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Ask HN: Wall poster ideas for software / tech-oriented office
Hi everyone, compliments of the season.

I'm hoping to hear your ideas for large posters of software / tech oriented concepts that we could put up on our wall.

I think the sweet spot would be something that can serve as a long-term reference whilst also providing some cool insight at the same time. Bonus points for good design.

For example, a giant poster of Design Patterns would be pretty neat (although despite my searching, I haven't been able to find an example that is aesthetically pleasing).

Thanks.
> Who is praising the CCP's economic rise?

Probably people who have some axe to grind about poverty.

China's rate of extreme poverty from 1990-2016 declined from 66% to 0.7%

During that time the US rate of extreme poverty more than doubled, from .5% to 1.2%

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-livin...
I can easily find 98 examples of inciting violence on Twitter or Facebook. Does it mean Google will delete their apps, Amazon will drop them from the servers? Of course not.

Because it has nothing to do with some users calling for violence.
> https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/hunter-dkim

That appears to be one single email with limited context. The README.md in that repo outright states that the context for the email is absent and does not necessarily provide concrete proof of any specific narrative:

> ... Remember that while the email is validated, the context isn't. It's possible this reflects a secret meeting to conspire with Vice President Biden. Or, it's possible the guy attended one of the many Washington D.C. social functions whereby people shake hands with politicians and exchange pleasantries. As Richelieu is claimed to have said "Give me six words by the most honest of men and I'll find something to hang him by". Give me an email dump from the most honest of persons, and I'll pull one out of context to hang them in the court of social media. ...

> ... I personally have many doubts about where this email came from, and the overall "narrative" they are trying to push. Regardless, I can validate the basic facts about this email.

Are there any more emails with full headers?
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That statement—while absolutely and undeniably abhorrent—is not even remotely calling for mass executions, or even mass violence, against anybody.
Ubiquiti notification: unauthorized access to IT system hosted by third party
Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook ban people all the time for calls to violence. Reddit made the national news last year because moderators of r/The_Donald failed to police the numerous posts of users who plotted to murder the governor of Michigan.

Parler, by contrast, did not moderate calls to violence. It quickly became a safe space for neo-fascists to plan, coordinate, and execute plots against the US government.

Parler was playing a completely different game to Twitter, Reddit, and FB. Parler was deservedly ejected from the stadium.
> Virtually every conversation that has taken place on HN has asserted that the "insurrection was planned on Parler"

Has that really been the claim? My understanding is that Parler had no intention of moderating the insurrection, as Facebook, Twitter, etc have started doing.

In fact, that is exactly what Apple did, as an example: Apple gave them a chance to moderate, Parler did not comply, so Apple removed them.
No, you're right. I am fully on-board with the idea of being careful about who and what I associate with as it relates to maintaining personal integrity and character.

I guess I was approaching that question from a different angle where "wrong kind of association" was from the perspective of Big Brother. So I probably made an incorrect assumption about what the parent comment intended.
> It is a bit disingenuous to suggest that because Parler is down, "mom and pop" websites with comment section attached now need to lawyer up.

This is definitely a straw-man, but at the same time, if your website hosts user-supplied content and you don't have a rock-solid strategy for moderating it, then yeah you probably should be worried. (Though the spammers will probably take down your site long before AWS...)
Well, without private, i would not have uploaded anything to youtube. After a few personal uses, I eventually started using youtube to upload and share content. I assume they want to capture the audience like me.

Also, the versitility of youtube as a tool leads me to buy youtube premium for $10/mo.

Also, the most professional content creators upload private, then schedule the video public at a time that will get the most exposure by the youtube algorithm. They also pre-prepare multiple thumbnails and swap them out for the first few hours of public exposure. it's a calculus.
AWS's letter to Parler https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1348136296976408576/p...

Seems very proper to me.
I'm sorry but Guo wen Gui is not a credible source. His past claims have repeatedly been debunked.

Not to mention his deep ties with Steve bannon
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They also did some custom work on my commuting bike (which involves quite a hodgepodge of fender/brake compromises) which was 10x better than I could do myself.
I thought, that there was an unwritten rule on HN, that you don't mention closed-source, subscription-based software behind an email registration without making those down-sides abundantly clear? Don't enable the next Solarwind.
> The bar for getting "canceled" is already moving up ...

