skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> HN would be a useless trove of violence and hate if all [dead] comments were automatically unhid.

I read with showdead=yes and it is nowhere near that description. In fact dead posts are not even that common on most articles. And most of the dead posts, while on average low quality, are very rarely hateful or anything like that.
Watch the Film – Take the Vax
> AOC is fairly against Amazon and was one of the loudest voices against Amazons HQ2 in NYC.

What relevance does this have? I’m saying that Amazon and other tech companies responded to a request for censorship of conservative voices emerging from liberal politicians. Carrying out their request as they come into power following an election is not somehow better because AOC blocked Amazon’s bid for NYC as their second headquarters.

> I’m not aware of BLM supporting any kind of property destruction or violent protests.

Then you’re either extremely unaware of current events, or lying. Obviously BLM organized events included a significant amount of rioting, death, and destruction. A simple google search will reveal billions in damage and at least double digit deaths. You mentioned you work for Amazon - then surely you are aware of the numerous businesses destroyed by BLM activists, the near daily illegal blockades of highways near you, and a literal attempt to declare a sovereign territory (CHAZ), assuming you work at their Seattle headquarters.

> The “one day riot” was an attack on America’s Congress.

No it wasn’t. It was just people protesting, then getting carried away, trespassing, and committing property damage. There was no great conspiracy to “attack congress” and the FBI’s investigation found there was no coordinated conspiracy to do anything more. This is also why almost all the charges from Jan 6 are for simple trespassing.

> nor do we support an attempt to overthrow America’s democracy because one group can’t handle losing an election

No one was attempting to overthrow America’s democracy. Show me your evidence. If your claiming that distrusting or challenging election results is wrong, then you need to find a justification for the Democrats formally doing so in 2000, 2004, and 2016.

> Btw… much of that was organized on Parler.

Since you’re still intent on spreading misinformation, I’ve gone ahead and pulled evidence to the contrary (https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/22/court-docs-show-faceboo...). If you seek out a diversity of information it is pretty easy to know Parler didn’t play a significant role in the Capitol riot.

> I find it ironic that you dismiss an all out attack on America’s Congress as a “one day riot”

An “all out attack” on Congress is the kind of hyperbole that enabled the politically motivated censorship of Parler by abusive companies like Amazon. If you think people protesting on a lawn is an “all out attack”, what phrasing do you reserve for an actual attack? And where was this fervor when Democratic politicians incited a riot at the Capitol during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing?

> I won’t engage with any further

You’ve literally shared no evidence for your false and hyperbolic claims and are now running away from the conversation. I can only guess it is because you know the facts aren’t on your side.
LTE and 5G sometimes operates pretty close to public safety, for example the 600 and 700 MHz (sometimes referred to as low-band LTE/5G although that's a bit confusing given low band is more often used to refer to low VHF and these are low UHF) are close to the 700MHz public safety bands. There's a similar issue around 900MHz.

And a lot of public safety radio these days is LTE - most cities operate an LTE network on one of the upper public safety bands, and they see extensive use by police and fire for MDTs. Voice is still more often over something like P25 but frequently adjacent to municipal LTE. So even a well-designed LTE/5G jammer might target these bands.

