skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will suffer from a backfire effect where the result is you just get more technically savvy radicals. Google's decision here exacerbates polarization. However, I actually welcome it because I would totally join a fediverse with a higher bar to entry, and where ideas had a longer period and participants were committed to building alternatives. It's the real punk. Everyone else can entertain and outrage themselves to death on public platforms where they compete for the reflected approval of a hive mind.

I realize the sort of people who make decisions like this think they are doing this to "win," as the only thing on anyone's mind right now is influencing November, and making sure it "never happens again," but Googlers and tech people like this are creating a self-isolating minority of themselves.

Exiting what has become the Karen-net is probably one of the most interesting problems to solve right now.
Spam is made illegal in America via the CAN-SPAM act.
Colorado company with CEO in New Hampshire.
The thing is, any service that offers a "censorship-free" alternative will instantly attract mostly by those whose content is garbage for everyone else: usually it's pedophiles until the operators get a couple not-so-nice letters or a police raid and then at least introduce modest moderation, and then come Nazis, antisemites and conspiracy myth peddlers.

And said hate peddlers then complain that they don't have the reach they enjoyed on Twitter, Youtube and Facebook... well d'oh. Turns out one who is not a Nazi, a journalist reporting about them, or an antifa activist collecting information wants to spend their free time on a platform dominated by Nazis.
This is a very Donald Norman idea.

With examples given like curb cuts for wheelchairs helping everyone, and OXO brand kitchen utensils meant for impaired hands just being better for everyone.

Better is better.
"Content provider" usually refers to people making that content (e.g. individual users of YouTube or Facebook). Maybe "platform" or "service provider" is more appropriate?
Isn't that why we have safe harbor laws to encourage platforms to self regulate and collaborate with law enforcement in exchange for not being sued for those violations ?

Without those provisions no website could allow user created content, as they would instantly be sued to oblivion.

(Standard disclaimer of working for Google)
In other words, the following paragraph from Forbes is fake news:

> The researchers, who performed MRI scan of their hearts an average of 2 months after they first were diagnosed with Covid-19, uncovered some concerning findings: 78% of patients had ongoing heart abnormalities and 60 percent had myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle. Even more concerning was that the extent of myocarditis was not related to the severity of the initial illness or overall course of the illness.

This is so important. I'm so sick of people on either "side" faking data to prove their presuppositions on this.
cheers mate!
It is pretty clear from this report that Epstein did not in fact kill himself.
Sounds like you’ve not had Linux on a laptop for a while, it’s no where near as bad as you describe.

I run NIxOs on a Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 2.

I really love it and it “sparks joy” for me too. Especially because I understand how it’s lit together and sort of “built it” and contribute to the Platform. Very satisfying.
I'm deeply bummed about this.
Yep, this is correct! I'll update website pricing to make this more clear.
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Well, I can tell you what's bugging me personally about this. There's a growing divide in our society between the "equal opportunity" and "equal outcome" camps. And while the "equal opportunity" people mostly have the "just let me grill" attitude, "equal outcomers" are pushing increasingly harder, while doing their best to silence any opposing voices. It's now getting to a point where raising one's kids to be proud of their achievements, seek self-improvement, and pick friends based on shared values, is considered sinful and is being pushed back against.

As a person who was born in a country that tried implementing equal outcomes for 70 years, and ended up with extreme corruption, poverty and social distrust, I don't want to see another round of this happen here. So I am hoping that if enough reasonable people acknowledge the problem, the society will reach some sort of a compromise before the lives of several generations are completely wasted, like they were in the USSR. And having platforms where this sort of discussion is not considered "cancerous" is a very important step IMHO.
As someone who predominantly self-identifies as progressive, on the rare occasion that I've found myself in a minority position I have been amazed at how vicious the condemnation and ridicule is. It has helped temper my own reaction when talking with other people who don't share my ideals.
Apple: In the headlines daily, called abusive monopoly.

Google: Hold my beer.
I have the same but it seems to be one specific person in Canada (I'm in the UK). I started getting emails about college prospectuses and applications, then I started getting them about library fines. I tried to email the library and inform them that they had the wrong email address and got nothing back. The latest has been emails from a car dealership trying to confirm some options for a new car.

I can't believe this person is missing so many emails that are presumably quite important to them. I can only assume they have the same first name as me but spelt differently and that other people are typing their address in wrong to various systems.

These days I just ignore every email like that, mostly for fear that one day I'll end up stuck with someone trying to hold me responsible for something.
hate speech is a crime in many european countries too[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_by_country
Right but I guess my point is that re-exploring and re-contextualizing those ideas for a modern audience has a place in carrying the torch. Cyberpunk 2077 gave me strong Akira vibes from the character aesthetics and the scenery is what I imagine the sprawl would look like. This can be fine as long as the story can carry it's own points and isn't just regurgitation as you put it. This however, remains to be seen.

