skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's possible for people to simultaneously support the right of private companies to take legal actions that they want to take (including the IMO justified deplatforming of this individual) and to be somewhat bothered by the fact that big tech together over lunch and decide to substantially erase a significant slide of political discourse from the internet.

This describes me pretty well. I'm personally okay with Twitter/Facebook/etc. temporarily/permanently banning Trump's accounts for numerous reasons (not the least incitement to riot), but I feel very uncomfortable de-platforming all of his supporters. Sure the ones actively making threats or other illegal actions, but I don't like the automatic removal of all of their discussion.

I'm definitely very conflicted about the whole thing though. I don't really see an obviously right way forward.
Beancounters have always been complaining about beans, but for the first time in aviation history (well, maybe a couple weeks around 9/11) operations is not driving maintenance insane with demands to keep em in the air.

There is a valid counter argument that planes are built to fly and nothing seems to attract problems like hanger queens that just sit there. Seals dry out, birds nest, corrosion is arguably worse on the ground that on flying planes...

Its interesting that the linked airline has no documented google-able history of maintenance related problems, but their pilots have repeatedly historically done some real cowboy stuff like land at the wrong airport and several episodes of "the weather isn't really that bad" turning out to be vastly optimistic. I would guess past performance predicting future performance would indicate it is much more likely to be an operations failure rather than maint...
Advanced ape fails to RTFA
The “the percent of protests that are peaceful” largely depends on what you decide to include in that category.

Suppose the peaceful portion of BLM protests didn’t happen, would the violent riots go from being justified to unjust? Why would the presence of the peaceful protests change our moral assessment of the violent ones? Same with the MAGA demonstrations. It should not matter that there were numerous other peaceful MAGA rallies when assessing the storming on the capital.
> I argue that the "i deleted facebook" is a perfectly typical user of social media. Its trendy to tell that you quit Facebook. Instead "follow me on instagram".

I don't think a typical HN participant is deleting their FB account and then telling people to follow them on Instagram.

HN readers know that Instagram is owned by FB.
The controls are mechanically linked. Unless the perpetrator incapacitated the other flier, it’s a test of strength. There’s no method for disconnecting the second set of controls in a 737.
which is sort of silly. the source cited higher up is counting how many separate BLM events involved police injuries and/or property damage. how does it make sense to compare that figure to a single event? with a sample of one, it can only be 100% or 0% by that methodology.
One cannot comment on a closed article, that what "closed" means. The title is not erased, enable "showdead" and go to page 3 of the site to see it is still there. As to why it is flagged, you'd have to ask the people who flagged it.
Yes, the 'Health and environment' section is quite overwhelming, mostly due to COVID-19. That's why I close each section initially, this way you open only the sections that interest you.

I modify the tree from Wikipedia slightly to get a less cluttered overview.[1]

[1] https://github.com/RubenVanEldik/a-brief-history-of-yesterda...
It seems like a pretty terrible idea. They tried to cram traditional formats into 10 minute blocks, there are two major problems that seem immediately obvious with this:

1. The content they produced is way too long to for the time period they're trying to occupy. You might spend 10 minutes ordering a coffee but that 10 minutes will be split into at least three segments whose length is arbitrary each time. This wouldn't matter so much if point two didn't exist

2. They created the type of content that needs to be paid attention to from start to end. They typically tried to take long form video content and squeeze it into a 10 minute format. This makes it entirely unsuitable when compared to the types of content people actually consume during the periods targetted.

If you look at what people do during these time periods at the moment, you'll see that they're all very resilient to interruption by being unaffected by a lack of constant attention (scrolling twitter/facebook), having each piece of content be short enough that you'll likely be starting/finishing one when interrupted (tiktok), or by being a background task that doesn't demand constant attention (music/podcasts).

The core idea behind Quibi seems to fail on all these levels, the ineptitude displayed by attempting to charge for an idea no one wanted, while also locking down the platform/content so hard people that couldn't clip/screengrab it is just a cherry on top. That it got to the stage that it did just seems to be an indictment of where we're at with the economy and society.
And 'Sasha' the nickname of 'Alexander'.... man who can think this up, this is like you were calling 'Richard' 'Dick'.
If The Public is interested in the existence of Public media, like a digital town-square soapbox, then we could use Public resources to make that exist. Like a public-broadcasting version of social media.

But if someone like a President will use private services like Twitter then they're choosing to subject themself to the rules and whims of that private service. It was a weird thing to do in the first place. There are official communication channels for the President to use.
I think it's funny that many technologists love to wax philosophical about how disruptive and world-changing tech is except when it comes to this one issue. We have to admit that this is an unprecedented issue in the history of democracy.

