skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I presently live in the outer suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, and I saw more Biden signs than Trump signs in the last election. Poll and electoral results show the same. The population density threshold for "urban" is shifting toward less and less dense with the suburbs starting to turn blue.

It really is becoming country vs. anything even remotely close to a city. The only exceptions seem to be rural college towns and hipster/artist enclaves. There are some good examples of the latter in Appalachia.
She wasn't "forced out"?
If you have NextDNS just enable Handshake in settings.
This competition between technology and law is ongoing, and they effect and influence each other's development. Makes sense some people are more invested in promoting the strength of one force versus the other. A bit of a simplification, but I see HN as largely a place for people who believe in what technology enables (creative, individualistic, free expression) versus the law
I'm not sure this is really true, because ultimately Netflix is also a poison pill bleeding money perpetually.

Netflix loses money and is still funded by considerable debt, ever year. Streaming and content aren't so much the product, the subscriber number is the product and what shareholders continue to tolerate more cash burn for. Netflix will, if it ever hopes to become cash positive, probably have to diversify into other forms of IP exploitation, because otherwise it is hard to see how. They are unlikely to be able to radically increase revenue (though they will absolutely do what they can to increase ARPU with price rises and higher tiers). They are pretty much tapping out in subscriber growth without significant increases in content spend. They have significant competition and long tail content generally performs badly, so they won't be able to reduce spend much.
It’s a wake up call to read the TOS and not promote what amounts to an open market for contract killings.
> Between those 3 (or 4) Cloud infrastructure providers they have a huge chunk of the market.

AWS themselves estimate that all four of them only have 4% of companies, and it’s estimated that they host 8.9% of websites in general. That’s not a “huge” portion of the market.

> Even if they did, AWS alone kicking a webpage/app out for non-technical censorship reasons, is enough to cause huge migration and other costs to the app. Enough to obliterate a webpage/app without much runway.

Yeah, that’s a known issue. But it’s not a free speech problem; it’s part of the tradeoff of using a platform like AWS. There’s a reason why all kinds of businesses have an AWS contingency plan; Parler not having one is their problem, not society’s.

> AWS shouldn't be involved in such decisions, the same way we ask telcos for net neutrality.

... there is literally an entire section of why Net Neutrality is good, and why Net Neutrality shouldn’t cover AWS.
मुफ़्त (muft) means free of cost, मुक्त (mukt) is free as in freedom.

मुफ़्त नहीं। मुक्त (muft nehi, mukt) reads like "not free (of charge), but free as in freedom."
Samsung Exynos 2100 unveiled with 40% faster GPU and integrated 5G modem
muft = gratis, ''free as in beer'', mukt = open, ''free as in freedom''
I have no idea... but I’d sure like to know.
> Telegram is not open-source

The Telegram apps are GPL. Their server is (afaik) closed-source, but having an open source server implementation doesn't mean much for a centralised service without any server-switching support anyway, so no effective practical difference to Signal here in that regard.

The E2E situation on Telegram is poor however.
It's a sad state of affairs indeed. It is is annoying that tax companies will be taxed so aggressively.

There's a middle ground in a lot of things but it seems like Europe is becoming very antagonistic with aggressively taxing US tech companies.
> Even if Parler hosted straight up illegal content, surely the proportional response is to block those accounts, not the entire platform? If no, why aren't we deplatforming Twitter or Facebook next?

I've made this exact argument. It's a blatant double standard that Youtube or Twitter, as you said, aren't held liable for the content their users upload, but Amazon and Google can deplatform whoever they want for whatever they want.

I've read a joke that we're officially in a cyberpunk world now that corporations are "going to war" with each other. I've thought that our society has been heading towards civil war for years, but only in the past year with so many riots and corporate overreach have I started to believe it might actually come sooner than later.
It would have become more accurate, had they inverted the results...
They probably need it, using someone else's computer is not cheap.
This sounds like welfare with extra steps
I'm not deep into American politics but from what I have seen from Trump's policies specifically they are basically massively increasing wealth inequality. It's like he knows what's the worst for the majority and good for the few.

Democrats are at least not outright denying climate change. Investments in green technology could bootstrap an industry for unskilled workers that cannot be offshored to foreign countries. Even if you are not employed by these industries you would still see the general benefits of hitting 2% inflation targets which decreases inequality in the long run.
Invisible hand fo the market is steering the wheel, nothing we can do
No matter what, you could get hit with a cosmic ray or spark of static or a bug could corrupt your program's memory.

The state of "we somehow generated two identical UUIDs" cannot be prevented in the real world. You can only reduce the chance to acceptable levels.

Compared to the risks that are accepted in basically all devices, the danger from using big random numbers is negligible. Which makes it not crazy to do.
if they break rules, yes
>...things that would be obvious and simple to anyone who has actually done system architecture

Load balancing web servers was one of those that almost got me in trouble. I just assumed that any sane web infra would balance load.
There actually were literal Nazis there though...

