skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed.

This part...

>If you said "Once a company like that starts moderating content, it's no longer a platform, but a publisher"
I regret to inform you that you are wrong.

That’s not the argument. Not really. The argument is that these companies are removing entirely legal content they just don’t like. Their TOS pages are interpretive depending how much they dislike the poster of the content. They do this intentionally and target specific views. They curate their bubble and that is publishing. The issue isn’t moderating content, it’s the selective enforcement.

He starts with a complete strawman.

>It protects all websites and all users of websites when there is content posted on the sites by someone else.

That is the exact crux. I created the content, but EVERY one of these sites is clear they own it. Once I wrote it and hit send, I gave it to them and assumed ownership, they are clear about this. So they ARE publishing THEIR content.
Sure, I can type "<p", but that's still annoying.

Look, I don't hate hand-written HTML. I actually like it better than Markdown.
Do you think you’ll ever move past the initial shock of disagreement with a movement’s slogan that may be an oversimplification or misleading, or will you always need someone to clarify the argument before you can take it seriously (and not take it seriously until then)?
Rust is great and borrows many things from Haskell, but it's still very very far from Haskell.
Take the bathroom ban in North Carolina. It got polarized into a trans/non-trans fight, where all people who supported separate gender bathrooms were dumb, transphobic people. The polarization marginalizes a legitimate argument:

Women should not have to walk into a rest stop restroom at night during a road trip, see a man, and then think about whether or not he should be there. And a man should not have the right to be there because he "identifies" as a woman when he really doesn't and is just a pervert in a rest stop bathroom. But with a new law, it then has to go through the court to prove whether he had the right to be there. The damage is done way before that day shows up.

The polarization and simplification meant that democrats couldn't vote against this because it became associated with transphobia. A vote to keep separate bathrooms would mean being canceled and losing their seat. The republicans were villainized, but they have a fairly decent point. Obviously, no one should feel uncomfortable using the restroom, but what unintended consequences come with the law? You can say perverts in bathrooms is an edge case, but I'd argue a trans person being denied a restroom is also an edge case.

Starbucks arguably came up with the best answer with gender-indifferent restrooms that are single occupancy, but this isn't always scalable. There are single occupancy family restrooms in many places, so if someone truly feels unsafe to use a restroom, they could use those. These were options that were put into place without laws.

It's not "right or wrong" or "black and white" on nearly any issue we face today. It's complex, and federal laws, given they impact 330 million Americans, have more unintended consequences than laws enacted at the local or state level. And that's what the republican, conservative party wants - less "big laws" with fewer unintended consequences in favor of state laws that allow people to govern themselves at the local level. It's also why any vote to undermine a State's right to certify its election results flies in the face of conservatism.
Do you have a link to information about an adenovirus-based COVID vaccine developed and/or approved earlier, at any price point? Without such, the "first" claim is accurate and your disputation is counterfactual. Also, please disclose the nature of any personal stake in promoting one over the other.
I'm not educated in this area, but could they not use other methods to stem the reach of the virus? For example, are there other crops they could grow for a time until the viral amounts dropped lower?
Free QR Code Generator for macOS:
http://www.mobiliodevelopment.com/products/osx/qrencoder/

Was released with 30% of features, but seems that people love it as-is. So updates went and getting more and more features.
Cirque: A tool to create web frontends to introspect, administer, and deploy mesh networks (Python / Django).

https://github.com/jMyles/cirque
Then it'll send as a text message.

When initiating a new conversation, the number you add to it appears blue if they can receive iMessages, green if not.

If for some reason iMessages can't be delivered to the receiving party at the moment. Text messages are used as a fallback for them. If you disable the fallback mode. It won't be.

The whole thing is kinda intuitive, and works really smooth IMHO.
P.S. Not sure why the downvotes without any comments. Did I write something factually inaccurate? But then again it's not surprising because vaccine conversation in some parts of the world (e.g. the US) is shaped predominantly by business interests and politics, not facts.
You can have it auto-generated using directory indexes in Apache. You can even customize them (within limits).

I've toyed with having a minimal blog, where I simply drop text files with file names beginning with their date in a folder and rely on directory indexes as a "home page".
Currently it's not used in production anywhere, I mostly use it to view my own log files when I'm working on some hobby project locally, so I'm sure there are a few issues that would show up if it was used more heavily.

I do have a list of known issues on a private Trello board, I should probably move those to GitHub so that they are at least visible to people, I'll take care of that right away.

There is some info in the readme on how to get started, if you want to try it out and need any help beyond that let me know!
> "The rest of the DMCA drastically shifted the balance of power... section 230 was necessary to offset that... Repealing 230 but not the rest of the DMCA would be madness."

