skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Replace "lab leak theory" with whatever topic you think has been unfairly censored, and the reason it was censored (or any other action taken against it) is not because of the content of that topic, I ABSOLUTELY ASSURE YOU.

Pretty sure this is not true. The Hunter Biden laptop story was censored for one reason, and one reason only: it was a bombshell dropped at the 11th hour, and liberals were afraid that it would result in Trump winning re-election. The truth or untruth of the story was beside the point; if it had been Trump Jr's laptop, it would never have been censored.

Censorship is not inevitable. If Musk had been in charge of Twitter back then, this story would not have been censored.
Roundabouts fall apart when one road is much busier and dominates it, and nobody else can get in. Happened to me once and I was there waiting to get in for at least 5 minutes until I just forced my way in.
Yes, but that mechanism - issuing and selling new shares - brings in additional external money to the company so that afterwards you own 8% of a bigger pie.
This depends on the strange theory that every intelligence agency front or partnership has been discovered by the general public while it was operating, and that the agencies are themselves irrational for ever even trying it.

edit: sometimes the arguments against "conspiracy theories" become arguments against the current existence and operation of intelligence agencies. As if all of those employees did nothing all day, and all of those billions are flushed down the toilet.
The study also found an improvement in the placebo group: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210323005208/en/Fre...

Interesting approach, I'd love to see it work. But given the mixed results plus the class action lawsuits that still seem unsettled (at least I didn't find any news), this doesn't really seem investable to me. Biotech startups are risky enough even without such problems.
This seems like a false dichotomy or, at best, a very vague discussion if you don't point out a specific regulation to run afoul of.

Taking GDPR and its ~1995 predecessor as an example, which both required personal data to be collected only when there was a reason for it, thus when you have no more use for it, it has to be deleted. However, backups are a perfectly legit reason. It's not an excuse to keep data into eternity, but checking that all systems are good after a delete run, or having a buffer period of some defined time, is definitely reasonable and should (not a lawyer) not run afoul of the regulation. So I am not sure what exactly it is you are concerned about.
"because" was the wrong word as {place} isn't good just because there aren't too many people. ("not too many" is necessary, not sufficient.)

However, "{place} won't be a good place to live if there are too many people there" is intuitively obvious.

Consider Yosemite Valley. Do you really think that it would still be a good place if 1M people lived there? Okay - how about 100k? (There are easily 100k people who would love to live in YV.)

Heck - consider Disneyland. Too many people is a horrible experience.
I personally feel it’d be great if people like you could stop thinking that all property is inherently society’s property and that I should be thankful society allows me to reside on it.

We are all in it together, but we will all be better off when others stop trying to appropriate everything from me and give it to others just because they want it.

I work hard for what I have. I shouldn’t have to have it taken away if I don’t continue to work (add value) into perpetuity.
Not true in the case of Yt-dl.
Really cool - fun to see your notes and a break down of the work over time that was committed to the project!
It has meaning primarily insofar as other people think that it might have meaning.

Technical Analysis is madness, but there is method to it.
Sorry, can you explain the conflict here and who or what it's conflicting with? I don't think you've thought this out or thought about it from the point of view of the students.
> Also, how many people died due to trump's "riots". How many people died from social media company supported BLM riots? It's infinitely more actually.

1. "Infinitely more"? Are you sure you want to be so irresponsible with your language? Infinity people died? You're starting to go off the deep end here. 25 people died in 2020. [1] And as the commenter you replied to pointed out, they did ban accounts. You are not acknowledging this, and you are in bad faith suggesting that "everyone got a pass on BLM". False.

2. This is not just about deaths, though it is the trigger. Trump did and continues to encourage the overturning of elections in the US. He continues to claim that the current president is illegitimate. The former President is repeatedly telling everyone with the utmost urgency that the entire country has been "stolen," and that "if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore." What do you think his followers will do in response?

We saw what they were willing to do on Jan 6. They didn't attack shops, they hit the seat of government with the explicit intent of stopping the election. We now know there were armed groups waiting to swoop in. Why do you think Twitter is obligated to continue to amplify his rhetoric?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-kill...
> We shouldn’t just do things because the most people want it.

I actually agree. "Should" is such a terrible word that I don't think we should use it at all. But we do do the things that most people want, because that is by construction the primary desire on a societal scale. You are part of a bigger machine, whether you like it or not.

> Thats called tyranny by the majority.

Really funny that American neo-con reactionaries have introduced such a concept. Anywhere else, it's just called "democracy".
Musk wins if he buys the company.

And he wins if he doesn't because his offer is bringing a lot of unwanted attention to the people who control Twitter.

