skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very first amendment of the U.S.'s constitution outlies that the government cannot censor the expression of speech.

There's a big difference between a private company determining what is hosted on their servers vs. the U.S. government forcing a private company to censor speech.
Unrelated but anybody found the timing uncanny between the Instagram TikTok competition being launched the same week that Trump starts talking about banning it? That and all the heat Facebook/Zuckerberg have been taking to enable political ads (compared to Twitter/Dorsey), plus private dinners with the current administration that is very protectionist? Anyways, it's interesting to see how the US government will handle all this foreign established tech companies to handle their data by messing with the free market.
This is kind of a weird perspective. They're "lies" but they satisfy a basic human need that preserves life?
That requires publishing the internal crates as separate entries in crates.io, if I understand correctly, which I don't want to do (see the final section on crates.io's packaging model).

Ideally I could have a single crates.io package, with a single tarball, containing multiple crates. The internal crates would not be exposed to users, wouldn't have versions, wouldn't be on docs.rs, and so on.
I think that you should have a second think about whether what you're saying makes sense.

To "save" some code means that an application writes it to hard drive. But writing to a hard drive is entirely orthogonal to the operation of a compiler. For example, a compiler should be able to compile code that is never written to hard drive -- exists only in memory. The hard drive is just one possible source of code to be compiled.

I do agree with you though that autoformatting code on save is a fantastic experience. It works beautifully with Rust, and so now I do it (less beautifully) with Python/black. I just think that although it's a great developer experience, it's several steps removed from anything that anyone would want tied to the compiler.
I don’t remember hearing those complaints about SpaceX. Nobody has anything good to say about ULA — it’s a joint venture of defense contractors.

Tesla makes a lot of stupid choices and are an example of survivorship bias in many ways. They make opinionated products and Musk has the instinct to play chicken and attract investors to keep the thing alive.
"deep state" meaning... information you didn't know already?
This article is about Facebook trying not to be a censor, and consequently getting slammed for not acting strongly enough against "Fake News". Changing to lower or higher levels of censorship will just result in different amounts of yelling from one side or the other. The middle of the road is a no-mans-land where you get shelled by both sides of the political spectrum.
yeah except liberal employees are constantly walking out or protesting or screaming/whining instead of working and never reprimanded at google or fb.
Instagram Reels is launching at a "convenient" time.. . . ..
Yeah, that is true, it does.

I do think that's an interesting idea. I'll have to mull on it. Thanks again. I've been thinking of a few things here, very interesting :)
If I could upvote you twice, I would. This is even better than PCPartPicker.com. You really did a good thing with this post.
AFAB
Screw taking 4 months off, I'd take every Monday and Friday off for the 40% pay cut any day.

No one will offer me that job though.
"Data QA" isn't a term I hear much of, but it's a super important piece of migrations. A migration that runs successfully is the equivalent of a program compiling successfully.
Very interesting. I'll have to consider this when I can get the feed discovery process more efficient
I really wish there were better resources out there than a hotline that results in you being thrown in a locked down "padded" room in a hospital where nobody has any business taking care of or treating mental health patients.

This is speaking of the U.S. obviously, for anyone that doesn't know that this is the outcome for way, way too many people trying to get help.

I'm currently on contract at a TINY hospital in the middle of freaking NOWHERE. We had a nine year old boy locked in an empty room for WEEKS. Weeks. Shuffled him around some, then he'd come back for a few more WEEKS.

Health care in this country is absolutely fucking garbage, and mental health care is the slime that gathers in the bottom of the landfill.
I've found that generally you can extract the Gartner magic quadrant charts for particular product categories through a simple Google Image search. This in itself can give you a good "first blush" of the competitive profile of a market.

G2 is another avenue, albeit at a less scientific level. It gives you a leader/loser chart similar to the magic quadrant.

For anything more detailed, you pretty much have to pay up to the usual suspects of market research firms. Maybe you could form a syndicate of other interested parties to contribute to the full cost?
no one is saying it’s illegal. they’re disagreeing with the policy. just like many would cry if fb banned lgbt content even thought it would be legal
What floors is me is that Google is so lax on fixing the Chrome Web Store, when they're literally distributing things that hijack their primary business, search and ads.

How is Chrome Web Store malware not a five-alarm fire that sends Sundar Pichai down into the cubicle farm to find someone's head to stick on a pike? Like, this should be THE issue that Google cares about.

...And malware that hijacks your search engine on Chrome has been all but unpoliced for most of the past decade.
Didn't Pompeo say something this week along the lines of banning China Mobile servicing telephone calls to the U.S.? That means if you carry a cell phone from China to the U.S. you can't get roaming service anymore?

