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Twitter blocked our indie game account
8 days ago, Twitter suspended the 'Ticket to Europe' account (https://twitter.com/TicketToEurope). As the reason, Twitter gave a vague formula: your account broke the Twitter Rules. What rules exactly? It is not known.

We have already sent several appeals, but we are not getting any reply. Twitter Support also does not respond to us. We have the impression that for several days our efforts have only fallen into the abyss of algorithms. Several months of work on Twitter thus go to the trash. Is there any chance to get our Twitter account back? Is the only option to create a new account and start building a community from scratch? Do you have any experiences with similar situations?

Personally, it is hard for us to imagine breaking any Twitter Rules. Our game is a socially engaged project that we have been working on for 8 years (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2094580/Ticket_to_Europe/). We invest private savings in it and create it out of a sense of mission - it's a Text-Based RPG about refugees. The scenario was based on real stories of refugees we met during our research in a refugee camp. We are supported by various human rights volunteers and various NGOs consulted the scenario. We do not promote racist behavior in any way, on the contrary - our project was created precisely to increase social awareness and sensitivity to the drama that refugees face. How can such ideals conflict with Twitter's principles? Dunno.

Will publicizing such a case in the media increase our chances of recovering the account? Please help us, we are emotionally broken and a little desperate.
My native language has 8 cases, so it might be up my alley hopefully. Bought the book now, so only one way forward for me.
In Europe, most still have the stripe, but often you can't do magstripe payments unless you enable it beforehand through your bank's app or similar (which is often temporary and disables itself again after 24 hours). I've only ever had to do that when travelling outside of Europe. Most terminals here can't even read the magstripe (and there are even some NFC-only ones).
The title of that collage is so magnificent, I think letting it stand on its own is only fair. Also, it's good for HN readers to have to work a little: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Edit: on the other hand, this thread turned out to be garbage and the title no doubt was the main reason for that. Maybe adding the year would have helped. I've done it belatedly now.
Don't feel ashamed. The entire ecosystem is unsound, and the "technicalities" are the stuff that CS201 courses dismiss as irrelevant. There's no reason for a technologist to care about it.
It’s TC (total compensation) that matters. Salaries haven’t changed a lot, but a lot of senior engineers at big companies are making 350k-400k a year total, most of which is stock. It vests every 6 months usually, in chunks of 50,70,100k. Usually there’s a bonus sometime in the year as well of anywhere from 15k-25k.
That was all the smoking and lack of micro plastics
The fact remains that Dallas and it’s surrounding suburbs is a vastly more egalitarian and less stratified place than SF or NYC. It has tons of affordable areas near the city. A key problem is that the industries powering NYC and SF (tech and finance) are massive drivers of inequality. They create a huge upper middle class that just sucks up all the resources. That’s exacerbated by the difficulty of building housing, but both sides of the equation are the problem. Northern Virginia where I grew up is a place where it’s easier to build housing, but has a similar problem. The middle class has been driven out as knowledge industries have taken over.

Iowa is even better lovely because there is basically no upper middle class. Even the farmers who might have tens of millions in land are pretty cash poor.
Just like burning down houses incentivizes fire station development.
some interesting points from this other piece

"While the acquisition price was undisclosed, media reports suggest Algolia paid more than $100 million for Search.io"

https://www.businessnewsaustralia.com/articles/french-unicor...

"Search.io’s mission is to “enable every organization to build smart search and discovery solutions.” The company was founded in 2014 by Hamish Ogilvy and David Howden (originally named Sajari, and recently rebranded to Search.io). "

Contra the business news article: "Search.io was founded in 2020 by Hamish Ogilvy, who will remain with the merged company in the new role of vice president of artificial intelligence."

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alright can some non marketing person explain in practical usecases why this "hybrid search" is so disruptive? i feel like the article is trying really hard to communicate how big a deal it is, but it falls flat on me because i simply only have pedestrian search knowledge
But 'drift' carries the idea that 2021 climate is already gone, and that we won't get it back anytime soon.

'change' doesn't carry this idea at all. Anyway, global warming was more descriptive, thus better to me.
If you're willing to admit a central authority to authenticate who can and cannot vote, cryptocurrency becomes easy.

Really bitcoin is fundamentally trying to solve the problem that its impossible to tell who is a "real" person on the internet. If you dont have that problem everything is trivial.
>> Did you expect French politicians to be all-knowing robots who can never be wrong?

I would expect government members making decisions to consult expert virologists/epidemiologists first. The fact that they can make two contradictory statements means that either they did not consult any experts, or they consulted different experts, which means there is no consensus among experts on the topic.
> Bit by bit, it is becoming the new influenza. Not saying we're there yet, but that's clearly where we're headed.

