skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They blocked the account but as you can see from the bottom of the screenshot in the article the account could be reinstated by deleting the tweet in question. If the author is honestly saying they no longer stand by what they posted 9 years ago they could easily just delete it and move on.

That raises a bunch of different questions about what Twitter are doing to change history, and the way they represent their platform, but those are separate to the banning of users based on their history.

Besides, this might be motivated by Twitter acting on a complaint. It could be that Sarah Palin (or someone representing her) complained about the tweet recently, in which case Twitter need to deal with that now.
Life is a funnel. Everything is a matter of numbers and setting the odds in your favor.

From the % probability to get into a Uni for a student, to the probability of raising a good series C for a successful CEO. Passing through the probability of finding a good life partner.

Successful people have realized this and either learn to improve their funnel % or they increase their numbers.... the later is the easiest. Just keep applying and by pure statistics, you will land a job you want to.
> (which is not user friendly)

For the pityful group of users who use the default US keymap.
And the energy comes without emissions? :)
It does say EVs are solving the wrong problem, which (OP says) is that our consumerist lifestyle is unsustainable.
There's a huge rabbit hole you can go down :) Finding products (either reselling existing ones, having your own made, ...). Many people do this successfully on Amazon (as many benefits as caveats)

Launching something on your own e-commerce platform is pretty hard, requiring either an extremely attractive product that spreads with word of mouth, or you need to invest heavily in "social" or SEO. Otherwise you just won't stand out anymore.
That's a pretty uncharitable reading of TFA. My take-away is this: if we use the electric car as a way to persuade ourselves that our 'way of life' is safe if only we all switched to electric vehicles then we are ignoring the elephant in the room: it is our way of life that is the problem, not how we transport ourselves.
Jumping stilts - apparently also known as bocking/powerbocking:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_stilts
I don't want a Ministry of Truth filtering what I'm allowed to hear. In a functional democracy, education and robust debate are supposed to be the defenses against misinformation.

Most western democracies long since scrapped proper education because it's easier to win the support of the population with propaganda^H public relations than it is to make a reasoned argument.
Good start. It becomes even more beneficial with more time and by learning from a real live person.
My life has improved dramatically doing TM for the last 15 years.
For clarity, Bill Gates is also a very prolific guy that people love to hate. I take some time every day to curse both of them for the amount of dispair that they cause with their offsprings.
London Stock Exchange Blames “Software Issue” for Delayed Open
The big issue, which I have received significant consternation of "ownership", is that these mega-corps are creating their own dictatorships online. And they are how "speech" is conducted, given their monopoly on where the people are.

The obvious and most consistent counterclaim is that these are "private entities who can choose whom to deal with".

That statement is predicated on the facetious assertion that a corporation is a human, and should be treated as such and provided latitude as one. It obviously is not. And with their clout in personnel, money, lawyers, and more - they are a uberhuman.

The path forward seems clear. Corporations should not be treated the same as real humans. And their powers should be limited to prevent these formations of super-countries with draconian and arbitrary laws, just because technology allows them so.
I don't think the first chapters focus on any kind of goal. They were mostly mechanical stuff that would probably apply to any kind of meditative activity.

I haven't really gone beyond the first few chapters. I think the book, if you really want to go with it all along, gives a few years content of practicing for most people.

It's true there's some spiritual content in it, but I was largely ignoring it and it didn't bother me at all.
Well, he was banned for violating the Twitter rules, and those rules didn't exist at the time.

Getting a message saying something like "this message violates the rules today, so we're going to delete it" or "delete this message within a week or we'll have to ban your account" would seem more reasonable to me than immediate ex post facto enforcement.
Well no one can make illegal copies of Windows, its the same with iOS.
> Zubrin has taken a familiar approximation -- that the field near a flat charged plate is uniform -- and forgotten that it's only an approximation, and that the keyword is "near".

Near is all that matters in a plasma, since charged particles leaving the device will get screened and decouple from it within a few Debye lengths. Zubrin of course knows this. Read the paper.

> As particles leave the vicinity of the drive, they will be attracted back toward it, reversing the momentum transfer.

As particles leave the vicinity of the drive, they will get screened off and decouple from the drive.

On top of that, there is a more general problem with the "correct explanation", even in a vacuum: it only considers the effect of the capacitor on the ion, but not of the ion on the capacitor.

When the ion "climbs a big hill to get through the first plate", it loses kinetic energy. When the ion is accelerated between the plates, it gains kinetic energy. When the ion climbs back out of the potential on the other side of the capacitor, it again loses kinetic energy. Where is all that energy being transferred to?

