skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the video he broadcast that got him banned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne_wFdA-1oU

Alex Jones seems seriously unwell. That being said, apart from acting like a complete jackass and harassing that man it was not exactly a racist rant and not 'as bad' as some of his other comments.

Not sure why he got banned specifically for this to be honest.

Edit: not sure how that link got mixed up with another video...
I have always been alarmed that I've never seen the weather effects of solar and wind power discussed - they are by definition removing energy (randomly) from the global climate system. As one of the least understood and most complex systems that _drastically_ impact our lives, this should be cause for concern.
Electric heaters are more efficient than traditional air conditioning units. Transferring heat from inside a 80F house to the 110F air outside is not very efficient, only about 30-60%. On the hand, an incandescent light bulb is a ~99% efficient heater. The only energy that is "lost" is the light which is radiated out the window. Space heaters and electric radiators are 100% efficient.

Additionally, heat pumps are can be spectacularly efficient when it's warm outside (in which case, who needs a heater) but are still more than 100% efficient when it's cold outside. Waste heat is still heat, after all. The problem with heat pumps is that the quantity of thermal they can put into a house drops dramatically when it's cold outside. When it's extremely cold outside, the only heat you're added to the place you're trying to heat is the waste heat from the unit itself.

Swamp coolers can be very efficient "air conditioners" but they only work in extremely dry environments. Heat exchangers that pull cold water from a nearby cold lake (for instance, there are data centers in Chicago that use the lakewater from Lake Michigan) can be highly efficient, but there's a lot of infrastructure involved, and they only work on warm land near cold water.
For the past few years, whenever a company demonstrates that it is actively working against a culture of free speech, I block its URL in /etc/hosts. In this case, I already added Twitter long ago, so no change necessary.

Not only do I have less time wasters around, but I noticed that the internet is far less angry of a place as a result.
There's a funny irony in suggesting that one heard a dog whistle.
One of the most difficult issues with the style of bans that large tech companies perform is that there is no hope for them to have strong consistency. For them to be consistent they would have to ban anyone that has been an equal or worse offender, while not banning anyone that is a lesser offender. This is obviously far-fetched, especially with decisions that are made by humans on a case-by-case basis.

Regardless of what actions they take, many parties will feel slighted, and rightfully so, as anyone will be able to cherry-pick correct examples about why various platforms are not fair with their bans, because complete fairness is impossible. So we can have many equally valid "They banned X but not Y, this is unfair" from one side, but also "They banned A but not B, this is unfair" from an opposing side, with both complaints being valid examples that demonstrate some type of bias or inconsistency.
Can I ask what's broken? I understand it's displayed incorrectly in the worst cases and obscurely in most, but broken?
i’m a user too
#British #Airways hacked, attackers stole details of 380,000 customers
Exactly,

As we see efficiency increase as well.. things are not as bad. Sure energy consumption will increase, but not to US levels.
I have started looking down this path where I need something that can do a few things.

1) I have an account with Questrade, I need to enter the same trades on Interactive Brokers once I enter on Questrade. Also, I have customers who want to follow my trades, so if they can hook in and buy and sell at the same time I do, based on the same account balances, it can work for me.

2) I have a system where I enter if the stock price is > X. I use conditional orders for this now, so it doesn't really need to be automated, however it would be nice and would save me time.

3) The exiting is not automated because it's based on market sentiment, however, I wouldn't want to insert my data into any system that can leak the data. I could go for something where I put in supports, and instead of placing a stop order, it monitors the stock to fall under a price, and then stop me out using a market order. The reason I need this is because I would rather not have my stops advertised to brokerages.

4) Monitor my profile and alert me when a stock moves 5%,10% using beeps. This would be read-only. Something I am looking to do already.

The biggest drawback, what happens if the system fails? Are you going to reimburse me? If I write my own code, it's my own fault. Trusting someone else's code is hard to do. Also, if something breaks, how fast will it be fixed?

In the end, what I am doing now is conditional orders with a trailing stop that I adjust accordingly.
See https://homesupport.irobot.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/964/~... for clarifications the company posted on data privacy.
I don't want to.
I'm rather fond of a book, Specification by Example by Gojko Adzic, that's partially a manifesto for, and partially a guide to, doing this.
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Anyone can make money in the market. I have 0 experience working at any financial firm, and I can beat any one of those systems. If you dedicate yourself to something you can do it.
Cheers Salvatore. I appreciate your stance on this ("political bikeshedding", if that's a thing).
I'm pretty close to switching to this as my daily driver, but there's some small things, like Django Template formatting (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/46468) that have yet to be fixed/working.
Can you name me a single government regulation that would prevent a decentralized twitter from forming?

Let's not just hand-wave our blame for the government.

