skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was excited to read this but sadly the author provides hardly any examples to support their statements, and several of their complaints are desirable properties of a provisioning lifecycle management tool (e.g., the complaint that multiple users of a shared terraform component need to contend with a state lock -- hint: this is a good thing...)
I feel like the title should be changed to emphasize that it has been banned from schools, not banned per se. Reading the meeting comments, it seems like most of their objections are with the profanity and nudity in the book. That opens up a very separate sphere of discussions from your standard free speech/cancel culture debates - what topics should kids or teenagers be exposed to?
Interesting. I like Hacker News because its community is so great compared to nearly every other platform I know. Too bad that we can't talk about stuff like this.
Now that electric cars are becoming the norm he needs a new hook to keep Tesla relevant and above the rest of the car companies. Tesla's experience with robotics will be a huge advantage. The droid may never be viable but at the very least it's a great marketing hook that will keep people interested in Tesla the company for years to come. Which, in turn, will continue to keep advertising costs close to zero.

I have to give it to him. The man is a marketing genius.
Everyone is missing the core game mechanic - the ability to share a "spoiler free" report of your game on social media. For example, my (human operated) game from today:

Wordle 222 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬜

⬛⬜⬛⬜⬛

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜

However, this isn't truly spoiler free. It still leaks information. From what I posted above alone, you can infer that the last letter is probably a relatively common one.

With the help of Twitter's APIs (or in my case, a janky screen-scraping script), you can trivially gather thousands of these emojified game logs. I do not consider this cheating, because sharing these is part of the game.

You can use these, in aggregate, to perform frequency analysis. I haven't shared my code yet because I'm still working on it, but as an example, here's the output from my script for day 216:

https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1484669351261347842

Out of all the possible words, it ranked the correct solution at rank 5 - and that's before providing a single input to the game.

Edit: Replaced green blocks with "⬜" because HN doesn't like them.
Who has proposed compelled publication, and what form would that policy take? Perhaps they wish for the FCC to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine (lasted from 1949-1987)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
Ah, that is a helpful distinction. I had been thinking that JWST was for radio observations, but it's the opposite of course; JWST is for making high energy observations of things like gamma rays.
When has limiting access to knowledge ever been a good thing? This is probably the most disappointing thing I've read on the internet in a while.
Looking at the meeting minutes, one of the board members named Mike Cochran is pretty upset with the comic book. He says its too graphic and inappropriate. There's swearing and the comic goes in great detail about the father of the main character losing his virginity and the mother cutting herself. There's naked depictions. His justification is that he's not concerned about the Holocaust stuff, he thinks the book is inappropriate for 7th-8th graders because of its graphic vulgar depictions.

Then he goes on about an unrelated poem that uses the word ecstasy, and is upset that there's a question that children have to answer about what ecstasy is. He thinks its something to do with children being indoctrinated into vulgarity, sexuality, and inappropriateness.

...lol.

I hate to break HN etiquette but this isn't so much about Holocaust denialism but really dumb people having really dumb hot takes.

It boggles my mind that the depiction of nudity and sexual 'vulgarity' is somehow a greater cause for concern than the depiction of mass murder and dead bodies. Literal piles of corpses are okay but a titty isn't for Mr. Cochran.
There are recipes I've been cooking for 15 years that are on forum posts. I've searched for them all this time with google, and now they have disappeared.

I can find them by manually navigating around the archives of the forums, but to most modern search engines they do not exist.

We are losing a lot with the direction that these search engines are going in.
I ain't no fan of Rogan no more, he's gone off the deep end.

But yeah, it's the only sane decision not to let one content creator strong arm you into booting other content creators he doesn't like.

I don't care if you're right or wrong (because he is right, Rogan is misinformation these days), but you don't get to control who gets to say what.
https://archive.is/F5EUj
The headline is kind of confusing. He's pulling himself from Spotify. Nobody is making him go.
A better way to say Hello
We didn't have a large, loud faction of conspiracy theorist celebrities and politicians disseminating disinformation about public health in the middle of a pandemic any time in the last 100 years either.
FLAC would be easier, maybe. But at minimum it should be played on a MMX Pentium.
What? You sound aggrieved & not entirely logical.

It is relativism to equate taking down the statues and banning this book, unfortunately.
I know both sides engage in this. And I'm not in support.
It is natural to certain extent, I did the same at that age. We have a lowpass filter that makes outstanding/outrageous facts (like H) difficult to believe. It takes a while to accept that we humans are actually capable of H, CP and other things.