So far I think Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Detroit Become human do the best job of re-contextualizing and extending cyberpunk ideas for a modern audience along with Ghost in the Shell SAC and 2nd Gig as a little earlier on works.

I think if you differ too far from the original ideas you're not in Cyberpunk anymore and now you've entered into a new genre. Perhaps that is appropriate, just not if you're trying to make a Cyberpunk work imo because necessarily they must share some core ideas from the original works to remain in the genre. That said this makes it a very fine line to walk between a work that makes points of its own drawing from the original works and derivative crap.
Any disc mirroring software should work. I would probably try using dd and fdisk, but if you want a graphical option clonezilla[0] might be what you want.

[0]: https://clonezilla.org/
Scrypt isn't an option on memory constrained devices.
Another inflammatory strawman comment, not this again...
Seems the opposite to me: most of the Fediverse is web accessible, where Google Search can crawl it. Google's nemesis are closed platforms owned by other companies (like Facebook).
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I think your question is very-very related to your development language.

- 1) C++ : I think many, if not most 3D graphic libraries are based on C++ language. I am no specialist here.google it.

- 2) java : I use java3D but I believe there are now other more active 3D apis .Like JMonkey.

- 3) javascript/typeScipt : If you use the web as your target, I think the best-and-easiest 3D API is clearly BabylonJs. I use it and I think it is super easy to begin wih.

Thierry, https://free-visit.net
I love that aphorism. Unintended consequences. We should teach unintended consequences in grade school, high school, and have advanced degrees in it. How to see them before they explode, how to mediate them, and how to fix them once they're running at full steam.

Lately I've been imagining it along with the slowly boiling frog story and the crab-mentality too. As in some people can't tell we're headed to hell because it's coming so slowly, and some people will actively stop others from escaping hell or trying to fix the situation.
I bet JavaScript was thrown in the mix, can’t quite see how this was made without it, I just might be wrong though.
> RAII is not precluded by explicitness, you could require all values that require cleanup to be syntactically marked in some way and it would still be RAII.

I think this one is TBD.

> defer also cannot handle resources whose lifetimes do not correspond to nested scopes (eg. the elements of an ArrayList) like RAII or a GC can.

Yep, defer won't work if there is no known lifetime scope, but I think this one is actually a good tradeoff to make in a low-level language. Don't get me wrong -- I love tracing GCs and think that they're the right choice for the vast majority of application software, plus there have been great strides made in GC capabilities in the past few years, but in the domains where low-level languages are appropriate there is a different set of constraints. Low-level programming is not like high-level programming, and IMO it's wrong to even try to make them look alike.
I'm not a fan of this 'dumb' cities framing, but otherwise a great piece. I love the 'rewilding' concept, drawing on indigenous systems and wisdom to design with nature.
Facebook isn't a big enough player to get a free pass. Apple know they can bully Facebook and Facebook will back down (they have done this).

Here's a few examples of Apple selectively enforcing their rules.

Apple agreed to charge Amazon a 15 percent fee instead of the standard 30 for subscriptions https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/30/21348108/apple-amazon-pri...

Apple allows WeChat include Mini Programs. These are 3rd party web pages the user can install that are tightly integrated with WeChat features. They're basically apps that run within WeChat. In my opinion this violates the app store premise BUT WeChat is so crucial to Chinese users Apple can't pull the app. So they bent and rewrote the rules to allow it.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1137321.shtml

But, when Facebook tried this with Facebook Gaming, which does something really similar to WeChat Mini Programs, they got banned by Apple. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/technology/apple-ios-face...

Apple allows Chinese customers to make app store purchases using WeChat Pay or Ali(baba) pay. Meanwhile in the US, it's impossible to pay using the competing Facebook pay / Google pay. https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-app-stores-chinese-custom...

There's also the Hey fiasco https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23542937
and the Wordpress fiasco https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24238856 . Meanwhile, Gmail and Netflix are unaffected.
>under some interpretation

This would imply there are interpretations where it isn't allowed even in the cases of the worst most extreme content. Does any organization/group advocate such an interpretation? As far as I'm aware all groups either support an interpretation that allows the government to censor some speech or supports considering some speech as not counting as speech so it can be censored without censoring speech (using sophistry to hide censorship of speech).
Typical workflow with word documents required mutiple people reviewing, commenting,and merging or rejecting the comments. Microsoft Word's change tracking,comment, and review features are adequate for most people.
They don't "have more freedom in this area": they're not bound by it at all. They can ban whatever they want from their own platforms.
China is not communist, Maxwell
1. And any accident of a properly-used/maintained vehicle will be viewed as some company's fault because of design/software flaw.

