skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's some ongoing work to improve this, by reducing noise & false positives: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/422
So, I've lived in Texas since the late 90's. There are certainly things that need doing. But this is not really a great analysis. A better analysis of the February grid failure is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08mwXICY4JM

Long story short:

1) the population has gone up a lot, so all infrastructure (traffic, electricity, water, housing, etc.) has had to increase rapidly

2) the mix 10 years ago was a lot of coal and oil, now it is much more natgas, wind, and solar. These can be reliable, but they are very different than coal and oil, and therefore a lot of new lessons have to be learned.

3) a big reason for the surge in renewables is the way the market is designed, which lets them pocket big bonuses at peak demand times. Since this _normally_ is in the summer during the day, this makes solar a lot more competitive financially. Natgas certainly failed in February, but all three of wind, solar, and natgas had big problems, it was just that the natgas and wind were unexpected while the solar was not (in the winter at night).

Thus far, the power grid is holding this summer, even though there is all-time record demand. We certainly do need to increase capacity, but that is mostly due to the surge in population, not any huge mismanagement. I'm sure it could be done better, but it's not unusual for record demand and a new mix of sources to put the system through a learning curve.
I live in Germany and tend to follow politics to a degree that some would consider unhealthy.

While I am sure there are instances of politicians invoking child pornography to argue against encryption, I do not remember any specific instances of it from the recent past.

Claims of "massive propaganda" are stretching the facts beyond what's reasonable. Indeed, it might itself be the only instance of propaganda on the issue.
At the most basic level, life expectancy has increased everywhere [0] and so quality of life has increased for a large number of people who would otherwise be dead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
And people in the US commonly shell out hundreds of dollars per month for electricity. I've never even approached anything close to a hundred.
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Yep. According to Indian laws, publishing the identities or pictures of rape victims (or their families) is illegal. Twitter really doesn't have a choice here.
TechCrunch article is light on details. CNN has more information

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/tech/twitter-india-congress-p...

Editing to add another article. This article mentions that it was Rahul Gandhi, the prince of the Gandhi dynasty, that first posted it and his account was temporarily locked. Then in protest, senior leaders in his party posted the same image! So their accounts were also temporarily locked.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/congress-rahul-g...
Slightly off-topic, but IMO this article could use an editor. At the "Drug related crimes at the top"-headline, 4/5 paragraphs state basically the same thing and of those four, three are simply different formulations. This is very irritating, for me personally at least.
It's always worth remembering that lacking 230 protection, they won't be allowing this content... They'll be blocking more.

230 protection limits their liability if somebody uses their service to communicate information that could be civilly actionable to they platform as host if other people's words and images. Lacking that protection, vast quantities of content (potential copyright infringement, potential libel, potential slander, etc.) become too risky to host.

... And lacking 230 protection, Rand Paul and the Indian Congress Party would likely still lack any legal standard by which they could compel Twitter to host their content.
> They've got nearly 30% non-hydroelectric renewables. That is a pretty remarkable achievement; it is quite hard to keep a grid stable with such high penetration of renewables.

I assume you mean it’s hard to maintain stability with a high percentage of non hydroelectric renewables?

I’m in New Zealand and we have a large grid for a small population. 84% of supply is renewable and we have very good stability (though we had some outages this week).

https://www.nzte.govt.nz/page/renewable-energy
You will still have to pay capital gains tax in $ once you pay for something in Bitcoin though (assuming that your bitcoin has appreciated versus the $)
I'm pretty sure that Secret of the Incas didn't invent that trope, although it may be the inspiration for Raiders. Journey to the Center of the Earth also has a scene involving standing at the correct place at the correct time for the sun's rays to cast a shadow in the correct place, and I'm sure it's even older than that.
Hm, maybe. But maybe, some parties are worse than others. I can think of 10s of political parties that should not have been allowed to participate in the democratic process as they (before elections) shown to condone political violence.
Technically it's a noun adjunct (also called attributive noun or qualifying noun).
Because that doesn't leave any lasting warning, as the author can just post the same tweet dozens of times again.
How do you talk about the metaverse without crediting Snow Crash? Heresy
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I've read Neuromancer, The Diamond Age, and part of Snowcrash, and I'm still very pro-Metaverse as a pie-in-the-sky concept, but this recent VC-hype writing about Metaverses does not grab me at all.

