skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly off-topic, but, does anyone have a tip/tool for actually making it through a long thread (such as "who's hiring") in multiple sessions? I have trouble saving my spot if I leave the tab for too long, or if I navigate away, and then come back with the back button. It's possible I've never seen beyond page 2 because it's such a slog and I often have limited time.
This is true, and it breaks my heart.
I have so much love for this country and those in it.
The fact the certain people’s views are being censored with the full power of the state + private companies is just sad.
"hate speech" is not a recent term unless you mean that it was developed in the past century. In the united states, hate speech was determined as a limitation on the first amendment in 1942.
We have a very large Go codebase here at Stream and not having generics is just not really as big of an issue as you think it is. There are plenty of work arounds if you get used to not having generics in the language. The fast compile times of Go are amazing. I was doing some Kotlin a few weeks ago and the difference is crazy. Go: Install deps, compile everything done in 5s. Doing the same in Kotlin, laptop freezes, android studio freeze, time to get a coffee :)

That being said it would be really nice to have some reusable map type structures that handle GC better than the default maps. Fingers crossed.
It is very different. Everyone saw the same or very similar information on the TV. People watching the same channels would see the exact same thing.

With social media, your feed is perfectly catered to you as an individual, by using as much data on you as they can get their hands on, and a nearly endless supply of content from the "megaphones" of other users. Even if you have many of the same friends as someone, and politically align with them, you probably would find scrolling through their feed to be less interesting than scrolling through your own.
The point of this discussion is that the US is also losing in some high-tech fields like semiconductor fabrication and 5G. Can we survive on just software?
> something must be driving this phenomenon

I think that thing is the shift from being anti-science from being uninformed and ignorant to being anti-science being praise worthy since "You can like see through all the BS man". There was once a time when facts and the act of gaining knowledge were really highly praised by Americans but that has shifted. IMO, one of the highest praised virtues today is that of grifting, if you're a scientist and smart then whatever - but if you're an idiot and manage to trick people into thinking you're a smart dude then all praise to you. You beat the system, you're playing 4D chess!

I think (again heavily into my opinion) that this shift occurred because politics shifted to a point where politicians were incentivized to support policies that were actively harming their constituents - discovering that lead was unhealthy and all of the other side effects of pollutants - put a lot of money into the anti-science campaign and let the demonization of intellect flourish.
Will Wright's GDC 2006 Keynote: What's Next in Game Design?
Bananas are awful when not ripe. In temperate climates, most bananas are harvested before they are ripe before they are imported, and they taste so bad it took me a few years to get used to them. They're just grainy, hard, and tasteless compared to a banana that matured on a bunch (even if that bunch was cut from the tree).

It could also be the variety, I'm not sure.
Trump, Twitter, and the First Amendment
Not 100% on-topic since this is designed for ephemeral use but what is Signal's general stance towards forks on their server? I've considered switching to it but I don't like their official APK distributions.
To be perfectly clear, my point wasn't that people have near-supremal intelligence (the thing you seem to be arguing against), but that given the hypotheses in the parent comment you couldn't rule out such an eventuality.

While we're on the topic though, no it doesn't have to be unlikely or strange for people to be near-supremal, and throwing more hardware at the problem doesn't necessarily make it go away:

On some level that idea comes down to defining what we mean by "intelligence." Suppose we can only measure intelligence by proxy by measuring performance on specific tasks. Then the composition of those tasks plays into any final intelligence score. If they're all fully parallelizable then you're totally right that people almost certainly aren't anywhere near the "top," and moreover a "top" probably wouldn't even exist. In standard parlance though, intelligence is something more than the ability to add a lot of numbers quickly, and most of our current measures of intelligence have exponentially (or worse) diminishing returns as more hardware is added.

In that latter case where intelligence is measured by performance on algorithms which are fundamentally hard, people wouldn't be near the top because of some rare process which accidentally made us that way. People would be near the top because _anything_ displaying a modicum of thought would be near the top because of the vastly diminishing returns of additional hardware. As a crude ballpark, if you mustered every atom on earth into its own processor running at 4GHz then you could solve a fully parallelizable exponential problem roughly 4x bigger than what one of Google's newest TPU's can manage.
So do I, and I never have to sign any of it or jump through hoops.
Agreed. Without looking at the stats I can tell you new cases and deaths are pretty much the highest they’ve ever been.
I'll throw one in: requirement that all electronic voting systems have 100% of source code available to review by anyone, with the exception of private keys or symmetric keys, which would only be available in extremely limited circumstances.

To be clear, I'm in the "the 2020 election was fine" camp. I just think this is something a government "by the people" should be doing anyway.
He makes an interesting point distinguishing Twitter's right to censor to AWS dropping Parler.

> Apple, Google, AWS are much more like "common infrastructure providers" than a social media site is.

