skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

> Amazon introduced the policy earlier this summer, starting with its reboot of A League of Their Own, which contended with review bombers who opposed the show’s political stance.
Thepiratebay hasn't had an angry mob of people trying to take it down via any means necessary. A site being taken down because of copyright infringement is different from a site being taken down because of social pressure.
Super Hexagon, 10 Years On
Actually, I would not expect them to be. There's inherently a risk from a vaccine because there is inherently a risk from riling up the immune system.

Note, however, that almost all the effects blamed on the vaccine are also effects we see with the virus. Does this not strongly suggest that what we are actually seeing is how the body reacts to the spike protein? If so, that means that if the patients got the real thing they would have the same or worse outcome?

Realistically, the comparison shouldn't be vaccine vs nothing, but vaccine vs infection--and by that yardstick they aren't even in the same ballpark.
Honestly, watch some of this series.

Kaveh's Common Lisp Lesson 01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSJcuOLmkl8

He doesn't take you by the hand to setup an environment, but it's a neat exposure (introduction isn't quite the right word) to someone using CL to do interesting things.

Mind its a bit Mac and Clozure CL specific if you wanted to follow along, but it's still a good watch of just seeing someone doing stuff without explicitly telling you what they're doing. Sometimes you just want to get stuff through osmosis, and he does interesting, basic things with CL at all sorts of levels.
> why are they not being prosecuted if it was a crime?

CloudFlare’s original announcement mentions law enforcement. The bomb threats will almost certainly see investigation; that’s domestic terrorism.
And yet the courts are inadequate about protecting small-scale, individual rights. KF does targeted harassment, not large-scale terrorism, so agencies don't have much incentive to dedicate a disproportionate amount of resources on taking them offline.
It's impossible, see my other reply.
while shifting to a vegetarian meal one day a week could save the equivalent of driving 1,160 miles.

Carbon Footprint Factsheet | Center for Sustainable Systems

https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/sustainability...
The most recent one was probably Parler. Usually deplatforming is due to a moral panic involving a massively exaggerated risk. All sites probably violate the AUP or TOS if you look closely enough. But during the panic, you can't see that the risk is tiny in the grand scheme of things.
I dont understand this post, it seems so backwards. Are we upset that a social harm has been deplatformed by a private company by simply choosing to not serve them? No one has prevented Kiwifarms from being on the internet, in fact that isn't even really possible.

Free speech is working as intended. There is legally nothing wrong with saying what you want on the internet, but that doesn't mean everyone else needs to listen to you or agree with you.

If Kiwifarms is worried about free speech, they can stand on a milk crate and hand out free newspapers, completely legally.
> companies can speak with the police and follow their wishes regardless of the first amendment because Twitter's own protected speech allows them to block any content for any reason, whether that be "it violated our content on harassment" or "the police don't like it and we're voluntarily following their wishes".

Even if that wasn't against the First Amendment (which is a more complicated issue [1]), that wouldn't fly politically in the US. The side which likes law enforcement also currently puts emphasis on free speech, and the side which doesn't like the police wouldn't want them to be in charge of censorship.

I think a company doing that would make everyone their enemy, and generate a lot of bad PR.

[1]: For example, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
Not even the tweet you linked says this. The person says they have been depressed and mocked their entire life and that they have tried therapy and medication and that it did not work. That seems much more like a depressed person driven to suicide than a forum being responsible for responsible for their death.
Kiwi Farms is a cesspool and I'm glad it got booted off. We need stronger protections and laws against such heinous forms of organised harassment that ends up killing people.
ocsmount for WebDAV is also based on a local NFS server.

https://ocsmount.com/
Careful - this group _IS_ the arsonist who are caring torches. Hacker news is not the place to rail against this hypocrisy unless you are fully anon. One target looks a lot like the other when you have a 'cause' you are fighting for.

And this is not @dang or other moderators fault. Its the changing times and the changing opinions of the user base.
I bring my own single use plastic bags…

You can actually reuse them a lot.
> Neither thought process was particularly healthy, but the witch-hunting mentality of contemporary online discourse is bound to end at some point.

Give it 10 years. Twitter will be the new Facebook. Only for old, uncool people.

I'm already starting to see the swing back.

Although it's fascinating how much the algorithms push this stuff. TikTok keeps trying to show me stuff about trans issues. I. Don't. Care. At least not on TIKTOK.
This is awesome, not having a manual transmission is one of the biggest drawbacks of modern cars for myself and presumably many others
Edit: I do have questions about efficiency because I was assume an EV manual may actually be less efficient than an automatic or single speed trans
One more, pretty sad, reason that extremely hot and extremely cold weather don't get that much attention that (at least my assumption) it mainly kills the poor, whereas hurricanes and tornadoes do not "discriminate" based on income to that extent.

