skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what happens on systems that don't have rdrand? Surely there is a fallback. Why isn't the fallback used in all cases, given how flakey rdrand is?
>Simply put, the average person is not prepared for lawyer level rhetorical devices in the wild.

This boils down to "censorship is okay because people might believe the wrong thing", and down that path lay a well-greased and well-trodden slippery slope ending in the maws of dragons.

It's incredibly paternalistic. It is not your job, nor the government's, nor anyone else's to protect people from reading/thinking/etc. the wrong things.
So I think you just proved my point:

"This proposal is obviously dictature of free speech. "

? That seems pretty 'newspeak' to me.

They are making it so that anyone can post anything unless it's literally against the laws.

And somehow this is 'authoritarian' or 'dicature'?

Because it seems just the opposite.

My point was, they're going to put the EU in an awkward position with this - just as you've put yourself in a little bit of an awkward position by trying to imply that 'freedom of expression' is 'dictature'.

Now - I don't really like these guys one bit - but - the law seems at least superficially very reasonable.

We're all super suspicious because this came from 'the bad guys' - fair enough, but it is what it is.
That's not exactly true. Solid is a refinement of HTTP, and HTTP is and always has been closer to "messages and ports" than files. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17897325> (Not a critique of whether your tldr is an accurate summary of the forum post or not, just that the criticism itself doesn't hold.) Having said that, moving to the imperfect abstraction of a dumb filesystem alone would be beneficial (better than what we're doing now, at least), even if that's all it ever amounted to, and we were stuck with that bad abstraction forever.
Coming at this from opposite direction as you, I nevertheless wholeheartedly agree.

I've spent large chunks of my life as an extremely fit ultra-endurance athlete. I've done events that other ultra-endurance athletes called "insane". I wasn't at the front of the pack, but I was at the front of the middle of the pack.

These days, I'm not interested in racing. I'm not even interested in training. But if I do think about "fitness" or "health" goals, it's definitely structured around what I'd like to be able to do, rather than specifics of my body.

For example, one standing goal I've had for a long time is to remain fit enough be able to go out and run a half-marathon more or less on a whim, and still finish in 1:45 or less without hurting too much.

More recently, having moved to 6000' as a home elevation, as well as being very sedentary from work/life stuff, I'd like to be able to keep up runs uphill without stopping, regardless of the pace I'm moving at (currently impossible).

I think structuring things around "what I want to be able to do, and how I want to feel after I do them" is an excellent framework, and far better than "lose N pounds" or "cut X minutes off my time for Y".
No one sensible is accusing "the Polish state" or "the Polish people" of being involved with the Holocaust, and the Wikipedia page itself doesn't state anything like that. The law is aimed at hateful idiocy like talking about the supposed "Polish death camps", as opposed to the tragically real Nazi death camps in Nazi-occupied Poland.
I agree. The part I don't see is then what plugin should handle which part, and how.

Most XMPP clients are plugin based as well. Should the OMEMO plugin then look for aesgcm:// urls, download it, and decrypt it, or should the http upload plugin look for the availability of encryption and try to decrypt?
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Which further perpetuates the cycle because anyone who makes enough to pay taxes to support public programs leaves.

I don't blame them, but it sucks for some of these communities.
Pretty sure Parlor had no official moderators.

Just the community self-moderating themselves.
Exactly. I already had that factored into my prior for whether my business was going to get cancelled by Amazon. I’d actually expect to fade a court for knowingly facilitating the shit on Parler.
Show HN: The Fascination: “Wirecutter Meets Amazon, but for the DTC Space.”
> 1) ... you have no idea if / when individual messages will disappear.

There's a small clock between the sending date and the (double) tick which indicates just that.

Also, I think it's recent, but if you select a message then click the 'i' (information) at the top there's a countdown that says exactly in how much time it disappears.

> 4) Functionality is different on a phone vs a desktop. You can't do nearly as much on the desktop version.

Which features are you missing on the desktop version? They seem to have implemented calls recently, I'm not sure what's still missing. I mostly write text messages though, so I wouldn't know.

> 5) It's funky when you change phones. You can't like sync all your old messages from one device to another. It'll pull them on to a Desktop client, but it won't pull them into a new Mobile phone client. Dunno, just bad UX.

Is it better with e.g. WhatsApp? You have to transfer the backup files anyway, right? If you're on Android it should boil down to transferring the backup files, just like with WhatsApp. It does suck on iOS from what I've read.

> 6) Signal is still based on phone numbers... I don't trust phone number based 2FA, so I don't really trust Signal to be based on phone numbers either.

Phone numbers are a problem, but they're on a good track to get rid of them while still providing the same privacy. In the meantime, I don't think it's a security risk if you have a random pin.

