skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But political affiliation is not a protected class.

Perhaps these bans are happening not because of political affiliation but due to the messages these particular people (e.g., Trump) are espousing.

Parler go banned because it's full of message calling for (e.g.) Mike Pence to be hanged and other such things, and Parler isn't / can't do much about it, and its infrastructure providers (AWS, app stores) do not want any part of it per their ToS.

No one has cut off Mitch McConnell because he hasn't been calling forth angry mobs to storm Congress (or the White House).
I agree, but conservatives have been complaining about the phenomenon of shadow-banning on the platform for years, and this was pretty much confirmed after the Twitter hack last year. To allow conservative views but reduce their visibility is just a more subtle form of censorship, reflecting a left-leaning bias. I don't think Twitter or Facebook would even bother denying any of this at this point.
If that true then they kind a deserve it, when the majority didn't use their number as strength to do something but it then they deserve to lose.
I don't think it's either/or. I share every bit of "gold" advice, but sometimes it's only shared with family. Sometimes it's shared with the internet at large.

Also, I'd say most people don't listen to most of my advice.
Presumably, the vast majority of the nurses working now have either already contracted and recovered from COVID, and are now likely immune, or gone through months of heavy exposure without consequence. I’m not particularly surprised they aren’t taking it as seriously as we may expect at this point.
It's a strange paradox, but one that I've found time and again; 'liberty' to do anything anytime can be much more restrictive than 'freedom' to choose one thing and then move on.
Social media has the exact same problem magnified 100 fold, because there is so much more content to cherrypick from. People only see the actions of extremists and attribute that behavior to everyone that doesn't agree with them.

Traditional media definitely has flaws, but rejecting them in favor of social media because of it is an absurd and incredibly destructive reaction.
> otherwise we'll just get another C++.

I don't see why this is a bad thing.
I'm a C++ developer, and I like C++. (I like rust as well)
it's funny, as the faang interview process, as i know it, does not select for the hybrid dev/product skillset the OP describes. in fact, it shies away from it about as far as you can get, instead focusing on beloved algorithmic problem solving, which i guess is a good fit for standardized testing and leveling, but will tell you nothing about broad skills in both software development and product design/management as described here.
Fair enough, but that's an unintentional side effect. He can't do that by working 4 hours a day, at least not by following the recommendations in that book.
It's been pretty smooth the two places I've worked. Both have used a virtual machine setup with config that's partly shared with production, so there's incentive to make sure things are up to date.
Besides the obvious correlation to an external event, I think another major factor here is the rolling stone effect - "x, y, and z removed $(abhorrent content), why didn't you?". No-one wants to be left holding this hot potato.

I believe a conspiracy (in the legal sense) requires communication - peer pressure doesn't.
I don't know if there's a realistic way to get low latency video[1]. But the way to get low latency audio is to get as close to POTS as you can. All of the little delays here and there on modern internet audio paths add up. More so if you've got wifi on either side.

[1] I mean, ISDN video calling is probably low latency, but good luck getting an ISDN line installed these days, and video quality was trash.
Think of it like dancing. To dance with others you have to follow rules or at least communicate a lot. But dancing erratically by yourself is fun too even if no one sees it.
Just curious, is it possible to be good at digital circuit without studying analog circuit?

I figured by skipping AC I might miss a huge part of the picture.
Developing software in ignorance of the surrounding social context is -- well, it's worse than writing a file picker and neglecting to add a thumbnail feature.

I recommend you read about Allison Parrish's new hacker ethic: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting...

The core questions she proposes are essential things every software professional should ask themselves and keep in mind as they work. The political context, and which players in that context benefit from the work you do, is not unrelated at all.
I disagree. Five years from now, we’re all going to look back fondly at the time we were warned about AWS/EWS gaining too much power and thank each other that we heeded the warning.

At the very least, I hope this encourages companies to backup their Cloud data frequently and separately.
Just a reminder to all the product managers and budding executives who will read this: you are not Apple.

You don’t have a world class consumer computer business, mobile device business, entertainment products business, app store business, etc. etc. to fall back on when you decide to do the bare minimum.

The difference between average & bare minimum for you is the difference between going bust vs. holding steady, or the difference between mass layoffs vs. hiring freeze, or the difference between giving raises and not.

Don’t go off thinking you are a maverick tastemaking Steve Jobs who can toss out “do the bare minimum” as some savant-like wisdom.
I'm not sure if there really are any affordable FPGAs that are capable of running a RISC-V core with anything even approaching desktop performance. You'd likely struggle to get even original gen 1 Raspberry Pi performance out of anything in the sub-$100 range. I'm far from an expert on FPGAs though and have only dabbled, so if anybody knows differently I'd love to hear it.
Yes, you may confuse me with a different poster, so I can not provide a link for a different person, true.

