skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Name one time in history your question is relevant. Until recently, bans were either by law and effectively total, or the 'speech' in question is quite limited in reach. When was there ever a social network-like thing in the past?

But, I'll play your game. "Any newspaper in history". They all have or had a policy that they'd only post those letters sent in that were interesting, and would never post outright lies or inflammatory stuff just to get a kick out of things, unless they posted it with a boatload of editorializing around it. Or they WOULD post such things, but only because they were actively attempting to espouse that logic (fox news is certainly not the first channel that is fairly nakedly attempting to steer the conversation towards an entire party's worth of political viewpoints - that's been something newspapers have been doing for a long time, read some editorials of 1900s newspapers for a few laughs).

You really think a newspaper that adopted a system where they'd post every letter verbatim regardless of content (as long as the content wasn't illegal on its own) or some sort of lottery system where they'd post randomly selected content, regardless of what it was? - that such a newspaper would have flourished, or that a society that likes that kind of newspaper would have? That's.. crazy talk.

I can hear you say; Nah, that does not apply - not what I'm talking about. Okay. So, then - what? Name me _anything_ in history that is neither directly governmental or otherwise 'total' (a ban or other pressure to eliminate a certain kind of discourse means virtually nobody hears it, no matter what the one wanting to say it tries to do about it - usually an outright government-backed ban on something - which is not relevant here. There are plenty of other platforms out there).
I’m thinking that a stable library should do a x.x.X release periodically that might go no further than bumping the version number (and maybe fixing typos in the docs) to make it clear it’s not abandoned.
Ah, thanks for the correction
Humans are disgusting (and i mean the buyers) and this is one of the stories that makes me hope the next pandemic will do a better job.
There may have been an UFAI (UnFriendly AI) involved in the timeline there.
> YouTube suspended [...] after he posted a video where he questioned the effectiveness of using masks against the coronavirus, a violation of the company's pandemic-related misinformation policy

Is this true? How does this make sense, questioning is misinformation? (Am I already breaching a misinformation policy by asking these questions?).
> I'm confused why this is anti-trust. Isn't this how all wholesale vendor deals work?

Amazon has to have it tough - it is often both a retailer and distributor at the same time. The problem here was getting multiple retailers (of which Amazon was one) to agree to set pricing (this is textbook price fixing). If I leave out the part about Amazon being the marketplace, this seems like a slam-dunk price fixing case. If we view it like a wholesale agreement, I think it's a lot harder to see what the AG was after.
So your argument is that it's ok to avoid the wash sale rule because you are unlikely to get caught?
I will agree with Censoring Alex Jones, if you agree to censoring Rachel Maddow
Elon Musk Sees Human Robot Becoming Bigger Than Tesla’s Car Business
You really went out of your way, there, to cover any potential misinterpretation. Thanks for being a considerate part of the community!
> No one is entitled to be given a "platform" to spread their message. Youtube is a megaphone and they have all the rights to control which messages they want to amplify.

Exactly, and this is what so many discussions of social media "censorship" miss. You have a right to say whatever you want. You don't have a right to have whatever you say automatically broadcast (and algorithmically surfaced to) millions of users.

It would be like arguing that a newspaper should be required to publish anything anyone wrote.
How can it be throwing the baby out with the bathwater when it isn't a replacement for X (and I assume you are implying X is the web)?

I love the idea of a set of technologies targeted at text, and only text.

Nobody is saying you can't have the web. I'm not giving it up.

On the other hand, I welcome the a place I can go and not being accosted by ads, images, videos and cookie banners. A place where content is king.
In a group, sure. On your own though it's an incredible technique to get over mental hurdles. Instead of letting yourself get distracted because a problem seems insurmountable or you can't see a path all the way through, try brainstorming entirely by yourself.

It can provide psychological safety for your own subconscious. Write down every idea, regardless of how ridiculous it is. Every "What if I...". I sometimes do a question and answer format in a simple text/markdown document. Write out a question that's one facet of the issue you're working on, and answer it with a bunch of different options. Then discard or select or flesh out the responses. Ask questions about what might and might not work with each option.

It's amazing what having a few different new paths to try can do for your energy levels and motivation.
Actions like this do nothing to repair the growing rift between conservative and liberal groups.
Of course HCL sucks. Terraform
isnt infra as code, it’s infra as config. Use CDK or Bicep or Pulumi to have a proper IaC setup.
I worked at IDEO for a few years.

None of the brainstorms I've ran, or taken part in, ended with a, "eureka, that's it!" type of moment.

And coming up with the 'solution' was never the point. It was about doing something generative, creative, and fun together. It was about engaging folks and collaborating in a different way than they might be used to. I'd also start by offering a few very poorly drawn, completely nonsensical ideas.

