skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this line of reasoning, but then we have to ask the question: are platforms obligated to host all speech that is not illegal (in whatever jurisdiction they reside in)? Should they be obligated? If I as a private citizen decide to create a platform to host discourse, do I have the freedom to decide what is permitted there?

If the answers to the followup questions are "yes", then we arrive to the status quo, where most of the big platforms heavily censor the content. This means that if you want to say something that'd be censored, you have the right to do so, but you don't have the means. I suppose you can walk out into the street and say to the people there, but there's a certain lack of reach in that approach :)

So there's also a practical aspect, where you may have full freedom of speech by law, and yet in reality you have no freedom because nobody will give you the possibility to actually communicate what you want to say. You may try to build your own platform, but then you run into second order problems where you'll find that no service provider will want to host your servers.

At one point, you may hit a barrier where you have no monetary means to build all the infrastructure necessary to be able to provide a truly free speech shelter.
> Do people combine REST & MQTT?

I'm not a REST+MQTT expert, but some people do combine them, why not?

One of the project I was working on (IoT, smart home), the mobile app received the current status from the REST API, then subscribed to changes via MQTT. Having MQTT was great for live updates on the mobile app, and for communicating with the IoT devices. HTTP was great for integrations with Google Home, Alexa, and we could test it easily as there are many backend frameworks focusing on CRUD REST HTTP backend apps.

Of course, if you actually have a problem you want to solve, be sure the to do your own research, there are more than one way to skin a cat, and there are so many services and platforms that could be "good enough" for your use case.
Intent. If your speech is intended to compel someone (compulsion != persuasion), then it's a threat. Of course, accurately assessing intent is difficult because threats are often implied rather than explicit (precisely because the one issuing the threat wants to avoid the consequences of issuing a threat).
So... Youtube is now a publisher, not a platform?
Well I am glad you are around :)
As a French, this whole idea of references in the US blows my mind.

How can you get a good reference from the employer you just left? There is this surrealist idea of work ethics where the employer would say that John was great and we don't mind he left us in the middle of a project.

I was asked once by a US company for references, gave a few good friends who said that I was the next Elon Musk combined with Einstein, and probably Peace Nobel Prize winner. And that I had this terrible flaw of working my ass off for my company. I passed with flying colors

I am glad that with everything wrong we have on France, at least we do not go through this madness.
Censorship is government action.

Private companies that allow you to reach millions of people are offering you the ability to use their service. It's not censorship when they don't allow you to use their service (and until today, they haven't stopped much), it's terms of service.

If I invite you to my house and you eat my dog's food, I have the right to tell you to leave. The movement wouldn't be what it is today without YT, so this censorship stuff is too much.
Percentages turn into multiple X-es over time, as they build on each other. The compiler has gotten multiple X-es faster than it was at 1.0, via repeated and persistent work on those small percentage patches.
But if they had paid him to create completely new art, it wouldn't have been an authentic performance of "Take the money and run", but a mere simulacrum. The breach of contract is the artwork.
There is friendlyarm nanopi R2S and R4S or orangepi r1 plus (which looks like a copy of the R2S).
“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.”

- Steve Jobs/Picasso/Stravinsky/Eliot
I also find the censorship to be deeply disturbing, but for me that's counterbalanced by the fact that the arguments against vaccination are so dumb. The best argument is basically, "It's not researched enough and it might kill you." But so what, doing things that might kill you on the basis of limited data is like a basic part of being an adult.
> The history of vaccines shows a phenomenal success rate.

Absolutely. I'm vaccinated against a lot of the terrible diseases. Grateful for it. But the history of vaccines is also littered with missteps and unethical behavior as well.

> The problem is your definition of "moderate" is flawed. You have included craziness as part of the spectrum which isn't correct.

Nope. My definition of moderate is moderate. Being open to the facts and weighing the data and the ability to question orthodoxy - especially when orthodoxy has been wrong so many times.

