skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in the interest of balance, conservative leaning apps can get away with doing whatever they want now?

If left leaning apps permit the kind of violent talk that Parler does, by all means, ban those too.
I love how this is 100% a liability issue and everyone jumps to the First Amendment like automatons. Twitter and Facebook are each gonna blow hundreds of millions of dollars dealing with litigation from the fallout of the other day. They have zero obligation to host insane seditious rhetoric or the people who have encouraged it.
Second that. Was born in Russia as well
great design and interesting content
A lot of games from this era still scares me. The claustrophobic hell that is Descent (Interplay 1995).

In order to complete a level, you need to make your way through a maze with 6DOF fps camera, while enemies jump out from all directions and no way to tell which direction you are taking damage, and finally blowing up a reactor and having to find an exit that is located in an unknown place while the cliche 90s computer female voice begins a countdown and the lights start dimming on and off making it even harder to make your way to the exit.

Fuck that game. Used to have nightmares playing that game as a kid I still won't touch it.
> The idea of someone running warrant checks on the basis of a broken tail light is antithetical to notions like the presumption of innocence and right to privacy.

Hm, there's definitely a line somewhere. I'm with you in that I don't think cops should be able to demand ID and run checks on random people simply out and about in public. Broken tail light? Not sure. Speeding? OK now you're breaking the law and arguably creating a public safety threat, but probably not going to be arrested. DUI? Now you're in misdemeanor territory at least. When is it reasonable to check if you're also wanted for something else? Maybe when you're booked at the jail?
The UK's health services are struggling at the moment.

So can the conclusion be that vitamin D does not work as expected? Or is the conclusion that still not enough people are taking vitamin D, and its usefulness should be better communicated?
My least favorite part is how completely impossible it is to discover all the implicit variables set by other cmake files, and there's no common convention, so some libraries are like ${ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR} and some are #{zLib_INCLUDE_DIRS} and you have to just manually try a bunch of combinations to finally find what works because the scripts themselves use weird string based metaprogramming to build the variables themselves.
> The Pentagon said Miller approved the request without speaking with the White House because he had gotten direction from the president days earlier to do whatever he deemed necessary with the Guard.
It's pretty sad watching all the comments here calling this suggestion mccarthyism, witch hunt, etc. Police departments should be doing this and holding their employees to a high standard that's not a witch hunt that's common sense.

If you are a member of a violent gang or are too racist to police justly you are too dangerous to employ as a cop. Not looking for and removing these people is intentionally turning a blind eye to the extreme danger they present to people in their communities.
Yes but do you? When Twitter suspends your speech do you have a press office to get your word out? If they dare to do it to the president you think they have any reservations about censoring anyone else?
The documentation is "complete" in the way that some manpages are - the biggest problem with it is the lack of best practices guidance. About books, I believe that good ones exist now. The official CMake book is not among the good ones - last time I checked, it was ridiculously outdated (and IMO not even very good at the time it was written).

I have extracted some knowledge from the source code. It's more underdesigned than overdesigned and I think that's the better side to err on. Kinda awkward but you can figure it out.
>> I could not model/implement an Object with an internal state changing method in a fp language via a functor.

> I don't think anyone claimed that.

I was not trying to refute the opposite claim. I was giving info on the differences of functors and the referenced oop feature. My points run somewhat counter to the authors claim "Functors are basically an Object with a internal state changing method in typical OOP terms." or at least what I think some reads walk away with. Hard to say what is in the author's head with the provided text.

> Now we are getting somewhere. You said partially, what features are being left out?

I did not mean to imply features would be left out but rather I would use more than the one oop feature, "an Object with an internal state changing method", to implement functors.
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I'm still in validation step, wanted to know if people are interested in such service before I jump in to development.

Honestly I just wanted to dive into development and dealing with code, but if I want a proper product I need to validate it first and I need to deal with people and make them top priority rather than my personal interest in coding :)
Oh no! Politicians were afraid of their constituents!

Meanwhile normal citizens just spent the entire summer having their livelihoods destroyed as the media and corporations cheered on the perpetrators.
I think that one possible disconnect is the issue of ‘extremism’. I don’t think we can make a black and white division between extremists and everyone else.

For example, I think things like saying ‘whiteness’ is the problem, is not particularly associated with the extremes and yet very much are part of the cause of the problem. Similarly, calling everyone on the left a snowflake or a communist, is not only the purview of extremists.
I guess I just don't see where there are footguns and unsafety here. Build scripts are intended to operate on a known, fixed set of inputs.
I have a Model 3 where the rear window developed cracks and the integrated heating in it stopped working. Tesla exchanged it under warranty, and I haven't had any problems with the new one.
I'm not an expert, but my impressions is that these things happens from time to time. Safety glass doesn't like to be under tension and if you mess up the mounting of it, and do that, it can crack or break.
Yes that's right. There are 5 things they ask Biden for on the ACLU website for speech, privacy and technology. Moderation policy is not on the list. I think this article needs to understood in the scope of the ACLU overall priorities.

