skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tool that disappeared, and that REALLY pissed me off, is spotifynewmusic.com.
It was a curation of the most notable music news websites, that delivered a fantastic panel of new music.
Nothing replaced this in the Spotify offer yet. (in term of quality and diversity).
The post that got her suspended claimed “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths.” per the NYT article. I was unable to find a screenshot of the original tweet, seems to have been deleted.

A cursory look at the raw VAERS data from the CDC[1] shows:

Reports of adverse events to VAERS following vaccination, including deaths, do not necessarily mean that a vaccine caused a health problem. (...) During this time, VAERS received 10,688 reports of death (0.0022%) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine. CDC and FDA clinicians review reports of death to VAERS including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records.

In contrast, the CDC[2] estimates that 817k people have died of Covid-19 in the US which puts the mortality at 248 deaths per 100k individuals. Currently, an unvaccinated individual has 20x the risk of dying from Covid-19 than someone with a booster.

I am no first amendment scholar, but spreading lies that increase people rate of mortality by 20x seems pretty close to the "shouting fire in a crowded theater" exception to protected speech. That puts aside the fact that Twitter is a private platform, thus first amendment laws do not apply.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm
This may well be true in some suitably qualified sense, but it's odd to be hearing it from an insurance company first. General population death records would enable government health agencies to catch such large statistical shifts more quickly than an insurance company. I suspect what they're seeing is real, but they're exaggerating how representative it is of all geographic regions and socioeconomic strata. Maybe there's another wave of fentanyl ODs hitting the Rust Belt / Appalachia.
Having used Arch and Debian, I‘ve definitely had an easier time installing the latest version of arbitrary packages on Arch. Something like SDL is part of base and thus is already running latest.
I’m not talking about just Twitter or just this issue. And I specified “in an ideal world” which we aren’t in.

In an ideal world, big tech would have more regulation and would have, due to their size, certain regulations on their behavior and who they choose not to do business with, not just in the political sphere.

An example (to draw an extreme example to make my point), Visa and MasterCard (due to their size) couldn’t just say screw OnlyFans. They are too large and influential especially together.
It also hints that covid-19 related deaths are undercounted in the us.
We kicked out a bunch of traitors from Congress during the Civil War era, so banning a person from twitter who is actively trying to foster a Civil War by promoting lies and misinformation seems pretty mild.

Banning her or anyone like her who spreads lies is perfectly within Twitter's terms of service. The issues is doing it consistently.

I can't tell you how many times I have reported lies about elections and Covid on twitter and almost always it's "We found nothing wrong with this".
thx for the clarification
You allege bias, but the CEO of your life insurance company is like the textbook example of someone whose incentives are aligned with yours…
It doesn't sound like you really tried to get this funding, but are mildly peeved it wasn't offered? If you want it, go get it. Unrelated: VCs aren't looking for 10x growth in the next 2 years. That's not a VC playbook.
I'm turning 40 this month and taking this idea seriously.
Yep but with real life implications such as social credits and in game credits to influence behavior.

For example we have people who forgo actual social interaction and instead favor synthetic relationships and achievements.

Potentially you could maid millions happy by giving them a synthetic world and IRL they live off some form of UBI but because the made up world is most of their existence they don’t mind nor care about their IRL standard of living going down, etc.
KiwiFarms is excluded for all the doxing and stalking material, not for "unpopular opinions".
Twitter is the worst of the social media platforms. Apart from these dark patterns that frustrate, abuse, and bully visitors into installing the app or logging in, they also force you to reveal your identity by adding a phone number. That’s leaving aside their constant propagandizing of the world via their censorship and imposition of their employees’ moralities on the diverse customers they claim to serve.

We need to convince everyone to stop using Twitter, stop paying attention to those that use it and give it power and credibility, seek regulation to treat it as a telecom utility, and evangelize a new decentralized politically neutral replacement.
The "Bitcoin as battery" analogy fails for at least two significant reasons, IMO:

1. If you spend energy to produce, say, charged batteries or aluminum or biodiesel, that allows you to do something useful with those resources without needing corresponding energy consumption later. When you spend energy to mine Bitcoin, there's no way to use it to decrease your future energy needs; you can only use it to pay others and induce them to produce something you want, spending even more energy in the process.