> An image of Packer inside the Capitol, whose sweatshirt bore the name of the Nazi concentration camp where about 1.1 million people were killed during World War II, has evoked shock and disbelief on social media. The bottom of his shirt stated, "Work brings freedom," which is the rough translation of the phrase "Arbeit macht frei" that was on the concentration camp's gates.[1]

Apparently the back read "Staff"[2]. While maybe not "literal" Nazis themselves, the people there seem perfectly happy to associate with and receive the support of literal Nazis.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/10/politics/man-camp-auschwi...

[2] https://twitter.com/MrTAchilles/status/1346996921282531328
>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?

Do you honestly not see that there's no fundamental difference between the two? A CPU, ram, storage, wireless modems, microphones and a battery all running under software we don't control.

As far as intent, it's not possible to be sure about intent, you have to judge based on the information we have which is the features and capabilities of the device.
You probably had the audio codec configured improperly. Back then, TS used Speex in different bitrates. Today it is OPUS Voice (or OPUS Music), which has absolutely great audio quality. Combine this with very low latency if the server is in your proximity and you've got something that sounds and performs better than anything else - Slack, Discord, etc.

"Damn good" chat might be true, but call? Only if you appreciate mediocre voice quality, a suboptimal RTC protocol and a good big chunk of latency.

Discord feels sluggish, bloated and heavy compared to TS, and it's not just because it's Electron-based.
You can easily create any kind of abstraction with beancount's programming interface [1]. I find it very comfortable, because I can manipulate the data structure directly (and not just the plain text as in e.g. vim).

For example, here is a plugin that I wrote to "delay" a posting of a transaction to another date via an intermediate ("transfer") account [2] and its tests [3] that solves a problem pretty similar to yours (I should someday package my plugins properly and maybe put them on PyPI, but I haven't had the time yet). The beancount documentations also has a list of existing published plugins [4].

[1]: https://beancount.github.io/docs/beancount_scripting_plugins...

[2]: https://linx.marussy.com/selif/v31rtbi5.py

[3]: https://linx.marussy.com/selif/tpwlujdk.py

[4]: https://beancount.github.io/docs/external_contributions.html
He doesn’t know. All that comment is trying to get across is “woe is Parler”
Sacking?
It was always hard to understand to me, the more buildings they build, the more expensive they get. Like in SF or NYC, they build more condos, but each new condo is more expensive. I think America[real estate] as a whole is an ongoing Ponzi scheme :shrug:
Now I have to wonder when our customers are going to start asking if we have recently reviewed our business continuity plans.
> frankly don't know what we can do to defuse this situation other than punishing those directly associated with hateful messages

Bingo.

edit: I should clarify - hateful messages might not reach the bar, but calls to violence and other illegal activity do.
Astronomers Discover the Oldest Galaxy in the “Dark Ages” of the Universe
unless all the black folks in your neighborhood work in tech, why would they follow this?
... Did you misspell GNOME here?

Also, KDE is the most customizable DE of them all, and it has the most powerful features of them all (by far). Given that, all these "but it looks kinda bad!" comments sound insane. It's like choosing a push mower over a motorized because you like the finish on the handle.
> Its public API used no authentication. When users deleted their posts, the site failed to remove the content and instead only added a delete flag to it. Oh, and each post carried a numerical ID that was incremented from the ID of the most recently published one.

There's really nothing wrong with any of that, unless you're specifically coding to defend against content scraping. I mean, the whole point of a "tweet" or whatever they're called in Parler land is to be public and discoverable.

> failure to scrub geolocations from images and videos posted online

Worse, but again, was the site even supposed to be designed with anonymity in mind?
I’ve spent a lot of time in Czech and Poland, and while someone could argue they’re developed countries when looking at the wider gamut, it doesn’t compare well Canada, USA, UK, etc engineering talent.

A lot of the engineering talent you find there is extremely limited in quantity, but it is untapped.

Overall I think it’s a step in the right direction as compared to other countries we’ve outsourced work to, but let’s not pretend Poland is an exemplary ray of developed industry and society.
Yes, this bothers me so much about whenever people bring him up. He seemed like a brilliant, kind, and unique person, not just a totem of “our side vs your side”
You definitely have some useful tips here.

But with or without a shell script, Startpage keeps your privacy. Our web app acts as a proxy between your endpoint and the rest of the web. We couldn't collect user data even if we wanted to. You deserve an explanation, and here's why:

Startpage is delighted that users are conscientious about our privacy practices, as they should be. Privacy-aware users are the kind of users we enjoy serving. Asking questions is always a good idea.
As we’ve stated, System1 is interested in Startpage’s anonymous contextual advertising revenue, not in our data. Mainly because we don’t store any.

