skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify I meant niche as in use / market. I agree on the characteristics - where does it 'win' though vs Go / Rust which are already well established. I don't see any movement from those communities to even try Crystal.
"Frustrated with Parler deplatforming" was kind of a giveaway.
Why is this excuse always dragged out? History and precedent is orthogonal to objective and sufficient quality and fairness.
and pay artists for letting them play their songs (or whenever a song is actually played, or some combination). which has a huge impact when they're one of few music hosting platforms people use
Has anyone, anywhere, ever suggested that child pornography is 'speech' let alone 'free speech'?

It seems bizarre to include in this list.
It's incredibly hard to find time where a) you're not in meetings and b) you're not interrupted or needing to reply to communication through email or Slack.

The feeling of urgency of those things, connected to a reputation for being on top of things, makes it extremely hard to book a 4 hour uninterrupted window to work on something.
I haven't found that to be the case when cooked. Commercial asafoetida is mixed with tumeric for colour, and rice flour to reduce it to edible porportions.

Please don't use pure asafoetida, I don't know of anyone else that does that and it will just smell horrible, along with giving you stomach problems. Even forms of asafoetida you can find in non-western countries are typically mixed with rice flour.
Did nuclear spy devices in the Himalayas trigger India floods?
I don't disagree with you, but are you aware of how things were before the vendors you listed existed? it used to be VERY difficult to get anywhere as a musician - at least now with YouTube and Spotify you can roll the "going viral" dice and better your chances with something good.

I will also say that the issue is mainly human nature - any platform that gets critical mass will likely see people interested in money bubble to the top and eventually monetize.
Shiny gold prevents oxidation on electrical contacts and makes your computer work. In most chips there is a bit of gold, not a lot, so there is value in that.
Interesting. I don't have a buffing wheel, but my friend does and he buffed a few for me. I don't remember what compound he used, but I think it was for buffing clearcoat on cars.
I don't really want to see politicians giving bitcoin holders too much weight when making decisions about how the economy should function.

Anyone who owns Bitcoin is gambling. There was never a guarantee that value would go up, or that the government squash the idea entirely.

If we as a society decide that Bitcoin is too dangerous, current holders should accept Bitcoin for what it was: a bad investment.
fukushima too caused an overreaction in Germany
Can we stop calling people influencers or curators if they’re just taking money to promote stuff?
This crisis in Texas is also a good argument for why price gouging during a shortage doesn’t work the way anti-regulatory advocates said it would.

The theory is as such: raising prices during a crisis does two things. First it encourages more production, since anyone producing (or more likely, moving) shortage goods into the affected area will be compensated. Secondly it discourages non essential consumption, as everyone cuts back to the bare minimum. This is the basic theory of prices driving resource allocation (one of the cornerstones of capitalism) being applied to a crisis and the resulting resource shortages.

The issue here in Texas is that this didn’t happen. In theory producers should’ve run extra capacity to take advantage of the crisis, which should end it. Instead they ran the bare minimum, didn’t winterize, and pocketed the profits. It was also impossible to move extra energy in, both due to diminished excess in nearby states, and a lack of robust cross-grid connections. Secondly a lot of this demand isn’t elastic. If you’re counting on an electric heat pump to warm your home, then you can’t cut consumption during a crisis; you’ll freeze to death. This means that the rising prices don’t cause people to curtail consumption, because nobody will willingly freeze themselves and their water pipes given the choice.
Everyone says this.

Until they have to deal with the realities of what true free speech means: child pornography, child exploitation, rape, ultra violence, terrorism, organised crime, drug dealing, doxxing innocent people etc.

My Reddit account is 13 years old so I've seen personally seen communities of all of the above grow and flourish and the true levels of depravity that humans can reach. Ultimately it got to the point where Reddit simply couldn't take it.

But hey good luck. I do love the fact that you're using Github to host this.
When I grew up, outside the liquor store there used to be some drunks debating wild conspiracy theories about who killed Olof Plame. Nobody cared. Nobody felt the need to silence their obvious falsehoods. Everyone could see that they where not the brightest minds, and not worth engaging with.

Today its hard to distinguish these people from scientists at the top of their fields. Maybe the issue isn't that we need to scilence people but rather we need different tools to distinguish who's worth listening to.

Censorship fails because its an impossible judgement to make and its impossible to find a fair judge. Modern social networks amplify the outrageous, not the thoughtful. The needs for clicks has ruined discourse more then freedom of speech. I think there is a lot of work that could be done to build systems that encourage dialog and promote thoughtfulness online that isn't done today because everyone focuses on banning.
The motivation of the author is pretty plainly a desire to express antagonistic mockery and petty hatred. Freedom of speech is a wildly larger context that sounds much nicer.
A key line in most societies seems "imminent or attributable harm."

