skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunately, reveddit has stopped showing content that was removed by reddit administration

Technically, I never showed it. The change is that Reddit changed the way they were doing comment removals, and I declined to update Reveddit to show the body text of those. I did update the site to label them as admin removals [1]. I gave my reasoning for this in several posts recently [2] [3].

> which is also usually hidden from the user-- it's made it much harder to appeal screwups by reddit itself because you can't see the content you're being punished over.

I see that as Reddit's fault, not mine. Their system could easily show you, the logged in user, your own content with the same sort of indicator that mods see, the red background. They once wrote,

> "Privacy is core to our DNA, our culture, and our values. We are committed to making our policies clear and focused on empowering users to be masters of their identities—and their data." [4]

Hold them to that, not me.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/reveddit/comments/w8i11a/good_news_...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/FreeSpeech/comments/yabyzu/reveddit...

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/reveddit/comments/x6332d/reveddit_w...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/ixx6mo/i_just_got_...
Platformer: Twitter, Cut in Half
It's very funny. And I respect the court for allowing it to be filed (as I understand it, amicus briefs need permission to be filed).

"...The Onion intends to continue its socially valuable role bringing the disinfectant of sunlight into the halls of power... And it would vastly prefer that sunlight not to be measured out to its writers in 15- minute increments in an exercise yard..."

"...The petition for certiorari should be granted, the rights of the people vindicated, and various historical wrongs remedied. The Onion would welcome any one of the three, particularly the first..."

Just to clarify though, the case isn't exactly about the right to parody, it's whether an officer of the government should receive qualified immunity if he/she tries to arrest someone who is clearly parodying the government's speech or website. And although the case itself is laughably "small town offended police chief overexercising his power", it's a clear test case.
Indeed, that was a strange diatribe that seems to go way beyond the content of the article (which does flirt with some neurobabble and dubious philosophy here and there, I opine, but I see nothing that would merit the terror-laden response of the OP). If we focus on the central claim concerning imagination and discard the rest, we can still have an interesting discussion. Worth mentioning is John Henry Newman's "A Grammar of Assent"[0] which begins precisely with a discussion of what he called notional and real assent which relate how we assent to propositions with what you might call the associated "vividness" of experience.

[0] https://www.newmanreader.org/works/grammar/
> Nothing is free in engineering. To get something, you have to give up something

I think this is a dangerous position to take to extremes/as an axiom.

Not talking about type systems at all here. The assumption that, given two tools/techniques for accomplishing the same goal, there are always equivalent tradeoffs simply isn't true.

Some tools are better than others.

That statement usually provokes misinterpretation. It should not be taken to mean:

- That some tools are always better than others, in every context. There are situations in 2022 where COBOL is the best choice for new code, and other situations where rewrite-it-in-Rust is the best choice. Problems occur when "tradeoffs of tool A (even if we don't know what they are yet) make it equivalent to tool B" is a core tenet of decision making.

- That some tools always have been and/or always will be better than others. Context, expectations, tool capabilities, and available programmer talent pools all change massively over time.

- That one tool is better than all the others. Plenty of times there are multiple ways to deliver optimal-given-constraints outcomes, and it comes down to a matter of taste or "just pick something, anything, and let us get to work".

Chasing hype and cargo culting leads to poor outcomes; "we should build our two-core app on Kubernetes/write our 2TPS app in Rust" are often justified with "because it's the future" or "because the cool kids are doing it". That's a major bummer.

But the opposite extreme is just as bad: assuming that all choices are fundamentally a wash because "to get something, you have to give up something else" is just as methodologically irresponsible as following the hype cycle. Programming isn't alchemy. This kind of bad decisionmaking can lead to dependence on obsolete (unsupported/insecure) tools, difficulty hiring, and, at worst, a culture of "don't talk about Python to me; if you can't freehand it in C you just need to get gud" gatekeeping cruelty.

Everything has tradeoffs. That doesn't mean they're equivalent.
Also checkout https://github.com/LTVA1/klystrack
Perception of biological motion by jumping spiders
The 10 people in the bottom are people whose primary job is not to code. I don't actually want to fire my team leader nor the guy who often helps analysts, I actually think they do good job.
Of course it's possible, it existed before capitalism and had tons of mutual aid and resilience. It's called "subsistence farming". Without surplus extraction + capital accumulation, it was always stuck at low equilibrium where everyone is poor. See e.g. [1] Also as a side note I don't discuss here, anyone quick enough to band together and abuse the mutual-aiding community was easily able to do so, hence feudalism, or e.g. cartels in our times.