If you skip through the series to 'Evolving User + Business Behaviors and the Metaverse' you avoid the hand-waving tech roadmapping and get to how this technology is supposed to change people's lives, and what's described is (mostly) super entertainment-oriented, consumerist, and corporate-crossover-branded to the point of self-parody.

At times I get the vibe that VCs are very keen on having "Fornite but you spend $10,000s more on digital clothing, steroids, vehicles, and housing because you no longer care about the physical world. Oh and the sex workers are now digital. Your 'friends' are digital too, and also computer algorithms." No thanks.

It approaches something like Infinite Jest's Samizdat videotape. Entertainment perfection so engrossing it may literally kill you (if Facebook hasn't made sure you're hooked up to food, water, and sanitation systems).
I took it to mean a PR level commit (aka squash/merge commit in git). I work in SVN and git everyday so commit and PR are basically the same unless talking about git specifically.
Transistors were invented by humans, but chip layouts themselves involve a lot of automation and at more than one level — Verilog and VHDL both appeared in the 1980s, and there’s tools at both higher and lower levels of abstraction than those two.
True, I can only remember two power outages in my life time in London.
From what I saw, Rahul Gandhi, a member of the opposition party, met with the parents of a 9 year old girl who was raped and murdered. He posted a picture of this meeting on Twitter, which included the parents. Saying, “Parents' tears are saying only one thing -- their daughter, the daughter of this country, deserves justice. And I am with them on this path to justice.”

So then, "Claiming that the tweet was in violation of provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) had asked the Delhi Police and Twitter to take action over Rahul Gandhi posting the photo of the girl's family on the microblogging website." [1]

Then, I think a bunch of other members of this party started posting the picture in protest, and also have been banned.

I think Twitter has claimed that the image isn't just illegal, but also violates their policy.

[1] https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/dalit-rape-murder-rahu...
> advantage of having unwritable and unreadable syntax

There's (in a way) a false dilemma at play here. MathML is unreadable because it's XML, but it is also possible to describe trees in more readable languages like S-expressions.

Either way, it would be absurd to add TeX into a Web browser ...
Terrible idea.

Punishing masses for crimes (if there is any) of individuals is a net negative. We had that in Turkey for years. Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia and hundreds of lewd sites are blocked with that mindset. Turkey is 80M people and the impact was huge and ugly. I can't imagine what will happen to India with 1.3B if mass bans become mainstream.
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Being apolitical doesn't mean "not touching politicians", it means "applying rules consistently regardless of politics and not designing rules for political gain".

To not touch politicians would be to take the stand that some people are important politicians and some are not, that would be an inherently political distinction. Thus that route is not apolitical (short of just not moderating at all, that is possible but does not create a platform that people want to use).

I don't know anything about indian politics, or this case apart from what is said in the article. I don't know if this account was banned for apolitical reasons. But to take the position that banning a political party is fundamentally taking sides in a political issue is wrong.
>You grew up in an era of not inhaling cancerous smoke everywhere you go

A recent study (2013) suggests that the idea that second hand smoke has a direct link to cancer wasn't entirely accurate.

https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/105/24/1844/2517805

>Even unhealthy foods are less unhealthy due to removing hydrogenated fats from foods

I would say food is far more unhealthy today than in 1991. There is sugar and bastardized sugar in everything. Sugar is addictive and food manufacturers use it to get people addicted to their food. Instead of eating for nutrition, people eat for that sugar hit, and you almost can't escape it. Try finding prepackaged foods in the grocery store without some form of sugar in it.

https://www.addictioncenter.com/drugs/sugar-addiction/
So? Condoning violence is irrelevant to if a party represents the electorate.
If an intelligence agency or foreign government did it...they'd be hacking Twitter to do it, and we'd be having a different conversation. Twitter should be free to operate their business, within the bounds of the law, as they see fit. If you think they are being unreasonable, sell your stock, delete your account, petition your congress critter.
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I think a lot of us grew up being some of the very few people "in the know" surrounded by masses of technologically-oblivious people who couldn't care less about such issues. I think a lot of us have a sense of "learned-helplessness" based on initial attempts to explain to people why such things matter.

However, in the meantime, I think the average citizen has largely caught up. For example, even on reddit, comments are exceedingly pro-privacy. I also remember net neutrality being overwhelmingly important to people, even the ones who had never programmed in their life.

I think it's time to unlearn that helplessness, because I think the average citizen is informed enough to care and finally is starting to care. A lot of the old fox-news-watchers have since passed on, and now nearly every citizen uses the internet daily. Examples of corrupts government are no longer hypothetical sci-fi exercises, they are public knowledge.
Arguably in 1991, you're getting in on the ground floor but it's a mixed bag. Your new grad salary is probably going to be around $40K or so in the US. And dot-bomb is 10 years in the future.

