skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oof. That's a good source.

Section 5c is particularly problematic. It disallows shadow-bans if I'm reading correctly.

Section f9 is...suspicious.

Section d4 seems painful for small providers. You lose good samaritan status if there isn't a good way to contact you.

Section c2A is the important one. It basically means that a site cannot remove content unless it is objectively obscene or extreme. Section g5A suggests that you can have a ToS that explains your moderation decisions. But c2A seems to say that you aren't a good faith actor unless you use the objectively reasonable moderations standards defined by the law.

It's not clear that this would even have an effect since clearly you can moderate based on your ToS. A sports site can remove non-sports content even if it isn't obscene.

It seems like the goal would be to say that content moderators are biased in some way and drop section 230 protection based on that pretext, but that'd require a court to find that the moderation is being done inconsistently, and being done inconsistently intentionally. I have a feeling there'll be difficultly proving that.
This is a really interesting tangent to go off on. I wonder if the reason for this is that Japan and Korea never really had a frontier the way the US did. I think the idea of a wide open wilderness, yours if you can tame it, contributes to a desire and expectation of a giant living space, all to yourself.

I don't know about Korea, but in Japan, most of society grew up around castle towns, and with the exception of post-war suburban development, those towns are still the same towns they have today, so population is distributed roughly the same way as in medieval times.
Add in a couple of VP's and the gap will lessen.

The point is not so much that the CEO's pay directly matches the salaries of the sacked employees, more that the CEO is clearly focused on their personal goals, rather than the organisational goals.

CEO's who reduce their salary in order to keep more staff on in lean times are servants of their organisation. CEO's who sack staff to save money so they can increase their own salary see the organisation as their servant.

It's not a crime to be greedy, but being greedy is a clear signal of your values and goals.
I don't care for most of it except this:

>>
Carve-Out for Actors Who Purposefully Blind Themselves and Law Enforcement to Illicit Material

>>...it makes little sense to apply “Good Samaritan”
immunity to a provider that intentionally designs or operates its services in a way that impairs its
ability to identify criminal activity occurring on (or through) its services, or to produce relevant
information to government authorities lawfully seeking to enforce criminal laws. A Good Samaritan is
not someone who buries his or her head in the sand, or, worse, blinds others who want to help.

>>One important way to confront the grave and worsening problem of illicit and unlawful
material on the internet is to ensure that providers do not design or operate their systems in any
manner that results in an inability to identify or access most (if not all) unlawful content. Such
designs and operation put our society at risk by: (1) severely eroding a company’s ability to detect and
respond to illegal content and activity; (2) preventing or seriously inhibiting the timely identification of
offenders, as well as the identification and rescue of victims; (3) impeding law enforcement’s ability to
investigate and prosecute serious crimes; (4) and depriving victims of the evidence necessary to bring
private civil cases directly against perpetrators.

>>We propose making clear that, in order to enjoy the broad immunity of Section 230, an
internet platform must respect public safety by ensuring its ability to identify unlawful content or
activity occurring on its services. Further, the provider must maintain the ability to assist government
authorities to obtain content (i.e., evidence) in a comprehensible, readable, and usable format
pursuant to court authorization (or any other lawful basis).

Is this the end of online privacy as we know it?

From here: https://www.justice.gov/file/1286331/download
There's also a summary maintained at Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_annual_reformulatio...

although it's presumably taken from the same sources you suggest.
I'm pretty sure those running Mozilla are convinced it has no future and are focused in extracting the most amount of money possible before it sinks ( or rots ) and jump ship.
I was thinking the car would contain the set of acceptable keys. If you get a new phone, the car accepts the new phone's key. If you loose that phone, you set the car to stop accepting that key.

Am I grossly misunderstanding something?
When you watch Ramani's videos, you can see everyone around her shrink in fear of getting the "narcissist" label themselves, and offer her deference. It doesn't take a genius to see why she'd invest in a professional identity that lets her do this.

In the comments, you can also see that many people identify with her and take pleasure from watching these displays.

Meditating on the figure of the Narcissist makes us see the Narcissist in others (so better to resist them), makes us pity the Narcissist (the better to show them contempt, and the better to elevate ourselves), and simultaneously makes us envy the Narcissist's self-seeking (to make us more self-interested ourselves). It turns us partly into Them. So even as an evil god, I am not sure the Narcissist belongs in our pantheon. Best if he is at most a bit player.
Haven't there been other implants before? I just know that they weren't that successful yet but people were at least able to see some patterns, if I remember correctly.
Exactly this. An example is ipv6. ipv6 was created in the 1990's and was expected to replace ipv4 by the early 2000's. It's 2020 and deployment is about 33%, most of that being mobile devices. People move slow unless something forces them to change.
That info should be synced to the car, not the phone. So requiring periodic connectivity from the phone is a bug, not a feature.
Friend, they are using data and research to improve their UI.
Thinking that "other products didnt do it well so you shouldn't try" is extremely unproductive.

