skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example in EU banks are legally required to provide you a basic service. I don't see how this is contradictory to freedom of speech.

> What about a property on a busy road - a sign there has more impact than a sign at a house off the beaten path. You're essentially arguing that because that property has more visibility, it is unfair to the other who doesn't have that same location.

In US there were a couple of court cases that ruled that free speech applies to places that are technically private. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...

And if I'm not mistaken, you already have plenty of FCC regulations regarding means of communications like TV, radio and internet, that probably could be construed as violations of either freedom of speech or freedom of association.

We could spend all day arguing about legalities and whether it's constitutional or not. Under current laws it is in fact exactly as you say, but this is a huge problem. I live in one of post-soviet countries, so it shouldn't be a surprise that a lot of people here, including me, are against socialism. But I have to admit that the left has a point. Or at the very least had a point, since I sometimes encounter people who will say how capitalists are evil and then proceed to explain how social media are a private property and corporations are free to do whatever they want with them. If we don't do something about this, we might very soon find out how truly dystopian capitalism can be.
No, it is not easy. It is messy, the codebase is showing its age, configuration is a nightmare, and throughput overall is pretty shit with so many layers of unoptimized linux piled ontop of hardware that was never optimized to handle this type of packet generation and mangling.
Their final paragraph goes beyond just sharing an anecdote and into making prescriptive judgements about how society should approach the virus based on those anecdotes in contravention of the medical consensus. I presume that's the issue people have with it.
>I would say the intent is much narrower than the actual text

Justice Scalia rejected the notion of giving much importance to the intent of drafters. His objective was to interpret the text according to its original public meaning.

As Scalia noted in Heller, the Second Amendment "codified a pre-existing right"; it didn't grant a new right. And although "self-defense had little to do with the right’s codification", "it was the central component of the right itself".

>People in the armed forces don't own the weapons they use now.

That's exactly the system that the framers wanted to avoid. The citizen militia (with their own privately owned arms) was envisioned as an alternative to a standing army in times of peace.

>Today, the National Guard is basically the "Militia."

The National Guard is the organized part of the militia. The unorganized militia has much broader membership.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246

>there's nothing unconstitutional about laws requiring trigger locks or other safety measures for their storage.

The trigger-lock requirement wasn't limited to storage. It didn't have an exception to allow removing the trigger lock to use to the gun in self-defense or for carrying holstered on one's person. That's why it was ruled unconstitutional.
> avoid touching your face/eyes with your hands

Shameless plug, but since this is a challenge for many people I created a product to help: https://narwallmask.com

Launches tomorrow.
If it helps, every foreigner visiting Denmark has a similar experience in reverse when we try to pay with our Visa cards :P
In my opinion, that attitude is pretty much the definition of selfishness. If everyone takes this vaccine, the pandemic ends. You have a right to be selfish and act according to your perceived risk of the vaccine, but society doesn't have to smile on you for it, either.
Hi Alex - This looks a lot like what Scylladb did to unleash the potential of the Cassandra space, with a fully optimized C++ rewrite of an Apache project. Did you draw some inspiration from their efforts?

As a satisfied Scylla convert, I'm looking forward to trying Redpanda.
No, Elon Musk is not about to blow this Covid-19 testing thing wide open
At some point Linkedin changed their site from something that at least worked to some javascript that i can actually watch loading and assembling the page because it's so slow.

And you expect ... support for internationalized domain names?
Who else thought that the Dread Pirate had risen from the ashes?
And now more people know about youtube-dl than ever before. What exactly was the RIAA's goal?
This article doesn't really take iOS14 changes into account. It's unclear to me if the lawsuit will be germane after they take effect
Lessons Learned in the Beirut Blast
Wallabies from Australia have gained a foothold in the U.K
> If you want to stop progress for the least technically inclined to accept you will stop all progress for ever.

This is a strawman, at no point am I or would I ever claim this is a good idea.

At what point is progress too much progress? Why can't we also balance these things with backwards compatibility, interoperability, accessibility, and other such things?

> least technically inclined

How many people actually know what WebP is, as opposed to thinking its some sort of bug with google or their browser? The least technically minded are more than a majority of users, more like the vast majority. Is their usage not valued?
Seems to me they got much more of a Streisand effect than a chilling effect! ;-)
The best doctor’s office experiences I’ve had were in a country with socialized health insurance (not socialized health care). I’m pretty convinced that private providers with public insurance is the optimum for providing a high standard of care.

There was also a supplemental private insurance market which covered a range of elective treatments. Best of both worlds!
We agree on about 90% here, so I'm not sure why you keep making false statements about verifiable history. The fact is that the MS anti-trust case in the US absolutely did hinge on the fact that MS was a software maker, forcing hardware makers into illegal contracts.

If you want to talk about European antitrust actions against MS, okay, go ahead, but those are not a precedent for the US DOJ.