2. There will doubtless be accidents that will be quite different from the sorts of accidents humans have. And those will be viewed as proof that these cars aren't safe.
The entire 787 project plan smelled like union busting to me. I was very surprised they didn’t strike over it.

But the company also has regrets about how the project was run and vowed not to do that again. I doubt that applies to the [SC] part of the equation, though.
The book "Void Star" is an interesting one. It has a William Gibson style plot very similar to Neuromancer but instead of 1980s aesthetic choices, it has 2017 aesthetic choices.

So instead of ninjas you get MMA jiu jitsu guys, US tech mega corporations are dominant rather than Japan, aftereffects of climate change rather than nuclear disasters, cartels rather than Yakuza, and so on. It's like 2017 future is extrapolated out instead of 1984 future.

But the plot is extremely Gibson-esque: a woman hired as a consultant on a strange project for a mysterious ultra-wealthy client, rogue AIs, interactions between mega corporations and the criminal underworld.

So if you take cyberpunk to mean just the synthesizers and neon and chrome aesthetic, then it is getting sort of tiresome. But you can update all that stuff to something slightly fresher and still tell the same kind of stories and it works.
This would be better if there was VS Code integration with their notebook system.

Personally, I will never code in a web browser and don't understand how people can do so with large code bases.
Polite reminder that the original Cyberpunk RPG took place in 2013.
>and start requesting data on lawmakers

You think that they won't have a carve out for themselves? Privacy for me, but not for thee.
The SSNs may be new, but the photographs are not.

When I worked in television news, we would pull people's drivers' license photos all the time. In the states where I worked, they were considered public documents.
For the vast majority of developers, bcrypt, scrypt, argon and PBKDF2 provide functionally equivalent security.

It's not generally productive to nitpick between secure password hashing/key derivation functions. Unless you specifically know you can't use one of these in particular, you should just pick whichever one has a safe implementation in a secure cryptographic library that you can use.

Basically, just don't use MD5, SHA1, SHA2, SHA3 (including Keccak and the other contenders) or some non-cryptographic hash function.
Really interesting!
But why is the scene so dark? Gave up sooner than I'd like because had to squint really hard on the phone screen.
Yup, vanilla JS. Only the rendering is html/css. State, navigation etc, is all js.
This will work for the people reading this here or who would otherwise already do this. I think decentralization is something we should aspire to promote more broadly than within the community using alternative app repositories.
> To be fully accurate, this is absolutely censorship, but it's not a violation of anyone's First Amendment rights. People often conflate the two.

You're technically right, but in practice it really doesn't matter that the "government" can't censor you when the modern "public square" is held almost entirely by private companies. The government doesn't really hold any power in shaping modern public discourse anymore, tech companies do! Now the fact that said private company's ideals line up closely with one certain political party is just a coincidence, I'm sure.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dl-uzz5VsAEA2Go?format=jpg
Just a theory:

Learning something new requires more effort, because you have to unlearn other things. But it's not even clear what needs to be unlearned. So we founder.

Internally, we feel like we stopped learning. But I'm certain that if you were airdropped into a new domain, you'd be a voracious learner.
What's this 'postcard' thing you speak of? I've heard a rumor people used to have slices of dead trees lugged around the world. But the latency would be enormous!!
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Honestly such a brazen step might be good in the long run. People are all to happy to be boiled frogs, and an overreach like that might jolt some off their ecosystem.
Oh... if you are referring to the second level (sewers) that's actually on purpose, i have set max draw distance (geometry culling) to improve performance on mobile. It is configurable.
Don't make the mistake of thinking we shouldn't demand that bureaucratic systems follow logical rules just because they're run by human beings.
This sounds like a different variant of the "rampant layering violation" argument that was used against ZFS. It is sometimes healthy to challenge old assumptions. If QUIC turns out better than what we have in every respect that matters "for the end user", as this article is about, what would be the harm?
I have to say I generally agree with you that when someone points out a contradiction in some common political stance, the reverse of that contradiction exists in the opposite stance. It seems pretty common, though it generally results from distilling a more complex view into a simplified statement (which may edge into the territory of creating men of straw).
Google regardless of it's size is still private, and should be allowed to host who it wants or doesn't, same as you should be forced to host visitors you dont want.

Free speech is that they shouldn't be a law by a government to punish expression of ideas or opinions.

citizens or companies should be allowed to host and not host whoever they want.
> There has been nothing indicating that covid is unique in this regard.

I disagree, for two reasons:

1) Covid seems to be stronger and deadlier than any other influenza

2) Covid is spreading in the world IN ADDITION to any other influenza or cold or disease that we already had.

