skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How can you have election integrity if you don't have integrity of facts?

This one is easy. There is no integrity of facts. No matter what standard you use you will have cases where reasonable people disagree. Historians argue about interpretation of facts all the time. There is no universal objective truth.

You can argue that you don't need absolute integrity and just clamp down on the fringe stuff but that just shifts the problem. You will find a boundary where reasonable people disagree about action being needed.

Election integrity actually has more to do with politicizing the elections process, which is so incredibly dangerous. The whole "ends justify the means" is a symptom of a siege mentality, which is deliberately created by those who personally benefit from it.

So what could the US do? Three things:

1. State independent commissions to run elections, draw boundaries around Congressional districts and certify elections. This should not be done by the legislature;

2. Move voting to Saturday and Sunday;

3. Make appearing at a polling place mandatory. This one is controversial. This is the system Australia has. You don't have to vote. You simply need to show up and get your name crossed off. That's it; and

4. Preferential or ranked choice voting.

Optional voting is nothing more than a tool for voter suppression. Stripping citizens of voting rights, (historically) tests on literacy to be able to vote, some districts requiring you to queue for hours to vote and so on are all designed to suppress the vote.

I don't care if someone was a felon or you think they're not informed enough (who decided that?). The absolute death of democracies is where a small minority dictates what happens to the rest of the country and that's where the US is hdeaded.

The tech giants have very little to do with that.
> it looks to me like stories that are rising up the page, rather than dropping or stationary.

The bike story went from 12 to 13 but was still black. Might only be recomputed periodically, but it doesn't seem to make sense to update this at a different frequency than the rank itself.

> Could it be a feature that is usually visible to mods or highly ranked users but has accidentally been opened up?

That has also crossed my mind. Whatever it is, I'm intrigued now!
it worked for me. one day it was decided I was too old to keep using training wheels (when I was 4 or 5, can't remember), and they got taken off. I remember it being easy.
For internet connected software, it's pretty old. If you don't update for 3 years and expect to still be secure, you are in for a shock.
It's a bit unnerving to see this stuff so often, really. Demands to censor speech you don't like, and which almost uniformly comes from your political opponents, in the name of fighting authoritarianism is blatantly contradictory. It'd startling how popular this sort of thinking has become.
So, you will refactor and add tests to a small library forever? It just, does not make sense.
If you read the whole article, the building was demolished afterwards due to be structurally unsound.
I work in games and it's definitely fine for a lot of applications.
Precisely. JDK 8 -> 11 is not "drag and drop". While that was mostly the up through JDK 8, the JDK 9 changes are a large step that need to be hurdled, and it's easier said than done.

Plus if you're working on legacy app servers, you're bound to whatever they are running outside of what you actual application supports. Then add in the whole JaveEE -> JakartaEE transition that was ladled on top of the JDK 8-> 11 transition, and it wasn't just a can of worms, but a kettle of fish and a barrel of monkeys all at once.
If the company does not supply a personal line for business purposes, then those communiques are off limits.

Tired of bloody corpo encroachment.
Facebooks lawyers claimed that their fact checking was opinion (not fact)[1]. So there is that too!

Facts can be opinions instead.

[1] https://insiderpaper.com/facebook-court-filing-fact-checks-a...
> Despite free speech laws, it has always, and under pretty much every legal system, still been illegal to utter certain types of speech, such as yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater, or inciting riot. It is never absolutely free.

And that sentiment—that very example, even—has been used to justify expansive restrictions on speech that nobody would or should put up with today, such as opposing the military draft.

“When a nation is at war, many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Schenck v. United States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compendium_of_Materia_Medica

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghan_Lun

https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%A9%E7%96%AB%E8%AE%BA

What's the reasoning behind this theory that Mao invented Chinese medicine, which has been in existence for more than a thousand years? Are you a fan of Mao, or are you mocking his inability to create modern medicine out of thin air? Or his manipulation of Chinese culture?
Defending quantum chess champion takes the title again in 2021 tournament
I'm glad for you. If you Google "ageism in silicon valley" you might a feel for what some other people are experiencing.
As with earlier comments this seems to oversimplify the problem of throwing people at a problem. Adding people to a project puts more pressure on the current maintainers, to authenticate, validate, train and support newcomers.

Apache has processes for this, and project maintainers pointed people in that direction repeatedly (e.g. https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/608#issuecomme..., https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/608#issuecomme...).

The Apache foundation receives funding from a large number of organizations already: https://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html

Perhaps the right question to ask here is: what did Apache do to help their members in this event?

