skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we’re talking about individual ISPs, backhaul providers, and electricity companies, I agree. But we’re not.

If anything, we should be more bothered that people consider something like AWS or any of the other major clouds, core infrastructure akin to backhaul or electricity. (Google Play and the App Store have always had very clear TOS rules that limit certain types of content so I don’t even see them as being part of the discussion.)

I fundamentally agree that something like Parler, as abhorrent as much of its content was, has the right to exist somewhere on the internet, but I just as fundamentally disagree that Amazon should be forced to provide them with services or that we should equate having a right to exist with “having the right to exist on X’s brand of compute.”
So if a neo-Nazi walks into a restaurant and says that all Jews should burn to death then tries to order lunch and is refused, that owner is in for a world of hurt?

We need to stop pretending like everyone's viewpoint is equal and we shouldn't exclude people for what they believe. Violent racists should be ostracized and pushed out of society. People who choose to have those kinds of beliefs are a constant threat to the safety of people around them.

Now obviously it's a blurry line, but again, the neo-Nazis storming the capital and their ilk are just way over the line. Just because it's blurry doesn't mean we have to pretend it doesn't exist out of some sense of fairness.
Was looking forward to using it but, it says my IP is blacklisted. :(
This got me, too.

>a privacy-focused, cloud-based domain name service resolver which converts IP addresses into domain names.

Except for being privacy focused, this literally describes every domain name service in the Internet.
Please check this article on the Benedict abbot or Peter the Venerable who was during his time in charged of more than 600 monasteries [1]. In the article it's mentioned that he summoned the monks to not only translate Arabic works he found in Toledo to Latin, but also Arabic translations of otherwise lost classical Greek texts. If this not the proof of Muslim Empire and scholars greatly help preserving Greek texts then I don't know what is. As you probably know that the renaissance era was started from the fall of Toledo into the Spaniard's hands.

Just for the sake of arguments, even if the Cristian world have most of their copies, are having the back up copies by the Muslim world really help preserving the books when there was no Google Drive around?

At least we probably can agree that these Muslim scholars were not only appreciating but they were also cherishing the Greek books just like we are cherishing the PlayStation 5 not only appreciating it. For them it is part of their religious duty to contribute and spread the knowledge regardless they were from India, China or Greek. You need to understand that these scholars not only preserved the book but they cherished them. It's given fact that you only keep what you value and cherish, and by nature human are selective hoarders. Without the ransack of Baghdad by the Mongol where the rivers turned blue/black by the ink of the thrown and demolished books it's probably not an exaggeration to say that we probably living in Mars by now. The fact that the lesser backup copies in Toledo, Spain that fell into the European hands essentially initiated the knowledge revolutions or renaissance as they called it today.

[1]https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/12/27/these-are-m...
I typically leave something broken like you described. Either something it can't compile, or something simple like a test that isn't passing yet.
Is the Virtual Workplace Creating Silicon Valley 2.0?
I don't know a single person who uses Teamspeak, and every discord server I'm on has at least one person boosting it. I was paying for discord for a while until I did a trim of my budget - but it gets you a shiny icon, you get to use more emojis, and other little things. You may call me a chump, but Discord is a product I value (like public radio ;) ) and so I tossed a coin to them.
That's antitrust or competition law. However, no matter how you slice it, court would be unlikely to rule AWS as a monopoly given its market share in cloud hosting and even if you focus in on specific services, AWS market share is small by antitrust standards.

Amazon (the webstore) on the other hand is getting close, and with the core business of the other FAANGs.
Charlottesville was a proving ground. Trump's singing to white nationalists, violence against "the other side", casualti(es).

In this particular case Trump directly ordered the attack. (At first I put quotes on order and attack, but alas no quotes needed, it's what it is.) But he has been flaring these flames since ... that fucking birth certificate dog whistle.
If you have a constantly increasing money supply, everyone's goal is to spend as little as possible on their day to day costs(which is what the CPI tracks), and squirrel away as much as possible in assets.

The net effect this has had over time is those who are really good at using leverage in a decreasing interest rate environment end up with exponential growth, and use that to buy more assets, which allows them to lever more...

This leads to a bifurcation between the people who make money through labor and those who make money through ownership of assets. The greater the wealth inequality in a population, the bigger a percentage of this new money goes to an increase of assets as opposed to day-to-day expenses. This shrinks CPI inflation for an equal amount of money supply expansion, which in turn allows the money supply to expand ever faster and inequality to grow further.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/jan/11/spokane-attorn...
I have the same problem. To reproduce it, select a radial symmetry (works with 1, 3, 5, 10), and try to draw along the vertical axis. At some point, there will be suddenly lines between the center, all of your "current points" and all of their opposite (opposite being the point symmetric to them by the center).
I’m morbidly curious: what was their tech stack?
How do you observe these things at such detail?
Is Black a monoculture identically outraged by Dr. Gebru’s self-immolation resignation being accepted by Google?
I much prefer 10MB GIF in the README than looking around for a link to a video. It's not even slow to open, by the time I was had scrolled to it, it was running and to me the experience was seamless.
This is a case where I find Vitalik's distinction between different kinds of decentralization useful. [1] Roquerre is talking about political or logical decentralization whereas you are talking about architectural decentralization.