If you want to talk about a hypothetical reality in which the case against MS went differently, okay, go ahead, but that isn't what happened in the US in real-life history.

You're acting as if your perception of moral right and wrong are somehow winning arguments in court, and that's just not how it works. It's not how any of this works. The letter of the Sherman Antitrust Act would have resulted in so so so many companies broken up, and yet very few have been broken up at all, and rarely along the strict lines of the Act itself. The DOJ will need to make a legal case against Apple, and they'll need to answer Apple's legal arguments in defense, and precedent matters.

Reading the history of the DOJ's case against MS, and how badly that went for the DOJ, would be helpful.

Again, for the third and final time, I think that Apple has too much power. But saying that Sony isn't an antitrust case because MS exists, but Apple is an antitrust case despite Samsung and Google existing, that's not the sort of thing that seems very convincing. Once you get into the weeds on how to measure the market power of various companies, well, in those weeds is where Apple wants the conversation to go, which is literally what I said on my very first comment on this thread. It's still true.

Apple sells a minority of smartphones worldwide and hovers around 50% in the US. That's what makes this a tough case to win. I think they have too much power, and you think they have too much power, but they have a reasonable defense argument that will need to be overcome. It's not clear that a judge, and the majority of an appeals court, will agree.

P.S. Assuming you get past the hurdles and manage to make a case that Apple requires remedies, "allow third-party app stores" has a ton of legal issues as well. This is very different from what MS was required to do in the EU, which itself was seen as beyond what US law could require them to do.
unfortunately having a competitive card is only half the battle, they also need all the deep learning libraries to support using this card otherwise nobody is going to bother.
I hope AMD understands that I enlists their own engineers to help the community make this card support solid.
Many geo-ip services also offer VPN or server detection (e.g. is the IP in one of the EC2 ranges).

In a previous job at an online gambling company we found that a large percentage of fraudulent user accounts came from VPNs so ended up banning them at the geo lookup stage.
At this point the disease has been with us for a year, and we do have a lot of evidence. It's not particularly serious for certain demographics, and incredibly dangerous for others - particularly that of your grandparents. I'm happy your grandparents are okay, though I suggest you not over index on anecdota too. God forbid one of them had died, that anecdote wouldn't necessarily tell us the disease is 50% fatal.
Do you also think processed rice products like flours, pasta are the same as whole rice cooked?
>write behind strategy

You ack writes before they're written?
Those are no values but anti-values.

If there is no value to Slack (and others) doing this
(even so small as outsourcing costs of processing from
their servers to my terminal, measuring differences) could they stop doing this ? There is no need for processing (every time).
if i see man wearing that, ill jump him
Scientists Find Vital Genes Evolving in Genome’s Junkyard
Ars Technica mentioned that this was a consideration, but so far at least, it doesn't seem to have stopped anyone working on COVID research. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/well-need-more-than-...
The National Academies have a set of recommendations for the priority of vaccine distribution. Upshot is that it's going to mainly be high-risk people like healthcare workers and folks with severe risk factors first.

https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/a-framework-for-e...
Right, the bureaucratic processes have been shortened, not the science.
Yes, and I unfortunately still see no argument related to the DMCA's provision that breaking copy protection is legal if you have a license to use the work. In this case, a license to use it via a specific browser is not mentioned, so you can rightly download it with anything.

This was the suspected cause for py-kms's reinstatement but as it related to Windows licensing.
IP addresses are assigned in blocks, and these blocks are assigned to registered companies - Long story short you can roughly determine whether an IP address is from a datacenter or is "residential" without too much issue - All DigitalOcean droplets are given IP addresses within DO's range for example.

Basically if the IP is from a datacenter - it's likely a VPN.
Core networks of cloud providers (FANG) are made up of many aggregated or multipath 100G/400G.
HyperBand and BOHB: State of the Art Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms
and then you just have to wait 20 years for all the submarine patents to expire. So sometime around 2040-2045 we will get a better format.
> does not need a backend

GitHub issues infrastructure is a backend!
You can contact their support to do it for you, for example in the case of pushed secrets.
If you self-hosted, they could have just gone for your ISP or colocation provider.
The government orders are a huge part of it! Case in point, look at the employment numbers and other economic indicators from early April vs today. It was so, so much worse in April, yet the pandemic is mostly the same. But today we don’t have nearly as strict lockdowns.
How did you know which type you had?
Wait? No, no need to wait. Run for office, push out the dinosaurs.

"The chief penalty [of good people who refuse to lead] is to be governed by someone worse." -- Plato
Kissinger Warns Biden of U.S.-China Catastrophe on Scale of WWI
Tcl Smart TV Security Flaws
Microsoft contributes to Java port for Apple Silicon Macs
Video gaming can benefit mental health, find Oxford academics
The Small Satellite That’s Paying Big Dividends
> Also, most of the issues I experienced in the months after the whole ordeal where psychological in nature.