But in general jammers are not precise devices. 5G operates over many bands in a few significantly different parts of the radio spectrum. It's by far easier to emit broadband noise in the right general regions, but that will end up knocking out hundred-MHz wide swaths or more.
I have been dropping steel wool into the developer and letting it sit for a day or so. I had read about this in a few forums — I assume the iron reacts in some way with the developer to create a chemical less toxic.
The puzzle performed exactly as desired by giving your parents a few days off! They were the customer, not you haha!
Padding would accrue yuk from sweat, dead skin, wouldn't last, but maybe padding was disposable?
I'm assuming you're Australian. In the rest of the world, a tablespoon is 15ml.
I work for PaperlessPost.com, and for our Flyer product we export mp4s from ffmpeg compiled to WASM, which is similar to ffmpeg.js but optimized for our use case which sounds similar. We have this WebAssembly method working well but iOS 15 (and the other major browsers) now support MediaExporter which might be a better way to go if you have something else to convert these files. This becomes and issue because you can't control the format MediaRecorder is recording to but the management of memory, the image quality, the compression, the performance hit will be more ideal than these other methods. OMGgif is very slow and will produce large files or very bad looking ones. Keep in mind that GIFs limit the colors so something that looks nice on the screen might not look the same after it is saved. The other thing to look out for is the WebCodecs APIs which should be the ultimate way to handle all of this in the future but it is only working in Chrome I think https://github.com/w3c/webcodecs
To be fair I had the same fantasy. When I was 11.
Ask HN: To what extent does “shadow suppression” occur on social media?
In another thread [0] I commented on the moderation practice of Shadowbanning. But I wonder to what extent there are even more insidious methods, which I coined "shadow suppression"?

Say, if instead of an all-out shadow ban a moderator (or automated scripts, for that matter) would tweak some algorithmic parameters that instruct the platform AI to limit someone's freedom of speech in very specific ways.

Just like a person based on their PII and content can be accurately targeted by ads, they can be accurately singled out and subtly limited in the amount of influence they can have on the platform.

Unlike a shadow ban this may never be noticed. A person's non-controversial opinion may pass through, while their political statements are directed to a small echo chamber of other people. They will never reach the audience they are intended for.

The possibilities for shadow suppression are limitless. Without algorithmic transparency how do we even know how far such practices are applied?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28343848
Well, lots of phones do use the same sensor as the pixels: https://www.kimovil.com/en/list-smartphones-by-lens-model/so...

I've never used a Pixel but the results I get from GCam on my F1 are amazing. Miles ahead of the stock camera app.
F* (f star) too!
https://www.fstar-lang.org/

Maybe also ATS, but I'm unsure if it qualifies
Elizabeth Holmes: from Silicon Valley’s female icon to disgraced CEO on trial
The currently popular idea of "setting precedent" is overrated, misused and an argument, and shouldn't be taken as "it will definitely happen all the time soon".

The Japanese "set precedent" by bombing Pearl Harbour. How many seaports of the US have been bombed by a foreign power since then?

The US dropped two nukes on Japan. Did it "set precedent" for nations to nuke each other willy-nilly in wars since then?
From what I can tell in this case and at least a few of the other projects that I’ve seen using CC licenses for code, the CC-NC and CC-NC-ND licensing forbidding commercial exploitation and sharing of derivatives respectively are advantageous things in the eyes of many projects.

I’ve long wanted non-cc licenses that have these features. Sometimes you want to “show but not share”.
> Space Nerds In Space was designed with hackerspaces in mind -- where else are you going to find enough people to run a linux-based multi-player LAN game spaceship simulator for Star Trek nerds but a hackerspace?

Doesn't sound like it targets users who expect one-click installs.
> It's even been a somewhat popular topic recently.

Which is a great reason to start judging the claim a bit more skeptically than normal. Once the press latch on to a theme, they can be incredibly quick to make it an epidemic at the expense of due diligence.
Text widget with read more or expand feature – Flutter
>"It is also important to direct your effort in a fruitful direction rather than a fruitless one"

This is actually the most critical sentence in the entire article.

I read an article somewhere, maybe 25 or 30 years ago, that was about this exact topic.

Some successful scientist, I don't even remember his name now, was asked about his success.

He said that others worked just as hard and diligently. But his skill was in selecting the projects that had a high degree of probability of success. He would watch others in his profession and see how they made horrible choices in the selection of their work. The unsuccessful people made a series of unwise choices. Tilting at windmills that had exceptionally poor chance of success, areas where there was no funding available or very difficult to get funding, and all sorts of other problems.

