skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so, yet again, the censors were wrong. I've said it before, if you're going to censor you better be right 100% of the time. The moment you get it wrong all credibility and benefit-of-the-doubt is gone and now you must censor by authority and not out of good will.

The first case i recall is the lab leak theory censoring and now the laptop thing. The platforms should stop censoring except for content defined as prohibited by law.
Corporations seem to be responding to tiny but very vocal mobs of activists. These groups don't necessarily represent the majority point of view.
> In a government elected by the people, the people can't absolve themselves of guilt when they're willingly voting for corrupt officials.

it can be said, that increasingly its representatives that are choosing (gerrymandering) thier constituents instead of the other way around, and many districts are not competitive at all (e.g no alternative candidates)
The problem is you don't want to make the score harder to read for someone who does know some theory. Say you're in G# minor, then F double sharp is going to be pretty common. If you notate that as G natural, it will confuse me. Raised 7th degree in a minor key is easy to understand. Flat first degree is...well, I can only assume we've entirely changed keys. And this is going to happen automatically in my mind, but figuring out it was supposed to be a raised 7th but was notated wrong will not be automatic and therefore slow things down.
Hyundai's urban air mobility company to launch first eVTOL in 2028
I fixed some spelling mistakes: https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/pull/314
> It has no implicit promise of freedom of speech or press, democracy, or any other political ideal

That's the magic part: you don't have to be explicit to promote certain thing, you just create the ground tech-knowledge to enable the easy access of such thing, and hand everything else over to natural progression.

The Internet for example, enables everyone to exchange information with everyone else. That's textbook democratic-builtin design. Some undemocratic nations are so fearful such network, they go as far as creating their own little net to protect their pathetic little propaganda, the propaganda that those nations don't even dare to show to the world. And even that, they still have to fight a propaganda war (actual names might be different) in their own little net to keep democratic force in check.

Internet is democratic, there should be no question about that.

The problem about the Internet today, is that most people thinks Amazon+Google+Facebook+Twitter+other big brands is the Internet. They forgot that they can host things themselves without those big tech companies.
> You are labeled 'absolutist' if you argue against censorship. It is fascinating really

what's fascinating is that you are writing it on a website that "censors" opinions, based on your definition.
What’s wrong with signaling is basically that when Goodhart’s law takes over, cynicism reigns and it’s a downward spiral. And if everything becomes framed as about signaling, that’s what happens.

If you do X so that you can flex about how Y you are to your audience, that’s bullshit.

If you, as an audience member, automatically assume all X-doers to be primarily interested in telling you about Y they are, that is also bullshit.

If you do X because X, and if you see people doing X and assume X until it’s obvious that there is more going on, that’s a lot more healthy.
Honest question: Then why did they (Germany) allow Gazprom to own critical infra. in the first place?
I'm not an expert, but this article may be relevant:

https://securitiesregulationmonitor.com/Lists/Posts/Post.asp...

He may ultimately file an amendment. Seems like 13G doesn't preclude some discussions w/ the board but less certain what happens once you're appointed to the board.
I already kind of knew intuitively that this would be happening in some form, but seeing it examined like this really puts it into perspective.

I've noticed that on Snapchat and Instagram, I'm not able to see any new public content coming from Ukraine. On the Snapchat map, Ukraine is completely empty. I have a few Ukrainian friends, and I still see their content, but public stuff seems to be filtered or censored somehow. I'm a US-based account, and I've been in the US and Dominican Republic lately.

I think this phenomenon is related to filter bubbles (but also more than that). I've already been noticing for years that my connections with different political views, or different interests, are being fed completely different realities. Sometimes it's benign recommendations, other times it's creepy advertiser-driven manipulation, and this example of Ukraine/Russia shows that there is clearly some blatant, wide-scale censorship going on. The narrative is being controlled by powers operating in the shadows. It really is an unseen information war.

As someone who has been traveling for 10 years, my friends are incredibly diverse. So I often hear news from outside of my country and my filter bubbles. And my go-to source for trying to peek outside of the filter bubbles is Wikipedia's current events portal.

I've got a few Russian friends. Most are outside of Russia, but one who I regularly talk to is in Russia and stays on Instagram using a VPN. I've had some conversations with her about the war, and while she's certainly not a fan of Putin, and knows there is a war going on, she seems to be completely naive about the severity of it. When we talk about it she says things about how truth is hard to know because the media lies. She is hearing stories from the West but having a hard time knowing what is really happening.

There really needs to be some new form of leaflet drops to get real information to Russians despite the Information Age Iron Curtain.
Because ultimately it makes a strong assertion that the German government fucked up without supporting it.

