skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another 400M Tethers Minted at Tether Treasury
If Rosa Parks didn't like sitting in the back of the bus, she could have just started her own bus line!

If GMC wouldn't sell her a bus, she could just make her own!

Sure it takes expertise, time, expense, negotiation... but that's the price of true freedom!

Before anyone comes crying: I in no way support the assault on the Capitol, calls to violence (which should be illegal), alt-right ethno-state madness, Qanon delusions etc. Nazism is a cancer on society.
Funnily enough, while it is true that there are some Youtube videos that show up above the rumble.com video for that query, all of them are from Rumble's own Youtube channel... So they are cannibalizing their own search queries :) And for some loose interpretation of "on", the results are indeed correct, those are dog videos "on" the rumble channel. As you mention, I don't see why it should be a string site: filter, if they're unhappy they can delete their Youtube channel.
Yep, and they state that purposely is a real word that's been in use for 500 years. I'll fight them to my grave! My beef with it has always been that two perfect words exist already: melancholia and melancholic. Between them, they cover all the ways in which I wish to use the word.
Good question. Normally I would try to figure this out for myself by logging on to Parler and taking a look. But Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg have decided that I can't be trusted to do that -- I could become a Nazi or Qanon nutter and try to violently overthrow the government.

I really dodged a bullet. Thank God for our tech overlords and their new Ministry of Truth. I can now sleep easy knowing that they are busy scouring the rest of the internet and it's marketplace of ideas for more doubleplusbadthink from which to shield me.
Nice!! How does it compare with Postgraphile?
Anyone here tried both ledger and hledger? I read up on the docs, and would like to try one, but wanted to hear any colloquial experiences of usage before I dove in.
> MongoDB switched to an open source model a decade ago

...and then moved back 2 years ago.

From the https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/README :

>
MongoDB is free and the source is available.
Versions released prior to October 16, 2018 are published under the AGPL.
All versions released after October 16, 2018, including patch fixes for prior versions, are published
under the Server Side Public License (SSPL) v1.

AGPL is open source: https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0
SSPLv1 is not listed, and SSPLv2 does not seem to have been approved either at last mention https://opensource.org/LicenseReview122018
Doesn't help that Craiglist haven't updated their UI for years, isn't the most user friendly site.

Also having fixed locations isn't great, esp. in the UK. Cities are covered but smaller towns are chopped off under bigger city 'communities'.
The predictable [and unfortunate] side effect of censorship on private platforms is it creates the illusion that the truth is being covered up.

I have no doubts the next surveillance and encryption backdoor bills will be based upon the incidents happening right now. It's far better for society to keep discussions in plain sight, even if they are woefully misguided.
I'm a 90s kid. From India. Always called it Telephone Directory. We also called it Yellow Pages.
This is the most naiive take I have seen on this subject. What Trump has always done is deflect. You can't trust my opposition, I tell the real truth, as he frequently says, implies, and follows up with falsehoods, lies, misconceptions, alternate facts. Whatever you want to call it, its hard to define intent. However you can judge history. Trump does not recant his misconceptions. Often he stands by them, saying that he is partially right, being wrongfully accused, or was just joking.

This happening so frequently shows to me that he provides information in bad faith and when something seems like either a misconception or a lie, its looking pretty clearly that the intent is to manufacture a separate reality that is conveniently aligned with his goals. To put it simply, the intent is to deceive and that is the very definition of lies. Using lies to manipulate the media is propaganda.
And this won't change with the Biden administration since he's been propped up by these very same companes.
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Seems like a great tool I’ll make sure to give it a try
Neither of them was ever an existential threat to our democracy. Please don't fall into this hyperbole.
good question, i guess it depends on the language... multiple inheritance without namespacing would either result in either method getting chosen randomly, or a build error...

for example, in swift you cant even inherit from two protocols that have default implementations... and i think in c++ you also cant call the method without specifying namespace...

so, i suppose, if you wanted to go all the way, you could even do namespace inference

def sepulka(zagizuga)
zagizuga::Something.doSomething()
zagisuga.doSomethingElse()

so zagizuga is infered to be some type that inherits from `Something` namespace and expects that namespace to defined `doSomething()` function, in addition to providing `doSomethingElse()`

though that seems getting a bit fragile irl maybe...
Parler has already has another host, which is proof that Amazon etc. don't have monopolistic force.
Love your feedback! Thanks.
We plan to have a set of policies to allow the developer to freely work within those policies so we can merge the code back to Amplication and even deploy the app with the custom code. There is a still way to go to get there...

