skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a free speech absolutist world, there’s no liability to worry about in the first place.

Says who? While it is an admittedly poor label, there are few, if any "free speech absolutists" who advocate removing all limits on speech. Usually they would accept some level of law restricting fraud or perjury.

> I’m not a free speech absolutist

Neither am I, I think it is a stupid label.

> It is fine if we protect some types of speech, and selectively acknowledge the right of platform-owners to not broadcast some types of speech.

There is a very large difference between allowing (or requiring) companies to censor specific types of speech in an open and content neutral fashion, and giving companies carte blanche to not broadcast anything they want without any legal responsibility because of those companies "free speech rights". There are of course, also numerous shades of grey between these extremes.

The "you have to let companies censor whoever they want because that is their right" argument is logically inconsistent.
The us will happily give a 30 year mortgage to a 100 year old provided that the loan to value ratio is low enough.

This is the key point not discussed in the article - what percentage of the price the buyer is financing. The difference between a long term loan with lower payments (aka one where the buyer is essentially trying to immediately finance an asset) and a bubble is whether the bank thinks that they can sell the collateral for more than the debt. Here it doesn't sound so good.
I'm not confusing owner with manager - I'm thinking of things through the lens of the principal-agent relationship and of upper management's goals (which was what the OP was talking about) rather the middle management's.
There shouldn't be _any_ need for it except for a weird, very badly documented library.
Nobody is deciding whether anyone else needs a mobility aid. All we want is that if you decide that you need a mobility aid, you shouldn't be able to change your decision between departure and arrival.
MIL-STD-1750A: Standard sixteen-bit computer architecture
The UI is built with Flutter but you don't write any Dart. They ship flutter wheel in python and they plan to support other languages like "Go, C# and others are coming next"[0]

[0] https://flet.dev/roadmap
Wow, I didn’t know that WebAssembly had a “square root” instruction (although it sounds like that’s required for the floating point standard, so probably shouldn’t have been such a surprise).
> It would be great if we could magically eliminate nazi ideology

You mean like criminalizing it like the way it is in Germany? That magic?
In this case - EA -> "early access" not Electronic Arts, Inc.
What does it mean to "feel about 22"? I don't feel like any particular age. I know what my age is, from subtracting my date of birth from the current date, and I don't see how it could be anything else.

Edit: I suppose I feel now much the same as when I was actually 22, but all that suggests is that there isn't any "age feeling".
I never saw lab leak called fake news. I saw it called irrelevant, not important, unlikely, not knowable , but never "fake". Just want to see the source, that's all
> balkanizing

I don't think it means what you think it means.

> Sikh separatists

Khalistanis live in Canada, not Punjab.

> In South India there is also increasing separatist sentiments

I've lived in South India all my life and have never seen anyone express such sentiments.
What does a Daily Mail (already suspect source) article about a UK musician in the UK have to do with the statute as written in Germany as it applies to Germans? Right? The previous comment was talking about German law and jurisprudence and its effect (or lack thereof) on free speech?

As for the Daily Mail, you should be cautious in your commitment to its veracity and its applicability to an American audience. For example, the word “arrest” does not mean what you think it does in UK English. I think you are confusing it with the word used in the scenario you expected: “charged”. An arrest simply means that the police have started asking questions, and are notifying the subject that their questions and any answers can be admissible in court.

British police reality is not the same as in a US TV series.
They are natural in that you have them by virtue of existing; if you were alone on a deserted island you would be able to exercise them. The traditional interpretation in the US is that they come from God: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Maybe reuse the criteria for getting a handicapped parking permit. But literally anything would be better than anyone being able to claim it with zero evidence.
You could set up an apple watch to only notify you for texts and calls with no other notifications or health information. I would hope smart watches like the new Google one could be configured the same.
You can be excited about an idea or cause independent of its substantiation. I'd argue that fandom is actually really healthy and needed--sometimes our intuition about a concept, coupled with our excitement (even fanaticism!) is the energy necessary to do what it takes to prove or disprove what is at first wild speculation.
The most apt song for this situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdMWHB6Kz3A
Uh you might want to look out for a copyright claim from "The Circle" movie?
An example: https://twitter.com/criticalai/status/1629875568257691649?s=...
Clearly there are some good applications running on the web out there.

How many are

a) highly nontrivial with hundreds of windows/screens, many with with multiple searchable grids, custom lookups, per-screen user-definable tab-stop order etc etc

b) reliable enough that the users can enter all the data they need without looking at the application (ie no missed keypresses or focus changes etc)

c) being developed, maintained and operated by a team of <10 devs?

Honest question, if you know then do tell! I'd love to hear how they're doing it.

