skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the examples you listed are easily recovered from and don’t cause a complete disconnect from your audience in the same way YouTube deplatforming does.

From Amazon sellers to YouTubers to high ranking apps to prominent social media profiles, I’m in awe of how much value sits at the whim of some platform which usually won’t even have a person to talk with on the other end.
I like the "Ladder of causation":

Rung 1: Associations, observational data (seeing)
Rung 2: Intervention (doing)
Rung 3: Counterfactuals (imagining)

I often go in reverse order—let's figure out the cheapest clever ways to prove ship will sink (imagining). Then if it seems like it might float let's build it and throw it on the pond (doing). Then if it seems to float let's hop on board and see what happens.
I Opened Microsoft Edge and Apple Got Angry
Curiously, virtually all "legal speech" bans and demonetization happen to be for opinions or content that disagree with whatever talking points the DNC and/or the CCP are pushing.

I know this will get down votes but that's literally the truth. Opposing the CCP is marginally safer but not at all when they encroach on DNC statements.
I too hope that Italy's new prime minister won't waste money in financing startups.
The issue of Italy is primarily cultural: it's stubbornly resistant to any change, blocked by an obtuse bureaucracy and an even worse judiciary (with a supreme court that regularly mangles or reverts any law meant to modernise the job regulations, for example). People are unprofessional, hiring doesn't follow any rigorous process, companies are often entirely controlled by their owner with very little input from the upper management. The language barrier makes it impossible to hire talents from abroad.

To break this provincialism, Italy desperately needs to change its business culture. Encouraging startups pretending they can be as effective as US ones, in this context, would be just silly.
Respecting nuance in other other people's perspectives, even if you don't see it, is a good skill to learn.
I run a 4chan archive, fireden.net, I don't archive /b/ and my #1 reason I need to take down things is because of child porn, to the point that I honestly think about why i still run it anymore.
thankfully I never recorded my cod:black ops sessions :)
Whenever I see things like this I tend to think back to this:

> Largely I think that text is already a highly-structured graphical notation, and that when people try to get "away" from it they're often doing so from a position of ignorance of how very long it took to get to where we are in textual notations, and how very many technical innovations are latent in textual notations. Visually unambiguous yet uniform symbol sets, combinatorial-positional word formation, linear spatio-temporal segregation, punctuation and structured page layout .. these are all technologies in writing that we had to laboriously invent, and they have purposes, advantages! Similarly in coding, we had to invent and adapt technologies from verbal and mathematical notations refined over millennia: lines and columns, indentation, block layout, juxtaposition and precedence, scope, evaluation order, comments, grammars, version control, diff and merge algorithms ... the pile of structuring technologies embedded in the textual representation of programs isn't free, and it isn't useless. So I'm just really cautious when people suggest throwing it all out for some hypothetical reinvention. You need those structures: so you've got an immediate problem of "what are you going to use instead", and a longer-term question of "what makes you think you're not going to wind up right back at the same place ten thousand years of refining graphemes-on-a-page wound up"?

(Taken from https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
Apparently, in the case of Parler, believing that you should allow users to post any legal content without moderation. (I know they didn't lose their domain, but the effect of being denied hosting is functionally the same.)
Victim mentality on full display.
Whichever the platform operator disapproves of.
Unlike YouTube, a business can replace many of these services transparently from the perspective of their customers.
The same can be said for anyone working in the offline entertainment sector. People get blacklisted from Hollywood for upsetting powerful individuals (Weinstein destroyed a lot of careers this way, for a most recent example, before he was sent to prison.)

Generally speaking, any industry where your revenue relies on marketing, promotion, or access to exclusive collaboration and distribution networks is going to have this property.

If you've made it really big, you can try to mitigate risk by doing your own marketing, or owning your own share of the distribution channel. For all the B-list actors, though, the economics of that aren't very favourable.
I think the world was a worse place when Bill Gates was heading Microsoft. I think it's a better place now that he's heading a massive charitable foundation.

Life is complicated. People are complicated.
> Even Rust (last I checked) defaults to assuming some global one-size-fits-all allocator.

You can substitute whatever allocator you want: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/alloc/trait.GlobalAlloc.html

Unless you're talking about some other restriction I'm not aware of.
Criterion's streaming channel is currently pairing this with the Georgian short 'Fatherland' about a resurrected Stalin.
Spilled gasoline probably is tax free
> Voice, only on slow days

Then why did we have 900 MHz analog cordless phones in the 1990s?
Democratic oversight?

Once these systems are in place they will be under the control of the great unelected, the civil servants, it will not be the subject of any political party policy again and so how exactly will you assert the voting based democratic control upon it?
It seems like there should be a better way to "Support the artist and get bragging rights for having done so!" that doesn't involve the scammy other part. You see this with Patreon all the time where certain tiers get a shout-out.
"One of China’s next-generation chipmakers appears to have collapsed, potentially hampering the nation’s march to silicon-self-sufficiency.

