skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They would like you (the users) to stop squabbling over stupid shit and causing drama so that they can spend their time writing more features and not have to adjudicate your stupid little fights.

Hum, the whole thread sounds very narrowminded, lacking imagination and frankly a bit stupid. This sentence may be true , but where is the evidence that they will do anything to stop users from doing it? reduce engagement and you reduce flamewars. Find the balance that is good enough for you and you won't need to moderate too much. But it seems social networks choose not to do it because of both money and political power. IT's also a bit disingenuous to pretend that drama is a sideshow or distraction and that social networks have better things to do. Drama is at the core of glorified forums aka social networks, it is what attracts people's attention which brings the mony.

we ve all been running forums and communities on the internet for decades, these are not new problems
One of the possible origins of Omicron (not confirmed AFAIK) was a jump back to humans from rats, that had been infected with an early 2020 variant.
Care to elaborate on why your experience tells you this?

I’ve put this into practice numerous times with positive effect, so my more relevant experience tells me this is a winning strategy, compared to in line docs, which are objectively worse in nearly every way.
Ask HN: Why can't Germany just go cold turkey and turn off Russian Gas?
I picked up this comment from a HN user in another thread but it got no traction, seeing Germany drag it's feet on sending arms and Zelensky's recent comments about blood money I think it's especially relevant... "seeing as we're heading into spring, seeing Germany has quite a wealthy economy and QOL, that many if not most workers get 5 weeks of holiday, the chip shortage is leading to slowdowns in the automotive industry etc... why doesn't the government just go cold turkey, give people a month or 2 free holidays while drastically reducing public lighting, telling businesses to stop heating their premises at night etc etc... I mean we had a dress rehearsal 2 years ago with the onset of Covid, this would be better ,for a good cause, probably give a boost to domestic spending and send a f...U to the rest of the world saying we too can think outside of the box :-)"
I know it may seem naive, but how so?
All creatures die eventually, so it's not like significantly more males than females died due to behavioral differences.

As someone with zero experience in these areas, I'd posit that females get osteoporosis, and so their remains deteriorate moreso than males do.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
Not only is your pitiful interpretation of what I wrote wrong, it is precisely how you destroy any potential for constructive conversation, understanding and learning. Brilliant.
This is also my approach to organizing my room: first I put everything on the floor. Once I can see it all at once, I see out how things relate to one another.

I find it harder to see code all at once though (some IDEs have an "outline" of all variables and functions, but my current editor does not), and I wish there were more ergonomic ways to rearrange the order of things in code.
While I believe climate change is a real thing. When someone questions why data is excluded from models it’s automatically flagged as denial. You can argue that there’s people paid to deny but it doesn’t change the fact anyone who even questions it is cancelled. Look at the “97% of scientists” report that came out and half the scientists were either not even in that subject or said their opinions were taken out of context. Yet everyone cites that as absolute fact and questioning it gets you blasted.

That’s cancel culture no matter how you try to spin it.
Books are probably out of date before they are published.
It means the market doesn't think it's likely but it doesn't mean it's 75%. To illustrate why that makes no sense, if Musk had offered $35 instead of $54, the buyout would be much less likely, since the price would be way lower and the board and shareholders less likely to accept it, yet under your model the likelihood would go up.

Estimating probability from price action is something you can do, but not like you did it.
They have been hostile to old reddit for a long time - many new features don't work with it like polls, free awards, inline pics, avatar, and so on. But I bet they won't outright kill it, since the portion of users who use old reddit is still very big and they also tend to be power users who are very vocal.
> Now, my own party wants to turn America into an authoritarian censorship dystopia

You could start by lobbying to force tech companies over a certain size to disclose reasons for users or content being removed from the platform. The legislation would have to have teeth, naturally.
Gigahertz topological valley Hall effect in NEMS phononic crystals
Full-Text Search for DynamoDB Using Lambda, EFS, Tantivy and Rust
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The prs where dogmatic as more junior teams get caught up in superficial things such as names, package structure, syntax preferences rather than what the pr actually does.

All this means is that you and your team failed to learn anything from the PR process. If simple things like naming or syntax repeatedly come up then you have a style convention but the devs are ignoring it. The very obvious solution to that is to enforce the rules with a linter, and run the linter on a commit or push hook. If the linter fails then the dev can't open the PR until they fix the issues.

If you have process that's only for box checking and not something that's actually providing useful data the you're not using your time well enough. Removing the process is one solution, but it's not a very good one. Making the process useful is significantly better.
> no public square, or public debate looks like what's on display on internet social networks.

then there is the graffiti, the tags, the leaflets, the random crazy people shouting, singing, drug addicts, some people with guns etc etc.

