skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are millions of alternative websites but behind those websites are a small number of infrastructure providers who can, and do, completely end a website's ability to operate. Just today, PayPal terminated the account of one of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24896051

The Nazi website Daily Stormer was deplatformed by their domain registrar, their payments platform, and basically everyone else. The reality is that even though there are millions of websites out there, if one of them starts to become popular and becomes a locus of bad content, if the ~20 or so companies that control the Internet clamp down on them and there's very little they can do about it.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-neo-...

> Why should the owners of an arbitrarily popular website lose their 1st amendment rights?

Why should the owners of an arbitrarily popular restaurant lose their right to exclude Negroes? Law defines the boundaries of property rights. You can't start a tire fire in your backyard and expect your neighbors to just say "it's his property, nothing we can do."
Criticism is not dismissal
More color on the original FoxPro matching engine:

"Levine found a simple but hugely consequential 'trick' to speed matching. In Levine’s later paraphrase, what the 'enter2order' procedure did when the Island system received a new order was to: 'See if there was a record from a recently cancelled order that we can reuse for this new order. This is hugely important because that record will likely still be in the cache [fast internal memory] and using it will be much faster than making a new one. (Levine, n.d.)'"

http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/97500/Is...
The Nature of Consciousness (Federico Faggin)
In the early net there were these forums where everyone was called the other F-word. Now it was decided it is offensive again and this was called progress. I see some repeats here.
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You can read here what Github has done to allow some functionality for Iranian users, but you might be able to tell that this was additional feature work to put in place: https://github.blog/2019-09-12-global-software-collaboration...

Restrictions actually go further as of recently: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...

Describing the decision to build a partially functional "sanctioned" country website and account degradation as overcompliance is misleading as it is the default behaviour for most complying to US sanctions regarding IP blocking other countries.
> if microsoft were smart they'd support the development

Really? I'd say they'd do whatever they can to obstruct its development, issuing baseless accusations and introducing quirks in the code to make sure ReactOS is incomaptible with other applications. This strategy worked miracles in the past and is one of the main reasons Bill became the richest person in the world.
what is the advantage to a single header instead of 10 headers and maybe a main header file?

I really don't like looking at 10k+ line files..
You've got two primary use cases for nVidia's GPUs:

1. Gaming. Just about nobody games on Linux with nVidia. Most people I know who game (from Linux) with nVidia GPUs use PCI passthrough to a guest VM running Windows. Very few use nVidia GPUs on their host system. My primary setup is a 2950x/128GB DDR4/Vega 56/2080 Super -- the latter goes to kvm exclusively.

2. "Research" such as machine learning. You don't need Wayland or X11 for this, and the proprietary drivers work the best. To be honest, this is a space where Ubuntu Server performs best. I keep one of these around in a VM (see above) for this purpose. (Mining also goes in this category)

Everything else can probably be done with an Intel or AMD GPU tbh.
As you've said, any "professional" troll will use a proxy.

There are plenty of people living in one country who have a genuine desire to talk about their motherland.

Can you recognise emoji flags instantly? At tiny resolution? There are lots of similar looking flags around the world - https://www.britannica.com/list/flags-that-look-alike

What about countries with contentious flags? Flags are political.

Does it help you to know if someone from Wales is commenting on UK politics?

Flags can change - do you know what the modern flag of Afghanistan looks like?
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Don't have to be white to be a racist!
High margin businesses rarely if ever provide (equitable) benefits to someone other than shareholders, but the innovations they create may/usually trickle down to the rest of us over time, one way or another.
I'm being emotional for saying we shouldn't punish family members of people who commit crimes? Sounds like you're the one following the emotional argument ("this feels right, because the gains are ill-gotten")
In 2010, Facebook was worth north of $10B. What is your definition of small platform?
I’m not arguing whiteness will progress, I’m arguing against the idea there will be little shared ethnic background in California or Texas, and their “minority majorities”.

That ~20% figure is repeated in California and Texas, while the Hispanic and Non-Hispanic white populations are almost perfectly equal in size. These populations intermix at very high rates powered on one side at least by very strong social forces—societal and familial—that have existed for centuries, see: the demographic history of any Latin American country with substantial European immigration + the wildly different European:non European ratios in the US vs them.

From your own article, keeping in mind Hispanic immigrant populations are of European and Native descent:

We know that light-skinned Cubans were considered white at least as of 1950 because (despite the trepidations of the studio) the public accepted Lucy and Ricky, in a way they would never have accepted a black-white or Chinese-white couple. American Indians were considered non-white, but if they assimilated and married whites their children were generally accepted as part of white society. Did you know that Will Rogers was 9/32 ~~Cherokee~~ Maya?

