skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That Wikipedia article is about the rise of Nazism you idiot. Please try to tell me again we're not talking about bigotry or racism in this thread, or that the "patriots" you stand by aren't some of the lowest pieces of shit fighting for one last gasp of relevance in this brave new world.
The U.S. lost 140,000 jobs last month. All of them -- 100% -- were held by women.

Women simply do not have the same opportunities that men do in this country.
Nature vs nurture is an ancient argument. Science indicates both contribute, and IQ is a subjective measure of what's perceived as intelligent. It certainly isn't settled science that some ethnicities are more intelligent on average than others. That is some James Damore BS that can never be measured. And by the way, we are one human race, according to the scientific definition.
People have been bringing guns to protests for a while. It's kind of remarkable how few times this has resulted in actual shooting.
It does though. For example, it gives them the power to refuse to remove false information without being held responsible for it, which the first amendment does not give to publishers like the NYT.
Isn’t that the way laws work? You can’t prosecute someone until they’ve committed a crime. The issue here is whether the “crime” is tweeting stuff that starts an insurrection, or tweeting stuff that could be interpreted as potentially starting an insurrection.

Me telling someone to go fuck themselves probably isn’t a problem, but me telling someone with learning difficulties to go fuck themselves and them feeling compelled to do it and hurting themselves probably is a problem.
This is a temporary blip due to COVID depressing demand for transportation.

That said, it's also a continuation of the long-term trend of the US replacing imported oil with domestic fracking, so it's not saving the Earth as much as you might think.
I am stating a general principal.

If Twitter made the decision based on government pressure, it would be because of influence by the upcoming administration. I have not seen evidence to this effect.
> disabling xhr is not possible

uMatrix can do it, I'm sure there are others

> fetch

fetch is a Javascript API and covered by uMatrix's XHR setting[1].

> web rct

That can be disabled[2] and is also covered by uMatrix's XHR setting.

> iframes

Can be blocked in several ways, including the aformentioned uMatrix.

> At worst, this gives online tracking companies yet another tool in their toolbox

At worst CSS in the browser has had a CVE[3] and OWASP has some attacks[4] that seem old, but you know which of these have been fixed by all the browser vendors you use, right? Perhaps you've read this paper[5] on scriptless attacks and you know that all of these have been mitigated?

> The surprising result is that an attacker can also abuse Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in combination with other Web techniques like plain HTML, inactive SVG images or font files. Through several case studies, we introduce the so called scriptless attacks and demonstrate that an adversary might not need to execute code to preserve his ability to extract sensitive information from well protected websites. More precisely, we show that an attacker can use seemingly benign features to build side channel attacks that measure and exfiltrate almost arbitrary data displayed on a given website.

Even better, you have the faith that there will never be a repeat of these kind of things and that no attackers will bother to go down this route in future. What part does faith have when deciding upon the risks of running things downloaded from untrusted sources?

Still, the anti-tracking is good enough reason for me.

> I am sure the boffins down at ublock are already working on detecting and mitigating this behaviour.

Let's hope so.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/The-popup-panel#the-...

[2] https://www.ivacy.com/internet-privacy/disable-webrtc-leak/

[3] https://cve.circl.lu/cve/CVE-2011-0132

[4] https://owasp.org/www-community/xss-filter-evasion-cheatshee...

[5] https://www.nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/media/emma/veroeffentlich...
That's definitely a concern I share, I manage a couple of work related servers that are miniscule in scale compared to social media companies, and the quantity of attempted spam/FUD/astroturfing they receive would render them pointless cesspools if we couldn't just block it
> But unless you put in effort to write substantive, thoughtful comments, your points will be lost.

This is really important. And one of the naturally occuring effects of this community, that makes me optimistic on this being possible on a larger scale as well, if done right.
I am interested in such a list. Would you share?
The mutations don’t arise because of selection pressure against masks and social distancing, that is dangerously wrong. They arise in an individual patient who has a poor immune response who can’t clear the virus for a long time. As their immune response tries to clear the virus it adapts to be more effective over many generations inside that patient. That’s why we have distinct lineages, each of these variants with multiple distinct mutations probably arose in a single person.
BBR, the new kid on the TCP block (2017)
Presumably the only good data can come from siblings who were raised in environments dramatically different from each other and the ended up with similar IQs? It must be extremely hard to know what factors in the environment might contribute to IQ... saying the data is great sure, but I need examples of how environmental factors are removed.
See the source code, it uses worker_index to find which part of the image it needs to process.
I like this law, and I don't think it needs reform. If anything, it encourages competition because if you don't like some company's moderation you can be free to go make your own damn website without moderation (or with moderation policy you prefer), or use a different that will take you instead.

