skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This seems like a silly post on first reading, but actually thinking about it, that would mean the first amendment actually applies to Twitter right?

Without Section 230 Twitter would be liable for every evil thing that is said on their platform.

What Section 230 does is create a category in which you are not liable for the content on the platform but they specifically setup limited rules for what can be censored. All censorship must be done in good faith. Lewd, obscene, harassment etc is censorable. But again good faith, you cant just say everything is harassment or obscene so you can censor speech.

So absolutely, twitter is legally obligated to allow free speech. The big controversy is that they are clearly in violation of this but nobody is punishing them. They just get away with it.

>It's an interesting mind exercise. What happens with blatant spamming, or bots, is the government allowed to interfere with those? Or does the 1st amendment block that too?

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of-

(A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or

So twitter could ban porn under lewd category but they choose not to do. Same with gore and obscenity in general.

You dont have to censor these things, but you can if you please.

Censoring political speech under any of those categories is going to be virtually impossible to justify that they are doing this in good faith.
You should try to walk a lot every day, not just what you "feel like". 7k steps is on the low side.
São Paulo Congonhas airport uses a mix of the techniques used in LCY and DBV. Light towers in people's yards (https://goo.gl/maps/ANcFr2kfUJB9H6FS8) and bridges over roads (https://goo.gl/maps/EZadYfA43qyMQWtN9).
He filed forms that he was going to be a passive investor, and the same day joined the board after discussion that had been in the works for weeks. This is strike two on misleading investors.

I haven't seen analysis on whether it was illegal, but I wouldn't want somebody like him on my board even if it succeeded in keeping him from buying up more stock. With him on the outside, maybe he causes more trouble than on the inside but I would be wary of the association.
Are there known “good” paths that lead to the former result?
We need investigation but not to find out what happened but to find out how it exactly happened and who is directly responsible for these specific acts.

We already know who is responsible for all these acts together. These are not random events. What has happened is not accident.

This is systematic genocide organized on highest level https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kremlin-editorial-ukraine-iden...
Just realized that with a battery intended for seasonal storage you only get one cycle per year so for the same ROI as a battery that cycles weekly or daily it has to be much cheaper per kwh of capacity. OTOH it only needs to last for like 50 cycles.
The trouble with the CDC is that they talk as though they're pure, disinterested scientists following the evidence, but often it seems they're actually making decisions for political reasons, and then fudging the science so they can claim it supports their decisions.

Their toolbox for fudging the science includes dismissing (or, better, completely ignoring) inconvenient studies; praising weak studies that support their position, and acting like the studies' flaws don't exist; and failing to apply obvious logical reasoning. Some of these could be interpreted as incompetence, which in some cases it probably is; other times it becomes blatant enough that incompetence seems implausible.

Here's one example, when, around the time of Omicron, the CDC changed their post-infection isolation guidelines from 10 days to 5 days. The CDC's announcement literally said "The change is motivated by science demonstrating that the majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs early in the course of illness, generally in the 1-2 days prior to onset of symptoms and the 2-3 days after". However, as a (CDC-favorable) Washington Post article said, "New CDC guidelines were spurred by worries omicron surge could lead to breakdown in essential services: Health officials worried that mass infections could result in tens of thousands of Americans unable to work"; "The guidance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “was based on the anticipation of a large number of cases might impact societal function,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in an interview with The Post."

Detailed discussion here (including discussion of lots of problems with the guidelines themselves): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uGvYtExLobWz2RixS/cdc-change...

I mean, bullshit. This is most definitely not motivated primarily by science demonstrating a distribution of transmission. If it was, the guidelines would have changed when they learned about this, rather than exactly when the guidelines otherwise needed to change. [...]

So in the interest of making sure people could do [essential services], we’re shortening the period to five days. Understandable? Definitely. I can’t argue with it. I’m all for ‘following the economics.’ [...] But every time you say you are ‘following the science’ when you’re transparently not doing that on any level, you’re burning your credibility and the commons that much more. It needs to stop.
I always said it isn't only the numbers that need to be random, but the record of who owns those numbers needs to be perfect. Probably the "easiest" way to win the lottery is to be the janitor where they keep the servers, then just install a transparent SQL proxy on the wire and anytime someone asks what the winning numbers are, say it's you. It only has to work once.
Not never but while he is a member of the board + 90 days. Though if he would get more than that not being on the board would be weird so kind of yes never getting more than that.
That might actually be the worst way.
" writing for a niche seems to proliferate to the specialty sites just fine."