I am surprised Lenovo hasn't been singled out yet. They supply enterprises throughout the U.S. a lot of corporations that hand out laptops to their employees all use Lenovo.
>"too complicated for simple tasks"

How can Excel possibly be too complicated for simple tasks? It is pretty much as straightforward as it goes when it comes to grid-file viewing and editing. You can show it to anyone from a high-schooler to a 60 year old (with minimal experience on computers) colleagues and they will figure it out rather easily, good luck teaching Python/Pandas to the latter.

>"not sophisticated enough for complex tasks"

Not sure how that works either really. Between formulas and VBA macros, people have and are making tools complex enough they have no business to be an Excel, and yet they are even if it isn't the best tool for it. Once you go past that point, Excel isn't even in the conversation nor does it pretend to be able to.

It has issues, and people playing or working with complex (or simple) data would be better served to learn programmatical tools, but until they do Excel will serve them well as long as they stay wary of basic quirks.
> The whole human population is immunologically naive to it.

This study provides direct evidence that the “novel factor” is not as important as was previously thought. Maybe no-one has cleared a virus exactly like this one before (we can’t be sure), but it is looking more and more like many people have pre-existing immune responses that can clear this one.

> Suppression/eradication is the only way forward.

You may end up being right, but to me this is sounding less and less like a scientific conclusion, and more and more like a religious creed.
Misleading title. Reads like the bug was discovered 9 years ago but was not fixed until recently. However, the bug seems to have been fixed pretty fast. Thanks to the Go team!
So what's stopping the grocery store from denying you service because they don't like the poltical campaign bumper sticker on your car? This is not a good precedent.
> first amendment was written when the idea of a corporation as large and powerful as Facebook was unthinkable

The First Amendment was adopted in 1791 [1]. The Dutch East India Company was founded in 1602 [2]. The British East India Company even earlier [3].

Massively powerful global corporations pre-date the United States by a century.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_Unite...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company#/media/Fi...
Might be an opportunity there. Find repeat customers. Find dogs that play well together and aren't hard work. Specialise in very particular areas around parks that suit the operation. Decline dogs that make the process too difficult.

Letterbox drop around existing clients and parks to find more close by. Offer volume discounts for referring neighbouring dogs.

Take said dogs to park and let them run around while you operate your other businesses from your phone.
Research probably funded with government grant.

They patent it, either start a company or collect royalties. MIT takes a cut. Standard MIT practice.
Not true. The Dutch West Indies Corporation, one of the largest in history, existed before and during the ratification of the U.S. constitution.

You are projecting presentism to assume that the 'founding fathers' were ignorant to large corporations.
> Bad execution is punished by going out of business.

That's true for the entrepreneurs, but this was about the investors and it tends not to be true for them. It should be.
Theres an incredible amount of foreign propaganda in western social media anyway. Twitter took down like a million CCP accounts the other month (they made an announcement about it) and thats just the ones they know about. This is a step thats at least in spirit probably makes sense but there are more larger issues. Reddit literally has an API to comment...you think all those policial default subs are real comments? Not a chance. Reddit doesnt care because it drives engagement.
> Malls are going to start becoming ghost towns, especially with no anchor stores like Penny's and the since-departed Sears.

Pretty sure that already happened. The US built waaay too much retail space[1], and still[2] has an overhang in most markets. And yea, Amazon kinda ate the Sears / JCPenny lunch, which has not helped matters.

[1]: https://qz.com/1032723/theres-much-more-empty-retail-space-i...
[2]: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/01/08/business/macys-store-clos...
I mean the command to show the "help message" is actually be tilde then question mark.
Having to pay for storage seems to be a better outcome than total foreign intelligence penetration and public opinion influencing.
It's well beyond Facebook too, it's actually silicon valley culture by and large, big tech has been increasingly capitulating and adopting stances and policies of the Chinese Communist Party over American values and interests. With COVID19, Twitter and Youtube are great examples where espousing any views in disagreement with the World Health Organization will get your content censored and possibly your account banned.
>>But the moves threaten to upend huge swaths of the real estate market and the half-trillion dollar market for commercial mortgage-backed securities.

>And?

And if you're a trader reading Bloomberg news, maybe factor that into your trading decisions, or something. Not every piece of news is a call for government regulation.
IP strategy for biotech startups [video]
maybe we need to put that word back in.
Cooks use a knife straightener on their knives to keep them sharp longer. Well, I'm not a cook, but I do it too. It works really well. I was wondering if people could do this on razors. I think this is equivalent to palm stropping. For a cartridge, I think something with small metal teeth, at the right angle, ran back and forth over the blades, would do a good job of straightening the edges.
Because work and life doesn’t revolve around your schedule?

If you are entrepreneur, it just gets worse unless you are the ~5-10% of the super successful ones
Make any language “typed”, by changing your project structure
I couldn't sleep. Let me know if this is crazy or beautiful.
> what's stopping the grocery store from denying you service because they don't like the poltical campaign bumper sticker on your car?

