skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe CalTech is very different, but I truly cannot imagine this at MIT. Students go out and party, even at top programs that have a disproportionate number of "traditionally nerdy" people.

It is possible things have changed substantially over the years, but when I was there and definitely for quite a long time after, attending parties outside of campus was very rare at Caltech. Parties on campus were not common either, and most of them were parties within a house.

Caltech undergraduate life is kind of like being in a science monastery. It's not merely a school of nerds. It's a school of the people who nerds think are too nerdy.

On the STEM vs. non-STEM issue, I'm not treating "fresh out of high school engineering students as rational actors and everybody else as ignorant buffoons".

Everyone, without exception, needs to rely on expert opinion in some matters. No one has the time and capacity to become expert themselves in all fields that are relevant to all important decisions we have to make in our lives.

Sadly, in many of the areas where we have to rely on experts there are many with financial or ideological interests in getting people to not listen to the experts. This results in people being presented with conflicting opinions all purporting to be from or backed by experts in the relevant areas.

One of the best ways to resolve such a situation is, if you can do it, is to learn enough about the subject yourself to be able to look at the same information and methods that were used to produce the conflicting opinions and determine which came from actual experts and which did not.

In this one very particular area, namely determining if a particular set of behavioral rules and procedures to prevent a particular community from getting COVID and to limit its spread within that community if it does get in is scientifically justified, STEM students are going to be more likely to be able to do the type of evaluation described in the prior paragraph than are non-STEM students.

Would you say I'm being a "STEMlord" if I said Caltech students were more likely than, say, students in Julliard's piano bachelor's degree program to be able to evaluate evaluate whether someone making a claim about the theoretical upper limit on the efficiency of a classical thermodynamic engine is correct?

It works the other way, too. There are plenty of areas where I'd expect that Julliard piano student to be way better than any Caltech student at evaluating conflicting purported experts. It is just that those areas don't happen to be relevant to the specific problem of convincing a group of people that specific anti-COVID measures are correct.
> The internet was a different place though in the early 2010s

Oh how far we've come. /s
I'm pretty sure they're Sinopoly cells, but I'm no expert. The BMS they use is quite impressive too, from what I could tell. While I was there in the shop they had a battery cut open and I was able to see inside.
This was my take on reading the wild "2nd hand story" in that reddit post.

Almost none of it makes any sense; instead it seems like people just crawled parler's public API and saved the responses into a big archive ("the leak"). The only "exploit" I see could be that parler uses incrementing IDs for posts/content allowing easy enumeration crawling.
Their unsuccessful, bloody coup and treason will be punished by legal recourse. The impeachment is already started up again to prevent deranged voters from dictating a second term. No one is blinking in the face of violence. Remain strong and resist.

Civil discussion is still possible if you refuse to feel ashamed for rejecting falsehoods, which may be the weakness we have taken on in trying to remain compassionate to other voices on HN, which emboldens evil.
It had ... an interesting feature called Moments...To be honest I am not quite sure what advertisers use this feature for, nevertheless, it seemed interesting

For putting their ad at the point most relevant, maybe, or better still, putting their ad at the point to which their audience will skim to.
Right now people spend hours every day joylessly scrolling their phones because the free market has found a way to profit from that. I want fewer addictive industries, not more.
Agents are forced to play to avoid getting robbed by inflation thus wealth is transfered to owners from no-owners.

Luckly for the working class, nowadays everybody can invest with a cheap smartphone and their little capital thus there is nobody to rob from and the system collapses.
There was some discussion on /r/netsec where this was published as well. https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/ksn6rc/steams_login...
It's nevertheless a sum you can make back, eventually.
So, because the owners (a) claim that Parler is a free speech platform when (b) actually it engages in extensive moderation to ensure ideological conformity in their posts, then (c) Parler is more of a propaganda weapon than a free speech platform. That was the point that was being made in the context of a number of erroneous references to Parler being unmoderated. One can debate whether the data leak was ethical, but one should not base one's position on a false understanding of what Parler is.
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It's only annoying b/c you're riding the train and hope it hits whatever # it takes you to sell.

That's what's happening right now. It hit a number and folks are selling. For every seller at 40k, there's a buyer. That sucks for those who got caught up in it.

Bitcoin won't magically "stabilize" if it hits 50k/100k/1m, it will crash, just like its doing now. It will make a small group of people very wealthy on the losses of everyone else
My take away is those logic gates. I recently looked into a GoL for a toy project, knowing that it's "Turing complete" in the hopes that it could "run software." I came away a little disappointed that no one has yet created a fully-capable machine to run some kind of code. This gives me new hope...
Did any of the companies loose a lot of stock value after de-platforming Alex Jones?
In a moment of inspired genius, one of the local bike shop owners stuffed a big chunk of savings into bike inventory back in March/ April. He had bikes stuffed into every corner of the shop and was pretty much the only shop with decent inventory for most of the year.

