skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10 years ago, it was most China we spoke about regarding censorship and "social credits". The CCP has made deep inroads into US society during this time. They're succeeding in changing peoples' thoughts and feelings regarding free speech.
A friend tells of a nearby rehabilitation hospital at which there are only two permanent employees: the director and a chaplain.

All the rest are contract. Desk clerks, cooks, nurses, doctors, therapists, janatorial....
I mean if you're going to hang Apple for crimes they haven't committed yet then you could at least be more creative about them.

Apple is going to force all apps that offer messaging as a feature to integrate with iMessage!

Apple is going to force companies with an iOS app to turn over 30% of their total gross revenue! And it's additive!

If you don't buy an iCloud subscription Apple is going to randomly delete some of your alarms!
The calends [0] are the first day of every month in the Roman calendar. As the Ancient Greek calendar does not feature calends, postponing something to the Greek calends means postponing something to a later, unknown and unlikely to happen date.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calends
>So why would the wages go up if productivity is not up?

The wages in lots of sectors without productivity gains have gone up because they must compete against sectors where productivity has gone up. This is known as Baumol's Cost Disease.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
>I mean as late as Newton and Euler the division between theology and science was still mushy?

All the more reason to be very careful in interpreting those writings and mapping them to modern scientific notions.
I'm not sure you understand what "free speech" is, because it doesn't apply to Twitter, at all, in any way.
What malicious code are first-party ad networks running on your computer?
Three Levels of Self-Awareness
I highly recommend A Fire Upon the Deep. Its a rare mix of really interesting hard scifi with an actually good story and characters. Hard scifi often has very flat characters but this is not a book which suffers from it.

It has a very very cool twist to explain the Fermi Paradox and is a really good example of a universe with one modified rule.
I think the only way out is for governments to prohibited targeted ads as a business model. It’s deeply subversive to the informed populace when everyone lives in completely different realities based on their advertising profiles.

Making a business model like that illegal would force these services to go the paid route, or have less a subversive, and alas, less effective, advertising.
In some nations, such as the US, protesting is a Constitutionally-protected right and could be thus be considered essential activity
(For four weeks).

I mean, it's definitely better than nothing, but it's not a "we're fixing our business model" moment.
Alternate title: We scaled Nginx and saved the world by MitMing a bunch of websites with the world's biggest honeypot.
That's the reason for the wait, yes. Even EB3 is current provided you are not originally from two specific countries.
Knowledge IS a binary thing.

Either it is coherent with reality or it is not.
Reading these headlines is like living in a dystopian waking nightmare.

This is not remotely at all the role that Twitter or any other Silicon Valley tech company should play in society.
I think about 6 months ago, at least.
bullshit. this measure is twitter deferring the arbitration of truth to actual authoritative sources:

"People on Twitter, including candidates for office, may not claim an election win before it is authoritatively called"
The meme isn't that we're asking questions ourselves on SO, but that SO contains answers to questions that are difficult to ferret out of the documentation. If you don't know what to call something, or need to know common practice rather than every possibility, or comprehend an error message, it's a lot easier to get it from somebody else who has already solved that problem.

Of course somebody has to ask the question first, but with StackOverflow, one person can ask it, and then everybody else can find it via the magic of Google. (And I do mean "magic": beyond matching keywords, a search engine can, on a good day, point you pages popular with people having similar problems.)

I'm on StackOverflow any time I need to learn a new piece of software, which is pretty common. When I'm "just programming", I can get my work done without it due to decades of experience. But keeping current with new technologies often means getting lost in the implementation weeds, and it's great when others have already been there and can give me a shortcut out.
Reddit is shady as fuck
Reason is not a reputable source on anything.
Do you believe that people providing a service should not be able to choose how to charge for it in any other context outside of websites?
Y Combinator Failed Startups
You can’t have a complete BBC Micro Games Archive without Granny’s Garden!
I saw that old explanation "living things have an innate urge for survival" in there. Its not necessary at all, and diminishes the idea of natural selection.

Creatures/species don't get selected because of what they want. The ones that behave to avoid early death (before reproduction) are represented larger in the population. The makeup of the population shifts over time. That's it. That's about all. No need to imagine an urge.

Further, some (many) creatures die during reproduction. They have no urge for survival at all - just the opposite.

To go on, plants are subject to selection. Do they have urges too? Insects can hardly be attributed complex emotions - more like little robots. They are subject to selection, with no need for urges.

No, its all a game of dice and happenstance.
> Twitter is a community

Twitter has 330 million monthly active users and 145 million daily active users. Is that a community? It seems more like an unruly mob. :-)

I agree with the point that all online forums should have moderation, but for me the question is, should something like Twitter even exist? A centralized world discussion forum is not necessarily a good and healthy thing. Can humanity handle having Twitter?
How do you do that effectively on a platform with hundreds of millions of people with wildly differing world views?
What you should really worry about is who owns the C language API (Nokia Bell Labs probably???)

