skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is how the US has operated for centuries after all

Actually, the US was extremely restrictive on immigration from the late 20s until 1965.

For most of the "centuries", the US wasn't an attractive destination, so legal restrictions were irrelevant.

As the US became attractive, it went through waves of immigration- peaks and valleys.
I figured out how this works. The secret sauce is this code, which uses regular expressions to rewrite the MySQL SQL queries for compatibility with SQLite!

https://github.com/aaemnnosttv/wp-sqlite-db/blob/14f9e917c55...
There's nothing really "not actually possible" about Maxwell's Demon. It is maybe impractical from an engineering point of view to create the demon, but this doesn't resolve the problem, which is based in the more fundamental physics. I think a more accurate description of the resolution is that this "deciding what to do on the micro level" must itself have an energy cost -- making it a great example of the link between information and thermodynamic entropy.
Is it? I've heard a lot of people claim this, but I've never seen any indication of platforms or standards that are attempting to do it, instead I'm seeing dozens of "centralised platform but on a blockchain".
I’m all for providing help to addicts, but giving them the drugs doesn’t seem to help. While I offer no solutions, I don’t think this is working and believe there is a better way. Perhaps rehab centers or synthesized equivalents that decrease potency over time.
Yeah, I was able to briefly get access to an account that was stuck in the infamous "thanks for proving you own the recovery email but we still can't determine you are the owner of this account" loop by contacting a friend at Google. However, shortly afterward the account went straight back into the state it was before so it is basically a lost cause.

Scary to think that algorithms override even Google insiders when things break.
More political flamebait from designed to create more heat than light.

By "oligarchy" they're not referring to the 1% or anything like that:

"The federal government, the governments of states and localities run by the Democratic Party, along with the major corporations, the educational establishment, and the news media set strict but movable boundaries about what they may or may not say — on pain of being cast out, isolated from society’s mainstream."

By "ever-shifting variety of urgent excuses" I assume the author is implying "made up":

"Using an ever-shifting variety of urgent excuses, which range from the coronavirus, to the threat of domestic terrorism, to catastrophic climate change, to the evils of racism, they issue edicts that they enforce through anti-democratic means—from social pressure and threats, to corporate censorship of digital platforms, to bureaucratic fiat."
I ordered from Xiamen, China in late April and it shipped basically on time (some time to actually build the item) 1.5 weeks later. So I don’t think there’s insane lockdowns there currently.
It looks like they're trying to force an art into a science and it's just ridiculously off the mark. I wonder if agencies have to do this thing to have something more concrete to prove to clients even if it's bullshit and they know it.

Also, it's pretty impressive seeing the Pepsi branding just get progressively worse over the years. It's a little out there by today's standards, but I kind of like the 1898 branding the best.
"China is another story. Its official statistics understate the Chinese Covid death rate by 17,000% (according to The Economist’s model).

In fact, based on excess mortality calculations, The Economist estimates that the true number of Covid deaths in China is not 4,636 – but something like 1.7 million."

"Beijing Is Intentionally Underreporting China’s Covid Death Rate"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2022/01/02/beijin...
You are an inactive user. According to me, being an inactive user is making a comment I disagree with.
Presumably even if such a system existed (there are private systems like Sabrix that do the hard parts of this), you’d need to give the system information that you might not currently have for a web visitor (like the physical address of the visitor).
The full quote doesn't do SparkToro and Followerwonk any credit:

> Followerwonk selected a random sample from only those accounts that had public tweets published to their profile in the last 90 days, a clear indication of “activity.” Further, Followerwonk regularly updates its profile database (every 30 days) to remove any protected or deleted accounts. We believe this sample is both large enough in size to be statistically significant, and curated to most closely resemble what Twitter might consider a monetizable Daily Active User (mDAU).

The fact that they don't even consider the concept of a non-tweeting lurker to be an mDAU brings their entire analysis into question. Let's face it - Twitter is an emotionally-charged enough place, and tweets have such a way of living forever and being taken out of context, that there are many who use it to consume (and perhaps Like) content but will not tweet publicly. These people are still viewing and engaging with advertisements! Twitter absolutely should consider them monetizable!

But of course, engagement data on lurkers is internal only, and Likes data counts against global API caps: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/tweets/lik.... Which means that SparkToro and Followerwonk are incentivized to ignore these users. That they do ignore them, and don't address it anywhere in their methodology, is highly suspect.
And your friends have nukes pointed at the neighbors house - perhaps the neighbour wants to mind his words lest his house be turned in a glassed skate park.
Twitter requires users to log in before lurking so their definition of activity is intentionally selective. I'd be surprised if Twitter doesn't know how active their users actually are, even the lurkers.
> The Commonwealth of Nations is a _loose_ grouping of independent nations. Not all of which actually had/have any historical association with the United Kingdom.

