skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you should not interpret that to mean that Youtube is infringing on first amendment rights

It is much more like 14th Amendment rights and the 1964 CRA enhancement of that. There are prohibitions on private organizations denying equal service based upon certain characteristics.

As Twitter, Youtube, Facebook are not actually broadcasters in any sense (what are they broadcasting?), their refusal to conduct business with others can't be cloaked in 1st amendment grounds. No one is forcing anyone to watch anything on any of these platforms.

The crux of this issue is political affiliation is not a protected class, and therefore it can be discriminated against. (And we do have non-immutable, changeable characteristics as protected classes.)

Any of 1) section 230 clarifications or changes, 2) expansions of protected classes under the 14th, or 3) monopoly regulatory power will make these prohibitions invalid.
Much of it was organized on social media, and many those who participated it used the platforms to live stream and tell more people to come and participate, too.
Resource extraction and usage is harmful, we do have many energy-inefficiencies that I for one would love to see fixes.

However, that doesn’t excuse cryptocurrencies wasting egregious amounts of energy on top of those inefficiencies.

By its design, it’s antithetical to serious energy and performance optimisations (e.g. won’t do away with mindless hashing, so their TPS will be lower by definition) so even if we are able to drastically improve the energy efficiency and minimise the environmental harm of our resource extraction and processing, crypto currencies will still have the worst efficiency.
> was blocked for promoting birth control

Is this prohibited? Why?
What's your favorite implementation of PL/I? Your favorite PL/I features that you miss in currently popular languages? Did you ever try PL/M?
As a Russian language native, this one is beyond weird. Plus, Russian is the most popular version of the Slavic language, which actually makes it easier for everyone to adopt Russian instead of having to use their versions imo. Not too sound too russian centric ofc, especially during these times.
> It came out in December...

Which lends some rather solid credence to all the people back around the election who were saying this looks like fairly obvious corruption. I mean, the facts haven't really changed much, the only change is that the political establishment is OK with it being reported on in December. Anyone reading the initial story could have told you there was going to be an investigation.

Whether they'll find anything is an open question since the person who controls the executive is currently president - but it looks as shady as anything in US politics. There is little question that the big tech giants were making a political move when they took the story down on its first arrival, it would have swung votes and they didn't want that.

Not finding overwhelming evidence of money laundering can't be the story unless the original - silenced - accusations of corruption were also a story.
Damned if they did, damned if the didn’t. Republicans have it out for the Democrats, they can’t make a decision that they won’t call out as the wrong one.
You're right that in a universe where everyone grants their end users necessary freedoms and don't use coercion to limit those rights, GPL would be completely unnecessary. Until that happens, coercing people to stop further coercion is the best thing we have.
No??? How is a middle class income of 50k/yr gonna raise 250k for a child separate from childcare, college, etc?
The government censors. How is it not an unnecessary encroachment on liberty when the government tells a private entity what they must publish?
> The incredibly dangerous outcome of all this is precisely what foolish commentators are suggesting: alternatives will be built, that themselves will become echo chambers.

What if the dangerous outcome is what's happening right here in this thread, and the thousands of others like it here on HN and elsewhere? Right in front of our eyes every day but we cannot see it, because it is normal.
I Booked an Airbnb in Kyiv
>Why not?

Electricity is deemed a common utility and a regulated, granted natural monopoly - one considered a necessary requirement for all citizens and organizations.

Video streaming is not a monopoly, and no number of bad faith arguments about popularity or awareness in consumer headspace change the fact that there are a number easily accessible competitors.
Yes, go on and ignore all the points made - especially your incorrect point about the value of cryptocurrency pollution in providing double spend protections - a feature that can easily be abused by a handful of powerful miners. Sweep it under the rug as you go on justifying the rampant climate impact of cryptocurrencies.
What a ludicrous claim when there was a Soviet-aligned country 90 miles south of Florida for most of the cold war that the US never invaded.
Google disagrees with you. It presents this definition of the verb "officially" in a one-box:

https://www.google.com/search?q=officially

> with the authority of the government or other organization
I did not claim that living in the zone is without problems.
The lack of stores and infrastructure comes from lack of other people, which could be fixed.

I'm not sure if there is a higher level of cancer. But I grant you that we can assume that.

It's not pretty, but it's also not something that prevents people from living. Remember when everyone used to voluntarily increase their risk of lung cancer by crazy amounts? Back when everyone smoked? Civilization still persisted.
Authoritarianism and anarchy are not opposite ends of a spectrum. Furthermore, there are many that reasonably believe that certain forms of structured anarchy are a good thing, and not just teenage punks, but also intellectuals and academics.