And it exposes people who are anti-free speach. A position that is now politically acceptable but will collapse under scrutiny and attention.
Less than 10 years go... but ok

It was also a time of Mozilla growth not decline like it is today

Hell I would more charge Mozilla with being CIA front group than Brave based on their modern actions
Because Google is only vaguely aware that their products are human beings. I say products because they treat you like one even if you pay them. It’s their corporate culture.

I can’t upgrade from the free tier to the paid tier because I don’t live in the United States. No problem, just change your billing country you say? I can’t, because I’m on a free tier and there is no billing setup to change!

Can I get help? Sure! Paid support is available, but I can’t set up paid support because of the above reasons. I just get a terrible bot that links me to the KB article with the screenshot of something I can’t see when I go to the portal.

Now I’m facing termination of my account, so I just downloaded everything and I plan to switch to something else.

PS: this isn’t just happening at the small, individual scale. I’ve personally been involved in many huge enterprise migrations from GSuite to Office 365. The lack of caring from Google was cited as a major motivation by several such customers…
vim does not break vi concepts the way neovim breaks both vi and vim concepts.

It's not 'vi with lua support' it's a totally different core paradigm like the difference between vscode and vim.

Someone recently wrote a whole screed about this and itemized a bunch of points about why exactly it's backwards to integrate a terminal vs working within any terminal, baking in more limited answers for things that are already answered more flexibly by plugins and external processes, etc. They got a little bit screedy and there were a few nits to pick, but the basic points were all both true anc valid.

It was posted to HN within the last couple days but I can't find it now. If I find it I'll add the link here.

All of which is not to say that neovim is necessarily a bad thing, it's just that it's not a newer or better vim, and the starting point being a fork of vim doesn't mean a thing.

The first Tesla was a fork of a Lotus.

Both Tesla and Lotus are fine cars, but a Tesla is not a newer better Lotus.

If you like the design goals of Lotus, then a Tesla is utter garbage.

And the inverse is exactly the same true. If you like the design goals of a Tesla then a Lotus is utter garbage.

If I were either Lotus or a Lotus user, and even if cars were open source projects without legally enforcable trademarks on their names, I would be highly highly annoyed when someone comes along and takes the current Lotus and replaces the engine and transmission with electric motors and a PC, and slaps a huge ipad on the dash, and then names it "NeoLotus", and then continues to call it NeoLotus even after the original Lotus base isn't even in there any more and it's a totally different thing with a totally different set of priorities, goals, philosophies, and audience.
"Mockery" i.e. not censor people who say things you don't like.
>Maybe cops will be handing out fewer tickets to bicycles? Was that ever really a problem?

yes, it definitely is a problem. cops will stake out intersections just to give tickets to cyclists who roll through a stop sign when there's literally no other cars in sight. also, other drivers will get all high-and-mighty about cyclists breaking the law for rolling a stop sign when there's no cars for miles on the cross street. if this law can prevent that, it's a good thing.
Of course it does, but we also have no idea what happened behind the scenes and the board does. He turned down joining the board last week basically because he could act like a troll if he did (I’m being facetious). Calling musk the richest man in the world is also kind of silly because he’s not offering to stock swap for Tesla shares…he has a lot of theoretical wealth, which as with many factors would play in the boards decision about whether this is serious.

My point is that the number on the offer is not an objective and singular measure of whether this is a good deal for Twitter. Who is making the offer clearly matters as well to how serious it is.
Speaking of Twitter - Still can't believe these stupid thread style posts are the prime way to communicate medium length messages these days. Mid sentence breaks and all. And then you need a threadreader to unfuck said stupid format.

Anyway - in this case the content is on point
Which search engines are not "shit" in your estimation?
"The only revenue positive portion of nearly any modern american city/town is the dense urban core."

Even then most places rely on state and federal grants to make ends meet. Do you have have any examples of cities actually net positive without outside funds?

"You are thinking in absolute terms and not on the margins."

I think my position still stands. The claim was that people would not work because income is taxed. What you describe is reduction in work incentive when you hit the next bracket. I'm saying that in order to not work you would have to value the support systems more than making any income.

And of course, most people are no where near the level income that they don't want to make more. We're pretty talking about the 1% ($600k), or maybe the top 5% ($240k). So not particularly useful for designing policy for the other 95-99%. In fact, it could be beneficial for those high earners to drop out and allow new people to take their place.
> The brand/tech is making it really tempting

Really? I’ve always felt that the Amazon brand is relatively low quality. I’ve also heard that tech-wise it’s less interesting than you might assume from the outside, and they just burn out engineers on problems rather than solving them well.

I’m relatively uninformed so don’t make a decision based on this, but maybe something to consider.
I’d love to know what you build!
I eat meat, but I doubt I would kill an animal to do so.

The carbon footprint of eating meat is a thing, but I don't know... doesn't have the ring of importance.