As in "we (as a tolerant society) can tolerate free speech up and to the point that someone else is harmed."
If an aircraft can fly for 6 hours on one engine, why can’t it fly indefinitely on one engine?
I think it’s also important to keep in mind that the results you get are probably going to be highly influenced by whether or not people actually like your music. We really have no way to control for that in these experiments. I obviously can’t just fart into a microphone and promote it on these platforms and conclude that they don’t work.
How does it plan on dealing with spam/bots? In a system where nobody has a verified identity, nothing can be removed without destroying most of the system, and consensus decides what's visible the real users seem to be at quite the disadvantage.

Spam/bots are a common, tough, problem for existing imageboards that can exert central control. I don't think light/dark comes close to solving this type of issue, it assumes the majority of interactions are benevolent.
The point you’re making seems to change every time someone provides data that shows it’s not accurate.

First it was Australia was 3x wealthier than the US. Now it’s that the US is poorer on a median level, yet I see no data.
No, or it likely would not have been called the renaissance. It would have been the "oh, so very much darker ages" because it would have meant that patronage stopped.

The aristocrats were the patrons.

Patrons are the ones who have money to spare. Before that era, in that era, today, and for whatever tomorrows we have.
For an entire OS, this doesn't make sense. It does make sense for business critical software. We did this 20 years ago, even calling the subdir VENDOR, for some 3rd party components. It's part of design, and even support of your stuff.

What's new is containers and k8s. People will put more into that, for dev and critical sw.

However, for full desktop or OS it's probably cargo-cult or hard to scale and maintain.
Sure, but in the analogy, the person "speaking freely" wasn't a member of the public but someone renting a store.
We use it multiple times a month and seemingly the people that want to be paid this way from us seem very familiar with it. Not sure which of our anecdotes are closer to the actual truth.
dang: this seems incorrectly flagged.
Liking one specific generation of technology is just being a modern amish. I'm pretty your old truck is an abomination for some old timer. New tech will be tested and bad ideas will be eventually abandoned down the road, this is how it works.
Exactly. If you never chat with businesses, nothing changes at all. The update just spells it out in clearer terms.
I have the same issues as everybody else (larger screen, smaller bezel, flush mount to bezel, google calendar only), but I'll talk about the copy on the site:

Under "Set and forget", "User your [...]" should be "Use your [...]". If you're anywhere near this price point, you can't have any typos in your copy.

"For the home":

> Unlike a paper-based family planner, the Invisible Calendar is up-to-date with what's in everyone's phones. Even the kids can catch a glance at the weekend - and know when to schedule that sleepover.

To me it feels like the age when kids start to really manage their own schedules is also around the age when parents give them (or let them pay for) their own phones. If everybody has a phone, what need does a shared device on a wall fulfill?

The "and for the office" block for some reason made me think that it would be neat to have it show a single day while in portrait and show the week while in landscape. Then in portrait/day mode, it takes the place of the narrow sliver I give to Calendar.app on one of my screens / lets me reclaim that screen space, and I can still see the week at a glance by just turning it on its mount/pedestal/whatever.

This would work a lot better if it were battery powered though, you might not want the cable moving around while you're turning it.
Yeah. Lets attribute this to geography. Not good policy executed well. Taiwan and SK are some of the most dense countries on the planet and they were able to keep this in control.
You have expressed my objections to this argument better than I can.

I have no particular a priori problems with the idea of a distributed consciousness---even for the US. But I find the evidence of conscious behavior in the article rather unconvincing. Is consciousness really the simplest explanation of its behavior?
It's the same JavaScript running, just hosted on your domain instead of externally. The JS shouldn't support eval, which is unfortunately a common way to display ads in networks with embedded external scripts. Version updates can go through your review too.
I like molten-salt reactors, but they still depend on steam turbines† and cooling systems to convert the heat into useful energy. So they don't help to solve the fundamental cost problem Epistasis identified: although they might reduce the gap between high nuclear-plant cost and low coal-plant cost, but they won't cross the Rubicon to even lower solar-plant cost.

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† which operate at substantially more than one atmosphere!
How sadly unsurprising that HN hates free speech. This just proves that we need platforms free of Silicon Valley influence.
I have little doubt it is. The question is how do we actually contact it (obviously contacting an ambassador, a president or any other person is not the same).
Discrimination based on what someone is is wrong and illegal. That's why we have protected classes for race, gender, sexuality, age, and so on.

Discrimination based on people's words and actions is how society functions. It's perfectly legal.

This isn't even about politics. If you think people refusing to do business with white supremacists, insurrectionists, and racists is discriminating against a political party, that says a lot about that political party. No one's getting deplatformed for talking about deregulation or free trade.
Step one: Don't think of your opponent as people.
Nocebo effect hampering Europe’s vaccine roll out
> No clue how you do that in a distributed manner, though.

