skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my definitions of who writes content vs who publishes it was off, my bad

I think everything you've said is correct until you get to the feudalism part of your analogy. the difference is you are still able to go and get information from others sources - creating your own if you have to. big social media platforms aren't the only "road" to travel down, there are alternatives
The problem is the confirmed cases are the primary part of determining efficacy. The people who do not get the virus have a smaller impact on that statistic at higher numbers. EDIT: User runamok explains it well.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/chickenpox/outbreaks/downloads/appx-f-in...
What happens when Amazon drops them from AWS?
There could be other things at play though than pollinating or not. I know the coating was presented as better than just spraying around etc, and is is, but it's not like it ends there. Neonicotinoids are water soluble so some of it will end up in the soil and from theere might leak to surface water. Effects of that are all known yet, but it's not all looking good. Not saying there are problems for bees, just that seed coating could well be more than 'not much of an issue'.
> Were any laws broken by Twitter?

Yes, but not the ones you think. The FAANG companies are basically all illegal monopolies.
The values it represented were never turned into anything coherent, which is part of why it collapsed.

There are many problems with corporations and capitalism to be address. Being generally ‘anti-corporate’ just isn’t useful.
> I personally think that the answer is to standardize terms-of-service documents and to make them into real legal statements that both the website visitor and owner can make claims regarding, and that those statements be registered with a federal agency.

In other words, you want to create more regulations that websites have to abide by. All that does is favor the big players even more than they're favored now.

> Those requirements would either be too onerous to run the walled gardens of Web 2.0 at scale

No, they would be too onerous for any websites other than the huge walled gardens to meet. All you're doing is setting up another form of regulatory capture.

> or the big dogs would be forced to really bureaucratize or democratize

Or they'll just buy the regulations that favor them, the same way they do now.
I am working on a self-hosted web application designed for NAS and devices like Raspberry Pi to serve files/media with a Netflix-style view.

Currently implemented in Nim.

https://gitlab.com/jivank/sambalshare/-/tree/prologue-switch
> paging out has zero cost

Paging out, as in removing a mapping, can be surprisingly costly, because you need to invalidate any cached TLB entries, possibly even in other CPUs.

> each mmap file will need 1 page of physical memory

Technically, a lower limit would be about 2 or so usable pages, because you can't use more than that simultaneously. However unmaps are expensive, so the system won't be too eager to page out.

Also, for pages to be accessible, they need to be specified in the page table (actually tree, of virtual -> physical mappings). A random address may require about 1-3 pages for page table aside from the 1 page of actual data (but won't need more page tables for the next MB).

> application X using GB of memory

I think there is a difference between reserved, allocated and file-backed mmapped memory. Address space, file-backed mmapped memory is easily paged-out, not sure what different types of reserved addresses/memory are, but chrome probably doesn't have lots of mmapped memory that can be paged out. If it's modified, then it must be swapped, otherwise it's just reserved and possibly mapped, but never used memory.
Freethink is a great subscribe on YouTube. I highly recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/user/freethinkmedia
That’s why good teaching is hard.
I adore Orwell. The second chapter of The Road to Wigan Pier (separately published in the excellent essay collection 'Inside The Whale'), which describes the working conditions of coal miners in the North of England, is one of the greatest pieces of journalistic writing in history [1]. In fact the whole book is very good, and contrary to this article I think only a fool would not find it relevant to the modern day - especially in its discussion of utopianism and the post-work society.

In general, the fact that Orwell is remembered in the public consciousness as the 1984 guy is a shame (and is particularly jarring when right wing populists invoke his name to decry people who try and get them to stop lying).

Orwell's essay 'England Your England' (the first part of 'The Lion and the Unicorn') is perhaps his piece which is dearest to my heart, as a patriotic but anti-reactionary Englishman. However, of broader appeal are 'Shooting an Elephant' and 'A Hanging' - essays which expose the brutal workings of colonialism better than any jargon-laden journal of post-colonial theory ever could.

But that's just the start when it comes to Orwell. I don't think the man wrote anything not worth reading and at his best he was near-untouchable in his ability to capture in the written word a society and its injustices.

[1] https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/mine/english/e_dtm
> I don’t think we can make a black and white division between extremists and everyone else.

I haven't made any black and white division between extremists and anyone else. I always said "large portion of extremists", "a large part of climate change deniers", etc.

What I'm replying to here is the multiple posts (not yours) saying that the problem is that some people on the left have been communicating in a combative/ineffective manner.

