skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a logical fallacy and the equivalent of saying 'you are welcome to practice free speech, in this here sound-proofed room'.

Twitter is one of a small handful of platforms where an individual can share an idea and have that idea spread - as long as the owners of Twitter don't disagree with that idea. It's not because twitter is special, it's because it was one of the first to achieve a sufficiently large userbase.

Defending arbitrary censorship on these platforms as 'oh well it's a private entity so they can do what they like' misses the forest for the trees. Technology has shifted the power balance for free expression, and applying pre-technology laws and mindsets to it just empowers that small handful of individuals to manipulate public discourse even more. Twitter doesn't quite have a monopoly on speech, but it's damn close in terms of practical outcomes. The fact that the legal definition of `monopoly` hasn't caught up with that, doesn't change the matter.
"The richer you are, the more money you have in your bank account, study finds."
On a first skim it looks like a bespoke blockchain that commits its state to the bitcoin blockchain to ensure finality. Seems kind of neat, but I wouldn't call it "smart contracts on bitcoin".
Fair enough, that part did not register as OP said it was "anecdotical" and in his experience
A defense attorney has to 'believe' that their client is innocent, or at least what they did wasn't so bad and gosh are they sorry, and can't we let bygones be bygones?

In a similar way, advertising people have to believe that their company matters a great deal. Even if it's just Drakar Noir for a younger generation.

I don't know what Paul's excuse is. Then again, I send stuff out into the universe all the time with no expectation of people actually acting on it. Sometimes, as they say, you need to get something outside of your head so it's not inside anymore (so you can stop dwelling on it).
Yes, you're correct. What I should have said is that, since we can do special things for twitter.com, we should be able to do special things for URLs which point to Sci-Hub. I don't know at which point things become legally uncomfortable, but it currently only takes three clicks to turn a DOI into a Sci-Hub link even without HN's assistance.
Chronic sleep deprivation?
I guess you weren't around in the 90s.
People use cash all the time to fund terrorism. There is no difference. What about the US government using cash to fund future enemies of the USA?
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To everyone saying they want to completely move away from google.. To me one of the biggest things is the convenience of random sites that I can create an account with one click linked to my google account.

People seem to really really underestimate the power of that.

Like during this last year of craziness, my kids both have google accounts on chrome so when we find new random websites for learning that I want them to have accounts with, they have all had google click to signin. I probably wouldn't have even bothered with various places if they didn't have that. For my kids being able to visit 5+ sites regularly and the worst that happens is they have to re-login by clicking 'login with google' cannot be understated.
> And who says that syntax doesn't matter?

Literally noone.
Many have also jumped the queue to get free COVID shots (Tampa had a recent news report). One couple said they booked shots (4 weeks in the future) for their friends who are still in Canada (they will travel down shortly). Not sure how this is permitted although it makes scientific sense (anyone can transmit).

The US is currently well ahead of Canada in per-capita COVID delivery.
Tcl is one of my favorite scripting languages to work in. It’s wonderful in the simplicity of the core language and how you can write things that act like keywords as just pure Tcl. I’d love to see Tcl gain some modern sensibilities like closures, the ability to run a destructor when a variable falls out of scope or is deleted, nested variable scopes within a proc, etc.
Can ICANN or some other body block you if they don't like the kind of domains you are registering?
This is a weird flex, to choose to dig your heels in on this particular image/issue.
Wtf is this research?!

People are dying and researchers trying to prove obvious things?! What's going on here?

I cannot understand what's the rationale behind this post. At either researchers going later to show that being rich also correlates with longer life and happier one as well?

What are all the inactivity happening in this country regarding the covid? Everyone seems content with their own life and comfortable with the obvious injustice and cruelty practiced between each other.

In China, covid is treated as a issue that matters above anything one can think of. If there is any trace of new carriers, any outdoor activities are strictly traced and managed. People pay a lot of attention and very careful about daily work and life. How is this country are content with understanding that richer people usually more respect the safety measure?

What an insane situation guys? Did you realize it?!
Austin has had a growing homeless problem, but nothing like SF or NYC. Still, lots of drug use, petty theft, and loitering in the inner city and university areas.

However, it is Texas, and there is lots of room to spread out. If you never find yourself in the city center then you will not see it.
Lol Amazon's Ring ? Amazon also acquired Ring. Maybe do some research before trying to score Internet points.
It's where you claimed you couldn't remove it because then people would make more demands of you. That's the gutless part. Hiding behind a hypothetical. Glad I could clear it up. Also this is my first hacker news account not a throwaway.
> I refer back to mine a LOT. The principal audience for them is future me - if anyone else finds them useful too that's just a bonus.

