skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Book banning is the right's equivalent of deplatforming, with the bonus that they are getting the government to do it, not just a private company. They do take it further though, with banning of talking about how to get an abortion, banning of talking about LGBT topics in school.

I can't say that allowing those topics, or even pushing them, is targeting the right. By definition it's about some other group being supported. Maybe you meant triggering them, not targeting them?
Are there studies comparing total development effort to build and maintain software using types vs. no types? You would need to use closely related languages like TypeScript vs. JavaScript, or something like Python with vs. without type hints.
> I haven’t found a competitor for Flights.

Live near a major airline's hub, and commit to only using that airline. Then things are easy.

It's hard to provide a better flight search than that provided by a company that runs a GDS, although Travelocity didn't leverage it very well when they were part of Sabre. (Travelocity did have a calendar based flight search tool, working mostly from fare rules, but heavy caching made it frustrating to use when availability was limited, and FTC wanted them to get prices complete with all fees, which was apparently too complex to add later, so I think it was discontinued; we had to discontinue the cobranded version at Yahoo! Travel anyway)
Two examples that come to mind:

"In a Blow to Free Speech, Texas’ Social Media Law Allowed to Proceed Pending Appeal"[1]

"A federal judge blocks part of Florida's 'STOP WOKE' Act on the grounds it violates business free speech rights" [2]

[1] - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/blow-free-speech-texas...

[2] - https://news.wfsu.org/state-news/2022-08-18/a-federal-judge-...
Yes, I am sure I meant to reply to you.
> This does not in fact work for hate.

Then how did Daryl Davis succeed in convincing hundreds of KKK members to renounce their hate? How did the Black Panthers and the KKK unite to fight for a common cause, culminating in those KKK members also renouncing their hate?

> But take a look at the rise of bad ideas over the last 30 years.

What rise? Prove there's been a rise that's unusual in historic terms. Ideas trend and fade. 30-40 years ago we had plenty of left wing terrorism from the eco activists. Recently there was a rise in right-wing narratives, and that too will fade.

> Take a look at how dis- and mis-information have caused so much harm.

What harm? Be specific. If you mean medical misinformation around COVID, I can very easily demonstrate to you that this actually followed from decades of prior misinformation from journalists and poor scientific practices, and from the failures of various government institutions which led to erosion of public trust, and arguably also led to Trump's election as president.

Blaming the "misinformation" is a convenient scapegoat that doesn't actually address the underlying issues, and in the meantime sets a dangerous precedent that will and already has been abused to silence those speak truth to power.

> Because people who are subject to sufficient online hate will leave the platform or never sign up.

They will sign up if there's value on that platform. If Twitter is where social conversations are happening, where people can directly petition their elected representatives or where they can join social movements and drive change, they will join.
Reminds me of BlackBerry’s CEO’s response to the introduction of the iPhone.
They do more than just average the systems - they can use information from one to get a lock on satellites from another, they can in some cases use just one or two satellites from a system even when a lock requires 4 or more satellites.
Why would you say that you support freedom of speech?
I will also add "Andhadhun" to the list of bollywood movies. One of the best movies I have ever seen.
You are aware that a government can make laws and change laws right?

And also change the constitution right?

Of course it could imply that it needa to go through certain channels but no one should assume that it literally meant 'the president will now say x and now x is the law'.
I remember browsing a website where I wanted to check the about us section footer. Every time I reached the bottom to click on the footer link it triggered the infinite scrolling. Felt like I was playing cat and mouse. Horrible.
I’m Indian and I didn’t see those either.

There’s no scenario in which slate/vox would have written a ideologically uncoated positive review of this movie.
Haha ah man that’s funny and also depressing. I miss the Web 2.0 icons. Really made me feel like I wanted to create something. Now it’s just flat corporate garbage
Undergrads deserve rigor too.

The course description is especially ironic as it claims rigor.

