skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you are running a social media platform for the masses, you have to censor certain things, and you have to abide by all regulations. You can’t just X.

Legally speaking yes. You absolutely have to censor a decent amount of content. Outside of what is legally required (at least in the US), I’d be in favor of allowing the community to block and mute to curate their own experience. It seems a losing battle to rely on the whims of the people that run the business of Twitter/Facebook/etc. to be the deciders of what should and should not be allowed.

> We have already seen that musk’s pathetic approach via free speech absolutism does not work.

Is this tongue and cheek? Musk’s policies are the antithesis of free speech.
This is really actually happening.
> Keep in mind that KYA and financial disclosure laws in the US also make many transactions far less private than was the case in a world relying on cash or direct payments.

With the BIS push for CBDCs in 2023, there is limited time for well-intentioned projects to get up to speed on adversarial and competitive incentives :( There may still be room to negotiate a minimum CBDC transaction value before KYC/identity mandates apply, to retain some fig leaf properties of cash for small transactions. Here are a couple of references on CFPB Section 1033 and "open banking":

https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-fintech/open-b...

> sources on Capitol Hill tell him that draft rule-making can be expected six months after panel review, and rules 90 days after that, putting the end of what would be a 12-year wait for rules governing the field of open banking sometime near August 2023.

https://workweek.com/2022/10/26/money2020/

> Director of the CFPB, Rohit Chopra, taking the stage to give an update on the bureau’s rulemaking on Section 1033 of the Consumer Financial Protection Act, which will obligate financial institutions to share consumer data upon consumer request ... the role that consumer-permissioned data sharing can play in promoting competition and enabling consumers to “break up” with their banks more easily. This seems to be, in the view of the CFPB, the chief virtue of open banking.

There's also UCC Article 12, which has been ratified but not yet adopted by U.S. states, which links some rights to possession of control/keys, even if a blockchain asset may have been stolen, https://www.clearygottlieb.com//news-and-insights/publicatio...

> Article 12 – dealing directly with the acquisition and disposition of interests (including security interests) in “controllable electronic records,” which would include Bitcoin, Ether, and a variety of other digital assets ... Control under Article 12 is designed to be a technology-neutral functional equivalent of “possession.” It generally encompasses circumstances when a party has the “private key”

New laws for open health data recently took effect, practical results TBD, but one can imagine Apple/Google/Schluss/Solid seeking to aggregate and host health data, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33127810

> Under federal rules taking effect [Oct 2022], health care organizations must give patients unfettered access to their full health records in digital format. No more long delays. No more fax machines. No more exorbitant charges for printed pages.

If 1990s US telecom deregulation had achieved the promised-land vision of symmetric broadband to homes and small business, we might today have an installed base and viable business models for "home servers". This would enable banking/health customers to take both physical and logical custody of their data, with legal rights within the perimeter of their homes.
You don’t have to store the previous, you can just do an if != right in the render function and call setState there. That’s something I learned from the new beta docs.
That's pretty well addressed by the readme
My current Linux laptop (System76 darter pro 8, Ubuntu jammy, 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1240P, UEFI firmware) boots to a login screen pretty snappily, less than a minute, and from there it's up to me how quickly I type my password. I get a usable system very shortly thereafter because Window Maker is pretty lean. Getting a system back from a suspend-to-disk is pretty instantaneous.
Navy Formula calls me an athlete and is SORELY mistaken. BMI accurately calls me overweight, but is probably mistaken about how much.
Do you really think it's coordinated, or do you think it's more likely they just are like minded?
Thankfully there will soon be better batteries that do not need cobalt.

But the real problem isn’t batteries. It’s politics.
I worry, but also remember that much of the pandemic was just a replay of the Spanish Flu. Distrust in masking, distrust in vaccines, a complaint about the "media" keeping "the truth" from the public.
Imagine if what were Trump? Per the article, the Trump administration sought "help from the tech companies to combat misinformation."
There is a lot of speech on Twitter and Facebook, but the purpose of those companies is profit. If they could curate and filter content to increase revenue, they will. Plus, telecom laws protect them from liable so they can get away with publishing outright lies.

The fact that people use these poorly vetted sites as their primary source of news is unsettling. There is a lot of quality content, but it’s surrounded by a lot of garbage (from both the left and the right).

The NYT and WSJ both operate by much higher standards than I’ve ever seen on FB or Twitter. The newspapers are far from perfect, but they do abide by ethical standards. And most importantly, they are liable for their content.
"Web tech" could mean WebGL or Canvas, which are not accessible. Does it create HTML elements?

I'd check myself, but none of your examples seem to be available to just look at without cloning the repo locally.
> There's something elucidating (and satisfying) in seeing a non-obvious piece of code in your native style.

