skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the amount of added complexity to set up non-trivial networking and security and redundancy/failover and backups and all that stuff in the cloud is far more complicated

This complexity exists either way, is my point. Whether you're managing your own servers, or using barebones cloud VMs, or using a bunch of cloud fanciness, the complexity you just defined still exists. And if that complexity is a constant, why is it only being used as a negative against cloud services?

> Just look at the number of anecdotes about even quite large and well-established businesses that have had systems go down because they didn't fully understand AZs and failover arrangements, or have been landed with some crazy high bill because they didn't fully understand all the different things they were going to be charged for, or have been breached because they left some S3 bucket open.

If your argument is "It's not better when done badly", definitely, I agree, because what is?

I guess, my overall point is that cloud-based infrastructure shifts your focus. Yes, you have to know how to configure cloud resources, but in 2021, do you think it's easier to find people with AWS experience, or people with custom in-house or colo server management experience?
WOW. Just what I wanted. Thanks.

https://bellard.org/qemacs/
The officer was killed with a fire extinguisher. I don't mean to downplay the tragedy of his death. But using a fire extinguisher certainly sounds a lot more like a protest gone too far than a president trying to over throw the government.

Do I need to remind you that Trump encouraged the protest to be peaceful? Then released a video telling everyone to go home, peacefully? Those involved in the violence are being arrested.

"People" online have held up bloody Trump heads, wished for Trump to die. The extreme left isn't this super peaceful always tolerant group. The extreme right isn't either.
It's really interesting to see other folks' digital minimalism setups.

> It’s all well and good removing all social apps from your phone, but if the strong desire is still there to check these types of services, you will find a way to do it.

You can mitigate a lot of your urges to check social on your phone by using a service like Freedom[0], which is what I use. It allows me to set web and app blocklists and schedule them as needed. Usually, the urges go away after a couple of weeks. Ultimately, the goal of digital minimalism is to change your behavior in regards to your device usage, not change your device to appease your urges.

The two biggest changes that helped me dramatically reduce phone usage was to A) go full grayscale on my phone and B) to add the screen time widget to my home screen. Grayscale instantly makes the phone less visually appealing, which helps to put it down faster and to reach for it less. The screen time widget on my home screen allows me to instantly see how much time I've been on my phone, which I then use to decide if I really need to do what I unlocked the phone for.

0: https://freedom.to/
While I learned a little BASIC as a kid, my first programming language was C, in my 20s. I learned it using the Kernighan & Ritchie book. I can't even remember where I got a C compiler from. Probably a DOS freeware ftp server over dial up.

I eventually got Linux installed (probably from a cd-rom included with a very thick book I bought in person at a book store) so I could use gcc.

If I can learn it under those conditions, you can totally do it! You've got Stack overflow!

I think all you need to really learn programming is a motivation. I was generating rendering instructions for some animation program at the time (ray tracing) and so it seemed like the best thing to do to get the job done. I feel in love.
They've been pretty good stewards though, for a long time.

I don't know how much of it is lip-service, but webkit.org talks about using webkit on non-Apple platforms, and webkit-gtk gets discussed on their mailing list.

It feels to me like a truly collaborative open-source project, in a way that's unlike most of what Apple does. Again, I don't know how much of this is an aberration, but I've always been impressed with the whole thing.
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Linux uses GCC extensions. So the Linux kernel depends on the implementation of a compiler already.
Maybe Team Maga could bring back Google Reader?
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Truth in whose eyes?

I believe what Bannon said is false. But at no point has any social media standard been "you must tell the truth", even if we just pretend there is some objective truth that everyone knows.

Easily a hundred million Americans have watched Trump lie AND be lied about.

But the issue here is that Bannon is being disappeared from YouTube for what, exactly? Speaking an untruth?
So then a government telling companies how to moderate their platforms would stifle free speech?
Excuse me for not tolerating fascism.
Oh got it. I guess the bull run is even more aggressive since the 15th, but it's been on a run for a lot longer than that imo.

Thanks for the references, I get what you're saying now!
Probably has to do with reduced latency.
Should have enough LUTs to play with, although not much to spare if you built a core for work rather than play
One problem is that if you're not on the extremes, why do you need a new p2p chat app? If I have mainstream opinions then mainstream apps probably work just fine.
> The best school to become a thief is jail.

