skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If Twitter had shared blocklists for example, it would be easier for people to coordinate that kind of signaling.

But Twitter doesn't. Hacker News doesn't. Reddit doesn't.

All three of these large Social Media sites require moderators to police the actions of their users. This isn't new or exotic, this is just how the web typically works. Forums, Usenet, Mailing lists, IRC, BBS, its always been like this.

If you want to try to make a new social network with different moderation systems (ex: user-based blocking), feel free to do so. But I've hung out enough on 8-chan to know that you'll have to deal with Swatters and Doxxers almost immediately, who are looking for an unmoderated coordination medium, and they'll take advantage of your features. You'll also have to deal with lesser forms of spam and advertisements: Cryptocoin spam these days, but it used to be Viagra, or Nigerian Prince scams.

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The question isn't "Twitter shouldn't be allowed to moderate its users". The question is if Twitter made the right move here or not.

So now lets actually discuss the crux of the issue: is spreading COVID19 misinformation a big enough reason to warrant a banning? I of course agree with the move. Our hospitals are filling up with the Omicron variant and the vast majority of these patients are not-vaccinated. Twitter leveraging their reputation to say that Marjorie Taylor Green is a net benefit to society.
This also assume eth1-like profits after eth2.0 this summer.
It's worth remembering that these figures are calculated based on the efficiency of known bitcoin miners.

However, I believe it is likely that a good chunk of bitcoin mining is done on privately designed, owned, and run machines which are likely to be substantially more efficient. Since the main cost of bitcoin mining is electricity, anyone who can design a more efficient miner has an incentive to keep that design to themselves.
What obligation does Twitter have to provide anyone with a platform?
That's true, but 0.002 is 1/500, not 1/200.
Is it a manifestation of cancel culture to enforce platform rules (a "code of conduct", if you will)? You can argument that the rules are politically charged. Whether that's okay is determined by whether you think Twitter is a private or a public space.
It is of interest to me.
And opennic.org
What is puzzling to me, is that despite beating delivery expectations (meaning they did make and deliver more cars than planned), the delivery of my model X I'm in the line for did get pushed back from January to February.
Something doesn't make sense...
It's apples and oranges and therefore are not and should not be regulated in the same way
An HTTP API is just a different kind of website; it serves machine-readable content instead of human-readable content, but other than that it's still an HTTP service and most resources for webservers would apply.

> It also requires Mac computers with M1, running Monterey.

Does the operation requiring macOS needs to be synchronous & instant or can it be asynchronous and respond within a few seconds/minutes?

I'd highly suggest decoupling the Mac-related part of the API into an asynchronous task, that way the actual API servers can be inexpensive Linux servers.
Increased demand leads to higher prices leads to more money into renewable generation
Whether Google owns it legally is irrelevant to the concerns people have regarding the control Google will have. ICANN won't revoke the license agreement if Google is "naughty" and decides to deregister some GoogleSucks.app or ControversialOpinion.app domains. This is Google, and not worth the effort for ICANN to even bother unless the above domains cause enough noise to rock the boat, which they won't. It'll probably be some conservative ("right wing propaganda") or misinformation or plausibly illegal type of domain that everyone will choose to ignore and dismiss for various reasons. End result of this is definitely more censorship.
You're incorrect on the fees. The 180k was the application fee for the 2013 round of new gtlds. Actual on going costs are $6,250 per quarter, plus a cut from each registration or renewal, as per the registry contract.

