skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but "propaganda" implies some kind of motive and objective by a particular actor or set of actors.

Speculation about motives is difficult, my most prominent idea is that a subset of scientists agreed it was better to craft a noble lie than to be transparent with their ideas. Repeating a lie often enough so that people believe it to be true is a law of propaganda.

> lies, distortions of the truth, misunderstandings, assumptions, ignorance

I don't see how a "distortion of the truth" has less requirements for a motive than propaganda. What do you believe was the motivation to distort the truth? If you have an idea I would gladly entertain it.
I don't think "misunderstanding" fits the case where people were targeted for dissenting views.

> a contagion leak makes complete sense with no conspiracy theories needed

Yes indeed, this would not have needed any conspiracies at all, but we got one for political reasons as the "official" message was crafted to deny the possibility of a leak outright by a subset of the scientific community. For personal gratification or just to calm the public or any other reason is of secondary importance here. The fact remains that there were attempts to suppress such views.

> the resulting pandemic could be used as an instrument to cause and inflict political harm in order benefit rivals or perhaps entire states and regimes.

The problem is the lack of transparency and intentional lies, this is off topic.

If it was an accident, there must be consequences for research like this. Maybe it has to be disallowed, perhaps more security is needed. I can see how such measures might run counter to the interest of the group that came up with the idea to neglect that possibility. Just to make it very clear, that is speculation about a motive and is not substantiated. Substantiated was the lack of truthful information.
I like these somewhat crazy ideas. You could get some of this behavior with macros in Julia, probably.
Some context: during my part-time masters degree, which took 3 years to complete, I wrote the following from scratch: a MIPS and ARMv4 CPU in FPGA, an emulator for ARMv4, an assembler for it, a compiler for C89, an OS kernel with a shell, a 3d game, and several websites, webapps and mobile apps.

A job at Google won't bring you even close to be able to learn all of that on the job. The real world version of most of such projects are orders of magnitude more complicated, take years to develop and have tens to hundreds of people working on them.

Since you lack both the theoretical and practical knowledge of writing a kernel, for example, you will not be designing the solution for it at Google. At best you will learn to implement a piece of it, and it will take years (think of working on Fuchsia with no prior kernel experience).

A (master's) degree isn't an automatic ticket to becoming the lead developer on Fuchsia, but it gives you the chance to learn the theoretical portion of the domain and apply it in a controlled environment, at an accelerated pace, under the guidance of a person who specializes in teaching (not jaded Joe who's waiting for his RSUs to vest), so you have a large foundation on which to build the real world practical skills on the job.

Even if you switch teams every half, you will still not be able to cover the breadth of the material in a master's program on the job, not to mention having to perform to get a good enough rating to stay employed, while having essentially no prior knowledge of the topic.

You could supplement by taking some courses or reading books after work, but this would essentially be a diy masters without access to experienced professors, that would take much longer and be several times more stressful and inefficient.
So its okay for people to leak addresses of politicians and call on other to kill them? They match your interests and they can organize.

Oh wait I know you yourself know nothing about this situation.

Oh wait you yourself never got death threats to your personal mail and home?

Oh wait its not like the article is saying that closing it would be the last resort...
Wouldn't this have to be constantly transmitting to work? I can't imagine the amount of interference this would create. The lower frequencies are already congested enough...
Not if the platform can leverage its position to move upmarket, as Japanese, Korean and now Chinese manufacturers have.
You likely won't be able to get work with any firm that has customers in the financial, military, and medical spaces. This rules out a lot of sectors common to the UK and major cities. No hosting companies, Cloud vendors, service/consulting companies of reasonable size, etc.

However there are large industries in the UK that will offer a solid job, the ones that spring to mind are academia and the charity sector. These industries aren't the top paying, and that's exactly why these jobs aren't being fought over. Additionally as you'll not come into direct contact with vulnerable people or children, DBS checks are unlikely to apply and the sector based restrictions like those in the financial industry are not present.

The work in these industries also isn't the most challenging for coding, the challenge is typically it not being funded well enough and having to find cheap and pragmatic solutions you can maintain. In the charitable sector you really need to know Drupal and PHP... and then a mix of how to glue things together, run IT systems, etc. In academia it can be a real mix of work, from IT services, through to website and email services, all the way up to "PhD student knows what they want to run on a supercomputer but doesn't know how to get it to run efficiently on this (slightly older) supercomputer".
They tried to block it in Russia in 2018. And failed miserably. Blocking entire subnets, millions of IP addresses on AWS, DigitalOcean and other providers, but Telegram servers can hope between different instances, so it ended up as wack-a-moll where thousands of innocents sites were blocked including some government-related services, banks, payment processing, my little startup project hosted on DO, but not Telegram
A programming language that is based on values including values where the components can have references to other components. Such a programming language should also have cursors that point to parts of a value and can be used to modify a part of the value that they belong to. Preferable there should also be transactions on values and values with a (undo/redo) history.