That's what we're hoping for - and it's generally the trajectory novel viruses take - come out of the gates with a bang and a whallop into a vulnerable population, eventually tone down as people build immunity and selective pressures favour mutations that don't dramatically and fearfully kill their victims.

> But we don't have border closing or "show your papers" or all the rest for influenza

We very much did when H1N1 killed millions from 1918 to 1920. Closing the borders, lockdowns, quarantines etc. Not so much "show your proof of vaccination" due to well, you know, there not being a vaccine for influenza then.

However, you might find this illuminating - a 1905 Supreme Court decision upholding the authority of states to enforce compulsory vaccination laws. [0]

> and we're not going to.

If a novel strain of influenza were to emerge that current vaccines can't handle, and it was proving to be highly efficient at causing severe illness or death, you really don't think similar preventive measures would be taken?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts
I'd love to give mine to someone in Brazil.
I think you're reading the situation completely wrong here. Yes, we should make energy cheaper, cleaner and more abundant. I don't think anyone with any real stake in the game is rallying against that fact.

The issue most people have with Bitcoin is about it's value. It uses tremendous amounts of energy for what most people perceive as little to no tangible return, and the view is that we could use the same energy (and maintain the same "technological advancement" as you put it) for more valuable purposes; things essential to our survival both on an individual level (warmth/cooling, food, shelter) and as a species (accelerating our move to renewables, protected biodiversity, enabling simulations for improvements in medicine and the like).

Your argument seems to be against a fictitious opponent, or one at the extreme end of the normal distribution. Very few if any are campaigning against only reducing energy usage. Most are campaigning for a redistribution of Bitcoins energy consumption, about 0.55% of global production, to accelerate our technological progress.
I think you're missing the point of okta. It's not for access control to your specific application. It's for companies to deal with many groups of users and on/off boarding easily.

It transforms "Andy is andy@foo on service A, AndyA on service B, aaaandy on service C, maybe has two factor enabled on some of them and hopefully hasn't joined other groups to give them access" into "Andy is andy@company in Okta and we can turn services on/off and set policies as needed".
My memories of learning Java at school are tied to learning Eclipse shortcuts. Whenever I had to use some other Java IDE it just felt crippling. Having to use something like this wouldn't have been nice at all.
> So the Superdelegates can not only override the primary voters, they can also override the Convention?

No:

(1) Superdelegates cannot override the rest of the convention (delegates selected by caucuse and primaries) on nominations, since the 2016 rules change that removed their first-round voting rights in the nomination vote unless the difference between the top two candidates in pledged delegates is greater than the number of superdelegates.

(2) DNC members are a subset of superdelegates, they aren't the same group.

(3) currently (before the change), the National Committee can update the bylaws, and the Convention can update the bylaws; allowing the Committee to reverse anything done by the Convention (because the convention issues one every for years, the reverse is not, in practice, true). This just stabilizes that by requiring ratification of Convention-initiated amendments to the Bylaws by the Committee, similar to what is already done for Amendments to the Charter (the DNC requires a 2/3 vote, however, to unilaterally amend the Charter.)

Since the DNC could already reverse the Convention, this doesn't change the substantive distribution of power, which is probably why this has gotten zero coverage since August 5 when the proposals were announced for the agenda for the summer meeting, and despite the Intercept headline, the actual issues everyone quoted in the article had weren't about the substance but about the manner in which the DNC staff were communicating with DNC members leading up to the vote.

This is a nothing-burger of a change.
But, do you believe ETC has future? I think the current increase in ETC GPU mining is due to people trying to squeeze the last bits of money return of their farming investment until they could sell/repurpose (I mean non-crypto) their rigs.

I honestly don't believe ETC has any practical future value, and any increase in valuation these days will result in a bigger crash of ETC value in a few days/weeks as people get out of the GPU mining ecosystem.
Single external screen works fine for me. Even the laptop as a second screen sometimes makes my head move too much.
In addition to the APY described by sibling comment, validators can also run MEV-Boost to increase their APY:

> You should run mev-boost to earn a fair share of the MEV extracted in the blocks you propose. Connecting your consensus client to mev-boost allows you to get full blocks from a network of block builders optimized for MEV extraction. This can increase validator rewards by 75.3%, or give an APR of 12.86% rather than a non-MEV APR of 7.35% from staking eth.

https://boost.flashbots.net/
Glad we don't have to worry about Long Covid because you said it's the same as every other disease. Hey scientists, you can stop studying it, a person on HN has cracked it.

