skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an interesting conversation with a friend a few days ago. We both installed larger solar systems than we need. We are net exporters of energy. And we are both disgusted by how the energy company takes this energy and, effectively, pays us nothing for it while charging our neighbors who use it full rate.

One of the ideas that was floated in the conversation was to setup a Bitcoin (or some other crypto) mining system that would be design to only operate on excess energy. In other words, we become export nothing or very little energy and consume the excess mining crypto.

The idea, of course, is to make more money with that energy than what the power company pays us for it. I haven't done the math. I have no clue if this is fantasy or reality. My instincts tell me it would be an exercise in futility, which is why I won't waste any time on it. I could be wrong.
I don't think they're claiming she's wrong. They're claiming her post was "misleading", but misleading to what? Presumably misleading people to believe that a public policy is wrong or ineffective.
If that is true, them this changes the meaning of the quotes. In my opinion this is just as bad because the entire article centers around these claims and she is adding claims that her source did not make.

Horrible reporting
Google does not own .web. They were in the running to acquire it but it will ultimately go to Verisign (who runs .com) after a ~5 year legal dispute.
I fail to see the connection. It sounds pretty misleading to me.
AirDrop never was hacked. It uses bluetooth and wifi to auth/search/transfer. It doesn’t require any existing network so it works in the desert or in the middle of the ocean.
> Why should Twitter give up their right to freedom of expression and freedom of association?

The argument "I know they can but that does not mean they should" doesn't imply that when they don't do something they shouldn't do they lose the ability to do it... I shouldn't be a jerk, but I do believe I have the legal right to be a jerk, so I guess by your argument I need to be a jerk and I guess no one should even call me out for it? That doesn't make any sense: Twitter currently can do this stuff; and yet, despite that, they shouldn't.
If you use energy to process aluminium at the end you have aluminium.

If you use energy to move bits in a computer at the end you have heat and the result of a calculation. If that calculation was just to proof that you did the calculation, well, that doesn't sound very efficient to me but that's just my opinion.

What I'm pretty sure is that it's not a battery.
These are all separate, except that Apple News+ does get you various things, and Apple News+ itself is part of Apple One, which is a very good deal for a lot of people if you're already paying for at least one or two Apple services separately, or if members of your household are and you don't live alone.

NYT and WaPo can be had cheaply if you grab them when special offers are available, and then once you do, you'll find that at renewal time, all you need to do is threaten to unsubscribe and they will let you continue at the much, much lower rate, which usually is around $1/month for each.

Talking Points Memo runs me $60/yr, which is a bit steep but I want to support their independent journalism, and the careers of various young journalists that has supported.

The New Yorker is expensive, but again can be had at a steep discount if you time it right, usually for around $5/month if memory serves.
Sure, but there it's generally understood to mean "Number used Once".
Interestingly, she only got personally banned. Throughout she has maintained a "official business" account, which didn't get used for conspiracy-peddling, which hasn't been banned.

> Ms. Greene’s official Congressional account, @RepMTG, remains active because tweets from that account did not violate the service’s rules.
The "usual" way of doing that is by making DNS servers that create their responses based on whatever other name resolution system you want them to do.
> I expect it to be fast unless documented otherwise.

Logically you should expect it to block indefinitely unless documented otherwise. The exception would be completing within a time bound, the rule is blocking indefinitely.
Toggling bt/airplane mode can work for iOS instead
And who is on a time zone to currently be awake or are night owls.
Not necessarily, it depends on what you do with the value.
Correct!

“ The synthetic and highly addictive drug has claimed more lives than COVID-19, auto crashes, gun violence, cancer and suicide in the year 2020.”

https://www.abc12.com/news/fentanyl-number-one-cause-of-deat...
In any place where road salt is used in the winter, they'll be just as rotten out as ICE vehicles at the end of a five or six year auto loan.
I don’t think the point of the ban is to convince people who saw her old tweets that she was wrong.
Twitter is not a conscious being, and cannot experience the subjective feeling of being oppressed. I support maximal liberty for humans, and appropriate protection of those humans from corporations as well as the government. Corporations may be collections of people, but they're a lot more than that - which makes them not human - and in any case they are not loci of experience.
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I think the point is that a 3 digit serial wouldn't be enough to cause overflow, it would need to be 4 digits. But who makes a post like that without using copy/paste to get it exactly right?
More liability is the answer.

Social media went from a communications platform where people could post content and subscribe to receive other people's content (in a chronological feed) into something where the social platform decides what content you receive (via the algorithmic feed) in order to benefit the platform by maximizing engagement and ad views.