But now even his inventory is bare. Maybe I should sell one of my bikes to help relieve the pressure.

Hmm

Nah.
And me!
so is your argument that those off-the-cuff examples are not really rules because they're arbitrary or fuzzy (like every other rule, convention, or custom)?

the point is that there is no real world 'free market' that meets your idealized (and arbitrary) conditions.
That joke about "Twitter...pffft... I can build that in a weekend" is coming full circle.
Reminds me of verbosity level -vvvvvv
A free market with rules is not technically a free market in the economic sense of the term.

In reality all human markets have rules and the ideal free market doesn't exist (nor is it ideal in any non theoretical sense.)

I think you're just confused about the terminology here, you're using a different definition to everybody else.

My feeling is you're equating free market to capitalism, but you can't do that.
We want all these skills, yet, we'll give you a separate title and pay you less than a software engineer. Meanwhile front end software engineers are still software engineers and get high pay.
My contrarian take:

1) Write out your goals in the form of a personal letter to yourself. Focus on the things you think are making you unhappy, not what you think will make you happy. Read it out loud in private. After that, hide it away for a while where only you will find it.

2) Keep your goals private. Especially keep progress private. Trying to stop smoking/drinking? Folks will notice, but politely decline to answer that infamous "how long since...?" question. Don't externalize the rewards.

3) Focus on very small results. Find a way to make them stick. Build on that and in time you'll find that amounts to a LOT more progress and personal satisfaction.

IMO build from the ground up and the fancy big goals will come more easily and naturally. You won't have to game it.
OTOH, you can wind up with stuff like installing an OS that requires more than the device has to offer- like installing the most recent version of Ubuntu Desktop on a Intel Core2 Duo isn't going to go well, nor did installing iOS 7 on iPhone 4's- which I remember eagerly installing without realizing the major slowdown all the new features added that I couldn't undo.
> Parler and its associates have come a lot closer to dismantling American democracy than Iran ever has

The USA isn't really a democracy. For it to be democratic it would have to use more democratic voting systems than FPTP and the electoral college.

It's an oligarchy, but by the ruling class, which includes the big tech companies.

> Neither Twitter, nor Apple, nor Amazon want to be responsible for the rise of a fascist regime in the US.

Unless it's one where they are in charge.

It's self-evidently impossible for Trump and the red tribe to overthrow the US system of government, they simply don't have control of enough of the levers of power.

It would be a lot easier for Biden/Harris and the blue tribe to do so, as they control a lot more of the levers of power (e.g. academia, journalism, big tech).
I can do a quick google and find so many journalists in twitter saying the story is debunked! What do you want twitter to do in the face of such overwhelming evidence coming from twitter?
If you are comfortable/familiar with wrenching - it is often cheaper to build a bike yourself. It can be a pain - but in this situation I think it is the next best option.

One of the bike shops I had contacted suggested it, since a lot of shops around the country have a good stock of parts and you can usually find a nice used frameset online.
The mob in the capital had zero chance of dismantling democracy. khamenei has real power.
Also you may be more likely to stay put on a calm day, increasing demand for power.
> Parler wasn't some innocent social media site that happened

> to have some disgusting content on it.

You can't state that as fact. The platform itself was not inherently about spreading objectionable material. It was about being more free than Twitter.

> And I have yet to hear anyone discuss how "anything goes"

> and social media do not mix.

As with all free speech, it had legal limits, such as threats of violence. We can argue about how effective the moderation system was in Parler, but I know for a fact that they repeatedly removed material that broke the law.
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And if all the bakers in town refuse to bake you a cake, should you be able to force one to?

Seriously, when there are dozens of options and none of them want your business, shouldn't that give you pause?

If all the insurance agencies refuse to insure your ship because they think it will sink, wouldn't it be prudent to double check your blueprints/construction ?
> building an echo chamber for lunatics is something completely different,

Perhaps it would've been better for Twitter to support free speech then and they'd (the Parler users in question) have remained a fringe voice completely overwhelmed by opposition on a mainstream platform.

Even then, the main problem I see driving all of this is the lack of competition, so I fully support building "echo chambers" if that means competition for platforms like Twitter that are actively working to create echo chambers that they control.

