skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing for or against anything, but those views seem opposed to each other. Can you talk more about how you can allow for any form of de-platforming while also feeling strongly against censorship?
Trump convinced them Pence had the power to unilaterally overthrow the election and make Trump President for a second term, so they are upset with Pence for not doing that.
Most Americans don’t trust the media to accurately and fairly cover the news. So it shouldn’t be surprising that people don’t want their political leaders’ thoughts filtered through the media.
Delta landed a plane to remove Trump supporters having a private conversation
Sorta related, where can one find some of the latest research into self repairing machines?
> And now our current technology owners have decided to only let one flavor of garbage be amplified to the masses.

Stopping one particular narrow class of violent incitement is still allowing a wide variety of flavors of garbage.
That's a very disturbing read.
It's great to cut the red tape -- donors complain about how so many nonprofits have such bureaucracy diverting funds from the mission, while at the same time requiring extensive disclosures that necessitate said bureaucracy.

Her giving seems focused on direct relief. If you had to divide philanthropy into just two camps, you could consider one camp is direct relief of societal symptoms and the other is advocacy to fix the underlying societal problems. For example, giving a man a fish to eat versus teaching fishing lessons.

It's easy to think that direct relief is ineffective compared to systemic change. When you get into the details, though, implementing societal change is a lot more complicated. You have the Koch brothers and George Soros both trying to improve societies through public advocacy, in opposite directions, with lots of failed projects along the way. While direct relief may not create long-term solutions, the real world benefits are more directly measurable.

In a plague year (followed by new crises in the new year), regardless of critiques of her approach, I hope we can all appreciate her compassionate giving.
At least these you don't have to rely on a reputable source -- much of what happened in the capitol was captured on video. In some cases, it was streamed live.

You still need to take care to see the entire context of the situation -- It's still easy to be fooled by a 2 minute clip but it's much harder with a 20 minute or hour long clip.
It's funny that we've come full circle. The web had started with static web sites. Many of them had misused HTML tags to take shortcuts, and to achieve a certain look, including `<pre>`, `<table>`, etc. That had eventually caused so many compatibility issues that we thought malformed documents were a problem, so we defined a rigid structure for HTML called XHTML. We discovered the value of semantics and separated style from content with CSS. Then, we thought XHTML was too much work and just went back to loose style with HTML5 for ease of use. Then, people thought CSS was so much work that they applauded Tailwind for brining styling back into HTML. And three decades later, "next-gen static blogging" is about misusing HTML tags to take shortcuts, and to achieve a certain look. :)
I see a of comments like this expressing frustration, but find them confusing. They are framed as an opinion or position, but don't contain any real substance.

Who exactly are these people?

What exactly do you mean by "to be a "lost cause"?

What does it mean to be treated like a terrorist?
I signed up for and confirmed an account, but now when I navigate to zee.li I just get a blank screen. When I go to other pages, i.e. https://zee.li/settings/profile, I get an interface but it appears un-styled
This has not been updated in a year or so as I am working on a Svelte-based replacement:

https://www.nightlife.fm

It shows which DJ's are playing at which nightclubs.

Since Covid started it has been quite empty, hence API/Svelte replacement.
oh just a legal point. I am not sure that ppl saying that are arguing from a point of legality.
Why would you as a leader of the country leave it up to chance? What if your country was in conflict with America whose side do you think Google and Apple would side with?
Scott was one of Amazon's first employees

Employee != co-founder.

I don’t think anyone thinks of Mackenzie as an Amazon co-founder (nor have I read anywhere other than this editorialized title).

That’s not to play down her involvement and contribution to Amazon in its early days, but it’s disingenuous to call her a co-founder.
Well, he did tell people to calm down and go home. May have been some of the tweets that were quickly taken down?
From the article:

> There's an open issue for something like this: Variadic generics[1]. But so far every attempt at an RFC has been closed or postponed.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/376
I understand a lot of the appeal is being close enough to suppliers to run an almost JIT manufacturing model. If you need to bring up a new design or supplier, it's not months of waiting for parts to traverse the Pacific.

If they're going to do an "agile" design, which seems to be the Tesla model (they seem to be much less about model year iterations than some brands), that could be a big deal.
Sorry for the lazy shorthand; here’s the fuller version:

What Holmes said after it, however, did become a standard for future free speech arguments. “The question in every case,” he said, “is whether the words are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.”