[1] https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentrali...
It is Ericsson and Huawei. In case anyone reading and not well versed on the subject.

While the 3GPP Profile and Spec aren't exactly "Open" by Open Source and HN's Standard, It is definitely not closed or proprietary. You can implement a working 3G / 4G / 5G system. It just wouldn't be competitive with commercial offering.

And US actually has plenty of IP via Qualcomm in Core Standards. Ignoring IoT and AV ( Autonomous Vehicle ). Also partly via Nokia when acquired Alcatel-Lucent, where Lucent is from AT&T Bell Labs.

So No, US aren't out of the 5G circle. They just dont have any companies making specific part of the 5G infrastructure.
Ruffle looks really promising.

I see the Homestar Runner site has switched over to Ruffle, so its Flash-based content (even the stuff from 2001) works just fine.

https://homestarrunner.com/post-flash-update
>Do you honestly not see an obvious difference between a phone and an Amazon wired device intended to record and remotely analyze what's happening in the room?

I sure don't, from a security viewpoint. They are both cloud-connected microphones. Google is just as likely as Amazon to listen in surreptitiously. And my phone is 1000x more vulnerable to someone _other than_ Google listening in due to installable apps.
If this is similar to the old tariffs, it affects only new aircraft. Some airlines were already buying Airbus planes from Europe and flying them in South America long enough for the planes to be considered "old" so that they may be excluded from the tariffs.
Lots of techy types are glad to see Flash blown out the airlock because of Adobe's abysmal stewardship of the product ever since picking it up from Macromedia. It's been responsible for a number of security breaches and even found use as a web bug/tracking tool.
Stop it! This is soul crushing... and funny.
Qt commercial-only LTS phase starts
The installation instructions say to use npm, which is pretty simple? Everything's javascript anyways.
Roughly 6% of local budgets are spend on roads. [1]

[1] https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative...
Yeah but Trump isn't doing anything for them. Remember he is just a rich business man looking out for himself. Tax cuts for businesses don't help the poor, especially when those businesses don't have to employ American labor. He's also against some of the few labor intensive industries that are still growing.
> And in part it is because the Democrats are about to control the Executive Branch and both houses of Congress, leaving Silicon Valley giants eager to please them by silencing their adversaries.

The Biden Administration is getting stuffed with corporate executives and lobbyists of all kinds. If that alleged quote about fascism being the merger of corporate and state power, then congratulations, fascists! You won.

And if that quote is wrong, this situation is still bad, way worse than Trump.
We're certainly not building fast enough if that's the plan in earnest. Exceeding a certain rate of immigration also suppresses wages, according to this - https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-001-x/89-001-x2007001... . That is a ticking time bomb for public discontent as we'll simultaneously be dealing with increasing automation.

In theory, it could be done well, but it won't. All these other factors will be ignored which is just going to lead to a long wave of Conservative government in the future.
"...and a limit on what they can say." This doesn't seem to be an issue limited to people of color.
I’m not sure what the GP means by it being the metaphor to replace phone book (“contacts app” would be my off-the-cuff suggestion), but I’m not that old and I’ve heard it referred to as a directory. I haven’t heard it recently, but that has more to do with the disuse of phone books, I think. Maybe it’s a regional thing?
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Which has been replaced by bigger sites every time they are shutdown and often within the same month.
wondering what Apple can do with 45w. the next couple of years will be VERY interesting.
Bots are fine as long as they are identified as such.

In such a scheme, bots are attributable to accounts so that there is accountability and messages don't get artificially amplified.
Wasn’t fired. Wasn’t even forced out.

Says she’d quit as a threat, and they accepted.
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The far-right panders to extreme fear while the far-left panders to extreme progress. I'd much rather work with the far-left than the far-right.
> Why have we seemingly lost the ability to say that we need new taxes?

Decades of Republican propaganda have led the average right-of-center voter to believe that higher taxes, for any reason, are a) stealing their hard-earned money, and/or b) a socialist plot to turn America into either the USSR or Venezuela.
Unlike in Illinois, where majority of tax increases get squandered.
http://archive.is/LAPKJ
> Do you realize that anyone can claim “incitement” of violence since it’s completely subjective and therefore probably very dangerous thing to be using as a way to determine “guilt”.