Ban the federal use of, and funding for, facial recognition technology

Support the introduction and passage of federal comprehensive consumer privacy legislation

Expand access to broadband internet access services

Restore net neutrality rules

Reinstate broadband privacy rules

https://www.aclu.org/news/topic/our-asks-bidens-civil-libert...
Has anyone considered that the kerosene quality might be to blame?
An engine disintegrating and taking control surfaces with it is what I assume they meant.
Every single one of these actions will have the opposite effect. You cannot ban people into submission. Instead, you’ll only get more extremists and more fracturing of culture.

This seems like psychology 101 to me, but apparently the bright minds in Silicon Valley know what’s best for us more than we do. After all, they have been spying on us and collecting data for years. Maybe they do.
You should really run with that idea, it's simply brilliant ! (I am a tad jealous )
Wait, are we already rewriting history to eliminate the idea that, for months last summer, many people actually did want to abolish the police?

Granted, a lot of that got walked back later, but it did happen. I live close enough to the CHOP that you can't really make me believe there wasn't an huge, loud, violent movement that unambiguously wanted to get rid of cops, period.

As far as serious people (true Scotsmen) go, I guess you're defining them as rational, learned experts. But I would urge you to at least pay attention to what crazed maniacs think too, since it turns out they can do some damage if you ignore them long enough.
Cool! I'm excited to see more interest in this space after Boar development appears to have been abandoned, and no one is willing to take on converting it into Python 3.x. I have a similar project also in Go (see DupVer elsewhere in this thread) though it is based on a centralized repo.
If this isnt an example of changing how we manage the internet, why even bring it up?
You can’t limit the extent to which a company moderates content, as the right to moderate is based in the First Amendment.

All you can do is adjust the shield from liability that 230 provides. If you decrease the size of that shield (as the DOJ proposal does), private companies will further restrict user activity (not expand it) until it fits under the shield again. That is true whether you are talking about a full repeal or only an incremental change.
Social workers aren't going to stop people from breaching the Capitol.
Or a blm protestor attacking a citizen trying to protect their livelihood. But most people will probably turn a blind eye because it doesn't fit the narrative (blm riots = peaceful protests, capitol riots = domestic terrorism)

Makes me chuckle that the result of this + the deplatforming of most of the opposition will only result in even more extremism and separation in the US.

I guess you reap what you sow
So we are banning twitter then as well?
> I posit the existence of a giant duck living on Uranus.

Cmon now, that is not analogous. We have evidence to suggest there is no oxygen on Uranus therefore it is impossible to have ducks living on your anus.
It's not. The uproar about this is primarily ideological dissembly.
More to do with the fact that Tesla is under a microscope and QC issues and mishaps with other automakers are usually not newsworthy.
There was a similar drama regarding ingredient order in burger emoji[0] and squid/mosquito anatomy[1]

[0] https://blog.emojipedia.org/google-fixes-burger-emoji/

[1] https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/9/24/20882195/ios-13-1-em...
Get hype, because they're doing it again in February. ;)

I believe its name is Perseverance.
The cost should be exponential. First 20 years free. Ten years more costs $10,000. Another ten $20,000. Etc.

Under this model, it would cost about $2.5M to maintain a copyright for a full century. If a work still remains valuable, you’re looking at spending millions annually on renewals, with the cost doubling every decade. It’s an incentive to innovate rather than collect royalties on the old stuff forever.
There’s also a huge difference between people standing in the street shouting that they don’t like you and breaking down the doors to a restricted federal building after saying they were going to kill you and/or shut down a civic proceeding.
It's not just syscalls. It's every context switch. If the process is in the midst of using AVX registers in kernel code, but is suddenly descheduled, those registers have to be saved/restored. You can't know if the task is using AVX or not, so you have to either always save/restore them, or adopt the policy that these registers are not saved/restored.
Sure. That's the market for ya. The invisible hand can still get stuff done.

If you hit a cog that's a government-granted monopoly, then I'd sympathize with that. Otherwise, I have zero sympathy for supposed market proponents who want the government to step in as long as it's in their favor.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.
You know what else both sides are doing? Whatabout whatabout whatabout whatabout! Just stop already. If you can’t see the difference then you are just willfully closing your eyes and sticking your fingers in your ears.
You should probably start with learning to spell correctly.