It's the successor of the british commonwealth which is the successor of the british empire. It's pretty much the british commonwealth renamed to the commonwealth because nehru apparently thought it would be too humiliating. The head of the commonwealth is the queen. The leaders of it are the leaders of britain. It is headquartered in london. It's official language is english.

> In that case no truly independent nation should be a part of the United Nations.

Did the UN invade and colonize india for 200 years?

The question is why india would even join the commonwealth? Why are they still in it? No independent nation would ever be part of it. Especially a nation of india's size, history, culture, etc shouldn't be in a "club" led by its former colonial master. Can you imagine china or russia being part of the commonwealth with the british queen as the head?
Collecting data that a user doesn't want collected is abuse. It doesn't matter what you do with it.
Ironically, the end product will likely be unable to render that webpage they made to pitch the idea properly.
Yeah, when you have that much more power (or at least believe to), it's more about opportunity. Russia had an opportunity to invade because Ukraine was not part of NATO yet, and probably had rebuilt their forces (they seem to be waging a war every 6-8 years).

Any attempt to legitimize their attack by pointing to threats they imagine other countries pose to Russia, is easily countered by the very obvious and direct threat that Russia eagerly poses to other countries.

Temporary neutrality is not going to fix this; in 8 years, they're going to try again. All neighbours of Russia would be wise to join a defensive alliance.
Nope, I assumed any exposure to the light would cause blindness. The way it operated was it would stop if anyone was at the terrace (as indicated by the door lock being in a closed position, something one could do only from the inside). But yeah, it was a product of frustration, not rational thinking. I'd certainly consider it stupid if someone else described it to me now.
That's fair, I was just using them as an example of a share economy
There are some theories posited by this youtuber [1] that suggest this has little to do with covid. I am curious what others here familiar with living in China think about this.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZHiE96tWY4 [video]
It's essentially supposed to mean the full maturation of P2P solutions that can rival the centralized web. A modern decentralized web, with finance included.

There are plenty of things still missing which make it not mature enough to do so, which are too numerous and esoteric to name. But one example would be "account abstraction" (https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4337) which I believe would enable communities to trustlessly share a single wallet (pooled funds/coins/gas) for various operations related to the service they're using. Doesn't sound like much, but would open up the possibility of some wacky services.

From my perspective, the end goal is to make digital networked vending machines that can't be tampered with. That's pretty cool, and there are already some interesting ones out there like PoolTogether (https://pooltogether.com/). What would normally be considered an obvious scam can actually be built legitimately with web3 tech.

Eventually some very very interesting EIPs will be deployed, and that will drastically change what's possible with "web3" - making it possibly live up to the name.
Actually seirdy.one added searchmysite.net to his excellent list[0] way back in March 2021[1].

[0] https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/seirdy.one/commit/ab92d8ded69fd869...
From my previous comment:

> I don't want to share the answer

I'm not here to win arguments. No. I wont be "getting to the point" because I'm going to keep it for later.
There’s quite a big contingent of us (both native and immigrant) on HN. But yes, probably better to stick to English primary sources.
That, and the demand for cycles. That's the real shame these days. The new hotness is burning cycles just to show that that you did.
This is a very interesting questions. I don't have an answer.
Sure, and UST is another example of this, it built a multi-billion dollar market cap by obfuscating the fact you were buying a perpetual motion machine. The incentive created by "trust the code" is "lie about the code". Which is why you'll hear several thousand reasons why BTC is valuable but none are as compelling as "Those bunch of guys over there will shoot you if you try and undermine it", and most of them aren't even as compelling as "Number goes up".

The theory is that the market can efficiently decide whether the code actually does work. But the practice is that you can make billions tricking people about what the code does. And often it's people who have never even glanced at the code telling you what it does. I would wager good money that there was no one invested in UST that understood the code.
The worst part is that I can't see a valid "out" for Russia as a country from this.

Even if Russians, by some miracle, manage to pry Putin out of power, what then? Will anyone trust any of their leadership?

The level of sanctions on Russia is AFAIK unprecedented on a global scale, it's only been months and regular people are already feeling the effects. And if the sanctions go on for a few years, they'll be at Soviet Russia levels of living.
A 3bn fire sale is going to have a price effect no matter the reasoning behind it.
Look, there are dozens of potentially interesting and valuable questions to ask on this subject. Answers to which may produce a wide range of insights and conclusions. And there's a whole potential conversation about which questions are most important, that may have different answers depending on the context.

But there's no reason to pin the whole frame of the conversation to the one question for which Twitter corporate chose to publish an answer, unless the only question we are interested in is "did Twitter technically lie" which is the most uninteresting question in this whole situation. If this is the sole context you are using to frame this issue then maybe you should consider if you're following the current news cycle a little too closely.