Note that Section 230 is part of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). It is not part of the DMCA.
Wow, thanks, that's really interesting!
Well thanks for saying it one more time as I missed the previous hundred. Will read.
Would you add X strangers if your family wasn't on the platform you use?
Separation of concerns is still seen as the way to go. People just have different opinions about what a concern is.

It started with markup, styling, and interactivity. But many people think, this is a too technical perspective and software should be split up into non-technical concerns (i.e. microservices).
Is electric car market share increasing faster than the growth in all cars?
Have you heard about the federal courthouse in Portland that "protestors" laid violent siege to for weeks? If not ask yourself why you don't know.
Why do you keep editing your post? It’s hard to follow your argument.

> In the 60s the Hong Kongese held mass riots against the British in support of reunification.[0] Linguistically and culturally the Hong Kongese they are no different from their fellow Cantonese in the mainland. Most of its residents are only a couple generations removed from the Mainland. This tactic of constantly trying to make some arbitrary strategic region of China seem like it's some cultural enclave is as ridiculous as claiming that maybe "San Francisco isn't preordained to be American". If you think there's some drastic cultural difference the burden of proof lies on you.

“Linguistically and culturally the Hong Kongese they are no different from their fellow Cantonese in the mainland.”

Linguistically they are maybe no different from mainland Cantonese, but culturally they certainly are. I’ve never heard someone claim otherwise. They were a British colony for generations after all. That obviously left an imprint.

Secondly I’m not sure why you’re bringing Canton in. To say that’s Hong Kong should be part of China because of the Cantonese connection could simply be met with the response that maybe Canton just shouldn’t be a part of China.

Really it’s Hong Kongers that should have decided their fate. Not allowing them to vote was an injustice.

Btw I find it ironic that you bring up Hong Kong protests in support of unification. Well in the last couple years there have been huge Hong Kong protests against further integration. Can I take this to mean you support them in their protests there as well?
The extinction of honey bees is just a massive opportunity for a entrepreneurs.

Honestly why do we even fake that we give a shit anymore? Capital won, nature lost. Just turn the entire planet into Shenzhen and be done with it.
The NYPost was removed from the platforms for releasing this info. After the election, it was revealed that yes, all the pictures of Hunter smoking crack, fucking prostitutes, and the communications about being inappropriate with his 14yo niece were not fabricated and he is under investigation for tax fraud... not a peep from the orgs that silenced them for this. Memory holed.
> It's not just one service, we're seeing Twitter and Facebook and now a mail service too.

I haven't seen any reference regarding any email service, and to me that sounds something between unbelievable and an absurd excuse in light of the criticism of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email service.

And moreover doesn't the white house operate their official email service?

Regarding Facebook, all I've seen is a notice that an official page that wasn't used at all was suspended for a week. Does a temporary suspension of an account that's not used count as manipulating speech?

I understand the need to grasp as straws to find any excuse for outrage, but you have to do far better than that.
Help developing the habit of creative writing by gamifying writing a short story, in 5 mins, following a prompt:
http://avostories.com/
European here. What happend now in US was a total shitshow, but in the end it's nice to see that your democratic system took the upper hand. So be proud that your system works, and you didn't end up in some sort of Russian democracy.
Sorry if this has been asked already. Out of curiosity, what did they replace oracle with? Postgres, MySQL, both? Or did the roll their own?
https://eduquilt.com

I don't even know off-hand if the current deploy is even semi-usable, but I'm jumping on the thread because ... you asked!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tvHMvF8Mo

This is a platform-in-progress for mass-collaborative interactive-tutoring-system authoring. Wikipedia for khan academy, duolingo, or anki, with arbitrarily interactive content. The above video shows some rich flash cards in action (ear training & keyboard harmony).

Flash cards + SRS + dynamic difficulty sorting and pathfinding (ie, optimal content surfacing given demonstrated skills), and automated surfacing of achievement bottlenecks in courses so that the community knows where to author intermediating content or prescribe different approaches with existing content. Inside the classroom: peer-to-peer JIT instruction, and distributed competencies.

Most tentatively, but maybe most crucially, I think there is potential in this project for anti-fragile adversarial communities to build mutual understandings around contentious issues, where the propagation of your own views is proportional to your acknowledgement of contrary opinions.
Also a neat idea!

That's like a text file blog, but with the ability to have real hyperlinks.
I hope Trumpism is banned and you all move on.
Aether3D Game Engine (Linux/Windows/mac/iOS, Vulkan/D3D12/Metal)

https://github.com/bioglaze/aether3d

Some people like making games, I like making game engines. I don't have a specific goal/target in mind while making it. I've written several game engines since the nineties, and this is my most recent version.