The principle of free speech restrains them. Nothing does—nor should—stop them.

Civil freedom of speech is difficult to enshrine into law. It balances against other freedoms in a complex, unpredictable way. (For example, the freedom of assembly. If someone says something distasteful, one should be free to not associate with them.) But it has its place as a cultural value.

It is also sensitive to context. A bumper sticker on an employee’s car is quite different from one on a customer’s.
Opening unlocked doors, entering and removing property is generally considered to be theft.

The key here is that these services were not advertising their presence.
>My point is, it's not just a difference of opinion when a group of people promote racist, neo-Nazi views (alt-right), or peddle in conspiracy theories (Qanon).

Opinion: A thought or belief about something or someone [0]

If racism and conspiracy theories aren't thoughts or beliefs about something or someone what do you think they are?

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/opinion
After a week's exposure to FT, I'm back to thank you for this recommendation. It's exactly what I've been looking for: news, not sensationalism. Thank you.
It works smoothly for a smallish diagram like this, but that's as far as it goes. I attempted to create a 100% SVG music score editor and only realized my mistake after having put way too much work into it: working with large scores was sluggish to the point of making the whole thing useless. If you want snappy, I believe the best approach currently is to use a library that emulates the canvas API on WebGL (for example Pixi.js).
The “middle of the road” is actually impossible — there’s no Goldilocks level of censorship. Once your policy becomes less permissive than the legal minimum you are inciting a whole world of criticism.
All Features are Biased?
Seems like your (b) is mistaken, they want them to regulate speech (the "aggressively part let's leave aside) and do so within clear parameters. It seems fairly clear that they are not trusted to regulate the speech but rather expected to and are to be closely monitored for how they do so.. the hearings themselves are evidence of that.
Forget I said anything. HN is infiltrated by propaganda without people even realising.
I’m not so sure. When it comes to manufacturing, attempts at cutting corners seems to just disrupt startups themselves.

Only in business models the break things philosophy seems to work. idk though
If I missed one paycheck I'd be hosed, so this isn't surprising.
That's what it says in the docs
Explanation of CFIUS and why and how Trump can use it: https://www.lawfareblog.com/tiktok-and-law-primer-case-you-n...
Did you read the story? The details seem pretty damning to me.

> I’m sure Facebook isn’t perfect, but I know enough good people who work there to know they’re not all out to “get” us.

Yeah, I don't think you read the article. That's what's happening: a bunch of employees are blowing the whistle on what seems to be executive abuse of the fact check program.
What evil things?
Apple's App Store Polices Mean Xbox Game Streaming Not Allowed
Like...China?
Not sure what that statement has to do with anything, but good point I guess?
But America does give unemployment allowance to the laid off, so no need to worry?
>This smells like sour apples from an employee who focused more on their plans to take down their employer than their actual job.

do you work at FB? how can you smell anything? are you sure you're not projecting?
> The very first amendment of the U.S.'s constitution outlies that the government cannot censor the expression of speech.

Turns out, they don't need to. Due to the fact that most people do not exercise any real control over the devices they use to read most expression, all they have to do is be able to regulate trade between app publishers and the {App,Play} Store.

This is how the US government is presently engaging in censorship of apps published by ByteDance (and soon Tencent). They can prohibit Apple/Google from transacting with the publisher, and because Apple/Google control the phones of the end users, the end users are effectively prohibited from reading the content published by that publisher.

It's an end run around the constitution.
Really? Can you name the company? I had some "is this a good idea for a start up" conversations with someone like 5 years ago who had a similar idea but didn't pursue it and I'd love to be able to point to a company that was actually doing it.
I came here to post essentially this exact comment. Give me Django with only routing, middleware, the admin panel, and the ORM and I'd be happy. The time I've saved because of these things so I'm shipping code and not writing SQL by hand is astounding. I've made the decision to use Python and Django over other languages and frameworks solely because of the ORM.

I honestly can't think of a single other piece of software that has actively saved me as much time.
The grocery store reserves the right to refuse service to whomever they want, so long as they are not a protected class.

Are you saying you want to take that freedom away from private businesses?
I'm doing 4 10 hour days a week and can swap my day off for whatever day when I want. That's almost what you said, but without a pay cut lol.
If you think the Dutch West Indies Corporation ever had even a patch on the cultural influence that Facebook has though the behaviour of it’s algorithm, you’re being utterly delusional.
That employee argued that people, such as people like me, were inherently less competent than others due to aspects of their gestation. Frankly I wouldn’t want to work with someone with such an attitude, and based on his writing vice versa.