In fact they observe it even in existing cultures where strong kin institutions prevent saving, both via "mutual aid" itself, but also cultural expectation of mutual aid creating an incentive to spend ASAP - cause if you don't, your family/friends/... are going to ask you for money. Meaning again everyone ends up poorer. Breaking kin institutions and "mutual aid" is one of the keys to actually improving QoL for most people [2]

[1] https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they... - Banqueting the Yields, and other parts

[2] The WEIRDest People in the World book
I have bought other houseplants (bromeliad hybrids, for one) that say they are patented and can't be propagated. I see that in theory that applies to individuals[1] but I am skeptical there's any kind of enforcement unless you're selling your pirated plants.

1: https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/hort/2016/06/08/know-your-pa...
I feel like the fact that there are different servers out there has made zero difference in how I use mastodon. I follow some people and that's it. I hardly ever view the local feed. I suppose the problem is I didn't really shop around for a specific server that matched my needs, but when you're starting out, what do you even know what you're looking for? And how do you know what difference it will even make?
There’s an old aerospace joke about how the cost per pound of airplane equipment has been continuously going up and at some point the only way to maintain the line is if some of the equipment weighed 0 lbs. Hence the introduction of software.
I kept hoping and didnt want to sound like that grumpy old man shouting at clouds. Tesla to me looks more like an mvp with good batteries. I think it will go downhill as more ev makers enter the market and tesla cant compete with them in making actual cars. Elon spent 44 billion on a bloody troll platform and is heavily distracted by it.
I started writing TILs 2 years ago
I discovered jbranchaud/til 2 years ago and was inspired to maintain my own non-linear learning journey.
"Lee and his colleagues confirmed this by looking at people’s brain activity with an fMRI when they’re making decisions about the future. They used a brain decoder to detect a “neural signature of the vividness of prospective thought”

What twaddle. fMRI will tell you quite a bit about blood flow etc. but "brain decoder" is bullshit. It's like taking a thermal image of the primary PCB and saying you've just backed all of the operating system and secondary code out of the image.

The author will continue to push the button, write down the number and have a career, but imagine the future harm they're doing by furthering such an appallingly fraudulent approach.
I wonder if they'll invest in developing IP they themselves don't need. I'm thinking high-speed serdes (not the slower stuff for pcie etc)
I wonder why outdoor apparel makers don't make zebra striped clothing.
Not provided that you continuously learn, explore and adapt both to technology and corporate culture. There are plenty of 50+ year old people in development, engineering, etc... Those that kept current can work as long as they wish. Some may choose to retire early if they were lucky.
Related: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/abe-ignores-cont...
Not adding LIDAR and playing this ambiguous marketing game of not really self-driving vs “you can just sit in the back and enjoy whatever you want” makes their whole business a scam.
I am absolutely loving the author's explanation on WHY each component was selected, placed, and caveats.

The interactive schematics and gerbers are subtle but very effective.

Overall a very clear design and tone I really need to follow for my own PCB projects.
He does not wait for 7 cycles but for 7 iterations of loop taking 5 cycles.
The big issue is going to be resentment and lack of trust on side of people who stayed. That will harm much more then firing wrong people.
My idea (consider this public domain / prior art if no one has though of it)

We introduce tree frogs or perhaps geckos or chameleons to live on cows. They would eat the flies and the body heat could probably keep them warm year round.

They’d eventually breed themselves to adapt to the life cycle and be self perpetuating.
Yes. Installing R is literally step 1 in the r studio installation instructions.

https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/
If somebody has a bachelor's in EE and thinks the nm marketing value is an actual measurement they should see about getting a refund.
The source is Project Veritas. Why not go to their website and take a look? There have been a whole bunch of cases where they got Twitter staff on record to say damning things. And no, it's not out of context. The statements are in context and speak for themselves. You can watch the videos or listen to the recordings to hear it for yourself. If you want to argue this source isn't valid, you need to prove it, because the evidence is there.

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-senior-engineer-...

Twitter engineer: “Our jobs are at stake, he's a capitalist and we weren't really operating as capitalists, more like very socialist. Like we're all like commie as f*k.” ... “Twitter does not believe in free speech… Elon believes in free speech.”

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-executive-mocks-...

Twitter Lead Client Partner: “The rest of us who have been here believe in something that's good for the planet and not to give people free speech.” ... “People don’t know how to make a rational decision if you don’t put out -- correct things that are supposed to be out in the public, right?” ... “If we’re implementing all these rules…and Elon wants to dismantle them, then technically our ideology has led us to not making money because we’re not making money, and Elon wants to turn it the other way so that we can make money,”

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/undercover-video-twitter...