Like, this year changes to gov't systems means we'll have to implement about a dozen new complex windows/screens, along with all the backend logic. We get the specs about 6-9 months before go-live, so it's not like we have a full year either.
Wool socks get torn up in my experience.
First new H5N1 human infection confirmed
> Is it a coincidence that their movements grew significantly with the amplification of messages against them and social media censorship against them. Various right wing figures used this as leverage to increase their virulence.

Or did we just have a black president and a political party that leaned into white supremacy dog whistles?
Ohh, Lol. Ok in that case it's still the problem :)
Close to the metal doesn’t mean “I can create an operation that I could do in assembly, and it compiles to that assembly”. It doesn’t necessarily mean “fast”, either. If that were the case all compiled and optimised native languages would count. We aren’t talking about integer addition here - we’re talking about interaction with hardware.

The general issue with safe rust in these circumstances is exactly what makes it safe in the first place - it wants to be firmly in the driving seat. Want to access memory? You can only do so if it is being “managed” by rust (an abuse of terms, really, as that management is done at compile time). But with device drivers, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll want to access memory at a certain fixed address, managed outside of your program, and there’s a pretty good chance that it is volatile.

Safe rust has already slammed on the brakes, exited the driver’s seat and is running in the rain just to get away from the thought of such things. Unsafe rust could easily manage it, otherwise embedded rust wouldn’t exist.
If you've never seen the northern lights, it's really worth finding any excuse to go do. Videos can give you an idea of what it's like, but there's something deep in the animal brain that reacts to the sky being full of shimmering, spooky light, that is really impossible to describe or to capture on film.

Just like a solar eclipse, the aurora is one of those celestial phenomena that you really have to experience firsthand, at least once in your life. It's worth the hassle!
> It sounds like you believe those in power are more astute or intelligent than those they exercise power over.

It's not what I said at all.

It's inevitable that the levers of power are held by some. We've been lucky in the west, all things considered. So going forward, who's it going to be? The crazies? Hope not!
Even your own article (VPN hate is a given, of course, moving on) doesn't really go into the why of the reasoning.

They might get hacked? So might my site! In fact if you were a dedicated attacker I'd advise you go after my hosting rather than try to crack Cloudflare, it'll be much quicker. Probably be even quicker to just come at me irl and start snapping fingers until I logged you in as an admin.

They might sell data or censor my site? I doubt they would but if they did start doing so it takes like 20 seconds to update the nameservers. I'm not being held hostage, promise!

The arguments just don't work when it's my site and I've consented to using Cloudflare.

You're welcome to block Cloudflare's networks your side if you don't want to use them of course but I want all of the things they do in between you and my site. That's why am using them.
> The ATmega 328P an Arduino Uno or Nano uses has 2KB of memory and 32KB of flash storage for the program.

And costs the same as an ARM with dozens of megabytes of each.
High speed bandwidth connecting remote areas will have a big impact. Government wants it for ships, forest lookout towers, epa to watch waters and animals.

Also remote cell sites can be provided with uplinks via starlink. My parents small town has 1 tower that provides everything from limited internet, cable and cell service via microwave. The community center only has internet because of it.

Dialup is almost dead everywhere, and basically useless on modern websites.

Millions of americans only have cell service as their only internet, expensive and bandwidth capped. I replaced my folks hotspot with starlink, its been great for them and when I work from their home. Teams works fine over it.

I'd also expect comcast coverage zones that exclude a few houses will be using it. And areas lacking DSL service.

What I'm looking forward to is when sats have sat to sat communications to route traffic around the world.

Good times.
> The assertion of the US' founders is that such rights are inherent to all people, natural rights, and inalienable.

It very obviously wasn't [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
What bothers me about rust is the designers are people that have been bitten hard by working on browsers written in C++ with it's manual memory management and no way to enforce object lifetimes. Rusts solution to that seems like a big hammer when it comes to embedded where you usually have either stack allocated or compile time allocated objects.
There's some design inexperience going on. #FFF text on #000 background for starters [0]. Images of text used as a background for content text is an unusual choice. The #FF0000 red underlines for links look a lot like spellcheck highlighting. Storing still images as .gif can be a lack of experience thing, as in not knowing what default to select after drawing red squares over sensitive information, or not knowing to avoid image types that support layers.

[0] https://ironicsans.com/owmyeyes/
Bingo.

Not all of the beans they sell in grocery stores are so bad (though admitedly many of them are... looking at you French Roast and Winter Blend).
It's mainly a place for a curious cross-section of the technical and arts community. Very nice place IMO.

They offer public access Unix, chats, hosting and various other services.

Very different from other pubnixes like SDF, because at tilde the public systems are really a basis for a community, whereas users on other pubnixes tend to just do their own thing.
You share 50% of your DNA with a banana.
> I don't care if I'm on the receiving end of threats or actual violence because of free speech. Giving up your rights due to being scared is cowardice and allows actual authoritarians to take over your mind.