If you compare Signal with Discord, Slack and Microsoft Teams, Signal will never win on features. AFAIK these are not E2EE and they don't really try to reduce the metadata or even data known by the servers. Basically a feature vs. security trade-off.
Oh, sorry!

These are available from Europe, but I've heard good things from US about similar boxes, when I searched with "best pfsense computer". Not the same brand, but similar hardware.

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B08JHKZMTN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_...

Let's see how it works, but I expect it to be much faster than my current ARMv7 box. Of course if you have space for a rack, go with something actively cooled. In our apartment, we expect the router to not make any noise.
That link looks awful on a mobile browser. Isn't MailChimp supposed to make responsive emails easy.

It's so bad, they have disabled pinch to zoom, so I just horizontally scroll.
Thats a mischaraterization at best, which is sort of my point. What GG said and his real positions don't matter. What matters is he bucked the narrative (mostly when he pushed against the propaganda push that the HB laptop leak was of Russian origin) and that made him bad, and then the justifications for his "bad" label were found afterwards. They don't hold up to scrutiny but the character assassination is done already.

In his own words:

“I don’t think that the emails — so far — reveal a huge scandal. They so far just establish standard sleaze and DC corruption. The huge scandal to me is the blatant rank-closing and cone of silence — a prohibition — erected by journalists around this story to defend Biden,”

“Is there a single journalist willing to say with a straight face they believe the emails relating to the Bidens are either fabricated or otherwise fraudulently altered, but the Bidens just aren’t saying so?,”

“When you report a huge archive, there’s no way to prove the negative that none of it is altered. You investigate & confirm as much as you can, then use your journalistic judgment. The only way you get confirmation is when the subjects of the reporting don’t deny the authenticity,”

“You know the subjects of the reporting will immediately claim they’re fake if the are. Of course they will: that would kill the reporting!”

“There’s a reason the Bidens aren’t claiming they’re fake,”

https://greenwald.substack.com/
Somehow I doubt Polish law is going to have much impact on the larger game industry.
nonprofit != nonpartisan
Yes that’s true. Volkswagen Auto Group (VAG) is the parent brand for amongst others, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, SEAT and Škoda.

I believe other unrelated manufacturers were also caught at a similar time pulling the same NOx trick with their own engines.
You're right. I commented here a few times about how I grew up with my parents who are avid listeners to RFA, VOA, DVB, and BBC (channel specific to my country). Since we have military dictatorship back then, we trusted RFA, VOA more than our government's TV channels. I left for college in the US and learned who are feeding the news for VOA, RFA, DVB and where they are getting funding from, then I realized they are not that reliable news sources (and can be regarded as propaganda machines for people with vested interests).

If one listens to VOA/RFA in my country, one would think that the US is a shining utopia and did nothing wrong in Iraq/Afghan invasions (9/11 just happened a few years before I left the country).

The truth is that there is no objective news outlet in the world (even 'facts' fed to the unsuspecting reporters/journalists are dubitable).
The core difference is every other platform at least attempts to moderate and remove violent content, whereas Parker is created explicitly to publish that content.
"Ziobro has also announced that he was considering the introduction of a law to target language used to refer to Poland's role in the Holocaust."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Ziobro

there you have it. what a bigot.
Yes, I have disabled it. You can also drop outbound traffic for the uid running the controller with iptables if you're paranoid about it.
https://twitter.com/dataracer117/status/1272737061703790592?...
Not by the people used to WhatsApp. That doesn't do it either.
That still leaves vanishingly small odds for a user to actually be exploited, in addition to the very small resolution and total lack of audio... both of which would be overcome by somebody simply downloading the video while it was public. As soon as the video was public _and_ shared/discovered by other people, it was already owned to begin with.
> But to distribute them, you first need to build your own road network, you're banned from our roads.

This argument is absurd and I feel in bad faith. We have public roads and you are free to travel on them to distribute your flyers. You still need permission to enter the premises of private owners though if you want to solicit or leave your property (flyer) on their property.
Show HN: Ranking returns in the S&P 500 between two dates
Assuming that a superintelligence will contain a program
that includes all the programs that can be executed by a
universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world

The visible universe is far too small to store that data. Like many exponentials too small. You can't even enumerate all the programs that work on a handful of inputs without running into the problem that the universe just isn't big enough for that.
similar boxes are on amazon, with worse(ish) specs under the brand "Protectli "
Do they actually have the freedom to decide to leave China?
I'm usually don't have a strong opinion but in this case. Consider the following hypothetical:

Suppose the Big Tech companies are far-right instead of left. Instead of banning racism and insurrection, they are banning people calling for higher taxes on the wealthy and UBI. Twitter censors posts by supporters and politicians like Bernie Sanders. In response, Sanders supporters create an alternate social network like a liberal Parler, but it gets removed from the App Store and deactivated by AWS.

