skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It doesn't accomplish anything and literally adds nothing to the debate.

It's important because to many people (myself included) the spirit of the freedom of speech referred to in the 1st Amendment is that force (i.e. the exercise of government power) is not an appropriate or legitimate response to speech. Censorship in the broad sense involving hosting decisions by these organizations owned and run by private individuals is not a violation of the freedom of speech, because it does not involve the use of force.

> Does the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines imposed and cruel and unusual punishment only apply to the government too?

Essentially, yes. The general principle applies to any organization which would take it upon itself to impose fines or punishment… which basically means the government, because the government doesn't let anyone else do that in its territory. For any organization other than the government this rule would go without saying, but since the government claims to be able to impose fines and punishment according to its own rules, unfettered by the rules of proportional response and natural law, this limitation must be made explicit.
Fly is the only company that consistently makes me want to reconsider my negative views on "the cloud", and it's absolutely 100% due to their incredible blog posts.

As for this particular post, it's great as always, but I would have liked to see more specifics on how applications might write to the main replica vs their local Redis instance.
this has been implemented for years.

it has a been a continual nuisance on 'kiosk' style machines that I use Firefox on -- even better : it used to be that a browser restore after machine reboot would restore the restart-nag page; even if it was no longer valid.

it's end-of-the-world obnoxious for surveillance heads without human interface devices, and there isn't a lot of clean solutions to it other than schedule machine reboots with browser session wipes.

Side note : the "Your Firefox Was Just Updated!" new-tab opening are similarly disastrous -- what would be a small notification or toast in any other program is a full-page third-party-hosted website with multimedia on it ; fantastic -- but those tabs can be optioned out in about:config, last I checked there is no escaping the 'firefox was updated, restart' nuissance, other than drastically killing the auto-update functionality.
I didn't say it was the case with every single twitter ban. Twitter has lots and lots of horrible bans.

I was responding to the idea of "people start talking abstractly about “non-mainstream positions”". Whenever anyone gets that generic about what the problem was, be suspicious.
Marx was very intelligent, but so was Adam Smith.

William F. Buckley was very intelligent, but so was Gore Vidal.

There are many, many topics where increasing intelligence does not mean increasing convergence of conclusions. The further away you get from hard science, the easier it is to diverge... building (intelligently) upon incorrect and hard-to-falsify foundations.
fuuuuck. I had it installed but iOS "archived" it and now I can't get it back. one of the best apps out there.
Gamut limitations mostly affect the periphery, rather than the center. Three arms of lightness converge on a white point, here near the bottom of the line marked 6000. Incorrectly far below the Planck curve, pulling bogus colors down over the curve. The curve should go from red to white to blue. Very not orange yellow green cyan. Figure 45 just below looks more plausible. Earlier versions of the wikicommons diagram[1] seem less blurred, making it easier to see its error.

For extra fun, this[2] illustrates both gamut position, and the recurring brokenness of a white point label indicating where white was expected, and the rendered white point being elsewhere.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PlanckianLocus.png
[2] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/specrend/figures/ciegamut...
In the US, images of chopped off heads aren't illegal. Calls to violence are illegal, but only in very particular circumstances that it's unlikely ISIS propoganda videos would meet
You just described a second, older/easier way of violating the same ethical norm of not lying about someone having said something they didn't.
> but I doubt they undergo drastic changes that the nutrition profile is entirely different.

It probably is gradually done, but I recommend looking at the amount of sugar each brand of bread has next time you're at a supermarket. Or milk, lemonade. Or other common groceries. It really is crazy to see just how much of -everything- has added sugar. Including products that are branded as "healthy". AFAIK Naked juice is a great example of this.

As a remote worker with a great schedule, I have the time to do such research. But not everyone is in that situation, particularly if they have a job and have kids, etc. Brands can essentially lie through their teeth and get away with labeling as the regulation can be quite loose.

Many people "know" processed food isn't healthy, but to what extent it's bad for them, maybe not. And it comes down to time and cost. Also, some people don't really grow up knowing what "healthy" food is like.

> It's from bad diet over a long period of time.

It doesn't help that healthy foods are more expensive than food that's absolutely terrible for you.

I think Mexico's new laws around food labeling is the way to go, but time will tell if that's actually effective or not.
This community well understands how individually innocuous details can be aggregated to produce very important insights. The governments and intelligence agencies of the world know this too.

Perhaps one could learn of a manufacturing deficiency / lack of understanding by getting enough details about enough vehicles the UK uses. Etc etc.
I have a hard time seeing how you reconcile these two ideas:

> Russia is a spent force. It's population and military are aging

> China is the real threat in the region
It also raises the question, "Why can't there be substitute apps/services on the Apple App store?"

