skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This appears to be the slippery slope of freedom of speech we spoke about when people on Twitter were clapping when various people got banned. Enjoy the bed you made for yourselves.

> Individually, you can take steps to own your content, like I've done here by publishing my own blog on my own domain and a publicly accessible RSS feed.

If you have something to say - anything at all - then please setup alternative ways to say it. The number of things being censored is only increasing, we are yet to see any relaxation in free speech. Something you say jokingly today is almost guaranteed to get you banned in 10 years time when political feelings change and context is removed.

> Yet in the end it doesn't matter, because RSS readership is very low nowadays compared to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. You can try to be decentralized, but if your decentralized content isn't linked on the big centralized networks, it might as well not exist.

This is very true. I think we need to do more to make RSS accessible to the average person (read: non-tech people). Obviously big-social media giants are diametrically opposed to this idea, as RSS is somewhat decentralized and they make their money by being a centralized platform.

For a while now I have been thinking about an RSS-based social media platform with opt-in personalized censorship... The idea being to re-use existing (and well supported) technologies, rather than re-design everything. One thing I can't really think of how to handle elegantly is comments/replies between multiple platforms - every solution I can think of involves inventing something new. If anybody has ideas on this I would definitely be interested to hear them.
My Indy mechanic is very good and very fast. Although it’s a little pricey. When I pulled in to get a new tire, he had 12 people change out all the tires. The good news is, they took less than 7.7 seconds. The bad news is, they charged me $14,000 and I still lost the race.
Well if you're using VPN for well "shady stuff" (e.g. torrenting), I don't suppose a VPS with your Full name, credit card, and billing address is specially helpful.

But except that deploying Wireguard* on a VPS for bypassing censorship/georestrictions is quite nice and cheaper compared to many paid ones.

* Tailscale and Zerotier aren't really needed if you want to route all your traffic thru a single machine, wireguard itself does exactly this.
Sounds like it was named after Chuck Norris
Finally! I can't wait to try this on one of my many DOS servers.
There's also a question of just how fragile they truly were.

Sure the pandemic messed them up, but that was really a once in a generation at most event. If thats what it took to sink your businessz I wouldn't call it very fragile.

I also think they and their creditors made poor decisions.

Selling your only operating assets in order to balance the books is a suicidal move no matter the industry. It's selling off your only way of making money. It's like a software engineer selling their workstation when times are tough.
Here as in "here, in this comment thread". If you want to argue that it is a good idea for Twitter to censor jokes in the public square then go ahead. But that argument just is not sustainable. The future will have jokes in it, no matter how humourless Twitter tries to be.
I don't understand, there's no pretending -- On Twitter, you are effectively talking to the whole world. Anyone in the world can click on your tweets and see what you're saying. If you want to have a broad reach, then minimizing the use of complicated words and language can absolutely help. That doesn't mean you can't discuss complex things, it just means being more deliberate in the way it's discussed.
wow who cares about what they chose to talk about lol

isn't the entire service compromised? who cares about this microcosm of drama, why would the ceo even engage with these losers as opposed to say... Congress?
Prior to Slack, constant complaining would happen at the Caffè Macs, after hours, in the halls, between people in the same or adjacent teams.

Now teams are less siloed.
When I visited Barcelona, I was struck by their intersection design. It's great.

Instead of squares, their streets intersect in diamonds, where the (largely one-way) streets come out of the corners. They're a bit larger than a square intersection-- it's like you took the square, and then filled in four right triangles at each of the corners.

The main effect is that crosswalks are significantly pushed back from the intersection center. As a pedestrian, there's far less ambiguity about where the cars are going (regardless of whether they use their signal). Same for drivers: you never have to wonder which way a pedestrian is gong to cross when they're standing at a corner where two crosswalks meet, because there are no such corners.

Of course, this also makes intersections much bigger. This is offset by having parking spaces along the edges of intersections.
At work we built a customer dashboard using Yew (another Rust frontend framework) and absolutely love it. We share API models as a crate between frontend and backend (also Rust) and the same developers work on both. Definitely would never look back, unless larger browser support was a concern. (In our B2B SaaS it hasn't been an issue at all.)
Think sausages or Percy Pigs [1] would be more likely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Pig
Malthus had laughably simple mathematical models (strict geometric growth, strict additive food growth IIRC) but the fact that we are staring a worldwide climate crisis and species extinction problem as we race towards 8 billion people and a very uncertain future seems to validate Malthus more than anything.

The 20th century was a century of abundant utilization of resources. Unless space mining takes off, I don't think people in the know consider the 21st century in a similar light.

