skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing about persecution complexes is that those who have them will find persecution in anything, so it's kind of a waste of energy to worry about what might trigger those prone to thinking in such a way.

Interestingly enough, that’s probably why Twitter feels comfortable ignoring the screams of outrage from the “this is censorship, and the internet is now dooooomed” crowd. When the only thing a group has to stand on is a slippery slope of their own invention, ignoring them is a safe option. People who can only accept their own rigid interpretations at the direct expense of everyone else are impossible to engage with, and a global megacorporation simply doesn’t have the luxury to try.

The banning of Alex Jones from one platform doesn’t spell the end of freedom, or the rise of unfettered censorship, it’s just the application of the most bedrock, basic standards of both intellectual honesty and human decency. The idea that freedom can only exist if we require something like Twitter to lend their platform to the likes of Jones is intellectually bankrupt. It’s also ironic on Hacker News, which explicitly exists as the result of strong curation and moderation. Having standards isn’t censorship, and just as a newspaper doesn’t owe you and everyone else their own page, no other outlet does either.
The argument is basically just that the government is so terrible at actually reliably making good laws, and at avoiding terrible unintended long-term consequences from even the best laws, and is so reliable about turning even the most well-intentioned and well-thought-out regulations into jumping-off precedent and justification for really bad ideas, that-

-despite the fact that pure Internet anarchy is obviously not the optimal solution, or even a particularly good idea-

-letting the government make well-intentioned and obviously-good laws about it is still worse.
> There have been thousands (maybe more) tweets by people with blue verification checkmarks calling Trump an orange oompa loopa

Comparing facial features, particularly eyes, to those of a rat is a well-known anti-Semitic smear.

Commenting on Trump's horrible spray tan is not the same kind of thing.

> There's been a ton of pressure on Twitter to ban Jones but using this tweet as an excuse shows they are in no way politically neutral.

Well, yeah, targeting racist harassment isn't politically neutral: institutionalized racism is very much a political position.
If only we had something other than the subdomain to indicate what protocol we want to use to access the host in question. Like maybe some kind of... port number and/or protocol prefix.

"www." is useless. Eliminating it wouldn't be a bad thing.

"m." for mobile sites is extremely archaic. Sites should work on mobile without special subdomains.

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

The root domain is the root authority behind the site in question. Chrome showing users that information in a clear and concise way isn't "subverting the domain name system".

Safari has been doing this for a long time, and Chrome/Chromium have settings/flags that allow you to turn this behavior off. The amount of crying over this change is ridiculous in my opinion. As long as they keep this configurable (in fact, they should add a UI config for it) I see no problem here.
I'd be shocked if most tech debt isn't a side effect of sprints.
Netflix already offers only a fraction of its US titles in EU member states.

And you'd be surprised. The UK, France, and Germany combined already outproduce America in terms of movies [1] (quality may be a different story, of course).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_industry#Statistics
You know it’s a setting, right?
The www.com might not be easy to get, but there is probably a www name at another important TLD that can be purchased. And if you own that domain you can easily get SSL certificates too.

Sounds like Chrome could now be a phisher's best friend…
Definitely interesting, but the net result is a C code that lacks C's inherent simplicity. Too much declarative noise basically, and a lack of operational transparency. It basically makes C look (and feel) like it's been... erm... pollutted with C++.
I used an adblock package in pfSense but not OpenWRT. The issues I had with pfSense's package was it wasn't nearly as configurable as pi-hole and it used up a bit too many resources on the Soekris 5505 box. I had to uninstall it because it took too many resources.

I ended up installing Docker on my laptop, grabbing the Pi-Hole container, and configuring my laptop to use the docker container as the DNS server.

So far this has worked very well. Wherever I go, I have pihole running in the background. I can access the web interface and do everything I could do on the rasp pi-hole, without the extra hardware. It does take a minute or two to start up in the background after logging in though.
I'm not sure it's subtle enough to be a dog whistle; it's more like a train whistle, really.
One more reason to set up a redirect from or to www.
Oh man, I had similar instructor that preached the same thing. He made us watch a movie called Warriors of the Net which talked about the ping.... OF DEATH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBWhzz_Gn10
That sounds like a case for decorators!
I think this is intended to screw with tracking being done by your ISP.
I'm pretty sure Chrome's "request desktop site" option does change the viewport size. Or if it's doing something else, it has the same effect.

Have you tried it in the last couple months? It seems like a fairly recent change in behaviour.
Question is, what do you care more about - the unique geography, or people living there?
The reason why Google is doing this is because they are slowly trying to do away with URLs, as direct traffic is probably their greatest untapped segment.

