skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If records of what people did and said are conveniently deleted from history, no one can be held accountable for what they say and do. The ideal that companies can do whatever they want is far too short sighted. The modern world is so stuck on a rigid definition of freedoms that conveniently changes when it doesn't serve the perspective it is being "preached" from.

Platforms are contracted by their users, they are not simply homeowners with private property. Too many companies these days get away with code and content changes without proper accountability, and things are regularly hidden to cover tracks... It's making the Internet very toxic now, and the blanket statements don't apply any more, people should always be held accountable for what they do and say in the course of making money at all levels, that's the only real thing protecting us from becoming slaves to corporate interests.
Thank you for this. I often feel poorly about myself because I've created so little (especially since leaving school), but between 13 and 31 I didn't have financial stability or basic safety, and even now I'm a disabled person who is the sole breadwinner and caretaker for my also disabled sister, who can't work (I have MS, she has bipolar [which obviously takes some mental energy to handle]).

I've just been so tired trying to feed + shelter myself and escape abuse that my building urge was completely extinguished until the last year.

I always beat myself up for it, but it turns out that I just couldn't get into the flow state needed to build things when I was constantly stressed-out, hungry, cold, and scared.

Not to take away from people building things - I love seeing what people come up with! It's just a pleasure to know that not everybody will consider those decades as me being lazy.
The White House said nothing about taking joe rogan podcasts down:

Q Sure. Last week, the Surgeon General also was asked on MSNBC about Joe Rogan’s vaccine comments on Spotify. And he said that tech companies have an “important role to play” in stopping misinformation because he — they are the “predominant places” where misinformation spreads.

Spotify is putting out advisory warnings on episodes that have to do with COVID-19. Does the White House and the administration think this is a satisfactory step? Or do you — do you think that companies like Spotify should go further than just, you know, putting a label on there to say, “Hey, go do your own — you know, check this out. You know, there’s more research you can look at — you know, scientific research regarding COVID”?

MS. PSAKI: Sure. Well, last July, I — you probably know, but the Surgeon General also took the unprecedented step to issue an advisory on the risk of misinformation and public health, which is a very significant step. And amid that, he talked about the role social media platforms have.

So our hope is that all major tech platforms — and all major news sources, for that matter — be responsible and be vigilant to ensure the American people have access to accurate information on something as significant as COVID-19. And that certainly includes Spotifly [sic].

So, this disclaimer — it’s a positive step. But we want every platform to continue doing more to call out misinform- — mis- and disinformation while also uplifting accurate information.

I mean, look at the facts, right? You are 16 times more likely to be hospitalized if you’re unvaccinated and 68 times more likely to die than someone who is boosted if you’re unvaccinated. That’s pretty significant.
> I don't really understand why anyone who claims to be a proponent of a free market economy has an issue with a private corporation deciding what type of content they want to broadcast.

You can but it needs to be handled through the free market. One shouldn't be asking any government to step in and make some person or company do something.
Totally: if you want to redistribute stuff msys2 makes this much easier. I have both on my system.

As a shell environment I like cygwin. With posix compatibility I can compile nearly everything (that does not use libuv).

I do not get the narrative of complicated setup for this use case. Download installer and click next a few times: does not seem to be so difficult. The cygwin package installer IMHO is a bit easier to use than pacman.
I find the increase in popularity of the pro-pedestrian / pro-bike / anti-car sentiment interesting. It seems like it increased 10x in the last few years.
> Do you intend to make the search limit a daily thing, or will it only apply over the whole month?

Monthly for sure, even passing unused one to next month.

We are building a UI for consumption data right now :)
> At last since the Iraq war the intelligence services really lost any independent credibility they had during the Cold War.

The interesting thing is that the CIA actually disagreed with the Iraq WMD "evidence".
Computers are best as (extremely useful) tools alongside other processes, contexts and humans in the world.

I've been using computers for (mostly sound) art for a couple decades, and I completely understand this mentality.

It's a nice thing to try to step outside of it though: I think you'll find computers get a lot more exciting when you don't try to live inside them.
With proper education and driver training you can pretty much limit that to a few scratch marks here and there. There are plenty of cycle-gutters painted on the road here in places where the preferred path for cyclists is not that path with parked cars next to them as you describe, yet accidents rarely happen and are almost never serious. Though they can be completely avoided with proper separation .
Fucking scumbags.
What would you recommend someone do who also wants to make the same type of move?

Currently, I’m working for a data privacy startup and have hopes that they’ll have a physical presence in the EU in the next few years and would sponsor my move.
The project page?
The feasibility of Jurassic Park went out the window millions of years ago.
huh? The government didn’t censure anything. Spotify did due to the PR disaster (musicians pulling out, scientific community speaking out, …).

How does a private corporation action equate to government level censorship in the US?
The internet's role in illicit Parrot trade
You're just a right fun chap, aren't you?

