skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silicon Valley does not control the Internet though. I get that headlines like this make for good clickbait, but it's not like Parler can no longer exist on the Internet.

Parler can go buy some servers, hook them up to the internet, and come back online.
The X1 Titanium Yoga will start at $1,899

If someone is not tied to Windows, it's hard to justify this over a $999 MBA.
Broadly speaking, the situation you described is legal in the US. We have protected classes that you're not allowed to discriminate against, but "political belief/affiliation" isn't one of them.
Man Has Only Two Password Guesses Left to Recover $236M in Bitcoin
I don't know about no tariffs beig the fairest model.

One reasonable thing to impose tariffs on is products made with slave labor, or labor paid at less than the minimum wage in your own country. The benefits are twofold, disincentivizing slave labor in other countries, and incentivizing local supply.
Study: Wildfires produced up to half of pollution in US West
You don’t really believe that is why they did that, do you?
That doesn't seem to be a fair description - it seems like he originally ran a software house that were paid to build a lot of the original reddit, was acquihired and given the title founder, and then stuck with the company through acquisition before being re-assigned to another of the acquirers properties.

Founder, not sure, but your narrative of someone barely involved doesn't stack up either.

Also, early on, it seems he brought the technical knowhow, acting as an outside CTO, and also had high PR / name recognition value, so I think they owed him some recognition for sure.
Will you also include communists in your game? I'm asking this because many countries had "beautiful experiences" while being governed by communists.
From what I’ve heard, Google has not provided any Android APIs for reading RCS messages in the way they have for SMS/MMS.
Sync for Reddit allowed you to map volume buttons to thread up/down. That was super convenient and fast. Unfortunately, it seems Apple does not look to such features kindly.
Everything Integration for the Windows Taskbar
I wonder if writing things in Rust just to put that in the headline is becoming a viable strategy for software adoption. There is often very little reason why programming languages matters to end users, but it strongly correlates with visibility in some communities.
I can't read that because of the paywall but why should I when I have the original? The original does not call for violence. Case closed.
Fair point. I was actually joking here :).
Second paragraph... glad we can all count.
It was indeed a weird model, I think the tech scene here always looked at eAI like some type of outcast, leaving them alone.

But it drew attention to the AI scene, universities received massive funding in AI which is fantastic, startups grew around it, VCs started investing more in MTL(not only because of them, but it did play a role), FAANGS expanded their offices and openned AI labs downtown and in the mile-end.

I was not a fan, but the publicity they received has definetly been good for the scene.
Foldable full-size ethernet ports do exist
https://i.redd.it/jmgamgmhcq201.png
Fun fact- political affiliation, which is not a protected class in most of the US, IS in fact a protected class in DC. So yeah, you can kick someone out of your bar simply for wearing a MAGA hat in almost the entire US...except for DC.
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> Parler already had a moderation policy in-place

A policy that was FAR more relaxed than any of their competitors, which was by design and part of their marketing pitch: come here to say those things you're not allowed to say elsewhere.

Parler's position is: unless the language is strictly illegal according to the letter of the law that's designed limit government censorship of speech, then it's allowed.

By that definition, if I call for someone's death, unless I have the means and the opportunity and mention a specific time, then it doesn't count and the post stays up.

Clearly Amazon, Google, and Apple have policies that are more strict than US law. And that makes sense: US law is shaped by the constitution, which is meant to restrict the government's ability to limit speech. And we should absolutely want the rules regarding government censorship to be as narrow as possible.

But private services are free to operate by different rules.

For example, if I walk into a McDonalds and start swearing at all the customers, I'll get kicked out even if I'm not breaking the letter of the law.

So, did they have a moderation policy? Yes, technically. But did that policy allow extremist and violent language to persist on their site at a level above and beyond what's seen on any competing platform outside of, say, 8chan? Absolutely.

> As a side note, I've heard that the people who actually stormed the Capitol Building (not just holding signs outside of it, which is perfectly fine) used Facebook to coordinate and not Parler.

And Facebook would pull that content down if they found it.

Parler won't.

That's what got them pulled from AWS, and the Google and Apple app stores.
Wow.

1. The non-www version doesn't seem to work.

2. If you try https://www.intelink.gov/, the browser immediately warns you that the site is not secure, because of certificate problems.

3. If you still dare to venture ahead, you are greeted with this:
"This is a United States Government computer system. This computer system, including all related equipment, networks, and network devices, including Internet access, are provided only for authorized U.S. Government use. U.S. Government computer systems may be monitored for all lawful purposes, including ensuring that their use is authorized, for management of the system, to facilitate protection against unauthorized access, and to verify security procedures, survivability, and operational security. Monitoring includes authorized attacks by authorized U.S. Government entities to test or verify the security of this system. During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied, and used for authorized purposes. All information including personal information, placed on or sent over this system may be monitored."

