skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Facebook execs bragged about illegally assisting the campaign

I'm sure Chinese tech companies would brag about illegally assisting the CPC. And be happy to have the chance to do so.

BigTech is preparing us for a Chinese-styled political system. They've decided it's inevitable and "if you can't beat 'em, be the first to join 'em".

This has nothing to do with liberal vs conservative. There will be one party left standing and right now it looks like it will be the blue one not the red one, that's all it is.
Pelosi on people toppling statues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z8yhQMTIiI. For I remember, statues are not the properties of the mobs, no?

AOC on looting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzlRVUJLOwo

Seattle council member on looting of stores: "Colleagues, I hope we’re all saying we understand why that destruction happened and we understand why people are upset", and "I don't want to hear is for our constituents to be told to be civil, not to be reactionary, to be told looting doesn't solve anything."

Minneapolis council woman supports "dismantle" police: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idw83kGmwzw

And didn't Don Lemon, the warrior of our justice warriors publicly called democrats to stop rioting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp7oPgIwpZ8? To be fair, being silent does not mean supporting rioting. I guess that the Portland government letting "protesters" destruct federal court building for 5 months is not condoning either. But hey, it is the righteous people who told us "silence is violence, not me.

> because the police in your community are perfect doesn't mean real problems don't exist elsewhere.

Of course not. But following the same logic, we should "abolish" or "dismantle" police for a few bad apples?
LIDAR maps out the world around you in three dimensions, so with that data, there's no way it would mistake "a 'Stop' sign hidden within a fast food commercial [...] only flashing on-screen for a fraction of a second" (article) for an actual stop sign
We need to invest in education to vaccinate the population against deception via clickbait.
A little older than you, but same basic experience.

I also don't understand how the tide turned so swiftly against freedom of speech, and in favor of authorities deciding what people should be allowed to hear or read. But it did turn, and I don't see the trend reversing.

While I don't like the prospect of an increasingly censored society, it will be interesting to watch the struggle between the big platform censors and those who want to say banned things. I expect this will only escalate over time.

Anyway, just wanted to say you're not alone. Watching some of your cherished values be discarded by society is something you have to accept as you get old, I'm afraid.
Oh, wow, what an attitude.

Did you consider that it is possible that everybody can read the second example but may need to spend more time reading it to comprehend if they haven't seen it before and may make mistake interpreting the code?

Did you consider not every company is Intel or Google and there is a lot of companies that can't get "top 1% talent"?

Readability is about making it easy to understand the code, without putting effort into reading.

Readability is important because code is written once and red many times by people who may need to read a lot of code and don't want to spend much time trying to understand every line of it.
But why? You offer no explanation other than saying you disagree. What exactly is the difference?

More people communicate over social media than phone lines today. Why is the former not equivalent to the later? Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey said that he believes social media is a human right - do you disagree with him?
You could always map the stop signs in advance
It was Outlook on a Mac.

I remember services available 5+ years ago that would help you with this kind of thing (scanning through email archives by sender), but the ones I remember have all morphed into "tame your inbox" apps, which doesn't solve the same problem.
Also not to be confused with a Neon, a Microsoft DSL for image processing. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Huh? The Mueller Report, Deutsche Bank, Trump Tower meetings, Russian influence in the NRA, Paul Manafort's lobbying, Trump Jr's claim of Russian funding, Trump's push for G7 membership.

I don't doubt some things have been exaggerated, but I feel were pretty far past a theory right now. The question is just how much their influence affected policy.
I've long-since stopped listening to anonymous intelligence officials. Any time you get their quotes, you've got to flip a coin to decide whether it's a legitimate leak,or an attempt to direct the media narrative without putting the organization's reputation on the line.

Anonymous officials ready to support any given narrative seem to be a dime a dozen anymore.

Unless the leaked information is accompanied by an insurmountably huge collection of documents outlining a complex tapestry of affiliations, interests, and events such as the alphabet agencies are want to produce, I typically assume it's the latter.

The NYT doesn't get a pass from me just because it used to be great, and do the work requisite to earn its sterling reputation.

I honestly wish I could provide citations where they've fallen here, but most of them come from The Intercept's podcast (Intercepted, I recommend it), where Scahill's opening rants regularly take aim at publications across the spectrum's use of anonymous officials, and the questionability of the claims they cite, and it would be far too exhausting and disheartening to record them all. As petty as some of them have been, it's just background noise, anymore.
Thank you for bringing this onto my radar. I will do that this weekend, get a good email address for the most important services.
> Religion is a metaphysical perspective of existence, one based on spirituality from which we develop our humanity, morality etc. and none of that is irrational.

Humans have been naturally selected to cooperate over millions of years. Religion only exists because we yearn the feeling of community which is biological and it only makes sense that a unified culture makes a group most likely to survive.

