skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook and other social media platforms (even Google manipulating and sacrificing search integrity to prevent unearthing alleged misinformation much to the detriment of academic research when we need long tail results) are already censorship platforms and have been for a while. They even censor academic conferences on censorship.

Outcomes like these are to be expected when you also commit censorship (including shadow banning, algorithmic downvoting etc.) blatantly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26008217

https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-censorship-conference-ce...
Hmmm. I knew I was being a bit of a smartass with, “and thus should know better”, but I figured I mediated that in the second sentence, where I presumed they know what they're doing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Thanks! Got it installed but nothing happens when I run it. :| Tried grepping for processes with "kde" but get nothing.
A new theory for what's happening in the brain when something looks familiar
There's proprietary stuff in the steel business, and there's stuff that everyone knows. Same with software. The way end-to-end encryption works is common knowledge. Some of the same people here who know that Signal doesn't have this data are the same people who are those experts.
Hi Lorismaz, we are happy to help;-) Please let us know what you think after reading it. Best Martin
Haven't Facebook not already had enough trouble with interfering into our democracies?! How dare they?!
And before we condem Lysenko too thoroghly we should look at ourselves.

In my country whole regions, once food baskets, are in danger of being retired because of the "...the agriculture revolution of modern day..." Build-ups of toxic chemicals in the soil from synthetic fertilisers are building up to levels where milk from cows grazed on the grass is not fit for human consumption

Lysenko was a unfortunate fool, a man of his time. But we are not much better for all our "science". Yes he got genetics wrong, but the "green revolution" that ignored soil structure and microbial life has gotten things just as wrong
But CIA developing malware isn't news to anyone. How is this a tit-for-tat then?
More sleep or more exercise: The best time trade-offs for children's health
and tell you you're right at the same time.
Other tribes consistently eat as much or more sugar than westerners on average. So I'm not sure if what you're saying can explain the difference.
It's 2021 and You're in the Future
We now live in the 20s! The Roaring Twenties.
“Only” 34mb for a hello world project? I can’t tell if you’re being ironic but I hope so!
I am a New Yorker that had a relative die of COVID in a nursing home last year. I could understand the decision at first because they were literally constructing hospitals on athletic fields at my local university to deal with the packed hospitals. But own up to it and don't cover it up.

Regardless of your political persuasion what Cuomo did is wrong by covering it up. We can't have 2 standards for politicians based on if it is someone on your team.
I love stuff like this. I searched my favorite variety [0] and learned that the genetics are actually patented and the university that owns it has an entire program for breeding apples [1].

[0]: https://adamapples.blogspot.com/2008/10/honeycrisp.html

[1]: https://mnhardy.umn.edu/varieties/fruit/apples
And he won an Emmy for it!
Serious question. I live in a hilly area where there's a lot of wind much of the time. Is there some kind of residential analog to rooftop solar I could install? Or is the infrastructure just too expensive and complicated for a hobbyist?
OP doesn't sound like they were arguing that iMessage should be a paid service, just that Apple could've captured most of the market.
I think Mastodon might be similar to what you're describing?
Get help for chronic pain.
What is "religious extremism"? That term always struck me as odd. Either the truth claims of a religion are true, somewhat true, or false.

If they're true (read: have sufficiently good reasons to believe them), then it's not extreme to live in accordance with them. In fact, it is arguably insane not to live in accordance with them. Imagine if someone said "Oh, I believe things fall to the ground when dropped, but I'm not an extremist about it". What does that mean?? That you only sort of believe that they fall to the ground? That you only sometimes avoid jumping off of bridges?

If they're somewhat true, then they need refinement and correction because they contain error.

If they're false, then it would be an error to follow them in any way.

So really, if what's being done is evil or wrong, it should maybe be called religious error, or just error.
I'm happy because it satisfies my needs for a reasonable price. I don't have a use for 1Gbps uploads... mostly nobody does actually... and I stream a lot of 1080p content, which comes nowhere near the "data cap" any month of the year.

Perhaps things would be different if I were streaming 4k, but I'm not - and that would only be an issue with a data cap (I agree, data caps are absurd).

BTW, the limit on the upload is a physical issue with cable lines and the DOCSIS protocol... I don't feel it's realistic to demand fiber to everyone's home when nearly nobody has an actual use-case for symmetrical home connections...