The same thing is true with everything. For example, lots of people start businesses that are shitty selection right off the bat - they have almost zero chance of success before they even begin. All teh perfect execution and hard work will be for naught. The founder has blinders on.

You always hear about the successes. People always say false things like, the idea is 1%, execution is 99% of it. Not true. It's more like, the idea is worth 99%, and the execution is the other 99% of success. Trust me, I've seen a LOT of great execution on shit ideas and the company goes down the drain. You just never hear of them. And by the way, this is in regards to ideas that are actually have a corporation started around them, as opposed to just aimlessly talking about ideas.

Anyways, take what you will from what I just wrote.
The resulting UI widgets actually feel really accessible and easy to use.

Also I love that it's an extension of XP.css, which is an extension of 98.css.
What screenshot are you looking at? Because there are no red exclamations in the image on the linked tweet
America's eccentric localism: there's no Federal Inspectorate Of Police to come in from out of town and do the prosecution. Within the local power structure the abuse of power is propped up because it supports power.
I’m saying none of those causes is censorship, Facebook has no obligation to send your private messages to anyone, and I was glib enough in saying so to include my own personal squick about patterns of holes in things to emphasize the point.

If Facebook doesn’t want to send my message to you, that’s their choice. It’s not my right to send messages through Facebook and expect them to be delivered to you. Even if they contain horrific circles in a pattern that makes me squirm just describing them.
Checks and balances don't work when the entire system is for the injustice. This isn't an issue with the system, but it's an issue with the people and how they feel police should be used against marginalized groups. Even when caught, every step of the system works to shield police from any form of accountability.
Indeed, my mistake. Then I don't understand why they need to modify dns records.
I can't speak to the intentions of the person operating the jammer - if a person were using a jammer believing it to be prophylactic of the effects of radiation by 5G radios it may not be useful to ask what frequencies they were trying to jam.

Anyways, the excerpts from DDG results for the BG-E8 5G list its jamming spectrum as 870MHz to 5850MHz. And for probably 98+% of users that will cover the frequencies in use where they live. The "high band" frequencies (25-100GHz) have a much shorter range, very low penetrating power (essentially you need to have line of sight to the antenna), and really only make sense in very high density areas like stadiums and maybe urban cores.
I got into medium format a few years ago — picked up a Mamiya, Yashica, a few others off eBay (probably like my Bronica the best).

Developed B&W film first (no prints, I scan using a flatbed scanner). After watching a few YouTube videos, went ahead and developer a few rolls of color film. It went fine — although there are rather strict temperatures you have to maintain.

I am still smitten by the B&W photos and a few candid portraits I managed of friends and family. I may stick with B&W.

Since I am mainly photographing friends and family I suppose I am not self-conscious. To be sure though I think when I am out in public there is a curiosity about the camera. Not in a bad way.

I have heard others say that the twin-reflex (like your Yashica) are in some ways more discreet than a smart phone since you generally shoot from the waist...
I'm curious what you believe makes it unsustainable. Could you expand a bit?
Taiwan has semiconductors and is an actual ally against China. Afghanistan was a politically toxic occupation without a purpose. If China thinks America looks at Taiwan the same as Afghanistan they've got another thing coming.

Granted strategic incompetence seems to be the flavor of the moment, so who knows?
Clean water (and food) is never a problem of quantity but of logistics.
nice little project :)

on a tangent I was playing with https://github.com/piccolomo/plotext for a bit (especially on a data analysis server connected over ssh it's quite useful, if you don't have the bandwidth to start a jupyter notebook).
I'm not sure how you read that as them asking for a literal algorithm (never mind a perfect one). They're talking to the courts, and they literally used the phrase "analytical framework." They're clearly asking for defined standards - who has the right to make such requests, what evidence do they need to provide, what actions can the court take in response, and how certain do they need to be in order to do so, etc. All basic ways the court does things, they're just asking for a set standard rather upfront rather than letting an organic hodgepodge form and then eventually congeal.
Thank you, I stand corrected. It seems 5G is all over the spectrum according to the FCC[0]. Not quite sure why I thought it was limited to sub 6GHz for some reason.