Another instance of that misleading lowpass filter: "if that happened to group J, the J people must have been doing something to deserve it".
There are 100s of new articles around the country about hospitals near or at capacity and patient care being affected, due to omicron surge. Here is just one:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-20/hospital...
This is the third article I've seen here today where the title makes it sound like Spotify's decision, when in fact it was Young's decision.
No, because no matter the outcome, that would be feeding into JR pockets.
Discontinued April 2017

Must not've been that great of a selling point
Neil Young insulting young people: "Most of the listeners...on SPOTIFY are 24 years old, impressionable and easy to swing to the wrong side of the truth." [1]

24yo's don't need informational protection by the actions of crusty old rockers.

Neil Young: "...these young people, people who believe what they are hearing because it is on SPOTIFY.... they think everything they hear on SPOTIFY is true."

Ridiculous and condescending. He thinks young people are mindless zombies, dazzled by big tech platform brands, unable to think for themselves.

Neil Young: "unfortunately SPOTIFY continues to peddle the lowest quality in music reproduction. So much for art. Soon my music will live on in a better place."

He sounds like a grumpy old man, throwing around ultimatums, then burning bridges on his way out when the plan didn't work.

[1] https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/1/article?id=Spotify-In-T...
From the minutes:

> So, my problem is, it looks like the entire curriculum is developed to normalize sexuality, normalize nudity and
normalize vulgar language
Interesting how you back up your claim that Rogan is spreading disinformation by referencing a publication known for disinformation.

The Duke rape case completely blew up Rollingstones credibility pretty much forever it was that egregious.
> That is not true. Pfizer is going to be making a lot more money from their COVID treatments than from the vaccine.

Not if the vaccines don't work!
No, the opposite actually. When the ad market fell apart we launched a paid subscriber program. It immediately turned us into an app that cared about a smaller number of high value users. Almost everything we wanted to add was for those folks - personalization and collaboration features, mostly.

Ads have never been fun to build around.
There's a big difference between "saying things that go against the status quo" and spreading obvious and dangerous misinformation, lies and conspiracy theories.
"Bonds belong in tax advantaged accounts, then taxable."

That's true when say taxable bonds are yielding 8% and municipal bonds 6%. But when taxable bonds are yielding 2% (about the current 10-year U.S. Treasury yield), the tax hit from owning them in a taxable account is small, and maybe the growth assets such as stocks belong in a Roth IRA.
Yes I've heard that before, but I don't think the comparison makes it impossible that this time is different. It's the shift from fighting for freedom to using more and more obscure perceived slights as a pretext for complaining that makes this time different. The goal is not equality or rights, the goal is securing the status of an elite
Ironically they do more cancelling than anybody- every Conservative that hasn't kissed the previous president's ring has been cancelled.
When we say it's being "banned", what is that meant to mean? The way I read this, there is a school board that doesn't want to use a particular book when teaching a course. That seems a long way from "banning the book". It doesn't mean the book won't be available for sale, or for loan from a library, or that the book would be confiscated from kids that happened to be in possession of it.

Although I happen to think that the reasons the school board used to arrive at its decision are dubious (I think eighth graders probably know and use worse language than the stuff they're handwringing over), if they can find something that works as effectively for the purposes of the curriculum then it all seems rather overblown.
So my options are switching between streaming platforms or having Rogan's podcast censored down to the guests you and Neil Young like?

I don't love my options.
I always thought snowflake was pointing at the idea that everyone is unique.
But its not like CP wasn't censored before it was illegal. The reason CP was sold through the mail in the first place is that reputable and moral private businesses wouldn't sell it in brick and mortar shops, even after porn as a whole became mainstream enough to sell in a storefront.
The problem with this kind of requests if you comply with it, then you've set a precedence. Then who knows who else is going to get offended and then start demanding something else to be taken down.

And the worst case scenario in this attention hungry culture how many others will start making demands like this just for more publicity? I can't read minds. I didn't know this artist before this debacle. It certainly brought him a lot of free publicity. How many people are going to start doing the same now given the amount of free publicity?
I can say I have had all of the issues listed in the post with three different bluetooth headphones. Random disconnections, only left or right speaker working, drivers issue on anything that was not an android phone, having to turn off bluetooth on phone when using on pc, having to deactivate phone and mic to boost bandwidth for audio (night and day difference).

I don't think I will ever buy bluetooth earbuds or headphones again, also because those devices are terrible for the environment.
300GB git repo... anyway, good to see there's work for merge in back to git proper, though it seems like that is still a work in progress (maybe) as https://github.com/Microsoft/git/ still seems pretty active.
The article seems to mostly parrot the two videos. They're worth watching, but remember to have a hard think about whether the authors may be over-reacting at points.

My opinion about what I remember: Completely agree regarding the gambling accusations and terrible exchange rates (definitely a platform issue). The "game studio"/abuse claims seem a little cherry picked and fear-mongering, however (I used to be in a Minecraft community in which some strange things happened. Does it have anything to do with Mojang?).
> you don't get to control who gets to say what.

