skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I'm not a fan of Rogan, that definition of censorship would exclude almost all US censorship in the 20th and 21st centuries, including the Hays Code, the MPAA rating system, and the Television Code.

Censorship in the US has usually been through private groups who practically control most distribution of a medium. That allows the private groups to control what the censorship consists of, allows the censorship to be less accountable and regulated, and allows it to better serve the interests of the groups who control it, while avoiding the imposition of state censorship. In the Hays Code era, you were perfectly legally able to make a film that, say, had an interracial relationship, or had clergy as less than paragons of morality, or criticized the judicial system. You just wouldn't be able to use essentially any significant production company, any actor connected with any significant production company, essentially any distributor, or essentially any theatre in the country.

Spotify controls a significant amount of the streaming market, but not as much as the MPAA did and does for film. Spotify by itself choosing not to allow content doesn't enormously harm someone's ability publish. However, I could easily see this trend turning into US-style censorship of streaming, if a few of the major streaming services started coordinating such decisions and guidelines. It would take less than ten companies coordinating in order to control well over 90% of streaming distribution. That can be every bit as strong as state censorship, if not even worse.
> Why

Because they are useful, but the more well-known they become the likelier they are to be blocked by whatever website you’re trying to use. Hence a regular stream of new domains is necessary for them to keep working.

> Is this it’s own identity scraping scam guised as identity protection?

The whole point of those websites is for you to not have to give your real data. At best they get the same fake information you give the original website, so I don’t imagine it would be a particularly effective scam.
> Killed by Microsoft: ...

The big difference being many of those things are still usable for users. Just fire up the binary and be happy. Google on the other hand do SaaS to spy, at their core.
Jesus. A lot of indiscriminate nuking of content with the Feb 4 date. Tim Ferriss, Comedian Russell Peters, Dan Savage, Giorgio Tsoulakis (the "It's Aliens" guy), Kyle Kulinski. What a shit show.

I'd love for someone to get Neil Young's take on this now.
Good. What is wrong with these people anyway? It seems to me we just accept karen behavior when they should be commited to a mental institution they are clearly not functioning.
People set up their profile and they basically tell them everything about themselves.

Just like I doubt that people mind that Netflix gives you recommendations based on what you watched on Netflix.
A whiteboard and a marker.
It’s at the top, now.
So we should all be continuously moving to another company? In order to achieve what? More money?
Agreed, I have a pretty horrible panic attack that starts with the takeoff roll, eases a bit when we're in the air and will return with any turbulence. Alcohol helps this significantly.
That's an interesting perspective?

Advances is capital productivity usually drive wages higher pretty soon, no?

In any case, I just brought up this 'minutes of labour for one Big Mac' index, because I remembered that some people had already done the numbers and it seemed somewhat relevant to your question.

I have no clue whether it's the best index anyone could come up with.
Law and ethics are separate. I think it's unethical for people to starve, but if you don't have money you can't buy food. You can't take away a legal right because it's unethical to retain it
This is all about masking, nothing else. Truly sad.
> tor doesn't handle heavily congested networks very well

I know that actually running tor on a congested network doesn't work well; but unless the author is trying to run a tor node through that Verizon tower, then isn't the thing that isn't working very well the congested network, rather than tor?
Do you believe censorship is wrong all cases? What about a biologist providing instructions on how to add lethal mutations to viruses? Or a physicist giving detailed instructions about how to construct dirty nuclear bombs? There is certain knowledge that is unsafe to be widely disseminated, would you be against the censorship of said content?

I mention this because arguably, allowing covid to proliferate means thousands of deaths, long COVID syndrome, and potential for new mutations to arise. These misinformed hucksters are largely out to make their own names and make money, not to educate or because their carefully chosen speech is their "right". Should we allow any financially motivated snake oil salesmen to spew whatever trash he likes into our society, even if it kills one thousand people indirectly?
God isn’t dead, he’s got blue hair and screams a lot now.
I'm neither supporting Amazon or the person who got Pip'ed. But 49k out of those "51k lines of code" are just auto-generated npm package-lock.json diff
They just need to keep content creators happy, which is a much smaller customer base. So if numbers really start falling that's going to be a much easier thing to fix.

And keep in mind that content creators have their own interests ($$$, fame, etc) not all of which align with their viewers' interests.
Being able to try it without signup is such an underrated feature. Thank you for that!
…or if the weather changes and they need to reduce weight. On a CRJ this is quite common (which was the type of plane this incident occurred).
This comment seems grossly overgeneralized and patently offensive about a huge group of people.

What does Joe Rogan have to do at all with evangelical Christians?
The comment in the tweet thread about the unpleasant color vibration between red and green, and adding a gradient to make it more "accessible" made me think of Peter from Bash in Don't Look Up commenting on how he finds the rooster to be threatening.
> what you can't not publish

Is this double negative intentional?