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/627134/is-it-illegal-to-...
It’s older than that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
You should reread he parent comment. I think you agree. It describe the steps as:

1) Dehumanize the enemy

2) Kill/eliminate the inhuman enemy (no longer considered to be people)
Unclear how banning the App Store prevents Twitter from banning you.
She doesn't call herself "cofounder", nor has any news outlet, PR piece, or anything like that. I assume the submitter here just editorialized the title a bit for attention.
The thing that makes society work better is accountability, which lets us cooperate at ever larger scales without cheaters. The book "The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations" describes how the advent of double entry accounting meant that you could detect fraud, and suddenly you could do things like give your goods to a naval merchant who will sail away with them and bring you back the money and it works because you can detect any cheating and this is the foundation of capitalism (textbook version). You can think of the arrow of progress as pointing in the direction of increasing accountability . So, the problem with social media is that people lie, always have, and it's like we are just noticing this for the first time ever, and now we are responding to that. Social media is making us more accountable, not less! See #MeToo, etc
I'm not going to argue here about whether Twitter's character limit produces better or worse discourse by any particular metric. My only point in the comment above was that the character limit remains a fundamental characteristic of Twitter, and removing that constraint would qualitatively change Twitter, in a way that "emoji now always count as 2" and "we're moving from 140 to 280 characters" did not.

Constraints can lead people to be more innovative and creative. That does not mean they universally do, only that they can. Removing such constraints is thus not an obvious improvement with zero potential downside.
I strongly oppose that. PRs should be without emojis, you're not there to play emotional games. If you make a statement, the receiver of that statement should consider that to be objective, straight forward and well meaning.

If you need to use emojis in code reviews, you have distrust, or perhaps other bigger problems in your team.

Ask yourself this question "Why do I need to add an emoji?" and introspect the reasons. Usually those reasons are "Well, what if other person is offended by this? What if my statement is too strong?".
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Yeah, a good idea. What could go wrong?
True. Not a great example, but "don't think of an elephant" is a good example of this effect, where someone who otherwise wasn't thinking of elephants, starts thinking of one.

The context of the discussion becomes less relevant if only the phrase trends. The seed gets sown in the mind.
The libs are sh*ting their pants for real now.
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> No set of agreed-upon facts?

This is the core problem. Who do you trust? Fox news or CNN.

The answer for me is I trust no one. They are all liars. I verify for myself. All governance (government, legal, media, military, education, etc) is there to foster a divisive situation as that makes us easier to rule. When people are divided they will not see the plans that are being executed and how they are pawns in a larger game.

You can call it delusional or conspiracy, but there are plans - you can very easily see these on the WEF's website, or read about them in Klaus Schwabb's book. If you don't want to see what is in store for you, what can I say? Switch the news back on, and have a good life.

The truth is that there are a controlling group of people that are entirely unaccountable - governments and voting provide them with a buffer from people - they enact their plans regardless of all that. And further to that, most of us are in an impossible situation that we can do very little about. BLM or MAGA protests - its all the same.

If you want to talk about solutions, the only answers are disengagement from the system. And if you go deep into that, the only answer is disengagement from the legal system. If there is one thing that causes the issues we have, its that we believe we are the legal name that we have a birth certificate of. And on it, it says 'this certificate cannot be used as proof of ID'.

The only law 'they' are happy for us to break, is the one where we use the legal name. You are not the legal name. You may not know who you are, but you are not that..

It is illegal to use the legal name. When we do so, we are acting with dishonour. And that is where our problems begin. And also where they can end.
Give this a read: https://www.mediaite.com/news/pro-trump-lawyer-lin-wood-call...

I don't know if Mike Pence uses Parler, but if pro-Trump lawyer and right wing influencer Lin Wood is calling for his execution, don't you think that represents something of a risk to Pence whether or not he reads it?
Can you give me an example of a story you believe is overtly "progressive"?
> just did his constitutional duty on the 6th

That's why. They've been told the election has been stolen and (the classic cult move) that anyone who disagrees with that is a traitor out to get them.

They're Trump supporters. Not broad Republican supporters. It's a personal loyalty cult.
You do need an Apple account and constant connection to Apple servers to be able to sign development and AltStore apps - I assume for a govt that wants to block the store, blocking auth or signing servers is just one more line on a memo.

But of course you're right - you can use the web fine, provided the modern web apps you're using aren't crippled by Apple's slow API adoption in Safari, which is of course to drive you to the better experiences that are waiting for you in the hypothetically accessible App Store.
Banning (or, more precisely, disturbing operation of) a decentralized service is much easier than a big, important centralized one. You just need to obtain the DNS names or IP addresses of the nodes the same way everyone else does — by participating in the network. This way you can even selectively ban the "bad" nodes.

Banning a centralized service like gmail is easier, but then you lose in productivity as 90% of your country's businesses are likely to rely on it.

