skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 401k has been all t bills since January 2018. Since then it’s been a super rocky ride for stocks, and I’ve skipped both massive crashes and stupendous surges- feels like an equally risky move to just keeping everything in stocks. But, I’m not going back in until valuations go back to some kind of sanity.
You are advocating censorship of "objectionable" views. Who is to judge what is and what is not "objectionable" and what can and cannot be spoken in public? This is absolutely wrong.

To do this is to revisit some of the worst days of the 20th century. I am astonished that views like this are getting more popular. Have we learned nothing from history?

In all seriousness, what do you think will be the eventual outcome when you marginalise people this way? Don't just reply to me here. Go and do some real reading.
You hit on an important point here. Regardless of your ethical opinion on current event, deplatforming/censorship/banning/etc... is going to push more and more people to communicate on more anonymouse p2p censorship resistant platforms, and 10 years from now, those might be the standard.
Technology is politics. Politics is technology. You can't wholly separate them.

I have read that there was a week or so in 2016 when HN tried banning all political stories, and it was decided that it didn't work.
Money printers are going brrrr all over the world. Bitcoin, gold and equities are all good inflation-hedges. Cash is trash. Make sure you own things instead.
Can you elaborate? “It’s a marketing gimmick” is a judgement without any value if you don’t explain why you think that.
One of the more egregious examples in my mind was Nixon just walking away from Apollo hardware. What a tragic waste.
Tolerance of anti-semitism? How can that ever be right? I picked that specific hypothetical for a reason because I think the speech being “censored” here is inherently wrong, I.e it has no place in public discourse.
I mostly use Google
> according to whom?

According to history, common sense, and several world religions.

What doesn't "advance" as an argument is using a senile boomer self-own chimpout as a justification for FAANG absolutism. One of these guys literally tazed his own balls! I believe natural selection will be quite sufficient here.
> Private companies' interest should have little, if any, control over the ability of the public to speak

This is the back door to authoritarianism. This basic premise would allow the government to reach in and force companies to associate against their will. This power will be abused.

> Speech without a platform isn't speech at all

This is utter nonsense. By this logic, speech without access to a bullhorn or an editorial board isn’t speech at all.

You have a right to speak without being prosecuted by the government. Pretending that you have a right to a Twitter account or an equivalent thereof is both silly, it’s incredibly entitled.
Oh, come now. Worse than Fichte and Schelling? Hegel is pretty tough going, but I found The Science of Knowledge to be something like trying to shovel packed snow with a spork.
Most brokers don’t let you use margin to buy options. IB has portfolio margin for options, but most retail brokers don’t.
Thats specifically why I said you're going to see colors of this in both sides. In particular the fringe left and right.
Better to be hated by everyone than counted among the nazis. You can moderate speech, but the first step is to stop caring about the opinions of the chattering classes such as is found on HN (or on Twitter for that matter.)
Neither is Kosovo.
Why you won't delete WhatsApp?
Would you mind describing some more advanced methods?
You really shouldn't buy a special oil just got seasoning your cast iron and carbon steel. It's not necessary. Pick an oil with a high smoke point, a neutral taste, and plenty of easy availability. That's often peanut. Avocado is great if you're fancy.

Keep a squirt bottle of oil on hand and make sure you're using enough. Using soap to clean your pans will make maintaining your seasoning easier, as you use less effort to clean them. See this if you're skeptical: https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/11/the-truth-about-cast-iro...

I had friends dedicate years to flax seed oil. They're not happy about it, as they've got flaking to deal with. I also had friends disbelieve me that soap was okay, and they've mostly come around after hearing me swear by it for years.
Very good summary of some of the weaknesses in the Fediverse. Federated systems are not as good as fully decentralized ones. Today I'm starting a new experiment on my own web platform called quanta.wiki (I'm a Java developer) to investigate how to make it fully decentralized where everyone at least (at first) holds a copy of their entire fiefdom. Once the 'fiefdom' is not able to be shut down by targeting it's DNS name (hosting service), we can have a social media infrastructure that cannot be censored at all, like a blockchain.
Scuttlebutt inverts this idea of cancelling — as a new user you're just shouting into the void until you persuade someone to follow you.