Distributed blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc) solved this with Proof-of-Work, which is derived from the concept of an "e-mail postage stamp" to fight spam by forcing SMTP senders to compute an expensive hash. Similarly, if each backlink "cost" a PoW unit to earn Googlejuice it would probably be a useful metric again.

...or not: because that means indirectly placing a dollar-amount on a backlink, and well-funded marketing companies are more-than-willing to shell-out for that. Just an idea though...

Anyone want to start a "Xanadu 2: Electric Boogaloo" with a PoW algorithm?
Funny thing is, since nobody ever submits PRs to change it in the opposite direction, even one person going around on GitHub would be virtually guaranteed to eventually change all of them.
I thought yhat was more the 17th — 19th centuries, and that in the Renaissance the aristocracy was still happy being landed do-nothings and the new bourgeois was driving things.

On the other hand, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe
It's kind of in the article even if not mentioned explicitly: Usenet is not censorship-resistant or anonymous in the same way
Because free speech like the author wants = objectionable content.

Which server providers will be hosting that Usenet newsgroups and be willing to be legal responsible for said content ?
I agree with this. I spent most of my time in the AP classes so I never saw any of this until I took a photography elective my senior year. Just 2 people out of 30 ruined the class. They were loud, disruptive, making it impossible to concentrate. The teacher was forced to spend all her time dealing with those two. Everyone would have been better off if they weren't there.
This is an interesting project by all means, but I'm curious as to what your goal/vision for this project is. The reason that most online forum-esque services involve some sort of moderation isn't because they give in to the so-called "woke SJW Twitter mob", it's because they want to expand their user bases - a platform cannot host large amounts of sexist content and attract women, it cannot stop taking action against content that is racist and expect a multicultural user base, and so forth.

As for an intial starting point, it makes sense that you are looking to capture users that have been kicked off places like Reddit, FB, or can't participate on Parler any longer and I'm sure you will have success within that target group if you are able to get this off the ground. However, I'm not sure where you're going to get new users from after that - and without a more diverse user base, you are not only limiting the spread of ideas from your platform to elsewhere but are also creating an echo chamber where people who self-select for "my views are not tolerable in the mainstream" are the only ones who are talking. This problem will get worse over time, and make it even harder to attract new users.

Like you say in your blog post, a major source of frustration with existing technology is that "They prefer purity to practicality". It seems an awful lot like you are trying to do the same thing here, and while this project will certainly be entertaining, I'm not sure how viable this will end up being - I'm having a hard time seeing this as anything other than another Voat/Ruqqus.
Can someone answer how TransferWise gets away without "reporting this information to HMRC or any other tax authority." aka dream for tax evaders (who get paid in foreign currency)?
I love transferwise, depend on it often. I don't get the rebrand, their old name was descriptive, easy to google, and from all perspectives really good. The rebrand won't change me using it, but I really can't see the positive in this.
Can you really call someone an influencer if they aren't promoting something? It's in the name, they are influencing people. Just making content people enjoy without trying to change how they behave isn't influencing.
Inevitably I think bad or bad faith actors, the kind who were on Parler or in /r/Conservative that ban people with a counter-narrative will simply not use the platforms where they can't have full control to completely silence anyone they please.

It's why I'm fairly certain giving bad actors "free" access to the best technology is nonsense, you wouldn't give enemies your plans to your latest technological advances in weaponry - and the same goes now for the digital age.

The deplatforming done recently of Trump et al by multiple technology layers of private owned companies, was good overall to at least slow down their rallying and organization. Yes, it possibly inflamed some - but they quickly learned if you don't behave within the bounds of what's considered civilized behaviour that allows society to thrive and that these free companies of people, organized people, understand and have a solid foundation that they're holding the line for; contrast this to countries where there's a tyranny as a government that has their hands in all important companies to understand the importance of the ability for private companies to have this power to decide as a failsafe against government becoming a tyranny.
I am pretty sure I made up the word memome a bit over 5 years ago, but now when I google I get hits for it other than my site.

I did a bit of work on the project back in November and since talking with you I have done some updates and made it public. There isn't much there at the moment but I think I know what I am doing now, which I didn't know five years or so ago.

https://memomeproject.blogspot.com/
It was fantastic for the 1970s, but it's not low enough to be competitive with current PV pricing, even with storage.
Of the traditional RDBMSs, I believe Oracle has the most comprehensive support for materialized views, including for incremental refreshes [0].

As early as 2004, developers using Oracle were figuring out how to express complex constraints declaratively (i.e. without using application code or database triggers) by enforcing them on materialized views [1].

It's quite impressive, but this level of sophistication in what materialized views can do and how they are used does not seem to have spread far beyond Oracle.