“if it was a pro-Trump thing and I’m anti-Trump… I banned his whole account… it’s at your discretion” ... Olinda Hassan, Policy Manager for Twitter Trust and Safety explains, “we’re trying to ‘down rank’… shitty people to not show up,” “we’re working [that] on right now”

Parnay Singh, Twitter Direct Messaging Engineer: “Yeah you look for Trump, or America, and you have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneck. Then you look and parse all the messages, all the pictures, and then you look for stuff that matches that stuff.” ... “the majority of it are for Republicans”
surely there's greater things to aim for in the world than shitposting on twitter
This is why regulation of GMOs needs to be structured in terms of risk/benefit instead of safety alone. I absolutely support genetic modification of major calorie crops, and I think there's a strong case that the environmental risk from such modifications is smaller than the risk of alternative paths (spray more chemical pesticides, clear more land, etc.) to achieve the same total yields.

The benefit here is very close to zero, though; one wild-type pothos won't affect indoor air quality in any way known to be significant to human health, and neither will thirty. We've already got escaped transgenic GloFish in Brazilian streams; those haven't caused any significant harm yet, but I'd rather we stopped rolling the dice before something does.
That (realistically) requires you to have coax cabling in the walls already, or be willing to snake them through, right? Whereas powerline is where you're working already
The SPN (Safing Privacy Network) aims to fill the area between VPNs and Tor. VPNs provide very little real privacy and Tor is (outside Tor Browser) very difficult to setup and configure.

Yes, you are correct, there are similarities there. Except of course that SPN is open source.

We do have a white paper: https://safing.io/files/whitepaper/Gate17.pdf

And YES! I'd love to see more technical discussion of the SPN too. So many things to unpack, to learn and improve.
Generally, the math works, and it looks like it should be possible. We've even got some ideas for how to physically build the thing.

The main problem is that it requires exotic matter with negative mass or negative energy. I don't think we have any good evidence to suggest such a state of matter is possible in this universe.
> And for shadow removed comments too?

Yeah, I think that line of thinking really only works well for outright shadowbans, not singular shadow removal. Single removals might have been justified, and the time people spend on further comments might not actually be wasted (because they might not be removed).

That said-- getting rid of outright shadowbans would be a useful step forward and establish a norm against shadow moderation more generally.

Re: government-- I did say civil cause of action for a reason: The argument there would go "you intentionally deceived me by making me think my comments were visible, when they never would be-- and in doing so caused me to waste a lot of resources, I'm entitled to recover from my losses". No new law would be required. And the moderation being correct or not isn't the concern-- just the fundamental dishonesty of shadow banning. (though, ironically, outright spammers might have an easier time making the legal argument because they'd be more able to show monetary damages).

But as you note, the single comment removals are more common and more insidious, so perhaps its just a distraction.

I am tremendously grateful for reveddit, and I think it's made a contribution to better the world. But I'm also not sure how far we can get with awareness. Even after all this time the whole subject can't even come up without people constantly repeating the false claim that subreddit mods can't shadow ban users (or their comments)!

But don't see anything better to do right now-- so education it is!
> I'm adverse to debuggers as i've more than once caught myself following a rabbit hole of steping through code instead of thinking.

Yes. I was kind of forced to think and do printf debugging at the beginning of my career, after having used before that (as a hobbyist) quite good asm debuggers.

Maybe that's just me, but I also was, I believe, a bit over-reliant on the debugger - I would just compile, run, see what happen, and launch the debugger if something didn't work.

Nowadays I could use sometimes a debugger - but the system I work with is sort of soft real-time so stopping at a breakpoint of even slight changes in timings can change the context - in some cases even printf debugging could make a bug vanish.

If nothing else, debugging without a debugger is a good exercise in logically thinking - and it can save time too.
I love MilkyTracker for its minimalist Amiga tracker-esque experience, but have been frustrated by its instability on macOS. You really do have to save your work very frequently in order to avoid losing it so I've found myself gravitating towards Renoise, even though it's paid and - very recently - Deflemask (I also like that it supports SID tracking, which is what I've been playing with).
I know in the past one of the common things used by pirates is grabbing Widevine keyboxes from Android devices that haven't been blacklisted for HD/UHD content yet and using them to pull WebDLs down. Does that get impacted with this VMP stuff?
something I've wondered, how does any of this work with glasses/vision correction?
Now do it with trees.
Don’t miss out on Furnace, an open source tracker compatible with Deflemask modules:

https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace
Yeah, if everyone was like me, I bet AnCap would work (very different from most-common versions of anarchism, and in my view, the only non-morally-repugnant one - but still impractical). Heck I bet if you could clone some saints old-school communism would work just fine :)

The main problem is how a society can work without such restrictions...
> The more you secretly remove toxic users' commentary from view, the less signal they get that their views are not approved.