Not 5 years later, and when it is someone else's code. Just don't.
Initialisms are no better than single char var names. No one later is going to know you started naming "SmartFooProcessingThing" as "sfpt" and when they search for it in millions of lines of the codebase, they are gonna come up empty and waste time.

There is nothing you should be finding "satisfying" in a non-obvious piece of code. And if you are working on team, there should be nothing "in your native style". Don't be that person.
Your missing the point. The people posting on Twitter are just riling up, a virtual riot. You want to discuss it, do it calmy and write soemthing well thought out with sources.
Sounds like you are being attacked often? Maybe inspect your vocabulary , it might be stuck in 2002…. Wake up sheeple.
So it was meant as anecdata, but that's sufficient to accuse me of FUD for sharing a different (statistically more common) experience? Not buying it. I think there was sufficient reason to interpret your comment the way I did. Why didn't you assume good faith on my part? Don't use that as a shield after you've denied it to others.
I’d like to see some credible sources for your claims, because it seems we’ve done no such thing.

Even if trace amounts are found, they are no longer functional [0]. And it’s important to consider the percent of dosage when looking at biodistribution post injection, not just the amount of lipids [3], so it’s really much less significant amounts found outside the site of injection. Most is taken care of via hepatic clearance.

UTR sequences, which regulate transcription and sub cellular localization, can be tailored for specific cell types [1].

There is no evidence of spike protein toxicity [2]. And while the covid spike protein has potential to cause damage for example to the cells lining the small vessels of the heart following infection, there is no evidence that this is also the case with vaccinations [4]

[0]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK565969/

[1]
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

[2]
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-safe-idUSL...

[3] https://medium.com/microbial-instincts/biodistribution-and-s...

[4] https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/news-from-the-bhf/news-arc...
I guarantee you that on this side of the pond it wasn't received as a joke.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CheeseEatingSurr...

You can downplay it all you want, the fact is that this sort of thing happens and it can't just be shrugged off by 'oh, we were just joking' because of the context in which those things happened. Symbolism is a thing and by having your official governing bodies involved you lose the 'it's just a joke' defense.
To the extent that we should be allowed to moderate content within the domains that we have ownership over, absolutely.
Can someone explain why React can't have a more ergonomic syntax which compiles to useEffect()? Like svelte(reactivity) and vue(script setup and ref sugar) can compile their ergonomic syntax to actual apis

Given the dominance of react, "switching to vue" (let alone svelte/solid) is not a viable option for many. But surely someone can shamelessly steal from them?
Which one of our corrupt politicians introduced this fine law?
Yes the physical size can be important, and so can the power draw.

Just like you wouldn't use a full-fledged Raspberry Pi for use cases where a Raspberry Pi Nano or other low-power microcontroller is enough.
Another excellent example of retconning. Who specifically was censored for saying that?
Long time poster here. It was shocking to witness the last few years here. We have an absolutely remarkable and effective moderation system here and tireless, under-thanked mods doing the work. Looking at showdead, they are so good at moderating away the spam, nazis, trolls, and other various off topic troublemakers. I’m so grateful for having them here. They walk the line making difficult judgment calls, and have consistently struck the right balance… until the COVID madness. I don’t know what it was, but we got absolutely flooded with crap, and I guess the sheer volume was just too much for the manual, human moderating system. It got to the point where I had to just keep myself out of COVID threads because there was no longer any thread of nonsense that wasn’t already posted hundreds of times before. Karma-voting in those threads was always a roller coaster, too. Such an odd departure from an otherwise amazing site.
Meeting in person isn’t arbitrary. It’s when you can start making that human connection.
Why on earth are internal Facebook teams blogging on Medium?
I can't think of any real uses for it, unless they can make it sync between devices, in a way that is better than just using a cloud DB.

The idea of data that lives on one local machine is so completely alien to the modern view of software(At least to me) that I'd have to actively spend time looking for use cases.

A database that was as easy to use as SyncThing would be revolutionary though. So many spreadsheets could be replaced.
I disagree.

Anti-vax movements have been around for as long as there have been vaccines. The only thing that "solves" this problem is a new disease and vaccines that completely displaces the old.

Think about it: when was the last time, since the pandemic began, that you heard about autism and the MMR vaccine? that began in the late 90s (with no scientific basis I might add) and persisted for decades. Now no one talks about, thinks about or cares about it anymore. It's completely off the radar.