[O]: https://www.fcc.gov/5G
That particular incident was debunked, why MJ is illegal is a whole another story. The following incident here:

https://youtu.be/FChlMRFEZWQ?t=180

shows cops planting MJ after searching the car when they don't find anything. And as always, the internal affairs division finds no evidence of wrongdoing and the officers are still on patrol.
> Here's a specific sequence of 21 shell commands

Almost all of those are just "apt install" and could be easily done with no command line.

Then there is "run this command or get this zip".

Then you run the only mandatory command, "make".

> that may or may not work

It will work fine on ubuntu but the dependencies might have different names elsewhere.

It's not great, but at the same time it's better than "Oh this only works on windows X."

> and is certainly incomplete, and you have to modify some of the source of course, we don't say how but don't worry it is really easy, oh and it won't work on these systems, just hack it until it works.

I don't see any of this?
> Yes you do.

No, I don’t. I’m not making the claim. Look, still not making a claim! Still not making an argument. It’s up to “Facebook is censoring me” to make the case that warrants a defense. And I’m not Facebook so I don’t have do defend that. I can just… have this conversation without censorship. And if I get moderated here in a way I hope I won’t be but don’t expect… I can go to my blog or Twitter or whatever.
> We know that the body + mind has nutritional requirements. If those are not met the body + mind will ccontinue to pursue those requirements. That is "empty calories" have a cost associated with them.

While this is likely true, it is not a well defined theory at the moment, it is handwavy speculation. It especially doesn't explain why this started happening in the 1980s - empty calories and deserts existed in plentiful quantities for at least a hundred years before that, with approximately 0 obesity relatively speaking.

It also doesn't explain other patterns of obesity that we see today. Particularly, that obesity prevalence tends to decrease with altitude, that it varies by profession, and that it varies by country despite wealth (e.g. Japan is one of the richest but also least obese countries in the world).

> We know that epigenetics is a thing, and that what you consume has impact, in some cases on future generations.

Again, we know this in a handwavy sense, not in a quantifiable sense.

> Obesity is a relatively new First World Problem. The idea that there's been some mass change in DNA just isn't reasonable compared to the obvious (too many calories vs not enough exercise). Oprah lied.

It's not a First World Problem, it's a problem even in extremely poor countries. And yes, genetic causes are not in any way likely - not sure who is claiming that.

My money is on environmental causes, some contaminant that we're not aware of at the moment, either in food or in something else.

One interesting candidate is lithium, which is known to produce weight gain in therapeutic doses (it is a common psychiatric medication), and is known to be present in small doses as a contaminant in drinking water. Lithium mining became widespread sometime around the 1980s, so the time-line is possible.

If you're curious to delve deeper into why common ideas about the obesity epidemic are wrong, here is a very interesting series of blog posts:
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/08/02/a-chemical-hunger-p...
Although finding the specific partitions might be tricker, existence is easy, this is the classic change making problem. Expand prod_i 1/(1-x^p_i) and check if you have terms = total value. Should tell you the number of possible partitions right away.
You're talking about this incident here:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/west-virginia-cop-fired...
Unflavored yoghurt has 5g of sugar (size of a sugar cube), and I’ve often seen up to 12g… (2 cubes and a half!) still branded as unflavored. It’s a crime we’re doing here, there is no place where we can get unsweetened matter.
This post seems to literally be propaganda.
> I could disable each and every crap that came in the stock android which isn't possible in any custom ROM.

How would you disable something in a stock ROM that you can't in a custom ROM? Or by "custom ROM" do you mean vendor-customized stock?
I want you to imagine for a second that someone makes the claim that blocking links for COVID misinformation is setting a precedent. An obvious follow up in order to have a constructive discussion is to establish where the line is, ie whether the debate is a) whether blocking of any kind or b) what content warrants blocking. This is specifically relevant to Facebook since Whatsapp has been used in the past to coordinate/incite violence and genocide.

