skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biden Unleashed
https://twitch.tv/biden_unleashed

Voice/lexicon cloned, 3D, mocapped Joe Biden w/ interactive Twitch chat.

Built it after joking with a friend about Joe Biden's "gaffes", how his platform doesn't generate much enthusiasm, and that an alternate more risque Joe Biden could bring excitement to the people.

It's goofy, has some bugs, is in bad taste, but the account ended up qualifying for the Twitch Affiliate program which was neat. Also, I just think it's a funny project and my goal was to create it for those who share a similar sense of humor and could get a laugh out of it. I've been downvoted to hell and people have messaged with everything but the kitchen sink, from being called a transphobe, sexist, trumptard, bernie bro, the whole gamut. Thing is I'm none of these (maybe a bernie supporter... not bro. Support the policies, then the individual) and just wanted to make something absurd, funny, and fun for friends and others who share the same sense of humor.

The setup is a bit complicated, but it's what my budget allows for. One linux machine w/ a GTX 1060 monitors for incoming chats, when one is received it generates a text and TTS reply, then adds the username and text/audio files to the queue. The second machine handles the streaming, playing of pre-generated audio files, and monitors the queue for usernames to display in the stream and chat responses to play/display.

I've got a long list of other ideas for technical and content improvements, but they're taking the backburner for the time being while I work on learning/building more with React and search for work.
The key is diversification! You put part of your fortune in bitcoin, part in ethereum, part in dogecoin, part in beanie babies, part in baseball cards, part in fine wines, part in vintage comic books, part in tulips...
Average people were really not that interested in paragraph-long policy updates, or frivolous campaign updates. Large public engagement in the past four years came from the combination of frivolity and policy consequences. It's not good statesmanship, but it's good showmanship.
You'd be surprised how much does go to jewelry https://www.statista.com/statistics/274684/global-demand-for...

Long term the price is driven by the mining cost.
Reachoutt.com

It's an app that texts you reminders to reach out to friends/family/contacts you create on a regular basis. You set up the frequency of the reminders. There are a few API's that send along idea that to talk to them about as well.

It doesnt really work in production right now because it uses ruby cronish jobs that don't work correctly on heroku servers. Just need more time to spend on it.
Clearview AI being used to identify Capitol rioters
I have my own software projects, mainly written in C, which I have made significant progress writing it, but seem to be missing some important parts. Fossil repositories are available and discussion is available on NNTP.

- Free Hero Mesh - a puzzle game engine, for grid based games such as Sokoban, Hero Hearts, etc. - The behaviour of the game seems to work perfectly as far as I can tell, but the level editor doesn't work, audio doesn't work, destruction animations don't work, there are no examples provided, etc.

- TeXnicard - a program for making card sets for card games using special cards, such as Magic: the Gathering, and making up your own card games. - Many features work, but the package manager and version control system are incomplete, and the typesetting engine could also be improved, and there are no rendering templates provided. Also, the Separations Output Format used for rendering probably isn't implemented anywhere else as far as I can tell.

- sqlnetnews - a simple NNTP server software with SQLite. - Peering with other NNTP servers is not currently implemented, nor is authentication, nor the email/web interface.

If you are interested, please mention it; maybe you are able to help with them, because I would want help with some things, I think.
Which the removal or not of Section 230 doesn't change. No matter what the law says, no matter what culpability exists, if you can't afford a lawyer, you're not getting anything. An issue with the law in the US, but hardly relevant to the issue at hand.
It's a problem. We're getting too much online censorship.

Muzzling Trump was quite a step. Probably justified, though, because he finally reached the inciting to riot point.
I think many people reading that anecdote may come away with the idea that mmap is bad (and a monstrosity even) and read is good rather than your interpretation that you should benchmark better.

I dislike this kind of muddying the waters and I hope my comment provides another perspective for readers.
I would encourage you to answer in good faith:

1. What would make someone “disown their families for supporting Trump”? What are their motivations? How are they arriving at the conclusion they need to do this? Does the disowned family member supporting trump play any responsibility in this engagement? What values do you hold dear to yourself that might make you disown another family member if violated?

2. When you call someone a “moronic sheep…” Do you think that person feels like a sheep? Do you think they might see you as a sheep for being apart of a different “herd”? I would encourage you to explain why they are moronic sheep rather than taking the mental shortcut of calling them a moronic sheep and therefore unworthy of having valid opinions.

3. You summarize behavior as: “‘orange man baaad’ chants.” Why do you think they see him as bad? Why do you think they “chant” it? Is there anything you say, that they might characterize as a chant?

Your post pretty much says “I want a place that doesn’t have people that think differently,” “I want a place where I won’t be challenged,” “I want a place without sheep,” “I want a place with people that think the same as me.”