Even if they wanted to change our privacy policies, it wouldn’t be possible. Our co-owners and Surfboard Holding BV still have authority in our company. Our infrastructure is all in the European Union, where the strict GDPR legislation applies and the US Cloud law doesn’t.

Maintaining user privacy is our reason for being. We thank you for your curiosity and your vigilance. We hope you continue to ask questions and enjoy Startpage. We are gladly answering all your questions.
I am wondering why this is not on top of Hacker News. I have problems with GitHub Pages, Reddit and various other services. Europe region.
Although I get that this is sarcasm, I dont understand the underlying intent here.
That’s a great point. Sorry I was not as inclusive as I should have been in my explanation.

I am a dual US|EU citizen, but I am culturally American. I was trying to explain it from the perspective of Americans.

Thank you again for the clarification.
Those used 28W variants. 45W was for 15" and above from what I remember.
Automatic generation of programs that in turn produce creative visuals
This post is about automatic generation of programs that in turn produce creative visuals.
You have to admire the out-of-the-box and absurdity of that solution. Someone actually sat in an office and realized he could save money by letting aircrafts decay in South America before using them.
I’m 100% absolutely judging anyone still taking a paycheck from FB in this day and age. It speaks volumes about their character.
It's all due to digital taxing companies like Apple, Google, Amazon.

France put in a 3% tax on digital services, some other countries did it as well. The EU as a whole plans to do a 3% tax on all digital services in 2021.

The US is angry about it, since all the major tech companies happen to be american.
Clearly Flu, HIV, and Nipah are more pressing, but I found myself wondering last night what the odds are of a rhinovirus vaccine being in the cards thanks to rapid progress SARS-CoV-2 has pressed us to make w.r.t. RNA and protein-like vaccines.

Economics is the largest barrier in my mind. While my understanding is that these vaccines are less expensive to produce, it's hard to convince people to get the flu shot, let alone a common cold shot. What's more is that with hundreds of variants, it's efficacy would be hard to get right.

That said, I'd gladly pay a heft amount yearly if it meant I had a >60% chance of not catching a cold that year.
Yes, but we're interested in the _causal relationship aren't we?

I don't see how the linked article contributes to your argument.

Tho, it's an interesting read and a warning to those supplementing vitamin D like it's the solution to everything.
There are photographs of people inside the chambers with cuffs and tasers. One was recently arrested for it: https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates...
Reminds me of all the libertarians who flocked to Bitcoin because it was considered a way to circumvent the government, and then realized that a) you need governments to run the pipes, b) much of the mining is done by conglomerates and c) the unregulated market is about as stable as a ship at sea
Mr Slaves and Ms Slavettes, that is how "murica" has global giants, they send their lawyers when they have competition
The tax is a countermeasure for the loopholes tech companies use to avoid paying tax here.
Back through 2008 til I guess 2016, you couldn't go more than 2 threads without some diseased brain talking about wanting to murder the president or all the people who approved of him. People selling and making targets with the presidents head in the center were all over. I saw enough fanfics with people hoping that there was a civil war and all the cities full of "those people" are obliterated and we can get on with our happy lives.

And that was some of the tamer crap that they admins of the site allowed. It got really bad right around when I got interested in firearms but right around the same time that Obama signed the bill to allow firearms in national parks when threads about what type of optics to get or about some site having a sale on magazines would devolve 5 posts later into someone wanting to plink the skull a libtard. After a few weeks of trying to filter out that crud, I just realized I couldn't stand the people and that there was nothing of value to me on that site.
Paper pad with notes or working on something interesting enough that I think about it after I’m done for the day.
I expect Biden to photocopy the Trump trade agenda, and all indications are he will do exactly this. Not just with the EU, but China as well.

Boeing is a major employer, union stronghold (still), and in rough shape. It would be political suicide for Biden to throw them under the (Air)bus just to blanket-reverse every Trump-era policy.
One might argue infrastructure funds are being held by the wealthiest in their investment assets that otherwise would've been taxed at a higher rate in other developed nations. This doesn't mean we should grow for growth's sake using that wealth, but based on on the nation's infrastructure report card [1], we are very much not investing in infrastructure upkeep. How do we pay for infrastructure? Taxes (or perhaps by printing fiat based on modern monetary theory). Do we need infrastructure to support a civilization? Of course.

[1] https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/
Minimum wage laws when instituted were racist. To this day it still detrimentally affects individuals trying to enter a work force by creating an artificial barrier.

Currently, there is a push to increase the minimum wage to $15. If I oppose this on my concept of what it is, a vestige of systematic racism that contributes further to that system, then what do I make of proponents of the increase who argue that voting against it is racist.

The entire endeavor is a waste of time, the politicos will do what they want and then tell you why we should hate Eurasia.
Reddit’s founders seem to be pretty spineless for doing so. I didn’t even realise that they removed him..
They could have, but I believe in the past they have claimed it to be hardware.
> If you don't change the contents of packets, it's not NAT.