Google is trying to get users to go through their doorway pages, which is exactly the kind of thing for which they penalize publishers.

Pay attention to when you enter direct addresses, let's say from a device/media subscription authorization page. The autosuggestion feature will often recommend Google searches, disguised as URLs, instead of helping you complete the very obvious URL.

If they help you get to the site directly, the opportunity to acquire your page views diminishes.

These behaviors are hostile toward users. I'd like to see further in their playbook to depreciate the URL as we know it.
Safari does hide www, but it's a default setting that can be changed by checking [0]

Preferences > Advanced > Show full website address

[0] https://imgur.com/a/3VMo5zH

EDIT: Formatting. Add missing article. Change linked image.
Sure thing. Heating (space + water) represents nearly 80% of EU household energy use[1], compared to 60% in the US[2]. I have no clue what you mean by "heating is efficient compared to AC". In fact, opposite is true -- unless you use some kind of heat pump, which are very uncommon in Europe, you only get exactly one unit of heating per unit of energy consumed. On the other hand, with AC (which _is_ a heat pump), you get something on the order of 5 units of heat (energy) removed per unit of energy consumed.

[1] - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
[2] - https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=us_energy...
Yeah it seems like full custom ASICs kind of died off a little when affordable robust MCUs came out. Kind of nice to see it picking up again!
At least the grandparent comment had the decency to generalize about a smaller, more ideologically narrow group of people than "the right" or "the left".
> Doesn't mean they're wrong.

If you have watched Alex Jones before you will know he happily speaks his mind and is not afraid to come across as offensive or crazy.

It is not in his character to hide secret meanings in his content.
I think early Buddhism and Stoicism can be cobbled together into a workable philosophy, and I think Vipassana is also complementary with a number of Stoic practices.

Like you've identified, a recurring apparent disagreement between the two philosophies is how to relate to positive and negative phenomena: In the stoic view, positive phenomena should be enjoyed, but we should be clearly aware that they're impermanent so that we're not disappointed when they inevitably end. Likewise, we should bear negative phenomena with the knowledge that we could always be experiencing something even more negative.

In Buddhism, there's also guidance for relating to positive and negative phenomena in a different way, but it doesn't appear to agree with the Stoics. In Buddhist thought, we should use concentration careful attention to our inner experience to cultivate equanimity toward both positive and negative phenomena while growing a deep sense of inner fulfillment.

I don't think these are actually that different: in both philosophies, the end state — whether that of a Buddhist arhat or a Stoic sage — is to be pretty much happy with whatever's going on, and the path is essentially to become aware of the bad in the good and the good in the bad. Really, I think the main difference is that the Stoic philosophy is phrased and framed in a more accessible way, but the practices complement each other well.

Concretely, imagine your dog is sick and will probably die. Stoicism tells you to appreciate every moment you have left with your dog but to vividly imagine your experience of him dying to lessen the blow when he does, and to prepare yourself for (and convince yourself of!) that eventuality. Buddhism would suggest you meditate on the mental talk, mental imagery, and emotional body sensations associated with your experience of the trauma. These are, in my mind, complementary ways to cultivate equanimity, and are even better used together than separately.
yappi?

https://bitbucket.org/sumerc/yappi/
I've never understood why flame graphs are better than the normal presentation of inclusive and exclusive timings in performance tools, even if they're not "modern", but embody some decades' experience. Anyone care to explain?
It still exists, but the default changed.

Now you can go to menu -> Customize and drag it where you want.
Some insults are simply worse depending on who they are targeting. It is the difference between calling GW Bush a monkey because he occasionally looked like a monkey and Obama being called a monkey as a racial slur. The former is a childish insult that is easy to ignore. The latter is a form of bigotry that shouldn't be tolerated.
I think you are over-estimating how many responsible states there are: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri...

> The funding gap for the state pension plans studied reached $1.4 trillion in 2016—an increase of $295 billion from 2015. State contribution policies proved insufficient to deal with the unfunded liabilities already on the books. Even if all assumptions had been met, the funding gap would have grown by $13 billion. Instead, investments fell short of assumptions for the second year in a row, leaving state pension debt at historic highs.

> Other measures of fiscal vulnerability also show cause for concern. The gap between returns on safe investments and state pension plan investment assumptions was the highest in decades. Independent analyses suggest that states can assume returns of about 6.5 percent a year for at least the next 10 years; 5 percent or lower returns are a real possibility over the next 20 years.7 While strong investment performance in 2017 would lower reported unfunded liabilities in the short term, measures of plan cash flow show that state pension plans increasingly depend on investment performance to keep assets from declining. All of these measures show that plans are more vulnerable to volatility than in the recent past, which could have an adverse impact on funds in the future.

