skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it.

In any case we have public and private hospitals. Paying an insurance for assuring a "premium" service with better rooms or faster treatments (closer to the US system) is also an option.
Here’s my general problem with people who profess statements like these: JS, putting aside typing, project structure, etc, simply has a small standard library.
At some point, you’re rewriting utility functions that you absolutely should have, instead, be pulling in from tried and tested code base. An engineer whom merely rolls all of their own solutions doesn’t seem like the kind of engineer that builds maintainable technology.

I’d rather tree shake a lodash function than roll my own. Not because I don’t know how, but merely because that code is better than mine. Period.
"stayed between the red velvet ropes once inside" This is a lie.
I think the real problem isn't around free speech, but the lack of consequences around falsehoods.
As an exercise, I spent hours and hours and hours re-writing a chapter of my PhD thesis strictly according to Sword's principles. The eventual result was shorter, clearer and more readable. But it was hard work, and I'm not sure the effort justifies the reward for academic writers. For example, this post would score poorly if marked according to Sword's principles. Better to aim just for clear, short sentences.
One of the things that was burned into my mind during my college years (math) was the notion that instinct and intuitiveness is only pattern recognition, and you should ignore it when you're on uncharted territory. Without past experiences to tune it, intuition is useless.

We're in uncharted territory now. Our ideals and principles of speech and communication weren't created in times when you could reach millions from your home, or manufacture opinion, or create alternative narratives. So those principles don't necessarily apply to current times.

Insisting in the old views will get us the same result as those battles where soldiers would march following the old ways in perfect classical formation against the first automatic weapons. And I don't want to be shredded.
And from the first quote, which I strongly agree with, it follows that when people leave the company after building something together, the organization is losing something invaluable. I am baffled that this is not understood and I have witnessed first hand how great teams that are able to work well together collapse and the company has to rebuild the knowledge, wasting time and money.
Ask HN: What are the fundamental “must read” papers on software security
Here's a few to kick it off:

Ken Thompson - Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984):
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman - New Directions in Cryptography (1976):
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs380s/dh.pdf (not strictly software security but still a fantastic & important read)

Dan Bernstein - Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0 (2007):
https://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf
Chip-shortage 'crisis' halts car-company output
When you bought a new TV or video recorder then you used to have to supply your name and address. The selling business had to provide that info to the TV Licensing body by law. This was the mid-90s so it might have changed.

I remember paying 300 quid for a VCR and giving them a fake name and address before leaving with my JVC under my arm.
I believe these assertions are contested by Parler. It will be very interesting to see how the case goes.
My guess is the feds would say that because no one lives in that state within that district, that the defendant's rights would not be prejudiced by using other people in the jury since the defendant themselves are not from that area.

I disagree with this on the basis that rule of law needs to be followed. The government can't expect people to telepathically know what the laws are. People only know what they are based on what is documented. Basically ignorance of the law should be an excuse if one could not have known the law or the law clearly stated something that supported their position, like in the elk case.
Like when the white house was stormed over the summer and the pres went into a bunker? Was that an attempted overthrow?
Aside from all that, I’m sure the app itself had all sorts of messaging on how important this info is, and all the nasty things tracking it can help prevent, and lots of pretty graphs and visualizations. Why wouldn’t you be upset after that?
Nobody was going to kidnap and murder anyone. And there wasn't constitutional breakdown - nothing broke down. The electoral college was delayed by several hours. That's it. Surely it's a huge egg on the face of security apparatus to let that happen, but pretending it somehow broken the constitutional government is nonsense.

> There seems to be a lack of willingness to acknowledge an attempted coup as a coup

Because there was no coup. There was a large act of hooliganism - which is despicable, but nobody tried to change the constitutional government of the US, and nobody of the rioters could, how do you envision it - the horned guy sits behind Pelosi's desk, or steals Pelosi's podium, and now he's the king of the USA and we are all his loyal subjects? There's literally no imaginable way one could perform an actual coup - i.e. take the power into one's own hands - this way. So let's stop talking nonsense.

> It's uncomfortable to realize how close we came to really bad things

You mean like being shown a picture of the horned guy in the Capitol, as opposed to actual war, starvation, disease, torture and death, which nobody really cared about ever? Again, the priorities are way askew here - which I can only attribute to unprecedented safety of US civilization and the citizens being so accustomed to this hyper-safety that they react to minuscule events as if their very existence were threatened.

