skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what we get when we expect corporations to police speech, and when governments pressure them to do it.

We really would be better off with no censorship. Even allowing obvious conspiracy theories and fake news is better than trying to police the truth and getting it wrong. When moderators get it wrong even one time they lose trust forever and give the conspiracy theorists even more ammo — in some cases by making the conspiracy theories about censorship become true!

Besides, even if you wanted corporations to police speech and decide what is true, would Twitter and Facebook really be the ones you would want to do it?

It’s been very sad to see Westerners, especially Americans, and especially American liberals be so fearful and weak that they discarded the single most important principle of freedom, liberty, and human rights: freedom of speech.

That sacrifice got us nothing. Misinformation still spreads and it is more attractive than ever to the conspiracy-minded precisely because they can see the attempts to suppress it! Forbidden knowledge is always more attractive. It wasn’t worth it!

The only way out of this is to stop asking corporations and governments to censor things. Just stop.
Is it too much to ask that we don't add to that set?
Indeed, I’m sure this would mean the current unemployment rate is far higher than it was in January 2021 no?
Really? In my experience violation of MSRP is over, not under.
because it’s dangerous to listen to other peoples opinions?
Ro Khanna, the Congressman representing S.V. has thoughts on using "nothingburger":

> Here’s why I think the “nothingburger” argument is compounding the problem.

https://www.thefp.com/p/ro-khanna-on-twitter-free-speech

It's worth a read to at least consider his thoughts.
Never know. And so interesting that they are dinosaurs, literally. They will probably win in the end with our own oh-so-clever Warming pushing us out. Dinos the winners.
Chromium build time after changing a single source file is about a minute completely dominated by link time. And this is with a development component build when most of the code is split into separated DLLs.
Scenes to be used are limited. It's only fit for table/list page, any custom features will make you surfer.
Aside the name, what does make Metroid Dread a triple-A title, though? After playing Blasphemous, Huntdown, Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth, and a few others for the past year, I can't say Metroid Dread has a distinctive trait that would make it standing out as AAA. The competition from indie studios is tough nowadays, many of them release AAA-grade titles without labelling them as such.
You think the only reason it is a fringe view in the first place is because it was suppressed? The only thing holding back anti mrna research was tweets and pop Sci quality articles in news?

The core issue isn't an political us vs them issue like this and other articles suggest.

I didn't address the hardvard guy because idk how many other Harvard researchers or w/e the tittle is. Likely the guy is not holding a popular view. How many other people work at hardvard and Stanford and other top universities?
Edit: removed inflammatory comments
Thanks - I know I’ve found it quite useful just listening to my own stuff.

Well it’s possible because RSS is so open and accessible! The podcast index provides an initial trove and I look through, filter and prune.
Everything I am reading is saying that eBay will allow an EIN.
HN readers lean toward the establishment narratives.
We’re talking about one additional function and I don’t think it’s reasonable to extrapolate it to many others. Which is why I started at your position but talked myself out of it trying to make the point.
Can you quote what explicit pressure was applied?
For me it gave a big distrust of conspiracy theorists and reflexive contrarians, due to things like the ivermectin saga.
In the context of mastodon, an interesting question is, will the FBI pay the same amount, if anything? Will there be any legal “speed bumps” at all when it comes to overreach from the long arm of the law?

Presumably, a large company with high paid lawyers who are former FBI, like Twitter, Facebook, etc. would be able to pushback against quasi-constitutional requests. Clearly the FBI was able to get their way with Twitter, despite the big guns in the legal department.

Will they be paying mastodon “operators” (or whatever they’re called) the same amount?

I suspect they will not.
Managing Infrastructure with Terraform, Cdktf, and NixOS
I'm not demanding an antagonistic view, I'm requesting for antagonistic views to be vocalizable without the White House demanding you to be deplatformed.
Launching book-discovery website with cutting edge ML
Launching a platform to help book-lovers find their next great read.
Most prominent features are:
1.BookGenie, which understands human level queries and generates book recommendations.
2.Mind-Map, which gives visualization of books similar to ones you would have liked in the past.
3. Recommendation engine on book’s detail page using StateOfTheArt ML models.

