skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Reddit and guest blog post part of this are pretty well-known and even heavily advertised, even directly on Google Ads.

Try searching for 'buy reddit upvotes' and you'll get ads for services that do exactly what you're talking about.
I'm guessing you didn't read the article? This is not about individuals, it's about countries.
It does not shock me and it probably was actually "a Jesus" with the indefinite article which does not exist in Japanese.

Non-native English readers see everywhere terms like "product evangelist", so that's not a leap at all to call a very good evangelist "a Jesus".
If you are freedom absolutist then you have to agree that Google has a freedom of association right to fire you if they don't like the things you are saying.

It's funny how the people who adamantly oppose any restrictions on "freedom" don't realize "freedom" cuts both ways - if you have the unlimited freedom to do what you want then other people also have the unlimited freedom to punish you if they don't like what you are doing.
I guess it isn't news to me, but I'm running out of places for legit conversations and product recommendations.
You can say anything you like.

What you're actually asking for is that people can say anything they like without repercussions of any kind.

That's a different thing. ...and, legally, it's been a thing (see 'libel laws') that freedom of speech does not guarantee for a long time.

/shrug
There are frequently comments on such threads from people discovering this fact for the first time, so it does seem to be a point worth repeating.
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>I think it would have been less work for them to be legit

My neighbor had a brother who was a "black hat" and when he explained to me how he ran his scams, I came to the same conclusion.
It's prolific. If you read comments you will have seen it.

Question is why only one person has called it ( I can see )

It's not against written HN rules, bots are not allowed in unwritten rules, but is it a bot bot?

What more interesting is it's not a ring ( I assume it's upvoted by normal users)

They will be hard to detect. This bot could just calm down and fly under the radar and use upvoting and downvoting to control naratives. By the hundreds.

Need to get people to read comments, as compared to finding a word in them that confirms groupthink and upvoting.
The whole point of python is to eschew 'magic' in favor of dumb explicitness, and this is about as big of a conflict as you can get to that. Python lacks statement lambdas not because they've never considered the possibility but explicitly because "if it's that important it deserves a name (as an inner function)". Type annotations work so well in python as compared to ruby or clojure exactly because of this philosophy. The PEP seems to make no mention of things like reproducibility, IO in macro expansion, static analysis like in mypy, or any of the other realities of things like this. If macro expansion is limited to something carefully statically interpretable like constexpr then I'm cautiously receptive to it, OR as it positions itself to be 'for experimenting with language features' and that's genuine then I'd be fine with it if it's only enabled in debug builds, but in lieu of those the instant it's released generally it's a python 4 flag day.
Found: Genes that sway the course of the coronavirus
lol. sus tho I like how this site has a cookie policy overlay.
To clarify further, NY Post is owned by the same person as The Sun, Rupert Murdoch.
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spotify has chosen the "become you the thing you hate" path
It would be a good idea to present stronger evidence before saying HN is _not_ astroturfable. Yada yada. Just pretend I flipped the rest of what you said around too.
TechCrunch seems to agree w/ me on most of these points.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/14/suspect-provenance-of-hunt...

If I were to see a dump of the raw email headers from a trusted chain of custody, I would feel entirely different about the matter.
Mark Zuckerberg's 'Evolving' Position on Holocaust Denial
> So by your logic

Wrong. I pointed out a problem, but I did not suggest a remedy.

It's a hard problem. There's a saying, "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." It goes back centuries: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
Not too add too much snark, but the first sentence can also be paraphrased as “ML expert claims ML is critically important” :)

I do tend to agree that it’s made some dramatic improvements regarding utility over the last few years, but...
Those are iPhones.
Java has all of the listed criteria.

1) Comprehensive. Maven provides comprehensive coverage from archetypes (project starter templates), dependency management, build, version archiving, everything. It is written in Java as well.

2) Developer native. Eclipse is all encompassing. It provides deep integration with everything via plugins and great out of the box experience with different default plugin packages. There are eclipse for developers of java, jee, rust, c++, python. There's even third party distributions of it like NVidia's Nsight plugins for CUDA development.

3) Elegant. Is very subjective, but the Java API was elegant enough that Google decided to steal it for Android and be sued for billions of dollars.

4) Multi-Runtime. "Write once, run anywhere"

5) Multi-Vendor. OpenJDK is GPLv2+CE. There are numerous vendors who provide Java. Amazon Corretto, IBM OpenJ9, AdoptOpenJDK, most linux distros have their own package repo distributions of one or more of these as well.

With the added bonus that Java has memory safety, is the dominant language for the past two decades, and stays current by adding trending features like functional programming syntax.
Happy Nomad + Consul + Terraform user here.