Some people spend too much time in academic institutions. they are not the public square
Maybe in some enclaves, but in general that's not the case. At least 2/3 of Asians voted for Biden [0]. Indians tend to be even more Democratic [1].

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/07/2020-vo...

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/927828785/despite-trump-modi-...
If you just want the IP on interfaces, "ip r" is sufficient and easy to remember.
No, it was censored. Twitter prevented anyone from tweeting links to the story, and prevented people from sharing the story via private message.[1] They also banned the @nypost twitter account for posting it and refusing to take it down.[2] Also, in a poll by a reputable pollster, a majority of likely voters called the story "important" or "very important"[3] -- pretty much the opposite of "boring and irrelevant."

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54552101
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/30/twitter-n...
[3] https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/gen...
Socrates wasn't cancelled. Insofar as we can trust Plato and Xenophon, we know who he was and the things he said. Athens may have executed him, but they didn't deplatform him.

> Socrates would be jealous.

I doubt that very much. Your examples are bad enough to be considered trolling.
> The elites have somehow inverted history so they now believe that it is not censorship that is the favored tool of fascists and authoritarians, even though every fascist and despot in history used censorship to maintain power, but instead believe free speech, free discourse, and free thought are the instruments of repression.

It feels a little silly to act like the guy trying to spend billions of dollars to get his way represents anything more than an intra-elite conflict.
Why? You don't have to agree with everything. That's fine. It's a separate point from the others.
"Gigahertz topological valley Hall effect in nanoelectromechanical phononic crystals" (2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-022-00732-y

> Topological phononic crystals can manipulate elastic waves that propagate in solids without being backscattered, and could be used to develop integrated acousto-electronic systems for classical and quantum information processing. However, acoustic topological metamaterials have been mainly limited to macroscale systems that operate at low (kilohertz to megahertz) frequencies. Here we report a topological valley Hall effect in nanoelectromechanical aluminium nitride membranes at gigahertz (up to 1.06 GHz) frequencies. We visualize the propagation of elastic waves through phononic crystals with high sensitivity (10–100 fm) and spatial resolution (10–100 nm) using transmission-mode microwave impedance microscopy. The valley Hall edge states, which are protected by band topology, are observed in both real and momentum space. Robust valley-polarized transport is evident from wave transmission across local disorder and around sharp corners. We also show that the system can be used to create an acoustic beamsplitter.
> And the old GenX tech titans are right there with you - vaguely left-wing but also center-right - seeing their version of "censorship" - and drawing all the wrong conclusions from it about what's happening with the management of social platforms.

Other than the tech-titan part, that’s spot on.

Also: OMG, a reference to GenX. It’s not flattering at all, but I’ll take it.
>However, when it's Apple considering end-to-end encrypted iCloud Photos or iCloud backups

Apple never used the excuse they want to do end to end encryption, did this changed recently? because as far as I know only fanboys used this excuse pulled out of the air. This fanboys always have the most shit excuses like "if Apple let' s you do X what if some child does X while walking and falls in a hole, then Apple will look bad", fanboys really hurt every time their favorite company looks bad in the news see how fast some bad news gets down-voted here on HN(Tesla, MS news too from what I noticed, you start to add a comment and in 1 minute the article is gone from the first page or even flagged)
Reminds me of Fourier Series [1] although this just works for closed curves AFAIK.

[1] https://youtu.be/r6sGWTCMz2k
I feel what's missing from this article is there needs to be a tax free threshold for landtax, much the same how income tax tends to be organised so the first $X earnings are untaxed.

Ideally a typical person shouldn't have to pay land tax on their home, otherwise they are effectively renting their own property.

Morally I feel government shouldn't tax a home and generally should aim tax to be as small as possible on life essentials. E.g Things like the home, food goods and medical treatment should have as little tax placed on them as possible.

Land tax would be best done at a cumulative value. Add up everything you own and apply a progressive rate against that. So a normal personal would be below the threshold while someone owning 100+ properties is at a rate likely to encourage them to divest to other asset classes or as the article suggests, extract more value.

There'd need to be some rules about trust/company ownership at top value to reduce people obvfuscating ownership. And separate rules for residential, rural and industrial/commercial zones.

Something like land tax isn't good or bad until you know the detail.
All countries should see using foreign online services as a national security threat and ban them outright. China was right al along with the Great Firewall. They still allow GitHub as of now though.
NIMBYism is a thing.

But the flip side of that coin is local authorities that have zoning laws that allow the big and powerful builders to build pretty much whatever they want, wherever they want. Which always turns out to be high-rise condos for multi-millionaires and billionaires, most of whom have them as investment properties and don't actually live there.

You see that here in Austin, all along the river, especially downtown.

I wish we had some NIMBYism that we could actually aim at those plans for high-rise condos.
I have a friend who writes long WhatsApp threads instead of one message. Usually I can see past the media and can read the message what she is saying. But on the other hand she is not saying inappropriate things about me.