And that list of companies is sort of a mixed bag.

Adobe has mostly done pretty well through the years.

Sun Microsystems did have a very good decade through the dot-com years but then didn't.

Apple was really struggling at that time.

DEC was on the way down and would be bought by HP a few years later.

Microsoft was about to launch Windows NT so that was a pretty good place to hop on but obviously went on to have a long period of stagnation.
I didn't want to say it at first, for fear of invoking dang, but I am talking about the workplace. I was referring to prostitution, which is as valid a professional environment as any.
Man, this is like when someone was arguing with me that Right on Reds is not that impactful to the environment, they said something like "Oh on average it only cuts off 30 seconds off of someone's commute."

...Ooookay, now times that by everyone commuting.
Exactly. It's hard to tell if that was precisely what happened (I blame the cultural and linguistic translation barrier), but if it was, Twitter's TOS on doxxing is very clear.

The locking is necessary as a temporary and immediate mitigation strategy to minimize harm until the nature of the content is determined or the content is removed, rendering locking moot. Standard procedure.
The new Dropbox client is written in Rust.

You can't build a file sync client with Electron. You need very granular filesystem access, which is something that Electron does poorly.
De Grey has always seemed overly eccentric to me. But maybe that is to be expected of someone that works on something as contrarian as anti-aging research.

Sexual harassment is not okay.

To give him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it was some kind of lack of social skill on De Greys side rather than actual sexual predatoriness? Am curious what that legal investigation will find out
I'm not American, yet almost all Tech companies have inherited this Identity Politics culture.

It feels like such a huge step backwards to have scholarships, fast track programmes, etc. rule out great applicants solely based on their skin colour.
Complexity cuts both ways. Complexity, as every programmer knows, is no friend, and can easily create more problems than it solves.

Often the most efficient solution to a problem ends up being a simple one. It would be very surprising if the human brain's Rube Goldberg machine was anywhere near close to a mathematically optimal implementation of intelligence.

It's possible that much of the complexity in a biological neuron is simply working around other complexity introduced by biology, solving problems that we programmers do not even have to think about because we can simply directly use matrix multiplication.
> It is an interesting attack but is the above goal ever achievable? To protect against adversaries from the inside.

People have gotten very close to achieving similar goals.

For example, modern games consoles' anti-piracy measures guard against the device owner who has physical control and unlimited time. [1]

iPhone activation locks likewise prevent stolen phones from being used, even by thieves with physical control and unlimited time.

And neither of the systems rely on the clunky 'brick the device if the case is opened' methods of yesteryear.

(Of course there have also been a great many failed attempts - almost every console since the dawn of time has eventually been hacked, as have things like TPMs and TrustZone, many versions of the iPhone were rooted, etc etc)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quLa6kzzra0
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yes, if you pay for a whois protection service, it hides your personal info.
There is little reason to doubt a well fitted (K)N95 or other counterpart works well. But cloth masks are unproven to help and there are many other variables that could be in play here. For instance, people who wear masks might spend much less time within 6' of each other, be more likely to be vaccinated, or some other confounding factor to mask effectiveness.

Also I've not seen a single cloth mask particulate test that has tried to reproduce the dampness level of a cloth mask that's been worn for an hour. In any but the driest climates that mask will be damp and much less effective.

And given how few studies have been done on cloth mask efficacy over the last year, it is likely the experts already know that cloth masks don't do much.

My argument isn't that people shouldn't wear masks, it's that now that cheap, plentiful, effective quality masks are available, people are still being told to wear cloth masks. I assume that's the same confusion that got the Senator banned from Youtube.
The reason people are shitting on on Texas is that Texas shit talks other states power grids.
There is a greater opportunity, but it hasn't happened in practice. And even with Typescript's types, I doubt that it would make much of a difference because the type system is deliberately not sound and the types can't really be relied on. Typescript is a great way of reasoning about a program, but it's not meant as a runtime execution type system.
Sadly, this is not the first time American tech giants have contributed to suppressing free speech. At the behest of Israel, Facebook has blocked the accounts of Palestinian activists and most recently of Gaza's Shebab News Agency. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-facebook-blocks... The rationale is, as always, "violating our community standards". Exactly what those community standards or the specific infractions are is never made explicit. Whatever your political allegiances are, it is very concerning that a small number of American tech giants wield so much power with which to influence global opinion.