I think there's a further distinction between AWS and Apple/Google. Apple and Google (in the Parler context) are essentially publishers of a sort: they publish apps. I don't see a meaningful difference between publishing tweets and applications.

However, the AWS activity seems troublesome. Would it be OK if AWS pulled the plug on you if you criticized Bezos or consumerism or big tech in general? The line between AWS and your public utility is not that far. The line between AWS and "net neutrality" isn't that far either.
Well, all I can say is to the people about 6 months ago (on hacker news) that said the death rate was now under control because of things we were doing. I told you so. It was the natural vitamin D that helped during the summer.

All we can do now is try to encourage doctors and hospitals to start administering cholecalciferol at large bolus doses.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
How does your service differ from NameCoin?
There's a new variant of panama disease that can infect cavendish called TR4. Likely that is only fixable by genetically engineering resistant cavendish.
Wanted to test too...

I'm getting " Error: Error in connector: Error querying the database: db error: FATAL: remaining connection slots are reserved for non-replication superuser connections " when deploying.
every language designer who does not understand c++ is doomed to reinvent it

I mean, seriously,

func F[T any](p T) { ... }
Not according to the HN rules.
Either follow the rules or don’t post.
Actually that would be a direct threat of harm which I specifically mentioned several times. So no, I'm actually not saying that. I'm not sure how its even possible you arrived at that conclusion.
> and push more developers to Electron

Or Flutter, if cross-platform desktop becomes first class compared to mobile.

There's also Haxe. The language is great (inspired by AS3) but last time I tried it there were too many moving pieces (eg: OpenFL depending on Lime and both moving at different pacing). That was some years ago though. Anyone is using it for desktop gui?
I only use Chrome for work. Since they perma-stopped my ability to cease the video autoplay and back when I would turn it off, it would somehow get itself turned on again, I stopped using it as my 'leisure browser' at home and at work during lunchtime.

Any hopes for some HN-y Firefox plugins?
Inaction also spawns a reaction by the other side, as most infamously Chamberlain learned. I don't really buy a policy proposal of "ignore it and it will go away" absent some more concrete reason to believe it.

And, in fact, the policy we've been taking re QAnon over the last few years was precisely "ignore it and it will go away," and it didn't work out so well.
The Allure of Proxima Centauri, the Closest Star to Ours
>Personally I think these movements are the natural result of pivoting our epistemological institutions from truth-seeking to progressive political advocacy.

What institutions are you claiming have shifted from "truth-seeking to progressive political advocacy"? It seems to me that the reason these institutions appear more progressive is that American conservatism is becoming less and less in touch with the truth. There are countless examples, but the two most obvious ones are climate change and the politicization of basic COVID precautions like mask wearing. When you stake out the claim that acknowledging climate change is a progressive viewpoint, the National Weather Service is going to start looking progressive when it reports facts.

>when the right asks, “how do we know that racism and not crime rates belies police shooting disparities?”

The problem is that when these questions are answered "the right" just dismisses the answers as biased. There is little to no way to satisfactorily answer that question in a way that will change people's minds if they already believe that police are justifiably harsher against Black people because Black people commit more crime.
Gitlab founder Sid Sijbrandij sets up $100m VC fund to invest in Asia
My apathy wore out once N95 masks became cheap and available - Costco will ship them to your door for $2.70 each.

I wear N95 all the time in public, and if you don’t want to get this or spread it, it’s basically entirely in your power.

The only excuse is that someone is mentally deficient or almost unable to draw breath.
My Thinkpad T480s has a collapsed ethernet port and it sucks. I tried it a couple of times with different cables and the clip got stuck in the port and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get it out. I had to open up the case and unscrew the trap-door holding the cable just to get it out.
Your section on single vs double-entry accounting, specifically:

> We can neither create money out of thin air, nor make it disappear. Money has to come from somewhere and go somewhere.

reminded me of the excellent "Accounting for Computer Scientists" by Martin Kleppmann [1], with a very useful and easy to remember mental model of this process.

[1] https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu...
Top Paying Tech Companies by Engineer Level in 2020 [pdf]
The “no evidence” statement is demonstrably false.
>gamers are told to fuck off

I thought the 16:10 plague was because TV's were typically made in that aspect ratio and therefore it was cheaper to use the same panels in a laptop.

Gamers care more about refresh rate than the aspect ratio.

Anyway, hip, hip hurray for Dell and Lenovo going back to a good aspect ratio for coding.
I've supported EFF as long as I can remember, but I don't think they will ever come out and say it—we need to #AbolishCopyright and #AbolishPatents. Reform is impossible. The systems are fundamentally bad and unjust. Some people might say "but our founding fathers legalized it!", yes, but they also legalized human slavery and didn't allow women to vote. I don't think #ImaginaryPropertyLaws were nearly as big a problem as they are today. It's only thanks to the Internet and computing that the opportunity cost of #ImaginaryPropertyLaws has grown to catastrophic size.