Thanks a lot for the great products, but please give us managed Nomad already. Or even better: a Heroku like app platform. I want to give you money, but I really dislike your companies' enterprise offerings.

BTW I believe there's a great opportunity for Hashicorp right now. Cloud providers are good at selling building blocks, but are terrible at selling a vision of how you should build your applications. On the other hand, low code / enterprise application platforms are a disgrace as always. IMO a coherent stack of managed Nomad + Consul + Vault could provide a solid middle ground for those who want to build apps without the burden of managing K8s or navigating through the incomprehensible maze of products offered by public clouds.
I didn't catch the sarcasm until the last paragraph. It was actually quite believable, specially coming from a Master's degree in Physics.
Crack addicts? Hunter is not the brightest bulb in the Biden family tree…
NPR was posting fake news?
But why is strength important for male gymnastics but not for women gymnastics? The argument for women's gymnastics was that they are smaller and lighter weight and thereby can do crazier stunts... doesn't that apply to men? It just sounds like there is something fundamentally different to the sports themselves that I am not understanding as someone who knows nothing about either.
This is huge.

I wonder what the fallout will be.
Yes except the last one. Your windmill is not starved of space to make a big dynamo that uses a lot of copper and is very, very efficient. If the superconducting material is cheap you might be able to do it without using nearly as much material or even without magnets. So it might be cheaper and smaller!

The opposite application (generating torque) is already a home for superconductors. The navy has some superconducting motors in its ships. They're way smaller and have high efficiency over a much wider dynamic range of operating torque. Those are cryo-cooled though.
FAANG and FIRE
To be honest the entire thread sat weirdly with me, not sure why.

That said I just disagree with you that the masses typically are motivated about anything not just government spying I think action and change will come from a small group of people with vested interest, at least initially.

Everyone has that personal issue but it turns out that everyone's "I want this to change" issue is typically pretty different from one another so finding that similar group and banding together there to fix the problem I expect to be better than finding some key to ignite the masses.

And FWIW if the argument from the government is "See these people don't care about it so it can't be bad" is in itself a super weak argument. People and the government haven't cared about plenty of things that, at least in my set of morals, turned out to be super bad even if only a small set of people initially protested so.
There is one source of information, Rudy Giuliani. Someone with known ties to Russian intelligence claiming that his lawyer received a surprise hard drive from a computer repairman who has an utterly implausible explanation for his acquisition of said drive. Someone who has been known to spread false allegations and conspiracy theories including the claim that Joe Biden is suffering from dementia.

The Biden campaign has records to that time indicating no such meeting took place.

So far, without further corroboration, it's an allegation with no basis. Especially given justice department investigations into the purported impropriety that the supposed emails revolve around did not reveal any evidence of involvement of Joe Biden in his son's dealings.
Discuss the company's politics... without discussing your personal politics?
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I’m with you that it’s a serious problem. If it weren’t, Amazon and others wouldn’t be working so hard on AI to combat the AI or human that’s beaten their AI.

Those aren’t “fake accounts”, though. They’re real accounts being abused. There’s a difference. If Amazon and Twitter allow it to happen, it will happen. But what does shaming accomplish here? It just means people waste time talking about it. It has little chance to change behavior. More likely the outcome could become Reddit and HN enforcing a real ID. That may hurt the community, because not all of us want our name on everything; it’s not because I don’t stand behind what I’m saying- I’m just not going to treat every post like I want to carry it around with me on a sign for the rest of my life, even though at some point, maybe I’ll have to!
Well, hopefully they will recycle the batteries but it's a good point!
Are you really concluding those commenters are "alt right" based off of what they said?

I find that bizarre
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Data URIs are dangerous. So, yes. However, your email provider probably strips links to data URIs. I know that Google & Microsoft both do.

Firefox and Chrome also heavily restrict what can run in a Data URI, and that changes whether its embedded in a page, or opened by a link, or opened by pasting into the URL bar. However, they are still, occasionally, the source of CVEs.
> The Arizona lawsuit tracks the many ways that Google manufactures "consent"

That lawsuit is completely irrelevant to the question of which devices provide more privacy.

> Maybe you can get an Android phone and thoroughly deGooglefy it by flashing LineageOS or whatever.

You don't have to do that. Just don't use apps that use Google services. Done. It's that simple. On Apple devices, you have no choice but to give up your privacy. Worse, you give up your privacy to use garbage services that are less useful than their Google and Amazon counterparts.
Huh, I thought I used too many files. Surprising to see Office have 3 million files.
A TLA+ model would complement this article very well. Such a simple system is perfect to learn the basics of model checking.
Thanks for mentioning this, a tweet that said Uber spending so much on campaigning/lobbying shows that they can pay drivers went viral and drove me a little nuts with the clear lack of thinking involved.
Is it just me or does this article highlight bad practices (and ways to detect them), but then not really address the “correct” way to avoid many of the bad practices?
The study showed that he and his brother, who has a similar brown fat physical makeup but doesn't follow the 'Wim Hoff method' performed pretty much the same.
> Death is the one great equalizer between billionaires and the poor.