Freedom of speech has never meant the right to force platforms to broadcast your message.

Nobody is violating JR’s free speech, Spotify is just acting within the framework of the agreement they made with JR.

Whether that involves only the podcast itself or limits on what he can say regarding their interactions, we don’t know because the deal is not public. But nobody forced JR to sign anything, including any potential NDAs.
Welcome to a new Cold War. Well done USA! You got your army another few decades of unlimited funding.
And when the U.S. Surgeon General calls for Joe Rogan to be censored? [0]

[0]: https://www.outkick.com/u-s-surgeon-general-calls-for-big-te...
Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of “podcast exclusivity”.
> I'm not sure what nomenclature I could use besides "data format"

Yeah, I don't know either. I see that the Wikipedia page for JSON describes it as a "data interchange format". Maybe that helps. I'd probably side-step the problem by having your home page start with "Like Protocol Buffers but more secure", followed immediately by the example you just gave me.
It's also possible to streamline adding the RSS feed by using custom url schemes (at least on iOS). A url like podcast://example.rss will open in Apple Podcasts and other podcast apps offer their own url schemes. This can make it as simple as clicking on a link to subscribe to private feeds.
I remember a few years ago that Spotify made a big deal about "not censoring explicit songs" and not even giving me the option, so if I had music playing randomly at some point it would blast out some curse-laden song while I'm driving with the kids.

I'm far more concerned with the terrible search function which puts all sorts of user created crap at the top that pretends to be what it's not, rather than album names.
Do you have an example of someone who was banned in early 2020, or any time, for supporting masks?
It is the DRINKS BEFORE boarding that is the issue. The tacky bars slinging full bars and specials pushing you to load up before the flight - 10ft from the boarding gate. Having a cocktail ON the flight IMHO is "ok" - stewardesses will monitor and cut off. However, those tacky bars will let you have 6 hard drinks before board. You mix people with high flight anxiety, preboard boredom and pushy bars: a flight mess.
This is actually great.

Shows that Google is willing to innovate and invest. Lots of new adventures, if it doesn't work - fail fast. I know I grew attached to some of these services, but guess what! I survived and found alternatives. I am also pretty sure that some of these deaths has improved other services.
My college stereo amp was a Heathkit. It had one IC, for the phono preamp. My brother built the same amp, and found the leftover IC socket when he finished. Heathkit support was great: "If you didn't toast the IC soldering it in, you'll surely toast it desoldering it just to use the socket. Does the amp work?" It did.

My Dad built my high school Heathkit phonograph as I watched. I only understood his caution after he died: I found six years of correspondence with Heathkit before he got his first tube amp working.

If you build a car from parts you're dividing the value by four. If you build a loudspeaker from parts you're multiplying the value by four. Follow someone else's well-regarded plans, and get out one-and-done rather than making this a hobby. That's the sweet spot these days for anyone wanting to build their own audio equipment.
I think a 'Delete' button which would delete the latest in order. So tapping the letters would act like typing on a keyboard, and 'Delete' would like Backspace.

NYT Spelling Bee works like this and it's a pretty similar interface.
It's a huce liability even if on paper they can just refuse service.
You say that, but at least one person has died as a result of baggage handlers destroying their wheelchair.
What IO capabilities does the lambda calculus have?
> Growth

Perhaps 'addition' is the more accurate term?

> If immigration returns to even its relatively modest prepandemic pace, it is possible the share of Americans born overseas could reach the record 14.8 percent from 1890.

How can it be both 'modest' and 'record' at the same time?
I am now really looking forward to see Steam Deck launch
> Atari lynx was possibly the best handheld game system, followed by the game gear, but their cost meant it most out to the more affordable Gameboy.

It doesn't matter how powerful a handheld system is if the batteries only last an hour or two.

In the era when the lynx and game gear were released, NiMH batteries were not mainstream yet, and NiCd were not as suitable for the application. I knew a few kids who had the Lynx and they realistically could not use it unless it was plugged into the wall.
Drinking on a plane always seems like a great idea, but despite only having one or two I invariably feel worse after flights where I’ve drank than ones where I haven’t. Sometimes I wonder what it’s like to be one of those veteran, pickled business travelers that can pound the drinks.
That’s because there are very specific laws that protect renters in those types of situations. Completely different.