If you think you can treat an autoimmune disorder by eating a lot of meat, then why not try it? Just bear in mind that it is in other ways harmful to your health compared to vegetarianism [citation needed].
Lol, literally two. A mug and a “cyberwhistle”.
Serious.

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/quantum-comput...
Which is normally a good thing. Because we need more people employed as opposed to one person with 2x income
Employers have way too much power over H-1B visa holders. I don't know what the exact policy change should be, but something needs to make changing employers easier and faster. The entire "hire cheap labor from overseas" profit making/exploitation plan only works as long that labor can't walk across the street for a raise.
> Are these pencils common where you live?

In my experience in the US (Texas), most school students only use mechanical pencils for regular work. It's more convenient (no sharpener), and cheaper than a regular pencil.
That's kind of how I use git. I would never use "sponge" or "sed -i" outside of a git repo or with files that haven't been checked in already.

I agree it would be nice to have this in the filesystem; some filesystems support this (e.g. NILFS[1]), but none of the current "mainstream" ones do AFAIK. In the meanwhile, git works well enough.

[1]: https://nilfs.sourceforge.io/en/
Yes, but that's where it started becoming noticeable. Too much language was being changed in a non-evolutionary way. That's why Bill Maher named his show Politically Incorrect and George Carlin roasted the euphemism treadmill. They were pointing out the excesses.
Correct. Tesla is a fork of a Lotus not a Maclaran.
Of course cyclists expect drivers to expect us to stop. The entire point of treating it like a yield is that we only proceed when a car is not about to go. Most cyclists treat every car like it’s actively trying to kill them, so “running a red” carelessly is not the way.

Stopping at lights and stop signs is particularly dangerous because of distracted drivers rear-ending you. It’s better to take a good look, and if no cars are left and right, don’t wait around. Get away from the intersection.
This information is useless. It leaks nothing but name and existence of something once public (that vanished from public view).
Most importantly it's not confidential or critical in any way
Well, after using DDG exclusively for web search since maybe 2014, I'll have to jump ship. I was never chuffed about them not using their own index, but removing priate sites and yt-dl, and the improving.duckduckgo.com business is exactly the type of behaviour I left Google for DDG over.

I've liked what little of Brave Search I've used, but I'm not in love with Brave as a company either so perhaps I'll audition some of the paid web search options.
And Tesla is literally a fork of a Lotus.
> You have to play ball with them or they will simply not be able to produce those things anymore.

They should stop, and we can freely share what's left. Their bullshit crowds out everything else anyway.
By the “I personally don’t like your policies” metric.
I busted my ass over many years to make my (nominally) single family home lot into an under the radar industrial site doing industrial things.

I'd do a lot of fucked up things to prevent that from being taxed into oblivion.
I'd also add cgrandes ClojureDart to the list.

I would generalize your observation as a logical consequence of Greenspun's tenth rule and conclude that we will eventually get a hosted lisp for any sufficiently relevant programing language.
Just to point out: I always find it shady when a paper uses an inert placebo / therapy as the control group rather than the current state of practice.

We'd ordinarily use at least - at least - an alpha-2 agonist like prazosin. Even going with just that would be malpractice-bordering conservative for severe PTSD.
I'm just hoping lab grown meat gets big enough soon enough. And I'm definitely aware of the risks. I'll have to be really careful about watching my blood markers and nutrient intake but my doctor agrees and is overseeing and is ordering the appropriate tests. Thankfully I don't have a family history at all of most of the cancers increased meat intake is known to cause.
So they're asking for a redesign with 3-way intersections, not some weird setup where you remove one stop sign?
> The social platforms aren't censoring you (or some idea you like) because they disagree with you. They are censoring because they are large social platforms, and ideas are POWERFUL and DANGEROUS.

> Let me be clear: if you run a large social network, you will be forced by inexorable circumstance to censor certain things, you will be forced to "arbitrate" on topics you have an (inevitably) limited understanding of, and it will all be really really shitty.

> (The alternative is just collapse of the platform, so I guess you do always have a choice - but then you're not a social platform anymore)

I'd love if he provided an example of these powerful and dangerous ideas that must be censored. This is exactly the kind of language that any powerful organization that is scared of losing power says - it's all in the interest of saving lives... okay, what are the examples? Why is this not a matter best handled by law enforcement?

This just further convinces me that social media is a cancer to society.
Isn't umatrix dead/unsupported since like a year or so ago?
It’s a completely ridiculous narrative to think that musk is interested in anyones free speech but his own. We should all be more aware of when the narratives billionaires pitch about themselves become perceived to be objective reality.
Sounds expensive but I will look into it. I am trying to buy mostly meat that's farmed in relatively humane and sustainable ways but this looks promising. Appreciate the advice!
Can you give some examples? I know one company that had the poison pill provision and did well.
I think that depends. Many places have private companies providing those services. The hookup costs are usually high. Then they make money on the bills too. It can be 50+ years before it needs to be replaced and another large fee charged.