I think that's a US thing. Other countries seem to be genuinely more rehabilitative. Looks like 55% of the state prison population is there for violent offenses: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html

Handling non-violent offenders away from the violent ones might be a good start.
I had a nurse at a hospital tell me not to take it because “you can’t trust that stuff”. Weird time to be alive.
I hear you, but there are many ways of making the same point without breaking HN's rules, which call for avoiding flamebait, snark, name-calling and so on. For example, the way you've made your point here is well within the site guidelines. Also, please keep in mind that I didn't ban the GP account for that comment, but rather for a consistent pattern of breaking the rules and flouting our many requests to stop.

HN's guidelines are not ideologically driven. They're designed to help the site achieve its mandate of being a place for intellectually curious conversation [1]. People can't be in curiosity mode and battle mode at the same time—the nervous system doesn't work that way. (They probably can't be in curiosity mode and ideology mode at the same time either, but that's not really where we draw the line.)

When accounts are using HN for battle, smiting enemies, lashing out, and generally contributing to burning this place down, we ask them to stop, and if after repeated warnings they don't stop, we ban them. That's not because we disagree with them ideologically—we ban all accounts that do this regardless of what side they're on. It's because it's the only way to preserve this community and prevent it from destroying itself the way internet forums usually do [2,3]. The goal is for HN is to stay interesting, and scorched earth isn't interesting [4]. We've tried to be true to this core value from the beginning; it hasn't changed and won't change for as long as we can manage to keep it. We do get better over time at articulating it and iterating on the ruleset for keeping it [5].

Actually, the irony is that such accounts resemble the corresponding enemy accounts (and vice versa) far more than either set resembles the majority of users here, who are coming to the site in curiosity mode.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[5] The guidelines have changed a lot in the last year or two. For example, they used to say "Be civil", but now they say "Be kind". That wording reflects the intended spirit better. There are many other things like that, but none of them have changed the core value of the site—they're all an attempt to serve and preserve it better.
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it's arguably the inverse of this. They're doing it because they don't feel threatened by a Republican administration any more. With or without specific regulation threats the workforces and often also leaders of these companies would have done it years ago.
Your job sounds horrible, look around more. The "respond within an hour to slack" sounds downright torturous.
Unfortunately, pretty much every automobile safety improvement in the last century (which collectively have saved ~millions of lives) also occasionally kills people. Airbags can propel objects into people, seatbelts can trap someone in a burning car, antilock brakes perform worse on sand, etc.

In practice, putting the responsibilty on auto manufacturers for every specific injury or death that happens due to a safety system, without somehow giving them "positive credit" for lives saved, massively delays or entirely prevents these sort of advancements from being made. We definitely need processes to verify that new features are actually functional, typically through recalls and product liability suits, but simply putting blame on manufacturers for all accidents is a terrible idea.
I'm aware of precisely one left-wing outlet that was banned, and they intentionally use edgy humour that includes remarks about death and political violence which are (sarcastically) in favour of those things.

There are a few outlets left of centre caught in the dragnet, but so far the bans have got everything from Parler to Bannon to Trump to Trump's Campaign finances (Stripe) to Gab to...

It's hard to find a single lefty outlet which has had its finances attacked, let alone by a concerted effort of the five largest tech companies in America (and the world) within a 48 hour period.

I am no fan of Bannon's or anything of the sort, but try to explain what he just got disappeared for. What rule did he break? "Thou must tell the truth at all times"?
It should be. It's the reason those people got into the capital building.
When Signal says your data belongs in your hands, they are referencing the end to end encryption in the app, which means that any of your data that goes through their servers is encrypted and can't be read by them. This can be verified by people partaking in a Signal message through the use of their safety numbers and through building the app from their published source that you can verify only ever sends your encrypted data to Signal servers. It's true that we can never be sure what's in Signal's backend but we can also prove that anything we send to their backend can't be read by them regardless of its design.
No, they're pissed off due to whatever in their psychology. However, they're choosing to resort to violence due to lies being spread by Fox News et al. Other people were rioting due to truth about police actions. While all rioting is to be condemned, there isn't some symmetry between a scenario driven by lies and one driven by truth.
Substitute bitcoin for whatever you want: tulips, Beanie babies, etc. Even George Soros, the legendary investor is in favor of putting money in a bubble early on. It's how you make the most money.
He was trying to overturn the result of a democratically conducted election. You don't get to "both sides" this.
interestingly I have had private chats with some Silicon Valley tech workers lately that find those bans and censorship repulsive but are too afraid to state this publicly.