Discovery work to get to a viable 'solution' takes weeks - months - years. Nobody assumes it happens during a one hour brainstorming session.
You probably need to create a new Google account while connected to a VPN in one of the supported regions.
Are you concerned the financial motive will drive them to break up too many companies? Because right now I think that’s a great idea
> We never trusted politicians. We never trusted corporate executives. We never trusted lawyers.

And we should keep it that way! These individuals objectives are not aligned with those of Joe & Jill Everyman.
It reads to me like the sexual harassment trainings.

Those specifically tell you what not to do to limit the legal liability of the company.

Nowhere in any sexual harassment training video have I ever seen anything saying that if you have the urge to sexually harass people to seek a support group or find another, less socially harmful outlet for your energies, not anything.

It's strictly about treating the symptoms and not the disease.

Although, now that I've thought about it, I guess this is more like, "use these methods to prevent yourself from observing sexual harassment so that you can't legally report it" so... yeah.
No, that is at the top of the ocean, the part where the carbonic acid is all going right now.

There is way more "bottom" than most people can conceive of.
> the orange site

This one isn't new to me. My old boss used to call it that.
I would agree that it is not irrelevant. My language there may have been too strong.

I was probably thinking that the other factors (personal protection, hospital capacity, and the political question of mandates) seem so much more significant to me. There's lots of lesser factors (side effects, the immuno-compromised, social cohesion, etc).

I guess I kind of looked at variants as a wash, given they are so much out of our control and there are many unknowns. It's in the realm of possibility that the current vaccines could leave us more susceptible to future variants (a la original antigenetic sin). Hard to make a decision on less significant unknowns.
From https://rancherdesktop.io/ :

> Kubernetes and Container Management on the Desktop:

> An open-source desktop application for Mac, Windows and Linux.

> Rancher Desktop runs Kubernetes and container management on your desktop. You can choose the version of Kubernetes you want to run. You can build, push, pull, and run container images using either containerd or Moby (dockerd). The container images you build can be run by Kubernetes immediately without the need for a registry.

How does Rancher Desktop compare to Docker Desktop in terms of e.g. k8s support?
Not always. I've seen the name photoshopped on the listing photos and then be completely absent on the actual item.
Google does not certify WSA builds for GMS, so you won't get Google Play Games integration, which is one of the key features touted by Google in this announcement.
I don't think there's really any headphones that provide "great"[1] sound quality and noise cancelling + bluetooth. There's necessary tradeoffs that need to be made and physical limitations that mean that sound quality and noise cancelling ability are kind of at odds with each other.

You can definitely get "good"[1] sound quality + noise cancelling, but for me at least most decent non noise cancelling headphones sound noticeably better than my Sony XM4s, even at much lower price points. I'm fine with this though, because I use my XM4s when I need to focus without being distracted by background noise and they do an amazing job at that.

(There's also the issue of bluetooth signal not being as good as wired, and the DAC/Amplification needing to be built into the headphones but I don't think that's having as much of an impact on the overall sound signature - it hasn't been my experience when using bluetooth adapters on some other headphones, and using the XM4s wired).

[1] Obviously peoples subjective idea of "good" vs "great" vary wildly, I'm just sharing my subjective opinion on things.
Loopgrab (an Autopilot for the Looptap Game)
Is it possible to build a machine learning (ML) based driver that will perform as well or better on the same machine?
i feel like i can't identify issues in my life because I am so used to doing workarounds. this is why everything needs to be tested by someone else that is completely separate from the work, their fresh perspective will point out such obvious issues and your first reaction should never be to balk and say "no but you just do it like this"
pirate bay
I want a robot to land on Europa, drill, through her icy top layer, explore the oceans underneath, and send us pretty pictures… in my lifetime.
This Should Be the Death of NFTs
no, but the obvious emphasis was on spaaaaaace which is the part that matters. doesn't really matter what it is that's in spaaaaaace, its just the fact that it's in spaaaaaace that needs the emphasis. you can almost imagine a theramin playing in the background level of campy going one with the theme.

telescopes in spaaaace is so much more than lowly terrestrial scopes. i mean, we don't say telescopes on earrrrrth.
Well, the competitor did agree to sell the items to Amazon. Nobody forced them. They did it for economic benefit. So I don't understand the problem here.
I didn't know they were actively standing behind Rogan - I kind of expected they signed him on before he went completely off the deep end and are now just keeping up the status quo.

I will go cancel my Spotify subscription now.
How is this different from Kroger getting to set the prices of both Lay’s and their store brand chips?
I don't think Speaker's Corner is in the Boston Common, but in general, yes, DDOS is an effective form of censorship, and freedom of speech ceases to exist where it holds sway.
Great writeup! I'm self-taught so I worked kind of naively on a different approach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30050231

I'm hoping to get the 3.4 result, soon, in a Rust program I'm writing!
A big advantage of the robos is that they time the rebalancing a little better. Manually rebalancing your own Vanguard ETFs at the same time once a quarter is pretty arbitrary - it's based on what's convenient to you, but it's not necessarily what's mathematically best for your portfolio.