There have been many, many, many attempts to create a more open, decentralized version of Twitter, Facebook, and various Blogs. But they've all failed because there just simply wasn't enough incentive for people to leave these popular sites to go to a random site, for a value proposition that most don't really care to understand (open and federated vs run by one company)
Easy to say, but unfortunately rarely seen in the wild, depending on the experience of the project manager. Once that product is live and climbing, no owner wants to hear talks about slowing down for reasons of better test coverage or refactoring.
Because HTTP was one service among many, not the primary one, and failed to use a different DNS record than A to look up the target, unlike other protocols which manage this redirection to the "$protocol server" that way instead of through a subdomain name. (E.g. mail has MX records to find the mail server, many other protocols use SRV records to discover their specific targets)
Good for antirez. We all know what master-slave mean in a computing context and separate it from distant historical meanings, just as we don't get offended by `parent.kill(child)`.

Some people get moral enjoyment from finding ways to feign offense... at best, it is a waste of time to indulge much of these false complaints.

Our goodness and values show in our worldly actions.
Don't they split the prize if there are multiple winners? How can they ensure +EV?

They could spend money to buy every combination but split the jackpot with multiple winners? Am I missing something?
There's a particular 8-letter, simple subdomain for my domain (.com) where Chrome treats it as a Google search. Doesn't do it for any other subdomains. It makes no sense.
I am not a fan of Alex Jones but he is not an anti-semite.

In fact I suspect you have it backward. Jones will be intimately aware of (some of) the far left and (some of) far right anti-semite culture - it takes some character to see the big picture and in my personal exhaustive experience with that world most people exposed to those cultures would become anti-semites fast.

Jone's nemesis is altogether more abstract - he sees himself as crusader against a modern meme similar to communism or fascism.
Although the target audience for the post may be more medium to large'ish companies working on new business innovation (and the creative agencies trying to help them) - I particularly like the parts about focusing on free cash flow and self-service & service oriented platforms.
> There have been thousands (maybe more) tweets by people with blue verification checkmarks calling Trump an orange oompa loopa and much worse. No one has been banned for that (rightfully so imo).

Maybe because those kinds of tweets about Trump aren't anti-Semitic.
Gauging the degree to which insults are insulting or offensive (based on context!) is always going to be problematic. I find your comment a little bit disturbing because it reminds me of the Roseanne fiasco. The woman she was insulting really does look like she could have been in the planet of the apes films. Is it racist to publicly observe a similar appearance? If someone believes that Obama has a monkey-like appearance, as you believe GW Bush does, are they racist? In other words, intent is often not the same as the interpretation, which as long as we are doing trial by public opinion, I am not comfortable with.
Compare yesterdays Ars Technica piece, https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/google-wants-to-get-...

As a comment reads there, do they want to reintroduce AOL keywords?

Edit: May we expect a non-standard subdomain "google-remote", which is more of a protocol-extension and will be also hidden?
Quite. See, for example, the 1940 Nazi propaganda film "The Eternal Jew." Quoting Wikipedia: "The film utilizes a montage that juxtaposes these images of ghetto Jews with images of rats to draw an analogy between the migration of Jews from Eastern Europe with the migration of rats. For example, one of the shots shows a pack of rats emerging from a sewer, followed by a shot of a crowd of Jews in a bustling street of the Łódź Ghetto. Close-ups of those in the crowd reveal sickly, malformed facial features. The narrator states that, as rats are the vermin of the animal kingdom, Jews are the vermin of the human race and similarly spread disease and corruption."
> It seems that "m." is also considered a trivial subdomain. So when a user clicks a link to a "m.facebook.com" uri, they'll be confused why FB looks different when the browser reports it's on "facebook.com".

Will they? I find it very unlikely that many users would even check the URL in the first place, let alone understand that m.foo and foo route to different places.
> Some insults are simply worse depending on who they are targeting.

That's just an ideological step that is unwise to adopt. Taking that as a philosophy, anything you say is an intolerable statement because of who might get offended by it. This is antithetical to free speech as prior restraint. I don't know why anyone would subscribe to such a viewpoint. Every philosophy has boons and banes, but that doesn't mean the philosophy is absolute nor moral.
and that’s why they are marketing companies not technical companies...
You know, it's so much more vastly important to understand the expectation then it is to get the implementation correct the first time.
Does Infer actually provide anything for C which you don't get from the clang analyzer, for instance? That wasn't clear when I tried it a while ago.
Sure Twitter and other tech platforms are well within their rights to act in an explicitly partisan manner, but their reputations will suffer and the government will be even more keen on breaking them up and putting them on a tight regulatory leash.
This seems to be a common trope lately. The claim seems to be that because censorship by private parties is not banned by the constitution, it is therefore a good idea.