Does it, though? I'd actually like to see a thorough study done on this. My hypothesis is different from yours: the proliferation of "specialty sites" is a product and symptom of the walled garden phenomenon, and further serves to sequester and censor undesirable content from the wider audience.
This story was two weeks ago:

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-sec-says-teslas-musk-sho...
You are parroting an old tired “it’s only protected speech when it’s the government meddling”, and to that I ask, did you not read the part where TikTok is doing this because the Russian government decided to jail people over “fake news”? Does this not constitute a textbook violation of the freedom of speech?
How timely! I'm sketching out a visual novel engine that implements a simple DSL (think of it like Ren'Py, but with Ruby instead of Python). Yesterday, I spent hours rewriting the line-by-line preprocessor into an LR parser.

Oh, and I had to write my own FFI library to bind into the MRI.

Oh, and the language I'm using has an SDL2 library available, but it was incomplete the last time I checked.

Fun!
This is really an amazing achievement! It was Mike's IndieHackers interview (https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-charging-money-fo...) that really pushed me over the edge to go open-core with Flyway in 2017 and give it a sustainable future. Thanks again Mike, if you're reading this!
Your suggestion goes directly against freedom of association. Also there really isn't such a thing as being "neutral" like you describe, "neutral" is just when everyone agrees to the point where they don't release there's something to disagree about.

However your comment does seem to touch on one the major deficit/contradictions in small-l liberalism: you don't really solve disagreements by pushing them into the private sphere, you just avoid them, and eventually that avoidance can tear society apart.
How far is 7k steps for an adult, roughly? 2km?

Edit: From what I'm reading, about 4-6km, or 2.5-3.75 miles. That's a pretty decent walk. Guess I gotta do more.
Regardless if it’s a chat app or some kudos system (as others alluded to), if online gaming has taught me anything, then banned words that people really want to say will either be written as b4NN3D or have an alias that seems innocuous at first glance.
> and I guess fully compliant in theory at least.

An A-A cable is necessarily non-compliant by definition.
Erosion of top soil is a more significant problem than fertilizer. With respect to fertilizers and inorganic phosphate supply, it seems that these are not really necessary(they might actually be detrimental) as long as you provide the right soil microbiome for the crops which can outperform synthetic fertilization[1-2] (though I am very new to this and is outside my field and I am unsure of the validity of their claims).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO2nGHq40Xc
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErMHR6Mc4Bk
> "Amazon UK" is actually Amazon Luxembourg. Visa wasn't picking on them, they were applying the standard cross-border tariff.

Actually if we're nitpicking its a UK branch of Amazon Luxumbourg (UK Company No. FC032354 UK VAT Number: GB 727255821).

But that's not really the point. The crux of the matter was not Amazon, but it was UK-issued VISA cards accepted on Amazon UK (and the post-Brexit removal of the EU’s European Interchange Fee Regulation cap).

Which basically brings us back to the cross-border topic at hand (i.e. EU or branch-of-EU company accepting UK cards).
What do you mean by Ruby "hackery"?

I'll agree that how to do things properly with Ruby isn't obvious when you're new to the language - just as it isn't obvious how to do things in Java (or other JVM languages) when you're coming from Ruby or another language.[0]

But Bundler doesn't work all that differently from Maven, in the end. Instead of running your commands through `./mwnw`, you run them through `bundle exec`[1]. Dependency management is straightforward and mostly hassle-free (the problems arise "only" when you use C extensions which, to be fair, is not that rare, but I don't really see a way around this in a language where you need C for certain fast things). In particular, Bundler by default[2] also stores dependencies centrally like maven to avoid duplication and then selects the appropriate version of a given dependency (unlike e.g. NPM which stores everything locally).

Rbenv (or alternative tools such as chruby or asdf) solves a problem completely distinct from Bundler or Maven, it's about selecting the right Ruby version for your project, a problem that also needs to be solved with Java. IME, many developers just let the IDE deal with that, but Ruby developers are more used to running things from CLI, so that's why rbenv exists. In any case, the most popular analogue for Java would be sdkman which works, mostly, the same way (and which, IME, is even a bit hackier than rbenv).

JS and Python are different. Node is a mess IMHO, and Python isn't able to agree on which package manager to use (I would hope people would migrate to Poetry, which seems to be doing things right).

[0]: For example, one thing that I find very annoying over in Java-land is that it's a real hassle to make sure things behave the same way when called from the CLI as opposed to from the IDE, such as setting the active spring profile. This is because, mostly, the IDE circumvents maven/gradle (you can run things through the build system, but typically the output, e.g. test output, is better when using the IDE-internal system, at least with IntelliJ).

[1]: There are "hackeries" to get rid of having to run everything through "bundle exec", such as binstubs and direnv, although I would mostly call them "shell script tricks", and anyway, if you instead just alias "bundle exec" to something shorter or create a wrapper script, it's not really worse than `./mwnw`.

