skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a bit of a shame that this discussion has focused on the tech and (slightly odd) HTML choices here. Those are probably the least interesting parts of any discussion around what a "next gen" blog platform might look like.

Where the author is correct about next-gen blogging (in my opinion anyway) is in the attempt to reduce the friction to publishing a new post. What tech stack you use, whether it's static, what your HTML looks like, are all entirely secondary to whether or not you actually use your blog to build a corpus of content that shows off your opinions, expertise, and insights over time. That's what a blog is. It isn't HTML tags and CSS. It's the content within the tags. For me any next-gen blog tech has to make 3 things trivially easy -

- it needs to be simple to set up and maintain. If my laptop dies and I can't just clone my blog's repo and run a couple of commands to get back to where I was it won't work.

- it needs to be really simple to publish a post. Most blogs use Markdown with either front matter or a specific file path. That's OK but it puts most of the cognitive load on me. I'm sure there's a better way but I don't know what it is. I use 11ty for my blog which is very good, and if I didn't worry about URLs as much as I do it would be could actually work. But I do.

- there's nothing that pushes me to write more. This is the kicker, and no one has ever solved it. I think a blog platform that recommends posts I should write, and that praises me for writing, would drive me to actually write far more than I do. So far the only blog platform I've seen come close is Hashnode, but even that doesn't do it very well.
The problem isn't what happens when tech companies censor a very power man. It's that if they can censor a very power man, then there is no bounds on what they can and will do for less powerful people.

For social networks, the root of the problem is their quasi-monopoly status. We wouldn't accept Comcast deplatforming people.

It's a bad idea to set policy based on the worst examples. I can't see any harm in kicking Trump off twitter. He was basically begging for it. But should Trump's extreme actions be used to justify banning BLM protests because they sometimes turn violent? How about Hong Kong demonstrations? Didn't they storm a legislature? How about WSJ? They print people who believe in election fraud.

It's like using 9-11 to set all terrorism policy.

IMO--these actions should be an "emergency only" policy rather than Big Tech deciding it needs to police what we all hear and think. It's really not clear which its going to be.
It’s never too late to learn anything. The problem is, are you ever going to be able to put it to good use before forgetting much of it?

I’ve wasted so much time in the past decade learning random shit that I never used, it’s been a poor ROI compared to just continuing to hone the skills and languages I use daily. Really demotivating.
Its also been shown not to have an effect in at least one RCT, but the problem is social media skews against spreading that information (its kind of a downer so it won't get shared so much)

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.16.20232397v...

(Yes, the RCT uses cholecalciferol instead of calcifediol, so the reason why the intervention did not work may be that its a bit late. Yes, the Spanish trial had extremely good results, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/ but it looked unusual (100% adherence / no dropouts). Ultimately we still don't know, which is appalling. We need better ways to conduct RCTs cheaply and efficiently!)
There's a saying that goes "buy the rumor, sell the news" [1], he's making a joke about buying in both occasions because the Tesla stock has been on a huge increase that few foresaw and seems to have no end to the climb. At the same time it's worth more than all other car companies combined, and many call it a bubble.

[1] https://www.davemanuel.com/investor-dictionary/buy-the-rumor...
Very rational of you.
Sometimes it’s fun to find little ways to slip emojis in to an otherwise professional environment. I enjoy using eyeroll and fire emojis pretty regularly in PR comments. Keeps it light
I'm not commenting on ongoing political matters, but on principle.

I'm replaying to the gay from the video who seems to have a view that all political speech should be protected, no exceptions.

That's clearly wrong, because incitement to genocide must be not be protected.
That’s one thing that’s hard about it. Scaling and running the service reliably is far from trivial and this tends to be severely underestimated by “let’s just build a competitor” crowd.
Small content creators benefit almost nothing from content >20 years old anyway, rare exceptions notwithstanding. Having a real tax on the most valuable IP would be a net benefit.
It was more about documenting what happened a few days ago and what intentions the rioters had. That context is lacking and should have been provided by Twitter right away when making it "trending".
It's around 14-30 man hours per vehicle these days (with Tesla probably being at the lower end), so cost of labor is hardly a significant factor.
Curaco, Sint Martin and the Netherlands make it domestic as well.

Also, Paris/French Polynesisan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_longest_domestic_fli...
Not really a threat. Let's not be silly.

Just a prediction of what's going to happen if you believe the official narrative and keep doing what you're doing.

I don't want to see things get worse. But if you keep up with this nonsense, they will get worse. No one wants that.

Just relax.
When door windows (that go up and down) randomly pop it's typically a regulator that's gone out of alignment. Sometimes one side of the regulator has jumped off track, or one side gets sticky and hangs up. The whole raising and lowering the window mechanism provides lots of opportunity to put a kink in some tempered glass - especially when that window is designed to fit tightly to shut out wind noise or improve aerodynamics.

