skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Black people getting lynched and yet the violent radical is Angela Davis. Right.
That's fair, I'll concede that.
But we're not talking about an e-commerce business are we?

We're talking about a candidate's campaign fundraising operation. Which is odd in and of itself, because as far as I know that candidate isn't actually running for any office.

You've moved the goalposts far enough, haven't you?
As a complete outsider to US politics I'm still struggling to understand why so many people are upset at "Big Tech" about this.

I think what all the de-platforming efforts show very clearly is that people inside these companies, taking their cues from what is most likely a majority of their employees and probably most importantly...customer base, don't want to be associated with certain types of behavior.

Maybe it's driven by greed, maybe ethics...doesn't really matter. They've done the analysis and they've all decided that it's ultimately bad for the company long term.

From all the complaints, one would think that these CEO's just woke up one day decreed these bans due to their own personal feelings.
Another point is that markdown is still pretty readable as plain text, whereas html, or "enriched text" are a little harder for humans to read if it isn't specially formatted.
>The thing about voter ID is that it isn't inherently a bad idea...

This is very true. The same people who often argue loudly for privacy, security, are willing to have a hole in the election system, probably the more important of any of those things.

Up to now, it's been "well, there's very little fraud going on", as if that makes it fine to ignore. Showing ID to vote in our most fundamental democratic process is NOT a stupid or crazy idea. And it has become the rallying cry of the paranoid and conspiracy believers.

Fault the Democrats for letting themselves be accused of voter fraud in the name of not making it hard to vote (solution: give everyone the IDs they need, easily, as suggested), and fault the Republicans for using voter ID as a way to make it harder to vote (solution: stop being underhanded jerks).

And lastly, I have to fault the people who can't get their shit together enough once per 5 or 10 years (ID expiration timescale) for such an important piece of identification and key to so many other things. How do they get through life every day if they can't even do this one thing that infrequently? And sadly, how bad a situation is it that your party has to rely on these people to get you over the majority line?
I hope devops will be finally automated and will stop looking like a mess
> How would Democrats react if they had to deal with 4 years of fraud investigations, #Resistance, #NotMyPresident?

I'm sorry, did you not live through the entire Obama presidency?
The joys of modern ux where everything is supposed to be so intuitive that no manual, help file or getting started guide is needed.

To achieve this features and configuration options are removed left and right.

Now we have half the software, no manual and often it still confuses users :-)

Edit: and I don't have a good, inexpensive solution to it.
I was contemplating async audio earlier today, and thought it would be nice to be able to attach audio responses directly to different team conversations. That way you can compose and conduct different discussions in a branching tree structure like manner, but still have the warmth of voice.

Anyone who prefers text, could view a transcript or submit text.
> why wasn't this done earlier? What changed? The US Capitol riots is the specific moment that made them all wake up?

Um... yes? Isn't that the most obvious hypothesis? Occam's razor is a good rule for a reason. Abstract concerns about propriety and truthfulness are one thing. An actual assault on the seat of government is very much another.
I expect fatigue might be a big part of it. Regular people are feeling it, and health care workers are not immune to it.

Having said that, I've been going to a hospital twice a week for the past few months for allergy shots, and everyone is strictly masked and distanced. Two examples of strictness details: nurses will open and close doors for me so I don't have to touch them. And once they had me take an allergy medication before getting my shot, and the nurse actually left the room while I had my mask off taking the pill.

Having said that, I go running in my neighborhood, usually through part of the campus of a (different) hospital. I regularly see people in scrubs with hospital IDs walking to the parking lot (within a few feet of me if I didn't avoid them) with their masks pulled down off their faces.

So seems there's quite a bit of variation.
The investigation found nothing. A producer on CNN event admitted it was fake and that they are doing it for views. https://www.valleynewslive.com/content/news/Video-shows-CNN-...

Seems like they are lying wouldn’t you say?
>If you're unable to muster excitement for things you love purely because of your age, I'm genuinely sorry for you.

That's putting the cart before the horse.

Rather you should love things that fit your age and cognitive and culture development. I'd loved ice cream for breakfast and sunday morning cartoons too at 8. I'd have an infantilism problem if I still loved them at 40.

If you still watch teletubbies at 40 and are excited desipite of your age, I'm genuinely sorry for you.