2. With most energy production methods, you can get at least a bit of extra efficiency by scaling up. But the Bitcoin economy in aggregate can't produce coins at a higher rate; the best you can do is compete for a larger slice of the fixed pie. So even though each individual miner is incentivized to spend more and more energy, the economies of scale are negative.
Have you tried martial arts? I've found myself bored with most exercise outside of martial arts and running.
Yes there are lots of problems with banking. Cryptocurrency does have a reason to exist, though of course we went and fucked it all up. It can help ordinary people outmaneuver oppressive regimes. It can perform that same core functions that banks can (i.e. keeping track of and moving around money) in a public and distributed way. The banking industry (often metonymically known as "Wall Street") is literally the canonical example of greed. There are problems with banking. In a better world, crypto can distribute the power of money. But, since it's a technology born within the system, it is instead used as a way of amassing value, and in the end only making the rich richer.
Indeed, but mixing units means it isn’t a comparison.
Is the roof slanted in the right direction? You are sending the water toward your house instead of away from it. This might create drainage problems in flash flood conditions.
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Simple: Because they're kind of regarded (through the law, by the courts) as a "public space".

Twitter should not censor anybody off their platform when the courts consider them a public forum, let alone elected officials.
The issue is that if Tesla does it, you have no recourse.

If a random dealership does this to me, I walk down the street to the other dealership and buy a car from them.
ENS is the way forward
Huh wasn't that a plot point in breaking bad?
It's not "necessary" - it just is.
Ignoring the bitcoin mining idea, which despite being a bitcoin skeptic I kind of like.

The mistake is believing that domestic solar will ever provide better value for money than industrial scale solar or other green sources. The people making money on domestic solar are the companies selling it to the consumer.

That’s not to say that there aren’t valid reasons for installing domestic solar: ethical, emotional, off grid, resilience.
The thing about battery is that you can take the energy out of it. It stores energy. That's the entire point of a battery. How on earth can you do that with Bitcoin? If you can't, Bitcoin isn't a battery, it's a black hole.
From reading that Wiki article, I can surmise that Google just dances in the middle ground to protect their profit stream. You could also say that corporate capitalism has no soul.
How come they market whole life policies?

There's narrow circumstances where they might make sense, but that's about it.
Fair enough. We're in Karlovy Vary region and everything has seemed very efficient.

One thing I have noticed is that Czechs are very critical of their country, which to my eyes seems to function quite well, for what it's worth.

Canadians put up with far worse and yet will defend it. Also, our whole country has a doctor shortage. No sane doctor stays in Canada when the US pays multiples more...
I bought a budget stationary bike and have an ant+ cadence and heart rate sensor and use Golden Cheetah to see the data live on my computer. I don't care much for power generated as long as I feel like I am exercising but it can be estimated. More accuracy would require an extra sensor. It's the same data Peleton shows and if I wanted I could use Peleton for just the monthly subscription price. I paid USD 600(bike) + 20(cadence sensor) + 90(hr chest strap sensor, polar h10) + 20(ant+ usb dongle). I can log my heart rate and cadence on my phone as well, I can move the sensors to my mountain bike. I have an android and use Jepster and upload to Strava.

I love that I am not tied in to Peleton. I chose not to buy clip-on shoes although that's an option and would just require buying the pedals and shoes.

My university had les mills classes and I enjoyed them and so I got their subscription for on demand classes. They have this class called The Trip where they have generated a virtual biking track that is in sync to music. I can't imagine a more immersive at home workout. Les Mills also has full body workouts as well as yoga. There are certain historical workouts that they took down because they don't have the rights to the songs anymore but they release new workouts regularly.

https://youtu.be/vf11nvNGjuQ

I am looking into Zwift but I can't justify paying the subscription price. If anyone knows any good free virtual biking roads software that interfaces with ant+ sensors please let me know. I don't care as much about the social biking part of zwift.

One day I want to see what VR and exercise can bring but I don't imagine sweating in a VR headset is pleasant. I have only heard good things about beat saber though.
would be cool to see research about total energy cost of traditional financial systems, that bitcoin is trying to replace
Because Verizon isn't broadcasting your conversation to the world.
Television has been the default communication mechanism for many years, and as such is already regulated. I believe the problem with TV is that you cannot lie in political advertising, which is probably why MTG was not using that platform. This is an old and tired argument, dismissed long ago to avoid propaganda and public risks. MTG has not been banned from TV, she has all the Democratic access she needs.
I don’t disagree with you, I am just ruminating about making a personal decision to stop using Twitter. I did that years ago for Facebook (now, less than ten minutes a month in FB).

I am having some difficulty deciding whether I think the major Platforms should be public regulated services or the property of companies that can do anything they want to with their property. My opinion changes on this…
I’m not sure Streisand effect applies here. Anyone roughly aware of American politics knows MTG’s looniness. And Twitter has already banned DJT which was a bigger thing. This isn’t going to bring attention where there wasn’t any already.
> Does anyone knows how to debug it?

Toggle Airplane mode on and off.

Bluetooth is problematic on every platform. Restarting it is the usual fix.
We can look at stats. The US isn't the only country with vaccines.
People really need to multiply that death rate against a population of people who are likely to be infected. And they are skipping this step for whatever reason.