Conventional newspapers did the same for decades and have been bound by some laws and regulations as a publisher. Social media should be bound by the same laws since they've long ago switched from a "neutral communications platform" model.
> Are they going to ban politicians from discussing budget charts or crime statistics in public debates if they decide that it's misleading with no objective basis?

I’m assuming the “government database” is VEARS, which is using raw, unverified data. It would be like if someone took NextDoor or Shotspotter reports to derive crime statistics.
Can you provide a source for running being 5x better than walking? It doesn't seem that simple to me (eg. older people may suffer from joint pain or a risk of falling from more intense activity, so frequent walking may be better for them).
Ask HN: How to setup own server hosting a service with API (and no front end)?
Hello HN, I'd like to use my own server to host a new service, accessible through an API, for an application (Win/Android/iOS) that I wrote and that already has users. No web frontend is necessary. Just the service that my app calls through an API.

So far I have relied on Google Cloud (App Engine, Cloud functions, etc..) to run these kinds of things but for the new service I find that Google Cloud is too limited. It also requires Mac computers with M1, running Monterey.

My question is: how do I get started setting up my own server(s)? I found numerous tutorials for setting up web servers but I don't need a website / frontend. Just the service with an API. I would also like to have some amount of scalability and protection against DDoS and similar attacks. Is this possible?
Do you listen to audio books, podcasts, or talk radio? I listen to audio books while running, so I get an hour of running and an hour of literature for the price of one, every day. Also motivates me to go for the run because I want to hear what's happening next in the book.
Right, but that only applies to data and push functionality. It's still not clear why vanilla voice and SMS functionality would be affected.
Very insightful response. Taking your fruit analogy further - some fruit evolved to be poisonous to mammals because birds spread their seeds further.

Also liked the manipulation point you made. It’s why you have things from the 20th century like soda companies and McDonalds and all the other organizations just “giving people what they want”.

Now in the 21st century we have Facebook, Instagram and the like similarly low-level poisoning people.
One thing I don't like about the New York Times is that they obscure the actual information to force you to rely on their presentation. Why can't they just show the tweet in question and explain why it's wrong?

I'm assuming it's something like the numbers of vaccine complications reports have gone up in objective numbers but not relative to numbers of vaccinations and that could look scary on a graph - or something like that.

But why do I have to guess or search out the information myself? I would think a news article could and should easily incorporate this.

The big problem with this reporting style is that reality could be either Twitter unjustifiably censoring people because they don't like their politics by making harsh rule interpretations, or MTG repeatedly sharing harmful misinformation and deserving a ban. Because the NYT won't actually show information the reader is left not knowing and likely believing an interpretation based on what they thought going in to the article.
The Atlantic wrote a really good deep dive piece into the differences recently. Highly recommend reading through it. There are a lot of unknowns about the long term consequences. Anecdotally, people close to me in the mental health industry are really distraught about it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...
Naturally the market will move this heat to where it's needed. The world needs bitcoin.
He also, in the article, mentions that he is looking at other companies in the market. "We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica".

Anywho without more info about what access to data he is making his observations on, we're just speculating. Definitely can't say he is factually wrong with the vague and open bits of info from the article. It's just quotes that could mean almost anything.
think of it this way, 1 in 200 means the chance that you will not die is 99.5% When put that way, sounds pretty good, right?
> something has happened

Changes in death rates directly relate to relative vaccination rates. Vaccination was initially rolled out to the elderly they where also more willing to get vaccinated. It’s strange to think that 75 year olds grew up in a time period where several horrific diseases disappeared due to vaccination efforts. It it’s clear they have a lot more faith in vaccination.

https://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/COVID-19-Vaccination-and-C...
This is close to my reasoning. If Twitter or others are so important then they should be regulated as public utilities. I don't think they are.

It's funny when politicians with entire staff committed to disseminating information complain about censorship.
Several comments in this thread take the POV that "integer overflows never happen in practice" but of course they do! https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=integer+ove...

Of course uints overflow too, which just means arithmetic is hard, and it's often (not always) made harder when you have to consider negative values. Bounds checking, average, division, etc. INT_MIN is a horrible edge case which is easy to forget.
So one set of politicians is nudging a private platform to censor another politician. This is pretty much par for the course, no?
That’s a distinction without a difference. The reason that false claims are dangerous is because they can mislead people.
It's not the cameras that worry me, it's the whole issue that AI is not remotely intelligent. Image recognition is step 1, and NNs are pretty good at it, but can still be fooled. However taking those images, properly interpreting them with no error, keeping track of temporary occluded objects, unusual circumstances, and then making decisions is not something I trust NNs to do, as there just is not enough training data, despite the valiant efforts to gather it.