Meanwhile in California, and probably all the other underwater states soon enough: https://reason.com/blog/2017/10/05/pension-costs-are-forcing...

> California public pension plans are funded on the basis of policies and assumptions that can delay recognition of their true cost. Even with this delay, local and state governments are facing increasingly higher pension costs—costs that are certain to continue their rise over the next one to two decades, even under assumptions that critics regard as optimistic. As budgets are squeezed, what are state and local governments cutting? Core services, including higher education, social services, public assistance, welfare, recreation and libraries, health, public works, and in some cases, public safety.

There's a deep irony in re-electing Jerry Brown to fix the problem he made in the 70s with his giveaways to the public sector, which will be paid for by the private sector who generally is compensated much much less.
Much of the point of a dog whistle (as I understand it) is plausible deniability. The parent comment stands: shutting it down over something that "may mean something" -- even though with context you may be quite sure -- is a bad look.

The next step is simply to point at the myriad of other times anyone called someone a rat on Twitter and Twitter is left to defend a position of shutting people down over what they were thinking when they wrote something.

They should have used one of the many better reasons they had for this this case.
It's better to have as wide a diversity of animals and plants as possible. It doesn't matter what the animals care about, which is probably food a sex, though I think if they had the capacity they would prefer to not die out.

When a species dies out the world loses something. We should focus on keeping as many as possible. "What is the point of a life of suffering?" All life has suffering, I think that animals in captivity have a great deal less suffering than many wild animals do. Old animals don't have the luxury of a quick relatively painless death, but get old and starve or killed [1].

No we're not keeping animals (except in good zoos) for the sake of keeping a species going. But it is a side effect that has kept some species going.

[1] This is a great story of a pride of lions that lived very brutal lives. https://steemit.com/writing/@ollie7/band-of-brothers-the-leg...
Is Oliver Darcy Jewish?
There's no way they can ban him for saying that yet still claim to enforce the rules equally for all political affiliations.

It's not the government, they absolutely can ban people for anything they want and they don't have to be consistent about it. There's nothing you can do about this it than deleting your account, complaining about them on the internet, and/or acquiring a seat on their board of directors and effecting change from within. I suppose a hostile takeover of the entire company should be mentioned, too.

Furthermore, "neutrality" is a figment of your imagination.
He was put on notice by Twitter with a week ban. That's the exact circumstance where someone like him would start using coded language to try and avoid a ban while still promoting his ideas. That's the purpose of coded language.
Sorry, what? Could you expand on this? What do you mean by doing away with URLs?
Have you tried "The Economist"? It is weekly, in-depth, no fluff (mostly). Give them your money. Well worth it.
You haven't followed the recent Bears Ears controversy, have you? :-)
Not a criticism, merely truths about the industry.

Also, from Nvidia's founding to now, things have radically changed. It's depressing how winner-take-all semi has become. Nvidia could tape-out at $300k, today it's $2M. Number of semi players has reduced drastically even within the last 5 years
what constitutes a doorway ? does it need a door ? a frame ? what's the minimal set of cues that causes the effect ?
> As a user, I think about "saving" as a process to persist my work.

PNG is just a compressed pixel-to-colorspace format. It does not and cannot contain most of the information in your work. When you save a .png you're basically doing something similar to compiling C to machine language. You permanently lost all the high level information, possibly in a way you cannot track back (in the case of .JPG). This is not saving, your work will not persist, the format you're "saving" is specifically engineered in a way it doesn't persist any more information than it needs. I hope we agree thus far. As I said above, it's merely a terminological difference, in gimp this process is called "exporting" and I can't understand why this is such a big deal. You literally wouldn't be able to navigate Gimp or Photoshop or Blender etc without having basic knowledge about the program (i.e. looking at the manual) like where menus are etc, and this is just one instance.

> If there might be technical fine-grained issues, show me a warning sign in the save dialog, but don't come up with a process that "makes me think".

Is this a joke? You literally have to just click the very next button under "Save" which reads "Export As". What "makes you think"?
> This is a dumb change. No part of a domain should be considered "trivial". As an ISP, we often have to go to great lengths to teach users that "www.domain.com" and "domain.com" are two different domains...

What ISPs teach their users anymore these days? Why the heck do we want to go back to that?

Time for a modicum of historical perspective.

If you care about usability this is clearly an improvement. This is part of a long-running industry trend -- Safari does this too -- to improve the usability of the Internet and technology in general.