From what I read from the reference in your comment, that law applies to the part which forms the former gdr in germany.

According to that website (run by two official ministries) the law is current and your comment about that part surprises me as well.
How would any government exist if it were simple to coordinate violent acts against people you don't agree with?

How can we even exist as a society is if don't we force people to use the framework of governance?
Really? I don't know of anybody who's into retrocomputing for those reasons. Can you give some examples of people who are into it due to privacy concerns?
The president, the defense secretary, we'll find out once an investigation is conducted.

> I doubt trump's people could have considered this a legit coup opportunity.

They were minutes away from killing elected representatives.
You might be confused as to what the seasoning is. You can't just wash it away. It takes something like oven cleaner to strip it.

Many, if not most, pans today come preseason-ed. And they do it exactly like in the article: a very hot oven and oil with a high smoke point.
Likely fixable, probably fried analog board and the whole thing will need new capacitors. 68kmla.org is where to go
And why should they? The mortality is ridiculously low
don't use gnome
>>I don't agree that it's 'just capitalism'. Just because I acquire a piece of private property does not necessarily give me the right to do anything I want with it.

However, you can evict me from the property and charge me with trespassing, which is closer to whats happening here..
edit: Hell, you can even infringe my 2nd amendment rights and ban me from having a gun on your property!

Also, I'm not sure 'private' property can be a 'public' square. At least in New England, the town commons was public land ?
I read your other comment under the submission, and suddenly this makes more sense. It's possible there's something these companies know/aware of that we don't, or that the government is secretly involved in it somehow. What I know for certain is that it's extremely rare for all the FAANGs to gang up on a company like that simply because of differences of opinion.
Seems like a cool concept but the conference got stuck on "Loading ..." for me. Tried with both FF and Chrome.
Unfortunately I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that a large percentage of people across the political spectrum lack basic civics knowledge.
Any human who stops because he saw a red light pic should not be driving in the first place. Fortunately I think that fraction is very small.I certainly hope it does not include you.
That might be the case for mid-2000s computers, but if you're looking at 80s or even 90s stuff, almost nobody is really using them for proper work. They're just too slow and inconvenient, despite being fun!
I would distinguish between classical control and optimal control. In the former, you don't have a (Hamilton-Jacobi-)Bellman equation to solve, while in the latter, the approximate dynamic programming is The Hard Part.
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Some of the benefits of retro computing is learning how computers work on a lower level than you might with a modern computer. While modern computers are far more complex than any retro and there isn't a one-to-one analog for how they work the fundamentals are there. I learned starting in the 8-bit era and advanced as computers advanced. Also a great impetus to learn how to write small optimized code to work within the limitations of the platform.
Regarding Buran: Delivery of nuclear weapons was part of the specs of 1950s XB-20 Dyna-Soar project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-20_Dyna-Soar). The soviets probably saw the obvious similarities in the basic design, probably also knew about the Space Shuttle specs having been blown up in an otherwise inconceivable fashion by request of the armed forces and drew their conclusions, eventually answering the threat by coming up with a design that actually adhered to these assumed specs. It was a necessity dictated by panic.
The people who came the closest to successfully commercializing RSS (before selling that venture to Google) ultimately came to run Twitter for a few years after Ev and Biz but before Jack took it back over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner?wprov=sfla1

As others have pointed out, web syndication is really cool but it is not a "service" in itself and there are much better mechanisms to build one.

RSS is way to communicate website updates and they need to be delivered to a special reader...
Annoywall bypass: https://archive.is/8lnga
> would throw their work over the wall to me

I can relate to this. One way to look at this is that dev-team is where majority of IP is created and not in teams like support/qa/docs/PMs. Over the period of time, they are also the reservoir of domain knowledge.

This often results into nuisances like:

1. Instead of reading product docs people will ask questions directly over slack (e.g Do we support Windows 2008? Do we have feature X?)

2. Adding dev team in a slack channels in which sales can directly ask questions which ideally should be answered by Product Managers.
No Representative or incarnation of the Government is permanant either, yet there's so much uproar hhere about threats to $current_political_figure

To be honest, I just think this is how political infrastructure restabilizes. Heavy is the head on which sits the Crown [and vulnerable the neck], as they say. Once impedance mismatch hits critical levels, out come the fangs. Fangs coming out either prompts more impedance mismatch (crackdowns and self-preservation plays by established actors), prompting more crazy, or people start getting the message, and stability is trended back toward.

