skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like it's only a matter of time until we are looking at the demise of Private Internet Access (a VPN service owned by the person that bought Freenode).
It's ignorant to think that their success "has nothing to do with luck".
A lot of forensic science, such as hair analysis, bullet casing analysis, and bite mark analysis, is either partially or entirely bunk.

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...

- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/reversing-legacy-jun...

- http://www.bostonreview.net/books-ideas/nathan-robinson-fore...
"... we applied EasyList to both the Alexa 5k, a curated list of the 5,000 most popular sites on the web, and a random sampling of 5,000 sites from the Alexa 1,000,000 (ensuring no duplicate sites). Our measurement was in several steps:

1. Use Selenium and the DevTools Protocol to record every URL requested when rendering and executing a website.

2. Add additional automation to randomly select three distinct same-domain URLs from anchor tags on a page.

3. Used the above automation to visit the homepage of each site, and a maximum of three child pages, and recorded all URLs requested for images, script files, and other web resources.

4. Determine which of those URLs would be blocked by the version of EasyList fetched on that day, using Brave's optimized ad-block implementation.

...

We found that the vast majority of EasyList rules are not used when browsing popular websites; 3,268 of 39,198 (~8%) of network and exception rules were used during our crawls (these measurements exclude element rules)."

That doesn't mean that EasyList is not useful for browsing the rest of the internet.
> however it doesn't take away that often change is held back because of ...1-2%...

Don't you mean "because of 52%"?
>Non of which would have done anything but raise prices for the aforementioned

.. which is the entire point? The increase in prices internalizes the cost of pollution. Putting a price on carbon is the most straightforward and economically sensible way to incentivize reducing emissions.
Yet. Companies pay dividends when they no longer believe that they can provide a better ROI by investing it in themselves. Like AAPL. All it signals is there remains a growth story to be had.

However, any money the company invests in itself raises the intrinsic and shareholder value of outstanding equity, just like share buybacks, and dividends.
Switzerland is not that densely populated. It’s 219 per square km. For context Florida is about 150 and California about 100.

Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territori...
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/switzerland-p...
Buy seeds, and seal them with little sprinkles of wisdom like fortune cookies in places that would be accessible in the aftermath, the new inheritors of the earth will regard you as a prophet or god when they re-learn the ancient art of farming.
Re: a now-deleted comment about how doctors elsewhere in the world suffer strict consequences for their actions, rather than getting "turned a blind eye":

That still happens in the US regulatory environment as well! Implicit to "we'll turn a blind eye" is the context "as long as you do the due diligence of creating an alternative above-board explanation for what you were doing, so that there's no official record of your heterodox practice."

The most serious and flagrant example of this effect occurs in assisted suicides. It is malfeasance to knowingly kill a patient, and even if no criminal charges occur, you'll have your license to practice permanently revoked if it can be proven that that was your intent.

So no doctor who sets out to assist a patient in suicide ever has the words "assisted suicide" come out of their mouths in a provable way. Instead, they talk about "optimizing quality of life" and "mitigating suffering", through the mechanisms of large doses of drugs that can coincidentally, potentially cause death.

As long as the death can be justified with the above-board explanation ("the patient's pain was so great that they needed this amount of narcotics to rest; and then this dose of narcotics ended up stopping their breathing during the night, and by the time a nurse responded, they were already gone") then the medical establishment — who 100% knows what the doctor was really doing — lets it go.

But if the doctor doesn't bother to hide their approach behind a justification like this? Then they get the book thrown at them.
How would those gasses be attributed if you took the end users of the products produced in China, and assigned the CO2 emissions to those nations instead?

If I buy a FizzWhizz Mk 3, which is produced in China (on coal power), shipped (via container ship) to the United States, and then trucked to me, where I use it for 5 years... is it really fair to count those emissions as "Chinese" for tracking purposes?

Yes, I agree they are emitted in China, but they're emitted in China to serve demand in a totally different country with a different end user.

Cleaning up your emissions by exporting the manufacturing to another country (with far worse environmental standards) doesn't seem like anything beyond a shell game.
What do you think censorship actually means? Private and Public organizations engage in censorship all the time. Youtube doesn't have to host these videos but it is still censorship. The word is morally neutral.
It's still there!

libera.chat has pretty much all the original community. Just the name "freenode" has been hijacked.
Taxing airlines tickets could reduce the demand for flying (especially in Europe), unless people have infinite money. How can this not help curb climate change?
Again, these conditions, of industrial farming and slaughtering, are only the norm in some countries in the world. For beef, that's the US, Argentina, Brazil and China, predominantly. In the rest of the world, large scale farming or slaughtering is not the norm.