I am out of here :-)
I have ThinkPad's T480s which is basically exactly that.
Ultrabooks are fine, but we have to remember who they're aimed at. They're aimed at office users, casual home users, students, and a large subset of programmers who don't need to run 50 VMs. They're not aimed at gamers, engineers, (some subset of) programmers, and technicians.

For those 4 groups, most ultrabooks suffer from:

1. Being underpowered (for gamers and some engineers this means graphically, for programmers memory/cpu count/cpu speed)

2. Insufficient ports (particularly for engineers, technicians, and some programmers and gamers)

3. Insufficiently sturdy (technicians, some engineers and programmers)

But often they do have good battery life, but by virtue of being underpowered that doesn't really help in the balance.

Companies that do make laptops (IME) aimed at gamers, tend to not make laptops that have decent battery life (that is, most desktop replacement laptops get good performance, but terrible battery life). And laptops aimed at engineers and technicians tend to be 3" thick, have terrible battery life, and have grossly underpowered processors and graphics, but they have every port you could ever want.
I don't think we forgot to tax sarcasm, we just like the English more than the French </sarcasm from a yank>

We're all hopeful that things will get better when we have an actual adult in charge of America. Sorry on behalf of the rest of us for the mess that we've made of things. We're trying to fix it!
There is probably more to that - does the current administration really bother with tech companies? Or is it a move to further (a) deteriorate relations before the new admin takes over or (b) create leverage for upcoming trade talks?
This is true. However, the language, the core objects, and the virtual machine implementation are described in the Blue Book well enough for someone to implement all of it. Like Oberon it's a description of a complete computing system that fits in a single book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapping
We got damn close here in the US with the Japanese internment. So speech suppression it clearly isn't necessary to imprison an entire ethnic group for political reasons.

> Your statement is pure speculation.

So is yours.

> and to top it all off the hate speech laws didn't even work!

I'm not talking about hate speech laws. I'm talking about blasphemy laws. Like I said you seem to not have a particularly strong knowledge of the actual history here, hence my request for a historian who supports your position.

> blood libel from

Funny you bring that up. Guess who propogates blood libel conspiracies today? Q-anon, a conspiracy theory group that overlaps with the people who stormed the capitol building. So you see, even with free speech you can have large groups of people believing absolute nonsense.
Chinese Funding of US Schools Under Scrutiny
> some ISPs also wanted to sell "internet lite" packages that are cheaper and only allow you to connect to a fixed set of websites. presumably they would also take money off the back end from those websites that want to be in the list.

In the U.S.? I thought this was only in India with Facebook's non-internet Internet.
This is another question in good faith. Can you provide any evidence at all that you're not knowingly asking that as a political/debating tactic to suggest your proposition is reasonable, knowing full well that the purpose of Parler's existence is (was) to facilitate communication that larger social networks stifle, and categorize as hate speech?

I think it's very interesting that you lead off citing good faith in a situation where, in my experience, you're about to demonstrate literal bad faith. It's like you wish to take off the table the interpretation that you are intentionally lying for the sake of argument.
Better get a Thinkpad x270 before all of the depreciated corporate hand-me-downs dry up!

Shame no Thunderbolt though.
The Intel compiler has been doing function multi-versioning for many years now. If you annotate a function for multi-versioning the compiler will build several optimized versions of it, including a generic version, running the most optimal one for the host CPU based on a CPUID check.

Intel purposefully misidentifies AMD chips with the CPUID check so always runs the generic version of a function on AMD. It does this even if the host AMD chip supports 100% of the features as some Intel CPU that runs the optimized version.

So for any benchmark compiled with ICC any results for AMD chips are meaningless. You can only compare Intel to Intel or AMD to AMD. Compiling that same code without FMV so each CPU runs the exact same instructions will see the difference between them narrow or reverse.

Intel is free to optimize the shit out of their compiler but it's bullshit that they also actively sabotage AMD chips at the same time. It's very much a vendor lock-in tactic.
This was flagged dead. I vouched for it. There is nothing in here that is beyond discussion imo and we are still well into a situation in the US that requires discussion like this and this is a sufficiently nuanced take.
My prediction is that countries will appear less democratic in the future whether or not those against democracy succeed. Advocates of democracy will write articles and think pieces about how delicate democracy is and how we must protect it and the enemies of democracy will turn around and agree. I do not look forward to it.
Then Elsevier should be just fine when it loses this part of its business.
No, the thin options are bad, and the people who like them should feel bad.
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) Used in the SolarWinds Breach
Pretty sure I have posted this exactly once. Not sure where you get off.