It's the most simultaneously fascinating and horrifying dynamic equilibrium problem I've ever witnessed play out in my life.
2 random, unconnected thoughts:

1. I’d kill for a good SE/30. I wonder if I could get it booting off a CF card for better speed/latency…

2. What fails hardest in this old hardware? Hard drives seem the most obvious, but are there issues with capacitors or other electronics that fail over time?
For senior engineering roles, faangs do have design related interview component. Usually, there will be 4 hour long interviews. With new grads, all of them will be algorithmic problem solving while for senior engineers there will be 3 algorithmic and one design session.
Except everything is a trade off and the cost of saying it’s a “good thing” is sacrificing liberty for security. PATRIOT Act 2.0
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If you would have asked me one year and one month ago if I thought San Francisco and New York would be ghost towns today, I would have said exactly the same thing.
I have already said, twice, what they all agree on. You may go back and read what I said.

Things change because things change. Look to the things that don't change, instead. Spook whistleblowers are hounded into solitary confinement right through Bush, Obama, and Trump presidencies. Random innocent people are vaporized from the sky in countries we are not at war with, right through Bush, Obama, and Trump presidencies. Massive fraud campaigns ordered by officers of major corporations are prosecuted with exactly zero of such officers ever imprisoned or even inconvenienced, right through Bush, Obama, and Trump presidencies.
> At some point the lies need to stop.

It's politics. Everything is lies.
I wonder if RedHat or Mozilla would consider employing him?
Google is not loaded on ddg. Google is loaded on google.com when you use !g.
Opening the link in a private/incognito browser window usually works.
Easy Off is a spray on with a pH well above 7, thus a base. Not an acid.

http://www.rbnainfo.com/product.php?productLineId=2704
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What if banks offered guardian services? They could even call it something like “custodian services.”

https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination...
As I said, I don’t know the history of this account but this specific comment that got it banned doesn’t look bad to me.

BTW, I would personally ban all politics from HN.
Or maybe they are doing this because an unprecedented (in the US anyways) social media coordinated mob was perhaps less than a few minutes away from capturing and doing god knows what to the entire line of succession of our government.
For control theory from a mathematician,
Fleming, long at the Division of Applied
Mathematics at Brown University, there is:

Wendell H. Fleming and Raymond W. Rishel,
Deterministic and Stochastic Optimal
Control, ISBN 0-387-90155-8,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1979.

There is more on optimization, especially
from the Hahn-Banach theorem, and also
Kalman filtering, in

David G. Luenberger, Optimization by
Vector Space Methods, John Wiley and
Sons, Inc., New York, 1969.
free speech does not mean free of consequences.

one consequence of objectionable speech is that anyone who gave you a platform rescinds it.

that's what happened here, nothing more nothing less.

I am a zealous advocate for the first amendment, but that doesn't mean I'm going to let a random person advocate violence (or exercise speech which actually led to violence) on my platform.
I suppose I may be forgetting things in a sleep-deprived blur but I'm pretty sure there were dozens of comments in this thread when I merged it, and I remember double checking them carefully to see if there was anything specific in this discussion. There wasn't. It was all generic, and indistinguishable from the stuff in the other threads. That's what tilted me toward merging it: yes, the specific detail of this story was significant, but no one was paying any attention to it. Genericness and repetition are the enemies of curiosity.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

If past experience is any indicator, you needn't worry about missing any opportunity to discuss any of this. Nobody is trying to deprive you of that, and from experience I can tell you that the worry is on the other side—that HN will become inundated and overwhelmed by it. It's our job not to let that happen.

p.s. If by "three comments" you mean the ones that are still here, they were posted after I merged the original set.
At this point wouldn't that be better? They're used as such.
Thanks for the bug report!
I can see the benefit of deplatforming, but I don't see what the benefit of the AWS ban would be. There are plenty of cloud service providers out there, so little more than a temporary inconvenience.
> Surely you’re joking.

100% serious.

> Is this person a sex worker?

He's a philosopher with an acting day job.

Did you miss where I said "the video for interviews"? The video contains an interview with a sex worker and many short comments by people working in various parts of the sex industry.

> Or do they have any qualifications to speak on the subject of sex work?

He has a degree in philosophy, which is why he mainly discusses the logical implications of various topics. For actual opinions on sex work, he interviews people with first hand knowledge. I also mentioned the presence of a bibliography in the video description.

> seems like a channel dedicated to alt-right/far-right talking points

Where did you get that idea? Philosophy Tube is very strongly on the left. The most popular video on the channel is a very good introduction to antifa.

> a Steve Bannon superfan

LOL - The 2nd most popular video on the channel[1] - which I recommend watching - focuses on explaining how Steve Bannon lies, and a warning about how Bannon's rhetoric will eventually lead people into fascism.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO6uD3c2qMo
> I wonder if I could get it booting off a CF card for better speed/latency…

Depends. CF, electrically, is just PATA IDE. But Apple used SCSI back then. Maybe you can find an SCSI SSD?
Loops that do nothing and don't terminate.