> And most physicians are in support due to the enormous impact vaccination has on hospitalization rates.

Sure. Especially for the most vulnerable population - the elderly, people with immune system issues, etc.

> We aren't past herd immunity. At all. 70% is a low ball number for herd immunity, many suggested a large rate is needed given the fast spreading of the virus. California is sitting at 58.8%.

You are conflating "vaccinated" with herd immunity. Isn't vaccinated + those who had covid ( the original and natural vaccine ) over 90%? I may be wrong. Is 70% a "low ball"? I remember the original herd immunity was 60-70% and 70% was the high end. Then what's the herd immunity number?

> I mean the US has had 43 million cases and 693,000 deaths. It has so far killed 1.5% of the confirmed cases.

Now add in the "nonconfirmed cases" and how low does that 1.5% go.

I was for lockdown. I think the states that locked down should stay locked down for the duration of the pandemic so that we have useful data to compare against the non-lockdown states/countries. I'm for people getting vaccinated - especially the at-risk people. But why are you being so intentionally misleading? You try to mislead with only "confirmed cases". You try to mislead by conflating vaccination rate to herd immunity. If you have truth, science and data on your side why be so sneaky with the data and labels?

If you truly wanted the pandemic to be over, shouldn't you be celebrating the vaccine rate + people who got covid? Is your goal the end of the pandemic or that everyone get a shot? Because they aren't the same thing.
> As for the security implications, i agree.. It surely is a crappy design for the network but it can be done..

This. No point in creating a Pi4 Router solution of this type unless you really must.
What did Microsoft specifically do in case of VS Code to make it so well even with Electron?
Are you trying to call Chomsky a crank like these guys?

Chomsky isn't considered one of the prominent intellectuals of our time because of Chomsky hierarchies and other technical aspects of linguistics.

And his "ideology" isn't considered the utterings of a crank about water memory.
Video games with "too much" blood or gore are also banned in Germany, limiting artistic expression.

The "censorship in Germany is fine because it's just nazi stuff" argument doesn't hold water. They are currently progressing down the slippery slope.

Already you're saying it should be nazi stuff + vaccine propaganda. Next year it will be a third thing that is an important pet issue for you or an interest group.

Civilized adults don't tell other adults what they are allowed to read.
I was thinking more like Sidekiq - https://sidekiq.org/products/enterprise.html
The money was never to be spend, the museum loaned them to the artist. They were suppose to be used as the literal material for the commissioned art work.
No need to post anti-vax content on YouTube now, Hacker News is already full of it.
> Home Assistant used to have plugins for zwave and zigbee but they are now replaced by an MQTT broker that sits between Home Assistant and the program driving the wireless dongle

And now, they've moved on from that to having straight websocket communication between those two programs, eliminating MQTT altogether.

I use MQTT for a lot of stuff but it adds a layer of delay between devices that is particularly noticeable with flipping a light switch in the Home Assistant web ui.
Evergrande sells a $1.5B stake in a bank to help settle debts
It solves the problem of Microsoft not having a mobile platform in which to lock you in. Unlike their competitors in identity: Apple iOS and Google's Android.

Therefore MSFT now needs an open-ish standard so that it's not dead in the water.

Funny how times have changed.
> If you really want to save bandwidth, you’d be better off looking at better formats like HEIF and WebP.

Use AVIF instead. An image in AVIF is half the size of an equivalent JPEG. Chrome already has it, and full Firefox support is imminent.
Ah, I wish it were so simple!

One of the reasons why devs at enterprise scale companies like OSS so much (except GPL, obviously) is because trying to purchase anything is a nightmare.