I think the real problem of the social media platforms is the users.
I agree, the PR is invaluable to preserve context: the trunk history remains simple and linear thanks to squash merges, and you can still see the fine grained commits (and matching discussions/reviews) in the closed PR.

It's also a way to give insight when onboarding new developers: if something is surprising, they can see why things came to be this way, not just accept the result at face value.
> I have 10M inserts per second

That's a valid concern, but if you have this problem: 1. You're in a quite unique situation. 2. You likely have enough engineers to assign to solving this issue in another way.

Encrypting the user data in backups scales to a reasonable extent, but every approach will have some limitations.
Been using:

Cheers,

-Name

for years and clients love it. Before it was more prevalent one office of a dozen or so admin-types used to call me the "Cheers guy".
If Musk has competent financial planners, he has assets with various amounts of liquidity, including pre-arranged lines of credit.

It would probably take him a while to get more than his supposed net-worth. However, getting $10-15B might be < 24 hours.
I think this is the first time I disagree with you. Bot problem, perhaps not. Spam problem, definitely.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1487022342630957062?s=21&t=...

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1496549841912094733?s=21&t=...

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1485588476057825290?s=21&t=...

and

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1473752736537657349...

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1399028630190239746...

I know how hard it is to deploy features at scale, especially at a world-class company like Twitter. But if Twitter were to retain me as a consultant, I’d happily bet you any sum of your choosing that I’d make a pretty big dent in the crypto spam within a few months of full-time effort.
32% of their gas power comes from Russian gas. Covids economic shock would be nothing by comparison. French nukes running 24/7 could not make up the shortfall, there would be more than a small% contraction in the economy. Probably, technically a recession would follow. Aside from electricity manufacturing is a direct consumer, gas is feedstock for fertiliser, powers kilns and bakeries and heaps of industry directly.

They could. Some argue they should. But they won't. I'm thousands of km away, I wish they would but I don't have to suffer the consequences in terms of unemployment, economic damage, and loss of life and livelihood.
But their job is to figure the realistic worst case I.e fastest plausible timeoine. Not the most likely / expected time it will take.
If you sold it 80'000 then it means it was worth 80'000, not 100'000
I think people who don’t live in a parcel shouldn’t get to vote on that parcel’s height limit.

The municipality is a more or less arbitrary level of aggregation at which to make land use decisions.
> I'm too young to confirm but I assume we had something like this before social media took off.

The period after most people moved to big cities and before internet was widespread was the golden age of privacy.
What about someone working in Mountain View and contributing to the Mountain View economy, but living in Morgan Hill because that’s all they can afford?
I am an alcoholic myself, sober for five months now after a long-term therapy.
I am sceptical about taking meds for this desease. The change of life and coping with stress is the best way to avoid getting in relapse of use.
The therapists said meds might be a help, but are not the solution.
Its a trap for the dependant who might think now hes cured and does not find himself changing his life and solving problems which have caused the desease.
I was working in IT and have now time to change, i will be working in a less stressful job and will undergo further treatment of depression and narcicisstic personalty disorder i suffer.
In the long run, alcoholism can be avoided by selling it only in special stores, people need more knowledge about it and society itself must be more aware how dangerous alcohol is.
I live in bavaria,germany. I can purchase hard liqour around the clock and in amounts with no limit. Its cheap and i have no problem with the people around me.
The drinking culture makes it possible to be offerd a beer to almost every occasion. Sure the openly and public drinking in broad daylight is some kind of awkward, but people dont take it too serious.
We have no laws exept driving cars or being drunk at the workplace.
But well, meds can help a bit to get someone stable enough be treatabel for a long term therapy, but a cure, they are not.
The nucleus accumbens has stored the associative information that drinking can help with insomnia, depression and makes live a bit easier.
To get rid of this is a long and hard way, the most is done by undergo treatment, self help groups and finding new hobbies or something replacing the habits that led before to the addiction.
That's like saying SpaceX isn't about going to Mars and Tesla isn't about reducing carbon emissions.

At this point we can say these are mission focused moves. This is about free speech in the public square.
>>So should they treat every news outlet as equally ranked?

>Yes....

>>Because I'm struggling to think of any news reporting that could be said to be free of bias or could be said to be completely objective.

>....and that is the reason for why they should be equally ranked.

Just because you can find a fault with a source does not mean that all faults are equal. For instance, the AP should probably be ranked above the National Enquirer.

> I think what people take issue with is that we're trusting these sites to determine what disinformation is. How is DDG deciding what is and isn't misinformation? Without a clearly defined process for misinformation, this becomes subjective.

