skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Explain that the wrong abstraction makes code more complicated than copy-paste and that before you can start factoring out common code you need to be sure the relationship is fundamental and not coincidental.
As a FAANG employee, I'm excited about visiting our new theme park in Florida. Hopefully it'll be open in time for our next planning offsite.
Literally read the link you just posted, the text of Section 230 makes absolutely no distinction between 'Publishers' and platforms. I really wish people would stop parroting this completely incorrect reading of the law.

Or take it from Mike Masnick:

> If you said "Once a company like that starts moderating content, it's no longer a platform, but a publisher"

> I regret to inform you that you are wrong. I know that you've likely heard this from someone else -- perhaps even someone respected -- but it's just not true. The law says no such thing. Again, I encourage you to read it. The law does distinguish between "interactive computer services" and "information content providers," but that is not, as some imply, a fancy legalistic ways of saying "platform" or "publisher." There is no "certification" or "decision" that a website needs to make to get 230 protections. It protects all websites and all users of websites when there is content posted on the sites by someone else.

> To be a bit more explicit: at no point in any court case regarding Section 230 is there a need to determine whether or not a particular website is a "platform" or a "publisher." What matters is solely the content in question. If that content is created by someone else, the website hosting it cannot be sued over it.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
What does 'hmm' mean in this context?
I don't know - the only real counterargument I've seen is that Facebook and Twitter are private entities, so they should be able to operate however they like. I could use very similar reasoning to reason that the government has no mandate to break up monopolistic businesses, either.
No one wants to be fact checked.

https://blog.nillium.com/fighting-misinformation-online/
Somebody else said "property is theft". Different strokes.
I mean, at one time?
> I think there might not be the perfect reward/thank you for everyone

There is actually.

It's called big stacks of money.

Oddly, companies don't seem to want to reward people with it, the one universal thing that basically everyone could appreciate and is the entire reason anyone works anywhere in the first place.

Crazy. It's almost like playing relatively small amounts for a big expensive catered meal saves the company way more money than rewarding people with meaningful sums of money would.
I'm the same, and I have a friend who loudly smacks his lips when eating, it's insufferable. To make matters worse, whenever we meet it's usually over some kind of meal, so I am at a loss for what to do.
> As long as they can run the GC when they want and can layout the objects flat without needing pointer indirection it would be very suitable.

To be clear, the problem isn’t pointer indirection, but rather lots of objects on the heap, right? Pointers should be fine as long as there aren’t many allocations (e.g., pointers into an arena)?

> I think C# is popular because it allows the above. When Java has proper value types it might be suitable for writing games.

Go also has value types, FWIW, and they are a lot more idiomatic than in C# from what I’ve observed.
> Guess we'll be seeing a tiny two-bit "Facebookville" opening up sometime soon...

More likely an in-person VR space.
Why do I want the package manager to fetch and install dependencies for a project? I don't want to put all kinds of random junk into my /usr/lib before running "make" in the project's directory stops failing. And I've seen makefiles with "sudo apt install libqt5core libxml2-dev ..." in them and I didn't like that.
It's interesting, however it is rightly flagged. The comments and voting in this thread are ridiculous.
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> Among other findings, the researchers observed that the accuracy of news sources the Twitter users retweeted promptly declined by roughly 1 percent in the next 24 hours after being corrected.

1 percent? How do you measure a 1 percent decline in news source quality? This sentence throws doubt at the whole idea, IMO.
>I think the idea is that the tech giants are NOT publishers. If they were, they would be responsible for third-party content

In an ideal world we repeal Section 230 and the US government provides, free of charge, a small digital space for each citizen to say whatever they want in the context of free speech. There's no reason we should allow these tech monopolies to exist and maintain their fiefdoms of extrajudicial decisions about what is or isn't considered protected speech. If we want to assert that digital communication is a protected right, there's no other way.
This is completely wrong. There is no distinction between platform or publisher in Section 230, no matter how often people repeat this ridiculous take.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
> But addressing the situation where Google can render your phone, thermostat, etc, useless because you made a comment on YouTube is worthwhile.

That's a noble goal, but this is a clear culture war law that will crumble under any real scrutiny. Hitching your wagon to a law that's all about sticking your finger in someone's eye isn't going to help your cause. So instead, what could a good regulation look like?

