skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you would find that the majority of people do not support the riots that were happening (and still are) prior, either. So if we say, those accounts should be banned also, will that make everything ok, as both sides would/could be seen as equal?

At the end of the day, we must also recognize that corporations are still run by humans. Those humans make decisions within the context of their own biases and interests. Those interests are also legal requirements in some cases.

It's a tough situation, but even companies which do not have a legal requirement to do so, should be able to express their own views, and be accountable for them. I believe that actions (or threats) by Trump towards twitter earlier on expresses how the Government at the time thought that social platforms should have some accountability.

> "We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can't let a more sophisticated version of that.... happen again." ..... Trump
That is true. But if your buddy is packing heat, wearing a Nixon mask and asks you for a ride to and from the bank, then you don't get a free pass just because your buddy wasn't deemed a criminal at the time.
So because their policy doesn’t go far enough, then they shouldn’t be allowed to have a policy?

I find this argument to be uncompelling.
> To be hyperfocused on the free speech or "big brother" aspect of these bans, not the fact that a small group of rioters were just a few feet away from irreversibly staining American history

This. Violence, intimidation and death are the ultimate forms of censorship. Much more so than having to switch your digital payment processor or having to self-host your blog or social media app.

Germany decided after WWII that it was better to mass-censor Naziism than it was to let Nazis freely organize or spread their ideas again. It's not that Germany doesn't like free speech, it's that Naziism and free speech are diametrically opposed and forced to make a choice, they choose free speech.

It seems like a contradiction where censorship promotes free speech, but it all depends on your timeline. In the short term banning Nazis limits free speech, in the long run banning Nazis increases free speech.

When we give violent groups space to grow and organize, we're more anti-free speech than we realize because the capital riots are the inevitable arc (and only the opening act) for very small groups to violently oppress large numbers of peaceful citizens who love democracy.
As if anyone actually believes that tripe
In languages like C it's useful to have 0-based indexing because it's not really an index at all but a pointer offset. You don't do pointer math in languages like Julia and Matlab (and Fortran), but instead actual indexing, so 1 is a better place to start.

Also, 1-based indexing is easier to teach those new to programming, especially children. 0-based indexing is a significant stumbling block for people, since they are used to counting from 1, which leads to all kinds of off-by-one errors.
I think this completely leaves out how user research and interface design influence the prioritization, process, and delivery of work done by the development team.
It's from the Subtitle and the content of the article. How is it inaccurate?
This is great, thanks for sharing!

Even as a game dev myself, I'm still constantly amazed by the witchcraft that the rendering experts do.
Nobody is saying “don’t arrest and prosecute the people who invaded the Capitol”.

This is about the campaign finance/social media account/etc of the current sitting POTUS.

You don’t need to condone the actions of the Capitol terrorists to take issue with him being banned from every platform having committed no crime (or at least, not having been convicted of any crime).

A few hundred people invaded the Capitol, but tens of millions of people voted for Trump. We’re not talking about the former; I think it’s very reasonable to be concerned that this divisiveness might radicalise the latter.
Fantastic link thank you, I am reading it now!
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This seems like a useful model for this company. Actually, I really like it. In my work there is often a huge gap between "minimum requirements" and "

But it doesn't really match my observations for Apple. Safari? One of the best for privacy features and energy usage. iCloud? They stumbled a lot on this but iCloud for photos is arguably the best. iCloud for backups and synching devices is the best. It's a breeze to setup a new phone or laptop. Literally just login. iCloud for collaboration works well but nobody uses it because it's not the de facto standard. There is obviously a ton of people working on these things and I can't imagine internally they are targeting bare minimum for these.

I would argue that there is only 2 categories at Apple: "won't do", and "better than the best". Of course, that doesn't mean "better than the best" is always or even often achieved. And Mac Pro seems to aim too high, such that is amazing by some metric (but not others) each generation, and then out of date for a decade as it's essentially a high tooling-cost, low volume product.

And, vertical integration and integration of services with their devices is kind of orthogonal to these types of categories and more important to explain Apple. Apple notes app is not the best, and iCloud may not be the best. But having notes on all of my devices is the best. And they don't even advertise this feature, it's more of a retention strategy.
> I also don’t agree with their equivalent person on the left.

Just out of curiosity who is their equivalent person on the left?

> Can’t we all try to find consensus and compromise?