Oh well, yes. I agree.

I was thinking more from the point of view of the behavior it causes: essentially establishing some sort of look-up table to verify if an incoming packet corresponds to a previously outgoing one. Where, if the entry in that table gets deleted, the incoming packets suddenly start being rejected.
if we import the wines and the airplanes, the next most French thing to import would be revolution. I suspect that is the problem. The US isn't very interested in good cheese or pointed sarcasm, its challenging to the palate.
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Uninformed speculation: I would hypothesize the mRNA process could react faster to flu mutations, the current vaccines are kind of trying to guess which strains are going to be important in the next flu season. It is also possible the mRNA technology could cover a broader spectrum of flu antigens.

Influenza genetics are weird:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/change.htm

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06945

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp0904819
That entirely depends on the business environment. If they're allowed to work remote and the client is easy to work with, then it's not a full time job. If a client wants work to be on-site, demands a large number of meetings, and/or a lot of hoops to jump through, then that can quickly change. I've seen some business environments that expect consultant developers to attend 6 hours of meetings per day.

Some companies hire consultants precisely because their internal politics are so bad that they're unable to get the work done themselves.

I don't know anything about these companies at hand here, but I wouldn't scoff at these numbers alone.
That's a good question. Maybe the screenwriter doesn't want to share royalties? Although Disney doesn't seem to care too much about that: https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/16/22166064/star-wars-alien-...
If it's a small project, usually I'll just leave my notes in the readme, or I'll litter TODO comments in the code. If it's a work project I'll usually put those notes in the Jira or Trello ticket
Depends on what exactly you mean by 'censored'. You don't need to suppress every mention of something to have an effect.

The most recent US example I can think of is that the Trump administration has been reasonably successful in suppressing hospital C19 images:

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/27/covid-photography-hospit...

But every administration in living memory (and probably without that qualifier, too) has suppressed something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_State...
Doesn't the EU already have very high tarriffs on a lot of things imported from the US? Cars for example?
Agreed. Unlike other countries, the USA are allergic to the word "welfare", so they have to go through all these convoluted steps to do the same thing
I suspect yes, which is why it excludes Japan where large 787 subassemblies are made.
> As far as I've been aware, legal censorship has never worked. "Cultural censorship" (a.k.a. "taboo") can be quite effective, but I'm not aware of any examples where the law has been in any way effective at all in this area.

Sorry, but this is extremely naive. Russia routinely jails people for merely liking (not to mention, reposting) improper things on social media.
I've met the owner of Ventrilo a few times at Quakecon a few years back. Super nice guy, pretty smart and nerdy in a good way. Seems to me the guy got pretty wealthy off Ventrilo in its heyday, and was happy with it. Because as people can go search, Ventrilo is essentially abandonware.

Discord's main benefits are the persistent chat with "slack-like" link embeds, emojis, and whatnot; as well as easier role management; and finally, federated identity.

If Mumble, for instance, could make their chat interface more appealing, and if someone had a lightweight user directory for it and friend management, it might have a chance of competing. But Discord has really taken over.
Yep, I use Startpage by default, and I love it. Thank You so much for this service. (DDG and all of those jazzes is just a shitstorm, their light version is a POS, and so on,) good to have a real search-engine front-end. Which is just a personal statement. I like it. Doesn't seem suspicious to me! It's my default search engine. And will be unless something deteriorating happens. But looks good for now. Again thanks.
Wait until you see what people tweeted about the police and ICE officers in 2020.
The topper is that it doesn't appear that requesting post #N did any checks for if you are allowed to see it (i.e., it doesn't check if post #N is private or deleted). That means that naïve content scraping will uncover private/deleted posts, which is the really big "oops" that Parler had.
Was their security even supposed to work? Yes.
Exactly. As a Canadian, I don't have to worry about my family being harmed by racially motivated violence and discrimination. Especially since some are in demographics who disproportionally experience racially motivated violence.

Not everyone in the world idealizes the American tech sector as much as America thinks they do. Personally, I'm more drawn to the EU tech sector.

Finally, Canada's tech sector isn't worse somehow. Canadians are different, therefore our Canadian sector is going to be different too. Canadian tech companies ("startups" specifically) tend to be more driven by stability than generating the largest valuation possible. The author completely neglects the impact that culture has on the tech sector. This is a common mistake when comparing things between America and Canada.
> simultaneously knew nothing about her business.

... they new the business was convincing enough to get a contract for blood testing with CVS, effectively lining it up to be a direct beneficiary of a not-insignificant portion of ACA funds for several years until the fraud came to the surface

in my view, holmes and the blood testing device are just the patsy/'fall guy' story - it's the higher up relations in connection with getting the CVS contracts that should be getting investigated