So maybe stop and think for one second before commenting?
My kids have a super cheap battery driven disco ball thingy that completely obliterates WiFi and cellular when it’s on. Amazing what 1.5v and an unshielded motor can do! Took me a long time to work out what was going on. When we worked out the correlation it was super easy to test though. And yeah, turning on that little disco globe just killed the WiFi.
From HN. Read the comments from HN folks to get insight into new tech.
not just in the auto industry. In many companies max retention of most documents is 5 years. emails less than that by default. Chats less than 30 days is also in place in some companies. CYA tactics everywhere.
So, one of my neighbors is a car enthusiast. Can you imagine me walking into his garage, looking at the car he's working on and starting to whine about why I'd need all his tools and special machines in order to get the same car? Who in his right mind wouldn't want to just sit in the car and turn the key?!

That is why it isn't the year of the custom car yet. That person is clearly a part of the problem!
> Infinite Jest is the best novel by an American since Ernest Hemingway

This remark is painfully cringe-inducing, and I can only think you haven't read very much at all. And if you think you have, then I can most assuredly say you haven't.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not?

$50 is a lot of money to replace a worn-down springy thing, and if you replace it promptly that could easily be $200 a year on joycons.
Every publication that has ever had any editorial control over its platform has exercised it. It’s entitled as hell to think you can use other people’s resources to publish your own thoughts unconstrained.
For those interested, there is a trick to this. You successively add the first several items until the amount first exceeds 43.94. This occurs after summing up the first twelve items, with the sum being 46.81. The items are over the limit by 2.87.

You wish to decrease your spending by $2.87, so you check if there are any items you have not chosen that cost exactly $2.87 less than an item you have chosen. A smart fifth-grader would quickly find that the car ($5.18) can be replaced by Jacks ($2.31). This concludes the problem-solving process.

This question was intended for fourth- and fifth-graders (https://www.insidemathematics.org/sites/default/files/materi...). Put yourself in the shoe of a smart fifth-grader who knows nothing about NP-completeness or knapsack problems. This problem is given to you, and you know it as solvable. This problem would look intimidating, but a good student would look for patterns, and the best way to start looking would be to sum the first few items (who knows, maybe the first items would sum up to exactly $43.94). After summing up to 46.81, a good student would "naturally" stop adding new items and ask himself "what can be done now?" All that he needs is now a mental "click".

Essentially, this problem tests students' intuition. It tests whether students can remain unintimidated in the face of difficult-looking questions. They need to start adding, and they need to have that one insight of replacing one of the items. Insights like these are extremely common and rewarding for young math learners.

I won't be surprised if many fifth-graders can solve the problem in five minutes.
...only much smaller. You can't make a watch out of M5, you can only make a clock.
With Assam silk and trees, Indians fight climate change and trafficking
No doubt high level (ex)politicians are very privileged and operate above most limitations imposed on regular people. But that's moving the goalposts of the discussion pretty far indeed.

The original premise was that the entire "55% [of homeowners] wield extremely disproportionate political power". Sure, a few of those homeowners are also politicians with disproportionate political power. But nearly everyone is just regular people with one vote and no other influence, whether homeowner or renter.
> Imagine if we could specify JavaScript or TypeScript in the script tag for today’s browsers?

JavaScript really should follow Python’s lead here and allow but ignore type annotations. I believe TC39 already reserved the lexical space for it.
She's not quite a master manipulator, just a liar. Those who were duped were fools. The amount of money and contracts signed without due diligence are a function of some serious problems on the other side.
I mean, I remember even years ago you could buy a GSM/3G jammer from dealexpress and the like for about $50. I assumed it's the staple of any car thief to kill the tracking signals(although "proper" trackers use rather difficult to jam VHF not GSM)