Generally my point in this discussion is that you should not bundle together factory farms and slaughterhouses in the US with, e.g. small dairy farms in the Pyrenees or Austria, or Bantu farmers in Africa, etc. There is one way that people eat meat in the Americas, Australia and China, and quite another in other parts of the world.

So when you say "those who choose to eat meat" financially support the industrial animal processing system, you're painting with an overly broad brush and I don't think it's serving anyone's purposes to do so.
If it's a crank conspiracy theory it should be easy to disprove.

If it's more complicated then that, then you shouldn't be so confident you're the smart guy in the room.
There's some amount of social stigma associated with LSD and other psychedelics, but it seems to have faded away quite a bit since I used it in the late 1970s. Back then, and for some years afterward, the stigma was pretty strong. Admitting that you had used psychedelics was tantamount to admitting that you were crazy and possibly dangerous in many social circles. Thankfully, that doesn't seem to be so much the case anymore.

I've personally never minded admitting that I used psychedelics in the late 70s, but at that time I was accustomed to be seen as a weirdo and an outsider. Indeed, I was so accustomed to it that I didn't even realize that's what was happening. I didn't find out what it was like to be treated as someone ordinary until I took a job with Apple and moved to the SF Bay Area.

I liked LSD and other psychedelics a lot in the late 70s, and used them a lot--enough to find out how often I could take them without tolerance reducing their effects noticeably. I gave up psychedelics and pretty much all other mind-altering substances in the first half of the 1980s. I never liked anything other than psychedelics as much as I liked them.

Of the other substances I experimented with, I liked cannabis best, but I gave it up, too. The best reason I can articulate is that I was no longer getting anything new from them and, as the fellow said, when you've gotten the message, it's time to hang up the phone.

I do still drink the odd glass of whiskey or port or champagne once or twice a year, but that's because I like the sensations of drinking them. I try to avoid drinking enough to get tipsy.

I never cared all that much for drugs that are supposed to make you feel good.
California and some other US states have referendums (ballot propositions). Since the US is a federal republic it would be impossible to have national level referendums without sweeping changes to the Constitution.
People contracting for DoD sometimes aren't "in industry"?
The French AOC [1] regulates what’s allowed to be marketed as Comté etc by stipulating location, breed, population density, etc; however aside from cheese, I’m not aware of a similar set of standards existing for animal products. As someone who has lived in a rural area with much animal agriculture, I can tell you labels like “free range” roughly translate to “Let’s put as many animals as we legally can fit onto this plot of land modulo our budget, then neglect them to every extent allowable by law, followed by killing them because we need the money”. You specifically give the example of the animals having a shed to shelter in, which IME is an exceptional rarity.

In any case, cherrypicked examples of “free range” farms that actually provide shelter for their animals are about as irrelevant as saying hunting is “more ethical” than factory farming. We cannot feed billions more people sustainably on diets heavy in animal products, no matter the method, especially so with the more inefficient methods like free range and hunting. There’s a reason factory farming exists.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellation_d%27origine_contrô...
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Libera is an IRC network too! It's run by the same people who used to run Freenode! I agree it shouldn't have happened, but everything is intact except for the name "Freenode." It's not like they moved to Discord or something (well, there is also a very large Python Discord, but the IRC channel is around too).
Note that the Swiss constitution was inspired by California’s, and improved on its broken referendum model in several ways.
I'm guessing by your tone that the Swiss voted in their interests rather than the interests of international bankers on all those items?
The people defending actions corporations are taking here are:

(a) hardly limited to "the left"

(b) essentially defending the right of most to decide for their own reasons that they won't amplify or carry certain forms of speech they disagree with

Opposition to this basically says someone can be legally compelled to participate in saying anything they disagree with or even find harmful.

If you're on board with that, I look forward to you graciously providing me with an unlimited easement to put up signs of my choice on your lawn.
Stablecoins do not offer claim on the backing assets anyways, if and when they exist.
Ask HN: Banned from Airbnb?
After years of living a semi-nomadic lifestyle and spending many thousands of dollars on the platform, it has finally happened to me: I got the dreadful "We'll be unable to support your account moving forward" email.

In my case, I was banned "because information on your reservation or your account may be associated with a pattern of activity linked to property damage".

When and where did that supposed property damage take place? No answer.

I assume I must have been wrongfully flagged by an ML model or something similar.

Unfortunately, traveling without Airbnb is hard, as they have by far the largest portfolio of vacation rentals.

I'm reaching out to Hacker News because it seems like this topic has been discussed here before (for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523056).

Any information helps.

My attempts at contacting someone at Airbnb that isn't just a call center agent reading a script have so far been unsuccessful.