Slightly less so if you are genuinely excited about superheror movies, but still sorry.
I think Signal should do something similar to this, just at a smaller scale. I've messed around making a game using this concept... An infinite 2D open world where people's chat messages appear over their heads. If they're speaking using the encrypted chat and they haven't shared their private key with you, it's gibberish. All messages and player locations are sent to all players, and you can zoom visibility in and out so you can't correlate location to find out who's talking to whom since everyone can theoretically see the whole map.
If I were in undergrad right now I would have probably just taken a leave of absence until campus is back open rather than pay full tuition for zoom class.
> removed my self from social media

I would have said that HN is social media; in your view, is the distinction that you don't post things to a personal timeline here? (Certainly even seeing HN as social media I wouldn't mind treating it as a special case)
HN is a hotbed for groupthink. That is just as dangerous, even moreso.
To capitulate to them is a terrible idea. They had dozens of chances to prove in court that there was fraud, they never produced anything substantive. These people weren't convinced via proof, they simply believe whatever Trump tells them to believe. All you can do is try to contain it, you will never convince the core of his followers that he lost fairly in the election. If he were to lose another election then the violence would only get worse. We have a process, in 4 years they can vote again. When you give into a bully he will just come back for more the next time.
What I find more a pain in the ass of the GtkFileChooser, it's that I can't type the path. It's very annoying, when you need to jump to a path that you have on the clipboard and you can't, and you are forced to navigate to these path because the removed a simple text field to puth the path.
The equivalent from QT/KDE does this far better. It allows the user to switch from the graphical "user friendly" path representation to a crude text field where you can write/removed/modify/copy/paste the path.
The fact his father is meeting with Chinese companies through him is at the very least something that should be investigated and reported on, don’t you think?
The words you just wrote about necessary force are the same ones coming out of the mouths of those you wrote them about.

It should be obvious where this road leads unless we have a leader wake us up.
Bob Graham is the highest elected official that has challenged the government's narrative on 9/11. He was a US senator, the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and he led the joint congressional investigation into 9/11.

In these interviews, he indicates that there are reasons to believe that Bush administration had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks. These statements came long before the "28 pages", which removed any doubt that there was a cover-up after the fact and provided more evidence that Bush and his terrorist friends organized the whole thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRNti8P_o-I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656b7n9--ps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Graham
Black Capitol Police Officers Describe Fighting Off “Racist-Ass Terrorists”
Scrum does not formally recognize levels of seniority. All members of the development team have the same role.

You can read the official Scrum guide here, it's a few pages long:

https://www.scrumguides.org/docs/scrumguide/v2017/2017-Scrum...

I think Scrum exists only to expand the adoption of Scrum. That is at least the reason behind the role of "Scrum master".

By maximizing adoption, the authors can personally benefit and become rich and famous.
> Free speech refers to government censorship.

No, free speech refers to free speech. Government censorship is one thing that can prevent speech being free, but not the only one.

Or put another way, there is a legal concept of "freedom of speech", rooted in the First Amendment in the US, and there is a somewhat separate moral concept, which can be both narrower and broader than the legal one. There is some pretty widespread disagreement on the exact boundaries of the moral concep.

The legal concept did not create the moral concept. The reason there is a First Amendment is that the value of free speech already existed, and was codified, in one limited domain, in the Constitution.

And I am quite sure that if the moral concept becomes too narrow, with overwhelming support for speech restrictions in the population in general, the legal concept will follow, via the amendment process... Which makes it a priority, for me, to push back on attempts to narrow the moral concept absent great need.

Or to put it another way: There is no legal requirement for a non-government entity to allow various speech in the US. But in many cases I would argue there is a moral requirement, even if they disagree with the content of the speech. Obviously, being a moral requirement, there is a line the entity needs to decide on for itself after which it will no longer support said speech.
Yes, because you don't have to be convicted of a crime to have done something wrong and regardless it doesn't matter. Twitter can kick someone off for whatever reason they want. That's something currently protected in our law.
I like cabal because I can read & write messages when I'm offline or there's no internet. It's also nice because I can start a private chat room for my friends without anyone needing to host and maintain any servers or infrastructure.
Screw Red Hat, the amound of crapware and bad attitudes coming from them is astounding. And of course, since they have big bucks, it gets shoved down everyones' throats.
See you've been conditioned to think that some file views are different from others. On Windows, a file viewer is a file viewer is a file viewer. So yes, dragging a file from one file viewer (windows explorer) to another one (which happens to be inside a file save/open dialog) is a move action. I love this and wouldn't have it any other way. Although I agree it should be a setting. Although perhaps Apple has patented it. Gotta always remember that GUI patents are a thing.
Companies don't want to be tied to hate speech or speech that causes people to riot. It may not seem fair, but companies are private and not a part of the government so there is no freedom of speech.
If you use it with every basic extension, like Kubuntu's default setup, then it's really bloated (Akonadi and MySQL is a dependency for KMail), but thankfully it's highly modular and enough fast for my taste.
That's obvious now, but was it obvious then? I'm pretty sure even germ theory is a "recent" discovery.
Mail in voting is fine, no one has -ever- been able to prove it widespread enough to change an election (unless you live in a town of like 50 people). This has been studied over and over. Every time they check out the supposed fraudulent votes nothing pans out. It is an empty and flawed argument. The ones saying that it lends itself to being fraudulent need to prove it.
When I replied to you above, your comment began with "That's ridiculous", which is just the sort of thing that we ask people not to do in comments here. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

