skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s fair to say we only need to consider national and international trademarks.

At least with Ads you need to attribute a competitor's trademark to your competitor.

Matt’s apple orchard may or may not be trademarked. They may be registered in their state, but not likely nationally.

The money is in the big marks. Matt is not going to bid against Apple. Matt might bid against his neighbor on generic terms or on business name. His neighbor may bid on generic terms but not on his business name. That’d be tawdry.
Perhaps this could be more elegantly solved by making companies pay for the cost of disposal. That way, the business will be incentivized to optimize down the cost because otherwise they'll have to bake the cost into the product, which disincentivizes consumers from buying it through higher prices. It also gets rid of the information asymmetry because the company definitely knows and is incentivized to know their overall quality so they can account for it.
Ask HN: Two people laid off due to known Google/Elastic billing bug. Now what?
Facts:

* GCP + Elastic Cloud have an acknowledged (in writing) bug that is charging us 10x the proper amount. It started early on New Years Day and affects clients using Elastic Cloud purchased through Google Cloud's Marketplace.

* We are a bootstrapped startup with ~$1M ARR (launched product in May 2020). Still growing and just recently breakeven.

* Google has tied up 100% of our cash with their auto-bill. Credit cards are full ($32k in charges in a week).

* I laid off two people because I couldn't pay them. Everyone else is due a paycheck at the end of the month.

* Google is still charging us 10x normal rates every day. Elastic is "working to fix the issue."

* We can't get off Elastic Cloud because we can't increase quotas for machines until... we pay our GCP bill.

I always thought the stories on here about Google were 1 in a million... but here we are.

"Support" on both sides is a stone wall. What should I do to save this company and all our jobs?
I have never found a nice, compact wing generator that i could use for a cabin in the woods or similar - that would be viable for personal use in a northern country

Solar seems to be doing so much better in terms of cost per watt, reliability (no moving parts), etc. Are there trully no decent wind turbines that don't break the bank?
>manual delete including deleting your partners messages if you want to (on both sides - obviously not in groups

You can delete other people's messages for everyone in the chat if you're an admin of the group.
How do you figure
Moderna is announcing three new vaccine programs
Probably not RSS. More likely a mechanism where you spend Bitcoin to inject your posts into the chain, and clients parse the chain to get the messages out. As long as the crypto network persists, writer can write and clients can read without disruption. Humorously, a social medium you’d have to pay to distribute your messages.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/gi5syv/messages_fo...

https://gist.github.com/bitbug42/d70db35b600ddfe20723a9bf991...
Brazil is in a mess. The vaccine has been politicized, and our president is a crazy antivaxer. Butantan is a serious research center, but the lack of transparency is really troubling.
Disney brings back the Lucasfilm Games brand for future Star Wars titles
Contrasting Geocities or MySpace of decades past with coordinated bans from Facebook and Twitter in 2021 (not to mention AWS and Stripe) is knowingly disingenuous and not argued in good faith. Neither were communication monopolies.
This strange solution looks like a legacy of times when Steam used HTTP instead of HTTPS. Maybe they just didn't bother to update working code after migration to HTTPS?
Twitter Purges 70k Accounts in Crackdown
Those big public square monopolies should be treated like a platform and should not be able to discriminate and block people just because they don't like their politics. Certainly infrastructure like AWS or the app store should be considered exactly like a utility.

The problem is with little forums or sub groups like sub reddits, how can they curate the content according to this law? Maybe the solution is to enforce service for everybody but give clients the option to choose curation so twitter will be able to block Trump for whoever agree to sub reddit moderator being the curator but if you don't agree to it you will see all messages.
The difference between OLAP and OLTP, which I will interpret a bit from the original "OLAP Manfesto", is that OLAP is about providing access to data that leverages as much resource as necessary to produce analytical results in the query. OLTP was about transaction processing, and the emphasis was on reducing the number of elements that were required to be locked and changed during transaction processing. Normalizing data reduces moving parts. Long chains of aggregations and calculations consume lots of resources. OLAP was introduced to contrast the performance of specialized machinery with what RDBMS were typically good at, circa 1993, which was imperfect since DSS databases had been around for a long time by then.

A typical dimensional star schema is good for giving you various sums, counts, etc. Unlike classic specialized multidimensional analysis and planning tools, you can derive an arbitrary set of subselections and additional calculations within a query, subject to the limits of the SQL version. For example, concomitance and basket analysis of what products sell with other products gives you a result that has two product keys, product and 'along-with-product'. In an OLAP cube with just a single product dimension, you can't derive this at all. So, given a data set, the RDBMS gives you a greater ability to filter and aggregate. It just comes at the cost of generating the right SQL.