There’s nothing wrong with saying the government fucked up (though I don’t think it did). But the non sequitur opinion doesn’t add to the discussion.
Alternative that seems at least equally likely to me: a student took them, either as a stupid dare/prank or with the thought that they could sell them; then realised they had no idea how to go about fencing such an item, and stashed them away; now, 20+ years later, they've finally grown-up enough to decide that they're never going to make a fortune selling them, and should do the decent thing by returning them unharmed.

If that's the case, the cling-film may be 20 years old, which is probably something analysis can establish.

Or, the academic who took them eventually died; in sorting through their stuff, their heirs realised what this was and wanted to return them, but didn't want anyone's name dragged into it.

In that scenario, the cling-film is more likely recent, just used to package them for returning.
Is there a specific XKCD about this? Picking the winning number based on the stock market sounds an awful lot like the old mafia numbers game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game
>Gazprom still kept their long-term contracts but unlike all the prior times did not supply much on the spot market - which led to the well observed price hikes and utilities going bankrupt or out of business because their "old" strategy of simply buying on the spot market didn't work out.

What do you expect to happen when long-term contracts get tied to spot prices? Why the hell would Gazprom willingly lower the spot prices when bulk of its sales will suffer from it?
the latter, and yes, i guess im a "loser"...
People don't play lotteries for an expected gain, but for entertaining dreams of winning.

And while your chance of winning the big prize may be negligible, many lotteries do offer tiers of smaller prizes with more reasonable probabilities.

In Holland there's a zipcode lottery in which many people play as a a form of insurance against neighbour envy, as prizes are shared among all entrants from the winning street:-)
The Fukushima cleanup, unique in history and resulting from radically unlikely natural disasters, cost less than half what the fuel it replaced that decade would have

This is without considering the cost of climate change or all those prevented deaths
Pipefail: A missing shell option slowed Cloudflare down
twitter itself is left-leaning (in the liberal sense), yes - are we pretending that progressivism and far-right ideology have equal legitimacy? parler was founded to be a haven for the latter.

I might be out on a limb with this, but I don't think we should be giving far-right people a platform to spread their views.
it's interesting to reflect on this
Network weights would take up around 2TB.

It also means at least 4TB of TPU/GPU memory required for training, or at least 50 Nvidia A100s.
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The irony of course being that the American political demographic, MAGA, with the biggest grievances regarding tech “censorship” also appear to be most willing to make excuses for or deny Russian war crimes.
That's not a green group, it's just a front for Gazprom.

Just like the fake "Whale conservation" group fighting wind power off Nantucket is a front.

If you want to criticize something as large as the Environmental movement, and you can't even find one real example to cite then maybe that means something.

If you can't criticize them, don't bring up people that are larping as them for their own ends.
Article is "How We Build r/Place," not "We built r/place." And, as others have commented, this is from 2017.
A few things in play here. Each job has certain quotas they have to fill. Too many of one job will make advancement nearly impossible which prevents people from moving up into leadership positions and will eventually cause a shortage when those that can’t promote decide to leave. Recruiters have quotas too, like 2.5 recruits this month or at least one female this month, etc.

Your ASVAB score and likelihood of qualifying for a clearance are also considered. You can join the military without being a citizen (and can get expedited citizenship), but your job prospects will be limited to non clearance jobs, for example.

When you go to the Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS), you are put through a bunch of medical tests and once you are cleared for entry, you go on to negotiate the job you want. This is where you have to stick up for yourself. The recruiters there, who you don’t know, will try to push you one way. For instance, I wanted IT which I was told was full. Instead, I was offered “deck seamanship” which I was told let me get a feel of different jobs which I could the “strike” (apply) for. It sounded good, but I really wanted IT. I stood my ground and said I wasn’t in a rush and I could wait until IT opened up. They aren’t letting you out that door if they can help it, and I magically got IT with a signing bonus no less.

Come to find out deck seamanship meant I would be chipping paint and repainting the ship and other really hard grunt work. By the time I would have struck for another job, my peers would have been promoted years ahead of me. It helps to talk to a vet or have them go with you when talking to the recruiters. The recruiters don’t always lie, but they do sometimes only reveal the information they think is important.
I was asking [0] for strong evidence of TikTok being a tool to manipulate the west and it seems that this is all the evidence that satisfies this claim.

It is no wonder governments would love to use this glorified recommendation algorithm as it is the new digital crack / cocaine which is effective on manipulating billions of users today.