Satire has a way of making uncomfortable truths easier to hear by cloaking them with humor.
I want it thick enough for a decent battery and a keyboard with nice travel. Oh and make it easy to open and close it an replace/add stuff. Sure add some room for a 2.5" sata drive. Like you, I don't really get the race to the thinnest. Perhaps it pushes tech in other aspects to limits that allow for better batteries in my thicker laptop... in that case, I'm ok with it ;)
To clarify, you're saying we don't know whether Lyme disease is real?
Not at all. The hypocrisy is that the same folks who cheered the Supreme Court cake ruling are now wanting AWS to bake them a cake.
> I'm going to assume that you didn't spend very long with the system.

I spent way to long with macos because the computer belong to my SO. She was an artist (used mostly Adobe) and wanted it for the aesthetics and was adamant to learn to use it and I had to guide her though tear-filled painful year long process of adjusting to macos ... 'quirks'

Just to clarify, tears weren't induced by me. I was coming when the tears started flowing to offer solutions and emotional support.

She persevered but I think she never was as efficient with mac as she was with windows previously. And I never stopped being occasionally called to task of researching and resolving some inanity.

For me personally macos was terrible until I found Terminal. Then I just concluded it's just kind of linux with very bad gnome-like gui window and file managers.

I know it's just my preference but learning gui with windows and then moving to macos for some advanced users is sheer pain that never subsides and some things just don't work (for some definitions of "work" like in the article we are commenting).

As for the details I remember that on MacOS when you drag and dropped a folder somewhere where folder of the same name already existed, then sub-folders were not merged. Just replaced. So you were loosing files in target location that were not present in source location. That behavior is highly unexpected and destructive for someone coming from windows.

If you select 100 files and right-click > show info, you get 100 popups ... hardly desirable.
Mark zuckerberg, during one of the senate hearings, admitted that facebook coordinates with other big tech companies in certain situations.
Agreed. One Parler, one could search for terms like "execute" or "hang" and get thousands of results. It was a vile place. The owners of the site have chosen to die on the hill of protecting that as "free speech".
I don’t think so. I’m on iOS so I can always get access through my desktop app I have synced. That said, I’m also the kind of person who doesn’t care if I throw away all my text messages.
Not to discount your experience, but IMHO this is a pretty niche opinion. Most of my friends and family seem to be either oblivious to any issues with Facebook, or at most be concerned about X or Y but unwilling to part with their network.

I tried to dig up some stats, and the best I could find was a survey by The Verge[1] from Dec 2019:

According to the survey, 71% of people had a favorable opinion of Facebook, and 75% think Facebook has a positive or neutral impact on society.

However, Facebook scored relatively worse than most other brands surveyed (except Twitter), so you may be onto something. It's also possible that it's worsened in the past year.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/21144680/verge-tech-survey...
Also, what Parler was doing was not so much "gathering in the public square" as they were renting a storefront in a privately owned mall. The mall owners are well within their rights to evict the tenant.
I think if you destroy evidence then you not only get charged with that but also the jury is instructed to consider that evidence as indicative of guilt.
One would hope that a CPU from 2020 would be faster than one shipped in 2015!

As I said, the M1 is a /great/ CPU. But the numbers are marketing numbers & should be treated as such. The same goes for the CPU in your XPS. It was sold with an advertised TDP, was probably configured by the manufacturer to a /different/ TDP target subject to the thermal constraints of the laptop & as an end-user you can shift the set-points of thermals vs power consumption yourself if you want to. None of this is new & Apple is no exception. If Intel hadn’t completely failed to deliver their last 2 fab shrinks, you’d be sat here raving about how amazing your passively cooled Intel Mac was I imagine.
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> "By politicizing mask-wearing he could be responsible for killing more Americans than any other person in our history."
In the case of Parler, it turned out that yes, the calls to violence were real and not jokes.

You might say all these platforms previously gave Parler the benefit of the doubt and then were faced with incontrovertible evidence that Parler was facilitating political violence.
This is likely off-topic but I am looking hard at having home 10Gbps network and I struggle to find noise-less switches that allow copper 10Gbps links. I am okay with buying one fanless Mikrotik 10Gbps switch with SFP cages and buy adapters but I am open to other ideas.

Can you recommend quiet 10Gbps switches that support copper links?
Unions are political pressure groups. Collective bargaining rights are not just limited to worker compensation, they touch on every aspect of business - including how the business wields its power in the larger society.
It is not the only slippery slope though.
The lies of the left far exceed what has come out of Trump's mouth, much less the right's.

Funny how there were zero attempts at squashing the lies of the left (eg: the Russia hoax, the Steele dossier, Trump being a racist, the stolen-election recriminations, "mostly peaceful" protests, masks work-but-don't-work, etc etc etc.)