Edit: clarity
This has been my experience as well, and I've been browsing HN since at least 2009. Downvotes/flagging are used much more heavily to express political disagreement as well now (which biases what gets downvoted due to the left-leaning bias in tech) and I think there is more politics in general (but that is true of media more broadly).
California is a one-party system and has been for 20 years. I don't really like that model, but it seems to have worked at least in the medium term.

Things might be different at national level, though. States have to deal with more nuts-and-bolts practical issues, so that grounds the politicians somewhat. National issues tend to be more idealistic, so one-party rule could become extreme.
I have thought of him several times lately. I keep coming across his work in one form or another - some typically excellent writing on his blog, a history of Markdown explaining his key contributions.

He made so many kinds of contributions. He was the Erdos of his generation.
50% of smartphones are made by an advertising company, why on earth would they scrub data they could use for showing you more ads?
I'm aware. The potential "dumps" current into the load proportional to its voltage. (A constant current supply would raise the voltage to achieve the requested current but the USB bus is not a constant current supply. There are multiple ways your yes-but is annoying and unhelpful.)

The main concern behind negotiation seems to be safety of the user and safety of the power supply. Detecting a safe load means detecting a not-short.

The basis for the 5V power negotiation on USB is extremely silly. The power supply is already current limited, protecting you from shorts, and the supply voltage is ~5V, quite far from anything dangerous.
Yeah, of course there's no real world free market. It's a theoretical idealization that we wouldn't even want to exist in reality.
I also fall in the category of parler "was a haven for people who want mass executions for people like me."

I still think it's wrong to leak the data.

Many of these people use twitter and gmail too - does that justify a leak from those services? If not, why not?

There were and are legal means for law enforcement to access that data if they need to.
No bait and switch, and my experiences aren't from the boom period so take my commentary with a grain of salt. What I can tell you is that there is an immense amount of pressure from competitors and from customers to keep service prices low. So the prospect of raising service prices is challenging when your customers are spoiled with cheap labor.

Also, servicing a lower-end bike ends up meaning the service is a large percentage of the original cost. So the prospect of paying, say, $150 for a tune-up, cables, and a new chain on a $400 bike feels excessive. But if you do it for any cheaper than that, you are either compromising the quality of your work or compromising your ability to turn a profit.
OK, so the question is why? The proximate cause is that they were told, baselessly, from all sides of their media bubble, that the election was stolen. Many of the rioters also were followers of a bizarre conspiracy theory/alternate reality game that tells them that this is all part of a giant master plan.

The media and political environment has not been serving its function of properly informing citizens so that they can make informed voting choices, and so you have people trying to overthrow the government based on lies.

Now, not everything people believed in the pre-internet media environment was factual either, but there was rough agreement as to consensus reality. Even in the last contested election, the 2000 one, people roughly agreed on the basic facts (butterfly ballots, hanging chads, etc), even if they didn't agree on what should be done about it.

I don't have a solution for this problem, but it is a very serious one.
There's a huge degree of just outright horseshit here.

I've been browsing /pol/ for years, hell almost decades. Its a great place to go to get an idea of just how fringe certain elements of society are becoming. I was actually actively browsing when QAnon was making his posts there.

I thought they were just as ridiculous and far-fetched then as I do now. People become radicalized largely because some condition in their life is lacking. For every single successful mechanical engineer that joins ISIS, there's 99 out-of-work coal miners and factory workers who storm the American capital.

Most people who have everything in their life going great don't end up extremists.
Fair enough, although I'll note that this condition (a) was tacked on after the similarities to IG were pointed out.

I guess the point I was trying to make is whether or not Parler is moderated to me seems irrelevant to the permissibility of this action.
> In reality, it's thought that the epidemic killed 60% of the city's population.

Yes, that is the kind of epidemic for which social isolation is an appropriate response.
Fiy, California had repeatedly tried to end cash bail. California’s senator, and the 2nd in command in Biden’s admin, has also advocated abolishing cash bail. Are you seriously telling me you think the only reason you think the Biden admin cares is political points on the left during BLM protests?
Ask HN: Is it technically possible to evade big-tech censorship?
I am Trump opponent. The implications of Trump being disappeared from the modern internet, however, are very troubling. He's a sitting world leader, but Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Bezos, Cook and Pichai snap their fingers and he is effectively erased from the internet almost overnight. Of course Twitter should be able to block him, they're a private company, he can go to another network. But when he goes to another network (Parler) it's shut down with 24hrs notice by Amazon. To anyone who's the least bit of a political dissident, alarm bells should be screaming in your ears. If a handful of tech execs can (and will) do this to the US president, what chance would you stand against them, or anyone, if they want to silence you?