Covid anti-vax movements will meet the exact same fate come the next major vaccine.
The Mac-only title Ferazel’s Wand is supposed to be very good, but I never got to play it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ZUALHwVjse

I loved Prince of Persia 2.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eGxb10aTe5g
All of the really fun platforms are unmoderated, but they keep getting taken down due to pressure campaigns.
While I see what you are saying and there are people doing the good work, when I read of companies circumventing the Russian embargo knowing full well their stuff gets turned into weapons, and people without thought buying the cheapest shit from amazon and alibaba made in dire circumstances, I am not so sure, or at least, do not see enough awareness for a treshold changing outcome. Some play the economic game on a criminal level, and some profit without giving back and without scruples.
very cool however

wifi scanner is named bluetooth scanner and doesnt show any networks. im typing this on wifi. also code has 15 levels of indentation.

weather app search doesnt work

e-commerce cant fake-buy anything

dog-app lit says instagram, nothing is clickable, tons of deeply nested jss
The problem with ivermectin wasn't safety, but efficacy. If you have worms, ivermectin is great for you! Take it!

All the studies that showed ivermectin's effectiveness against Covid happened to be from countries with low levels of sanitation. The kinds of places where people are likely to suffer from worms without knowing it. If you have worms and Covid, and take deworming medicine, guess what? You're more likely to beat the 'rona. It doesn't mean the ivermectin cured you of Covid.
> Better than C macros or no macros at all. Could it be better? Certainly.

I don't agree. I'd rather have no macros because that would increase the pressure on the core language and compiler to evolve properly.

Any usage of macros that has to atomize down to the molecules of the syntax tree and then reassemble them from the ground up is screaming Language Failure Here. Those kinds of macros should only exist until the core language either vacuums up the construct and makes it standard or declares the construct verboten at which point they should be excised.

Instead, Rust's procedural macros are spreading like the plague throughout the ecosystem.

> All of your problems with Rust are being worked on.

Unfortunately they're not being completed--which is far more important.
Hide the annoying parts of Twitter's UI (including tweet views)
And yet the purpose of the NYT and WSJ is also profit. They also publish a lot of total dreck.

You are chasing after a distinction without a difference.
Like here, where someone posting a literal screenshot of the CDC's own data was deemed "misleading" and prohibited from being interacted with? https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...
France and Spanish warships were patrolling off the coast of North America and preventing the English from bringing in reinforcements. Various naval battles happened.

But ever more important was the invasion of British Isles that the French and Spanish were preparing. That literally locked down the British army and navy to Britain and made it impossible for them to supply the colonial armies.

So when the French volunteers, Prussian trainers arrived in North America on top of that, the tide of war has changed.
Thank you to HN friends for keeping me entertained and motivated. Thank you.
And they only did that because too large a proportion of workers showed the backbone necessary to lose their jobs and livelihoods in order to not take the shots. If the opposition had been something closer to 10% instead of 30% I think it's a good bet that the courts would have punted on the question.

As someone who spent the fall and winter of 2021 checking my email each morning to see if my employer was initiating a mandate, I have a deep & abiding appreciation for all the brave resisters who paid a steep price to put these fascistic mandates on the ashheap of history where they always belonged.
To be honest wih you, I've been in the other seller's exact situation before. Just the other day, we sold a PS2 which had been serviced, tested and confirmed working.

The buyer received it, the disc tray would even eject at all. They opened a return request, sent it back and it turns out that the employee who serviced it hasn't properly reinstalled a small clip that holds part of the disc drive in place, which led to it collapsing internally during shipping.

Other times, we've had requests which were not our fault but simply not worth fighting. Why spend time, energy and money trying to convince someone to be a bit more patient waiting for their $5 item when you can just refund and ban them from future purchases?

Multiple times, I've been accused of all kinds of nasty things even when there's no fault or issue at all (and in 0% of cases, this has helped the buyer).

I think the average punter just seriously underestimates the difficulty of thoroughly testing second-hand goods.
Our government, and the moderators at Twitter, lumped reasonable skeptics in the same category as grifter-anti-vax types (i.e., people pushing zinc, or colloidal silver, or chiropractic as "cures" for covid).

People who had reasonable questions--like "why do some countries consider recovery from COVID as being equivalent to being vaccinated while the US doesn't" or people who were skeptical that loose-fitting cloth masks that most people wore below their nose did more good than harm--were de-platformed along with the true quacks. Experienced doctors with specific expertise in infectious disease were deplatformed for questioning if it was necessary for healthy young people to be vaccinted.

This, and the fact that social media sites bow to Government pressure for this sort of moderations, is what's alarming to many reasonable people.
There’s nothing wrong with you.

It’s hard for me to sit in front of a computer for 8 hours straight. I feel restless. I’m most alive when running, outside, or generally out and about. Work from home is particularly hard, never leaving the house. I really want to be with people, working with them, side by side.

I’m not saying it doesn’t have things I like. And I do get engaged with fun technical work. I’ve coded since I was a kid. Sometimes I go on a coding tear on a fun problem. But I miss the “computer lab” from high school - friends sitting side by side working on hard problems, one-upping each other.