Lastly, getting the government involved in maintaining lines to everyone's homes is a disaster waiting to happen. What infrastructure is the government doing an excellent job maintaining as it is? With salary caps on staffers, and the inability to terminate underperforming employees - municipal-owned lines and/or ISP's will start out great, and over time suffer the same bureaucratic disease the rest of the government already has.
Well a little more context will do. The man tweeted he needed oxygen to a famous celebrity. A union minister herself called him twice to help. As he was not answering she asked district magistrate to help. They found that man's grandfather is not suffering from covid and not admitted to any hospital and under private care. So the man just fired a tweet thus police has questioned him and let him go.
The actual travel distance would be further because you can't just bore through the moon.
It’s funny because in order to compile/minify JS it passes said JS to golang which spits out JS to be run under JS. I’m not allowed to be amused by the circularity? Get a grip.
You're right, BLM protests resulted in the murder of dozens of civilians, several police officers, and billions in damage.

The "insurrection" only resulted in the murder of a Trump supporter.

Not to mention we've even seen BLM protesters storm a capitol last week:

https://twitter.com/tylertalley22/status/1384972821714161667

https://kfor.com/news/local/protesters-gather-at-oklahoma-ca...
My Hacker News clone (new design)
Hi everyone,
I've made this Hacker news clone just recently using their official Firebase Api.

It's completely client-side rendered using React JS, with no additional libraries or add-ons (used useContext hook for partial state management), except that I used React Router for app routing.

As for the styling goes, I've used vanilla CSS and tried to keep the UI as simple as I could, and to stay away from looking too flashy and too modern, with little or no animations at all.
I added the dark mode for easy night time reading.

Let me know what you guys think about it :)
well at the moment if a font does not exist on your system, it goes through their cloud fonts endpoint. consider you are on a mac with no office suite installed and want to use "Blackadder ITC" it will call:
GET https://fs.microsoft.com/fs/4.9/rawguids/35330309812

which is basically the ttf file for blackadder itc.

btw. there is also a list endpoint with all the "guids":
https://fs.microsoft.com/fs/4.9/listAll.json
(but it's encoded, so that you can't download all of them as easily)
In New York City unions are essentially a subsidiary of the political system, funneling money into reelection champagnes. In return politicians return their support by requiring that any government contract must be awarded to contractors that use union labor. It is all a racket. I have heard stories from people who have done civil work in NYC and the level of corruption and waste is staggering. Like $5000 billed labor hours to drive to a site to plug in a cable. Firms will bit a 50% surcharge on any projects in NYC to compensate with the red tape and union labor costs.
I knew someone would bring this comment.

Webdev can be broken, but doesn't have to be. I am currently having fun & feeling productive on both a large team project and some small personal projects.
I know that there are organisms that thrive in geotermally heated environments, but do they really produce fossil fuels?
How does it mean they lie less?

You don't know everything there is to know about the CIA. All it means that that they can't lie about what you do know.
Being on the web it would be difficult not to no?
Hmm, that's a good question to add to the Security doc!

Not quite. See, we make use of a scheme called envelope encryption. That means we have two separate keys: one to encrypt your data (the 'data encryption key' or DEK) and one to encrypt the DEK (the 'key encryption key' or KEK). We use the KEK to encrypt your DEK to get something called the 'EDEK' (or 'encrypted data encryption key'). The EDEK is what we store in our database.

Something that never changes after you sign up is your DEK. This is completely random and not dependent on your password.

What is dependent on your password is your KEK. So when you change your password, all that actually changes is your KEK. With your new KEK, we just re-encrypt your DEK to get a new EDEK, and we store that new EDEK in our database. Again, the Security doc (https://ufincs.com/policies/security) outlines the basic process.

So no, all your data isn't passed back to the browser to be decrypted and re-encrypted when you change your password, but thanks for the question!
energy != mass; e=mc^2 declares there is a proportional relationship between energy and mass while the speed of light, c, squared is the constant of proportionality.
I heard once they got more aggressive with their monetization tiers, they nerfed the free tier to the extent that it basically decides on some story path and ignores anything you say to try to change it.

It's certainly the impression I got from watching some youtubers playing it before and after the monetization change.
The British satirical magazine Private Eye, which also conducts years-long investigative campaigning journalism, published a comprehensive report [1] on this sorry tale titled Justice Lost in the Post several months ago. The Eye had been doggedly following the case and campaigning for justice for years.

[1] https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/justice-lost-i...

Edit to add that the UK Government is resisting calls for a statutory inquiry into the affair, as reported in The Register yesterday:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/27/uk_government_resists...
Seems like a very caricaturish characterization of what people actually believe. That sort of broad contempt and unwillingness to understand the range of perspectives on the issues besides the "official" (read: oligarchic) narrative is unfortunate.
>this is a community realizing that John Pretty is a predator and deciding that they don't want a predator in a position of power

Not really, it seems like cancel culture, did you even read this letter?
Wow, you make a lot of assumptions and failed to read the article.