Why would you even think that it's a false flag? I'm lost as to your logical progression.
How many working people are expected to continue paying Social Security to the retired people, at the moment? How does that pyramid scheme work when the demographic pyramid inverts?
But isn't Intel AVX-512 such a power hog that it will clock down the CPU? So the throughput loss might not be that bad if AMD can maintain the clock speed.
Ironically the Chivo wallet is a centralised system that only touches the wider BTC network when transactions are made to a non-Chivo address.
"You don't really own your crypto coins unless you have your own wallet on your own hardware"

Well, that's the thing about freedom. It's a pretty big responsibility. You can't offload the responsibility and still be free. True in the real world, and true in crypto.
I would say that cash+RSUs is what matters, pre-IPO companies usually offers options which should be values differently.
> The beginning of every new era of protocols is always like this.

No it's not.

Web2 exploded largely because of XMLHTTPRequest which from the second it was released was simple to understand, simple to use and solved an immediate problem.

To this day I'm still yet to find a problem that Web3 solves uniqely well other than money laundering, sanctions evasion etc.
Strangely, not very much.
Haha, nice, many citations given :D
You honestly say it with a straight face that 0.5% of the total electricity used by the word is not an unfathomably large number that was wasted for years with no good reason?!
Billg did way, way more than meet Epstein a few times.

We have records of Epstein directing Gates to send money to people.

Clearly Epstein's primary business was extortion, with a sideline in sex slavery to generate leads for his extortion business. And, he was murdered in custody to prevent his spilling the beans on his primary victims.
3 posts about this nonsense on the front page. Can we please stop destroying the planet with this global pyramid scheme?

Seriously why isn't there a UN summit to tackle the Crypto problem?
WMF doesn't just hire in america. Although you probably only get the gym membership if you are american as the non americans are usually contractors.
I thought that long COVID was proven to be a mental disorder, not anything physical? That's why even people who were never infected with COVID experience it.
Interesting contrast to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Body_Count
> companies that refuse to share IP

That only means they have an exclusive right to manufacture the vaccine. It doesn’t mean that the details are secret.

For example: https://github.com/NAalytics/Assemblies-of-putative-SARS-CoV...
Even the halal food trucks are starting to accept credit cards. I know of at least two in Brooklyn that have a reader, however they do require a minimum payment (usually $8 or so).
I can assert with absolute authority that the tech behind crypto is inarguably "babble". There is no "there" there.
You can't withdraw Ethereum.
And every four years it will double in price, and right now it consumes 0.5% of all electricity, which means in 56 years it will consume 82% of all electricity, assuming we produce roughly the same electricity as today.

Is this your argument?
Although there are better reasons to reject crypto, energy usage for crypto has few benefits aside of speculation/gambling for material gain. In Europe, energy bills for most people have tripled so reducing energy demand is a priority right now. I think there are less harmful ways to gamble. You could try a casino perhaps or buy futures contracts on ornamental gourds.
Angular Team Keynote – Minko Gechev, Sarah Drasner, Madleina Scheidegger
To help prevent SIDS, I highly highly recommend a product called the Owlet Smart Sock. It was discontinued due to not being FDA approved but it is still available on eBay and it is a potential lifesaver. What it does is that it's a pulse oximeter that sounds an alarm if your baby stops breathing or their blood oxygen falls below a threshold. This device potentially saved the life of one of our kids and I cannot recommend it enough. Our baby had fallen into a too deep sleep and though he looked peaceful his blood oxygen was very low and we had to aggressively wake him up to get him to start breathing again.

The product I am talking about is NOT the Owlet Dream Sock. That version is useless for this purpose. You need the now-discontinued Owlet Smart Sock, of which the most recent version was version 3. I believe the app is no longer available in the app store, and you need the app to use it, but I think if you have an Android device you can probably find an APK on one of the APK mirror sites. Personally, I have the iOS app which I still have due to having installed it on my phone before it was discontinued.

I hope someone will make an open-source product like this. It's conceptually quite simple: connect a pulse oximeter to a loud audible alarm. I would also love to be able to get an adult version as well for my grandparents that would call 911 automatically if they stop breathing or their heart stops. Calling 911 automatically would not be allowed in a product I think, but it could be done in an open-source / open-hardware product where the builder of the kit takes on the liability of breaking the 911-related laws (which in my view is a tiny price to pay for saving a loved one's life).

If any hardware hackers are looking for project ideas, an open version of the Owlet Smart Sock would be an incredible thing to build for the world.

P.S. my pet theory for what causes SIDS is that the part of the brain stem that controls breathing needs time to develop, and when the brain is super young that part of the brain is not yet fully developed, and is susceptible to failing to do its job. I think of an analogy to how people can die of failing to breathe during a heroin overdose, wherein that same part of the brain is put into a state where it doesn't maintain a high enough breathing rate. I suspect the failure mechanism in the overdose situation and the SIDS situation might be analogous.
Microsoft had a monopoly. It could not fail.
I'm not sure if you're half joking, but banks authentify every single tenant in the transaction (from account owners, to institutions) in the most rigid way. Fraud usually happens at the edge (credit card), but everything "inside" the system is a legally registered entity.
It is completely integrated with the legal system.
This is about _revaccination_ or boosters for autumn 2022 (not about standard vaccination)!
Kubernetes solves a widespread problem. Cloud solves a widespread problem.

