skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is arguing that these platforms don't have a legal right to do what they've done. The only debate is about what they ought to do, and whether the laws should be changed as a result of those preferences.

Regarding Parler: it is a large platform with a mixture of conservative speech and outright violent rhetoric. Does that justify its ban? The same is true for Twitter and FB (ie there exists a large amount of unmoderated extremist speech and calls for violence on these platforms). What makes it right to ban only Parler? Is there evidence that the density of such speech is higher there?
I like the idea, but I think the trust problem + shipping costs + challenge of finding overlapping swaps could be challenging. But this may be interesting for rare or expensive books With the "overlapping was" problem you may have to create a currency/credit system in which case you're almost a used book store.
Both the South African and UK variant seem to be under the name 501Y.V2 but the South African version has a mutation not seen in the UK strain:

> The variant in South Africa carries two other mutations in the spike protein (E484K and K417N, among others) which are not present in the U.K. strain

This three day old article also anticipated this study results:

> While scientists believe the U.K. variant is not likely to affect the efficacy of the vaccines currently being rolled out in the West, there is more uncertainty regarding the other strain.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/south-africa-covid-strain-a-...

I’m guessing they are both of the same “strain” but of different “variant”. But I don’t know enough about how virus taxonomy works to validate that. Sounds like two levels of mutation...
I've been using DeltaChat for quite a while, and it works like a charm.

At one point I had to switch email provider, though: I had joined a small group chat (~10 participants) in DeltaChat, and although we didn't chat a lot, the number of emails and receipt-requests (and RR returns) hit the max number of outgoing emails per day.
I should do this during the workday. I bet I could pick out when I receive certain emails from a heart rate graph.
I have one issue with this article.

Section 230 certainly encouraged centralization of the internet. Without it, platforms would be liable for content they hosted, which would be financially unviable.

Instead, people would have to self-host their own content on their own infrastructure. (230 provides no protection for people that do that.)

In addition to preventing the big monopolies from arising, this would have made censorship and surveillance much more difficult.

As it is, we’re in a situation where even the speech of the POTUS is beholdent to corporate censors.

The rest of the DMCA drastically shifted the balance of power toward copyright holders (and was also designed to increase consolidation of the industry); section 230 was necessary to offset that. I’d be happy to see the whole law repealed, though it would have the side effect of shattering the business models of the big tech monopolies. Repealing 230 but not the rest of the DMCA would be madness.
The medium has nothing do with free speech. Sorry, didn’t notice my post got messed up.
If everybody puts on their running shoes and heads west fast enough that might be able to do it.

I've commented about going downhill in unrelated messages where the vast majority is not trying to move anything but up.
Still afraid to post mine but the vast majority of these look fantastic!
It's like "The Pretender" or "Burn Notice" in that organizations in different sectors and industries come to us with a wide variety of tricky problems that we help them solve with machine learning.
What are the needs
Well done, I love hardware projects. We don't see enough of them here.
This is why it was a “bipartisan” position endorsed by both Trump and Biden.
A niche cloud that only runs public auditable source code, built on top of ObservableHQ so the user has the power to read and fork the serverside implementation if they wish

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/serverside-cells

The idea is if we shine a light on server side implementation, and give more power to the end user to see what is happening, we can build trust. Personally I want an AI to hoover up my data and act based on anticipate my needs. However, in the current climate its just too risky letting my data leave my control.

So the problem is not privacy per se, but trust that my data is used in my best interests. This is my attempt at fixing the internet services trust issue: Make sure the production code that runs on the data is verifiable at all times.

It's very half baked at the moment as the serverside runtime is not open sources, nor is there a billing system. I am acutely aware of the hypocrisy and will fix it in due time :p
Until you have a contract with someone explicitely saying what you want and what you don't want, no one owes you anything. Signal creators are doing it this way because they decided it's the best way to bring the best cryptography available to the masses, considering that they don't earn any money.
US Air Force Aircraft Accident Investigation Board Report – F-35A, T/N 12-005053 [pdf]
Wouldn't it be great to restrict all political leaders from social media and let them communicate to public only via press conferences and official statements and so on? This would allow prevent messages written out just out of spite or momentary lapse of reason.
CC-BY-NC license for a software? Care to say why not AGPL?
I dont understand. Both ear sides want to win. If loosing side has nuclear weapons, they will use them eith the goal to win. Why would they NOT use it?
You're being wilfully blind.
This sort of denying all the technology in assault weapons to maximize destruction. It's the kinetic energy, the design of the bullet, there's recoil mitigation, bullet cavitation, etc. They are weapons designed to reduce the amount of effort required to stop people, permanently.