Of course you do! If you have more leverage and power than the person you’re trying to silence, then you get to silence them.

See: Nearly every cop who killed an innocent person up until about the last 5 years.
If only we could have the world run exclusively by smart people. Let me guess, you’d be one of them?
> There is LITERALLY a 1000X delta in IFR between the youngest and oldest demographics.

This is the point that I can’t seem to express eloquently enough to overcome the nonstop torrent of poorly calibrated advice from the authorities. I don’t have time to pore over the data, but last time I checked the annualized death totals for children (17 and under) were approximately equal to the 2019 deaths from influenza for that age group. When the marginal benefit of vaccination gets that low, you do have to start asking whether the side effects are worth it—trading a 0.01% risk of myocarditis for a 2% risk of death is clearly worth it, but can you say the same when the risk of death is on the same order of magnitude as the side effects?

(edit: numbers are hand-wavy, not trying to make an authoritative point)
This argument goes both ways. Most people who are frothing at the mouth about this are either indifferent or happy about Big Tech's rampant censorship.
> after spending 150 billion British pounds

That's .. not a lot. Not as much you might expect terraforming and colonising _another planet_ to cost over 15 years, anyway. The UK's annual budget is £770B.
They definitely aren’t the same people. The folks rallying around Rufo largely seem to be traditionalist conservatives, who are often open against free speech. They’re often the same people who support flag burning bans.

I can think of a few opportunists who have latched onto him and dabbled in the cane l culture backlash stuff in the past, but they’re opportunists so of course they’re also hypocrites.

Who do you mean specifically?

[edit] it seems some people disagree. I’d be happy to hear what people think I’m missing, maybe I have the wrong read on this.
The range on airpods is shockingly good.
Salesforce Tower definitely has a cafeteria. I've been - they used to host a monthly board game night there.
It was expensive compared to spotify and the file sizes where way larger, since the files where in loseless format, something that is very niche, since most people cant tell the diference beetween a good quality mp3 and other formats.
Seriously. Old man, look at my life. I’m a lot like you were.
Thank you for sharing your experience!

I think it would go a long way towards building more civil communities if reddit would stop showing users their removed comments as if they have not been removed. In other words, let users see the red background on comments that moderators see [1].

The current system is duplicitous and breeds mistrust. It's possible that all the platforms do it, but as far as I know, reddit is the only one that has successfully scaled volunteer mods such that anyone can secretly censor anyone else.

[1] https://twitter.com/reveddit/status/1482249796841009154
why would he create content for joe if he disagrees with joe? Sounds to me like only one person is profiting from such an endeavour and its joe.
Rogan would have him on. And he’s a great conversationalist, very polite, so Young would be fine (incidentally that why I cant stand to listen to Rogan… too chill)

And you’ve heard Young’s songs. “Keep on rockin’ in the free world” (?) is a staple.

Young’s no Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) though. Easiest decision for Spotify ever
Per the linked[1] meeting minutes that it seems maybe three people in these comments read they don't really care about the book or it's message. They're quibbling about whether or not they can find an equivalent meaning book for teaching the same lessons that uses less foul language.

This is the most dry and mundane "book banning" I have ever heard of.

Furthermore, the minutes don't say anything about keeping it out of the school library which directly conflicts with what TFA alleges.

[1] https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_...
Yeah, but wires are also a subpar user experience, period. Rolling them up to store them, untangling them to use them, getting caught on things, routing them to the device, etc. There's a reason bluetooth headphones are still popular despite the downsides.
The article references as inspiration, Wing, "Computational Thinking", here:

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2006/3/5977-computational-thi...

Wing advocates/predicts the increased use of abstraction and computational methods in all types of thinking, including daily domesticity.

Aho and Ullman (instantly recognizable names as textbook authors) seem to be recapping high points of comp. sci. but (to me) don't seem to be making the connection back to ordinary mundane cognition.
Do you have a reference? It seems "long COVID" isn't completely understood, especially in the young: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/young-people-less-...
>> Young, a long-time proponent of high-resolution music files, also wrote that "many other platforms, Amazon, Apple, and Qobuz, to name a few, present my music today in all its High-Resolution glory—the way it is intended to be heard, while unfortunately Spotify continues to peddle the lowest quality in music reproduction. So much for art."