The events of yesterday evening are well within these companies rights and in keeping with both free market and conservative principles.

Why should I, as a business owner, be forced to do business with those I find repugnant? We see this all the time with the so-called 'evangelical' movement against those who they deem 'immoral'. It works the same way when going in the other direction.

If you're not happy with the terms these businesses operate under, you're free to go and make your own platform. Of course, considering how interconnected the world is, you may find yourself also having to replace other services who are making the same decision to not do business with you. But that's on you to figure out.

The world doesn't owe you a soapbox.
Cmake isn't the problem, it's a solution to the complexity of building huge c and/or c++ projects such as VTK such that you can run on many different OSes, arches and platforms, with hundreds of different build options.

That is just what you get with legacy build systems.

Disclosure: I work at Kitware.
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After 13 years, I deleted my personal Gmail account
Can we please get decentralized emoji?

It's silly that the symbols we use in our language are fixed and determined by a big company (or by a standardization committee for that matter).

Language should be free, and this includes its symbols.
There's always IRC and web forums. You can even use a smartphone based IRC client, if you really have to. If you want to use Google/Apple/AWS services, you play by their rules. Plenty of stories about "XX closed our company account and now we can't do business" on HN.
Spontaneous shattering of safety glass is more common that you might think: https://www.google.com/search?q=shower+door+spontaneously+sh...
What are you comparing us to? We don't have a control group for intelligent species.
>Violence will increase not decrease as extremists are pushed out of the public square and into echo chambers and non-public Signal groups.

I see this claim a lot, but is it true? On the one hand, some people will move into harder to find echo chambers. On the other, fewer people will be exposed to extremist content in the first place. Both factors are in play. It isn't clear which one "wins".
AFAICT most protestors over the summer were peaceful. There didn't seem to be much sympathy for those destroying property or stealing merchandise.

Regardless I'd agree that the Jan. 6 protestors weren't trying to incite terror so much as stop a process they've been convinced was flawed.

Hopefully with a change of government the US political culture can mellow and maybe even reconcile a bit.
You have moved the goal post. The parent comments weren't talking about "harassment", it was talking about unjustifiable murder, like the instance of Philando Castile, vs capturing violent criminals with warrants.
It is extremely bizarre to me to watch the left cozy up to corporations. What happened to Occupy Wall Street, Chomsky, the real counterculture?
I've had an in-browser animated meme editor in the freezer for a few years now:

https://www.ultime.me/

The idea came when I wanted to make a simple animated meme, but found it exceedingly frustrating to caption a simple animated gif with nice text options (like outlines). Over time, it's grown to have full keyframe animation for all text and image/video clip attributes, so it is actually pretty capable short of using a desktop video editing/fx package.

That said, the UX is bad and I should feel bad :) . I made the deliberate choice up front to focus on the underlying data model and internal APIs rather than polishing the UI - as such, it is very much an engineer interface. It would be more usable with some demo videos or call-to-action helpers for new users, but really the UX just needs reworked. Especially around animation/keyframing.

On the bright side, the clean data model and content addressable assets leave the path clear to add things like collaborative multi-user meme editing, git like meme-forking(and diffing?), and so forth.

Started it about 3 years ago when I had a period of mostly free time to play. It's been idle for a long time due to starting a family and getting consulting momentum, but I'm intending to make the time this year to polish the UX to the point of general usability and experiment with promotion/monetization. Failing that, I'll probably just open source it and write a couple of blog posts about the internals.

It is more or less a static web app, with no server side function short of some optional stats collection. It's written in Clojurescript/Clojure and uses https://github.com/tonsky/rum as a React wrapper and
https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js/ to import most animation formats and export gifs/webm fully in browser (I don't want to pay real server costs to encode animation).
>No one is worried about a mentally deranged guy running around in a costume taking over the legitimately elected government

No, because that's not something that could actually ever have happened. Nothing that crowd could have done, or was planning to do, would have actually resulted in any of them "taking over" the government, that's not how this works. That asshole in the buffalo costume got his two minutes of internet fame and then got arrested.
But the usage of they to refer a single person is older than anyone alive if that makes you feel better about sticking it to your picky grade school teachers.
The USPS has been used to disseminate hate speech and plan criminal activities.

Should we ban the post service? Clearly they have no ability to regulate the hateful content they disseminate.
There’s nothing wrong with using a read only mmap in conjunction with another method for writes.
You're correct- mercury delay lines read/write in a set order and you have to wait for your address to come back around in order to access it.

Standing wave memory would mostly defeat the point of having memory, since you'd need to address every single antinode individually. You might as well just have a bunch of latches. The real point of delay lines, shift registers, or core memory is to reduce the address space: you store bits in a way that is slower but simpler to access, which means you can store more things. Mercury standing waves would not make it any easier to store bits, so there's no advantage.