> Erm, Russians are 100% implicated in stoking civil unrest

Whatever Russians "stoked", it didn't make anyone to give up on the concept of free speech. But most of actual (as opposed to imagined and murkily) Russian propaganda targeted at the US that we've seen is so incredibly idiotic that the only thing it could "stoke" is an uproarious laughter. it's not like it's hard to find - they posted it on Facebook. It is hilariously idiotic. Check them out: https://www.iagreetosee.com/russian-facebook-ads-presented-c... My favorite is rainbow Bernie.
Money Creation: 70% in the Last 12mo (Fed, M1, $)
Are there any correlations between people who wear contacts and have keratoconus? I'm asking, because handling contacts effectively requires you to rub the eyes a little every time you take the contacts out. Or is that kind of deformation not enough?
Right, and attempted murder is still the same sort of thing as murder, just without the success. Claiming that a failed insurrection was "nothing of the sort happening" is wrong. It absolutely was something of the sort.

> Things aren't that bad

I didn't say they were. I said we were very close to them being very bad. There's a big difference.
They smeared feces, stole laptops, broke windows, killed a police officer and got one of their own killed. People with bullhorns directed their fellows to the next target.

It was an insurrection attempt by incompetents and LARPers, but absolutely an insurrection attempt.
You can make a solid chunk of passive income thru medium.
Hey HN Friends,

I'm posting this because I was shocked when I saw this graph. I hadn't previously appreciated just how much of an unprecedented explosion in the money supply there'd been this year.

In particular, it seems to quantify a lot of potential for long run inflation and a very expansionary monetary policy move required to prop up the economy during the pandemic. But I'm not an expert here; I'm hoping we can put our heads together. I'd be very curious to hear general discussion and insights into the dynamics. Let's go, community of systems thinkers :)

While the M1 measure of money shows the change most dramatically, other ways of looking at the same data (dollars printed, M2, MZM, etc.) seem to tell the same story. There have also been some news articles written, but I thought that for HN, we'd go directly to the numbers.

Thanks for taking a look!
The Epstein case and QAnon are separate things. If QAnon decides to include Epstein as a part of their fiction, that doesn't make QAnon real.

My suspicion is that QAnon is an alternative reality game created by imageboard trolls. But then foreign adversaries saw in it a potential to subvert the US and they decided to amplify it as much as they could. This suspicion is not based on any hard evidence, but I think it is plausible.

Foreign adversaries from troll farms spend their entire day finding ways to cause harm and troll farms are a cheap way to inflict that harm. Unlike the cold war era, they don't have to pay operatives to travel to the US, they just need social network accounts. Remember when Russia interfered with the US election by buying ads in social networks? Those ads are available here:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/05/10/thousands-rus...

All these ads have the objective of amplifying any narrative that is against the best interest of the US. Make everyone angry, make people fight each other, cause economic harm, amplify dissent, diminish governance. And everyone is falling for it, again:

- Foreing trolls amplifying antivaxxers and antimaskers have the objective to make everyone sick and stretch lockdowns forever so that the US economy is ruined.

- Foreign trolls amplifying racists and race baiters have the objective of divide the US into groups and make them fight each other, as well as diminishing trust in the government.

- Foreign trolls amplifying anti-science discourse also have the objective of make people skeptical about science, drive people away from science, with the added bonus of making people fight each other, incentivize pollution, demoralize the population, etc.

However, those foreign adversaries could not be successful if it wasn't for one person: Trump. Foreign adversaries love Trump because he is the person that promotes division and infighting. Trump denies climate change. Trump said vaccines cause autism. Trump said you should inject yourself with bleach, and downplayed the coronavirus. Trump uses racist dog whistling... Trump is the wet dream of any foreign intelligence service, he did more harm to the US than the KGB could ever do throughout the entire cold war. If you voted for Trump, you are not a patriot, you're a giant chump... and if you cannot see it now, there's no hope for you.
slashdot is a cesspool and a wasteland now. It is dominated by ridiculous nonsense, bots, spam, ascii swastikas etc.
Wikipedia says there are ~350,665 Old Order Amish (apparently in the New World? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish#cite_note-Elizabethtown_...).
I literally do not believe the map they posted with this article. Take a look at North Dakota on Google maps, satellite mode, labels off. It's still a grid of farms and roads just as the rest of the midwest, just bigger blocks. Uninhabited? Not so much.
The point being they didnt cause some stand off or try to burn the place down. They woddled in there, went places they shouldnt have been, and left. Im not defending actions but pointing out the hyperbole.
There is a presumption that any relationship between a teacher and their student is non-consensual. This is memorialized in nearly every school’s code of conduct that I have ever seen. If it happened then it was sexual harassment at a minimum and most likely rape.
Show HN: Open-source React UI library with robust set of Components
I use first@firstlast.com because that's the less awkward one i found (given the domain name). But I'd love to see better options.
Houses have been done before. Enough time that we are good at those estimates. Once you have built the same house a dozen times you can estimate to within a couple hundred dollars. Contractors do this all the time for spec houses. Spec meaning that they are building it and the planning to sell it once it is complete. I know several contractors who do this all the time. They have never had someone order a spec house and come in anywhere close to the estimates. Everyone goes over the light fixture budget ($600) by at least $3000. Similar for the kitchen and bath fixtures. It isn't unheard of to double the cost of the house on seemingly minor upgrades.
Without free oxygen, animal life could hardly develop at all, let alone intelligent life, since it would not have access to the large amounts of energy it needs to exist.
Part of regulatory capture and the industrial complex, why medicines like MDMA and psychedelics have been illegal for decades due to them not being patentable - and being competition that most recent research shows is far more effective and without the "side" effects of many big pharma's drugs.
And can you please remind me - did they bake cookies for everyone or killed a police officer?
It was not nearly as vanilla as you make it sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uSYhyFao4

