skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought there were some differences in how shaders were compiled. I'm no expert on this but my understanding was always that WebGl couldn't get the same raw performance as native apps - even at the shader level.

Some of the slides here seem to support this: https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/developers/library/20...
Is Ford an alternate for Toyota?
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I am really disappointed that it has come to this. In a short few days we have normalized:

1. Twitter picking political winners and losers, where they ban some accounts like Trump but allow others (like the Chinese or Iranian government, like BLM associated rioters, etc.) to post whatever they want.

2. Collusion between different tech companies all adopting the same policy in lock step, with no real choice (no real market competition) for customers as a result since all of them are making identical political choices.

3. Censorship and deplatforming moving down the stack into the operating systems of phones. Let's be honest, Apple's 24 hours was a meaningless gesture that affords Parler no time.

As always, an incident like this is used by those with power to normalize exercising even more power. It happened after 9/11 and it is happening again here now. Glenn Greenwald has a great article on this recent capitol riot (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25702575) and it highlights the parallels between our reaction to this incident today and the reactions seen post-9/11.

Personally, I think the trend towards discarding free speech principles in favor of heavy censorship will keep continuing. I will not be surprised if Apple and Google start censoring what websites and IP addresses you can access. The answer can't just be "go build your own competitor" when one side with political and technical power is going to keep deplatforming you at lower and lower levels of the stack. It is not feasible for someone to build their own phone or operating system, and even the Android co-founder (!) tried exactly this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Phone)

For there to be choice, the biggest tech companies must be split up. And those whose service depends on network effects must be regulated when their network is above a certain size, because they can be as influential a power broker as a government. Twitter and Facebook (and others) are examples of this, and they can't just be treated like just any other private company. These days I feel like speech in the public sphere only exists if it exists on one of these platforms that are in wide use. We need to regulate them so that they are required to carry all speech that does not explicitly break the law.
I wonder what are they going to do with the info about that Antifa protest that was going on when they get it... Not much, if experience is anything to go by.
Of course they should. Why shouldn’t they remove platforms that almost solely contain hate speech and insurrectionist content? Half the stuff said on Parler could constitute a hate crime, and frankly, they should have been removed from the App Store/Play Store ages ago.
Political affiliations don’t come in the picture when it comes to sedition and insurrection. We should have been unanimous in praising this move but unfortunately that is not the case
Taiwan has not formally declared independence.

Taiwan prefers to stay de facto independent for now, because declaring independence would mean war with China instantly.
How is that odd?

I want justice. Protect the weak, help those who are in trouble, prevent violence against the innocent.

That means helping government agencies do their job, when I can. It also means ensuring that the people who we ask to protect us actually DO protect us.

I see no conflict.
If 75 million trump voters want an app. The “does it need an app” question is a moot point.

Ultimately the market will sort this out.
That's not only helpful its gold
I am not talking about laws in any particular country, but the way things would work in practice.

If you see a shop owner refuse service to a girl because of green hair, would you say "that's ok, not a protected class so she had it coming" or would you refuse to do business with that shop owner, and demand fair treatment?
Very interesting.

I’ve dabbled pre-workout, and while it does help empty out my brain while I’m there, it also zaps my motivation and I end up quitting early or missing a few of the harder reps. And if I wasn’t already laced up and out the door for the gym, no way I’d still follow through after I vaped.

Recovery makes a lot of sense and that was part of the routine for later workouts, but didn’t exactly do wonders for my nutritional choices ;)

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Kgwgk put it better than me I think, with their examples of diversification across bad asset classes.

Also a thought occurs. Many people reading this will think “but these cynics are mistaken. Those who invested in bitcoin have seen massive returns”.

Not so. The paper value of bitcoin is up, but unlike a stock, you don’t own anything. You need someone to actually buy the bitcoin in order to gain value.

Whereas as long as a company has profits, there’s a floor on things. The shares will have real use value so the price can’t fall too low.

Meaning buy bitcoin at $200, own now at $41,000. Only has value if you sell. If everyone tries to sell and no one is buying there’s no floor, none.

Whereas bought Apple at $20, own at $132. The price could fall, but there’s some kind of floor below which it could not fall based on current profits and dividends, and that floor is almost certainly above $32.
Funny how critics of #defundthepolice willing ignore that it has always meant #reappropriatefundsfromthepolicetosocialservicesbetterabletohandlenonviolentissues
Kettlebells are the perfect solution for this, in my opinion. It's insane how much exercise I get out of them in a short amount of time.
Great. Let's start with CNN and NYT.
He calls a press conference, and Fox News, ONN, the New York Times and a host of other media sources listen to the press conference, then publish his remarks on the internet.
Is CocaCola a patent on chemistry?
Like most Southeast Asian country. Taiwan people put westerner on pedestal. It doesn't matter if you White, Black, if you came from the West, you automatically are one of the "good" person.

