skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Cool, I found a package for this"
I'm in the middle of tweaking Gurlic to use Matrix(Dendrite) as a backend. It's a ton of work unfortunately, with the limited time I have. It's codenamed Hummingbard and I hope to release something in a few weeks. It'll take a while for it to reach feature-parity with Gurlic though...

https://gurlic.com
With China clamping down on E Waste imports, the EU may actually be happy to push for something that's pro-environment. I think aligning the incentives properly will be a great thing long term.
Ask HN: What Is the Engineers Role in Society?
As a member of society, what is the engineers role? How do they contribute, and what are their obligations?
When Edward Snowden leaked information, he went through a journalist gatekeeper to do so as responsibly as possible.

Even the Hunter Biden story went through the NY Post.

This doesn't feel like a responsible, good-faith effort to save the republic. It feels like an attack on one's political enemies.

Using the euphemnism "security researcher" in this case doesn't help. Perhaps underhanded tactics are needed to prevent evidence destruction, but call them what they are. Don't pretend they are curious academics or a corporation hardening their systems.
The advantage of push-to-talk is that you are muted by default (necessary for large groups), and the app knows when you want to talk because you have to push the talk button. That is extremely valuable information that you can use to build other features on top of. For example, there's no need for a "raise hand" button anymore, since pushing the talk button clearly signals your intent to speak. The UI can highlight your square, make it larger, whatever, which can make the whole experience a lot smoother.
> on the United States itself.

What does "on the United States itself" mean and why does 9/11 meet that standard but not, say, the Pulse nightclub shooting?
My guess is that the LEDs are in series on a strip, and one burnt out.

The fridge manufacturer probably assumed it’ll always run cold (it’s a fridge right?) and overdrove them too hard to get just as much light out of 20 LEDs instead of 24.

Could bridge the faulty LED with solder to buy some time, and find a donor LED from a “burnt out” LED light bulb or whatevs and solder it in.
What happened to VVVVVV since the source code release
Intuitively you can derive that this is true informally past just an overall feeling.

It’s simple really. Functional programming is just imperative programming without one feature: mutability. Thus if functional programming is just regular programming with a reduced feature set it means it has the same error surface area as regular programming minus the surface area of errors caused by mutability. Hence by proof the error surface area is smaller.

Now think of of all the errors caused by initializing a variable as null and changing it later rather then immediately initializing an immutable variable with the correct value and you can intuit just how big the error surface area actually is.
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>The only way to stop AWS from dropping Parler would be if the government forced AWS to host Parler which would be a violation of AWS’s freedom of association.

I don't have an answer to this, because I agree with you.

Maybe if you "arbitrarily" decide to stop doing business with someone, after you've already started, without a breech of any terms of service, you should be financially liable in some way? Contract law should cover that (I'm def no expert). Does it? Like, if Amazon decides to cut me off from hosting, and I haven't broken any laws, rules or ToS, they should have to pay for me to be up-and-running elsewhere. In other words, AWS can't boot someone without establishing wrong-doing.

It feels like this wouldn't require much more than tighter contracts, handing more power to the customer. I'm in favour of that.
When the repair costs are controlled by the manufacturer, you shouldn't be surprised when the repair becomes cost prohibitive. This is why having only Ford being able to repair Fords and Apple only able to repair Apple devices is a negative. When they own the monopoly they can make any claim they want and you have no option of a second opinion.
> I'd assume that Parler's engineers motivations had more to do with politics than providing a secure platform for protecting dissidents under duress.

If one is to look at the LinkedIn for the tech leadership of Parler it would not be a stretch to say that they are way outside of their depth technologically speaking.
Mea culpa: I had the completely wrong idea on this post. See down thread. I would delete this comment if I could.

Is that why "Hang Mike Pence" was allowed to trend with 14K tweets, and later that same day "Hang Pence" with 55K?[1]

I'd wager every penny I own that almost none of those people were banned or sanctioned in any way.

[1]: https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1347791913806532609
For the very reasons people work in ad tech, Facebook, et. al. Not everyone is a wannabe politician or a wannabe future founder/leader/influencer/celebrity with the accompanying delusions of grandeur.