I'm wondering if this is not the result of the ultra loud vocal minority once again?
Sounds like a perfect time for that company to sponsor the project financially!
This is a really roundabout way of shutting down your bug bounty program
Yeah, I’m in the same situation and have anxiety induced by the Teams notification sound
welp, guess stripe is actually evil. that sucks because i considered working for them in the future (had an offer from them before), but guess not anymore.

plus their equity vesting structure is absolute trash and doesn't allow employees to get any gains from the stock rising before vest. stay away.
Zoom and the American Family
Hell no. At least then I know it’s entered in a sensible way. If I let the scrum lord do it it’ll be a mess.
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Yes, I know all about the Maillard reaction--been baking and cooking for decades. My point is that searing as a means for "locking in juices" is an old wives' tale. The reverse-sear approach is superior for steaks and roasts, although the sear-first technique is fine for braised dishes.

As for chicken legs, an approach like this one works very, very well and and is an interesting counterpoint to the common wisdom that the pan and oil must be preheated:
https://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-lemon-thyme-chicken-thighs-...
Just started reading this thanks to your recommendation, it looks like a really entertaining book, thanks!

PS for others, it's on libgen...
Certainly white resentment is at the core of Trumpism. They also truly believe the election was illegitimate.
Feynman – There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
> Do you believe Fox News should be banned/censored?

Yes. Failing that let's do what was done to the cigarette industry -- figure out how to make them legally liable for the death they cause.
"The platforms are attempting to limit their exposure to facilitating such actions"

By "exposure", perhaps the commenter means possible sedition charges.

To me, this is further evidence that these websites are neither common carrier nor public forum. The telephone company is not going to cut off anyone's service because of seditious communications. Nor is any public place going to ban people from committing seditious acts there. They will just be arrested when they commit the the crime. Will any ISP terminate anyone's service for fear of enabling sedition.
These companies like Google are, first and foremost, websites. The website is the company. If there is no website, there is no company.

What is interesting about this is that these websites are protected by Section 230. Are there limits to Section 230 protection. Do they end at sedition.
My last week of week consisted of my coworkers freaking out if I didn’t respond in 5 to 15 minutes
There are videos on Youtube of President Clinton discussing his requests concerning UFO's and how it didn't really go anywhere. Harry Reid (Former House Minority leader) also discusses at length the abundance of information that is kept secret and how even the President doesn't have access to it.

I'm not making it up, just repeating what these folks are saying. There are countless interviews of Government officials (Senators, Congressional members) basically being told to fuck off when looking for answers or information.

Why not educate yourself and instead of dismissing them as nonsense.
They really aren't. Look at the alternative narratives pushed recently about how all the Founders were raging slavers.

Many, in fact, were not, even if some participation in the practice at the time. Look at the pushing of anti-Western intellectualism and rejection of the basic tools of logical reasoning, which trace their roots far back to the Ancient Greeks, for being the "Master's Tools" to ensure supremacy.

At the end of every disagreement is violence as the final method of conflict resolution. That these ideas are pushed, is just another log on the fire. Part of classical logic and rhetoric was teaching the ability to utilize them to defuse and avoid violent resolution of disagreement through reference to an objective or common reality.

You may not think the above poster has a point, but they most certainly do.
Also, icestudio (https://icestudio.io/) is a gentle way to get introduced with minimal knowledge to the verilog side of things.
As others have posted, the learning curve for HW can be steep and development tools tend to be in the dark ages as compared to those for SW development. eg. you will spend a lot of time hitting your head on a wall with debugging HW if you arent careful to follow a process of linting and simulating your design well before going to HW.

nMigen is highly recommended.
I've been working on https://align.link/ to help make it easier for people to extend their online meetings with custom apps
I don't agree that it's 'just capitalism'. Just because I acquire a piece of private property does not necessarily give me the right to do anything I want with it.

I can't clobber you over the head with a product I bought just like how many countries have laws to say I can't kick you out of private property that's also a public square.
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But the question is, _why?_ What's their incentive to apply more cruel population control on one ethnic group over others? We're talking about a repressive government, but not a race-based regime like Nazi Germany was. Indeed from their own propaganda they seem like they bend over backward to trumpet the well-being of their ethnic minorities, and you'll hear of cases of the Great Firewall censoring outpourings of nationalist/racist sentiment.

The more boring explanation is the simpler one I think; that they're bringing policies toward minorities in line with policies toward the majority -- i.e. ending a form of "affirmative action" they used to have.

You can argue that population control of _any_ kind is wrong and cruel, and I think that's a totally defensible argument, but there's a rhetorical sleight of hand going on here where people equate China's controversial population control measures (that have been ongoing for decades) with the elimination of a particular ethnic minority, Nazi-style.
People who support fascists are fascists. Period.

