skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What this whole debate totally misses in the USA at least, is that it even only exists because of a bigger violation and distortion of the Constitution, the freedom so implicit that it crossed the minds of the founders of America even less than having to protect the right to keep and bear arms, the right to free association, being allowed and able to chose who one wants to associate with and who one does not want to associate with. We are not able to do such a fundamental thing in America today, by law (de jure, Sotomayor), as it has been prohibited through perversion and in violation of the Constitution, through the amendment of that very Constitution the prohibition is a violation of.

Almost all other arguments over moderation v. censorship are a derivative of the most fundamental freedom, freedom to choose, control over one’s own life. That natural human right simply does not exist in America (and moist western places) anymore, effectively all the “civil rights amendments” have done the opposite of their stated objectives, they have institutionalized federal government enslavement, total domination of federal government control over your life. You no longer get to choose who you associate with, your slave master federal government decides on who you are allowed to associate with. You are as free as you are permitted; an inherent contradiction.

All this other debate of moderation and censorship is meaningless noise, merely beating around the bush to discuss rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.

And for all our foreign friends, whether they are in America acting as if they are American or outside of America, all of these matters related to the US Constitution are very relevant to you too, whether you understand it or not, because all the freedom you have and think you have is a direct derivative of the founders of the USA creating the Constitution and declaring themselves free of the slavery of monarchy. Most people have just taken things so for granted or it is all so abstract that they do not understand any of it, because not even a person of European background can be American without understanding these things properly, let alone someone without European ethic, historical, and cultural background.

That may offend people hearing it, but it does not make any of it less true. In fact it is the “moderation” that is inherent censorship, which even prevents the system from self-correcting, i.e., moderating, because it is really just perversion, i.e., distortion, being called moderation.

There would be nothing to discuss about this topic if the world dominating tyrannical evil of forced association did not exist. So I propose we address that instead unless there point is just making noises as the titanic sinks and we are heading back towards what is effectively neo-monarchy.
Value Study
Slow down frankfrankfrank

You didn't explain why Americans don't have the right of free association
I asked a checkout worker about this once (in Ohio), and they claimed they were made to do it so that the state could pressure people with expired drivers' licenses to renew them. (This was right about when they were ending COVID-related extensions on the expiration dates.) I don't agree with using liquor age laws for that either, but I think if the state wanted invasive personal data, they'd just ask Kroger for it.
why would i use this instead of just paying Hasura?

in other words: what’s your moat?
Ask HN: How to recognize a good startup investor?
1. Does the investor have a good track record?

2. Does the investor have a deep understanding of the startup's industry and market?

3. Does the investor have a network of resources and contacts that can help the startup grow?

4. Does the investor have a history of providing valuable feedback and guidance to startups?

5. Does the investor have a willingness to take a risk on a new company?

Do you agree and What else?
Elon is clear moderation will continue. It's quite obvious and simple to provide examples where twitter did censor subjects. Hunter biden laptop, freedom convoy, or babylon bee?

This censorship is what forced conservatives to build new platforms. In so doing they discovered far greater censorship. Google, Apple, and Amazon all responding within the day to deplatform parler? The only entity large enough to make those 3 entities jump within a day is the US government.

The "Hell", "nightmare", or "disaster" everyone is complaining about is the US government is who has been censoring speech. The reason there's a large delay on unbanning obvious accounts like babylon bee... twitter/elon can't do it.
Not to be confused with duplicity, or duplicacy backup programs which have similar features.
The shop might store the data or misuse it. This is already a solved problem. A privately signed identity that can be verified without transferring any of the data using a device the government provides.

But I already said government too much. This is all non-senses. Transactions should not be monitored.
I'm glad someone pointed that out. Most Indians I've known have been completely oblivious both to how the caste system favored them, as well as how ludicrously archaic and objectively absurd it is to outside observers.
So this is the basic problem: it doesn't give strong isolation for many users. Something like goteleport.com is better if you need lots of people to remote into random machines.
Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation
I agree. If Twitter reopened its API (properly) then "userland" moderation tools would (could) be easier to implement and that might tackle this problem.
Emergent Microcosms: programs that unfurl worlds (CA, ALife, and more)
Every year my employer sends a fancy gift box to celebrate the new sales cycle, and it's full of shiny streamers, and tat. It's painful to see all that money ending up in a landfill. Just give the money to charity or something.
If Random House declines to publish your book because they don’t think it will sell, is that censorship?

If I run a sci-fi bookstore, and I choose not to stock your book about political philosophy, is that censorship?

If it write an article that reviews your book (wherein, necessarily, I pick and choose what parts of your book I talk about, and also paraphrase [is that the same as “manipulating information”]), is that censorship?