What consensus and compromise do you want when the President of the US wants to "find" the votes or when calls the rioters good people and we love you?
The fact that this has never happened before except when literal incitement of violence was being carried out (google for screenshots) and not being stopped, shows there's no reason to worry this will happen to you.
Thanks. I wasnt being snarky. I really didn't know what such algorithms are used for and the paper didn't mention examples either.
The very idea that cryptocurrency is an "uncensorable currency" is just fundamentally false, yet is a common refrain of crypto supporters who somehow think crypto can exist outside the realm of government control.

Governments can choose to make anything they want illegal, and they have the guns to back up that decision. Sure, it may be easy to make crypto transactions more surreptitiously, but at the end of the day someone is going to want to spend that crypto on something that has real value, and governments can, and do, control what method of payments are acceptable.
JPM and Citi are pausing their own donations to all PACs, regardless of party, not donations to specific Republican candidates or to only Republican PACs.
one interesting dynamic of the Republican party now seems to be that the faction still allied to the president has to wage a culture-war, a war against America's political institutions and a war against the most productive industries in the country, none of which is going very well.

So you really have to ask yourself where this is going to end, are they at some point going to move into the Mojave desert and start a Fallout style cult?
I wonder how much of this is actually determined by the organization size and business complexity rather than the company pedigree. In my experience, things like autonomy, decision making, understanding the business, and communication style seem to evolve towards the more "traditional" model as the business grows.
The GOP most certainly supported a fascist for the past 4 years.
Sure, Signal is simpler, but Matrix isn't harder than configuring a new email account on an free provider, and you still get the option of setting up your own if you want to use your own domain name.

And I hate that Signal's identity is linked to a phone number.
Yeah yeah those ToS, the new founding document of the United States of America.

One little warning from someone living in a real fascist state (Russia). It wasn't always a fascist state, but when it began to morph into one, censorship what what they started with. Of course, it was legal, because it was all private companies, rightfully executing their liberty to not show anyone they don't like...

The rich irony, of course, is that regular fascist masses that support government are brainwashed to think, they it is the marginalized opposition who are fascists.
Parties are always going to support the incumbent as long as they will probably win, and in most congressional districts the votes are always solid along party lines. The incumbent doesn't have to be good, they just have to be not so beyond terrible as to make their constituents switch parties. There is no reason for the party to not support the incumbent otherwise.

I think you could also make the argument that after a few decades in congress, it becomes less and less likely that someone has a real sense of what life is like outside of that world, what the average citizen wants and needs from their government, and in some cases how the culture and technology of the world around them actually functions.

Even if a it means loosing a few good people, I think overall some reasonable term limits would have a positive impact overall. They don't even have to be short limits, even something like a 24 year limit would make a huge impact.
Is there a difference? The reasons we hold our opinions are fundamentally just another set of opinions. Unless you're talking about something more fundamental - in that case, yes, we can still be friends when our first principles are opposed. It's just harder.

I think it comes down to just how tolerant we're willing to be. It's easy to be tolerant when the stakes are low; who cares if someone is doing something somewhere else that makes us uncomfortable? The Christian ideal is to be tolerant of someone who is actively doing us harm.
I don't care (much) about apps. Part of that is because I'm old, part of it is because I don't use a cell phone, part of it is because I do most of what people do on their cell phones from ... uhm ... more traditional computing devices.

If I did care, then perhaps I'd see Google/Apple store bans etc. as more equivalent to Visa/MC payment processing bans.

As it stands, I don't.
Dunno about research, but I've worked in a few SV startups that organized development with Jira and had high autonomy for engineers. Some of the features of those teams:

1. Most tickets are opened by engineers themselves, and don't contain detailed specifications, but just notes to provide context.

2. The purpose of the ticket is to provide something to link to, and a place to put information as it emerges. So commits and PRs usually link to a ticket, as do engineering and product management planning documents, reports etc. Some tickets are terse and quickly closed, others could develop a long history, with status changes, links to other tickets and documents, ownership by different engineers over time etc.

3. We organize development into sprints, but a Scrum master would be disgusted by our process. Sprints are just short-terms planning horizons; we ship as soon as the code is ready and close tickets when the code is in production. The purpose of a sprint is to batch up all the low-level planning and prioritization so most of the time we're focused on execution.

4. High-level planning is all in GDocs, spreadsheets and Photoshop/Figma. Product management doesn't create tickets unless they are reporting a bug, and even that was pretty rare. Engineering management gets a lot of information about what's going on by observing Jira; this reduces the need for meetings to communicate status. (Doesn't eliminate meetings, of course, but it does seem to make them more interesting.)

