skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually their moderation stance it to not moderate LEGAL speech, illegal speech has to fail the "True Threat" legal standard which is FAR FAR FAR more limited than what Google, Apple, and Amazon desire, and more than the new standard deployed by twitter recently in the Trump ban, which relies on subjective analysis where by saying things like "American Patriot" are deemed to be "incitement"

Such a standard is on it face politically slanted towards banning conservative/right speech more than left speech
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That must be a great experience...

RMS has improved upon that if you are interested in privacy to that extent: https://lwn.net/Articles/262570/
I have not been to Paris in many years but this sounds like a great idea.
Terrible analogy, newspapers and stations have limited space for what they cover and it's an editorial decision to choose to run something over something else.

Twitter could just let the tweet exist for people who personally choose to follow the Chinese US embassy at no cost to other tweets. I mean, it's from a national government's embassy, their angle is not hidden at all.

Now they open themselves up to all sorts of questions, are they softer on the Saudis? On Israel?
Implementations details can be found on discovery-channel GitHub's [0]

As far as I can tell Cabal uses discovery-swarm [1] for connection management.

[0] https://github.com/maxogden/discovery-channel

[1] https://github.com/mafintosh/discovery-swarm
Arnold has suggested his original remarks to the press referred to the motion of a saucer skipping across water rather than the shape too; his original report showed a semicircular front and triangular tail

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/the-m...
I think you missed the point. They can't prove it was him actually filling out the registration form, only someone from some IP address at a specific time. They can't prove the person who logs in using that registered username/password is the same one that accepted the TOS.

ToSes are mostly useless. They generally contain a line that indicates the terms can change at any time and you accept them by continuing to use the service.
Not all vitamin d is the same but good luck trying to figure out what is the good stuff and what’s not
I just wanted to mention XL is currently not optimised for low bitrate. So there are lots of potential to improve.

And I do think taking median Image size and bitrate on Internet was the wrong point of optimisation. Lots of image on the internet just aren't properly optimised.

I think and I may be wrong, the format is now finalised. ( The original schedule was last July... so it was delayed abit ) People who are interested could start testing it.
Choosing not to host it because of the content. Of course it is censorship. That people can perhaps publish their opinions somewhere else does not imply that it is not censorship.
There is absolutely no reason why the GCC front-end needs to be written in Rust. The reason the LLVM front-end was written in Rust initially was so they could immediately test and use new features in what was at the time also the largest program in Rust. Re-writing the GCC front-end in Rust would just prolong an already rather unfortunate bootstrap problem with the language and it should be strongly discouraged.

As it stands, the way to bootstrap the official Rust compiler from source with just a C/C++ compiler is a few options:

* Compile OCaml (implemented in C), use it to build the original Rust front-end in OCaml and then build each successive version of the language until you hit 1.49. This option is not fun.

* Compile mrustc, which is a C++ implemented compiler that supports Rust 1.29. Use that to build the actual Rust 1.29 and then iterate building your way all the way to 1.49. That is less bad, but still not fun.

* Compile the 1.49 compiler to WASM and run it via a C/C++ implemented runtime in order to compile itself on the target system. This would also mean packaging and distributing the WASM generated code, which some distributions would refuse. I also am not sure if it's even currently feasible, as I don't follow the WASM situation closely.

A compliant, independent C++ implementation that could be built in the ten minutes it takes to build GCC itself would be a very good thing to have and would be more friendly to distribution maintainers.
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To be fair, at this moment in time, the vast majority of likely users for a project like this, *are* the Trump/Qanon crowd that feel dejected that they will be held to any sort of accountability for their inflammatory rhetoric, lies and conspiracy theories.
This case is completely different and not relevant.

Twitter has terms of service - that in and of itself is not equivalent to a sidewalk opened for all to use.
Neither in the article nor the comments: Twitter previously issued a statement saying that this did not violate their policy. Twitter also justified allowing the calls for genocide by the Ayatollah on their platform.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/twitter-says-it-...

https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/319713/twitter-offi...
Fair enough. Readability is subjective but I understand the sentiment. Constructing list comprehensions of such long chained expressions can be rather tedious and error prone, though (as your example shows).
Given only one data point - Sweden's horrible track record compared to its Nordic neighbors, which led to it embarrassingly having to apologize for its lack of lockdowns - it's already far easier to believe that article has chosen bad comparisons rather than that it is right.