[2]: This can be overriden and is actually a good idea for production builds, especially if you use a multi-stage docker build since then it's easy to copy over all your dependencies.
The point of the article is, in my opinion, TikTok is working as intended. What did you expect really?
Kind of a joke: that's how a time traveler (not very clever though) would look like deciding to get some money returning to past :)
What do you refer to by saying Python is an exception? I haven't used anything but different language and package versions on a per-project basis since around 2007. I had some project with deployments on client servers where their sysadmin insisted on having everything installed as os packages, but this at least from my perspective hasn't been the norm for quite a while now.

Not to say that I like the Python package management story.
>I naively thought that the likes of Stripe existed in order to abstract away this issue.

This is the least of your worries when selling globally. VAT is where the real fun starts.
> would make many legal actions against Gazprom Germania harder

what legal action? Gazprom is not under any sanctions…
Alright, I did and nobody cared. What now?
Wait what's the contradiction here? Merkel's and Germany's international leadership can be good at the same time as Germany's dependency on Russia and China is problematic from a national security perspective. Those two aren't mutually exclusive.
I think that's a solid read.

The social media platforms need some sort of speech regulation enforced on them. Imagine if AT&T cut off your phone call because you started talking about Donald Trump or Hunter Biden's laptop.

Social media companies enjoy immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act[1] but then editorialize their platform to allow only conversations socially acceptable.

Enforcing free speech on the platforms, as its accepted today by the courts[2], with criminal penalties for noncompliance, is the only solution.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
[2] https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-re...
On my TikTok page I watch stand up comedians, cooking videos, comedy sketches, political commentary, engineering videos, goofy out of context clips, song mashups, video game footage, and yes very occasionally a dance video.
There's a big difference between saying they don't know and acknowledging that they don't have first hand information. The people you say are just "calling for an investigation" are dismissing the credibility of the reports so far, the Pentagon is not dismissing them.
My argument for nuclear: the alternative low-carbon base load is grid-scale lithium ion batteries. That tech is ,(AFAIK) 10 years out from reaching both the scale and price point needed. Also note that solar and wind need enormous amounts of land.
Risk of winterization cost explains unpreparedness of Texan power system
> You can still write anything in a blog that you own and have people see it. To me that freedom is the "internet".

It's easy when you have a domain, server in your basement, a reasonable ISP. But as soon as you break the ToS with your provider or registrar getting the word out becomes practically impossible without resorting to IPFS or Onion or whatever in which case the content you own becomes a little ghetto that nobody reads.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggested extending common carrier legislation to cover social media platforms. That would essentially prevent them from censoring any content legal in the US.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2021/04/09/justice-t...
> turn the id into a link [that] they could click

But the idea has gone way overboard. Everything that could be a phone number, address, or calendar date is now automatically made into a link in many web pages, apps, and instant messengers, such that you have to be very precise with your mouse or finger to be able to copy-paste without accidentally clicking the link. And in some apps they've made it literally impossible to copy-paste the data that they've turned into a link. You have to resort to using developer tools or copy the data by hand.

There needs to be some general UI convention that allows you the option to copy-paste as plain text. There are lots of situations where I don't want a link but just the data.
do you have the minute of that?
Thank you for this nuance. I thought it sounded crazy.
IPCC report: The evidence is clear: the time for action is now
Advice like this isn't for instrinctly motivated people that would walk as much as they feel like anyways.

This is for the vast majority of America where a 6 block trip to the corner store is considered driving distance.

If I didn't make it a 100% conscious "chore" to do every day when I lived in the suburbs, it was quite easy to go an entire week without walking more than a few hundred outdoor feet in total.

In the city it's far more likely I'll be walking to get something done anyways, so it's easy to take the long way home for some extra steps if I've been in front of a screen too long lately.
Let's be clear, those workstations were hella expensive. (The Amiga was not in the true workstation range, but rather more of a glorified home computer. Their workstation equivalents would probably be the stuff from NeXT.) Their closest modern equivalent would probably be midrange systems like whatever Oxide Computer is working on these days. A workstation was simply a "midrange" level system that happened to be equipped for use by a single person, as opposed to a shared server resource. The descendant of the old minicomputer, in many ways.
I find it very curious that the phrase "None of this matters!" can be simultaneously depressing and liberating, depending on who is reading.

Understanding can't just be transmitted through words, and requires introspection. Congratulations on your epiphany!

I optimize life for happiness. I try shape my life to enjoy the process like you said: good work-life balance, doing something that challenges me just enough on average, that I enjoy, with people I enjoy.

I try to bring that to my teammates and actively contribute to a culture of zest for our profession at my job. Why? You're happier when surrounded by happy people. If you're surrounded by people doing the same, it's less likely for culture to change in a negative way.