One difference between true intelligence and what we have in NNs today is, if you showed an image or two of an object to a person they could identify that object in other orientations and lighting conditions pretty well. To do the same with NNs requires thousands of examples and counter examples to train. This is why with driving how could you have enough examples of strange issues to ensure the car responds safely?

The only advantage I see today for cars driving is they don't get bored or distracted or drunk, but they certainly are not intelligent.
At early stage you are not going to get spam anyway. Once it grows (and i hope it does) you will get fare share of spam. As you said at that point you could check solutions like Akismet, OOPSpam.
Twitter is not the public square. They app stores are not the public square. No one takes that argument seriously because it's not serious. Is it censorship that most existing book publishers are highly unlikely to publish a book of your or my political opinions? Should a publisher, or anyone else, be compelled to promote speech they disagree with? Would you want someone to compel you to write or publish lies?

Marjorie Taylor Greene has VASTLY more ability to get her messages out, and to therefore express herself, than the average American citizen. She can go on Fox News or MSNBC or she can have her office send out press releases. Please stop saying this is censorship. This is NO WAY meets any accepted definition of censorship in the frame you are using.
No matter what their politics are, I would hope that all reasonable people can condemn cancel culture, regardless of the political alignment of the person being cancelled.

I get a lot of value from Twitter because I follow a few awesomely interesting people, but I could probably get the same effect by bookmarking their blogs.

People should have access to all information, and filter for themselves what is trash. I don’t want Twitter, news media, etc. filtering.

I have started to just pay attention to a small number of people: Lex Fridman, Joe Rogan, Matt Taibbi, and Noam Chomsky. That is a small sample size, but enough diversity for me.
Thanks for leaving the post up and for responding here. I’m curious if and how your approach to writing has changed since you wrote the piece. What strikes me about the piece is the certainty and lack of caveats in it, especially given it’s about an area in which I assume you don’t have any particular expertise (blood testing — please correct me if I’m mistaken).

One takeaway from the Theranos saga for me was that the type of fraud perpetrated by Elizabeth Holmes can have very real consequences on people’s lives beyond some rich investors losing their money. The stories about people receiving incorrect test results, the irresponsibility with which Theranos ran their lab, not to mention Holmes using David Boies to attack the brave whistleblowers in my mind go far beyond the “fake it till you make it” / “mistakes were made” framing of the case.

If I had played a role in supporting that type of behavior, however small, I would probably have a different takeaway than “got this specific example wrong! but my core point was correct”.
Do you think he's saying elderly people aren't dying? Because that's what those precise words would mean when you take them out of context. In context, it's clear that he's not talking about elderly people at all.
Sure, I'll elaborate. I'm not logged in but also have a list of specific subreddits I frequent. I visit the same subreddits so frequently that on my safari mobile app they pop up as recommended. I press on that instead of logging in. I like the mixing feature of the home page for similar topics but prefer browsing a single subreddit at a time so there isn't much need to log in.
No. Not every result is best handled by whitespace separated lines and field naming is useful.
> Streisand Effect

She is a Congressional Representative.

This isn't about shutting her up. Its about Twitter coming out and saying that they agree that she's a loon. No one actually expects a member of Congress to be permanently shut up over something like this.

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When '@dang' comes around here and deletes posts, its about pushing the discussion in the direction they want for this website.

The _ONLY_ moderating action internet citizens have is moderation: deletion of posts, soft-banning, permanent bans, and the like. There's no other possible effect available for Twitter (or other social media) to come down on unruly users.
To be fair to VAERS, a doctor needs to fill it out, and the doctor is not paid to do so. It’s not exactly a user-submitted database.
It is infinitely disturbing that political sides are a factor in determining whether to pursue justice and truth, in this case, the Covid-19 lab leak question.
I've gone back to the original just to double check. It's very consistent about having only 2 zeros before the last digit, not 3.
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Something similar was attempted decades ago and failed, with alternate DNS roots. See AlterNIC for an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlterNIC
No that is bad math around 1/80.

If the average person had a 1/80 chance to die each year, the average life expectancy would be 40 years.

Think about this another way. You have a gun with 80 chambers and 1 bullet. How many times on average can you point it at your head and pull the trigger before it goes off? Would you still argue 80 times? On average it is the last chamber?
In my darker moments I've come to believe that accelerationism is the only viable pathway to save the planet, since nothing short of civilizational collapse seems to be capable of seriously reducing our carbon emissions.