While this is true, I don't believe this is the source of the problem. And demanding perfection from one side while absolving the other is not a fair tactic. It's pure bullshit. Why must the left be flawless? In fact, it's a bit condescending to the extremists.
Funny how you suddenly supposedly have sympathy for the victims of McCarthyism while the right is still today calling anyone left of the far right a communist marxist.
wow someone missed the flight because their PCR COVID test took a few hours longer to arrive
I remind you that the capitol is also full of elected officials, and the president sent a mob to attack them.

That crossed a line and that's why he was banned.
Social validation. It is good to feel that you are right and it is good when other people tell you so or post stuff that validates your believes.
I worked at ETRADE around the same time and led the migration from Sun to Linux on the software side, switching everything to Apache was once a radical idea. We switched to IBM machines and not HP, a Sun server cost around $250k and the equivalent Linux server was $5k and outperformed the Sun machines. It still was considered risky by CTOs.

During the dotcom boom there was huge competition for ordering Sun machines and it was difficult to get enough, we were competeting with eBay to get our hands on machines.

During the crash, we went back to eBay as a seller and couldn't off load all the old Sun machines.

Here's an article from the time:
https://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Projects-Enterprise-Planning...
What about OpenMoji? https://openmoji.org/

Twitter’s emoji is also open source: https://twemoji.twitter.com/
AWS is not the only host. I’m sure China or Russia would be happy to provide service.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/government

> the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration

> the form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed

Social media corporations influence what they'll allow to be said through their platform, and by means of their algorithms and the effects it has on your feeds and advertisements, they influence what you think and buy.

They do not rule your actions. They do not control laws, enforcement, government spending and military command. Certainly at the size and wealth of many corporations, they do heavily influence legislation though, and that certainly is worth examining.

But individuals have a choice whether or not to use social media. I'm just one person: I use Instagram but only follow a few people that post photos I like (I'll unfollow if a lot of posts diverge from photography), I avoid Facebook feeds completely and mostly avoid Twitter although the past few days have been an exception - I only visit one or two tech-related subreddits. This is just right now at a moment in time. Five years ago I would've said I use Facebook daily and Twitter extremely rarely and what is Reddit, and I've posted a few photos on Instagram but it doesn't really interest me. It's always a shifting landscape. (I once had a Google+ profile...)
Buy some servers and set it up yourself, switch to digital ocean, find more classic service providers. What you thought AWS was the only way to host shitty websites?
> the power to refuse to remove false information without being held responsible for it, which the first amendment does not give to publishers like the NYT

Yes, the First Amendment does protect speech that gives false information. We had a recent HN thread on just this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25695190
I am not disagreeing with you, but I just want to point out the absolutely stunning safety of modern air travel. Using your 99.999% number against the number of FAA flights of 16,405,000[1] per year (that's just US FAA, not global). This would result in 16405 "incidents" per year. Luckily for us, the actual number is far lower than 16405.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers/
This is cool, someone should port this to bash, which also only supports integers.

Then I can use it as a benchmark for https://www.oilshell.org :)

Also bash can do the multicore part very easily with processes, like cmake.
Bernie Madoff went to jail when he couldn't sustain his scam any longer. When the crypto bubble pops, the prison-as-a-service industry might experience a boom since they won't have enough cells to house all the scamsters.
Yes, start your own twitter is a cop out because no one is willing to accept that they are listening to crazy things.

Plus this IS the free market solution that American speech norms are ok with. Businesses can choose who they give their services to.

If google doesn't surface results that's their choice. Drive business to duck duck go and Bing.

VOAT, Parler, are not havens of conservative/ neo-liberal, small government economic discussion. If you want that go to an actual economics forum, or get a economist/WSJ/BB subscription.

They aren't getting removed because they have "conservative" thought. They're getting removed because people sharing death threats, Nazi apologia, holocaust denial and organizing to stop other people from existing is generally handled by anti terror teams.

While saying this is usually unpopular on boards with a largely American user base - in many other countries this wouldn't even be a question.

Additional note - many people who read these debates have never gone to those sites, and will be swayed by people who come up here and say they visit those sites.

Be wary of false reports and equivalencies. I've recently condemned the actions of the_donald, and linked to evidence of their efforts to subvert r/all.

The response I received was that organized attempts to subvert reddit, and brigade the front page are the equivalent of other subs organically having their content rise to the front page.
I realize that this is one of those situations where I'm supposed to be supportive of the use of facial recognition, but I'm still uncomfortable. Facial recognition seems like an all or nothing deal to me, and even after the capitol has been raided... I still opt for 'nothing'.
The last post on Tesla quality had people stating that real consumers didn’t care about the quality issues and it was mostly car snobs whining about panel gaps.