(I'm not a gun nut but I am a physics nerd, so i read up on how assault weapons differ from more conventional hunting weapons. Note that many people hunt using assault rifles now).
A lean HTML editor with instant preview:

https://no-gravity.github.io/html_editor/

See the issues tab for the two issues still need tackling until it can be used as a nice local HTML/CSS/JS editor.

It is awesome, that with the file access api, it is not possible to write full featured editors that run in the browser.

I mainly made it for myself but then decided to open source it.

Personally, I am fine with editing raw text, but of course it would be possible to add modules, so one could enable syntax highlighting etc.
Microsoft suicided its extremly popular Messenger and Facebook's took its place, then WhatsApp took over.... things come and go.

Now WhatsApp is on a similar suicide mission.
G+ was glorious in the beginning days. With no qualms it was the best social network I've experienced yet. IMO, what killed it was Google requiring the real names - which I still believe was a good idea - but then the death knell was when they waffled on that. If they would have stood firm on the real names policy, I'm convinced they would still be here today and there is a very good chance they would have surpassed both Facebook and Twitter.
> I can wholeheartedly recommend On China by Henry Kissinger [1].

I will wholeheartedly not recommend anybody to read Kissinger.

The man has completely imaginary idea of what China is, and even more so about its leadership.

I can only lament at the fact that now multiple generations of Western politicians, and diplomats were grown upon his coolaid.
What do you mean by a “left-wing moderation policy”? The naïve interpretation gets nowhere near 99%.

You can get up to 95% if you interpret that as “a moderation policy where spamming slurs at other users isn't looked on kindly” – but if “basic decency” is your definition of “left-wing”, then what's up with your “right-wing”‽
How probable is it that my fingerprint matches with someone else's, given that there is some acceptable variance allowing my fingerprints to work every time?
https://retransmit.io - HTTP and WebSocket API Gateway

Ready to use, but it'll be more useful once I have dashboards etc (which I'm building).

I'm recovering from a minor surgery, so won't be able to reply today - sorry about that.
Votes in a functioning democratic society are anonymous. You can vote one way and tell folks you voted another to "fit in".

But people become who they hang around. So if they are in a vacuum and they only hear that the election was stolen, anything else is fake news, and the president is telling them this, they may seriously believe that democracy is under siege.

Amp it up with technology echo chambers and reinforcing behaviors and you wind up with extreme situations where a group of people storms the capitol.

It's when people don't believe they can end up with similarly distorted views on a topic that they are susceptible to this themselves. This is along the lines of the Lucifer Effect.
Help folks pay their phone and Internet bills https://evenaccess.org

Needs polishing and an application form for folks seeking help.
Genomic analysis of the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in the UK
> It's like they looked at Bash and thought "hmm, too safe".

One of my favorite comments in a while. :-)
Another story from same author from few months ago where he recounts yearly Xmas spikes in early AMZN years where everyone including Bezos was packing boxes to meet the demand:

https://mobile.twitter.com/danrose999/status/130489658608692...
Nucleus Sampling (Text Generation Decoding)
Hi, Andrei here.

Just a clarification as to why the P per RV prange numbers are good: This pattern is simply aggressively prefetched by the region prefetcher in the M1, while Zen3 doesn't pull things in as aggressively.
https://www.debt-dash.io

Plug in some basic information about your debt accounts. Choose your payoff order and how much extra you can pay towards debt each month. I provide a month by month guide on how your payments will snowball until your debt-free.

I’m the only user currently and I have a lot of work to do on branding/homepage before I share it with others but it fits the bill of unfinished but slightly useful.
I'm not interested enough to pursue it, but I've wondered about a live twitter-like newsfeed that centralizes all your news sources. I like the "emotional feel" of having everything centralized and feeling connected live to all your feeds, I just don't know if it's tangibly more useful than refreshing a page on something like omnifollow. Good luck!
A good automated service (not affiliated) is https://jobscan.co. You paste in the job description, plus your resume, and it gives you a percentage match rating.

This approach is good if you don't know anybody at the company you're applying to and want your resume to float to the top of the submissions of the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software used by recruiters and hiring managers.

You will likely have to customize your resume (to highlight different skills) for each application you make, in order to get a high match percentage.
While that may be true, I think that scale plays a role here.

The ancestors of this virus were bouncing around between a relatively small set of humans and animals for a while before becoming SARS-CoV-2.

Now with a significant portion of the world infected, it does not seem unreasonable that it would mutate. Although at that point it probably would not be considered the same virus anymore.
I find the "I'm more productive with Python" claim in the post to be specious.

Maybe I've been abused (and abusive) by bad programming practices with python in the past, but it seems you really need to lint and exercise python code to have any kind of confidence that something you think is correct won't blow up at runtime.

False confidence that something is "ready to go", is the worst, and it can cost a lot of money, and sometimes human life.

Erlang has this problem too. It's so late binding you can make spelling mistakes and it won't be caught until runtime. It's actually the basis of some very powerful features, but you really have to know that coding in Erlang is not like coding in Rust, Haskell, or something else strongly typed.