Your team spent years researching something that had never been done before. Survived many rounds of "should we just cancel this project", continued to be funded after coming in no where near your proposed budget, delay after delay, to finally see the thing lift off. You wouldn't have the slightest bit of non-robotic emotion for yourself and fellow team members?

Hope I never have to work with someone as dull as that.
I have a Heathkit H8 computer that I built around 1982 that I would love to send to a good home. Probably have manuals, definitely have cassette tape drives used for storage. It’s been sitting in the basement for 38-years and it’s time to move on.

Perhaps someone here is connected to a museum or community group that could do more with it. Or point me to a group that would be interested.
Exactly. Here's a prime example: Rogan incorrectly stated on his show (as fact, not as his opinion or belief) that children who receive the vaccine have a 4-5x higher risk of getting myocarditis.

His guest, who has the correct info, claims that children have a much higher risk from getting myocarditis from COVID than getting it from the vaccine.

Rogan says "I don't think that's true, no no no, I don't think that's true. Let's look that up"

They look it up, Rogan is definitely in the wrong. The risk is 8x higher from COVID than the vaccine.

Does Rogan admit he's wrong? No, he states:

- "Well, that's not what I read before."
- "And anyway, where are we reading these things?" and then rambles nonsense.

This is a pretty transparent way of signaling to his audience that even in the face of actual data, you should just find some justification to believe the stupid conspiracy-level thing you want to keep believing.

https://twitter.com/FullContactMTWF/status/14816386894154629...
... and the response is to weed them out instead of educate?

Seems less pragmatic and more of a random death hill choice
> All the evidence about "imminent attack" is fed to media by US government without sufficient proofs. Whatever are your sources, try to find more information.

I don't feel like one can participate in this discussion in good faith because any "evidence" of "imminent attack" can be brushed off... 100k troops and a ton of military gear on the border? Just chilling out and sightseeing, my friend, nothing to see here!

However, I do contest the claim that all "evidence" is fed by the US government. There are other sources if you care to dig in.

How about Ministry of Defence of Ukraine? They've been predicting action for January-February since months ago, and there's certainly evidence from Ukraine that Russia is up to something.

> On 21 November, the head of the HUR MOU, Kyrylo Budanov, reported that Russia had concentrated more than 92,000 troops and deployed several Iskander short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) systems near the Russo-Ukrainian border. Budanov accused Russia of conspiring protests against vaccination against COVID-19 in Kyiv and other protest rallies in Ukraine to destabilize the country in preparations for a large-scale military invasion. According to Budanov, active Russian military actions should be expected between late-January and early-February 2022.

> On 3 December, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Oleksii Reznikov, spoke of the possibility of a "large-scale escalation" by Russia during the end of January 2022, during a session at the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament).

> Russia began a slow evacuation of its embassy staff at Kyiv beginning from January 2022. The motives of the evacuation remain unknown and were subjected to multiple speculations. By mid-January, an intelligence assessment produced by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence estimated that Russia were in its final stages of completing a military buildup at the Russo-Ukrainian border, amassing 127,000 troops at the region.

I'm not going to post the links because anyone who is not dishonest and not intellectually lazy can find them in two minutes of searching.
The JS "assessment" was all trivia and no substance.
Yeah, I don't know jack about nuclear physics, so I drew an analogy to a field that I'm more comfortable reasoning about, the electromagnetic field.
And the tips are their way of being able to limit the pay of their employees by offsetting their wages onto the end user.
Then why are repeat guests who have one removal having all episodes removed, I doubt they’re saying something horrible every time. Many are mainstream like Tim Ferriss, Bill Burr, Dan Savage, Amy Schumer, et al.

It’s not hard to figure out why some of the more controversial figures might have been removed, but it seems like this was definitely targeted at people, not content.
By using each OSes most native development environment and the tools built into them. Xcode for Mac, Visual Studio 2022 for Windows... Shrugs for Linux.

Maybe magic trace? https://github.com/janestreet/magic-trace
I'm a semi-big fan of cryptocurrencies and I've swallowed a sip of the koolaid. Still, it's a bit of a stretch to call them "investment banking." The various DAOs have delivered mixed results. It's hard enough to write bug-free code in regular life. Imagine trying to write a bug-free digital contract that will be immortalized forever on the blockchain.

So no. It's not investment banking. Maybe it's the beginnings of a payments network.
> People seem to confuse celebrity with credibility

It's a common pattern in America. Got a whole Presidency out of it.