From that perspective this is great news!
I'm 100% pro vaccine. I'd rather Twitter were destroyed for doing this than Greene were suspended. I'll happily deal with combating some misinformation, it's an opportunity that is critically important. People with anti vax beliefs don't magically stop existing just because you censor Greene; it hurts, it does not help to do that. Instead, more of them go underground, they vanish from the surface, you don't see them as much, but they're still around spreading those ideas. The notion that you can't have a debate over vaccines in the open air - eg Twitter threads, or comparable - between such sides is disgusting. What other point does Twitter serve then? An official public relations release platform for previously authorized statements and speech. And to let people know what you ate for lunch, its original glorious purpose.

Twitter should be a place where I can argue against Greene's vaccine statements when she Tweets them. She provides an excellent central point of focus to distribute correct information, a honeypot for delivering information that is right. (insert retort: yeah but that doesn't work, you can't convince people; cool, so shut it all down then, civilization is over, give up now; throw them in the gulag, that's where you have to go with that logic if you believe people are permanently beyond reason)
Here's an interesting video about an increase in sports-related deaths and heart-attacks. Maybe it's related?

https://rumble.com/vpnxkr-are-these-side-effects-extremely-r...
> Blockchain is the single largest threat to banking, and that doesn’t come without a price.

That's an interesting statement. The first question that occurred to me was: Why does banking have to be threatened? In other words, is this a solution looking for a problem?
No I do, and the 95% of the time it works makes up for the 5% of the time it doesn’t.
I wasn't ready to share it yet, but here it goes[1]. It's at a very early stage, but should give you an idea of how to get things up and running under Nim.

I didn't avoid malloc. I provided a simple bump pointer based heap to get things going. Later I'll have to separate things into a UEFI bootloader and a proper kernel image, each with its own allocator (the bootloader will use UEFI memory allocation services, and the kernel will have its own heap).

[1] https://github.com/khaledh/axiom
Just like anything else, should seniority be measured in time served, accomplishments, potential, passion, social skills, or other?
Not the point. The ban isn’t to change their mind, it’s to remove a source of toxic discourse on the platform. Now there will be fewer retweets and flame wars instigated by her. And it will hopefully serve as one more reason for those who feel targeted by this to seek an alternative platform.
Yup, done..
- We already regulate interaction between people (e.g. you can't throw a rock at someone when you disagree with them). Even if it's paternalistic, surely you're not proposing we should do away with those regulations.

- The internet is a common shared environment, so its maintenance should be regulated like other environments to manage externalities.

These points seem consistent with your philosophy and also permit regulation of social media companies.
That or “mom and pop business”. What a silly misnomer - a software business that generates six figures of passive income is nothing like an old-school mom and pop business like a hardware store, which carries inventory, pays rent, and requires daily staffing.
I think motor vehicle related mortality really shifts the risk forward.
There is indeed lots of "evidence" -- extremely dubious or easily refutable "evidence" that was clearly manufactured or mispresented.

There is also irrefutable evidence of a propaganda campaign orchestrated by Washington and various SIGs that have a vested interest in destroying the PRC. For example, the Countering Chinese Influence Fund signed into law which provides $300,000,000 per annum exclusively for the production of anti-China propaganda.

Connect the dots. Use your brain. Stop regurgitating headlines.
Some users might like a platform where saying obviously false things and potentially dangerous things is not allowed and I don't know why Twitter should not be allowed to provide them with this.
I think this is the tweet that got her suspended:

https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1477663920349499400/...

the complaint seems to be her presentation is misleading. i can understand that. if you give some medical treatment to a large number of people then some of them are going to be harmed by it but the benefits to individuals could still exceed the harm. but if we apply the same kind of logic then i feel twitter's warning text is misleading. it is not the complete picture whether COVID 19 vaccine is considered 'safe' for a person. what is important for an individual when making a decision whether to take the vaccine or not is whether the benefits exceed the costs. a vaccine might be 'safe' but the costs might still exceed the benefits if the risk differential between vaccinated and unvaccinated is low enough.
Ok, that's pretty absurd and technically impossible, but blocking users from the EU, as many US sites do, does not "fix" for this issue, because EU users living in the US will be able to use the site without getting a cookie banner.
On the latter point, interesting, maybe I'll try to dig up some research on what the counterfactual would be if there was no mining industry; my understanding is that while the conditions are terrible, it does provide jobs for hundreds of thousands if not millions. In regards to distribution of gains... yeah, seems like the whole world is failing at that one, just more egregious in a place where people are starving or having to become child soldiers. That being said, what's the alternative here? Mining companies will come because of the resources and I see no other angle for the DRC to industrialize other than the control they have on the mineral wealth.