So while I think the author has a point that concretions can get you into an inflexible, hard to refactor mess over time, I think sometimes those concretions don't have to be as bad as they seem.

Consider Go. Interfaces are a form of concretion too, but the advice is to keep them small. An interface of exactly one function can be a beautiful thing. I think it's better to have a type implement many interfaces than to have a type implement one huge interface.
In their technical approach? Could you elaborate on that point?
I don't know the size of the group, but I believe (believed?) it was certainly a vocal group.

I have never been clear on whether they wanted to eliminate police entirely, or turn it volunteer- and donation-only.
I read both of these tweets just now. I have never read his Twitter posts before, and am not a Trump supporter (or a Democrat supporter; all politicians IMO are liars), but I don't understand how Twitter claims that the text of either of these tweets incites violence.
Stable Matching:

Demo (not mobile friendly): https://backnotprop.github.io/stable-matching/

Code: https://github.com/backnotprop/stable-matching

Built a production model some years back, this was an attempt at making it explainable and how things need to adjust in the wild.

https://medium.com/@rambossa/stable-matching-algorithm-and-h...
It is a neat idea, but the purist in me misses those <p> tags, even though they are the main reason why I don't like writing HTML by hand.
"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...
We're working on https://iko.ai, our internal machine learning platform. Not really prime time SOC 2 Type II enterprise ready kung fu yet, but it has:

- No-setup Jupyter environments with the most popular libraries pre-installed

- Real-time collaboration on notebooks

- Multiple versions of your notebooks

- Long-running notebook scheduling with GPU support against Docker images, and output that survives closed tabs and network disruptions displayed into a page so you can watch from multiple devices.

- Automatic experiment tracking: automatically detects your models, parameters, and metrics and saves them without you remembering to do so or polluting your notebook with tracking code

- Easily deploy your model and get a "REST endpoint" so data scientists don't tap on anyone's shoulder to deploy their model, and developers don't need to worry about ML dependencies to use the models

- Build Docker images for your model and push it to a registry to user it wherever you want

- Monitor your models' performance on a live dashboard

- Publish notebooks as AppBooks: automatically parametrize a notebook to enable clients to interact with it without exporting PDFs or having to build an application or mutate the notebook. This is very useful when you want to expose some parameters that are very domain specific to a domain expert.

I think we'll always see it as half-baked.
Early clinical trial shows anti-depressant prevents hospitalization from Covid
The same President whose own party says he’s done nothing to focus on the pandemic but play golf and fume over headlines as his government resigns?

https://www.adn.com/politics/2021/01/08/alaska-sen-lisa-murk...

I am sure he will take things seriously over the next couple weeks.

Flag all you want; unlike you donkeys I don’t care about useless internet karma on anonymous accounts. You’re just proving yourself a hypocrite over suppression of speech

HN can block the entire T-Mobile IP block for all I care

Your cognitive dissonance is stunning. “Man who failed upward his whole life will turn it around any minute now.”

Right, that’s how brains work. Sure
One thing that really helped me with back, and neck pain, and then later with all kinds of pain, is the trigger point therapy workbook. I forget which edition I have but there are one or two newer ones since then. I used to hurt myself and be useless for a week or two, since I got the book it's been a day or two. It's basically a guide for effective self massage.

Funny side note, I learned about it from a character in a fictional book called sex drugs and blueberries, which I randomly picked up from the local section of a book store while visiting Maine about 10 years ago.
I don't necessarily disagree with anything you said. To continue your analogy about games, if your games requires constantly coming up with new rules and the rule book ends up being thousands of pages long, it's a poorly designed game. How many bug fixes have been made to chess (the answer is not zero, but also not many either).

The point is that a model which requires constant bug-fixes is one that generalizes poorly which is a symptom that you are capturing the wrong abstraction.
I was Akin’s grad student (I’m Henshaw, of Henshaw’s Law). The Laws go back to the late 1980s, at least.
> Going to need some sources—the fact that cops found some of that stuff in various locations around the Capitol is not prima facie evidence that the specific individuals who actually broke into the Capitol building brought those

Well, re: “zip tie handcuffs”: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zip-cuffs-capitol-riots/
No, it's like me telling you that you can't be talking to 'tgsovlerkhgsel, or I'll start petitioning everyone you know to stop talking to you, giving each of them the same ultimatum to ensure maximum compliance.

The toxic part here isn't someone banning/defederating you, but someone who didn't ban/defederate you getting threatened by others that they'd better do that or else everyone else will defederate them.
https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com

News in the digital age updates constantly. No matter what, there is always some "breaking news". This causes news sites to become more of a slot machine than a substantive source of information.