Essentially, each user is just writing their own diary. If you follow someone, your client periodically asks around for a copy of that person's diary.

No-one's gonna ask for the spammers' diaries.
> a.zip(b).map(func1).filter(func2).forall(func3)

Lets make this a somewhat concrete example.

---

heights = [1,2,3]

widths = [4,5,6]

# printing area greater than 10

# functional

heights.zip(widths).map(to_area).filter(lambda area: area > 10).forall(lambda a: print("Area " + a)

#Verbose way

hw_zipped = zip(a,b)

areas = hw_zipped.map(to_inches)

big_areas = areas.filter(a: a > 10)

for a in big_areas:
print("Area " + a)

---

Which do you prefer? I would argue the right level of abstraction is the functional way in this example, and its often the case in my experience, especially in python where you don't often use a namespace to store these intermediary variables and you have can't rely on typing
Turning to the past to power Windows’ future: An in-depth look at WinRT (2012)
I would like to remind everyone who was shitting on the porche the other day that all the complaints you made about it are still valid here...just because you have stock doesn't mean you are entitled to a double standard on HN.
How to season cast iron:

Cook with it. Use oil / fat.

Honestly, cast iron is about the most forgiving cooking surface you will find. People love to make it more difficult than it is.

Edit:

Some additional tips on cast iron:

Setting 4 / 10 (slightly below medium) is the default heat setting, and you have to really have something specific in mind to ever go above 5. I find that people who are used to teflon pans like to go up into the medium-high range. Things don't end well up there with cast iron.

Also buy a metal spatula. You aren't going to hurt anything, and it will be a more satisfying cooking experience. Plastic + cast iron is just going to leave you with a melted spatula. There used to be a ubiquitous metal spatula design, but I can never find them anymore. I've found it is much better to use something small like a cake / bar server than something big like a grilling spatula.

Don't cook on cold cast iron. The trick my mom showed me is you always wait until a splash of water (get your fingers wet and flick it on the pan) will start boiling on contact. If it boils into nothing immediately, you are too hot. If it just sits there and does nothing, you aren't hot enough yet.
Both sound better than 'element' to me.

"Comms app" isn't exactly what I expect to be 'atomic', or 'simple', either. Aaand "Element Matrix Services"? bitch, please... XD

'Element' is so un-cybery, feels dated. First association is Bam Margera and teenage skateboard consumer culture. The uncool one, lacking punk rock and attitude. Such a 2000s word.

Anyway, naming things is hard and annoying, so I am glad they found something _they like <3
I don't see a problem with your question. Yes, if Amazon gives you 24 hours, then you move somewhere else.

What's your concern? Do you think AWS should be required to host violent insurrectionists?
Given that almost all of the intelligence agencies concluded that Iraq did not have WMDs, it was not at all "exactly like" the attribution to Russia.

But welcome to HN
Likewise, LaTeX isn't pronounced as the rubber derivative, but as "Lah-tecchh" /ˈlɑːtɛx/ (IPA via Wikipedia)
What's your better, alternative option?

You're saying that $1MM in retirement isn't as much as you'd like...so...it'd be better to have nothing and have saved zero?
It's unclear how this course applies or is customized specifically for lawyers. There would be a much clearer value proposition for lawyers if it was summarized in a way like - learn how to build APIs - examining the key claims and decisions from the Oracle v. Google Java API case. As advertised, it seems like a regular CS overview course. They're definitely on to something, it seems like a class to help attorneys better understand key concepts of programming to be better attorneys, rather than a transition from the law to programming career. If that's the case, they need to do a better job advertising how each bullet point will help them become better attorneys.