Regarding the US falling to authoritarianism, there are at least two factors: 1. Most people are in a state of conditioned helplessness where they don't feel there is anything they can do to affect change. 2. Most people don't have minds of their own but just parrot what they hear in the media that aligns with their party. These two in conjunction leave an opening for someone to execute a soft coup. In fact a draft Trump executive order to discard the election results was released recently. He had convinced his base that the election was fraudulent. Seeing how far Trump got at eroding democracy, imagine someone like Trump but competent in the same situation. Every democracy that has gone authoritarian had plenty of branches and politicians and checks and balances in place.
Most of the serious cases/deaths are unvaccinated. Since they made that choice to endure that extra risk, there simply is no reason for the rest of us to carry on with the consequences of their choices.
You are right. I thought someone else paid to get the account restored.
The Civil Rights Amendment has no protection for political speech. I wonder how Trump’s new “Truth” platform would feel about being forced to post information discrediting his claims?
It is embedded on the SoC for who knows what reason. All newer SoCs are embedding their AI crap, when they could just add a couple PCIe 2.0 lanes and let their customers buy a Coral TPU if needed. No doubt this custom silicon is distracting from core SoC functionality and adding to the BoM.
You realize that Russia would kill way more than 2,000 civilians in a week in a total war?
There was no guarantee we got it right (however you define that) six months ago. So it makes zero sense to match today's policy to the policy six months ago just because the case counts are similar. This is just cargo culted public policy.

Secondly, countless times we have seen a negative correlation between restrictions and case/death counts.
No, it was originally shared with us by Greek philosophers, over 2 millennia ago.
Based on what I have seen and what I have heard people say, the principle of freedom of speech is probably dead in the west. People will give their sanctimonious justifications like "it only means the government can't censor not us," "it's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences," or misuse quotes like Popper's intolerance towards intolerance, or Schenck v. United States's yelling fire in a theater, but in reality the principle of free speech is a foundational social element from which the law is built upon, not the other way around. If society doesn't believe in freedom of speech then it doesn't matter if the government upholds that standard for itself anymore. If we as a society aren't capable of having empathy towards people who have differing opinions instead of dismissing them, then censoring them after ignoring them has caused their beliefs to radicalize to a point, that is the recipe for making politics more entrenched, polarized and escalated than they already are.

Yeah just go build your own platform they will say as if it had not been attempted numerous times only to be censored off every hosting/ payment/ app platforms they could use or hacked to have all the personal information of their users doxxed because they had "bad opinions." Even the ones that actually exist just become hiveminds of their own because they become populated by people who have been censored everywhere else, as if having every community devolve into hive minded safe spaces is actually desirable.
You posted this in the wrong thread. This is the "Who Wants to be Hired" thread. You meant to post in the "Who is Hiring" thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30515750
> They're meant to contain things from going off the rails unintentionally, but an actual threat was another story.

I disagree with that idea. The actual that may be as limited in capabilities as a standard bug. Let's say you have a problem with your webapp where you can read an arbitrary file, but nothing else. Containers are a perfect protection in this case if you want to isolate the app from any other services running on the host (monitoring, provisioning, etc.).

There's no perfection and defence in depth is what we need to use everywhere. Unless you can break through all layers at the same time, imperfect layers are a valid improvement. See how many default protections you have to turn off to even make this bug viable.
No. Median family wealth in the US is about 115000 USD, so less than half that.
> If it's instructions on drinking bleach, why censor it?

How to drink bleach: Unscrew cap from bottle. Pour bleach down your throat.

Was that so bad?
In 1909, there were thousands of Baker Electric cars cruising the streets of NYC quietly and at 35mph. You didn’t need to go much faster inside the city. 100 miles to a charge, good old fully recyclable glass lead acid batteries.

Gasoline vehicles eventually outcompeted them by reaching 60mph and having more range (sound familiar?) but the parent isn’t wrong about Rockefeller, cheap and abundant fuel came 2 years later:

> …growing electrification of lighting produced a drop in kerosene demand, creating a supply problem. It appeared that the burgeoning oil industry would be trapped into over-producing kerosene and under-producing gasoline since simple distillation could not alter the ratio of the two products from any given crude. The solution appeared in 1911 when the development of the Burton process allowed thermal cracking of crude oils, which increased the percent yield of gasoline from the heavier hydrocarbons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline

Jay Leno has an entertaining segment driving around LA in his restored Baker, he can tell you all about it, fascinating vehicle: (starts at 3:20)

https://youtu.be/OhnjMdzGusc
I feel like Charlie Kelly from IASIP reading this regex. "1. Starts out with 1, then there is other stuff...."

https://youtu.be/AFDU_R6ShmI?t=74
Should Trump’s “Truth” platform be allowed to “censor” political speech?