Will be looking forward to feedbacks and suggested features.
Google and the new wave of firewalled engineering orgs are so long-run stupid that it boggles the mind.

A legacy proper, functioning support org's job is to sift through user-is-the-problem bugs to identify the smaller list of actual bugs... which engineering then fixes. Because they're actual bugs!

Nowadays, folks look at Support and QA as cost centers, to be funded and staffed at minimum levels.

Small wonder SRE have become the new rock stars -- companies disempowered anyone else able to call a bug a bug.
This is a great course on Logseq https://www.logseqmastery.com/ (working my way through it).

Also he has some great intro videos on YouTube for the way he uses Logseq https://youtube.com/@OneStutteringMind

I prefer Logseq because Obsidian gets messy quickly with the structure for me. I end up having to use the OmniSearch plugin to find things quickly.
Clipboard: Cut, copy, and paste anything, anywhere, all from the terminal
you can just divide out the rotations if your dinner party plans are rotation invariant.
When secretive governments and corporations give stories that don't pass basic tests, our lives depend on finding the most likely truth. This is theorizing. If you don't think they are telling the full truth, you are a conspiracy theorist. I am proud to be one too.
Stack Overflow: 74% of developers are open to new jobs
I once heavily considered becoming a Surveyor for similar reasons. Uses math + computer skills, but you get to spend time outdoors.
And they haven't stopped agitating. And probably won't stop.

Which makes me wonder: with the degree of weaponization of the internet on the side of the anti-vaxxers will the next pandemic be 'the big one'? Enough people that refuse vaccination and you are looking at an entirely different probable outcome.

Here in NL a small army of foaming-at-the-mouth conspiracy theorists did their utmost to undermine the vaccination campaign with the most outrageous claims and I'm pretty sure that we can chalk up a number of unnecessary deaths to their efforts. They wouldn't be able to tell a virus from a bacterium but that didn't stop them from spouting one nonsense theory after another and organizing (sometimes violent) protests against health care workers and their equipment.

This is a worrisome development.
I have four eBay seller accounts. They require SS# and ID as part of managed payments, in addition to the EIN. There system didn't want to take the information on one of my accounts, even though it was valid, and they suspended payouts for a month. Got it sorted out eventually.
> Reminds me that when I was a kid you could travel to / from Canada without a passport

I assume you mean the era of your childhood, but, Canadian and American children can go back and forth between the US and Canada without passports, provided it’s a land crossing. So to be pedantic, as a kid you can still travel to/from Canada without a passport.
There isn’t a legal recourse. Nobody will go to jail. Nobody will lose their jobs.

Trust will continue to deteriorate.
There's a few YouTube video tours of the interior if you search for 727 airplane home Oregon.
I wonder for how long that will still be the case. The fringe is getting more and more grip on HN and we may well be fighting a losing battle.
People who use the phrase “nothingburger” aren’t persuadable.
> a question for another time

Why? Surely this is the primary question to ask ahead of time?
Imagine if this was Trump. That for me puts the reaction in tech circles in perspective.

We would see two impeachments, wall to wall news coverage, protests by employees at Facebook, Apple and Google, all asking for deplatforming everyone associated and so much more.

Its ridiculous that we're unable as a society to separate actions from political affiliation.
I mean, you could, but you'd still just continually be paying for returns on faulty items over and over again.
I think I remember reading some weirdness about legacy joysticks, because they didn't map cleanly to MS standard controller types or somesuch, so all had to have hacks in the drivers to be functional.

Which then expectedly exploded whenever MS shipped a new Windows version.
You can state this abstractly but it wouldn't have a clear purpose.

This kind of seating where you alternate male and female but don't put couples next to each other is something that people have done and would like to do.

