skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no legally forbidden censorship has been happening with regards to the recent insurrection against congress.

Yes, this is true as far as I am aware as well. But I find myself in a conundrum; had this "inciting" speech taken place in the town square or a public park, much of it likely could not have been censored because it would have been protected by the 1st amendment and the last 100 years of case law. Where, then, is the town square and public park of 2021?

Despite the fact that the legal protections of public speech haven't changed much in decades, the practical protections of public speech (as I discuss in greater detail in [1]) have indeed been eroded, because social media platforms and, apparently, web hosting and device makers are now the arbiters of the vast majority of speech. Free speech that only applies where virtually noone can hear you is a very limited free speech indeed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662466
It's part of protecting the borders. The Supreme Court has already determined that anything within 100 miles of the border is the "border zone" and gives the government broad authority to enforce border protection within that zone.

Also, it could reasonably argued that it is part of their "protect life" job.
I think this is the best answer out of all the replies.
I never run it manually.

I plug this tool in my scripts that import transactions from banks (and stripe).

The scripts extract transaction details (amount, payee, currency), then they use `ledger-guesser` to create ledger entries and add them to the journal.

The generated entries are "uncleared". Then I manually "clear" the entries. Review. Commit. (You can also use a tag for reviewed transactions if you already use ledger's "cleared" indicator for something else).

For the best results, I have 1 journal per bank account. So I have different training data for each bank account.

There's no confidence threshold. When there is a new type of transaction is encountered, the guesser will chose the account with the highest probability.

The guesses are made based on the words found in the payee (and date). Unknown transaction have generally a few known tokens. Example: "INCOMING TRANSFER FROM NEW_CLIENT"... The classifier will probably classify that entry as "Incomes:OurLargestClient". In that case I have just to fix that entry to change the client, all the rest is good, it still saves a good amount of typing.
It is still called a "merger" if one company is buying out another company. Don't we normally call that an acquisition?
We shouldn’t build stuff for the 5%
Nonsense. This ban was not a result of the backlash Trump is suffering. The government of Uganda didn't take some principled stand, here.

I can confidently say that it would have happened anyways, because banning Twitter and Facebook has already been used, multiple times, by various governments in an attempt to illegitimately retain power.

The only Pandora's box that has been opened is one of domestic American politics... And that lid was popped open ~5 years ago. You can't easily put that genie back in the bottle, now.
> You preventing signs on your lawn are fine, you preventing specific messages on systemically important communications infrastructure you happen to own is not. It’s the same reason that AT&T was heavily regulated back when it carried 90% of telecom traffic and before it was ultimately broken up via antitrust.

You know, you don't need AWS to run a website, right? Similarly, newspapers have often been local monopolies, but as far as I know, they've always been able to decline to publish a letter to the editor.

Whoever wants to stick a sign on my lawn is going to come up with some rationale to force me to do it, but that doesn't mean it holds any water.
Well as both a Visa card user and Plaid customer I suppose I'm happy about this!
Because this is a violation of the 5th amendment and the 1st amendment right to peaceably assemble.
Dasung Paperlike E-ink Monitor save my eyes
E-ink devices are as easy on the eyes as real printed paper. So if you stare at a computer all day, maybe it’s time to consider an E Ink monitor for at least one of your displays.

That’s how the DASUNG Paperlike Monitor is designed to be used: as a 13.3-inch desktop display that forgoes LCD or OLED technologies for a black and white (256 shades of grey) E Ink display with a resolution of 2200 x 1650 pixels. It’s larger than the screens used on the Amazon Kindles and most other ebook readers, it’s the largest E Ink screen you can get in the e-ink market.

The E Ink monitor doesn’t include touchscreen functionality, but on the side and on its bezel are a collection of small buttons that can be used for adjusting contrast, forcing a full-screen refresh to get rid of artifacts, and switching between display modes. Unlike an ebook reader it’s also lacking its own processor or operating system, so it won’t do anything until you pass it a signal from another device through its mini HDMI port. The display doesn’t even have a backlight or any kind of self-illumination, so if you’re working through the night, you’ll need to keep the lights on or a lamp nearby. If you buy our HD-F with frontlight version, features front light, illuminating LED light running parallel to the device from the side. The light guide plate attached to the surface of the screen ensures the light illuminates the E-ink screen, and the light will not directly shine into your eyes. Protecting eyes to the fullest while achieving the fill light effect. Switch between cool and warm light freely, adjustable front light brightness, the front light can also be turned off completely.

It’s doubtful you’ll ever want to try watching YouTube or Netflix movies on this display, but for other daily tasks, like monitoring social media or writing emails, it sounds like it could be a nice backup for your main LCD screen.
> It didn’t make me more likely to evaluate my belief on that it made me angry and sad and a bit silenced.