As far as privacy goes, it's also easier to coerce admins of smaller nodes to disclose valuable information than fighting with a multinational foreign corporation.

This is not an argument against decentralization. It's just not immediately obvious that decentralization does not automatically lead to censorship resistance. To do that we need onion routing or mix networks as a base for all our communications, so that banning the network would be equivalent to disconnecting the ISP from the Internet altogether.
> Regardless, I've had this theory about cancel culture. I don't necessarily agree with cancel culture, for the aforementioned problem of it being mob social justice. But it seems to me like it has arisen out of a failure by the real justice system.

> In other words, I don't see value in deriding cancel culture.

This is apologism, and starting such an argument with "I don't agree with this but..." is just a way to trick a few more people into taking your ideas seriously enough to read to the end of the paragraph.

And terrorists, really? You could use your same EXACT logic, in fact even more justifiably, as a defense for what happened at the U.S. Capital.
That and their demand already pretty well exceeds supply, so there's little incentive to artificially increase demand at the moment.
Even if you use madvise() for a large sequential read, the kernel will often restrict its behavior to something suboptimal with respect to performance on modern hardware.
Who is a "lib"? Anyone concerned one person can end the Earth?
One question that comes to mind in all this is how come RICO laws don't apply to Trump in this case. In a RICO case, if I told you to go kill someone and you went and did it, I'm as culpable for the murder as you are. But for some reason this doesn't apply to cases of free speech traceably inciting action by a third-party? I am entirely unsure when a situation can have RICO statutes applied, but the very existence of RICO also sorta contradicts free speech
This is true, but only because nothing has fundamental value.
Would it have to dilute their brand further than the Mercedes A-Class or BMW 1 Series have diluted their respective brands?
I would reckon that if Signal were to take over these use cases, Signal itself would just turn into the next big tech baddie.
Maybe because large/small are relative to each other here? Maybe it would be able to do "a block inside a block"
I’ve been working on this Google Slides productivity add-on as a side project: https://powerpack.21solutions.de/

The idea is to spend less time tweaking your Google Slides - PowerPack makes positioning & alignment easier, finding licensed images & icons, and checking the consistency of the presentation. Inspired by similar add-ons for PowerPoint, like think-cell and empower slides.

Quite hard to find the time besides a demanding full-time job, but it’s slowly getting better and better... :)
I built a service called Rotary Rider [0], which allowed you to order an Uber using just your voice. No need for a smartphone or the Uber app, you could call in using any touch-tone enabled voice line (that you had registered) and speak your current address and the address of your destination and we would present ride options and prices. Choose an option to book and then we would call you back when the driver was minutes away.

The idea was primarily about accessibility - removing the requirements of needing a smartphone and app opens rideshare up to everyone. It was also a great backup option for those times when you need a ride but your phone doesn't have a good data connection.

The system was finished and I was literally double-checking everything and preparing for a test ride (I even bought a Nokia feature phone to prove I wasn't using the Uber app) when Uber cut off access to their API (for everyone, not just me). I had always planned to integrate Lyft as well, but getting shut down on Uber really took the wind out my sails and the project died. I obviously still have all the code and if someone here works for Lyft and wants to see what ordering a ride without an app looks like, I could probably be persuaded to pick it back up.

[0] - https://web.archive.org/web/20200804021958/https://rotaryrid...
It's kind of interesting. "Billionaire wants to kill black people" sounds like a leftwing conspiracy. I wonder why rightwingers are the ones believing that one. Just a general tendency to believe in conspiracy theories?
I don't hate m4. Could be worse, could be better.

I used to build websites using m4 back in the 90s. Back when static site generats were popular, before the latest slight resurgence.

To misquote Mitch Hedberg: People either love it or hate it, or they think it's ok.
We can either have the ability to ban people like Trump or we can’t.
The New York Attorney General is currently on Tether's case and its latest deadline is 15 January 2021 for Tether to produce documents, but that deadline may slip again…
A purely in browser SQL editor and runner for education purposes, and to be able to quickly upload csvs for querying with SQL: https://editor-omega.vercel.app

Very rough currently, but press the "Chinook" button to get a demo sqlite database loaded in for usage. Or, upload a .csv and reload the page (bugs!). All data is stored in indexdb, nothing leaves the browser. cmd + enter to run the sql.

Tech note:
Uses WASM sqlite + Monaco (vscode) engine. This may eventually become a electon app instead to allow other DB drivers + better sql auto completion.
Whataboutism is a slippery slope. We can't justify action being taken by looking at the times it wasn't taken.

What about the idea that the tweet you've linked to was not after a sudden mob of violence was mobilised?
> "...literally sell your game on an SSD..."

