skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minority according to who? I feel like practically every US news source was flooded for years with wacked out conspiracy theories alleging that Putin controlled everything and had "hacked the election". It was all garbage.
That's a fair point, but I think it depends on whether someone is clearly inciting violence. In the case of Trump's Twitter ban I would agree with you - it will enrage Trump supporters and cause them to disengage from constructive debate. And Trump's tweets aren't really examples of 'inciting violence'.

But in this case some Parler users are saying, "They should have burnt down Nanci Pelosi's house with her inside" and "That cop should have been shot and bleed out".
This is clearly encouraging acts of violence, and the costs of giving such people a megaphone outweigh the benefits of engaged debate. So Apple is right to insist that Parler moderate such speech.
I'm surprised all vendor variants seem to show a sliced bagel -- either closed with a filling or two separate halves with or without a filling.

A bagel is not necessarily sliced, and a good fresh bagel can be beneficially eaten like a pretzel without slicing it at all.

If I were the designer given the brief "generic iconic bagel", I would not have it sliced at all, thus avoiding the question of whether or what filling. I would put some seeds (sesame or poppy, either way) on it, to help distinguish from a doughnut.

And yet, all actual variants are sliced. Odd. Does unicode provide a suggested schematic for these, that perhaps suggests sliced?
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> Why? I don't see how it's different from requiring a user to install a compiler to build a particular language.

The various build systems I've seen, including CMake, are portability projects in themselves. Yes, to build a C++ program you need a C++ compiler. But if it's using CMake then you need CMake. Oh, but you don't have that. Ok, now you have to install that.

Oh, it requires Python X.Y (I'm not saying CMake does, but I've seen others that do, and CMake has other similar things)? Oh, this system doesn't have that. So now I need to build Python from source. Does Python have any dependencies, perhaps? (or worse, you have to use backports, which pull in 1000 dependencies so that now you have a frankensystem)

If you've ever been at the point where two steps down the dependency chain you have to build something as fundamental as Python, then you probably know that this is not a fun experience. And in fact you may run out of disk space, several gigs of source and object code later. (not every system is a 100TB server)

The whole thing about portability is that it should actually work even on systems the original developer does not have access to. If all you need to support is Ubuntu 18.04 (or newer) and Windows, then why not just have a Makefile and a MSVC project file? That would be much easier than CMake or autotools.

Oh, and I've also been hit by dependencies of the build system being too NEW. E.g. CMakeList.txt using features removed in newer versions.

And that's how autotools is different. The ONLY dependency is a POSIX shell. Do you have that? Then you can build.

The number of times I've seen CMake try to link with "-llibfoo" (it's "-lfoo") or be entirely confused about how I'm not running the exact same system the developer is, I can't even count. (e.g. failing to build because "this is not an amd64 system"… uh, yes it is, with zero logs about why it thinks that)

> The elephant in the room here is windows, and at this current point in time, CMake is about as portable there as autotools because Visual Studio has built in support for it.

Well that just means CMake has nothing at all going for it, if they are as portable.
Personally I'd rather the sugar beet was sacrificed, not the bees.

That said, this is absolutely nothing to do with Brexit - unless Belgium and the Netherlands also left the EU without us noticing. The UK is neither the first nor the only country doing it.

That doesn't make it right, but it does make the Guardian's slant wrong (and I speak as a Guardian reader).
> He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to arrest of the wrong man (nj.com)

>258 points 12 days ago 174 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25562321

...

> I got my file from Clearview AI (onezero.medium.com)

> 811 points 9 months ago 224 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681207
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Umbrella - a free open source app to help people learn about digital and physical security. From how to use Signal for safe communication to how to deal with a kidnapping. Multiple languages and widely used by journalists, activists, aid workers, traveling business people and those any one living in high risk countries.

More info: https://www.secfirst.org

iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id1453715310

Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...

Web (Beta):
https://umbrella.secfirst.org
Anyone can install a different keyboard with its own emoji pack no?

Emojis are part of font packs which are pretty standard and open via Open TrueType, no? Apple isn’t quite as simple to do that with (albeit possible via 3p keyboards, custom per-app fonts, or custom device profiles), but it still feels like I’m not understanding your complaint.
Is it that different to wanted posters or publishing cctv of a crime? I get why people don't want facial recognition cameras on every street corner but using it to identify people from pics is a different activity...

Edit: I completely agree there is nothing special about this case. No exigent circumstances.
I don't understand under what circumstances you would wear a sweater when it is 81F. Is it an issue of humidity or wind or something?
People are certainly allowed to express strong opinions. It can be cathartic to write out your frustrations. But HN isn't the place for that. Comments like that, even though they _feel_ like they contribute to something, tend to really just be selfish and don't contribute to discussion. Political threads on HN get filled with 1000s of such comments, and none of them lead to _interesting_ discussion. Interesting, thoughtful discussion is what we're after, and what we tend to see more of here than other places. That's what I, and I believe the majority of users here, come here for.

