skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I for one excited about the decentralized tools that will be developed and adopted as a result of Silicon Valley's censorship.
> His actions in the JSTOR situation were ultimately deemed lawful.

Can you provide a citation of that? Swartz was overcharged, but clearly unlawful (a breach of contract at the bare minimum).
Okay let me open the first link and copy the name and google it for other sources:

- https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/2-lawyers-upstate-woma...

- https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-molotov-cocktail-suspect-sama...

Interestingly these do use the term bomb and explosive which contradict the comment you originally replied to. But it is true they are mere footnote stories.
might as well add sendgrid, digitalocean, twilio, etc to that list.
Yea, you hit the nail on the head. Mumble is super functional, but ui/ux is tough to chew.

Engagement is so interesting to me. The notion that an app can be functionally better but practically worse in a marketplace because it doesn't have enough psychological hooks to keep users engaged. What an interesting software development challenge to face.
I didn't mention tabs.
the pressure the US DOJ attorneys put upon him became unbearable. their high pressure tactics which involve piling on charges and threatening the target with so many years in prison as to be lifetime for some can had adverse affects on people. Sadly this is par for the course as the prosecuting attorney and their office do not get called to account for their methods or out comes.

this is very difficult to correct as many times the target is politically acceptable to many and therefor they just give the DOJ free reign to apply it to anyone they choose.
It is not legally required, strongly advised by the government. It would go against Section 2 of the Canadian constituion to discriminate on a language basis.

The OQLF asks for companies to use french terminology and tools where possible (the tech sector blatantly ignores it, I've always worked in english, even with french co-workers) and to offer a french translation on signs, menus and documentations in stores.
Qt 6 is less than half the size of Qt 5 in terms of modules/size. I'd also consider it alpha quality software at this point.

I don't see KDE adopting it Qt 6 anytime soon given the tone. Qt have already approached KDE to try and renegotiate their agreement.

It's likely that 6.1 will see 6.0 become LTS, and we will never see a FOSS stable branch again. For hobbiest developers, small enterprises, FOSS developers and LTS desktops this is pretty disastrous
Tell that to the moderators of /r/anarchism, they are very ban happy and seem to relish the power.
You must be very young to not have seen tax increases. Being near the train station only has benefit to those that use the train.
School districts spend an insane amount of money. The budget of our local school district is 10x that of the city and they mismanage the hell out of it. They just spent 100M building a new middle school when the old one was only ~40 years old, solid brick, and just needed roof repairs.
> would be to play a message after turning the device on

It does this already
I keep a Google Doc as like an infinite document for my work notes; every day I add a new bullet at the top with the day's date and write sub-bullets over the course of the day (work done or tasks Todo if someone's asked for something).

To remember what I'm doing I either look at my last commit or my staged file changes. I'm surprised to learn people are resorting to comments / broken code, tbh.
So I'm guessing there's a handful of professorship positions, of pure mathematics and getting the published papers.

And everyone else kind of just gets normal jobs in the private sector. I think a lot of quants come from PhD mathematics
Releasing a desktop app for windows, Mac and Linux with GitHub actions
He actually very briefly went by Tom Jones, to the point of doing a photoshoot under that name, before It's Not Unusual came out and forced him to change it again.
A huge vote for Postman. Used it a few years back. Was an awesome tool. Hope it still is.
Yes there's also people who think they always know better.
There is a lot of misinformation in this thread.

Read the letter [AWS sent them][1]. This isn't AWS punishing a corporation for having different political views, this is AWS not taking on the risk that their infra contributes to violent acts.

[1]: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...
Or any app/bt device that has access to notification (if your settings allow the message content to appear in the notification).

Great example is Android Wear.
We use to call representatives, particularly Senators, Statesmen. They were elected to represent the interests of their State [government] and not that of the people or themselves.
Why are data warehouses important?
Using react-i18next? Automate and manage your translations with i18nexus
Not really, I think roads are a convenient example but the same dynamic described (cities getting out over their skis through cheap-in-the-short term development and debt) can be seen playing out for other types of expenses. The next highest costs up that list, hospitals and education, are often also financed through debt, expensive to maintain over a long time horizon, and essential to growing the tax base. This seems totally cromulent with the basic "growth addiction" framework to me.
The font colour they choose was named “really don’t want people to know but still have to”
Well the lesson here is that you shouldn't build your castles on other people's land. None of this is new. Sex sites have had this problem for decades. Cannabis companies can't use popular payment providers. If there's really a lucrative market on AWS for Extremists, then the market will provide.
RMS does not do anything that interacts with politics and I don't think he's high morals, though I use Emacs.
I strongly believe that this should become some kind of standard
The FOSS world deserves whatever they get when not willing to pay for developer tools.

I went back to Microsoft/Apple platform, because that is where paying customers live.
> What's preventing the EU from being more targeted like this?

