skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get the avalanche of criticism.

First, enforcing strict freedom of speech is regulation too. It goes both ways. Don't like Twitter censoring tweets? Regulate it to force it to publish everything. Or everything but racist stuff. Or whatever you want. Unregulated Twitter can do whatever, it can change your tweets, put words into your mouth etc.

Second, any common good ends up abused if you allow it. Ever been to an unmaintained park where anything is allowed? It's all dog shit and broken glass. It stops being useful as a park, stops being useful to the majority of users, stops being useful to anyone but a small minority who abuse what should be a common resource.

Social media have become common assets (at least the service they provide) so it seems natural to me that they need same protection. I don't mind people writing what I consider crazy or even mildly offensive / racist etc. I mind organised groups abusing such spaces to create impression of popular opinion with malicious intent. We now know beyond reasonable doubt this does happen.
There is a crucial difference between the Obama campaigns and the events that led to the 45th and the shitshow that we are in: Obama used positive messaging, whereas Republican and especially Republican-associated and Russian-originated messaging was almost exclusively aimed at evoking negative emotions - in short, destructive messaging. Destructive messaging works extremely well in social media, as outrage is far more engagement-pushing and as a result algorithms pushed such content... a mechanism that was previously unknown and unpredictable.

Obama and the pundits played by the established rules of honesty and fairness and expected the Republicans to do the same... and the Republicans (as well as their associated media, starting with Fox News and ending with OAN/Newsmax) broke with all traditions of democracy and went onto a destruction spree instead. The result is that trust in democracy is fundamentally broken now.
Your statement is contrary to the information I’m seeing. Can you provide an example, please?
Update your TLS cert so browsers don’t cry Danger Danger.
I don't know; I wouldn't presume to tell you what you do or don't find arcane, but once I understood the somewhat unusual flow of awk ("for every line, check if the line matches this condition, and if it does run this block of code") I found it's quite easy to work with. It's "arcane" in the sense that it has an implicit loop and that it's a specialized language for a very limited class of problems, but I found that for this limited class of problem it's surprisingly effective.
With the amount of in-browser emulators how there it doesn't seem particularly difficult to recompile something existing to WASM. Archive.org has been doing something like that for years at this point

This project is a nice resume badge. Just wish it was called that
> can't beat the economics

This makes it sound like this is some antagonistic relationship where the OSS maintainer loses. But the idealistic scenario that you are alluding to[1] is about a developer who develops free OSS in their free time. And then, yes, very few end up paying or donating anything. But how is a predictable chain of events a loss? What is the “economics” of it?

[1] Some OSS developers do it as their day job.
What's funny is I didn't remember it coming bundled, but it was on the linked site so I figured I just forgot.
That has not been demonstrated. We know of oral traditions carrying facts over seven thousand years.

What has been demonstrated is that these particular oral traditions do not carry factual information about geology. Treating them as factual information about geology would be abuse.

They are legitimate facts about Pacific anthropology.
This may be a naive take, but it's something I've thought about a fair bit.

What if the USA had taken half its military budget over the last 20 or 30 years, a huge amount, and used that money to do good works around the world? Wouldn't that make it much harder for any state or non-state actor to organize an attack? (E.g. "You want us to hate America? But they just built the school my child attends... Maybe I'll support the guy who wants to open trade talks instead")

But they've taken that money and waged war against people who you can hardly blame for feeling like maybe the West isn't so great. The harder you fight against "Terror" the stronger it gets.

Of course I've vastly oversimplified it, but it just seems like a tragically wasted opportunity.
Tzachi, cofounder at FlyCode here - thanks a lot for the feedback :)
If the US electoral system didn't drastically disadvantage the popular vote this would certainly be different.

Defending free speech is meaningless if one person's vote is worth more than another's.
You're never going to fund any of those, are you?

So no you don't support them.
> Where are all the politicians raising the alarm about plutocracy as a threat to democracy?

Too busy astroturfing social media in an effort to drum up popular support for their status as plutocrats to comment publicly on the subject, I'd wager.
The transparency drone king has spoken. All must listen. This is his own flip flop on the principles he ran on.
So the requirement for free speech in your mind is simply that the setting be used by the public? Do sports arenas, shopping malls, and private squares not kick out people for acting inappropriate?

America is fully subservient to corporations. Out rights end at their doorways, including freedom of assembly and speech.

To say social media is an exception because it applies rules equally to previously exempt demographics is a joke.
I'm afraid it will mean we have to endure Google extensions.
It is a threat to democracy when your opponent has access to social media. But not when your opponent gets removed from social media.

The principles of politicians on full display.