That's mainly what I was responding to, though there were some smaller things that you also edited. However, what matters most is that the form you edited it into is really good, and if you comment in that way going forward, everything will be better.
I mean, their name is Red Hat...
Tolerance doesn't mean you never resist. Tolerance means you're willing to have a conversation, and you can be friends in spite of fundamental differences.

Christians who live up to the ideal are willing to have a civil relationship with anyone. That's the point. That's tolerance.

It means you actually know the other person, and you're not making (possibly misinformed) assumptions about them. The next step in the relationship may very well be to 'firmly disabuse them', but it's not the first step.
Plus Gtk gets picked by several cross platform runtimes, e.g. Java, Uno, Xamarin, wxWidgets, as the "official" UI on Linux.
> for this claim that the black lives matters

Nobody said anything about BLM. That was just you.

Instead the previous poster was likely refering to the violence and death that happened, at places like the Seattle Cap hill autonomous zone.

Such events included many self identified anarchists. And there absolutely were shootings attacks on a government building during those anarchist riots.

Nothing to do with BLM. Instead, people are referring to the actions taken by anarchists.
The qualifications to be US President are: 35 years old, US-born, 14 years in residence, never impeached.

Maybe, just maybe, that's not enough qualification to be eligible for such a complex job, serving 100s of millions of people, with such a huge budget, and so much that has to be balanced. Experience ordering around 'underlings' isn't enough for this job. 'Charisma' isn't experience.

Evidence of fitness would help. Significant elected public governing experience might provide a record of success as evidence.

Maybe, just maybe, there should be some way to get rid of a Bozo (like the UK has).
Can you substantiate your claims?
It’s unclear the Germans of the Weimar-Republic would have been better off with communists, considering the Stalin and Mao atrocities.

Just, factually.
I'm not sure how you missed the point by that much. Infrastructure bans are a thing now. You can't produce an app to compete with Twitter and Facebook if you don't have access to scalable infrastructure. Moving to a different host to get canceled there isn't a solution.
>When the whole worlds discourse flows through a few centralized social media companies, as a society we are free to imagine new legal concepts and regulations to deal with the unforeseeable consequences of these new phenomena.

Where did I say that wasn't appropriate?

I strongly believe that those big social media companies not only have too much power and influence, but that their business models are exploitative and morally repugnant.

Which is why I don't use them. At all.

In fact, I detailed[0] how I thought this issue should be dealt with the other day.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25688032
How come this doesn't come up every time "just use Linux" is mentioned as some superior solution?
I'm not sure if it helps much. It emphasizes deep threads. Do we care for deep threads? Well, not really. Usually we want to see threads with a lot of votes and a lot of replies (breadth-wise), and when navigating we want to be able to follow the thread of replies to an individual comment. You can comfortably list all parents of a comment on this flamegraph, but basically you'll end up reading a random thread w/o knowing first if it will be interesting.

And the problem of big flame-tongues is more of a HN/reddit reply format, i.e. I don't know if it can be solved by another UI. People using the default UI in such threads reply only to the first comment, because it's the only way to be seen. Nobody reads past few first top-comments.

I guess it's very much opinionated, because people first time on 4chan tend to get lost, but I've long came to conclusion that the imageboard reply format is the best there can be, especially with some simple UI tweaks. You can follow threads easily, you can reply to any number of comments, you can link several discussions into one. It's easy to spot a post with lots of replies. It's easy to scroll, unlike HN comments. The downside is that 3000-comment thread would terribly slow down your browser, about the 1000 is the upper-limit I guess, and usually threads are just split into series of multiple threads on the 500-post mark. But that obviously wouldn't work anyway if the main feature is to order posts based on the number of votes. So, alternative UI like that for HN wouldn't help very much either.

What would really help on HN is the ability to collapse all of the children w/o collapsing the parent-post itself, and showing multiple top-level posts on a single page when children are collapsed. This way you could browse for the discussions you are interested in and expand them further.
No, the GTK application needs to explicitly add support for that feature, by using the newer GtkFileChooserNative API, introduced in GTK 3.20, instead of the older and more extensive GtkFileChooser API. In my experience it's still a complete hit and miss whether a GTK application supports native dialogs and of course you actually might loose some features with it, since the new API doesn't support everything of the old one.
This is fantastic. You know you’ve come up with a good visualisation when it feels so instantly familiar.