So what if Amazon can or even does do it? There should be multiple apps offering the same service available to Apple customers. This doesn't make sense.
If you can’t find a way to teal with it, try cyan turquoise?
Says who? My socks are distinctively left or right.
The European Court of Human Rights doesn't rule on abstract ideas. It rules on particular cases. They didn't say denying the Armenian Genocide is okay while denying the Holocaust isn't. They ruled on two individual cases that seem to be contradictory when summarized in a single sentence. That doesn't mean they truly are contradictory once examined in depth.
Right, I picked the "blurred blue" and "blurred green" pictures, converted them to grayscale using luminance and "blurred blue" still looks sharp and "blurred green" still looks blurry.

If it really was the effect of blue light, the effect should have disappeared by converting to grayscale.

It is well known that luminance matters much more than color when it comes to perceived sharpness. Digital and analog video exploit that by encoding color at a lower resolution (chroma subsampling). And blue only accounts for less that 10% of luminance while green is around 70%. You may find different values because color spaces are a mess but that's the general idea.
There is no way that is true the way it is going with UEFI, secure boot, etc...
And then from inside your link, there seemed to be even more critical voices:

"Then again, the Stoics were famous for challenging common conceptions, and the founder of the school, Zeno of Citium, had declared slavery an evil in his Republic"
Cabins were also much simpler back then there's a lot more to break in a modern capsule compared to Mercury and Apollo. Actual toilets for starters.
Gnome 3?

It expects you to only have one monitor (on a tablet), which is as focused as it gets. :p
It’s crass, unnecessary and disrespectful of AB’s memory.
To be fair he never used the word "useless". That's the title submitted by the person who uploaded that. There could be a bit of confirmation bias here. It's as easy for someone with little trust in their government to point to this and say officials are flip-flopping on the information released, as it is for others to interpret it as Fauci saying "don't expect a mask to fully protect you".
There are numerous allegations from female staff at Microsoft extolling Bill Gates' creepiness. He seemed to have a bad habit of constantly asking his employees on dates, as well as making strange and awkward advances to women in the workplace. I'm not certain the full extent of his dealings with Epstein- we may never know given Gate's power and wealth, but it's fairly clear from just a bit of research that he has a very creepy side that is usually kept hidden from the media.
Use what you use for taking notes currently.

If you don’t take notes currently, a device for taking notes probably won’t change that.

Note taking is a habit not a technology. It is a way of thinking. Not a set of tools.

For example, no device can replicate writhing notes in the margin of a book. Not even other pieces of paper. An underlined sentence can only happen where the sentence occurs.

If you want a new Surface buy one because you want one. Don’t pretend that it will cause you to take up note taking.
Because ICE is being faces out your care is gone lose value so much faster. I don't think the insurance will normalize.
Has it always been considered an ethical violation to have an impersonator read something a celebrity wrote? This can't be the first time that's happened.
> The thing is, people are never going to agree where the line is drawn.

True, but I currently trust the line drawn by the law orders of magnitude more than I trust the one drawn by a bunch of faceless reactionaries at a handful of megacorps.

Also, theoretically, I can participate in changing the law when it's either insufficient or overbearing. I have zero say in the corporate policies of the day.
A lot of people don't realize, all high quality voice models are clones. The network is trained to mimic your voice as close as possible.

Alexa, Cortana, and Siri are all real people. That's someone's voice, synthetically preserved.

Listen for yourself.

Siri: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z2bTymnb1uE

Alexa: https://www.wral.com/is-this-alexa/19676920/

Cortana and Siri https://vocalboothtogo.com/meet-voices-behind-cortana-siri/

Creepy but it feels like the future. To be able to copy a unique part of someone we consider so important. Its just strange
That isn't their argument. They are arguing that any results that differ from their own ratings are false by definition because it is duplicative. If fakespot always gave the identical ratings, they'd have to make a different argument.
I think your hypothesis is defeated by how people take screenshots of text (captions, headlines) at face value on Reddit, Twitter, and other social media. You can scroll through all the comments and you won’t find a single person asking for a source, just people reacting to some text.
If people don’t have an immunity to a screenshot of text that claims something, how are they going to have an immunity to Photoshop and deep fakes?
If it were well-studied by anthropologists in general then these anthropologists wouldn't be so surprised about it. Either they didn't do even cursory research before beginning their study or they're hyping their findings for attention.

Also, I think you that understand quite well.
> This isn't some noble representative getting a bill passed through Congress to stick it to Big Tech for profiting off of outrage media, click-bait, surveillance capitalism, etc etc (I wish it were thus). This is the executive branch of an administration colluding with those corporations to provide "guidance" on what the permitted narrative is.