A quick search suggests that Tesla's had intermittent window regulator problems in the model 3 and others, and there sure are a lot of ads for replacement/rebuilt Model 3 rear door window regulators.
Given how given to certain narratives some of these services are, I’m not surprised and I would predict more governments will do similar things pre-election.

Now of course most of the governments that would do this would be authoritarian and would look to control their own narrative, I think this illustrates how unbalanced and agenda-driven these media and social graph services have become who bring in foreign values to local elections.

This interference used to be called neo-imperialism not too long ago by the same people who now advocate for these narratives.
On a good day like a third of twitter's trending topics are people saying "I can't believe this is a trending topic".

Irrespective of that there's a certain authority imbued with words listed in a trending topics section, whether or not the user clicks on them. Since trending topics lack context, there's a literalism to them that can distort meaning.

As much of this was about a reaction to the video rather than a literal interpretation, it would probably be best to reword it with more context or make it a news item, if it's to remain up at all.
I grew up behind the Iron Curtain. The entire Orwell canon was banned, of course, but you could still hear it on BBC broadcast from abroad (the authorities tried to jam the signal, with various levels of success).

We liked 1984. Forbidden fruit tastes the best, but it also spoke to us. Those empty slogans and lingering fear of the Secret Police did translate fairly well into real life behind the Curtain.
I was surprised at how modern many of the themes in both Keep The Aspidistra Flying and Coming Up For Air are, from (in Keep The Aspidistra Flying) the negative effects of commercialisation and mass advertising, obsession with (because of a dependence on) money, difficulties making ends meet when trying to follow your dreams, the alternative of meaningless but well paying jobs, to (in Coming Up For Air) a reaction against property development and what you might even call environmentalism.

The book shop that Orwell worked in and lived above when he wrote Keep The Aspidistra Flying is now split between a fancy bakery and a hairdresser. I get my hair cut at the hairdresser.
I'm inclined to believe them, but not rule out the possibility it was their bias speaking. Historically doctors have believed a white woman's pelvis is better for child bearing, whereas a black woman's is better for hard labor. That has since been proven wrong. There is no discernable difference between the races in the pelvic area.

Regardless, the argument against discrimination is that one has no CHOICE what race they are born with. Because there is no choice, race does not reflect their invididual merits or lack thereof, and one should not be awarded or punished based on that factor alone. There is also significant variation within a race with regard to IQ or otherwise, that exceeds the difference of the mean value between races
Congratulations, doctor!
I keep hearing the secret to longevity is exercise.

Maybe cold showers would help you look younger though. But a lot of things will help you look younger.
This is quite interesting. This, to me, seems like a systems bug. In the Embedded World, it is exceedingly common to use DMA for all high-speed transfers -- it's effectively a specialized parallel hardware 'MOV' instruction. Also, I have never had an occasion on modern PC hw to need mmap; read() lseek() are clean and less complex overall. Maybe I lack imagination.
I disagree. Censoring everyone and even further shutting down a critical infrastructure like app stores during an election means you have to wonder if that government is doing more harm than good.
> Any portable build system, that already requires EVERY user to have that build system installed, is DoA for being a viable portable build system.

I've voted this post down for this in particular. It is truly an absurd criticism, especially when you refute it yourself when you admit bash on Windows is a relatively new phenomenon (and I still struggle with bash env on Windows). If you use a build system, you need a build system installed, full stop. Cmake is pretty easy to bootstrap on a new host with minimal assumptions. Literally just `./bootstrap; make` on basically any 'nix.

Cmake is designed to run truly anywhere, with many backing generators, not just make. It doesn't even assume a posix shell iirc.

Sounds like many of your complaints are with the library authors not writing with portability in mind.
Incitement has become the new accusation of being a communist - a vague label that can be conveniently placed on any target to censor them. I’ve still not seen hard evidence of Trump calling for violence or criminality. I’ve seen him make unproven claims about the election, and I’ve seen him call for people to march and fight, but that’s no different than any other politician encouraging protest. The violence in the Capitol is the responsibility of the individuals who participated.

I have no love for QAnon craziness, but I am very unhappy that all the thousands of accounts affiliated with BLM or antifa, which have caused much broader violence over this last year, and are much more explicit in inciting violence (for example calling to burn down buildings or kill all cops), are allowed to continue operating. It’s simply because their use of violence is in support of political ideologies and goals that Jack and other Silicon Valley techies generally agree with. Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Google and the rest are dangerous monopolistic hypocrites and we need alternatives.
It’s a joke. “Buy the rumor — sell the news” is an old saying about investing in stocks.

Tesla’s stock has been skyrocketing, so why sell at all?
> The key word here is other options. Are there any?