Btw, I don't think moderation is hard. If you are saying Trump is guilty of "hate speech" or whatever, and the Taliban isn't...the problem isn't the rules, it is how you apply them (which is a natural consequence of people at these companies not being interested in moderation at all, Dorsey couldn't contain his glee after he removed Trump...it was a personal choice, not moderation). Social media companies make the same mistake that most people make when they consider politics: they believe things they don't agree with are immoral. It was never the task of social media companies to be the religious police, they just appointed themselves.
You do know the quote is in the context of defense spending, which spends tax dollars on guns, warships, and rockets instead of food and shelter? The “world” may produce enough food and clothing, but that is little consolation to the impoverished who cannot afford them.
> Also you can render images in quite a few terminal emulators already. Some shells (mine included) ship with hooks to autodetect which terminal emulator you're using and find the best method for rendering those images.

Same word, different concepts. In Smalltalk an 'image' is a memory dump of the VM state, suitable for reloading and resuming, and typically includes a complete development environment:

https://wiki.c2.com/?ImageBasedLanguage
It’s not cheap, but for 4 years, with scholarships and a part time job, isn’t some terrible life-changing burden. I graduated with a compsci degree with no debt. It’s totally still doable, and pays very well on the other side of it.

Marine biology was a bad choice of example, I’ll grant you.
Downvoting is childish and is a bad feature to have, being inhererently opposed to the ethos of free speech. Most downvoting is done by progressives on HN, but it seems likely that one of my fellow conservatives got you.
Source? Republican strategy largely revolves around not changing things too much, but the last two democrat presidents have put plenty of legislation in front of congress only to have it stonewalled.
> This sounds like a poetic way of justifying the pretense of tolerance while not actually being that, and using it as a symbol to mask the same behavior it is on the surface condemning.

This sounds like a handwavey dismissal of a well understood paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
And let's not forget there's a lot of defense spending hidden in other categories. For instance Veteran affairs has it's own category that isn't included under defense. dept of homeland security, dept of energy is mostly a front for defense, etc, the list goes on and on.
3200 years later... it would be nice if I could take time off to help when my wife is menstruating
Well ok.

So we have a company that is growing and has costumers in the pipeline. Their first costumer is so happy that they want to extend the system considerably.

But that I guess is not enough either?

What more do you want other then happy costumers, new costumers and the ability to raise money on the bases of those things?

This is a company that builds actual machines. They make their own tunnel boring equipment. That is a capital intensive businesses not a software startup. They need to raise money to expand production.
At this point, is there much to know? You install Go, you start your project in a directory, you run "go mod init" in it, and that's it.
Great quote, but it's out of context unless you use the whole thing.

Specifically the qualifier where suppression should be used where people adamantly refuse rational argument and attempt to suppress the engagement of rational argument by violent force.

"But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."
Other forgotten niceties are the spatial Finder and how double clicking on a window title basically folds the window into just the title bar.
I think your three examples are all subjective statements, and not objective knowledge. You can't know that something is intrinsically aesthetically pleasing. You can say that a painting is aesthetically pleasing to someone (or many people) but without opinionated viewers, it cannot be described as such. Gravity, on the other hand, works even if nobody is present.
You can learn a lot of that kind of thing from reading app notes and data sheets carefully when you're starting out. For analog, the old applications handbooks from National, Burr-Brown, Analog, Linear, etc. are all available scanned to pdf if you look for them.
State Flags, Ranked (2021)
Why is changing your position a decade later when the facts have changed considered a bad thing?
There's a payment app that detects the installation source is not google play store, and I haven't found a way to use it
I'm not exactly in the space you are talking about, but in the USA, we have two broad categories for this stuff, ITAR and EAR. ITAR is the set of regulations that covers technology that only have one use, government (think missiles/night vision goggles/combat body armor). The EAR covers everything that can be used by both the government and consumers/enterprise (think quantum computing, AI, green tech, and cybersecurity), aka dual-use technology.

The difference between a defense start-up and nerds blowing up stuff in the desert is the relationship with the federal government allowing the nerds to blow stuff up. A big pitfall is not knowing you need the governments permission to blow stuff up beyond a certain size. And if you innovate in the field of blowing stuff up, and inadvertently let north North Korea learn about it, you're probably going to jail. I'm not an attorney so I can't speak to other legal risks, but watch for regulatory violations.

Generally, these types of innovations happen inside of institutions that have the capacity to comply with regulations and develop the idea. But if you invent something valuable in your garage, the path forward is probably via a SBIR/STTR grant through whatever part of the government your invention relates to. As part of that grant, you become would 'known' to the government. Other routes that I am unaware of may also exist.