That's false. The standards for incitement according to the SCOTUS are defined in the Brandenburg Test and are _famously_ narrow. They include a subjective test of the speaker's intent, and an objective test.

- Subjective: Speech is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action" (this means, was the speaker intending to produce imminent lawless action).

- Objective: Speech is "likely to incite or produce such action"

In an incitement case here, the objective test is absolutely easy. The crowd broken into the halls of the Capitol, violently disrupted a session of Congress, and killed a police officer. Any lawyer would have no problem arguing in court that the speech that morning was "likely" to incite imminent lawless action.

The harder test is the subjective test of the speaker's intent. Here, we need to show that Donald Trump intended to incite imminent lawless action. That's typically a very hard test, because we can't read minds. But we can use circumstantial† evidence to piece together enough of a picture to allow a jury to convict.

† circumstantial evidence is used all the time to determine intent for crimes in courtrooms all over the United States, and is completely valid evidence. Don't raise "but that's circumstantial!" as a defense, because circumstantial evidence is completely valid.
> I understand that making a company pay for something free is a challenge.

I don't know how many times I've heard variants of this. "You can't monetize open source because companies won't pay for it." It's not that hard to get them to support the project if you sell something that's not available for free. It could be as simple as selling a special version of the documentation for $25. That's obviously not at the same level as dropping a $5000 donation, but it's more than zero, and it's a heck of a lot easier for an employee to ask them to pay $25 for a tool they need to do their work than to ask them to donate $5000.
Given her station in society she is granted a measure of elite impunity... but it's not absolute. She likely won't face that harsh of a penalty when she finally goes to trial. If she got too harsh a sentence it would reflect poorly on those who supported her.
I don't disagree. One thing that came to mind the other day, as I remembered how a family member of mine lost their job at a national airplane company. Their job prospects were very slim and required moving across the country. The industry is very specialized. I dislike tariffs as much as the next globalist but I do feel for family. Conflicted, you might say.
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In Poland for example prices are driven by cheaper credit (although offseted by downpaykent change from 0/10% to 20%). Most of it just young ppl moving to towns as old industries are dead/don't need ppl. The pharma company that my parents worked in almost don't have ppl in production anymore - it's all quite automated. Now good jobs are service industry, sales, marketing, software for all you need good education, so university cities are thriving. I myself moved and earn close to $60K which is good money in Poland. It's not upncommon for some parents to just buy kids apartments for $100K (in cash - for US would be $400K). Prices futher rise as owning apparment is much better than renting for anyone who can afford credit. This leds to russian oligarchs moving to property business futher increasing demand and prices.
But in Poland we still have PLN not Euro so assuming growing economy properties can raise 4x (denominated in gold).
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TeamSpeak supports Opus and I don't remember quality being an issue. I actually distinctly remember Discord's audio being worse than the best TeamSpeak settings when Discord launched and my friends switched over.
Stupid question, is this the issue that was at the core of net neutrality? I may have misunderstood the entire thing if so.
Just as a side info: unfortunately this won't work in Germany, since that feature was disabled there.
Can you explain this a bit more? If there's a tariff on a component, wouldn't the buyer look for cheaper domestic replacements? So maybe a mix of both -- they pay more in the short term, but it gives domestic suppliers a better chance to win the business over the long term?
They're not deciding what is acceptable speech. They're deciding what is acceptable speech for their platforms and services. And given how absolutely insane and extreme that speech became before they took action, it's just strange to look at these companies like they're a problem. They tolerated increasingly violent and hateful rhetoric until people literally stormed the Capitol, then took action against the worst offender that helped to plan violence against our elected officials. This isn't some theoretical case of billionaires imposing their worldviews by banning people that we should be tremendously fearful of.
I think the real fault line may be the same as the civil war, but it's no longer segregated by a large scale geographic border. The conflict is between the agrarian vision of America and the industrial/cosmopolitan vision of America.

Agrarian: traditional, religious, rigid social roles, rigid hierarchies determined by gender/race/etc., suspicion of change, and fiscally conservative with a suspicion of debt or loose monetary policy.

Industrial/cosmopolitan: fluid, either non-religious or liberal religion, fluid social roles, hierarchies only as-needed (e.g. corporate hierarchies that are opt-out), welcoming to rapid change, and fiscally liberal with a pragmatic attitude toward things like monetary policy and debt.

The wrinkle in this model is that the top of the hierarchy of "red America" seems to be located in urban centers. Trump is from New York. Most 4chan /pol users are in cities. The people operating Fox News and other further-right news sources almost all live in cities. So it's sort of like you have this minority of urban America either sympathizing with or puppeteering a rural revolt against modernity.