Simple test, if you go talk to anyone on the street, in English, they will try to answer in bad English(if they can). this is especially true for young/highly educated demography like me because we are educated in western value since very young.

If you came from southeastern, say, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam. There's very good chance you see people look them in distain. Because those are usually imported labor for manual tasks.
Presumably they are being blatant so that they can be explicitly pardoned, as they apparently think they will be.
Libraries already don’t publicly store especially extremist material.

This isn’t really different, only the medium/technology is.
If customers are willing to accept a Tesla.

Every one one my friends who bought one complains of quality issues, the cars record way too much data, the auto pilot was released before was ready and can't be trusted, and you're not supposed to repair them yourself.

I would much rather pay more a Volkswagen, or any other brand.

I just want a quality product, and that means avoiding Tesla.
Link? That would be a major development.
It's funny to me. Big words about censorship and dire consequences, but I see it as a sane correction of the current wild-west that is untenable.

Finally, some big players kick off bad-faith actors from their platforms. People that call for violence and hate.

There is no need for a platform in this world where you can use racial slurs, call for hate and violence.
Sounds like a nice goal. But be advised, time and circumstance may intervene. Adaptability is a virtue...
150mg-200mg thc would put me in the hospital. 20mg is my max, don't get off the couch and play video games for 4hrs dose. Dude has insane tolerance.
A heavy piece of the rational for free trade is the notion that sovereignty does not matter, and the risk of a sudden trade restriction via nationalization, or interdiction is low.

If the US has "lost" Asia as a partner, can it maintain its supply chain dependence?
This is just the same lame four excuses [0] to justify censorship and mass surveillance. Just replace terrorism with “inciting violence”.

Now the government doesn’t even need to get their hands dirty to censor the internet, private companies enforce it themselves with with impunity.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocal...
Less so cheering them on and wishing that they did their jobs rather than taking selfies with the rioters.
I don’t think these people had or have any interest in being anonymous. They are standing up for what they believe in. A public display is an important part of this all, it’s part of their statement as Americans in America.
This should definitely not be downvoted. I hope this collection ends up at archive.org for future historians.
As they are free to do. The right tend to be the ones defending the rights of companies to do whatever they want, and it has bit them this time.
They did. And Apple had a (likely pre-determined) response:

> We have determined that the measures you describe are inadequate to address the proliferation of dangerous and objectionable content on your app.

I'm not sure Apple is acting in good faith here. What is considered adequate? Facebook has had all sorts of crazy stuff on it like the Christchurch shooting (and regularly also abuses iOS API's) and has never been taken down.
I asked for the name of an action and he referred to it as 'please'
Can you link me to a Chinese government official’s Twitter account calling for an insurrection in the United States while spewing derogatory hate speech against minorities?
No, not really. That brings up a good point. Would people complain if all the car dealerships decided you could only buy American cars from now? Would they say "why are you complaining, you can just get a Ford instead of a BWM"?
/pol/ pasta:

imagine spending the better part of the last 5 years having your brain and ego melted by uninterrupted /pol/ exposure, flying to washington in the middle of a pandemic to hear trump whine about oprah and mike pence at a rally, marching up to congress on his orders to smash shit and then mill around aimlessly

you go home and hear that biden won anyway and all of your favorite twitter news sources named like Patriot Newsman Of the West with avatars of roman statues have posted your photo online and are labeling you a "gay communist antifa actor." then the next day the god emperor you pasted into warhammer memes puts out a video cucking himself and bending the knee. "i'm sorry, those were heinous acts! p-please let me tweet again jack!!" you can't leave dc because the airlines have dubbed you a flight risk. you can't stay because the cops are actively looking for you after one of their own died. your roommate at the only hotel that would accept you is a guy named based_kekistani1488 who wants to show you his goblin slayer torrents. the sun is going down and you're getting cold.
This is an excellent question!
The people who storm the capitol for Donald's feelings have self selected as being stupid.

There is no plan.
'Deplatforming' isn't effective as a strategy if the platform/medium/resource isn't exclusive or scarce in some way. Twitter/Facebook are virtual social-media monopolies. Android/App Store platforms are distribution monopolies for mobile Apps.

Hosting companies? ISPs? Book publishers? Not so much, although things aren't moving in the right direction on those fronts. Cloud platforms come to mind.
True. It's also true that he told them to protest peacefully BEFORE the riot as well.