> I’m a man, and my partner is a man, basically no dinner I’ve been to in adult life has been boy-girl-boy-girl

Sure, if you're gay then don't be surprised to have not been at dinners where people do things that would make less sense with a gay couple. :D
I don’t watch tv if that’s the question. I prefer reading news, and seeking out journalists and topics that interest me rather than passively consuming entertainment or ad supported “news.” Generally I prefer primary sources but there are a dozen or so journalists I like, some on sub stack some who write for wsj, nyt, wapo etc…

What’s the saying, “if you get it for free, you’re the product.”
I am fairly certain this is an American thing, or more broadly an issue in countries with lower levels of education and overall mistrust in their governments which clearly don’t work for them.

The basis of my argument is counter example countries such as Denmark. In Denmark, we all got vaccinated, and as soon as a second booster (3rd jab) was available, the government coordinated the distribution with pharmacies to allow administration. The response of the people was so immediate that within a week or so > 80% had at least 2 jabs plus booster. This meant that we could open up immediately, and covid became a thing of the past.

Denmark had a peak at the time, with far far far lower deaths per infection than other countries and previous peaks.

The difference is in communication. The Danish government and the responsible department communicated everything and monitored the situation in a way that allowed quick and nimble responses.

We had free jabs, nobody forced us to get vaccinated, we all did so willingly, we had free testing, and if we didn’t want a jab, we could wear masks and what have you.
What's described here is not a website; it's not even HTML (it's "HXML" [1] )

Ignoring that, and addressing your question: there are several things apps can do that websites can't, even if the app is really just a wrapped/packaged website (and actually HTML):

Native notifications

Background tasks

Full access to sensors

Access to file system and contact lists

Handler for system actions

Offline support (though this requires more work beyond a mere 'wrapper')

Also, don't underestimate the marketing/branding impact of having an app icon that's always there. Sure, you can get users to bookmark a site, but it's a very different action from having an app icon, and it opens and works in a different way. To techies this is a rather pointless distinction, but to most users this is huge.

[1] https://hyperview.org/docs/example_index
No one uses unmoderated platforms. Twitter has a fiduciary duty to make sure their platform has a good reputation with users and advertisers. That means moderation.
How do you know it wasn't some foreign terrorist?
Is ChatGPT even capable of being witty or funny? Those seem like pretty advanced achievments for a behavior that requires so much nuance.
This was my pandemic hobby as well. After I consistently offered peanuts for a couple weeks, a crow couple would visit my balcony daily. In the springtime, they had a fledgling, and the whole family would come over, which was adorable. I trained them to open containers, and then put out puzzles of increasing difficulty for them.

Here's a video of one of them solving a couple of puzzles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x0PwKHvW10

And here's one of them taking a bath, just because it's so cute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AgAIh43OUs

It's a highly entertaining hobby, and I'm excited to continue putting out more interesting and complex objects for them to interact with!
Why would it not be dangerous?
So you can use classic racism motivated association to destroy my character without facts?

Come on, I dealt people like you so many times that I know this is a trap
Funny thing about pendulums…
I’m sure you mean well, but one of the few things we know for sure is that the virus is way, way, way more deadly than vaccine.

If you are going to overlook all those RCTs run all throughout the world with different types of vaccines and huge populations of people, then you really should reflect on your own analysis of the data.

I'm not saying the vaccine is perfectly safe, as few things are, but it's obviously, provably, much better to get the vaccine before you get COVID if you care about reducing the overall risks to your health.
Ivermectin Saga? You distrusted the 'conspiracy theorists' who took a perfectly safe drug that had been taken in the billions of doses a year prior? It was known as a possible protease inhibitor and was very safe to take. Where was the misinformation in what I just posted?
The bigger mail companies seem to be slightly pricier.

Plus there's Assistant, Calendar, Tile tracking(Already a few bucks a month for proactive reminders), Keep, YoLink's cloud, WiFi Camera clouds, etc.