A lot of people just want to lead normal lives with their friends and family. I envy them. Truly.
Since it's WARC and is going to end up on archive.org (archive.org is going to host it, but a different org 'archive team' are the ones who downloaded it), twitter isn't going to stop it from being posted since it's just going to show up as a link to web.archive.org. Arguably this isn't 'hacked data' since it's stuff that was wget'd and no security measure circumvention took place.
Nice! I did something similar when the pandemic started, but more focused on displaying slides and not organizing lyrics:
https://github.com/paupin2/slides

I'll definitely copy some ideas from you :)
> Outlaw it.

Companies always follow the law.
On the academic side the SIGGEN mailing list is where a lot of the activity in the NLG community goes on: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=SIGGEN
The data is public now—if you're so certain, go find me a single post on Parler calling for mass executions.
I did some experiments last summer trying to get GPT-3 to author quizbowl questions, a type of trivia question. As expected, GPT-3's loose relationship with the truth made these results not acceptable. But a system that really could generate new questions from existing facts would be immensely useful in this domain.
Interesting enough, my "commute" is now walking the dog around the area, starting in the kitchen ( or whereever the dog - a 2 year husky!, is waiting for me ) and ending up in the office "room". The fresh air and the 20-35 mins walk is really ideal to kick start my brain for the work. Ideally the walk is without the phone, this helps me to really disconnect.
Twitter is a haven for the "kill all white people" and "Republicans all deserve to die" supporters.
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'"pushing authoritarian and unethical measures" by the US executive' has gone on _much_ longer than 4 years.
Vigilantism is what go the Capitol ransacked. So I feel pretty ambivalent about this hack (and yes, Parler is evil, and am quite happy that they are offline as of today).
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It was a bit more than that. The attack was against AT&T, there was zero public interest in the information from a whistleblower perspective, the victims were customers of AT&T, a telecommunications provider.

Dumping the contents of a far-right website that helped push for Insurrection against the US Government seems pretty tame by comparison.

Also, Weev is open and proudly a Nazi, so the optics of bringing him up while defending the rights of a Fascist website isn't great.
Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain?
Apple was targeted by left wing activists for just hosting the NRA App.

Liability comes in many forms.
We have already accepted this in other areas where low probability meets large applicability. We know probability is non-zero and given a large enough sample size there is an expected adverse outcome quite a bit higher than zero. E.g., a more trivial example is that the allowable number of insect parts in food is greater than zero because it’s impossible to mass produce food and never have contamination.
Scariest comment so far!
Most people being banned did not do that, including Trump himself, and in fact the rapidly-expanding domain of speech that is being pretextually construed of as "actively planning and encouraging a violent insurrection" is in fact a large part of the problem here.
> That is quite the hypothetical

Until two days ago, being booted from your hosting provider for ideological disagreement was also quite the hypothetical.
I was hoping to build something.

Every publisher/user runs their own node, or from a node-service provider. And then you "friend" and follow built around RSS with signed or crypted items in the feed. Other nodes operate as aggregators and discovery services.
This bug was found by my friend. David has found many creative bugs and we worked on a project together :)

Must say a quick thinker, and he's just 17 or 18.
you're 100% right. I intentionally focused on higher fat foods.
> There's a lack of UDFs for working with complex types (lists, structs, etc.). Having to write UDFs in Javascript is also not the greatest experience.

We load our data into SF in json and do plenty of list/struct manipulation using their inbuilt functions[1].
I guess you might have write a UDF if you are doing something super weird but inbuilt functions should get you pretty far 90% of the time.

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/functions-semist...
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Try to run a child pornography site on the internet and let us know how hard it was for you to be moderated out of existence (and into a small box with bars on the doors.)
I don't trust that your definition of an "actual nazi" isn't significantly colored by your own prejudices. That we could actually agree on who are the extremists in society who are equally damaging.
The Austin Housing Market Is Exploding
Some houses are getting 60 offers in 3 days. Houses are going for 20% over asking (that's pushing $80k over for very average houses).

This is because there's just nothing available. A healthy market has 6 months of product on the market. Austin has less than one month's worth.

Thankfully the city is full of new builders that are developing large swaths of land into new neighborhoods, but even they can't keep up with demand.

These new communities' waitlists are filled with hundreds of people, racing for the 5ish available lots that come out each month.

There are thousands of people moving here and only hundreds of houses.