Of course I wonder if the civil war was different. Banks, governments, and major property owners in urban areas profited a lot more from slavery than poor and middle class farmers and skilled laborers in the South. Quite a lot of the profit from slavery ended up in New York, Boston, DC, and even London.

Maybe part of the answer to this is for rural Americans to turn off Fox News and OAN and the /pol orbit and all the rest of that "ruralist propaganda from urbanites" and figure out what they really think and articulate it themselves. What emerges may well be something toward which urban "elites" could be more sympathetic.
> Hopefully with Dems in control we will see these companies punished for their bad behavior.

There's optimism, and then there is naiveté.
Not hugely.

Disney and Fox have a huge amount of legacy agreements, running for a decade or more.
There is no customization that adds tabs. All the things you mentioned don't change the textbox behaviour.

See also: https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/issues/2521
Not necessarily. There are plenty of ISPs that have to go through wholesale networks where the underlying carrier has control over the modem and how provisioning works. This is particularly painful with cable modems.
What does this help to Foss in India?
I agree everyone has a different definition for consciousness. But I'd argue that you could take any one of them and my argument would still apply.

One of my favorite books is "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat" by Oliver Sacks [1]. It contains a number of amazing cases of neurology where someone has suffered a brain injury and the facade of our apparently sophisticated consciousness is exposed a bit. For example, a guy who suffered a stroke and became blind, but was unable to accept it, so he lied to himself and rationalized all the resulting outcomes. The rest of his brain was 100% normal, was an articulate, intelligent person in all other regards. But he would confabulate extraordinary excuses to maintain his belief system. That story just drives home how much we as humans are capable of rationalizing.

I don't recall if it was that book or another that describes Capgras delusion [2] where a person sincerely believes that someone they know intimately, say a parent or spouse, has been replaced by a doppleganger, but are otherwise fully rational. They can even state that it sounds crazy, but nevertheless it is true. Or a form of it where they feel this way about themselves, leading them to believe they are dead yet still animate, is the Cotard Delusion [3]. What causes it? When one looks at their mother, an array of neurological connections to associated feelings and memories are activated; apparently in these cases, that doesn't happen in the normal way, and rather than concluding that something went wrong in their heads, they experience as this person in front of my looks identically to my mother but must be someone else and that is why those feelings are not arising.

The point of these two small examples is that our experience of consciousness and "me-ness" is a self-consistent facade, not nearly as deep as we feel it is, as site-specific injuries can result in profound flaws in that system.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Mistook-His-Wife/dp/149151407...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion
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That's true. Toronto is a lot like Chicago, where we have the infrastructure and the money to be great, but there just isn't that same drive that SF and NYC have.

One thing to note is that I think the parent company for Tim Horton's is now based in Toronto, albeit majority owned by a Brazilian company.
Squashing something completely is extremely difficult, but you can make it inconvenient and risky enough that most people won't bother. See the Chinese internet for instance.

There's often this fallacy when discussing governmental action that if it's not 100% effective it's useless. It's of course not true.
Boeing will never be allowed to collapse as it's the US's only competitor to Airbus and a major defense contractor.
How about some examples of ISIS using AWS?
HIV has effective prevention through both condom use and pre-exposure prophylactic treatment. The vaccine is a big deal in reducing costs, but, it's not as big a deal as the flu vaccine (or even as big as HPV was).
Thanks. But how does one approach to learn the internals for these things? It's not like MySQL or SQL Server or PostgreSQL that we have tons of books and very detailed documentation. For Vertica we only have a doc, no books, just provided as is.

It seems to be the norm for everything that takes flight around 2010. Of course many are open sourced so those are OK I guess.
Toss a ball in the air and watch it spin. You ask why it spins and I tell you that it is because god is multiplying its state by a quarternion. Is that true?

An equation can be perfectly descriptive without explaining anything, and just as easily used in a patently incorrect or at least unverifiable explanation. A new physics learner may be uncomfortable with this notion, as everything up to that point was taught as cause and effect, no difference between explanation and description. As in the example, the description could take a different form. God could use matrices. Or you could say that god prefers to minimize the lagrangian. Or you could simulate with finite element analysis and say that it is an emergent phenomenon of many points of mass all following a set of rules. Questions for each explanation abound. I think at the bottom of all of this there has to be an admission that the universe works in this particular manner because it wouldn’t exist for us any other way, and we do exist, so it must.
H1Bs are also easier to exploit.
Neither of those have binary releases. I just wanted to install some handshake addon to nextdns and visit sci hub. Is this possible at all or is there non-zero configuration required?
Well, any piece of software that requires signing off copyright to a private entity gets a soft blacklist in my book. The project picked a license, asking for CLA is not playing on a level field.

I count the FSF as an exception here, since they provide additional guarantees with their CLA, and it is primarily for enforcement: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html