It is entirely fair to criticize private parties for censorship even though there may be no legal recourse. It is in turn almost never a good idea to demand the censorship of ideas you don't like.
I agree with everything you've said except for the second to the last sentence :)

This looks like just another arbitrary (and possibly politically motivated) ban to me. If they start removing other accounts of their "friends" who engage in behavior such as commenting on other's appearance, then I'd say we're starting to see consistency.

That hasn't happened yet though, and banning Jones for such a mild tweet seems to suggest it's unlikely we'll see the same scrutiny applied to others as many people would get kicked off the platform for this level of vitriol.
That... hasn't been my experience

Your links are to feature requests, not bugs.

Since ggregoire‘s comment is about bugs, your experience is orthogonal.
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"www." is useless until you have multiple servers. Say you run a game server and a website on a web server for that game server as well. You need to give them separate domains so that they can resolve to separate IP addresses i.e. "www.example.com" might resolve to <web server IP> and "example.com" might resolve to <game server IP>. This is far more robust, faster and simpler (and how the system was intended to be used) than trying to set up some kind of proxying system on one of the servers to handle traffic really intended for the other one. In real world usage of course you'd probably put the game server at "game.example.com" and the web server at "example.com" but either way you end up with a subdomain, the arrangement with "www." as the subdomain instead of "game." is not really any more useless. I believe this can possibly be worked around with SRV records but then you have to rely on whatever your client might be handling SRV records.

> If you issue subdomains to strangers on your root domain, the URL bar showing the subdomain shouldn't be your "security model."

What do you propose instead? Azure gives me custom subdomains for my servers that are immensely useful, being much more regular and memorable than IP addresses. I only see two solutions here: stop doing that or let anybody with access to subdomain creation pretend to be "azure.com". One of them is comically dangerous and the other is throwing out a perfectly good feature to save a handful of characters in the URL bar.
I'm confident that people tend to extrapolate anecdotal negative experiences about groups of people in bad faith, and that, as the group size increases, this tendency increases relative to the availability of more objective observations. If that's true, the broader the group subjected to a negative generalization, the more likely it is that the observation is as I described. Combined with intuition about the nature of the negativity, I can sometimes feel confident expressing an opinion about the observation one way or the other (e.g. "I think X people are less conversational" vs "I think X people are mostly violent thugs").
Not yet - but I'm hoping to have a version that supports this next week. Will update this issue when it's done: https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/issues/3
It's OK to be inconsistent, because tech companies aren't governments and their rules aren't laws. They are allowed to control their platform however they want.

Everyone is welcome to create their own "free-er" Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit.
Maybe try an Android derivative? One tailored for privacy? I've heard of LineageOS, it's marketed as privacy-friendly.
Although a firm NO-WWW believer this is hilarious because it is not the same as hiding http(s):// this is technically speaking an alternation of the url.

Still..with Google's horrible AMP efforts this seems nice :)
Oh boy! Another fake assurance of safety with spyware built-in. Me loves it.
Nice selection of tunes btw, at least they resonated an emotional response with me, but I love music.
Why is making fun of Obama as a monkey any different than with Bush? Why is it racist? Obama is white, Bush is white. They both have big ears.

Similarly, Trump is mocked as an orangutan. Is that racist against his European heritage (red/orange hair of Irish/Scottish/German)?
> We're always going to need to see URLs.

I can see the future now: User enters his target (mybank) into the Google search bar on his Google Android device, the device opens Google Chrome with the Google amp page form mybank already loaded. The user never has to worry about urls or where exactly he is entering his banking information and login critera. Google makes everything a clean and seamless experience and user never has to leave its warm embrance.
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I don't want anything about the Internet to be like television, and while I know you're trying to make an analogous statement I think the real threats to freedom on the Internet are coming from entrenched interests who would take what you say literally.
Ajit Pai does ISPs’ bidding, pushes for tighter rules on Google and Facebook
Now, if they'd only make it easy for people to compile it themselves... oh but wait, that'd mean using Tor without the spyware. Can't allow that!
From the linked article:

"I don’t know what this will look like, because it’s an active discussion in the team right now," says Parisa Tabriz, director of engineering at Chrome. "But I do know that whatever we propose is going to be controversial. That’s one of the challenges with a really old and open and sprawling platform. Change will be controversial whatever form it takes. But it’s important we do something, because everyone is unsatisfied by URLs. They kind of suck."

https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/

She's says it's important that they do something! GTFOH! Hands of our Internet!