It's pretty long since it covers the build up and call for violence the day prior, but if you want a TL;DW, skip straight to 59:02
Yes, and the main historical reasons people used jQuery was for smoothing over browser discrepancies and using CSS selectors in JS, but with IE9 we have `querySelectorAll` which made what was jQuery's biggest selling point for many, standard to vanilla JS.

I also find it more confusing to teach to beginners than equivalent vanilla JS, and easier to make performance-hurting mistakes.
Please consider how immersed in the QAnon belief system the whole thing is. The scary thing is how large amounts of people are apparently willing to attack democracy (broadly against their own interests) on the impetus of completely baseless hogwash.

Society apparently has little defense against this sort of viral, distributed cult and people are scrambling. I'm pretty sure that ad-hoc ostracism effected by large social media companies isn't the best approach, but the cost of not doing anything is terrible.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25824907
Do we have something to compare this number to? Don't we expect most crimes to not go to trial, if the convicted person agrees that they committed the crime?
Did the velvet ropes extend all the way into the senate chamber? Or up the steps where that cop led the rioters? Your comment is so stupid I almost can’t believe I’m responding to it, but I fear that if you don’t get any refutation you’ll continue to believe the nonsense you wrote down.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25820288
Viscous Liquid Monopropellant, new non-explosive and non-toxic rocket fuel (2019)
Just like "programming mistakes", oh wait, those were requirements set by mgmt
A few things to note:

1) The American conception of free-speech absolutism is unique and an extreme point compared to the rest of the world. For example, Germany forbids Nazi symbols and India forbids speech that may rile up religious/communal violence and Britain has stronger libel laws than in the US. These are codified in the laws of these countries. Even in the US, there has always been a tension between the absolutist wording of the First Amendment, the law as interpreted by federal and state courts, and ground-reality enforcement. It's hard to argue against some restrictions on free speech - most everyone agrees you shouldn't be able to say "fire" in a crowded theater. And practically-speaking, the speech of leftists and Black civil rights agitators has been policed, literally. We've been able to forget the "paradox of tolerance" since we haven't been in a "post-truth" society until recently (for a sizable segment of the population anyway.) But now, we're having to deal with that issue. The questions have lurked beneath the surface.

2) The conception of individual rights is an Enlightenment idea. There are other ways to base a society - for example, starting from justice as the primary concern instead of rights, or starting from proper conduct according to some religious authority. Of course, we in America are heavily biased toward the Enlightenment approach to founding a political order. In a multi-valent world, we are having to confront these other political philosophies. So, I'd urge you to look at the "rights" discourse from other angles from the one that's "authorized" by the founders. In a way, little holds together America except the repeated affirmation that we are Americans and that we believe in the sacred principles of the Constitution. This, of course, makes it hard to question these fundamentals.

So, in summary, I'm trying to note that American free-speech values exist in a continuum and are historically contingent. They aren't fixed, and we might move to alternate interpretations and approaches over time.
If that is the problem, this is not a great solution.

I don't care if the medicine is perfectly optimal in terms of standard deviations above placebo (which I don't trust, since the data is not likely to be reliably comparable); I care if it sufficiently solves my issue with least hassle (side effects/access/cost/works for me personally). Placebo might just be fine, in some cases.

If I am not able to identify what medicine to take, I ask my doctor, who has years of training for that, already knows what Google sources are good, and can look it up in a reference manual.
Adding to what others mentioned: the US is a terrible country to be poor in. Other countries (even in the 3rd world) have safety nets where the poor can find support for very basic needs (food and healthcare) before resorting to crime.
Could it be because, I don't know, extremists seized the Capitol that same day?
Ask HN: Best platform for hosting documentation for your product (paid, or not)
What are you guys using for your products' technical documentation? I am looking for a service, or even a GitHub repo which we can host ourselves where our documentation team can put up technical documentation.