Maybe something that says these providers are forced to moderate the user-facing pieces of their platform separately from the core infrastructure pieces of their platform: so you can be banned from posting to Facebook for whatever reason Facebook wants, but your existing "Login with Facebook" connections won't break.

Maybe toss in some data retention requirements as well – you can't post new photos, for example, and you have up to a year to pull the photos you've posted before Facebook is allowed to purge them.
Also, the ability to tune out of useless meetings by muting audio/video is great.
This is such a grey area. Do emails others sent to me belong to them? Do my HN comments make the entire conversation partially mine? If one of my comments is "well said", and the parent deletes their comment, is not my comment diminished? What do we do about quotes? Etc.
My favorite piece-of-land word is "gore," which is either a triangular parcel formed where roads intersect at an acute angle, or a narrow strip of land (usually also an acute triangle) of uncertain ownership resulting from inaccurate surveying. It's derived from the Old English word for spear, which also came to mean stab, and a stab wound, and eventually blood-n-guts in general.
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What is zircon?
Sane people make irrational decisions in the heat of the moment. Shooting you could be that decision. But hey, it could be crazy person too so no big.
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Sure for FedEx / UPS if you break the ToS. USPS might be a different story.
I may have missed this in the existing discussion, but one thing that bar ends and the briefly fashionable aero bars (I even saw them on mountain bikes occasionally) have in common is that you have to move your hands to access brake levers. In a panic stop situation you simply don't have time for that. The bar ends were for hard climbs, and the aero bars for time trials. Not for general riding.

Luckily both have gone out of fashion.
This may not be effective and may not stand up to a court challenge. But it's the first in a salvo.

Watch to see the kinds of arguments big tech is forced to make when they fight this law. Those arguments will be used against them later.

FB, et al., enjoy immunity (criminal and civil) from the illegal stuff their users post, and that is their weakness. There is nothing in the Constitution ensuring that they keep that immunity (or at least the First Amendment hasn't been interpreted to say that yet).

It's actually similar to how the PLCAA (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerc...) protects gun manufacturers from being sued into oblivion. Rights don't mean much when exercising them means you will get buried in frivilous suits.
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Yeah that Platform vs Publishers thing is one of the most misunderstood things among internet geeks - I was completely wrong (and perpetuated my wrongness to others!) about it through hearsay for two decades until last year:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...

edit: Wow, 3+ of us jumped in with same link, Mr. Masnick has a following here :D
Sorry, building nix environments from scratch is still rough around the edges and we are working to improve that at the moment.

When hosting a web server, your app must listen on 0.0.0.0, adding that to your repl seems to make that work. I will make sure that is in our docs for web hosting.

Working Racket web app: https://replit.com/@ConnorBrewster/racket-server
>If gender is a state of mind, then why not race, or even species?

Why do you need gender and race to be objective?

As for species, we've gotten that wrong too https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/019501958X
I agree that off-topic conversations at work can be a problem. I think your coworker shouldn't have done that. But your coworker could have been just as much of a pain talking about his car or his wife or his opinions on sports teams. The problem is not "politics".

There are also plenty of on-topic conversations that will get ruled out under a "no politics" rule. For example, the question "Why is everybody here white?" is an important workplace conversation, as is "Why do we pay women with similar experience less money?" and "Why are we letting the VP of Sales bang the interns?" But these are seen as highly political. And I think those are the real target of "no politics" bans.

Just look at Basecamp as an example. Turns out they had for years been making fun of customer names. When that was brought up, one of the complaints was that making fun of ethnic names can be racist, and that low-grade racism lays societal support for the more obviously dangerous kinds. That so enraged one of the powerful white dudes in the company "politics" was banned and the DEI committee was scrapped. Which in turn led to more than a third of the company quitting. They're bidding those staff goodbye and sticking with the ban on "politics".

Refusal to discuss racism is an obviously political move, so if anything the quantity of "politics" at Basecamp has increased. I think the real meaning of the bans is "the comfort of people doing well under the status quo should be preserved", which is deeply political.
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It might… but it would still indicate that many living-years had been lost.
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Where I live in rural New Mexico, near Arizona, open carry is astoundingly common to this California escapee. The other day I had a neighbor, an electrician and his assistant, and a gravel truck driver on my lot on the same day, and all were open carrying pistols. Three were from Arizona, one from New Mexico. People don't even blink at that around here.