If your allocation percentages remain very stable, you might not need to rebalance at all at the end of a quarter. If your allocations fall way out of whack, you might want to rebalance a portion of your portfolio earlier, and robos handle that timing for you.

I'd be surprised if the better timing doesn't provide 0.25% of value, not to mention it's just one less thing to have to think about.
Mandates work up to a point. Eventually you will be left with a portion of the population that cannot be convinced and will not obey mandates.

Once you've reached that point, what purpose does the mandate serve? Nobody else is going to get the vaccines, so there is no public health justification for keeping the mandate around. However, what remains is the continual need to provide your vaccine status to your employer and in various other aspects of your daily life, which is a burden for vaccinated people too.

The United States has probably already reached that point, or will soon.
Nit: This is a function of the file system, not the operating system.
Americans just used a nuclear powered air conditioner...
That doesn't make any sense to me.

If the argument is that Amazon is a dominant retailer and sells its own brand goods to dominate particular segments then exactly the same applies to, say, Walmart.

How does the "sold by Amazon" contract relate to that?
CVE-2022-22590 Sounds scary
> Arguably the more important outcome than monetary damages

Every single consumer that bought a product from one of these third party sellers, or a matching product from Amazon, has been cheated out of several dollars. For each product, for each sale... that adds up to way more than $2.5 million.

And the funny part is that a few database queries could likely surface exactly who has been harmed, how many times, and a gross sale amount affected.

Easy proof for a class action?
I thought it was a joke when shown at 'AI day'
An MSX machine?
They were sold as >90% effective when introduced.

But it was made abundantly clear that the original vaccines were less effective against newer strains.
Right but how do you mandate the use of Fediverse (as opposed to tiktok/fb/insta/twitter/substack/etc.)?
Actions like what? Receiving a temporary ban for spreading harmful misinformation and then receiving a permanent ban after evading that ban.

> YouTube suspended one of Bongino's YouTube channels on Jan. 20 after he posted a video where he questioned the effectiveness of using masks against the coronavirus, a violation of the company's pandemic-related misinformation policy. His later attempt to circumvent that one-week suspension by posting from another channel triggered a permanent ban, YouTube said.
Even with the relatively fast-moving ones you could still check in later and just quote a previous entry. Discussions tended to be deeper because of the format, less prone to quick little flurries of discussions that petered out once they were downvoted or not upvoted. Speaking of which, I don't remember any kind of upvoting of comments. The users on the board might show special icons if they were a mod and it usually gave an idea of how long they had been there or how active they had been. Discussions were expected to take a while, which encouraged more in-depth replies.
Not at all. I am simply describing my experience with salescritters as a SWE. A good company gives Engineering a seat at the table but sometimes you have to deal with things imposed from higher up. This is especially true in a large company.

That said I think that we are a particularly gullible cohort with misplaced desire for novelty and shiny tech. We overrationalize in favor of these desires and have a hard time walking a mile in others' shoes. And companies know this and exploit this to constantly fill our heads with noise and bad ideas that happen to be profitable for them. This is one of my biggest beefs with "tech" in general, and why I am taking some time off from this trade.
> They may have some details wrong, but do you think their overall impression of the event is wildly inaccurate?

Jan 6th, BLM protests, and the pandemic are all Rorschach tests.

Unlike 9/11, the 1992 LA riots, and the Spanish Flu, the more recent events occupy a mushy middle ground of severity - a lot of people can go either way when deciding if they're the worst thing ever or just nuisances.

The ambiguity is causing people who feel strongly - in either direction - to lose their minds when they encounter dissenting or even just lackadaisically held positions on these events.
Agree. Linux BT audio is relatively stable. Also it's the only desktop OS that supports LDAC codec.
It is possible to embed a users public key (from a private/public key pair) in the zk circuit, so that the proof would be tied to it. In a blockchain setting this could tie each proof to a user; only releasing a reward if they both can prove knowledge of coordinates, and also initiate the transaction from the associated address in the circuit (thus proving they know the private key).
Very sad. The internet was crafted and promoted in a spirit of radical social experimentation, where all kinds of ideas could be shared at light-speed all over the world, each man could have a mouthpiece, and we'd have access to the greatest library of unfiltered information ever devised.

These internet companies have ridden the crest of this wave of revolution in human thinking, many glorifying their interest in human revolutions along the way.

As private enterprises these companies have the right to police their platforms, but they betray the spirit that gave wind to this experiment in human Idea.

And now we are seeing the grand experiment failing.