Chinese electronics industry journal Jiwei reported that Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor has contacted its staff and told them the organization won’t attempt to continue building its facilities nor develop products.

The company aspired to offer microchips on 14nm and 7nm process nodes, and had acquired some of the equipment needed to make such products. However, the firm struggled to build its factories amid disputes with construction contractors and local authorities over development permits."
I understand where you’d coming from and also do a double take when I read this term, though I think it’s legit.

Consider: what does an agency that spies on other countries’ governments do? Research?
That is total horseshit.

Yes, there are points in time when posters have attempted to post child pornography there, but it gets taken down swiftly and gets reported to moderators as swiftly as its posted.

Your "epicentre" of child pornography on the Internet is Facebook, not 4chan.[1]

[1]: https://samharris.org/subscriber-extras/213-worst-epidemic/
> Where are you getting ideas like this? How fast do you think internet connections are?

As fast as the packet source wants? The only way to defend against a slowloris DoS is by accounting for it at the application layer, which is both unusual and difficult - as DoS attacks are usually handled at the transport layer. In this case that could mean applying a deadline for the block announcement in its entirety - which means mandating a minimum connection speed, and classifying every connection that dips below that as an attack... so you better have a good SLA with your upstream network. Well, that is no problem for centralized operations... Guess what happens to cryptocurrencies that adopt massive 128MB+ blocks in order to increase their transaction throughput - they become incredibly fragile as the slightest amount of packet loss starts waves of peer bans.

> Who are these miners that are struggling to send out 900KB ?

Anyone who wants to handicap a competing pool by forcing them to either wait for the complete false block, or waste time hashing on a fake block header.

When are you going to admit that you haven't thought this through?
An officer from a well functioning and well trained policeforce would not even shoot to kill a knife wielding attacker. They would at most first shoot a warning shot and then maybe a single shot in the leg if they couldn't stop him with pepperspray or a tazer. An unarmed civilian is most definitely not a threat in any way to a real cop (US police doesn't count as a real cop. They are an embarrassment to police everywhere.)
What kind of a response is this? They said anyone can verify the proof of work and you are saying they can verify the proof of work. Where is the contradiction?

Verifying blocks is trivial. You aren't still saying that needing to receive 900KB is a big deal are you?

You seem to be acting like there is some sort of prediction that there will be a problem. Ethereum already produces blocks every 13 seconds at three times bitcoin's throughput.
That's why with counter you can get started in like 10 seconds. And permanently delete your data via the GUI if you don't like it :-)
How does it compare to plausible? Using them atm
As a US citizen, being able to go to various physical places without being forced to patronize an opaque, unaccountable corporate behemoth owned by a conglomeration of banks that centrally tracks everything I do, every penny I spend, and what and where I spend it on is liberating.
I'll let you all in on a little secret - for the last 15+ years there have been lots of cities with 902 Mhz FHSS networks covering every little inch of them. Any of the Utilities (predominantly electrical, but some water) - that have remote meter reading often use that part of the spectrum with enough duty cycle that they can trap nearby GFCI breakers. In the case of companies like the old Silver Spring Networks (itself, a descendent, technologically in many way from Richochet) - it's IPv6 for consumer distribution. 25 Million+ nodes when I left them in 2017. Since merged with Itron, so I'm sure it's doubled or tripled since then.
That absolutely does not work for me when I try to exercise in cold weather. Fast breathing thru my nose in really cold air turns my head into a congealed block of cement within about ten minutes, with zero air flow, and with all that now less-hydrated snot dripping down the back of my throat makes me gag, sometimes violently. Once that is happening, I have to stop exercising and recover for maybe another 15 minutes. I can exercise much longer if I simply deal with the negatives of mouth breathing. I probably have poor quality sinuses, but I don't think my experience is all that unique either.

I should add that I do nose breathe when exercising in warm weather, and that works fine.
That’s a good question. I think it’s one of the few ways to convert labor to (meaningful) capital, comparable to being a founder or early employee.

The CEO of a nonprofit may be a well paid associate, but he is still just an associate. The kind of excess revenue that would flow to a partner’s profit sharing check has to be reinvested in the mission instead of disbursed to somebody in cash just because.
And how is that different on any other platform?
The 16k RAM Pack, a life lesson in itself.
Neither of the points you made I think are existentially problematic, especially in light of the fact that Sweden is 1) ahead and 2) it works for them.

'Cost' is going to be a part of the equation, there is no avoiding that, but access can be regulated, as can oversight (i.e. transparency) with respect to transactions.