I do think private companies should be free to run their platforms as they wish. I also feel really, really uncomfortable with the amount of power they have to control political discourse.
It's terrifying and humiliating that corporations can do such things to a President nonetheless. And not just some banana President, but one that presides over an absolute superpower. USA looks more like decentralized China by doing this.

No issues with Trump have been fixed, dirt has been swept under the rug. Silencing someone doesn't undo their words and, ironically, it tends to amplify their message.

Impeach him, sue him, shutdown the government, rally against him persistently and systematically. That is the right way. But it takes effort, much, much, much more effort than hitting the ban button and calling it day (and achieving nothing in the process).

These corps play by the FOTM. Thinking that they aligned with your just cause is crazy. Have you forgotten they cuddle with China as well?
There is an interesting thing happening here. It appears the colors on the site are largely either similar to solarized-light or solarized-dark, depending on whether the user's browser has a dark-preference or not.

The OP comment evidently looks at the light version (which is grey text on tan background, and which I also find a bit annoying to read). I would guess that the parent comment is seeing the dark-mode version.
France Is Bacon
Many static site generators, including Hugo and Jekyll, have file watching support and even automatic page reloads, so their workflow is barely different from editing raw html. You have to jump through some more hoops for raw html, but I expect you save time overall.
Yeah Canadas market is weird, since they are almost completely intermingled with the US for the sake of infrastructure and refining.

Lots of the US imports from Canada end up being re-exported, or as you said blended/refined and re-sold.
https://mobile.twitter.com/59dallas/status/13469631997788282...

Fine people on both sides!
Ah! That makes sense. Indeed you had mentioned in your comment:

> Its use of gray text on a dark blue background is pretty common

That should have been a clue for me that you were seeing the dark color scheme.
I am. Had the cracking noises for years now, sometimes with pain, but mostly it's just a discomfort that won't go away.

I do neck rolls to help sometimes but too much will cause inflammation so I'm conservative with them. Turning my head side to side regularly also seems to help with the discomfort.

I'm guessing my neck will continue to sound like breaking bones for the rest of my life though.
"They" is an acceptable gender-neutral pronoun.
It's all very benchmark-chasing theoretical. In practice performance is more complicated and mmap is this weird corner-case over engineered inconsistent optimization thing that often wastes or even "leaks" memory which can be used for actually important for performance caches, it's also awful at error handling and so on. I had to literally patch LevelDB to disable mmap on amd64 once, which eliminated OOMs on those servers, allowed me to run way more LevelDB instances and overall improved performance so significantly, that I had to write this comment.
Your link sends me to a tweet of screenshots of other people planning violence. How do I report those tweets if they're screenshots?
I've never seen an autotools- or make-based project which builds out of the box on Windows in cmd.exe. Telling people to install cygwin just to build a project simply isn't viable when the default compiler toolchain on Windows is Visual Studio. Also it's not about building projects alone, cmake is also a project file generator for IDEs (in my case that was the actual reason why I switched to cmake from my own project file generator for Visual Studio and Xcode).
How about “they”…?
I suppose the tricky part is telling the difference between people who don’t change their mind because they’re correct and people who don’t change their mind because they’re not open to doing so.
singular they is the generalization you're looking for
It is worth pointing out that Twitter had concrete near-term reasoning around incitement of further attacks on the capitol that they included in their reasoning - incitement is generally not protected speech (even though of course Twitter is a private platform and not restricted by the First Amendment). It is a legitimate concern that Trump would tacitly or explicitly encourage further mob attacks on the Capitol:

"Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.

As such, our determination is that the two Tweets above are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on January 6, 2021, and that there are multiple indicators that they are being received and understood as encouragement to do so."

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

I also understand, even if it's not consistent, that Twitter would maintain a policy-violating account if it is that of a major world leader on public interest grounds alone. Once he is no longer the head of government, such reasons no longer apply. Practically speaking, this reason for maintaining the account the last two weeks of his presidency was, I suspect, outweighed by the immediacy of the worry on further insurrection attempts. I fall into the small camp of people (it seems?) that thinks Twitter was right not to have suspended his account earlier, and is right to now.
Maybe Elon Musk should have a discussion with Jack Ma.
That’s the part that I struggle with. These are private platforms and have every right to moderate.

But - they’re also very socially important, so rules should be applied clearly and equally.
You can use "the author" or refer to the article or paper.