Basically, it boils down to, you have to keep status somewhere, and Jira does that pretty well.
Was it? Trump threatened the head of the FDA with firing if he didn't approve the vaccine immediately. Luckily, I don't see any evidence that he aquiesed.
great link. thanks! the portrait/cartouche noted 105 is me basically, but without a hat. Living proof Hogarth was a time-traveller.
I think you are mistaken in some details.

Monasteries from pretty early on required celibacy. According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_celibacy_in_the_Cat..., priests did get married until the 12th century (even then, some say there was an unenforced law rule on the books saying that wasn't supposed to happen) .

While there were some theological and worldly reasons for the change, competition with lords wasn't one, and doesn't make a lot of sense. Religious communities were largely populated by the children of the nobles, and nobles gave to monasteries. (And again, wouldn't apply, since only non-monastic priests were married.)
This is the subtitle form wsj:

"JPMorgan and Citigroup to halt all PAC donations; Blue Cross and Marriott pause funding to Republicans who objected to Electoral College results"

edit:

This is from CNN: Corporate America halts donations to Republicans who voted to overturn the election
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/10/business/citigroup-bluecr...
We don't have tests because they were specifically used to disenfranchise large classes of people in the past.
Nice feature.
What does CHAZ stand for again? Remind me
I think the poster's point was that you can cherry pick extreme examples from either side to support a desired narrative. If you believe that most of the Capitol Building protesters were peaceful this makes sense. Even if you disagree, take that as a hypothetical and work backwards from there to understand this view.

Several media outlets are highlighting the worst behavior and generalizing from there. Of course the media has every incentive to be sensationalist. There's also a question of bias outside of the motive of sensationalism.
> But political affiliation is not a protected class.

The ongoing purge -- would it not be seen as treason, as an act to in fact subvert/weaken a position of POTUS and therefore directly destabilize the US government?
Thank you. Yes, working on it.
Essentially, developers with substantial domain experience / familiarity with the problem space tend to do what they think is best, instead of following orders.

Accepting the value of that behavior requires a great deal of personal and organizational maturity, especially when you want to try something out quickly and your developers refuse.

Sample phrases include:
"Why did the customer ask for that - it sounds like our planned implementation won't satisfy their goals", or

"Won't this change mean we operate at a loss to subsidize your other company, which will affect staff bonuses".
It's one of the most insidious problems with political polling - people who feel alienated and disconnected from society are seemingly less likely to respond to surveys so they inherently go undercounted. Kind of like the dark matter of the political world - we can tell that it's there, because we feel the effects, but we can't observe it directly.
I personally find the Hacker News Extension Suite [1] to be incredibly useful.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
Gnome still can't resize a window properly on one of the most used operating systems on earth.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/1298
>The Chinese would’ve come online, sooner or later. The WTO sped up the process of course, but China’s technological ascendancy was inevitable.

I dispute that anything is inevitable - China was an economic and scientific mess in the 80s and 90s, thanks to the Cultural Revolution and Communist anti-truth thought control ideology.

The US and our democratic allies had a fleeting opportunity in the 90s to collectively pressure China into making a grand bargain, where in return for permanent access to Western markets, they enact major democratic and human rights reforms - multiple political parties allowed, separation of powers, checks and balances, independent judiciary, military serves the national constitution rather than a specific political party, etc.

This is what should have happened, but in Wall St. and corporate America's rush to cash in on cheap labor and a potentially large new market, we replaced that grand bargain with wishful thinking and a rose-tinted predictions of an authoritarian regime that just a few years earlier in 1989 violently crushed a nascent effort at Democracy.

This was likely the most costly strategic mistake in US history. We spent 50yrs fighting a cold war to push back authoritarianism, and won, only to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the 90s due to short-term greed. Now we'll have to fight that cold war all over again this century, against a much more formidable adversary that has been able to learn how to meld state authoritarianism with effective economic development and Orwellian technological thought control.
Never heard of him (I'm from Europe and generally uninterested in politics), now I'm really curious about what did he actually say in his podcast and in fact am listening to it already. I seriously wonder how much generally pro-dem or apolitical people are going to find themselves Trump-curious or even Trump-sympathizing after all these bans and removals. I have almost no doubt there is going to be such effect, the only question is the scale. This is so obvious it almost seems a trap, like if president Trump himself had secretly ordered to ban him.
I never said that. I said if you support fascists, you should be afraid. Mitt Romney didn't support fascism. He's a Republican, last I checked. Got any more words you'd like to stuff in my mouth?
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The Christian Classics Ethereal Library (https://ccel.org) versions are pretty decent and in a variety of formats.