The CCP is engaged in spying on the US down to the local politics level as part of their total war strategy. Read about FangFang to see that in action.
I read that he committed suicide after trying to steal a good chunk of the content on JSTOR and getting caught.
I've tried switching away from my MacBook and each time I've been left underwhelmed by the build quality. Hopefully this will be built better than the past Lenovo X1 models that I've tried.
I want it thick enough for that, an externally replacable battery (no glue!) and room for additional RAM sticks.

Otherwise I'd buy a tablet.
You can do _much_ better than that with PTP hardware in specific places around the network. And there are several companies doing this.
It may drop the temp a few C or delay throttling, but small heatsinks and tiny fans can only dump so much heat out of the chassis. I did all kinds of things to my XPS, but the largest gain came from undervolting and it still sounded like a leafblower when it was being worked moderately hard.

My M1 Macbook on the other hand, is dead quiet on top of absolutely destroying the XPS in CPU performance while having vastly superior battery life. I don't have to run anything out of spec to keep it from cooking itself.
This might be a silly question, but would they be able to do 1gbps routing?
So he suicided without mental issues, just to "make a statement"? Sorry that's not a martyr.
> You don't believe but there are hundreds of thousands smarter people with deeper pockets...

Even if he is much smarter than all the quants at Goldman, they do this for sixty hours a week in a context where time matters a lot. That was the

I will say that the efficient market hypothesis is probably overrated when it comes to an area where you have expertise; I used to make a bit higher than SPY or the Nasdaq by trading tech stocks on big movements (which are often insane), without using any insider info[1]. But the delta just wasn't worth having to spend my mornings looking at the markets so I didn't miss any trades, and I liked my day job a lot more.
I think data wants to be free. Charge for the applications not the data. Data should be free.

This saves lives. I think we can all agree there are certain things that are a benefit to humanity and we should place these things over profits.

These companies are less valuable than they appear IMHO. These gatekeepers of knowledge. More like stonewallers.
This same power has been used, on a less dramatic scale over the past year and for a long time before now, to attack police reform activists and disrupt organizing of the local activist communities that exist to oppose this shit on the ground.

It's not really a situation of "this may be socially chilling", it's been happening, and now it's just the first time they contravened the president and made the news cycle.

I don't really see any other decision they could have made this past week. But if social media and capital in general would stop kneecapping every political option but ineffective liberalism and dogwhistle fascism, maybe the large numbers of people who are angry and feel helpless would currently have a pressure valve in a healthier direction.

Three or four massive companies with incentives to suppress the slightest disruption to profit, that hold unprecedented surveillance power, and exercise detailed control over individual and mass communication, that make apparently ideological decisions about who is allowed to exist online, are not compatible with a healthy society or any path that could lead us out of this situation.
> If Parler was a community of ISIS or any non-white non-christian extremists none of y’all would be insisting on Apple or Amazon’s requirement to do business with them and be complicit.

This is the accusation of bad faith, hypocrisy and racism that I'm talking about. It's not an accusation against random parler users, but an accusation against those of us who do not think that AWS should decide what's allowed on the internet.
One day I realized I had less than $100 left in my bank account. I'm a software engineer. I know how to write software. So I did the responsible thing - I did not write software.

I literally opened Notepad.exe, and started making double-entry accounts of all of my expenses.

I broke them down into recurring expenses, surprise expenses, and then discretionary spending.

For each recurring expense, I made its own ledger of dates and the expense. I could then predict my future expenses. Given the current date, and knowing when the money would next be due, I could calculate how much I needed to set aside PER DAY, in order to be ready to meet that expense. Once that critical next date passed, I could achieve a steady state, of how much I needed to set aside PER DAY, for that expense.

I then started doing double-entry accounting on my main, available cash account, on a daily basis, subtracting the recurring expense daily amount each day. So, I had an actual balance, but then I also knew how much was left for my surprise expenses and discretionary spending.

I then went after my surprise expenses, and tried to come up with a rough flow rate for them, as well.

And then I gave myself an allowance for discretionary spending.

Mathematically, everything I just described was incredibly simple to do. No software required.

Having that discipline saved me from going in to debt.

I maintained that discipline until my cash crunch wasn't so tight.

And now I kind of wish I had the time to write the software. :-/

I also wish I could get my stupid bank to give me "Read-Only Credentials," so I could write software to poll my bank, and not feel so recklessly irresponsible about it. (Having ONE account, with the ability to disperse funds, it feels wildly irresponsible to leave software running with those credentials.) I know there's also the problem where someone receives 17 cents, and then reports "I got 17 cents" in order to establish the ability to make withdrawals from accounts. So then my idea of having the software running with read access could be used as an exploit to steal my money. sigh That's a big pile of BS.

Anyone have any recommendations for banks that would HELP ME securely do any of this, or do it for me?