A better analogy: If I purchase a movie ticket, the theater cannot just kick me out at will, right? Oh wait - yes they can.
Interesting to hear, i was not aware of that! In my subfield (Machine Learning) publishing in Scientific Reports would be considered 3rd tier at best (frankly, i don't know anyone who's ever done it, because the community would just ignore it)... What field are you in?

still, I wasn't aware they had an impact factor of 4.x, that's way higher than i thought.
The thing that is so hard for me to wrap my head around is that it is the LEFT who is doing it this time. I never would have imagined my "team" being the one to do it. In fact, I have to wonder what it is that I "am" anymore.
Spotify paid N millions for Joe Rogan, they just deleted him. He can still do podcasting under his brand. Seems like win for him.
>> Magic: The Gathering is a popular and famously complicated trading card game about magical combat. In this paper we show that optimal play in real-world Magic is at least as hard as the Halting Problem, solving a problem that has been open for a decade. To do this, we present a methodology for embedding an arbitrary Turing machine into a game of Magic such that the first player is guaranteed to win the game if and only if the Turing machine halts. Our result applies to how real Magic is played, can be achieved using standard-size tournament-legal decks, and does not rely on stochasticity or hidden information. Our result is also highly unusual in that all moves of both players are forced in the construction. This shows that even recognising who will win a game in which neither player has a non-trivial decision to make for the rest of the game is undecidable. We conclude with a discussion of the implications for a unified computational theory of games and remarks about the playability of such a board in a tournament setting.

Nice, I didn't know of this one. It's the continuation and completion of work by the first author of the linked paper, Alex Churchill, who had earlier shown a method to prove M:tG Turing-Complete but in a setup that was not a full game:

https://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/HowItWorks.html

It's good to see he kept at it and seems to have produced a generally interesting result that applies well beyond M:tG, to boot. Wow.

Edit: Oh, shit. That means I'll never get funding to make an M:tG AI XD
It is not intended to be anything more than a user experience report. This is a pretty reasonable explanation for the Matrix case:

>When joining a room, it has to sync everything since the last time the client connected, or in some cases, a ton of history, like megabytes of it.

In general you would expect that a stateful message protocol over HTTP over TCP/IP would have a rougher time than mostly stateless XMPP over TCP/IP.
I would sooo love to have my free speech violated the way Joe does: having episodes of talk show I was hired to do for 100 million dollars removed.

In fact, I can deal with bunch more free speech violations if I getting enough money that I and my children and my grandchildren will never know need and never have to work days in their lives.
The judge found almost all of apple’s practices to be ok and not to be anti-competitive.

They were ordered to stop only the narrowest of behaviors.

If you think that means you can just claim any practice of theirs is anti-competitive then you don’t understand.
Good. Platforms can't claim neutrality in this age of disinfo.
Have you had many requests for the ability to add data to a narrative from datasets? We built this for seekwell (https://doc.seekwell.io/stories) and people really like it for daily or weekly text based business updates.

I'd think this would be useful in media for a story they want to keep the numbers live in.
Swapping the blue circle for black would give them the alignment they seek. Filling the full circle so there is no gap between would be a nice step as well.
All this happened because they were trying to avoid a mild inconvenience for the airline staff.

Whatever rights an airline has in this specific situation, it does not entitle or justify that they inflict any violence on others. Even if this violence is done by airline staff, airport security or even the police, it's still not justified.

Instead of picking on specific passengers and escalating it to violence, they should have kept asking other people. Maybe even give up boarding four staff. Even giving up would still be a mild inconvenience.

Violence should never be a way to solve mild inconveniences. The airline was completely in the wrong for allowing it to escalate, even if law allows them to do it.
> Windows could certainly tighten the security by optionally only allowing foreground/focused apps to access, or notifying the user when apps read the clipboard without being in focus or sent any input first.

Author here, yes, this is indeed the point of the article. Desktop operating systems could/should have implemented such a feature a long time ago, it is clearly a security "blind spot" at the moment.
> All that said, I'm starting to look for new opportunities in the larger-than-startup space. Shoot me an email at carl@flax.ie and let's chat.

Damn, you’re good.
Does anyone use k8s clusters that don't come with Ingress these days? This article exposes a lot of complexity for what should just be "use ingress".

More advanced ways to get traffic into the cluster are only really needed for non-https traffic. It comes up, but way more rarely.
Did he sue?

I've grown tired of airline and car booking company abuse. I'll notify the appropriate authorites or maybe even sue when I can, thanx to WizzAir, Ryanair, Booking.com and other abusive companies. In the EU it's easier because there's all kinds of consumer protection laws. Vacating seats by force is pretty much unhead of.
I live in a rural area in New Mexico where jackrabbits are thick on the ground. I once counted 27 on the road at night in four miles. A couple of weeks ago I drove from home and three jackrabbits scampered away ahead of me. The road there is narrow along a hillside, steep up on one side and steep down on the other, so the hares prefer to stick to the road, and just kept running in front of the car. I was going maybe 30mph, knowing they can get out of the way, not trying to avoid them. One hare gave up and went down the side after maybe a hundred yards. The next one lasted a few hundred yards more. The last jackrabbit must have been having fun, it just kept running in front of the car, around corners, up hills and down, for maybe three miles. I don't think I slowed to less than 25 mph at any point. Finally it dodged off to the side.