[name of paper] mentions that X is faster than Y. The author suggests the cause of the speed up is Z, while we believe it is W.
REST API monitoring and testing (yeah I know cert is expired:)

http://apilope.com
More money can fix a lot of mistakes, like making it financially viable to start from "scratch" (whatever that means in context), or fund multiple redundant teams trying more ideas in parallel.
Previously on my blog: https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/133823.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25145870
Seems unlikely. All airplanes can take off with one engine failed, and pilots generally practice one engine failure situations often. Unless you are suggesting the pilots were poorly trained?
What would you recommend as an alternative? A presidential email chain?
> Strength Training very broadly just means a rep range that makes you stronger, not bigger.

There is no such thing (edit: well, except maybe 1-2 reps, because it's hard to get much volume with those. But beginners shouldn't be doing those anyway). You get stronger in the rep range you practice. People often (in gym circles) mean "1-rep strength" when they say "strength", but such a narrow definition only makes sense if you are competing in powerlifting.

As a beginner you want the rep range that maximizes gains/risk and also gains/unpleasantness ratio, which will usually be 5-10.

> rep range is high with bodybuilding because bodybuilding cares about volume

People who train for strength also care about volume because volume is a great way to get stronger. And also great way to get bigger. Which makes sense, because getting bigger is a great way to get stronger.

> starting off as an amateur by copying what bodybuilders are doing

I think this is where the most of the confusion comes from. It is bad to start amateurs on stuff that professional body builders do, but it would also be bad to start them on stuff professional powerlifters do (low bar one-rep max squats or speed deadlifts).

On the other hand, as an amateur, whether your goal is strength or better physique - the best approach is going to be very similar.

> Not to mention machines are garbage and cause injury since they make you do unnatural things (unless you really know what you are doing, which amateurs do not).

Some types of machines are absolutely fine (cable machines), other types are also mostly fine - they get a bad reputation from few of the worst offenders such as leg press and leg extension machine.
I think the misunderstanding is happening because big tech claims to be an impartial platform and then actively censor whatever they don't like.

People are not demanding for government mandated one-sided media, they're asking a private company that they believe to be an impartial platform to don't take side.

Sure, you can follow both Parler and Twitter, Blaze and YouTube but I'd prefer to have a single transparent platform which respect completely freedom of speech.
Prevent future disease by analyzing and shaping the infant’s oral microbiome
I'd be interested to try this but use Android.
https://www.taskeera.com/: Monitoring background and async jobs from start to finish. Half of the infrastructure and coding is done but I didn't find a big audience so I'm in the process of just open sourcing it.

https://presentador.dev: Opinionated presentation framework based on MarkDown.
Interestingly it was Mussolini who said, “Fascism should more appropriate be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." And this past election cycle and especially the past week, we've seen quite an alignment of those powers: the largest market cap companies, and a soon to be ruling political party.
This. Precisely.

All you need is for the definitions of various words to change over time. And then you find yourself on the wrong side of an (arbitrary) line. Then you get deplatformed.

I'd say think carefully before you open that door, and walk past that particular dangerous line, but our "platforms" seem to have driven their mobs/herds over that line, with nary a thought to what comes next.

The slope is slippery. And we are gathering speed. Whilst people cheer the actions.
You're still subject to max pressurization cycles, though.
It wasn’t “zero evidence.” Hundreds of signed affidavits are by definition, evidence. If the evidence rises to a high enough standard, that’s a question for the courts, however, “zero” evidence is simply not true.
"God has a special provenance that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America"

-Otto von Bismark

I keep returning to that quote in these days at it's so apt even hundreds of years later. The Capitol insurrection could have been sooo much worse. Only a handful of deaths resulted. That's incredulous for such an event. That a fire-bug didn't get in there and light the whole place up is incredible. That all of Congress was evacuated safely and stayed safe despite seditionists actively trying to lynch them, is amazing in the true sense of the word. The damage to the building itself was minimal, the art and statues are mostly intact, just unbelievable stuff. That despite saying he was going with them, Donny stayed at the WH and just watched the TV. Literally every other autocrat in history would have gone down to the floor of the House and declared themselves King. I cannot think of any other example where the tyrant did not do this (Sulla, but not really even then).

The US got so incredibly lucky in this that Bismark's quote is the only thing that makes sense to me.
"Low engagement"? What is that supposed to mean? Obama actually wrote full paragraphs to introduce his policy and react to world events. Obama actually gave regular press conferences where he would take questions. They were not "low engagement" because they weren't on Twitter.

And Obama was on Twitter for frivolous campaign updates. So you can get whatever benefit Twitter offers while still relying primarily on official administration platforms.
Don't know whether to laugh or cry! At least I can say we're talking two venti coffees from Starbucks...
BTW what do you mean by the American mindset?
Currently in the US you don't lose section 230 protection as a platform by restricting some content. All that matters is who created the content. Curating is not the same as creating.

Some want to change this and it will be interesting to see what happens
> or if we’re actually enabling good moral and ethical decisions

What an unbelievably patronizing worldview.