There is nothing stopping Fox News/NewsMax/OAN from creating their own video hosting platform.
The technique used here to get pictures of the folded proteins (cryo-electron microscopy, or cryo-EM) has seen steady improvements over the past couple of decades. [1] It’s analogous to room temperature light microscopy like you might have done in school, but with electrons instead of photons:

>Imaging biological objects in an electron microscope is, in principle, analogous in some respects to light-microscopic imaging of cell and tissue specimens mounted on glass slides. In light microscopy, visible photons serve as the source of radiation; once they pass through the specimen, they are refracted through glass optical lenses to form an image. In electron microscopy, the radiation is electrons, emitted by a source that is housed under a high vacuum, and then accelerated down the microscope column

The number of protein structures determined via cryo-EM is growing fast. Why is cryo-EM exciting for protein structure determination?

The primary technique for determining protein structures is X-ray crystallography, which, as the name implies, requires you to first produce, purify, and crystallize the protein. In contrast, cryo-EM allows determination of the protein structure without having to crystallize it.

In a typical cryo-EM experiment for protein structure determination, the protein molecules are imaged sparsely on a thin film, and many 2-D images are taken. These 2-D images are used to reconstruct the 3-D structure using a variety of computational techniques (including, recently, deep learning)

>images of the object, each with a different orientation, have 2D Fourier transforms that correspond to sections (indicated by red arrows) through the 3D Fourier transform of the original object. Thus, once the 3D Fourier transform is built up from a collection of 2D images spanning a complete range of orientations, Fourier inversion enables recovery of the 3D structure

In the analogous X-ray crystallography experiment, you have to grow crystals of your protein before imaging. The conditions that provide nice crystals are unknown and crystallization itself is sometimes completely out of the question, such as in this article where the authors are imaging a tissue sample

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3537914/
mould mold
In the back of the trucks huddled together. I’m guessing they have cold weather sleeping bags.
Keep in mind that was $250k in the late early 90s, which is more like $1-2M today - so I wouldn't really say it is within reach unless the parents are literally betting the farm on the business.

However, IIRC his parents came on as investors in the same round at the same term as other non-family investors. So really it may have been more like Bezos giving his parents access to the deal of the century rather than his parents giving a leg up to Jeff.
fwiw I just quit my first full-time job out of school in part because remote work has really held back my productivity + career growth. I started in May 2020 and have only met my coworkers a handful of times, and it's depressing. Among the students and early-career tech workers I know, working-from-home is almost universally a negative rather than a positive.
I'm using a recent Firefox on a stock Android on a Samsung 8.

The game only shows brownish rectangles.

I know the phone is considered antique by today's standards, but still...
Literally not even comparable. One is about a child sex trafficker who has had deep connections with the state, academia, the sciences and technology. This isn’t petty pop culture drama. It is shameless just how uncaring some people are about the most serious topics.
50k is not middle class
Yes.

There is nothing stopping Trump from creating his own video platform. He is supposedly a billionaire isn’t he?
Hmmm. I appreciate the help but why not sending money straight to the people/NGO and avoid Airbnb to get also the fees on the transaction?
> NASDAQ can halt trading on any stock for any reason

Source?
These photos kind of perfectly sum up just how bizarre the situation is.
Have you seen Connor Roy in Succession? His “hobby business” is running for President.
Political association is a choice and is thus not a protected class.

There is a certain U.S. political party who has a persecution fetish that makes bad faith statements about their opinions needing to be protected, but I'll let you figure out which one it is.
Wouldn't you say that Google is an organization, employing people with the authority to examine and suppress content?
I think you mean $9,375,000/year.
The midterms won’t, but the Fed losing control of interest rates will. You’re going to see a lot of valuation disappear in the next year as the bubble deflates.
What if their nukes are also not as scary as they seem?
It's basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_division using the + operator, and enforcing the bounds of the match to require a zero remainder.
Ask HN: What are the Android apps you can't live without?
I've just jumped ship to Android, got a S22+. I'm not much of an app person, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Would be great to know the hidden gems you've came across.
I second your local filesystem suggestion, also your database suggestion.

30 images doesn't seem like it's worth a separate service contract.
Legal action sounds like a massive waste of time and money. Google can afford that slow burn, normal people and smaller businesses cannot.
At least some of the Azure series support nested virtualization. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/dv4-.... There are a lot of series and I don’t know the breakdown but I would expect dsv4 to be one of the more widely used options because it is for generic CPU workloads.
If only Trump wasn’t so poor he couldn’t start his own video hosting service. It’s not like he’s a billionaire or something.
I'd take the bet on Carmack's side.
Why do you need an app to play video?
The Niz electro-capacitive keyboard is great.
Also, people discriminate so much on class that it may not be an advantage to be of a higher class.