A huge percentage of white babies of 2098 won’t have to self identify as white, they’ll just be white.
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Oh, right, haven't read that far :) Sorry)
> I've met many engineers with extraordinary talent who decided to stop making software. They wanted to program computers all their lives. They were born for it. After spending six, eight, ten years in the industry, they quit for good. Now they're running breweries and hydroponic farms, with no desire to ever again touch a compiler, let alone get back into the fray.

Are these people who also made a ton of money via RSUs or Stock Options? If so, the answer is clear, right? They simply... don't have to work on things they don't care about. They have the money they need.

Slava mentions doctors later on as a contrasting point, and I think that case is the same. If they became overnight millionaires, lots of them would stop putting up with the daily drudgery.
And their friend was fired.

We talk about an institution that will only hire people as long as they came out as racists first. Wow!.

Looks like the type of workplace to avoid at any cost.
Same here. All the problems I had initially with my MBP 16" and external monitors are now completely gone.

The fan does come on sometimes when connected to a single 4K monitor (my 2016 MBP 13" never had that problem). I understand it's because of the discreet GPU kicking in. I really wish we could opt to use the integrated GPU with external monitors connected.

Other than that though, this laptop has been exceptional.
> Helmut Norpoth aka the Primary Model (primarymodel.com).

That website's subtitle is "forecasting presidential elections since 1912". What does that even mean? Is Helmut 120+ years old? Or does he mean "fitting" instead of "forecasting"?

BTW: Helmut's model was jut wrong in 2016. Its prediction -- the actual statistical forecast the model actually made -- was that Trump had an 87%-chance of winning the popular vote. That was its forecast -- of the popular vote, not of the electoral college. Its electoral college forecast was then conditional on its popular vote forecast. The actual core quantitative prediction the model made was in fact wrong. Literally, the primary model got the right result by accident.

Of course, Helmut retroactively claims that because he got the EC right it doesn't matter. Which would be somewhat reasonable if:

a) that's how the model actually worked (it isn't -- the model's core prediction was about the popular vote and it was wrong), or

b) he didn't make exactly the OPPOSITE corrective about his model's performance whenever he talks about 2000, where he always stresses that it at least got the popular vote right even though it got the EC wrong.

Why does this matter?

First, Helmut's model isn't as good as he claims it is even on historical data. He moves the goalposts from year to year.

Second, Models that get the right answer for the wrong reason are usually over-fit to historical data. They should be taken with a grain of salt in years where their core feature set might behave differently that in previous years. (E.g., a year in which the model's main predictive feature -- primary results -- were cut short due to a 1-in-100-year pandemic).

Anyways, there are a lot of other contrarian/first-principles models that back-test well and predict a (D) win. Of course, no one cares about those this year. But they might next time around if the polling-based methodologies predict an (R) win.

FWIW, I tend to agree that the polling aggregation models are "meh" and should have way more uncertainty than they currently do. Mostly because a) I think turnout is much more correlated between swing states than those models typically assume and b) I don't think aggregating polls is actually all that useful.

Basically, everyone in election polling is making educated guesses and everyone in election polling over-sells their certainty.

Also, re: betting markets. Through a combination of bets on state-level results, you can construct positions that pay out if EITHER Democrats win the popular vote OR Republicans win the electoral college. The odds of Republicans winning the popular vote but losing the college are basically zero. I guess my point is just that there are lots of idiots betting on elections and you can trivially construct (small) sure-to-win positions.
The tobacco and sugar industry were/are no different. Makes you wonder what else will be in same bucket in 20 years. Anyone care to hazard a guess?
Sorry, you missed something. The parent post literally called out the next step on the "slippery slope": "but what about when they cut funding for your Mastodon server or phpBB board because of a few posts you've put up they don't like?"

> You bring up Canada and Germany, even though we have no idea how good or bad of an impact those laws will have

This makes no sense. We literally do know how good or bad of an impact these laws will have _because there are literally examples of countries with those laws_.
This is similar to how missiles don't need GC.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98...
As an alternative to Smart TVs, something recently caught my eye on a deals website - signage displays, such as a Samsung QM49N. Anyone have experience with these?

While it does run an OS, it doesn't have a TV tuner, and I doubt it would show ads, since it is designed for signage (where I guess you have the control to show your OWN ads)
It's worth remembering that Phase 3 trials follow Phase 1/2 trials, and those earlier trials are responsible for assessing the general safety of the vaccine. Phase 3 helps assess safety concerns among a much larger and more diverse group of people, but it is primarily about proving efficacy. They don't give out tens of thousands of vaccines (Phase 3) without a lot of data already showing the vaccine is safe.
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I guess what you mean is the no-op garbage collector which is available in Java 11 http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/318

Even this isn't fail proof right ?