The reports are that people's families are having to source meds and oxygen for their loved ones. The offending tweet was consistent with that and, to paraphrase a bit, consisted of a guy basically saying "Hey, does anyone know where I can get a tank of oxygen for my grandfather??" It seems the the grandfather died by the next day anyway.
We switched from AT&T to T-Mobile years ago and have had a great experience.
just count the brain cells
Bulletproof, bad user interface, immortal
The way it currently works, the simulation uses income in a given year to cash-flow expenses for that year, and the rest is allocated according to the items you configure in the Financial Goals section. As a simple example, you could define a desired emergency fund of $20k as priority #1, then maximized taxable investments as priority #2... which would mean in any given year, money left over after expenses goes to (A) topping off the emergency fund if needed, then (B) to taxable investments. Does that help add some clarity?
I can't stress this enough, losing weight should be on the top of my list, but there are so many other stressors in life that it makes it a low priority for me. Though I do realize the fact that if I got my weight under control, other things in my life may fall into place since I'd be leading a healthier lifestyle altogether.
>Every drone strike is justified with intelligence.

No.
WiFi is really poor as a last mile technology.
Interesting. But if you had cited "my ass" as a source it would be more reliable, because the NSA is probably better at lying.
the first reports on this already appeared in august 2020, but somehow all mainstream outlets weren't too interested. They still weren't interested in October when the DOJ sent an inquiry about nursing homes or in January when the NY AG issued a report finding New York under counted deaths of nursing home and long-term care facility residents.

Meanwhile, CNN put him on the air, to be heralded as a great and inspiring leader by his own brother, a CNN mouth piece, that got state funded special treatment when he had covid. Now CNN simply refuses to report on it.

The media landscape is beyond broken in this country.
One thing that always amazed me is how the wick burns at just the right speed, how it keeps pace with the wax. Neither does it burn away too quickly leaving nothing to keep the flame going, nor does it burn too slowly leaving decimeters of wick when the candle is burnt out.

I guess there must be some feedback process going on, which makes a long wick burn faster than a short one.
I use Netfliy and its Nextjs build plugin that automatically creates serverless functions for the api routes, does ssg and deploys. All under the free plan.

https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/03/16/try-the-new-essentia...
No.. the 2FA stuff is awkward as hell even for someone that’s been in the ecosystem for years.
> First off, I'm doing quite well. I'm not insanely rich, but I'm a well-paid software engineer, doing what I like to do, on my own schedule. I'm not hurting.
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Thank you for the explanation, that makes perfect sense.

So... the energy content in wax is about 45MJ/kg. An 8 in ch taper candle weights about 40g. This means it contains about 1.8 MJ of energy.

Of that 40g about 20 nanograms turned into energy! That is about 0.5 parts per billion.
For the record, I'm not sure where I land with regards to this change by AI dungeon. That being said, I find that arranging blocks in obscene shapes (let's even call it, generally, 'creating or arranging potentially objectionable content in-game'), an act that will likely happen offline, or on a privately owned server, is different than a game/toy/service where output is requested, generated, then sent to the user. (Trying to keep that description simple since I don't really know if that's the right way to describe it)

When comparing the Minecraft scenario to the AI Dungeon scenario under the purview of "doing creative things with games," I don't find the two scenarios to be much different. However, for one of those things, it's a possibility within the vast play space of Minecraft - you could even create genitalia and display profanity with just alphabet blocks - but for the other scenario, depending on how you see it, it's content that is generated, served, and potentially stored by AI Dungeon. I'd be concerned about the publicity if I was AI Dungeon as well.
So Windows 10 emulates Windows XP/2000/98 too?
I think making iMessage free on Android and then using it as a tool to migrate people from Android to iPhone would more than pay for itself.
A lot of people immediately think this type of thing is corruption, but consider that these people might actually believe in this stuff and that it's easier for companies to find and support like minded politicians than it is to convince someone who holds an opposite view.
Chipmaker says it will ramp up production of older 28nm chips
The situation on the ground is actually that bad unfortunately that people are resorting to pleading and begging for Oxygen anywhere they can.

The number of frantic oxygen requests I've been seeing in my building society Whatsapp group (a high end upper-class society) in the past few days is very scary. VIPs and people with a lot of connection are not able to source Oxygen or beds which paints the picture if you know India.
I guess you didn't read the paper I referenced.
To the extent they were both damaging public property, where they were, it seems a fair comparison.