And: "merchant or service isn’t allowed to blame BankID for any problems such as downtime or any other technical problems"

Will Swiss private individuals or businesses be able to 'sue' the Swiss government for downtime? Like late trains? Invariably not. They'll just get the service they get and that's it.

Sweden provides a pragmatic demonstrable example of what can work, it shouldn't be dismissed.
JCPenney Furniture
Floatplane as explained by Linus doesn't make sense, you support a creator by getting videos a little earlier. The cost of building and maintaining a platform like that must be large and seems unnecessary for what is essentially video Patreon.

What is sad is that you see youtubers talking in code on videos, not saying words, self censoring because youtube's detection is so good, videos get demonetised instantly. This is also why most people have seen an Ad in a video for PIA or surfshark or worse, raid shadow legends.
The invasion is the companies selling (or giving for free, in Android's case) your private information to brokers and the government, like Gestapo or Stasi informers.
If you leave it blank it also 500s.
I don’t have any resources for you, but I would guess that it is speculators getting into buying houses for resale value, combined with existing landlords who are being forced to maintain low rents due to COVID.

When the COVID restrictions are lifted, and the landlords can yank their rates much higher, then many tenants will want to escape those raises, but all landlords will likewise be raising rates. So, there will be no escape if you remain a renter.

Therefore, many of those renters are going to want to escape to houses that they can purchase. Which is when they discover that the speculators have bought up all the supply and can now afford to set the sales prices sky high.

Oh, and many of those speculators are probably also rental landlords, too.
People are lazy, though. I think if errors can't take payloads, it's inevitable you'll end up with many libraries that don't return error payload information when you wish they did. This will trickle out into software using the libraries, where the end-user will get errors that don't include as much useful info as you'd like. So to my mind, not supporting error payloads in a first class way is contrary to Zig's goal of enabling perfect software. :-)
You got me so excited. But then reading through the fine print, I realized my excitement is about three months too late.

> Therefore, subject to the following paragraph, the Offer will be closed in all of the Approved Jurisdictions, except for the United Kingdom, on and from 10:59 p.m. (GMT) on 31 December 2020 ("EU Closing Date").

One needs to reside in US, AU, UK, Ireland or Spain? to be able to participate.
an epicentre, not the epicentre.
what hardware/software/data are you, or anyone else, using to get these readings?
Offer HN: I'll help you understand your startup offer
Hi HN,

I can help look at your job offer(s) and help you model and think about how much money your equity might be worth.

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I have been working for startups for > 10 years now in various engineering roles. I help my friends, especially ones who work in larger companies answer the question, `Is this offer good?`

I am constantly surprised by how extremely smart engineers just don't understand startup equity and how to think about their offers.

I see engineers joining startups for extremely low value equity and also see engineers reject amazing startup offers and stay at FAANG because they value equity wrong(Recently, someone thought their equity is too low because, they just did number_of_shares*409A valuation)

I am doing this just to try and help people make better decisions. I am not looking for any payment etc. Just play it forward :)
No, watch which rod passes the center when the bar is horizontal and vertical.
Generally extreme ones. You can be politically on the right and espouse views such as "lower taxes, smaller government, less regulation" but spilling over into racism is what would be termed "wrong". The right are not at risk of being deplatformed,the racist right is.
It's just bad pictures and errant info.

Here's a better link: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32965783207.html

It's 160x120, as I mentioned for a 200x150mm P1.25 led module. You just divide the width/height by the pitch to see the number of dots.

As far as I can tell, 1.25mm is the smallest pitch available for these modules.
If these private companies are anything like Serafe I can see why this referendum ended in a no.
What does “mathematically incorrect” mean?

The role of the utility function in EUT is to represent the agents preferences.

Preferences can be rational (i.e. consistent) and not be represented by the logarithm of wealth.

If Mr. X has some amount to invest now to pay for his child’s college in five years it’s not “irrational” to opt for something less risky than taking a loan to get a leveraged equity investment.

Mr. X may not care that his portfolio wouldn’t growth at the optimal highest possible rate if left untouched forever, if that’s what you mean by “mathematically incorrect result”.

Mr. X doesn’t care about your idea of “correct result”, he cares about being reasonably certain to have enough money available in five years.

Now, you tell me to use the maths from EE to find the “correct” utility functions.

How can I use the maths from EE to select a portfolio if I want to take out a certain amount of money in five years?
I wonder if there could be a good business in building “deplatforming” type content websites for people with large audiences who want to decouple from centralized platforms.
The problem, as I understand it was not the posting of legal content but the fact it wasn't moderated meant there was borderline stuff, calls for specific people to be killed etc, that were the key factor in them losing hosting.
This. Acoustic array sounds like a great solution for finding that pesky mosquitto that is hiding somewhere in the room. Anyone know how difficult it would be to make this?
> Example: the director/founder of one NP I know of that had a mission of helping pregnant women in crisis forced her 8 months pregnant employee to walk for miles through DC and do manual labor for her. She chewed her out in front of the whole team for saying she wasn't physically capable and made her cry, demanding that she do something that was technically her (the director's) responsibility.

