skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely, if they wanted to, they could buy cloud compute resources from a company based outside the US. Why must they be on Amazon just for access to its web services platform?
I remember a CS prof saying he moved from hardware to software because the speedups possible in algorithm design dwarf anything you can achieve by improving the bare metal.
Ya no.

Everyone wants a scape goat and when the brass hits the tax, all the same people that trumpeted messaging by retweeting, reposting and spreading bad information simply because it reinforced their echo chambers... those same people are the very first to place blame outside themselves.

“Oh no, I didn’t MEAN for this!! This isn’t who we are!!! Goodness gracious me!” The hypocrisy is disgusting and I say that even about people I love and care for (many of whom are in the “trumper” crowd).

It may not have been 1/2 of America kicking in doors with handguns and pipe bombs, but it certainly doesn’t make them innocent.

Didn’t some girl just go to jail recently because a kid she bullied, berated him telling him to kill himself, and he finally did. What is the difference here exactly?

I hate to generalize by doing this, but to me, Republicans are all to blame for the situation they’re in now and the brokenness it’s caused. Every. Single. One.

We all are to some degree, but Republicans especially.
Exercise of free market principles by platforms booting people/entities that violate their ToS isn't totalitarian.
There's stupid reporting and there's malicious one. Yeah, nobody can stop them from doing commentary on icecream. But also that's not the issue here, is it?
Yes, let us have compassion for fascists and neo-nazis.

I mean, do you even hear yourself? If you want to go down the paradox of tolerance, be my guest, but don't ever expect me or others to go with you.
When's Keith urged assault on Congress?

Oh yeah, he hasn't.

You'd have to go considerably further out.
Still, at my company I have an even more lofty title. I am the Kanban King...
I think it's pretty similar. Like are UX and Eng working together to solve problems? Or is some VP telling UX what to design then telling Eng to implement the design.
He's either making his own or negotiating a piece of Gab or Parker, whichever gives him a bigger piece, to make them his platform of choice.
> Rhetoric that led to an insurrection...

A situation that some term an 'insurrection' and others term a 'riot'. Trouble is, who's right? Who has the authority to make an objective claim on this?

For half-a-year before last week, those on the other side (the so-called insurrectionists and insurrectionist-adjacent) claimed that situations like the Minneapolis protests, the CHAZ, the Portland protests, the Chicago protests, the Atlanta protests, etc. (all together which ended in at least a couple dozen deaths and hundreds of millions in property damage) were riots and insurrections, whereas most media establishments (your NYTs and your MSNBCs) insisted these were 'mostly peaceful' protests.

Both sides agreed something was happening--they disagreed on what to call it.

In defense of the many who view the situation as a riot as opposed to an insurrection, it's hard to make the case for insurrection when (1) police waved rioters into the Capitol in places, (2) Capitol cops felt so unthreatened by the situation that they posed with rioters for selfies and (3) the Senators were similarly besieged (sans deaths) during the Kavanaugh hearings eighteen months ago... with no one (amongst Democrats) calling this an insurrection.

But, as Democrats are the victors, they will write the histories. So it goes.
Somehow I suspect that something like this is at work inside the Vatican.
BugBounty Writeup intresting subdomain takeover
Those are some serious charges you're levelling. I'm assuming you have proof, yeah?
Sometimes I, too, wonder why we didn't just compromise with Hirohito. Was it necessary to fight them? Maybe we could have just talked to Unit 731 and just reached some consensus.
I don't see the reason not to be outraged after having been at receiving end of gaslighting for 4-5 years and now consequences start accellerating?
My point is not that they were telling the truth, just that both sides tell blatant lies. And career politicians will have racked up a bewildering history of lies and mistruths.

YouTube, Twitter or whatever are private property but they are increasingly being used for political discourse on both sides this would not be a probably except that the parent companies are very obviously partisan in they're application of "rules".
> I hope that law firms far and wide encourage their associates and partners alike to update their knowledge with this

"But most of all, the legal profession has failed. Democratic governance depends upon responsible individuals throughout the entire system who understand and uphold the law, not who understand and exploit it. On average, lawyers have become so deeply corrupt that it is imperative for major changes in the profession to take place, far beyond the meek proposals already on the table. To start, the term “legal ethics,” upon which codes of conduct and licensure are nominally based, has become an oxymoron. Mossack Fonseca did not work in a vacuum—despite repeated fines and documented regulatory violations, it found allies and clients at major law firms in virtually every nation. If the industry’s shattered economics were not already evidence enough, there is now no denying that lawyers can no longer be permitted to regulate one another. It simply doesn’t work. Those able to pay the most can always find a lawyer to serve their ends, whether that lawyer is at Mossack Fonseca or another firm of which we remain unaware. What about the rest of society?