People are very quick to work out whether they're being listened to or whether they're just soundboards for another's ideology. When they're treated like soundboards they tend to get entrenched, when they're listened to they tend to listen in return. People listening to each other is the only hope of finding a common way forward, everything else just ends in sectarian violence. It is amazing that simply tolerating a diversity of opinions and listening to them has become such a radical notion!
Carving in stone for right handlers may be easier for right-to-left scripts, which begs the question about what happened with the Greeks? What triggered left/to-right?
> a simple browser for the masses [with] more user friendly UI

I think you mean GNOME Web/Epiphany. They both use libwebkit2gtk (https://webkitgtk.org/) as a base (as does luakit, a fairly simple and customizable browser that I’ll probably switch to if/when Palemoon breaks Pentadactyl).
It's predicted that Europe will get colder due to climate change. "Europe will get cold toes" - NASA [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DldSBIja2Kw&t=46s
I’d sure hope it would be this year. Keep in mind we should have the ability to vaccinate every American adult by the late spring so the pandemic should be reduced to very low levels.
Finally some antitrust enforcement!

This was clearly going to be anti competitive and bad for consumers.

Plaid has a great product and will either spac / ipo or be a great acquisition target for someone else.
If you've stayed in a hotel during the pandemic, you know that the tourism industry is doing abysmally anyway.
CIA documents on UFOs unexpectedly made available to download
What If Legacy Code Is Good, Actually?
You mentioned it was a few days between the initial negative rapid tests and the positive lab test.

Would be interesting to know the result of another rapid test at the same time as the lab one.

Are they just flat out missing some infections, or do they require a much higher viral load to indicate positive?
Because it’s a car full of white people, the border patrol and you assume that they’re “very likely to be entering legally”. There is a similar ratio of canadians legally and “illegally” living in the states as there are latinos living legally and “illegally”. But that aside, a car full of white people definitely gets treated differently at that checkpoint than a car full of latinos - and nobody EVER asked about “contraband” as originally suggested
And after a year of intense use it's down to ten. Imagine what the battery life would be with twice the thickness.
IMO, the healthier coping mechanism is to realize that the path you take in life will never be the most optimal. We all make mistakes, and if all we care about is extrinsic achievement, we'll be either steeped in regret (or perhaps, blissfully ignorant). Instead of being outcome dependent, try to value things that are by nature, intrinsic.
Yeah I think CS is for (1) though and the groups for (2) can do a business IT degree or something like that in a different dept.
Building the first atomic bomb is hard, distributing a vaccine is not
I think EU doesn't have an opinion on Parler, that's a business relationship gone wrong.

The leak of the Parler content shows that they were actively moderating the platform to push it on the far right side, using millions of fake accounts with admin privileges.

So Amazon terminated their account.

The ban of Trump from social networks is a different topic, I don't think Trump has a big fan base in EU, but it's the perfect excuse to demand what many have been advocating for years now: political control of the social network decisions, given that they can influence the public opinion (Facebook admitted today that their platform was used to spread violence in Myanmar)

I have personally advocated for putting social network under public scrutiny or close their operations in EU.

I am glad that the European Union is finally taking steps in that direction.

EDIT:

source -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25731121
>a windshield is still called a windshield, not a "wdsd".

Embraer calls it's Side-Windows in the Cockpit DV's (Direct Vision)

SSD's have no Disk.

My WM is called i3 my File-manger Thunar or MC..Firefox whatever that is, git? Java? Go? C the successor of B..
All countries have various levels of business travel, for example obviously all courier services and shipping still happens and other exceptions are made all the time depending on the situation. Diplomats can still travel. Kanye West can probably come up with a legitimate reason to travel to Switzerland even if he spends half his time on the ski slopes.
We clearly need to understand what rules and algorithms are OK, what are their side-effects and potential for abuse.

To get governments into moderation business sounds like an idea that simply won't scale. We already got laws to cover the legal aspects.
Wanna make America Great Again? Here’s how. Donations will dip

taxing the rich was literally the american way => UNTIL REAGAN
The primary message from all of these governments is that the platforms are out of line.

Your original comment was in support of/elaborating on "It would be governmental overreach [to set the rules]." That original comment had an overly permissive rule in place of what I've bracketed, but that's beside the point since all of these governments are specifically objecting that the recent actions are problematically restrictive.
There are only a handful of countries not western Europe or the US where I would trust their numbers. Of the list Vietnam is the only surprise.

Trust means their official numbers within a reasonable margin of error of correct. Nobody have perfectly accurate numbers, but the ones are trust are generally not miscounting by enough to worry about.
Because they had a magic 8 ball to predict this outcome?