I've personally been frustrated by the recent political threads, not because I don't want to see those threads here, but because I desperately want the comments to say something _interesting_. Something thoughtful that I can't get elsewhere (from the news or Reddit). But about an hour after such articles show up they're so bloated only a single thread of comments is visible per page, making it too difficult to navigate and find any useful discussion that might be happening.

In other words, HN isn't our personal emotional outlet. It can be used for that _occasionally_, but since _everyone_ uses it for that under certain topics like politics, it's best to avoid doing so there.
This is hyperbolic and disrespectful to people who actually went trough it.

Breaking the law has consequences. And the only consequence here is her being prosecuted for assault and battery and potentially going to jail. This has nothing to do with racism accusation, and is nothing compared to the torture you're suggesting.
But we already have this :)

When an infant is nursing, they transfer any infection they're fighting to the mother's nipple, and her immune system formulates (ha) a response and the next time the child nurses, they get antibodies to help fight the infection.
> Where is the line?

Hard to say. They written books about monopolies, I would not be able to explain it a single comment.

For Twitter it's clear (to me) it's kind of monopoly: if you a politician (or commercial company), it's critical to you to have twitter to access your electorate (or customers).

> Do you include oligopolies like Apple, Google who don’t have monopoly in the phone market but both banned the same apps?

Yes, I completely agree that these companies need to be regulated. In particular:

* 30% tax seems arbitrary

* app moderation policy is anti-competitive

* promotion of own services (like Apple TV+) on iPhones is again anti-competitive

> What if there were 5 (50?, 500?) competitors that all independently decided it was economically beneficial for them to ban the same thing?

I don't have an answer to that question.

But I believe that Trump/Parler bans have nothing to do with economical benefits.
This is awesome, i frequently use similar tools, but this is far cleaner than the rest! Instantly went to my bookmarks!
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"Frightening?" No, what's frightening is the armed insurrection that happened last Wednesday.
No.

The talking point is that the violent extremists who broke into the Capitol chanting “kill [Republican Vice President] Mike Pence”, wearing body armor, armed with guns, pipe bombs, and zip ties for taking hostages are terrorists.

Do you disagree?
Thanks. I've set my mind on learning as much as I can beforehand so I don't get bamboozled when I start delegating. But I agree that SEO appears to be a black art, to me at least!
Here's a simple test: if half of the funds that go today to the police would simply be wasted (say, they go to a "Trump foundation" where Trump may use them as he pleases) - would you consider that a "win"? If not, your primary goal is not "defund the police", it is better allocation of funds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKl3JkUoSx8

Here is a great documentary (by christian polemics) on the history of islam. Really intriguing stuff.
Is there something specific that's wrong with their math?
Absolutely true, although I feel almost vindicated that I have been calling Trump out for what he is now since 2015 - he is the closest you'll ever get to a fascist as president. The signs were there from the start, but the overeager way some people characterize others as fascist really helped him. The only real defence I can think of the man is that he isn't intelligent enough to really formulate an ideology beyond tribal urges.

The short-lived "Orange man bad" meme has not aged well.

Ian Hislop has a very good introduction to Orwell's "As I please" lectures.
I hate emojis. They're a cancer of otherwise sterile textual interface. I bet, in a few years, we're going to have novels with emojis in them.
Your clear lack of desire of ability to engage with some very reasonable and intelligent points is exactly why Trump supporters are frequently characterized this way.

You're a sheep if you blindly follow a small number of news outlets that lean very far to one side and spend most of your time surrounded by people with similar views. (This goes either way, of course)

Not all Trump supporters are white supremacists, but I haven't seen any examples of people demonstrating that sort of behaviour and ideology who aren't Trump supporters. That should be food for thought.
When someone manages to write a raytracer in COBOL I will be truly impressed.
There's only so much that my dog can poop per day. Some of the poop gets lost when I scoop it off the sidewalk. And eventually he will die and not poop any more. Thus my dog's turds are a deflationary store of value but I wouldn't say "it makes sense to invest in some."

Disclosure - I made up the dog.
The fact that this article exists makes me happy.
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There are two different issues. Yes QC should be catching this, and perhaps is (this might be one either not sampled or which passed). QC isn't magical, and as I learned from working in the pharma business: "You can't test quality into a product".

This seems from reports to be a more serious QA issue. Incoming materials QC is part of QA and presumably this passed (the automotive glass suppliers are pretty used to making auto glass and most cars don't have this problem). But QA should have reviewed the design so that breaking stresses can't occur. That (lack of proper design review) is the problem, and appears from reports to be chronic through certain parts of the Tesla process.