EFF I think has a broader mandate and I can't blame them for not taking the correct position on this issue. It's a huge issue and they have a big portfolio already.

If a group of people at EFF splintered off to found a new non-profit dedicated solely to #AbolishingCopyright and #AbolishingPatents, I would support and donate to that.
You've had an entire year to understand that people's lives are being wrecked senselessly and needlessly by unprecedented, totally illegal government mandates.

The lockdowns caused the madness of the BLM summer, and it caused this thing that happened last Wednesday. People are at their buckling points, and that is a thing ripe for malicious actors to take advantage of. Even you:

> drooling, bearded gun-monkeys clambering on tables

Seriously? This is bigotry. How much do you need to tweak this sentence before it is _very conventionally_ racist?
P50 series was horrible on Linux with the dual graphics setup (the intel + nVidia combo). Just a nightmare for more than 1 external monitor and a docking station setup.
Canadian digital privacy law is being updated for the first time in decades
What I meant was the Republicans had control of the legislative and executive branches when Bush was president, but they were not able to pass any legislation that would help people get access to healthcare.

In fact, the only big legislation I recall Republicans passing in my lifetime is lowering taxes for some people and the Patriot Act/Homeland Security nonsense.
Don't use such words here dictators_ and why Africa?
If I’m understanding what happened correctly, the archivists here exploited a vulnerability to create numerous administrator accounts on the system, bypassing Parler’s security (as trivial as that was), and used those accounts to access private information from all individuals on the platform.

My question is this: are the people who originally exploited this, created the image, and the users who downloaded it to collect the data going to be subject to federal charges? It seems obvious that they broke the DMCA in using the exploit and the FCAA in collecting and publishing the data acquired.

If so, and the data were obtained through criminal means, is it even admissible in a criminal case?

Full disclosure - I have/had a verified Parler account, dating long before the Capitol stuff. I tend to join pretty much all the new social network stuff to claim my name and so I know what I’m talking about when I discuss it elsewhere. I don’t think I ever posted a “Parley”, and if memory serves the only PMs I sent were asking a friend about LED headlight options for my wife’s vehicle. I’m not concerned about that conversation leaking, but it will amuse to me see if it’s in the collected dataset.
+1

I also encourage the person I'm meeting with to add items to the agenda running up to the 1:1. Sometimes I'll respond async before we meet and just check that I answered their question/resolved the issue so we can spend time in the 1:1 on things that don't just need a quick answer.
Out of interest, how much general awareness is there that a more infectious strain is now the dominant version in the Uk, and the situation is likely to get significantly worse in the US quite quickly?
I have indeed; macOS is no issue; Windows needs a couple of ifdefs, no big deal.
I haven't seen any evidence to indicate that alternative clients are supported or even tolerated. I don't think Signal will start blocking custom clients, but I don't think the Signal project will aid or cooperate with any development of an alternative client.
Not much useful content needs it. The intersection of "universally criminal, such that it requires a censorship-resistant DNS alternative" and "valuable enough that normal people want to see it" is very very small.
Then the world’s media companies would have to report actual “news”.

Which is boring to them and essentially doesn’t attract the extra eyeballs they need to make enough revenue.
FT was definitely easier than the first 2 monkey islands, DoTT or Sam & Max. All of them are worth playing (as is Loom, which is perhaps similar in difficulty to FT).
You need to actually read up on the history of the Enlightenment and the philosophers who actually devised the notion of free speech and how they envisioned its use.

In no way does it even reflect the possibility of something like Parler being used to amplify the sort of messaging it does.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200627/23551144803/as-pr...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/parler-safe-space-fo...

> Still, there is a set of community guidelines and a user agreement, which prohibits deliberately obscene usernames, pornography, and threats to kill others. Meaning even Parler’s free speech absolutists have some vague rules for what they deem as too offensive. “When you disagree with someone, posting pictures of your fecal matter in the comment section WILL NOT BE TOLERATED,” wrote Matze during a consequential exchange on his site, shattering the hopes of conservatives and libertarians everywhere who dream of a social media site with a completely laissez-faire ToS.
It's depressingly normal, and it doesn't feel like there's much you can do to help it. Wear a mask, avoid social gatherings, etc, but beyond that I'm at a loss as to what an individual can really do to help, hence the apathy.
Let's put it a different way then. Imagine right wing dystopia where everything you value is considered bad. Now you try to discuss Gay rights. You can't talk about it on Facebook, nor on any platform, as they ban you instantly. You build your own platform. Aws/gcp/azure ban you there too and kill the whole thing. I'm going to go the next step. Now credit cards and other payment services refuse services as well.