Given 98% of cases are internal spread, I just don't think it's warranted.
Disappointing 50.4% efficacy for CoronaVac vaccine
On top of that, even if they do run SGX, whoever hosts the SGX instances can just let the NSA into the server room and nobody would be the wiser. It's not like SGX actually works. It actually makes things worse if it allows signal admins to look the other way in good conscience.
This rapid tests have a very high false negative rate. The result you get back should really be "You have COVID" or "You may have COVID, get a PCR test".
I don't think it's a particularly strong assertion. Museveni's pattern around elections and dissent has been EXTREMELY consistent since I first started living there 20 years ago.
Well stuff like dwm and st should get reconfigured rarely so this doesn't matter. And it recompiles blazingly fast anyway.
The Interior of Enceladus Looks Great for Supporting Life
Assuming that a company's terms of service are deemed fair and legal, why would it be "no longer acceptable" to apply them? I couldn't care less how high profile someone is, what public office they hold; if they break the agreement they made with a service provider, they should be subject to the consequences they agreed to.

What I would like to see is a company being obliged to enforce its terms of service promptly, and not allow profitable rule-breakers to continue. Especially when their abuse of the service also breaks laws.
It’s like oauth except you type your password for site A into a box on site B’s domain

Pretty wild it even exists
> that if speech has the effect of creating a real-life threat

>(To be clear, the point wasn't that Chaplinsky is the be-all-end-all, just that the concept of "hate speech," where the consequences of some speech make it unworthy of free speech protections, is not a recent invention.)

Yes, but those consequences must be imminent and unlawful.

The point of Chaplinsky isn't that it's a real life in the moment affront to civility so offensive that it's bound to cause a fight.

Planned Parenthood v. American Coalition of Life Activists is about specific threats, e.g. "I'm going to specifically kill you".

Both examples of non-protected speech are under totally different doctrines (I forget how far back the specific credible threat doctrine goes and what the real name for it is but it's really old, older than planned parenthood) that were more or less condensed into the "imminent lawless conduct" test established in (Brandenbyug).

It's going to be very hard for anything that is published in an asynchronous medium that isn't a direct call to lawless action by someone who can credibly get people to pull it off to fail the test because in order for the lawless action to happen people must do things that would be premeditated crimes on their own. There is no current US court doctrine for limiting free speech with regard to hate unless the content and situational details add up to something that fails the Brandenburg test.
Not what I was referring to at all, but I see where you’re going.

I was just trying to make a point that this was removing a toxin from the app eco-system. Not a harmless player who did mostly good with a few “bad apples”
In Nevada it takes 5 days. Canadians are getting stuck there.

In Central America - could vary a lot by country.
They'll get some $$$ out of it, and I have no doubt that they have a solid future as an independent company. The fintech sector is red hot right now. Heck they might even be able to catch the next IPO wave.
You can view the rubric here:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...

Key slides:

23, Population-Wide Averted Deaths: Targetting the elderly over essential workers averts up to 6.5% additional deaths (~12% compared to ~5%). This accounts for network effects. That's hundreds of deaths per day.

31, ethics scoring rubric: diversity concerns net the essential worker approach two additional points over the elderly approach, not one as you claimed.

33, overall rubric: the elderly approach was favored until ethics was considered, where, driven by diversity concerns, the essential worker approach was granted 3 overall points as opposed to 1 for the elderly approach.

And the craziest thing is, at no point in the rubric is "fewer people will die" considered a pro on the part of the elderly-first approach.

Preventing deaths has been the goal from the very beginning. This abrupt switch from "we have to save as many lives as possible" to "who cares about total deaths?" is exactly the kind of "progressive" political advocacy that you denied existed at the very beginning of this thread.

For the record, I'm on the side of "save as many lives as possible" and have been since the very beginning.
Rapid tests are just a gamble if you want to save time/money/exposing others if you end up being positive.

If you're negative, you then have to get the actual test, but if you're positive you can probably start isolating now.
This isn't related to the polar vortex splitting, this is the polar vortex that has split. This is a part of the cold air mass that normally sits on the North Pole, but on top of Spain. Normally the cold arctic air spins around the north pole stably because it is cold and low pressure in the northern hemisphere winter. Warm air intruded into it, destabilized it, and it spun out into lower latitudes with corresponding intrusions of equally hot temperatures elsewhere (Tibetan plateau https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1348693028022738951/...)
It is a hack around regulatory failure to mandate this functionality at finance firms (both Congress and the Fed have failed in this regard). The Fed's instant payments product (FedNow [1]) goes live in 2023, which is going to put downward pressure on Visa's debit business. The Fed only began to move on instant payments when pressured by Congress [2] (who didn't want smaller banks held hostage by Early Warning System's "Zelle" product, which is operated by a consortium of the nation's largest banks).

Europe mandated this functionality (PSD2) [3]. With instant payments and if regulations required banks to offer this functionality, Plaid's value would evaporate.

[1] https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/index....