You see, in the US, derivative works are a thing. All languages that derive their APIs and perhaps even syntax from C would be derivatives. There's interesting legal arguments to be had there if APIs are ruled to be copyrightable....
Reddit is a shady, communist cesspool.
The German Car Industry Musters for a New Tech Battle
As far as "great firewall style" American censorship (i.e. state removal of content on a categorical level) the only proposals I'm aware of have been to block TikTok and WeChat on the grounds of "national security".
Sunsetting FxSiteCompat
One reason I've seen detected elsewhere (wish I could remember the blog post tho): adding noise and farming "human signals" to get through later tests better.

E.g. if you have a bot to click on ads to make you money, you'll be less likely to be detected if they also click other ads / have other background advertising data. Similar to how spam review accounts will also leave reviews on entirely unrelated products, both to appear more real at a glance (not just one "5 star buy now" review), and to throw off detection of "this account is obviously paid by this account".
Shouldn't the title end with ", again."? This handwritten note vs digital note taking isn't new, yet every time a report on the study of this topic comes to the same conclusion.

We've also seen numerous studies showing that activity during learning vs idle sitting in a chair shows better retention of the material as well. Lots of the great philosophers would do the walk-n-talk instead of lecturing in classroom setting.
I don't know what you mean by no longer popular. Seems like lately every other HN post have someone bringing up these.

They are brought up way more then they used to be. It used to be that they were mentioned super rarely, now or is all the time.
What if I audit something down a few levels and find it lacking - how do I force update everything to not use the bad version?
I've worked with all kinds and sizes, often a couple at the same time. Any temp or contract-to-hire agency that is willing to work with developers should work in my experience. If they're not used to working with developers, sometimes it can take a week or two of checking in regularly for them to find something. My experience was that they want to make money from your skills (and tech tends to bring in more money than something like extra hands for doing inventory) which creates motivation for them to find work for you. Friendly persistence can go a long way. Good luck!
I really disliked that "feature", I usually use the chronological mode to avoid seeing them.

If I wanted to see that content I would follow it, and if I wasn't and the content was good someone I follow might retweet it. And if I follow someone who retweets annoying things I can disable retweets on that person.
How about let's fix rent and not carry mistakes over to other domains.
Twitter does not have a political view.
Postgres used PostQUEL. SQL was added to Postgres by one of Stonebreaker's graduate students (Andrew Yu) around '95. By '95 Stonebreaker's lab was already working on a new distributed Postgres called Mariposa.
The irony is that technology journalists always seem very defensive when it comes to not having industry experience, yet Levine is a perfect example of a journalist who is good at what he does because he was in the finance industry.
Batteries are heavy. That is still a big problem for personal transportation in cars, planes, trains, buses and whatever. But personal transportation is not the source of all CO2 generated. There are homes, in most parts of the northern hemisphere they have to be heated. Replacing all those heating systems before there normal end of life, is a huge additional amount of CO2 to blow into the air. Running the same heaters, ovens, cars with a CO2 neutral produced methane seems to be way more cost- and CO2-efficient, at least in the medium term.
I think there's a bad assumption in here, which is that pay should keep pace with productivity gains in the first place.

I'd argue the whole point of productivity gains is that they do outpace pay. The idea is the same work generates more value. Some of that extra value can be passed back to the employee, but if all of it is passed back to the employee, then the goods produced don't actually get cheaper. If nothing gets cheaper, there's no incentive for a business to invest in tech that makes employees more productive.

The data in the piece has a lot of problems with it too, but I think the core assumption is fundamentally off-base.
Wow that’s dirty
I had mine approved in April (it took 6 months) and I self-filed (no lawyer involved) but I used an online template I bought from a couple who went through the process several years ago (https://www.eb2niw.com/). I am not affiliated with them in any way. You will definitely need letters of recommendation but most importantly you will need to show that you are better than the majority of you peers. For example, you could show how well your work is cited compared to others in the same field. You being a P.I. on a federal grant is a huge plus and I think that already increases your chances significantly. As far as J visa situation goes, I think it's possible to get a waiver but I'm not a lawyer and I was on H1B when I applied so can't speak of it.
The browser's same-origin-policy would still exist the same way without HTTPS.
Ponyride and the Scouts: Behind the partnership that helped maker space evolve
> Darwin didn't just say "evolution happens", he demonstrated it.

Not really. He described the idea in greater detail, but he didn't demonstrate it. It's actually quite similar to the pre-Socratics in that way.
Maybe sites like Twitter, Facebook etc should be US only. I mean only US users allowed to use it. If they do this with the US election then which will be the next? UK? Australia? And why not really? People would even cheer for it
Bonne lecture ;)

https://github.com/betagouv/mon-entreprise/blob/master/mon-e...
From my experience building very expensive industrial machines, the gain is more like 2x-4x not 20x, and that assumes that the game of telephone in the engineering pipeline actually gets it right.