Meanwhile, we let the developer manage the merges in GitHub

When you sign in to app.amplication.com you get a simple sample app with your account
I’m sure the CCP finds the alt text pretty thought provoking, too.
> The way to combat mistaken beliefs is to allow them to voice their views, then refute their arguments, not to call them liars and suppress their views. And even if they do not accept the refutation, the arguments should be left up for people to read and make their informed choice.

I don’t think this a good approach.

It takes real effort to refute a bad faith untruthful claim, but just it takes a single breath of air to make one. Lies scale better than the truth. And the people making bad faith arguments know this.

Maybe ridicule isn’t the answer but it’s something more than just facts and truth. Perhaps shame?
The bananas were one of the stuffs I always missed during overseas trips. The variety of bananas you get in Kerala is very rare in Europe, where in markets it's always the same type and mostly same brand.
there is a good chance that redundant streams would have helped here assuming that the player could load the manifest to fail over, but that manifest sadly hits Fastly. the problem with redundancy is that it really only works if you are redundant all the way up and down the serving stack. in our standard serving path (even without redundant streams) we automatically select the optimal CDN for chunk serving which does take into account availability, but during this incident we measured Fastly as about 5% less available than normal which wasn't enough to trigger a full automatic drain off of them. turns out, a 5% failure rate when you are serving 50 chunks to enable a video playback means 1 of them will likely fail and you get a playback error or in the best case, rebuffering.

sadly, Mux's manifest servers have not been redundant because the edge logic is a pile of Fastly's VCL. as mmcclure says, we're working on adding another CDN that can run our manifest serving logic so that we can be fully redundant.

I am really looking forward to a standard and portable edge platform that makes redundancy at this application layer easier. wasm here we come?
Unis want research shared. So why don’t they properly back academics to do it?
USSR went thru the periods of warming and crack-down on art.
An example of "soft" Soviet censorship from the same "good period" as the above, and the same authors, is Escape Attempt; it involves a prisoner from a concentration camp. In the original version, according to the authors, it was a Soviet labor camp; but of course, even after Khrushchev more or less denounced Stalin and his activities, you couldn't just remind people about Soviet labor camps. So, it had to become a German concentration camp.

A more funny (and sad) tale I remember from someone non-famous, is them trying to publish a children's book, and the censors saying it's good, but doesn't have enough communist spirit. Like, instead of there just being kids helping little animals, it could mention that the kids were members of the local communist youth chapter, etc. The author decided to not publish the book.
Yes, and which US company provides the substitutions for the ripped out Huawei 5g stations? Saying that US has 5G presence is the same as pointing at OVH to prove that the EU has cloud capabilities.

Be serious, being in the periphery means that Trump was proposing buying share in Nokia and not investing in Cisco.
> Google is an advertisement company. They are not giving the user they want, but whatever someone pays them to make the user think he wants.

This is plain false. The lawsuit is about search results, and those have nothing to do with someone paying to be higher. That only applies to ads results, which doesn't seem to be the issue here.
Parler is being singled out because instead of hiring moderators as full-time employees like all the other companies you mention they decided to go the volunteer route that is less efficient. If Parler held themselves to a higher standard they wouldn't exist because most of its user base would complain about censorship go somewhere else.
The design of the website makes it very confusing to read and understand.
Fastly: if you could add context to the incident as you track it, it would help customers and users feel better.

Also, linking a public postmortem to the incident would be great. It doesn't inspire confidence as a customer if we can't see that you are working on identifying the cause and are preventing it from recurring. (We don't need to see the full RCA or other process, just an overview of the problem, the cause, the fix, and the follow-up. This is a great way to iterate & improve on your RCA process)
I was on Parler and never did I see anyone suggest violence

This ban is simply the spread of commun1st party propaganda.

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Customers of airlines that already own Airbus planes will pay the tariffs, and they aren't particularly going to stop flying them over the prices of parts, so…

Wine is probably less directly pointless to charge a tariff on, but if the tariff is on the import price, it won't particularly be a big piece of the retail price, and it will be paid by the person buying the wine.

We are taxing ourselves to own the French!
> What does "inseparable" mean? That the sensation occurs at the same time that the neurons fire? That may be true, but it doesn't make them equivalent.

Can a sensation exist without neurons firing? The root of our conversation is the question if a sensation purely exists in the physical world. If it does, then it is possible to measure it. If it doesn't, then that breaks our scientific understanding of the world and would be exciting news.

> They're not the same, for what it's worth. The term "flashlight" conveys a certain intent and structure that "photons traveling away from a light bulb with a battery and a current" does not.

Yes there is no strict definition of a flashlight. Let's use your definition of a flashlight. Is it possible in your mind to separate the concept of a flashlight and your definition? Without "your definition here", the flashlight no longer exists. My point was without firing neurons, the sensation does not exist.