You can ask this question of the Apache foundation independently, without adding pressure on the project maintainers at this time.
The broken part is dependency management. People will install anything as a dependency, and just because the code functionally works today they often assume that they can expect maintenance, support, and security into the future.

One of the biggest myths of "open source" is that it can replace commercial software in every way, but for free. It simply doesn't. Code is code, but nobody buys just code. They buy trust, support, a warranty, expertise, and a contract to back it up in court. You get none of this when your engineers `npm install who-knows-where-this-code-comes-from`

Engineers are kicking the can down the road, and I don't think management in most places truly understand the extent of the code their companies are running for which:

* they employ nobody who is familiar with it

* they have no vendors on call who are familiar with it

* they have no idea who is committing to it

* if anything goes wrong, there is nobody to help them
> Sure yellow journalism existed. But it had anything resembling the scale, scope, reach, and speed as current technology

As a share of current events information, it was greater, often virtually monopolistic, for not just “yellow journalism” generally but often a fairly unified single viewpoint of yellow journalism. (In terms of divisiveness, the actual problem today isn't greater proportional influence of yellow journalism, but that there are alternatives, both opposing equally yellow journalism and less-yellow journalism, with widespread reach.)

> has always, and under pretty much every legal system, still been illegal to utter certain types of speech, such as yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater,

Except, you know, that despite that dicta in a case that has since been overturned (which also is widely now recognized as a travesty restricting core political speech), that was, not illegal and that it was outside the scope of protection was not justifiable based on the case law either at the time or at any point since.
All Belarusian Banks Are Prepared for Disconnection from Swift
Supposed as per economical theory/ideology, legal expectations and also per "what kind of CEO will get the job".

It is not like most of the time randomly. It is like that, because economic system is designed to work that way.
How is content moderation "denying people the right to participate in the democratic process"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...

Every year they raise more than they spend and their total assets are equal to about a year and a half of spending. It doesn't look like they're running out, or like they're overstepping with the fundraising; it all seems quite reasonable.
Darn, I was really hoping (if the mod-only thing theory turned out to be the correct one) for something more sinister than "highest rank so far". Maybe a clever algorithm to detect a higher ratio of comments by exceptionally affable users.

Thanks for the answer :)
TIL Raskin actually got to kinda implement his ideas of a text-driven interface—of which Macintosh was pretty much the opposite (coincidentally it's said that Mac's interface was largely redesigned after Raskin left the project).

> Instead of using a traditional command line interface or menu system, the Cat makes use of its special keyboard, with commands being activated by holding down a "Use Front" key and pressing another key.

Afaik the original concept called for entire commands being typed in while holding the special key—which suggests that Raskin didn't have much consideration for touch typing—a bizarre attitude for a text-based interface.
> 3. Make appearing at a polling place mandatory. This one is controversial. This is the system Australia has. You don't have to vote. You simply need to show up and get your name crossed off. That's it; and

How is this enforced?
> No one is entitled to money. There's nothing broken about that. If you want to make money it would be a good idea to make a business plan.

This attitude totally ignores how hard it is to actually run a software tooling business and collect when you have a free/community offering.

Take the Obsidian note app, for example. It's technically free until you start using it for revenue-generating, work-related activity per their license, but how do they go about enforcing that? If they were to dig through customer data to see who is violating the agreement, they'd get roasted on Twitter in an instant and risk losing their user base. Should they hire attorneys to investigate and shake down violators for the $25/mo fee plus damages? Again, major risk of losing the customer base.

Software devs have to represent a significant, if not majority share of the user base of Obsidian, and I'd bet a year of my salary that most of them aren't paying for it when they're using it for work. Committing to a business plan is an important step, but software's value is directly correlated with it's use, and more widely used software is inherently more valuable, but achieving that kind of growth without giving it away free is a major challenge.

It kinda feels like tipping in the restaurant industry, where folks argue that it's to ensure proper service, when in reality it's often just a way for the restaurant owner to not have to pay minimum wage by offloading that portion of a workers wages onto the customer, who often just doesn't give a tip.
The 1 in 107 number you seem to be alluding to from the link is the odds of dying in a car crash in your entire life, not in any given year.
Porsche, 2014+ BMW. 2020+ Audi.

What can I say? I have a liking for the German brands.
Really? The last few thousand years of history have been pretty illustrative; the last 50 especially so.

The uber-wealthy have no direct dependence on functional public services. They have no need (and even a preference) for corrupt legal and political systems. They (hire people to) work day and night to gut regulations that protect us, and they cover for each other and circle the wagons when anyone starts getting too close to breaking any part of the golden circle.