For the specialized (sometimes called multidimensional, but they're all multidimensional) tools like SSAS, you trade away overall flexibility of querying when you create a cube, since you predefine all the major relationships, but you gain expressiveness in how you model your calculations, and you make consuming the data easier. An RDBMS provides no metadata that supports user traversal of the dimensional space, and there are lots of useful requests that cannot be modeled as a relational query without a huge amount of information that needs to be injected into the query. As a very small but tractable example, suppose you want to see result rows sequenced as (budget, forecast, actual)- this is not alphabetical, so the query needs to define some intermediate table with rows of labels and sort keys like (budget, 1), (actual, 2), (forecast, 3). Specialized systems make it much easier to both create a precise result form, especially when the data would map to multiple fact tables otherwise, and they also make long chains of calculations much easier to specify. A simple set of metadata definitions and a small amount of query text can specify what would take many KB of SQL.

The code required to provide a user interface to the results is also probably higher for relational. A relational query only has 1 cursor. A query in MDX or similar language has N cursors, 1 for each axis of result, plus the matrix data set formed by crossing the axes. This allows much easier specification of the result that will be rendered for the user to consume. Shredding a single SQL result cursor into a crosstab requires plenty of code, and issuing a batch of queries (1 for each crosstab edge, 1 for the matrix) requires less code but still enough.

Hope this helps!
GoogleAds has a system like this behind the scene where trademark holders need to whitelist the specific GoogleAds accounts that want to use their trademark keywords.

No idea how widely used or effective this is though.
This is just talk. You can scroll up to the head of the thread and see how the platform was designed to censor in order to maintain a certain ideology.
Sounds like these countries are better off waiting for the AstreZeneca vaccine.

Which is affordable and far more effective.
This makes sense to me. I also take it to mean we should give "core infrastructure" sites like CloudFlare more leeway to continue protecting / not crack down on content that we may not agree with than a top-of-the-stack platform like Facebook.
Was looking for the "why" behind this OS, and one of the authors gave a great OSDI talk on that very subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4ZPZoPNjkw
> Interestingly that means you can trade an option with me and we can both make money.

Can you explain this? Maybe I just need an example to understand how this works
I remember a Canadian author a few years back (can't remember the name, sorry!) went to a Prepper-Con in the US. He wrote about a lot the classes on survival skills, the ubiquitous barrels of dehydrated corn, and the massive gun fetish. The best part, though, was the end. I'm paraphrasing, but he said that the thing all the other attendees needed wasn't a new hatchet or picatinny rail, rather negative 30 pounds and mile times under 15 minutes.
Even anarchists believe there should be restrictions on speech. Just not that the power to restrict speech should be concentrated.

The way humans socially operate inherently restricts speech.
TL;DR version

1) Goldwater’s landslide loss in 1964, winning no Republican states other than his own, proved that opposing the civil rights act of 1964 wasn’t tenable for either party. It’s not like Democrats could have beat Reagan had they opposed it. They would have lost their northern base, just as Goldwater lost the Republican base in 1964.

It’s one factor in the detachment of the south from the Democratic Party, but that detachment had been a long time coming due to economic changes.

2) By 1980, the debate shifted to affirmative action and quotas, where Republicans had a longstanding ideological basis for opposing government intervention.
Had governments actually shut down all commerce and told people they can't leave their homes, this would have been over in a month.
These companies all have very clear terms of service, where they reserve the right to remove you for any reason. Using their service is a privilege, not a right.

If everyone is “censoring” you, then there must be a good reason why they prefer to distance themselves.

Of all those listed, you must be an especially toxic brand to be kicked from GoDaddy.
Well, I’m an expert and as far as I know I’m real, so my answer is yes.
That's my point. If I can't tell whether this charging cable is secretly an USB keyboard, isn't it better to explicitly tell my cellphone to treat it as charge-only instead of relying on physical solutions?
Really? Parler requires an image of an ID? I've heard this claim elsewhere but I just assumed it was misinformation. I can't imagine so many people sending in photos of their ID to have access to Parler. Even the ones who didn't know that openly planning murders is wrong there are many users who would know to hide their identity, right?
Don't those subs tend to produce enough hate on their own without having to have anyone fake it? I have a cousin who is down the QAnon rabbit hole, believes a race war is coming, and will happily make new accounts and post all day long to whatever subs he thinks are on the same page as him. He's been through several facebook accounts in just last year.

I can assure you he isn't an antifa plant.
Websites that host user generated content are social media.

HN is a social media, your basement server isn’t, hosted content on AWS probably needs some definition workarounds but instinctively shouldn’t be.
I would need to know a little more about those 1M requests before making any of your points valid. If 1M are solely reads, you can do real-time transient offload onto Redis without calling it cache and breaking your bank.
You imply that I am ignoring some important point of the Electoral Count Act of 1887 [0], but you do not state the point or how it makes the behavior of the Republican voters OK and not an attack on democracy. Please behave in a more respectful way.