At EVERY STEP in that journey there has whining and griping from the more technically advanced folks (like all of us on this forum). They zero in on the negatives, the tradeoffs that come with simplification. They don't see the positives because they're technically advanced enough and don't benefit from simplification (or so they think).

Then after the griping whines (sic) down and they realize the world didn't end and the downsides really weren't that bad and we move forward towards a better, simpler, more usable web.

Like, who actually runs separate HTTP servers on example.com and www.example.com anyway? Everyone is hyperventilating over contrived "the principle of it all" examples. Bottom line, Apple & Google are putting usability above technical pedantry. That's the right priority for mass market technology products.
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In Australia the official retirement age when you can start to receive a pension (or access your own retirement money without penalties) was recently moved up to 67.

The new Prime Minister just announced he won't raise it to 70, which was on the table. I think it's clear that's just a sign of things to come.
Agreed. They should have banned him far sooner.
Can Sublime export a textmate theme? If so, yes, you can import a .tmTheme file into VS Code. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensions/themes-snippet...
Uber predicts to offer more rides on electric bicycles and scooters than cars
> That would mean they believe if you "wrote it correctly the first time" you wouldn't need to refactor.

Great, then we can save the money spent on version control as well!

I actually had someone suggest this to me as I was installing a VCS. ("Why don't you just write it correctly the first time?")
I like the idea. Check out my list "Daily Stuff for Founder" where I post a daily resource that might be interesting/useful for founders: https://huggylist.com/list/1536198504878x785808309764751400
Like everything else, it will probably use a shim.
They passed $100M in revenue. Assuming their growth and other numbers are good, this isn't crazy at all. The only thing that is different is that this was a private funding rather than an IPO. Used to be that companies would go public by the time they got here.
I should have added an /s
Since when does the broadness of an observation or argument have any impact on its validity? Who made up that rule?
The argument was against their claim to enforce the rules neutrally, not that it's illegal.
I was born in Mitchell, South Dakota in 1965.

According to the site:

1965: 31 days over 90

2018: 25 days over 90

Interesting.
Not really, though I imagine you'd be able to find 2% of Utah that nobody will care about in particular. I love Utah as much as anyone, especially in winter, but I wouldn't want all of the US look exactly like Utah -- and the whole US is about as large as Sahara is.
This is overly simplistic. Everybody has their own thresholds. The tamer the 'last straw' the easier it is to twist the message.
I'm in the "basic usually better" camp too, but this doesn't matter, as we're all in agreement here! We want to know whether we're on the "better" or "worse" version of the site, for whatever each of us mean by "better" or "worse".
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To start your journey, begin here! :)

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Solo_401(k)_plan

There's several mainstream providers listed on the site:
- Fidelity
- Schwab
- T. Rowe Price
- Vanguard

Each has various fee structures, features, and tiers of hand-holding depending on how savvy you are financially and needs.

For example, some providers can act as the actual plan administrator for your i401k relieving you of the burden of liability in bookkeeping and may or may not support loans or certain withdrawal types or even traditional versus Roth contributions. Those top four listed above are examples of these.

However, other providers are simply accounting firms that allow you to bring your own plan document in advanced financial engineering mode to support things like Substantially Equal Periodic Payments for distributions in early retirement, mega-backdoor after-tax contributions wizardry, rollover/transfer features that are technically allowed by the IRS but usually missing from mainstream 401k plan documents like accepting incoming Roth 401k transfers or in-service withdrawals to use the i401k simply as a qualified plan conduit into checkbook control of an IRA for advanced self-directed investments or into a previous employers 401k for less fees or better investment options and especially to ensure creditor protection due to the identicalness between plan trustee of the i401k and employee participant ending up muddling the legal waters between what assets are afforded ERISA protection against debt liability claims in case you or your business are sued and collections judgements are levied.

I hope this hasn't confused you a lot, or made you nervous about investigating considering you 'only' spent most a day so far researching this.

If you just want a quick default, I'd probably go with Fidelity or Vanguard. In the paperwork, you _are_ the "employer" in the language of 401k terminology -- we wear two hats in this regard where you act both as making employer decisions like providing your employee (also you) salary deferrals (the current ~$18K limit) or employer contributions (the rest of the fillup toward ~$53K depending on profits). If they need a EIN, it's going to be your SSN as a passthrough sole proprietorship.
> Furthermore, "neutrality" is a figment of your imagination.

Neutral is what Dorsey claimed in the video I linked to. I'm saying here is direct evidence, the next day, that they are not actually neutral.
210k is what you’d get as a junior though