> This course will provide a rigorous and hands-on introduction to the central ideas and algorithms that constitute the core of the modern algorithms toolkit.

The result, of course, will be a bunch of undergrads with a very hazy recollection, and zero real knowledge.
Maybe there's a specific legal difference between "receiving" and "collecting" data? ("Collecting" makes me think the data is stored somewhere else with a 3rd party)
Did you know there is a rss feed for every subreddit?

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss
Of things not listed.

This site could help https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects/programming-lang...
A colleague pointed me to this (hi Madeesh!), it's a real nice description of various switch types that I didn't see before.
> There has to be some reason behind protesting or we end up wasting resources arresting everyone and trying to fight over who gets to protest in prime space at prime time.

The fact that there are people out there wasting their own time and their own resources standing on the street for days and protesting is proof enough that there is something wrong. Why would anyone protest if there wasn't something (that they thought was) seriously wrong going on?

> It’s better for everyone if we’re civilized about it.

It's certainly better for the status quo, because "civilized" protest actually requires the other side to want to change things. In reality, it often does not, and "civilized" protests end up being exercises in futility. That's why protests happen - it's a form of pressure.
>It's worth digging into the methodology here: the study participants were found through Mechanical Turk

That seems to be most studies these days. And 10 years ago it was mostly "we've recruited 200 students from [university performing the study]" and people complained about that too. And if you do a phone survey, then its "you're biasing toward the people who pick up calls from unknown numbers". There's always going to be some sort of sampling bias, and this study doesn't seem to be any sort of special outlier.
Cost of pizza is an example of buying power of bitcoin which is not the same as its monetary policy. I can not argue that the buying power has been volatile thus far.

I do suspect it will trend toward stability on a decades timeline.
And that molecule is THC
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I was almost with the writer, until I got to the sandwich.
> does not show as understanding

That you are saying I didn't understand the book when presumably you didn't even read the book is true irony. I merely explained that it dissects various religious fallacies, that is not throwing stones, as it would be the same as taking a book about mathematical logic and asking why it does not ponder why P ^ ¬P in a philosophical sense; it is not the purpose of this book. It may be the purpose of another one, but not this one.
I'm curious, did you already know what a Eytzinger Binary Search was?
That's really nice phrasing. It sound as if Aeroflot could get Boeing and Airbus aircraft from someone. Which is more than doubtful; they're behind with on their payments for older aircraft, a topic which tends to complicate new purchases.
Unequal consumption lies at the heart of the climate crisis
These days I've been really keen on qualitative studies, where scientists work on building a better understanding of software instead of trying to validate theories. Some examples of that:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-016-9464-2 — scientists followed a team of developers for three years and recorded all of their sprint retrospectives and people kept forgetting what they already learned.

https://jlubin.net/assets/oopsla21.pdf — researchers compiled 23 hours of Zoom sessions and 15 hours of Twitch programming livestreams to study how people write code in static FP languages.

In addition to that, there's a lot of good work on how we teach programming. "Commonsense Computing" [1] found that students understand concurrency a lot faster when presented as a "human" problem, such as selling tickets in a concert. I'd recommend reading Teaching Tech Together (http://teachtogether.tech), which references a lot of empirical papers on teaching programming.

[1]: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/fa08/cse599/Papers/ICERConcu...
> GObject is a real tragedy of the NIH syndrome in open source.

It is, but I wouldn't look at Objective-C as the previous invention. X11 already hat the Toolkit Intrinsics (Xt), and it's not like they were unknown to the developers, the first version of Gimp having been written in Motif.

A new toolkit in the vein of Xaw/Motif/OLIT would've been a more immediate choice, but then again, no two persons seem to have the same preferences when it comes to object-orientation.