If you work at Airbnb and you're reading this, let me make you the following offer: You look into the supposed "property damage" and figure out what actually went on. Then:
- If it turns out I didn't actually damage any property: You unban me
- If it turns out I did (I must be suffering from amnesia): I pay for the damage, plus a crisp USD 1000 for you personally, and you don't even have to unban me

I hope the format of this is correct, I have read Hacker News for a long time but never submitted anything.
No, only freenode. Do we consider them trustworthy?
Yep, but these are completely different scales.
No, ad buyers are businesses. As much as business interests have been trying to redefine negative impact on consumers as including out-competing rival companies, that’s not what it means.
All cows are female.
> The Swiss rejected some taxes.
I think this is an important distinction compared to "climate change measures". The (very slim) majority may feel that such taxes are not the best way to deal with climate change, and support other ideas instead.

Which is a very succinct description of why “direct democracy” (or overuse of referendums) is, simply put, not a good idea.

A vote on tax X versus tax Y? Fine. But voting yes or no on taxes? Next thing you’ll see a vote on an expense separate from the funding…
Eric and Bret are partners.
I don't get this absolutist stance.

Wouldn't it directly cause more people to buy EVs, and wouldn't it directly cause less people to fly overseas?

ICE cars have direct substitutes and holidays aren't totally price inelastic.
> in the meantime got their mini solder iron which works surprisingly well (and I have two Wellers).

Looks interesting, what temperature can it reach?
Sure, you can define standard however you want and then the conversation is meaningless.

But according to the standard definition of standard, which makes it synonymous with "average" or "norm", then my point very much stands.
International bankers?
This seems more and more like the end of an era. This used to be a place where if you didn't like the rules you could just move over to the next lot and it would be the frontier again.

With these bills it seems like we are getting closer and closer to closing that frontier, and closing it for good.

Usenet is deader than dead (I have subscribed to some groups in thunderbird, but some of these haven't seen a post in several years), reddit is useful only in some small subreddits.

It seems like the end of an era. Maybe I should just, I don't know, log of?

Anybody else feels the same? Or better yet, know where the magic can be found these days?
my interpretation of this situation is, if (whether by intention or not) it can be outsourced, it will be outsourced

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there are lots of third-party sites that do a great competition with apple for documentation, especially for swift/swiftui and i get the feeling that apple is maybe conflicted... they want to solve thier problem of documentationm but

1. there are lots of great (albiet scattered) resources on the internet already

2. things change radically year after year (uikit → swiftui, x64 → arm, etc); its hard to maintain a "tome" at apples pace and scale

3. apple is all about effeciency; stopping to write a book when you could be coding or innovating doesnt seem worth it

.... its a difficult situation and would probably cost a lot of money and resources, and logistically, seems like it would slow up development quite a bit (even if someone else wrote the books, you still have to coordinate with the devs)...
If you never used Freenode, why would you? Libera is just good ol' Freenode minus its old trademark.
Can you please elaborate on the myopia diagnostic? Your opinion is peculiar so I am curious.
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Regardless of your opinion, I don't think it is in the best interests of this forum to voice your disagreement with the Swiss voters by using a word like myopic.
The BBC article says that the laws were drafted to try and codify Switzerland's approach to the Paris Agreement and a referendum was held to decide whether Switzerland would enact those laws.

I would interpret the result as the Swiss people rejected their government's latest stab at enacting Paris. At 51:49 that's a: "Good effort, have another go and get it right this time. Please."
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The whole conversation is on Bitchute and Vimeo:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/qHjNQIynVb5O/

https://vimeo.com/557811163
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On an individual level, people make choices about climate change. For example solar panels or electric vehicle when not doing so would simply be easier or cheaper.

Municipalities are looking at how to switch away from gas-based heating in houses, for example using district heat.

Regional governments also play a role, though I don't remember by heart which were the kinds of things they decide on. Pretty sure it involved land use, for example where to place wind turbines, but I could be wrong.

Until we have "global agreements involving the biggest players", I really don't think we should avoid making climate-impacting decisions on a national level. If we need to first get the whole planet to agree on a course of action, we'll start getting to net-zero right around the time that Elon leaves for Mars.
> it's likely that your entire experience of the world is as bounded and low-entropy as a drawing or a song

YES. I've been following some threads related to the Leiden Theory of Language, which basically proposes that human minds differ from other creatures' right now mostly because we're an advanced semiotic organism that has carved out and evolved an ecological niche inside of an specific area of a biological host organism: the human mind. Basically, the mundane world we live every day is not so dissimilar from the one we imagine as an otherworldly future where we might become cyborgs of tech and biology... but we're ALREADY an organic cyborg of language/semiotics and biology. As in, shit is already weird, we just can't recognize the weirdness so well. Perhaps our fellow travellers (other animals) see us best for what we are.