> The fact that two different phenomena are closely coupled via a cause and effect relationship does not make them the same phenomena.

My wording was not the best. My point was that the sensation of red is physically equivalent to neurons firing. How do we measure a sensation? If we cannot measure a sensation, does it exist in the physical world? If it doesn't exist in the physical world, then what does it existence mean to the scientific community?

> If you push two magnets together, the fact that the same force causes them to attract or repel does not mean that the motion of the first is literally equivalent to the motion of the second, or that the force itself is literally equivalent to either motion. They are closely correlated, but ultimately distinct.

I agree that these forces are distinct. We can measure the force of each magnet separately and we can define the motion of one magnet without referencing the motion of the other.

> You just can't avoid the fact that qualitative phenomena do exist in their own right. They can't be explained away using a physical model that assumes from the get go that they don't exist.

What is a qualitative phenomena? I couldn't find information on this term.

If we can't measure a qualitative phenomena in the physical space, what does it mean to exist?
I agree. I see a lot of people pushing to give them special status or make them town squares and I think that is the exact opposite solution we need. We should take anti-monopoly action and foster competition in their respective markets instead.
Regulatory capture prevents competition. Money influencing politics prevents regulation.
From a strictly utilitarian perspective, Twitter's actions generated backlash that was probably avoidable had they continued with their previous policy of placing a label that basically said "this guy is an idiot" on every tweet. This obviously has to be balanced against the damage caused by letting him break very rule without (apparent) consequences. I'm not sure where I stand on this issue, but I can see an argument for both sides.

This is however a completely disjoint topic. "Should they have done X" and "Should they be able to do X if they so choose" are very different questions.
There are concerns, especially in regards to the legality of Office 365.
> A source in Uganda’s telecom sector said the government had made clear to executives at telecoms companies that the social media ban was in retaliation for Facebook blocking some pro-government accounts.

This is probably the interesting bit - a retaliatory move by a regime trying to silence the opposition. I don't think this has too many parallels (except for blocking of accounts) with the current US events, which is why this is probably being upvoted?
Interesting that it happens with France and wine. Not so long ago France decided to raise VAT on (Belgian imported) beer but not on (France fabricated) wine. Of course that had absolutely nothing to do with protectionism.
That's a nice tool, this is a feature I enjoyed in Mint-like proprietary tools I used to use previously.

What's your workflow with it? Do you run `ledger-guesser <transaction details> >> journal_file.txt`? I'd somewhat prefer typing out the details in an editor, but I suppose I could type a bunch of transactions one per line in a file and xargs that into ledger-guesser.

What does it do when your transaction is of a new type that it wasn't trained on? Does it have a confidence threshold below which to tell you "I cannot guess this one"?
I saved a fair bit of money buying the base RAM and SDD configuration and then upgrading myself the last couple of times I bought a T-series Thinkpad.
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From an optics point of view, if it looked like they were handling all users the same way, there'd be so much less of a problem here. But right now, it is like selective law enforcement -- action will be taken if we don't like you, much more than whether you are deemed to be complying with the terms of service.

What they could've done is consistently enforced their rules all the way along, to people of all political persuasions.
The source you're citing is citing another source, which is behind a paywall.

I'd like to look at the time series data as well, but it looks like either the "Data Integrity Group" didn't provide or The Epoch Times felt it unnecessary to share the data in the article.

> The Epoch Times was unable to verify the allegation independently.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210104154823/https://www.theep...
i don't see the problem? he isn't getting on the news because he isn't doing anything newsworthy - the appearances mentioned are all fluff. if he has something actually important to talk about, it will be reported on and covered.

in fact, i would say by now Trump has lost the benefit of being aired live and uncut. you can't spout untruths constantly and expect people to just keep mainlining your BS to every TV in the country.

it sounds to me that you think that if Trump doesn't get full, unrestricted, on-demand use of american companies' broadcast facilities, he's being censored and oppressed. Sadly, he's President not King. Just because he's President doesn't mean anything that he says has value to anyone any more than anything i have to say.
I'm using an M1 Mac as a terminal for all my stuff. It's a nice compromise as the things that you want on a desktop are there and work properly.