Last-drop latency improvements. For ultra-latency-sensitive applications, where developers are conscious about memory allocations and know the application memory footprint exactly, or even have (almost) completely garbage-free applications, accepting the GC cycle might be a design issue. There are also cases when restarting the JVM -- letting load balancers figure out failover -- is sometimes a better recovery strategy than accepting a GC cycle. In those applications, long GC cycle may be considered the wrong thing to do, because that prolongs the detection of the failure, and ultimately delays recovery.

So essentially you need to know the memory footprint of your applications. To err on the side of caution just get as much memory that is available in the market.

At this point like another reply mentions here aren't you just better off writing C++ code ?
If a video game in-game currency is "input only", as in, the value goes from the players to the company and stays there, it's effectively just a payment for a service.

If you allow transfers between users and cashing out to real money (as Epik's "Masterbucks"), then you'd have to comply with these kinds of regulations, so video games try and take steps to ensure that their currencies aren't treated like that, or at least if this does happen, they can't be seen as facilitating it. Epik's marketing material explicitly mentions both "fully transferrable" and "convertible to dollars" - this combination means that you're intentionally running a service that can be used for money transfers, and thus you need to ensure KYC (know your customer) and AML (anti money-laundering) compliance or shut down that service.
If you have to ask the question I would encourage you to take $50, open a FB ad account, same for Google, and run some ads to drive some traffic to your blog or whatever.

Running an ad campaign, or having to 'get the word out' for something possibly meaningful can be an enlightening and transformative experience for so many people who live adjacent to, but otherwise 'totally outside' the ostensibly opaque world of marketing.

It's one of the most stupidly represented issues in pop culture, like 'reefer madness' memes form the 1960s' where 'smoking weed will make you gay!'. Well - just 'smoke weed' once and you realize it's frankly just not that big of a deal.

Ads are ancient, normal, universal. The industry has serious efficiency problems, we're starting to face privacy issues (which are overstated but nevertheless legit), and I don't like some mediums (I for one, think we should dump most billboards) - but the nature of the industry is not wrong or evil, it's actually beneifical.

'Good ads' are a win for everyone. HFT is only a win for those directly involved and it's zero sum.
I've been wondering this for a while, and this seems like a reasonable time to ask it:

If I understand correctly, you use macros to change the syntax of Lisp. But if I'm trying to write a DSL, why would I need new syntax? Why aren't new functions and data structures enough?
While I'm sure there are complicated issues around race and gender that training can give you the tools to solve these examples seems pretty easy to fix.

> Or evaluating every interview candidate's communication skills and cultural fit based on a conversation about rock climbing and craft beer.

I feel like any cultural fit test is going to be inherently sexist/racist/classist. Better to just throw them out. Also why waste time talking about anything not relevant to the job to judge communication skills when you could be having job related discussions.

> If you get performance complaints about an otherwise-good employee who is fasting during Ramadan, what's the right way to address that while respecting privacy and being fair to the complainant, complainee and the company?

Is the complaint this person isn't doing their job? Then it should be treated like every other complaint. Is the complaint is "They aren't eating lunch" then it should be treated very differently.
This is like a pro version of Kerbal Space Program, right?
Having been present for outsourcing attempts that went badly, I can say that generally they will not (did not) go well. I don't know if it was that the devs were not good, the communication loop was bad, they were supporting too many outsourcing customers at once, or what. But, on multiple occasions I've seen it not turn out well. That ship sailed long before the pandemic.

So, the question is, will it work any better in Michigan? Quite possibly; the timezone and language differences are much less. Plus, if you worked for Microsoft or Google, you probably wouldn't try to also work for 2-3 other employers at the same time. But, if the issue was simply that remote work impedes good communication, the results will be similar.

My guess, it will sometimes work. I guess we'll find out soon.
Wouldn't it be more logical to give them a faecal transplant from the other end, like is now occasionally done as treatment for people with a messed-up gut flora?
> Just pick hedge funds who have performed in the past run by a bunch of people with top business degrees. Its a lot easier than picking a stock

Nope, it's actually very hard to outperform the market just by looking at hedge fund past performance. Top business degrees do not really equal top talent, having taken a few of these "top business" classes. It's all a salesmanship game to the rich, it's not about actual returns.
And 2021 will be the coldest year of the remainder of our lives.
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Yes, except for array bounds checking when it cannot be elided by compiler optimizations.
Enormous extragalactic void is pushing on the Milky Way (2017)
The reason they are organized is such a dis-organized manner is b/c of the fbi and other state and federal agencys that have historically targeted the left.
Can't kill or imprison a groups leaders if it has 100's of heads.
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Clojure: Dragan Djuric about deep learning, AI and writing technical books
LOTS of schools in the US use the Ramsey Education curriculum (https://www.ramseyeducation.com/). There are strong opinions on both sides when it comes to Ramsey, but they're well respected and sponsored by some pretty big players, to put their curriculum in schools.
Maybe I'm mistaken here, but one such case was Sofosbuvir and its pricing was indeed very controversial.