Firstly, that's not really true on an individual basis: Poor people die sooner. Just because they end up in the same place eventually doesn't mean the journeys were the same.

Secondly, death seldom matters for "billionaires" or "the poor" as classes, because biological death is the domain of individuals, not the clan or sociopolitical group. The billionaires have technology called "private property" and "inheritance" to adjust for the deaths.

Amusing and slightly related: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/259
Most trees underwater will not have decomposed in 50 years and would still be producing methane.
+1... was just thinking this.
It's hard to find a non-right-wing source promoting extraordinary right-wing campaign claims that are not accompanied by evidence or a credible background story.
Docker has official support for secrets using Buildkit.
As if the internet needs even more services designed to make people angry.
Because a sitting president has a personal influence and stake in the articles creation and publication, used as a tool to undermine an opposition candidate. Its plain obvious election interference, and the repercussions are staggering, thats the difference.
There's a big difference between "this happens" and "this is happening now, via these accounts, take a look and see precisely how, as it happens".

Also, if the threshold for posting something of potential interest to HN were "exclusive / breaking news" there'd be far too few posts and likely no community here at all for [redacted; aiming to practice civility and kindness] all of us to enjoy.
Disclaimer: I have not gone to school in the US, so I'm not fully aware of the situation. I don't think it's an either or. Boys do need strict rules to some extent, and if there is a lack of them that can be a systemic issue too. But the rules need to take their nature into account, and give opportunities for physical exertion, with play and sports.
I know it's not IntelliJ, and there are still some warts to it, but VSCode's remote capabilities have been good enough for me to use full time for python development.
Isn't it because a hack was involved?
So what about international prices?
There is literally no competently run company that will let an employee say things in public or recorded chat logs that could potentially cost them billions of dollars in lawsuits if found in discovery. This policy is neither unreasonable nor specific to Google at all. Does it also offend you that banks don't allow their employees to speculate about committing securities fraud?

If you get paid in company stock it's entirely in your interest to agree to let your company take measures to not get sued for billions of dollars, especially if those measures have ~0 actual negative impact on you. So why would employees push back against a banal rule regarding antitrust speculation?
I'm wondering if the so called leaked material is about Donald Trump, will they ban it too?
Fundamentally, I don't see a difference there. They are general computing devices, which are then restricted to talk only to a subset of computers, and only on a subset of protocols. Similarly, the RSA SecureID keyfob can be a public/private key, where the private key is secure on the keyfob, used to generate the digits shown, and the public key is printed on the outside. Anyone with the public key can verify that the private key was used to generate it. An "online account" is not required for the keyfob to be of value.
It’s awesome to see Brian Harvey get recognition. He’s an incredible educator - the finest I’ve encountered - and I’ll be forever grateful that I got to experience that at Berkeley before he retired.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Harvey_(lecturer)
Amazon Cloud9 [1] and GitHub CodeSpaces [2] already offer cloud IDE. There are almost certainly many more.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/
[2] https://github.com/features/codespaces
The OP is literally about Twitter refusing to publishing The State's propaganda, and The State complaining about it.
Can you elaborate on this use case?
You automatically get all the material sent from the municipality you are registered in (this is mandatory) around 2 months before each vote in a re-sealable envelope that contains information how to vote, a one-off voting id, the ballot and an inner envelope to place the ballot to be separated from id before counting.

You can either just send back the envelope with your vote via normal postal service for free, put it into a voting drop box that some places have, or bring voting id and ballot to a polling station.

I’m not completely sure if you need other form of ID when voting in person. But don’t think that would be a problem since everyone has a national id card.

https://www.ch.ch/en/demokratie/votes/how-to-complete-a-ball...
Wouldn't DKIM verification require having the public key of Gmail from 2014 on hand? I looked up some old 2014 era emails I got from gmail and it looks like they were using the "20120113" selector at the time, which is no longer available through DNS query.
Regardless of how good you believe your argument is philosophically there is no law that supposes they are limited to choosing supporting unrestricted speech or shutting down and any attempt to create such a law would in fact be a violation of their legally defined rights.

The change you desire would almost certainly require a constitutional amendment to allow the government to compel the speech of a corporation in order to protect the speech of their customers. It would be complex, challenging, hard to predict, and almost certainly impossible even if people on average agreed it was needed.