Some of it could be done P2P(Especially Google Assistant which only has about 5 features people use), some things would probably disappear entirely in a privacy first world, and I'm guessing the rest would be an extra $10-$30 or so to.
If nothing else, do it for the increased search scope... you can never predict when someone later is going to be desperately searching any reference to something and when digging into an issue with "foo" then the var name of "fooOutputDirectory" is going to save time vs if you named it "out" or "o".

There is no excuse about "well maybe the controller/service/repository/whatever should have been named foo* in that case, I was just holding this temp var for 2 lines of code in helper function and it shouldn't matter".... just don't. Don't be that person. No one thinks you are smarter or cooler for that.

Also consider that if you are really using tiny-scoped vars so often, maybe you are doing something else wrong.

If you have "data = arr.filter(n => n.flag === true);" and it is so tightly scoped, why do you even need "data"? Maybe just return it... if you need to do some other operation on "data", maybe chain the call? If you need to do literally anything else (even just logging it), name it it something useful.

"n" is fine here. "arr" is not... wtf is contained in "arr", what are these types that have "flag"?

Sounds like you got slammed in a code review by someone who has had to debug this type of stuff more than you and you are looking for validation. Just stop being this way sooner than later.
Why do you think "car-free" cities are homeless? My neighborhood has apartment buildings obviously, but it also has some single family homes and condos which can be bought and owned. Obviously a single family home there is more expensive than one a 40 minute drive out but it's actually still less expensive than a suburb of Toronto or Vancouver.

Car-free doesn't just mean just skyscrapers. It just means not-shit design centered around metal boxes instead of people.
"healthcare *advice" leaving that word out misrepresents the parent.

I understand why people hold the same position you do, but I still believe it's wrong and shortsighted. It will be inevitably abused in a way you disagree with in the future.
I have read his thoughts, and while he makes good points he ignores the clear facts:

- censoring Hunter Biden's nudes from the site was the right thing to do.

- The laptop hoax had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation, and still seems likely to have been developed by the Russian government

- banning trump was the right thing to do, he had just attempted a coup against the US (I also think banning dictators/autocrats would be the moral thing to do)

The other thing people are ignoring is that trump's team requested things to be removed, and they were as well: https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-granted-requests-fro...

Everyone is acting like Twitter favored progressive causes, they did not. In fact we know from the Twitter files nothingburgers that Twitter gave "LibsOfTikTok" _favorable_ handling, preventing them from being properly moderated without higher levels of approval than other accounts. Con accounts were treated with kid gloves to prevent the backlash that Twitter is receiving anyway.
The courts blocked the insanity.
You are not alone. I did the same for some unknown reason :D
Not seeing how I did any discrediting, just thought it was interesting as I was reading through it. I intentionally wrote this in a neutral way - e.g. I could have just as easily mentioned John Carmack and Oculus.

Unless you believe that Matt Tabibi is not a reputable journalist or that the Twitter Files lack credibility, this feels like a very defensive gut response.
This is really neat! It reminded me of the defunct sets.google.com (yes, very different things, but there is enough similarity that it came to mind).

If unfamiliar, google sets would return other terms related to the term the user input. E.g., input: cisco output: brocade, juniper, hp, arista etc.

@marginalia_nu, if you are ever looking for another project to do with your scraping data, a sets.marginalia.nu could be super useful.

On topic, the top results returned for my queries were spot on. Some others were initially surprising, but probably correct. Creepy website similarity or an on-the-fly web ring creator.
Were an individual legitimately trying to make a point, they would come up with an example not already in the set.
And Vanity Fair is a pillar of concise and objective information?

Come on, at least be fair.
This algorithm change has resulted in dramatically lower estimates for my area.