When there is simply too much information for any person to consume, and even too much to be able to _evaluate whether To consume_, what does _not having censorship_ look like?
I would not put it past Google to terminate my account because of me trying such practices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operato...

> A mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) is a wireless communications services provider that does not own the wireless network infrastructure over which it provides services to its customers.

T-Mobile owns the wireless network infrastructure, so an MVNO cannot be “by T-Mobile”, in any meaningful sense.
Pretty soon all transactions will involve KYC, not just monetary ones.
We tried it the other way for a while and found that if people are completely free to choose who they associate with (specifically in the business space), it compromises other national ideals, such as meritocracy.

The curtailments on freedom of association are very narrow and focused on specific constraints.

But this country was founded on an understanding that there are some fundamental freedoms of choice that aren't there if you want to have a functioning society work together. And some of the ones that the founders believed would be acceptable we fought a bloody war to remove. The freedom to choose is inalienable but (much as we still have a right to liberty and jails at the same time) inalienable rights can be curtailed in the name of having a functioning society.
It's fair to say that Walter is best known for his work with D rather than his work with C++, though.
Wow! This game is amazing, It'll suck your time away though~
> For hardcore vim programmers this is likely the norm

Just FYI, not anymore.
This immediately made me think of Patrick Moore and TLPs (Transient Lunar Phenomena).

Here is a list of potentially interesting "in-solar-system" transients for anyone who wants to explore closer to home:

https://kgov.com/transient-events-in-the-solar-system
I work with TeX quite a lot and I can't even really understand intuitively the principles of the language design let alone the grammar. Like 15 years later and I'm still copy and pasting spells. I'd love to see an CST of my document and figure out why I'm writing the characters I'm writing!
Take it from the father of a 4 year old and a 2 year old, my kids aren't awake until after 8am.

Because, it turns out, children are like other people and vary!
Having a different schedule means you not here when it's most effective for the group. That's not a stigma, that's a fact.
why hasura instead of postgraphile?
Elon Musk plans to eliminate ~3,700 jobs at Twitter on Friday
I believe they are referring to the Civil Rights Act, and specifically its restrictions on business and hiring practices from denying service or opportunity based on the color of one's skin, one's region, one's sex, etc.
The really frustrating things is that while AWS make the "Account" their best isolation layer they make managing those accounts with their tooling absolutely awful.
Probably more that most T1's in america don't peer so you end up going over HE/Cogent which is congested.
Wait. The title uses the word free, but you write that it requires payment. Looking at the website I can't find a way to pay for it other than a donation.
The Chaos Machine: The Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
Archived: https://archive.ph/GVIzc
it's not. it uses type inference to infer types and llvm to compile down to native code. differentialequations.jl is often faster than the fastest C and Fortran solvers, and Octavian.jl often beats MKL at matrix multiplication.
I am really desperate for an alternative.
>Seems like a significant price for an empty van.

Not if your target audience is hippie remote workers that make good money and want to travel around the country.
This is why Aerojet Rocketdyne expects to produce 4 RD-25's a year -- and SpaceX produces 1 Raptor-2 a day.

If you call this level of expectation a "massive ego", then perhaps there is something that you don't understand going on here?
If you don't see those comments then how could they set a tone?
It's 406 Not Acceptable in my opinion
I use 5 of them!

And I have one more with a wasted battery that I intend to replace.

And I'll still buy some more, because I want to have them available for the rest of my life.

There are things that only the Pebble does:

- button only interface that you can handle in the dark without glasses

- a screen that barcode scanners can easily read for authentication into the gym and library

- a TOTP app (authentication tokens) that you can access with only a button press, etc.
it's like the titanic, and apple is the last life raft. rats fleeing a sinking ship.
Wish people wouldn't disable browser spell check in text boxes. Especially in places where a typo makes a big difference.
Okay. So why did inflation show up globally all at once rather than when these policies were in place?
At least on a desktop we have enough horizontal space to always display the vertical scrollbar, which solves all issues. But even without that, the layout difference between pages with or without scrollbar is so tiny that IMO its a nonissue.

Mobile is a tricky tradeoff. There I am mostly used to Firefox, which has a tiny overlay scrollbar that is 50% grey making it almost invisibile in most cases.
I felt the small section on dune here was enough for me.

https://ocaml.org/docs/up-and-running

Teaching anything beyond dune build or opam install feels out of place for a beginner tutorial.

However, there really should be more examples of “how to do X in dune”. It took me a bit to learn how to pin a git repo for local use and installation.
I was recently motorcycle camping a few weeks ago and noticed a ton of sprinters and transits that had been tricked out into european style motor homes. Im an american, and a master diesel tech by trade, so i had to ask how much one of these things goes for. I nearly dropped my Folgers when i learned a Winnebago Travato (basically a ford van) will run you more than $150,000 new.

most used three-axle full-size rv's start around 80k. these things seem like a grift to screw millennials out of what little cash they had in the first place.
It isn't hard to melt those metals out. I used melt aluminum in my backyard, and the forums for that had discussions on other metals. While a backyard process is not going to recover all the metal, it is still going to get plenty.
to make this great tool truly universal, it has to be written in c instead of python these days, then provide python|javascript|etc bindings if possible.