Eh I'm not so sure about that? I mean, "Did your userbase activately participate in a plot to storm the Capitol and potentially take lawmakers and the VP of the State as hostages (or worse)?" is an awfully high bar to clear.
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I'm guessing the federated aspect. You can jump ship to another server and not break your social graph.

Also you can use alternative clients, which (I think) is against Signal's TOS, and is at least discouraged.
If Parler or someone on Parler is doing something wrong, arrest and convict them using the law.

So you're in favor of removing moderation entirely and hosting providers given broad immunity from liability for any type of content -- feel free to plot your murder, host child porn, plan an insurrection, whatever; and it should be up to the government to track down the responsible parties.... even if those parties are untraceable or not even in the USA?

AWS lawyers can sign-off anything because the Terms and Conditions are skewed entirely in AWS favor, let alone the new king in town.

So you don't dispute that Parler violated the ToS, you're disputing the ToS themselves and that they unfairly target companies like Parler?
I believe the software has to take advantage of the GPU. The `foot` terminal renders on the CPU instead of the GPU, but beats GPU-accelerated `alacritty` anyway due to other effiency hacks described on their Performance page:

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/wiki/Performance
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Just for reference, my van system has one of these inside: https://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-160-XT
Why would democrats break up Amazon, when it helps them in banning the republicans? That will not happen.
While it's not getting updated I don't have any worries about the reliability of its existing security. It's not perfect but it's pretty mature and feature-rich.
Nah, they just became landlords.
I voted yes.

Let's say that I want to start my own cloud hosting company. Say I'm Armenian and I don't want to host anything by the Turkish government. Shouldn't that be my right?

Say I have a Jewish employee who I don't want to offend, so I don't host holocaust denial websites. Shouldn't that be my right?

Let's say that I sign up Nike and they only agree to do it if I won't host Reebok. Shouldn't that be my right?

I don't see what's different here.

Amazon is far from a monopoly for web hosting. If you don't like their terms go elsewhere. If you are a cesspool like Parler, shame on you for not seeing the risk that AWS would drop you at some point.

There's all sorts of racist garbage on the internet and plenty of people with low standards or love of money who will host them. Go to one of them.
Maybe on road bikes but MTB brake pads are definitely a non lifetime part. Replaced my rear pads at the weekend, maybe 0.2mm remaining after around 800 miles or so of riding.

Getting oil on pads is also fairly easy to (accidentally) do. Learnt to be less liberal with the spray oil the hard way!

Unfortunately for bike shops replacing disk brake pads is trivial. Bleeding the Hydraulic system not so much, if it wasn't for the stopping power I'd trade back to brake cables any day.
The amount of plastic and paper packaging/marketing that you are forced to accept and dispose of when you buy products is getting extreme. I recently bought a micro-sd card, and had to dispose of: 1. the large shipping package, 2. the enormous (in volume and mass) product plastic shell package, 3. the glossy paper marketing insert inside the package, 4. the user’s manual (!), 5. the unwanted microsd-to-sd adapter. Probably 99.5% of the mass shipped to me was trash. Ridiculous that the manufacturer and shipper can just externalize that cost onto me and inevitably the environment.

I’d expect they could ship me the bare sd card in a tiny envelope without all that waste if they were incentivized to.
Nope. Decentralized services will be very important moving forward. Most people just haven't realized it yet.
Most news articles these days will follow it with language like: "__ marked the hottest July on record. In fact, __ of the top ___ Julys have occurred in the last 10 years."

Reputable news outlets are also good about including boilerplate like:

"While we can't attribute any single event to climate change, scientists predict an increasing frequency of events like ___."

Extreme event frequency is one of the most unambiguous signals of climate change that people can see and relate to. I feel like you're either consuming sub-par media or attacking a straw-man.
Yes. And it should be the default if you open an xterm today.
I'm sure a lot of other things are being affected by this defect, just less visibly. It's not like the software is breaking x86 instructions somehow.
That's the unfortunate thing about this site's userbase. That because there is a technical solution, they feel the problem has been solved. However, the technical solution requires more investment and technical know-how than your base user cares to employ.
AWS's letter to Parler explains quite well why they are taking them down and I don't see any rational argument against it

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1348136296976408576/p...
Strong point! As a non-CS engineering student learning C++ for the first time, the compiler all but turned me off from wanting to be a programmer. No one explained why the compiler was even there, it just seemed like an annoying hindrance stopping me from getting good grades on the homework.