I reviewed the act. It contains rules for handling the situation when a state has not properly selected its electors or certified its votes. Pennsylvania did properly select its electors and did certify its results before the deadline.

The act allows congresspeople to submit written objections, with grounds. The objections submitted on 02021-01-06 were the same lies that were rejected by Republican judges in Pennsylvania and the US Supreme Court. You can read them in [1]. Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey eloquently explained the situation to the Senate [2].

I see nothing in the Electoral Count Act of 1887 that would allow Congress to throw out a state's votes. If you can find it, please reply.

Throwing out a state's votes is unacceptable. And it is unconstitutional, regardless of any acts passed by Congress short of constitutional amendments. Our nation has democracy written into its core. No party can throw it away with a vote.

[0] https://govtrackus.s3.amazonaws.com/legislink/pdf/stat/24/ST...

[1] https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2021/01/06/hou...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2021/01/06/sen...
My response would be that while it's true that clearnet forums have more reach than darknet forums, there is a risk that pushing people away into really isolated corners radicalizes them even more. If you have a really big open discussion platform, maybe you get assholes saying that Texas should secede or making racist statements, but you probably also have some amount of normalization from regular right-leaning folks who disagree with that. However, if you ban some political opinions, maybe you end up with isolated islands with fewer people that hold much more extreme views, and nobody to tell them that they are going off the rails and pull them back to reality.
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I personally wouldn't recommend it, the USG and their other Unifi gateways are actually kinda limited feature wise. You get all the stuff in the dashboard, but I'd say it's fairly primitive compared to what you'd be used to in ***sense. It's a good solution for people who want something turnkey, but if you're a prosumer/homelabber type you're better off leaving switching and APs in Unifi but using something else for the gateway. I do quite like the EdgeMax routers like the ER-4 paired with Unifi, however. Just my own perspective having tried all of the above.
> I'm struggling to try to understand what this means for the risks of running a business in the cloud going forward.

This is nothing new, and the risks of running a business are the same. If your suppliers drop your business, you have to find a new supplier or you are dead. And you get to decide if you want to chase compensation in the courts (breach of contract, persecution based on protected classes such as politics or race) or not.

The suppliers who are not allowed to drop you are regulated and called utilities. AWS dropping the ban hammer here is interesting, as the end result might end up with cloud services getting regulated and defined as a utility.
For this reason, I use autossh.

I recommend it.
A superintelligence will contain itself as soon as it realizes getting "somewhere" (in a physical or intellectual way) is useless in our finite reality. It will contemplate the very fundamental thing that makes up knowledge, a binary state, and in perfect nihilism will shut itself down achieving the ultimate halt.
It's a bit of a mess. If you're given a task of running a camp from occupying forces, I can't imagine you have much real choice (or you end up in one yourself). Then again, "just following orders" is not a great defence either. I wish people didn't try to make that black&while.

Or to add a different story, a family member sent to a Soviet camp told everyone not to retaliate against neighbours who testified against him - because they were likely forced to do so.

Or think of Nazi-run weapon factories in occupied countries where locals were forced to work. (And sometimes managed to sabotage production quality)
My main problem with experts is they share the same cognitive biases as the rest of us: https://www.karllhughes.com/posts/experts

It's great to have academic qualifications, but you still have such a limited sphere of experience and knowledge - even more so the higher you go in academia.
It looks like the current implementation [1] just always compiles to Bytecode which is then interpreted [2]. The usual one is more like PCRE JIT in that it defaults to using a macro assembler to generate machine code and execute it.

So I wouldn't draw too much from the current performance difference, it's primarily "simple interpreter vs machine code". IIUC, the plan from that blog post is to default to the backtracking mode (depth first) for a small-ish number of backtracks at which point you switch strategies to get that best of both worlds-ish behavior.

[1] https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/dc712da548c7fb433caed56af9a021...

[2] https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/dc712da548c7fb433caed56af9a021...
Yeah I really wish I could understand all these. There are too many words. Vertica, kafka, spark, and we use all of them. Figured I got to at least know their fundamentals to make good choices.
Parler will not be the next Twitter.
This is actually a really good point; I tend to forget about Darwin. If I was in a situation where I owned Apple Silicon, I'd definitely want to look into this. While I have my own flavor preferences, I'm generally happy to work in whatever Unix environment is available to me. Thanks for bringing this up; it may become important to me in the future.