I have abandoned many of my older engines at some point to develop a new one, but with this engine I'll try to keep developing it a lot further before making a new engine.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/01/boeing-737-...
I am trying to write a programming language in Bengali language. But i only managed to write a crappy tree-walker interpreter.

https://github.com/Shafin098/pakhi-bhasha
Sure but you had until the end of August to end it. Spring was the early days. And it would have been conceivable to try to eliminate it locally in sectors other than agriculture. Deal with the easy buts first and then the hard bits after. Often the hard bits become easier in so doing.

You could have kept internal border controls except for essential work. We did that in Atlantic Canada. Australian states did that. We’re just as integrated as the EU is! We never had a border at any point in our history. So we set one up.

There are non islands that more or less eliminated it. China, vietnam for example.

Harder in the EU? More complicated? Absolutely. But the policy the EU pursued was an abject failure, so merely saying “there would have been difficulties” doesn’t show that elimination would have been worse. The places that reduced covid better generally saw better economic results too.
Don’t forget that SpaceX Grasshopper flew DC-X like tests in 2012. Not first by any means, but first for SpaceX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_prototypes
Depends entirely on the implementation, of course, but modern implementations have extremely low probabilities of false matches.

These are tested by running the algorithm against large databases of fingerprints and looking for false matches between any two different fingerprints.

Note that this scenario is vastly worse than any real-world scenario, as you can’t simply have a million different people try to unlock a device.

The practical question is to consider the probability of a specific random person being able to unlock your phone, which is orders of magnitude lower probability than considering if any person can unlock your phone.

Any secure fingerprint system would also have exponential back off for excessive tries, further limiting the practicality of a random attacker matching.
I regret sometimes when I cancel plans with friends. And getting sucked online so much.
Not according to w3.org's validator.
https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Finoads.com%2F...

Edit: Actually, seems you're right. Though doctype is not there, and there are other problems with the markup.
Andy Weir on his new novel Artemis (2017)
Tracing JITs and coverage-guided fuzzers
"the only winning move is not to play."
A remote control app (Android/iOS, written in Flutter) for Philips smart TV-s. I don't like the official one, it's buggy.

Right now it only has basic controls and a trackpad, but I plan on adding channel/favorites/app lists and other stuff.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/TAwsRf1

I cut a lot of features, as I want it out released, so I'm focusing on the basics, which is the auth with tv logic and basic controls.

I plan on doing a beta release to iron out issues with the authentication logic. If you're interested, drop a mail to phimoteapp@gmail.com .
No, but the previous comment looks just specific enough that it seems like they are trying to make an example look like it was a real life example (which would give it a lot of weight) when in reality it was a hypothetical example (which gives it less weight).

But to address the argument as a hypothetical, I don't think it's a fully developed argument. Fledgling companies with small user bases have very little liability by virtue of their small community. A platform with a small community can't be used to do harmful things like incite riots and encourage hate crimes unless you are targeting a specific demographic. And if you're targeting a specific demographic that is prone to doing harmful things then you should be moderating it from day 1. If you aren't targeting a dangerous demographic you have to get pretty big before your platform gets dangerous by size alone, and I do think it's reasonable to expect companies to have some moderation figured out before their platform gets so big that it's dangerous. Plus, a small budget doesn't give founders/developers an excuse to not know what their platform is being used for. Hypothetically, if your platform was small and you didn't realize you were catering to Nazis, then you are liable if those Nazis use your platform to organize an armed march/protest that turns into a riot and people get killed. Or at least I think you should be, and that's why I think that Section 230 should be repealed and replaced with something in the middle- not a blanket protection for companies that don't even try to moderate their content, but some protection as long as they are actually trying.

Also remember that not moderating your platform doesn't mean that bad things will definitely happen and that you will get sued- Section 230 only applies to civil cases already, and there must be some sort of grievance for someone to sue you. The cops couldn't proactively shut someone down for lack of moderation. So even without Section 230, a company could roll the dice while they were on a shoestring budget if they decided that it was worth it to delay developing a moderation system in favor of a different feature. That's in their right, they just ought to accept the idea that they might get sued if something bad happened because they prioritized work on shiny features.

So I guess what I'm saying is yes, I don't think a shoestring budget is a defense for giving a company protections. A new car company can't avoid a lawsuit from ignoring a known safety defect just with the excuse that they didn't have the budget. A startup that can't afford to do something right either shouldn't be doing it or they should accrue some risk.
Sailing an asbestos boat across Kilauea's Lava Lake
But the NYT can carry liability for letters to the editor published in its dead tree format -- see https://www.rcfp.org/supreme-court-will-not-hear-letter-edit... as an example of a local newspaper being held liable for letter-to-the-editor-published defamation.