I think the demand for innovation has always been there, but I think it's ramping up since Biden took office. It seems less a function of any looming potential conflict, and more a function of new funding/initiatives.

If you qualify, the government will give you a SBIR phase I and II grant as a form of non-dilutitive investment, and after that, phase III can go any number of ways. That's when VC usually gets involved.

I don't think there is a limit on the research for particle disintegrators, the limit would be on the commercialization and sale of said particle disintegrators. I'm sure the ITAR regulations have the answer somewhere in there, but check with an actual attorney before researching particle disintigration tech.

The dominiant traits, you are a US citizen, your company is owned by US citizens, the work is only done on US soil, and you aren't explicitly banned by the government (they have a list). Military experience, and federal experience and networks are very helpful, but not required if you've got a great idea.

I hope this helps. I'm still trying to figure this stuff out for myself.
I don't know if anyone else here is fascinated by this technology, but I think it's pretty cool. Here's more of how e-ink works[0] and the latest iteration of full color[1].

[0] https://www.eink.com/electronic-ink.html

[1] https://www.eink.com/color-technology.html
After trying to overthrow an election and continuing to tell millions of people things that were factually false, things which as president he knew were lies and knew people would believe because he was president.

He wasn't cut off easily or lightly. It is not as if he suddenly can't have a website to spread his treason. Oh wait, he could... if he could afford a few developers.
Prices are set by the relatively small number of houses that are traded at any one time. This can be either demand or supply driven.

Realistically, what’s causing this increase is the large amount of cheap money floating around in the economy at the moment. Something that should change in the near further assuming the Fed stays it’s course in tightening the money supply this year.

The other factor at play that should be noted is the shift to WFH, the vast majority of the US population lives within major metro areas, even a small shift to rural areas creates huge spikes in demand. Housing isn’t something that can be scaled up in a small town quickly.
Please Turn Over?

(I'm guessing you mean Private Time Off?)
I suppose I have not seen evidence of it either, only evidence of the converse: People lacking the basics on Maslow's hierarchy of needs have repeatedly made war in an attempt to get them. I suppose I could have been more careful in my choice of characteristics, I'm just suggesting that because we know about this incentive for violence, it seems prudent to attempt to remove it if your goal is peace.
It's like 50 years of holding back the housing market and denying people the right to build on their land has had the intended impact https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/mac.20170388

The outcome is sad but also consistent with limiting the supply of any good or service.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/homeowner-nimby
Good list, and I also want to add that I meet and see a lot of people who have been educated by the military in cybersecurity and put on a path of personal success. They also bring tremendous value to the companies they work for.
When information regulation is combined with all powerful intellegence agencies you get a very dangerous combination. Their whole game is deception and controlling what information gets out, then covering their asses when anything goes wrong. Zero transparency,
'due process', or independent review processes.

It's incredibly easy to manufacture 'consensus' among gov experts and feed 'anonymous sources' to news agencies and influencers.

This goes way beyond trying to tip the scales of partisan culture wars.
Personal as in PTO is personal time off
Probably because it's hard to come to a store and buy one.
>> Remember when people only wanted to add 'hate speech' to the exception list (things that 'free speech' supposedly 'never meant')? Now it's expanded to hate speech and 'false or misleading information'.

It depends where you get your definitions from. The European Convention on Human Rights for example only has a couple of 'absolute' rights and free speech is not one. Rights generally need to be balanced against each other (e.g. right to free speech interfering with someone else's right to privacy). Seems sensible. It's a rarity that dealing in absolutes is sensible.
A few of the tools listed here seem to work like that, or roughly similar: https://ilya-sher.org/2018/04/10/list-of-json-tools-for-comm...

I didn't check any of them out though.
Very cool! Most of your social network icons are broken, though.
The thing with using cloud services is that sometimes the hosting provider can make changes to configurations that have impacts (such as monitoring software that steals precious CPU at seemingly random moments, or network topology hardware that impacts connectivity)... without it necessarily being under your own control. I've had a few high-visibility incidents where, after investigation, the buck stopped with us even though technically the studio could have shifted blame to an unanticipated change from the hosting provider.

Disclaimer: I currently work at Microsoft Game Studios, though this comment reflects my own opinions based on experiences unrelated to this incident.
versus ubuntu where the kernel may be fine, but it's certainly nontrivial to bork some random config file or the nvidia/xwin/wayland configuration setup or some other part of the app layer on top of it, and rather than spend the next few hours trying to google whatever arcane setting it is, I've just thrown up my arms and wiped the drive and reinstalled the OS from scratch...