If you've worked at such an org, you know exactly what I mean, otherwise you might even find it difficult to believe. Purchasing anything can take several months, with hundreds of manhours wasted on call, meetings, legal review, approvals from random people etc. And if you're the one that initiated it, you'll be the poor sod that has to keep pushing that boulder up the hill all the time, otherwise it just stalls forever. It's honestly should destroying.
The same way it's been done when public money funded all the groundwork for semiconductors and early computers, GPS, GSM, satellites, fiber optics, LCDs, touchscreens, spread spectrum, particle physics, space exploration, industrial chemistry, nuclear power and so on.

You create international projects and hire very skilled people to decide funding allocation and hired skilled people to do the work.

Without the distortions caused by the interests of for-profit companies (or the whims of some billionaire) you have a more efficient innovation process.
> The history of psychology psuedoscience being used to validate racial bias is undeniable.

At the time it was called just "science". Then new people entered the field, called the old things pseudoscience and started the cycle anew. I'd argue that not much improved, the social sciences was bad back then and are just as bad today and most of the things they preach today will be seen as totally wrong and ignorant and dangerous by the scientists of the future just like we view those of the past.
That is not what Bjarne Stroustrup means with zero cost abstractions.
Imagine the (very?) likely clown shoes scenario of the museum holding him in breach of contract, being required to return the pieces, and then watching them sell for a cool million at auction.

Look at what just happened with the Banksy shredder piece for example.
This is largely a Romantic conception of art (circa early 19th century) and not one that would necessarily be true when art meant something like craft, which was what it meant for a long, long time (see the Latin ars or Greek techne.)

Medieval European artists, for example, likely would have no issue with any sort of copying or “fakes”, as the primary goal wasn’t self-expression.
Clearly it is art and heist. But the law doesn't care too much if your crime is a work of art.
Yes. We're building the Simula One because we ourselves wanted to work all day in VR, using the best OS (Linux). Here's a fun video I made working on Simula, in Simula: https://youtu.be/FWLuwG91HnI

And I love seeing the progress unfold on our own headset, because I can't wait to start working in it.
> they'd be covered in a second on fox news

I don't know why you assume Fox is anti-vax, Trump took the vaccine and promotes it on Fox News interviews himself.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-urges-all-americans-to-g...
> IMO, if the government isn't using the extraordinary power's granted to them (search, seizure, arrests, fines, imprisonment, etc) against it's citizens strictly for the words they say or write, "free speech" hasn't been violated and it would be incorrect to use the term in that context.

"Free speech" is overloaded. There's the abstract concept of "free speech" and then there's the first amendment which specifically limits what the US government is allowed to censor.
Clinton is probably one of the best Presidents in recent history. Obama is the best currently and Biden will probably be the best if he can get his legislation passed and the pandemic under control. Right now blue states with mask requirements and mandatory vaccinations are doing very very well. The rest of us are in for a bumpy ride.
Even now, people are still doing it! NYT ran an op-ed piece from a woman VC partner (who had a BS sexual harassment case got shot down in court) basically saying "yeah but what about all the male CEOs that don't get punished? You're sexist if you don't punish them!" as if Holmes is receiving any punishment herself. The delusional headcanons that some people view the world through...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opinion/elizabeth-holmes-...
Art at scale is no longer art, it’s kitsch.
What does this anecdote have to do with free speech? In my country rare cases of myocarditis were listed as a possible side effect immediately after the first potential cases came up and it was also all over the media. Do you claim that in your country the information was not available because of censorship and you nearly died? Which country do you live in? And what kind of medical doctor would not investigate a possible case of myocarditis (or any other kind of heart problems)?
We'll have to agree to disagree here. To me, with the level of fraud she engaged in in every area of her company, and the fact that that fraud impacted the healthcare decisions of individuals who used that test, that is a criminal issue.

She was fucking around with the actual health of people for her own financial gain.
Brownian Model of Financial Markets
What use is the DEA to normal, everyday Americans?
Would be looking for this as well. I love using NATS, would like to see a comparison of both.
A single 2.5Gbps or 5Gbps NIC would be better IMHO.
Great idea. When I'm finished with my AI that produces AIs to make money I will do the same
I should also say that when you work a lot in VR, you get intimately familiar with its improvement bottlenecks:

1. *Text quality.* Text quality is really important, especially to sustain long work sessions. This is why we're pushing as hard as we can on resolution. It's more important for work than it even is for gaming, because gaming doesn't require you to sustain focus on detailed text for long periods of time.

