skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems as though several of the tweets on Trump's press secretary's [personal] account have been deleted by twitter.

There's something so sad about all of this to me. I "grew up" on the internet where most of my peers would have been furious at twitter for this, and yet here, now, it seems like the pro-fee-speech perspective is the one that is going to get me in trouble for having.

The culture has really shifted drastically in the last 10-15 years.

Twitter could have been this incredible place where you had democratization of information. Tons of politicians and important public figures are there, and you, a normal person, can interact with them. I have my gripes with twitter, I hate the way they "tweak" the feed to optimize for rage and hatred (but I think as long as you know its there, you can ignore it), but the core idea is so cool. Unfortunately I think we're way past dead now.

The world is a worse place because of twitter. There is more hatred, more confusion, more disinformation, and more normalization of the suppression of "wrong" ideas. This is not the world that we all though we were making.
the style attribute is problematic with strong content security policies disallowing unsafe-inline styles [1]. This can be worked around using classes though.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...
Yes, exactly this. I'm not risking my main, years-old account being banned for getting passionate about a potentially political matter.

And it's an opportunity to say what I really think, without being judged by HN's faux-politeness criteria.

There's such a large intersection between tech and politics these days, in terms of their effects on each other, that the HN aversion to discussing politics just seems anachronistic and ill-judged.
Hacker culture is dead, and someone somewhere is saying good riddance with a smug look on their face.
Check the port for dust.
If you depend on copying other people's innovative methods, is that not also evil?
I’d be happy with peak Lisp machine.
If it turns out monopolies of market-based high-throughput public communication channels put societies in a tailspin and render democratic processes highly vulnerable to information warfare, I don’t care whether we call it a public utility or a soapbox, it is a collective liability and we would ignore it at our own peril.
Gregordv, by "the visible part", you mean the earring, right? Aside from the size constraint (driven by the size of the battery and the height of the speaker,) the number of earring styles is not an issue (since the module is detachable.) Does that address what you were saying or did I completely miss what you were saying? Our plan is to introduce several styles on an ongoing basis much like any fashion brand. These earrings can be worn with our without the module.
Wanting to make a livable wage is not greed.

Besides, unchecked migration would lead not only to seriously depressed wages but also massive social issues.
Like you, I can imagine hundreds—maybe thousands—of ways to resolve these issues.

That's hardly relevant though, what matters are resolutions that actually work.

I agree that we are (very) likely to find the mechanisms involved, but so far, we haven't. In fact, we don't even have a theory on how DNA was originally developed, or how non-functional DNA/proteins self-replicate, or really anything at all. We only have the end product (which does—as you point out—work). The question is how did it get there, and previous hand waving about a huge, old Universe and random chance isn't sufficient.

It's going to have to be something similar to what you (and other commenters) describe: mechanisms that preferentially and relatively quickly produce valid, self-replicating DNA/protein chains. To date, no one has found anything even close to that.
There is a huge difference between endorsing a product and writing a tutorial about it... but content marketing is a gray area. I couldn't find any articles through those medium accounts that really seemed like spam to me - so I would say the authors are in the clear despite being called out really hard on social media right now.

It's really the sockpuppet treatment that is "blackhat" which the authors might not even be aware of.
I can't figure out how to get it configured as a pager (in postgres). I've been using pspg set in my .psqlrc.

I changed it to \setenv PAGER 'vd' and I just get a big chunk of text with no ability to navigate columns. How are you doing it with mysql?
Sadly, the primary way that the abstract concept of sovereignty is expressed concretely is by erecting and enforcing borders, thus defining who is in (citizen) or out (alien). This power is established, even reinforced, by the arbitrariness that a state can include or exclude aliens on a whim. I can't think of a way to change this for physical borders given the entire world has settled on this system, and it seems more borders are being erected for the digital world too. You'd need to take down the concept of a state with a finite realm of influence to take these borders down.
Allegation on Biden Prompts Pushback From Social Media Companies
Except, "keep the web open and free" was a big part of the marketing around Firefox when the target was IE.

The New York Times ad was paid for through donations to present an alternative to the closed ecosystem dominated by one browser that didn't follow open standards.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/fast-for-good-launc...

Early versions of Firefox featured links to various news organizations and stories pulled from their feeds, until certain jurisdictions threatened to block the browser entirely.

At some point their missions may have diverged, but the marketing of both were closely intertwined. MoFo accepted donations and other sources of funds which it used, in part, to fund development of a browser by MoCo. Other projects came later, but the community's understanding of their respective roles remained the same.

As a long-term observer I followed this closely when the Foundation and Commercial split was announced, and remember reassurance s about the core mission being loudly proclaimed.

