skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The legislation asks them to take their finger off the scales, not put it on the other side.

> The current interpretations of Section 230 have enabled online platforms to hide behind the immunity to censor lawful speech in bad faith and is inconsistent with their own terms of service. To remedy this, the department’s legislative proposal revises and clarifies the existing language of Section 230 and replaces vague terms that may be used to shield arbitrary content moderation decisions with more concrete language that gives greater guidance to platforms, users, and courts.

>

> The legislative proposal also adds language to the definition of “information content provider” to clarify when platforms should be responsible for speech that they affirmatively and substantively contribute to or modify.

From the proposal:

> a. Replace Vague Terminology in (c)(2). First, the Department supports replacing the vague catch-all “otherwise objectionable” language in Section 230(c)(2) with “unlawful” and “promotes terrorism.” This reform would focus the broad blanket immunity for content moderation decisions on the core objective of Section 230—to reduce online content harmful to children—while limiting a platform's ability to remove content arbitrarily or in ways inconsistent with its terms or service simply by deeming it “objectionable.”

That cuts both ways, you know... like it's supposed to.
Methane is removed from the atmosphere due to chemical reaction within about 12 years, so good news: with the leak stopped, the effects of the leak will taper off relatively quickly.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Mixed Record on Race
This is utter BS - not from you, but from the marketplace and economic theory. What's being created here s additional cost, which is then being parlayed as a proxy for value based on the idea that there is normally a rough equilibrium between the two.
Got it. Built in successfully now. Thanks.
sure - i have a chromecast as well. i can mirror my phone screen on my TV in full HD as well.

A phone is far far far more powerful than you think. And the new Snapdragon 865 are beasts.
Jeff Bezos Announces the First Bezos Academy, a Free Preschool
Contigency Plans to Bypass Election Results
On one hand, I'm grateful because Wikipedia has been so useful to me.

On the other hand, the Spanish version of Wikipedia is rife with ideologically biased articles if you venture into anything that talks about politics or history. The English version is, for the most part, free of this, probably because there are more people reviewing it.

We shouldn't underestimate the propagandist power of Wikipedia in non-English languages, especially when some people give it more credibility than it deserves.
It's so much this. Intel showed up with a proprietary 70 pin fine pitch SMT connector, a 1.8V power requirement and sold the Edison to high level designers, when the market they were after (the Rasp-PI folks) had extremely easy to integrate fat header pins that are 5V tolerant and beginner friendly. You needed a breakout board and hours of tinkering to get the thing to a state that you get out of the box from the ARM offering.

Galileo was as close as they came to a home run though. It really was their run at a Rasp-pi-alike, but it was almost twice as expensive, wasn't compatible with the Rasp-Pi headers (though it oddly was with Arduino, which seemed like a real design impedance mismatch), and was lacking numerous peripherals like video out.

They had a similar problem with that whole Maker-targeted series of chips - they couldn't seem to decide if they wanted to capture the ease of use of Arduino or the deep integrator capabilities of these target-specific MCUs and really failed to split the difference.

They also failed to take into account that they were very much the minority player and any sort of entry into those markets would be a war of attrition and not just overnight success... and the billion dollar juggernaut did what billion dollar juggernauts do to side projects that aren't overnight successes - they killed it before anyone could even develop competence working with them.

Both Edison and Quark really had niches they could have well serviced, if they had given it a real try... but it was very apparent that management wasn't interested and the designers didn't understand who they were targeting.
Have you tried Alien Isolation? It's a masterpiece, similar mechanic to that in place too.
Six months into the pandemic, the US economic outlook is getting gloomier
i actually expect that this will work pretty well, at least for academic articles, because the machine learning engineers working on it will constantly be "dogfooding" it, as machine learning research is published mostly as PDFs.
Thanks, it's also reminiscent with Bukowsky 'do not try'
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out later.
I think you're right, he knew there was one but didn't peer into it for fear of being trapped by it. Seeing the future makes it absolute in Dune, hence Leto's bloodline development program with Siona.
Fair enough, I guess that's the difference then. I've always used the ones with Intel graphics.
Given that large swaths of the American public believe in these 'conservative' ideologies, a more charitable interpretation would be that DOJ is looking out for American's ability to speak freely in the brave new world that is the digital public square.

And make no mistake about it. This is a racial issue. As noted by the LA times (https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-02/democrats-b...), both blacks and asians are more likely than liberal whites to favor stricter immigration policies and to be skeptical of both political correctness and the new politics of sex and gender. Blacks are also more conservative on 'anti-racism' than liberal whites. Other research shows that hispanic liberals are also significantly to the right of liberal whites on many social issues, such as abortion. Thankfully, the DOJ is looking out for the rights of all Americans, not just coastal white elite liberals.
I think free speech is much stronger in the EU. No central military means no central system of classifying things and no Espionage act. Similarly, gun rights are states rights in the EU. I shot an AK47 in Poland, seems pretty liberal to me...
I'm don't stutter but was touched by Steve Harvey's message about his own experience with stuttering and how he worked through drills with an audience member who stuttered.

