skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to go back and look at the statement he made. He never says anything to the effect of "you can't prove a negative". Or "we scoured everything and could find no evidence whatsoever, but still doesn't mean that there might have been something he dud".

No, immediately following the statement about "we would have said so", he goes into -- "a current president can not be charged with a federal crime ...". He then goes on to say that he was bound by this property. That's an odd next statement for someone you think is innocent, but just can't prove a negative.

With a new attorney general and Trump about to no longer be an an active President, we may revisit this.
Shut up retard.
Because absolutism is infantile?
I'm not sure what you're trying to argue. Under Classical Liberalism (which I am a proponent of), if your speech violates the Harm Principle, it's not protected. Conspiracies are indeed protected speech (e.g. "CIA killed Kennedy"). If your conspiracy incites to violence ("CIA killed Kennedy, let's storm Langley" -- and people actually do it), it's no longer protected speech.
>Internet businesses are natural monopolies and being banned from one can ruin your life without trial in a way that was unprecedented for private companies to be able to do in the past.

What solution do you propose? Take away the right of association from one group of people to enable another group?

That seems strange to me. If you allow the government to create a precedent where you can restrict the rights of anyone, then you can restrict the rights of everyone.

That idea makes me very uncomfortable.
It's not surprising coming from Nunes. He's also failed to Sue Twitter into reveling the identity for the parody twitter account "Devin Nunes' cow" (@DevinCow). Claiming that the Cow is committing some sort of Libel.
Something I've been wondering... so let's say I want to put a social media platform that I dislike out of business. Perhaps the platform is full of my political opponents, or maybe it's a business competitor of mine. What's to stop me from just posting a bunch of incitements to violence on the platform through a series of proxies (human and/or technological) until they get nuked?
Part of supporting free speech is accepting that private companies are not compelled to publish or support political leaders or their followers. It would be a bigger threat to free speech if Twitter etc. were required to publish the president's tweets just because he's the president. Of course it might end up being a bad idea for tech companies to deplatform the president and his cronies, but doing so is excersizing free speech rights, not restricting them.

In general where two entities free speech rights are in conflict I would suggest it's best to make sure the less powerful entity gets the right of way. As powerful as social media platforms are, they're still not at powerful as the U.S. President.
GNOME files is a horrific dump, it is one of the few things that make GNOME unusable out of the box
Hollywood is a private business as well. They were within their rights to make a blacklist. And people cheered on big business for protecting them and snitched on their friends to their employers, just like they're doing now
>protected speech in this country.

Protected from interference by the government. Private corporations are not yet the government.
So instead of recognizing your opportunity to make progress on the issue, you just enjoy watching the “other side” get poleaxed. That today’s political climate in a nutshell.
You can't do work on the UI thread, it'll block the UI! With only half a /s
If only they had use VERIFY_OK/EXPECT_OK which prints out the error message :(

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/net/...
I’m with you on campaign finance reform, but term limits have knock on effects that can create bad incentives.

Congress is already a farm league for K street and would be even more so with term limits. More experienced lobbyists would have more leverage with term limited newbies in the government.

That’s not to say there are no negatives to long serving clueless members, but term limits may not be better.
The set of studies accepted or rejected out-of-hand varies depending upon the individual or group. A fact of life, since individuals come to a proposition with different life experiences, both educational and directly experiential.

If you are saying that HN as a community has commonality in beliefs about what is “generally accepted as true” and “generally accepted as false”, you are basically saying the HN community has shared experiences somewhat unique to that community. You are probably right.

If the community is challenging more findings on bias, they probably have life experiences that suggest such findings are incorrect or that too many such studies themselves have, in the past, been of low-quality, self-serving and/or misleading. Putting the quote marks around social “science” in general. There is also the natural bias for people to want to ignore problems outside of their scope or vision...24 hours in a day and so forth.

If HN is infested with IT professionals who have worked in environments where everyone is a minority of one sort or another and observed or managed the dynamics, their lived experience in ethnic/gender dynamics and opportunities may differ from other groups. If HN skews older, then they also have had the lived experience of both the many successes and many failures of the Civil Rights movement on which to base opinions.

On the specific issue of computer games, there is a dramatic difference in societal and economic impact between Fortnite and the direct personal welfare of tens of millions of people. The latter warrants more due care and attention. There have been a few posts on the psychological harm from gaming, so some balance there.
I think you also know better than that when it comes to how statistics work. And I don’t know why you’re telling me that white people are not oppressed. That isn’t related to my comment.
I disagree, but please don't downvote stuff like this--respond with a thought out comment, thanks. I upvoted you.

Perhaps Xilinx-land is different, but I have seen an intern go from blank Windows machine to "blink an LED" on an Altera board in about an hour or so with no Verlog/VHDL.