And looking at the data they used, this seems even more likely: they investigated only England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, South
Korea, Sweden, and the US. Almost all of these countries are outliers - in England, the US, Sweden, Iran and the Netherlands, the government spent a long time advocating AGAINST any measures and claiming that they are not necessary, before doing some kind of abrupt turn. South Korea has the worst case spread out of all the east-asian countries, and it is known for the remarkable detail of its contact tracing and testing - probably the best in the world. The data from Iran is also very hard to trust. Germany has relied a lot on its hospitals and chose to implement rather lax lockdowns compared to many smaller countries. Italy, France and Spain are harder to question, but they were the worst hit countries (except Belgium maybe?) on the continental EU, so they may have special factors that I'm not thinking about.
You're right. After doing some research I could actually pull it off, but it would be pretty tight.

There's some decent insurance options for ~$700/mo. That's still $8400/yr. With $60k/yr income, that might still be doable but I don't think it's realistic on a $30k budget.
I mean I guess they could grow their own food too, but at what point does denying services to people with legal, but differing political preferences become wrong?

If Amazon said they wouldn't tolerate anyone who supported BLM because of the numerous riots and deaths caused by the movement would we this be okay? It's worth remembering that 50 years ago Amazon would probably morally object to hosting people who were pro-LGBT too.

The point of free speech is to protect those with unpopular opinions. This is because the default human response has always been to do the opposite. For years the science and arts were suppressed by people who just thought they were doing the right thing. As a civilization we have learnt from this mistake. Companies with global monopoly should not be empowered or encouraged to repeat it.
Convert the Himalayan Database to SQLite
Parler would be fine if its members didn't consistently incite violence.
Carbon steel is pretty popular
Conduit is the Rust implementation: https://conduit.rs/
The difference between this and BLM is intent.
here you can always get back to the aviation meteorological service for some actual forecast, but the general meteo news sound like bad fanzine, caps locks included: https://www.ilmeteo.it/
Then I see nothing wrong with genocide per sē if (d) fall under it, for by this definition, the Dutch goverment's plan to hand out free condoms to teenagers is a form of genocide, as it is a measure intended to stop births within the group of Dutchmen.

As usual, U.N. definitions are made without much thought, and quickly lead to the absurd when being held to even the slightest of inspection — it is almost as if it be a forum of very emotional men, who put very little thought into what they are doing.

If we say that stopping future births rather is problematic, then most forms of sex education are problematic.
I switch between Firefox and Chrome. Love Firefox, but for heavier websites and apps, Chrome unfortunately just performs so much smoother. For example I have to use google drive and onedrive to edit documents throughout my day - it's literally night and day between FF and Chrome.

At this point I can only hope that google docs, onedrive, and other bloated webapps get optimized to run on other browsers. I'm not holding my breath.
I think it comes from the noise field being relatively smooth, and the particles taking such small steps each frame.
So DDG is not a search engine either?
He has money to buy good engineers in China and Russia who are more than willing to continue the domestic chaos in the US.
What I really hope is that the Rust community doesn’t go out of its way to make this easier. Communicate and let value come back but there’s an significant amount of value in keeping a single backend relies on. CPython has done the Python community a lot of good by keeping one official compiler/tool chain (despite the great work done by projects like JPython/PyPy).

The only way to do this properly, if desirable, is to make GCC an official backend of the main frontend. That will defocus some progress that happens with LLVM (every feature has to be implemented on both backends) and can make dev lives hard (eg “oh this problem comes up with GCC so use the LLVM backend “). The value would be if the majority of bugs/features are in the shared frontend.

This project though seems like a parallel implementation of Rust. That’s valuable for the community and inevitable as a part of successful growth. I don’t believe it’s beneficial to the community though if this grows beyond a toy, niche project.
I agree. I believe the change in name was at least partially to make it easier for IT to sell to management.

I don't envy the person trying to convince their manager to switch to Riot.
The virus did not go away in summer in the EU, while it has been essentially eradicated in NZ and Australia.
Twitter has become a place for extremism. Once politicians figured out that they can say anything they want on Twitter, and that their supporters or sock puppets will spread it around like it's the best thing ever, it encourages extremism.

People talk about free speech, but free speech has never meant freedom from moderators. Twitter is well within their rights to place limits on allowable content, just as there are limits to allowable content on HN.

The Chinese embassy is well within their rights to make these comments on their own website.
Firefox because I don't wanna give any more power to Google than they have already. Additionally I like supporting a browser not built by a megacorp which is as functional as the megacorp's browser.
I get your point, but a product is only bought or used if people value it in some way (whether for good reasons or bad reasons), so product evolution has people’s values built into the process.
Does twitter censor US policy-maker's tweets when they trumpet the power of western values to liberate muslim women?
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True, though it doesn't imply it's a worse protocol either.
that's a terrible comparison. there is miles of difference between invading another country and knocking a social media platform offline
It is always "those other people", because "reasons."
How about 25 years ago of an object zipping across the night sky at lightning speed and hopping around like a ping pong ball? To me it wasn't a drone or anything real or tangible at all. For me, it was most likely to be a projection that looked like something solid in the sky.
CRDTs work well for the specific case of machine-generated time-series because your records are samples. There are no complex relationships between records even for the same source. Gaps in the time series are like missing pixels in a picture, there is no specific pixel that is critical as long as you have enough of them to figure out what you are looking at in the moment. This also implies that there are no semantically meaningful update operations on specific records beyond converging values.