I'd really love it if my phone went DING every time I spent money, and it asked me to classify the expense, right then, right there. Way easier than doing it after-the-fact.
I noticed that pythonhosted.org was shaky, which meant that `pip install` failed over and over again on different packages. CircleCI and Github were also affected.
DNS isn't completely "decentralized" because it still relies on root name servers, which are controlled by ICANN.
This may be true, but this is a lousy excuse for tolerating Nazis on your platform.

Sure, banning a Nazi from Twitter doesn't actually kill the Nazi. They still exist, they still have Internet access, and they're still filled with hate. But at least they're not on Twitter anymore.

And when AWS sees that they're flocking to a hate site hosted on their platform, there's no reason they have to tolerate it. Sure, they'll go somewhere else, and maybe the hate site will find a new hosting provider, but at least they aren't hosted on AWS anymore.

If we have to play an constant game of Whack-a-Nazi, I vote we whack as many Nazis as we can.
Instead of having it persist as a service on a laughably slow network, why can’t we use this outrage to galvanize the public to lobby for change of a broken system?
The Guy Who Built the World Wide Web Is Building a 'New Internet'
That is what I have done since my first cell phone over 20 years ago. My Nokia 3310 series lasted 8 years, a Samsung slider 5 years both phone cost up front and pay as you go.(there were 2 to other short term hand me down due to dropped phones)
When the Glass Slabs and WIFI in phone became useful
I bought an unlocked Moto E2 ($200CDN @ Staples 2015) which was replace by a Moto G7 Play ($150CDN @ Costco 2019).

Did I miss anything by buying cheap. Maybe, but no one with a $1100 phone has shown me my life in "Vale of Tears" App that I cannot have.

The G7 is getting updates and works. the E2 still works and was my "Give to American's who had bad outside of the US" plan.
That's unfortunate. Good thing he's really old with not much time left. Not that I wish him harm. He's certainly better than a lot of alternatives.
He made ~3.8B from that sale according to speculation [0] (Sold for $19B, speculation puts him at 20% ownership). He has put $50M into Signal [1].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/02/19/whatsapp-fou...

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/signal-foundation-whatsapp-brian...

EDIT: See sarthakjshetty's comment below, it looks like it's over double that initial $50M investment now. Thank you sarthakjshetty!
Do banks have anything you can use to automate getting data off their websites? My annoyances lie in generating the csv files. My checking account outputs an arbitrary range of dates, however many transactions fit on pg 1, while my credit card from the same bank outputs csvs by billing cycle. It makes it a little annoying going into the bank website and generating these files across relevant date ranges.
People saying parler has a right to exist should be asked if they feel aws, Apple and google should also be forced to host an ISI chat forum. Or if they only support terrorists seeking to overthrow the democratically elected government when it suits their personal politics.

Either they support de platforming terrorists, or they have to afford these companies the same level of selectivity they are themselves displaying. In either case you have to allow these hosting providers to say “no way, we aren’t touching this”.
I write myself a note on a post-it as a reminder when I feel like I might need a reminder.
Why Parler's revival on public cloud is complicated and unlikely
> If Parler was a community of ISIS or any non-white non-christian extremists none of y’all would be insisting on Apple or Amazon’s requirement to do business with them and be complicit.

This is the accusation without evidence that I'm talking about. It's not an accusation against random parler users, but an accusation against those of us who do not think that AWS should decide what's allowed on the internet.
I've ran pfSense on older ALIX and the APU boards. On the APU I sadly got nowhere close to my symmetric gigabit speeds. I'm not that knowledgeable on network stacks but from what I heard it's probably BSDs network stack that doesn't cut it on that hardware.

I've read that MikroTik's RouterOS delivers significantly more performance on an APU Board but I've not tried that yet (but plan to).
Uganda bans social media ahead of presidential election
Huh? Ford has a reasonable market share in the EU.

They sell a little under a million units a year there.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/642946/eu-ford-car-sales...
In (technical) outerwear things with no labels it seems are either low end(uniqlo, rei white label etc) or you end up paying a super premium for unbranded stuff. Think Veilance(Arcteryx), or Acronym.
Agriculture will certainly collapse in many places long before sea level rise is noticeable.

We see reduced rainfall in many areas already, enough to have materially affected crop yields and triggered political instability, generating refugees. (Increased rainfall in other places doesn't help.) Insect populations are collapsing already. I don't think we know how low such populations may go before loss of pollination affects crop yields.