100% this. Several times a week I'll be trying to do something, remember I've written about, and then find a TIL my past-self wrote that explains how to do the thing. It's really satisfying each time it happens.
I've moved off the ideological train and hopped on the "can the market bear it" train.

The market can bear committing states to the bitcoin blockchain, and there hasn't been a standardized way to do that. I would therefore call it smart contracts on bitcoin.
Don't worry op won't reply to this.
That's true. I also have a theory that those that don't wear condoms or use protection don't wear masks. And that a large percentage of the more religious are less likely to wear masks.

There are several buckets of people in those groups and they're pretty sizable. Crosses several races and several age groups.

EDIT: got some downvotes on this. Probably mentioning words like "race" and "age" which is a no-no for some people.

To clarify the intent of my comment - I think in order to provide a better response to a pandemic I think it is important to understand those groups which would be better served with different communications.

If you don't care about the risk of STDs or an unplanned pregnancy or your faith in God is the primary driver of your health and well-being response, you probably aren't going to care as much as others about wearing a mask.

I had one young pregnant acquaintance of ours, who lives with her grandmother, tell my wife that she knows she will be ok because of her faith in God. This young woman had at least one large family gathering. She didn't quarantine or test before seeing people. Her fiance was actually going to the gym regularly. Her grandmother got covid and luckily she made it.

Repeating all the same directives (social distance, mask, wash hands) has clearly NOT worked. Even saying the hospitals are overwhelmed hasn't seemed to matter.

I don't think you can prepare a good response without difficult conversations and an understanding of why people might do what they do and how that perspective developed.

And politicians would rather speak vaguely and not make tough calls lest they inflame some of their supporters.
I contribute ADS-B data grabbed with SDR to Flightradar24. It's pretty sweet because they give you their Business subscription plan (the highest one, $50/month) for free.

I think you may need at least a free account to see the stats, but in any case these are my two sites:

https://www.flightradar24.com/account/feed-stats/?id=5024

https://www.flightradar24.com/account/feed-stats/?id=23968
Unpopular opinion here, but I think the Fitbit versa (from 2018) was/is better than Apple Watch (latest) in significant ways, even when paired with iPhone.

I replaced my versa with Apple Watch when the versa died. I don’t necessarily regret it, but it didn’t feel like an upgrade and came with significant downsides.

In particular, Fitbit gives far more control over notifications, especially for built-in apps like messages. Fitbit makes media controls easily accessible - on Apple Watch, they’re always moving and hard to get back to especially during a workout. My main use case is skipping podcast commercials, so not being able to do that quickly is a problem.

Battery life was much better on the versa. It also charged faster, so it would almost always be done charging after a shower, Apple Watch only sometimes is.

Tldr there is definitely room to deliver a better product than Apple’s. Whether or not Google is capable of doing that is a different question that I won’t address.
Will Bitcoin go up or down?
I wholly agree with you. They do, however, own the obligations of a public forum if that is how they ask to be regulated.

They are playing cute with political speech. They aren't publishing in the traditional sense. But heavy curation of independent content is (at their volume) publishing - without the regulation accorded publishers. They are, by their actions, espousing certain political ideas by only allowing those ideas to exist in their 'public forum'.

For anyone, even a staunch libertarian, to claim that the government should not get in their kitchen on that basis is naive in my opinion.
I suspect he doesn't want to face the fact that it was maybe a bad idea in the first place. It's hard to own up to mistakes. I've been there.
Conversely, I regularly test as testosterone deficient but I’ve got some muscle (under a dad bod) and would describe myself as pretty aggressive (but try and remain peaceful and burn aggression in BJJ.)

I am wondering if our current understanding of testosterone traits is wrong, or perhaps my understanding is wrong?

Edit: I’m a little older than you.
Twitter isn't deciding what Donald Trump says, it's deciding what he says on their website.

I wouldn't allow Donald Trump to give a speech from my backyard -- that's not an impingement on his rights.
I'd still consider it lower end when gaming is concerned. It's no match to a CPU + dedicated GPU set up when both are high end.
Controversial opinion: the US flag has too much noise going on. The meaning behind the stars and stripes is nice, but the Texas flag captures the same elements much more cleanly.
Comments merged thither. Thanks!

(I took #25778305 off the end of your link so people can click on it to go to the main thread.)
This is a well know white supremacist's phrase and originates from an organization that was known as The Order. It is called 14 words, if I where on the receiving end of a donation with that phrase I would be quick to distance myself from it and donate the proceeds to a worthwhile charity.