... two, actually. Maybe even three, depending on who's writing the biography.
There is normally a long chain of intermediate telco operators between the fraudsters and the US operator. Some of those intermediate operators are large and have a lot of legit calls. Each operator adds their profit margin on and passes the bill to the next. So no operator has any incentive to police this stuff, because they all profit from it.
The only people who think that the medium is the message are people whose focus is studying media, and not messages. Kind of like "to the guy with a hammer everything looks like a nail" type.
Grand Theft Auto 6: Rockstar announces it is working on the game
Can they report you to a credit bureau and get your credit score lowered? I recently had my credit score lowered, I think because I canceled a Chase / Amazon credit card after only 1 month. Apparently that is a credit faux paus. No balance owed, but I did hit the measly $500 limit once - another thing bad for credit scores.

When my car + homeowner insurance renewed, it had a special section about how Lexus Nexus had lowered my insurance score, which is partially based on my credit score. Cost me several hundred dollars extra in insurance premiums.
I had a lot of analysis paralysis over just this...in the end I chose what I chose for the reasons listed.
> but instead Google would rather serve irrelevant results that show ads.

Does showing Google Adsense ads actually result in a higher ranking in organic search results?

It makes total sense for their business model, to the detriment of users. I've just never considered that before.
Yet they wonder why folks would rather pirate old versions.
I am too dumb to even know what this is ... even after looking at it.
An IC is a role without positional authority but the company will indoctrinate you with “lead by influence” internal training courses and tell you that you can effect change purely by your charm and will question why you can’t get that person or department to solve their bugs. It’s all part of the we-are-a-flat-hierarchy mantra and you know we are all equal (in skill, drive and initiative).
Sorry for being sloppy I meant msys2.
My university's fine arts college has a Creative Computation program. There's a lot of programming involved to create the art installations that they make.

https://www.smu.edu/Meadows/AreasofStudy/CreativeComputation
It's not whataboutism to point to an example of another nation doing something in response to a claim that begins “if another nation had done something like this...”

Context matters.
People who argue against bike infrastructure in the U.S. are always quick to bring up the lack of hills in the Netherlands, but they never make the connection with the strong winds there (doubly ironic, given the romantic affinity we all have for Dutch windmills). It's frustrating, but I think e-bikes will finally be the death knell for this meme. (I've also heard that some infrastructure in NL actually takes wind into account by providing windbreaks for cyclists.)
Wow, this person had a Data Science company in 1981 that was actually profitable.
A cheap technology for making glasses for developing nations or space telescopes
It is a tradition, but started from practical reasons.
Why would your phone number in the list?
"White House urges Spotify to take further action on Joe Rogan: ‘More can be done’"

"White House press secretary Jen Psaki called on music and podcast streaming giant Spotify to do “more” in the fight against Covid-19 misinformation on Tuesday.

At her daily press briefing, President Joe Biden’s top spokeswoman was asked about a decision by the company to add disclaimers linking to Covid-19 information hubs to any piece of content that includes discussion of the pandemic, vaccines, or Covid-19 itself. She responded that the change was a good step, but that the company could take steps (if it wanted) to actively prohibit content that contained misinformation that experts have warned is prolonging the pandemic and leading to more deaths."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
I linked a handful of companies who collectively employ hundreds of thousands of people, because I figured showing the largest companies in the world would be enough to settle your supposed curiosity. How many more do you need to see to change your mind? I suspect it doesn't matter.

Also, they all reference the CRT framework, so call them "poorly implemented" is silly. These are companies that spend millions on legal fees, their implementation is only as bad as CRT itself is.

I prefer a simpler, less racist framework. One that treats people the same regardless of skin color, and makes no assumptions about an individual based on their skin color.
So what’s the chargeback reason?
This article resonates with me. The city where I work built a road that makes my commute 20% shorter, and they made this road very bike-able. As soon as I could I rode my bike to work, then covid came shortly after and I started working from home. But I've tried to maintain the habit of walking to the grocery store and things like that.
Seems pretty obvious to me, it's an annual contract you pay for monthly, I have many such contracts
Have a look at luxecxel. They manufactory lens arrays using a proprietary printing process.
The timing sounds off (incorrect dot-dash-pause ratio) and the characters are not well shaped keyed, not very pleasant. There are much better options, among others:

https://morsecode.world/international/trainer/trainer.html

https://lcwo.net/

http://www.elkins.org/

Here's a comprehensive list of Morse resources:

https://morsecode.ninja/resources/index.html
Most open source productivity apps are like this.

Free office apps are a great achievement but you seem to get what you pay for.
> I definitely see the problem with the API cost of the underlying calls though. That feels like a huge argument that having your own index is important to compete in the market.