Right, to the capacitor. When the capacitor is absorbing energy, mutually repelling charges on each plate are being forced a little closer together. It's like loading a spring. When the capacitor is releasing energy, those charges are moving further away from each other again, like releasing the spring.

Of course, this means that the capacitor's electric field is changing as the ion goes by.

If there is no power source hooked up to the capacitor, the moving back and forth of charges on its plates will inevitably cause some losses; energy will be dissipated as heat, and in the end, you will actually have reduced the passing ion's speed.

But of course, the capacitor in a drive is hooked up to a power source. It does work to keep the charges on the plates locked in place as the ion goes by. If it is perfectly successful (it isn't, of course, but it can get pretty close), the charges on the plates will not move at all, and the capacitor's field will be constant throughout the ion's passage.

So the field is constant because you have a power source doing work, spending energy, to keep it constant while the ion is passing through.

Where does all that energy end up in the end? Not in the field (hey, it's constant). Some of it is dissipated as heat, but the rest goes to the ion, as kinetic energy.
Phyre: A New Benchmark for Physical Reasoning
I had an HTC TyTn II back in about 2006. It was flawed but ultimately it was a pretty good device given the limitations of the time. Trying to cram Windows on to a phone without changing things was a mistake obviously, but for some things (email..) it was awesome.
18 hour old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708116
It doesn't matter how you estimate depth, but you do have to estimate it to drive, and the first step before you can estimate is that your eyes (eye in your example) need to see pictures. Light entering the eye is an entirely different stage in the process than reasoning about said light.
It isn't, but $60 per year for a service you've been getting for years is perfectly fine, until it isn't. And then you realise the value of the dollars spent, but not before.
> The trade off might be poorer digestive efficiency if the cow relies on this bacteria to break down some common molecule.

We drifted a little, but the top-level comment of this same thread started out to suggest that if any, the effect might even be positive for the cow.
The bill was not withdrawn. It is likely that some of the violence was from undercover cops. But yes, optics matter, that's why they apologised after the airport.
It mentions Neko, which has its own Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
Thanks for explaining. This is the first time I’m hearing about this issue. I’ll pass it to the team so it can get fixed.
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It probably "A Haskell program compiles does not crash if you don't use a specific set of functions".

But it probably could be true for a lot of languages, but for Haskell, the set is much smaller

Dependent type can let you achieve some degree of semantic correctness above that. Either by refined types or proof. But it's not generally applied because there are a lot of things we just couldn't prove yet.
Ah Motif, XBill and Afterstep! My nostalgia bit just got set.

My first experiences of GUI programming on Unix (HPUX on a Motorola 68040 machine) was with Motif, which was a pretty good toolkit after you got used to the very long function names.
Tesla Service Is Criticized in BMW’s Backyard
I haven't used any of them. I've heard good things about them though from other people using them.

I myself think that meditation is the hardest - and for me the most effective - when I do it with as few external stimuli as possible.
Shameless plug: you can use services like Twitter Archive Eraser (https://martani.github.io/Twitter-Archive-Eraser/) to selectively delete old tweets and in bulk.

Many of us identify with the author and most content created on social media years ago have no reason to stay around.
I have a problem with this whole concept that you don't get to have ideas and test them, but that the ideation and words themselves make you something or means you are or have become something.

It's dishonest, lacks any legitimacy, and it is the root of the culture war. Words only have the consequences the reader or listener gives them, they do not have intrinsic consequences in themselves. The fantasy that mere belief is transformative or redeeming is a seductive deception.

Platforms should demonstrate they are principled before merely driving certain interests, even (especially) if they are convinced those interests are the right ones.
The Reuters article stated that the flight only lasted 2 minutes. They didn’t even have time to warn and prepare the passengers.
It was a plea not an order and I will do that every other day again.
Lots of folks do it, no one is tries to make money off of it (or at least stops trying after the initial letters from IBM legal arrives).

Hercules is an interesting case because it's widely rumored to be used inside IBM to run modern System Z releases.

In this case however the company in question isn't just making and selling an emulator you can run iOS on, its selling hosted iOS as a service, which is a clear license violation - just making the emulator and instructions for use available for sale would be quite legal.
The law profession has the bar and licensing that requires you to be licensed to practice law.

Why can't we have something similar for such professions?
They don't make a real difference, and the author is correct about it. If you drive towards a wall and you're accelerating and all you're doing is slowing the rate of acceleration you're still going to run into the wall at terminal velocity.