It's worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ4XNEDSKWY
Genetic study shows coronavirus mutating and potentially evolving
I would never, ever, rely on just my phone battery for access to my car.
I read a boatload of 2 column PDFs on my phone. Liquid Mode has been on PDF Reader on Android for... it feels like a year now? And it's fantastic. Without it I have to constantly pinch and zoom and swipe to the upper right to start a new column, etc.

I hate PDFs, but if I want to read a document I've stored in print fidelity from the 80s on my phone, Liquid is rock solid.
Experts Think US Economy Would Be Stronger If Lockdowns Had Been More Aggressive
See which doctors are paid by Pharma
I didn't see a top-level comment linking the other relatively well-known, related article, so here it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CANCER (2016, updated through 2020)

You can agree or disagree with the conclusions, and agree or disagree on the value of WMF's non-wikipedia projects, but the facts are not in dispute (annual revenue, expenses, net assets are all from WMF published figures).

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21699011

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15429067

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287235
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Rush Limbaugh has publicly denied that masks are necessary or effective in combating the pandemic.

Sources:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-democrats-mask-w...

https://www.newsbreak.com/california/salinas/news/1550365330...
Autotracking: Elegant Developer Experience via Cutting-Edge Computer Science
I had a classmate who insisted he found a bug in the R-B tree implementation in CLR, but I was too busy with something else to insist that he prove it to me.

I don't want coworkers who think implementing a sort algorithm by hand is an asset. It's not. It's a skill that has to be managed meticulously, and we rarely if ever do anything meticulously. It's not an asset, it's a liability. Understanding how to balance multiple constraints at once is as asset, and sort algorithms are one of the ways we are introduced to this.

Mastery requires that you see the scaffolding of your education as something to be jettisoned when the project (you) is finished. A lot of very productive people never achieve mastery.

In the same head space as sorting, a lot of people can't implement a custom comparator properly. Sorting is worthless if you can't decide what to sort by. Most people learn about comparators after learning about sort algorithms, so you can in some cases argue your fellow interviewers out of an AVL tree and into sorting customers by name and registration date. Or taking a list of inventory sorted alphabetically and grouping it instead by price range.
This is literally just an ad.
Almost guaranteed to be used to selectively prosecute.
The $600 unemployment had little to no effect on job searches
I was just about to say... > when they knowingly facilitate criminal activity online.
Does this include the criminal misinformation campaigns the GOP love to quote as free speech? What justifies criminality? And WTF is the justice department doing writing laws? That’s outside their jurisdiction. Congress writes laws. But I guess when your political party owns congress, the White House, and the justice department... you can do whatever you want regardless of the constitution.
Companies are valued based on what people think they will do in the future. And many people think Tesla will cause a revolution in the car industry developing the technology to eliminate combustion engine vehicles from the roads. As they mentioned today, if they achieve what they're aiming for in the next ~3 years, electric vehicles will be cheaper in total cost of ownership than combustion engine vehicles.
Yes, but the number of them and their overall value is much smaller, maybe $100B.
This batch of chips looks like it was designed for someone in mind that was going to buy a bunch of them. They then tossed it over the wall and said others can get it too. Probably some sort of IoT type situation where power is a concern with an occasional burst of work. Something where you are 95% idle and then that 5% you want a bit of perf within a particular power budget. Something like a TV, cablebox, or a wake up sample send data in goto sleep situation.
Isn't this a misleading headline? Microsoft bought Skype and it's Microsoft's decisions that led to its current market loss, isn't it?
I mean, I agree with you that Elon is typically full of shit, but it's FUD because it's not a problem in real life, the bluetooth isn't always reliable in the general case anyway, anyone who relies on the car in a practical sense understands that the key-card is the key, not the phone.
I don't think you understand the first amendment.
One Billion Americans–A Review
Been seeing a lot of “Do as I say and not as I do” articles being pushed to the orange site. I wonder if all the SV capitalists would take up this offer of minimally good life.
In CSS, there is the "prefers-reduced-motion" media query for this purpose.
The time line fits - in around 3 years would be 2020 as the article was published in 2018.

only now they laid out how they plan to achieve this. granted in "elon time" correcting to 2023 now
(a plus of another 2 years given "around 3 years = in exactly 3 years as per cnbc article of 2018)
It's got plenty of sound, just different sound. Personally, I like to be able to talk when I'm setting world record laps and be able to drive the car home afterwards.
There is new proposed internet legislation every week, an EFF donation drive every two weeks, Reddit shuts down every month for some protest.