This entire thing is just because of a pissing match between Twitter/FB and Donald Trump. Why doesn't he just an alternative? I thought Parler was supposed to be the "free speech platform"? I'm sure his audience would follow him, and I'd wager a lot of them are already there.

This entire "fight" about S230 is completely bonkers.
It's how I learn. I start with the focus so that I learn the right thing, and then when I have it in muscle memory, I can forget it. And focus on the next thing, while continually checking back in. (The teachers will be sure to correct you if you don't.)

Ballet isn't something that feels right when you do it correctly. It's actually a deeply unnatural way to move. Not just pointe, but everything. The grace is an illusion layered on top of that.

You definitely do need to reach a point where most of it is handled by the sensorimotor system. But there will always be something you need to keep working on.
"Zionist regime" is not an anti-semitic "dogwhistle" (trendy term used to assign words whatever meaning you like, disregarding the literal one). It's a derogatory appellative for a country. Zionism is a political ideology and Israel is a country engaged in blatant apartheid and ethnic cleansing.
It’s a bit silly while it’s technically correct that expanding munitions were banned by the 1899 Hague convention modern hollow points could probably be fine, especially the fragmenting ones.

The reason these aren’t widely adopted isn’t because of any convention as these hardly stop anyone during war time, but because they aren’t as useful as you think for military purposes.

Armor piercing incendiary and high explosive incendiary rounds are used and I rather get show with a hollow point than an HE round.

The Soviets during WW2 used HE rounds as sniper munitions.
The quote

> programming languages are meant to ease the task of creating computer programs as opposed to writing assembly by hand.

is wrong: Assembly is certainly a programming language, which the author acknowledges when writing `writing assembly`.

As mentioned elsewhere, the whole blog post appears to be a troll post and should definitely not be taken as a part of a sober discussion on programming languages.
I certainly agree that there is some substance to the section on obstruction, but let's take a step back and follow the thread here.

1) OP says Democrats haven't undermined democracy since the civil war.

2). I observe that Democrat leadership actively pushed the unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that Trump colluded with the Russians to gain power.

3) I provide evidence that half of the country believes that the President of the United States conspired with Russia to gain power.

The fact that Trump may have obstructed the investigation matters--of course it does. And if he did, he should have been punished for it.

But even if he did attempt to obstruct the investigation, that does not change the basic fact that the Democrats actively undermined our Democratic institutions by convincing the American people, with out evidence, that the President was in cahoots with the Russians.

I have not intended to assert that Trump is as clean as a whistle, or that the Mueller report found nothing at all. (My 'zero evidence' claim above was vague and lazy--it was intended to refer to the question of collusion alone) My intent was to convey that there is no evidence of collusion, and that the fact that the American people were intentionally mislead on this point was the result of a concerted effort by the Democrats to mislead the American people and undermining faith in the President (and, necessarily, the presidency and our republic as a whole.

It is also true that charges were brought due the the Mueller probe, though none led to any charges related to colluding with the Russians to affect the outcome of the Election.

It is also true that Trump may have obstructed the investigation.

All three are true. The fact that folks are refusing to address the first fact by merely observing the second and third facts should indicate how masterfully those other issues--which are related to the Mueller investigation but have no bearing on the question of collusion--have been used to muddy the waters and cover for the Democrats' role in spreading the collusion conspiracy theory, at great cost to the country.
Section 230 is not supposed to promote free speech. It is supposed to promote a sustainable market for Internet services at various levels. An unmoderated Internet is not sustainable because it is overrun by trolls and nazis, and various kinds of unlawful activities; some degree of moderation is needed, but without liability protection nobody would take on that risk.

Parler has not been kicked off the Internet, it has only been removed from app stores. It can be hosted as a website if meeting the demands of those tech companies -- which amount to doing a better job of preventing terrorists from using the app to organize a violent overthrow of the US government -- and users can just visit that website.
If forced into a firefight, I'd prefer to face the hunting rifle, as the term (in most of the World) generally refers to a bolt action rifle. However, if I had to actually take a bullet, I'd prefer it to be from an assault rifle any day of the week.

Assault rifles generally fire either 5.56x45 or 7.62x39 - intermediate rounds than are unlawful for use in hunting most game because they are unlikely to kill the animal, at least quickly.