Are you supposed to rebuild the entire tech ecosystem that the entire world runs on? Fight through every damn moat along the way? Is this the bar we set here?

Its easy to talk free speech for popular speech. It's how people react to unpopular speech that shows their true colours.
Market share is low, but there certainly are other mobile OS options out there. The fact that people in general don't want to use them doesn't make Android & iOS a "duopoly".
> we've effectively silenced tens of millions in response.

Let’s be honest, exactly 0 people have been “silenced” on either the left or right. The fact both Stormfront and Daily Stormer are still online attests to the fact that in the modern world it is not possible to “silence” anyone at all.

And while a violent fringe may complain about how loud their megaphone is now, everyone still has their soapbox. We’re here on HN using one right now.
Related earlier discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20576845 (2019 draft)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20541079 (also 2019 draft)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23543131 (2020 draft, i.e. the base version of the current draft)
I like Go, but I too in the meantime have dipped my toes into Rust and it's just so much better without being that much more complex. The learning curve is real but quite a bit overstated I think.
This takes me back! In the 1980s, I lived in a small town, and my Dad learned that the phone company still offered "party line" service for cheap - you could share a piece of copper with everyone on your street. I guess for most of the 20th century there were social norms about how to ask to use a shared phone line, how to know if a call was for your house instead of for a neighbor's house, etc - but by 1980 or so, everybody had household-private lines. So my Dad's insight was that he could save some bucks by paying for party-line service and we'd be the only house using it, so it would be de-facto private. But the side effect was that, since it meant we were using antique hardware at the phone company, it didn't support touchtone dialing! So we kept some 1960s-era rotary phones around, and when we got new phones we had to find the little hidden "tone/pulse" backwards-compatibility switch on the handsets (and my geeky friends would come over, click the touchtones back on, try to use the phone and say "hey, your phone is broken!" dude, you broke it. Presaging a long career in tech support, I suppose)

We had to switch to modern lines after we got a 1200 bps modem. Someone from the phone company called and said "you've connected an electronic device to the party line, that's not allowed, 'cause how would your neighbors let you know they need to use the line?" apparently the argument "we're the only house on this line!" was not convincing. So touchtones started working, and presumably Southern Bell got to retire the last party line hardware at the switching station.

So I've long wanted to do some kind of hacking with a rotary phone! I've seen lots of DIY projects that use analog phones as audio inputs, but they almost never including dialing, so this is exciting to see! I've always assumed you'd have to build your own pulse-counting circuit, I had no idea there was a commercial option, that's kind of mind-blowing, but I suppose they were needed to support old hardware.
What's the Bluetooth box, if you don't mind me asking? I have a reconditioned Southern Bell payphone I purchased years ago to benefit their retiree organization. The device you're describing would lower the barrier to entry enough that I might actually do something (since I could use my existing cell service vs. provisioning VoIP service).
At what point do you decide that someone is not speaking in good faith? The tenth time you point out the evidence that their beliefs are wrong? When they call for your execution?
> You cannot cut someone's power because they broadcast a death threat from their house.

This is a bad, needlessly hyperbolic analogy. The reasons there are regulations prohibiting the shutoff of utilities is that these are basic needs without which people can be directly harmed (often very seriously, if you cut off heating in the winter, etc...).

There is no similar human rights mandate for a Parler account.

I'm not saying I disagree that some level of regulation is appropriate. But this issue is (for somewhat obvious reasons) being wildly overstated. Parler was shut down for explicitly violent rhetoric which inspired real political violence, period.

Surely everyone agrees that this particular speech should have been banned, right? We just disagree about the specifics of how it should be done. If so, why are we screaming so loud about "Silicon Valley" showing "Monopolistic Force"?

Is hyperbole really the answer here? Or is it an attempt to deflect discussion from things that seem a little more important at the moment?
Ooof. blockchain

https://xkcd.com/2267/

https://xkcd.com/2030/
Ben Thompson provides a more nuanced analysis, including useful background for engaging with a lot of the questions posed in the threads here: https://stratechery.com/2021/internet-3-0-and-the-beginning-...
Twilio CEO explains why software developers are misunderstood and underutilized
It's probably still better than https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/XJACK_ne...
I second this. Accounting training enabled me to break my siloed attachment to IT and become a valuable asset to finance and accounting groups as well. Since they controlled all of the money they would come me to me discretely to get information and feasibility assessments on hardware purchases and development projects. At a small company this effectively made me the CIO's #1.
That would be difficult.

I personally believe Q is an organization of trolls. They exploit/prey upon people's desire to be a part of something larger than themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if there's merely a couple handfuls of people all trying to outdo each other developing these conspiracies that keep to the Q lore/universe while spreading like fire. I don't think these people actually believe any of these conspiracies. They simply want to come up with ways to make other people believe what they want them to and act out on those beliefs.