Still, you could make a device like that. Only 2/3rds of the tube can store memory- the rest is a quarter-wave transformer, which basically makes the tube act as if it was open at both ends. You can construct arbitrary patterns with fourier decompositions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_summation
Ok that’s fair. I take back my comment. I’ve had that happen to me. I was sent offer from one of the major social media companies. I signed the offer. Rejected other offers. We chose the starting date etc and 3 days later they rescinded the offer. HR lied to me etc. Would have been easier to deal if there was union.
The internet literally didn't exist 50 years ago. How can a lack of access to internet be an infringement on free speech then?

Television literally didn't exist 100 years ago. How can a lack of access to television be an infringement of free speech then?

Written language literally didn't exist ~5000 years ago. How can a lack of access to written language be an infringement of free speech then?
A fun fact is that they do still return useful content in HTML meta tags (and frankly, only the useful content is present there) if you disguise yourself as a link expanding bot from Slack/Facebook/etc.

Perhaps that's gonna be the new paradigm to browse the Internet in a lightweight way.
Is there a difference between a ‘free speech app’ and a ‘death threat app’?
The internet is still open and free. Your free to start a social network for like minded people, it’s up to you to grow it..
yes, because if they censor too much then parler or any other startup can easily rise up and compete. the barrier to entry is very very low here if there are pissed off users ready to flee. parler being a prime example
In my experience so far, SML hit a really sweet spot between ease of learning and features. I never had a "what would I use this for?" moment. Kotlin comes close, but is less elegant and especially lacks full pattern matching.

Unfortunately, sml is used approximately nowhere. Not sure why, but I also haven't used ocaml yet. Maybe one day. My hosting provider (hcoop.net)'s domtool is written in SML, and I hope to hack on it at some point.
It’s also not even that. The discussion is if someone has to distribute a “free speech app”. The issue is a little more complex for Apple if/when they ban Parler, as you can’t (easily) side load apps on iOS. But Google only banned them from the Google Play store, thus limiting their distribution. You can still use the app, and side load to install. (I think this makes Android’s position a little more tenable here...)

They still have their app and website. And you can still get to their website from a phone.
"silence all conservatives"

No, only those with extremist and dangerous views.
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Funny how GMC still has the same logo from the 60s. Their electric hummers are expected to be rolling off assembly lines in months but they haven't thought to change a 60 year old logo to reflect their new flagship product.
"an insurrection is the language of the unheard"

Hmm doesn't have quite the same ring.

Try this one:

"We shall fight them on the beaches... we shall never surrender"

Or would you prefer appeasement?
I use https://www.monicahq.com/ mostly for this. Interesting, tracking.
Nice! Keep up the good work! :)
The offices are public areas because they serve public officials carrying out public office.
Regardless of how bizarre it is, I've seen this in real code in embedded applications before. It's a workaround of buggy serial port drivers (flow control or buffering is probably broken): You open the port, read/write a line, close it, and open it again...
The research overwhelming supports that those that drink coffee regularly, live longer.

The caffeine may not be the cause, but rather other parts of coffee (this is generally the accepted view), but it is also true that most people in this studies drink caffeinated coffee which means drinking large amounts of caffeine is compatible with living a longer life.
I also run my own server, with email, HTTP, NNTP, etc. (Mine also happens to match my HN username with dot org.) (You are not limited to website and email; you can include other servers too if you want to have, and some are better for some other purposes.) I don't use Facebook, I don't write on Twitter, and my email is not Gmail.

> What neither side can agree on is that EVERYBODY has the right to speak and NOBODY is entitled to an audience. They don't understand that an individual's right to speak ends where everybody else's right to ignore him begins.

This part I agree. Everyone should have freedom of speech, but you can't force someone to listen if they do not wish to do so. (Of course, it also mean, people have the right to criticize what someone else says, too, that is also important to have.)

I am not "right/left" wing, I think.
How did antifa continued to get organized in the last 6 months? Did they have a purge of accounts? Any apps got banned from app stores?
This may come as a shock but Christopher Hitchens died.

About a decade ago.
Whats the failure mode with bad kerosene? The rapid loss of height doesn't sound like a failed engine or similar.
There are people out there that are crazy, and will use anything to justify their actions. Unless he called for a specific action, I don't see how he is to blame. It would be setting a bad precedent to blame or punish anyone that said something provacative that is not explicitly a call for inciting harm/violence. People need to be held responsible for their own actions.

I believe Obama used carefully picked statistics to say there is widespread racism in the police. There are likely racist people/cops, but I don't believe there is evidence to suggest widespread racism.