A death rate of 20% isn’t bad if it’s a rare disease that has a 10 cases worldwide (2 deaths), whereas a 0.2% death rate is devastating for a highly contagious virus that spreads rapidly over the planet (millions of deaths)
Twitter doesn't need to care about the Streisand effect. The goal was to remove her from being their problem. Mission accomplished

Let her go elsewhere
If a theory has been labeled as raving mad racism, only those that are comfortable with the cost of that being labelled thus will speak up.

I don’t see where the media deserves a pass.
Government data does not say that. The CDC recorded 100k drug overdose deaths in 2020[1], ~75% of which were from opioids. They don't have a breakdown of how many of those 75k opioid deaths were fentanyl, but it's an order of magnitude below just the confirmed number of COVID-19 deaths in 2020[2].

Edit: The reporting in this article is remarkably bad: it confuses a two-year range (Jan-2020 to Dec-2021) with a one-year range, and itself contains a number that's nowhere near the number of COVID deaths:

> The drug has taken just shy of 80,000 people's lives between January 2020 and December 2021.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/...

[2]: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211122/us-covid-deaths-202...
No arbitrary limitations.
I tried many things.. playing games, drawing, hardware, sales.. etc.
I have a son who is just about 10 years old, and he’s getting to the age where he’s beginning to realize how irrational our world is.

We recently had a conversation discussing the fact that we could eradicate hunger and the need for clean water globally, but for a whole host of reasons we have not yet done it.

He continues to probe “why“ and all I can say is, essentially, because people are greedy and unmotivated generally, and unwilling to sacrifice a modicum for others (not to mention corruption and other collective action problems).

I don’t think there is an answer.
The only way to beat Bitcoin or other proof-of-work cryptocurrencies is to remove the need for them. Bitcoin and other cryptos have a use-case; it may not be apparent to someone living in a developed country with access to a good banking system or it may be one you don't like and involves criminal activity, but there absolutely is a use-case.

The only way to stop this is if the traditional banking system catches up and covers all these use-cases, including undesirable ones. As the war on drugs proves, prohibition is expensive and doesn't work even for a physical asset, let alone something completely virtual that just needs software and a network connection.
How could anyone mistake a hedgehog for a lions mane? The same person would confuse apples and lettuce. They might also confuse toilets for fondue pots
Key word: should

I'm not suggesting they are suppressing or missing anything, but I would suggest we stay open to both possibilities.
I'd also say constituents shouldn't have to rely on for-profit (and in this case objectively harmful to society) advertising platforms in order to hear from elected officials or government. Where I am, Twitter seems to have become the default channel for many kinds of communication, and those of us who don't use it are excluded.
This is really more of a political question than a technical one. To me it’s hard to separate modern cryptocurrency from the historical context of it’s launch in 2009.
I think that Basic Auth is still working as is, so actually... why not?
We were promised a future of replicators and starships where the zero-sum scarce resource of fame was given to explorers like Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

We were given a present of increasing inequality and supply chain shortages where internet thought leaders fight it out for likes, subscribes, and RT’s.
All I can say is that I wish you well in your efforts to convince antivax folks (and those who grift on that, like MTG) on taking the vaccine. Good luck.
Unless they use an ad-blocker and don't even see it. (It's (supposed to be) opt-in.)
Is Earth Expanding or Shrinking?
For languages that don't give you a choice of signed vs. unsigned - giving you signed and sometimes arbitrary-precision integers - this debate is irrelevant.

I'll put it in my same mental bucket of "things that I no longer worry about", along with buffer overflows, wild pointers, etc that are eliminated by memory-safe languages.
A slightly tangential question, in regards to Bitcoin and Blockchain, that I (surprisingly?) haven't seen answered/asked: Blockchain is computationally intensive, but why does it has to be used for Bitcoin. There could be another solution, which achieves all its objectives, but isn't necessarily as convoluted. What am I missing? Why not just use SQL databases?
The problem is "practical value" is subjective.
Dr. Awkward and Olson in Oslo (1986) [pdf]
Isn't sigma for normal distributions of data? Is death rate normal on a 200-year timescale?
The key is not in eUTXO (allthough eUTXO is a great piece of work, especially because it solves a multitude of scaling issues in the long run), it is in the ledger's capability of handling custom assets natively. This way a wallet exactly shows you which tokens you own are affected by a contract invocation.

I don't know how solana handles assets but I personally stay clear from that ecosystem. Too much VC hype for my likes and way too little decentralization of funds.
The law has allowed the government to remove citizenship for decades. It's not new and this law does not change the government's powers in that regard. It merely makes it possible to remove citizenship without giving notice, something that was not possible previously.

(Shamima Begum is a terrorist sympathizer who left the UK to join ISIS. She is a traitor and the government did the right thing.)
I don't know if this fits the criteria, but I'd like fuzzy search[1] functionality in the browser, to search page contents. I know there's an old extension[2] that does this, but I think it has a few bugs.