Now looking back at this once again [1], I don't even think it was a clever thing to say that "TikTok is the best thing to have happened to the Internet". At most it is the direct opposite and it is even worse than Facebook.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28463370

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135484
So most of this stuff is not public, so there is no single source to point you to, but from what people have puzzled together on various forums the structure is approximately this (corrections welcome):

ПАО Gazprom (the _actual_ Gazprom; ПАО is a Russian joint-stock company) owns another Russian company (Gazprom Export OOO; OOO is a Russian LLC), which in turn owned Gazprom Germania GmbH (GmbH is a German LLC).

ПАО Gazprom sold gas to Gazprom Export, which in turn sold gas to Gazprom Germania, which in turn sells the gas to the actual European companies.

The change in Russian law which switches the currency to rubles affects the transactions between Gazprom Export OOO and Gazprom Germania GmbH (which were previously both owned by Russia), which made the settlement an "internal" affair of Gazprom for German exports.

(This stuff is fairly well established and you can look at the German & Russian company registers, the legal text of the Russian decree etc. for more detailed information. The next part is less well understood)

Previously this settlement took place through Gazprom Germania sending money from its German account(s) to an account of held in Gazprombank Luxembourg (GPB International S.A., a Luxembourgian Public Limited Company). This account may be a correspondence account for a Gazprombank Russia account owned by Gazprom Export, it's unclear. These funds can be frozen by the EU (and I think are, leading to the Russian claim that they're currently supplying some gas for "free").

With the law change in Russia, this transfer must now happen to a new type of currency account established by Gazprombank Russia (though it's unclear / not publicly known how those are backed, e.g. whether it's also through correspondent accounts at GBP International S.A.) where it is automatically sold and converted into rubles, which are then transferred to Gazprom Export in Russia.

Now an important bit that most people don't seem to get is that none of this affects pricing, it's akin to a change in payment method. The supply contracts between e.g. the European gas purchasers and Gazprom Germania have complicated pricing schemes which are likely tied to one or more currencies (EUR & USD) and Russia is sticking to those pricing agremeents - but insisting on changing how the settlement happens.

What is kind of unclear at the moment is what Gazprom stands to gain from the sale (and subsequent (attempted?) liquidation of Gazprom Germania). There are a handful of theories about this, but in practice we probably won't know for a while.
Your parent is still right, though: that's what the internet largely is. Companies that try to make a quick buck by grabbing attention. And while there are still many other sites that allow open discussion, Russia can block them quite easily for a very comfortable majority of the population.
New York Harbor jet fuel prices going parabolic
You over-simplify things quite a bit. Just because people in given country want freedom and not have as rulers constant puppets of russia doesn't mean they became US lapdogs. Its russia's fault that they globally represent oppression, corruption, incompetence, war crimes and now even genocide of their closest neighbors. Nobody normal would want to align with that voluntarily, only other bullies and murderers (which is exactly whats happening if you look at ie UN voting re Ukraine).

Don't forget that Ukraine during ruling of all those russian puppets became country so desperately poor that even such a place like russia was rich by comparison. I don't find it strange at all that people just wanted to get rid of this constant negative drag on their very existence.
Agreed. I think the premise is sound. I feel like the US needs to incorporate a new right, similar to the separation of church and state but instead focused on the separation of politics and companies. I have no idea how politics would be defined or how it would be enforced. However similar to the premise of this article I think the one thing both sides can agree on is all of this became worse and jaded when companies became self aware and brandished a political agenda.

I mean if we want free speech how can their be disinformation? Even if crazy earl wants to talk about the “good old days” where women stayed home and cooked all day why does a company need to take a stand on eliminating that post?

Why do people working at companies feel compelled to incorporate their beliefs into their work? Disney makes movies for kids. I understand that a small % of the population feels marginalized because they don’t have direct representation in media, but kids are inpressional, and if we want to be “Fair” we’d present ALL sides, from straight, to gay, from hero to terrorist. Or Disney could go back to making neutral kids movies about fictional talking animals struggling through life. Why do they need to take a stance on something.
True, you can apply it to desktops, but those are bulkier and more expensive to ship. I've kept the box my laptop was shipped to me in, and it's got all bases covered if I need to send it back.

I'd wager that sending a laptop back and forth twice is probably about as expensive as a single round trip for a desktop, and with less risk of breakage, since all the parts are soldered in place, with much less wiggle room for heavier stuff to break off.
Regarding django-admin style tools, there are solutions like zk [1] & apache isis [2] for java which are somewhat comparable, though more enterprise oriented.

[1] https://www.zkoss.org/

[2] https://isis.apache.org/
This tool could be a better alternative to Ngrok/Localtunnel to relay requests to localhost but with a convenient GUI. It's free and the source code is published on GitHub. Also it's a charityware.
Well, when the media and politicians work so hard to keep American’s disagreeing, and then hating one another, this is bound to happen. The media, the corporate owned cable television streaming media, is the enemy of the people.
Looks cool! However it appears to have a bit of a learning curve to get up and running.

