skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, it is one thing to talk about social media companies banning people. There are quite a lot of social media platforms out there to choose from, so I don't really believe that people banned from them are truly "deplatformed".

But it is quite another thing to advocate for internet infrastructure to take down websites that have not been proven to be illegal in any court of law.

Common carrier laws already exist, and apply to things like water pipes, the telephone network, and electricity.

IMO, it is time for those existing common carrier laws to be applied to critical internet infrastructure, if they do not apply already.
This makes it interesting imho..

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/09/fede...
why do we al have to pretend this is true. as if she would’ve been hired their if she wasn’t married to the founder

jesus political correctness is sad
I remember trying to compare these before (but not what I ended up thinking), so maybe it's better if I just explain what it does:

When you change your "context", all of your open apps and their windows (on all spaces, on all screens) are closed. The apps and their windows from the context you are switching to open – their positions and working state recalled from when you were last in this context.

You can only be in one context at a time; Think of it as a workspace or project manager in an IDE, but on the OS-level.
Amazing but entirely unsurprising!

I mean a Tesla is still my dream car even considering the obvious quality issues, but I’ll wait until they are more mature at manufacturing before one is my next car.
Another similar book is Command And Control by Eric Schlosser.

It goes into a lot of detail about how nuclear weapons and their control systems evolved. Covers a number of accidents and near apocalypses along the way. One of my favorite books of the last decade, informative and very readable at the same time.

https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Ill...
Zero chance bull. The majority of the mob were not organized, but there was a core of co-operating individuals that came prepared with Kevlar, weapons, specialized restraint zip ties, etc, and appeared trained. Who knows what would have happened if they had breached sooner than the Senators/Congressman could have escaped to safety? And without that branch being able to function, who knows what Trump might try to claim empowered to do?

Is this likely? Maybe, maybe not. But I tell you what. There is more danger to under-emphasizing the threat than over-emphasizing the threat. Indeed, fear and control over executive power is at the core of our Constitution and founders' fears. I will not play down what happened, and who instigated it.

The general mob could also have quickly instigated a massacre. Chants of "Hang M. Pence."
Thanks, I somehow missed that part when reading.

I would guess that two big issues for that are lack of function overloading and that macros are pretty good.

A lot of the patterns of working with variadics in c++ take advantage of function overloading. Without function overloading, those patterns can become harder.

Secondly, Rust macro system is crazily powerful especially procedural macros. That power disincentivizes developing other approaches to meta programming. In C++ macros are clunky and dangerous, and that has incentivized developing more type based meta programming techniques to get away from C macros.
There's no reason communications channels need to reenforce the deluded side's delusions.

In fact, doing so is probably harmful.
"So is it really any surprise that society has collectively taken matters into their owns hands?"

It is not the society. The virtual mobs that hunt people online, even though looking massive (1:N is scary even for N==100), are absolutely tiny when compared to the society as a whole.

And as for the reasons, every mob in history, including the ones that did absolutely horrible things (such as pogroms), had some reasoning as to why their activity is virtuous and noble. And putative inefficiency or corruption of the legal system was one of them. Check up on history of lynching - that was done because the legal system was perceived to be "soft".
I was looking to make a finance, not tech point. Specifically that there are many things that are finite and "deflationary" but obviously without value.

Point being that the scarcity argument of bitcoin is on its own not persuasive.

I used the cheeky example of dog poop because I though it was cute but I guess it was"too cute" and obscured the point.
It listed controlling bodies in a list that also contained "private institutions".

So, according to the wiki definition, it states multiple times, all over that article, that private companies can censor people, and it fits with in that definition.

> a company to deplatform

A private institution can absolutely censor people though.

So what you are describing is an individual advocating in favor of censorship.

Here is another quote from the article " It may be carried out by governments or by private organizations either at the behest of government or on their own initiative."
Lovely. This should be a standard tool.
I almost hate to say it, but the answer to your last question might lie in instituting the kind of standards, credentialing, mentorship and licensing that exist in the "real" engineering fields. Stuff that will correctly be called out as unfortunately really "hampering individual freedom" (including the freedom to be a jackass) and being "unnecessary" and "bureaucratic" and (quite intentionally and without quotation marks) gatekeeping.

Civil engineering is sort of the oldest and ultimate example, where a bad design puts people's lives at risk. In deference to said lives, senior engineers in that field review every drawing or calculation that goes out the door, and they also mentor the junior engineers, who have to be graduates of accredited schools, and also can't get certified until they've spent a certain amount of time being mentored and passed the exams, etc.

The mindset you're talking about is basically all about craftsmanship or elegance of a solution. Formal mentorship or apprenticeship programs do a great job of maintaining and transmitting that. School isn't really enough, and certain fields have recognized that fact.