It's a wild ride and it's hard to know if this will only continue, get worse, or slowly calm down.

Source: I'm among the masses, clamoring for a place in or around the city. I've lost on two contracts where I offered well above asking.
Bad plan. The problem is not have someone pay for the disposal, but delay disposal for as long as possible. And the ones who make the decision for the disposal are the consumers. Having the manufacturer pay a tax in advance puts little pressure on the consumer.

Moreover, anything that involves an "assessment" is bound to be gamed by the manufactures. See e.g. the recent VW car emission scandal.
Long-term, it will take ownership of physical hardware/networking for hosting and in the short-term, usage of a distributed DB like IPFS or Sia's SkyDB.
Those big ass nukes have a lot of power to extract value. Hence the value of the dollars they create to make you pay taxes with.
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Related (not electrostatic, but also propulsion without macroscopic moving parts):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive
The point of SMART is that it's a framework to help you communicate your goals. They are often used in management because if someone says "i wanna build x" you and that person may have a different definition of what that means. If you agree on specifics and how you will measure done you've clearly communicated.

If you can't communicate what you will deliver and by when how can someone know if you've done what you've set out to do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal#Goal_setting covers some empirical research.

For example, 'purpose' can be nebulous, but a goal should be reasonably specific.
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That's really not the case.

These platforms haven't changed that much in terms of their policies.

If you called someone the n-word or tried to coordinate murder of some public official you would be banned.

Bannon was calling for Dr. Fauci to be beheaded a few days ago. That's what got him banned from Twitter.

Gen. Flynn was calling for public officials to be executed. He was banned.

Get it?

Twitter has not really changed that much - the public, and their expectations of 'freedom of expression' in the face of politics has changed.
I had to fix my circa 2005 Kenmore dryer and it had a folded up paper schematic behind the panel!!!

Note: whenever throwing those things out, save the knobs. They’re like $10+ each.
I mean it's definitely not for power-users but I think it's a pretty nice basic file manager. I've never really wanted for something more powerful than Nautilus but less powerful than a terminal.
Study: All non-violent criminals jailed on minor drug offence should be released
You're begging the question by calling it a "free and fair election". The dissent is whether that is actually the case. And if it is not, then the eradication of that dissent is terrifying.
I'm left-winged with absolutely no love for Parler and believe a lot of people have blood on their hands for the violence incited last week.

The security researchers were wrong to make this information publicly available but the fact that Parler actually put their users at risk like this with such a disturbingly glaring security flaw is absolutely infuriating and outrageous. I'm speaking as a believer in civil rights and user protection. Call it growth hacking or try to overlook this as a sympathetic mistake if you wish but this was a disgustingly reckless decision for any competent technical team to make and it deserves profound censure.
While I agree with you mostly on the censorship from private companies on public discourse, I have difficulties to see how amazon is censoring anybody really. With the media platforms and social networks I am also very concerned with every action they take in regards to deleting content and banning users, since they basically operate as a monopoly for public discourse. But infrastructure services such as aws or google are only offering a completely optional service in regards to hosting a webpage/forum/etc. Everybody can buy a server and give others their ip address. By not offering their services to certain parties they're not silencing anyone, they're just not helping them. Parler could just as well buy some racks, like the many other companies that already do. So how is amazon deciding what people on the internet see and what they don't see?
Agreed, title could be changed to be less misleading.
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I don't think this should be a consideration.

I agree that the manufacturer or carrier doesn't owe you updates indefinitely, but they definitely should give you all the resources you need to develop these updates yourself if you wanted to.

The landscape can change. Maybe there's going to be a huge open-source project that will make these updates. Maybe someone will figure out a way to automatically handle a large number of hardware configurations at scale (a powerful enough hardware abstraction layer should be able to deal with it). Maybe someone will make a business out of it, providing security updates at a reasonable cost. Either way, there shouldn't be any artificial hurdles against the customer developing and running their own firmware on hardware they paid money for.
I'm not the one making the positive claim: if people are so certain there were calls for mass executions on Parler, they should demonstrate it.
It's not about 'who's going to do it' but about 'if I want to do it, I can'.

I would really like to hack on a tablet I have that's 5 years old, but I can't because the firmware and drivers are both closed source.