To the extent one has a well-documented history of grievance, and the other has conspiracy theories, it does does not.
You have steelropes or hooks there too and a via ferrata set with a shock-absorber and a helmet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_ferrata

And if without securing...even a bigger objective danger for you to decide if you can do it, that's the point.
YES! If you’re actually in India, you will know how useful Twitter has been with this. People are amplifying tweets about other people’s needs and other folks are sharing verified leads. All of this without any incentive to do so. Where the government is daily failing, citizens are rising to the occasion.
In countries that are very light on regulation there (I think I recall Brazil having this) you'll see messes of Ethernet hanging around, with dead cables still present. Unsurprisingly, they do provide a lot of bandwidth for a small price, comparitively.
You are wrong about apples and potatoes - the blog post author does mention your story just under different term: utility, which is a standard way to express the notion you touched: the total utility of an apple and a potato in the right hands is higher than utility of them in the wrong hands. So barter increases utility, but economy as a whole isn't any more valuable because of it (externally it'll trade the same). It's also echoed in OP's point about utility of money (and a question whether Amazon actually increases or decreases total utility in the economy).

Bezos claims he created 310 B of value and you say "as shareholder I care about value of the company", but you and other shareholders who own (together) 100% of Amazon didn't get 310 B of value, did you?

That's the thing. Neither did the economy "gain" all this value. If I work for 10 hours and earn a 1000 uSD, my employer didn't create 1000 USD worth of value. We traded my time/effort/exhaustion for money. Maybe there was some actual value created through that work for us or economy/society, or maybe it was meaningless work (and we even stole value from the society by e.g. burning me out).
It does prevent the news article from saying "And they knew about it and they did nothing!"

I'd be very worried about this in their shoes and acting very similarly.
> Anyone with 2-3 years experience will need to spend some time talking to end users or business stakeholders.

And yet, except for software that has literally been designed for use by and for developers, virtually every piece of software I've ever used feels like the person who wrote it has absolutely no idea how work is actually done.

They'll take data or configuration elements that need to be seen at the same time to understand how something is coded or configured and put them on different screens. They'll create processes that are not flexible enough to support real-world situations. They'll allow nonsensical configurations or have absurd design choices -- not just "we don't operate like that" but "it's logically impossible to operate like that."

Unless a developer is intimately familiar with the business process, which in my experience means they're required to eat their own dog food, then their software will suck. Unfortunately, there's a very narrow range of software that developers will be familiar with through personal, direct experience. It will be developer-specific software (IDEs, text editors, version control, compilers, service desk software, etc.) or broad, general purpose software (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.).

It starts to fall apart once you get outside those tiny spheres. Hospital Information Systems will not have a design that enforces sensible patient coding. Student Information Systems will not have a sensible system for scheduling students, taking attendance, etc. The developers don't understand what the realities and difficulties are of operating a hospital or operating a school. There are dozens or hundreds of different positions that all need to use the same system in different ways, but the system itself is only set up one way: whatever makes sense to the internal data model.

It's like the the parable of the blind men and an elephant, except these blind men are trying to feel their way through building the Brooklyn Bridge. Then when the people trying to cross the bridge say it keeps falling down the developers say, "It's working according to the spec." Well, yes, because you're in the business of selling bridges, not understanding bridges.
"Employees' contribution to Amazon is literally zero; they should be appreciative of all this Value we generate for them by giving them money" is a pretty rough thing to read in that shareholder letter, not gonna lie. That insulting of an implication could only make it into a final draft in such an obvious state if it really reflects how the top people think, and that's... rough.
Right back atcha -- because while there are plenty of covid screwups to go around, someone who thinks this one got suppressed probably has an information diet that disproportionately focused attention on this screw up in order to shift attention away from their own screw up, which was orders of magnitude larger.
The First Amendment is about that. The principle is broader. We don't all accept restrictions on it.
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You have the right attitude. No, I don't believe anyone gets really into growing their money because they're satisfied with their life. It's a coping mechanism.

However we live in a world where you need to invest at least a little bit. If you can spend 15 minutes at the start of each new job setting up your 401k to 15-20% of your salary, in a target-date fund, you will never have to think about investing ever again.
It sounds like that is what they have been doing.

What they need to do now is tell Verizon that they failed to fulfill their contract, pull their license, and operate their own municipal broadband.
Not just sleaze and corruption. This administration was hiding data about a pandemic when we desperately needed more information about how to fight the pandemic. That is despicable and indefensible.

I can forgive bad decisions in a time of crisis. But what they did was way beyond that.