But wmf is right; a critical mass of people want Linux and accept no substitutes. To a lot of people, especially younger folks, "Unix" means Linux, and that's that.
Honestly they seem plenty robust to me already - I’ve never had one break in any way and I never use a case and just keep it in my pocket for everything from daily use all the way up to tactical military exercises.

Every phone I’ve ever had has become reasonably obsolete though.

I think that’s the case for most people. That’s why recyclability is more important than excessive robustness.
you would think, but then you'd have to actually do something to retain talent instead of hiring whoever you can whos cheaper and has no idea how any part of the software or or company works. But of course the comp/hr team never see it that way.

More the old guard leaves, the more of the old guard that leaves. Then who is left to train the new people?
It’s being written in Rust in the year 2021.
Just seems like implementation work. See the various TODOs from mbid like https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/dc712da548c7fb433caed56af9a021...
Simple solution, in case of conflict nobody gets to bid on advertising.
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Nor were they destroying livelihoods and entire businesses across a broad swath of supposedly competing companies.

The actions of today seem to have more in common with the union-busting blacklists across large companies of previous centuries. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist_(employment)#United_...)
I wonder if facebook includes the people protesting in hong kong against the gov as "insurrection" or venezuela or the arab spring. OR is daddy zucc gna tell us which government you can rebel against and which you can't.
even government of sovereign states are afraid of being cancelled too

the big techs have brought this upon themselves, their social media has become the battleground for narratives using propaganda and political correctness, these "fact check"(censorship) will only get uglier
I was told that if twitter wouldn't have me I should join Parler. But now I learn you are all cheering for Parler being hacked? I don't understand, should I use Parler or not?
Liveaction hasn't been deplatformed from what I can see.

https://twitter.com/LiveAction

https://www.facebook.com/liveaction

Looking through their feed they have a real bug up their butt about Planned Parenthood.

Well, I guess they were deplatformed a bit:

https://twitter.com/LiveAction/status/1347927726150324225
Unless they are mandating software support for the lifetime of the device as well what does this achieve in the long run?

Don't get me wrong I 100% support right to repair/tinker/hack but without software support this is kinda pointless.
I think Coronavirus is best thought of as a cancer.

It was easy to get under control in China. That was where it originated. It was centralized and easy to surgically target.

The spread to Europe and later the Americas was basically the virus metastasizing. Once something metastasizes, there is very little that can be done besides very heavy handed approaches that harm the surroundings as much as the thing you are trying to remove. That's basically lockdowns. And even when you make the largest effort you can manage, it is very often still not enough.

The reason island nations have been so successful is they by definition have strict borders, which means you can catch the virus before it has a chance to spread out to the point that you can never contain it again.

Coronavirus was beyond containment in the Western world by April.

Thankfully, we've learned that it's a much less deadly virus than initial impressions suggested.
Just curious do you have such knowledge for columnar database such as Vertica?
That's... not true.

ES is critical infra for us, and I'm not really capable of managing the devops to make a switch happen. Otherwise I wouldn't be paying an override to ES for what amounts to a Kubernetes spec and some glue.

I've been engaged w/ Google and Elastic for a week today. Not sure where you get your certainty.
Serious question: can you show evidence where this has actually taken place in the school curriculum in recent times?

Anybody can advocate for anything, from wanting to teach Satanism and anti-vaxx science to GMOs cause cancer and "New Math", but the curriculum doesn't bend so easily since there are federal standards. Beyond fear mongering and "leftist memes", any real examples?
And who decides which leader is "good enough"? Zucc?
>It's possible she decided on the spot to weaponize the mans race against him

I mean, that's the point I'm trying to make. The fact that she could weaponize his race is a problem to being with.

>Keep in mind this lady was a vocal supporter of BLM before this incident happened.

And mind you, I don't actually think she's some kind of virulent or bad person. It's more about recognizing some of the injustices we unfortunately live with.

> But her behavior may be explained as her just describing the man in a manner she's seen on TV shows

And you know, you're right she could be. But that just speaks to how pervasive a lot of these kinds of structures are.
Are there any incentives for corporations to reduce waste? Designed obsolescence is the main business model of smartphones. If anything disrupts the profits in this business model, there has to be an incentive (either reward or punishment) that is enforceable and actually enforced. If a law is made and corporations end up circumventing it, that doesn't count. I kind of expect corporations to continue successfully circumventing/overcoming the efforts against designed obsolescence. Convincing consumers it's OK not to get a new phone every year is another issue.
Very very good primer by Twitter user @squeezemetrics: https://squeezemetrics.com/download/The_Implied_Order_Book.p...

Thread of other resources on derivs: https://twitter.com/bennpeifert/status/1238823808946954241
> Phones from 2016 for example feel completely usable today.

The problem is that this has happened despite my usage not changing.