I'd like to use it on embedded systems, where python is too large to fit. this tool can be widely deployed just like awk|sed|etc but it has to be in C for that.
How is it paid?

It's fully open-source, LGPL licensed, and from the website the only payment options are donations.
Thank you; it's frustrating that this isn't being covered more widely, but good to know that there are people who see the problem. If nothing else, don't give up trying to inform people!
Has anyone attempted yet to run a reinforcement learning strategy on it?
Ask HN: Is anyone still using Zope in 2022?
Last time I had contact was in 2005 with a homegrown CMS built by a client.

What's the ecosystem like in 2022?
Reminds me of reportlab, which I loathe only because of their lack of documentation.

Typesetting is hard. But at this point why not use semantic html and a specially crafted css?
llvm is c++ but almost all of Julia is written in Julia. codegen and the subtyping algorithm are the two main things written in C/C++.
It would be cool if the source code under "examples" could be viewed in the browser, rather than having to download the .sil file
A more accurate description might be that Duplicati is a free open source Windows version of Duplicity. It works pretty well, by the way.
Doesn't matter. We are here now. If you can get society as a whole to change working and school hour, I will too. In the mean everything is organized around these hours. If you have kids or work with people who have kids, you have no choice.
I like it because it lets me be on call without having my phone on me, which lets me avoid using my phone too much and give full attention to kids or whoever I am with.

Also, the vibrate function for alarm or calls in the middle of the night does not disturb anyone else, but still gets me up.
Their complaints are unrelated to this specific PR.

See https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/esm-node.html for details about how import paths work in CommonJS vs ESM. In both cases the import path you write in your source code is the same import path that is used in the emitted JavaScript. What's different is that NodeJS's ESM implementation doesn't allow extensionless import paths (but its CommonJS implementation does).
Haha, fair enough. I wanted to add a choice of formats, and this gives me ideas. Thanks!
The counterpoint to this is that putting in a barrier that only some people can pass can work as censorship. If you raise the price very high, then only people with lots of money can use it. This means all (or at the vast majority of) of the content is that which is desirable by the very rich. So by raising the price to a high level you are censoring content that is of interest to the poor but not the rich.

This is actually exactly how big media/big politics operates.
Duplicacy has been incredibly stable for me over the years and I still prefer it's lock-free deduplication design. Looks like 28 days ago there was a major release as well. Time to upgrade. :)

https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy
I have observed an awful lot of Eternal September effect in these debates. I suspect it might be easy for people who have been living on the Internet for a long time to miss the ways in which their intuitions don't mesh with somebody new to the space. Leads to a lot of two ships passing in the night debate.

Fresh ideas are always welcome, but the people who are trying to maintain working forums have been at the process for a long time now and can draw on experience all the way back to the BBS days.
There’s also the jetbrain ide that I’ve heard good things about compared to ionide.
Its still the same design
It doesn't even need a new release. jc can already fail because of details like the system-language. With my local language, on a simple output of ls -l, it's parsing

{"filename":"drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Oct 4 11:21 ."}

instead of

{"filename":".","flags":"drwxr-xr-x","links":16,"owner":"root","group":"root","size":4096,"date":"Oct 4 11:21"}

with LANG=US. This makes it really hard to trust such a tool.
I wish they would sell the VW California in the US - it’s already kitted out for camping. Anyone know why they don’t?
I like mine since I don't have to carry my heart rate monitor (HRM) around if I want to exercise. Some are good at sleep tracking too. It's a good pedometer and I can go on a run w/o my phone and the built in GPS keeps track of things. If my phone battery dies, I can still communicate with people (although many apps on the Apple Watch are badly designed to require a phone connection rather than just data).

The notifications are nice if I'm on the subway and don't want to pull my phone out of my pocket to see what's up.

It doesn't take long to charge the watch, whenever I take a shower I put it to charge and it's full battery by the time I'm back at my desk.

I also like turning off alarms by using the watch rather than pulling out my phone.
The secret behind the van life influencers is that a nice loadout is easily six figures and they are rich people 'slumming it' for fun.