Also, any belief based on magical thinking (very present in religious people) is intrinsically irrational.
I think "word of mouth" just means opinions about products that are communicated to you via a network of acquaintances, acquaintances of acquaintances, etc. that is very unlikely to have any underlying commercial incentives. That communication can obviously still happen over the internet.

The point is that when you're looking for a toaster oven and your friend says that his coworker's spouse just got a ToasterGenius Model Z and they're happy with it, you can be fairly confident they're not shilling for ToasterGenius. They may not know anything about toaster ovens, and they may not have the same toasting needs as you, but at least you can probably trust that their opinion is genuine. Of course, I suppose it could turn out that ToasterGenius is running an MLM and your friend's coworker's spouse hosts ToasterGenius home parties to sell ToasterGenius products!
That still doesn't answer the question — as soon as my forum gets popular, I can't moderate anymore? Do I limit the number of users so that I never hit these metrics?

If I'd have to be non-profit (which doesn't mean no ads, by the way), then this kills a lot of business models.
Yes, perfect analogy, everybody knows all people who has been blocked from twitter "had it coming" to them.
The "old television days" are long over. Considering the size of these companies and their advertisers, there is no way that boycotting or other protest would make any impact.

You're dealing in fantasies from an obsolete era.
> While I believe free speech is a good thing, I believe free amplification is terrible.

This is so abusable. Even the best of intentions won't stop it from being abused horribly. I value twitter much less. The same thing is happening there that happened to the declining legacy media.
Whilst I understand online reviews for products, services or jobs has always been a bit shady. I am very surprised that a company whose main offering is honest company reviews & remuneration statistics is gaming the responses.
They shouldn't be fired, they should be taught. And it depends on what languages they already know and which version of C/C++ they were taught. C++'s lambdas looked very strange to me even though I'd worked with C++ code for 15 years, but nothing newer than C++03 (both what I learned in school and due to code I worked on professionally just being that old). It took me a while and finally sitting down with a couple books on "Modern C++" to grok what was going on with that syntax.
Lambdas are a C++ thing, not C.

If 0 and 1 are the only possible values, you can be much much more elegant:

string x = y ? "bar" : "foo";

Else:

string x = (y == 1) ? "bar" : (y == 0) ? "foo" : "";
Why couldn't twitter say "we will delete any tweets that are critical about a certain person"? is there a law against that? is it morally wrong?

It seems that if they wanted, they could say "we want Candidate X to win and will do whatever is in our power to make that happen". What would people do then?

Equal time laws don't apply to twitter any more than they do to your blog. There is nothing stopping them from acts of outright censorship for any purpose they choose.

The nature of social networks is that some platforms will have more users and exponentially more value than others, so it seems like there isn't choice in the market. We as a society have to decide if "having the most users" is equivalent to the physical infrastructure connections that currently designate utilities and monopolies.

Having to tolerate political censorship is an obvious tradeoff. But if we go full Section 230, we could wind up with a situation where US companies are hobbled and replaced by foreign competitors. Or where American companies stop improving their service because they enjoy the advantages of a utility/monopoly.

It's actually a new and difficult social question that requires a lot of thought. I think I know what side I'm on.
No. First of, they are explicitly comparing to ChaCha20.

Secondly, ChaCha1–7 aren’t a thing, outside of a cryptanalysis paper anyway. Primitives like ChaCha need a certain number of rounds to do what they do.

Finally, ChaCha8 doesn’t just “pass statistical tests,” it’s cryptographically secure.
I actually really like that somebody finally used decimal floating point as the default.

The problem is that any small language must have a way to reliably manipulate integers properly, or it's just not getting anywhere. It's okay for that to not be the default, but it must exist.
People don't visit FB/TW/YT for their editorial control. People tolerate FB/TW/YT's actions because it is easier, they don't necessarily agree with them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 is the comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16660140 is some discussion around it later.
This is clever, and Tesla's software is awful, but anyone doing this for real, with intent to divert cars from the road etc. would be committing a pretty serious crime.
Has anyone done an analysis of "the google translate game" with an IR like wasm or the JVM to decompile code from one language into another language?

I'm curious to what degree their solution will end up being isomorphic (in the graph theory sense) to that sort of exercise.
That's a C++ lambda.
Yeah, and stats showed exactly that. If we are talking about stats and facts and truths, I wouldn't need to rant like this.
There have always be who are so fragile that they can never handle freedom. I feel sorry for you.
Depending on where you are in the transition, Garden (https://docs.garden.io/basics/how-garden-works) might be a good fit. It definitely touches on all of the surrounding problems such as managing dependencies, integration tests, and running arbitrary tasks (think DB migrations)

You define one part of your system at a time and Garden compiles that into a graph of modules that it knows how to build, test, and deploy. This means you can adopt it piecemeal and use it to run an entire CI pipeline from any given context, e.g. your local machine, VM or actual CI for that matter.