I have never seen this with the open-source toolchains.

Your experience differs. YMMV. Disclaimers. etc.
Just because something is subjective does not mean it is hypocritical.
I recall this being a problem, but I just tried it in Gnome+Chrome and it worked correctly and the picker 'looks native' at least. Then I tried it in GIMP (which has a different picker) and it works like you describe.

Some other Gnome apps also work correctly so I think it's fixed in Gnome but not whatever GIMP is using.
I’m exclusively drawing the comparison with high demand actors / athletes. Perhaps athletes has the better clarity - many NBA players are paid more than their head coach, and even those paid less are still paid much more competitively to their revenue contribution than engineers by comparison.
Yes, you raise an interesting point and I am not voting for going out of your way or intentionally trying to "prove" anything. No need for that. Just do good work and try to apply your smartness to find good solutions, keeping the ones coming after you in mind, who will have to deal with the stuff you write today. That might be yourself tomorrow anyway. Practicalness should include smartness, go hand-in-hand with it, and acting in a practical way should include not tripping yourself up in the future with things you do now. A quine might not be the best way to solve a problem without creating a new one. But perhaps it is in some situation. Always depends.

I want to raise another point though, which is allowing developers to enjoy their profession as well. Imagine going to a master carpenter and telling them "I just need you to connect 3 plywood boards together." and then the next day you go into their shop and dictate them: "No, no, do not put that much effort into connecting them! It doesn't need to look pretty. Just use some glue, that will make them stick together! No need to be clean about it. Just leave redundant glue on it. It's going to be under the table anyway and no one will see it." That is how many developers are treated and I don't think it is a good thing. Developers need to be given some leeway, some room, to get creative and deliver great solutions. Of course it should be within certain limitations with clear goals set and all that. Just don't suffocate creativity, taking out all joy of the profession and let them be actual developers sometimes. Software development is a truly creative activity. Lets not forget that.
> I'm a free speech absolutist

No you are not. Why lie? A free speech absolutist means that you believe any speech is acceptable. You comments clearly show you believe in limits to speech.

> but violent speech, "fighting words," insurrectionist speech, etc. are not protected under any free speech doctrine

"Insurrectionist speech". You just gave yourself away. It's not "free speech doctrine" that prevents it. It's a supreme court ruling. The US was mostly free speech absolutist until the courts ruled direct threats to be illegal.

In case you think america limited free speech before the 20th century...

Politicians could threaten each other and duel each other...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr%E2%80%93Hamilton_duel

> I've argued in favor of free speech here on HN (and got the downvotes to prove it) more times than I can

As someone who has been downvoted defending free speech, I commiserate. But you don't strike me as a free speech guy. You have the strangest way of being "in favor of free speech".

> Free speech isn't some carte blanche that allows anyone to say anything at any time.

But you just claimed to be a free speech absolutist. That's exactly what a free speech absolutist believe. That you can say anything anytime.

> This has nothing to do with free speech, and Gab is an absolute cesspool of delusional QAnon conspiracies.

But you are a free speech absolutist. No?

Why do propagandists always do this? They pretend to be the other side and argue against the other side. It's like a meat eater pretending to be vegan and saying bad things about the vegan diet. And you have the gall to accuse gab of being disingenuous.
MX is not crucial for email, everything falls back to A.
I have an email server with no MX in production for years now. Not the most important one, but in use.

Edited to add: there is a tiny fraction of providers that would reject the emails from such a setup, but it's really not common and does not include large providers.
The trump campaign raised $200 million from soliciting donations to challenge the elections.

Maybe they could have used some of that money to do just that?

There's plenty of money to at least try.
How many degrees of separation is sufficient to be considered abstaining?

Is it "using the internet" if I say go to the DMV to renew my license and they enter me into their database?

Or do I have to physically touch the machine?

Is it about intention? If I hire a couier to program a computer for me and deploy it, have I used the internet?
Yeah, it could be very interesting, but without any preview of past issues, or of what kind of message/content I'd receive it's hard to subscribe. Good initiative though, hopefully author is reading this thread and will update it.
I'm actually not too upset about the pension/salary...

What floored me was learning ex-prez's get a $1 million travel allowance/year! That seems a bit excessive, to say the least :-P
> Violent speech is pretty strongly protected under modern First Amendment law

I should clarify that by "violent speech" I just meant it as a colloquialism of the more technical Fighting Words Doctrine. That is, "speech is violent speech IFF it disturbs the peace."
The machine that breathes for Covid patients
What you are saying is word for word the libertarian argument against the civil rights act ("if we have to bake a cake for gay weddings, what if wants a cake for their child bride!"). I happen to disagree with it as it applies in the real world
Term limits can have unintended consequences -- I'd rather see ranked choice voting or similar.
This kind of response is the exact reason AWS dunked Parler. Picking that image to start with? I wouldn't even read the rest of it.