Having a lot of experience with programming in C++. C# and JavaScript, I have found that many 'creepy' bugs are related to the confusion arising from assigning an object to some member, where a copy is intended, or the otherway around, that a copy is made where a reference is intended. I have not yet come across a language where this is solved and have started working on such a language myself: https://github.com/FransFaase/DataLang
Those were really fun software packages, and at a time when just sitting at the computer creating and not consuming is what we did the most. [0] https://www.mobygames.com/game/klik-play
Mathematica already does this, as do other similar languages/environments.
I haven't yet given up on society, only on the current generation of shitty leaders.
I feel this comment is unfairly treated and should be upvoted not downvoted. It provides pretty good insight about the situation.

As someone with family members that are being fed conspiracy theories through telegram groups I'm definitely suspicious. On the other hand, if telegram or the telegram group feature is banned another service will just take its place and these people will just feel more oppressed/attacked possibly making the situation worse.

Overall I feel social media is a net negative for society because it creates a feedback loop of your own "bubble" with more and more extremist and radical ideas, often with no scientific or even remotely factual basis.
Apple censored channels supporting Belarusian protests because they were publishing personal information of state actors, like judges, KGB and police officers.

These same channels survive on Android so far.
Readers beware: Don't get fooled by this comment.

These "Spaziergänge" are an unholy mixture of racists, anti-democratic groups, anti-vaxxers and lots more.

The far right has found "new friends" in the people critizing the Covid rules of the government. They are now marching side by side, obviously trying to make their far right positions look "not that bad" by blending in with the others.

Yesterday they were marching against immigration, today it's Covid.

edit: Oh, and they are organizing and spreading misinformation via Telegram. Also there's your obligatory dose of self-justice and murder calls against politicians involved.
I used to work for Epic, and I did a good chunk of work on the game projects build times with reasonable success. Unfortunately I couldn't really change too much inside the engine because of backwards compatibility. Removing headers from other public interface headers has the possibility of breaking users code, which is a no-no so their hands are pretty tied. There are definitely some big wins to be had if they're willing to break back compat though!
> The Amish have the undeserved reputation of being luddites, of people who refuse to employ new technology.

Looks like Amish ARE indeed luddites in original meaning of the word (only accept technology if it's for social good), but current widely believed meaning of "luddite" is just people shunning technology. For more info - you can start with recently posted "Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature"[0] or read "What the Luddites Really Fought Against"[1].

[0] https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-i...

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...
What if I distributed stickers with a phone number where to call to get drugs? Would Germany ban phones?

If I did it with an email address, would they ban email? :)
Rails: Turbo and Fast System Tests
Early attempts at embedding browsers in games were based on Gecko as well.

But it didn't become more widespread until a switch to Chromium was made, which made the entire process a lot simpler in both execution and distribution.

And there hasn't really been a need to revisit Gecko.
Droplet transmission works via the eyes as well though. Hospital staff wear an N95, full garments, and a face shield for example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR25COr2FSs - and also depend on the hospital having adequate ventilation. And it "sort of" works most of the time.
When you tap on the group, instead of the contents, you see a message like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Telegram...

The exact message you see is "Unfortunately, this channel couldn't be displayed on your device.". It doesn't say anything about the app store because apple policies don't allow apps to say that contents are censored because of apple guidelines.
So they're mentioning both the good and bad uses of something. What's wrong?
> And the Hubble constant is decreasing: the relative velocities of celestial objects are (on average) growing more slowly than the distances between them.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTRKCXC0JFg
Just one thing, regarding your age: your age brings wisdom to the table. Things that we have seen, encountered, overcome can never be replaced or thought by any kind of diploma. Most of my coworkers are 15-20 years younger than me. I'm the oldest one in the company and I don't feel discriminated.
>This is censorship - not really, censorship in the German legal context [...]

Censorship, and the legal concept of censorship, are such very different things that using one as the response to the other is silly!

The local lawmaker's definition of censorship in a legal context, when transposed in a non-legal discussion, is just one country's opinion, not an authoritative answer to whether something is censorship.
That is why it must be handled by the legislature (though good luck with the worthless good-for-nothings in the Texas legislature). Realistically, you'd probably want to limit liability for veterinarians and pet product manufacturers to a certain dollar amount, to prevent costs from spiraling out of control. The courts do not have the ability to create nuanced rules like that, only broad legal principles.
Although they were hesitant at first, the Chinese government handled the SARS-1 outbreak differently.
> is it really the first thing an ex-convict looking for a job should do?

