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I agree that Trump’s banning from Twitter is concerning, and that he did not incite violence. But that isn’t the underlying issue behind the suspension.

The problem is that a small but very eager group of fanatics have latched on to Trump’s Twitter postings as an excuse to react in violent, deluded ways. It no longer mattered what Trump said, the fanatics would twist its meaning and use it as an excuse for mayhem. (The media clearly have some culpability in this, as they intentionally put out outrageous interpretations in order to whip up controversy. But that’s another issue.)

And so, Twitter felt allowing the situation to continue would not be responsible. They weren’t attempting to silence Trump, but rather to deprive the delusional maniacs of fodder.
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I’m focusing on solar-only solutions.

Once you introduce sourcing as cheap & reliable as fossil fuels back into the equations, dropping solar entirely becomes a rational solution as the frequency of solar “incidents” becomes apparent and non-FF mitigation costs soar. I find most people don’t grasp how unreliable solar is.
Correct, flexible cells are 10-14% efficient, the best rigid monocrystalline single junction Si cells are 23% plus.
Having the government govern free speech doesn't get you free speech.

If the problem is social media companies that are so large they suck up all the air in the room then solve THAT problem and enforce existing anti-monopoly laws.
Well the market disagrees with security researchers.

5000 dollars is akin to to a very healthy contractor rate of $200 an hour at 25 hours of work, which is a conservative estimate of how much time OP spent discovering this. That to me feels pretty fair pay, based on things in reality, not some future value of potential costs savings that require some pretty hand-wavy maths to quantify.
So logically then, Twitter and all its users should be cancelled for freely allowing Antifa to organize there.
I've always been amazed at how hackers can exfiltrate so much data with no one even batting an eye. Doing the math, the pure data cost to Parler was $7,700

(($0.15/GB10) + ($0.11/GB 40) + ($0.09/GB20)) 1000 => $7,700

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-data-transfer-prices-re...

Even the Chase Bank hack had an astronomical amount of data that didn't appear to set off any alarms.
The answer is pretty simple, don't participate if you don't like the terms.
> Either way a platform that freeley allows the organization of violent mobs has no place, and neither does anybody who supports it.

So all social media then
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I think, in broad strokes, human origin for the temperature change is pretty simple to estimate and test?

We know how infrared scatters on CO_2 from quantum/EM physics, so from that it should be possible to take the difference in global concentration due to humanity and incident solar radiation, and derive as a result an expected temperature rise. This can then be matched against historical average temperature records.

I'm being a classic physicist and assuming everything is a first-order approximation, so someone do correct me if I'm wrong.
Sounds like an OK policy to me.
We tend to think that's bad and an incorrect definition of cracking that should be overturned around here, right?

> the conviction was vacated by a higher court

> While the judges did not address the substantive question on the legality of the site access, they were skeptical of the original conviction, noting that no circumvention of passwords had occurred and that only publicly accessible information was obtained.
Within 20m of this post being made, this <7d account is complaining about other people not complaining about the leak of private messages, without actually complaining about that specific problem.
Huh? Wikileaks is where people go to publish evidence of government crimes, not Granddad's chats with his friends.
I think I meant to write CFAA, thanks for pointing that out. Comment updated.
What's Twitter supposed to do? There's likely real legal liability here.

Trump has said whatever he wanted on Twitter, true or not, for the better part of a decade. When that speech translated into violence that killed at least 6 including a police officer, what's a company supposed to do?

Also, Free speech protections don't apply to private platforms. Only a government run equivalent of Twitter would be.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Twitter didn't shut down an elected president's account (@potus), they permanently banned this particular individual's personal account.

But yeah, unchecked corporate power coming home to roost. Personally I believe Nazis should be gagged not given megaphones, but this can affect anyone.

Personally, I think Twitter et al. are acting on advice of counsel, not wanting to be considered an accessory to insurrection. It's telling that despite being called out on their hypocrisy (allowing trump to incite violence for years), the bans come now, after the balance of power in the US shifted to DEM.
In theory this is true, but the dire software situation pretty much kills the idea in my mind.

Best case you'll be able to run PostmarketOS, but more likely you'll be constrained to a years old Android with an ancient kernel and a non-standard libc - that is after you mange to get the thing rooted in a convoluted process. You can also be pretty sure that thing is going to be running malware.
So a model based on pollution taxes would have worked better - We could tax the manufacturing plants, and the coal plants, and have a bake-off to see which is cleaner - Burning coal for power, or burning coal to run factories for PV panels.