ICANN can only cancel Registry contracts under specific circumstances. Listed here: https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/agreements/ag...
Using iOS Shortcut Automations to Mitigate Wireless Attacks
I feel this is the wrong comparison. PoW intentionally raises the difficulty by making computer do more "work" finding useless hashes as the price of crypto goes up. The "work" isn't used for processing transactions, which is why the number of transactions per second is stuck at a pitiful 7 transactions per second for BTC, and 15 for ETH. Programming languages don't have a mechanism where Ruby, PHP or Python have features to intentionally burn more CPU cycles in order to accomplish their objective of making programming easier.
Don't buy it.
Awesome! I bought a storage shed this summer and finished out the inside. Was perfect timing with the cost of lumber increase LOL.
Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and executive function in children
Charles Stross has this, a game called 'Spooks' in one of his books.
The world used about (12,000 Mtoe = ) 140,000 TWh [1], making this 0.1% of world consumption. OP claims 64 MtCO2e of associated GHG emissions, which is also about 0.1%. I'd call these figures under "troubling but not yet material to the climate."

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/key-world-energy-statistics-2020...
The fact that it broke anything for anyone is a strong argument that it never should have been created in the first place, alongside .home and .corp.

They were aware of the issue, buried it in the report and reneged on their promise to keep it internal-only. That was the mitigating argument for allowing it despite the known existing usage. Google acted in bad faith and I'd need to see concrete proof to convince me otherwise.
The best evidence is the price surely.
I think you are misconstruing. There is another possibility, which is that a negative experience is less metaphysically meaningful when the experience is pure "pain", without the added self-reflective component which can be distinguished as "suffering".
A lot of game projects are also of a "write-and-forget" kind, where ongoing maintenance either isn't a concern at all or is very limited in scope, which also influences the requirements and kinds of problems you have to solve a lot.
I want an automated work timeline tool. There are things I do that are semantically linked, grouped by timing. For example:

I get an issue in Jira "enable AWS feature for project X".
I search for AWS and Terraform documentation on those subjects.
I edit code on a feature branch named for the Jira issue.
I save links and notes into my Emacs org-roam knowledge base.
I test the new feature.
I submit a PR.
I edit documentation to support the new feature.
I add to the architectural decisions for the team and the project.
I close the Jira ticket.

All those things might happen within an hour or two, or be dragged out longer for bigger features. I want that temporally and semantically linked set of activities to appear on a timeline with links to and from the various tools I use.

Why? The more data the better. Being able to search for "AWS S3 policies" and get information from all the bits my brain "touched" to implement something. This is also something that might help those team members who are less likely to correctly document or record their work.

Now imagine that, but for a team. This is a half-finished idea, born mostly from a desire to link my Firefox bookmarks' tags and the tags in my org-roam knowledgebase.
Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence (2013)
> Conventional newspapers did the same for decades and have been bound by some laws and regulations as a publisher

Oh yes, the notorious No Law, made by Congress — as directed in the First Amendment.
"All this talk about "algorithmic feedback loops" is overselling the quality of said algos"

So it's you agree that the villains are evil, but your defence for them is that they are inept?
"technological development".

Don't we already have plenty of more efficient coins out there?
'prow' as in long 'oh', rather than 'ow my foot' right? Even with short-o, Canadian's say 'prahject' to my (British) ear. (The short O that starts my name, too.)
I'm still surprised there are no DIY backyard offices out there to purchase
Walking is one of the best things you can do for your health, don't underestimate it. My doc told me to do 30 minutes a day for 3-4 days a week and I feel so much better.
Competition has the same problem, I guess.
Using git as a single developer takes tens of minutes to understand at most. It is hugely helpful over time to see what changed and why. The fact that he isn't doing this is a net negative.
Well, also consider that people live to be roughly ~100 years old. The population is roughly stable, so every year ~1% of the population must die and be replaced by a ~1% is born.
"evenly distributed" implies uniform distribution
> or you lose your deposit

Calling that a deposit is stretching the definition - you're just paying a fee to skip ahead in line: a reservation. Suppose though it actually was a partial, non-refundable, advance payment of a yet-to-be-determined sum. Who in their right mind would sign such a contract? Those people should find someone else to manage their money for them ASAP.
Isn't this roughly what happened in Accelerando? We split the solar system and gave everything below the asteroid belt over to the marketing bots.
The largest body of work I know of is Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn, with over 50 pages of citations of studies proving over and over that coercive methods simply do not work on humans.