In software however, and I'm not sure whether this is the problem or the symptom, the number of developers apparently (I was told recently) doubles approximately every 5 years. Which means the field is always overwhelmed with new people, full of energy but not experience, who want to do something cool and exciting, but haven't been, for example, burned by their own past decisions to try to do something cool and exciting. They see only upside. Which is valuable in itself, but they need more direction than they're getting, from the older engineers who have the war stories and who aren't especially concerned with being cool (which c'mon let's face it, is essentially a mating display) and who are boring.
Here's some perspective.

A man was shot and killed by the police in a town not far from me. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-shot-by-newton-poli...

So of course the circus shows up https://patch.com/massachusetts/newton/newton-residents-prot...

There were certainly failures that led to this man's death, but all of the failures happened before he picked up the knife and went downstairs to the candy shop. I don't see how protesting the police helps.

Also the MSM seems intent on telling me the only acceptable thought is that Bruce Jenner is a proud, strong, beautiful woman. I don't think I want them as the arbiters of reality.
mmap is a more ergonomic interface than read too. How often are people copying a file to a local buffer, or the whole file a chunk at a time, in order to use the file like an array of bytes. mmap gives us a range of bytes right off the start. Even if not optimal, the simplicity in usage often means less room for bugs.
Working at a FAANG in northern Europe. I'm originally from Greece and can say that they're a very nice opportunity because they usually offer nice relocation packages and are looking for International candidates.

Also depending on the product, it is possible to move to US positions if you'd like, so there's that.

One of the best pros of working in a FAANG in Europe though is that for some countries, the companies inherit the culture. In my case, the country has an excellent work life balance culture. This has caused quite a few employees who moved to a US based product and then returned here, escaping the much worse working conditions in comparison. The only takeaway is that the compensation is much lower than the US, but this is largely due to the extremely higher taxes.
sure.

- basic js generates a css file with a random uuid and an example just my name. puts into a css var as a JSON object

- sets long term cache headers AND a matching etag (same as uuid)

- etag is a classic tracking trick but this is really cool it makes it accessible as state in JS client side

- index.html prints/logs the css var

- if css file is cached the uuid you see is static. no cookies needed

- i was also going to add just an array of recent request domains, last and first session. would help test the chrome cache keying. could even put a jwt in there

it's just a cool hack I never thought of. it's really cool how one thing can trigger an 'omg that's so obvious' brain fart.

Like even before CSS vars you could have done this just set really specific css width 12.999933/122.3333 or something then measure the div you set or maybe simpler just a random "'uuid_"+the_uuid_var+"'" classname add to body and then read if it exists with js. But I never thought of it until I saw this article!!! Same with just generating a JS file with static var which I've played with but never deployed. though I might guess a css file is cached longer? idk i don't have proof of that just a guess could be wrong

could maybe extend this to get around chrome cache keying with cname cloaking *edit actually maybe more likely that doesn't make sense idk i'd have to think about it

or just reading their docs last night about their new policy (only a couple months old) it looks like webworkers aren't enforced yet and you can explicitly control & cache a file with JS in a webworker
Would be foolish for the US to not slap ask import tariff on Chinese made cars.

Curious if a Biden admin will be more aggressive on that front.
How to Set Up Borg Backup on NixOS
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His best works are written in what I have always imagined as some sort of feverish spurts when the syphilis was in remission to just get them out of him for the afterworld. The late symphonies, the septet, Winterreise. All amazing works.

I listen to a lot of music, but some works I go back to more than others. The big C major quintet (the string quartet with an extra cello one) is in my opinion the greatest piece of chamber music ever written, and I don't even like string music.

The recording with the Emerson quartet and Rostropovich is probably my favourite.

Another work I always return to are Petterssons 7th symphony, preferably the recording with the orchestra I work in. Norrköpings Symphony orchestra together with Leif Segerstam. Way before my time, but wow what a symphony. I never understood why Pettersson is never mentioned among other Scandinavian composers such as Nielsen or Sibelius. His seventh symphony deserves to be played world wide.
Appel's modification could be disastrous if an Apple user sends a message intending "let's (squirt gun) the kids!" and it's received as "let's (pistol) the kids!"
You don’t have to longjmp, you can remap the memory and set a flag, return from the signal handler, handle the error later, if you like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Franz_...

