skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pinning incitement onto Trump will be a bit tricky, if nothing else that he's so damned inconsistent and incoherent that it's really hard to tell what he intends to do. He's done enough other illegal shit that there's no real need to try and nail him with incitement, because it might reduce other cases elsewhere.

There are others involved in this whole affair that have almost certainly crossed that line, and they should be made into an example by being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There are some things that are not to be tolerated in a democracy if you want to keep that democracy.
Microservices is a solution for an organisational problem ( multiple employees in one project), not a technical one.

If you're flying solo, just use DDD for example. It will give you the same patterns without the devops complexity
there isn't really anything wrong with doing it in C++ nowadays as long as you don't use bleeding edge C++ stuff

That's the whole point of the KDE doc I linked. It's not a reasonable strategy to use unrestricted C++, just like it's not a reasonable strategy to use unrestricted Rust. You actually have to design an ABI, not just rely on the compiler to do it for you.

I thought there was a GNOME doc too, but I couldn't find it. The point remains: there are lots of things in C++ that people who care about stability don't use at their ABI boundaries.
This is a bizarre comment. The complaint isn't that Pornhub, Visa, or Mastercard lack the right to do what they are doing. People are explaining reasons why it is a bad decision and those reasons aren't relevant to Twitter, Google, Apple, and Amazon. There is nothing contradictory about someone who believes these companies have the right to kick people off their platform while also thinking that these companies can make mistakes regarding who they kick off.
Gabbard is very lucky she is not in trouble for not registering as an agent of a foreign government after all her connections with VHP
> In a scenario where a Trump incited mob executes Senators while the police and national guard do nothing is tantamount to a military coup.

But that’s not even close to what happened. The national guard doing nothing would require buy-in from the entire military chain of command, which has never been very supportive of Trump.
I haven't read it fully yet, but I will write that TPK algorithm in some language(s). Post here if you have some (! OR ?)
Mac MacBooks have generally lasted 10ish years. Sometimes more sometimes less.
That’s awfully close in price to 3x $300 laptops in 10 years.
None of this is considered critical infrastructure today, that's the point. What's important to you is entirely subjective and these are private companies that can apply their terms however they see fit. Visa/MC can easily say that ACH and cash payments exist as an alternative.

If you feel that monopolistic powers by major tech companies need more oversight then that should apply equally. I don't see why communications networks are any less important than payment networks.
Why is US company Twitter obligated to perform postal services for a foreign government?
> If the Leader says of such and such an event, “It never happened” — well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five — well two and two are five.

Recently there was a dustup in the twitter maths community over whether "2+2=4" was a fact or an artifact of patriarchy, racism, and capitalism.
The porn that has existed since the dawn of time (I guess cave paintings) is qualitatively different from PornHub content. Arguably even there is even a qualitative difference from the situation even 15 years ago. Then, very few 10-year-olds would have had access to unlimited amounts of high definition hardcore porn; now probably the majority in developed countries can.
You know, you're right. My perception of the argument's merits clouded my judgment as to whether the argument was made in good faith.
The UK+allies is the number one navy in the world by far. Why wouldn't they be preparing to challenge China in the Pacific?
The MAGA movement ("Make America Great Again") doesn't understand what made America great in the first place.

I am going to tell you what made America great, but you will not necessarily like it:

WW2 devastated the most important industrialized economies throughout Europe and Asia. The US was left intact.

For many years, the US was #1 in exports, #1 in manufacturing, and most importantly, the Bretton Woods system was in place.

Under Bretton Woods, the US was effectively able to create money from thin air. The premise was that each dollar was backed with gold, and you could at any time redeem the gold equivalent to your dollars. However, because that right was never exercised and nobody could audit the gold reserves, the US abused the system and by 1971 it became clear that it was a fraud.

By 1971, Europe and Japan were done rebuilding their economies and now their manufacturing capabilities surpassed the that of the US. So countries like France take the initiative and challenge the US to give them their gold, and when the US fails to meet these obligations, the Bretton Woods system ends, also putting an end to the American economic golden age.

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

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

Since the Nixon shock, US living standards have started becoming similar to that of other countries, the cost of living has been raising and the US has been accumulating an enormous amount of debt.

Think about it: during the 1940s to the 1970s, the Interstate highway system was built, there were expensive Space exploration programs, millions of Americans had affordable housing, higher education... everything was affordable. And suddenly nothing is affordable anymore. And that is the reason.
The way dispatch_time_t currently works, having the high bit (bit 63) 0 means based on uptime (or mach_absolute_time()), having bits 63 and 62 both set to 1 means based on the wall clock, and the addition here is having 63 set to 1 and 62 set to 0 means based on continuous time. I don’t think they have the room to add a 4th clock though.
> Most rooms are not E2E, and have browsable history.