In addition to product docs, we also want to create a learning center about real-estate (which is the industry we are in)

Ideal requirements are
- Ability to write content in markdown
- Display articles by category
- show TOC inside an article
- Follow good SEO practices

I have looked at Zendesk, which is expensive. Also looked at Crisp (which is a messenger and but also has Helpdesk). The problem with Crisp is that the articles are kind of locked in their platform.

(I am not associated with either of those companies)

What do you guys use?
Can you do this? "You see the silhouette of a cube, viewed from the corner. What does it look like?"

Or mark the edges of a cube into thirds, and cut off each of its corners back to the marks. What does the result look like? Can you mentally rotate this shape around?
Thoughts on Skeumorpishm in the Metaverse
Both things are reprehensible, but one of them is an attempt on our very democracy. That makes it way worse.
25 years ago I was hiking on a mountain in Switzerland with a group of people. Descending, a guy lost his footing and broke his leg. So there we all are, a few hundred feet from the summit. We could see the town below us, and the hospital there. Someone had a cell phone registered in the UK. We talked to a UK operator who connected us through to the hospital in the town below. They wanted a credit card before sending up a helicopter and doctor ;) If I don't have this completely wrong in my head, I think it was $2500 on unfortunate hiker guy's Amex.

A few minutes later we saw the helicopter lift from the hospital and head straight towards us. Down came the rescue equipment and Dr Bruno, who told us not to worry because "We do this all the time!". 10 minutes later he was ascending with the patient.

I learned two things: Doctors in Switzerland really do do this stuff all the time, and always have hiking accidents near well-equipped medical facilities that aren't trying to totally screw people over.

I'm pretty sure it was the best $2500 that guy ever spent.
"they pay very little for it."

That belief is the problem. You pay for it with reduced salary. Problem is that this fact is being hidden. Then you also have your employer choose insurance plans for you but their selection criteria are most likely for their own benefit.
For those 10,000[0] who don't get this reference: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751&pa...

0: https://xkcd.com/1053/
My wife has had a 2nd graders stab her.
Kid served a 1 day suspension. There were many many incidents.
You'd be surprised. Amazon's affiliate program, as one example, pays out for any item added to someone's cart within 24 hours of the affiliate click (with a 90 day window to complete the purchase)[1].

So even if the commission on the Display Dummy Plug would be peanuts, you can still generate a decent revenue stream from capturing commissions on ancillary and unrelated add to cart actions within that 24 hour window.

[1] https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/G9SMD8T...
I no longer remember the numbers but the speed ups were measurable. That FPU had 24 FP registers (as compared to 8 in a regular 287). The best case would be to load a matrix to the registers and then have a bunch of vectors to multiply the stored matrix with. Then this thing could fly. Loading the matrix to the registers was slow though because 287 coprocessors used DMA to communicate with memory.
People were similarly dismissive of the Nazis after the Beer Hall Putsch.

Aside: Asking for a hypothetical that doesn’t involve hypotheticals seems… off.
It’s quite flippant of you to assert that people who are interpreting a set of facts contrary to your own interpretation, are doing so because they were “told” to by CNN.

There’s plenty of evidence out there for people to make the case that the label of “insurrection” is appropriate. For some reason right wingers (not asserting this is you, I don’t know your affiliation) seem to have an obsession with “sheeple” and can’t comprehend how someone can have a contrary opinion, other than it being due to pure propaganda.
It was idiot rioters just like we had over the summer. Not some well planned out attempt to actually overthrow the govt. It was a disrespectful day and they did accomplish that.
A vote isn’t good for anything if violent extremists can overturn an election.
Actually, it is harder to do in the US than in Europe due to the insane amount of sugar they put into everything (even bread!).

Also, keeping oneself to a diet is a habit change, which is like the hardest thing to do, so don’t think lowly of those who have some trouble keeping themselves to it.
I don't object to free speech because I'm scared and I want the government and the media to protect me from the scary people I see on TV. I object to freedom of speech because it doesn't still seem like an ideal to me in the first place. Don't attack a straw man.

What is the argument that free speech is an ideal? That it promotes a more vibrant discourse? That it permits political positions that the powerful dislike to be communicated? That we can drive out bad speech with more speech? That the court of public opinion decides well? That it ensures everyone can participate in matters of public debate?

Has it done so? Again, I'm not talking about the insurrection at all, so let's set aside the debate over whether your comments about it are factual. Look at the last several decades. Do you think that the social norm - the ideal - of freedom of speech has improved our society? Can you concretely describe an example?

I believe in the right to freedom of speech as a limitation on government power. I don't want the government throwing anyone in prison for what they said. I don't believe in it as an ideal, as an aspiration for either individual communities or our society as a whole.

Or, bluntly: Do you believe HN would be a better community without downvotes and moderation?