You would have an easier time forcing payment processors, cdns, hosts, not to discriminate against alternative social networks. They at least ARE infrastructure. The challenge with those alternative networks is the only content that absolutely must use it is often odious leaving such networks with little of the desirable often uncontroversional content produced by the rest of the population of users and lots of the bullcrap nobody else wanted.

For example technically voat is more "free" than reddit but a brief look at the frontpage suggests that this freedom is mostly used to be the kind of offensive jerks nobody else wants to be around.
Welcome to 2 years ago.

Can someone help me here, how do these alarmist articles pop up occassionally as if this hasn't been happening for years.

Why does my twitter experience, logged out, consistently show me the fake crypto scams as the first response to any public figure, with heavy activity and evolving responses, while others get to act like they've never seen this before and must warn everyone.

Any theories?

One theory I have is that most people actually falling for these don't talk about it. Similar to most scams, people just feel too dumb.
Because discussing the moderation system is strongly discouraged and leads to downvotes.
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I've been developing this 2D tile map editor and I just added a new isometric feature. Hope you like it.

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I don't think having more positive stories about a Democratic president makes a publication left-leaning, especially given that Obama is the only president in recent memory not actively involved in some scandalous behavior.

This is coming from someone who did not agree with most of Obama's policy decisions but at least could respect his integrity.
> But the expectations set by the cryptonauts was that this was all going to change the world.

So what?

"omg this ycombinator founder didn't change the world" said nobody ever

But mention crypto one time.... I guess it is nice that it is held up to a separate higher standard and captivates the minds of some people willing to help it get there.

Some people here mentioned a standard about merchant adoption, even to that, so what? thats the least interesting use case, the M0 money supply is small in exchange systems people choose to respect, its panned out the same way in crypto but people decide to make a separate standard of "hey a lot of this is used for speculation! I don't consider that a use case, is it because I'm ignorant of how fiat currencies work, no, can't be".

There are various services for merchants that shield the merchant from knowing crypto is being used, and various services for consumers (like debit cards) that shield them from needing to directly use crypto. That exists, not a lot of fanfare is needed, if you want to use that you can and don't need to write a whole blog post about it. Its not an interesting use case, no matter how much you felt you needed to quantify its use in that way in order to feel better about it.

It also works, shrug, onchain (+tx eventually settled onchain) transaction volume is at all time highs and it doesn't even make international news because its not news, as it should be.
What's misleading about saying that people who received room and board were paid?
Jack: Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great
Hillary not going to Wisconsin was shown to have a bigger effect. But it was closer than it should have been, so people blame Comey.
"What I do not get is why some people honestly do believe that an average person needs to be protected from lies by a censor?"

I was a Chomsky style free speech ultimatist.

Unfortunately, humans aren't rational.

Lying is super effective, its effects pernicious. They activate identity and trigger negative partisanship. Simply trying to refute lies only embeds them further. Profiting from the outrage machine (dopamine addiction) has created a vicious cycle, and worse every year.

Is this really what we want?

The founders had the notion that democracy requires an informed populace. When the audience of NY Post, Fox News, OANN, and others are objectively, stubbornly anti-informed, how is democracy served?

What's the alternative to censorship? How does Truth prevail in the public square?

Even Good Samaritan Chomsky has no response to the Paradox of Tolerance.

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For my part, I think it's hysterical that Facebook and Twitter censored a NY Post. That's like the biggest dealer of crack cocaine indignantly tossing a hit of molly in the trash, because that crap ain't no good for y'all.

I'm still baffled why any one would get their news from NY Post, Facebook, or Twitter. It's quite a stretch to call any of that "news". So I don't see how allegations of censorship even apply.
Alternately:

Note: it’s related to the visual programming language.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap!_(programming_language)

Or with full snark mode enabled:

Note: it’s about the visual programming language (2009) and not the package manager (2014.)

:)
>I can’t say definitively why you’re being downvoted

I'll hazard a guess: This site is full of former and current Google lackeys.
If I employ someone like an ‘evangelist’ to post on HN to talk my book every day, is that more legitimate? Or if I’m friends with or share common interest with Or otherwise court an established taste maker and he or she boosts my content and features me in puff pieces to the exclusion of others, is that more legitimate?

Flacks are inexorable from places of public attention.
Not hundreds, thousands.
Agreed with the parent. Even if the above is true, what's to prevent Zoom from creating a quiet/phantom "extra participant" and never having the client UI tell you about it.
References please. Unless its the NY Post, then don't bother.
I disagree respectfully. It is your choice to listen to Twitter or not. I don't have Twitter/Facebook accounts and don't miss them at all.