I mentor teammates and grad students. Helping others grow makes me happy, and especially during the pandemic it's been a good way to stay connected to others.

There will always be rough moments, but there's no happiness without pain. It requires constant maintenance: keep yourself healthy, your mind stimulated, your body exercised, your social skills challenged. Make time to also stop and enjoy doing nothing.
One thing I read somewhere -- and it might have been an interview with Gibson or with someone else talking about his work -- is how much William Gibson despises derivatives of cyberpunk in the books, videogames and movies that followed.

Specifically, he dislikes the focus on the aesthetic, neon lights, mirror shades, etc. I think Gibson really dislikes Cyberpunk 2077, for example. Gibson argued they are missing the point, staying shallow and forgetting the "message", which was PUNK: a rebellion and a rejection of the mainstream state of affairs. Gibson was a punk writer, and his writing was a critique of Reaganomics and the direction the world was going back then.

I think he means we need a different kind of critique now, not anchored to neon lights and vaguely Japanese inspired retrofuturistic aesthetics which look like what the 80s thought the future would be. And nothing can be more conformist and anti-punk than lazily copying a now classic aesthetic and doing nothing else with it.

That said, I love that aesthetic myself, and have no problem being stuck in the past. But I see his point.
Does American government censor the press? Or mail?
> But the moral calculus was in everyone's favor. What is money, after all, compared with good and evil? If ZipRecruiter could stop trampling on Olaf's soul every month, and the only cost was a few hours of my time, that was time and money well-spent making the world a better place.

This speaks to my soul. I have never read such a clear description of how I choose what to work on.
Yet those who were responsible for pushing the narrative of a "Brexit dividend" will remain gleefully quiet on this issue.

It's maddening and on top of inflation, it's just another kick in the teeth.
Ask HN: What software could we build to help Ukrainians?
I think it's much more than that - around 5-6km.
But take into consideration all the steps you do at home or office just walking around. You don't just need to walk on purpose.
One would almost think it is worth setting up a US/UK/EU subsidiary structure and funnel payments optimally to each one using Stripe or whomever.

Some services in each of these territories charge just the interchange fee.

Like: https://staxpayments.com/pricing/

https://www.adyen.com/blog/interchange-fees-explained

> On average, interchange fees are around 0.3-0.4% of the transaction amount in Europe and 2% in the US.
During the first version of /r/place, there was some mechanism in place to reduce the use of bots such as a CAPTCHA and not allowing newly created accounts to place pixels.

However, this year I feel like they gave up on all of that simply to gain more users.
See, this should be the very first thing we should find out about Tailscale, and not only after we have invested time and effort.
It's tempting to think that the governments of these states have been infiltrated by their enemies.
>The transaction happens on the country the merchant Operates.

In order to achieve what parent said, the merchant will have to have a legal entity in every single country where they have customers in, and setup payment processing account within those jurisdiction.

So I am wonder at what sort of revenue does it make sense to do this. Assuming this process could somehow be automated / abstracted and the only cost are legal and accounting. ( i.e Cost that cant be avoided )
"The freeze-thaw phenomenon is possible because the battery’s electrolyte is molten salt - a molecular cousin of ordinary table salt. The material is liquid at higher temperatures but solid at room temperature. The freeze-thaw battery was shown to retain 92 per cent of its capacity over 12 weeks."

Any relation between this and 'sodium-ion' battery companies like the recently acquired Faradion? (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2PmRT3akGk )
It's a game. Games can have competition. Sometimes that's what makes them fun.
Just recently actually. Well, at least as a career, I think if I could eventually return it just to a hobby I could enjoy it again.

But as of recently, I want nothing to do with programming or programmers.
Elon Musk is this generations Steve Jobs. He has an enormous amount of influence with people 30 and under. His opinion of Apple will most likely sour when the Apple car comes out. If he really wanted, he probably could single-handedly bring Android closer to iOS in the US by changing his phone to Android and tweeting about it. I am not kidding. People worship Elon.
Highlight of /r/place this year for me was Canada narrative.

Initially that community struggled to decide on cannabis leaf or maple leaf, just like 5 years ago, leading to inevitable griefing campaigns taking advantage of the internal volatility to successfully turn it into "Bananas" with a yellow flag and a banana in place of the leaf for a short time.

But then the Canadians prevailed in the last hour, with Canada spelled correctly and the maple leaf and even all their provincial flags were added.

At some point during the volatile Canadian flag period the Germans made a perfect maple leaf inside the German flag in about 3 minutes which was amusing.

You can see the Canadian leaf was one of the most volatile map areas on this pixel volatility heatmap:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Mehdi_Moussaid/status/15112531929...
Thanks for rec. Neuromancer is an all time fave. Amazing how well it has held up
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