skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. The worst part is, they didn't give a reason or outline which T&C did they break. He's not the only one. Happened to a left-wing "Lockdown Skeptics" group [0], then another anti-lockdown group to keep schools open [1] and afterwards the creators of Flipper device [2] who recently had $1.3M seized from them for no reason, despite shipping their product.

It is clear that PayPal clearly doesn't care and will kill any business, non-profit or campaign organization they don't like as they won't provide a reason. There needs to be better alternatives like AlignPay [3] which don't arbitrarily ban accounts or seize funds because they feel like it.

PayPal can do it to anyone; left, right, liberal, etc, whatever. They don't care and they won't change.

[0] https://twitter.com/llsceptics/status/1567658400573448192

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/21/paypal-shuts-acc...

[2] https://twitter.com/flipper_zero/status/1567194641610465281

[3] https://alignpay.com/
Do not bring your whole self to work
They don't need to buy from Amazon. AWS is here to stay.
To be fair, it's been impossible to buy a PS5 since it came out unless you're willing to really jump through hoops for it
Two consecutive quarters of negative growth is the standard definition used around the world. Except in the US today.
Interestingly enough, there are a lot of books on archive.org that are not on LibGen, usually high quality scans. That's another source that should be mirrored, given the legal trouble surrounding archive.
Right out of the gate it makes this claim:

> That investors are extractive parasites who weaponize capital to passively extract wealth from the contributor class.

I’m reminded of David Friedman’s explanation as to why this isn’t the case:

> Marx argued as follows: Goods are produced by workers using tools (machines, factories, and so forth). The tools were themselves made by earlier workers. All production is done by workers, either current workers or past workers. But the capitalist claims some of the return from the production. His justification is that he has provided the tools; this is invalid since the tools were actually produced by previous workers. The capitalist who, having contributed nothing to production, takes part of the product is obviously stealing from—exploiting—the real producers, the workers. The trouble with this argument is that it does not recognize that paying for tools today and waiting for years to get the money back is itself a productive activity and that the interest earned by capital is the corresponding payment.

It’s the same for mortgages and renting. If we banned renting and required people to purchase their shelter with 100% cash (no loans), people would live in much worse homes (or be homeless). The investors provide the capital to build the homes much sooner than they otherwise would be, then wait decades before recouping their costs. They also assume quite a bit of risk. A lot can go wrong before they make their money back.
I really like the minimal CSS on Nat’s website, I frequently reference it when styling my own content: https://nat.org
I'm not very political, but some of the random stuff I read online has triggers my contrarian nature. I often see popular statements that are factually incorrect, and have responded with citations... And been banned from subreddits for nothing more than providing citations.

The Internet, in many mainstream areas, has become something fascinating to me. My concern historically has been government censorship, but I've realized, perhaps later than most, the self censorship / Hall monitors of the internet are far more dangerous.

And this is true of right wing or left wing forums. It self regulates to a point where only approved ideas can be discussed in an approved way.

I don't see a way out.

Censorship is needed because the minority of loud people make it mandatory.

Censorship is too big of a job for people to get it right. And AI, frankly, is way to stupid.

I wish there was an answer.

Oddly this applies to all manner of forums. Not just politics. It's human nature, amplified.
Eh, you're aware there's always knowledgeable people tracking activities and just because there's no immediate discussion in public doesn't mean those watchers arnt questioning.

Ergo, this is a useless factoid.
How does one actually download this many torrent files? It feels quite difficult to do.
There’s a naval weapons station right to the southwest of that track, about 50 miles away maybe. A navy SM-2 missile has an unclassified range of 90 nautical miles. It’s likely that they would have been testing some variant of this missile for vertical launch, perhaps with some new phased array radar experiments and such. Up to the 90s, the navy was still using rail launched missiles and traditional radar emitters and the article talks about ships several years out that can’t be used for these tests, which I assume are thee first of current AEGIS ships.
in my personal css framework, i only do fluid type on headers, not body text, as i found the effect to be too subtle to matter. but header text can be overwhelming on small devices without it.

then you can let the user (agent) set the default font size on root/html.
I struggle to see what is RISC-like about the 6502. 8-bit processors are usually too quirky to put into one of the categories. RISC hallmarks are:

- Fixed-width encoding: No. It varies from one to three bytes.

- Large register set: No, it's an accumulator architecture. I don't count the zero page because every program that ran on the computer had to use the same zero page. IIRC, user programs on some late-era 6502 OSes would have only a handful of those 256 bytes to work with, rest being claimed by the system software.

- Pipelining: There's some optimization with prefetching of instructions. It is not the multi-step pipeline of RISC, nor does it need to be.