Full disclosure, I'm affiliated with project but your comment describes a problem we see from a lot our users so I couldn't help but replying.
If you’re just counting “number of rules on the books”.

You could easily imagine a flipped situation where people were trying to add regulation to get the same final effect.

I suspect most people think more holistically about regulation than that. Being afraid of being sued and the results of those of those cases being enforced by the government certainly could be interpreted as “bigger government”/more regulation.
It's like someone put out a dumpster fire.....for now
I am in your shoes and I don't think we're alone. I have a long list of failed ventures and it sucks.

Thinking about this recently, I've attributed some of my failure to my youth. I use to be in such a hurry to be successful. Maybe it was ego or ambition or a twisted sense of competition with all the other 20-something founders, but building because you're "behind" definitely wasn't the right approach. And because I was in a hurry, I never stopped to really invest in an idea. I'd build something in 6 months and if I didn't see any traction, I'd move on to a totally unrelated idea instead of pivoting - truly throwing away my efforts.

I'm in my 30s now and life's slowing down. To some degree, my dreams of uber-success have died and I don't really feel that same hunger I use to. Maybe it's complacency, maybe it's just my age and refocusing on things that make me happy.

Don't get me wrong, I still work on side-projects, but I'm approaching it from a place of building on my strengths, rather than reinventing the wheel every 6 months. So I'm not changing ideas anymore, but pivoting to semi-related ideas where my work builds upon itself. I'm also focused on an industry I've been working in for the last decade. I've been able to reach out to my network to brainstorm and discuss the value I'm bringing to the table.

Who knows what will happen, but I'm not in a hurry anymore and I've found enjoyment in work, life, and my project.
Per status.twitter.com:

October 15, 2020 10:10PM UTC [Investigating] We know people are having trouble Tweeting and using Twitter. We’re working to fix this issue as quickly as possible.
I think perhaps you mean install Ubuntu Server or use the netinstall ISO?
Or the NEON SIMD instruction set for ARM: https://developer.arm.com/architectures/instruction-sets/sim...
Twitter took down the New York Posts twitter account. 4th biggest newspaper in the country.
We are making even more improvements to ReactOS, now that the Windows XP Source code has leaked!
I'm looking for more clarification on how i can fit this into my Cloudflare ecosystem. Assuming many of your clients are consuming Cloudflare and all of their backbone, security, networking, and remote work services.

Would I just have Boundary authenticate via Cloudflare Access and whatever identity provider Cloudflare One is integrated with and move to the RBAC policy phase of the authentication - is this where i am seeing that additional value from Boundary by having that additional on demand credential rotation to various internal Apps and DBs once i am past the SSO stage? CF One is more of a vertically integrated all in one service addressing all of my other networking and security needs so it's not really going anywhere.

I think you guys could do well to release a Cloudflare integration paper, it might help with traction on on-boarding customers.

Thanks!
Why don't we build some experimental infrastructure that is designed specifically for self driving vehicles?
I became an expert in a Filenet based system. After 5 years they wouldn't promote me even though I had filled the role of a tech lead for a year and senior dev for a year. The company decided to outsource my role, so I transitioned to a NeoXam team. I worked on the Neoxam based system for almost 2 years and they basically pushed me out by giving me a low bonus and a BS reason (they were cutting the program headcount 50% the next year). Now I'm starting all over on a new stack - AWS, Java, Python, and a ton of related technologies.
Microsoft has decades and decades of B2B experience. Amazon has decades of Consumer Experiance

Google has none, this is why Microsoft and Amazon excel leaps and bounds above Google in customer experience
It sounds like you're describing a product review site implemented as a distributed trust network, and the plan to establish the trustworthiness of contributors is to bolt on a contributor review site implemented as a distributed trust network.
>If you're a platform, you're not responsible for what your users say (except directly illegal stuff, eg. child porn), and have no say in what stays on, or gets removed/hidden (except, again, illegal stuff).

That sounds nice and easy until you start thinking about it for any length of time. The biggest problem might be who gets to decide what is illegal. This needs to be figured out in both a theoretical and practical sense.

On the theoretical side does Twitter allow Holocaust denial which is legal in the US but illegal in much of Europe? Does the US get to impose its views of free speech on the world? Does every jurisdiction get a different version of the site?

On the practical side, what happens when the legality of something is up for debate? Maybe an image is revenge porn or maybe it is perfectly legal porn. Maybe a movie clip is a copyright violation and maybe it is fair use. Does Twitter take down that content as soon as there is a complaint? Does it have to wait for some legal action to start or finish? What is the recourse if something is taken down and later found to be legal content?
> Are you this accomodating towards potential employees?