But it would have been less popular, because at least in the USA we don't have a good welfare system to balance out the indirect tax on poor people, who have to spend more of their income on electricity, gasoline, other pollutants.
> "multiple politicians voiced this opinion at surprisingly similar time this seems like some coordinated PR thing"

It's not "surprisingly similar" when a lot of people start putting on jackets when it gets cold. Reactions to a common cause does not require coordinated action.
>anyone who recognizes the scene will know roughly where you were.

Sure, for outdoor photos. GPS data may also be included on photos taken indoors, such as nudes, in which case EXIF data leaks the subject’s home address.
Well if I were to do the same to any social network, I would have to request their permission first on the basis of security research according to their Terms of Service.

In this case it is still an unauthorised hack.
Speaking of waste. I researched about photoresistor (LDR) recently and learned from Wikipedia that cadmium based ones are restricted in EU. I wonder why they are not outlawed in US if the substance is toxic and can leak into water supply, etc.

As to right-to-repair, EU seems ahead on that front but US has one regulation which EU does not which is Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act.
I have thought something similar regarding developing countries. Instead of giving money/help to a developing country, you should foster local industry by committing yourself to buy ten thousand gadgets produced locally. The local cleptrocat would have difficulties siphoning off the money as the products would need to be demonstrably produced. Then, once the gadgets are produced and people employed, you do not need to even export those gadgets, but just auction them off locally, so the gadgets end up as increase in local welfare. In the best case you may even make a small profit...

Of course, it is difficult to judge what the locals produce best, but somehow I still think that induced demand would be helpful, and better than just dumping the money there.
> Decertifying a self driving car does nothing considering that today the driver is legally 100% responsible for the driving.

I don't know that this is true in this case. It seems like the problem here is the auto-braking feature kicking on, perhaps disorienting the driver or causing a following car to need to panic brake+swerve. This isn't an instance of a driver becoming inattentive because they expect the computer to act for them. Rather it's an ever-present system erroneously deciding to take control of the car - analagous to a mechanical failure. What could a driver do to avoid this behavior, besides knowing to disable that system ahead of the hazard?
This is a little past half-baked... https://mindfulmanager.io

It's a productivity app I've been building for the last couple months that allows you to manage your focus, organize your projects, keep a daily journal, and work in timed sessions. There are a lot of additional features that I will be releasing soon as well :)

This is actually the first time I've told anyone about it, as I still have a lot of refinement to do, but I'm looking forward to early feedback!

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> It's also much easier to hide complexity than it is to remove it.

There are multiple ways to hide complexity. Some of them make it easier to remove (eg, refactoring), others make it nearly impossible to remove. In a service market there’s a perverse incentive to move toward the latter.
I have only ever worked with people who call it etcetera.
I arrived at that conclusion all on my own. Something a disappointingly large portion of Trump supporters seem to be unable to do. And last I checked, the truth is that conservative media is a much larger slice of "the media" than it would have you believe, I mean, except when it touts its ratings to anyone who will listen.
He should have, it's been almost a year.
> bottoming at less than €0.14/kWh

+ ???/kWh in environmental cost.
Suspended on Twitter? More like locked out for 5 minutes until she removed her tweet. She is doing perfectly fine with her 2.1 million followers right here: https://twitter.com/kathygriffin?s=09

I can't find Steve Bannon's Twitter account anywhere. Now why is that so? Can you find it for me?

Unless you are talking about a different Kathy Griffin she hasn't been suspended.

As far as losing her job is concerned that is not something I was even bothered about. Since when did discussion on Big Tech censorship turn into resultant unemployment because of stupidity?

I don't mind those terrorists who invaded the Capitol be tried and thrown behind bars let alone be put in no fly lists or be removed from their jobs. Insurrection has to have consequences. I just don't want Big Tech's ideological censorship. Because this emboldens Big Tech to do more ideological censorship not less. Let the law take its course. Let the insurrectionists face real life consequences for their treason including but not limited to loss of job, putting on no fly lists and even prison time. It doesn't require Big Tech censorship to achieve those consequences. Or apply the rules to everyone in the same way. If you are going to ban Steve Bannon for beheading statements then ban Kathy Griffin for holding a decapitated head of the President. As simple as that.

If the Big Tech companies can't do it then I'll call them hypocrites. Then they have no moral standing when it comes to Parler. What is the difference between Parler and them? Nothing at all.

Notice how you completely skipped the part where I mentioned how Twitter enabled ISIS to operate with impunity for 2 years and only focused on my last paragraph? Yeah that shows where your mind is.
I think it is possible to use this as a fan, but this design is very inefficient.