I think when I buy a device, I should get the source code to it once the manufacturer decides it's not worth it for them to continue patching the software for the device I've bought.
Seems like the author is grasping at straws.
The biggest issue with Solar Panels and wind turbines were always about normalising output. This used to cause substantial loss which made it unviable. Things got much better when storage of energy became cheaper, and engine tech improved due to Tesla.

You can also give credit for the Energy Derivative market that used trading on Energy futures to help companies financially hedge any risk on green energy.
So only rich people can heat their apartment in winter?
If a video used to be public, but was turned private, there could be references to it in other places.
> knowing that it is extremely controversial

Aside from it being sad that supporting free speech is controversial, if we assume good faith in the founders' statements then the controversy is simply the way the media has highlighted a section of the user base. Have you been on there? I haven't but I've been around long enough not to rely on the media for accurate representations of groups on the internet (or much else, to be honest.)
Occasional connections invalidate the air gap since applications can spool data to be sent once the internet connection is back. Especially on windows 10 where the user has very little control or knowledge about what updates are doing. You could of course have two modern computers and use a flash drive to transfer files though
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/arkansas-police-resign...
I assure you there will be countless power supply/food delivery companies extremely eager for the chance to service Amazon/AWS.
I've used Scuttlebutt (https://scuttlebutt.nz/) and Aether (https://getaether.net/) which are P2P apps, but I never really started using them. Didn't find interesting content or communities to keep me engaged. It's not easy to build a vibrant social network from scratch.
For now, here is a bookmark that you can click when in a HN post. It will show the flame graph of the post.

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Oh but people did put in the work[0]. The problem is that gnome maintainers are hostile towards anyone from outside their little bubble wanting to get in some patches.

[0]: https://github.com/Dudemanguy/gtk
They don't, but, at least in object-oriented languages, much of overall experience is easy enough to replicate with formal interfaces and coding standards.
They're not fool proof yet and can take a bit of tending unless you really spring for the top of the line. Particularly important is the blade pitch, on the more affordable models that has to be set manually and if you go too fast with an aggressive pitch intended for a lower speed you can break the unit very quickly.
This is fair. I did not mean to suggest there are no issues with wild bee populations declining. There certainly are.

Also it's important to note that anything we call a 'wild' honey bee now is just a descendant of a once 'domesticated' variety, originally brought over by European settlers. So if you trace it back far enough, protecting 'wild' bees is sort of funny since it is an 'artificial' element we introduced to our environment in the first place.

My gripe is these articles like to quote decrease in numbers observed by commercial bee keepers. They mislead people into thinking these are the same numbers scientists are observing in the overall wild bee population. Again, in America, something we introduced in the first place. They were not native.

I think it is important to understand that mono crop farms, with crops that depend on pollinators, work closely hand in hand with commercial bee keepers. I have never seen this explained to people by any of these articles, probably because it does not server their agenda.

Collateral damage from mono-crop farming practices (destruction of habitat, mass chemical application) is a big problem, but not being honest about the the history, and purposely hiding the large role commercial beekeepers play is not helpful.

https://honey.com/blog/honey-in-history-colonial-america
I just saw this in my podcast feed too. Yay, I've been hoping there would be a second season soon. :D
The part this argument is forgetting is what agency a person has over how people use the stuff they've made.

The issue is that if Twitter can't qualify how people use their site, then they're losing agency over a resource they spend a lot of time and effort maintaining. They'd have to operate at a loss for the good of the people who use it.

Should the US government run a public version of Twitter? Maybe the UN, even?
Yet the article is literally is also showing a current peculiarity (user-space memcpy being faster than kernel-space memcpy) that may be or may not be true for your platform _now_ or in 3 years from now.
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You're getting downvoted to oblivion, but it's an important question - though perhaps you could have at least explored some possible answers a bit in your comment.

Inequality in society, driven by poor early family life and environment for many (leading to many issues including poor education) is a real problem for 'the West', and especially the US.
Bad caps?
First, currency is mostly used as a medium of exchange. If you are worried about devaluation, then don't sit on it. Exchange it for something else. Anything. That's easy.

And it's usually better to hold some kind of currency which can be exchanged all over the world, than Magic Monopoly Money.
I have the same question about the press release. Where was it posted and what was its content?

I know that not all press statements are going to be on the website.
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