The author correctly points out that the total increase in car usage, mostly conventional engines is going to offset the small dent that electric cars make, and that cars themselves are only a small fraction of the transportation industry to begin with.

And not to mention that there's global shipping, construction, meat consumption all of which is by itself faster increasing than any environemntal solution in the respective domains which all only marginally change the equation to begin with.

Our ecosystem doesn't care whether we tried really hard and if we were really good citizens or whether we did nothing, all that matters at the end is if our efforts were significant enough to not degrade our environment. And we're off by a magnitude or two and that's not going to change until we make radical changes to how we manage our societies.
This is why so many people are deleting old posts, whether it;s Facebook, Instagram , YouTube, or Twitter. Users are at the mercy of algorithms and content moderators, and appeal is often impossible for violating these arbitrary rules.
Immediately a twitter archive would pop up though.
Low carbon energy! The article listed pure renewable energy but if it was biofuel, emissions would be high. We must stop talking about renewability and focus on sustainable, low-carbon energy. They are not the same.

Further example: nuclear fusion is low carbon and sustainable but not considered renewable. If we charged EVs with nuclear fusion power stations, we'd all be happy.
Please see "not 100% accurate." I get that uncontrolled circumstances are inevitable, but hearing others bitch and complain about how good others have it while riding their pity pony drives me mad.

The original author (clearly not living in slums) didn't have to get married, have two kids, and take out a mortgage on a home. Also, being a mediocre developer is in his control too.

Get your big boy panties on, change your mindset, and make change in your life, not excuses.
That did not require a change in lifestyle. Substitutes were found for all freon applications.
Please don't use code formatting for quotes. It makes your text unreadable on mobile.
In fact the first chapter of From Dictatorship To Democracy warns against negotiations too early in the process. You have to be in position of power first, then negotiate.
>It is definitely an immature tweet, however I think 9 years can change a person a lot.

Absolutely, I have blog posts from 2001 I leave up that are absolutely horrid.

In 2001 I was a 16 year old, who's father had died 12 days before his 13th birthday and was moved to another school a few months later where he had no friends and fell in with the punk/goth crowd. I didn't care about school, all I cared about was music and getting high or running around shows or the mall while tripping. I said stupid shit on livejournal under a username only my friends knew, mostly complaining about my mother and school. I now host those on RyanMercer.com, wholly attributed to me.

That's who I was when I was 16, it's not who I am now.

Now I post about problems we face as a civilization, I post about things that interest me, I post about things that scare me, I post about how we need to come together and put aside foolish things to focus on ensuring a better future for ourselves and our offspring but I'm not going to hide who I was 18 years ago. Now I put thought into my posts, I don't rush to a computer to type "oh my god I hate them all blah blah blah raging against society", I'm not going to try and cover that up as that's part of my experience, who I was is part of who I am, if anything it shows that people can mature.
It'd be perfectly legal at that point, as the infringement would be with the end user at that point.
The bad words certainly - it is the banality of "moralistic enforcers" where you can teach young men to drop fire from above but they can't write "fuck" on their bombs because it is obscene.

That sort of mindless focus on bad words that might make people uncomfortable instead of you know - actual problems has been with us for centuriea unfortunately and has gotten better compared to regularly enforced obscenity laws - which are fucking obscene to anyone who stops to use their fucking brain for once.

So we were spending all of this money and oppressing with violence because a bunch of people are offended because they were told to be offended?
That said use of resources could be used on /anything fucking else/ like patroling, doing reviews of random ceiminal sentences is actual fucking obscenity.
Unfettered access to information requires unfettered access to incorrect information.

The power to decide what's "correct" will be abused to block correct information that damages someone powerful.
Your corporate network is using network address translation (NAT) to map an external address, shown on icanhazip.com, to a local network address, shown in ipconfig. You likely share this external address with many other users and mapping services to it will be challenging without having access to the routing/forwarding configuration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation
> How do you justify ever changing anything

By rolling out the change over a period of time to a small sample of users and comparing the experimental effect to a control sample.
D pure function aren't really pure though. They can modify the arguments that are passed in. Great concept otherwise.
I think the problem with this is that there will always be "unethical" ways to work around the legal system. In fact, having more laws can make this easier and more obscure.
So, based on the second paragraph of article:

It’s honestly a very immature tweet. It’s something I wouldn’t say
today. I have personally grown past the hate of the two party system.
I feel like I have a clearer and more mature view on American
elections, as well as seeing past the endless media designed to keep
most people angry. This tweet was from a different era in my life. I’m
not proud of it, yet it is a part of my history. Furthermore, it’s
nearly a decade old.

are you suggesting that this reader is too thoughtful for twitter?