My technical question: What would it take to stay online in a situation like this? Twitter/Facebook/Reddit etc. are out, running your own network on AWS is out, Cloudflare DDOS protection is probably out.

Would it be possible to host your political views on any commercial hosting vendor in this case? Is running a server at home enough, assuming you can avoid DOS somehow? Would you have to start your own ISP, and if so, could your ISP be kicked off the backbone?

I'm interested in this as a technical (not political) question: is there any way to speak online if big tech decides they don't want you to?
It's also likely doing this as screwed up active investigations. Someone might have felt safe "deleting" messages on Parlor. Now that this is public, they're going to burn everything connected to it and it may ruin ongoing investigations. There's a reason Twitter keeps a lot of accounts active, they act as honey pots for law enforcement who can watch them.

These hackers aren't the heroes they pretend to be.
Volumes are constantly faked on exchanges in an effort to make it look like there's demand for a higher price.
I find it very interesting how extremists now attempt to appear as moderate. For instance, take the submitter of the story:

Says it's not worth it to fix global warming: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25358094

Says the rich should be able to get the vaccines before others by paying to skip the line: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25472334

Says the rise in people identifying as transgender is due to "peer pressure": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25348701

And that's just over the last few weeks or so.

Of course, no comment at al condemning the attack on the capitol, but when the attackers and their supporters face backslash, suddenly they scream murder.
I guess you could argue Facebook should be shutdown as parlor was. Although parlor was only used for hate, Facebook didn't do anything to stop it either.

I think a big issue is how facebooks algo (and others) are built for maximum profit which at the same time also radicalizes people in their filter bubble.
I have the same issue. On Mac, I log in to Steam about once a week (sometimes longer than that). I have to login with my password and get a Steam code almost every time.
They'll survive being dropped by Amazon. What they most likely won't survive is if CloudFlare wants nothing to do with them. They are done if CloudFlare drops them.
My guess is that some product manager somewhere realized that if they only offered the bulb housing assembly they could make a bit higher profit margins
Probably yes. Neither company affiliation or political opinions are protected attributes. Possible outcome would be uncertain only if people claimed that their association with political party/company is based on their love towards it and thus its protected as sexual orientation or gender.
I incorrectly assumed that `-j` and `-j$(nproc)` would do the same thing. TIL!
One potential shortcut is if you install their CubeMX and take a look in it's data files there are XML files for each distinct peripheral. So there'll be something like RTC_v1.0.xml and RTC_v2.0.xml. Someone uploaded an old copy of them [1] if you just want a quick look.

Then there's also device & device family xml files that link to the various peripherals they have [2].

There's probably no guarantees but in my experience if two devices link to the same version xml file their peripheral registers at least will be identical. Quirks and silicon bugs, you are on your own of course... but then the ref manual doesn't help with that either!

[1] https://github.com/esden/stm32cube-database/tree/master/db/m...

[2] https://github.com/esden/stm32cube-database/tree/master/db/m...
I'm betting on this too. I'm already seeing some 2019-2020 barely-used $5000 bikes going for $2500-3000 on second hand bike sites right now. Can't wait to scoop one in a few months. I'm saving up for a carbon frame with Di2 myself haha.
Sure we can move the goalposts. No, we did not mine for our own minerals. What is your point? If our company was unable to secure hardware it would have ceased to exist. A shame for the company, its employees, and clients, but that's business.

> The analogy is: if she didn't like being denied because of her race, she should have started her own busline.

Right. The above is not summarizing the reason why our society has a problem with the events that occurred. The problem is why Rose Parks was denied service. It has nothing to do with her ability to start her own bus line. Does that make sense? Again, the analogy is completely missing the point.

> So tell me what law Parler broke?

I have no idea nor the inclination to investigate. They don't need to break a law for another business to cut ties. This happens all. the. time. Your problem seems to be a case of "this instance is different than the rest". If you have a problem with antitrust behavior, argue that. You aren't going anywhere with this line of logic.
A private company cannot be authoritarian. Authoritarianism is a form of government. BLM is not anti-democracy, while those who invaded the Capitol obviously are.

If you consider the silencing of organized threats to overthrow the US government by neo-Nazis and Confederates to be acts against "conservative voices," this tells us a lot about what "conservatism" means now.
You're talking about a very complex phenomenon. I don't think predicting what will happen is an easy thing in this situation. Also, Alex Jones is a special case, because he was overwhelmingly and universally de-platformed. This stuff might work differently when the de-platforming is also ideologically bifurcated (i.e. they are not universally de-platformed).

Also, you have to ask yourself:

While pushing a community underground might decrease their reach significantly, does it radicalize them, and increase the overall potential violence for society?
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