Here it is from the former CLW herself:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2007/08/09/firefox-is-a-public...
How about when the ACLU "sued the Obama administration for detaining asylum seekers as intimidation tactic"? This was in 2014... Where was the uproar then?

See: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-sues-obama-administ...
“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.“
Criminal you didn't mention paint tool sai! He just made the 2nd version after more than 10 years. It's free for the Sai 1 owners.
I wouldn't trust NYPost to have that knowledge, fair. Fox, though..

Really though, even if DKIM wasn't a thing, there's little-to-no reason to only post screenshots if the actual raw files are available.
It's entirely predictable that Google would have this policy. It's also entirely predictable that the NYT would write this article. However, the article still contains interesting detail and will be informative for a lot of the NYT's general readership who don't work for a (somewhat controversial) big corp. Dismissing it as 'simple click-bait' is an over-reaction. Not improved at all by the snark in your second paragraph.
No, you are still misunderstanding static type dispatch within a dynamic language. The registry of overloaded specializations works based on static type information. That is not a requirement to have statically typed values (neither in Python nor Julia) but it is still statically typed.
> I have an iPad Pro that’s useless for software development without SSHing into a machine.

And even that is a horrible experience because the iPad keyboard doesn’t allow key repeat, making vim a terrible experience. That used to be an issue anyway. Maybe they’ve fixed it.
Lol how long has it been since the HN astroturfing article got posted?
you can drop the resulting binary in a scratch container that has no shell, etc.
Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel that (quoting Wikipedia [0]) "...explores questions of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, game theory as well as evolution and biology." It's a hell of a good book.

This short film feels like a teaser for what a real movie of the book might be like, but it's quite well done.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
Notice that in my comment I said "invest in figuring out" and not "pay drivers with." personally I doubt that it would cost a half billion dollars - that's farcical even at California scale. But the point Id raise is it costs less than 180 million to reorganize and set up insurance coverage for your drivers, payroll, and other internal infrastructure to comply with the law.

But complying with the law is antithetical to Uber's culture, so it's not surprising that the thought of obeying the law never crossed their minds.
This may be the only way to scale a service that is free to users. But once you are selling a product to paying customers, those customers need to be at a different tier with real customer support.

Those paying customers are already incredibly unlikely to be spammers. They cannot be handled the same way free accounts are.
This is an excellent observation--and indeed, one of the things about implementing (so, so many versions of) microKanren is that I've learned the paper version relies heavily on magic. It is very easy to get a microKanren that works sometimes, but explodes in some conditions, because of the subtle ways that the paper relies on the behavior of improper lists (raw cons pairs) vs proper lists, and because many recursive cases which would normally be explicitly enumerated (or handled via polymorphic dispatch) just happen to work correctly thanks to the way they encode bindings, substitutions, etc as lists. In particular, there are many places where it looks like a `map` might make things simpler, but will subtly break things, thanks to the need to recurse into improper lists. The mplus/bind control flow graph is also... extremely tricky if you aren't precise about null/empty/car/cdr.

If you take a look at the "full" version of this program, which uses more struct types, it involves a good deal more explicit recursion: https://gist.github.com/aphyr/4d41e7655b10a68e753f729bdc1c5a...

her kanren can't really solve "inside" of the structs that she asked to be provided.

Ahhhh, so this is true, and actually a feature: uKanren exploits scheme vectors as lvars, and initially my language was just lists. I wound up adding structs precisely so that I'd have an analogous non-list compound type!
Agreed. There must be some illustration to give us a better idea of how vast the orbitable area is.
Peptides are just short proteins, and no, we have no idea how to get them either (though it's obviously easier).

Also, it's not that what I've called bad/garbage DNA doesn't produce proteins, it's that the proteins produced are useless: they don't "do" anything. There's no obvious reason why DNA "extension" should produce useful proteins over un-useful ones, at least, no mechanism that we have discovered so far.

Instead of accepting a theory of incremental improvement that "sounds nice", waving our arms about random chance and an old, vast Universe and going "yup, that's how it happened!", let's try to develop testable mechanisms and validate them.

I'm asking for more rigor while simultaneously shooting down "random chance", "plenty of time", and hand waving about the Law of Large Numbers. We've done the math and we need far more effective, directed mechanisms than random chance to produce useful DNA sequences.
That's a good point, and your PTS sans-D reference exemplified it well IMO. I think at this point it would be justified to label every one of us with PTSD, after suriving the pandemic so far, and I for one would prefer just post-trauamtic stress, instead of tagging myself with a "disorder" as if I had done something wrong.
looks honestly like the worst job ever.
Solving open source funding through gated releases
Prior to the tax return story, a number of stories were published inconsistent with both the NYT story and often with each other. Twitter seemed to have no issue with the proliferation of these stories. Add to that, the unchecked spread of misinformation surrounding much of the various events that sparked protests around the country this summer.
> On the other hand, the constitution has remained static

The citizens and institutions and general "culture" of the United States of America has also completely changed since 1789.
This is the sort of thing I find myself frequently forgetting, too. After all, it stands to reason that the open source browser would be funded by the non-profit Mozilla entity, not the for-profit Mozilla entity.