It is an inherently subjective process and always will be. There are organizations that have attempted to make the process objective (i.e. fact checking organizations) but they can all be criticized as subjective as well. Pure objectivity simply isn’t possible.
No I'm not exxon. Why would you accuse me of that just because I have a different opinion? Are you a complete ass hole of a human being?

Renewables don't deliver the energy density of fossil fuels. When you factor in storage and density renewables costs more.

A good way to illustrate the extremes is air planes which basically can't run on renewables.

When I say the future is bleak I don't mean that we should continue to burn oil. I think we have to stop burning oil. What I'm saying is that we have to stop, and the result of stopping is a future that is much less convenient then it is now but way better then the future of continuing to burn.

The problem with you and your ass hole comment about Exxon, is that you view it as a team based thing. You're on team environment so anyone else not on your side is team Exxon. Why don't you take a step back and look at is dispassionately. I'm not on ANYONES side so I'm not fucking blind to the fact that oil is a critical part of our civilizations infrastructure and removing it completely will change many things, including your ability to fly to another country. You have to be next level stupid if you can't see the downsides of green energy. Stop playing teams.
i think that was sarcastic.
We need to educate people that plastic atm is not really recyclable and they need to avoid using it... buying bigger quantities wrapped in paper, not buyng that mixed salad... changing buying habits is key, legislation another...unfortunately the more affluent "West" has it's head in the sand , is transfixed by the headlines of a potential WW3 style conflict or has beliefs(religious) which induce themto believe(and welcome) a future apocalypse....
> Windows 7 is becoming very outdated, both in usability and security.

Usability? What's wrong with its usability? There have been a lot of BS claims in this topic but this one looks the most egregious. Anyways, the topic was hidden from the main page and can only by found by a direct link.
Flared jeans on their fourth cycle round.
Agree. I also add to this - name your constants by meaning, not value. Too many times I see

const ONE_HOUR_IN_MS = 3600000

Instead I would like to see

const RESEND_DELAY = 3600000
The tl;dr is that running a social network / content moderation is a really fucking hard problem, and Musk has no clue what he's in for. That no matter how much you are against censorship, you will eventually have to do it to some level when running a sufficiently large platform, and every tiny mistake you make will be interpreted the worst way possible, and each side will use it as proof that you are discriminating against them.

Also, I don't think that quote was saying 2004 culture was bad, far from it. He was just trying to say the way we ran the internet back in 2004 no longer "works" today.
This is a chance to reiterate best practices:

Credentials and other secrets, like API keys, should never be hard-coded in the source code repo. Use some sort of secrets management or configuration for that kind of stuff.
We're not talking about the hardest content problems on the internet. Look at any of Elon Musk's (or anyone in crypto's) popular tweets and you'll see a flood of incredibly obvious bots that poorly mimic his account, spamming some shit coin or advertising a BTC address.

Also, you're really understating how good Tesla self-drive is. It's not full self-drive but it's a real achievement.
it is posts like these I sometimes want a reminder for, does HN have a !remindme equivalent of reddit?

P.S. I'm just making this comment so I can keep a track of this.
You must have missed this quoted section: “as to prevent undue interference with the flow of traffic”

Nevermind that the road signs also say single file.
I live in Switzerland. I had a skiing accident and got stretchered down to the main station, then an ambulance down the mountain to the hospital. Since at that point I hadn't filed my accident insurance claim yet, they sent the full bill to me.

Want to know how much it was, in the land of $25 pizzas? Under $300. And of course, I forwarded it to my accident insurance, so my out-of-pocket was $0.

Fix your system.
IRC was/is notoriously unfree because of that, i dont think it claimed any free speech creds, because its realtime nature means that spam or bad faith had to be removed immediately. plus the 'acted like adults' thing is not true, more like everyone acted like kids but at least fun kids.
2021 was a growth without fundamentals for the entire market, mainly funded by currency inflation and government influence.

This bear market is returning to reality and paying the price for those profits.
I think the bigger point, above free speech, was that running a social network is hard, and Musk will fail at it, regardless of what his "goal" is, unless his goal is to run it into the ground.
Not everyone has the place or the budget to stock up. If you live paycheck to paycheck in a tiny apartment, it might not be that obvious.
Who advocated for those rights and why were they allowed to?
This sounds extremely regressive. Basically rich developers will all be getting a huge property tax break by not having to pay taxes on the value of the land/building improvements, while small businesses and homeowners who can not afford to improve their property (or extract profit from it) will not be able to keep up with rising land taxes and be forced to sell. What a stupid idea.
Stopped using them a while back. What is everyone using nowadays? Any good alternatives? I use a ra-pi with pihole for my dns. It blocks good amount of stuff
You don't nuke the accounts, you make it so no one can see their posts and they don't realize. Make them waste their time instead of creating a new account.