2 police and 4 citizens die, and your response is to open with something cute? That's your choice?

Sure, I'm excited to see what happens next.
You've "never seen" such evidence because you didn't look for it. Search for "Gab Hate Corpus" for a meticulously labeled set of tens of thousands of Gab post and natural language analysis thereof. According to that paper, 6% of all posts on Gab contain an explicit call for violence, examples given include "The ZioJesuit cultural marxist anti-white Christian killers now working within our white governments globally should be shot for espionage and treason with their non-white invaders expelled from within our nations immediately for the sake of our future white Christian posterity. Anything else is cowardice, self-eradication & continued genocide." as well as "i hate milo because hes a degenerate faggot [N-slur] fucker. he should be deported and sent to a muzzie country and get thrown off a roof" among many others.

Gab is the neo-nazi Twitter, founded and funded by those advocating for the violent overthrow of American democracy and the establishment of a white ethnostate. The people who defend Gab using 1A slippery-slope arguments are themselves sympathizers with white violence.
> violent speech, "fighting words," insurrectionist speech, etc. are not protected under any free speech doctrine

This is not true, assuming you're talking about US 1st Amendment. "fighting words" was once an exception to free speech, but the Supreme Court really has narrowed that exception in more recent decisions. It's not really a thing anymore. As for violent speech, the standard is "incitement to imminent lawless action" not just "advocates violence". Nor "insurrection speech" for that matter
I don’t think my grandpa ever joined, and he’s still kicking.
> Just create your own government bro

(I agree with you. The logical conclusions are sad.)
> cannot garner the support needed to do so,

It strikes me as imprudent to make one company or even a cabal of companies the gatekeepers to an entire industry. Seems like it would rightly fall afoul of antitrust law.
That API is accessible from any language.
I mean, fwiw they explicitly welcomed QAnon once they were banned from Twitter. Granted, they spun it as "Patriots who think for themselves and do their own research" or some such.
But it's sold by a company with a website, and if it's in-house, (probably quite a big 'if') its developers probably don't want to be lumped in with its phone line, office PC etc. sysadmins (and I'm sure it's mutual).

I think that's the point. Cookware's just a further-from-tech example of it.
I wonder how many users they lost in recent days.

They have already relented for EU countries already after I got a message I will have to accept their new terms. Probably still moving to Signal.
Does any laptop have any kind of upgrade path? I've always cheaped out and treated them as disposable.
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Microsoft had more control from a platform perspective, in that they had as much platform control as app stores of today, just that they were basically the only game in town where today we have a number of "app stores" that exert the same type of monopoly control that MS once had. Perhaps it could even be argued that in the 90s MS had even less control than FB or Apple or Google in that MS (at least in the 90s) did not limit what you could install the way "app stores" today do.

That said, Microsoft has never had the kind of overall control and influence that FAANGS do today in that they really did not collect "telemetry" nor maintain tracking on everything you did (at least as far as the 90s goes).

I want to be clear that I'm not saying they would not have if they had realized the value of knowing every last thing about you the way that some companies do today. Just that they did not, and today's "giants" clearly have more influence and control over individuals than MS ever did.
All Just Drop Dead
JUst kill yourself already
I use Vue and haven’t found it hinders me from doing this myself. Are you suggesting Vue should not just release a framework but also solve every user’s special case? Your comment isn’t making sense to me.
Discussing someone fixing votes is not an incitement to violence against the same person, otherwise every discussion of something someone might have done is an incitement to violence.
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I was commenting on a specific point made by the parent comment. It's pretty far fetched I'm in denial of the root issue when I even mentioned the real solution which you're agreeing with.

So while I get your sentiment you're really arguing against the wrong person here.

Besides that in my opinion there is a significant difference between "falling through the cracks" and making wrong decisions poorer people aren't even allowed to make - and then wanting those poorer people pay for your errors.
The instructions for seasoning my carbon steel pan that I bought ages ago have worked better for me than any other method, fit both carbon steel and cast iron.

Just fry up a full pan of very heavily salted potato peels. Use more oil and a lot more salt than you would normally use for pan frying. Make sure to move them around, don't be afraid to scrub them around, they will feel gritty due to all the salt. Fry the peels until they're very dark, they should be far too dark and salty to be edible.

Wash out the pan with hot water and dry it. Done.

It doesn't have to be any more complicated than that. It's the method used in professional kitchens, as far as I know.
Just Kill Yourself Already
Can you share the exact link here to let others ponder whether this is sabotage or human error?
JUst kill yourself already
And now this article has been flagged.