And related: the more secrecy about removals, the less signal that favored users get that their opinions were published because the mods approved of them. If you mod away 75% of posts:

a) the remaining 25% see the 75% as opinions nobody has, and the debate looks like a reasonable 15% vs a radical 5% on one side and another radical 5% on the other side. The vigorous debate among a small minority gives the illusion of a free space, even if it's e.g. people debating how much should be spent on the King's new crown, while the people saying that there shouldn't be a King, or even that the King shouldn't have a new crown have been modded away. And

b) the 25%, seeing the vigorous debate about the cost of the King's new crown (and not the debate about the King or the crown themselves), don't understand why having the King as a mod could have a chilling effect on speech.
I don't think Linux desktop has had its "Windows might implode and randomly shut down in the next year" moment yet. I can kind of see why Mastodon is getting discussed here again.
What’s holding us back on exo skeletons anyway? The idea shave been around for decades?

I’d guess power sources? Small enough actuators? Or is it just really difficult for a human to control?
If I’m not mistaken the latest research on this topic incorporates the results of DNA studies that seem to suggest there was indeed a population replacement (made possible in part by the very large number of the Anglo-Saxon immigrants and the very much reduced, as a result of the upheavals after the departure of the Romans, number of Britons).

The linguistic evidence has always suggested complete replacement. Even with the prestige language of invaders taking over you would expect some geographical names, especially for small, insignificant and / or out of the way features to persist and yet in England there is pretty much not a single place name that has Celtic origins (outside of Cornwall of course)
Active Life and More
This is not an objective way. You will fire most valuable people (those who knows how stuff works) and you will keep junior grunts who type code by what seniors tells them.

Correct approach would be understand why there are so many people, figure out what is their job and then start removing those who are deemed unnecessary.

i.e. Imagine that you would come to new codebase and start throwing out code which does not appears to do anything and then be surprised that it is not possible to compile or you can't deploy or whole application will start crashing at random intervals.
I thought I saw snake plants could do way better than that.
They aren't even really 1nm.... but either way, they could switch to pico-meter.....
If you live somewhere that doesn’t, the better investment is in relocating, or public pressure to fix the problem.
A lot of that is correlated with more recreational time, better family lives (probably no one in jail), and higher quality education. This is the same logic the French aristocrats used to justify the oppression of the peasants, reading novels made them "better"
Having worked with a lot of instrumentation and control stuff, I really, really like RS-232. It just works. I made the mistake on one project to go all USB, and it was a complete nightmare. Basically, anything you can think of went wrong, from USB controllers maxing out on number of devices (despite the number of devices being a mere fraction of the allowed devices in the USB spec), devices causing other devices not to work if on the same hub, devices disconnecting, etc. I couldn't even get manufacturers to tell me how many USB devices their USB controller supported. I often had to use tools like USB Device Tree Viewer (https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtreeview_e.html) to understand what was going on. There was another USB debug tool that I used that I've forgotten the name of (maybe USBDeview). And if USB devices disconnect, the only way to guarantee getting back to them is to restart the OS process, which makes your software very fragile. Same thing with cameras with USB vs something like Camera Link. A camera's USB driver crashing would make you restart your entire program, making it very hard to build systems. Camera Link, another serial protocol, also just works.

RS-232 and RS-485 are just so reliable. The higher voltage of +/-12V makes it more resilient to noise, and the protocols are just simple. It isn't the fastest around, but it can still be pretty fast depending on how the protocols are implemented.
Are there good browser based trackers (with WASM)?
Yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33470079
Been done. Truckasaurus was essentially a mech atop a truck chassis and could pick up cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1KsTWegnOs
clone and build, done.
I love a bit of Milkytracker

Here's a wee thing I knocked together very quickly a while back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G39Eupk72W0
To bring things back around for you: You strongly implied that any household that uses a terabyte per month outside of late night hours is "abusing" the service. I'm just here to explain that you're wrong in your accusation.

It's very easy to hit that cap with a moderately-sized family doing normal things all month, no piracy needed.
Hmm thats interesting, thanks for sharing. Will give it a try.