It is interesting how Young will stand up against spreading misinformation, and continue to make blatantly untrue statements such as this. I wonder if he somehow isn't up to date with the technology, science and research in this field after being involved in it for so long, or if it is a branding decision and some persona to be kept as a public entertainer.
Vilifying people for making unhealthy choices is never an effective public health measure. It didn't work for the HIV/AIDS epidemic and it won't work now. Try education and harm reduction instead.
How is this any more noteworthy than California schools banning To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn for containing racial slurs?
Did anyone expect a different outcome? Rogan supposedly pulls in 200M monthly listeners while Young's spotify page says he gets 6M per month.

I imagine Young's manager/label tried their best to talk him down, if this wasn't a stunt for some other purpose.
People think technology is "too complicated" and "magic" because they don't try to understand it. That's the problem. The "secret sauce" is in configuration and knowledge of architecture, software engineering, and production engineering, which are all gradually acquirable through sweat equity.

There are plenty of cheap VPSes all over the world where someone can run just about anything live without the costs of GCP or AWS.
Where we are heading, It will only get worse for the users on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc since anyone can get their accounts banned or suspended under the disguise for so-called ‘misinformation’ in their ‘guidelines’ even with users abusing the report button or a bot doing it.

The suspension will be vague, near-instant and can be for any random reason. Good luck if you encounter a human to recover your account, unless you are a fortunate famous user or know someone who works at those companies.

If not, just scream loud enough everywhere about it to cause outrage. Since only when it happens to them or to someone they know, they will do that and complain here about it, proving my whole point.
Extra fun when you're on-call for one of those stacks that only 2 people in the company have experience with, and you can't get hold of either of them.
Do not accept the premise that they’re concerned about democratic norms. They are abusing language to undermine them.
> Joe Rogan is what an idiot thinks a smart person sounds like.

Could replace Joe with either of the Weinsteins as well.
What were the exact things that Rogan or his guests said that were misinformation? I don't watch him, but the excerpts I watched from the Robert Malone interview weren't misinformation. The guy even seemed to be pro-vax.
> If you have more leverage and power than the person you’re trying to silence, then you get to silence them.

Yeah. And it turned out Young didn't have more leverage in this case.
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but there have been _widespread_ proposals that would require social media sites to carry speech that they object to.

These proposals were so widespread in some GOP circles that they actually became state law in 2 states (Florida and Texas) before being struck down as being a blatantly unconstitutional violation of the first amendment for being compelled speech. Note that in both contexts "struck down" does not refer to a final ruling, but rather an injunction that will remain in place until the final disposition of the case.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/01/texas-social-media-l...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/30/florida...

And the interpretation of the law as "compelling speech" is not just mine alone. The federal judge that issued the preliminary injunction in Florida described it this way:

> The legislation compels providers to host speech that violates their standards—speech they otherwise would not host—and forbids providers from speaking as they otherwise would.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flnd.37...
Corpo training like that is a CYA for the company [0]. If an employee screws up it's much easier to fire them because you can show they knew better.

0. In addition to also being legit training sometimes.
Because very few kinds of content benefit from purely text display. Books, documents, blog posts, news, etc all benefit massively from inline images, animations, and videos. It seems that Gemini users wanted to avoid ad tech and commercialization and lost all visual communication in the process.
Collection of Books on the 6502 Family
It seems dangerous to be so condoning of censorship. Let people make up their own minds about the validity/importance of the content. The more information that is available the better.
I would assume someone is itching to accuse the anti-CRT establishment of being Holocaust deniers.
> The goal is not equality or rights, the goal is securing the status of an elite

That's kind of an odd take. By the time the dust settles there will be more than a million Americans dead from COVID. The lion's share of them will have been unvaccinated.

I don't think it's radical for someone to believe that they have a social duty to help ensure that public discourse around our most potent public health tool is rooted in science.

Moreover I don't think there can be any reasonable disagreement that Joe Rogan is in a position of considerable influence to many millions of Americans, and consequently his commentary about vaccines (and COVID treatments) has been the proximate cause of many deaths, perhaps thousands, and I'm pretty sure that history will take a dim view.

Neil Young's actions here are quixotic, certainly, but considering the personal cost he can hardly be accused of failing to walk the talk.
Not to mention the false Ivermectin story about poisonous overdoses.
Which free speech advocates? I like free speech and I'd be horrified if this happened in Australia, although in this case it's in the US far away from me and about as relevant as the list of books the Taliban ban.
> Unfortunately if you really need genuine products you simply cannot buy things off Amazon anymore.

That is a very generalized statement. I have bought hundreds products shipped and sold by Amazon and never had an issue with authenticity. I'm sure it happens, but I'm willing to guess it is pretty rare and Amazon has always been quick to refund products that are shipped and sold by Amazon.
Zaid Jilani has posted an insightful piece on the controversy.

See https://www.inquiremore.com/p/neil-youngs-transformation-on-...
Joe was already in a conspiracy hole before the pandemic...
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