A Google size index that is potentially able to replace google results would probably cost $100m-$1B to build. We have a fraction of that built for noncommercial results (try Noncommercial lens in Kagi to see how it works).
Yep, this. Artists who code are definitely a thing, and are highly in demand at game companies. That said, it’s always going to be way faster to create something with a tool (instead of code) if the right tool exists.
I first became a US urban biker in 2003 before urban bike infrastructure really existed in the US, and I always felt and still feel safest riding on streets that have lots of traffic and no bike lane. Most US bike lanes are just paint between the parking spaces on the curb and the travel lanes. As such you can never predict if cars will enter the bike lane. I personally feel less safe in these unprotected bike lanes than I do riding in the normal travel lane because I find it less predictable. In the US if a car can physically get into a space, a driver will eventually go there.
Many of the things emulators do are also available to original hardware, though. There are patches that disable dithering on PS1 games. You can get rid of the infamous N64 blur through a combination of hardware mods and software patches. The N64 will of course always be low-res, low-FPS and have its low-quality bilinear filtering, but I'm not sure changing all of these really makes things better. For instance, I think content is also often authored with a target resolution in mind and the typical 240p game does not really look good at 4k with perfect texture filtering. Also, the scanline settings on the OSSC never really looked good / interesting to me, but the CRT settings on the RetroTink5x seems quite awesome. They got actual shadow mask / aperture grill emulation and different settings for high-TVL PVMs vs consumer tubes etc.
China is currently has 7 points, 19 hours later. India is 72, Russia is 23, Vietnam 7, UK is 242. hmmm
Are We Living in the Past? New Study Shows Brain Acts Like a Time Machine
I suspect it's no coincidence this shifted when so many more people stopped driving to and from work everyday.
I live in Austin and largely stopped cycling after a motorist tried to run me off the road on trinity south of MLK. I was going straight and had taken the lane a little early to pass a bus that was stopped in the bike lane and to avoid that dangerous spot closer to the intersection where the bike lane crosses _through_ the right turn lane, with plenty of room behind me and open lanes to the left.

This guy was not having it. Got maybe 2 inches from my rear wheel, then jerked around to the left, sped up, and then swerved right into my lane when he was even with me.

This is all maybe 100 ft from the intersection, where there was a red light. I passed him less than ten seconds after all this, since he was sitting in the more congested right turn lane and I was going straight.
As I pointed out elsewhere, the White House didn’t criticize anyone, they were asked about how they felt about the disclaimer that Spotify had added, and the White House said they were in favor of calling out misinformation and uplifting accurate information.

That’s pretty different than how you portrayed it.
As someone born in Crimea and moved to Kyiv in 2014, I can tell you that a preventive strike is the last thing people in Ukraine really want now. And that is exactly what Russia wants to provoke or stage if that fails.
And I will have to decide (if l will have the time for that choice) if I am going to fight or run. The former is more "right" , but the latter might be more "practical".
Just appreciate the fact that most of HN audience do not have to make that kind of choice.
My ex-wife does not get to decide if she dates someone else; she only decides if she can ask. The other man is not obligated to say yes.

If you're not a citizen of Ukraine, it's none of your business. Maybe if you didn't keep beating her bloody you'd have a better relationship?
They are all over the place in New Braunfels, Texas.
When you say "free market" you imply that there is zero political risk (meaning risk of politicians using their elevated powers against you) resulting from their choices.

In reality there is political risk for highly public decisions. Politicians do have power. They can call you before Congress under oath without any evidence of legal wrongdoing by anyone. They can start costly antitrust investigations. They can start costly audits. Anywhere along the way, if you make the slightest misstep (or even if you don't), they accuse you of perjury or lying to a federal official or obstruction of justice. Or maybe they just don't "protect" you as well as they might from various unfortunate events.

Moreover, there's a pattern of governments harnessing the power of private companies to various purposes through this kind of coercion. If you are a CEO with a comfortable life do you really want to test the ideal that it can't happen in the U.S.?
I am so sick of companies doing this.

Google bait and switches your unlimited-forever suite into limited workspaces, fails to support products, and generally makes it so you can't trust they will be there in two weeks unless you're an ad buyer.

Facebook tracks you everywhere, even VR glasses.

Adobe nickels and dimes, takes away permanent software with kludgy, awful SaaS billing and UX.

Why are we okay with these practices?
I tried to use GIMP for a few months because I'm totally broke, but I have to agree with the comment here. I ended up getting the full Adobe cloud plan for $30 a month on Black Friday and it's not a bad deal considering I regularly use Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere.
These articles definitely aren't saying that the US military and cargo ships account for 70% of all climate pollution. If my math is right, the US military is closer to 0.01% of all carbon emissions.
That does sound great.

While it's not what you're looking for, a lot of people also don't know that windows has a built-in copy paste history if you use windows+v instead of ctrl-v.
That's quiet handy too, but a fast cry from what you've proposed there
Funny how far down I had to scroll to find somebody mentioning the site this thread is supposedly about.
I was able to cancel a while ago by threatening with a chargeback so at least the threat of it seems to help.
I guess you take the motto "politics ruins everything" scorched earth approach more seriously.
Is it legal in the EU?