Interesting proposition not many people bring up. We’ve just had eight months of constant media coverage saying how bad it is, changing everyone’s daily lives, making the awareness of it literally inescapable. That has to play into account for some people.

Right or wrong, justified or exaggerated, there is definitely a psychological component now.
Peter Pezaris talks about building Codestream to bring code discussions into yo
Capcom confirms data breach after gamers' info stolen in cyberattack
My Firefox complains about the certificate too.
In terms of usage, yes. In terms of development, we'll have to see. I am an optimist, but I have to recognise that good devs tend to skew away from opensource projects that are in lawyers' crosshairs, because they bring more trouble than fame.
ROCm (https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/) is their compute framework/stack. Not as good as CUDA but has support for Tensorflow etc
Interesting. Do you know how hard it would be for someone to upload a bunch of original videos with same copyright as the videos in question?
This is a false dichotomy that you shouldn't be forced to choose.
Apologies. I completely misread there.
Ask HN: Is Firebase Down?
[Update] It seems to be back. Looks like a problem with CDN.
I don't really think so. I think a lot of people are just doing something because it's a job. And a lot of people are sound with being sheep and just following the rules because they exist, and don't like the discomfort that comes with questioning everything on a deep level.
Because of misaligned incentives.

My mechanic might know what to do, but his incentives can include things that are in opposition to mine, such making more money from an issue (real or not), doing less work, even getting more social attention and status for making their work more important.

By the way I'm an expert investment structured, and you might be interested in these neat things called CDOs I can hook you up with ..
But the first lookup would have to stay, with all the implications that the proposed alternative (download a list of all certs/tickets) was meant to overcome.
The worst hit place right now is the ~United States of America.~ West.

It's amusing, if not hugely disappointing at the same time.
It has functions that are similar to proton.

It's more like an alternate game library/launcher. I mostly use it to manage emulators, while the rest of my games are through steam or apt.
How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
They outsourced the development of this capability to two companies, one of them is able to deliver now.
To me that sounds as if they can deliver people into orbit.

Regarding the flaws, well I woke up, checked twitter (the launch was a few hours earlier) and the first 20 tweets or so were about two flaws that had since been fixed. Clearly it wasn't flawless. It was a great launch for sure but calling it flawless is just wrong.
Is there a way to get equivalent tests on non RIAA videos?
School Rankings: Framing (Slightly) Differently
Data mesh: it's not about tech, it's about ownership and communication
Use a pantograph?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph

Log scale is a linear fractal, self-similar.
> Sure, but what about the other 10's to 100's of Corona vaccines that are currently undergoing phase 2 and 3 trials?

Are they mDNA vaccines like the Moderna and Pfizer ones? I actually have no idea.

In any case, technology that gives the possibility of going fast doesn't mean every single usage of it will go fast.
This is a cool project, but I feel like this is going to have a bit of trouble finding a userbase. It's not designed for technical users who love to endlessly tweak or change aspects of a system, or for the people who want super lightweight systems, or for people who want lots of control over their system. The kind of people who want an OS like this probably don't know what an OS is. I think the only people who would end up using this for long periods of time is the grandmas and relatives of people who know about this.

Still I love to see projects like this, very cool idea.
The fucked up thing is that you can’t opt out. Facebook is capturing the world around you and you can’t stop that. There’s no guarantee that the house you rent next year won’t have been mapped by Facebook. Every store you go to, every theater... it won’t be long until they won’t need you to opt in. There will be a tidy alistproducer2 shapes hole in their data, all ready to infer your movements...that is, of the people wearing them don’t capture you as part their distributed data collection.

This is not hyperbole. Facebook already lays claim to the behavioral data of non users, creating shadow profiles ready to materialize should you become a user. This an extension of that.

We are sleepwalking into a dystopia.
Meta discussion -- and not a criticism, but why does Forbes publish something like this?

It's not news, it's like a short physics chapter for motivated high school students.

Not that I'm complaining at all, it's just a surprise. Is this part of a series of articles or something with a unique purpose? Curious if Forbes is on some kind of educational mission or something.
> I am not even sure if an untrained person should operate a ventilator

They should most certainly not. If you want to ruin your day, look up how intubation is done.
> broke several people's workflows that depended on JPEGS form iPhones,

<input type="file" accept="image/jpeg,image/png" />
My favorite books as a startup CTO
Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back
Breaking copy protection is only illegal if you do not have a license to the work. Removing the protection breaking code isn't necessary, and everyone needs to stop pretending that it is.

This same clause of the DMCA is the suspected reason for py-kms's reinstatement after a takedown: it's perfectly legal to break the Windows license scheme if you already own a license to Windows.
> Save your bishops, bishops > knights in most endgames

That's funny because I found the opposite to be true if it's a single bishop / knight endgame.