Honestly, short of going and looking it up, I haven't got a clue what the for-profit mozilla entity does other than the browser. Sign deals exchanging money for the default search engine position?
Would you apply the same argument to your front door?
There is no indication of ANY attempt (technical or not) to verify that the emails were real. They did not even perform the basic due diligence of asking the Biden campaign to comment prior to publication.
I remember when this came out and everyone in tech that I spoke to said this story was fabricated. However bloomberg stuck to their reporting.

We are now over 2 years later , has any new evidence come to light either way?
Try to get a tourist Visa in Canada. Next try the US. You’ll see a world of difference.

Next compare what it takes to work in Canada vs the US. Also stark differences.

We don’t need 100% open borders, but “open with reasonable security procedures” seems perfectly reasonable.
Funny how the traffic controllers handled the report, as if it was the most common thing ever:

“Tower, American 1997. We just passed a guy in a jet pack,” an American Airlines pilot stated in a call to the control tower.

“American 1997, OK, thank you. Were they off to your left or right side?” the tower operator asked.

“Off the left side, maybe 300 yards or so, about our altitude,” the pilot responded.

“We just saw the guy pass us by in the jet pack,” a pilot from Jet Blue Airways then told the tower, which warned another pilot about the sighting.

“Only in L.A.,” the air traffic controller said at one point.
I regularly rotate my anonymous accounts on HN. A significant risk of reputational damage is attached to saying anything at all in a public forum. Who knows what else might get me canceled years or decades down the line? Better safe than sorry.
I'm curious why you seem so confident in a widespread democratic victory when the republicans did so well in 2016?

EDIT: for those unaware, not only did the republican party take control of the House, Senate, and Presidency in 2016. They also made big gains in state elections. In fact, the republican party had a 'trifecta' (house, senate, and executive) in 25/50 states. It was a very significant shift in power: https://ballotpedia.org/State_legislative_elections,_2016
Not wanting completely open borders isn't "greed" by any definition I'm aware of. It's a fairly normal level of human self interest.
>from a company

Not from a company - from the foundation.
Sandboxie is a good option. Development stopped but on the flipside it's fully free now.
> You don’t know who the best and brightest are when they’re crossing the border

Not sure how anyone can say stuff like this with a straight face. Of course you know. In fact, we already have programs to get these people into the US on a faster track. There are problems with these programs, like any, that we should improve. Opening the borders to all comers is not a viable option.
Do source ips still help at all? These days it seems to be rather easy to visit a website from numerous different source ips.
You have articulated my original question perfectly. I was having a difficult time explaining it.

Interesting that so many people have posted ideas regarding block chains and hashing, which is to be expected from a programmer's forum I suppose.

My eventual solution all be it not perfect is to record my message on a clear night with the ISS passing over. I believe this could be faked but would be quite difficult to align my geo position, the moon phase and relative position of planets, stars and space station all inside a moving video.

Thank you for your response.
> You'd also be openly admitting that Joe is no better.

Nah. Everyone lies from time to time, or bends the truth to make themselves look better. Frequency and magnitude are the important factors.

Also, Joe could have had dinner with this guy and still never talked with his son deeply about work. Joe having eaten with this dude would call into question his claim, but it wouldn't be proof he was telling a falsehood.

However, it sure does look a little questionable.
That's not a fair characterization of Aikido.
Ah, ok, "provided you don't want to miss them" :) It mirrors your phone settings.
What's wrong with the luck of the draw?
If you're the VP of engineering for a product, and your product universally sucks (and you're fully aware of how bad it sucks), what's wrong with the company structure that prevents you from fixing it? That's a better question.
Would you mind using Linux? It's been my experience that it's done everything I wanted it to well. Linux on desktop has changed. I hated it too in the 2000s. Now mostly everything just works, KDE can look and feel like any desktop including OSX. Very reliable.
You'll find a pirated version of XP running as you wish soon since the leak of the XP source code not GPL though.
Maybe since the foundation of nation states, humans have been pondering immigration, and everyone in modern history has it wrong except you?
> We need election and campaign finance reform asap

It’s never going to happen, see Citizens United v FEC and the upcoming 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court. This is most unfortunate, and will only get worse.
>>Before municipal sewer systems, excreta piled up in the privies of people’s homes—essentially a deep hole in the ground...
When the privies were eventually filled, that’s when the night soil men were called in.