If you and your family are well off, you can be reasonably sure that hot or cold weather will not affect you so dramatically.
Anyone able to comment on why Bitcoin nodes started using TOR around January 2020?

https://bitnodes.io/dashboard/7y/
tl;dr:

> Whether or not Samsung’s updated terms affect you, you’ll have to accept them in order to get the reassurance that no-one has logged into your Samsung account, and is currently monitoring your whereabouts using the “find my device” feature, checking out your frequent locations in “Places”, or using your profile pic to create fake accounts elsewhere. If you don’t want to accept terms and conditions foisted on you with the barest nod towards consent, well, that’s tough really.

Android users might unknowingly be victims of location monitoring by a hacker, and users are forced to accept new ToS just to verify whether this is or isn't happening.

Yuck, what a user-hostile privacy+security mess. A total failure on the "Keep-Users-Safe" front.
I remember the OS/Net gatekeeper (gosh, I forget his name right this moment) getting up to write on a board that the way to spell PAM is SUX. Yup.
Avoiding PHP syntax alone is a big plus to me.
Thermodynamic efficiency. Google says coal electric power generation is 33% efficient.
If they are trivial to find then why aren't you linking them? This thread is the first I'm even hearing of kiwi-farms, but skimming through I'm only seeing direct evidence in favor of them and only vague unsourced allegations against them. I hope you understand that even implying a twitter mob is involved isn't doing you any favors here.
Unfortunately "stable" means that they cannot be destroyed by a single actor. So unless you're prepared to use violence against anyone in the world, and "someone" might be Putin or Xi, meaning you'd have to be prepared to fight WW3 ... you'll need a stable solution.
Safe ? Zero.

https://thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2818%293...
Any American can visualize the size of a two‐liter bottle, thanks to our addiction to soda. Three‐liter is also a commonly available size. I’ve never in my life seen anything sold in quantity of one liter here, though.
Alternatively, through a very pragmatic lens: the interviewee is essentially saying that a military does not want unpredictable troops that violate rules of engagement, because it can cause a massive loss of public support among the citizenry and cause international pressure. This can force an end to the campaign before the military's objectives are reached.
The spec says it's optional ;)
Yes but constantly feathering like this causes foot fatigue.
Yes. I follow/consume media from roughly 400-1000 people on the internet. I don't know any trans people in real life but probably a good dozen or two dozen of these people I follow online (tech, art, etc. you know, normal stuff people like) are trans. That's quite statistically significant, I've only (knowingly) met 1 trans person in real life but at least 4% of the people I follow online are trans. Nearly all of them being trans women.

I think trans people get a shit time online because as soon as the topic enters anything to do with activism it is only the loudest and most extreme voices that are amplified.

This is a shame for all of the people within LGBT who these voices drown out, including other trans people.
I doubt that banning the subreddit would stop the violence, all that would do is sweep the problem under the rug where it's easier for people in power to ignore.

The solutions put forth by the elected officials of Chicago and Illinois seem to fall into two general strategies; providing funding for anti-violence programs in Chicago, and lobbying for DOA legislation in Washington. Those outreach programs, such as Chicago CRED, READI Chicago and Metropolitan Peace Initiatives, have social science studies backing up their efficacy, but say they need more money to have a greater impact (Chicago's 2021 budget was $12.8 billion, with $16.5 million allocated to violence prevention.) They're very clear about needing more money to hire more social workers, but I can't find any statements from these organizations about the need for moderating reddit and youtube.
This site is called Hacker News - hackers are people who like to understand how things work and tweak/subvert them to their purposes. Are you here by accident?
They're not making an honest comparison to Covid here.
There's no mob rule. A private company decided to stop servicing that filth because it would hurt their profits. There's nothing freer than this.
> Probably better, but still not sufficient. It will probably take years before Android users get this builtin, and not everybody has a smartphone anyway. I don't currently use one.

I doubt they ever will, but Google could roll this out very quickly by making it part of Google Play Services.
I would think that one of their advantages is that they have GUIs more similar to what the underlying platform looks and feels. This is easier to learn and easier to use, compared to tools based on GNU Emacs, which is basically its own platform. There are a lot user interfaces in GNU Emacs which are not very user friendly and not so good looking.
> This wasn't just due to Twitter outrage. People are actually being targeted and harmed through this site.

I'm saying the following comment without knowing much about Kiwifarms and the back and forth drama about it other than some of the surface-level accusations. If people there were engaging in false swatting or other crimes, sure throw the book at those individuals. That's reprehensible behavior, and should be treated about as harshly as attempted murder IMO.

But one big reason that I think taking down a website like this is very morally questionable without a court order is that there's no way for the public to know what really happened. Was Kiwifarms the site engaging in bad behavior, or were a few individual users there guilty of crimes? It's almost impossible to get an unbiased accounting of what actually happened there, and there's no way for an outsider to research this after the fact with the site down. I can't just trust a big corporation's word on what really happened here.