What is the widespread problem crypto is solving ?
For all the people that complain about the people who say that their iPhone is superior to DSLR and Mirrorless cameras, I’ve never actually seen anyone seriously say that. Everyone should know that the best camera you have is the one with you. The iPhone enables this. Are there really people out there saying they’re going to shoot a wedding or something with an iPhone and mean it? Sounds more like photographers compensating.
Yikes, that is not somewhat misleading, that is extremely misleading (assuming your comment is accurate—I haven't dug through the article). I've edited the title now.

Submitted title was "Denmark no longer offering Covid vaccinations to healthy adults under 50". That title was highly editorialized, which breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Editing a title to make it more misleading (and linkbait for that matter) manages to break all 4 things that that guideline asks submitters not to do. We eventually remove submission privileges from accounts that do that, so please don't.

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Sugary drinks for 1.5 year olds, at kindergarten? Capri-Sun and the like should be banned in schools and daycare, people don’t realize it’s not that different from giving their children Coca-Cola every day.
There are even larger areas in cryptography where if you don't do it right the whole thing will work, and after a few months someone will make $1B by crashing your currency into oblivion.

Edit: if you want to see how that can happen, I like to take apart weak cryptocurrencies and show what's wrong with them. Someone paid me to do a public review of a thing called Stratis a while back, and I went to town. Here's a highlight. https://twitter.com/PLT_cheater/status/1235036182284820481

I still accept commissions doing code review. It's just too much fun.
Well at least now they don’t use as much power.
I'm envious of someone whose job allows them to work on micro-optimisation stuff like this. I often find myself sucked into a Compiler Explorer hole playing around with writing C++ code this way and that way to see what changes. I must have spent hours looking at various ways of lowercasing a string.

But it's not really justifiable from my employer's point of view, there are more important things for me to do.

Also, handcrafting SIMD code isn't really viable either since I predict there'll be a point where someone on my team wants to use a Mac, and so those routines will have to be written twice.
Instagram knows it has a Reels problem
One of the biggest obstacles to the smooth progression of humans through the viewing area is the individual variation of gaits. We need a moving walkway, flat escalator type thing to regularize the progress of the procession. Then speeding it up becomes a simple control question, and people can be fired through the hall as fast as the machines permit.
Exactly. Which is precisely what has happened.
I just launched a quick and simple framework to name your next startup
I was introduced to a quick and simple naming framework a few years ago and decided to create a short guide to help anyone come up with a name for their next project, startup, or business.

I launched a free version of it almost 2 years ago and recently saw that it was used by over 2500 people! That inspired me to update the naming framework and create a paid (just $9) version of it. Made without code (Can I say that here? ;) ) using Carrd.co and Gumroad for payment and delivery. There is a preview of the document you buy on the website.

It is a 6-step naming framework that will help you come up with a name in about 60 minutes.

In includes a worksheet (in Excel, Numbers, Google Sheets format) that you can use to document each step

I am currently working on a Web3 startup but thought this could be a way to have some extra income as we are bootstrapping.

What do you think?
Whoa, I thought BlueJ is dead. Turns out it's still under development. Nice.
Used in the university (2004-2005) when I started learning Java as a freshman.
Drift carry the idea that we cannot change it back.

I don't think it underplay anything. I understand that we must act. But with this name your arguments won't be heard.

The climate denialists of today are those believing that if it gets too much, we will have to do some efforts for a decade and boom, back to 1970 climate. I want to engage that belief, hence 'climate drift'
on a personal level it's still an easy choice. the fact is, covid is so contagious that you WILL get it if you are not immune. no real way around it unless you isolate yourself to the extreme.

but the booster made me sick for about a day. i chose not to get boostered a second time, and around 7 months after the first booster i got covid.

I was out solid for a week, feeling really sick. and was still sick for the full second week but good enough that I could do home office. I couldn't exercise (for me, climbing) until the start of week 4. the annoying coughs continued for another 2-3 weeks, but a minor issue overall.

mind you, my resting heart rate is around 55 and I'm quite the sporty guy. I'm 33 so not in any risk group.

no way I want to be about of doing fun physical stuff for 3 weeks at some point in the near future again. so I'm going to get boostered probably in 2-3 months if it's still possible. I'll take the 1 day of sickness and then back to normal over 3 weeks of general suckage every time.