It also might have more credibility if they had an instructor who was an attorney.
Mathcha – Online Mathematics Editor
How did the tweet violate the TOS exactly?
Historically, withdrawing 4% of your initial portfolio annually gives you a good but not perfect success rate with a 30-year retirement. I wouldn't say a $40K annual income is just shy of mansion/caviar territory.

Further, if you believe the historical data enough to rely on that, you should also believe the same data which says when CAPE ratios are high, the safe withdrawal rate goes to 3% or less.
If not, the proper measure punishment for a saying or writing should be determined by a court of law, not a company.
When a forest burns, most of what burns is new growth: grass, leaves, needles, branches, etc. Rarely do trees fully incinerate, even in the hottest spots. I imagine the charred matchsticks left behind still contain the majority of a tree’s carbon.
What's the issue with the page on Falun Gong?
"Sorry, you're not a 'culture fit' here."
Is it a violence when a woman's sole purpose is produce babies for her husband? Is it so when it's done in the name of social norms and cultural convention?
100% crypto
The ISIS comment is a great analogy. I've been very conflicted with all of this, but you've made a really good point. I guess we did already draw a line. I'm interested to see how that line moves or doesn't in the future now though. I have no idea how things will transpire, so I can only wait and see.
me:

50% equities (where gains are derived)

25% gold (assumption that gold doesn't "crash")

25% cash (dry powder)
Great article!

For those interested in an open source design embodying these techniques, I have an open source hardware design here: https://github.com/russellmcc/dco with a blog write-up here: https://www.russellmcc.com/posts/2013-12-01-DCO.html .

Also of relevance is an open source hardware design for the later roland alpha juno digital oscillator design: https://github.com/russellmcc/alphaosc https://www.russellmcc.com/posts/2019-06-14-Alpha-DCO.html
Agreed. This article started a fad when it came out 10 years ago, and now everybody agrees flaxseed oil is a bad choice, "science-based" as this may claim to be.
It will not affect their stock.
Once you have 150 million inbound links, the strategy choices are easy - focus on content quality! But you have to remember what Day 1 was looking like: a tiny community, no inbound links, and a fair amount of other encyclopedia competitors trying to attract authors. Now the strategy choices are quite interesting - at the beginning of a startup you have just enough energy/runway to "kill it" in one area. Which one do you focus on? Generating the world's best content alone without the heavy lifting they've done on deep interlinking and other SEO-friendly moves wouldn't have cut it.
I always thought this would be really fun to run over ham radio.
I'll leave it in trackers a d ignore it
It wasn't hard when all the big apps and most of the big instances blocked it between the announcement and launch. The instances that didn't block it mostly looked like Gab anyway.
> all(map(func3, filter(func2, map(func1, zip(a, b))))

That is super readable to me. Working left to right or inside out. There is one, clear, balanced, familiar, consistently used punctuation to guide you, parens, if you need it but adds little noise if you dont.

The “bunch of functions taking and returning an iterator” is a great paradigm. So clean and flexiable, and powerfull. ESP combined with Python’s “many things are iterable” and is trivial to write your own iterator
Reducing complexity should never be about platform (on-prem vs cloud).

It should be about constructing software in partnership with the business and reducing complexity with modeled boundaries.

You can leverage the cloud to do some interesting things, but the true benefit in is _what_ you construct, not _how_.
Debatable. Socialism is depriving people of the right to own private property and instead having a central authoritative figure decide who gets what. That sounds like fascism to me. And no public services is not socialism. The fire department is a public service funded by the capital markets. People like to confuse this.
So somewhere between a military coup and a bloodless coup [1] is what’s being attempted by the current President.

I think we can all agree that if Trump succeeded, a large number of people would call it a coup and they would be right.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_revolution#
I'd rather have this not censored and for the whole world to see than swept under the rug.

Censorship is not a solution, it's the problem. Both in China and in Silicon Valley.
It's a very unique property. Not among image optimizers, but among tools that can be accessed with any web browser simply by typing a domain name in the address bar. Most of those tools are merely frontends for a server doing the work and as such something that wouldn't even be allowed in many lines of work.