Additionally, who really committed crimes? The level of drama around what happened there seemed personal and insane from the little I saw about it. If you were an unhinged person who was willing to take a "the ends justify the means" to "win", you'd probably be willing to create fake accounts on that site and engage in illegal activity to try and get a site shut down that you hated. I have no idea if this is the case, but it's hard to rule out anything when it comes to the level of personal drama that seemed to be going on there.

> Hate and harm are not covered under free speech.

Organizing harm against others probably isn't considered free speech by most legal systems or philosophers, but an expression of hate in and of itself is absolutely covered under free speech.
It’s a neat idea, but adoption would likely be enough of a challenge to undermine the efficacy.
if you pick a fight with the people harassing you

Sounds like you've internalized the idea that it's OK to be a punching bag for other people and if you retaliate when attacked that makes you a bad person. This is your right of course, but why should anyone else feel obliged to subscribe to your moral/risk calculus?
Experimental verification of the field theory of specific heat
The signal is digital until it gets to the speaker so there is no loss of quality after the initial encoding, which might itself be lossless. Some systems (eg Sonos) can stream lossless audio or even 24 bit 192 khz, which is certainly overkill.
That was so fucking weird.

I still remember watching AS's videos and being confused as to how something so bland pissed off that many people.
The format of the article, and it's unwillingless to go to the point made me quit reading half way. Even in reader mode the flow of reading is interrupted every 2 lines by a large useless image or some snarky comment from the author.

Too bad, it's an interesting topic.
Agree with "Racket is more principled..." Where I differ with you if that I'd say that Racket theorically provides more power, but the system is not tractable in practice. I suspect all large Racket programs were written by people with PhD's from Northwestern.

BTW, Racket's defmacro is only partially compatible with Common Lisp defmacro. It doesn't really work. I even seem to remember (? from long ago) that it's impossible to implement a genuine CL defmacro in Racket.
In a choice between convenience and quality, convenience wins almost every time.
Following due process? That's unheard of.

Forcing professors investing all their life into advancement of human civilization out of universities because they said a funny word? The should lose all their possessions, it's completely harmless and right, trust me!

Calling someone names and pointing out things that are glaring OPSEC mistakes? Immediately drop and do everything to attack them!

p.s.: it's very sad to see enthusiasts and prominent engineers like Marcan getting corrupted by the plague of our times.
Your cite says:

> the state's higher storage target and DPS and grid operator support will slash costs to $150-$200 kWh by the end of the decade, based on BloombergNEF estimates.

They have dropped an order of magnitude since 2008, so I'd maybe expect a few more years before it does it again but that does appear to be the current prediction.
There is a good excuse: Not having multi-{m,b,t}illion-dollar corporate entities working on the language full-time is a good reason for something to not exist.

Not having a corporation back the development of a language has tons of downstream effects, including:

- lack of support opportunities

- lack of employment opportunities

- lack of evolution and development of an ecosystem

- higher churn and/or attrition

- fewer opportunity to do long-term design and implementation projects

Yes, sometimes there are FOSS miracle workers who are so extraordinarily productive without being paid, but they're few and far between.

(Aside from that, not all users need such functionality.)
If anybody has a whole weekend to read about it: https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color6.html
The harder truth is that metrics only appear to work. As soon as you use metrics to judge performance, people will start gaming them. They’ll do whatever it takes to get a good score, regardless of whether it’s good for the company or its customers.

The metrics “work,” in that they’ll go up, but the things you don’t measure will get worse, often (eventually) catastrophically.

In the case of velocity, you’ll get people taking shortcuts and sacrificing quality, both internal and external, so they can juice their numbers. The outcome is technical debt and arguments about what it means for something to be done, resulting in slower progress overall.

Source: I’ve been consulting in this space for a few decades now, and have seen the consequences of using velocity as a performance measure time and time again.

(Other metrics are just as bad. See Robert Austin, Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations, for an explanation of why knowledge work like software development is incompletely measurable and thus subject to measurement dysfunction.)
Yeah I know, isn't it illuminating to see Facebook profit off of disinformation campaigns and to be used as tool and aided a genocide in another country, killing thousands. Here we also have Twitter [0][1][2] still unable to remove CP images off of their website for years despite it being absolutely illegal in many countries.

I think the fine should be substantially higher since they are 'big, rich and powerful as well' [3].

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/30/india-twitter-kashm...

[1] https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-rules-twitter-can-be-su...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-20/twitter-f...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-...
FUSE really demonstrates the unreasonable effectiveness of file systems as an interface.
http://beta.dreamstudio.ai is the official paid Stable Diffusion webUI.
Those HiFi people are still there. And the products evolved with time.