Woah
Man on a mission
I think this was just an approximation. Nonetheless the order of magnitude is right.
I actually prefer the block layout of levels instead of the line segment geometry, just makes more sense in my head. Also I like the underdog, I want to show people the engine was more advanced than "wolfenstein with higher walls". So many things have been done with DOOM, I think it's interesting to explore the other engines of the time.
Is Deno intended to be used with JS? I was under the impression it was a TS runtime.
Prediction Consensus: What the Experts See Coming in 2020
We are buying old E series Dell ... used :) much better and Intel did not do anything anyway in the last 5 years.
Not if the water has enough salt mixed in it.
If CEO's took a cut out of their salary and the profits and reinvested it into worker salaries I am willing to bet this would make any business more productive.

Im highly skeptical. Sundar Pichai reportedly earned 280 million in 2019, while google has 100+K employees with a median salary of 260K.[1] IF you took the entire CEO pay and split it up, it would be about a 1% pay bump. I dont think that would make a significant change in your googler's productivity.

https://insights.dice.com/2020/08/28/google-ceo-sundar-picha...
Those are certainly some scary anecdotes you have, but the stats don’t support them. Things just seem worse because the media (and social media) likes to make a political spectacle out of everything to drive engagement. Shootings are no longer murders, they are events to argue over gun control. Terrorist attacks are no longer about the attacks, they are used to argue about encryption, the free flow of information, and censorship.

These events just seem more frequent because rather than being a one day headline they get talked about ad nauseam for weeks.
Not the first time, in the last few weeks of Nixon's presidency the secretary of defense orders any presidential order about nuclear arms to be cleared via him or Henry Kissinger.

And people need to keep in mind, the nuclear launch system while very efficient is not completely digital or automated. He can give the order, but it still requires military leadership to make a judgement call as whether to follow it.

https://time.com/5388648/watergate-nixon-anonymous-op-ed/
I made this to generate simple blog content from my markdowns. Like a page of python..
https://github.com/mechregard/light-wait
I'm a mere youngster at 71. I had to wait until retirement before I could spend the time I wanted on things that interested me. Currently that is the Unix Toolkit. There should be enough there to keep me busy for a while...
The popular vote is still ~50% in terms of party split — are you questioning the accuracy or precision of the parent’s 50% figure?

Edit: I wish people downvoting this question would explain. I literally don’t understand and am asking for clarification.
> threatening the President is exactly the same as threatening anyone else

This is completely untrue.
Asking you respectfully to please take 15 mins and watch these two videos, can do much better than I can:

https://youtu.be/8SicsQervb4

https://youtu.be/xH9XWNz0GW4
Even if I agree that she has made a fortune on the backs of Amazon employees, I don't agree with this comment.

Here, MacKenzie Scott has made a choice to give money back to causes which support underprivileged people (which will doubtless include some of those same Amazon employees), which she did not have to.
"Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie."

That seems a safe assumption. It was their primary skill and practice.
The library used in the this post has gotten much better since this post was written (in 2019)

Recently the ability to do `exec` and `attach` was added. It should reach feature parity with the Go version soon once `port forward` is added.

https://github.com/clux/kube-rs
I'd guess you could point at the metaphor implied in the word "de-platforming." Free speech doesn't necessitate that every person gets a stage and a microphone. If we were in a physical auditorium and the president started encouraging violence among the audience, is it a violation of free speech for the theatre to cut his mic?

That said, I'm still conflicted about this. I think it's possible to believe both that 1) there is a material threat of violence from continuing to give the president the equivalent of a giant megaphone, and 2) giving private corporations unilateral decisions-making power over who gets a platform is probably not in the long-term best interests of democracy.
Given that we're paying per CPU-seconds and MBs transmitted while running our stuff again on mainframes (The Cloud) this makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
The spam come in from not moderating content? I think his point is to put liability on media companies for their content if they promote content, forcing them to moderate. Or, they can avoid liability by not promoting or hiding anything. Don't let them have it both ways.
All I can do is disagree. I think this sets a horrifying social precedent and I have doubts it will be enforced equally.
I think modern cmake mostly has the right ideas, but the overall implementation is poor, mainly due to legacy.
The Guitologist – The Republic Has Fallen
> Why on earth would you believe them?

I don't! I'm just saying that this crazy printing is consistent with the current market.

I also tell loud and clear to stay away from them and to any exchange that wants you to be holding this shit. This doesn't mean that I swear off anyone working in crypto as a fraud like Tether.

> Money printing is irrelevant (...) You're pointing at a system working

Working for whom? For the ones that already have access to cheap capital? For companies in Wall Street that have enough money in their balance sheets to buy Uruguay or half the Mediterranean? For banks that should've been liquidated decades ago?

Inflation rate is under the target? Oh great, so now all the small business owners will go bankrupt and not be able to afford the things they need at almost the same price they were before, and the rest of the unemployed people can just take their $600 checks to buy a PS5 to kill the time they will be spending at home. Yay, economics!

> 10M to Pakistani NGOs rounds to zero.