The collective impact of these failures has been a complete erosion of ethical standards, ultimately leading to a novel system we still call Capitalism, but which is tantamount to economic slavery. In this system—our system—the slaves are unaware both of their status and of their masters, who exist in a world apart where the intangible shackles are carefully hidden amongst reams of unreachable legalese. The horrific magnitude of detriment to the world should shock us all awake. But when it takes a whistleblower to sound the alarm, it is cause for even greater concern. It signals that democracy’s checks and balances have all failed, that the breakdown is systemic, and that severe instability could be just around the corner. So now is the time for real action, and that starts with asking questions." [1]

[1] https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/20160506-j...
How else are you going to liquidate the kulaks?

Whatever your response is, I'm sure I'd give it more credence if there was ever a successful socialist state in history that didn't rely on oppressive violence.
Even Pence has done some distancing. Probably a lot more after he realized that Trump's rhetoric resulted in an assassination attempt.
What other reason for ‘annoyance’ could you have, other than assuming that the WhatsApp messages lead to the suggested friend, and thus you were annoyed that the data was (supposedly) shared? If you just also just thought it was a coincidence, what would you be annoyed about?
> Give me a time stamp [...] I did not see anyone armed.

> One.

One example is what you asked for. It's not commenting in good faith if you move goalposts like that.
"smishing"... Um, ok.

I never give my cell number out for any reason! It's solely given to close friends/family. The cell number I use as my primary contact is via my voip provider that supports sms/mms. They simply relay any texts to my email. Further, I block any calls and txt msgs on my cell that aren't in my contact list. This has pretty much eliminated cell phone spam.
Maybe there isnt. You could be right, but I was speaking in broad strokes. You cant say there arent bad faith actors on the left. I honestly dont care if there is someone on the left that is equivalently 'bad'. And trying to find those people illustrates my point. Again, I think Rudy G and Steve B are generally wrong and myopic. The point Im trying to make is that just because we differ in political leaning/opinion we cant let media/twitter/social media/ state actors amplify this. I have 5 kids(3 step and 2 natural) and I cant even get them to agree so how the ** do we expect the population in general to get there? We are all different, and not only is that ok its awesome.
In that clip, Olbermann is saying that people who have broken the law should be prosecuted for it.

Steve Bannon was arrested for fraud and, while on bond, used his podcast to call for beheading Fauci and FBI director Wray and putting their heads up on pikes. The both sides-ism doesn't work when one person is suggesting upholding the law and the other routinely suggests killing people who they disagree with politically.

>“Second term kicks off with firing Wray, firing Fauci. Now I actually want to go a step farther, but I realize the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man... I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you’re gone – time to stop playing games.””

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/05/steve-bannon-makes-beheading...

It's also hard to compare the two as Olbermann is a sports presenter turned Political Opinion show host while Bannon was the head of a news organization, became head of a party's Presidential campaign and then served in the White House. I'm not sure there's any insider who has made anything close to the kind of unsubstantiated rhetoric Bannon has or used their journalistic positions (rather than Opinion show) in the way he has. There are a few podcasts by former Obama staffers but I can't recall any of them ever calling for murder.
The anger started a long time before they lost the election. If you didn't see it, blame your filter bubble. It started well _before_ the 2016 election.

The anger is what got Trump elected in the first place.

> MLK didn't make this statement so that anyone who was unhappy could justify violence.

No, but it's a reflection of a common symptom, not a justification. Silencing begets violence _because_ it's all that's left.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but when you take the pen away, what are they left with?
Yeah the benedictine life is cool with me. I consider my self as non-religious and I follow some aspects of Asceticism like abstaining from eating meat and just content with simple pleasures like playing the guitar and doing arts. I also removed my self from social media. I always work and don't take holidays. I'm done with life based on consumerism
OMG planning poker. Never again.
> it's safe to ignore them. Don't engage because they have tacitly admitted to being an unreasonable, delusional individual.

We saw last Wednesday that it's no longer safe to ignore them.
The key glue to a lot of what you mentioned missing in your list to make a lot of this work for outside consumers: API Gateway, arguably their worst product.
> Other startups ... are trying to use VR to make digital gatherings more immersive, though doing so takes away one of the few benefits of virtual meetings — being able to easily multitask

I used to multitask during meetings fairly frequently. I’m trying really hard to stop.

If there’s the chance that someone can multitask at a meeting easily and very effectively, maybe they don’t need to be at the meeting?
Rudy: "Let's have trial by combat"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5FfcbpVLNo

Trump: The entirety of this speech, but specifically the "fight like hell" part:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjYh4tIhVi4

Trump: "Be there, it will be wild":
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/capitol-mob-t...