In a recent HN discussion, someone suggested that step one of emulating successful tech companies (Netflix was used as an example) was to fire half your workforce and pay the remaining half double. That logic meshes with my experiences; the machines made you more efficient, but you needed more intelligence to use them than the tools they replaced.
But who gets to decide what is truth and lies? If twitter was bi-partisan, sure, but the people in charge clearly have a heavily bias.
> Can humanity handle having Twitter?

Even if the answer is no, pandora's box is opened. If twitter disappeared, 5 copycat sites/apps would emerge from the ashes overnight.
Also applies to 1-year Apple TV trial.
>But what about the day that changes? What about the day they decide to censor you instead?

What about it? People get banned from Twitter all the time - literally every hosted platform and service moderates and bans content as they see fit. The terms of service you agreed to when using that platform likely includes phrases like "for any reason" and "in perpetuity throughout the universe."

So I guess I make another account? Or go somewhere else? That's not exactly the boot of fascism stomping on your face forever.

>However, we also have to be realistic about the fact that the largest tech corporations are now more powerful than most countries.

No they aren't. Countries have armies and the monopoly on violence. Countries can arrest you, torture you, confiscate your possessions, make your beliefs illegal, and murder you. The only thing Twitter can possibly do to me is delete my account or ban me. They only control their one platform, they don't control the internet or the entirety of media. They're not going to send me to the gulag or throw me into the ovens. They're not going to erase me like Stalin.

To say that any social media platform is more powerful than most countries is ridiculous.
This is what the outsized tolerance for internal political activism inside SV companies has resulted in.

(European observer)
Jamiquint's living depends on ads, why am I not surprised.

I am surprised he was so venomous when he had the obvious pointed out to him.
It seems to me Rust folks have developed this habit of deflecting blame by pointing to shallow commentary. One of good examples is compiler slowness reasons, sometimes its LLVM, or it is lot of optimizations, or it is not really slow compare to C++ and so on.

They could have said it straight "Guys highly optimized, safe compilation of medium size project will be in range of 20-30 min". And that would great and honest way to deal. Instead we get oh, we have reduced compile times from 26 minutes to 21 minutes so it is 19% improvement in just one year and there is more to come. Now this is hard work and great but I am sure Rust committers understand when people say fast compile times they most likely comparing to Go etc which would be under a minute for most mid size projects. And this is very well not going to happen.

Same is now to Cargo dependency situation. Cargo and NPM are ideologically in agreement that people in general should just pull it from package manager instead of rewriting even little bit of code. And again instead of owning it there will be list of shallow reasoning: others do it too, reusing is better that rewriting, cargo is so awesome that pulling crate is much easier and so on.
OMG....lmao.....can you say: "5 years to late, and a bazillion dollars short"?????

It is unfathomable to me how people can justify working at places like twitter and FB knowing the mind-blowing level of damage they do to the country, our culture and our species.

The single biggest thing we could to do start righting the ship on this place (US or planet, take your pick), is to burn FB, Twitter IG, etc TO THE GROUND.

It's that simple.
https://archive.is/3Rvag
It’s not arbitrary. It’s to balance immigration.
Otherwise you would have 99% immigrating from Asian countries.
Truth, having worked with a team of 15 engineers in Bangalore - there is a huge cultural difference. Yes, I understand some people might be offended by this but I am speaking unadulterated truth with absolutely no offense meant in terms of race/country/origin. The culture is totally different and IMO not conducive to innovation, critical thinking and constructive feedback - it is the opposite.

Still, some people will be offended by this. Are there exceptions? Absolutely. Is this a common pattern and generalization? Yes.
I pretty sure they don't give a fuck about user opinion. 6 months later, this will be the default. But don't worry, there will be a chrome://flag hidden somewhere for the most vocal complainants.

Google AMP is still going strong.
By the time that happened Baghdad had been already razed to the ground and looted by the Mongols.

This defeat made the Islamic civilization become militaristic, less secular and lose their interest in science.

From there, it was a downwards spiral. Ottoman rule followed by the Arab revolt, Sykes-Picot and perpetual war.
a) You have no right to free-speech on Twitter or any other platform.

b) When people spread false information at scale, it risks the very foundations of civilization.