Hunting rifles are going to (except for varmint hunting) generally use much bigger, much more powerful rounds such as the .308 Winchester. It is much more likely to kill you (and much, much more likely to blow off an extremity if hit there) than an intermediate cartridge fired from an assault rifle.
Good luck getting a gun in (say) Japan or Singapore. Possession of a single unauthorized bullet is up to 7 years in jail; using an unauthorized gun while committing a crime is punished with death.
Actually hunting rifles are typically a larger caliber than assault rifles. The AR-15 for example uses .223 (or the equivalent 5.56mm), which is one of the smallest rounds for centerfire rifles. Here's a visual comparison of various rifle rounds and what game they're good for:

https://1source.basspro.com/news-tips/hunting-information/74...
Strong opinions could be bad at the start, when nobody really actually knows what the heck is going on.
Great list! I wish there were a term like novella for non-fiction.

Many of these, I suspect are not book length but more essay or novella length (<
30,000 words ).

That is fine, I don't need people to pad out a book, but I'd like to understand the length a bit before hand.
Repeating that makes it harder to fight climate change. We are not all complicit, most of us as individuals are limited by the systems around us. Those who have actual power in the system are the ones who need pressure. If you pressure everyone to change every little thing about their life, they burn out and stop caring.
I ready "indy" as Independent. To me, that just means self published without a publishers backing.

I plan to submit Splash of Code, which teaches brand new developers JavaScript by creating art. It's designed like the books I grew up on where you simply copy the authors code and then run it, plus it includes additional explanations.

https://splashofcode.com

I don't know any definition of "indy" that means "little public information".

Maybe a voting mechanism would float the good stuff to the top and maybe that's planned if the site catches on. Bravo to the builder.
I too have a book that is on this list: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/the-book/

I love the idea of highlighting overlooked books. But when I submitted, maybe I misunderstood the list. From what I read here, it seems like the list maintainers are looking to promote self published books. Or those published by someone other than an non big tech publisher (O'Reilly, APress, Manning)? It's a bit unclear to me.

My book was published by APress. I'm proud of it, but maybe it doesn't belong on this list?
>There's a ton of articles comparing a few of the technologies against each other, but I'm looking for something a bit more structured and in-depth.

The problem is that most of the articles out there are written by data virgins: people who never got any. What exacerbates this problem is that they are distributed through huge publications, especially on Medium, which makes it that a huge number of people will get the wrong idea.

This is due to incentives: these people's incentives is not to actually get things done, build products, or execute projects. These people's output is an article. You don't really incur technical debt by writing an article about how awesome a solution is, but if I weren't disciplined and just mindlessly followed what some "guru" or, worse, some guy who never shipped something, wrote on their blog, I would incur massive technical debt.

What I do is tedious: keep an eye on different tools out there, read the documentation, play with them, keep an eye on the code and issue trackers to see the direction the projects are taking. Not eager to adopt any. Just for general culture.

What makes it less overwhelming is that I'm not looking for trouble. I'm not picking up solutions and trying to find problems to solve with them. I do have problems and search for solutions for them. This is hard when one does not have specific problems they're trying to solve. In that case every product out there is a potential tool in the box and it gets overwhelming. One trap is to solve imaginary problems one does not have, which is a result of not actually working in the field, because actually working on real problems focuses your attention and makes you want Judo to use in real life, not Aikido to use on imaginary or compliant opponents.

The question then becomes: what problems do you have specifically that make you interested in these tools? Once you specify your problem, you can look for the right tool. If I were you, I wouldn't waste time on the vast majority of Medium posts out there because, as I said, most of those who write are not doing, and most of those who do are not writing unfortunately. I'm biased. This is very opinionated and corresponds to what I have seen. I would very much like to be wrong and save myself some time.
Parler was removed from google store, though (and apple store is going to do the same).
But sure, everything is allright.
Sometimes it’s great.
Calm down Satan.
Absentee ballot witnesses? Really? That's your argument?

> extended the dates after Election Day for which ballots may be received,

Yea maybe it was because there was a global pandemic and the president deliberately weakened the postal service to help himself. I don't see how legal ballots sent in being counted is a weakening of integrity.

None of this is evidence. These are things that happened - but you have not provided any evidence that this weakened the integrity of the election.
* behaves like a xenophobic asshole online *

* experiences backlash, gets banned *

"Help, that's unfair! The left is censoring me!!"

Astonishing how many times I've seen this exact situation play out. Reminds me of kids doing a bad thing and then crying and shifting blame when they get caught.
D is my goto when I have similar requirements.
Go look up eg the sources on the wiki article, and you can see for yourself how they controlled for nurture.
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> avoids ... people trying to encroach on someone else’s job

To me, that mindset sounds a bit like office politics itself -- i mean, using a negatively loaded word for branching a bit outside one's usual work tasks.