It's also not productive to argue for a vastly more difficult and different area, like their data model, during a topic of refreshing UI..
How did you feel about A Machine for Pigs? I felt the real story there was the way the father went crazy, and the role the church had, two really believable plot points. Not really the man/beast moster and so on which was less believable.

I do agree though, for what it's worth they have two projects in development right now so maybe one of them is more scifi.
RFC 8876: Non-interactive Emergency Calls
Thanks a lot for the PSA, and appreciate all your roles.
This has helped me, I've also noticed it calms you down and you get a fresh focus, which is what's desperately needed in those times of panic.
+70k/year
Elektrolysis isn't very efficient, neither are fuel cells, when you compare it to batteries. On top of that you have the energy usage for transporting and most of all compressing the hydrogen for storage.
This reminded me of a shadow casting engine for the Pico-8 (https://medium.com/hackernoon/pico-8-lighting-part-1-thin-da...).

Despite the limitations of the "console" the result is quite impressive:
https://miro.medium.com/max/384/1*xgIPZgLgcJGBnRhFeJIJLQ.gif
It must be a pretty frequent CA refresh or a must-be-online OCSP server situation for a short outage to cause that much havoc.
Opinion: Google Code In Is Flawed
Imo, Google Code In is flawed because the tasks (most of them) it gives to students are generic in nature and are along the line of - "Write a program that stars all the repositories of this organization" or something else that for the most part instead of teaching the actual work environment skills promote the idea of reinventing the wheel for stuff that's highly abstract in nature already.
I'd have understood if their motive was to teach students science from the basics. Instead, most organizations have bizarre tasks that teach literally nothing and rather take away the time for some lousy merchandise. Mozilla's programs, MLH Fellowship and other independent projects for students are better than this crap.
If you lose your car keys, does that mean you can’t drive home?

The phone and keycard are keys. If you lose them, you lose access to the car.
I like the mobile version of Wikipedia, I find it more legible even on the desktop.

Comparison:

New design: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Accueil_princ...

Mobile version: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Accueil_princ...
The sound design in SOMA was incredible. They sold that scene so well I felt exhausted after it.
> it's a huge leap forward for car UX

Could you give any examples?

For comparison, I have a Kia Optima SXL, and I find the fit and finish to be beyond any Tesla that I have ridden in. Kia has a strange reputation (despite now being one of the best automakers), and even with this reputation, the car gets many complements and comments. I am also a big fan of buttons, and I simply find having buttons where I know where they're at and how they feel are far superior to navigating a touchscreen. Is the touchscreen cool? Yes, I suppose. Is it better UX or functionality? No, in my opinion. At no point have I ever wished to take all the functionality my car has and have it jammed into a single large touchscreen in the middle of the dash.

I have also ridden in multiple Chinese brands like NIO, BYD, and other more affordable brands. The NIO, upon initial impression, immediately outclassed the Teslas that I have ridden in (Model S and X) in terms of design, especially on the inside. The BYD and others that you find the DiDi drivers driving are all very impressive and affordable such that they easily compete with Tesla. When I was in China, it was "wait, what car is this?!" day after day. We must have saw half a dozen fully electric car models.
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>Iraq was[...]a rare mistake of the American foreign policy

Look, I like the US, a lot, but let's not lie to ourselves here.
That's a claim, yes. The government is [implicitly] claiming that tech companies are being inconsistent. To fix this, the government is stepping in and regulating speech. A perfect solution.
Yes, the absence livable wage non-tech jobs in California is a problem. I don’t understand what isn’t fair in highlighting the issues that are disappointing about the California government. There are alternatives beyond the two party system, but if we don’t even have the ability to recognize our issues, we’ll never get anything better.
There’s a simple trick you can use if you want to generate the distance field for text or simple shapes in the browser. The way you do it is by repeatedly drawing the text with strokeText, varying the stroke width and the stroke color.

For example, you fill the background with 100% white, and then draw a 10px stroke at 90% gray, 9px at 80%, 8px at 70%, etc. This is, most importantly, an extremely fast way to generate a distance field for text from JavaScript in the browser.

I mention this because the mystery of the getDistance() function is often one of the tricky parts of demos like these.
I’m not sure I understand the vscode connection. This is just Azure + Github from what I can see. The thing I don’t really follow is how exactly the client is handled here. Is there something special being done to generate the static content from the Client and or could you generate the same assets by doing dotnet build or dotnet publish?
I think 90% failure rate at every stage is honest. I mean even stage 1 I am sure has an ever-increasing number of people that "want to learn to code" or go through an online bootcamp, watch a youtube series on javascript, etc. and never code professionally a day in their lives.
Out with JAMstack and in with CSAMstack?
It is not mentioned often but

distance to Venus = 25,000,000 mi
distance to Mars = 34,000,000 mi
Google money is only guaranteed in so far as Firefox keeps its market share. Do you think Google will still be sending them money once their market share is close to 0%? Keeping Google money flowing should be balanced with growing their market share, if only to keep Google money from flowing. Unfortunately, keeping Google happy is orthogonal to growing their market share as what most Firefox users want is basically Brave with more freedom to install extensions. They're getting neither of these right now.