The last 245 years have seen a great experiment in society and freedom, with the society to speak freely, and that the Market of Ideas might itself guide truth, arbitration by the few kept to a minimum. The Internet has been the culmination of this experiment. We are in danger of failing it today.

I say WE, because it is ultimately us today collectively, with however much influence we can afford to effect, many Americans and also citizens of the world, that hold within our power to determine for good or for ill the course of our time in the span of the generations. It is US: We are the ones who are fated to determine whether a world society can truly withstand free discourse or crumble utterly beneath it, that the individual of society today might have in his ability in the greater average to discern Truth where the matter is up to his faculties, and that this Truth may will out from the collective good minds and hearts of all men upon this Earth. This is the moment in history, let us not fail this chance to today together continue to craft the free societies of tomorrow with good faith in the heart of mankind. If enough of us do our part honestly, there is a good chance that the generations of tomorrow might look on this moment and say, "In this time, the goodness of humanity prevailed." WBS
“Influencing” is the right word. YouTube corporate is probably the most powerful influencer there ever was.

After the lab leak ban fiasco you would think they would quietly abandon this. But no, it’s all laid completely bare now. YouTube has a political agenda to push and they’re pushing it.
The pandemic was the best thing that happened to Peloton until it was the worst
There is an interesting and (imo) humbling take I heard about this from a local radio host who was asking the same question ("what motivates somebody to expose their true value?"). In this case, the host brought up that several (all?) of Neil Young's children suffer from medical maladies, which may cause him to be more sensitive to situations that he believes could cause them undue harm. I still disagree with Neil's position and decision, but I found that this really helped humanize him in ways other pundits have missed.
I've been playing with YouTube music and got to say it's been a great alternative to Spotify for now. Secretly afraid of Google killing it off though
Just to be clear, the difference from wholesaling is that in your example, Amazon has the right to set your prices, but it doesn't buy anything from you?

If Amazon actually buys your cat mugs, and then prices them higher than its own cat mugs, such that customers buy Amazon mugs and don't buy your mugs, you still sold all your mugs and there would seem to be no problem.
Sounds awesome. Thanks for posting. It'd be great to be able to import this into a Jupyter notebook or script rather than doing it on the command line. Don't know how useful it is as a command line tool.
At least their issues are relatively benign compared to the hot mess that is Windows. Had to re-install a friend's Asus all-in-one PC last weekend and god this was not fun. Took over a day worth of downloading Windows updates, battling Realtek's audio driver and Intel's chipset drivers until everything was finally working as expected (and most of the drivers are from 2016 - only God knows how much exploit surface these have!). Anything Bluetooth on Windows is still a hit-and-miss. And then you have to research on how to disable all the phone home crap, the ads and other bloat.

Linux is even worse, where even basic stuff such as suspend to disk or 3D acceleration regularly takes days or weeks worth of sifting through StackExchange posts, mailing lists, obscure blogs and 2010-era Debian Wiki posts.

And don't get me started on the clusterfuck that is Android. Got a new iPhone? No problem, transferring all the data is painless. Migrating in the Android world? Good luck getting even half of your stuff working.

Compared to all that, Apple is a fucking breeze to work with, because the competition is just mind bogglingly bad.
Spotify to Take Down Neil Young’s Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum
Bogleheads has my favorite forum feature (which I haven’t seen elsewhere) which is that their home page is all posts from all sub forums ordered by most recent so you rarely have to click around to find updates. That and absurdly good content, incredibly little drama, and almost no politics
How does it differ from OneNote?
Religion is the only reason and purpose which motivate their minimal use of technology. There are many different sorts of Amish, each with different rules (in the tradition of protestant sects which split on a regular basis), depending on which amount and type of technology they believe would interfere with their devotion. It is not some sort of hippy community which rejects the excess of modern technology and wraps some spirituality around it. It is the other way round.
Perfect. Amazon is a leech.
It would be the same, except

- Kroger isn't 50% of all grocery stores on earth

- Kroger paid money up front for your potato chips

- Kroger isn't charging you for storing your potato chips
>participating sellers had limited, if any, ability to lower the price of their products without withdrawing the product’s enrollment in the Sold by Amazon program.

This sounds similar to how traditional retail works though: If company $A sells products through big box store $B, there may be an agreed upon price (Apple does this), but $B usually has discretion over pricing, and might stop carrying a $A's product if $A wants to sell elsewhere at a lower price. In this case the seller could still sell on Amazon, just not as an official Amazon-sponsored product. So I'm not sure how this reaches an anti-trust level when it appears substantially similar to normal retail sales. In fact in supermarkets it's not uncommon for the store to sell its own competing products-- the store brand-- which seems to fit the Amazon situation as well.
If we take the media's 2018 claims of 181 tonnes (earth weight) of human trash on the moon, then SpaceX's 4 tonne moon trash delivery here will represent about 2.2%.