Don't get me wrong, I run ubuntu on a home fileserver/nas box but when I need it for some scientific computing package or something, the best way to run it is on top of Mac OS in a VM....
It's not but this feels like he is doing it out of self interest and power and not for the good of society.
Are you comparing a jet to propeller aircraft?

I'd imagine the jet flies higher, smoother and quieter, although I'm not rich enough to own one so I haven't looked into it too much.
I don’t think you ever had the right to lie when money was involved. Fraud has always been criminalized, and speech has been restricted to various degrees in many industries: advertising, SEC regulations on public companies officers and shareholders, political campaign contributions, etc.

This is really nothing new.

If anything the first amendment is too idealistic sounding since the US has never lived up to what it implies.
A "hostile takeover bid" has a specific meaning, this takeover is not hostile and no attempt was made to make a hostile takeover.
Seems like a lot of people have a problem when a specific billionaire (Musk) purchases Twitter. But why do the rest of billionaires get an exception when they own Twitter or other media companies? It seems like the free speech and the "billionaire" label is just a certain group of people use to protect their interest more than it is any genuinely held believes.
i do appreciate your perspective, even if others here don't seem to, yet disagree with it slightly.

perhaps not a vision or plan, but capitalism does have an intrinsic goal--or maybe more appropriately, a central value--which is the accumulation of capital (money). it's amoral[0] to be sure, and presents a clear opportunity toward corruption, but it's a driving force nonetheless. even adam smith acknowledged that capitalism cannot exist in isolation, that it must be constrained by political stewardship, to direct it toward productive good, lest it lead to decay. in fact, no economic system can exist outside a political one, hence the term 'political economy'.

so to sum up, it isn't capitalism per se that leads to imperialism and conflict over resources, but more simply, greed (which we all possess to some degree) accumulated over a population and effectuated via political and economic means of any sort. capitalism however is more efficient, and therefore reaches its waypoints, good or bad, more quickly.

on the topic of the thread, the US probably spends more than half of this $2T, if the hidden budgets and money funneled through other federal departments toward military aims is accounted for. our official military budget is something like $800B but most estimates of the fully-accounted-for budget is well north of $1T. it's shameful, especially considering the opportunity cost, for instance, replacing coal plants with nuclear the world over ($1T ≅ 100 nuclear plants per year).

[0]: i.e., without morals, not necessarily immoral
He did a leveraged buy-out of the company. The poison pill negated his hostile takeover attempt.
This system was designed to be used primarily with CRT based displays, so back in the day it wouldn't have "looked" as pixellated even though these things were definitely defined that way.
Most Americans (67% of adults) are already homeowners.

https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/home-ownership-s...

The title would be more accurate as “For most Americans who don’t yet own, owning a home is a distant dream”.
Ever. LPL is wildly over rated by the laymen. Most of what he picks isn't even remotely high security. Been waiting for him to do a pick and gut of an assa twin he received years ago but it's never going to happen. If you want to see someone who is as good as the hype says they are, try artichoke2000
> P.S. FWIW, in my limited experience, it is typically the most technologically savvy amongst us that go through incredible effort to discover, purchase, setup, own, operate and integrate retro/Luddite devices in their lives

Oh, absolutely! Part of it is the enjoyment and skill to make something like that work (it's a non-trivial bit of programming to interface modern electronics with a rotary dialer, cell modem, audio codec, etc, and to have it all more or less work reliably).

The other part, though, I think is that people in those spaces see just how wrong everything has gone - the piles of complexity that never quite work, the constant data leaks, the invasion of privacy for surveillance profits, the fight for attention based on what's good for the company and not good for the users, etc. And a lot of us, myself included, want no part of that.

My wife and I spent last night on the couch listening through a wonderful recording of Handel's Messiah, on 4 quite heavy vinyl LPs. It was a great evening!
Let us entertain the hypothetical where Twitter is private property and can include or exclude individuals based upon their own criteria.

Similarly, let us imagine that your garden is your own private property and you can ask individuals to leave your BBQ for whatever whimsical reason you choose.

You can open Twitter to the public, just as you can open your BBQ to the public.
Interesting that the dates are "Month 3 of Summer, Day 24" etc. The curious bit to me being the enduring use of 4 distinct seasons, when there are obviously other ways to mark a year.

Is anyone aware of a culture that did/does not have exactly 4 seasons?
Thanks for letting us know what you liked. That wasn't true of Dubya, Clinton, Reagan...how far back is "time was once?" Wasn't true of Jackson either.

Do you really think Trump would ever stop having rallies under any condition?