- Load/store architecture: Plenty of instructions work directly on memory.
This also prevents the “we are SO SURE they’re about to launch that we preemptively launched” method of getting to nuclear war.

It’s not my job to worry about Russia. I have servants that worry about that for my servants.
If you have an ultra secret superweapon it doesn't seem like the right move to use it on foreign embassy staff in your own country. It seems more likely to be some kind of CIA equipment malfunction.
The coverup may be a crime, but it’s not a claim a civil plaintiff can recover damages for. If the defendant destroyed or hid evidence, however, the judge could order a negative inference against the defendant.

The other problem is the statute of limitations. But that should toll if the defendants hid their liability and the suit really couldn’t be brought until now.
What you’re describing is a fantastic way to injure yourself.
> people who love money will not stop until they are stopped.

Define “stopped” in this context.

Never mind that the author incessantly links to himself.. What suggestions does he offer?

We’re on the road to serfdom. Great. Cool. What do?
This seems like a "can't see the forest through the trees" project. If you don't want to run a server, there's no need for WordPress in the first place - just use a static site generator, or a SPA that uses static content as the backend. Have done a lot of WordPress development, and I love it, but it doesn't seem like it fits this use case better than other options.
Sadly, you stored only the MD5 back then.
Pulling off this coverup would require cooperation of many agencies and lots and lots of people. These kinds of things are really, really hard to do, because someone always talks.
Boeing is part of the US government.

I do not believe this story is true, although I do not dismiss it.
The obvious google search to perform in cases of "mystery" deplatforming is name + "gender".

https://www.google.com/search?q=toby+young+gender

+ "covid" is also a good contender:

https://www.google.com/search?q=toby+young+covid

Seems Mr. Young is two for two.
Impossible meat is substantially subsidized right now and it’s still expensive.

I think veggie food is cheaper (rice and beans) it’s just this synthetic fake meat stuff that costs more.
which is all fine and dandy until aforementioned alternative is taken down from the google/apple app stores...
Yep, big thing for me is smart pointers and RAII. Everything else is secondary.

I have worked on template-heavy codebases that would really benefit from concepts, though.
>This is not the job of science journalists. The job of science journalists is to make money for someone

Well, if it isn't their actual job, it should be. And they should get no sympathy when they get it wrong.
I've been using fastmail for the past 3+ years in an effort to de-google my life. It's been excellent, and I haven't had any issues with emails I've sent being classed as spam.
You're being overdramatic. You don't need to be a language lawyer to use C++ correctly and effectively.
Not sure if you're comment is condescending or I've asked the wrong question. Probably a bit of both. I did read the article but I was asking more along the lines of actual evidence. This being a new and highly publicized phenomenon, I'd expect this to be a goldmine for research clinicians so I'd expect quite a lot of chatter in the form of articles or case studies.
Don't confuse constraining an entire website's width for constraining the text reading width. You can gracefully have maximum reading width text columns with other content to the left and right of it to maximize real estate.

Also, don't ask users to resize their browsers to accomodate for a site's poor UX. That's called "blaming the user."
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1567929340737863680.html
As a Swede that just went though an election with electricity prices being discussed this is very interesting. Prices in Sweden are at an all time high.

I don’t remember this analysis being talked about. The problem was cast mostly as a domestic issue - that’s my take at least.

In hindsight I think it was only the left that had a solution that maybe would address this for Sweden at least. They wanted to have domestic and EU-pricing.

Then the prices for electricity in EU would become so high that Italy would be forced to act?
Is the term "boost" in regards to unemployment a phrase that the Fed uses, or is it editorializing?
In your library example, the author is still paid by the library system for their work.
Yeah, nobody should be using UIbuilder and storyboards any more. swiftui is so much better, faster, usable, extensible.

But wow, the hoops you jump through to use it with c++ - via obj-c (And iirc can't use .mm files either). Im sure I wasn't helping things by exposing that to javascript too :)
Sorry, that is exactly the sort of justification “the other side” always uses. Doesn’t matter which side of course, but it’s always some justification of bad action excused away with “the other side is 100x worse”.

I have no need for either side nor care if one is worse than the other. I don’t care what the “intentions” are…just that the effect is bad…especially when the effect is intentionally evil.
Compared to Java, modern C++ isn't so bad. Dependency management and build systems are the main problems. Both of those should be solved in an existing project.
Seems like more of a QNAP problem than anything
"Increased immigration from poorer countries only results in lower wages and less leverage to negotiate for the most vulnerable."