Therefore, there's a case to be made for many health care systems in hard-hit countries to be under heavy stress for several years to come.
I built this using entirely no code - mainly bubble. My key learnings:

Bubble is incredibly easy to learn and great to make simple common processes
More difficult when it comes to more complex calculations
Most time consuming part is making pages responsive and well laid out for different screen sizes

Happy to answer any questions about my experience learning bubble
I think there's a reasonable case for nationalizing Boeing to remove the profit motive.

I'm not saying it's the only play, but Boeing is a strategic interest to the nation (both economically and strategically), it's already receiving massive subsidies, and huge paychecks are being cut to executive leadership.

It might be worth it to continue to manufacture these planes in the US, with an emphasis on safety and providing good jobs, even if that meant it wasn't strictly profitable to do so. If we're giving them billions in tax cuts anyways, which they then use to layoff workers and move plants, maybe we should cut out the song and dance.
Super impressive! I'd love to see a write up on how it was done. Do you think this is more performant that webgl?
Comparing "allowing/disallowing the use of a tool" to spread YOUR message, to the "demanding that an artist/artisan create a message of YOUR liking" is very disingenuous. To be fair, I'm a libertarian and in a perfect world, you can do whatever and allow whoever you want to use/not use YOUR business. But this analogy of the gay wedding cake is simply not a good one.
But the laws can be structured to deal with those issues, much as they are today.
> Of course, everyone agrees that hate speech is bad

That sounds like an unjustified premise.

_Note to the casual downvoter not critically examining my argument: I am not saying that I personally do not think hate speech is bad._
The trick is to glue in some microSD cards. Trades bandwidth for latency.
There are plenty of web browsers on the Play Store that are not Chrome.
Making the case for fewer assertions in tests
There are legitimate cases for approved release to private citizens. For example, the standard for public health cancer research is getting records from state registries.

Of course, in those situations, the requirement is that no personal identifiers will be leaked, and it's for the public good.
Sure, I've sent you an email :-)
Under appreciated is that macOS is largely a touch-based system now with the magic trackpads. If you configure three-finger drag in accessibility settings you never have to click. Granted it’s not a touch screen, but in my view it’s a touch- and gesture-based system. Using a non-Apple trackpad feels like going back in time and using touch screen devices with keyboards (eg Win 10 laptops) is incredibly annoying.
> The issue with deeper and deeper ad blocking technology is that you're going to end up putting more and more trust into your ad blocker.

To be honest, I trust my ad blocker more than I trust Apple.

This is not a joke. Remember that Apple takes literally billions of dollars per year in payoff to make Google the default search engine in Safari. Apple's interests are not exactly aligned with mine.
I'm not on Googles side here, but... As nice as your sentiment is, there are plenty of real problems which have to be addressed.

Who defines, and what are the definitions of "Large" and "General Purpose" in this context?

Am I allowed to moderate content as fits with my ToS at X number of users, but at X+1 users I become forced to publish all content which is "not otherwise illegal"?

In regards to what is "not otherwise illegal", which laws from which country apply?

How does one combat things such as excessive spam? If I am forced to allow any content which is "otherwise not illegal", and my service becomes literally unusable because of someone posting 10,000 cat pictures per second (cats aren't illegal, I'm forced to distribute the cats), what is my recourse? Am I still allowed to rate limit? Because that, boiled down, is censoring a users ability to post "otherwise not illegal" content.
Does the person getting the blood have to pay for it?
That is a shamefully bad library. There's a million ways this is broken but the worst by far is that it lowercases the local part. Case MUST be preserved in the local part.
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An electricity company is a utility however. They're a natural monopoly in a way that a "website" can't be

If [large social media platform] doesn't want that kind of content, it's not unreasonable to simply make one to soak up that "ignored" market segment. Reddit can't shut you down for hosting your own internet forum for instance
They banned the Gab _application_. They didn't ban all microblogging applications that can access Gab. Though, Tusky in particular does. Not all do.
Ask HN: How does your startup estimate long-term releases/roadmap using agile?
My co-founder and I are split on this issue and wanted feedback.

I'm a big fan of agile development, using Kanban and weekly sprints to prioritize software development.

Basically keeping everything in a backlog and using lean startup / customer development approaches to re-prioritize every week.

The idea being that you have NO idea what your customers want and to use each week to prioritize what to implement.

My co-founder brings up a legitimate point that we need to communicate with investors our long term roadmap and get comfortable with making roadmap time estimates.

My concern is that the longer the time estimate, the less certain we are that an important feature will actually need to be implemented as our priorities will change.

If I spend a bunch of time estimating the release then we're going to be spinning our wheels.

Yet, we can't NOT do long term predictions I think.

I'm also not certain how Facebook and Google handle roadmaps applies to startups. They're trying to solve a completely different problem. A startup has to find initial product market fit whereas Facebook/Google/etc already have it nailed.

Would love to hear what you guys think (especially from fellow entrepreneurs).