I expect similar quotes in here about how it’s totally normal for glass to shatter within 2 minutes of delivery.

Before everyone else says it - no Tesla won’t make its own glass - but it will specify it and should be QC testing it. Maybe glass occasionally does the same for other vendors, but this does seem to be another data point in the weekly series of ‘Embarrassing QC issue that gets defended’.
Did you read everything or just try to cherry pick something to try to spread misinformation?

"Army leaders say the delay in the movement of Guard troops to the Capitol was because the initial agreement largely limited those forces to checkpoints and Metro stations and *stipulated they would not go to the Capitol*. As a result, authorities had to get approval for the new mission, then call Guard members to the armory, brief them and get them their riot gear, and then send them to the Capitol."
ffer.io is pretty neat
The Enterprise in 2020 – what 24 company builders had to say
But that was banned as well from app stores. There aren't any free, open platforms out there to my knowledge; and if there are, they so obscure, so hard to get into, that might as well not count them as existing.

And you don't own your phone. You have 0 access to it, you can only do with it what the vendor allows you to. The market economy argument just doesn't hold in actual practice, despite its theoretical validity.
Have you ever actually spoken to someone with different views other than your own?

Stop being an idealogue with zero insight into how your own ideas can be turned against you. That's the fucking counter opinion right now.
Yes, as a society we have to decide together where to place that line. But because of the aforementioned reasons it is my strong belief that any such warrant checks should be impossible to do by the officer on the spot as they have nothing to do with the current stop. Checks being done by a clerk at a court or in jail makes a lot more sense.
if that happens, then people on parler can share their opinions by self publishing books, or printing flyers and passing them out, or yelling on street corners. If your complaint about these media is that they don't have the same reach as online social media, then we can agree we're not talking about censorship and instead talking about amplification of ideas.
Please don't. This is unsubstantiated bullshit at this point. It is a lot more likely that they fought the plane (or their own somatogravic illusion, or ..?) to the bitter end. To put pilot suicide out there, requires some supporting evidence on your part.
I generally agree private businesses are free to do what they want. However, when private businesses have so much control over how society communicates and operates, like Twitter, limits need to be put in place over what should be allowed. Twitter, Google, Reddit... all of them have become virtue echo chambers, if you don't agree with the main conversation or how the leaders of the company feel, your silenced by being banned, voted down, and hidden.

Something needs to change.
I don’t believe it is the only source. However the situation is a non-exclusive OR. When either side does this, they become part of the cause. The behavior is the source of the problem - not a side.

No ‘side’ can claim not to be the cause unless it can curb the behavior. The left cannot curb the right behaving unreasonably, but it might be able to curb unreason on its own side.

However this: “demanding perfection from one side while absolving the other” seems like a straw man. If this is being done, it’s clearly being done by the right and the left.

When the right say the left are causing the problem by doing this, they are correct. You are also correct to say they aren’t the only ones causing it.

However the left cannot improve the situation by pointing fingers at the right and doubling down.

The left doesn’t have to be ‘flawless’, but if it’s not better than the right, then how does it expect to improve anything?
Net vs. Gross Revenue Retention
The reasons for UK health services failing have little or no connection to vitamin D.

Vitamin D has shown signs that it slows down / makes covid less deadly.

Because we don't understand: who is taking it, in what amounts, local weather, what the numbers would be without it we can't assume anything from them struggling.
The kernel does have access to these instructions. It is a deliberate choice by kernel developers not to use them in the case discussed here. In other cases the kernel does use such instructions.
Parler has banned all liberal, communist, and eco friendly speech.

It’s an alternative to Twitter but it got there by being more restrictive.
Hi Everyone!

We started building https://kbee.app at the beginning of December after our frustration with other help center/wiki tools.

Every wiki/help center tool seems bent on forcing users to learn a new authoring/text editor experience in order to publish new articles. Many times, folks are creating drafts in Google Docs first and then copying it over. We figured, why not cut out the subpar text editors and just publish to a wiki straight from Docs?

It's definitely not ready for prime-time but we're at a point where we're actively looking for feedback!
> The neonazis have been infiltrating the military there, too, to the point where they had to disband an entire special forces unit, because it was too far gone to be cleaned up.

I think you’re talking about the KSK (Kommando Spezialkräfte, Special Forces) and it was only partially dismantled. Still, that’s bad enough, obviously.