Yes.

1) Reference checks are the very last stage of our hiring process. If you made it that far, we've already made the decision to hire you (assuming references come back in check).

2) If a reference reveals something negative that we didn't know previously, we would give the candidate an opportunity to address it.

But you're right, large companies may be less forgiving, especially if reference checks come early in the process.

> one negative past online experience or reputation hit?

Similarly, I dislike that it's not possible to dispute Google search results when someone searches your full name.
internet and social medias pretty much emphasized problems that were already existent, and made them much harder to ignore. For example, I truly believe gay marriage wouldn't have been a thing worldwide without social medias. I think Americans need to have a talk about what they want to define as protected free speech, and what consist speech that endanger others or doesn't move the world in a better place (perhaps this needs a definition of what "a better place" is as well).
Yeah, I'm well aware of Warren v. District of Columbia. That said, in reality most police do respond to 911s, they do help communities, and they do fight crimes. Oh, the police in our town do catch mail thieves. In another word, they do protect us by upholding the law.
Indeed. While Dickey's was originally a Texas restaurant, most Texas BBQ aficionados would never eat there, because they wouldn't consider Dickey's product BBQ.

See: Starbucks and Seattle residents.
I'm not going to deny that trolls are definitely involved in Flat Earth, but I suspect that most of the adherents actually truly believe in it. The key thing to realize is that modern Flat Earth isn't just about Flat Earth; it's basically a (very heavily) syncretized modern Gnosticism. By that I mean that it combines several beliefs:

* Absolute dualistic cosmology: there is an Absolute Good and Absolute Evil locked in a titanic struggle in which humans are the pieces. The forces of Absolute Evil are expending every effort to knock us off the narrow path to Absolute Good.

* Gnostic notions of revelation: the path to salvation is mostly, if not entirely, dependent on the knowledge of the revealed truth of the universe. Acquiring this knowledge is difficult, and (following the above point) the forces of Absolute Evil are trying their best to prevent you from gaining it. But fortunately, those who have come before us can help us in the acquisition of knowledge.

* Evangelism: once you acquire the knowledge, you must (as a good person should!) turn around and save as many people as you can by educating them on the revealed truths of the universe. And if they look at you like you're a rambling lunatic or try to "fix" your knowledge, then clearly they must be agents of Absolute Evil trying to drag you down with them.

* The actual cosmology: [insert a mishmash of the cosmology [1] of several disparate religions here] and the Earth is actually flat.

These kinds of belief systems, with a variety of substitutions for the last bullet point, have been around for millennia. Flat Earth isn't even the first such system in my short Millennial lifetime. The actual beliefs of these systems are less important than the fact that you have the revealed knowledge, which is also why people seem to be able to move very quickly from one system to another (as Flat Earthers basically all jumped ship to Qanon).

[1] One of the things to draw attention to, from what I can tell, is that these sorts of beliefs tend to extract only the cosmological and supernatural beliefs from religion and ignore the moralist beliefs.
Whenever topics like this are discussed, there is a very circuitous discussion around the crux of of the true issue: the culture war.

If you accept the U.S model of capitalism then you inherently agree that free-speech on the internet is fine, anyone is free to make a website and put it on the same internet as everyone else. Content moderation is NOT in any way an anti-trust issue, if anything, "editorial bias" facilitates more competition because it creates an opening in the market for competitors to service those who have a problem with the existing options. Still, if you believe a public commons on the internet is something that is necessary then the solution is to have the government fund a literal public commons social media site that automatically inherits all the strengths of the vision of free-speech enshrined in the constitution. Problem solved...

Except not, because the unspoken goal is to co-opt the audiences that these big tech businesses have invested billions in building and maintaining. Yet, these websites do not even "own" their users, all of whom capriciously interact with a multitude of different websites based on their various interests with a tendency to migrate to different communities as abruptly as the seasons change.
You cant install it on Windows 10 Smartscreen blocks it.
This app is pretty ambiguous. There isn't an explanation about what this really does. I tried registering but it stopped me because the "username" field is actually for an email address. Once in, there are various sections like "Personal", "Outreach", "Testimonies", "Struggles", etc, but they just have random Bible quotes, sometimes some input fields, and little else. How can I use this to strengthen my faith? I am missing some context and information.
> you can't forget a "break", and you can't forget to assign into `x`.

Same benefits that you also get with:

string x
= y == 0 ? "foo"
: y == 1 ? "bar"
: "baz"
;

Only, using ?: additionally forces you via syntax to specify what x's value should be when all prior conditions fail. In both your examples, x is undefined when y is neither 0 nor 1.