I also use Find & Replace for Text Editing[3] that also searches/replaces regex, but it's not the same as a quick fuzzy search.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_string_matching
[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fuzbal/lidjpicdkcgjdkgifmmpalkibjeppdof
[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/find-replace-for-text-edi/jajhdmnpiocpbpnlpejbgmpijgmoknnl
That's pretty normal, at least for the last few decades of American life. There is not a major natural cause of death for people 18-65. They die of suicide, accidental overdoses, and car crashes.
That's not what she said. From the article:

Twitter suspended Ms. Greene’s account after she tweeted on Saturday, falsely, about “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths.”
Stat from who? Are you sure you can believe the official stats and so called opendata? I'm not
My tech predictions for 2022 (and beyond)
Covid is vanishingly unlikely to kill people in this age group. I always find it hard to find a clear number when I Google for a recent IFR, but it’s a fraction of a fraction of a percent.
I don't think there's much direct evidence to support natural spillover event other than that much of the initial spread could be localized to a wet market, which may have had vendors selling meat from animals known to carry these types of viruses. That seems like pretty weak evidence, though. Other than that, IMO we should have very high prior weight assigned to the natural origin hypothesis in the Bayesian sense, so even without new direct evidence it's still reasonable to believe that hypothesis to be more likely.
What a great and in-depth response. Thank you!
I saw a recent meme that said "In the distant past we didn't have cancel culture, we had exile culture. You were just told to leave."

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

And people still do -- Marjorie can start a blog on a vps and I'm sure most providers would be reasonably okay with it, unless she became a DDoS target (possible).

If you are upset because the people that gave her that platform said "you are doing it wrong" this happens in the physical world too. If you show up to a sports arena (a place with a large group of people that are captive) and hang a sign in the stands with an "unacceptable" message, the arena will ask you to take it down or force you to.

Platforms have a brand, and they are filtering for their own brand reputation.

I hate that our web is more "centralized" but all of these actions are going to enable more decentralization to happen because of it.
I've also been hoping for the same thing. The faster the current system falls apart, the less painful it will be.
The years of daily grind combined with a feeling of hopelessness is what hurts people the most and causes lasting resentment.
Being skeptical doesn't mean that the numbers are not to be believed. It means that the numbers are to be investigated. Often, unintuitive numbers turn out to be accurate after investigation, but unless we do the hard work of investigation, we can't know.
Very nice, thanks a lot, will try it out. Does the synth have gui?
Your conversation with your mom is private communication, while your tweets are broadcast communications.
The terrible voting system is mostly to blame here. The current government got a minority of the votes (43%) but that led to a huge majority in Parliament. (Obligatory CGP Grey video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo)
> If someone is trying to compromise or even locate accounts tied to your email, wouldn't you want to know?

What course of action could be taken when you get an email like this indicating a "hacker" is trying their luck to see if your email address has an account on BestBuy.com even though you don't have an account there (and probably never will)?

I've had my email address for 16 years, lots of "hackers" are aware of it due to account list leaks from various services I have used over that time and there is an entire industry which tries to compromise accounts from these lists.

If I got notified of every automated script's failed attempt to do something malicious involving my email address, I would probably get several notifications a week, possibly per day, all of which are probably unactionable.

So to answer your question, no, I most definitely wouldn't want to know about someone trying see if my email address was used for an account on some random website I'll never use.

On the the other hand, if a password of mine was being used by a "hacker", that I would want to know about.
PoW mining (at least), must be made illegal. I have no doubts that it will end by becoming illegal, the question is how and when.

It boggles the mind that there is now essentially a worldwide tax on semiconductors, which is used to do... nothing of any value whatsoever.

And this thing just keeps growing. The effects will be felt in more and more economic sectors. Something will have to give.

So, the only question is: Will we be smart enough to ban it soon and avert the worst consequences, or will this thing blow up in a huge way and we ban it afterwards.
Founder here. Thanks for your questions and notes. You're right our home page should include more information. Working on it.

> Where do my data go? Are they encrypted on disk?

Currently data is stored on central servers. We don't see this as our long term approach. It's what we have had to do while trying to realize this project with limited resources.

> Will they be shared with others

No. Your data is not shared with others. You can also create journals that are private and public on Futureland.

> Is it free (gratis), or what is the pricing?

Pricing is $5/month for unlimited entries. Your first 75 entries are free.

> is it a toy/game or a tool?

It is a tool that aspires to feel fun to use like a toy or a game.

I am going to take all of these notes and reflect them in an updated home page shortly. thank you!!!
I don't know what's going on and I'm scared.
>> To validate the index, you need two comparisons.

If your code doesn't have bugs, no validation of indexes is required.