[2] https://www.paymentsjournal.com/timeline-the-feds-real-time-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive
CES 2021: Demystifying Mini-LED TV
The Supreme Court has already ruled that neither of those apply at the border. Nor does the 4th.
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Wouldn't uninstall, switch to the US app store, and reinstall do the trick?
For me, it's especially bad with the indirection, and the 3-dimensional cube of settings (I can never remember after all these years which one I want to set, the scope or the configuration or the task...). The complete mystery of how plugins affect the final build configuration.

I even went to a lot of effort to master SBT. I've read through the official docs numerous times, and Josh Suereth's Book https://www.manning.com/books/sbt-in-action, and I still feel like I don't grasp it very well. I'm just not smart enough for SBT.
>Plaid must be something special.

It's not so much that Plaid is "something special" but that US banks are stuck in the 1950's technologically.

Plaid shouldn't exist. It only exists because banks refuse to create open APIs for others to integrate with.

With that said, Plaid has done a fantastic job.
Ask HN: How do you prepare for senior+ SWE interviews?
I'm a senior (7+ yoe) front-end engineer looking for my next role, currently working at a large social network co. Most of my experience comes my current company.
While the prevailing recommendation is to simply crush leetcode problems and memorize sys design approaches, I'm wondering if there's a better way. Honestly, studying b-trees and dynamic programming for an interview (especially when not using much of these on the job) isn't particularly motivating. At the end of the day, I simply enjoy building and shipping products.

So I'm curious: for more senior SWEs out there (especially front-end folks), what do you recommend going through to prep for technical interviews?
Just don’t. Inb4 “but Microsoft has most sophisticated security” crowd, every major hack of the last 15 years always starts with compromised windows box that allows attacker an outpost to move laterally.
Rapid tests are at their most accurate when someone is at their peak infectiousness. Accuracy declines swiftly before or after that.

So the use you made of them didn’t fit their ideal use case, as you used them several days before travel.

Even then, with symptoms, I am not sure they would be enough to rule out a positive. The biggest use of rapid tests is finding additional positives that would not otherwise have been found.
> It seems to me like generics are extremely important for "library code", and not super important for "application code"

I find that it really depends a lot on the language you're working in, and how well it does generics.

In Java, I don't use generics much beyond collections, streams, stuff like that. Whenever I try, I tend to trip over its relatively limited implementation of the concept.

In a language like F#, on the other hand, generics are the cornerstone of my business domain modeling. They provide a way to map everything out in a way that is much more concise, readable, type-safe, and maintainable than I find to be possible in many other languages.

I have yet to kick higher-kinded polymorphism's tires in a good context, but I can see where a good implementation of it would move things even further in that direction.

(edit: Disclaimer: This isn't meant to be a statement on Go or the advisability of this proposal. Go isn't really meant for the kinds of applications where I've seen real benefit from generics.)
Borders (and airports) are already a constitutional twilight zone. Just to get into (or sometimes out of) one I have to go through an X-ray scanner or manual groping that on its face would violate the Fourth Amendment. But at the same time, nobody is forcing me to go there.
Madrid continues to be in utter disarray after this weekend's snowstorm, with most streets still covered in ice, many hardly penetrable even by foot. Supplies in some downtown supermarkets are low, with fresh produce completely out-of-stock.

The fact that snowplows are nowhere to be seen and streets continue to be in such a poor state suggests to me that not only we are completely ill-equipped for this situation (which is normal), but that the situation is overwhelming and the few resources we do have are spread thinly across the country.
the Democratic party of the USA is center-leftish at best.

For example they don't openly support

- unions

- universal free healthcare

- strong workers' guaranteed rights (paid holidays, paid sick leave, paternity/maternity, limited working hours - e.g. max 40 hours per week -, overtime pay etc. etc.)
FB and Twitter didn't deplatform Trump because he was a nasty bastard who was inciting revolt. They did it because the Democrats won and they want to suck up.
Shallow wrappers that don't wrap much (now) but convey intent better are valuable if you buy into the idea of modularity and encapsulation in general. Some reasons (probably more out there):

1. The now-provided interface can more clearly express what the code is intending to do (better names for the operations you're providing than the underlying system has, remove_from_end to pop or dequeue)

2. Hide methods of interacting with the underlying data structures that you don't want people to use (use a C++ vector as a stack, but don't want random access)

3. You can replace the underlying mechanisms at will without impacting the users

If you just wrap a vector in your own vector class and otherwise provide the same operations (or a limited set of operations but for no good reason to restrict usage), sure, that's moronic. But if you wrap a vector class in a "BigNumber" class and provide operations like add, subtract, mod, etc. then value has been added. Same thing with the idea of wrapping a map in a set interface.
Uganda elections 2021: Social media blocked ahead of poll
I wonder if it's possible to turn all this on before activating the machine?