Anyhow, re: drawings/songs. Through this distorted lens, I've been trying to see the way that our stories and narratives are in some ways like our children. I'm trying to see humans as being more like songs or drawings than we care to admit. Or rather, I'm noticing that we find these other things more "disposable" and we feel less kinship with them when they're persisting in various non-human substrates. We don't mourn their loss as fiercely as the loss of a semiotic-biological cyborg that is wrapped inside another human. But that's just our own bias. Maybe some of these lost narratives and semiotic systems deserve to be mourned just as much. Maybe we should be just as sad for the loss of groups of meaning and narrative (other cultures), but we're just not hard-coded to sense it as well...

And really vibing with your use of the word "substrate" btw.
> What else should scientists do than challenging the status quo?

Refuse to work for Google. Shun and shame every single Google employee. Exclude them from intellectual circles. Those furthering our dystopian future should be treated as such.
> But you can go ahead and keep doing X/Y/Z yourself; we'll turn a blind eye to that. Just do it quietly."

This is not true; the only MD in the discussion mentions he was strong-armed out of his personal off-label use, which is also contrary to the non-compliance slack you've mentioned.

> This is very different from actually making a recommendation to do X/Y/Z in those situations, because such a recommendation can be interpreted out-of-context to imply that doing X/Y/Z might be helpful

I don't know if you've seen the video in question, but they are not trying to make a medical recommendation at all. It is more of a meta-discussion, e.g on several institutional games (in the sense of game theory) including the implications of finding out a cheap off-patent drug that could contend with multi-billion-if-not-trillion-dollar global-scale vaccination drive.

> can be interpreted out-of-context to imply that doing X/Y/Z might be helpful, and may mislead some doctors into doing X/Y/Z in situations where it wouldn't be helpful

Youtube should not be in the business of assessing this risk, because they don't have the competence for this. I bet they don't even have one person with a medical degree in their policy team that made the takedown decision. When they take down an on-topic video of an MD and a PhD Biology, however unorthodox their expert position might be, it has the contrary effect of promoting folk medicine, not advancing scientific medicine.
Thanks for replying! There's clearly some "google-washing" going on here, as searching for "baader meinhof phenomenon" on google places the Damn interesting article 5th in my search results. The other results above that may not have huge differences, but they do offer at least the same information on "more reputable" (read: names that I recognize in 2021) websites which would likely Garner a click from Mr..
Async will continue to look awkward until we drop explicit "await" on function calls. Awaiting should be the default. If I call "async foo()" then I get back a promise I can explicitly await, but there should be no semantic difference between calling a synchronous function or asynchronous without modifiers.

Not only it makes it more consistent, but you can implement running a synchronous function into a separate thread just by doing "async foo()". Can't get easier.

Lua already has the right idea here (check coroutines), and why it's so useful in game scripts.
> should they pursue policies that go against their interests to satisfy foreigners?

To some extent I think it’s absolutely fair to expect that, yes. Especially in the richer countries of the world.
Alternatively, investing in renewable energy is not a penalty at all. Whoever wins this technological race is eventually going to list every other country as a customer, because there will be no other choice when oil runs out. Behind the moral do-good-ness of corporate and state-backed environmental activism is a race to become the next Aramco.
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Phoenixes don’t exist. Which is why when they burn freenode, nothing will arise from the ashes.
Industrial and commercial needs for what, exactly. Just the car industry relies on so many things (for happy car owners) that you can categorize as industrial and commercial. Reduce the need for cars and everything decrease quasi proportionally.
I think people expect the competition to be too perfect of a substitute when it comes to the internet. You are picking the most competitive market - burger joints - in an industry that everyone is forced to partake in: food. On a calorie basis, McDonald's and Burger King actually have some of the most cost effective foods. To me, it is like asking "who is the competitor to Costco? A membership bulk-only retailer, only Sam's Club!"

If we relabel YouTube as "short segment internet video entertainment" than we have things like Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat that all compete for our attention. I would even say that Netflix, Amazon Video, Apple TV+, Disney+, etc. all compete with YouTube. Of course, they are all unique, but that shouldn't be the bar of measuring "competition". When I used to run a university bar, I would say "we aren't competing with the other bars in town, we are competing with Netflix. How do we convince people to leave their rooms and walk across campus?"
Lee did everything he could to get rid of all users of freenode, but why?
It doesn't need to be a different kind of graph, it just needs to use consistent axes. It's very weird to have the left and right labels be different when the units are the same.

It'd be one thing if it were two different quantities being measured, but we're explicitly meant to be comparing Freenode to Libera.chat, so they should really be plotted on the same axis.