Extrinsic motivation does not magically transform into intrinsic motivation. Instead, coercion causes irreparable harm on parent/child relationships and damages intrinsic motivation.

Humans are not birds nor rats so conditioning and reinforcement do not work as intended. They do work to give the enforcer a sense of power and sadistic pleasure but do not teach anything valuable beyond “violence and bullying work.” Are these your primary goals?
HN and many tech-minded forums struggle the most with arguments that require empathy. For people who probably don’t consider themselves religious, their outlook is extremely Puritanical.

“I see you explaining why x is difficult for most people, but I don’t struggle with it so the difficulty is invalid.”
Wow, remarkably the Queen, who is 95, is unlikely to make it to 100. In fact her annual hurdle rate is greater than 1/5. Am I reading this wrong?
Yes! When I bought my shed I didn't consider 4x8 dimensions and it bit me in the end when finishing it out.
I agree that signed is generally inferior and less often what you really need. For me, in C and C++, the main arguments for 'unsigned by default' are:

(1) integer overflow/underflow is undefined behaviour. You don't want that, it's evil. Unsigned does not have that problem (often it is still a bug if you over- or underflow -- but at least you get sane code from the compiler).

(2) size_t is unsigned and is returned by sizeof() and is the argument to memcpy(), strcpy(), etc., and with -Wconversion, you do not want to handle all the warnings when mixing this with signed loop counters or size variables.

Unfortunately, one problem with using unsigned by default in C is that ptr1-ptr2 yields ptrdiff_t, which is signed. Which is bad, in my opinion, because I usually want to find an array size or index when I subtract two pointers, so I want size_t, and in these cases, I always know which pointer is larger.

Oh well, it's C.
I have a ton of time and energy, and I'm still hooked. I implemented a bunch of countermeasures, but I'm still not in control. I don't think that the lack of alternatives is entirely to blame.
I think the question is answered by the sentence before it.
One of our political parties has found out that by pressing the 'anti-government' button and piling on a bunch of conspiracy theories they can mobilize scarily large sections of society for protests, which invariably turn violent because there is a radical element at play.
I do daily 45 minutes. 6 days a week. Alternate day cardio and strength training. I am diabetic and this helps me keep the A1C numbers in acceptable range.
You can have money laundered or you can have money laundered and the environment destroyed as a byproduct of an intentionally wasteful proof-of-work system. Pick the least worst option?
Ok, but the important ones are resource limited and possibly highly correlated. So if you see 1/200 for all sorts of (possibly correlated) events you might be misreading the implication.
How is this better than RTP?
>How much energy did the standing army for the dollar and it's logistics network consume during 2021? Much, much, much, more.

The standing army defends a lot more than the USD. If BTC was adopted as currency, the size and cost of the standing army would barely change.
Yes I agree with you too. The issue shouldn’t be whether someone can post whatever they want on someone else’s platform- how did so few platforms(of dubious quality) become the main channels for communication? How did our internet become theirs? How can we fix it?
I’m curious to know what percent of people read this article in one go, without checking social media or other interruptions. (I tried to do so but small children make uninterrupted work even harder…)
These are two entirely different situations.

Tiny houses will never be practical for most people as people generally need indoor space to live.
It's not a replacement for a house, it's something else, a luxury toy.
Also, I don't get how such a small house in the middle of nowhere can be that expensive. Someone is profiting big time and you can get one for cheaper.

Electrical cars are practical for most people. Who the hell routinely gets to the limit of a EV regularly? They're just too expensive for now and charging is not as widespread.
Once more affordable models come out and chargers get installed everywhere they'll become the new standard.
Correct—those 'top comments' search results are many years out of date because we stopped publishing comment scores many years ago.