> You won't improve by playing blitz.

It will just take longer. A single five minute game a day over coffee will work, if that's all the time you have for.
Second set of positive results in 8 days further boosts hope vaccines effective
It has lots of flops

> The fun bit is that Arcturus is the first GPU accelerator to break through the 10 teraflops floating point barrier 64-bit precision – and AMD is doing it in a 300 watt thermal envelope for 11.5 teraflops, not a 400 watt one like Nvidia has with its Ampere A100, which weighs in at only 9.7 teraflops at 64-bit precision floating point

It is expensive

> Pricing on the Instinct MI100 was buried in the footnotes, and is $6,400 a pop in single unit quantities. We are going to try to see what the OEMs are charging for it.

You can connect them together in more efficient "hives"

> Having three Infinity Fabric pipes per Arcturus GPU allows a NUMA-like coupling of four GPUs and 128 GB of HBM2 memory into a much bigger virtual GPU, much like UltraPath Interconnect at Intel

Whereas before it was less efficient

> With only two Infinity Fabric ports on the Instinct MI50 and MI60 cards, banks of GPUs could only be hooked to each other in a ring topology and the larger the number of GPUs in the ring, the more latency between the devices.

I'm sure this is an incomplete list of highlights, but these all jumped out at me
Congrats on the Streisand RIAA!

Flawless execution.
I have this exactly same problem - Chromium, Firefox, Electron - and it's apparently an unfixed bug in the nvidia drivers. For me it only started a few months ago. I'm on Ubuntu 20.10 and it's still a problem.
Part of the danger are the ads you aren't seeing. Buy a sci-fi novel and maybe you never get a recommendation for anything else.

Everything about machine learning is hill-climbing. But maybe I don't want to summit this hill, maybe I want to go to a few other hills and see a different view.
> without anti-vaccination beliefs

Please don't start creating this back-and-fourth. It's like saying "all drugs are good and have never had issues."

I'm concerned about a vaccine developed and tested in less than a year. There are safety concerns. There are people under 40 who may not consider the risk high enough to take. (Look at what happened in the the 1970s with the Swing Flu vaccine that wasn't very effective, and although safely administered to millions, left 3,000 ~ 4,000 is long term neurological issues).

I'm glad this vaccine is coming out and I think people in high risk groups should evaluate if they want to take the vaccine after weighing the risks. I do not want to see forced vaccinations for people who are concerned about safety.
Firebase Hosting is down for all sites my company has deployed. We have a uptime alert that shows that the sites are unreachable worldwide.
Color me depressed.

I was hopeful to switch to Apple silicon.

This architectural decision alone is enough to make Big Sur and its successors a permanent non-starter.
These are good questions /examples, except Coinbase? I'm sure there's something else that could be applied, but doesn't seem it's a place to launder money. They were the first to supply IRS/Treasury Department with detailed records of every customer transaction.
You're just repeating your point instead of addressing mine.
The danger is that this discourages improving.
Would you say the same to a college student? To an athlete? Just Working should not be the goal, until it is clear that the point of diminishing returns has been reached, people should strive to improve
I guess that if they want to run those tests they can cherry-pick that commit, run the tests and then drop it
> Why do you think companies will want people back in the office?

I know more than one person running 100+ people offices who can’t wait to get everyone back into the office. Interesting to see where this ends up
Weird. It's hosted by github.com when I run identical commands:

(base) /tmp curl -sS -D- -o/dev/null https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl-2020.11.12.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:52:13 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Location: https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2020.11.12/youtube-dl-2020.11.12.tar.gz
Content-Length: 3
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

(base) /tmp curl -sS -D- -o/dev/null https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2020.11.12/youtube-dl-2020.11.12.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:52:27 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Location: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/download/2020.11.12/youtube-dl-2020.11.12.tar.gz
Content-Length: 3
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
You are wrong in that they are also physical historical artifacts. The physical items are valuable to historical studies. Particularly unique or handmade books.
Good fortune and wealth comes to people who read the whole post before reaching for the reply button.
Except they do.

And I have no idea why either, just like you said, passing bit around.
Really cool. And really cool to see entrepreneurs making those kinds of projects here on HN. Amazing community to be in.
The judiciary is not independent, so it's a moot point anyways. VPN use will just be used as another signal that you are possibly an enemy of the state.
I did exactly as you said, about a year or two ago, using Jekyll.

https://gitlab.com/davch/static-redirect
"The aim is to be around 30% better than the original WebP design but is looking about 20% worse than AVIF"

Why isn't WebP2 what WebP was? WebP was basically just a portion of the VP8 codec.

So why isn't WebP2 the same thing but for AV1? Why is WebP2 not just AVIF?