This article covers a lot of it too. It's been stoked for a while:
https://fortune.com/2021/01/07/trump-speech-capitol-attack-r...
I would argue that there's no point appealing to authority since what we are going for changes with the times, but there's a fundamental difference between reprisal and aid. Say you wanted to host a website that was explaining the evils of cloud hosting, and you did this on EC2 (AWS). Amazon has every right to have in their terms clauses that disallow such content which they do not agree with. If they do host it they are doing damage to themselves, and if they do not host it they are simply not supporting an attack on cloud hosting. The act of choosing not to engage in business is not an attack in itself.
I love the idea of a site that doesn't give Nazis a voice. This is apparently somehow a controversial idea. It is becoming exhausting.
I disagree with the idea of using C++. Even with some of its more modern features. If I was choosing a compiled language for system development right now I would choose C or Rust.

For starters C++ does not have a stable ABI. Rust plans too have a stable ABI. In either case right now both fall back to the C ABI, but at least its a goal of the rust devs.

C++ is going to be harder to boot strap than either Rust core or C when trying to build a compiler for a new system/platform. C probably is the easiest bootstrap of the 3.

Rust and C are generally more performant than C++ code. Also in the realm of low end micro controllers C code tends to have the smallest binary image size.

In C++ if you need to interact with other languages a lot times your stuck to the C abi which which forces you to avoid a lot C++ features/constructs. As for rust its not an object orientated language and its unsafe blocks generally make it easier to at least keep rust code idiomatic.

C++ is also a massive kitchen sink of a language with many ways to hide gotchas. Probably the worst thing in C is its null terminated strings but C++ also suffers from that. C is simple, and rust has at least so far made good design choices for the most part.

There also choices in the C++ language that are even part of the standard library that seemed like a good idea but with hind sight are not that great of idea. For example operator overloading.

Although we are talking a GCC front end so I would be surprised to see both C and C++.
Bias measurements are relative to something. It could make sense for you to feel that way, because you and your social circles may generally be more left leaning. What is the definition of "center"?

They describe how they come to a bias rating at https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-rating-method....
Middle of the night. What makes you think that murder was BLM related?

Also, not to diminish the death. But he was not a police officer. He was retired and doing security work for a friend.
> I'm pretty okay with silencing racism, fascism, nationalism, and misogynism

And progressives have redefined these words to encompass basically every single political belief of ~half the country. Say something semantically meaningful.
> The way this forum was purged from the internet is making me uncomfortable. I never used Parler, and I really don't care about the fact that it's gone. But the way that a handful of private companies effectively decides who gets to reach an audience and who doesn't is deeply troubling. We're increasingly becoming a world where what is and isn't allowed in the public sphere is controlled by a handful of corporate leaders.

Historically, for a forum with nationwide reach, you were nevertheless reliant on periodicals and newspapers and their editors, or running your own publishing.

If there was a will, there's still a way: sites like The Pirate Bay, Library Genesis, and WikiLeaks still find a way to stay up; and they definitely run their own servers though of course there's more that's needed. That kind of effort is what one must be prepared for. It can likely find friendly vendors if willing to look beyond US companies.
Looking neat, nice work!

What tech stack are you running on the backend?
> Bernie sanders brags about occupying government buildings. Would he be held to the same standard? OAC praised BLM protesters marching on the White House a few months ago, with Antifa trying to breach police lines and storm the White House.

This is "what about"-ism. It deflects responsibility and puts the focus on other's behavior. In this philosophy for one side to accept that what they did was bad, it requires every single other person in the world to be perfect, which is obviously impossible and therefor insulates the person from criticism.

But, I'll indulge anyway.

Occupying a building is a form of civil disobedience, which in the US is a respected form of protest. I don't know what incident you're talking about with Bernie, but the results matter. Did he schedule the occupation of a government building that threatened the lives of elected officials and killed a police officer? Or was it a peaceful protest?

For AOC, was she praising the mass of peaceful protestors and what they stood for or was she praising an attempt to breach the White House? There's a big difference, so I want to be clear. If it was the later, then that is definitely dangerous.

But praising or bragging is a far cry from planning, persuading and instigating. Plus, Bernie and AOC aren't the leader of the free world. The President has a responsibility to serve the entire US, all 330M, regardless of who voted for him or against him. Bernie has a responsibility to Vermont and AOC to the Bronx. It's apples and oranges. If you want the highest public office in the country, you need to be held to the highest standards and not complain about how those with far less power might have acted.
>What happens if the party in power next decides to attack religious organizations who congregate during that pandemic with the same type of concerted de-platforming?