The only good news is that renewable power cost is still in free fall. It is not clear if it can be built out fast enough to cut CO2 output. Desalination will fill in for rainfall in some places, rescuing yields, although probably not in the places that will produce refugees.
I'm on a T490 right now. I can't remember ever hearing the fan.

note: 20gb of ram, but I do cpu intensive things all the time.
If, after a reasonable amount of time has passed, and they still haven’t been taken down, you’ll have a point then. Otherwise, if it is taken down in a reasonable amount of time, then your point is moot.
I didn't mention class because it doesn't break cleanly along class lines. Look at the capitol stormers... several were CEOs of medium sized companies or middle to upper middle class skilled workers. It wasn't a bunch of poor folks.
Patent system is a religion, it is easy to abolish, as any cult. It just has captured politicians and the microphone who "believe" in it.
Students can impress ML hiring managers
'If the money is used well' -- there's the problem. The money disappears and a new tax is on the ballot next year.
Much has been made of the 'Robinhood effect' this year, and how its large base of retail investors have contributed towards the inflated stock prices we see, especially for 'meme stocks'.

I'm curious, though, is there any data available on the ratio between retail and institutional capital flowing in the markets? Has anyone proven the effect these communities have on stock market inflation? How much of the boom is simply because we're in an era of low interest rates and big stimulus?
Not all dems.

We all know what we got with the Republicans last 4 years. Let's see what changed on the other side of the aisle if anything.
They're interested [1], but as usual, giving some though on how to do that in a privacy-maximising way:

> Thanks, we know [backup] is a big deal and think about it a lot. We're working on ways to do it that would be privacy preserving, and in the mean time we've got the p2p device transfer you mention. We'll keep working to make it better!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/signal_p...
I just don't think AWS should be considered core infrastructure. ISPs are definitely core infra, which is why I think net neutrality is so important. Domain name registrars and CC processors are a bit of a grey area for me, since those gate access to the internet and online financial services respectively, but there's plenty of precedent for blocking certain businesses from both of those services.

AWS is great the servers you run. Those can be anywhere on earth, including physically located at your business
I'd argue it's more fashion than a lack of courage. Amazon's equivalent group is called Amazon Workers for Climate Justice - they regularly pressure Amazon on topics that have nothing to do with climate justice, but climate change was a trendy topic when they first organized. Sponsorship and support from the CWA is another factor, although I don't know if it's public how much the AWU is actually getting from that relationship.
Just protecting their brand. Just like Disney, Apple, Girl Scouts, etc.

Smart move.

Deplatforming, censorship, cancel culture, blah blah blah, is just the splash damage.

Cue futile outrage and virtue signaling. Sharecroppers shocked, shocked the land lords, seed vendors, and food processors are predators, wholly and solely driven to extract wealth from the productive labor.
It uses a CPU from 2014 however:

https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Puma/AMD-G-Series%20GX-412TC....
Just another unrepairable and unmodular system for rich people who want to flex.
Please search in the net for "Agbogbloshie" and see where this laptop will end up as soon as a thinner one comes out.
When are we stopping this madness and go back to make modular things that are easy to repair?!
Yawn. Sure, like any ideal. I feel like you thought this would be revelatory. There exists a spectrum, I'd like to see us lean freer. Or at least not do weird back handed crony capitalism and just come out and nationalize.
> Nowadays, the public square, the thing that the constitution is supposed to protect, which is the difference between feudalism and democracy, is de-facto (though not de-jure), owned by monopolistic corporations.

That's quite the exaggeration. You can quite literally still gather in a physical public square. Just because it's more convenient to do so online doesn't mean it's a granted right.

> The vast majority of public discourse, news and financial transactions take place on these feudal fiefdoms.

And? If a bank decides they don't want you as a customer, you can still perform cash transactions. You aren't entitled to a bank account just because the majority of people do banking.
I think your statement is the reverse of what was implied.

Doesn't libertarianism posit a weak central government, shedding all responsibilities (that can be shed) to the free market, where competition ensures the best outcomes, choices for all, etc?

If that's true, the current situation of wealthy corporations controlling various social media platforms is... the desired outcome?

The fact that competition is better in areas such as motor vehicles, due to physical standards like roads that work for everyone, lack of network effects, and so on, is beside the point. It isn't the government's fault that Orkut and MySpace didn't compete well against Facebook, or that Parler entered a service contract with another corporation that decided their TOS was violated.

This will all be sorted out in the courts, interpreting contracts which are the ultimate source of truth in the libertarian world view. Fear nothing, justice will prevail. If Parler was not in violation of the contract, they will be compensated. If they were, too bad, they failed to adhere to the contract they agreed to. They deserve to fail and the NEXT competitor to take up the mantle will have incrementally better information and chances to succeed.
I respect the patent system and the justice system that backs it. Of course, it's not without issues - but there are agreements and investments those individuals made to hold said patents. Just because it's "not fair" isn't a reason to invalidate the whole system.

That being said - fuck patent trolls.
It you don't base your reading of the skin color of the author, that's ok if your reading the correct things. You just have to punch that much harder however when you find another company doesn't quite have the proper blend of people.