That's a valid perspective, yes - but I can almost guarantee you that it's a team of people using evidence, data and analysis to determine what they believe is best for their population, in co-operation (rather than collusion) with a business. A business that would quite happily take the reins of power, sure, but a business that is nonetheless under the legal remit of the U.S.
Well that's nice of you to say. Would you believe we also have negative views of the cloud?

You're right, we kind of glossed over how to do that. People usually just keep two Redis connections in their code, something like `regionalRedis` and `globalRedis`. It's cheap to keep Redis connections around.

I can't really think of a better way to handle it, it's kind of a weird problem because not _all_ writes need to go a certain place, just writes you deem global.
All I know is that all of the TV broadcasts in my area had very, very poor picture quality after the digital switchover, compared to what they were when analog.

The issue is clearly that the digital signals are being compressed to within an inch of their lives, since the poor quality is due to obvious compression artifacts.

So, I don't think it's a technology problem, I think it's a greed problem: the TV stations are trying to subdivide their frequency allotment so they can fit as many different video streams as possible. Either way, it's still a problem OTA broadcasts in my area still border on unwatchable.

Fortunately, that was also around the time that I stopped watching TV, so it wasn't a real problem for me (which is good, because the new digital signals literally did not come to my neighborhood -- we went from analog TV to no OTA TV at all). But it was impossible to not notice that broadcast TV quality became orders of magnitude worse, pretty much overnight.
My take on this is that the axiom of choice allows you to produce infinite amounts of information, if and only if you start with infinite amounts of input.

Think about how much information is involved in presenting an infinite collection of sets! When I say even something as simple as "Let x be a real number" I'm already invoking infinitely many bits of information. Things have already gotten weird, you just haven't noticed because we've hidden it.

The axiom of choice is saying something like, okay, we somehow have this infinite pile of information sitting around; now we're allowed to interact with it. And if you don't like that, your problem might be with the infinite amount of information we started with. (Or it might not; yes-choice and no-choice are both totally valid positions.)

But in practice it doesn't matter that much because you never actually do start with infinite amounts of information, and so you don't need an infinite-amounts-of-information processor. But if we have finite amounts of information that we're pretending are infinite to simplify things, we can also process the finite amounts of information and pretend we're processing infinite information.
Surely Amazon feels safer now.
I think asteroids are overrated. A globally catastrophic asteroid will not hit earth within our life times with a high degree of certainty. Yet, we currently already have means to deflect it. When it finally happens, it will be deflected. That risk is minuscule. The chances of a random small asteroid destroying a city has a higher chance, but I wouldn’t really worry about that more than the building I’m living right now collapsing.
That's a steal, I charge a 500/mo fee for my current (and I'm still employed with them, there's no provision for continuing the NDA after employment)
If Starship actually turns out like Musk has laid out it probably could just given it's size but yeah for now there's no extant vehicle that could service either. I bet we'll also start to see robotic servicing missions proven out which is another possible solution should JWST (or another telescope) need service.
It's still usable in a web browser at: https://www.fakespot.com

Review Meta does a similar thing and its iOS app seems to be still available: https://reviewmeta.com
Did you even read the piece? It comes across as pretty balanced to me and doesn't necessarily cast blame.

The fact is, many minorities are severely underrepresented in VC funded companies.

That is a problem worth tackling whether or not it is due to implicit or explicit bias in VCs. One of the solutions offered up in the article is more training for minority applicants.

While I know there is plenty of bias among VCs (for one, many of them frequently say they like to fund people that remind them of themselves). The lack of awareness or training or accessibility is probably the largest factor and is unlikely to change without concerted effort of the entire ecosystem.
> It's still better than Ars Technica.

"Disagree" is actually a suggested downvote reason at Ars, with predictable results. Then they published a number of articles that turned out to be perfect bait for flame wars, trolling, and upvote/downvote wars. Comments dripping with twitter-style vitriol and outrage. Engagement up, quality down.

Perhaps they did it on purpose to watch the trash fires burn and the ad impressions roll in, but it really destroyed the comment section SNR and stank the whole place up. I've mostly quit reading Ars except via HN.
One of the great things about this restaurant is that it was super cheap. $5 could easily get lunch for two, which would consist of noodles, vegetables, some type of imitated meat chunks or cubes with sauce, and tea back when I used to go there. And it tasted really quite good. According to their current menu, you can still eat well there for less than $10 per person, and they have a whole lot more items than they did back then.
I just went back and counted frames. Control was running at 30 fps with drops to ~10 (3 frames of 60 fps video per one screen update).
Yes. And often its good to listen to them and ask why the believe what they believe. Often they can be wrong, but we should still listen to them and evaluate.

Tesla tried to get into lithium extraction before and it didn't work.

I think Tesla will eventually get this working, but not sure if its actually gone compete with Western Australian spodumene or Atacama brines.

