skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s way more likely to me that this is simply because the Internet used to be the (nearly) exclusive domain of people who were culturally like you: educated, technologically sophisticated, libertarian-leaning affluent white males. Not that you’re necessarily any or all of these things, but if you were around for “the uncensored Internet” you likely felt comfortable with that as your cultural in-group. I say this as someone who is many of these things, and was also around in the “good old days”.

These days people of every cultural background get a seat at the table. That changes things. And that’s to say nothing of the advent of professional, anonymous astroturfing and disinformation campaigns.

Going back would be an abject disaster.
You are probably visiting the same buffer in a different window. What you want is clone-indirect-buffer-other-window.
So were the people who used it. Times have changed. Maybe the last time you went to a bar you saw the bouncer eject some hulking meth-head, drool dribbling down his bib, for getting handsy with strangers and throwing a bottle at the bartender. Well, that meth-head has a social media presence today too.
seems like they're creating just as much inconvenience for themselves as for the prison employees, so I guess it's fair?
Yeah, Apple has mastered modern planned obsolescence. They intentionally build their hardware to not be usable after a few product cycles to keep new hardware sales up. If it were easy to run alternative OSes to give renewed life to what they may deem obsolete hardware, that would interfere with their bottom line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
Huh, that's an old thread. Was quite confused when the "upcoming PHP 5.6 release" was mentioned!
"you could learn about animal husbandry and raise chickens for eggs"

My grandad, when he retired bought a smaller farm. He kept around 200 chickens in the old cow shippon. Now if you google "shippon", you'll be told it is a northern (English) term. My grandad was born in Paignton in 1901 and lived in Devon all his life. His working farm was near Dartmouth. I only searched to check the spelling for this comment, it turns out that the internets can spout ... approximations to truth sometimes (fancy!)

Anyway, the farm cat was called "Panda". His job was keeping an eye on the chickens. He was fed on top of the meal bin everyday next to the shippon, something/enough that kept him from deciding chicken was food.

Panda was quite a vigorous chap and once killed a fox that tried to do a DIY KFC. Any New Zealand readers familiar with Footrot Flats will see "Horse" here. Panda was Horse's British cousin. Murray Ball is a legend in my family. I have no idea why grandad called his farm cat Panda. Murray Ball called his cat Horse, probably for similar odd reasons.

The house cat was called Wee White - she was my mum and dad's that was left with her mum because they buggered off, sorry, got posted to West Germany, with me and my brother. Wee White had a white collar. Her sister Big Red had a red collar. She (Big Red) unfortunately was an example of why we ensure that cat's collars can slip off if caught in a tree.
Richard Feynman, the Physicist Who Didn’t Understand His Own Theories
>Are we nonchalantly accepting its OK to censor and moving on to the argument about deceiving users?

Personally I'm disturbed at the non-chalant attitude taken towards shadow moderation in this thread. Shadow banning and shadow moderation may make one's job easier but it has a disastrous effect on the forum or community by injecting a definite level of deceit into the moderator/poster relationship.

Any forum where shadow bans /shadow moderation are practiced the moderators by definition can not be trusted.
The censorship is intentional, but the silence is a bug in the react code. You can look at the console in chrome devtools to see. There is an error message informing the viewer that their message was censored. The message is incorrectly hidden when you send additional message.

Also refresh the page and the messages disappear from the viewer.
Get rid of these fake news from HN - stick to tech, thats why all we're here.
Yes, so far they are doing that. In fact they use a mix of Panasonic, CATL and LG.

However they are working on having their own battery and battery factory design. They are even working on their own cathode manufacturing plants.

They have a very large 'pilot' plant in California to test a completely redesigned battery manufacturing system. They are actively building additionally battery factories in Austin and Berlin and have a equipment on order for these factories. For the Battery factory in Berlin they have received funding from the European Commission for this.

Tesla will not be fully vertically integrated but they will provide a large parts of their own cells and likely a increasing share over the coming years.
In the same way that driving on any street is a serious risk of a fatal crash?
I don't mean we should be sure it couldn't have been a lab escape because we have found the natural origin.

I mean we should be sure it wasn't a lab escape because lab escapes have a prior probability extremely close to zero.

There are lots of smart folk, and intelligence agencies, trying to figure out whether covid is a natural event or a lab leak, and very few analyzes seem to be starting off with "as we all know, because of X, Y, and Z, lab escapes are effectively impossible, and these labs are so well designed that human error never results in accidents, so..."
Vaaaaaastly!
This one also shows a red exclamation point, but because of a bug the exclamation point goes away after you send more messages. You can see it in the twitter screenshots or replicate yourself by sending any gnews link on messenger
> Flew to max Q anyway. Then lost control, cartwheeled rapidly.