Previously I assumed Redfin's estimates were trustworthy trailing averages. Now I realize they are very opinionated or perhaps even trying to shift buyer/seller expectations in a particular direction. I wonder what the success metrics are for their algorithm?
You are mistaking social media companies as platforms for speech. The are not. They are for profit companies that must police their content to attain maximum ad revenue. They will curate, filter and edit content solely for that purpose.

I don’t know why everyone is so up in arms about what Twitter does on their website. If it vanished tomorrow, I’d be fine. Most of us knew what was going in the 90’s just fine.
There’s a revival of kids not being given other vaccines as well. The knock on effects from the absolute bad faith mess from discourse around vaccines is going to fuck up so much in public health for decades.

I am sympathetic to skepticism when public health officials spent a lot of time lying to avoid having to explain complicated truths. But so many bad faith voices and outright scammers with nonsense vitamins to sell are going to get what they want.
Oh, I spent 2-3 hours today listening to nearly half a dozen epidemiologists talk about how this was all very concerning while these tweets were released. I'm no expert but I've heard plenty of expert criticism of the CDC, WHO and Executive statements on the virus all of which was suppressed at the time.
> I am fairly certain this is an American thing

The exact same thing happened here in the Netherlands.
There should be more mistrust of the institutions that lie without cessation.
> Is browsing and commenting on Hacker News not considered social media use though?

Somewhat and it is quite addictive too but the quality is way better and there is even an option to turn limit your time spent on HN (no procastination flag/option).
HN is not employing dirty techniques to keep user enganged with dumbed down content, people are just commenting out on articles, it’s more like a community
> I for my part would say that Rust is overly complex for most things where C# or Java, and especially any Scripting language, would be a good fit.

Algebraic data types, which none of those languages have, are incredible for representing states in your program. They help reduce our eliminate the type of logic bugs that often show up in UIs and such.

The lack of null and using Options instead is one such example.

Rust has fantastic libraries like serde which make de/serialization fast without a need for reflection.

In short, the Rust ecosystem has a tendency to produce amazingly helpful abstractions.

> But you know that D has a GC by default? You can't be "more memory safe" than that.

First of all, D with GC is not a replacement for C. Anything with a GC is not going to fulfill a systems language role.

Secondly, you can be more memory safe than a GC. Most GCs do not protect against data races, but Rust does. I'm unsure exactly where D falls there.
> I much prefer radiant heat to forced air

I'm curious, why? I've never lived somewhere with radiators, so I perhaps don't know what I'm missing.
I suspect we could go around and around as to what constitutes moderation versus ideological censorship. I hope that we can agree that the feds putting pressure on the scales is wrong during any administration, and that transparency in moderation is a good thing.
Have you considered working at any of the national labs (LLNL, LANL, ORNL, etc.)? When I worked there I knew a lot of former armed forces members who had learned interesting scientific or technical specialties. It’s just an idea, in case it piques your interest. Most of the labs would be happy to have a motivated employee who is also interested in concurrently getting a college degree. PM me if you’re interested and I can try to provide more detail.
Did you even read the article? It wasn't about Hunter's penis.
Congratulations on your release

Please don't mandate the use of static AWS credentials; the aws sdk is capable of abstracting away all those gory details for you, including allowing someone to use those env-vars if they really want, but forcing them is a headache for an organization that uses AssumeRole (or its friends) for everything: https://github.com/eleven-sh/cli/blob/v0.0.4/internal/cloudp...

I wasn't readily able to find the Route53 logic; how are those "serve --as" domains created/updated?
What might been useful to mention here is how much money was being paid by big pharma in advertising dollars to the platforms and in campaign contributions. It was and still is an enormous amount.
More convincing people they didn't need the vaccine because of one or two miracle studies that had huge red flags and overly slanted their metastudy. Brett Weinstein holding the "emergency podcast," which was always really about self-promotion.
They are absolutely platforms for speech and in many cases they are the main source of news for people. Facebook and Twitter matter more than CNN.

By the way, all the newspapers and mainstream media that were displaced by social media are almost all ad-based, for-profit enterprises too.