Yes if you ask about them at the right place, like https://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/
Not an expert, but here my 2 cents:

1) Tesla's battery day in September 2020 [0] highlighted that, among other things, battery cost and production was going to become a huge focus for Tesla in the coming years, and as a result, a $25,000 Tesla car could be feasible.

2) I don't know if production costs in China are substantially lower, but assuming a large scale of operations, they should be somewhat lower than in the US.

3) I have a lot of faith in Tesla's push to improve manufacturing by building large, unique machines that simplify dozen of individual steps performed by dozen of robots into a few steps performed by a huge machine - while saving costs and time.

4) As a result of its stock skyrocketing, Tesla secured approx. $10B in new cash. That's plenty to make large investments, and move fast.

I would bet that Tesla will manage to start delivering a $25k, 250 miles range "cheap" sedan (model 2?) by mid 2022.

[0]: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-battery-day-model-s...
Isn’t it possible to use cell phone location to identify exactly who went inside the Capitol buildings? It’s something that the police system uses anyways and I guess it must be being used.

What happened was a shame, but I truly hope this doesn’t evolve and make it worse than what it is already.
And what happened to the killer?
Wouldn't necessarily call bitcoin non-productive, any more than an unprofitable startup is non-productive. The technology does currently have niche use cases, and the decentralization can be a positive. It's a bet that "productive" things will be enabled by it.
I thought this strange as well. The author even directly links to the source code where REP MOVSB is used.
Depends very much where in the US. And to some extend how you look, how you talk and what your gender is. The overwhelmingly large majority to places is safe. But every large enough city has unsavory places that need at least being aware of what (not) to do. But that is similar in a lot of countries.
Sure. I had a lot of meetings at Netflix (was there for 5.5 years, left in July). I had almost no meetings at Microsoft (was there for 3.5 years, left 10 years ago).

This was just my experience. These are large companies so there is really no one overall experience, especially at MS.

Oh and I was an IC at both companies. More junior at MS.
Orwell stock will explode this year, I wish I could bet my money on it.
No worries. Welcome on board!
Thank you for my loudest laugh of today.
But Republicans more and more are shifting. More Republicans today than ever are willing to regulate corporations especially in this area.

Beliefs change. We see it in the senate taking up the cases into twitter and facebook. The party is shifting. Trump was not a traditional pro corporate republican. His doj is trying to punish monopolies. Many in the gop base, including myself, cannot stand congressional Republicans embrace of corporations (although many of us are seeing the democrats embrace big money too -- biden had more bank donations than trump -- and are equally disgusted). And honestly democrats who agree should reach out now to the shifting base. They might gain voters. That's the point I'm making.
. . . . runs the KaiOS operating system, in which Google has invested $22 million.

If Google has invested $22 million, that means they BOUGHT rights to gather all your info, same as they did with Apple default search.

So avoid KaiOS.
“Hang Mike Pence” is a call for violence.
This is a poor explanation and poor benchmarking. Let’s see:

copy_user_enhanced_fast_string uses a CPU feature that (supposedly) is very fast. Benchmarking it against AVX could be interesting, but it would need actual benchmarking instead of handwaving. It’s worth noting that using AVX at all carries overhead, and it’s not always the right choice even if it’s faster in a tight loop.

Page faults, on x86_64, are much slower than syscalls. KPTI and other mitigations erode this difference to some extent. But surely the author should have compared the number of page faults to the number of syscalls. Perf can do this.

Finally, munmap() is very, very expensive, as is discarding a mapped page. This is especially true on x86. Workloads that do a lot of munmapping need to be careful, especially in multithreaded programs.
Looking for the “Mubarak Switch” – Martin Gurri
You weren't calling out the inappropriate use. You said we didn't have people who would meet that description in San Diego. You are completely incorrect about that, if one were so inclined to use the term. I wasn't taking a position on the term itself, just your lack of knowledge about the place I live. Don't hurt yourself getting down off that high horse.
Worth noting that sudden executions of the number two in command is a pretty common occurrence in authoritarian government situations.
When people use violence in the name of a cause then i think the cap fits.

Also i think you’re making a false equivalence here. There is a not insignificant fraction of them willing to be violent because because they either don’t (or don’t want to) understand how democracy works.

I think it’s fine to lump those people together as domestic terrorists.
This is a perfect example of why social media is a total disaster and no one should be trusting it for anything at all. There are many, many things that seem to be taken as fact on social media that are impossible to find on any reputable media source. Maybe the crowd was chanting hang Mike Pence, maybe not. I'll wait until a credible source reports it. The AP had reporters in the crowd (getting assaulted [1]), presumably many other organizations did as well, I expect them to report what they heard.