At this point, I'm just beyond fatigued by it all.
Microbes on Venus May Herald Human Extinction (Though Not in the Way You Think)
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Should a priest be allowed to refuse to wed gay couples? I think so. They can go find another priest, so it doesn't mean I am against gay marriage. I just don't see why we should force people to do certain things in their religious ceremonies. Other than that marriage is just a join table, it means nothing so there is no reason to forbid anyone from doing it.
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"that when paragraphs are that wide they become harder to read"

I actually use the mobile view on desktop for this reason. The mobile view will have white space on the sides if you do full screen, but I usually have two windows side by side, which results in all text, no sidebar, and a more minimal top bar. There is a 'mobile view' button on the footer of every page, or you can throw an 'm' between the language and base url.
This. And it’s the one thing that annoys me to no end about the mobile version, that the list of language editions isn’t there at all.
Nikola Stock Got Torched by a Short Seller
Respect to the designers of the current look, which has done admirable service for so long to such a vast audience.

I feel it has become iconic - a plain and functional and consistent look that makes it stand out from the garish, noisy rest-of-the-web, and is instantly recognizable even to the general public, featuring in mainstream movies and music videos.

If such a thing existed, it could be declared a UNESCO World Heritage website.
Hi HN, we love the Superhuman mail client and in particular think that their command+k feature is really helpful to new and power users alike.

So we built Actionbar to let any website add that feature in 3 lines of code :)
> Kicking the can down the road just means larger debt payments in the future.

> Consider, getting a few stitches is usually more expensive than a dental filling even though it’s simpler, faster, etc.

And not getting those stitches can lead to scarring, or infection. There are things worse than debt.

That said, I'm not saying we should just borrow the money to do what we want without considering if we should find a way to pay for it, I'm just saying for things that are really important, money is not an obstacle. The whole point of debt is to allow spending beyond your budget when it's deemed beneficial or necessary to do so.

> PS: Politics is not about petty grievances

Yes, petty grievances are a poor expression for what I was thinking, which is pet issues and turning everything into a chance to bolster your talking point to score political points.
No but it's got real evidence backing it up. They have a manufacturing facility producing new batteries with revolutionary new tech.
The title and by-line to this article doesn't make me think that this analysis is at all thoughtful or sourced. It may be, but it seems like it may also be a 13 year old boy trolling another kid at school.
To clarify: For the purposes of my earlier comment, "decent" applies to individual models; not a brand's entire product line.
Do you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24563331? For two reasons: because it perpetuated the flamewar, and because 'whataboutism' breaks the site guideline against name-calling (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).
Kalm – open-source interface for making Kubernetes easier
First of all, this 'hothouse earth' theory is on extremely thin ice. The CO2 levels have increased almost 33% since the mid 1800s and we have not observed runaway warming of any kind. With each passing year the percentage of the increase in CO2 levels decreases. We will see diminishing returns on CO2's influence on radiation as time goes on.

We have already observed several periods in the modern climate era, the Holocene, that have been warmer than modern temperatures with nothing but positive implications for humanity during those times. These periods include the Medieval Warm Period (aligned with the Viking Age and the conquering of Iceland and Greenland), the Roman Warm Period (aligned with Rome's golden age) which saw the Mediterranean as being 2C hotter than modern temps [1], the Minoan Warm period (which was also a boomtime for humanity until the Santorini explosion plunged temperatures worldwide) [2] and of course the Holocene Climate Optimum (about 9000 to 5000 years before present, also associated with booms in human populations in China and elsewhere [3]. In fact, the most devastating events to occur to humans and life on earth tends to be associated with global plunge in temperatures, like the Younger Dryas event just before the onset of the Holocene, that saw temperatures plunge to ice age levels, and is associated with numerous extinctions. Cold episodes in earth's climate are really to be feared. They cause drought, famine, and widespread misery. Warmth and CO2 are good for plants. I hope we continue to warm, but Earth can always revert back into a glacial phase and we are powerless to stop it.

[1] Persistent warm Mediterranean surface waters during the Roman period
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67281-2

[2] Swedish tree rings provide new evidence in support of a major, widespread environmental disruption in 1628 BC https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/1999...

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10406...

[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sci...
Marrying DNA Alignment Algorithms with Neural Networks
Perhaps if you can't deal with that small pressure you shouldn't be a CEO. When things get bad it's going to be a lot more pressure than that.
Ugh. Why can't we just make javac [STAR].java work? Tarball the resulting .class files, make sure to have one called Main.class that is the entrypoint, GPG sign the tarball and you should be ready to distribute.

Yeah I know it doesn't work like this now, but the designers of the entire Java/Android ecosystem should have designed it to be that simple.