The idea that there is such a thing as an 'inaccurate definition of active' is silly.
Yeah, cats don't necessarily know that, they stumble across it by trial and error. We respond to it because we are to some extent hardwired to have our attention grasped by that kind of sound, so we tend to our crying babies.
Pre-web services like Compuserve were pay-per-hour IIRC. Nowadays there is a very distant chance that Brave fixes this. I've always felt that micropayments are the best application for cryptocurrency, but because they aren't lucrative they're mostly ignored in the space. It seems Stellar is humming along, and I remain a (somewhat bitter) Nano holder, but otherwise everything is about "trustless protocols" and "decentralized platforms" and other hogwash that ignores the scaling issues inherent to digital ledgers.
Remember when Twitter first started, people thought Twitter usernames were going to be like domain names (except free)? LOL. I must have 50 Twitter accounts personally. Any time I had an idea, I used to grab a Twitter account for it.

Anyway I think it’s pretty goofy to try to make claims around %s of Twitter accounts, active or otherwise, only absolute numbers make sense. What really matters at this point besides revenue and revenue trend?
Not far enough from Faversham... :) ...where we hit (or were right on) 100F and held the record for a bit (I think the gauge was near Brogdale). The North Downs / Thames corridor seems to have a weird way of being hotter on the north side (Gravesend was 100F as well), than the southern side.
What data do I actually want to carry across websites? I actually don't understand the value here.

Is it that I don't have to re-enter my personal information on each site? Signing in with Google already gets me that. Is it something else?

Is it some kind of JSON blob that every service will know how to ingest properly?
Why do you have such an underpowered wifi router running proprietary software you can't modify? Because it is a general purpose computer that has been reduced to the status of an appliance.
I mean that was the expected outcome and now people are like “proof of the expected outcome!?!”

Following months of outcry about the unsustainable nature of Terra Luna, Do Kwon through his foundation tried to partially collateralize the stablecoin with bitcoin, with a goal of buying up to $10bn of bitcoin. He got $3-5bn (at the time, price changed a lot), and this prolonged the confidence system for one additional month.

And then it imploded and sold the collateral, of course it was partial collateral so it failed to do anything in a bank run.

So it doesnt matter whether we get records from exchanges or not. Nothing different would happen. People want to see Do Kwon have more reasons to have charges against him, but there’s no need to attribute it to malice, everything can be explained by incompetence already.
No, there is not.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4r683b/repudia...
When you are in the context of :
- Twitter determine the active status of an account using login
- People are wondering the % of active users as defined per the twitter metrics

But then use your own definition of active and write only a one liner on the difference with no reflection on the impact it might have and no warning on the fact you are answering a different question.
Then my conclusion is you want people to make this mistake.

> EDIT: rephrased "accounts that are active" to "accounts that actively send tweets" to clarify what the article addresses.

Made me laugh because you had to add it and made more effort than the author of the article to prevent the confusion :D.
ha!

Some things and people never change, and of course the outcomes!
I use use-package with nix but disable package.el being able to install anything.

This way I get fast startup and the download problem you mention doesn't happen.

If nix isn't your thing, I used to do the same with straight.el by checking in .emacs.d/straight and disabling install by setting repos to nil.
Check the definition of 'neighbour' in the dictionary.
Not really, it's secured by Proof of Violence/Imprisonment in partnership with the country's government. And the government spends a lot more energy doing that than bitcoin does
Did McDonald's internationally do better over the last 20 years than it did in the US? Between 1990 and now, it seems to me that it lost a lot of cultural ground domestically, (and so did Pizza Hut, Gorbachev commercial and all). The few times I've gone into a McD's lately, every single time they've heavily pushed a "How did we do?" survey, as though they're a jilted lover wondering what went wrong. The optics in 1990 were as much for Americans as for Russians, but if it happened today, Americans wouldn't be impressed; they'd need something like opening a Chick-fil-A in Saudi Arabia.
hah ha, fellow human, how we love to jape!
So this response is okay? How can you say for sure this response even works? How sustainable is it?

How is it not an absolute violation of inalienable human rights? How can you even call human rights “inalienable” when your government is willing to toss them out the window for some respiratory virus?

Do people still think Covid is some kind of airborne Ebola or something?

People have lost their minds over this. It is scary how willing humans are to commit an atrocity like what is happening in Shanghai when they are pumped full of nonstop over the top fear.

Covid myopia is worse than Covid.
I click on this hoping for an announcement of OpenTelemetry support within postgres :(

Would've been cool to be able to trace down from application-level sql execution to postgres-level index-scans table-scans and maybe even full query plan.

This turned out to be the opposite
How is this "democratizing higher end computing"?
If you look at something like K8s, it'll try and make contact with the other service running on the same node as itself, thus removing networking delays.