2. *Headset bulkiness/portability.* Headsets are too bulky, and tethered ones are annoying to work with. While the Simula One won't be as light weight as headsets will become 10 years from now, it will at least be truly portable (not requiring you to tether to a PC with chords or over WiFi). We are also planning on using something like a halo strap to make flipping the headset up and down more easy (instead of requiring you to take the headset fully off or on).

3. *Real world stuff.* VR forces you to be very touch-type proficient. But sometimes you want to be able to see your keyboard, or see your surroundings, etc. We are planning on having an "AR mode" for our headset to help accommodate for this.
got examples of books where this is done ? I'm currently interested in reading some.
I saw an interview in which is was putting down hydrogen fuel cell tech.
Feeding the composer's works prior to the Ninth would have been much more compelling. The question then becomes whether the AI's Ninth sounds anything at all like the actual Ninth.
In particular the ordered dither can look very similar to halftoning, because it results in varying size dots.
They're also information technology companies. Maybe it shows just how of a part of daily life they are? The only ones whose I don't interact directly with (intentionally) on a daily basis are Apple and Facebook. For most people Facebook would be included in their daily use.

How many other companies are there that aren't IT related that you interact with on a daily basis? You might use your chair and toothbrush every day, but that doesn't require anything from the company that sold you the chair. Using Google does require Google's servers to respond though.
>Depends on the modem, but since many of them are also routers you just set them up to do single-nat to a static IP corresponding to the "WAN" address of your pi and otherwise not act as a DHCP server at all. Otherwise you could also get a static IP from your ISP so nothing ever changes.

If your modem is doing NAT there's literally no reason for this setup. And it would cause even more issues because you'd have two DHCP servers on the same subnet offering up more than one IP. Even if you set the LAN side of the modem to disable DHCP and only offer a static address, you've still got both the "public" NAT address and "private" in the arp table of all of your hosts. You will absolutely run into issues.

>No, they get DHCP addresses from the pi.

If you have the modem spitting out DHCP addresses and the PI spitting out DHCP addresses you cannot force your end hosts to grab them from one or the other, they get whichever responds first.
> The idea that Uber is not profitable is a myth isn’t it?

No, it’s a financial/accounting fact expressed by Uber themselves in their filings as a public company.

Having a business model (which is what you are describing), doesn’t make it profitable.

Hertz had a business model too, they owned cars, people rented cars and paid money for that. Are you saying Hertz couldn’t collect enough money to run their operations and pay some staff? Well they couldn’t, and they went bankrupt. They were also in the red for several years before the pandemic hit.
Sure, but you don't cure alcoholism by switching from whisky to beer.
To be clear, they're talking about ideas and the adaptation of those ideas, not literally stealing cash or property.

“Good artists borrow [by modifying ideas], great artists steal [by copying ideas].”
> I assume that you wouldn't mind if YouTube recommended you some ISIS beheadings for example

You act as if the recommendation engine forces people to watch content...

No one if forcing anyone to click on and consume a recommended video... Most of the videos recommended to me I do not watch,

How did "just turn the channel" i.e ignore the video in today's nomenclature become an invalid option?
Not at all, ping is just a nickname for an ICMP echo message and the name of the /usr/bin/ping program.

The output of the program are RTT minimum, max, average, mean deviation and percentage of packet loss.

You can also measure latency over UDP and TCP using other tools. For 99% of practical use cases there is actually no meaningful difference.
Partially incorrect. The artist was paid a fee as well as provided money to use for the piece and to purchase/frame it. This article didn't make entirely clear which of that money they're asking for.
Can you expand on why you were hesitant because of censorship? ... Have you heard rumors of some problems from vaccination?