The moment you get any of these build systems involved you instantly lose all hopes of DRY coding. Excerpts from an Ant build.xml file:

<target name="jar" depends="compile">
<mkdir dir="jar" />
<jar destfile="jar/HelloWorld.jar" basedir="classes">
<manifest>
<attribute name="Main-Class"
value="antExample.HelloWorld" />
</manifest>
</jar>
</target>

<target name="run" depends="jar">
<java jar="jar/HelloWorld.jar" fork="true" />
</target>

I see "HelloWorld" repeated 3 times. MASSIVE fail. I'd rather no build system than deal with this level of repetitiveness. It's bad enough that Java requires the file name == class name which is already a case of repetition (that design decision is fine with me but then files should start with "class {" and not "class Foo {")
I’ve also thought about this and I’m undecided.

On the one hand, I don’t think Wikipedia has made people like me smarter. Maybe the opposite: for all the diversity of opinion I think there’s way more outright BS on Wikipedia than in, say, Brittanica.

On the other hand, I can imagine lots of people don’t have easy access to more “authoritative” sources. And I’ve certainly learned a little bit about a lot of things there.

In the middle, I guess, Wikipedia is a good place to start learning about something, but a terrible place to finish.

As to financing it, I’ve always held the unpopular position that they should run ads. It would be the perfect place to try privacy-respecting advertising.
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The sole critique of the UX of Wikipedia that I have is that the normal version of Wikipedia redirects you to the mobile version when using a mobile device, and changes the URL while doing so. This is why we end up with all these m.wikipedia links. The mobile version, however, does not redirect you to the normal page when using a normal computer.

So people like myself constantly have to edit the "m." from wikipedia links to get the normal version. I really dont get why they are doing that.
Yep exactly. A lot of people are missing the forest for the trees right now it's rather amazing.
> People don't seem to realize that you need both attack and defense.

This war on encryption is not being waged by "people". This is not something that can be rationalised to be avoided, otherwise it wouldn't even be an option.

I just hope that there will always be someone who has the competence and willingness to develop something that will keep freedom an option for everyone, even if it's "illegal"
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> And they can't reduce their salary now because it'd be unfair on their families.

That's fucking bullshit. They make millions.
There hadn't been an elegant way to get geoip information to downstream nginx servers until this.

Fantastic, looking forward to playing with this.
The language button is right at the top of the page. If anything its more accessible on mobile?
you have a typo: lawyers not "layers"
Also in-page hovers to other articles!
uh-oh.

EDIT: After looking at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_de_Posnanie it's not so bad.
> He does it after hours

And if someone else stays after hours, are they going to be safe?
I'm surprised by many of the comments in this thread. For those who keep referring back to the keycard/fob access, those are still software solutions and can themselves be susceptible to some bug. Just because it's a backup doesn't mean it's any more reliable than the more "convenient" solution.
> the first two things I’d point out would be that I almost never use the left hand side bar (and I have a feel almost no one does) and that when paragraphs are that wide they become harder to read

Good news! The sidebar makes the paragraphs narrower.

But yes, that wide-text issue makes it incredibly annoying that so many HN users provide explicit links to mobile wikipedia pages in their comments. Don't do that! The mobile pages have bad readability in normal aspect ratios! If I'm on a phone, ordinary en.wikipedia.org links will redirect to en.m.wikipedia.org, but the reverse is not true! There is no conceivable reason to provide a mobile wikipedia link, and plenty reason not to!
What David Graeber got Wrong about Work (what happened to the 15-hour workweek?)
Supporting desktop can get tricky if something goes wrong. You need to be able to support multiple operating systems as well as multiple versions of those operating systems.
It looks like an internal incubator (i.e. small startup-ish group). I would treat products from such teams with a grain of salt. I've had previous experience with such teams and projects at another large software company. I think such groups are a way for large, lumbering companies to test out new ideas in the market, with the full expectation that they will likely not be hugely successful. In the off-chance that they are, then the BigCo will put more resources into it. I think that's why you typically see very few marketing resources or support for such things. I suppose from that perspective, it really is a "startup", although they don't have the hunger that a real startup would, since if the projects fails, I doubt people would be out of jobs.

If Google doesn't think it's worth putting the full G Suite backing behind this, then I wouldn't trust it beyond a fun thing to play with.
An already-paired key card is required to pair a new phone, though, so you probably won't want to throw them away.
Noise pollution wouldn't go down too much. Most highway road noise is actually from tire noise.
Frictional Games and Loiste Interactive are my two gaming sweethearts. Them and Cyan Worlds are the only studios I keep an eye on to make sure I don't miss a game.

Cyan Worlds, makers of Myst, are releasing games again for those like me who are late to parties like this.

Loiste Interactive released a game called INFRA which I have replayed like 4 times already. There is no other game atmosphere like it, similar to how SOMA, Amnesia and Myst are without rival. There are games as good as them, but few if any games that are like them.