(I'm sitting in the proverbial glasshouse here, having switched my own "let's make some widgets for Qt 0.x" project to "let's reinvent X11 toolkits" in the mid to late 90s)
Surfing from your phone with 10mb up should be ok for normal browsing, and probably basic video, but not anything too heavy like 4k video. 40mb would be a bit better but still iffy for 4k... as for Time Machine, that's from your laptop to the house, so it's more your download bandwidth from your house that's important. Might be ok for smaller jobs but not major uploads.
1.93 for the first distance, 3.06 for the other two. So probably would be a fast cyclist given that’d be an average of 15 km/h.

That speed is totally doable on a bike, but there’s some time taken up at intersections so top speed would need to be higher to make up. (Although the main roads on these routes don’t have many signaled intersections, so maybe not too much faster.)
Lisa su is more competent than musk.
I'd say that's a well-unestablished principle now.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/06/court-strikes-down-maines...
Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle are showing their age
> This article first appeared in issue 16 of Prog in 2011.

In case the date matters for the title.
Similarly, if you are using CarPlay, it will use your car's GPS instead of the built-in one. I figured this out when my car's GPS developed a fault which often gave a lock hundreds of meters away from my actual position, and my phone did the same thing when connected via CarPlay.
> Is it [...] pragmatically worthwhile

YES! It affects e-commerce conversion rates measurably.

Great point by the author: "make sure it’s the right thing to focus on." Hobby site? Don't care about FOUC. E-commerce? It's a game-changer.

> The brief flash of your half-styled website is useless to me

Not to the rest our users though! Are you on a 3G connection in a third-world country? If not your experience may be not be shared but every user.
> Indian action films typically don't strive for believable action scenes, like American films do. Instead, they apply the effects and stunts excessively -- they go over the top in a major way.

That’s why I like them. So refreshing.
Looking back, I've had issues with Facebook not sending some messages. One attempt with a torrent site, and one sending a .exe file. The difference with your example is AT&T is America-only, while Facebook is a behemoth that enforces their morals world-wide.

Can .exe files be dangerous? Yes. So inform or warn users, instead of silently failing.
So... it's a VPN?
Parallels runs ARM Windows 11 smooth as silk.
I found the original comments.

RMS was not a professor or lecturer at MIT.

1st comment- a second hand report by a student that sounds like a joke.

2nd comment- RMS used to sleep overnight in his MIT office.

3rd comment- RMS was needy and pleading when asking for a date in 1985 or earlier.

I recall being told early in my freshman year “If RMS hits on you, just say ‘I’m a vi user’ even if it’s not true.”

— Bachelor’s in Computer Science, ’04

“He literally used to have a mattress on the floor of his office. He kept the door to his office open, to proudly showcase that mattress and all the implications that went with it. Many female students avoided the corridor with his office for that reason…I was one of the course 6 undergrads who avoided that part of NE43 precisely for that reason. (the mattress was also known to have shirtless people lounging on it…)”

— Bachelor’s in Computer Science, ‘99

“When I was a teen freshman, I went to a buffet lunch at an Indian restaurant in Central Square with a graduate student friend and others from the AI lab. I don’t know if he and I were the last two left, but at a table with only the two of us, Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with him.

I felt bad for him and also uncomfortable and manipulated. I did not like being put in that position — suddenly responsible for an “important” man. What had I done to get into this situation? I decided I could not be responsible for his living or dying, and would have to accept him killing himself. I declined further contact.

He was not a man of his word or he’d be long dead.”

—Betsy S., Bachelor’s in Management Science, ’85
I don't really see the strategic importance of 1 meter Vs 1 cm positioning... Is the enemy missile going to miss the bunker because it hit 1 meter off? Or the enemy built their airport 1 meter wonky because they didn't have access to 1 cm level accuracy?
I don't think social media in and of itself is dangerous. If people were doomscrolling math lectures society probably would be better off.

It's the nature of social media and ad networks disguised as social media that is the problem. Scrolling through youtube these days I feel like even in the most mundane video I am being advertised to. YouTube shorts are insanely addictive brain melting videos. The action of scrolling itself is a reward and spacing lame videos with occasional gems will have people scrolling quite literally the entire day.
NIMBY drivers
Except that it is claimed that Tom Cruise actually performed that stunt

https://youtu.be/afS5ks54tms
I don't like it.