Well the first part of your post describes why that might be necessary (i.e. you imply you would be unlikely to hire an ex-convict because they might do 'stupid shit', while OP is trying to find a job to get his feet back on the ground).

Nobody wants to lie, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to sort your life out.
> With this technology, it will be integrated into your router (and clients?), so turning those off will mean to turn off WiFi altogether.

It's rather unreasonable to think that you won't be able to turn off band on router. Especially given fact that 60Ghz is heavily shielded by _doors_, so any usable router would require fallback 2.4/5/6 Ghz connectivity.
the "Split stdlib" thing is about 15 years out of date (and only applied to D1, whose final release was in 2012).

I wish that criticism would go away.
Oh, I see it. I didn't quit get that part correctly.
And this is in Germany. They have seen extremism and calls to violence. I can't think of any nation with more of a right—even a duty—to manage its society and prevent society-level mass crimes.
No matter what. Really? I'm pretty sure we all have a line we wouldn't cross. No good having a society built on a foundation of science if the planet is destroyed by a nuclear war for example.
It's not like you need Telegram to buy Drugs in Hamburg. There are places like the U-Bahn Sternschanze or the Hafentreppe where Dealers have been continuously offering light and hard drugs for over a decade with an uptime that puts FAANG SLAs to shame. They occasionally get raided whenever the police wants to have their pictures in the local papers but it's not like there is anything you could get via Telegram that you couldn't get through a five minute walk. The only difference is that the Dealers protect their turf, so Telegram opens new avenues for competing dealers to enter the market.
Most Asian countries are not China. The standards of reporting in places like Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore are probably better than the west.
It's the best network for old stuff, you can't legally get lots of old series, comic books or music.

Inb4 piracy, thanks to CBR's I've got more physical mangas and comic books than ever.
Political promises are rarely so detailed.

Though that sarcasm of mine is slightly outdated, a new promise (exploiting the recent high energy prices) is indeed to build some new reactors, postponing the previous promise of reaching 50% (from the current 75%) from 2025 to 2035 :

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Macron-says-Fran...

(Because it's not like the politicians aren't aware of these issues, it's just that it's rarely politically convenient to raise them.)
I think over time there were more use cases for everything. People still make sites with pure html and css (myself included) but that is not always the best way to do it. For example, take a complex admin control panel thing like AWS, it would be a nightmare to replicate that without a front-end framework. A really complex business logic made with a bunch of .php files? You would end up with a code base that is a mess and hard to maintain.
You write most importantly about ageism and then by the way about “dont fancy doing all the BS prep needed for interviews anyway”

I’ve worked with plenty of non management engineers in your age group in corporate America. Absolutely none of them got their job by trying to skip what the rest of us have to do to interview. There’s your problem
Arguably in a well run society those groups would have so little power / influence that they wouldn’t be limited by how well they are able to communicate privately. The student protests in the 70s and coocurring terror campaign was not happening in a vacuum but because former Nazis had been part of all aspects of post-war Germany and young people were not having it.
That's because it bounces the registration link through a tracker.

If you're OK with being tracked, you can permanently allow that domain.
I used to read a lot, I'd have 2 or 3 books on the go at once and just switch between them as the mood took me.
We seem pretty used to the idea that the NSA basically watches everything, which we've known since Snowden
I have genuinely no idea. I'm typing this on macOS in Chrome, with an English keyboard
You doubt what exactly? Nah we hardly had any processes at all back then.
Interesting! The quote "sometimes, nom can be almost as fast as regex" has been removed from the Nom docs, so it's probably become faster since 2018 when that Cloudcity article was written. In fact, Nom now claims to "outperform many parser combinators library like Parsec and attoparsec, some regular expression engines and even handwritten C parsers" [1].

Someone used Nom for Advent of Code last year and found "The regex approach benchmarked at about 1ms while the parser approach benchmarked at 145 nanoseconds." [2] Maybe I'll try benchmarking Nom vs. regex for a follow-up post.

I find regexes are easier than parser combinators for simple tasks. If the problem is small, parser combinators are overkill. But if the problem gets complicated, I think parser combinators are more readable. You can break a parser combinator into small, well-documented, well-tested parts more easily than a big regex. But I still use regex more in my work, because most complex parsing I just throw into serde.