Nonsense, given that the "most vulnerable" -- by a large margin -- are the people inside the poor country who have now been unbanned from the landmass you've declared that you own at the barrel of a gun.
dist-upgrade is a completely different thing to windows update.
The alternative to shrinkflation is just raising the price (or raising it more). Yes, it's toying with sticky demand psychology, such that a plain price increase would produce a less favorable equilibrium for the seller, but I'd be surprised if it was a significant driver of inflation.
This is a fun idea.

I wonder how helpful other people are in practice, or is it just the notion of having someone there that helps people focus?

Do you filter people so that they are paired with people doing similar tasks? similar skillsets?
They update internals many times without changing the case design generally. The reason is cost reduction. Smaller dies mean more dies per wafer. Thermal reduction implies you can get away with a less beefy power supply and thermal management solution, etc.
We're living in a world where they can't even detect long-covid in the MILLIONS of people who have it.

Makes perfect sense to me they can't detect what these people were hit with.

It's obviously some kind of tunneling beam that goes though anything like a pinpoint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
Because Java is known to magically never cause production outages?
OMG thanks!

Installing it right away!
More importantly, what happens when the gatekeeers can't block news items like this interview with the former head of the CDC any more, talking about how the US helped fund the virus and covered up the fact? [0]

The same people who were lying about treatments, and running faudulent scientific studies like the surgisphere studies [1]

[1] Bugs me a lot, because there was no investigation as to why they did it, and no followup examination of other studies that I beleive were also rigged in an only slightly more sophisticated fashion. Noone looked at why they faked the first one, and noone thought to followup on the Recover trial knowing that someone faked the first one.

You can go to a physical copy of the 2017 Physician's Desk Reference at a small town library branch and look up the safe and unsafe dosages for for HCQ, from before the "gatekeepers" started censoring and altering everything Ministry of Truth style, and if you do you'll see that the Recover Trial authors were using unsafe dosages on late-stage patients and pretending that meant something it didn't.

It also bugged me that noone followed up on the other entire drug _class_ Sugisphere "proved" didn't help for Covid: ACE inhibitors. Or how they remained not part of the standard of care even after subsequent studies showed the Surgisphere study on that wasn't just fabricated but dead wrong. [2] (slashdot article on surgisphere trial) [3] (original tctmed paper) [4] Here's a paper I found the last time I did research on the subject to see if it was followed up on, it's from a crazy nutso conspiracy alt-site called "Nature."

So when everyone finds out that a) they made it, b) they lied about it, c) they lied about treatments, d) they lied about the vaccines, and e) damn, these health costs are kinda too high... there's going to be an immense crisis. On top of it, the people we helped fund to make the virus are a couple of allied nasty dictatorships, one of which has killed tens of thousands of civilians in a neighboring country in a shooting war that's going on now that we're still helping to fund because we made ourselves dependent on them for energy.

I'd link that but stopgas seems to be down or I have the wrong link.

[0]: https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/former-cdc-di...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23403754

[2]: https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/08/04/1815220/retracte...

[3]: https://www.tctmd.com/news/retracted-over-fraud-concerns-sur...

[4]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-00221-6
You do, just learn xcode instead of learning appcode. Get used to instruments, debugger, etc
And even if they did slip through at a higher rate. The answer wouldn't be to make it abitrarily harder to claim, because real people with real issues would inevitably be hurt.

If the system had 0% fraud rates, then it kind of implies that many real people have been denied because they failed to jump through the hoops.
These are both the same report, and it is not conclusive (which the authors agree on). There are many issues with the report, but one is that as it wasn't pre-registered and due to its exploratory nature, it's highly sensitive to accidental p-hacking.

Until a completely new sample of victims with no relation is taken and the study replicated against a completely new control group with no relation, it has very little value. And even if it did, it still wouldn't be conclusive - psychosomatic illness can have physiological effects.

The only way is to prove the mechanism of the attack - which for microwave attacks is readily done with wearable RF devices - and to find a physiologically plausible mechanism for that exact observed attack. Which should be pretty easy to do, and which the CIA hasn't done.
We do a lot of stuff that's not one line CRUD. I've no interest in people that can only do that. And let's not fool ourselves, even in orgs where they do the most vanilla stick blocks together software work there's a few people that do most of the work and lots of others that do very little. The other part of this is that there aren't that many good people looking for a job, most of them have one most of the time and when they switch it's usually through their network of connections.

You're obviously the kind of person I'd want to hire ;) Why would you mind writing some code in an interview? I don't ask anything that requires memorizing your data structures and algorithms textbook. All I'm looking for is people that can "think in code" which in the population of job seekers isn't as common as you'd think.
Sorry. Equally 10+ years of daily iOS development.

Is Xcode annoying at times? Sure. Do I like deleting the DerivedData folder once in a while? No.