However I think the process looks pretty promising.
Microsoft: Protecting customers from a private-sector using 0-day exploits
I dont know how, but I assume that all the fake shit being sold on amazon is very profitable for them. I assume they have a strong motivation to protect and foster all the fake shit, cus that's what they appear to be doing to the best of their ability (Reminds me of 'content-farm' videos on youtube)

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Also, If its not profit, there must be some 'perverse incentive' at some level of the company to act as they do.
I'd think that welding would be the sensible route if you're just doing one, as long as it's made sturdy enough. Casting the whole frame in one piece makes more sense if you're mass-producing pianos. Also, it's traditional. I don't know what welding equipment was like a hundred plus years ago during the piano-manufacturing boom, but casting piano frames was a well-honed art.
This is super cool and I wish I'd known about it before writing the piece; I'd have been comfortable being a lot more muscular in the conclusion. This seems like it makes precise my suggestion that the axiom of choice only matters for aggressively infinite and unphysical statements.
Link please. Blockchain was defined as a datastructure for money in the bitcoin whitespace by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. New definition reference?
Please read The Captive Mind for the version based on true events.

Spoiler: the Poles discovered that a political movement with methods and motivations which should sound very familiar didn't turn out to be the good guys after all.
Go vertical, use labels. For tools, shadow board.

You could also consider downsizing some of the furniture that is underutilized (if any)
> Errors can still be handled even without explicit provisions in the language

Sure! but as I said in the last sentence of my post, "error handling is as much user convention as is compiler support"

In particular, almost all C code I have seen is designed to handle errors gracefully -- every stdlib function may fail and user is expected to handle it. On the other hand, much of the oberon code I have seen before is pretty bad with error handling -- the program will just halt on any error.

Now, I cannot really tell which way Oberon+ will go because there is so little code written in it, and it seems there isn't even a way to open a file as of now. But I browsed around and found JSON parser in Oberon+ and it handles errors by calling halt()... so it does not look like this version has good error handling (yet?)
> if you've colonized say 20 stars

This is the sticking point for me.

The rocket equation, energy being quadratic with velocity, and the impossibility of perfect efficiency (and, possibly, limits on material properties) constrain speeds.

That means it takes a long time to get between stars. A long time.

Which means if you venture between stars successfully, you're adapted for life in interstellar space. If that's the case, why would you go down the gravity well? There are lots of asteroids and comets to use in Oort clouds and between stars, and those down-well enviroments are hostile.
Exactly this. A lot of the conservative angst about having their speech moderated on private platforms would vanish if they realized the baggage that came along with what they were asking for. The first amendment is extremely permissive, only very narrow limits are allowed and 99% of pro-ISIS speech is perfectly legal.
Relax. It made sense to listen to them and evaluate. I'm just trying to give the information that help answer the question.
Yes! I have difficulty with some blue signage and especially with certain intense blue LED lights as they seem to vibrate to my eyes. I also find it hard for me to read the text in blue on the small, scrolling LED signs common in storefronts.
What I Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns (2019)
Its so bewildering to me that Amazon doesn't do this.

People are catching on to the low quality of the reviews on amazon and once that credibility is gone, its never coming back.

Their supply chain is a pretty strong moat but its not insurmountable.
Indeed, I think the wash sale rule only applies to stock, options and securities. It's their commodity treatment that allows you to avoid wash sales. Commodities futures for instance do not trigger wash sales. [1]

[1] http://www.bairdfinancialadvisor.com/brennanjandricgroup/med...
Exactly. The USAF has been flying Soviet era fighters and helicopters for ages. And I bet the Russians have samples of M1s, M2s, etc. We know the Chinese got stealth technology from the crash of the Stealth Blackhawk that crashed during the Bin Laden mission in Pakistan.

While it's interesting from a opsec standpoint, there was no material loss of valuable information with the posting of this Challenger 2 data. The design and performance specs of a tank that has less than 300 units in use is a gnat on an elephant.
do something brave ... contact james o Keefe
Numerous prominent organizations have called gun control a public health issue including the Biden administration (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... , the Center for Disease Control (https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/fastfact.htm... ), and the American Medical Association (https://www.ama-assn.org/topics/gun-violence ).

It's not a stretch because it's already being done. The reason that it seems absurd that Google would ban discussion of tax increases as a public health issue is that there aren't anti-tax groups who are already (as in right now independently of Google) calling tax increases a public health issue. Calling gun control a public health issue may be absurd, but it's an absurdity which is in active use in the real world.

If the Biden administration put out a press release stating that taxes were a public health issue, there might be more reason to worry that Google would use "public health" to censor "misinformation" about taxes.
> The source code can be assembled into an executable that you can then run in Windows or Linux.

Where can I find the 6809 ports of Windows and Linux, or am I missing something?