Or that by allowing them to stay on the platform, they provide an example that people can temper their political extremism over time by maturation and introspection, thereby disproving that the flyswatter techniques you seemingly prefer for the moderation of discourse may be ill-suited to actually promoting healthy discourse?

I'm not following the logic.
It seems that the answer is not simply to switch to other corporate website that does twitter like things, but rather change to a federated tool that people can run themselves. This would by it's nature prevent censorship.
I also feel that they make the 2D annotator's job very hard. I wore an eye patch yesterday (having fun with kids) and reality became extremely confusing. Our brain does not annotate on static 2D images. We annotate on stereoscopic video of moving objects.
Things like this were fun if you could use Linux to access windows via a samba share with write access. You could make all kinds of directories that explorer wouldn't handle correctly.

Also reminds me of a bug that was common in Adobe Reader that would create a very deep recursion of adobe folders in the users directory. You could not delete said files because the path was far too long. Had to use SUBST to map it to a shorter path then delete your way up.
I think you can start a competitor but the lack of censorship is actually an anti-feature for most people as, at least in the modern internet, it seems to get your site filled with white supremacists. The social space is actually fairly crowded right now with Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Discord, the chans, Twitter, and a ton bunch of smaller ones (like HN) and they almost all fall into similar "censorship" models and I think that just reflects a the market right now (which is an interesting balance because neither side is really happy).
Who is to say what they can get. No sense giving up before you’ve started fighting.
So how do you feel about blog platforms or other service providers that allow posting user-supplied comments on their platform? Should companies and non-profits all be required be to expend resources to keep your hateful comments available to the world?

How do we determine what's spam? What's advertising? What's XSS? You have a first amendment right to type any of these things into an input box. Does that mean the organization receiving your message legally has to post it, even if it fails to meet a basic requirement of not breaking their platform or insulting their user-base?

Are terms-of-service a violation of someone's first amendment? In my case where I am the only employee of my small platform, do I not have a first amendment right to not host content I disagree with on my domain with my own servers?
With respect, thats not what they are claiming

They are saying that lidar enhances the perception system to get more accurate dimensions and rotations of objects to a greater distance.

this means that you can predict far better, allowing you, for example, to drive at night full speed.

Weather affects visual systems as well. The "ooo rain kills lidar" is noise at best. Visual cameras are crap at night.

There is a reason that the radar augmented depth perception demo is in bright light, no rain. Because it almost certainly doesn't work as well at night, and will probably need a separate model.
> worth nothing (sic)

Indeed.

I mean who'd do that when there are plenty of server-side templating solutions that don't have to live by React's constraints (vdom/DOM diffing) only making things difficult? The only use case for React SSR seems quick first-page rendering and SEO.
People don't use autocad for art, do they? I don't think Autodesk and Blender are really competitors. I could be wrong, though.
I am sorry to be the guy who does that, but do you know what does Khara mean in Arabic? this brings back memories of the app that went successful in Brazil because the name meant something "naughty".
Unfortunately looks to me that if you do not have a Ministry of Truth, you end up with a society where private actors pump people with soma[1]. Personally, I am willing to accept a restricted version of Ministry of Truth to avoid that outcome.

[1]See Huxley, Brave new world.
I have been meditating 20 years now (zazen). I do 2-4 hours a day. Several 7 day retreats per year.

My starting motivation was philosophical and academic interest. I was curious how it affects the mind. Then I did it because it seemed so hard to do, mind seemed like a buggy device I had no control over. I also had self improvement goals at some point. And feeling balanced is a good feeling.

But there is no way I can justify the amount of time I spend meditating with any of those. Meditation teachers say that first you start to work with meditation, then it starts to work with you. The whole view of the world changes.

I'm completely secular humanist but meditation has turned into spiritual practice. If I worship something, it's this moment. Asking why I meditate is like asking why people go surfing. Staying in the moment and balancing on the wave between the past and the future is not a activity you do for gaining any other goals. Being alive and experiencing the raw existence is something you sacrifice other things in your life.
Over 50% of Google searches now result in zero clicks
Wow....generous person. Thanks for the downvote. I have an identical answer to like 1/5 of the people here. I guess even popularity is a great reason to censor!
> The bill was not withdrawn.

Same difference, really...
and no other effects? only lower methane emissions?
Are you suggesting we need to keep a balance between war and peace? That too much peace will lead to our extinction?
It's hard to do that delibrately right? I think this is an accident(I could be wrong). On the other hand, in the Chinese media they report some protestor bite a police officer's finger off.