I can’t count the ways people invent criteria, such as “street cred”, to prefer some people upon others. “Humble”, “son of worker”, “comes from the hood” are other criteria people use to justify unfairness. Ironically, streed cred is so cheatable that the only ones we let down are the actual middle classes with strong sense of work, because they pass as supposedly rich. The middle and higher classes end up with heaps of resentment which harms society (I remember events such as a girl telling me “I ruined your reputation at school but I was wrong, you were the good guy. Oh sorry for your high school btw.”)

Class warfare is no good thing.
>Personally, I don't care if someone has rich parents. Covering for it in this way felt a bit like unearned prestige, though.

I know people who are Gilmore Girls-style "old money" rich, and it's as much the fault of the parents as anybody else.

These kids, despite having IQ, diligence and other success-correlated traits being normally distributed just like everyone else, are under unbelievably immense pressure to be ridiculously "successful".

When the private tutoring and strings pulled aren't enough to get them over the line, these kids need _something_ to save face and be a success for their parents. For some, it's some bullshit managerial position. For those that can't even manage this, it's "entrepreneurship".

For these rich kids to do a job that they'd actually be well-suited for (say, retail worker or truck driver) would be social suicide for the parents and destroy the relationship they have with their family.
The security by obscurity where they don't tell the user why their account was terminated is also a call to send in the regulators
Ash HN: What are your thoughts on going back to office to work?
The big companies are paying for on-demand access as insurance. They aren't stupid. They fully understand they're paying $2K+ per month and only using service for an hour or two each month.

What becomes challenging at those rates and client densities is managing a tail risk of a collision of multiple big clients suddenly wanting services at the same time. You're just playing chicken with that happening, until you can scale your offerings and revenue up to where you can reduce client density to where you can handle the crunch better when it happens.
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...and in the spirit of the parent comment, Intel didn't intend for protected mode to be a security boundary either. The 286 and 386 programming manuals referred to the protections as a form of reducing the severity of bugs.
Maybe they want to keep some airports intact for their puppet regime? I don’t really know
I prefer the source which I think is a clearer explanation. The key is that perl’s x operator turns the number into a string of 1s that is the length of the number. The rest is a hack to use regex to perform division using minimal capturing and back references.

http://montreal.pm.org/tech/neil_kandalgaonkar.shtml
When it comes to political stuff it was a good way to identify "contraversy" which is very useful in this world of information: should I research this further or can I trust this? Is there more going on with this subject?

I think our minds naturally stray to find these patterns to reduce computational load. For example, reading news on reddit and seeing hundreds of comments and very few upvotes puts your mind into "investigation mode" while seeing something average makes you much more trusting of it.
Or the book The Son Also Rises. (All Greg Clark’s book titles are Hemingway puns.)
Right. Instead, we'll just have wars over lithium deposits, or just raw land upon which the victor installs solar cells and wind turbines.

Fossil fuels were probably the panacea that ended wars for whale territory on the high seas 150 years ago.
It's certainly better than paying companies for "licenses" we don't actually own or digital goods that amount to nothing but bits in their database. With these digital content NFTs, at least we get a real market.

I'm not sure whether these things will actually get integrated into video games or how well it's gonna work. It will certainly be interesting to watch this develop.
Yep, totally fair. I agree.

For what it's worth I think it bit him the ass with the senate election in Georgia. If he hadn't told all his voters that it was rigged and there was no point in voting, the senate seats might have gone differently.

Overall I'm hoping that most people see through it and are tired of the stupidity and games that he plays. God help us if he wins the Republican primary in 2024.
I think you overstate the overlap of Musk fans and crypto climate impact critics.

You would be mistaken to think that Musk fans are in large part anti-crypto. It’s a weird notion for you to even submit.
"An Introduction to General Systems Thinking" by Gerald M. Weinberg [0] was highly influential to me. I still often use his "systems triumvirate" when I have to sort out bigger-picture problems:

1. Why do I see what I see?

2. Why do things stay the same?

3. Why do things change?

0: https://geraldmweinberg.com/Site/General_Systems.html
Yes, under market for top level engineers. They have relied on stock growth to make up a large part of total compensation.
I think Unikernel VMs are the future. Build your app into
One blob with no user/kernel space boundary that runs in a guest VM. No boot time or wasted memory/latency (context switch) issues.

That said, even VM are best-effort security boundaries, then apparmor/selinux type restrictions put in place on the host should be the main hard security boundary IMO.
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I am really interested in work of this nature since my phd chemist days. One of the key challenges I've seen in similar systems is the oxygen evolution reaction due to the 4e- required to complete the process. How have you resolved this in your system, and do you think this could help other open problems that seem to suffer from OER bottleneck?