In this scenario people wouldn't be saying "freedom of speech is freedom from compelled speech; you can say what you want but you just need to create your own platform / internet; etc." There would be legislation drafted aimed at breaking up or regulating these near-monopolistic private companies. The argument that private companies can censor what they want works with small businesses and competitive environments, but not when private companies essentially control the #1 means of communication.

To be clear, I don't believe that violent insurrectionists should get a platform. I don't believe that racists and bigots should get a platform. I don't even support this bill because it's way too broad. But the amount of people supporting this argument - that private companies with near-monopolies on a means of communication, can control and censor said communication however they want - is crazy.
Agreed, but it just seems like more and more politics. I used to be able to find interesting threads randomly by browsing comments, but it seems like a large amount of what I see there now is low effort bickering. Additionally, I can't seem to get engagement or discussion on any of my "on topic" comments. Now this might be my fault, but some of the threads I make that seem more interesting, tend to get maybe an upvote or two and little to no comments.

I've come and gone over the past several years, but tend to come back because its still the site that curates the most interesting tech content, but most of my good tech discussions happen on various discord servers now.
It sounds very reasonable up until attempting to identify what, objectively, is the bar to set business policy. Twitter literally claims that "To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th." was the straw that broke the camels back [0]. That isn't an objective bar.

Context which "everyone knows" is a political question - a highly political question. If AWS happens to have a similar standard to Twitter then the only way for a business to figure out if it is in breach is by experiment, and AWS just showed it can pull the plug in days with apparently no warning.

[0] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...
Facebook and Twitter largely 'culpable for all the harm': former Obama adviser
“ We need a new media channel, the press version of a third party, where those financial pressures to maintain audience are absent. Ideally, it would:

* not be aligned with either Democrats or Republicans;

* employ a Fairness Doctrine-inspired approach that discourages groupthink and requires at least occasional explorations of alternative points of view;

* embrace a utilitarian mission stressing credibility over ratings, including by;

* operating on a distribution model that as much as possible doesn’t depend upon the indulgence of Apple, Google, and Amazon.”

This reads like a description of NPR to me.
Did both of those things happen through some loophole? Or is the elected party just able to kind of do whatever they want unstopped?
Well, you can, for example, try to limit its total energy budget. That is physical limitation, that is hard to circumvent.

Of course, it is possible that said superintelligence develops an ingenious new source of energy as a response.
Quorn?

Here's what's interesting: in the 1960s the British government actually mounted a research program because there were concerns about a protein shortage in the 1990s and came up with a couple of microorganisms that you could grow in a fermenter and eat, if you really had to. Nowadays protein concentrate is a lifestyle choice.
>With no court hearing the evidence,

60+ courts heard the "evidence," which was in each case lacking, or in more cases, no evidence was given because the actual court cases were not about what Trump and co were claiming in the news.

>I remember seeing a Reuters poll saying that 40% of the voting population thought the election was rigged

You must be confused; Reuters ran this poll [1], where nearly 80% of Americans say Biden won the White House, incuding more than half of Republicans.

You must be thinking of the 40% of Republican voters (about 20% of voters, hence the 80% above) who thought the election was rigged, after hearing Trump claim this for months before and after the election, in every forum he could, and the right wing media fed those voters a months long diet of such nonsense. Of course those voters would believe that.

>I think the votes need to be checked, just in case the election was rigged.

They have been, they will be inspected even more, and they will find the same results. Who voted is public record in nearly every state, and those where it's not public make records available to researchers. The way to show fraud is statistical sampling, which Trump and co did, and found nothing, hence the ignorance feeding smoke and mirrors game.

How do you know Trump and co looked at voter records? Because right after the election they started floating a handful of names of specific fraud, in each case they were shown wrong by the press that found why Trump and co though there was a discrepancy.

And out of all that, Trump and co had only a handful of names. There is no doubt they'd feed all that to computers to help them scour millions of votes.

And, as in every election, election researchers will look through records, will do random polls of voters, and can gather statistical evidence for lack of fraud.

Now, instead of pushing all the "we don't know!" narratives, spend your effort educating people that we do know, and this is the process by which we can, and do, check the details.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll/nearly-...
Yes. I'm dealing with it by checking in less often. It's not just the past couple of weeks - the last few months have felt weird.
The story of Thunder Bay’s socialist Finnish restaurant (2018)
Exactly. Apparently the community feels Ethereum has grown up since 2016, and the time to hard-fork for these sorts of issues has passed.
Bandwidth doesn't need to be huge for HFT. If you can send a message saying "there was a big upward movement in the price of instrument X", that's enough to be incredibly valuable if it gets to the other end before anyone else knows about it. There might only be a few dozen instruments you're interested in, and a few events for each one, so being able to send a single byte could be enough.