Do you think what you’re actually looking for is an echo chamber?
But you can make the same argument in favor or warrantless searches, phone call (metadata) dragnets, stop and frisk, mass surveillance, etc. You are basically making an argument against "the fruit of the poisoned tree" doctrine with respect to crime evidence. More generally, it is an argument against the 4th and 5th ammendements.
So I'm guessing this isn't accessible for screen readers?
Don’t waste your time here, half these people work for the tech giants responsible for the censorship.
Yea that makes sense, surprising to me that it works out
Hackers works on things which are not trivial.so certainly not a hacker
They most definitely do have their own set of problems.

But if 90% of Twitter was run by Republicans who lived exclusively in rural areas, would you like it if they deplatformed Biden?

Would that be construed as offensive? Because that exact scenario is happening in reverse. People at tech companies in San Francisco who vote 90+% Democrat have just kicked off the Republican president of the United States. They've been talking about it for years, and this event is just pretext.
What kind of stuff do you guys have that breaks? Sometimes I wish my stuff broke so I could upgrade it guilt-free, but it just doesn't happen. I have to find some unwilling victim to donate it to so it doesn't end up in a landfill.

The only thing I own that's broken in recent memory is this duvet cover I bought in 2008 that I've used every night since then... it developed some big holes after 13 years and I threw it away.

None of my tools, computer parts, furniture, etc. have broken. I've honestly never even broken a mobile phone, though I have dropped them a couple times.

I agree that computers from 10 years ago kind of suck when asked to run modern software. That's not "planned obsolescence", that's more like "software engineers made more complicated stuff more quickly; the downside is that you need a new $300 CPU instead of a decade-old $300 CPU". I'm okay with that.
Yes and anyone can make a website. I was referring to using the platform normal people use here.
Panels wear slowly, but just from being hit by photons, blasted by dust, etc. - but that’s not the problem - batteries are. They don’t last forever, and every cycle takes a little out of their lifetime.
That's a good point.

I'm a little surprised a blog hasn't already sprung up on whitehouse.gov.
Did "antifa" force their way in past police officers while beating them and spraying them with pepper spray? Did they break windows and try to climb across barriers with secret service on the other side with guns drawn? Were they chanting about heads on pikes or about hanging Pence? Are you so completely biased that you think an group of protestors taking over an empty building without force is somehow equivalent to a group of people attacking police and literally breaking into a building occupied by congress while chanting about and actually performing violence?
Those are Latin words, drawn from a Latin source.

“Pencil what comma building twenty section human fedora”

is English, even if it makes no sense.
> capital police rejects offers for more support before the event.

While I think the demands for th resignations of the various Capitol officials involved were warranted, I suspect that it will turn out that reliance on the FBI intelligence assessment that there was no indication that anything other than First Amendment protected activities were likely played a significant role in this and the other preparation failures.
"According to such taxonomies, demons were a busy bunch, tasked with everything from promoting quarrels, discord, and war (the work of a demon called Bufas) to inserting errors into the manuscripts of scribes and keeping tabs on the mispronunciations of preachers during worship (the work of Titivillus)."

I'll say the old theology (with deities, etc.) had more amusing bits than the modern scientific theology, which tends to be dour and self-righteous.

(But, hey, miracles now are a lot cheaper ...)
This applies to all Ponzi schemes. And despite the solid investment case most people end up holding the bag.
The article also stated that there may have been problems with the poll, like not differentiating between total elimination and partially dismantling police departments.

If presented as total elimination of police departments, the survey might have missed support for more nuanced calls to dismantle police, said Phillip Atiba Goff, co-founder of the Center for Policing Equity. “One notion of abolition is the need for discontinuity from the violent and racist past of law enforcement,” he said.
>The consequences will play out in unpredictable and dangerous ways.

What I'm wondering is what the impact of this will be in other countries. I could see a lot of other governments looking at the actions of US tech companies and going: "Hold on, they can do that? What if they do it over here?"
From my armchair, it sounds like the glass manufacturing might be rushed. How frequent is this a problem with other car manufacturers?
I truly, truly do not understand. We know far right extremists have infiltrated law enforcement agencies. We know many people who participated in the terrorist attack on the Capitol were in law enforcement. We know even some of the uniformed officers were fraternizing with and aiding the terrorists. These are facts.

Why on earth would we not try to detect and remove these people from law enforcement agencies?
The reaction here is not about “what” — we’ve seen far worse happen this year, in cities across the country.

It’s about “who”: people with power have finally been impacted by the craziness they foster.

Welcome DC, to the crazy the rest of us have dealt with for a year!
300/19740000 = 0.0000152

→ 0.999984802431611 chance of not-being-killed-by-police per year.

pow(0.999984802431611, 69) = 0.998951909443727 chance of never being killed by police.

→ 0.001048090556273 chance of at some point being killed by police

→ just over 1/1000 over a lifetime.