Are there any other advantages to using nix?
Figuratively?
Reservation-style rate limiting APIs
Germany is about 15% smaller than California, but with more than twice the population. Not exactly what I'd call "sparsely populated".
Elon does not get along with the new CEO, as Elon is friends with Dorsey who got run out. One of the major points of contention is Twitter as a free speech platform. While Twitter now allows remote, it’s still centered around SF and it’s employee base skews heavily “woke” (and like most SV companies , the non-woke keep their mouth shut). These woke employees constantly call to censor those who they perceive as more right wing while giving left wing stuff way more slack. (see: Netflix and Spotify employees upset over Rogan/chapelle).

Project veritas exposed a lot of this by having a journalist match Twitter engineers on tinder, get invited to their holiday party, and secretly record them admitting to targeting conservative accounts.

Besides now being the biggest shareholder, Elon also has a lot of Twitter followers. He threatened to make a new platform, but did this instead.

The new CEO is a former SWE and a more typical SV guy. I don’t think he’s especially woke but he’s also down to bow to peer pressure. Elon doing this is now massive peer pressure in the opposite direction.

Given how often Bay Area engineeers forget their own bubbles and biases and accuse dissenting views of being “intolerant”, this is likely great news for proponents of free speech and Twitter shareholders.
Most of the people getting caught up in all this banning aren't rabid racist or misogynist or whatever ism or ist they are being smeared with. They are non hateful individuals who don't fall in line with the "current thing" and have a non-approved view point. The woke crowd somehow has been given a monopoly on who has a voice in the modern era. Is someone a "transphobe" and intolerant of trans people because they think the definition of a woman is the same as sex? This isn't intolerance this is a disagreement on the nature of reality.
>content defined as prohibited by law

They weren't wrong, deleting illegal content is exactly what they were doing. Revenge porn is illegal in almost all US states.
Ukrainians are locating their devices in Belarus where Russian army retreated
Ask HN: Is poor battery life good for encouraging you to take breaks from work?
In particular, you might take a work break while your notebook battery recharges.
> anti-nuclear is pro-fossil

Wrong and baseless. It is possible to simultaneously reduce nuclear and fossil components in the energy balance and this is exactly what is happening.

> why wouldn't they covertly finance anti-nuclear if they overtly finance pro-fossil?

Greens in Germany are established political party with clear anti-Putin positioning. Financing of political parties in Germany is transparent and has sufficient oversight, so there’s neither possibility nor any sense to covertly finance them.

> Greens are pro-environment, but don't offer substitute energy sources

Where did you get that from?
Can one of the most complicated watches ever made account for Easter? (2017)
He didn't say democracy was dead. He said the internet is not the democratising force it was once hoped to be (e.g. during the Arab Spring).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_the_Arab_Spri...

Perhaps that was before your time?
> they can’t just impose “whatever” sanctions

They can and they do. Enforcing any kind of international agreements in this situation is pure fiction.

> The good guy has to respect the rules

The existence of a bad guy doesn't imply the existence of a good guy.
Yup. When Biden started dropping “regime change” it was pretty clear the narrative has been set and most are on board.

Would love for American to just sit out the next war.
Yes, and some parents influence the schools to ban harry potter, because of anti-god magic, and those parents then organize book burnings (yes, this year - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/04/book-burning... )

Some of us consider this a bad thing, even though it's still done in some societies (eg. USA).

If someone starts a harry potter microbloging platform, and the content there is legal, and the technology works in a way, where a want-to-be-offended pastor has to actively type in the url/name in the browser, to see the content and get offended, this should not be a reason to ban that platform. The same with eg. not being able to disallow customers of the shop that sells harry potter to use public roads.

Internet services and payment processors should be treated the same as other utilities... as long as it's legal, the services/processors should not be able to deny service due to political reasons, because they believe harry potter is against gods will.
This is TikTok only after a despotic government created a law about fake news that can result in a 15 year jail sentence.

your characterization of TikTok is shallow, its a social media platform. Just like every other social media platform people want to share and talk about the world along with their silly dances and you miss the point of OP and the article that it isn't about what TikTok should or shouldn't be, but that the limits set on free speech result in a neutering of of the social media platform, and is one example of many apps/website/platforms/news stations that will have been effected by this.
Yet most unaffiliated voters “lean”, often very strongly, towards one party or the other. Most estimates put true independent/swing voters at only 3-4% of the electorate.