My guess: >90% of music consumers don't care about quality as long as it's good enough. What they care is ease of use. Why should they have a complicated setup and try getting their records in lossless FLAC when they can just go onto Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube and press play.

I've seen lot's of people that don't even care that their audio has the intro parts when playing from youtube. So why should they care for HiFi.
This is mob rule, private companies do nothing but appeal to whatever they have to in order to make money, and to rely on them for control of our basic ability to have a platform is incredibly harmful and you should not support it.

There are some powers which should not be in the hands of corporate executives, this is one of them.

There are also times that it wouldn't be mob rule, those times should be shareholder rule, which is liable to be even more harmful and even less transparent.
Well, they did create OpenCL.

But yeah it's ages ago and they've kept everything proprietary since then :(
To channel the mythical man-month - 9 woman can't make a baby in 1 month.

For virus based diseases, generally vaccines have been the most effective thing. Other treatment options have generally been very difficult. Best success story for non vaccine treatment is probably AIDS, and that took decades.

Its not for lack of trying.
Yes, I have thought of that but that would use a lot of users' bandwidth and also as you said puts unnecessary pressure on scihub servers.
wrong.

Every program that has any need for optimization will quickly turn into a death by a thousand cuts.

There is no right or wrong level of premature optimization, it all comes down to how much time it takes to code it to be more performant. if it takes a tiny amount of time, do so, even if you get little gains. if it takes twice as long to make it more performant, only do so if necessary or results in more than 50% gains.
If you don't have anything to say, you shouldn't force yourself to contribute

> The same goes for tweets and any other social media submission.

Twitter is cringe for everyone writing there and anyone reading it
by "go into hiding" i mean leaving their house, living in a new undisclosed location, as people are coming to their house
Have you spent much time in an energy-poor country?
Wow, I did a double take, you sound like me. When I said something similar praising Haskell's effortless parallelism, someone made a reply that lead to my learning Clojure.
Author here. Would my raw talk script without any of the visual aids I put in the talk be better here?
It has a right to exist. CF has the right to choose their clients. I really don't see your problem. If they want to exist, they can host themselves and/or use TOR.
> The only reason Apple was allowed to do so in this case is likely 1) They negotiated it as part of their AAL (probably for a lot of money)

Apple fronted the cash that created ARM holdings in the first place, so yes, they invested quite a lot of money (well, relative to the other senior partners Acorn and VLSI and later investors), and ARM was hardly in a position to tell them "no".
>> around 80% from your EV after round trip through a battery

I didn't follow this part, there’s an energy loss in the process of charging the battery and there’s a loss in the process of converting from dc battery to ac traction motor, but it’s well shy of 20%. The high amperage involved in both charging and discharging mean losses are low (because if they were high, you’d generate so much heat as to make the system unusable)

>> EVs powered by oil power plants is not a good use of energy

It’s a huge step forward from ICE. You’ve cut disease rates in the population by moving tail pipe emissions away from population centres. You’ve swapped a circa 30% efficient process for a circa 40%-60% efficient process. Not to mention the emissions benefits of LNG over Gasoline or diesel.
Nobody has ever suggested that Asshurt was a part of the daily stormer, she wasn't.

>The usage of weev's the trial is also pretty absurd and manipulative, given that his trial wasn't really related to the daily stormer, but about hacking, so much so that the EFF[0] defended him.

Pretty sure most smart people have already distanced themselves from the EFF at this point, so that's not very convincing.

EFF, despite getting repeatedly called out by several top experts, spent years pushing downright dangerous disinformation via their "secure messaging scorecard". Not exactly a trustworthy organisation.

It was also a bizarre choice to defend weev, both from a legal and moral point of view. tptacek explained it well at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5978686
Installing multiple versions is solved, changing the environment easily, not so much, I think
I don't understand the comment about leaking memory, nfs file handles don't have to be persistent. Besides, how many FUSE filesystems implement FORGET? Anyway this is the reason I went with NFSv4. I started the project with NFS v3 but then discovered many limitations: being stateless, no named attributes, questionable locking support, etc. So Eventually I dropped it and re-implemented everything on NVSv4.
Instagram Fined
Can you provide any proof for your claims about advocating for imminent criminal activity? Ie something that would pass the Brandenburg test?
Switzerland had that, but abandoned the distinction in 2019: now there are no transmission restrictions on Swiss licenses.

Source: https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmittei..., grep for Automateneintrag
British average was 27in ww 1. I was off by a few years.

http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/greatwar/ages-of-the-dead/

Certainly lower than 55+, though ww2 could be moderately higher than 27 I doubt it.
okay, would this include CNN that threatened to doxx someone for creating the trump cnn boxxing meme photo? (which he actually did not create)
You can take a blind test and see for yourself if you can detect lossless audio from compressed:

http://abx.digitalfeed.net