Not sure how this is meaningful especially without further context. A large number of rooms on matrix are public channels to begin with (eg bridged rooms from irc, open source collaboration channels, etc), so they have no need for e2e encryption. All this is really saying is that E2EE is optional, which you already said (and which I'd also argue is probably irrelevant, especially given that E2EE is on by default).
Sure. Like I said, it's Wikipedia, so take it as you will:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law

The relevant section:

"Criminal libel is rarely prosecuted but exists on the books in many states, and is constitutionally permitted in circumstances essentially identical to those where civil libel liability is constitutional."

Again, this is really beside the point IMO, as I mentioned before. I only brought it up due to being an unreconstituted pedant, unable to help myself.
The comparison is not valid.

For example my phones use Android, but I do not have a Google account.

There exists no legal action that could be done by Google and that could influence anything that I am using my phone for.

On the other hand, if Visa and Mastercard would decide to not let me buy something, that would be very bad for me, because I buy almost nothing with cash and most things that interest me could not be bought with cash anyway, because they cannot be found in the shops from my close neighborhood.

So the monopoly of Visa and Mastercard really matters and it is very hard to circumvent. That of Apple and Google, much less so.
I'm getting slightly fatigued with this point of view ("X is a private company and can do what it wants").

If a company reaches a certain size and has a quasi-monopolistic position so that other people or companies depend on it, it starts to have some degree of responsibility towards society that's beyond value maximization for shareholders.
> I never really liked them because it always bothered me why I was expected to follow the last instruction first, regardless of what it said.

I had a similar one, in fairness it started with something along the lines of: "read these instructions completely before you start".
Sponges come in all levels of abrasiveness.

Here in the US at least, there tend to be scratch (yellow/green) and non-scratch (blue/darker-blue). Along with straight scratch pad (pure green) and steel wool (silver metal).

You can grind all day with a non-scratch pad, and all you're really polishing with is the harder bits of gunk you've managed to take off.

Same way you can sand with 220 grit all day and barely make a dent, but hit something with 60 grit and make progress in 5 minutes.

Afaik, Barkeeper's Friend is essentially microgrit in some sort of liquid carrier. If you had the right shaped sand, you could probably add that to something and get a similar effect.
Definitely not the same "in Europe". Maybe in some of it (after all the two biggest countries in Europe is Russia and Ukraine). In Scandinavia unions work really well for the most part - at least extremely well compared to the US. It is one of the biggest reasons for the Scandinavian model.
thanks. do you use some app? or just do it yourself?
How does this work with compiling software. For example, I routinely compile programs that use different versions of openssl. Does NixOS make this process any easier.
No, it’s not the same because the users can still get the same service eventually. Trump will never be able to access his Twitter followers again.
Nix derivations are also lighter than containers. Just ordinary packages.
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Freedom of speech is a guiding principle that predates the United States, and the first amendment, by a few millennia.

And yet every discussion about free speech online contains a few comments about the first amendment’s narrow legal scope. Sure, that’s right, but freedom of speech does not have a narrow legal scope; it’s a much broader concept, and it is global in nature.

In almost every case online, the discussion is about the global ideal of freedom of speech, not about US law.
Pretty desperate move there, warning bird owners!

OK, for the bird owners: buy a stainless steel skillet and use it until your bird dies. Then buy a teflon skillet.
He has so many classic must-read articles that are just as relevant today as when they were written some 10+ years ago. The technologies may have changed but the sentiments sure haven’t.
Can anyone talk to if nixos can reasonably be used to run a desktop setup?
M1 is either first or very close to first in all the Anandtech benchmarks against CPUs using up to seven times more power.
This is an important question in terms of all work.

But even without being able to answer it, restricting sex workers' choices via deplatforming and criminalisation invariably makes them less safe, so I'd argue that we should stop doing that anyway.

Letting them actually report exploitation to the police would be a start (and no, swedish model bullshit doesn't achieve that, if you criminalise any part of the transaction they realistically can't take full advantage of the existing protections under law).
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I don't think free speech absolutists are accounting for how much having death threats or actually being murdered infringes on one's right to free speech.
> civil libertarian ethos

People living in the colonies already had this. When Parliament started asserting more control over the colonies, they fought to restore their control over government.
I still think this article is on track to be correct. 2020 was a precipitation of the stormy clouds that will begin raining in 2021.

Lot of people have this weird idea that 2020 was somehow the last of it. I think it was the beginning and 2021 and onwards will be a tough battle.
Then the pornographic performers should just make their own payment network, no?