"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

Frankly I find your dishonesty unacceptable.
We should understand that all of this so called "censoring" is happening in/on private property, and not actually censoring. The owners of property have every right to set the conditions of use, if any, for any.

If Trump, et al, want to pretend that these private properties are actually essential, and the owners of them don't have the right to set whatever conditions, perhaps they should nationalize them, and auction them off to an acceptable group of sole US citizen bidders who agree to whatever standard.

...or the US could go back to respect property rights, despite it supposedly being out of fashion these days.
Actually, I am pretty happy about people taking the threat of far-right extremism seriously.

Last time we didn't take it seriously, 6 million perished in extermination camps.

I'd like for that to not happen again. I think that is a bit more important than what apps you can run on your phone.
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A presidential pardon won't help Derrick Evans get around the 14th amendment should he ever decide to try to re-start his political career.
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AV1 have other costs, AFAIK it's so slow to encode that encoding farm cost become much more significant.
Apple: “Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people’s safety. We have suspended Parler from the App Store until they resolve these issues.”

Seems pretty reasonable in light of what we've witness Wednesday Jan 6th at the Capitol.

Why would we want to interpret this reaction as being an escalation or an all-out assault on the 1st Amendment?
OCaml also can't implement traverse, so....
Congratulations and all the best!
It is, if one of your highest use cases is “Parler we an app on my phone”

One of the main features of buying an iphone is “Apple guarantees my privacy and security”.

If you are choosing the former it strongly suggests you don’t care as much about the latter. Being on a system that allows sideloading is a serious step down in security especially for the non technical majority.
That”s the gray area no one wants to talk about: there were racist cops who let the terrorist in (and probably aided them logistically) and there were good cops getting called nigger, being smashed with fire extinguishers , risking their lives in a hopeless situation.
It's both. Making video codecs is hard. Making your own video codec and then convincing video sites and browsers and hardware vendors to adopt it is even harder. Video sites won't adopt your custom codec because people can't play it; browsers aren't interested in supporting it because (a) there's no content (b) there's no hardware acceleration. That's why the AOMedia consortium (behind AV1) includes semiconductor firms, browser vendors, video producers, and video distributors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...

> Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police

It’s not some unjustified fearmongering. Anarchists literally took over part of Seattle. At my university, protestors are demanding to completely dismantle the campus police: https://www.wbez.org/stories/northwesterns-president-and-stu...
I think 15th of January 2021 is a good candidate for a tipping point. Unless NYAG backs out again, postponing their move against Tether.
This is temporary, for sure. The phones are also recording video in patent-encumbered MPEG-4, recording audio using patent-encumbered AAC. The ability to watch MPEG-4 and listen to AAC files was kinda terrible for a long time, but these days is fairly good. It just takes time.
I don't disagree, but for what it's worth, they are recently making it a lot easier to get on: https://tlon.io
I'm surprised they didn't just issue a geolocation warrant. Sure seemed to be a lot of phones out from the videos I saw.
> That is the strategy, but the problem is that it produces an exhaust of increasingly angry people with fewer and fewer ties to society, with each distillation cycle

That's not a problem, unless you feel society ought to "save" everyone from themselves (as opposed to protecting society at large from bad actors).

I share your sentiments, but the current US prison system tends towards isolating bad actors: no real effort is expended to reduce recedevism, with the goal being punishment rather than rehabilitation.
I know this one guy who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who definitely had something to do with it. He's kinda orange and has small hands. I would make a report, but I have a feeling it won't do any good:(
You may discover that some of the most interesting stuff comes from the seemingly boring stuff...
not free of technological direction for sure, but free of Google services. The article highlights both topics.

I think /e/ is a good shot at starting from friendly defaults today and not alienating users. But as the article rightly concludes: the web+app economies on top of the operating systems are data fueled too.
Nice usage of domains. Isn't each of .so domain like $80/year? or $60
Over-emphasizing the threat could have taken the form of five times as many police in riot gear surrounding the Capitol. That would have been fine (hopefully). Or it could have taken the form of police deciding to open fire, which could have killed a large number of people and had enormous and unpredictable political consequences.

Over-emphasize isn't enough. It has to lead to the right actions rather than to damaging ones.
Lots of people. Here's one subset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement
Hey I can’t vote on your posts and I’m sorry you’ve been downvoted. While I don’t consider it an insult like you seem to, I agree I like to be hyper precise when I can, and this can be off putting to many. I’ll be less precise.

I agree with you. All people should be treated fairly!