But I really can't relate much to what you wrote except maybe upgrading your machine often.
No one other than consumers sent them money. I don't recall government subsidies or loans to them, fill me in if I missed them. Everyone who sends them money is aware of the tax situation, or isn't really aware of their environment. You'd think the original market of book-buyers would have been a little more clued in.
I bought my Mac in 2015 and I've upgraded from every release of the OS to the other, used for development, even changed hard drive (good times when you could do it) and copied my old installation with Time Machine. When I started using it the standard was MacPorts, then brew started to gain interest and I switched to it. I used Xcode, Android studio, IntelliJ, and a ton of development tools, and still it works without any issue.

The thing is that as every OS it needs maintenance, every year or so I take a day to cleanup the system, remove caches, leftover from old installations, fix things that are not working, remove unused brew packages and applications that I no longer need, upgrade any software running on the machine, etc.

> If you do general-purpose development on MacOS, I beg you: please use Nix

After using macOS for a long time, I learned that the best thing to do is to use whatever stock configuration you have and touch as few things as possible. One example, I encountered a bug in React Native caused by the fact that in my PATH I had the GNU coreutils instead of the stock macOS one. If you keep things simple it's less likely that things break and if they break it's easier to fix them.
Why is this not distributed in a more private (onion routed, I2P, retroshare,...) way and in a way that can automatically sync?
The article is pure vitriol, with barely a sprinkling of facts and arguments mixed in.
>I was under their impression the job of a journalist was to get attention of readers to generate ad and subscription revenue.

That's because cynicism and acceptance of brokeness has become the norm.

But while journalism did start out as the "wild west" of yellow press and cheap wriging, and while it's that way today...

... there was also a period of many decades where people expected better of journalists, and they did get considerable better results...
Astute observation, but at the same time it's the lesser evil to allow them to take that job. Let's not allow misguided compassion to do real world harm to the people to whom that compassion is directed.
I like how nobody acknowledges the fact of decades of rampant misinformation from oil companies and blatant climate change denial from right wing media.
How can we fix things if one side doesn't even believe its a problem?
Hi. I wrote the piece. Thanks for taking the time to read it.

I wasn't aiming or trying to give a worked example of the differences, though.

That's in the link that inspired the comment. Didn't you look at that? It's exactly what you ask, with discussions of filesystems, CLI, even C code examples. It would have been redundant to try to duplicate that. It's why I recommended it. I still do. You should read it, because it sounds like what you want to me.

https://arcanesciences.com/os2200/

As for sounding like a grumpy old man -- well:

“I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.”

― Bill Hicks

:-D

It's only a comment from Lobste.rs, copied-and-pasted. It might grow into something more significant at some time. Might not. Can't promise.
They pay some sort of royalty no?
The issue seems definitely related to GPS.
Thanks for taking a minute to do this, it gives a nice side-by-side for a real-world example. What a great improvement.
Sure, but then Netflix removed stargate on a whim and one of my favorite shows went poof.

That started me down the path to owning all my own media.

It also didn’t help that iCloud Photos is a privacy nightmare.
Ideally you want to avoid current across the heart -- you're probably not going to have a great time being a conductor, but ensuring the easiest path is through your legs/arms gives you the best chance of making it out alive.
NyQuil chicken seems about as insane and beer can chicken, and that’s a real thing.
Target Venus not Mars for first crewed mission to another planet, experts say
> which don't arbitrarily ban accounts or seize funds because the feel like it

"Don't" isn't "can't". Paypal didn't arbitrarily ban accounts due to their opinions until they did.

(Though they've pretty much always arbitrarily seized funds -- even back in 2011 the most common reason people showing up in Bitcoin IRC channels cited for their interest was that paypal had at some point in the past randomly seized their funds without explanation and then stonewalled them)

> they didn't give a reason or outline which T&C did they break

Giving a reason is pure downside to the deplatformer as it exposes them to criticism both over their policy and over their errors. Providing one to third parties could expose them to defamation lawsuits.

Better to say nothing and let the rumor mills crowdsource an acceptable excuse that they can adopt later if required.
"obviously" no one is really a walking talking voting caricature.

yet still there are big groups that care only about a handful issues meaningfully. eg. they usually don't vote, and very few thinfs might move them to do so. but those who vote usually are already well motivated to care for things the parties carry.
That’s a fallacy unfortunately that I wish people wouldn’t further because it only views performance in a single dimension.

Better performance helps with everything from snappiness to battery life , image processing and a ton of other things that I benefit from daily.

None of that is heavy for my current generation SoC but would be for those in your list
In both this and a traditional library, one person buys the book and then a bunch of people read it for free. What are you saying is the difference between those scenarios?