Some people say that Google will keep sending them money no matter what as a defense against monopoly accusations but it is doubtful this would stop the billion fines from EU and others, it hasn't in the past.
The best candidate for terraform on Earth is probably the Sahara but there are multiple wars going on there right now.
All of their battery chemistry, technology, and capacity is from Panasonic in one way or another.

The battery cell technology in current batteries is all Panasonic (i.e., the chemistry, cell container, etc.), but the battery assemblage is all Tesla. That's the stuff related to assembling the cells together into a battery, adding voltage controls, cooling assemblies, etc.

As a point of comparison: Porsche's Taycan also uses Panasonic EVs, and has even an even better lap-racing performance than any Tesla, because Porsche's battery assemblage includes extra cooling assemblies that allow the car to be used for extended periods of high performance. While a Tesla can do full speed for 1 lap, a Taycan can do full speed until the battery dies.
Wow, that seems to be written with Apple (at least) in mind, and is terrifying.

I want operators to intentionally design and operate their services in way that impairs their ability to identify any activity, because any exceptions are exploits. Just saying "criminal activity" doesn't make it not spying on Americans.
It astonishes me how far behind aviation is behind surface transport when it comes to sustainable fuels. They still use leaded gas!

It seems you would try methane before you try hydrogen:

https://energynews.us/2013/08/26/midwest/could-natural-gas-f...

Petroleum-based liquid fuels contain mixed entity hydrocarbons that match a specification; if you have the perfect feedstock and markets for the fractions you don't use this is cheap. Worst-case you have to synthesize them with Fischer-Tropsch chemistry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...

which is such a PITA (normally a chem E would be delighted that you can use iron as a catalyst, but it works so poorly that a desperate search of the other 91 elements found just 2 that sorta-kinda work)

The issue there is you are sticking C's onto the end of a chain and you have to deal with a network of reactions that produce products you couldn't care less for, such as petroleum jelly that gums up your catalyst, sticks up your downrisers, etc.

Sustainable motor fuels tend to be single entities such as 1-butanol, dimethyl ether, etc. You might need to blend something in for low temperature starting, but it's possible for a single entity fuel to be synthesized with decent yield.

General av is seen as a backwater that is barely hanging on and couldn't possibly get the lead out. The USAF has done biofuels trials, but commercial av is spooked to try anything that could leave passengers up in the air.
With regards to line width, I don't understand 100% what you're saying. You agree that it is a problem, not because of aesthetics but because of readability. But then how do you propose to solve it? The only solutions are either increase font size (messing up things since now font size is tied to monitor width), or pad the sides with whitespace (what they're doing).
Cities designed by a single mind are often simple, orderly, ... and dysfunctional.

Evolution over time, successfully addressing challenges, accumulating wisdom, avoiding classic blunders, works pretty well.
MediaWiki has a skin system, and judging from other comments here this appears to be treated as a new skin, or an iteration of the already default "Vector" skin.

There are several skins that have tried to tackle some of these problems in the past, notably Foreground: https://foreground.wikiproject.net/wiki/Main_Page

Refreshed: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Refreshed

and Timeless, which was a quasi-Wikimedia project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Timeless, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter

which all tried to be responsive rather than using the MobileFrontend extension and splitting the site into two separate device-specific skins.

You can append `?useskin=skinname` on Wikipedia, or any MediaWiki site, to switch the current view to the given skin. For instance, Timeless is installed on wikipedia.org, so you can see what it looks like by going to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg?useskin=ti...

The list of installed skins is on the wiki's Special:Version page.
I've looked into Linux XDG icon packs as a source of freely licensed in-app icons optimized for multiple pixel resolutions. Tango (last updated 2009), Humanity, and Oxygen (forgot what Gnome icons are called) are, in a way, the last of breed for multi-colored icons. Practically no modern icon themes released within the past few years have toolbar icons with outlines and colored fills.

These icons have outlines. On the plus side, they look decent on any color background (though Humanity icons have too light-colored borders, which can make light icons hard to see on light backgrounds). On the minus side, the outlines look noticeably blurry when rescaled instead of picking the nearest integer size.