If people institute progressive tax systems, billionaires find a way to dodge or loophole their way out; going so far as to leave if people demand "too much". Modern billionaires find creative ways to exploit workers and demonize unions.

Compare all that to the decent and normal people you know, assuming you have something like a normal life. The people I know are happy enough to pay their share for the common good, and wouldn't dream of hiring some slimeball tax accountant to figure out how to hold on to as much as possible - see Pandora, Paradise, etc.

No one normal is paying politicians to break regulations, or writing legislation that allows for tax loopholes, or removing any possibility of accountability for "malfeasance" like oil spills or banking crises.

And billionaire owned media is happy for none of this to be in the national conversation. But once you start looking - it's pretty obvious.
I get tiny clots and mini strokes all the time. Factor 5 Leiden. Not at all rare.

Took 3 years and dozens of doctor and hospital visits to figure out. At every stage I was dismissed. Took a big clot that nearly killed me to figure it out.

I had severe cognitive decline, but since I started at borderline genius and went down to “somewhat slow” they felt I was fine.
I regained much after starting blood thinners, but not all.
So the parent poster was in fact wrong about Minecraft using Java 8.
Ah well it's a million dollar question.

These people were trained in excel I assume, it's cultural and then you also have this weird pivot point like C where excel has reactive semantics, data table, ad-hoc input / modeling .. it's a massive reactive data notebook on steroid that requires next to no fiddling to get working.

Now as you point, things are changing.. R/julia/numpy/notebooks, reactive web frameworks.. can all suck some use case from excel. I believe that future clearly lies in the middle. Microsoft should be wise to implement some presentation/component feature to match the web.
I do a lot of typescript/JavaScript work. One thing I did recently was spend a day converting several older projects from webpack to esbuild. The build times were cut from 45s average to less than two seconds. This tool is insanely fast at bundling and compiling typescript.

I’m just as wary of JavaScript tooling fatigue as the next person, but I truly wish I’d swapped to esbuild sooner. It boggles my mind how much time I’ve wasted in the last few years just waiting for webpack to build.
I'm the author in question. I'm not against open source, I'm against the culture of taking without giving back.
Twitter and YouTube Analytical Dashboard
Web3 and Bitcoin fix this.
if you are managing managers, they should be taking the responsibilty of the operations (if even them!) - not you.

you should only touch your own buttons, not others', and whats outside of that is not your (id like to say problem, but thats not correct) fault.
The most worrisome part is that we have a perfect example in history of the casino/gaming industry being censored essentially to the point of irrelevance. Can you imagine what Las Vegas would look like if speech in the form of gaming machine design had been allowed to flourish instead of squashed?

Now even free games on an Iphone run circles around the kind of engagement a meatspace casino can garner.
SDL can handle events and message passing just fine, but you would have to write most of that yourself either way, since it isn't a framework.
Constantly asking myself “do I really need to do that”? You should always keep the focus on what do you ultimately want to achieve with the code you are writing. Most effective developers I’ve met mercilessly cut on what they spend their time.
To what? People discussing and voting for their favorite candidate? Before it got censored as fake news, parts of social media were pretty damn correct on the pandemic and its origins. All of regular media followed the narrative, some afraid of the truth, because Trump may have ran with it.

> How can you have election integrity if you don't have integrity of facts?

This is about integrity/virtue of opinion. Conflate facts with opinions or political views and you lose right to talk facts. People voting in an authoritarian do not believe they are voting in an authoritarian, but an opposing voice to the evil socialist. It is poignant to defend democracy and at the same time complain of the rise of authoritarianism brought about by democracy.

In so many ways, you are then saying people are voting on the wrong people, because they do not read your newspapers, but their Facebook timelines.
I also wonder about the futility of the statement that someone could cause millions of dollars of damages when those companies elected to depend and build upon truly free software.

Free lunches don’t exist for anyone.
You get fined (20-180 AUD apparently) if you don't appear.
well actually they ARE providing value for shareholders by using opensource products instead of wasting thousands of human hours for reinventing the wheel.
Yes let’s fire all management. Remove all that harm from the organization and put a bunch of lunatics in charge who all believe without a shred of doubt that they are the smartest person to ever walk the earth.

What could go wrong?
Any tornado can throw or flip a car.
Ask HN: Do you like being left handed?
Was reading some old HN threads on left handedness, and it got me wondering: do you like or dislike being left or right handed?

If you’re a lefty like me, are you more frustrated that it is a right hander’s world? Or do you like the feeling of being different?