Cartwheeling / lack of control only really started after engines stopped firing, which (coincidentally?) is also the flight abort mode of this rocket. So, the apparent lack of control might have been a controlled abort.
New study examines ‘Achilles heel’ of cancer tumours
There are many potential right reasons. One wrong reason might be "I heard it from a Facebook group founded to spread the word that GMOs were created to make a pliable citizenry".
But why terminate? To trade almost certain explosion on launchpad for certain one? What does that buy?
It was not because uncensored content. It was bastly superior because there was a lack of comercialization. Before SEO, before targeted ads, an internet made by educacional institutions and people with hobbies.

Nowadays allow everybody to post anything and you will only see SPAM for the rest of you life, it will become impossible to see anything of value.
Considering it very likely is from 1999, (it is at least as old as around 2002-03 when I found out about it) it is unfair to say that it looks horrible compared to today's graphics.
Only if you don't understand the constraints on battery and battery supply chain. The reason Ford is not actually planning to build as many as people assume.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQuery#XQuery_and_XSLT_compare...
US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies
The hard part is understanding the difference between hustle and fraud. Sometimes, they can look the same from the outside.
> The same way I'd never want to go on a date to the cinema.

While I agree with you on this point, there’s a reason it’s half of the most cliche date night of all time (aka “dinner and a movie”), so readily dismissing that because our tastes defer from the norm seems misguided.
I almost want to inform you this is Wendy’s drive thru.

The patronizing tone here doesn’t help. Mark Zuckerberg was 20 when he started Facebook. Who do you think the puppeteer was in that situation or did Mark manage there, but Elizabeth couldn’t figure it all out?
>Blew my mind they would dare do that, but I've since learned this is common practice at all major chat apps.

I'm sure Discord will be no exception -though I can't think of any current examples that apply to it.

That makes me worry about the way that it's displacing/has displaced IRC.
I wonder how miniaturized and cheap something like this could be given full scale production. Would the spools always need to be that big or it more a feature of being 3d printed?
Facebook is not an outlier in this case: Reddit shadowbans affect DMs too.

Not sure why you brought the law up, as far as I know what FB is doing is 100% legal.
One of my comments in Reddit was changed by admins. It was something related with d...

Not directly related with my comment but this is a proof https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/23/reddit-huffman-trump/
Yes, I'm pretty sure we're all familiar with "Reflections on Trusting Trust"[1].

Security comes in layers, and with open systems, if you want to, and if you have the resources, you can audit and verify those layers depending on your level of paranoia and your potential adversaries.

You might throw your hands up in the air because security isn't assured and go all in on closed, black box systems, but there is value in open systems when it comes to security.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
You didn’t make a point in your reply.
For specific things that makes more sense but for the entire concept of open source hardware from someone on HN it's just wild to me.
Well, so how much latency would an MITM add? If it's small enough, then forget it, this won't do.
On HN, shadowbans are implemented via automatic flagging.
You may have missed it in your rush to downvote me.
I remember the IBM lawyers being anti Groklaw at the beginning, worrying about a third player muddying the waters.

But that attitude quickly changed as it became the go-to resource. As one internal lawyer said to me at the time "it's nice to be on the good side for a change!" (somewhat tongue in cheek, but the broad community support was, I would safely say, unlike anything they were used to!).

(I worked for the LTC at the time, but never had any direct involvement in the case).
There's a charming documentary about her directed by Errol Morris of all people.
The Northeast seems to be doing better than the rest of the country, but it's still not zero risk. The first major breakthrough outbreaks were in the Northeast, and we're definitely not 100% vaccinated up here. (There isn't even a vaccine that's approved for 100% of the population!)

Just looking out my window in Brooklyn, people in my neighborhood walk around outside with masks on. I gave that up a couple months ago, but I definitely feel like I'm on the losing side of that convention and people are probably judging me. (I still wear a mask indoors, of course, including in the common areas of my apartment building. The risk of transmission outdoors seems pretty low to me.)

I think it's very dangerous to point fingers and say "haha, that can't happen to us". In the early days of the pandemic, that's what people said about New York. And they were right for several months -- that first wave that hit New York hard barely registered across the country. But now, those people are getting hit.

COVID is spreading, and there is nothing stopping another variant -- perhaps one that doesn't care about vaccines at all, or one that kills kids. Now is not the time to glibly celebrate victory, or point the finger and laugh "look at how much worse those other states are than us". 600,000 Americans are dead from this pandemic, and the end is not in sight.
Only 42% of Del Norte voted to seceded from California though, so they're not quite as backwards as their neighbors where "State of Jefferson" referenda have passed.
If you asked me to pass on a letter then I tell you that I've done so, you'd be annoyed if you found out that I actually just threw it away. If I told you up front that I wasn't willing to pass it on then you could find someone else to do so, but the silent nature inhibits that.