While I know it is routine to paint the right and specifically the alt-right as all being racist white supremacist's the reality is they are a small minority that has banded onto the right given their conservative views on certain items. The right needs to do a better job of making it known that they are not welcome but things like this really don't help them in doing just that. I know the guy with the buffalo headdress has a Valknut tattoo prominently tattooed on his chest so I think it's pretty safe to assume he is a white supremacist's. So to me it looks like a small band of white supremacist's organized to incite the mob into action. People should really be aware of who they are throwing their lot in with.
This has been known for awhile, but this spike doesn't persist. It quickly levels back down.
Layer 2 seems to be the logical way forward - network fees have gotten ridiculous on the Bitcoin blockchain, and reducing the frequency with which you need to settle there would be a big win. On top of all the added functionality of smart contracts, of course.
I worked for 15 years as a software engineer at Morgan Stanley where they valued the process of taking a 3 martini lunch idea into a production platform so value of engineers was recognized and rewarded as such ... its somewhat easier to whip up a new financial wrinkle its a whole other level of magic to design and implement that idea when it takes 60 software developers 3 years to get that idea to market before the rest of the street ... of course the IT department was/is the largest budgeted portion at the entire bank and for a good reason
Unless it a specialty crop like pumpkins or is an organic operation, not a chance this happens with corn or soy farms. Your numbers are good. Total operating costs for a corn acre in 2019 were ~700 dollars.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/commodity-costs-and-r...

Better link: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/commodity-costs-and-r...
That is why Bitcoin is the worst currency for illegal acts. It is transparent and traceable
QAnon Believers Think Trump Spoke to Them in Morse Code
> If I may use an analogy. Suppose four major airlines refused to carry one political group. Your logic then would suggest they are no worse off since they can as well drive or take a bus to get places, so there is nothing to worry about. Is that right?

I mean this just happened. Many of the airlines wouldn't allow those involved in the attack on the Capitol on their flights back to wherever they came from. And no, I don't have a problem with this. Either the other airlines will fly those people or no one will and they will have to travel via alternative means. I would have a problem if the government told airlines that passengers, as a result of only their political group, were not allowed to fly.

I would also say that I am more hesitant to agree in the case of this analogy about being "deplatformed" by all of the airlines than I am by social media or hosting providers (cloud or not) since airlines are a heavily regulated industry with a very deep, government-backed moat.

> they are no worse off

I'd like to clarify that I don't think they're no worse off, but I also don't believe we have a fundamental right to be served by a company unless they are a utility that has a government backed monopoly or quasi-monopoly (or you are not being served as a result of your membership in a protected class). That's why I feel confident in being pro-net neutrality for ISPs, anti-forced hosting for hosting providers, and lean towards treating DNS like an ISP.

I'm also pro-federated services for these reasons, because I believe platforms should have control over their platforms, and I believe we the people should have more diverse platforms and more control over the ones we use.

A lot of my beliefs about this probably stem from being a moderator on a decently large online community about 15 years ago as well as working in the hosting industry for a short stint.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25776450.
What was the issue with QBS? The syntax looks clean and concise. Seems like the main issue is lack of traction.
Yes, but how soon do you get results. Is it instantaneous or do they call/text your the results?
I read it too after reading Kevin Kelly's analysis in What Technology Wants. I recall it was very meandering, not particularly well supported, and from what I understand, not very novel either. In retrospect, if Ted Kaczynski thought that he could start a movement with that much wandering text, there wasn't much hope for anything super cogent.
I have been using an app called Fit-to-fit to sync my heartrate and sleep data from Fitbit to Google Fit for years. This saves me some trouble so I'm excited! Any idea when this will be delivered?
Foremost, thank you for your service! I really, really want DDG to be successful and I'm glad to know the feedback doesn't /dev/null. If I might be so bold as to suggest that hiding the "Send Feedback" in the bottom right is a very opaque location for what is arguably a vital interaction DDG has with its users.

While I have an insider: I see a lot of mentions in the threads about folks who use "!g" or "!sp" -- are those counted as votes of suboptimal DDG results? I could see it going either way: it's a bad metric for those users who just default to doing it, but it's a good metric for searches that end in the frustration of a series of bad DDG results
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Apart from speculation? Like what? It's only really useful for forex if you're avoiding currency controls, for instance.

Torrents are routinely used for distributing Linux isos.
I think that you are being disingenuous in not pointing out the context as a rhetorical device to point out hypocrisy and absurdity of racist views, but I don't think you should be downmodded for bringing this to light given the comment chain above you.
Presumably there are other factors, but I'm pretty sure testosterone correlates with aggressive traits, sex drive and other similar aspects, most definitely.

You can have muscle if you have low testosterone, but it will develop slower compared to if you had higher testosterone.
I don't expect you to change your mind because confirmation bias is a powerful force. I did see this video recently and found it interesting. Have you seen it? "Bill Gates - Microsoft Antitrust Deposition - Highlights" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRelVFm7iJE
The spread of this narrative is fascinating, given how easy it is to find counterexamples. I attribute it to a lack of education around business.