Somewhat related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster
Not every body agree with that, a lot of people prefer private business should be able to chose their customers and decline business for any reason.
There are several comments top level saying exactly that. I’m not sure what else you want from HN.

Honestly, the speculative and proactive accusations of hypocrisy are getting really tiresome. I wish people would stop.
I am curious about which GCC, G++ version you have in mind. Clang definitely took the lead, but by GCC caught up and I prefer GCC's do Clang. But even I am behind the bleeding edge quite a bit so not sure how things stand now.
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(The game and Terry’s approach are good, too.)
> In general, robotics technology does not belong to the US

why? What do you mean?
There is a case precedent of a privately owned public space being subject to the First Amendment. Who knows if that would hold up when applied to the internet, something about holding state-level powers... if the platform was declared as a monopoly, would that apply?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Community_Access_Cor...
I've been in this space last 6 yrs or so and my scala usuage has gone down to zero. Not worth learning scala.
I honestly think I've forgotten this to some extent. I went out yesterday after a long while and was shocked by how cold it was for January.

I just hope we're not all agoraphobic at the end of this.
Where is the responsible security disclosure?

If these guys are security researchers, then Julian Assange is the best security researcher of the world.

This all looks like normal politics to me.
While it is difficult to believe that power-seeking is entirely orthogonal to choosing a career in politics, just how do you envision things will go with politicians who are not experienced at actual politics?

Again, wanting a representative who is not experienced at politics to represent you is kinda like wanting a lawyer who isn't experienced at practicing law to represent you. Or a doctor who isn't experienced at medicine to treat you.

What I'm saying is, I think you've latched on to the wrong quality as a focus of your ire. People being career politicians is not the problem, it's people being corrupt power-seeking assholes. That's a difficult problem to solve, I know, which is why it is so tempting to blame the problem on something easier to solve, but I think that sentiment is one pushed largely by career pundits to manipulate people.
I agree. I had the earlier HP 95LX and loved it. The 100LX and 200LX were definite improvements and I sometimes regret not having upgraded.
Yes, correct. The users are fine, just change the law to make things like Twitter impractical to run.
Clearly, the comment meant baseless violence. Violence to protect the helpless from violence is acceptable.
Which is ironically was eliminating section 230 would've have made happen. Repealing section 230 may have lead to the Disneyification of social media.
"you/your kid/... might be leaking your home address to randos that see your posts" is something that more people seem to understand as something that could be a problem.
The US law laws for free speech, and it has societal norms, too. What norms people expect to apply in the fora they use, most prominently Facebook.

So they haven't updated their laws to match the current society's norms, and the result is that Facebook has to write rules for something approximating all of society. That cannot be simple for Facebook, and I think it's a bit cowardly of the two big parties that neither of them have really tried to bring the law into harmony with current perception of justice and acceptability.
I don't know but they have "legal" work-arounds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
As a someone who goes against anti-right-to-repair laws, I am not so enthused with a mandate that all devices be repairable. Because there maybe cases where devices can’t be repaired.

What kind of problems will something like this create for future device manufacturers?
They are betting everything on the belief that they will win permanently this time, and their opponents will never get control again.
I don't know how it works "over there", but where I'm from "URL-hacking" is not considered hacking, but data publicly available.
Parler was ground zero for the community that announced and executed the attack on the capitol. Thought leaders there were routinely evoking, imagining, and outright calling for violence, and the crowd was a feedback loop. Fundamentally the Parler community existed to provide a platform for people who had been already banned from Twitter. Frankly the peaceful use of the site was mostly incidental.

I think there's a real argument that this data is in the public interest.
Wikileaks leaked John Podesta's emails, including such criminal activity as his recipe for risotto.
Over the last five years prominent self-driving companies have consistently over promised and under-delivered. I was quite optimistic for the approach that Starsky chose (but unfortunately couldn't bring to market [1]) with autonomous segments combined with occasional remote assistance. It might not be as sexy as FSD but that's tech we can use now.

That said, if this team can make it work, power to them!

Edit: I realize this might sound dismissive. I worked on perception tasks for autonomous driving, and believe FSD can be done. I just don't feel that it's a year away, but I'd love to be wrong!

[1] https://www.therobotreport.com/starsky-robotics-co-founder-o...
terrorists of course
He neglected to mention his time machine.
What tool did he use to view proxy logs?
Twilio is far from the top of Parler’s infrastructure problems, to be fair.