I like that I’m different for being left handed, and I wonder if righties wish they were different, or if they are glad that they’re not different?
That's only possible because DEs got together and made freedesktop.org, against the desires of many in their various communities at the time. There's little in the way of "Unix philosophy" built into the various freedesktop conventions. In fact there's a lot of "don't reinvent the wheel" in the conventions which is not really addressed in the "Unix philosophy" which is rife with reinvented wheels.

There's still plenty of GUI tools in the FOSS space that don't heed freedesktop conventions. There's also still people that bitch endlessly about D-Bus, systemd, any anything that's not just piped plain text everywhere.
> I just wish it were easier to find doctors interested in helping you be the best you can instead of simply not broken.

Yeah I went through some medical things some years ago and one interaction has stuck with me. I described the issue to a specialist and the doctor’s response was “what makes you think that’s abnormal?” and basically tuned me out. It’s abnormal for me!
What? It was already fixed. You just need to update. There's no need for the world's top fintech programmers to hack it out on a mountaintop somewhere.

Also, the reason the maintainers are rushing to fix it is: they're worried about losing "market share". Having been in open-source circles for a long time, maintainers care GREATLY about how many users they have. They just like watching their download stats go up every year. Even if it beings them no financial rewards. It's a sort of addiction.
Anecdotally I've heard hyperbaric chambers can help: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/hyperbaric-oxyge...

I have no idea and wouldn't claim this is true for you in your situation though. My partner has brain cancer and I wish I'd tried this earlier.
Ah, sorry. I misunderstood you as talking about the problems of open source in general, but you were referring only to non-copyleft open source. In that case I think we agree.
Vaster Than Ideology
Calling for help.

If your plat and neighbourhood have been scrubbed by the FSM's Own Geographic Erasor Pencil, there's not going to be much by way of landmarks to guide responders. Street sights, structures, and even kerbside markings will be gone.

GPS coordinates tend not to be strongly affected by severe wind events.
Moore's Law, AI, and the pace of progress
Some time ago, I saw this suggestion from a disaster relief specialist directed towards those who want to help with disaster relief: the best thing you can do after a disaster is stay away. Taking yourself to the disaster zone very often at best consumes scarce resources from those present to manage the disaster trying to bring you up to speed and at worst creates new problems that need solving.

It's not hard to extend this to the kind of software security flaw here. If I'm a developer on a package with a critical security vulnerability that needs to be fixed now, sending me extra developers who know absolutely nothing about the code I'm working on isn't going to be helpful--it's just going to waste my time trying to bring them up to speed (or more often, telling them to just go away). If I actually need help, I'll ask the people who I know can help me; trying to sift through unsolicited help to figure out who actually has the skills to do so would take too much time.

So think hard about what help Google et al could actually be providing to help log4j here. If you have to resort to clear exaggeration to find examples... maybe that's a sign that there actually isn't all that much that they could be doing that would actually be helpful.
His name is dang not darn :P
Every day. I spent most of my time since April sifting through production logs to track down a bug between FSEvents and Watchman that produced incorrect query results. Despite much effort, I was never able to reproduce locally. Logs, ring buffers, and remote event recording are invaluable.
Systemic lopsided moderation (i.e. censorship) of one political viewpoint is absolutely denying people the right to participate in the democratic process. Just because we disagree with their viewpoint does not make censorship justified, nor does it take away from the fact that it is currently happening.
Yeah it's called Arc :D
I think the bane is when you make it hard to get exceptions. If a developer can add a specific IP, or ideally a domain, to the "allow" group, automatically, that's far less impact than if you have to fill in pages of paper explaining why you need outbound access. In the latter case, developers will work around your restrictions, and you're simply left with a false sense of security.
We still don't know the origin of the pandemic - are you trying to claim otherwise?
Looked at stories with it, and without, and how they changed over time.

Anyway, dang has explained - but seems an unlikely explanation of that counter-example...
> more powerful than any local government

I’ll believe that when I see FB agents smashing down doors to imprison (/kill) activists.
Is it just me doing something wrong, or is there really no way to scroll or search books? There are just 5 book covers that slowly scroll and I can only click on them?

Sorry, but I don't get the UI at all.
Adverse-event construction codes are generally intended to provide survivability for occupants, not continued use of the structure itself.

You'll find that this is the case for, e.g., earthquake construction codes in seismicly-active regions.

Structures can be rebuilt. Humans are a more challenging rehabilitation challenge.

Though the Joplin facility was demolished, and five patients died, those were due to loss of power, and not from tornadic winds or debris themselves.

The building performed as intended, even under a direct strike.