We should probably ask Algolia to stop offering that search option for comments.
I like cryptocurrencies but this high electricity usage has kept me away from Bitcoin in the early days. I've since come to forgive Bitcoin for this ridiculous energy usage because of how important a problem Bitcoin is solving (the world desperately needs provably scarce, deflationary hard money). It's just unfortunate that people chose to focus on Bitcoin and not some other PoS crypto which uses less electricity... Unfortunately, now there are all sorts of false narratives around how PoW is more secure than PoS and the Bitcoin tribe will not accept any argument which says otherwise, no matter how logical.

I think we are stuck with Bitcoin for now. It's unstoppable. The delusion is too strong. But on the plus side, it will likely solve major economic problems once it reaches mass adoption.
No, the "censorship" tended to target those that discussed the lab leak and then retweeted hateful and anti-Asian content aside.
Close reading suggests this should be titled "my wife and I built a shed".
I wonder how the plant feels about us ripping those pungent leaves from its branches to flavor our soups or stealing its seeds to grind them into powder for our BBQ rubs. Does the sound of the combine harvester cause the wheat to envy the cow's mobility when you harvest and it has to accept the fact that it cannot escape? If you could convert the chemical signal that a plant sends to its neighbors that an insect is chewing its leaves into a sound, would that sound be a scream steadily increasing in volume as the insect crunches its way through the leaf? Would it be a mournful cry or a war whoop?
> What's scary is that the whole thing was designed to be unstoppable.

It’s only unstoppable within the game theoretic model of crypto itself, not within the larger societal context. Once Bitcoin power consumption enters the common discourse, my guess is that politicians will step in and simply outlaw PoW systems. There is no real downside for politicians. The average voter hasn’t yet invested their life savings into Bitcoin, and once PoS systems exist at scale proponents can’t use the innovation argument anymore. Especially in Europe, politicians are serious about climate and are pondering much more draconian changes than outlawing some forms of crypto.
Well nothing is preventing them from implementing such features if they want to.
Pretty much zero. The vast majority of time there's extreme levels of air pollution outside (think 200-1000 µg/m³ of PM2.5), so it's dangerous to even open the window. And it's pretty difficult to do anything physically at 2000-4000 ppm of CO₂ because you feel like shit most of the time.

At least that's what I was blaming my laziness on until I learned about CO₂ levels on the ISS:

https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/backgrounde...

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/its-taking-less-co2-than-e...

https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/why-living-space-ca...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262148293_Relations...

So it's a bit higher than my apartment, and they still manage to exercise daily and stay in shape.
I wonder if this could work with circuit python to drop updated programs …
I own a 2013 S85, and a 2018 LR 3. I'm looking to get a new X in 2022 and letting go of the other two.

My 2 cents, biggest pros of Tesla ownership is the tech, I'm constantly using AP and the FSD Beta, and the biggest cons being fit and finish, Tesla's do not have the fit and finish matching their price tags.
Thunderstorm warning for south and east England
> That MP3 format compresses them, makes songs sound artificially louder, and you lose some sounds from the studio quality version.

Erm, I think you're confusing audio compression in the sense of reducing storage space requirements, and audio compression in the sense of reducing the dynamic range of the audio to make it e.g. appear sounding louder. MP3 (and other lossy audio codes) are about the former, and have absolutely nothing to do with the latter.

And while there are some merits to just using lossless compression these days if you're not storage space-constrained (certainly still not true for my phone, though), in blind tests people have been mostly unable to reliably distinguish between lossless and high-bitrate lossy music, all the more so with newer codecs than MP3, like AAC or Opus. (MP3 has some fundamental problems when dealing with short sharp sounds for example, which cannot be fixed by simply throwing more bitrate at it.)
Yeah, it makes sense. If we can have "intellectual property", then attention can be "stolen", no doubt.
> Factorio and Prison architect proved even 3d rendering unnecessary.

I believe this was already proven by a huge number of games existing way before these two ;]
> or I could revoke it in the future

Unless whatever service accessed the tweet/image/text/whatever made a local copy and is displaying that once the "blockchain service" no longer allows access.