How about the 700M to Sudan? In any case, it's not the amount. It's the absurd "crypto is used by criminals and funds terrorists" claim while being completely blind for an obvious mechanism that is taking tax-payer money and putting in very questionable hands.
You just described both sides.

Side a: 2016 US election was stolen. 2020 was fair and square.
Side b: 2020 US election was stolen. 2016 election was fair and square.

Seems that there are a small number of people who think a) both elections were stolen or b) both elections were fair and square. They are being drowned out by sides a and b.

If you fit side a or b above, you might want to some logical thinking. Pretty simple to see the two sides are simply opposite sides of the same coin, both deeped in hypocrisy.
Amazon employees only get 5% RSU's the first year, and will be pipped before they reach year 2 vesting.
It took me about ten minutes but I went through one of the claims from here[0].

So I looked up Minnesota voter registration counts[1] and Minnesota 2020 vote results[2]. I put this in a spreadsheet and looked at totals per county, and any examples of turnout exceeding eligibility. The percentage ranged from 76.9% to to as high as 92.6%. In no case did it exceed 100%, let alone 350% as claimed in a YouTube video. Given that on my first attempt to validate a claim of implied voter fraud (if more votes were actually cast than eligible) I was unable to, I feel there's no reason to investigate that particular claim further. Presumably each of these so called "proofs" follow this pattern. If any did not, I would be shocked if no one outside of conservatively-biased journalism was able to go through each such instance and find sufficient proof that justified further investigation. Sure I'm just one person taking the minimum of effort on one instance (the first I could readily disprove on the list without exhaustive efforts), so I did not go through every item and spend all day. This is just an internet comment, and despite my efforts, I assume I will still change exactly zero minds. But it reaffirms that what some are calling proof and justification is not even accurate, let alone validation.

[0] https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/election_fr...

[1] https://www.sos.state.mn.us/election-administration-campaign...

[2] https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/election-result...
Good to know.

Even if they're legally bound it's good to know that there's still someone in between who can simply say no.
One of the things scary to me about nukes for human survival is I think it gains limited resiliency from being interplanetary, at least at first. The same countries on Earth will set up nukes on Mars and point them at each other. Other threats (asteroid impact, virus) get more of a boost. Put more generally, I don’t think the nuclear threat is something we’ll tech our way out of.
The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother and big media (2003)
This happens on Reddit too. If you post something slightly incorrect or even a misspelling, it'll give it that first flurry of engagement which gives it a better chance of striking gold.
"If you want to post racist/sexist/homophobic things on your public Twitter, so be it, but don't be surprised when someone finds it."

So, what is going to be the kiss of death in 2050? Do you know in advance? How many of your contemporary comments are going to run afoul of the standard of 2050 and will you remember to delete them all, including from Internet archive/wayback sites, in 2049?

Remember, a senior manager at Boeing was forced to step down 33 years after he wrote an offending article. The article was published before WWW even existed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/business/boeing-resignati...
I hope you can still walk outside alone with distancing!
I have absolutely no idea what can be done. I think the best thing that could most realistically happen is that things "cool off" in the months after Biden is inaugurated and the world continues to spin.
Joe Biden is 78. He’s not firing on all cylinders anymore. He leads a party that has attempted, haphazardly, to deal with a growing and increasingly powerful left wing cultural phenomenon that seeks to use the infrastructure of government to change how society operates. You may be right, but it’s just a bet that the mainstream democrats manage to put a lid on these more extreme elements.
Medellin has highs of 28C and lows of 17C every month, pretty much.

Seems really warm!
The pure and utter mind control Trump has over people like the OP there is outright scary. How did it get so far that it is so obvious to everyone but themselves?
Boilerplate generator tool. It’s a single binary (compared to most JS based solutions e.g. Yeoman), and also it supports scripting within template files, which allows to handle some edge cases (in my experience most common problem with such tools).

https://github.com/g1ntas/accio

I didn’t want to separate scripts from templates, because of context switching, so I implemented custom markup language, to make code and template live together in single file. I am actually quite proud of the end result.

However, there’re still quite some features missing, and I am taking a break now to focus on other projects.
Congress can't impeach the president to hold the indictment over him for the rest of his term. Otherwise they would do that on day 1 -- and the timeframe makes it make less sense here, not more. If dems impeach again then just convict him for gods sake. Is there a reason to keep Trump as the face of the Republican party for another 8 years?
A married couple in a common property state doesn’t have personal assets.
Worth noting her name in the link text is also mis-spelled (mis-capitalised), and I'm not sure it's appropriate to use only her first name.

She goes by MacKenzie Scott.
Sometimes you can't do things with money. Going to Mars is one of them.

Although Musk and Bezos are both trying, so you should be happy about that.