The math checks out... if we ignore the "young" part.
Newton's Cradle
Are you saying white supremacy is just another political ideology in the marketplace of ideas? Because I don’t believe that. White supremacists must be removed from all law agencies. And they are usually pretty public about their white supremacy on their facebooks.
Changing my diet (cutting bread and booze) helped my terrible back and neck more than several years of PT and doctors did.
This isn't even this level... There is a certain sequence of actions to make it do it... and it isn't hard to do by accident - it basically involves turning on every electrical thing (as you would do on a cold dark night), having a quite flat 12v battery (as would happen if you left the car unused for a few months), then turning the steering wheel while revving the engine (as happens while you're pulling out of a parking space).

So park the car for a few months, then go to unpark it on a cold night... Not at all rare!
It doesn't work out. A 78 year old is not a "young black man."
> decision to suspend Trump from social media could set a precedent for big tech companies to silence less privileged voices.

They have it backwards: After years of progressively suspending increasingly important voices, they believe there is nothing they can't control, and every escalation means worse outcomes for those lower in the pecking order.

Plus compaines aren't abstract objects so it matters who the individual persons who make these decisions are.
I've been working on pcopy (https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy) a lot lately.

It's a tool to copy/paste across machines. It can be used from the web UI, via a CLI or without a client by using curl.

It's written in Go, and a lot of fun. I'd love some feedback and/or code review.

It's used like this:

- Copy: echo hi | pcp

- Paste (on any machine): ppaste > hi.txt

Live demo: https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy#demo

Videos: https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy#videos
A little to the moon gem from the best of crypto quotes [1] via SEC Investor Education:

> New Year's Financial Resolution: Ponzi scheme "red flags" - Avoid too-good-to-be-true "investments" with claims like:

- "To the moon! To the mars!"

- "Number go up!"

- "Yearly return of 300+% in 2020!"

- "Could quadruple in 2021 and rally to $100,000!"

[1] https://github.com/openblockchains/crypto-quotes#sec-investo...
Let’s remember WHY we must fight censorship: not for others but for our (future) selves.

Once censorship becomes acceptable and free speech no longer a principle, the power moves from the speaker(s) to the censors. Today they may be good guys on our side and stop various evil leaders and hateful villains from gathering followers but someday they may be a different kind of "good" guys - guys very intent on stopping us from "undermining the security of the state" or "spreading immoral ideas" or "smearing upstanding citizens".

There is no way to guarantee "good" censors (we can’t even agree what those accepted ideas are or that they will not change) so we MUST fight for freedom of speech.
Zero.sh a tool to build admin dashboards
> They've proven to be more than happy to bait the mob when they think they can use it to consolidate their own power.

But both sides are doing it.

Kamala Harris, speaking on protests and rioting after the death of George Floyd: "They’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop. This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not gonna stop. And everyone beware because they’re not gonna stop. They’re not gonna stop before Election Day and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. And everyone should take note of that. They’re not gonna let up and they should not."
“But the passage of a Civil Rights Act is not, in and of itself, an indication of the end of systemic racism“

Systemic racism is rampant in every country I have lived in, the US included.

But you are changing the subject.

The question is about why it matters that it was once part of the constitution if it is no longer?
> Because I consistently get haskellers telling me that I'd be more productive as an engineer and my programs would have fewer errors if only I worked in Haskell.

i still think it's true

i have worked in haskell and i currently get paid to write more mainstream languages.

the mainstream languages are literal wastes of my time in comparison. not my money tho, so i'm fine with my employer paying me to waste time.
This is a really bad faith response. Truthfully, out of all the traffic stops, which do you think happens at a higher rate: instances like Philando Castile, or instances where someone pulled over has a warrant for a violent crime and goes on to commit more violent crime? If you have to stop and think about it for an extended amount of time, then to me, that suggests you have a strong bias in one direction.
Check out this university scam
There's gobs of intelligence on what was about to happen, what was happening, and what might yet be about to happen, all out there in the open on social media. I'm way more worried about the complete and utter lack of using existing intelligence that was served up on a silver platter and continues to be. That completely destroys any argument for expanding surveillance right there, without even considering human rights or legal angles. If they can't even act on what's given to them, or what they already know, maybe that should get the laser focus for the indefinite future.
The more dumb stuff people say about Bitcoin, the more room you know it has to rise.
I take “defund the police” to mean the opposite of “fund the police”.
i’ve regularly found his essays among the best of his writing.
You have basically just repeated your previous point.
An observable tree data structure which could form the basis of a state management library in typescript https://github.com/mfbx9da4/observable-state-tree
I would prefer left-wing biased factual reporting over right-wing biased lies.

The equation is pretty simple from my perspective.