Personally, I think classical industry should act in kind, and refuse to sell gasoline, clothes, electricity, food, etc. to anyone who gave voice to BLM. Let's see who wins this tiresome war of refusing to do business with anyone whom we disagree.
You're describing the indieweb: your identity is decentralized and is your domain name (not at the whims of billionaires), you put up whatever content you want but typically articles, interact with other people's content (likes, retweet, comment) without the need to create an account anywhere.

The real blocker is that in practice there is a huge step between creating an account on a commercial service and buying your domain name, setting up a website and making it reachable to the world.
Are you unconvinced? You know basically vitamin D is a kind of "master regulator" of metabolism / immune system.

Deficiency of vitamin D is immune system dysfunction.
How's it been shown to be BS?
I would point out that president still can speak outside of twitter and facebook. It means the exact same way as all previous presidents did.

> Impeach him, sue him, shutdown the government

Twitter really really should not do any of those. Twitter can apply to him exact same rules non-presidential accounts are subject of. Non presidential accounts are closed either temporary or forever all the time.
No just javascript. Crypto and protocols are one way of solving this issue, but I wanted something any developer could adopt. So there are no "proof" of security, but you can always inspect the source code, so services no longer behave like a market-for-lemons. It adds a buying signal. Which although not watertight, does change the market dynamics I think for the better.

Thanks for the links, it could well be relevant.
If by "using phone/tablet" you mean the hand holding it up is getting these symptoms I actually also get this and my guess is that it is a general circulation problem (I am not a doctor!).

FWIW I didn't find an exercise solution, but actually some common spices that apparently promote circulation did help me (not medical advice!): ginger, garlic, cayenne pepper.
https://badpython.com

Share snippets of python -- let the public decide if it's bad or not.
Sasha is universally applied to both males and females, although to be fair, in Russian, it's culturally much acceptable to call Alexander Sasha in any context whatsoever, whereas Sasha as–in female Alexandra is reserved for informal communication.

Disclaimer: I speak Russian.
The area under the passenger cabin is pretty constrained. 737 operators pretty much just chuck luggage into the hold. And because it’s a manual operation, nobody is going to sneak a huge chunk of tungsten or DU onto the plane, at least not in quantities that would throw off weight and balance on a 737.
> There’s also a distinction in American common law between speech in the Public Square from speech in other locations, like private property.

My pet theory is that while legally, all but a few websites are private property, at some point countries are going to introduce legislation that sets criteria for when a private website must start acting like a public square (ex: more than X income, Y user accounts, Z daily active users).

Or, have government-run public squares, something like "geocities.gov" or "NextDoor.gov".

Not sure which one I think is worse.
Most Qualcomm SoCs (outside the cheapest ones) have had iommus for nearly a decade.
would you like some help with translation (into french)? let me know
Yup. There were plans to give the Shuttle flyback boosters at various points, but each time it was thought it wouldn't pay off.
> HN is social media, and anyone who thinks otherwise is deluding themselves.

Another good bit of willful ignorance is that “if you’re not paying for it, you’re the product not the customer” seems to not apply to HN.
There was an article here a few days ago about"incompetent altruism" or something like that. The commonality is whether you're laser focused on solving the problem, versus being obsessed with yourself as the solver.

The bit about us not being smart enough for some of the technologies also rings really true. Thinking of a coworker who was "smart" enough to reach for threads right away, and then inevitably spent the next 2 years of any project dealing with thread issues in production.
It's definitely true, there's a frequent temptation in software engineering to be drawn to novel technologies.

That said, the idea of different data types in C could have been considered a fancy addition by BCPL developers.

The key is to use critical thinking to determine what developments may be useful longer-term, and also to watch out for any (typically accidental) flaws exist in the novelties that are being proposed - sometimes it takes years, but those can come back to bite us.

It may not make business sense to exert effort shifting to new technologies straight away, but encouraging people to learn the strengths, weaknesses and properties of them can be valuable nonetheless.
I never managed to get CMake to work out-of-the box on Windows.

I always end up vendoring the dependencies, because it's too tedious to find the correct installed libraries in a cross-platform way.

autotools are great, but at the same time it's a monstrosity, and easy to misuse (you should never commit the configure script, because it's the autotools that are supposed to generate it according to the platform it's running on).

For C++ dev, I did take a look at buck[1], but it doesn't really support Windows platforms.

I wish we had something like cargo (IMHO, the tooling is one of the top reasons of Rust's success), in the meantime simple Makefiles do the job perfectly.

1 - https://buck.build/
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https://github.com/wtpayne/xact - Model Based Systems/Software Engineering tool with support for machine learning and synthetic data.