Even without the silence, there's concern about the power and influence held by a few large social media companies with billions of conversations taking place through them. There's been some bipartisan interest in forcing them to either act more like a common carrier or be subject to the full responsibilities of a publisher.
Perhaps the ethical choice would be to continue giving the rewards, to serve as a bellwether for the financial regulators...
>Why does anyone use fb?

If you want to communicate or reach out to people, you go where the people are. Currently that's FB.

On a separate note, the problem with saying that the solution to bad speech is better speech is that it doesn't take crapflooding by bad actors into account. Your good speech is kinda worthless if it's drowned out by disinformation, lies or just plain non-sense.
That is more or less a completely indefensible position given the wide gamut that exists today.
I haven't yet seen a DSL that wasn't a big improvement over compiling the DSL to a bunch of boilerplate in my head and making everyone try to reread the boilerplate forever.
Bob Diamond, the ‘Tunnel King’ of Brooklyn, Dies at 61
Or solar-freaking-roadways.
Props to the GNC team.
Around 13:30? Was your take that they were misunderstanding him and cheering approvingly at the huge stupid lane-blocking SUVs with religious or patriotic stickers?

I had the opposite take. They got him and were cheering his rant.
Care to share what special things macOS is doing? Because according to Apple's documentation, it doesn't seem like they're doing anything special when it comes to heterogeneous multiprocessing and scheduling that Linux hasn't been doing for quite some time.
but http://tmfassociates.com/blog/2019/12/12/reality-and-hype-in... less so
Yes, it's like he dismisses Greenwald's essay out-of-hand without addressing any of its points /s
http://www.biyubi.com/eng_productos.html

Computerized Metal Detector:

> with him it is possible to discover booties of past times or relatively recent
This account reminds me of the same issue that Lockheed faced in the design of the SR-71 Blackbird.

They had to figure out the design of the 'spikes' and engine inlet systems that controlled inflow to the engines for the aircraft that still holds many speed records (Mach 3), to this day [1]. It was an enormous engineering challenge.

I think this work was all done in the 60's.

0 - https://internationalaviationhq.com/2020/08/29/ben-rich-fath...

1 - http://www.sr71.us/srrcd~1.htm
That was actually staged. They built the walls as a floating frame that could be moved around him. It wasn't until a decade later that we started seeing prototypes for roomscale treadmills like these:

https://youtu.be/dTAAsCNK7RA
We went on the tour maybe 10 years ago so my memory is a bit vague but I think the aisle was actually raised so you would have to step down into the seats. Could that be right?
That doesn't really narrow it down. Why, every time I've ever experienced was before 2022!
> After pressing Alt-X, show a list of recently used commands.

I would recommend people install/enable some of the nicer completion packages. Helm does this, for example. Personally, I wouldn't recommend helm, but I suspect all the "major" completion modes do this. Even ido/smex, I believe, does this, and it comes with Emacs (you still need to enable it, though).

Also, I suspect if you use Doom or Spacemacs this will be the default.

> When opening/saving a file and typing the path, automatically show the directory contents and hi-light entries that match the path. Show recently opened files and directories in bold. Scroll the listing with PGUP/PGDN/mouse-wheel. I often use emacs to open log files which contain long unique prefixes which are error-prone to type. Allow using the mouse & arrows keys to select the file.

I think all of this is configurable, but I'm also sure 95% of users don't want to spend too much time configuring. The default interface sucks - the problem is that there's no "improvement" that the majority likes, so the default remains a bit barebone. For example, I don't like some of your suggestions (although they are "objectively" OK). Likewise you wouldn't want it the way I have it.

> Auto-save and auto-format.

You could put a setting in your config file to enable this. Most people don't want it, though. Even in other editors.

> Allow using ENTER to add newlines to a search-replace command.

I believe this is configurable - I did something similar for a different input. But ... how do you propose someone then achieve the current effect of ENTER?

> Allow writing Emacs commands in popular languages like Python 3 or JavaScript. Include a tutorial for each supported language. The lisp bigots will be angry about this.

I would like this, but it's very challenging. I even switched to Leo Editor which was inspired by Emacs and is the closest thing you'll get to Emacs: An extremely configurable editor that you can script in Python - you can dynamically change the UI, etc. It's the equivalent of Emacs but for Python users. You may want to look into it. Unfortunately, despite being "mature", its documentation isn't the best, and it's hard to compete with all the Emacs packages out there. I gave up and decided to learn elisp - much easier than porting every Emacs feature I liked to Leo.

But Leo really has its strong points. The literate programming capabilities it is based on still haven't been replicated in Emacs - I've not found anything as good in that regard as Leo. I still occasionally fire up Leo when I find Emacs lacking.