I see what irks you, calling it "privacy-aware" and not something more technical like "installation-free client side", but it can be a pretty cool approach to many rarely-encountered problems.

I'm not much into "JPEG optimization" (whatever that is, I just bite the bullet and wait those ten seconds GIMP takes for startup on my otherwise comically fast Ryzen 9 Windows box whenever I feel like tweaking JPEG compression), but https://hexed.it/ has been a friend for many years: i rarely need a hex editor, but even if I happen to run into a "guess it's time for a hex editor!"-situation twice on the same OS installation (unlikely), the last time would be so long ago that I would have forgotten what I installed. hexed.it is a godsend. Jpeg optimziation is perhaps not quite the same level of problem/solution fit, but it doesn't have to be.
It’s possible to mistake a bubble forming for intentional inflation.

The Fed has pumped a few trillion dollars into the global economy. This will inflate some prices somewhere.

The inflation has hit equities and real estate but kept consumer prices mostly intact.

The trillions aren’t going anywhere for a long time...
> Twitter has no right to be 'Ministry of Information'.

Twitter did not prevent them from stating anything. Twitter employees simply decided they want to have no part in this. Are you saying they should be forced to publish this tweet?

The logic here escapes me.
Didn't know about Syphon!
The design looks good. Hope it exits alpha soon!
There are a lot of different clients, in various stage of development: https://matrix.org/clients/

Element is kind of the official full feature, basic client implementation but there are lighter clients with different flavors out there.
https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=Why%20hasnt%20Obama%20be...

Not exactly partisan for Twitter to let this slip. Whereas Parler seems to ban anything that argues against the repulsive shit their users share.
Your preparation should depend on what kind of time horizon you're dealing with. Long term horizon? Be aggressive. Short term? Be conservative.

Trying to time the market typically results in smaller gains (larger losses) than just going with it. I think there are some overvalued sectors, but I'm overall pretty bullish. We might see a "true" crash if we uncover some fundamental flaw with the banking system.
> I think when you set out to become ubiquitous, gobble up competitors in your space and advertise yourself in order to gain more followers to cement your network effects.

You mean, be successful?

> It’s like denying someone electricity.

Like electricity? That's a laughable assertion.

Thankfully you are completely mistaken about what the law is.
IMO goverments should invest into such stuff
He never saved more than $6,000 a year, which is likely less than 10% of his income at terminus.

And you missed the point that this is the worst you could do. If “Bob” had simply invested every year, his end result is likely 2-3x.
Twitter sits at the very top of a stack of technologies. Clearly the internet providers shouldn’t ban specific content, AWS should not either. Since Twitter is the most user facing, does that give it more responsibility to regulate the actual content on its platform? If not Twitter, who (if anyone) has the right to regulate content on the internet?
You are confused; I didn't give Trumpistas a pass, I accused the other side of having double standards. Ergo, not whataboutism.

You are well within your right BTW to find the comparison disingenious. I find it too. However, I'm not interested in giving one group of people power to do whatever they want without legal repercussions and enforce it on another group of people. Should the law not be equal to all?
This seasoning fad is some post-teflon madness IMO, after weeks of trying a dozen odd formulas there was always someone with another oil or temperature setting. Might as well be working on inertial confinement.
Greta is just a symbol of the children all over the world who are going to inherit an Earth that’s been ravaged by their elders while they could do nothing but watch it become gradually worse.

Navalny comes from a pseudo dictatorship and I don’t expect his thoughts regarding censorship to apply to a democracy.
Greenwald is a crank who rage quit because his editors asked him to provide actual sources. I’m not sure why anyone listens to him anymore.
The fundamental problem with the regulatory environment in the UK, as far as I can tell, is that both the big parties have been authoritarian on security and technology issues when in power, but neither appears to have a deep understanding of how modern technology works and the moral issues it raises. Consequently, in this field more than most, policies are set almost entirely for political expediency and appearances, rather than because they will achieve any other form of positive result.