I hope we can soon live in a world that uses “one person one vote” for all societal decisions, that seems most fair to me.

However, whatever your politics might be, please understand: A true “one person one vote” does also mean that both the Senate and the Electoral College need to be rectified.
Notifications mostly.
Not if you're comparing a Prius and an f350. They both do the same task of 'people moving' but have very different appeal and featuresets. Most people could get away with either, regardless of their situation. But there are edge cases where their differences shine.
Big tech is doing everyone a favor right now with this censorship. It will get us faster to decentralized alternatives.

> John Gilmore, one of the founders of the EFF, once famously wrote, "The ‘net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
How did antifa continued to get organized in the last 5 years? Did they have a purge of accounts? Any apps got banned from app stores?
> At this point it appears to be in a bit of a feedback loop as well, since it's obvious that deplatforming groups will make them feel persecuted and even more upset, which then makes them more likely to be deplatformed by whichever platform they move to next.

No one can deplatform me. I use Gab on iOS from my phone and pad and Apple can kiss my ass. I don't even have to use iOS either. In fact the next phone isn't going to be iOS, just to make sure their get the message.

I had skipped Parler and their app just to make sure I don't have to deal with the censoring idiots from Apple again - that decision has already paid back.

Millions have moved to Gab whose service runs on Gab-owned physical servers. Gab doesn't depend on Silicon Valley Deep State Democrats, and their app is OSS (although you don't need the app, you can use Gab from the browser), thank you very much!
> At what point do these massive corporations effectively become a government?

When they exercise a monopoly on the legitimate use of force within some geographic domain.

> They govern what you can say, think and buy.

No, they don't. They govern what can be published and sold on their platforms, which aren't the exclusive venues for sale or publishing.
Its pretty simple. Most users aren't hackers.

Apple doesn't make phones to be hacked or tweaked or whatever, they make them to be simple to use and as secure as possible. For most people, this is far more interesting and appealing than being able to side load apps.

Isn't the Pine Phone fundamentally a device made for hackers?

Fundamentally, the market for hacker oriented products is far smaller and less interesting than the market for iPhones. So hacker oriented tech is by nature going to lag the market or be more expensive.
Here's a quote from the article you cited:

> n 1969, the Supreme Court's decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio effectively overturned Schenck and any authority the case still carried. There, the Court held that inflammatory speech--and even speech advocating violence by members of the Ku Klux Klan--is protected under the First Amendment, unless the speech "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action".

I would argue that the elements of Trump's speech on Jan 6th satisfy all the elements in the lawless action test:

- Trump gave a speech on January 6th, the same date as the insurrection.

- In this speech he directed his supporters to march on the capitol with his support.

- His supporters did actually march on the Capitol, then proceeded to violently occupy it.

Regardless of Trump's inner mind, it is clear that his followers believed that his intent was for them to march on the Capitol while the election was being certified and forcefully disrupt those proceedings.

It seems to me this is a very strong case that Trump's speech did in fact incite the violence that occurred that day, and the very short amount of time separating those events make it easy to argue that one was the immediate cause of the other.
Did you mean should not be ignored?
> the Andantino of D959 is on a different plane of alienation. It is all the more aberrant in a work which is generally so warm-hearted and affirmatory... “desolate grace behind which madness lies.”

Schubert's Sonata D959 Andantino was also featured in a remarkable film, "La Pianiste" (2001), which explores many of the same themes described in the article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piano_Teacher_(film)
> The US Supreme Court has ruled that one cannot, for example, falsely scream fire in a crowded theater.

Very few people seem to know the context of that ruling. That line of thought was used to justify criminal punishment of two socialists from Philadelphia for hindering the war effort in 1917. Their crime: they distributed anti-war leaflets. Elizabeth Baer spent 3 months in prison, Charles T. Schenck 10 years.

Goes to show the extent "yelling fire in a theater" can be stretched, and has been stretched from the very first case.
> You would also need to concern yourself with the "certain conditions" that must be met for it to work.

You have to concern yourself with them anyway. If you do something that automatically closes an element, it's automatically closed at that point whether you put a close tag somewhere later on (that will be ignored) or not. This is like semicolon insertion in JS: the fact you're using semicolons does not mean you can ignore the rules for how they're inserted.
Nvidia DLSS shows impressive quality upscaling games up to 4x resolution. I wonder if same tech can be applied to video encoding?
Thanks for the link. I appreciate it.
As Americans in America they will also be charged with laws their president crafted, in the light of BLM protests. Too bad they are getting used by powerful Americans in america.
I think putting your email in your blog is going to get you a bit of spam...

At least with comments, they are limited to the comments system