If he actually cannot get a job due to his stated opinions, well, frankly I’m not surprised. Why would you hire someone who publically says up front he scorns many of his potential coworkers?
I suspect cartridge and safety razor blades are too hard (e.g. martensitic or carbide; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_blade_steel) and too sharp for stropping. That's probably why they're more prone to chip rather than deform. A good straight razor is made from a softer carbon steel that, while harder than most stainless steels, isn't quite so brittle. And the edge isn't as 'razor sharp' as safety and cartridge blades, but more rounded.

I shave with a straight razor, but I'm lazy and use a Feather with disposable blades. Before that I used aluminum hair shaper blades, like what the barber uses on the back of your neck (very sharp and thin, but an aluminum alloy). Such blades are far sharper than a real straight razor and cause razor burn more easily. I always sort of suspected as much. I tried using a traditional straight razor several times, but I couldn't get used to it. The feel is just too different. Several years ago I popped into a barbershop where the owner did a lot of traditional straight razor work (very rare these days), and he confirmed everything--a traditional straight razor has a softer, rounder edge--and disposable blades, like my Feather blades, are far too sharp in his opinion.

For similar reasons, thinner, harder blades are more likely to nick you because the microscopic chips tear into your skin more easily. By contrast, as a traditional straight razor gets dull it stops working as well but doesn't become more dangerous.

Same thing applies to chef knives. You can use a "steel" on Western knives because the metal is traditionally softer and has a blunter profile and edge. (If it's a cheap stainless pressed steel, not uncommon in typical commercial kitchens--neighborhood joint, not Michelin--you can literally feel the edge rolled over on a dull knife, which steeling rolls back.) A traditional Japanese knife is more like a straight razor blade--harder steel, thinner profile, sharper edge which you maintain with a strop and waterstone--but still softer and blunter than manufactured razor blades. A cleaver, Western or Asian, is supposed to be very hard (often a cheap but very high carbon steel) but also very blunt. You can't steel or strop it; when it gets too dull you have to grind it or, if you have time to kill, resharpen with a stone. (Confirmed with a Chinese butcher years ago.)
There's 2 things here to keep in mind to go down your train of logic:

1) The company is actually doing evil things

2) The employee is aware of the purported evil things the company is doing, and agrees with that claim

Now we can debate all we want how evil Facebook is or not, but how many employees do you think check off box 2?
No way. Rural areas are over romanticized. I never understood rural life or even suburban.
another lazy "developer" who can't keep up with the newest trends. Real developers are working 365 days a year, around the clock, and don't waste time with girlfriends etc... You will never be one of them.
Can confirm that I'm much more likely to spend money on someone's interesting creative story than on literally any SaaS
I was expecting this to be about object literal setters (and getters):

const language = {
set current(name) {
this.log.push(name);
},
log: []
};

Supported by browsers for fifteen years now.
Oh wow, that's interesting.

Definitely would go with my modified surge protector plan then.
Because...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24077391
The East India Trading Company preceded the writing of the First Amendment by some distance, and that company for some period accounted for fully 1/2 of all global trade.

Giant corporate entities with incentives intertwined and power competing with established governments have been a thing long before Facebook rose to prominence and long before the US Constitution was ratified.
I have some relatives like that: the government is preventing us from XXX. Yet I can happily do xxx if I wish...

Eventually I just stopped talking with them as that’s all they could talk about.
Wow this is huge if Tencent is out of the game in the US. What happens to their stakes in companies like Reddit and Riot Games?
My impression (albeit, based partly upon my poor understanding of the world as a child) is that there used to be more general US clarity about the goodness/badness of propaganda, censorship, the press, etc.

I've heard that part of that clarity was because Cold War holding the US in contrast to the Soviets was itself a bit of perception management or PR. I could speculate on other factors, but I'm sure some historians and social scientists understand it vastly better.

Anecdotally, I do remember a time when, say, TV news programs would at least set some good examples of reasoning, not lower themselves closer to the transparently bad Fox News or talk radio behavior, which seemed to be to be even more ridiculous than what we'd been told the Soviets did. (Of course, the US has a history of abuse by those who control presses, but the institution still seemed to have merit.)

And I don't recall hearing of anything, even a decade ago, like apparently large numbers of people acting against their own other interests, solely for the adversarial sports team fan idea of "owning the libs". And also some inexplicably self-defeating behavior from elements of "the other side" (though I don't think that notion of "sides" is accurate or complete.)

I've been wondering whether the US populace used to be better at critical thinking. It's felt that way, but maybe the examples I'm aware of aren't representative.

Where we are now, talking about dotcoms being asked to gatekeep speech, I have only an ordinary citizens' understanding of many of policy issues, but I do have an experienced technologist's understanding that some of these dotcoms haven't been pinnacles of trustworthiness, integrity, etc. And the civic-minded American me wouldn't trust any of those dotcoms very far at all, with something that seems so fundamentally important to what I've grown up believing are bedrock principles of the US.