Obviously, more bandwidth is useful, because you can send more details, and make better decisions at the receiving end. But most of the value is in getting a small message there fast.
Hope we don't see VHF or UHF traders soon.
Only 5/30 issues on the front page are Trump/free speech. They're easy enough to avoid
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Hydrogen looks extremely promising due to its low resource usage, but urgently needs an easy way to verify its session from Element and easily migrate its keys.
Visual behavior modelling for robotic theory of mind [pdf]
Boring-ass long-form interviews with nonagenarians like Charlie Rose or the 60 Minutes gang don't get much attention because they are without substance. Rogan isn't necessarily trying to embarrass his guests, but neither is he desperate to support the status quo. So, occasionally, something true gets said. Like, once an hour. Still better than the nonagenarians.
Nix (the package manager) works great in MacOS, if thats
what you meant.
You don't have to install NixOS to get great benefits.

The documentation itself is good, I feel, but as a newcomer it's really hard to know where to look. But it's getting better, by strides.
Did they email everyone with an account this information? I.e., if I didn't get that email, I don't have an account?

You can't check via a login page whether you have an account...
Most companies choose to collect data they don't have to.
There are 91 million members of the CCP. In a country that counts more than 1 billion inhabitants. It's laughably far from representative.

But the actual rubber stamper voting group is about 3000 people.

However, since there was never any real independent and strong opposition (the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan) the only power struggles were very much about succession, and again that's like a minor clash in a royal family, whoever wins, it's still feudalism.

... yes, you said that Jack Ma is a CCP member, but he was nowhere near close enough to Xi in any aspect to challenge him. He's a useful idiot who got a sector allocated to (IT, cloud hosting and web/online/in-app payments), got big thanks to no competition, and thought he has actual power.
> The figures need the media more than the media needs them.

That's where generalizing to "the media" causes problems, though. They do need some media to stay relevant, but can absolutely stay with sympathetic media outlets that will never challenge them. Ted Cruz need never give an interview to the likes of Axios for the rest of his career and he'll be absolutely fine with just Fox News.
> It's not impossible that PulseAudio tries to play higher quality audio or simply uses the device differently.

Pulseaudio mixes sound from several applications, unlike Alsa. Alsa just configures your soundcard for that one stream, Pulseaudio has no such luxury.

In order to mix relatively small buffers (because latency), it needs to do timing. If your soundcard has problem with timing (and many do!), you will get crackling. The good news is, that the problem with timing can be only at specific frequencies; in the past, I had a computer with Nvidia Ion and it did this with 44,1kHz audio. With 48kHz, everything was OK. So fixing the output at 48kHz by forcing Pulse to mix at this frequency fixed the crackling.
> Is it that different in the US?

It's certainly different from state to state.

Most cases that reach the US Supreme Court aren't about whether X is good or bad (let's say X is abortion or gay marriage) but whether X is so good that the Federal government should compel states to allow it, or so bad that it should compel states to forbid it.
GDPR outside the European Union only applies to European Union based companies (headquartered in the EU).

Otherwise, it is limited to internet traffic from people within the European Union.

This rule was unclear in the beginning of the law implement, but there have been high court rulings clearing up the confusion.

See this, for example “Google wins landmark right to be forgotten case”: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49808208
It's not that easy. If we're talking about an election in Venezuela, the courts would also laugh accusations of election rigging out of the room.

To be clear, I fully side with the U.S. courts here. What I'm saying though is governments and officials lie, you can't always just trust the official story.

If parler were used for inciting civil disorder in Venezuela over the election result and the government comes to AWS and says shut them down, what do they do?

Now suddenly they're the arbitrators of what is true in the world.

I don't want to get too hypothetical here, because I think this time it was pretty black and white.
Yes, I agree, I was only reacting to the OPs claim that the government cannot compel somebody to speak in a certain way.
As an online chess player I find it a bit shady.

Lichess.org has a better UX and featureset for free than a premium chess.com subscription, but many of my friends watch steamers --> sign up to chess.com and get a worse expereince.
Another endorsement for mikrotik here...spent a lot of time in the WISP space and doing CPE installations. Mikrotik all the way down - text config files (version control), ssh-like remote terminals on all endpoints, full feature-set on even the most basic hardware. I've taken them into other jobs and other engineers have been happy with them.

The cons are that everything has one or more "mikrotik" way of doing things, and it may not be intuitive to the new user. Also, although everything is included, you have to set it all up yourself.
> Did everything just fail open?

That seems to be the consensus.
Thanks there are enough workstation tools, but I want an automated tool that runs on a server.
WhatsApp was sold to a company that made even more money off the back of a PHP stack.