The exploitation curves of oil fields are basically similar to many other things: mines, agriculture, etc. We have resources that are easy to get to and use, and others that are progressively less economical/productive.

In oil, we're entering the age of tar sands and fracking to keep things afloat until the switchover to EVs happens. EROEI on those things is far worse than the early 1900s where you could stick a pipe into a ground, dig ten feet down and light sweet crude oil would explode out.

Technology keeps bailing us out, but one could view technology the same way: a great deal of simple technology has been pruned from the tech tree. Now we're on 3nm semiconductors, nanostructures, microbiology. Which are all amazing, but those are of increasing complication and increasing cost to bring to market.

So almost all resources are "developed" from more difficult to exploit sources now.

I think his point is that we have unchecked growth and just one planet currently.
It's only been 340-ish years since we started on the electricity tech tree in any rigorous sense. That's 16 or 17 moms ago, at most. If you had a durable, stable culture 200,000 years ago and dropped a series of carefully selected experiments in their laps, they'd have been able to create with electricity with as much brain power as we have today.

Still, we had thousands of years of cultural experiments to survive to eventually arrive at a confluence of social structures that allowed for us to explore science and rational natural philosophies.

From the Greek mathematics and Sumerian city states to Roman empire building and onward, we carry pieces of those things that perform best at giving us life less full of struggle and suffering.

A smartphone, seen from Kurzweil's view of human progress as a function of structured information, you get a sense of being present for something vast and terrifying and beautiful. Stacked amateurs all the way back to the brave little rodents thriving after the dinosaurs died.
I use a kindle and have never legitimately read more than 2 books at once (even that’s rare).
Alternative view; a car that is in decent shape from a first owner, especially if that person put on mostly highway miles and had the first 50+k miles of maintenance paid for is definitely not a lemon.

Anecdotally: bought a 2004 bmw from the original owner with 123k miles in 6 years. 7 years later. 185k miles, original clutch. (I'm also a mostly highway miles driver, but this also includes track days)
C is easy. I learned it as a teenager just reading the K&R book and playing around with a compiler. I had no aces to the internet, no stack overflow etc. Lots of fun.
The employee is deaf. He needs an interpreter to understand the customer's speech. He does not need the interpreter to respond to that speech. He would be performing his job. Your drywall analogy is insulting.
And it is, compared to a building with walls you can’t see at all.
> The imperial system is a system good for humans

Meh. It's good for humans that already know it. I find measuring length in centimeters awkward as an American, however, plenty of people all over the world can do it just fine as naturally as I can with inches.

Temperature is another great example.

The important thing is what you were taught as a child and learned to interpret the world with. The only reason this continues to be an issue, is that it is painful for the current generation to adapt to the new standards, causing a self-fulfilling prophecy of not moving because you don't want to alienate the society around you.

IMO, we should transition things in daily home life to metric as quickly as possible, but where the table stakes are low. Food is actually a great area to start with, because you don't care what the number on the package is. Eventually, you'll buy that thing over and over again and build those neural pathways and associations.

Here's an example: do you know how big a 2L bottle of soda is? How about a 1L bottle? Most likely, you've seen these in the world before, probably a lot. If we do that for everything else, in a few years, everyone will have a much better handle on things. Older people might still use an internal conversion back to imperial units, but now we are no longer holding back new generations from adopting these concepts natively.

Once food is sold in metric, recipes will be adapted to match those conversions (if they aren't already for an international audience) and the world will move on.
Absolutely is. I think I remember reading the theory it was to do with MS naming it such that Windows came first, and Linux last, regardless how confusing.
A network effect won't protect them when they eventually screw up and start banning their own star content creators. If they haven't already. Their power of moderation can only be exercised if thought leaders agrees they are good moderators.

Network effects aren't magic. If an opinion is banned on Twitter then the network that supports it will have to form somewhere else.
As a privacy tool, it's a legitimate qualm. As a company security thing, it's close to exactly what you want. In particular, you very much want as much of this stuff as possible linked to your Okta or GSuite account. Not just Tailscale; everything. It's why sso.tax is such a big deal.
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That's very cool! I'll be reading your blog for the next few days; I very much like your view of innovation and liberty. I've only had a quick scan so far, but it seems absolutely dripping of the fun proteases we love to mouth-pipette.

If I may ask, how did you get started? What would your advice be for the motivated amateur? I started in a microbiology degree, transitioned to math, and now I'm about to graduate with my compsci. It's always seemed that there are much deeper connections than was revealed during my courses.