(And before someone says "what about Trump?" No, he shouldn't have been kicked off either; both Indian Communists and American presidents have the right to free speech.)
You just keep appending spaces until commit hash sounds human! Check out latest release: h0rs35l0v3b4tt3ry4cid5!

Eventually people will start random commits like "random commit to change hash" when commits accidently result in racist or taboo terms lol
Yes. Another common example is that in languages without pointers, the lack of aliasing enables optimizations that are impossible for languages with pointers.

Also, C compilers generate efficient code by assuming undefined behavior cannot happen. (This sometimes corrupts buggy programs, because the type system can't guarantee undefined behavior isn't triggered.)
It might not be able to do it for any turing machine/ a universal turing machine – but it might quickly figure out what a turing machine will do without executing all steps of it.
> I am being monitored for using a privacy focused email address

How exactly did you find this out? I don't think you generally get letter mail saying "Hey, we're monitoring you now". How do you differentiate monitoring behavior from something like an individual service flagging an individual transaction because of your email and killing it?

I'm always deeply skeptical of claims like this since they're almost always unverifiable by any party (including the commenter).
I’m in central Texas and my power has gone out twice this summer.

Not for a week like in February but I prefer the cold, you can put on a jacket. My house got into the 90’s and I could do nothing.
Looks like that despite the top <=10% seeing a disproportionate increase in their income, the overall average and median are still growing relatively proportionally, though not to the same degree as 5 years ago.
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That's silly.

If I start the "Election Fraud Party", I don't get to complain that enforcing free and fair elections is an attack on me.
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I don't think it's been considered. To be honest, sometimes adding money to a development projects makes things worse. It can sometimes introduce new unwanted obligations that weren't there previously.
You see papers claiming an effectiveness against symptomatic infection against Delta of ~ 50 %, and the rise of cases in Israel as well as the Provincetown outbreak should really make us concerned.

The vaccine still prevents hospitalization and death, so that's reason enough to take it. But on its own it isn't enough to get R_0 below 1. The way everyone is behaving, they are asking for outbreak after outbreak.
Interesting in his response he mentions she done this before to someone else.
".....in certain countries".
> you can't really write software without bugs

Formal verification
I think they're not snobby enough. Transitive dependency explosions and a lack of understanding the code you're consuming has serious impacts on the code you write, how it can be used and abused etc.
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Does the 700 LoC core include a termination checker? If I understood your other comments correctly, that's planned for later, no? If so, I don't think this is a very apples-to-apples comparison.
Do you feel your logical extreme is a good rebuttal here?
What do you think the "Net" in "Netflix" stands for?
If we accept that language is a cultural battlefield, then is this really a hill worth dieing on?
Maybe. Personally I think the poor quality decisions are more likely to be the product of politics or some constraint that leads to not having a good choice and just having to go with the lesser evil.
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I had a quick search and immediately hit the headline “ Texas wholesale electric prices spike more than 10,000% amid outages”. That’s concerning.

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2AF19A
Comparing programming to tax preparation:

It depends, of course. Both have hard days where you are hyper focused and making critical decisions, and easy days where the work is fairly routine. I find tax prep to be more decision exhausting, perhaps because the tax code and IRS are involved, perhaps because the decisions need to be explained to the client.
I did a little digging into the VGA text mode hardware interface and it'd be possible to do proper bold and italics support by loading a second font and reusing the line drawings (which shouldn't italicize) and block graphics (that shouldn't bold) for additional styled symbols. Computing bold is a simple matter of OR'ing a bit-shifted character and, for italics, you can shift the top third one bit to the right and the bottom third one bit to the left. We used to do that in the 8-bit era when having three bitmap fonts took too much disk space.

With the frame buffer, it should be much easier.
It's on their FTP server, but I'm seeing the same thing.

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/91.0/
> It is unreasonable if Twitter doesn't make a statement as to why.

The article cites such statements.
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Well, sort of. That's why I'm trying to figure out if they decided it was doxxing or if they decided it was illegal in India.

There are separate procedures for those... Their policies for doxxing are global. But for content illegal in a region, Twitter will hide tweets that are illegal within that jurisdiction, but not globally (cross reference handling of Nazi support messages and imagery in France and Germany... Which, as a side note, creates the funny side effect that if you grab that channel of data for a specific tweet or account, you can tell if Twitter thinks a user is a Nazi sympathizer).