I don’t have a silver bullet but some things that help me

* I have a local network of friends and make a point to get together

* I try and travel for work to connect with colleagues

* I pair-program a lot with coworkers, which recreates a lot of the “bonding” of being side by side working through a problem together.

* consider whether your problem is more to do with team culture and not the profession per-se. Companies range wildly in how they operate.

* what drove you forward when learning to code? Can you find what motivated you and find work close to that drive?

But I really am empathetic to your situation. And don’t hesitate to ping me (my website in my profile has contact info) if you're interested in a chat.
Right here in this thread there are examples of precisely the sentiment that I tried to address with my comment. That's proof enough for me that those sentiments are alive and well and that is - from my perspective, at least - a pity. Given that there is again a war going on in Europe and that there are some pretty strong voices for Ukraine to surrender part - or even all - of their territory to Russia to save on the expense and because that is the inevitable outcome makes this sort of lack of historical awareness a real problem.

You can disavow it, and I do not doubt that you do have that historical awareness but unfortunately the sentiment exists, is real and likely will be more and more forceful in the coming years.

If France had had that attitude then likely the USA as we know it today would not exist, and for that the French deserve lasting recognition. It also underlines - at least for me - that we, the 'free world' are in this together and that if we don't stand united eventually we will fall. The French had plenty of reasons to question the Iraq war - some good, some not so good - but to be insulted like that was counterproductive, to put it mildly.
I haven’t seen them recently but “billboard truck” were a thing. A truck who’s only purpose is to literally have advertisements on them. ( they have no storage)
The US would not have been anywhere near as successful financially and its population size would probably only have been a fraction of what it is today.
"The Feds putting pressure on the scales" is a fairly broad term for something every level of the state does in multiple, almost incalculable ways.
Similarly, here's a medical health expert talking about how he's a junkfoodaholic:

https://twitter.com/PierreKory/status/1607144563558187009
Yes! My mother-in-law grew up in Stanstead, and we’ve spent a lot of time there with her side of the family (and lived and worked in Sherbrooke for a couple years, though we are Australian and are in Australia now).

The flags on Canusa St are amusing :)
If the query is good, that’s not a lie.
I built a geography browser game with JavaScript
The argument here is that if something exists, it is good.
Also people identify less with Canadian iconography in Quebec.
You could also make it "boot into DOS" by adding command.com as the last thing autoexec.bat would invoke. That way you end up in the shell, and exiting it would boot Windows.
> they’re far less dangerous than getting COVID

Of course but that's not what authorities and all kinds of pro-vaccination people were saying at the time. General statements about safety don't inspire confidence. There's a possibility that the vaccines are beneficial for some groups but not others, for example.

Even today in my country they do everything possible to coerce people into vaccination. They come just short of abolishing personal freedom and consent. This is not how things are supposed to be done. People should want to take vaccines because there's data that shows benefit. Losing their trust means they won't even trust the data.
Can you be more specific? Who, where, and what did they say?

I ask because social media was full of that discussion so if there was any censorship it must have been highly ineffective.
big government + big pharma got us a vaccine fast
This is a good example for why all work communication should be via auditable email. I suspect that trying to do things like this is a major reason leaders want people in office.
C is not simple. Not even close.

It's the single language still in use with at least one or two orders of magnitude more quirks than features.

C is full of bobby traps. And nobody survived. Ever.

It's impossible to build reliable software in C. Even people tried for 50 years.

People died in RL not only once because of issues with the C language. I think no other language carries a real world death toll around.

C may seem "easy" because it lacks features one would need to know. But easy is not simple! Usually quite the contrary.

https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2017/01/02/simple-is-not-ea...
- 1Password for storing passwords, credit cards information

- iCloud+ 200GB for sharing photos with my family

- Raindrop.io for keeping my bookmarks

- Logseq for note taking

- Copilot for code recommendation

- Downdog apps for Yoga, HIIT exercises
And many of those same accounts are now pushing the current 'Twitter Files' narrative as though they were right all along.

People seem to forget that Elon Musk was willing to throw his employees under the bus for his personal gain, and yet they now trust a selective reading of history driven by that very same person.
The best part about being a conspiracy theorist is not having myocarditis.
Honestly, kudos for the author. This seems to be a one man's effort (https://github.com/rui314). He is making a free (as in money and freedom) AGPL product for general purpose usage (linux) and he is selling a particular integration for a particular audience (mac users).

I honestly hope he succeeds in this endeavor. It shows you can do a one-person open source project and still live off of it.
DOS compatibility is inherently very hard because its de facto API, such as it was, involved poking into hardcoded addresses in memory and other such stuff.

Even then, things that stuck to DOS syscalls (INT 21h etc) would generally work.