That's what everyone's been telling Parler since they started being removed from these platforms.

I also don't know how you can reconcile this comment with the fact that Gab and others were removed from Visa/MC networks, to much fanfare.

To be clear, I'm in favor of Parler going away, but I can't help but notice the double standards.
It’s the clay pot analogy in your article.
The point is that if you have an issue with companies taking private action over state prosecution then that should apply to all decisions.

Whether you consider an individual decision to be a mistake is entirely subjective and irrelevant.
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NixOS uses systemd pretty heavily under the hood. You configure systemd services in the Nix language as part of your system config. It's quite nice.
> Think of all the foundations that have been created because some wealthy celebrity (or a relative of theirs) had a particular medical condition.

> Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

This is a tangent, but I remember a minor news item of Michael J. Fox appearing in an ad soliciting donations for Parkinson's research, Rush Limbaugh (maybe?) criticizing him for "exaggerating his symptoms" in the ad, and then Jon Stewart (definitely) lambasting the criticism on the Daily Show, something along the lines of "How DARE Michael J. Fox appear in an ad trying to fund research into the crippling disease that Michael J. Fox has?!?"

I've been trying to find a clip of that, if anyone knows where to look?
Maybe?

It's hardly martyring to be kicked off of Twitter IMO, but even if his fans see it that way -- Trumps fans seem to predominantly posses a very short attention span.

It's the only way that many of Trumps reversals make sense. They can be cheering him for saying A and then cheering him five minutes later for saying ~A. I suspect that if Trump loses his platform for some number of months, the shine may wear off.

And Parler is being kicked from AWS, so their entire service is going down too--and they may get the full treatment of being kicked from other servers and payment services if they don't agree to police their content. And without easy access to his marks, it will be harder for Don the Con to stay relevant.

Not predicting that it will happen. I'm not that optimistic, TBH. But positing a mechanism that it could happen.
A 432-year-old manual on social distancing
Yeah it's not needed, here's what I do after watching Cantonese cooks treat theirs.

Just buy this (obviously not at that price).

https://www.amazon.com/Sunrise-Kitchen-Supply-SYNCHKG102693-...

After cooking, while the cast iron is still hot, give it as little water as possible and just scrub all the food off.

rinse with plenty of water, by the end of cleaning it'd still be warm.

wipe dry then put it back on the stove I still use electric stove so it's still warm by then and residual heat will dry it.

Never needed to season... I use mostly lard/olive oil.
Vegetable oil tends to leave a really nasty sludge that's really hard to clean so I stopped using them.
Unfortunately very few democracies give their sovereign that much power. They prefer to keep power in the hands of the bureaucracy.
The total amount of pages also grows every year.
In Germany it is even considered another language, kind of.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verwaltungssprache

Which kind of translates into Officialese as per Wikipedia.

Defining words is not enough, the grammar and sentence formulation are also very convoluted in regards to the common language.
The full model posits two cycles, one of which involves these "fathers-and-sons" cycles, because there are deep underlying problems. One generation tries to solve them, violently, the next generation abhors revolution enough to not do that.

However, eventually you get an actual success at fixing the underlying problems (often related to elites accumulating too big a percentage of the resources), then the "fathers-and-sons" cycles stop because there's not a big well of repressed anger for counter-elites (Robespierre, Cromwell, Lenin, etc.) to draw on.

So, for each country, it will not always be a two-generation cycle because it depends on whether you have the intra-elite competition, fueled by an ever-increasing concentration of power at the very top, which causes the disaffected masses to have a counter-elite to follow down the path of upheaval.
For example:

Managed Airflow Scheduler on AWS with "large" size costs $0.99/hour, or $8,672/year per instance. That's ~ $17,500 considering Airflow for at least non-prod and prod instances.

Building it on your own on same size EC2 instance would cost $3,363/year for the EC2. Times two for two environments, let's say $6,700. $4,000 if you prepay the instance.

That looks way cheaper, but then you have to do the engineering and the operational support yourself.

If you consider just the engineering and assume engineer costs $50/hour and estimate this to initial three weeks of work and then 2.5 days / month for support (upgrades, tuning, ...) that's extra $4,000 upfront and $1,000/month.

So on AWS you're at $17,500/year and on-prem you're at best $20,000 first year and $16,000 next years.

So the AWS only comes a bit more expensive - but the math is tricky on several parts:

- maybe you need 4 environments deployed instead of 2, which is more for AWS but not much more for engineering?

- maybe there's less sustaining cost because you're ok with upgrading Airflow only once a quarter?