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/ksk-aufloesung-umstru...
I agree with you on the surface, but in reading your comment, I'm reminded of feeling exactly the same way after Trump was elected, just in the opposite sense. And thinking about it, this was the same sense I had about things after Obama and even way back with Dubya. The internet really is a communications revolution. I keep saying that we are under assault, our attention spans attrited by the manufacturers of mass media products for clicks (and by our friends and neighbors who are engaging in this kind of feedback loop), and as I mentioned in another comment, it's difficult to separate myself from it and view it objectively. But in talking with you here and others elsewhere, it's clear to me that this is a pervasive issue across time, and I feel strongly that the internet as it exists today and the culture we have as a result simply can't continue. Whether that means that some sort of regulation which turns social media into television controlled by a few select entities, or culture shifting and people lose trust in the information they see online, I can't say, but this level of mass media sensationalism is clearly unsustainable politically. The most powerful political factions have built and maintained their power on the basis of appearing stable to their supporters, and Twitter has (perhaps unknowingly or shortsightedly) sent a message loud and clear to every political faction on the planet. Anybody with real power has every incentive to destroy that kind of political influence. I'd pay a lot of money to watch a documentary on Twitter's reasoning through this decision.
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/inte...

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

In what way is anything Twitter doing an act of Congress?

Any law made forcing Twitter to be used by an agent of the government would be a direct violation of the Constitution.

Being allowed to moderate your own platform, and for users to vote on the amplification of your message is their own exercise of free speech.
>Further, since it is unsafe to directly dereference user-level pointers (what if they are null — that’ll crash the kernel!) the data referred to by these pointers must be copied into the kernel.

False. If the file was opened with O_DIRECT, then the kernel uses the user-space buffer directly.

From man write(2):

O_DIRECT (Since Linux 2.4.10)
Try to minimize cache effects of the I/O to and from this file. In general this will degrade performance, but it is useful in special situations, such as when applications do their own caching. File I/O is done directly to/from user-space buffers. The O_DIRECT flag on its own makes an effort to transfer data synchronously, but does not give the guarantees of the O_SYNC flag that data and necessary metadata are transferred. To guarantee synchronous I/O, O_SYNC must be used in addition to O_DIRECT. See NOTES below for further discussion.
If you interpret the situation in this manner, you really need to take a break from politics and try to engage into some activity that helps you develop some basic common sense.

Stop thinking about political parties, and think about individuals, their role in society, their influence and the consequences of their actions.

Sending a mob of radicalized people with mental issues to kidnap senators is a bad decision and he got rightfully punished for it.
The relevant passage is below. Basically it's a funnel, so It takes testing a large amount of people to tease out just a handful of infections. 162 cases for placebo vs. 8 in the vaccine group.

Analysis of the data indicates a vaccine efficacy rate of 95% (p<0.0001) in participants without prior SARS-CoV-2 infection (first primary objective) and also in participants with and without prior SARS-CoV-2 infection (second primary objective), in each case measured from 7 days after the second dose. The first primary objective analysis is based on 170 cases of COVID-19, as specified in the study protocol, of which 162 cases of COVID-19 were observed in the placebo group versus 8 cases in the BNT162b2 group. Efficacy was consistent across age, gender, race and ethnicity demographics. The observed efficacy in adults over 65 years of age was over 94%.
> I believe it’s been established as fact that Jacob Blake was armed with a knife when he was shot. I’m not drawing any conclusion about the justification [not comparison], but he was not “unarmed”.

I stand corrected, though it doesn't detract any from my overall point.

The shooting was still BS:

> Blake details returning to his SUV while in possession of the knife. It was that knife that Sheskey said he saw moments before the DA said Sheskey followed his training and began firing until there was no longer a threat. Sheskey shot Blake seven times, paralyzing the 27-year-old father of three.

I don't think someone holding a knife and walking away from you can be properly categorized as an actual "threat."
Debt they can't collect on. Its already over. They may have had a few more years without covid but now its over. Just like with japan in the late 80s people haven't caught up to the situation on the ground yet.
Nobody should be above reproach for their behavior. I would be (and was!) far more worried about our freedoms if the president inspired so much authoritarian fear that companies would not act according to the principles stated in their terms of service, that apply to everyone.

We should be far more worried that Twitter gave the president a free ride for so long, violating their own standards to allow a powerful person to violate them. That's the real threat to freedom.
Completely unrelated but it somehow reminds me of flight MH370.
Also, I just saw someone else here is doing something similar for a water tank.

And your pipe cap housing reminded me that I had a similar project in mind but float switches would not be rugged enough. I'm going to revisit it using ultrasonics!!!
Grimoire: Synthesizing Structure While Fuzzing