Rant. Prime time TV is now pharma pushing their drugs with the occasional programming jammed between the ads. All those ads are coming from their extreme markups. Placebo and manufacturing artifacts aside, a molecule is a molecule, buying generics should be the default.
It is bad enough, but the real disgrace is pharma salespeople masquerading as GPs prescribing meds according to who is sponsoring them. Instead of telling people about the active ingredient they send them to buy BRAND. At least this is my experience in the 2nd world.
> This is why, according to Oracle, Java is the #1 programming language, with millions of developers and more than 51 billion Java Virtual Machines worldwide.

Oof this didn't need to be added to the end of the article.
What’s happening in the JavaScript ecosystem is dependencies are so easy that you’re getting a lot of small libraries, and they’re one file because they’re small.

What’s happening in C++ is that you’re getting one-file libraries that are not small, because developers will shoehorn their library into a single file rather rather than deal with a way of managing C++ library dependencies.

You might find in C++, for example, a header file with over 10k lines in it and a bunch of preprocessor conditionals. What you might find in JavaScript is a library that contains one or two functions.
> Those SoCs hit (and sustain) their top clocks, whatever those are for that specific SKU.

This is actually completely wrong. Almost no laptops sustain their top (boost) clock on heavy workloads. Most usually only sustain max performance for minutes (or seconds!) before throttling. Here's an example chart that shows how various premium Athena/Evo U laptops perform: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-Zenbook-S-UX393JA-Laptop-...

On the workstation side, people complain about Macbooks, but recent MBPs actually throttle their Intel H processors less than a comparable XPS 15 for example: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-15-2019-in-r...

If you are interested in how modern Intel laptop chips throttle and what base and boost clocks mean, you want to do a search for PL1, PL2, and Tau. For AMD chips, you will want to look up STAPM, Fast and Slow PPT.

Note that while a i7-10875H's top "boost" clock is 5.1GHz, the sustained "base" clock is only 2.3GHz. This is so low to be meaningless as a top speed. In practice, unless your laptop's cooling is absolutely terrible, you'll probably end up mostly running in the 3-3.5GHz range under full load. In comparison, on a properly cooled desktop system, a same-gen i9-10900K desktop system should be able to maintain a sustained (all-the-time) clock of about 5GHz (very close to its 5.3GHz boost). AMD chips scale a little bit better due to 7nm having better power efficiency and how PPT works, but the same ratio roughly applies.
That's covered in Java by escape analysis and allocation on the stack.
Looks like misspelling of "baron"?
These are all valuable things to address, but in my experience they're not what corporate diversity programs do. I'm scrolling through my company's diversity page right now, and the front page from top to bottom contains:

* An affirmation that we stand with the black community.

* A list of political organizations we should donate to in support of the black community.

* TED talks on how news, policing, etc. are sometimes implicitly racist. (We as a company aren't involved in news or policing.)

* A reimbursement offer for up to $1,000 per person on anti-racism materials.

* Recommended articles, books, etc.

There's a lot of other stuff in tabs and menus and such. But if I didn't know how to handle an employee with poor performance during the Ramadan fast, none of the information I see would help me figure it out, and it's my understanding that this is typical.
There is no magic bullet, the vaccine is just the best chance of getting the virus under control, since it doesn’t rely on our behavior.

Look up “swiss cheese model covid-19”
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> "interpret the constitution as it was written"
> amendments

"was written" would not include "amendments".

Perhaps it was meant to be "is written" and that would definitely include the amendments but then you absolutely do not get to call yourself an "Originalist" because, e.g., the 19th was passed 130 years after the Constitution was written and for damn sure none of the framers were still alive then.
I may be acting overly pessimistic, but given the arms race like nature of HFT this could be intentional disinformation.
> I really disagree with calling any large cultural ideas as "US imports".

Apart from film, pop music, reality television, the Yankees baseball cap, jeans, and a constant stream of news articles about Trump, what have the Americans ever done for us?

Compare how many cultural products are American in origin or mention America or American news to how many you get about, say, France or Germany. The influence is _huge_. This is why France has laws requiring a fraction of culture (especially TV and film) to be in French.

The UK is certainly polarised, and racist, but in different ways to America. It may be the case that a police murder in Portland starts a riot in Bristol, but it would never be the other way round.

When was the last time there was a protest by Americans outside a British embassy over British politics? The US embassy in London practically has a rota for all the different groups that have protested there.