> Create a public issue tracker for emacs

It occurred to me that anyone could create a Github project just for Emacs issues. It would be useful even if Emacs developers don't look at it. Currently people do it with StackExchange.
Well, he was sad and lonely, and dealt with severe depression. He took his life a few years after this speech.
I remember about 2005 looking at long-term trends in US wages, population, birth rates, suicide rates, national debt, climate change, inflation, and mortality causes. I determined the future was bleak. Some will survive and make it in the long-term, no doubt. The American empire is collapsing slowly, but it doesn't necessarily have to.
That would not prevent this.
> Mortality patterns from unintentional poisoning have been of particular interest, as there is evidence in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia that substance use has increased in 2020 compared with previous years, while availability and access to harm reduction programs, supervised consumption services, and in-person support services for substance use may have been disrupted during the pandemic. Deaths from accidental poisoning can include different circumstances such as individuals using substances recreationally along with those who mistakenly ingest too much prescription or over-the-counter medications.

Kind of understating things here. There's a toxic drug crisis in this country and it has killed thousands upon thousands in recent years. This was happening well before the pandemic.

Literally 5 people every day in British Columbia are dying due to overdoses, directly related from the fact that the drugs are poisoned, not what they appear, and it has become impossible to ascertain a correct dosage.

This should be an election issue (Canada is having an election issue atm) but sadly it won't be. BC's health officer, who everyone has listened to during this pandemic, has begged the Federal government (the Province and City of Vancouver also begging) to decriminalize drugs to help with this issue, but the Feds have done nothing.
Right, that would be a huge help, yet so many years and elected officials keep trying the same solutions of building full blown housing.
Big tech is out of control and drunk on their own power.

Freedom of speech, even obnoxious, obscene, wrong, or even evil speech, has always been a core American value.

Now, we have young people running these companies who think that they are wise enough to discern “good” from “bad” speech, and that they have a moral right, nay, a moral duty, to “protect” people from bad speech.

Censorship has NEVER ended well. Anywhere. Anytime. Censors ALWAYS have the best of intentions, and always believe that they alone know the truth and that merely being exposed to contradictory ideas is harmful. And they always end up tyrants.

I don’t care about anti-monopoly or section 230 or whatever. I’m asking my representatives to pass legislation that requires any company with a nontrivial user base or size (eg 1 million monthly users or 50 million annual revenue, pick your own numbers if you have better ones), to act as common carriers.

That is to say, that they may not adopt TOS/TOU or preferential behavior that discriminates for or against any lawful activity or creed, period.
> this is the macro playbook that we've seen time and time again over the last 20 years

What? American CEO in China are doing this kind of shit? Oh god, I have been in US for 12 years, so the American corporations have been plaguing the Chinese economy all the time?

No wonder indigenous Chinese companies eventually win. These American CEO are trash ...
I happened to look at San Quentin Covid rate for August. It was zero.
Correction: Under-65 excess mortality exceeds under-65 Covid-19 deaths.
Extended lockdowns were always QALY negative for populations under 60. The destruction from this panic will manifest over decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
I think about this a fair amount. NYC immediately comes to mind. As does Tokyo. I think the better move might actually be Auckland.

Lately I've been trying to think about what parts of the world might be able to go back to normal faster than others and investigating moving there until the pandemic is over.
I've got bad news for you about HackerNews then, HN has 'dead' users who can post but are only shown if you specifically opt-in and they can't be replied to at all.
Facebook is not a common carrier. You aren't having a private conversation on any of its properties. You're communicating with Facebook and they relay non-public messages to recipients.
It's a matter of google-fu.... what aspect of owning or using or selling a pickaxe do you really want to find? There are so many overloads on the term, you have to disambiguate it before anyone can help you find what you seek.

Try finding anything about how to properly add mark up a an existing page of hypertext, you'll never find the term, because HTML has overloaded it too many times, you have to eventually learn the magic synonym "annotation", and you can find it pretty easy.

If you were to use the word "adze" instead of pickaxe, you might have far better luck finding what you seek.
Sorry, but which programmable editor lets me read/send email, create TODOs that link both to a relevant email, and a line of code in another file, and let's me autocreate flash cards?
The article goes into detail on how much trial and error effort it goes into making such an exploit chain - approximately two months work each for two people. Even for other people who have the required skills, making such a time investment - with no certainty of succes or reward - is a big barrier. Perhaps the math works out differently for blackhats as the payoff is larger and perhaps more certain if they do get to a working exploit.
Do you not understand what private communication is and how it is different from Reddit?
I do think the initial question if phrased specifically around safety is an interesting one. This may be the optimist nerd in me but I believe that computers will eventually (if not already) be safer than humans when driving. I think it's too easy for us to become distracted and make mistakes, while a self driving car has 360 vision and can see through opaque objects. If one were to argue that a safety assist system should be capable of correcting all mistakes then I think the car is just basically self-driving at that point.

Apart from costs, I think removing the need for attention on the road and other drivers is a benefit for self driving cars, you can spend time engaging loved ones or whatever pleases you.