A concealed carry permit in New Mexico may be easier (or just possible) to get than in other states, but it still took me about 4 hours of driving, 6 hours of class time and maybe 8 hours of managing extensive paperwork. Then it expired in a year and I was faced with doing most of that over again, so didn't bother. In Arizona the only reason to get a permit is to have reciprocal rights in some other states. I just wanted one to make it legal to carry a loaded gun in my pack on hikes, mostly to defend my dog from coyotes.
M2's already in fabrication, as to being ARMv9, not sure. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Apple-s...
The 1st amendment in the US constitution prevents the government from stifling speech. Being banned on privately owned and operated social media is not a violation of your right to free speech.
> I bet there was a specific phone call about he received to insert that provision.

I really don't think that would have been necessary.
"The fact that you needed to say that says a lot. While describing most cities of the world, most third world country cities of the world, you would never even mention the word feces, much less defend its presence on the streets."

Actually, you might ... I distinctly remember the unaddressed stray dog problem in Buenos Aires (circa 2006) which was not confined to any particular neighborhood or area and resulted in a more feces per block than I have ever seen in San Francisco.

I remember a similar but less pronounced problem in Granada (Spain) where I lived for several months in 2008.
Thanks, I keep hearing about NT Wright, I'll have to look into his stuff.

It's hard to imagine a God bigger (in various non-physical dimensions) than us, and that "making God in our image" just is so limiting.

Notably, Kushner's "Why bad things happen to good people" states as a matter of fact, "If God has a plan, I can understand it." All I can say is, he never took higher math :-)
I'm almost more excited because of the proxy network affect this will have on microkernel popularization and alternatives like Dahlia OS (https://dahliaos.io/) that are looking to be independent distros of Fuchsia.

I understand peoples concern about a walled garden situation here, but I'd argue to only become worried if Fuchsia suddenly stopped being committed to openly and someone needed to maintain a fork. The working code for both the microkernel and the OS is all open source.
It may be that the “run” part is intent in the legal sense, but I meant using a “hit and run” as a a tool of intentional homicide.

There are plenty of other ways to harm or kill people out there. More terrifying are those in which the victim lives but is intended to be permanently injured (such as vitriol or poisoning).
Violent crime (which is a very broad spectrum of crimes, most not life threatening. Spitting on someone. A bar fight. And more severe violence) is slightly higher in California.

Gun crimes are way higher in Texas. Over 50% higher than California. Aren't all those guns supposed to cow the criminals?
Fwiw, I'm not seeing lag on my end doing the same. Can turn on magit blame and it still scrolls fine. :(

Opening a very large file?

Edit: I have found that if I don't reboot my Mac, the environment that a launcher emacs finds is sometimes off. Is it the same slow if you launch from a terminal versus the dock?
I'd be interested to see that data broken down further by homicide vs suicide.

If you look at this data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_Uni...

it seems that murder rates do not corelate with the total firearm death rate.
Really? Do you have any info on this? I know all three ban certain types of things from being sent in certain circumstances, but I've never heard of an individual being barred services.
This is itself an artifact of human nature. If you determine how people should act, you can start working towards tribal allegiance and unity.
The company probably could have explained it a lot better. For example, they might collect location information, and if the location of the claim being reported is suspicious, they may investigate further.

Ultimately, insurance fraud is real, and it's a good thing for insurers to catch real incidents of fraud. It's a bad thing for insurers to use AI algorithms, or other black boxes, to do this without recourse. (This is what might be implied from the tweet).

That's why the EU GDPR provides rights against automated decision making:

The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.
It is interesting that he uses a fitnesse example.

Years ago we started using fitnesse at a place I was working, and we needed something that was not included, I think it was being able to make a table of http basic auth tests/requests.

The code base seems large and complex at first, but I was able to very quickly add this feature with minimal changes and was pretty confident it was correct. Also, I had little experience in Java at the time. All in all it was a pretty big success.
I am exactly the same. It always seemed to happen at the company cafeteria for me. Sit down with a group, start eating, and someone starts chewing with their mouth wide open. It takes about 5 seconds for me to go from calm to fuming, so I have to excuse myself and go eat at my desk.
Maybe the world has changed but when someone says something stupid and someone else calls them on it, backing it up with facts, and they double down on the stupid... shouldn't there be a population of people out there that see this as a desperation move on the part of the original poster? Or a sign of closed-mindedness?