Most of my Facebook time is pointing out to family members that the “news” they are sharing is lies and misinformation, such as “cosplay guy at the Capitol invasion was Antifa” — the evidence was pictures of certain individuals being on an Antifa web site, despite the pictures clearly being part of an article identifying the fascists.

Then there are the articles trying to twist “tracking vaccine recipients” into “surveillance vaccine recipients” and other such nonsense.
Not sure why you are downvoted. You raised a legit point.

Facebook and Twitter are important communication channels for the public.

It's dangerous that they can ban any elected official without going through any single legal process. No judge. No jury.

What we are doing here is a screaming match. Who can scream at Facebook/Twitter the loudest probably wins. This is going to turn into threats on FB/Twitter execs very quickly. You'll see.

Why can't we have a due process for banning elected officials?
Uh oh. It's not vegan then.
The change to EVs will proceed far faster than Tesla can keep up. Even the new EVs by the trsditional IC car makers will ramp slowly as the inevitable stumbles cause recalls and production delays. People are now witnessing the huge economies in EV, both in terms of far lower electric power costs coupled with the far lower mechanical repair costs due to the ability of an electric motor to last millions of miles compared to the thousands of threshing/wearing parts in an IC machine. The high first cost has been a barrier.
I can see no reason that a large car, with a well streamlined body, and only 150-200 miles range as well as a far smaller motor than Tesla can not fill the low end chevy niche. This will save on the first cost of the battery. Many people can operate within that range for days and new houses will all have chargers, same with new condos. Many deliverers can use a small cube van that only goes 150 miles on a charge. With flat floors, they can easily make 2-3 versions with extra battery space under the floor as ordered. There will be an epic expansion of EVs over the next 10 years, and all makers will expand into that space.
Short selling is a form of informed gambling/guessing...
There’s literally no one left in the room with him who’s able or willing to suggest or execute on this idea.
I thought the crowd on HN was more technically versed than this post. This self-titled "next-gen" blogging solution disregards SEO and accessibility. Am I wrong?
If someone hears "mmap is faster than system calls" and then mmaps and munmaps 4KB chunks at a time in a loop, not realizing that mmap and munmap are actually system calls and that the benefit is not about calling those functions as much as possible, there is no saving them.

That's not the fault of a 'dangerous' claim, that's the fault of people who go heads first into something without taking 20 minutes to understand what they are doing or 20 minutes to profile after.
Pretty interesting how the ACLU becomes an enemy when they go after the employers of a sizable chunk of the users on this website.
From the mouth of Linus:

https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=95496636207616&w=2

It’s a bit old, but it should still apply. I remember that in general he was annoyed when seeing people recommend mmap instead of read/write for basic I/O usecases.

In general, it’s almost always better to use the specialized API (read, write etc.) instead of reinventing the wheel on your own.
Absolutely, and I acknowledge that: the right itself is full of completely reasonable people that is being shunned by some of the extremists.

On the other hand, the same thing should apply to the left! Just because someone on the left has not been using logical arguments and acting in bad faith, it doesn't mean the whole left is doing it. People don't get a free pass on claiming "the left caused it" or (EDIT) "the left not talking to them is the reason they have this opinion".
Is the right-wing not against white supremacy?
In 2019 I started https://watch.ly/

It works, and I use it, but I never finished the self service aspect. MEAN stack + Twilio.
My initial comment was an abrupt dismissal based on the authors of the two listed items of evidence. Here are some articles worth reading that are thorough dismissals.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/18/this-migh...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/us/politics/trump-georgia...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/us/politics/georgia-voter...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/technology/dead-voters-fa...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/14/there-is-...

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/nevada/articles/2020...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/17/two-weeks...

Now, if you buy the conspiracy theory that the above news agencies are all on the take and not a single one of them has a whistleblower that would blow the case wide open for a few bucks, then you can argue all these prove nothing. On the other hand, it's really easy to argue that people that publicly support Trump and criticize his opponents have motivation to put out readily debunked documents hoping that enough people will accept them without doing due diligence to determine if they are legitimate.
I love this, but I need something like this for Swift. I’ll probably review how you pulled this off
Many people are saying it was a Twitter user named "MillionsOfPeople"
I would suspect the ages of people shot by police are weighted fairly heavily in the younger category.

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

> Risk peaks between the ages of 20 y and 35 y for all groups. For young men of color, police use of force is among the leading causes of death.
I haven't read everything of his, but the bits that I've had have both enlightened and empowered me.

I think Orwell's books are more than social commentary, and more than far-sighted predictions.

If you look carefully, they can help navigate, survive, and thrive in an "Orwellian" environment.

I think that's why 1984 is standard reading material in Orwellian schools.

It makes the smart kids think about things, and come to the conclusion that they can try to start a rebellion, get found out, and find a rat cage on their head, or they can be happy getting better rations than the dumber kids.