I'd generally be fine if my coworkers sometimes worked in"my" parts of the code base (or whatever it is) but it seems as if at where you work, they're not allowed to do that
This guy already broke every “sensible gun regulation” in the book:

1. Unregistered destructive devices per federal law

2. Unregistered assault rifle per federal law

3. Unregistered rifle per DC law

4. Carrying a handgun without a license per DC law

If anything this seems like another case of criminals not following the law.
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> Wonder if this is what makes lawmakers consider some sensible gun regulation...

I can't comprehend why an average civilian would need license to keep and/or carry a firearm. None of the arguments seem to stack up, at least, from my perspective.
Let me explain. I live in Poland.

Do you know how many guns I saw in my life that did not belong to a uniformed or undercover Police officer, soldier guarding an embassy or security guard guarding taking money to or from ATM?

Exactly zero. And I am 38.

Here in Poland it is quite difficult to get a gun. Basically, you need exceptional circumstances to be allowed to own one and even then you are not allowed to just carry it around.

There are people who own a gun but most of them, from what I understand, will not take it anywhere.

Do people get beaten or stabbed here like in US? Sure. There's just no guns involved even for the ones that do own gun legally, because they would prefer to get beaten than bring out a gun.

Because of gun regulation, people learned to not consider guns to be a solution to their problems. Maybe if they fear their house might get robbed rather than buy a gun they will put bars on their windows and better security system.

And I strongly feel that this also affects you if you own a gun, in that it causes you to think more critically rather than just whip out a gun when you think a little bit threatened.
Are there any guidelines on what to download if you want to host? I could throw a couple hundred gigs of storage and a decent uplink at it, but if I download and never reach a good ratio I did more harm than good.
I feel like I’ve said this a hundred times in the last 30 days but you should read the book “The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet” for a really good history of why we have Sec. 230 and what it was intended to “solve”. It’s an interesting topic that’s the subject of intense debate amongst people on both sides who don’t fully understand the subject they’re arguing about but are convinced they do.
There is a lot of evidence of voter fraud. I'm not sure if enough to turn around a presidential election but it can change local ones. https://youtu.be/ZD1-dBrP4Pw
I think escalation is the problem here, similar to concerns about "the algorithm" (YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, etc). Some people who begin with reasonable questions in the vein of example #2 are radicalized into believing falsehoods because they are getting their answers from poison information sources.
I discovered Haskell in a comparative programming languages course I took at university last semester, and it completely changed how I think about programming. I can't speak for an industrial use case, but for a hobbyist writing open source software and personal projects, programming in Haskell has been an absolute joy and has reinvigorated my love for programming.

Tools like IHP (https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/) are a great example of not only the beauty of the language, but when combined with Nix and the IHP IDE, a better development experience than I ever had with Rails or any other language.

If you are pragmatically minded, you can get stuff done in Haskell. In my experience there's a lack of online resources for this kind of work in Haskell, but that's what I and others especially in the IHP world are working on. If you just want to experiment, Haskell is great for that too.
I thought the Mercers already build Parler for this?
Or is this the new job for Jared and the interns?
When a company (or two) gets a near-monopoly on a distribution channel, bans are no longer a business issue. We banned X becomes much more important than "because of Y" part, which can always be made up and is pretty weak in the case of parler.
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This is the definitive question that has to be asked of anybody proposing a repeal of 230. I personally dislike 230, and have from the beginning, but anybody who doesn't have a direct and complete answer to this question isn't being serious.

edit:

I personally think that the answer is to standardize terms-of-service documents and to make them into real legal statements that both the website visitor and owner can make claims regarding, and that those statements be registered with a federal agency. The standardization should be so tight that filing it should be a matter of picking from drop down menus on a form, and the implications of each choice should be common knowledge and taught in school. The form should be able to be filled out anonymously (as "owner of [X] site.")

If you run a site without having filed one, though, you would lose legal protections as a publisher based on modding behavior. If somebody filing suit can point out any decisions that have been defined by law as constituting a specific degree of editorial control (examples: spam-control, abuse-control, subject-control, position-on-a-subject-control, arbitrary-control, etc.) then they will be responsible for libel/tort claims as a site for individual posts. A site that has filed a terms-of-service will get the benefit of the doubt, and the ability to push liability onto completely onto posters or maybe even individual mods.

Those requirements would either be too onerous to run the walled gardens of Web 2.0 at scale and small players will have a profitable business opening again, or the big dogs would be forced to really bureaucratize or democratize, and small players will have a profitable business opening by providing them modding services at the forum level.