It made it more difficult to ascertain what the risks were, I didn't feel our officials were being honest with us (something I still think). Back in early 2021 it was a lot more open to speculation since it was an minimally tested treatment who's delivery method had never been widely deployed on humans before. We still don't know if there's long term effects and there's no way for us to find out until enough time has passed. I didn't want to be part of the initial test group.

Since covid is so deadly if you get it

I'm relatively young and not in any risk categories, covid does not pose much of a death risk to me. Significant non-deadly outcomes are another story (permanent lung damage, loss of taste, ect). I decided that protection from the latter category (significant non-deadly outcomes) was worth my rather nebulous fears that we'll realize it does some harm over the next decade.

and there are basically almost no cases of serious health issues with vaccination and furthermore

"Basically almost no" is a difficult term to quantify, but VAERS database does have plenty of entries.
> Look at the robo-dog's left ear!

Not sure how you created those AVIFs. The reference AVIF encoder[0] wants to use 4:4:4 chroma, but it looks like that hero image is 4:2:0. There is a small size hit for 4:4:4, but edges around saturated colors is much better.

[0] https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif
The trick is to realize this is a gray area that can't be measured precisely, and >as a leader, your organization will find evidence to support whichever argument you favor<

It takes a special type of MBA brain to imagine you can projet the future enough to forsee the outcome of outsourcing a "cost center" and putting that budget into a team that will define their metrics in increased revenue.
> If people who only know JS and won't learn anything new can't contribute then that's a cost worth bearing.

I think this is an unfair and unnecessarily-snarky take.

My list of languages is fairly long these days. I’ve written php, ruby, and go in reasonable volume for mostly personal projects. I used to teach embedded C at uni. I write python professionally every day. Recently I’ve even started playing with rust (and had some success thanks to the awesome book). The list is far longer, these are just the ones used the most. I’ve been writing code in some capacity for the last 20 or so years (first self-taught, then at university, and more recently professionally full-time).

Despite all that, and not for lack of trying, for whatever reason purely functional languages are the only ones that elude me. Every couple of years I try Haskell or erlang again and I just get nowhere fast.

Maybe it’s because I was never very good at maths, maybe it’s because I haven’t had sufficient motivation, or maybe I just haven’t found the right monad blog post to convert me. All I know is Haskell remains chronically out of reach to many experienced and inexperienced devs alike.
Why did Theranos insist on using 'a single drop of blood.' Why not be able to run a normal blood sample through an unprecedentedly compact form factor testing unit. Wouldn't that be good enough?
> Companies pledge to donate $X USD amount per year per software engineer (SE) to a foundation (or whatever legal entity).

The tides are slowly changing

Indeed have a fund[0] for this, and other companies seem to be taking the same approach. The disadvantage is that funds are restricted to projects used by the business, therefore this focuses more on infrastructure and development tooling rather than end user applications.

Google has an Open Source Peer Bonus[1], where a Google Employee can nominate external OSS contributors to receive a payment

[0] http://opensource.indeedeng.io/FOSS-Contributor-Fund/

[1] https://opensource.google/docs/growing/peer-bonus/
Yeah, NTSA standards and traffic laws are kind of all over the place. It's kind of why you see 3 wheeled cars going around with almost zero safety standards because they are classed as a "Motorcycle."

However, motorcycles do have helmet laws in many states. Really, car drivers should wear helmets also, but good luck getting THAT passed. That's why we have airbags, because no one will wear a helmet in their car.

New Hampshire has no seat belt laws. Some states only require seat belts in the front seat. Some states only require seat belts for drivers and under 18s in the front seat.
It's a difference between banning behavior vs. ideas.
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If we are going pedantic, we can also start discussing how crappy C used to be in 8 and 16 bit computers.

"C like" as in the human doesn't see a difference.