Platforms like Cassandra can make some of the design choices they do because they don't support high write throughput (relatively). With sensor data models throughput and efficient use of bandwidth is everything, so minimizing the chattiness of ensuring consistency is critical.
> they're getting all their information through textual means

When I was very young, I had a friend who pronounced "modem" as "mod-DEEM" because he knew that the word is a portmanteau of "MOdulator-DEModulator".

His first exposure to "modem" was in print (computer magazines or BBSes), and it was some years before he heard the word spoken.

Many years later (but still many years ago!), I was pulled into a disagreement among a fledgling group of web designers: Is "GIF" pronounced with a hard G or a soft G ("jif")?

I realized that I'd never spoken the word aloud, and chose the hard G, because the word is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format.

Needless to say, I did not resolve that argument with my appeal to originalism. In the intervening years, I've spoken the word countless times, and settled on the soft G because it flows better in speech. As far as I know, the correctness debate is still ongoing today.
Out of interest what do you actually expect him to have done regarding covid?

He wanted to ban flights from CHina but that was shouted down as being racist.

We have had all sorts of nonsense restrictions here in Europe, masks have been mandatory for months and they don't seem to have made a noticeable difference (case numbers keep going up, so restrictions are made tighter, but nothing changes).

A number of vaccines have been created in record time (not sure Trump had a great deal to do with that but he certainly didn't hinder it).

So what in your opinion should Trump have done?
The main difference is that you can choose your own homeserver and communicate with users on other homeservers which makes the Matrix protocol decentralized or at least distributed. So when I'm @redsolver:matrix.org, I can still chat with @bob:example.com just like with other distributed systems like email.
Glad you're going slow on the stable ABI and resisting the pressure to put out something half-baked. The C++ ABI is horribly fragile and complex. Unless the pitfalls of C++ can be avoided, making no ABI promises is better.
There's a use case where JPEG is better, scroll down to "Progressive rendering" :

https://jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-landed/

https://jakearchibald.com/c/progressive-5f94067c.mp4
We've been running a bootstrapped startup for a year
I'm not very familiar with AWS or The Cloud, but I'm having trouble understanding what you said about Amazon leaving money on the table by not directing customers toward specific-purpose services as opposed to EC2?

Wouldn't (for AWS to make a profit anyway) whatever managed service have to be cheaper than some equivalent service running on an EC2 VM?

I get the concerns re: pricing and predictability, but it still seems like more $$$ for AWS.
Sure. Not an expert here.

Of course in the short-term is very risky and would not recommend anyone to make an entry right now. I have been reducing my exposure as the prices have been going up.

However when you look at the fundamentals of the technology and what all governments are doing to money I think it is not a so risky bet for a 3-year (don't know, maybe 10-year?) bear market with high inflation. One of the greatest assets in the world for keeping your purchasing power intact. If the government keeps printing, the price will keep going up. Just like the Venezuelan bolívar is >1 Million to 1 USD. A question comes to my mind: are Venezuelans thinking that the US dollar is too risky to buy?
I agree. I'd rather Twitter ban people then just arbitrarily remove random tweets. It's not like the tweets aren't still out there somewhere. They just have decided they don't want the average person to be able to see them.
Earlier Twitter labeled Trump’s more questionable tweets, instead of outright deleting them.

I wonder if Twitter could do the same here.

Although I disagree with this tweet of China embassy, I want it to be shown to the world for others to judge. If nothing else, we can learn how frequently the China embassy tweets questionably.

Labeling it seems right.
The death rate is also the USA's highest since ~1975. But, in a surprise to me, the death rate for each year 1950-1975 is also higher than the 2020 death rate [1, 2].

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/deat...

[2] https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/1_Demographic%20Profile...
Meh. IRC now can use TLS/SSL (Freenode), among SASL.

On X11 vulns, I use a tty, so I don't care, and even on X, xterm has a secure mode.
> But I think the reason for that is strictly orthogonal to type safety - rather it's because Rust's approach to memory management is a lot more demanding on the programmer than GC.

Rust lacks a GC so it uses its type system (namely its borrow checker) to compensate. I don’t know that this can be considered “orthogonal to type safety” in a meaningful way.

> Speaking only in terms of type systems, I think Rust's features - like algebraic types and explicit nullability - are strictly better than Go and make it easier to write correct code. It just happens to be that this benefit is eclipsed by all the ceremony required to satisfy the borrow checker.