Anyone with an actively managed platform has to try to ensure some kind of intelligent fealty - the trick is to do it without bias or and kind of ideological orientation.
If you are going to attack people for not liking ads maybe throw out a disclaimer about how you make your living?
You also never had the ability to be talking on somebody else's property while sitting in your own home until very recently. Things change. The streets are still public but the streets aren't where we're talking anymore.
Yes, if increasing the brain activities is the goal, our hand writing tool should be brush. Or even better, we can increase the brain workload by introducing the artificial burden like pen refuse to emit ink if its sensor doesn't recognize accurate stroke movements or as ridiculous as forcing pen holder to performing one hand juggling with the other hand.
I think it's important not to stop at simply offering security systems, but to require them when appropriate. Hey you've got $1000 in your account now, that's awesome! Let's set up 2FA to protect that money!
Nope. Those are physical goods. They hand me an avocado in return for $1.50. Actual ownership of that avocado is fully transferred at that cost.

How my system renders code, or renders a webpage, and which instructions it chooses to run or not run, are upto me, as the owner of the system. Nobody else has the right to control over my hardware. They can only make suggestions, but the final decision about which lines of code are allowed to run are mine. No transfer of ownership occurs.
Yes, ProtonMail's ideal is no IAP. That doesn't mean the "Mafia Extortion" isn't related to the above. It's perfectly possible for ProtonMail to be angry about more than 1 policy at a time and at varying levels accordingly.

It's also possible for 2 people to read the same thing and come to different conclusions so please don't imply others must have misread something to have disagreed with you. Not only does it not move the conversation forward any it's needlessly insulting.
Okay, use it yourself. But do not encourage others to use it. It is adfraud and most people set it to full click through rate.
unlike Christianity, Islam accepts scientific discoveries

Ever heard of the Jesuits?
Robert Seamans – Deputy NASA Administrator, Air Force Secretary, MIT Prof
How do we ensure Twitter’s censorship is and stays reasonable?
The problem is that synthetic methane requires a source of carbon. Extracting the fraction of a percent concentration of carbon in the atmosphere is not feasible.

Hydrogen is one of the inputs for the sabatier process, so if the lower energy density by unit of volume isn't a concern it makes more sense to just use the hydrogen directly.

The reality, though, is that none of the proposed energy storage solutions are easier than just building nuclear power plants. France already generates most of it's electricity from nuclear power. Belgium recently surpassed 50% nuclear power generation. It's more feasible to just avoid the unsolved energy storage problem altogether.
Who the fuck are twitter and facebook to determine what is true or not. We need to stop this behavior, this is insane.
Argument analysis: Justices debate legality of Google’s use of Java in Android
> There's never a situation where you let people say whatever they want

What? There are tons of places where the only restrictions on what you say, is determined by the law.

> You have to set some of sort of standard

The standard could be "Whatever is allowed by US law", which is extremely non restrictive on speech.
Mmmm the dictionary says it means "the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint"
I haven't worked on ads for 2 years, but nice try. Do you have a substantive argument instead of an ad hominem?
AFAIK the Sumerian king Enmerkar was ruling the city of Uruk around 4500 BC

That's where my estimate comes from, but I'm not archeologist, I might well be wrong
Next version would be:

45 minutes were spent by humans arguing over whether "logout" or "log out", while I created both buttons (GPT-3 can already do that) and A/B tested it.
They hacked the ratings system. There were pension funds who saw AAA rated garbage with apparently high returns and thought "woohoo!"

Theres a really book called traders, guns and money that goes into the details on this.

When the government started going after the ratings companies they downgraded US bonds (as if the US would ever default...)
1. So as to your first point, I totally agree CURL needs to support HTTPS. My point is that Hyper needs a runtime for HTTPS, and it doesn't necessarily make sense for CURL to have a runtime.

2. I'm not sure that CURL should necessarily support multiple concurrent downloads. It could also be argued it's more UNIX-y to make it just do one thing and allow the caller to run multiple CURL processes at the same time

3. You wouldn't necessarily need async to achieve these goals. You could easily have a synchronous http implementation which allows for printing to the console between receiving chunks of data from the network. And if you really didn't want blocking to have a "spinning" activity indicator or something, you could still achieve it with threads.

I think ultimately you'd have to decide based on the relative cost of including an entire runtime vs. just launching a second thread.
Been reading Matt's work since the Dealbreaker days and agree 100%. It's rare to see someone pull off being genuinely funny when (knowledgeably!) writing about financial and legal mechanics.

Matt once wrote about something I was working on. His analysis was way more on-point and technically accurate than that of any other article I read about it. I wanted to email him at the time but like you wasn't exactly in a position to talk to a journalist.
SEP's take on it: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empedocles/#Zoog
Sounds like you might be the one who needs to go out then, because this is happening there, and I’ve seen it. Many Portlanders are still in denial about this, including the insane mayoral candidate who openly supports antifa and wears a Joseph Stalin skirt (and has a double digit lead in the polls!). I assume this is because they don’t go downtown at night and they buy the propaganda. Shit, a shockingly high percentage seem to not realize that the “damage is caused by undercover white supremacists” lie has been thoroughly debunked and are completely ignorant as to what is happening in their own city.