This period in U.S/U.K history is repeating itself in the developing world as the urban population explodes.

Africa's booming cities face a severe toilet crisis
https://apnews.com/article/c225ff70420846489892ea206ecca6d1

One innovation from Uganda:
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/feces-poop-fuel-uga...

Surprisingly first-word Japan still has about 30% of it's population unconnected to a sewer. For those folks human waste collection (with vacuum trucks) is still a thing.
http://www.jsanic.org/inasia/japanhistoryx.html
A deep dive into super apps and why they’re booming in the East and not the West
As in, you can't do your job on a tiny screen, or you can't do all your work using a touch interface?

I would hate to have to use a touch interface to write code.
The Daily Mail like the NY Post is a right wing tabloid with Terrible journalistic standards

At least NYPost unlike the daily mail doesn't have a history that includes supporting facists(as far as I know)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail#Support_of_fascism

> Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the Mail's editorial stance towards them in the early 1930s.[44][45] Rothermere's 1933 leader "Youth Triumphant" praised the new Nazi regime's accomplishments, and was subsequently used as propaganda by them.[46] In it, Rothermere predicted that "The minor misdeeds of individual Nazis would be submerged by the immense benefits the new regime is already bestowing upon Germany". Journalist John Simpson, in a book on journalism, suggested that Rothermere was referring to the violence against Jews and Communists rather than the detention of political prisoners.[47][page needed]

> Rothermere and the Mail were also editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.[48] Rothermere wrote an article titled "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" published in the Daily Mail on 15 January 1934, praising Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine",[49] and pointing out that: "Young men may join the British Union of Fascists by writing to the Headquarters, King's Road, Chelsea, London, S.W."[50]
The issue isn't "unchecked" migration and a yes/no checkbox on a "livable" wage, you're making a category error and implying every anti-immigrant trope of the past 150 years. Your comment serves as an attempt to change the subject.

Immigration wasn't a problem until Trump decided it was, rigorous thinker that he is.
Not to mention the fantasy mythology stuff.
Google already censors tons of inbound messages, rendering them invisible in your spam folder simply because you didn't pay the deliverability cartel (Mailgun et al) to ensure that you don't get spam-flagged, even if your message isn't spam.
Ignoring how people generally use a word to make a point is pedantry and not useful.
I'd shun anyone who shows up to work wearing some political campaign message, regardless of their political affiliation.
Agreed, but I would go further: we should immediately issue passports for everyone in the world who submits an online application without prejudice.

There's a great book by Matthew Yglesias called One Billion Americans that discusses how important this is.

Biden, get it done!
Check out https://www.boundaryproject.io/docs/concepts/security/connec... for lots of details!
Btw, I posted the url of our first prototype somewhere in the comments.

And you can't discriminate against pretty faces :) Just because our model is good looking doesn't translate to negative points on the the coolness of our product. Not that I am saying it is cool. That's upto the folks on HN to decide. But in sharing something I made, and that I am enthusiastic about, I don't owe anyone some arbitrary level of coolness.
New clues about the start of metabolism at the dawn of life
I love how this story started off this morning getting repeatedly flagged off HN, yet ended up with both a top story with 600+ comments and a direct "we fucked up" response from @jack. Well done.
"Democratization of information" and meaningful interaction with public figures was never the core idea of Twitter. The core idea was top-of-mind microblogging and virality over SMS. Expecting more from a platform whose core premise is limiting communication to a paragraph or two was always going to be a bad idea.
Xfce doesn't really do enough to get in the way.

I guess I don't pay much attention to the look and feel though, mostly clicking around inside a couple of apps.
As Ukraine how it feels about its border with Russia.
Maybe no one‘s created a good touch interface for writing code yet. I feel like there’s actually opportunity to completely reinvent coding from something keyboard-focused to something more touch-friendly. At the very least for line of business apps anyway. There’s been lots of work done on visual programming system but they all seem to be centered on teaching children basic coding concepts, not actually getting stuff done in the workplace. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible...
Klio: Smarter Data Pipelines for Audio
Would have to agree. At the end of the day we return to a previous form.

If matter itself is conscious or not is hard to say, but I don't see why it isn't possible that it couldn't be.

Though then would that mean souls are the matter itself or outside of matter?, assuming the existence of souls
I think the goal was to minimize the impact of news without adequate sourcing on the US presidential election, and I think that goal was achieved. The conversation is about censorship and truth, not really Hunter Biden and Burisma.

Admittedly, there may be a cost to pay for that, and it's possible it was a long-term bad decision, but their goal seems to have been met.