I’m trying to think of how you can convert some ancillary information with color (with accessible fallbacks of course). Maybe color coded users? So you could see the same colors gravitating around threads.

I’m not sure how many unique users comment on an average thread though and how useful that would be. Maybe only showing unique colors for users with more than 2 posts in a thread?

I love it though. Great job
> This breaks the Android security model.

How so? CalyxOS looks nifty, I hadn't heard of it.
I'm convinced that the vast majority of business-y manager types that always trumpet "we have to be more agile" have never read the agile manifesto - specifically the "individuals and interactions over process and tools".

It's regretful that it caught on so well and has (incorrectly) evolved into a concrete process in most places rather than an ideology.
I think VR could be really cool solution to some of the problems with video calls, but the headsets are just too heavy at this point. I have an oculus quest 1 and can't stand wearing it more than maybe 30 or 40 minutes, it just hurts my face. I've tried adding weight to the back, etc., but haven't found a good solution. I have a 20th percentile head size (a really big noggin) so maybe I'm in the minority that wouldn't like this... yet. Maybe some VC could help push to lighter tech.

I haven't tried the Quest 2, but I hear it's lighter. Also have yet to try a Valve Index.

At this point in my experience with video calls, I'm just happy when everybody's wearing headphones so they don't get their audio dropped when somebody talks over them.
The various certification organizations.

You shouldn't be able to be certified as a nurse, doctor, RN, PA, etc if you don't understand basic medical science.
I think you can enter a path by pressing "Ctrl+l"
> ...the fact that a small group of rioters were just a few feet away from irreversibly staining American history with the blood of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in the chain of command of the United states of America...

Let me ask for a quick accounting here - what is the evidence for this? My understanding is 100% of the gun deaths were from guns in the hands of law enforcement officers who were perfectly capable of defending themselves when pushed. There are a bunch of instantly iconic photos [0] with basically no weapons in the hands of protestors. They clearly didn't plan on breaching the Capitol or they'd have realised that they were all about to go to jail forever.

This is a not a mob out for literal blood.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/capitol-mob-deaths/ind...
Side note: Angular tends to create new commits (keeping the author, changing the committer) instead of directly merging the PRs. The real acceptance rate seems to be high.
It really won't. It'll be cited as a the grievance that drove them over the line in manifestos or court testimony, but generally people are radicalized by themselves or peers and then cast around for an exterior excuse afterwards. The grievances vary with circumstances, the target or out-group disliked by the extremist person stays the same.
This is a really bad idea. I'm more sympathetic to Twitter. Even under the First Amendment there's no right to say things that aren't true. Which is more the issue than incitement. But this goes way too far:

Companies with business before the US and foreign governments should not be making these decisions. The potential for corruption is absolutely huge. Do we really want Tik Tok deciding what the US President can and can't say.

This is going to further erode trust in US institutions. To believe Trump isn't lying about the election you have to think there's a massive conspiracy to keep him out of power. Well...

Banning people from sharing beliefs doesn't make them less popular. Banning racist speech has NOT worked in Europe.

This is disproportionate to what Trump actually did. This is not to downplay the seriousness of a riot inside the Capitol Building. The timing and nature of the act are repugnant and the people who did it deserve to spend some quality time in federal prison. Trump's false rhetoric about the election being stolen undoubtedly (and foreseeably) motivated these people. But I don't think what he said can be fairly read as advocating what happened. There was no threat whatsoever of the government being overthrown. Trump and people like him will ultimately find a way around these actions. And once they do they will cease to be effective. Individual states can probably step in and ban this sort of thing. And I fully expect most Red States to have done so by the end of the year. These tools should be preserved for a true emergency. Which this isn't.

The right solution to the issue of disinformation is changing libel laws. NYT vs Sullivan was probably a mistake. And several states have criminal libel laws that could have plausibly been applied here.
My Personal Twitter Manifest
That's exactly my stance as a free market advocate. I heavily think it's the wrong move to grant some special status to these existing companies.
Re: nurses specifically, the trials simply didn't enroll people who had already had COVID-19, so they just don't have data on how safe that is. It probably is. But we just don't know yet. There's also little reason to get the vaccine in that case as we're now very confident that immunity after infection is effective and long lasting. Obviously, being exposed to it, many nurses would have been infected already and recovered; if I knew I had been infected already, I would not get vaccinated.
I wonder what you think my positions are, as I haven't voiced them yet. But you nevertheless feel certain I should change them. Be careful of projecting your own expectations onto other participants in a discussion.