I mean, I like the principle of it. I'm glad everyone gets to say what they want. I don't think we should change that.

What I think is stupid is when we have someone with a literal Forrest Gump IQ debating facts with experts on the internet.

I'm not sure how big of an effect it has on the world, but I'm sure of a couple of things: it makes the internet suck a lot worse for me (and probably anyone who is here for discussions/chats/forums), and we definitely don't want those people leading/creating our policy.

Still, don't want to take away their voice.
Oops, it appears your comment has been marked as wrong speech by the hn free speech society.
Did anyone in the "intelligence community" or the military or the unelected bureaucrat class suffer any consequences whatsoever for the abject failures, wastes of money, and wastes of life known as "The Iraq War" and "The War in Afghanistan"?
Again, for someone "in the know" you simply need to read JFK's own words and not yours:

https://www.jfklibrary.org/events-and-awards/forums/past-for...

"We are losing the satellite missile race with the Soviet Union," he noted, "because of complacent miscalculations, penny-pinching budget cutbacks, incredibly confused mismanagement and wasteful rivalries and jealousies." Once in office, when it was revealed that there was no gap and that, if anything, the US was ahead, he and his military advisors still had to deal with this issue.

I thought it might be interesting and fun at the outset to hear directly from President Kennedy as he discusses the missile gap with Secretary McNamara and others in a secretly recorded taped conversation in the Oval Office. The first voice you'll hear is Robert McNamara, followed by the President. We'll put a transcript on the screen to help you follow along.

McNamara: There was created a myth in the country that did great harm to the nation. It was created by, I would say, emotionally guided but nonetheless patriotic individuals in the Pentagon. There are still people of that kind in the Pentagon. I wouldn't give them any foundation for creating another myth.

JFK: [inaudible] that missile gap, as ones of those who put that myth around, a patriotic and misguided man [laughter]

Hmm.....
It would be helpful to offer some examples for those who have doubt on this matter.
Who cares about the legal construct you talk about? Legal constructs are not something absolute and apriori.
In addition to reading PDFs, SumatraPDF also functions well as an ePub reader. It's free, lightweight, and (obviously?) works offline.

https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader
It's a DNS service with an optional VPN feature.
Yeah, try it with other ePubs. The code for converting ePubs to HTML is something I hacked together without much understanding and improve gradually whenever some book I want to read doesn't work. I read, or at least started reading, hundreds of books with it at this point, so it should mostly work.

Maybe you can email me the ePub that doesn't work. My email is amadeuspagel@gmail.com.
You might check out fly.io if you're looking to do this at the edge. Cloudflare has a similar-looking service in closed beta.
Xiaomi released a phone with dual frequency GNSS in 2018 (with the Broadcom BCM4775 chipset), and as far as I know most Android phones have had it since then, or maybe a bit later. If you want to see if your phone supports it, try GPSTest.

Garmin has recently released several watches with it as well, both their high end models and some more affordable ones. They also have an auto mode that switches it on or off depending on if the current environment needs it, to save power when you can have the same accuracy without it.

Personally, I find the accuracy and sensitivity of modern GNSS devices amazing. I remember when you had to wait maybe 10 minutes to acquire a fix, the accuracy was poor and maybe within 10 meters, and if you covered the receiver with clothing you would lose satellite fix. Now my phone gets a good position in a few seconds, I can see which side of the road I ran on, and even with my phone in my pocket I can often get a reasonably accurate track indoors.

https://www.androidauthority.com/dual-frequency-gps-878169/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.gp...
I see this all the time when talking about minimum wage earners. At least you admitted it is not realistic, but you still presented it anyway.

We admit they're in the 0th percentile of earners, but then pretend like their expenses should be the median or mean expenses.