When I say "certain parts of the process", for example I mean battery fires are pretty rare so presumably that team takes QA seriously (batteries are no joke!). While body defects and failures are rampant and very widely attested. (I believe the big touchscreens also have a lot of problems but as I don't follow it closely I might have just seen an unusual number of complaints.)

So: fixable, thought there doesn't appear to be a culture of addressing these things.
This is one of the best explanations of the root design problem in cryptocurrency engineering. Almost every engineering design decision and tradeoff can be traced back to this problem.

For anyone wondering whether cryptocurrency in general, or any particular cryptocurrency, is a scam or not, you have to understand this core problem, and use it in your evaluation criteria, in order to make up your own mind about it.

Nick Szabo also wrote about it a few years ago, also worth reading, but it's more general than the OP link:

http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2015/05/small-game-fallacie...
You linked the same image twice. I'm curious what the other image was.

edit: nevermind, switched to dark mode using the dev tools. It looks like this just to be complete: https://i.imgur.com/qPv7guO.png
The supreme court in fact ruled against Texas in dismissing the suit, by mkaing it clear that each state has sole discretion on how to run their own elections, as prescribed by the Constitution. Whether state elections laws were followed was for state courts to decide, not Texas and not the federal supreme court
Trump rallied his followers after years of violent rhetoric. Him, his family, his lawyer Giuliani urged things like "trial by combat" for Trump's enemies.

He timed his rally to end at 1pm, when the tally started down the road. He then sent his followers to pressure "weak" Republicans within the Capitol building for the purposes of urging the overthrow of certified votes in favor of replacing them with unilateral votes for Trump.

They brought zip ties. They called for Pence's hanging.

Trump called Pence during the siege trying to pressure him, and the call had to be cut short because the insurgents were already inside the building.

This was a legislative and violent coup. Cry more about liberals in reaction to a literal coup attempt. Please, I want to hear more about how this is all antifa/BLM's fault some more. How the liberal agenda is a boot upon your neck while Trump's followers attempt violent and legislative coups against the citizens of this nation.
The hardest part about creating your own Twitter is convincing enough people to switch at once to create a critical mass. Transferring the sitting President of the United States and several other prominent members of his party at the same time in a very public way is exactly how you induce that to happen.

That Parler thing was temporarily offline under the load of all the new users. That's not the problem you have when you're having the actual problem of convincing enough people to switch.
The problem is that absolute power means people in power can become the terrorist. Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Polpot or Stalin took so much power that they became the terrorist themselves.

They killed hundreds of millions of people. You could be raped of tortured at any time.

It is not white supremacist. It is anyone with power.

Right now in the US, the antifa movement is as violent or more violent than anyone else. Certainly the Guardian is not an unbiased source.
> What I mean though is that ./configure outputs a config.log that says exactly what was done. Exactly what command line was run and exactly what the error was.

... so does CMake ? you get log of the errors in CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log, and you can trace what happens line by line in a very verbose way with cmake --trace (or cmake --trace-expand if you want variables to be expanded)
Nothing to do with Brexit. Belgium and the Netherlands are doing the same, along with many other countries.

I don't agree with it (modern sugar use is evil), but it has nothing to do with lowering food and safety standards as, as mentioned, some EU countries have done the same.
wow neat. ipy pvp on touch screen would be hell omg. very cool!
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The “just solve the problem” attitude also gets used as an excuse to ship the worst code that can get through user acceptance testing.

The worst bridge that can stand up to the load is good, cost efficient engineering. The worst code is not. One, because bad code hides bugs that you probably don’t have rigorous enough testing to find. Two, because there will be new demands on that code in the future, and bad code is harder and riskier to change. You might look like a responsible adult when you ship it today, but three years later the new maintainers will know you were a child making a mess. And probably end up doing a rewrite, or at least needing to.

All this “woo” with languages and frameworks and services and whatever else, is the search for higher quality code.

There is a certain myopia about new things vs. getting better at design with old things. There is a certain blindness to iterative improvement, e.g. Rust is much sexier than modern C++ as a solution to the problems of C++98. But rather than condescending to this you can channel the energy into more responsible directions.

I work in a team where many people have zero aesthetic sensibility about code. Not like “I know this is ugly but we have to get it done today” or “I know this is ugly but it’s the best we could come up with,” just zero sense that it’s ugly. Grass is not greener.
> Both claim that only illegal content is taken down.

Twitter's content policy explicitly bans several things that are not illegal [1] [2] [3].

[1] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-condu...

[2] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/glorification...