I once told my biology professor that my dream was to innovate in lab technologies. He told me, point-blank, to squash that; the field is oversaturated and we've got as good as we're likely to have for a few decades, so he said.

Do you agree? If not, what do you think are the most glaring market inefficiencies?
With nearly all websites running https now, is it safe enough to surf without vpn these days.

Adding dns-over-https so your ISP can not collect where you're going.

As far as google etc collecting your info, it will work the same as long as you're using their service, with/without VPN.

I do use VPN(tailscale) for work so I can access corporate internal network, but for general surfing purpose, do I really need vpn these days.
I regularly find myself saying "the only thing worse than metrics is not having metrics."
Related, here's a surprisingly balanced comparison of Nebula and Tailscale, on tailscale.com: https://tailscale.com/kb/1148/tailscale-vs-nebula/.

> If you’re a system administrator or technical person looking for a completely open source, free peer-to-peer mesh VPN, and you’re willing to run a certificate authority and the control plane yourself, try out Nebula.

> If you’re looking for a polished, user-friendly peer-to-peer mesh VPN with a hosted control plane and integration with existing identity providers, give Tailscale a try.
Completely disagree. The best way to learn programming is hands on. I taught myself assembler programming, Pascal, C, C++ etc. as a teenager by simply reading a book and trying out things on a computer. If I can do it anybody can.
i think your math is off.
1% of the stock (assuming that's fully diluted at IPO) would be worth $60M ;-)
What it should prove? Where exactly should I look?

Well, it's kind of obvious, that Georgia is poverty-stricken country. It's possible to visit Georgia for anyone. Millions of tourists from Russia visits Georgia every year. We can see that there's extreme poverty in Georgia everywhere. Unemployment, energy shortage, lack of future perspectives. These problems will get only worse due to COVID-19 and global energy crisis (Georgia doesn't possess significant fossil fuels deposits, it has to import everything from abroad).
My whole post was being sarcastic. None of those groups are responsible for the vast majority of demand in this country, it is people who have been living here their whole lives like myself who are priced out simply because there isn't supply for them. The population has grown but the housing has not. And we're doing nothing to meet that demand with additional supply, just slightly cutting down the demand, which doesn't do anything to address the underlying problem.
Thanks for responding and especially thanks for the search engine. What a breath of fresh air, and access, it feels like, to real people.
Is that an Apple-specific Covid response? Teams have been more, not less, siloed at the job I've had since Covid started. People bold enough to complain in big mega-channels hasn't happened (similar to how few people would complain in all hands the same way they'd complain at lunch).
I try and use my words very precisely, so I will state this.

As far as I can tell, the data shows that the Covid vaccines, on an individual level, do seem to dramatically minimize symptoms. As far as science can tell, the vaccines usually turn a severe Covid outcome (which is still very rare if you're not geriatric, fat, or otherwise unhealthy) into something far less severe. We're basically in agreement with that, right?

Let's stop there for a second and analyze the current social situation up to here.

At least 50% of people in the US are fully vaccinated. And more people have at least 1 injection and at least some protection from symptoms. And many more have natural immunity from past cases too. If the vaccines were having the exact social effect we expected, it would be reasonable to assume that cases and deaths would be falling in light of increased vaccination. Cases and deaths are not falling though, right? So what gives? Something doesn't add up with the vaccines' overall impact. If there's a reasonable theory why this is, please explain.

This isn't just an issue with stubborn Americans. I believe that no democracy has been more aggressive about vaccinations than Israel, and they're having significant problems right now too. If the vaccines will work on a societal level as intended, what gives?

There's more than one theory here, but I'd suggest that the properties of the vaccines (minimizing symptoms) makes it so that vaccinated people don't quickly realize that they're sick and go about their business normally and some can act as unwitting super-spreaders. This wouldn't happen as readily with unvaccinated people who feel that they're sick and would be more likely to stay at home. Ironically, the mass vaccinations may be driving the spread.

Another scarier theory is that these leaky vaccines are creating a Marek's Disease type of situation in humans where the vaccinated are creating the mutations that are killing the unvaccinated.

Another possibility is of course that mutations are being driven by the unvaccinated. (it's a possibility worth mentioning, but I'd discount it as unlikely given how viruses tend to mutate towards being less lethal in order to spread more)

Am I trying to have a discussion in good faith or not? I think I am and am bringing up some reasonable points. Just my $0.02.
> I believe children ages 13-17 are able to use twitter.