If your loop infinitely writes the number 70 to an atomic int, it's fine.
Worst Revolution Ever
In my circles, there was huge backlash against the Pornhub decision by Visa and MC. It was a terrible action.
I have an over-active imagination that turns on a dime. It will often automatically (without conscious direction) conjure up instant scenarios based on whatever I'm reading or hearing. Reading your comment I instantly visualised President Trump of the Confederate States of America announcing the construction of their friendly ally Russia's first military base on their northern border. Brains are funny things. If I were a writer it could make for an interesting alt-history novel.
Last I checked foreigners owned ~40% of U.S. stocks. It’s a strength and a risk. Asset pricing going up magnifies both.

In a similar vain, there’s a reason why the RMB is not a major contender to the dollar yet. It’s more strategic to gain an increasing percentage of world trade and influence, then “flip the switch” and request/require/demand RMB over dollars. Look at bond yields in China, they’re every fixed income managers dream. They have a positive, meaningful yield and are very safe.
That's actually a really good point.

When someone says "beginner", I never think of someone who already knows the Unix command line.

I've been doing this for far too many years, and I'm struggling to think of anybody I know who does FPGA work and knows the UNIX command line--even among the experienced hands.
Preposterous. CNN is not as biased as Fox News. Where does this narrative come from? After 9/11, I don't remember CNN becoming the propaganda machine for a political party courting religious zealots and xenophobic "patriots" while sliding into its own editorial extremism.

Even if CNN were as biased as Fox News, the problems would not end there. Fox News peddles misinformation, disinformation, white nationalism, resentment politics, and Trumpism (besides everything pre-Trump mentioned before). There's no really no comparison.
At a certain scale, it's inevitable that even a responsible company will screw something up. Shutting the company down when that happens is tantamount to banning companies above a certain size
Why high smoke point?

The best oil for seasoning is flaxseed oil, which has very low smoke point. I mean you can use high smoke points oils, but you want your oil to start smoking.

I used avocado, coconut and flaxseed oils for seasoning - flaxseed is the easiest and delivered best results IMO. Plus it's nice oil for salads and some smoothies. It's not a "special" oil.

As for soap, I used it from time to time. However, why my pans are at the peak of seasoning - there is just no need to use soap.
I was thinking it was going to be a version with perfect textures or something
I live in America. My family and friends are primarily Americans or are in the process of becoming Americans. I want them to have satisfying employment. That is more important than long-term personal gains. I’ve got mine and I want them to get theirs. Gilt-edged bonds make lousy winding sheets.

(This is a projected rationale and not personal behavior. Helping China out of the Mao morass was worth outside investment to dramatically improve the well-being of 1.4B people, for example. Chinese are people too.)

Haven’t seen many bread lines in Tokyo. Mrs. Watanabe seems pretty happy.
As a liberal and a person who believes in the milk of human kindness against all contrary evidence, I do have a problem with this overenthusiasm. When the trifecta becomes republican, will liberal podcasts be banned? There must be some arbitration. I believe flagging and moderation and proscribing individual videos is better than banning channels outright and deplatforming.
Caring less does not have to be the only reason. I find it very possible that white doctors are less attuned to the small social and even physical differences (higher risk of certain things) for Black patients. For example, there are studies showing that white doctors are less likely to prescribe pain medication to Black women because they think they are overreacting. Part of that could be overt racism. But lack of time spent around Black people could be another culprit. One being individual racism, the other more a result of systemic racism.
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> [...] but no US corporations wish to carry the liability of serving them [...]

are there even any liabilities? I think that they are only trying to block communications (which probably won't work in the end)
Meanwhile in eBay, at least for the overseas sellers, you’ll have far better luck claiming non-receipt than broken. If broken, you’ll be asked to send it back, and I can’t ship stuff across the street for their cost to ship air around the world.
Does anyone know if there's something on par with Standard Ebooks quality and "remastering scrutiny" with a focus for old religious books like the above?

> Major religious texts from modern world religions, like the Bible or the Koran, will not be accepted. Texts about religion will usually be accepted. Texts from historical religious movements that were culturally influential but are now defunct, or are otherwise not significant in modern times, might be accepted; ask first.
https://standardebooks.org/contribute/accepted-ebooks
> So I get funny looks when I suggest that engineers should go talk to people in the business, and write design docs.

I've gotten more than funny looks. They get downright mean or irritated, because to them it sounds like you're trying to take their job away.

Remember, these are the people who bring the requirements to the engineers.They have people skills! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIMIyQnOso
There's plenty of reasons to avoid the "mainstream" apps that have nothing to do with your political views. Decentralization, control over your own data, lack of intrusive advertising, informational hygiene, and privacy are good enough reasons by themselves.