The issue is that a “reasonable” heads up here is literally years long for some of these products, especially AWS. It’s hard for these companies to show bad clients the door in a way that isn’t disruptive.
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Bah. Leave it to the latest versions of C++ to show me up.
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I imagine it would be more than a visual sign -- something with a specific emitter, etc, not easily spoofed.
My experience echoes yours. I love biking to work, especially with an e-bike, and I normally did it five days a week, I even started blogging about my experiences[1]. With the right gear, cycling is really practical form of transport for me to completely avoid unnecessary covid risks on public transport.

Now with lockdowns, I'm not biking nearly as much, the weekly five-a-side football is closed, there's nothing open, so little motivation to walk around town, and so on.

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What if the EU collectively built a government-run social network?

EDIT: This is a hypothetical situation, meant to evoke thought.
Where did you read that I wrote that both were equivalent?

I'm just showing an example where a Presidential candidate pretended to support a movement that had violent elements in it.

Said candidate repudiated their support after being elected, lying to his voters in the process.
A fair enough opinion, and a worthy discussion. But this particular issue of Trump’s Twitter suspension is clearly about not giving delusional lunatics more fodder for their actions, rather than silencing Trump.

Edit: I’m not siding with or against Twitter here. Whether their decision was wise or not certainly needs to be discussed. I’m just pointing out that “silencing the lunatic in the White House” isn’t the only potential explanation for their suspension of Trump’s account.
Ah yes, Antifa, known for throwing milkshakes, is equivalent to pipe bombs, trucks filled with guns and explosives, and people walking around with zip ties looking for pols to kidnap inside a government building they killed a cop to break into. Right. I forgot.
I don't think that it's wise to try to optimize for some kind of speculative long-term success at the expense of higher early-stage costs that reduce your odds of getting there. This is similar to companies that choose their initial technology with scalability in mind before they're even remotely close to needing to scale. I've actually done this only to discover that scalability has a very definite cost and when you're small it has an outsized impact on your burn rate. If you have success, you're going to figure out a way to make the changes you need. Case in point: Facebook. They successfully grew a PHP codebase into one of the most popular apps in the world. It definitely cost a lot more money for them to make PHP work, but when they got to that point they were a lot less cost-sensitive.

Planning for that far down the road is the least of your worries. And any plans you make along those lines are not likely to be very accurate anyway. You're much better off optimizing for the near to mid term. Based on the hosting costs described by the OP they are already reaping a tangible value here.
The following video might help. I references the papers it used as sources. I linked right to the part where it gets to the "events not times" topic.

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> Who is managing to do work on a properly old machine?

George RR Martin still writes novels on a DOS machine with WordStar 4.

There are some other holdouts but I imagine for any not-bestselling author there's an intermediate step on a modern machine to convert files to a more modern format.
This is a wonderful site and I would highly recommend it to anyone in TV or RF engineering. By that, I mean the complete site not just the TV tuner history pages (i.e.: https://www.maximus-randd.com/). This is how the internet should be used to convey information. Not only is the information therein both comprehensive and very detailed but also the 'cleanliness' and clear layout of the pages across the site is second to none. It's a long while since I've seen such a well presented and well laid out site (even JavaScript is used sparingly and not abused as is usually the case across much of the web). When I create my next website, I'll certainly keep the presentation of this site in mind.

The information about tuners is remarkably comprehensive (it's certainly the best I've seen in a single documented collection on the subject). I don't work with TV tuners on a day-to-day basis but I've had a lot to do with them in the past—and that goes back to the vacuum tube/turret type well before we had varicap* tuning (so I feel competent to comment on the site).

That said, there are stacks of valuable information on this site about tuners and other stuff that I was either unaware of or not very familiar about. There's nothing more I can add as to do so would be superfluous—as the excellence of this site speaks for itself.

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* [I recall initially hating varicap tuning due to its propensity to suffer cross modulation (which meant that one had to ensure that TV channels had roughly the same RF input levels and that strong out-of-band services were kept out of such tuners by installing filters/traps in the antenna line before the tuner input—lest herringbone patterns result).]
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I've been living mostly off grid for the past 3.5 years in a bus I converted. Solar isn't expensive anymore, panels can be had for <$1/Wh. The cost of batteries is still significant but some of that can be mitigated by buying used packs for 1/4 the price.

The key with being off grid is redundancy. One is none and two is one. For example, if there are storms that last a week you'll get almost no solar power. You need another way to get power, typically a fuel-based generator.