Also, many places could have well and septic, so that's all private costs. Off grid solar is also being a (small) option, where allowed.
If you click on 'Intel Core 2 Duo' then you can find unusual increase in installs of Debian 11 on old macs and macbooks this month. I guess it's temporary.
Let's talk about money. How much is a reasonable total cost like this for restoration of hearing? $10k? $100k? $1 million? More? Next, what do readers think the cost will actually be?
Do you think big ETFs just buy shares willy nilly without any due diligence on company charters and bylaws?
Snake oil marketing? Its results have become less relevant to me now. I am using Kagi and Neeva for search results. Kagi is still in the beta but it does offer reasonably good output.
This has been a long slow slide in the US.

Previous media ownership rules would have prevented Twitter from existing at its current scale. This was explicitly to prevent too much editorial control from becoming too concentrated.

Regardless of whether Musk buys Twitter, the long term trend is likely to continue, at least until one party decides to stop it. (Consolidation was largely driven by rule changes made by the Regan, Bush, Clinton and second Bush administration. Other factors have accelerated it since.)
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Edit: I have a hard time having much sympathy for conservatives on this particular issue, since some rule changes were timed to allow conservative talk show networks to buy up large swaths of the US market, and also wre designed to allow Fox News to exist as a "entertainment" (obviously biased news) network. Having said that, liberal propaganda and conservative propaganda have the same root cause.

It's telling that the proposed "solution" to Twitter having censors is to let Elon Musk be the censor instead. The only thing that has worked in the past is decentralization of the news industry, but no one is calling for Twitter to be broken up. I guess both sides want it to exist so they can control it.
Companies that are not flexible when it comes to WFH will be less competitive in the jobs market. It’s that simple.
Not but I didn’t need them telling my coworkers to come to work while infectious
Gee, break a treaty and attack a neighbour and get bent out of shape when (a) the neighbour fights back, (b) fights back outside of the country being invaded and (c) others get really annoyed with (a) and (b) and try to balance the situation. Like in every proxy combat that goes back to WW II. Ask the Cubans how Angola went.
At one point Yishan writes something like the various social media execs may vote, identify, and donate as Left much more than Right, but they are also typically white men. The implication seemingly being that white men aren't Lefties? Never mind that people from China or India are dramatically overrepresented in tech companies, more so than white people and those demographics tend to be Left leaning. Yishan's argument seems to boil down to "Trust me, they aren't biased."
If you look up the archive from that time frame, you'll see that /r/russia was pure Russian propaganda.
I misread the context of your comment.
It might be real or someone's idea of a joke but a number station is believed to be a way to transfer information to someone without there being a direct contact between the two parties. Say, a spy agency and an agent somewhere in the world. This was very anonymous over a radio signal but over the internet I have my doubts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
Show HN: VocabSieve, a tool for vocabulary acquisition through text
I made this tool for learning vocabulary while reading. All the other alternatives I've seen are either proprietary, too difficult to set up, or lack features I need.
Do you? Because depending on the country, the "public" are existing home owners and those wanting reform the minority.
Hell yes I’d want him on my basketball team. Do I want Michael Jordan dictating a social media platform that has influence over the world? I don’t know?
You could ask them to show you their favorite personal projects. Have a conversation about that. Seems most natural and revealing.
That's fine, there were other options, we could have bailed the banks out financially to keep the economic wheels turning, and convicted a few bank executives to send a message that there are real world consequences to a group who are far too comfortable with fines being the cost of doing business.

Too big to fail? Dubious, but ok.

Too big to jail? No. Throw a CEO behind bars and the finance industry keeps on going but it scares the shit out of others who would misbehave.
How do we know these privacy claims are true? What if Kagi was Chinese or Russian, would you still trust it and why? And how do we know Kagi doesn't end up the same way as DDG?
> Even then most places rely on state and federal grants to make ends meet. Do you have have any examples of cities actually net positive without outside funds?

Did you watch the video? It's short and demonstrates incredibly well through data the problems with our model of urban development.

> I think my position still stands. The claim was that people would not work because income is taxed. What you describe is reduction in work incentive when you hit the next bracket. I'm saying that in order to not work you would have to value the support systems more than making any income.

On the margins, income taxes lower the incentive to work more hours.
I actually noticed that the quality of the search dropped (from pretty much parity with google sans-cookies), then noticed the new billboards and radio ads afterwards. I've seen tv commercials since.
The article doesn't mention the repercussions. It's hard to think of any that would be a net benefit to Russia. Sanctions would just be redundant. A conventional war with the US would not be in their favor. If the threat is WMD, the US is unlikely to be bullied into submission.

Will the repercussions be additional harsh words?