A Brief History of Yesterday tries to be an antidote. It uses Wikipedia to show a summary of what happened yesterday. It's no news anymore, the content is already gradually becoming history.

I started working on it last weekend. It is still in a pre-alpha state, but please let me know what you think of it!
I honestly have no idea if you're writing this in agreement with my point or in an attempt to contradict it.

edit: Either I was blind earlier or you edited your post.

> Even if we take your claims about language for granted, The city that Cantonese is named after is on the Mainland, and mainlander Cantonese far outnumber those in Hong Kong. By your logic an independent Hong Kong is as natural as Brooklyn being independent from the rest of New York.

My first point is that Hong Kongers of course should have had the right to vote on the handover back to China. They were not offered that and we can't go back.

My second point is that we shouldn't just assume Chinese are some sort of hivemind of people of a single culture. Native Hong Kongers are not somehow culturally pre-ordained to be part of China. Even ignoring that the PRC is breaking its treaty agreement, their voices should not be ignored due to some idea of inevitable PRC rule.
Makes sense. Sun peaked during the dot-com boom. I worked at several different startups, both full time and as side gigs, and they all had Suns. I remember Enterprise 3500's and later 250 and 450's being popular around that time.

After the crash, you had to basically give that stuff away. I knew a guy who had 10 Sun boxes (all less than 5 years old) at home because a local company wrote them off. I had a couple of low end Ultras (an Ultra 2 and Ultra 10) but sold one of them off. The Ultra 2 I got used for pennies on the dollar at an auction. I think it was like $200 for what was a $15K machine years earlier.

Sun was so far ahead of it time. Solaris was a solid OS, but once Linux became "good enough", somewhere in the '99 to '03 timeframe, depending on industry, it was over for them.
That's exactly how international obligations work.
https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs
640x480 256 colours on a 286? With only 30 seconds for an image, even though it doesn't have a floating point unit? Sorry for being a doubting Thomas, but that seems very implausible (having spent my life writing ray tracers).
Call it Grey-Beard Cynicism if you will.

To be Clear; The submitted ShowHN is a welcome effort and espouses (imo) fantastic ideals and objectives. I'm glad that people like the developer take/make the time to contribute to the greater good of the open source community.

It is also great/fantastic/good/{some other positive superlative} that people like the submitter keep on fighting the good fight when it comes to program bloat.

While I'm not trying to read another persons thoughts here - Perhaps their comment was indeed meant as a 'oh another thing that's gonna end up bloated due to feature request creep' (which was my initial jaded reaction too although I just didn't think it was an opinion worthwhile posting as a comment that contributed something worthwhile to the conversation so didn't do so).

Call it a measure of the current global mood within the HN that the comment became the top voted comment.

As to what my point was? Uhmmm I forget.
So if all the censorship comes from private companies working in concert with a major political party because they are fellow travelers, it's not a big deal? I have a vague memory of the left being against unchecked corporate power...
Ask HN: What’s Something You Regret?
> Why do you need to convince them to move to Signal at all?

Because ideally one doesn't want to be forced to donate data to Facebook because of WhatsApps network effect?
or expand it.
That happened summer 2020 and look where things ended up. There are a few factors I think you’re missing:

1. The virus is seasonal. Substantially less restrictions are needed over the summer. Outdoor socialization really isn’t high risk

2. School is out. This naturally lowers spread

3. A bunch of people will be vaccinated. This will surely make it easier

4. We’ll probably have new rapid tests by the summer. They go a long way to reducing spread without much inconvenience. Michael Mina has been banging his head against the wall for months to get people to listen: these can be as effective as lockdowns and much less burdensome.

5. At least some countries will figure this out, go for elimination, and require a vaccine/negative test for entry and make travel arrangements with other covid zero areas

Now it might be the vaccines work perfectly, no mutant strains escape them, and we won’t have a repeat of this in fall/winter 2021/22.

But if that scenario does seem likely them elimination is overwhelmingly the best option. And society that can’t pull itself together to do that will live in a purgatory.
By default yes, though I worked on a codebase which was ported from M68k to SPARC which had a lot of misaligned memory access. You could opt into having "packed" structs with #pragma pack and avoid the runtime error by compiling all the code with --misalign.

As I recall, this had a performance penalty since memory reads/writes are now byte-by-byte. Also it could make code which assumed atomic reads/writes of 32 bit quantities go awry.
> Everywhere should've pursued elimination strategy like Australia and New Zealand

Australia and New Zealand were very unusual in having that possibility, not everyone could have followed such a strategy. The EU had to move thousands and thousands of migrant agricultural workers from Eastern Europe to Western Europe for the harvests, otherwise there would have been scarcities of common foodstuffs. Also goods move through Europe largely through freight trucks that mean drivers moving about, not container shipping like the two island nations you mention.
Going to buy LHOD now, thank you very much.