And assuming that people of color should be the victims of violence because you, personally, aren't concerned with violence is selfish and narcissistic.
No bank will honor your check for more money than is in your account. The amount in your account gives a hard stop on the amount you can lose.

Having a separate account with enough for the current Paypal transaction (that you refill from the main bank account as needed, in a few mouse clicks) means you limit your losses from a transaction gone wrong with a major company.

Can a malicious player try pulling money from your main account? Absolutely. But the chances of a large company, like Paypal, hitting you like this on an account not registered with them is zero. And your bank's fraud protection should stop an attempt to pull a large sum from your account by an unknown company in a sketchy country.
I wrote pretty much this entire article. Does my heart good to see that it's basically intact all these years later, and hasn't been sh—t all over by a driveby deletionist or someone 'cleaning up' the links.
import pandas as pd
import geopandas as gpd

census_df = pd.read_excel('census_data_yuge.xlsx').fillna(0)
muni_df = pd.read_excel('muni_data_yuge.xlsx.').fillna(0)

# assumes same criteria & column names in both
census_df.drop(['address 1', 'address 2', 'zip'], inplace=True)
muni_df.drop(['address 1', 'address 2', 'zip'], inplace=True)

cities = gpd.DataFrame(muni_df.groupby(['city']).mean() - census_df.groupby(['city']).dropna().mean())
gpd.plot(column='num_residents', cmap='bwr')

A fun exercise. I stuck to the time but score it as a C- because I cheated with geopandas (which I've never used but seems to do a lot of this out of the box) and gave myself unrealistically clean imaginary data. I have parsed census data once and remember it being a lot of work to tidy up before I even tried to answer my question.
Not necessarily. If you look at the nature of superspreading events, it's quite often confined to a single site as opposed to infecting people they meet as they travel. In addition, most of the transmission comes from a minority of infected people, look up "overdispersion".
The tilde is just their symbol, it's not all about that :)
> If you're steeped in C and its quirks, have good coding patterns that allow for it, I say knock yourself out.

Somewhere between 95% and 100% of people who think they're "steeped in C and its quirks, have good coding patterns that allow for it" write code that invokes undefined behaviour.
Haha same, except I rocked a iRiver H340 with Rockbox.
> The thing is that many people today have never encountered the sort of spaghetti code that Dijkstra was talking about in 1968.

I would say js/python callback-based frameworks of today like Twisted (also c++/rust futures) is exactly that
It sounds like they need to rename themselves. Perhaps "Department of Science"?
> Python was also designed to be a teaching language, and has been unreasonably effective for that purpose.

From what I've seen, those who learn programming using high-level dynamic languages with managed memory really struggle to understand many basic concepts (e.g. equality/identity, abstract machines, etc, etc) and data structures.

> The majority of all practicing software developers won't need to get closer to the metal than Python does

Like they'll never need to write a native extension?
The whole 'two billion people can read the Arabic alphabet to some degree' is a weird claim. Maybe it's possible, but there aren't two billion people with functional Arabic literacy.

Most Arabic is written without small vowels (harakat). You could have script that is justified right-to-left and with letters correctly connected and it still be gibberish. And many of those 'two billion people' would be none the wiser.
Cheap ARM Cortex's tend to top out at 128/256k of flash and 8/16/32k of RAM.
I believe so, yes. I just came to it through Python first, I hate R and try never to think about it.
My Galaxy S22+ has a battery protection mode that stops charging at 85%. I imagine other builds of Android have this, but it's the first I've directly come across.
New Report Reveals the Pervasiveness of Accent Biases at Work
>It’s administrative/sales/etc work for the consulting business, not for the client.

Ah, right. Apologies, my head was still in short-term, executive-level emergency staff augmentation land when I asked that.

>There’s something fishy about the $3,000/hr rate, though, because the high-end consultants I know—and I suppose I count myself among them—don’t charge hourly. Many charge a daily rate, and the higher end ones charge a monthly retainer. ...

Yeah, that was my understanding as well—that hourly is less desired and not very common on the higher end.

Thanks for the reply.
What you describe is not really an accurate description of the political situation that resulted in 1930s Germany.
> C++ may be a good candidate once up-to-date books have been written and compilers actually support the modern spec

I guess the feature set is too... extensive for a beginner.
I recently found this game engine is pascal/delphi: https://github.com/Cooler2/ApusGameEngine

Last updated last week
The Perils of Rehydration with React/Next/Gatsby
Over 96% of children who present with gender dysphoria and are given puberty blockers then go on to take cross-sex hormones. This treatment pathway does indeed cause infertility and lack of sexual function.

There's no good reason why these children can't experience their normal, untarnished puberty, and defer the decision to medically trans themselves to later on, in adulthood, when they are older and wiser.
Retreating in Total Darkness
Nevertheless, it should not enter the public domain like that until the scientific/intelligence communities are reasonably sure.