An NFT doesn't confer access control. Its a certificate of ownership, the asset itself is infinitely reproducible.
Yes for Ethereum but Bitcoin will never adopt it, for ideological reasons. The community is extremely resistant to big changes like this. It took what should have been a small and uncontroversial change (where to store the witness data for transactions in a block) years of vicious debate and led to competing forks.
This leads to 2 twitters, one for each side of the political aisle. Filter bubbles enabled by social media are already bad enough, a complete fracture of the public space along political lines is a distinctly dangerous idea.
That's very much an artifact of parts of the east coast. My sister (like, totally a native English speaker from California) had the same issue.
I’d be willing to bet over the next five years we see the biggest most impactful developments for reforestation/carbon offsets/political lobbying for change/rewilding programs /etc will come from crypto groups, funded and organised by daos. It’s brewing already. I also think we’ll see bitcoin become a smaller part of crypto and pow being banned in some countries. It’s going to be an interesting decade.
If the employee base changed it could end up being unrepresentative of the broader population, but it's hard to imagine what that might be. Healthier people quit? Healthier people left Indiana? A competitor insurance company signed all the healthier groups?
Yeah, maybe not the best place to ask, but I'll try to help.

Tell your friends you're taking a 30-day break from the internet. Uninstall all the apps from your phone and leave it by the door. Take walks, get outside, explore your city, read books, work on something you've been neglecting. Call your friends and make plans to meet in person. Use the time away to recalibrate and reevaluate how you use your devices.

It's like losing weight. I haven't gotten around to it yet... Good luck!
Ethereum already has options for private payments, such as Aztec (https://zk.money/).
> Maybe you could come up with a consensus mechanism which allows people to somehow amortize recent calculations

Isn't that exactly what pooled mining is all about?
They're irrelevant because they aren't, to my knowledge, considered in the algorithm of how comments and posts are ranked on Hacker News. It's not an assessment of their value by any means. I'm hoping to emphasize the contrary, that participation is important to the site.

I think politics is similar. Many people don't vote and this makes them irrelevant to politicians. They are irrelevant in terms of winning an election. In a place with low voter turnout, the interests of those who do vote is amplified.

HN is CS/Tech/Entrepreneurship focused so I don't see a problem with it being a bubble of people who are skilled and participate in these activities. All people are welcome to the site which I think is fantastic but the site has a certain culture. If you don't enjoy hacker news than go to a site whose culture you enjoy more. I frequent here because I enjoy the content more than other forum sites such as poetsandquants or bogleheads or the infinite set of subreddits.
People don't have faith in the mainstream financial system and are fleeing for the exits.
> Why does banking have to be threatened?

Is this a real question?
I agree the report makes its point poorly and phrases statistics carelessly, but you made a similar mistake: they explicitly state it exceeds COVID deaths over ages 18-45.

All these media reports were all influenced by this underlying factsheet from FAF.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S0szR2Ua9v0Sr91YhDD7gPrXsDk...

Broadly, it appears true: fentanyl deaths look like they outweigh all those things in the younger population. And it doesn't look implausible that synthetic opioids could have killed a total of 64k across the entire population in 2021. (I think they were comparing trailing-twelve-month data from two dates in each case..)

edit, 3mins: I was distracted and my previous version of this reply was word salad.
Why are things like the PS5 not being handled the same way and squeeze the scummy scalpers out of the game
CyberChef (https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/) has almost everything I need. It is described as "The Cyber Swiss Army Knife".
> There's nothing interesting (e.g. terrorism, bombs) you can do with nuclear waste, and it's not especially poisonous.

LOL. Nuclear materials, including waste, are extremely dangerous in evil hands. It regularly kills people by accident or due to negligence. Chornobyl was an accident. Just imagine what a team of motivated people with evil intent can do with a nuclear station or nuclear waste. Last attempt to use nuclear waste in war was in 2015: Russia-backed terrorist planed to use radioactive waste (Kyshtym) to throw a dirty bomb at Kyiv.
Out of curiosity, what do you use rot for so regularly?