There are many other examples (both from this incident and others) already prevalent, including on HN, which is really depressing.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/01/09/he-was-docum...
6. Declares the KPIs were achieved. I am seeing this more and more these days in all the companies I work with. Unless it's SOX, everybody lies (yes, House MD style).
After decades of effort, scientists are finally seeing black holes–or are they?
Identifying terrorists is a positive outcome.
Keep The Aspidistra Flying is my favorite Orwell book atleast his among his fiction. I have read it atleast thrice. Among the Non Fictions I loved Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia which is perhaps my favorite.
You are a conspiracy theorist.

You are making things worse. I'm pleading with people like you to stop doing this before you make things worse.

Flagging this doesn't change the truth of what I've posted. Please stop what you're doing
The way I read it that quote is saying the 15% would be higher if you included both the people who want to abolish and those who want more moderate reform.

It’s not saying that it already includes both groups.
I was referring to the threats of hanging in this case. I phrased it more generally because there are many other examples from the similar threads that we've had over the past couple of days. It's astounding that I even need to clarify this.
Except if they need to process them e.g. to create a thumbnail or a preview.
Sugar beets are only grown where cane is not a viable crop, but end-end they are typically about 2-3x the cost of production. Beet sugar is an awful ecological and economic choice created by putting taxes on the importation of cane sugar. To the extent that it is pure sucrose (and I'm not aware of any alcohols made from beets like rum is from molasses) there isn't any difference in the product either. The US pioneered the protection of the sugar industry with >100% tariffs (EU has followed) and thus they have the world's largest sugar beet industry... for little political reason other than protectionism for a Florida (or German dominated) industry.

don't know if you should trust this link, but it's a decent paper:
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/7000/files/cp02zi02.pdf

p.s. The paper ends in the late 90s although little has changed other than the closing of the US cane industry in Hawaii.
Failing My Most Ambitious Project
If that was about reporting what happened at the Capitol I don't think it should've been removed. But if people was asking in Twitter for Pence to be hanged, then yes.

We shouldn't treat the same way reporting violence than violence itself.
Sounds like Twitter. Except that Orwellian tech did not have the ability to search your actions back ten years ago.

At least the Orwellian invisible guards were paid employees. On contemporary Internet, there is no shortage of unpaid volunteers digging in other people's activity just for the thrill of getting someone punished.

The difference is that the state apparatus may run out of money; the USSR did. You never run of enthusiastic volunteers, as long as you reward their actions with what they want, in this case, a public spectacle of a virtual guillotine.
Why We’re Holding Those Who Lied for Trump Accountable
https://datingchances.com/

A virtual dating coach and learning community for practicing your social skills.

I focused too much on non-core features and ran out of motivation.
Bitcoin itself is currently undergoing something not completely dissimilar to a pump-and-dump. Because of the difficulty of transacting USD for cryptocurrency purposes, a pegged currency called “Tethers”, specifically USDT, is being used as a substitute. It's supposed to be backed 1:1 by USD reserves, but it's clear at this point that the amount of USD reserves do not match the number of USDT in circulation and they're just printing money to buy BTC. The markets using real USD are then matching the USDT price and this allows the printers to cash out. Once regulators strike, many investors will realise they have a lot of useless paper money (USDT) and suddenly much less valuable BTC.

Or so many allege, at least: https://amycastor.com/2020/11/21/are-pixie-fairies-behind-bi...
So what is the competitive advantage?
Richard Liebowitz Benchslapped and Sanctioned After Lying Under Oath
The dismissiveness of (presumably) otherwise thoughtful people on this forum still surprises me. Do you really find that comparison valuable in evaluating the tech?
This was my thought exactly. It's a technique that i see people like Sam Altman and other tech gurus use on twitter. Make no specific mention about who or what you're talking about, and your words can apply to everything and appeal to everyone.

I'll say my own personal quiet part out loud: Every thread on this topic has the highest upvoted chain of comments about how "Trump was bad, but i worry about the implications of banning politicians". This sole statement has been stretched to its logical limits. There's very little more to discuss about this that is interesting or new.
I'm not following... what is the competing product here?

Twitter?

Are you saying that Google should follow the same rules for Twitter and Parler? I think that the argument here is that they are applying the same rules -- if you don't moderate the content users post, you're out of the store.
https://youtu.be/7gUI18dJx8k
If you’re a working programmer using a mainstream language, then I feel that spending some time with an ML-derived language such as Haskell and a Lisp will pay dividends in your day to day practice.

There are some keen insights about computing that are revealed by these languages - and those insights are transferable to your daily work in JS, C#, Python, Java, etc to some degree.
The way you’re using “censor” doesn’t accurately describe the situation. It evokes images of people being sent to the gulag for sharing samizdat but he’s not exactly silenced when he can have full coverage by the international media any time he chooses, and Trump’s accounts were not disabled for spreading conservative ideas but for inciting deadly violence. A private company exercising its rights under the contract he voluntarily made with them does not seem like something conservatives should be complaining about.