Yeah, I completely agree. Go with ADTs would be a significant improvement. I would really like to see someone write a language like this that is interoperable with Go (compiles to idiomatic Go to the extent possible).

> I actually think Swift as a language is plenty ready for general purpose programming. The problem is the tooling.

Hmm, well I hope it finds its feet. It certainly seems like it would be a welcome addition.
I remember I spent about 10 minutes looking into setting up my own Matrix server. Seemed like a good day of work, and then I would still need to figure out how to support media uploads and E2E.

The real kicker is that having the data on my own server is certainly nice, but I just don't think it's less likely to be exposed while I'm holding it vs someone else. I remember when everyone had a self-hosted WordPress blog. Eventually you'd get tired of applying patches every 2 weeks and instantly get added to a bot farm. No thank you.
So what would you suggest? Allow users to incite riots and violence on all platforms?

Ultimately free speech means nothing if the legislature can be stormed with the intent of kidnapping/murdering members of the process.
While it fits in nicely with a narrative, I think that's actually a pretty big logical leap. In particular, in the US, which arguably has a right wing populist movement, it is liberal urban areas seem to have been some of the hardest hit.

This is probably explainable by correlations between political leanings and population density, but that's beside the point: Is there real evidence for the claim you are making, or does it just fit in conveniently with your worldview and narrative?
Neighbor, is a meditative little vignette along the lines of Mountain (2014) or Animal Crossing.

"You should play the new poetic game from the Kentucky Route Zero designers - Kill Screen":
https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/cardboard-compute...
Difference Between Terraform and Ansible
The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc
Nothing short of steel wool is going to affect the patina.

Actually, if you throw it in the oven and set it to self-clean it'll strip the seasoning right off. I've done it with my cast iron pan before. Washes completely clean and ends up gun-metal grey; a non-oxidized pure iron surface. This is a great way to start over with the seasoning process if you're unhappy with it.
Roku snaps up Quibi's collection of short shows
But if people are only reading on social media, then they will only see it when someone else posts it there (e.g. a newspaper). Or I’ll read it from a newspaper and it’s still filtered through someone’s perspective, unless it’s an op ed. To reach people directly, you need people to be regularly checking wherever you post. Probably what GP meant by being able to create the narrative better on social media.
Here is some text from a review of Kentucky Route Zero I wrote in 2017.

“Are we there yet? This game is all story with no challenges or obstacles, just like a road trip ought to be. Immerse yourself in an artful rendition of our very human world and step into the dusty shoes of a man we have all seen in passing, but never stopped to get to know. He drives for the elusive Kentucky Route Zero - an underground road filled with legend and Americana. How do you find the middle of nowhere?“

For the purposes of understanding America’s heartland a little better, what’s better than playing Kentucky Route Zero is actually taking a real road trip through the flyover states.
After trying this flaxseed thing, I could get an egg to skate around in the pan while frying in a small amount of oil. In the long term, it's still more hassle than I want with all the flaking.
The difference between

- an illegal mob ransacking Congress in an attempt to overthrow an election, and

- a constitutional arrest of a criminal president (e.g. by the House Sergeant-at-Arms, or by the FBI under Mike Pence’s and the Cabinet’s order via the 25th Amendment)

should not need an explanation.
Is removing harmful content becoming ministry of truth? Not like some content wasn’t removed already (child porn, terrorist content etc). Things that society have deemed harmful and illegal. So a line has already been drawn. So is the concern just about where that line should be? Surely the argument isn’t there should be no line right?
Heating Teflon to high temperatures and preparing food on it is a good way to get Teflon into your bloodstream.
Well, that’s what the author says they started with, before replacing it with the non-uniform algorithm.
I find the 'learn to see systems' skill to be one that brings me the most benefit. Being able to see not only how, but _why_ a system works the way it does, from not only a technical but business perspective is incredibly valuable.

I have the most difficulty with the 'learn to see what others see' point. It can take me a long time to see why non-technical people have some of views they do (regarding tech, requirements, etc.) Usually this comes in the form of them ascribing more value to something then I do. For instance, uber - to me its an unlicensed taxi service. To others I know, its the best thing since sliced bread. Many of the 'Unicorns' spark this reaction from me. Which is probably why I'm not retired on a private island somewhere :-P
If you're trying to add a little more seasoning you will need to bake. You'd do this after a rough cleaning or cooking something watery or acidic. If you're just protecting it from ambient moisture just a teensy coat.
I can't get why they would trust data from Iran or even Sweden where it was national policy not to test.

In my country we hit 40% positive tests in november with hospitals full and people dying without being hospitalized which necessitated closing of schools, restaurants and malls, and the numbers six weeks later are down to single digit percentages. Good enough for me.
I think this pronunciation sounds right because it comes from "character", which doesn't have the "ch" sound.