Ironic, given that the subject matter is the suppression of speech in online platforms.
That's simply wrong. Representatives of all of those groups were seen breaking into the capitol. The Oath Keepers in particular seem to have had a large and heavily militarized detachment. There is a video of a line of them in full body armor marching up the steps past the throng to enter the building.

Likewise known Proud Boys and 3%'ers were present, etc... This was the Place to Be for all militant right wingers, and those who couldn't be in DC were staging protests elsewhere. IIRC there were violent actions on the same day at both the Oregon and Kansas state houses.

Everyone Knew they were going to be there. Everyone Knew they had the potential to be violent. And Everyone Knew that Trump's rhetoric was inciteful. None of this was a surprise. And it finally boiled over into real violence. There's no excusing or downplaying that. We could absolutely have seen this coming, and lots of people did.
Just as logical point, you can't really be a de facto "absolutist," as any kind of reductio argument would obliterate your position. But I'd say I'm as absolutist as one can get.
> We should probably invent a publish-subscribe distributed protocol for this, maybe some kind of Really Simple Syndication.

+1 for that. Was RSS just too much effort to catch on? Or was discovery the issue? It's a great thing.
But bitcoin is open source (logiciel libre), and its pretty capitalist: look at how it enables people to put market value on really-hard-to-find prime numbers. What's needed to counter any 'open source is communist' rhetoric seems to be an awareness of how much private enterprise and entrepreneurial activity depends on open source.
Using old Mini PCIE WLAN cards in modern laptops
Exactly, the users are not doing well because they’re expecting to be able to misuse Vue and demand special case features, while Vue itself is doing good by resisting this and sticking to the plan in terms of framework design.
Entirely agree with et dry thing you said. I just wanted to say, re

> For example, proxy icons

The way they are buried in Big Sur, and often invisible unless you mouse over where they are by accident is my biggest gripe with the update. This is fundamental in how we interact with documents on that platform, and one of its great features. What were they thinking?
There's a strict dichotomy between people on the inside and on the outside.

People on the outside say "Oh, it's pronounced like the French word for 'speaking'." People on the inside don't.
Not to diminish the danger of weird rabbit holes, but it seems you moved your standard from "insurrectionist speech" to "claims that I'm very certain are so removed from reality as to lead people to insurrection if they were to believe them". What does "free speech absolutism" mean to you?
“Hang Mike Pence” was trending at the top of twitter. Now what?

They’re a pre-series A startup with a very small staff. If people don’t report things, it’s not feasible to expect that they’ll all be actioned. Instead of reporting the post, activists with an agenda thought it better to cherry pick them and attack platforms. A more honest test would have been to report the content and see if they acted on it. But let’s not kid ourselves, this campaign was disingenuous from the beginning. The real goal is to shut down a perceived enemy in the culture war.
Citation needed here. Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire is still studied in law schools as a watershed case.
>I see a lot of people say this but I've never seen anyone back it up with sources.

Well, out of the top 20 largest groups on the site, 4 of them are dedicated entirely to Q-anon, so that's not very difficult to back up:

https://gab.com/groups/2043

https://gab.com/groups/393

https://gab.com/groups/408

https://gab.com/groups/324

>what makes Gab fit that metric better than Facebook or Twitter?

I would imagine the fact that Facebook banned Q-Anon entirely from the whole site for spreading conspiracy theories?

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-bans-qanon-a...
I don't disagree with your arguments. I do disagree with having Twitter, a monopoly, compared to Pravda, a state-sponsored communication channel. Ignoring practical feasibility, I suspect if you tried starting a platform that disagreed with Pravda, you'd risk your life. I don't think starting a competitive platform to Twitter will put you at a higher chance of being arrested, kidnapped, or killed by the US government.

I think there are fairer comparisons to be made, but Pravda is in my opinion not one of them.
Using high heat on Teflon pans can also end badly, particularly if you have birds. http://www.animalplanet.com/pets/other-pets/teflon-bird-guid....
Agreed. I'm not sure having tons of new people every 2 years that have no idea how Washington works would be a good thing. We just had a president who had no idea, and that was not so good.

I used to be a big supporter of term limits for congress, but changed my mind a while ago.
The vim docs on sponsorship raise that exact issue(:h register{,-faq}). Being able to claim a donation is registration did make getting a donation through my employer easier for me.

Specifically, this part:

What is the difference between sponsoring and registering?

It has a different name. Use the term "registration"
if your boss doesn't like "sponsoring" or "donation".
The benefits are the same.

I'm not sure if continuing to use the term register versus being "that guy who tries to sponsor projects" is what works now though ;)
I don't see those as mutually exclusive. Also, term limits don't necessarily have to be one term. I was sorta thinking 8 years like the pres. or maybe 10 for an even decade. That would give freshmen time to learn the ropes, but not long enough to get too ensconced.