While the price point on this trim is high compared to base, they are just capturing some of the value previously going to aftermarket body shops.
Open source braze and iterable alternative
Saw this on product hunt (https://www.producthunt.com/) - anyone given it a try?
Visualizing S&P500 Performance in 2022 by Sector
Something I've wondered, and the Tex users here can probably answer - why not just use Acrobat or Word for math? Does it not support something?
I don't believe it's really an issue in practice, your `jc` alias will just take the priority and you can easily add one for jsonquery -> `path/to/bin/jc`.
I think good short command names can help adoption (like for ripgrep, fd) but it's true that we should have a race to squat all the 2 letter names.
Biden administration distributes billions to lower heating costs
Agreed but I would change it with "any compiled language that has no external runtime" and common shared libs dependencies. I don't care that a utility is written in Go, Zig, C++ or Pascal ;)
Vouching for a comment makes it visible for everyone else. That means that dang reviews whether the comment breaks the rules and if it does he'll take away your ability to vouch in the future. Therefore, vouching is not a way to continue commenting on a sub-thread that breaks the rules.
Resizing arrays is such an annoying problem... because memory address space is flat. If only we had some sort of resizeable, non-overlapping by design segments, kind of like we have virtual memory mappings... but that'd completely kill address arithmetic. Oh well.
I live in an American city that is also popular as a piggybank for kleptocrats. It also has huge housing costs, and hence a huge homelessness problem.

I'd love to see some kind of "use it or lose it" law on unoccupied residences, where they would be subject to large tax penalties or worse. Unfortunately, the kind of people who would be hurt by this are also the kind of people who can and will hire experts to skirt, game, or flout the law. So there's your problem.
Moderation isn't supposed to prevent illegal content, law enforcement is. So that's out of scope. The harassment problem is supposed to prevent harassment, but this is just a failure of reddit to provide the correct moderation tools to block organized harassment, not a failure of the concept.
Nope; it's a gamble. I think it's just time to bite the bullet and self-host.
You can process those metals in your backyard with a bag of charcoal. Sure industrial processes will extract more, but the backyard processes work.
Heh, I'd forgotten about that one. Still, now he has a heck of a story to share with people.
I understand your view but I feel it's a question of volume: when the discussion is fairly slow it is possible to read all messages, but at some point it takes just too much time and you need to skim some of them (or you resort to the old heuristic of "longer=better")
why not put a speed governor on cars to restrict them to 10 mph so there are less fatalities?
To be fair, this makes it quite clear how much they valued you.
Configure iTerm2 and Vim Like a Pro
Count me in! In my mind my smartwatch doesn't need more computing power or complexity than your average microcontroller, so as long as it lasts I'm keeping mine in good use
I don't own one, but I can also see the uses of:

* Consuming notifications without potentially being distracted once you unlock your phone

* Haptics for notifications - I'd like to be notified of some things, but 'vibrate' is a little too much

* Fitness/sleep tracking
TeX is one of those bits of software that's so complex to replace, it'll take another few decades (and likely a few false starts) before we can get there.

The fundamentals of TeX's typesetting are amazing, but everything else is just bolted on. You'd probably want to rebuild it with its own, custom language, perhaps inspired more by modern XML/markdown rather than the old TeX language.

The biggest problem that we're going to have moving past TeX is that it's something of a standard for math representation in text. MathML never _really_ took off. Re-training millions of people skilled in typesetting math is going to be _tough_.
Read it over again Magoo: the subject is a specific kind of degree and how it opens doors for a specific industry in the Bay Area. A specific industry known for being insanely competitive and requiring almost comical qualifications to get in. Put the pieces together.
I find the distinction between moderation and censorship helpful.

I'm more sympathetic to censorship than the author--I've seen what e.g. vaccine misinformation can do to radicalize the average person.

One valuable tool the author doesn't spend much time on is defaults. We can have a heavily moderated, uncensored platform which still prevents mis/disinformation for the vast majority of users. E.g. HN hides all sorts of nonsense by default, but still allows you to reveal it with showdead. The same folks who are prone to disinformation are often too unsophisticated to dig into their settings, and having only a single "showdead" filter means you not only see your favorite Lizard People posts, you also get inundated with all the other nonsense.
Word doesn't support many things in math mode, and entering it is overall slower and more fragile.
I wear a Coros Apex Pro all day. Between notifications and GPS running ~40 miles a week I charge it about every 2.5 weeks.
eh, I turned my Jeep into a house on wheels on the cheap (DIY), then drove it all the way around Africa over three years, living in it full time. 54,000 miles through 35 countries. [1]

The cost of the vehicle AND the entire trip (ALL expenses) was only a touch more than the barebones van in the article.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sLy5NEr-Hg
Agreeableness sounds like something to optimize for when selectig prospective employees as well.
Restic is CLI focused whereas Duplicati is GUI focused. Restic is based around repositories, which can contain multiple backups from multiple sources, whereas Duplicati's backups are not (although the actual backup format is similarly broken up into lots of small blocks).
What?

/r/TheDonald eventually went over to https://patriots.win