That would be terrible from an archival perspective. Flash memory is subject to charge leakage that causes data be lost over time. High density flash, which has the lowest cost per byte, also has the poorest data retention lifetime.
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Today I read some posts on HackerNews about making html code easier. I wonder if there are generators of static websites, but not as huge as Hugo (pardon the pun) or Jekyll. Something that generates simple-as-fck static page(s) without bloated javascript and same. Thanks HN!
I'm sorry but just because a small vocal and extreme part of the conservative party has chosen to buy into conspiracy theories does not mean the entire side has. I know many conservatives who have not gone down this path and hate what DJT has done to the party.

Calling a huge portion of the country delusional with no basis or fact is precisely what is driving this division. Both sides have a lot more in common than you might imagine. Far more than what they disagree on.
I’m on mobile at the moment so will have to watch later, but it looks like this is a video. It maybe should be marked as such
Sure, and there were many early employees at Google that made it succeed.

Those early employees however are not called co-founders.
In other forms of engineering, the culture is very clear: simplicity is an achievement. Solving an easy problem with a big, expensive solution is not an achievement. It's unskillful. The best engineers come up with solutions that make you see the problem as an easy one. Solving easy problems with difficult solutions proves you aren't qualified to take on the problems that need those solutions. How do we establish this as a standard belief in software engineering as well?

My experience with things like foreign automotive components suggsts this is not exactly true in general... but it's true that monsterously complex solutions seem to be far more common in the software world.
Just my opinion from the circles I hang around in, in terms of tech sector - not particularly a huge deal to work for a FAANG company, it’s mostly just like working for any another company.
Both are symptoms of poor quality, which is the underlying issue.
Can't you just use MAP_POPULATE which asks the system to populate the entire mapped address range, which is kind of like page-faulting on every page simultaneously?
But everything she got in the divorce settlement would be for being "the spouse". Presumably her compensation from the early days at amazon were just considered her personal assets.
Does anyone else feel like we’re going down the path of internet Balkanization? Not in any immediate sense, but it seems like a slow rolling type of narrative that we will retrospectively see at the end of the 21st century. I don’t have any _real_ evidence to support this feeling of mine, but occasionally there are blips like this that make me wonder.
> but it’s disingenuous to call her a co-founder.

looks like the submitter called here that, possibly to create a flamewar like this.
I get your point but this is a different context than how you or I might make a charitable donation - this is celebrity billionaire land.

There is a difference in this strange other land between publishing the donations with some explanations so those interested can find out, and the usual way, which involves PR pieces, interviews abs dinner plates at a grand a pop.

I mean I had no idea she had done this, yet I watched a big robo-ball follow Jeff around a garden.

So yeah, I would think that, in this weird land, that was actually, quiet :-)
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I get something like that as well

I just sit there normally and my arms start tingling. Or the leg falls asleep. It has been getting worse since I am 30

Not so good to sit 14h/day at the PC
Worldwide verification of the elimination of nuclear weapons is the minimal necessary metric to predict that our civilization will survive. Besides eliminating their immediate danger, it's a proxy for our ability to cooperate as a world and think past our differences.
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I recommend the title of this be changed to "Mackenzie Scott gave over $4B to 384 organizations in 2020"
This is great point. Doesn't it mean that "markdown" is kind of redundant ?
> You just need to obtain the DNS names or IP addresses of the nodes the same way everyone else does — by participating in the network.

Not if such network was made purposefully to minimize transparency.
With all those gazillions of charity money we, as a species, could've established Moon and Mars colonies ten times over.

Instead it's sunk into giant black hole of bureaucracy and consulting fees.
China has some advantages(and disadvantages too) over the rest of the world in general:

- It is huge, with lots of resources inside China. China also controls Tibet, non populated and with lots of natural resources.

- Population density is enormous. Some cities in the tens of millions of citizens, lots of cities in the millions.

- Very good communications by rivers and channels and also the sea with the rest of the world.

- Environmental laws are a joke there. Rule of law does not exist like in the West. In the West caring for the environment make things more expensive.
In China you just trow away waste.
Reams of paper are also good for raising monitors or laptops, and easily found in an office.

Of course, if you use the screen and the keyboard of your laptop, you have to balance height of the screen (eye level should be about the middle of the screen) vs height of the keyboard (arms should be about level)
50% isn't really the right number, is it? Where did you get it? If you're counting people's political beliefs, the popular vote is a good estimator.
Folks grandfathered into the Tesla supercharger network can set up a sweet trunk mining rig...
Parler removes Lin Wood posts calling for Mike Pence to be executed