Why would somebody earning essentially the zeroth percentile wages be paying for 50th percentile car ownership?

The other common example is how minimum wage earners can't afford an average 2br rental in any state.

If minimum wage earners are paying for the 50th percentile apartments, who exactly is living in 30th percentile apartments?
Because Hackernews is read by humans, humans are still emotional herd animals, and the guidelines to downvoting are guidelines, not rules which can get you banned for downvoting what you disagree with.

Voting has very little to do with anything in these discussions, and it has been that way for years now.
You mean arguing that our air is so dirty that lighting up a cigarette and inhaling actually improves the quality of the air that you breathe? :P
I feel sorry for him, and I even think I know which channel you mean, but I've never clicked on one of his videos because I absolutely refuse to click on any video with a clickbait title or a clickbait thumbnail.

I'm sure that I'm not the only one.
But does it have a library view that shows the last paragraph you read for every book?
Yeah. I used various Garmin GPS devices before, GPS (eTrex 30, gpsmap 62s) and GPS+GLONASS+Galileo. But my multi-band gpsmap 66sr gets a fix insanely quick compared to these other devices and the tracks are very accurate/steady. Here is a nice review that compares the gpsmap 66sr, gps 66i, iPhone 12 Pro and Fenix 6x Pro Solar:

https://hikingguy.com/hiking-gear/garmin-gpsmap-66sr-review-...
Why? Is the business so hard up that they need to risk physical violence for $25 worth of merchandise should the police not track them down?

I understand why the shopkeeper would make this decision in the heat of the moment, but it's always a mistake to try and physically confront somebody committing a petty crime directly. They were even outnumbered!

Ultimately the confrontation actually was a huge boon to the shopkeeper, due to Oberlin's bungling of the situation, but that's not in any way repeatable. It's simply not worth the risk of being forced to commit violence and/or have violence inflicted upon your person for a few bucks.
CEO of FibreHub complains about being doxxed
Fiberhub being the site hosting KiwiFarms specifically to support the "free speech" of people who dox, harass, attempt murder, and drive people to suicide in order to suppress their speech.
GPS might have been a military invention, but its uses reaches further out today. I think the purpose of Galileo's encrypted GPS is not to prevent military strikes against European nations, but to be able to offer more precision as a commercial service, making a profit.

Basically, companies who use GPS for measurements or what have you, can pay money and get access to improved accuracy.
Especially considering recently it was brought to light that during discovery when Alex Berenson sued Twitter it was revealed that Twitter was pressured by the White House to deplatform him.

This becomes de facto censorship hidden within the corporate works and was only brought to light because he complained enough and was granted discovery by a judge. IANAL Being advised to censor someone by the government vs the government doing it directly is legally a distinction without a difference.
> I think you have a very strange view of development work.

I did not present my view of development work - I presented that employee's view of development work.

> At least in my experience, a vast majority of work involves going off on your own and implementing things, which often involves reading documentation. Meeting with a colleague is also considered work, but I wouldn't say meeting with a colleague is somehow considered "more work like" than solo development or that many developers prefer one form of work over the other.

In my experience, every single developer wishes they could spend less time in meetings and more time "doing real work" (their perspective, not mine). Everyone with the opposite view is promoted out of being an Individual Contributor.
"Here's what's happening instead" is invalid addition.
It seems like people in the US still agree that free speech is a good thing. 91% of Americans say that free speech is very or extremely important to them, and the rest say it's moderately important or just skipped the question (like below). No significant fraction of the respondents were against free speech.

When split by subgroups, a common theme is that each group believes _other_ people have an easier time exercising free speech. So maybe there's more perception of a change than a real change.

https://knightfoundation.org/reports/free-expression-in-amer...

Edit: Reading more, I guess there is some change in attitude, using respondent age as a proxy for time. Teens prefer feeling safe online over being able to speak their minds online, moreso than adults. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/08/30/more-so-tha...