The CDA draws a bright line between content "authored" by a firm and content "made available." In practice, that line is fuzzy.

As a hypothetical example, Twitter probably should face liability if it took a random tweet (say) accusing Bezos of pedophilia and made an editorial decision to promote that tweet to all its users, but it could still plausibly claim that it was just making the content available.

It's a complicated topic, and I don't know where the best balance lies.
Dailystormer proves that you /can/ shut down a website through pressure on ISPs.
Signal does it https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007061452-Do...
I wish more people understood this.

> There is danger in the current moment. It comes not from horn-helmeted idiots and racist scumbags who paraded through the Capitol Building for an hour, but from those who wish to turn that despicable incident into the founding myth of a new era of woke authoritarianism.
And again, I cite the fact that you're getting defensive about attempts to call out this "tacticool"[1] subculture as dangerous instead of joining in the denunciation along with the rest of us as evidence that you associate more with their ideals than you may want to admit.

If it's a problematic subculture it should be a problem, and not dismissed. I don't see that happening from anywhere on the right.

[1] To pick the term above, which seems like a horrifying euphemism to my ears. But let's go with it.
They’re successful only because they are accompanied by physical violence. If we go down this path again prepare for a repeat of history at the hands of those you give this power to, it’ll probably take a few hundred mega deaths before we learn our lesson again.
Show HN: End of Covid-19
Federated / decentralized, tag based anonymous messageboard :
http://0chan.vip

Could have just used nntp but nntpchan already did that.
Intergenerational [wealth] mobility in the long run: Florence 1427-2011
I’m proud of being intellectually honest while also doing my best not to be a dick.

And of writing maintainable and readable code that will last.
Sometimes it makes sense to keep things simple. These people are insane even if they are able to manage certain aspects of life. Call a spade a spade and let things fall where they will.
I regret that the quality of content on HN is rapidly becoming mainstream and therefore, less interesting like this question which has been asked numerous times on Reddit. Coming up next on HN: What’s something your SO does that impresses you?
It's not great it's enabling extraction of fossil fuels which ought to remain in the ground.
A link aggregator where the votes of different users have different weights for you - based on how useful their previous votes have been.

It is in a very early stage and is invitation only for now:
https://linklonk.com/register with invitation code 'hn'.

The idea was well described in this comment back in 2011:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3003639
Correct, documented at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#optional-...
So let me get this right 18m is more than the cost to us from the loss of bees? Really?!
The stated purpose of the protest was to "take our country back" from the democratic majority.

That's not a few bad eggs. That's an enormous crowd of people all deciding, tacitly or not, consciously or not, that democracy isn't for them anymore. And phrases like "take our country back" aren't even subtle; anyone who's been paying attention recognizes them as dog whistles. The obvious indication is that this crowd believes the votes of the democratic majority are not legitimate because they came from people who aren't entitled to run the country. And, while we can certainly spend an entertaining afternoon sealioning about particular examples, it would be easier to just take a look at some of the wide angle shots of the crowd. The crowd is clearly communicating exactly who they think isn't entitled to have a voice in how the country is run, either explicitly by holding flags and banners, or implicitly by consenting to be represented by the people holding the flags and banners.
>> You literally didn't contradict anything I said linguistically or culturally (i.e. that China is _not_ some singular linguistical/cultural area), which was my point. So no I _do_ have a point and you yourself agreed with it.

> I am making the point that the linguistic differences between Romance language speakers are exaggerated and nonexistent in practice, not agreeing with you that the linguistic differences in China are significant.

>> You made another point that the fact that China was unified more recently as an empire than Rome means they are somehow more legitimate.

> You acted as if China was some newly formed entity, and used it to imply that it isn't natural for it to be unified. The amount of times China has been unified far outstrips the amount of times when a single city that's not even self sufficient infrastructurally has been independent.

So you agree that there is no natural cultural-linguestic reason for China to be unified in its current form? You argue that the reason to support unification is because of China's past successes in militaristic imperialism support current unification? I mean if that's your point, then I hope more people read this so they understand the facts on the ground. You're basically saying that Hong Kong should be part of China because it can take it. Okay that's at least a consistent argument. I find it extremely immoral, but well I guess the only thing other countries can do is try to stand against China in that case.
A society of advanced apes with a penchant for destroying their environment decides that a species that is necessary for their survival is better off dead because they don't care for a weird thing called science.
Can suggest this as well, also I might suggest using Terraform.

The Console hides/obfuscates some things, w/ Terraform how resources are linked and work together become much more clear.