And, yes, if a politician started a fund to bail out these fascist protestors, they would be complicit.
probably deserves at least some degree of moderation but still qualitatively different from calling for someone's 'head on a spike' in particular given that Bannon is speaking to an audience that has members who would likely take that literally.

But sure in general you're right, calls for harassment shouldn't be tolerated either.
> These people think the election was rigged, and they don't trust institutions.

The don't come up with these conclusions themselves.
Only one very influential "leader", with a Twitter following of 88M, has been claiming elections are a fraud in America:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-longstanding-history-c...

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37673797

Appeasing his followers has been tried for the past ~5ish years. That led to Jan 6.
Further appeasement will lead to worse outcomes unless trump is politically and legally, and _socially_ contained.
I think this was frowned upon by someone like Edgar Cayce

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

If you make the analogy between advices and “channeling” in the woo-woo psychic sense, there is general agreement on “clear channeling” being the way to go, from what little I’ve read. It is as close to a “law” as anyone (anything?) is willing to posture. There are conservation and symmetry laws all over the place, it seems. As above, so below. Do unto others. The usual.
Awfully long to hold a grudge?

We in the west could have stopped screwing them over a couple centuries earlier as well. Might have avoided the whole civil war ever happening.

EDIT: Was being light-hearted about the "holding a grudge". Been a while since Mao is all.
> The baker was ruled in favor due to objecting based on his religious beliefs.

No, he was ruled in favor of because the US Supreme Court found anti-religious animus in the enforcement process leading to the State ruling against him.

> Part of this was that he was okay with baking a cake for the gay couple but NOT one that had certain messaging that would violate his faith.

No, it wasn't. The decision specifically notes that he objected to being required to make cakes for same sex weddings entirely, on both free speech and free exercise of religion grounds [0], not that he was willing to do so dependent on messaging, so any such willingness he might have had was not a basis of the decision.

Instead, the Court found animus toward Phillips’ religious views by the state commission that found against him, both expressed in the process and evidenced through difference in how Phillips was treated vs. other bakers in similar cases before the same Commission, which mean that whether or not the law could otherwise have been enforced against him, the specific government act had an impermissible purpose, requiring it to be struck down. [1]

Note: All quotes from Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 584 U.S. ___ (2018)

[0] “Phillips raised two constitutional claims before the ALJ. He first asserted that applying CADA in a way that would require him to create a cake for a same-sex wedding would violate his First Amendment right to free speech by compelling him to exercise his artistic talents to express a message with which he disagreed. [...] Phillips also contended that requiring him to create cakes for same-sex weddings would violate his right to the free exercise of religion, also protected by the First Amendment.”

[1] “The official expressions of hostility to religion in some of the commissioners’ comments—comments that were not disavowed at the Commission or by the State at any point in the proceedings that led to affirmance of the order—were inconsistent with what the Free Exercise Clause requires. The Commission’s disparate consideration of Phillips’ case compared to the cases of the other bakers suggests the same. For these reasons, the order must be set aside.”
Former Mayor Willie Brown just said the same thing (good!).

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/williesworld/article/Wil...

It's disgusting that there's vaccine sitting in freezers. Just start giving it to anyone who wants one. I've seen videos of debates where they sit around and discuss which "vulnerable" group should get it first. (Even though many simulations suggest people who are more likely to travel and interact should get it first to optimize the slowing of the spread.)
https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1347970421161922560

does this make you reconsider at all?
The security at the capitol was deliberately limited, probably to allow exactly this to happen and probably by the orders of Trump himself. The investigation over this will seal the deal on which higher ups get charged.
The Line Between Choosing Your Own Customers and Censorship
If you work with other companies or people outside of your org, make sure external access (federated) is enabled, otherwise switching tenants is annoying
Willie Brown: It’s time for California to give vaccine to anyone who wants it
I don't know; the grammar is already pretty complicated without introducing additional indexing schemes. Now that you mention it though, I don't know that I've ever written an algorithm mixing and matching negative/positive indices in a way that couldn't be trivially re-written with that kind of syntax. I'm sure such cases exist for somebody...

Looking for solutions, if you're stuck with Python and hate that behavior:

- If you don't need errors raised then a[~i] is already equal to a[-i-1].

- In your own code (or at its boundaries when wrapping external lists) it's nearly free and not much code to subclass list, override __getitem__, and raise errors for negative indices while responding to some syntax like a[0,] or a.R[0].
> but if a driverless car doesn't stop for a speed limit outside a school the company should have some liability.

This is a particular challenge in California because our school zone signs specify that the limit only applies "when children are present."
Limited by who? I doubt trump's people could have considered this a legit coup opportunity.