[3] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/medical-misin...
how is this half-baked, not ready for prime-time?
Yeah, seconded. Those aren't even riots. They are deliberate political acts explicitly stated to have the goal of wiping out the police and local government authority - how is it possible an actual "autonomous zone" was created in a major US city? And how was that not insurrection? It sure looked like it from abroad, yet local leaders rolled over and even encouraged it.

Today I read the mayor of Portland was attacked whilst he was dining. The "mostly peaceful protesters" have burned his apartment building, attempted to take over police stations and court houses, and decapitated models of the mayor. He supports them anyway - it's so crazy it's impossible to believe, really. What is going on in the USA?

If FB/Twitter had cracked down on the BLM organisers putting together nightly attacks on the police, at least nobody could say they were being inconsistent now. Instead they put banners up on random developer docs sites saying they support BLM. Blatant double standards.
http://byexample.xyz

Ran out of time to make more content, but I still add something every now and then when I learn something new. I think the plan was lots of useful copy-pasteable snippets (inspired by the gobyexample site) and then some ads.

For the curious, it is a Jekyll site (ported from Hugo) served from GitHub. Source on github. Workflow is super nice - edit markdown and run locally (if you want to preview - you don't need to if you dont want) and just push to GitHub and the changes are live within a minute or two - GitHub pages is an awesome service for this sort of thing.
It seems to me the investment community has accepted bitcoin at this point, with major institutional investors finally buying in now--1 billion from microstrategy, for example--so expect to see it go up more. I think it will keep going up until it gets regulated, I'm sure they'll continue to find ways to "increase liquidity" despite Bitcoin.
Terrorism is an all-encompassing evil because it aims to undermine democracy. It doesn't matter if you do that by murder, arson, or mailing a letter to someone telling them if they vote you'll kill them. They all undermine the very foundation of our democracy and should be treated equally, harshly, and swiftly.
It’s a matter of failure to modernize curriculum during education, and the difficulty of staying on top of new research.

The lag in education needs to be fixed ASAP.
Do we know that? Or is it just propaganda to manipulate us? Because it sounds like a conspiracy theory.
I don't believe that, but if you have evidence confirming your statement, I'd like to view it.
Nothing I said was pejorative in any sense, but I understand that some people are very, very sensitive these days. Most of the time when a politician is removed from office, their party pays the price e.g. San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) was replaced by Kevin Faulconer (R), even though the City of San Diego is pretty heavily Democratic these days.
Why not? I wouldn't say I use them without a sense of irony, but they have their uses.

Next they'll be making pop music without guitars in!
Quicksort in one line:

Quicksort = { []->[], [p,,m]->this(m??<p) + (m??==p) + this(m??>p) }
Complaining about "cancel culture" with regard to a mob that literally tried to cancel the votes of 81 million people is hilariously missing the point.
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It doesn't produce portable projects. If all you wanted was Linux (or often "Ubuntu compatible") then why not just have a raw Makefile?

It doesn't log what it attempted, or why it failed.

It can't find out how to link binaries (always awesome to set up som execsnoop (because no logs, remember) only to see that it tries to link with "-llibfoo". In what world could that be correct?. And again it doesn't log how and why it chose that)

I could go on, but it's too much for a comment field.
I visited Austin in the summertime and after a day of 100+ humid weather, the evenings go down to the lower 80s/upper 70s. It felt like a jacket or a light windbreaker would’ve been needed.

And this is coming from someone who normally lives in California. I guess the body adjusts to the climate of the region after a couple days.
You've fixated on a particular date (1 MYA) and understood "major component of diet" / "majority calories in some groups" to be "all of our ancestors ate mostly plants". Neither is what I said.

My working hypothesis is that from a few million years ago to 100,000 years ago, our ancestors primarily ate megafauna (80% to 100% of calories) and so that is the diet we are most evolved to thrive off of. In the last 100,000 years, with the rise of agriculture and the extinction of many megafauna, there has been rapid selection pressure for humans to tolerate grains and dairy (and also breeding of tubers and grains to make them much more nutrition for humans). Toleration of plant and dairy food by modern people varies by race and by individual; but everyone can thrive by eating a lot of megafauna.

I am interested in evidence that contradicts this hypothesis -- particularly whether there is evidence that from 100kya to 3mya our ancestors were eating 30% or 50% or 70% or 95% or 100% plants. It doesn't seem like the links you gave me have such evidence. Got anything more convincing? The evidence from dental collagen and brain size energy requirements arguing for an ancestral diet of 80%+ animals seem more convincing to me.
Why is not having a gun a bad thing?
> Meson is more or less equivalent in the functionality it provides.

but meson needs everything to be quoted which is frankly a gigantic PITA - like, look at that, there's more quoted stuff than anything else: https://mesonbuild.com/Generating-sources.html