Now I know why despite the jackrabbit population, the local coyotes are skinny. I don't know if these southern hares migrate as much as the northern ones. Given their greater food supplies, I doubt it. But I don't much doubt that they could keep pace with their northern cousins at need.
It seems to have been a licensing deal, so control reverts to him at the end of the deal. It doesn't sound like he actually "sold" all rights, and he almost certainly only sold certain rights even during the deal. As you say, we'll probably never know all of the details.
>Apple mandated that all app in the iOS/mobile App Store had to support working on IPv6-only networks:

464XLAT is allowed, so ipv4-only services work fine.
Uhh, no, this looks like some random proposing an update?
> If the App Store was the busiest shopping mall in the world, they’re not obligated

If there were only 2 major places in the entire world to buy things from, and Apple had 57% of that shopping revenue, then yes, absolutely they would be obligated to do a lot of things.
Yes. As I said, Apple’s profits come mostly from hardware sales.

Thanks for posting data proving me right. You probably should have googled that before you made your false claim. Not after.
Bill Burr?
Now that would be something I'd be seriously impressed with.

It would make maintaining, bug fixing, and auditing complex software systems so much easier. It'd be a true game changer.
I believe the accurate answer here is twofold:
- money is perpetually not supposed to be a great perpetual store of value relative to goods and services. Government policy aims for some inflation, fears too much and fears too little. Why? Because a bit of inflation is an incentive to use your money on more productive asset - eg don’t hold on to it but instead invest in a startup or go use someone’s services or goods (go to a restaurant!). The issues happen when inflation is so high that the money melts away before you have time to figure out how to use it productively. Deflation is also bad because then people stop spending on services, stop investing - and just hold onto money. (“No I don’t want to invest in this startup! I have the best investment I need, just holding onto my cash!”) That slows down the economy.
- either way Bitcoin doesn’t solve inflation in any way. It’s just another asset - that can go up or down or whatever, and happens to have gone up for a long time (just like Facebook stock) and then dropped a lot. Just like any stock or any asset, Bitcoin can have higher-than-inflation real returns or lower-than-inflation. And more recent returns have definitely been lower. What will happen in the future? Who knows. Same answer applies to the S&P500 and to Gold and to the new condo in my neighborhood.
Probably majority of difference involved various kinds of history downloads (like with Matrix). There's nothing special when it comes to base WebSockets-over-TLS vs XMPP, except that there's a possibility that the Websockets-based sytem is more efficient (XMPP has pretty big overhead)
You just gave two very poor examples. Anyone who have any ability to add lethal mutation are probably biologists anyway. And instructions to construct nuclear bombs are probably on somewhere on the Internet anyway, but I’m not going to worry at all, it is close to impossible to buy the raw materials without some sorts of licenses.
> The funny thing is the Game Gear and Switch battery life are actually very similar at 3-5 hours.

The switch has much better battery life than that in the models released after the initial launch. You're spot on with the release model, though.
Nice attempt at whataboutism, but I'm talking about specific examples of egregious misinformation that is kind of dangerous. If you have anything of substance to add besides handwaving "the other side in my broken two party country is also bad and lies about inconsequential stuff while the one i like literally spreads medical misinformation resulting in people dying", do so. For the record, both your parties are rightwing, one is just far-right while the other is centre-right. Both are full of idiots, but one is obviously worse, which is sad for the people opposed to the policies of the less bad one ( because they have no other options).
with the difference being the point of view : Engineers are competent people, whereas Manufacturers are capitalists controlling means of production
When the government asks Spotify to censor Rogan, and Spotify does, that’s censorship. https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-surgeon-general-suggest...
I do really miss Google cloud print
Sorry I agree with the overall sentiment that party line can shift with time unpredictably, but who had been banned in early 2020 for supporting masks? As I recall people socially self imposed masks in a matter of just a couple weeks early in the pandemic, in North America at least, and nobody would have been banned for it.
Talk about your free publicity!

Hope all you Rogan haters love Rogan because this is how you get more of him. Congrats!
People really tend to underestimate the power of simple servers, and overestimate the resources needed to run a website. All my projects run on one single VPS (so not even a dedicated machine) with 2 Cores and 4 GB RAM. It costs me about 6€ per month. If I would run all that on AWS, Azure or GCP, I would probably pay at least 60€, if not even more.

Aside from the general topic, I can recommend trying Hetzner. Happy customer for a couple of years now.
> I agree with the airlines reasoning that they needed to move a crew

A company should deal with its internal processes without making them the client's problem. Put that crew on a different flight, hire a charter for them, plan better next time.

Are you OK with your ISP cutting your internet because the company needs to transfer some important company data? Buy a car but never have it delivered because the company needed to give it to an important person who couldn't wait? A hotel kicks you out of your room because an employee is tired and needs to rest there?