There is no room for truth anymore, we are well past the truth. Those that were supposed to be arbiters of truth (fifth estate) abandoned their responsibility and embraced Trump Derangement Syndrome.

It's sad that this is where we've gone and the people supposedly interested in preventing the undermining of democracy, the rule of law, bipartisanship, and political unity are now attempting to steer the conversation again. No, you who are squawking about 'lies,' 'riots,' and 'democracy' have already lost all credibility.

Double standards
That's true — there are ways to cap the loss. I haven't played around with this market enough to have good intuition about that sort of thing, but maybe I'll use the simulator in the ToS platform to see how I'd do.
Can you recommend a source for used Thinkpad x270s?
I don't know about Apple but Amazon has Amazon Workers for Climate Justice which is a similar group.
What a disaster every thread about media bias is. People can’t see past the end of their nose about it. They’re all so locked into “my bias is the correct one” that even objective reality seems biased.
I just don't understand how UI/UX designers, managers, whoever it was, managed to convince the world that grey on white makes any sense. Pure trend-following
I'm working on https://homespritz.ca whith fulltime job.

It's tough to manage to be honest since I also like to pretend to have a life.

Weekdays I find I get barely anything accomplished after 9-10 hours of work at my fulltime job. Weekends however is a different story, most of my homespritz work is accomplished on the weekend.
Saturday and Sunday I aim to get at least 16 hours of work done each.
Read the suspension letter. AWS suspended them BECAUSE they refused to moderate the problem accounts.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...
We're building a KubeArmor - a container-aware runtime security enforcement system n using LSMs - between India, Korea and the US

https://github.com/accuknox/kubearmor
What a backwards ass situation we've found ourselves in.

Imagine the flip side. Imagine if a bunch of "conservatives" from Mississippi started a web hosting company 10 years ago and then an anti-fascist social media platform sprouted up on their infrastructure. Imagine people on this platform started posting about how black lives matter on the platform.

Imagine what the "conservative" reaction would be.

You take a platform for violent extremists off of _private_ servers hosted by a _private_ company on the West Coast and everyone flips their lid. "Conservatives" have no shame.
ar15.com is owned by Brownell's sports. it's hardly an "especially toxic brand."

GoDaddy really stepped over a line here and to this point has nothing to say for itself.
No, I mean in fairness, no tariffs is about as fair as it gets as far as trade goes.

There are good reasons to impose tariffs otherwise. Slavery is a good reason, and the counterparty-country being a communist dictatorship is another good reason. You want to start a list?
>It is not "pedantic"

It's quite pedantic.

I'm the same way, here's an interpersonal relationship tip I've had to learn: If someone calls you an asshole, you can't say "No, I've thought about it and you're wrong, you don't really think I'm an asshole." Well, you can say that, but it just makes you come off as even more of an asshole.
Not by censorship alone, of course, but here's J. S. Mill: "But, indeed, the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed for ever, it may be thrown back for centuries. To speak only of religious opinions: the Reformation broke out at least twenty times before Luther, and was put down. Arnold of Brescia was put down. Fra Dolcino was put down. Savonarola was put down. The Albigeois were put down. The Vaudois were put down. The Lollards were put down. The Hussites were put down."
No. The first amendment is about the government. The concept of freedom of speech is broader. If in a pandemic I can only legally communicate via digital tools, and the billionaires running the digital tools all decide to ban me, I am silenced.
> Verizon is an ISP... are they a platform?

Remember net neutrality? Guess who killed it.
Any experience on how well do these kind of ports age? I never had one but i'd suspect it to be fragile.
It looks like its open source. The developer would probably be delighted to take a patch adding Firefox support!
Right... the parent is saying that 4x10G is pointless compared to 4x2.5G, because PCIe 4 lanes will top out at forwarding around 7gbps of traffic.

You can't do line rate on all ports either (limited by PCIe alone, let alone CPU for smaller packets), but you can certainly fill an individual port, which I suspect is the goal.
While the law does grant individual workers the power to strike, the legal protections are weak enough that it's not really practical even if you trust your employer to respect them. Unless you're striking against a specific unfair labor practice, your employer has the right to simply replace you, and reinstate you only when a new job opening is available.
Ask HN: Do nonprofits need product managers?
Hey there HN, I'm a PM who would like to do something good with my time/skills (I've got about 10 years of experience in enterprise SaaS, which is decidedly not improving society). I'm wondering if there are nonprofits or other groups that could use PM help to actually do something beneficial for the country? Anything helping with journalism/inequality/feeding people/etc. would be interesting. More than happy to take a meaningful pay cut if the jobs are out there.