[0]: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/DWHSG/refresh.htm#DWHSG...

[1]: https://tonyandrews.blogspot.com/2004/10/enforcing-complex-c...
Yea, if OP opposes cancel culture, he must be a nazi. There's no other conclusion.
The whole point of the platform is to be a place that is not dependent on being in the good graces of any single private company and/or government for its existence.

I'm floored at how many commenters here are expressing their doubts about this project because the author clearly has a distasteful political affiliation. Yes, it being named after Pepe (and use of dogwhistle terms like "SJW") is a clear sign that the author is a person who I would probably be thrilled to see get a kick in the teeth.

But I'm really quite disappointed in the overtly authoritarian attitude being expressed here. Somehow we're all champions of Tor and Bitcoin although they clearly can be (and are) used to serve the needs of drug cartels, sex traffickers, terrorists (other than the ones too stupid to plan their insurrection on Parler), et alia. But as soon as someone happens to associate the thing with the alt-right, we are all anti-freedom?
Stop equating strong freedom-of-speech ideals with racism. Nobody should be silenced unless they are directly inciting violence. Remember, any exceptions can be twisted around as social norms change.
Political correctness run amok! My company has now official guidelines that discourage 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' in new features, but I wonder how long before they make everyone go back and refactor these names.

Git 'master' branch derangement is another example of this BS.
When demand exceeded supply and load had to be shed, the fair market price likely would have been much higher.

Griddy is advocating for having their cake and eating it too here, I think.
Not secure enough? People operating the servers see everything you are doing, this is no-no for whistleblowers.
It's typically included on lists because of the implications. One either takes the position (1) child pornography should be allowed to be shared, (2) child pornography should be suppressed, but may be shared, or (3) child pornography cannot be allowed to be shared.

(3) obviously requires very different technical solutions (like: no private encryption, ever) than (1).
To be clear I didn’t say he was a Nazi, merely that he was a racist piece of garbage.
> Less than 50 people died.

The number of people dying in a wildfire is not a good measure of its impact in the life or properties of everybody living in the area.
Griddy is saying the price hike was artificial. I am not sure if it makes sense or if it's misleading.

https://www.griddy.com/post/griddy-update-why-energy-prices-...
> if I was, you can bet your sweet ass that I would be A. monitoring the wholesale price B. switching off my main breaker the moment the price went above $X.

Unfortunately, we can't really count on people being at all competent like that.

If I was in Texas this past week, you can bet that I would have monitored my lack of heat and shut off my water and drained the pipes in my house.

Instead, there is an astronomical amount of water damage from burst pipes now.

People who haven't considered or dealt with the worst case scenario will always be caught off guard. That's just the nature of it.
Well, if you create a message board that accepts images, and you make it so there is no technical way to remove those images, you are implicitly including child porn in your definition of free speech.
>should require you to post a largish bond to participate.

Or just cut your power off after you've racked up a high enough bill? This seems like it's easy to do given that there are remote controlled switches for this exact reason (for load shedding, I believe).
Why hot new social app Clubhouse spells nothing but trouble
SQLite not only makes it easy to store data, it makes it very easy to search that data.
When explaining something technical I do it twice but from different angles. Then i like to have the listener explain it to someone else on the call (I work remote). The surest way to make sure someone understands what you’re trying to communicate is to ask them to communicate it to someone else.
Now that we have ETFs one could short Bitcoin and profit from collapse.
Free speech is a public good in itself.

Voltair would not approve of "I might agree with what you're saying but you drew a pepe so you need to be shut down".
I think this widely misses my point.

Maybe I can rephrase it?

Interacting with someone comes with obligations.

This, then, allows us to peer deeper in to the problem: some people think it's okay to run roughshod over existing norms because "on a computer".

I'd argue it's not okay to exploit people's weaknesses just because "implemented using new(er) / different technology".

Other people seem to be quite happy to build an empire doing so.

I guess this is why I'm likely to remain relatively poor.
MicroStrategy buys more BTC, those laser eyes, Tether collapse doomsday scenario
Is the CMP not still useful for non-cryptocurrency computing purposes?

Could it possibly even be usable as a second card in a SLI setup?
In case useful; I have added most of the details here :)

https://www.techbeatly.com/2020/05/kubernetes-certification-...
"A generous friend had a few invitations to extend, and she offered me one. After that, she had an attack of what one can only describe as donor’s remorse, because in order to be able to extend the invitation to me she had to grant Clubhouse access to all her contacts!"

This does not appear to be in compliance with privacy laws such as GDPR.
Definitely agree, akin to when BankSimple rebranded to Simple. It was awesome as is.

Anyway, hope they stick around and eventually turn into a financial OS instead of folks needing a bank, plugging into underlying deposit accounts in the countries you need.