Monochrome icons are less damaged by resizing. However, they can become essentially invisible black icons on a dark background (or vice versa), so often come in light/dark variants. Apparently KDE has an extension to XDG icon themes called "FollowsColorScheme", where the renderer will automatically recolor -symbolic icons. (Documented at https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/1181 )
Looks like a fun side project. In a similar vein, I'd also recommend the Synacor Challenge, which involves a set of gradually expanding challenges around implementing a virtual machine: https://challenge.synacor.com/
JPMorgan to Move $230B Assets to Germany in Brexit Shift
Hydrogen is not great as a means of exporting energy, it is, unfortunately, hard to transport. Hydrogen is about 1/3 the energy/volume density of natural gas - so much worse than liquid fuels - and has a very low boiling point so liquified hydrogen is very (energy and cost) expensive to produce.

Pipelines can work though, if you can get them built. The lower energy density vs. natural gas is offset by a higher flow speed. And the energy transported by one pipeline could be much greater than a HVDC power line.
Not to mention liquid H2 has quite a bit lower energy density than liquid fossil fuels. Many rockets have used kerosene in their first stages for this reason. Not the end of the world for aircraft, but certainly another major disadvantage.
I hope it doesn't change too much, Wikipedia and Craigslist are the only two major websites that have a decent layout these days.
Yes, as a developer I prefer to work in Azure over the others, so I wouldn't say it's an unimportant issue.

Maybe there are more greenfield and small devs. going to Azure, and more mature/ported solutions that just scale in containers and need raw CPU/network on AWS/GCP?
Thinking about it, they both feed each other, if you start with on you will get the other.
>You also manage to both quote my reply and misquote me back to back. I did not say, "leftists", I said, "the left", which is a standard term to refer to that side of the political aisle. Just as "the right" is a standard term to refer to the conservative side.

Except what you term "the left" in the US is actually center-right on the political spectrum.[0]

I'm all about freedom of expression and personal liberty. However, I believe that government (because government is the people) has a valid role to play in creating equality of opportunity and assisting those who are, for whatever reason, having difficulty surviving in our society.

[0] https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
It's funny that you mention setting up a static site with CDN on Azure, because I just did that for the first time about an hour ago. After a couple initial hiccups related to not selecting the proper Storage Account type, the rest of the process was a breeze.

What part did you get stuck on?
Mechanical systems generally have well established failure modes, frequently related to parts wearing out with use. Often these failures can be predicted by warning signs or history of use.

Networked software systems generally have completely unknown and unpredictable failure modes.

Do you really want important infrastructure like your automobile dependent on networked software?
How the Humanitarian Physicians Empowerment Community Works
"Our design creates a visual pattern from combinations of up to 172 spots of light (phosphenes)"

Does that mean a total of 172 "pixels" of resolution? Like 12x14(ish)? I suppose that's better than complete darkness, but...
“Let’s integrate these recommendations into our roadmaps… you know, as long as they fit strategically with what we’re trying to do.”

Ay, "liberal democracy" is on Facebook's "nice to have" list (as long as it doesn't conflict strategically). Very reassuring!
> I almost never use the left hand side bar (and I have a feel almost no one does)

Pretty much every non-native english speaker uses it all the time.
If someone is selling drugs, distributing copyrighted material, publishing defamatory things, or participating in any other crime on your platform and you know about it, you lose 230 immunity for all content. Maybe this would encourage E2E encryption, but... If you read further, every single provider that allows user content also has to have a tipline for criminal activity and keep records on it.
We still need to unlock the web
Oh. Yeah in that sense, they are passive.
Unfortunately the cited paper from OP is paywalled, further dragging down humanity. Anyone know how to find it on Sci-Hub?

https://www.jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.115
We have the best public universities in the world[1]. And in-state tuition is half the cost of an equivalent private university.

> For the investment in our public transportation, it is hard to make a comparison due to the particulars of our geography/area size and population compared to other states.

It is not that hard actually. CA generally likes to fund public transportation projects. Other states do not[2]

> Also, I never criticized our policies towards LGBTQ or immigrants. I am talking about our shortcomings here.

You literally asked "What are the policies from our leaders that have facilitated this growth?" If you only focus on the negatives, then sure, you can spin a misleading narrative about how CA is a shithole and the only reason it is successful is because of the weather. But if we are actually trying to be honest, there are tons of other factors that have contributed to the economic success, and many of those factors are political in nature.

[1]https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/all-uc-undergrad...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...
I'm certainly curious as to why, they have a board and shareholders, no? Regardless, it changes little about my point. I'm not saying a CEO shouldn't earn a nice salary, but to repeatedly take raises during a downturn, a downturn so severe you had to completely gut projects, is gross.
That was exactly his point.

In USA (I dunno where you are from), sometimes the union is company-specific, as in: the union forms inside the company and has only that company workers and has some say on the company management.

In Holywood that didn't work, because movies often have a one-off company created just for them (it still works this way).

So the actors and whatnot created non-company unions, so this way they get what you just said (ie: company dissolves, but employees are still in a union, since the union wasn't tied to a company).