It's entirely feasible that all incoming requests will hit a single node and stay there.

Still, hitting multiple microservices in a single request will have an overhead when marshalling all the http requests and whatnot.
> Is there any proof at all that they traded it to a counterparty who actually attempted to prop up UST and didn't just run off with them?

This brings up an exceedingly funny point: blockchains excel at making every transaction public (a property that nearly nobody actually wants) and simultaneously offering complete privacy to institutional actors.

In other words: privacy for me, but not for thee.
They define it in the article as accounts that have tweeted within the previous 9 weeks. If you are lurking and not tweeting you are not "active".
> From the Turkish perspective, why would they allow someone who supports their enemies to join the alliance?

...because neither country is supporting Erdoğan's enemies? The dictator is just posturing for his own people, he'll never actually dare to vote against every other country in NATO.
OK, so granted the boxes-and-arrows descriptions of these software systems are identical if you squint to things we built decades ago. But the social way that human reason about these systems -- that is different this time.

Gentle readers, last night I dreamed I was seated in the nave of a tall cathedral, watching four bishops conduct a service at an altar. There were readings with the call-and-response ("The word of the Lord" - "Thanks be to God"). There was the sitting and the standing.

And then, I swear to you I am not making this up, each of the parishioners gave some bitcoin to each of the four bishops, and the cryptocurrency was transubstantiated as it passed through each officeholder into the central coffers. In my dream that church service cleared some 30,000 units (BTC or USD, I do not know).

I woke up abruptly with a profound sense of "what just happened?". How did I "see" people giving bitcoin to bishops? Did I have a dream about a metaverse church service?!? What is going on here?!? I think I have been reading too much Matt Levine. I would like off Mr. Bones's wild ride.

But, friends, I would NEVER have had a dream like this about Beenz or Flooz. Something is very different about this one.
After all Putin's talk of the threats that other countries pose to Russia, the real threat to Russia is quite clearly Putin. He's a liability, and there's a very real possibility that he might make things even worse. Russia would be wise to remove him, but I have no idea how hard that would be.
This. Incredibly risk-averse behaviors indicate an industry ripe for disruption.
I suspect btdmaster is American and, as such, has no GDPR rights wrt Discord, an American company. I don't believe in that case that Discord is required to explain themselves.

Separately, OP starts with a complaint about deletion; then complaints about not being able to opt-out (a different discussion than deletion); then states that OP finds this unreasonable under GDPR and CCPA -- which, given Discord is an American company, I struggle to figure out how both would ever apply. Only zero or one will apply to OP.

And finally, as you point out, the GDPR right to deletion is not absolute. The data subject has rights, but companies have a legitimate interest in keeping the context of a discussion around, and are also allowed to consider the legitimate interests of others. An analysis would be required to figure out if it is an overriding interest.
It is a failure no matter what the outcome is. The end doesn't justify the means.

You don’t get to rob people of their basic human rights. Ever. That is why they are called “human rights”. It means you don’t get to take them away.
They moved on to Ukraine and inflation.
It isn't misleading when the article itself explains how they are using the term.
Yes and no. A scientist should generate knowledge and insight, the scientist must discover things. The only way to prove that to a bureaucracy is through papers. It should not be the end product, but it has become the end product. In any case, it is still insurance, if you publish cited papers, you are safe, even if their contents are useless.
Just a bit of feedback: micro service architecture isn’t universally hated (I love my Skaffold setup), and “popping the hood shouldn’t be easy” makes the devops engineer inside of me want to refuse to even read more about your product on principle.

If you’re not building a tool for junior developers only, you might want to change the tone of your pitch to more of a “we make this super slick” instead of “we built black box #93784583”
My experience is that 0-based offsets (and use of < or even != for upper bounds) mean that I should almost never have to write something like idx - 1 or idx + 1.

I came to 0-based offsets later in my career, having started with Matlab. So I have some real experience with 1-based offsets. Experience that was 'untainted' by being used to a different option. I much prefer 0-based.

Especially because I now sort-off have a linter rule in my head 'if I am writing i - 1 then I am making a mistake or doing something the wrong way'. Which has been quite successful.
I live in Canada so I can worry less about school shootings and white supremacist terrorism. Yes it exists in Canada but the risk is much less.
On the contrary, tax was dropped for metallic (physical) gold operations in order to provide an alternative to dollar for ordinary people (whatever that means). But, given the current prices and trade rules for metallic gold (keep the documents from purchase, don’t scratch ingot, sell to the same bank you bought it from, otherwise price will be lower), it’s not a great alternative.

Besides, price of 1g of gold was around 7500 RUB when tax was dropped, and around 4500 RUB now, so, well, happy investing.