One of my good friends is a highly-paid engineer at a tech company, and he told me, "Businesses want to keep people poor, so they have cheap labor." Which is about as sensible as saying consumers want businesses to be poor, so we get cheaper products. This is actually a pervasive myth believed by many intelligent people.

Of course businesses want to pay as little as they can for labor, the same way literally anyone paying for anything wants to pay as little as possible. But other concerns obviously come into play as well, e.g. the quality of the people you hire, the affluence of the customers you can sell to, your top-level revenue numbers, etc. This should have been obvious to my friend, who works at a tech company that's happy to pay him and others $200k+.

The reality is that businesses actually prefer wealthy societies with wealthy customers who can buy more things. It's a chronic problem that poor communities are under-served by businesses, because poverty makes it harder to profit.

And yet the myth that businesses want people to be poor persists.

As does the myth that you can only make large sums of money through cheating, scamming, lying, stealing, etc.
That would seem to be a reasonable reaction. If people with jobs that don't really allow for social distancing were also the people the most worried about the virus, they would be under a great deal of psychological stress that they can't really do anything about. From a evolutionary standpoint it would make sense that the people most able to act around a threat are also the most worried about it.
> This isn't about speech, it's copyright infringement.

Are they committing copyright infringement on Twitter?
But, it could be made relatively efficient by using trains to haul trash long-distance.
URL is BBC homepage. This seems to be the correct article URL https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55654229
Who is Twitter in your analogy?

The store? Then your analogy is flawed because there are other big stores that sell basically the same stuff and even some small shops. Not a monopoly. If all of them choose not to sell that product that doesn't mean anything. They don't have any obligation to carry whatever you want.

Man, people are being absurd about this whole thing.
Their BMI range is wide
Isn't it just the more sedentary life, the safer environment?
Eh. I'm still on microwave dishes. It's been a while since I ordered food.
A few takes:

- Website is riddled with grammatical inconsistencies and errors. I can tell you're not a native English speaker, and you may want to revisit some of the copy.

- As @ourcat mentioned, there are way too many pricing options, not to mention the tiny tabs at the top (which yield even more pricing options). It's just confusing/overwhelming.

- You really need to make a case here for why someone would choose you over Firebase. I'd personally never use you because Firebase is free while I'm building out the MVP (usually a side project). It always irks me when passion projects or pre-MVP "startups" are hemorrhaging money (even if it's just 10 bucks a month).

- I don't think "vendor lock-in" is a pain point for these kinds of products. A pain point I do know about is migrating to a more robust data layer if the project takes off (post-MVP phase). I don't really see how this very real pain point is easier to mitigate on your SaaS rather than Firebase.
I'd say the biggest difference is where you make your money. Income and ability to work remotely seems pretty strongly correlated due to its probably white collar nature, and this normalizes social distancing. If you work in a grocery store, chances are you are desensitized to some of the ideas.
Help Transcribe John Nash's PhD Thesis, “Non-Cooperative Games” into Latex
My friend, an aspiring mathematician who is already doing amazing work at his age, is transcribing John Nash's Thesis from scratch, and it would be awesome if people jumped in to help him, or give tips/pointers.
Not sure what media you watch but before I went to bed, I watched Portland livestreams of very violent "protests". These went on every night for weeks and I watched people throw Molotov cocktails and shoot mortars at law enforcement. Call it what you want, but this shit was happening for over 100 nights in a row.
>Vice is already trying to label Telegram as a haven for Neo-Nazis, which it probably isn't.

If you mean they actively encourage or court neo-Nazis, no. But a place where they congregate and communicate, then it certainly is, because they've been blocked from most other platforms.

It's not a coincidence that places with little to no moderation like parler, voat, 4chan, 8chan, various subreddits before reddit decided to crack down, etc. are flooded with these people. It happens over and over again and is entirely predictable.

Your point about the potential for government restriction is valid, but the reality is that if these platforms are predictably flooded with bigotry and violence and don't have a plan for dealing with it, it's very likely that eventually a plan will be imposed on them. It's a complicated issue, one that unfortunately Hacker News handles discussion of very poorly.
I thought it was Warren Buffet that convinced him to go the philanthropy route.
Maybe he wanted the feeling of a traditional luxury car? Teslas are nice, but they certainly don't follow the "traditional" ways of styling. Was there any other reliable competition?
You...could be...healthier?
You might be right, but I do feel that it is a difference between a board game and real world.

The decisions you make for the company affects the real world (even thought it is in the role of a artificial entity, like a company) and have real consequences on people and the state of the world.

The same in not true for the decisions you make in a board game or computer game.

Of course some might say board games affect the real world but the difference in scale is so large it is negligible.
For me the best alternative is Void Linux. It is still very
lightweight and without unnecessary clutter, but more pleasant
to use on a desktop.