweden for religious education.
Nobody i have ever met has ever hit the lifespan limits of their CPU before that CPU was hopelessly outdated. CPUs just do not break, motherboard / RAM / powersupply etc. Will always die before
Poste Italiane, the Italian equivalent of the postal service, is now mostly a bank that happens to deliver mail as a side business. Hugely profitable, and a quasi-monopolistic market position.

USPS becoming a bank could happen in the US and it would be great for the company, because the Antitrust system in the US is a joke and it would never stop it, IMHO.
So when you say “I’d like to see Antifa added to this growing list as well” are you suggesting that you would like to see Twitter ban anyone opposed to fascism and other forms of extreme right-wing ideology?
Curious people can read the posts themselves at qmap dot pub.
> People are not responsible for what their ignorant fans say.

This is what I'm arguing against. When it comes to QAnon, you can't know the difference between QAnon, QAnon fans, and any rando who pretends to be either. It's a feature of the LARP.
Please don't compare banning people from twitter and exterminating Jews.

The two aren't comparable.
Huh? The article I posted has a tweet from June 14. The reddit post in your newsweek is from July. Am I not understanding something?
laughs in browser compat
I dont think instant global interaction at this scale with such ephemeral bits of data and complete anonymity works at all. My proposal would be for small regional communities with some connection and identity between participants. Similar to how offline social interactions have always worked.

I don't see how Twitter could change into that though at this point.
To elaborate, it's interesting to observe that a non-zero interest rate effectively creates a resource leak. Since the deposits created are equal to the loan's face value and don't include interest payments, in aggregate there are not enough deposits available for every borrower to pay off their loans with interest. In other words, interest makes a non-zero bankruptcy rate a mathematical certainty.
It is personal data because it can be correlated to PII. It is not by itself PII. This is one of the most important differences between the US and EU regimes, regulating PII vs. all personal data.
Honest question: when has the postal service ever lost a package of yours?

I have used the postal service in some fairly uncommon ways, and I have never had a package go missing or not meet their SLA for Priority Mail.

You can send a package to pretty much any town in the country for <$20 and expect it to be there in 3 or 4 days. It’s the next best thing to teleportation, unless you wanted to get it on a Sunday.
> Second of all, is "communist" a slur on HN? Is that supposed to sound scary or something?

No, it's supposed to sound accurate.

> People who self-identify as anti-fascist nowadays have little to do with communism.

From your own link: "This article has multiple issues."

Mine doesn't and accurately describes the group's origins.
Ever seen "Designed by Apple in California. Made in China."?
There are also laws governing the UPS and Fedex. That is not the same as the government being in charge of the delivery of mail.
It would also inflate the ratings of people new to the game later in time.
I'm sorry you had that experience. No student deserves to be treated the way you were treated.

Mathematics is a deep subject. It requires many hours of study over decades to develop. Students who are struggling deserve to have a patient teacher explain things to them in terms they already understand. Not every student has this experience, however. I have tutored a number of my peers in undergrad and they have complained of similar treatment from professors or TAs. I do my best to help them and make sure they really understand the topics they're studying.
The healthcare industry is a mix of players of all sizes. There are pros and cons to what we have. We do have the absolute cutting edge treatments in the world here. However it does seem like what some have access to is paid for by those who don’t receive it.

We need to do better on healthcare. However I think we can all agree, the complexities of healthcare are far from those of the postal service.

ISPs are constantly under threat of new players, see SpaceX. The only way they can stick around is by adding value to their products. When was the last time you couldn’t get on the internet by two or more means? Cell phone and WiFi are almost always.

Publishing in particular though, this one doesn’t hold water. At no point in history has it ever been 1) easier to publish but also 2) easier to gain a audience. Publishing is fully democratized due to permissionless platforms enabled via the internet.
A feature flag doesn't have to impact compiler performance unless enabled.
Disagreement over the role of social media companies in our society = white supremacy. Got it.