Based on all research available so far Social networks make the life of teenagers worse. So your belief is not supported by anything.
Are you comfortable with the CCP also being a cofounder?
This project is retarded and awesome all at once.
This is what frustrates the debates because literally there are no shared definitions.
I agree. I taught myself C as a teenager and easily moved up to C++. Yes C++ is a kitchen sink language. But that is a GOOD thing. You can pick and choose the parts you need to get the job done. No limits.
To which you can add the evil leaders that take pride and benefits from what the devs do but keep them "hidden".
“Panacea” <— your strawman

I noticed a lot of your replies are similar in talking down to people. Weird!
- looks dont matter, but being presentable helps

- are you even capable of having and keeping friends, that's the baseline. not only of the same sex but also opposite sex. maybe you're putting them on pedestal, or not really valuing them, instead of treating them like humans.

- ask yourself if you're really putting effort in building relationships, or just trying to extract something out of it. are you getting to know them on a personal level? their interests and disinterests? are you chill and fun to be around, or tensed and stuck-up? are you consistent?

- fundamentals: are you observing proper hygiene? exercising or physically active regularly? getting enough sunlight? eating enough meats and veggies? are you consistently exploring the breadth and depth of things around your life?

- this post is cool, you're asking for ideas and feedback. as long as you're proactively taking action, continuously reflecting, and minimizing the times you're self-pitying, eventually you'll figure it out. would take months or years sure, but you'll get there.
That's very .. relative. Yes, I'm sure it's a better fit for compiled Quake, or a Dos emulator.

Are there any examples beating "HTML, CSS, and targeted JS" on typical webpage usecases? 500 kB fits a lot HTML, CSS and JS, uncompressed.
I was assuming a 10x dilution since they took $845M in funding. :)
They learnt from the best Maoist practices!
> Canada will try absolutely anything to lower the price of housing

This is absolutely not true. Canadian policymakers are willing to do almost nothing that could reduce housing prices– instead they try to induce prospective buyers to take on even more debt under the guise of "making housing affordable". Just look at every major party's housing platform in the current election– besides some very hand-wavy notions of bringing on more supply, and the LPC's plan to eliminate blind bidding, the "solutions" are almost universally focused on further stoking demand
In general, no. This is a good rundown, imo: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29/
Please invest in a gun rack. Leaning your shotgun behind the door is an abysmal safety practice.
I think the downvoting is because you mentioned "welfare state", and people demand more welfare hate you to say that. But thankfully downvoting is limited now.
That is sad, thanks for finding
Just from my own experiences on the net as a teen where jokes about self-harm and suicide were extremely common -- One of those reasons could be because social media is not doing enough to protect children from this type of toxic content. Obviously the deleted tweet here is on the "could be harmless" end of the spectrum of that though.
Nope, I’m considering that mRNA technology has been researched for longer than I’ve been alive and so have coronaviridae. I’m also aware that the standard approaches to verify safety and efficacy have been used and safety was never a concern.
20% of most populations have an IQ below 83. It is pretty much impossible for anybody with an IQ of 83 or lower to do a job. So it is OK for those people to starve to death?
Centralised management and simple NAT/firewall traversal, basically.
~400K Americans die of preventable medical errors every year. No hysteria. No pandemic. Not even news coverage.
Our population grew by 0.58% during the pandemic.

The media does its very best to blow everything out of proportion for ratings. COVID is no exception. What a win for big pharma. 640,000,000 doses of a drug they can't be sued for. It's absolutely fantastic for them.

Now look at who they bribe.

It's been an incredibly good couple of years for our oligarchy.
Fully agree with this.

The more personal a problem is.. the more common it is, lol.
Bud there’s been a global pandemic on, there hasn’t been a lot of work socialization. It’s going to take a while for work socialization to approach it’s old levels, and things are going to look different when we really do reach the new normal.

And you should consider yourself goddamn lucky to work at a place that puts a value on work life balance. Come back and read this in ten years when you have a family and you’ll probably cringe.
Unfortunately I cannot find any right now :|
Okay so if that is the pure libertarian position here, what does "it's a bad idea" mean exactly?

The pure libertarian definition of that is that it is detrimental to twitter. I'm wondering how that is.
No, it applies to the claim that you are authorized to act on an exclusive right that has been allegedly infringed. If the claim of infringement is so laughable that it cannot be or is not being alleged in good faith - as opposed to a good-faith but legally incorrect allegation of infringement - then there is no exclusive right allegedly being infringed, and the claim of authority is false.

I am pretty sure that the claimant didn't really believe he was violating his rights.

Though I guess one could argue that a bad-faith allegation of infringement still truly and honestly counts as an allegation of infringement, so maybe it's not so straightforward as perjury...