Rule of St. Benedict is at https://ccel.org/ccel/benedict/rule/rule
But Parler won't need to do this - there are plenty of hosts who aren't going to join in with the coordinated effort to silence the speech of those who aren't on the 'correct' side. Info Wars and OAN are still on the internet.
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hnes/
So because some people at the entire rally were armed means everyone storming the capitol was also armed? I’ve heard that very same bad statistics argument used as to why trump lost the election.

Causation != correlation. I did not see any overt firearms or weapons on the people storming the capitol building. It will be hard, because it goes against your beliefs.. but I challenge you to find those armed people in the various live streams that captured the event.
To me this just smells like a bunch of companies finally booting people off for violating ToS. Especially given a reasonable argument that President Trump committed a crime, failing to enforce their ToS could open them to their own legal liability for facilitating activity that went against their ToS and is later found to be criminal. Shareholders would sue for securities fraud at the very least.
government coercion of executives through imprisonment

I think you read this slightly wrong -- drop the government (political adversary != government adversary) and relax imprisonment for threats of violence:

"coercion of executives through threats of violence"

...and we've got something a lot closer to what we already see today.
This works but uses a microSD instead. It can emulate a Mac HD in addition to various other drives.

https://www.bigmessowires.com/shop/product/floppy-emu-deluxe...
Any similar solutions like this for Safari?
I have a Seagate 40 MB Hard Drive running on a Laser XT, purchased from Sears originally. I've had to low level format it a couple of times as it begins to diminish into the West. When it goes, it's unretrievable. As for capacitors, those are easy to replace and there is a niche market for replacing them in old systems as well as vintage tuners.
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. I hadn't seen that thread from Navalny before, and I certainly think it adds a useful perspective to the debate.
X-37 is pretty small and rather hard to miss as it launches on a giant pillar of fire every time. Not likely similar to a craft described by the OP.
Just one example.

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1347011413101998080?s=1...
Trump wasn't banned for being a republican...
If he does get charged, it will be a jury that decides, after they hear all the evidence. All we know are what we see in the internet.
GP is talking about drag-and-drop of a folder into the file picker view, which results in the file picker navigating to that folder. Or drag-and-drop a file into the file picker view, which results in the file picker navigating to the enclosing folder and then selecting the file being dragged.

This is even more useful when saving files than opening files.
And it's no coincidence that Russian dissident Alexei Navalny spoke out against big tech conspiring together to censor Trump. He sees exactly what they're doing and knows where it leads.

All big tech has to do now is tighten the screws further, and they can use their new standard to wipe out any challenger from the right half of the political spectrum before they ever gain traction (whether in media, with payment processing, social media, news, tech platforms & hosting; it's all controlled by the same political group now).

This approach by big tech would have prevented Trump from ever having a shot at getting elected in the first place, they would have turned down the volume so nobody could hear what he had to say. Which tells you all you need to know about what's coming next.

The US is a unified structural dictatorship of the left now. Tech. Academia. Hollywood & media. Social media. News. Payment processing. Thought police. Speech censorship. Tyranny will obviously follow. I'm non-partisan, I've never voted for a Republican, but it's obvious the left has acquired a dangerous amount of system power over the country.

Here's a prediction for you: in the next few years big tech will use this same conspired approach to begin behavior 'encouragement' for the wider population. Fat shame someone? No more Gmail account for you. Say something hateful? No more PayPal account for you. Already you'd have 1/4+ of the left wing nodding their heads in agreement that this is exactly the kind of social engineering that should happen (a US form of what China does to its population). It's inevitably what big tech is going to do, because it's very hard to legislate behavior control to pursue the politically correct dream they have in mind (safe spaces for all, so long as it's their type of safe space, by their rules, and their ideas), but it can be achieved through aggressive coercive action using the platforms, and now with these moves they're officially on the political playing field. It'll arrive in the guise of wrapping society in bubble wrap meant to keep everyone safe, and it ends in societal death by suffocation, narrowing and revocation of practicable rights as ever increasing numbers of things become wrong-think (and come with punishment).
Some middle managers also serve as individual contributors
Well the free market is more efficient. /s But not /s because I'm actually mocking people and dang should censor me(Don't do it this time though dang).
With people like you accepting that false narrative, it's harder for government to function properly.
The Bay of Pigs is a good example of an actual coup attempt with military training and small arms. Can you see the difference between that and what happened at the Capitol Building?
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What you are doing to the environment is as good as committing first-degree murder.