Politicans should refrain from hurling childish insults at other nations, and journalists should refrain from publishing withering accusations as news, at least until the confidence is high. Maybe I am misremembering things, but that was more of a norm a decade ago.
Honestly, I would prefer that over the ambiguity. I'd much rather live in a state in America where being a Nazi is illegal with the side effect of knowing, unequivocally, that I need to leave another state because my existence is in peril.
People like to focus on China’s handling of this, but it is important to remember that the source of the possible leak was research done in collaboration with the US.

Westerners (including, but not just Americans) should be holding their own governments responsible for reckless biological weapons research.

Think globally, act locally, and all that.
Yeah I just run Linux and I’ve not needed to pirate or pay for software in years. Doesn’t work for everyone but as a robotics engineer it all works out for me. It took me some time to switch from windows ten years ago but I’ve never looked back.
> Keeping the existing capitalization of ß → SS, you need to define a "uppercase S that used to be ß" character.

Even more complicated, there is a capital form of ß:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F

> Until 2017, there was no official capital form of ⟨ß⟩; a capital form was nevertheless frequently used in advertising and government bureaucratic documents.[10]: 211 In June of that year, the Council for German Orthography officially adopted a rule that ⟨ẞ⟩ would be an option for capitalizing ⟨ß⟩ besides the previous capitalization as ⟨SS⟩ (i.e., variants STRASSE and STRAẞE would be accepted as equally valid).[11] [12] Prior to this time, it was recommended to render ⟨ß⟩ as ⟨SS⟩ in allcaps except when there was ambiguity, in which case it should be rendered as ⟨SZ⟩. The common example for such a case was IN MASZEN (in Maßen "in moderate amounts") vs. IN MASSEN (in Massen "in massive amounts"), where the difference between the spelling in ⟨ß⟩ vs. ⟨ss⟩ could actually reverse the conveyed meaning.[citation needed]

No character encoding standard can save you from that kind of complexity. You need special-case code on a language-by-language basis.
Computing and software dev definitely was much more fun back then. No worries about security and systems way less complex. I often shake my head when I get a PR that adds one fields to the data model and you have ten different files changes in UI layer and possibly several services. Can't wait until AI writes that code and verifies it works across all layers.
We used to just cover the entire envelope in Sellotape and put an address label over the top so we could just wipe off the postage mark - a dated ink stamp over the postage stamp (Royal Mail employees circa 1990 didn’t get paid enough to care) and use it again.

If you regularly swapped disks with someone you’d just mail the envelope along with the disk
> The larger issue is, they dont see the technology work on as a good stair-step on their career progression

The web and mobile dev stuff is "comfortable" and "safe" because they (we?) see how ubiquitous it is. Maybe the companies themselves are not, but everyone needs web developers right now.

I recently took a job that is in web development, but is focused on front-end (and I've spent 13 years as a very versatile full-stack dev) and is a much more focused tool (data visualization tool versus an operations management system for everything government public works, including simple data visualization) and even that made me mildly hesitant.

I do dream of some day pivoting entirely into something more low-level and hardware focused. I've done a lot of hobbyist audio production and that's always seemed like a fun niche to build in. Maybe when I'm old :P
You're right, my bad. To clarify, I chose dishwasher tablets as a common product among many I've noticed sharply increase in price here in Australia.

AUD $48 for a pack of 32 tablets is about USD $32. When I look on Walmart US site, they are selling the same brand and similar product (Finish Powerball Quantum) in a 50 pack for USD $15 which is about AUD $22. I don't expect Australia to be the same equivalent price, but the price difference here is crazy.
Wasting RAM on REM’s was just rookie stuff.

I remember chasing bytes with short variable names, abbreviated print statements, reducing spaces as much as possible etc.

I had like 28k to play with and I was 14 years old!
I live in a upper middle class US town, and I have yet to see a teen using anything other than an iPhone.
Name three podcasts since there are 'a lot of black supremacists'.
Worse outcome is wasting time tying your future to a language that will die soon, with few people you could hire to help.

But the rewards are in line with the risks.
Pilots are licensed and airframes are certified. Licenses can be revoked.
Where are the personal civil and criminal penalties for the GoF staff?
I think where people get into trouble is trying to get too custom. It's been quite a while since I did any frontend stuff, but I was able to do work I was very proud of just sticking to default Angular 1 and Bootstrap and it worked great with a team fluctuating between 1-3 people. I was even able to write some code that could use reflection to generate forms based on the view models used by REST controllers in .NET, which was neat. But overall I'd rather work with Web tools than most desktop options out there. Clearly a lot of others feel the same or stuff like Electron wouldn't exist.
The framework applies equally turn on US country so I'm not sure what you are objecting to. If you read the link they provided it provides definitions for different types of free speech ranging from those that are legally enshrined (or not depending on your country), to how individuals socially react and common custom.