This is how we get conflicting positions, such as "we value security and want the UK to be the safest place in the world to be online", but also "we want our police and security services to be able to access any online communications".

The handling of social media has often been similar. Apparently we are a democracy that values free speech, yet we also want the social media companies to use unspecified technology that they are assumed to have available to identify and block harmful content, for whatever definition of "harmful" is politically convenient at the time.

A recurring theme is being seen to object to negative consequences of modern technology but without ever taking a clear stance or positive action for which they could be held responsible if it has other negative consequences of its own. It's the epitome of trying to have a cake and eat it, instead dumping the hard questions on the big tech firms. Those firms make good targets politically because obviously they do have some real problems, so a lot of people will be fine with blaming them for the evils of the tech world and won't have much sympathy for anything bad that happens to them.
I have a problem with people who believe this propaganda had any net effect, except for railing up some people (which probably was the intent.)
Get a metal chain mail pot scrubber, it will change your life. Allows you to dislodge 95% of what’s stuck to your pan quickly and without a super abrasive cleaner, the rest can usually be taken care of with a paper towel.
Christ, what pedantry. Yes, I mentioned the container formats rather than the codecs.
probably twice as much as the German military for 50k
Huh, cool!

Are all Prosody modules pure-lua, or can/do some have a C/binary component to them? I note that the API documentation describes only lua bits, at least.
Remove "decentralized" and you largely described Twitter's trajectory.
Hi everybody!

I'm the developer and designer behind Okeano.

Okeano is a privacy-friendly search engine that aims to spend 80% of profits to purchase river interceptors from the Ocean Cleanup Project and deploy them to the most polluting rivers around the world.

We support domain blocklisting [1] natively (no need for browser extensions that just remove results from the page) and !waves (similar to DDG bangs).

Appreciate your support.

- David

[1] https://okeano.com/blocklist

[2] https://okeano.com/waves
seems like they have been in talks for a little while at least, where they could've possible remediated the issues to buy some more time to avoid the TOS violation. curious to see if they had any effort to clean it up or immediately started working to migrate
True! This is why I am interested in de-centralized solutions to some of these challenges.

- Social networks: https://joinmastodon.org/

- DNS: https://handshake.org/

- Payment Providers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency

(To be clear, it is not that I want to ensure that idiots always have a platform to spew their idiocy, but I would prefer that the decision on who is an idiot be distributed and not centralized.)
I come from Ruby, but it’s pretty unreadable to me. Not that I couldn’t, I just don’t want to. So I doubt that it’s objectively super easy to read.

Any sort of reading inside out, right to left is a barrier to easy reading. This is why people like pipes in functional languages, right? You just read it in one direction.
bandwidth through Cloudflare or the alliance they formed is free.
The obvious answer is to save more than that if at all possible, and if you're not in your twenties then diversify across asset classes instead of throwing it all into US stocks.
You are talking about racing on public streets.

The risk of hurting someone in an accident due to a mistake is very different to the risk of hurting someone after you decided it's ok to race on public streets because you believe that you are such an awesome driver.

Everyone in the road has accepted a certain risk of accidents happening. If you increase everyone else's risk by racing, you are being a selfish prick.

There is no way to wave this away with "it's ok to take risk for fun" or "risk is inherent to live". You are talking about risking other people's lives for a thrill, that you could easily get differently, without risking the live of bystanders! You can literally race the lemons 500 with an investment of 500 bucks!
Real estate prices always go up... same mentality as 2007/2008 housing crisis...
It's probably on the front page because of the Prosody post that is on the front page. Matrix is on the front page because it's really the only open protocol that has a chance of gaining non-technical users.

I run a matrix server, which has been nothing but a constant pain. My friends that use it can also use my ircv3 server or xmpp server that I run that use no resources and take up none of my time with maintenance. They do not. The only thing I've run that they like better so far is mattermost. I don't like the open core though. Matrix, xmpp and irc are backed by ldap which is impossible with mattermost.
Indeed, no science at all here--only conjecture.
Move out of Boston, then.