The problem here is that they view Chrome as their platform. They have too much market share ala IE6. Instead of following and helping to shape standards, they are considering highjacking the project. Argh!!!!!
It's not like the sun runs out of shine. I think the impacts of renewable energy is several factors lower than our current C02 based economy
Maybe the blogpost "Functional architecture is ports and adapters" by Mark Seemann may be of help to you. "fsharp for fun and profit" by Scott Wlashin is really approachable. Cant post links since on mobile.
I didn't read the parent comment and I don't know what groups you're talking about.
I'm quite familiar with the dams, I live in Washington myself, and visited them multiple times. I agree that someone will always be upset, but this is generally true about every change ever. The point is to do changes that are most beneficial to the most, don't carry extremely serious side effects, and are net win over the alternative, which in this case is keeping burning coal. There's still plenty of coal left in Roslyn fields, and if not for the dams, it would probably continue to be extracted today.
Just because a major bank and government organization use an unusual domain configuration, it doesn't mean that it is good practice.
Thanks! Both of your suggestions totally make sense. I've created an issue to track the poll() issue here https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/issues/13 - I think that should be an easy fix.
Indeed, the MIT lectures by Prof Strang and the MathTheBeautiful videos by Prof Grinfeld provide perfect pairings to go with the enhanced visual intuition you acquire on 3Blue1Brown.

NB: MathTheBeautiful [1] is by MIT alum Pavel Grinfeld [2]. He approaches Linear Algebra from a geometric perspective as well, but with more emphasis on the mechanics of solving equations. He has a ton of videos organized into several courses, ranging from in-depth Intro to Linear Algebra courses to more advanced courses on PDEs and Tensor Calculus. Highly recommended.

Esp note his video on Legendre polynomials [3] and
Why {1,x,x²} Is a Terrible Basis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYoGYQOXqTk&index=14&list=PL....

[1] MathTheBeautiful https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr22xikWUK2yUW4YxOKXclQ

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Grinfeld

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendre_polynomials
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if anything, it should be time to declare that its a bit insane to expect lay people to be able to read from right to left and left to right concurrently, and understand all the delimiting punctuation correctly, along with unicode. its time to restructure url rendering to be right to left, and combine delimiters. dashes, periods, slashes, and subdomains and hundreds of tlds have made it too confusing.

https://www.google.com./ should become either https/com/google/www/ OR secure/com/google/www/ OR secure.com.google.www. Browsers can then just always bold the third word?
The more people conflate the working class with Trump supporters, the more it feels like a plot to further discredit them. Not all of the rural areas or working class whites care about Alex Jones or even know who he is.
A company that is net losing money can't get a loan for 90% of their forward revenue.
I think antirez's initial resistance to changing the terminology is reasonable, and obviously doesn't warrant the name-calling. Without a doubt there would be a lot of overhead to change documentation and code.

That said, regardless of the past and ongoing use of master/slave terminology, we should be trying to steer away from it. It's insensitive and just generally unpleasant.
Who cares will switch the flag. Who doesn’t, just doesn’t.
I mean, I don't disagree with your premise that very few people are actually offended, but this is one of those low-effort, doesn't-matter changes so why not do it?

If it does offend anyone at all, why not change it? If it might offend anyone at all, why not change it?

It's not like we're redefining the color blue to appease red-ists. There's a dozen synonyms that convey the same relationship construct as master/slave without using the word slave.

It's not the hill to die on, or take a stand on.
Given your second paragraph... are you perhaps confusing tonality with chord quality? Amin (the chord) is a diatonic chord of C major (the tonality).

Also, it's easy to play "random" chords from a tonality and end up in a different mode without even realizing it. E.g.: A minor (the key, also known as A aeolian) has the exact same diatonic chords as C major (but the reference, i.e. tonal center, is A instead of C).

A large part of tonality is chord position in the piece, which is also greatly influenced by dynamics, melody, accompanying instruments, harmony, harmonic progression (both immediate/local and global)...

Also: Cmaj7 (the chord) is C-E-G-B and Emin6 is E-G-B-C (notice the similarity?), but E-G-B-C can also be interpreted as Cmaj7 in first inversion depending on context. Sometimes roots are omitted from chords so E-G-B (Emin at first sight) could be interpreted as Cmaj7(no root). Just like C-E-G could be a rootless Am7 (A-C-E-G with omitted A). They are often used as substitutes of one another in jazz.

Music is just too complex and musical language (chord names etc.) is just a hack developed around traditions and conventions, not science. It's mostly notation of intention, since everything can be twisted to mean something else.

The more music theory I know, the less definite answers to musical questions are.
I think the position you're addressing is actually a practical one. Context is huge in communication, and who is being addressed is a big part of that context. It's hard for me to believe that you actually think that taking that specific context into account leads to the conclusion that all statements are intolerable.
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My thoughts:
Concept: Really like the concept of lists, it's just a lot easier to get your thoughts out there in a list :D (especially as I'm too lazy to write blog posts!)

MVP: You're right, looks much better on mobile but I'm mostly going to use it on my phone anyways...