I did however move all my hardware shit into the cloud as it works out fractionally cheaper than running a hefty desktop as and when I need one and things blowing up in it aren't my problem any more.
Candidates put faith in MySpace (2008)
> Location within each state are approximate

Don't take the map literally, the key ideas are in the Twitter thread. The main point of his thread, is that maps aren't good at saying where voters are and are fundamentally biased (“You can be a Biden voter in a Trump household in a Biden precinct in a Trump county in a Biden district in a Trump state in a Biden country. Then what color is your land? Dirt-colored, I guess! Not only does land not vote, it doesn’t even have a preference.”). He made his map as a counterpoint to nationwide maps, but he could have made the same map at the state, or even the district level: there are trumps voter in the middle of San Francisco and Bidden voters in the middle of nowhere in rural California. In fact, there are more Trump voters in LA alone than in 80% of the red areas in nationwide maps.
Because one would normally word it as "blood test SQL database" or "SQL database containing blood tests"…
> I really hope this ultrabook meme ends.

is that really necessary? my "work" is a complicated desktop c++ application. short of a 17" desktop replacement, there simply isn't enough thermal budget in any conceivable laptop design to compile this program in under an hour. thus, all I want out of a laptop is the thinnest lightest x86 machine that offers decent performance for web browsing, playing movies, and editing word documents.

I really hope for a future in which we can both get laptops that fit our needs.
Two things that I'd need explained to trust this take:
"Often, the data are in the hands of Democrat politicians and bureaucrats who refuse to make it available."

1) The Georgia SOS in charge of elections is a Republican, so why would it benefit him to work against the Republican Nominee

2) If the data is being held by Democrats who refuse to make it available, what "data" did The Epoch Times analyze that showed votes being removed?

In my experience, stuff like this often boils down to people's lack of understanding of systems or practices and they read into "anomalies" that might look weird to an uneducated outsider, but for someone that knows what they're talking about, isn't sinister...
Thanks.
Can you please share what data types you have in mind?
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I don't know about that. Yeah, ceramic capacitors in particular exhibit strong piezoelectric effects, but you'd need some sort of silicon to amplify the signal. I think electronic experts should be able to discover any sketchiness like that through thorough inspection and reverse engineering.
> On the other hand, do we really want a handful of unelected billionaires deciding what is acceptable speech - whether or not we agree with them? We talk about net neutrality, but shouldn't we apply the same standard to hosts like AWS?

I find it ironic that the ban is what makes people think the techCos are controlling society rather than the fact that all actions of social networks and hosting services impact society. Like the time when FB make some news feeds more negative to track impact and engagement. Or how the radicalization of users on FB can happen due to the Algo.

Ultimately this is a legislative failure, but it also is how a free market should defend itself of dangerous content as well. (keep in mind a Civil war 2 isn't exactly great for the economy).

What is wild is that the laws for this all exist and are in use. The behavior here is the use of Section 230 as designed. The definition of insurrection and hate speech are all defined. Clearly what has happened is actually late action by social platforms rather than overreach as the US Gov lacks any mode to actually take on this content.
It's cronyism regardless and should be described as such.
I guess it’s theoretically possible to set up an arm of law enforcement whose sole job would be to monitor all social media, along with a judicial division that could stand at the ready to issue court orders for comment takedowns. Maybe.
Modeling them as independent businesses that can decide — based on any non-protected principle they choose — to censor speech is too generic to be useful. They are closer to telephone or radio or broadcast TV companies than to private enterprise as an overarching category. Communication business are, of course, regulated around what they can and cannot say on air (the broadcast ones, specifically), and we probably need a similar approach to handling social media.

Yet we do not treat them like regulated broadcast media, which I guess is unsurprising in that regulation lags behind technology. In the context of Parler, it seems they tried to make the best of a bad situation.

But I don't know that we should cheer this as "the right outcome", even if, in this case, it seems justified (my gut is that this was the right thing to do, in this specific case). It's time to ask broader questions around whether these companies should have that power at all, or if we need government to step in.
The "so what" is that Parler was taken down for an action that was planned on Facebook.
Facebook revamps ‘Access Your Information’ tool
Better than doing what we do in the "civilised" world: only banning one side.
This will push towards a balkanization of the Internet at the platform level as people will want to self-determine the terms of service for the basis of their communication. Second boom spurred by corporate hubris. You might think there's nothing wrong with this hubris, depending on how comfy your pockets are when lined with their money. The grand majority of the world will not agree – they are not paid by them, when they are they are not treated fairly, and if they are treated fairly they are likely within a sociological bubble.
Escalating retaliation between corporations and centers of political power is something that could happen in the US.
This only seems to be for a special version of the X1 Yoga, not for all models in the X1 line. The new X1 Carbon is the same thickness as the previous generation: 14.9mm[1], though it looks like they reduced the bezels and redesigned the hinge.

1. See tech specs on this page: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/coming-soon/X1-Carbon-G9/p/22TP...
Safari's reader mode works on this site.