That sounds Dickensian to the point of parody. I would do whatever I could to raise awareness of that insanity to the board of any non-profit, were I to witness something like that.
I don't know where you have traveled but it is the norm to have free public bathrooms and bathrooms in pretty much all businesses open to the public everywhere in Europe I have visited and they were all free and clean.
Isn't AWS's claim that parlar was hosting illegal content?

Regardless, they signed a contract detailing what they could and could not host on aws. They broke it. Its not like they were unaware of the requirements. Moral of the story, if you promise X, dont promise someone else Y if X and Y conflict. You are going to be breaking your word ine way or another.
> Replace "teachers" with "police" and you do get a reasonable argument.

Not really. I'm fine with a baseline level murder by police (at least to the extent that I'm fine with where that baseline is in the first place, which is admittedly not a given), provided there is also a baseline level of punishment for said murder. The problems with police tend be either that there is a higher level of murder by police than the general population, or that there is a lower degree of punishment for it.

Also, of course, I don't grant that there is a problem with racism in the general population in the first place, since white supremacists and social justice warriors combined are substatially in the minority. You might be able to make a credible case that racial bias is a (minor but worth addressing) problem, but noone's done so lately, and you'd need to start by making it clear that the thing you're talking about is fundamentally distict from a explicit belief that one race is inherently better or worse/more or less valuable than another, as white supremacists and social justice warriors believe.
Youtube could easily just obliterate a channel today, for some video posted 10 years ago if they deem it bad enough. Doubt if you had your own platform you'd delete yourself for something cringe you said 10 years ago
Could you still use YouTube for hosting with embedded videos and then switch to self hosted if YouTube kicked you off? Would embedding videos mean you can't monetise them?
> ... the “only breathe through your nose” crowd always seemed a little woo-woo.

Can highly recommend 'Breath' by James Nestor, for some science-focused, non-woo look at the practice.

(I'm about 3/4 the way through it -- so I can't guarantee woo-free content in last quarter, but based on extrapolation we should be fine. :)
25 years ago, the hot technology was dial-up modems. And PCMCIA cards to connect to WiFi.

Haven’t had much use of that lately.
There should be some form of compilation of quality articles per domain, like history, sciences, etc.

In a way all articles should belong to a category...
Ebay should be forced to allow buyers and sellers to trade anything that is not illegal. They should not be forced to promote items they do not want to promote, but they should not have the final say on whether I can sell or buy an item on their platform.
How could you say working in crypto isn't enabling organized crime?

Ransomware attacks on hospitals killed more people than drone strike using app location data.

Ross Ulbricht used crypto to build a criminal empire and to try to murder people.
As a long-time embedded programmer --- who has written keyboard code before --- I feel like "keyboard firmware" and a HLL really don't belong in the same sentence, and there's far too much abstraction in the examples the author provides.

Say I need to initialize all the columns as output pins.

But my column pins are spread across two ports

That would be one, or two, instructions to set the appropriate port direction registers. Never a loop. Perhaps the author should give Asm a try if he thinks the language is getting in the way.

You may find this interesting: http://halicery.com/Hardware/Intel%208042%20and%208048/8042%...
Soviets != Russia, yes the USSR was sort of a new iteration of The Russian Empire, but you can't call armenians, ukrainians, georgians and so on russians this simply wrong
What do you mean dematerializing trust, can you put an example? As far as I know, trust is not made of matter, I don't know how it could possibly be dematerialized.
....only if you can tie this to enough politicians that they fear for reelection and fight for it. These events are barely covered by major newspapers; there's zero chance of the reasonable solution happening.
Are you being sarcastic? Conversation rates from newspapers are pretty much nonexistent (and difficult to measure).
This is what Amazon is doing now, find a product that sells well and they will start selling it, cheaper than you and probably prioritising their own product listing over yours.

Apple have been doing it with Apps since the iPhone started, first it was jailbreak apps and then any app became fairgame.
A lot of these sorts of mechanisms have however been made obsolete by modern mechatronics.

For example, washing machines used to have complex gear boxes that made that back and forth motion during washes and also had a second mode for high speed spin cycles. The machine I bought last year has a direct drive BDC motor that simply used electronic control to produce all the motion types. It's just cheaper and in most cases more reliable.

My previous machined died from gearbox failure and replacing it was not economically viable.
Because when you have business that brings money you do not let the somebody else control it to the point that they can kill it next day just because they can.

One of the reasons why my backends are based on self sufficient architecture that I can move to any arbitrary VM / dedicated server in no time. There is no cloudy dependent stuff in my stack at all.