Correcting someone in a public venue isn't for the audience of one that is spouting stupid things, it's for the rest of the world that is reading the thread. So a fact-based correction that causes more stupid to be posted is doing it's job, really.

If the response happens to reference the facts that were posted, well, now you've got a conversation going.

I would also like to point out that stupid is in the eye of the beholder sometimes. Something can sound stupid on first blush yet turn out to be true.
>Yes, in some ways. A new study shows Twitter users post even more misinformation after other users correct them.

I can't help but feel like the academics studying this "problem" are blinded by hubris. Even the byline is exemplary - what's being described is a discussion.

When you gatekeep science in the public square with "fact checking" you inevitably end up with a politicized orthodoxy. The opinions and majority consensus of our academic institutions are not beyond reproach, and there have repeatedly been instances where the messaging was misleading or false - look no further than the discourse surrounding covid starting early last year. Latest example being the lab origin hypothesis - a cooky, right wing, xenophobic conspiracy theory, until it wasn't. Fortunately media outlets are finally backtracking on their politicized "fact checking" in this case: see the editor's note here [0] for example.

0. https://www.vox.com/2020/3/4/21156607/how-did-the-coronaviru...
This is an interesting article because as I was reading Martin's suggestions I agreed with every single one of them. 5 lines of code per function is ideal. Non-nested whenever possible. Don't mix query/pure and commands/impure. Then I got to the code examples and they were dreadful. Those member variables should be readonly.

Using Martin's suggestion with Functional Hexagonal Architecture would lead to beautiful code. I know because that's what I've been writing for the past 3 years.
Section 230 muddied the water. The asymmetry has been a disaster for society.

When social media companies assume legal liability for content on their platforms we can talk about the protections of the First Amendment and the limits that grew under law over the past 230 years; they were casually discarded over the past 20.
> Can you imagine, every time you get pulled over you get guns pointed at you

There is a sizable percentage of people in this country who already live this reality.
that is the grey area 230 creates. Companies like facebook argue that they are more like the printing press that makes the magazine and not the magazine publisher. The issue arises when they choose to sometimes police their content. But this would be true even of a printer if a long time client that sold cigarettes or something sent in ads to be printed targeting kids it seems reasonable they could refuse services. But where to draw the line as 230 says they are not responsible to do that so does that mean if they choose to enforce decency rules are they responsible to be watchdogged or must police all content?
>but because it’s a nation state doing this the only thing that happens is closed airspace?

I am not going into specifics so not to derail the topic, however there are countries that kidnap people and consistently get away with it. It's all about power and alliances.

So don't compare this to a random person, but to other countries.
I don't think you'll hear any windows users defend windows settings.
> "with the level of abstraction in each function descending as we read on, each function calling out to others further down." ...

> Many functional languages actually enforce this.

Don't they enforce the opposite? In ML languages (I don't know F# but I thought it was an ML dialect), you can generally only call functions that were defined previously.

Of course, having a clear hierarchy is nice whether it goes from most to least abstract, or the other way around, but I think Martin is recommending the opposite from what you are used to.
Maybe it’s aggregated. If someone retweets seven stories, and four are deemed ‘accurate’, that’s about 57%.
SQL system versioned tables but with git hash tree versioning for every mutable command.
This law is largely a way for FL governor DeSantis to further solidify his conservative bonafides ahead of a likely 2024 run for president (assuming a certain former president doesn't enter the field). Whether it stands up in court eventually doesn't make the slightest difference.
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Obviously agree with you, though we dough have corresponding laws with guns i.e. brandishing, pointing or shooting at someone is a direct threat causing potential harm similar to libel or threatening someone. Simply possessing a weapon is not automatically a threat to someone else, it takes action. As far as nukes etc., legally not considered arms, but munitions so you do not have a right to have them.
Is it though? I’m really not convinced it’s fun even for wealthy and beautiful people.
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> This is a strawman, mentally ill individuals who have been diagnosed as such are already barred from possessing firearms.

So, shall be infringed in certain scenarios?
Python does not have a competitor in Data Science.
I'd still bet that many people would rather just go home early on a Friday. I know I would.