[1] https://github.com/Geal/nom

[2] https://www.christopherbiscardi.com/advent-of-code-2020-in-r...
It doesn't seem OCaml's object system is used there. That name would not be fitting. Sorry to ruin your joke. :P
Yeah, it all comes down to workflow and standard operating procedures.
> I roughly knew about TCP/IP (partly from seeing the option in StarCraft when connecting to Battlenet in 2001)

I feel seen
Whataboutism isn't helping. Obviously the answer to your question is no, but you could do the same with snailmail.
Do you know how much MLJ.jl is used out in the wild and how well it is maintained? I don't see it coming up much in discussions in, for eg., the Julia Zulip or Discourse forums, not nearly as much as Flux for example. It may just be that it's outside my visibility bubble, but the only context I see it mentioned is similar to this where someone mentions it as an available option.
I am a bit more willing to put up with Rust syntax monstrosities as at least the compiler tries to help me not shoot myself in the foot and when I try the error messages seem to be more helpful than C++ compliers'.

Also I don't have as much of an issue with sane subset of C++ as a language - it's the modern crap they keep adding pompously without regard to complexity and usability that irks me.
well, let's check section 1, paragraph 1-3 of NetzDG

>(1) Dieses Gesetz gilt für Telemediendiensteanbieter, die mit Gewinnerzielungsabsicht Plattformen im Internet betreiben, die dazu bestimmt sind, dass Nutzer beliebige Inhalte mit anderen Nutzern teilen oder der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich machen (soziale Netzwerke).

We have a requirement for profit motive (so the Fediverse is mostly safe) and sharing arbitrary content with different users (broadly) or the public.

>(2) Plattformen mit journalistisch-redaktionell gestalteten Angeboten, die vom Diensteanbieter selbst verantwortet werden, gelten nicht als soziale Netzwerke im Sinne dieses Gesetzes.

Blogs and news sites that do not claim the above-mentioned protection under TMG are specifically excluded as social networks here.

>(3) Das Gleiche gilt für Plattformen, die zur Individualkommunikation oder zur Verbreitung spezifischer Inhalte bestimmt sind.

Further exceptions for "individual communication" and "posting specific content".

So I guess a Telegram Group specifically counts as a social network under this definition. It'd be anyone's guess how many people a group needs to no longer count as "individual communication", that's probably for a German court to decide.
http://khanacademy.org
In Stossel v. Meta Platforms, Inc. et al, Facebook says its “fact checks” are opinion. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear Google’s lawyers characterize theirs in the same way. I don’t give someone’s opinion more weight because they call themselves a fact checker. The “truth” (i.e. “facts”) is often complicated and subjective, especially in politics. The lack of compassion for other peoples’ perspectives that underlies this whole “disinformation” movement lately is sad.
I guess most do, but you might have a look here:

https://www.mygermanuniversity.com/studyfinder?p=1&pp=25&sor...
That argument is not honest. There already are laws against doxing and threats. We don't need to censor a whole platform because of that. Especially if it's done just so we can conveniently muzzle groups that just want to protest against masks, vaccines, or lockdowns.
Could someone explain what _embedding_ means in the context of web browsers? Thanks
“I’m just asking questions” and “to remain neutral, I’ll be showing both sides”, are, sadly, two pervasive red flags in modern media.
Not just Germany, a lot of very respectable publications are worried about Telegram:

> White supremacists openly organize racist violence on Telegram, report finds

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/26/tech/white-supremacists-t...

> Are Private Messaging Apps the Next Misinformation Hot Spot? Telegram and Signal, the encrypted services that keep conversations confidential, are increasingly popular. Our tech columnists discuss whether this could get ugly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/technology/personaltech/t...

> A report this week found that the messaging app had emerged as a central hub for several conspiracy movements espousing antisemitic tropes and memes, including QAnon, as well as others on the extreme right promoting violence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/15/parler-...

> Far-right groups move online conversations from social media to chat apps — and out of view of law enforcement

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/14/telegram-war...

> In collaboration with anti-fascist research group the White Rose Society, the Guardian has tracked McLean’s activity through the rabbit warren of largely unregulated Telegram groups and found that he describes a vastly different version of his intentions.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/26/where...

> Why right-wing extremists’ favorite new platform is so dangerous. Telegram’s lax content moderation and encrypted chats make it a convenient tool for extremists.

https://www.vox.com/recode/22238755/telegram-messaging-socia...
https://www.khanacademy.org/
We made the decision because the law is not a arbitrary thing it gets implemented because of what is written in our constitution and by law makers that we voted into place. If you want to change the law do it politically and get a majority like we did with cannabis and stop rambling about "freedoms" on the internet.
Yes, you're mostly correct. (The one caveat being that if you know your access patterns in advance, you can choose if you store the edge type along with the edge, or if you store separate edge types in separate columns.) I'm not even arguing against storing RDF in SQLite. There are times that would make sense, and times that it wouldn't.

I'm primarily replying to:

> What is a graph database? A miserable little pile of joins.

> Though to be serious: what do you expect a graph database to provide that sqlite cannot / does not do efficiently?

That seemed like a general questions of, "What are graph databases for, and why would someone use them?" And I'm trying to answer that question.