- you probably already pay the engineers, so it's not an extra money cost, it's extra cost of them not working on other stuff - different boxes and budgets

- maybe you're in part of a world where good devops engineer doesn't cost $50/hour but $15 hour

- I'm ignoring cost of operational support, which can be a lot for on-prem if you need 24/7

- maybe you need 12+ Airflow instances thanks to your fragmented / federated IT and can share the engineering cost

- etc, etc.

So I think what OP was saying is that if AWS priced Managed Airflow at $0.5 per hour, it would be no brainer to use instead of build your own. The way it is, some customers will surely for their own Airflow instead, because the math favors it.

Does that make sense?
How about the RAM? I'm assuming that you got 16GB? I thought 8GB would be barely usable for me, but I've been pleasantly surprised.

I still use my desktop for heavy enough work, but 8GB is manageable for now.
Precisely demonstrating my point: a hyper-sensitivity and censorious attitude against any advocacy for unmitigated debate.
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I hate to bring out the old “embrace, extend, extinguish” argument, but I honestly can’t think of any other reason for this. Visual Studio Code has gotten really popular lately, but I think very few people realize that many parts of it are closed source. And you can’t take extensions from the Microsoft store and use them in your own editor…this just seems designed to get people to use your editor, give them enough source so you can claim it’s hackable, but prevent any other editor from reusing it. That doesn’t sound very open at all.

Actually, in this specific case, it really hurts, because Microsoft had been the one pushing for LSP to enable reusability and interoperability. You can’t take M*N to M+N if every editor refuses to let their implementation be used by anyone else. Honestly, Microsoft, what are you getting from taking a bunch of open source code and making the good bits proprietary, and then sabotaging your own messaging around standards that you want adopted? Because I can’t see any reason why you have to do this :/
On the other hand, having to take conscious action to enforce the bubble (rather than needing to take action to pop it) might be beneficial / lead to less of a bubble.
Go join your "peaceful protestors". There's still some stuff left to burn and loot for your friends. Your upcoming ailing "leader" is fully supporting you.
> If I jump the fence on Pennsylvania Ave and run across the White House lawn with delusions of grandeur about taking over the government—and promptly get shot—it isn't a failed coup.

Quantity matters. A single fence jumper is different than a thousand. One person is a nutball, a thousand is a mob.

Proximity also matters. We now know that the mob came dangerously close to members of Congress. In at least two instances they came within feet of members, or within seconds of passing through barricades that were not yet erected.

This is like your hypothetical fence jumper making it into the Lincoln Bedroom with a few hundred of his closest friends. Given that they literally beat at least two cops to death and erected gallows, there is no doubt that they intended the worst for Congress.

> The Capitol breach is not comparable to a junta raiding a presidential palace. It was more like the lone nutjob, except there were a few more nutjobs. And a bunch of LARPers and miscellaneous morons tagging along to riot because the protestors outnumbered the cops.

You are building up an incorrectly narrow vision on what a coup actually looks like, then using that to declare this to be a non-coup. You are absolutely correct that this looks nothing like a Junta raiding the presidential palace, but that is far from the only form that historical coups have taken. More than once countries have been toppled by a mob seizing the legislature while the military stands around without an idea of what to do. Arguably that is exactly what happened during the August 10th insurrection in Paris, which toppled a constitutional monarchy and led to the Terror.
How the heck do you get a thick enough layer to flake off?
I'd say "most of it", you're right that there are two countries where it seems to work at least a little - at great costs though, I have many Scandinavian colleagues (working in hi-tech fields) that left their country because of overregulation.
Only Visa/MasterCard matter outside USA.
Yes that's one of the greatest things about nix. You can have 100 pieces of software installed that all use a different curl version without issues. You can also develop 100 piece of software/compile that all use a different curl version at once.
Related - I've been using home-manager on MacOS, WSL2 and NixOS. Very nice to have a single, small file to manage my dot configs and CLI tools on various platforms
Also Peter Zeihan forecasted a lot of this based on demographics and finance in his first book.
possibly a longer lasting cache 'super cookie' i made a poc comment below. you could do something similar with a dynamically generated js file but i might wonder if a very small css file with headers like a cdn is cached longer
Nope not a tutorial - but the code is nice and clear making it easy to work through and make changes/ add features in as a good learning exercise. The Lite editor plugins also give a good modular way to understand how specific features are implemented and to experiment with etc. The implementation overview (linked in post above) gives a great understanding of what is happening where. Overall its a really nice starting point for playing with the code base and thinking about how to extend or modify for your own use.
A stovetop cranked high should be able to achieve that though shouldn't it? Not something you can discount entirely.
> Facebook cannot know it, since it is another phone no. not used anywhere else.

They just compare the set of friends with whom you spoke using your original number and with whom this new number speaks now. Otherwise you are right.