I didn't realize that Stripe's actions were due to a government order. Probably because they weren't.

You're conflating a private organization's decisions with government action. If the government were to attempt do as you suggest, the courts would slap them down hard.
Yes. Every time one platform gets banned the right wingers get more and more isolated, more and more relationships become severed, they get more and more lonely. Combined with pandemic quarntines this will be mental tortue and completely destroy them. They simply wont be able to ever come back from this.
Beijing orders Chinese media to censor coverage of Alibaba probe
I'd use Hetzner's Storage Box [1] for storage shared by their 3-core 4GB VPSes [2] for compute. The compute nodes themselves have higher local storage compared to most other popular VPS services at lower prices.

[1] : https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

[2] : https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
> If eg the engineer engaged in these conversations decided to leave, it would preserve the record for the person replacing them.

How many of those recordings are ever played back? None, in my experience.
I don’t have any beliefs about this. A violent mob invaded the capital. Some of them carried weapons. I’m not claiming they were all armed or that they were filmed using the weapons.

Although they certainly did attack police officers. With flag poles, ladders, fire extinguishers, pepper spray.

I’ll leave it there.
The project was started by Michael S. Hart in 1971 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and is now hosted by ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The User Guide and screencasts only show about 10% of the functionality, so you really don't have any way to judge it, but you can still guess can't you.
The whole goal of a modern computer is to abstract away the lower level details that don't matter to most people. The benefit of growing up with those classic computers is that you got to understand the details before they were abstracted away out of sight. The nostalgia is not misplaced.
The argument has been beaten to death so I’m probably not saying anything new to most people here, but two parties is the only stable configuration. In a first-past-the-post system, the smaller parties after the first two will be very quickly eliminated or consolidated (this includes the limiting case of no parties, where everyone is a party of one). On the other hand, if you have one large party it will eventually splinter due to internal discord and a lack of a common enemy.

There have been brief periods in time when there were more than two significant parties in the US. Just after the constitution was written is one — it didn’t take long for parties to be established. Another example was the time period around when the Whig party disintegrated and the Republican party was established. There was the moment in that fallout in 1856 when the Know Nothing party got a few electoral votes, on a platform that is a direct ideological ancestor of Trumpism.
How can it be sexist to compare the issues of 2 groups of women?
“Not being taken seriously”? They are all being tracked down and arrested. Put on no fly lists. New legislation is being drafted to address domestic terrorism. All of their social media platforms are being shut down.

What does this author mean by “not being taken seriously”?
>This is clearly a strawman argument and frankly such an already polarized statement that I'm not sure there's any point replying.

Unfortunately objective reality is extremely polarizing in 2021. Calling for murder and violence is illegal and should be prosecuted under the law.

>The real mystery is why nothing was done to this point.

Its no mystery why monopolistic tech giants have moved in unison to silence and censor anyone who opposes the narrative pushed by the ruling elite. Extremely low-information people take this to mean silencing Trump and his ignorant followers. Informed people understand that voices across the political spectrum, from advocates for Palestinian rights to journalists who push back against war propaganda, have been silenced by tech giants at the behest of powerful interests. Fortunately, low-information people who numerically dominate our society and mindlessly bleat the propaganda they have been programmed with have nothing to fear from the new totalitarianism. Until of course they get branded as a "Nazi" by having the wrong friend or the wrong relative, or being at the wrong place at the wrong time, or being flagged by a nameless, faceless algorithm that has been "flawlessly" programmed to seek out "Nazis" and ensure that they aren't able to participate in society. Of course when you are unpersoned by a tech giant, and your bank account is cancelled, and you are put on a no fly list and you are restricted from participating in society in every other way, you can always contact the powers-that-be and easily get the situation cleared up, just like all the people who are summarily banned from Google or Facebook without an explanation, right?
Not to mention they are intentionally sending more LGBTQ customers his way to have him politely say no and refer them to another business, just so they can sue him again, and again, and again...

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/masterpiece-cakeshop...
There are plenty of reasons to use encryption that have nothing to do with kiddie porn. What are the good reasons to allow calls for violence? Or to keep carrying content which supports it? What is YouTube, or society, losing by blocking it?
Interesting, but no, it doesn't change my mind. What I agree with is that the ban decision making process should be open and transparent, which this was not.
Let me say for the record that I dont have compassion for the current administration. My 'sadness' is for the people we all live with and interact with. I am not a right wing person, but I dont have any problem with them. I actually would be interested in why they feel that way. Im also not a left wing guy. Same interest in their perspective. I am curious in general about people but Im also very introverted. I have a lot of questions for folks that go unanswered since Im a bit shy. Some of that comes from seeing social media posts where anyone who even questions a viewpoint is a target...