Fast forward a decade and I'm evangelizing statically typed FP at conferences. The value of the compiler is redeemed after self-teaching and learning the "Whys".
I believe Facebook has set a precedent it can never hope to keep up with - not so long as it keeps the algorithm on and designed to maximize engagement. It turns out terrible things are often very engaging.
Apple's relative stock price has increased, so the general increase of equity prices doesn't explain this.

Low interest rates means that people will search for yields elsewhere, it doesn't intrinsically mean they would settle on Apple outside of solid management.
> It does not "misbehave", when I use the same applications with ALSA, but whatever.

I mean RDRAND is a great example here, if you never use it, you never encounter these bugs. It's not impossible that PulseAudio tries to play higher quality audio or simply uses the device differently.

> I hope, that this particular group never ends up working on network hardware.

I'd kinda love it, probably quite a few fun hardware bugs will be found.
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Those two examples are likely rhetorical and are (as far as I can tell) not intended to and extremely unlikely to incite violence, much less imminent violence. If there were, however, organized groups actually planning and carrying out killings, and those groups used those slogans as a rallying cry, then indeed people and groups distributing those slogans ought to be banned from social networks.
The Capitol has its own police (they're literally called, the Capitol Police). You can't mute them, but you can make it clear that any attempt to breach the Capitol will result in deadly force.

And it should have.
Gold is intrinsically scarce. You can't fork gold and have Gold 2.0 which has the exact same properties of the original Gold.
I remember I ran into this Ryzen problem too. Spent a long time trying to figure out a bug in my code (random numbers were deterministic between runs), which ultimately was fixed by upgrading the bios.
Comments "silenced" by users can generally still be found by sorting by "controversial".
The era of CCP economic rise is over. Middle income trap and aging demographics dictate as much. CCP will now have to contend with

- internal turmoil

- political infighting

- encirclement by democracies (India, Japan, Australia, US, UK, Canada, France, South Korea, Taiwan). Once Merkel is out in sept 2021, Germany will be onboard

- negative sentiment from most of population in the world due to covid

- exploding debt/bankruptcies

- lack of efficient feedback loops to self correct, as dictatorship has little of that. Thus Jack Ma is no more.

If you have a foreign commercial presence in China, expect

- kidnapping of executives (for layoffs, unpaid bills)

- no delivery for paid merchandises

- seizure of molds/machines/factories (nationalization)

- seizure of tangible assets (nationalization)

- trademark/copyrights given to Chinese entities

with no recourses.
Perhaps shutting down all social media would be a net gain for society. I will miss my "buy nothing" group though.
Discord imo feels like 10 different spammy chat concert halls (rooms of 50+ people). Feature-wise though it has great group audio chat, and okay(a bit low-quality)-but-immediately-available video chat.
You've been breaking the site guidelines egregiously and repeatedly in your comments here. Posts like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725677 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25720636 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25715970 are totally unacceptable here, and bannable offenses.

We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're fighting for. We don't have a choice, because it destroys what this site is supposed to exist for.

I'm not going to ban you right now because it doesn't look like you've been doing this for a super long time. But please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site in the intended spirit: thoughtful, curious conversation across differences. If you can't do that, that's understandable of course, but then please don't post until you can.

HN's rules have been designed to try to preserve this place as somehow interesting, not the scorched earth that internet forums usually descend to. The rules don't stop applying because someone else is wrong or you feel they are, and it's not ok to break them because you're right or you feel you are. Actually those are the cases where they apply the most.
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> Why does this keep happening?

Windows doesn't use RDRAND.
> The CEO stated he would ban antifa

So they were moderating the platform to remove extremists?
When appraising something from a propaganda-y source, the rule of thumb I use is to treat it like selling sausages - if they're your sausages, you don't go into detail, but if they're your competitors sausages and you know they're full of sawdust then you don't need to make anything up.

Also "this isn't Reddit" is just delusions of grandeur, HN commenters are self-selected around technology for the most part not politics.
It's still so weird to me that stuff appears and disappears out of nothing. But experiments show it's really happening. The universe continues to surprise me.
I'm sure that alternate platforms will pop up. Parler is an alternate platform. However, how good will those platforms be? There are already many clouds, and a lot of them have trouble competing. Stripe also has many competitors, but few of them are that good.
Does anyone have a better link for this, preferably one hosted on Ubiquiti's own site somewhere?
It’s a viable model though. WhatsApp had only ~50 employees and already 500m users when it was purchased for ~$20B. They were already profitable on the $1/year after the first year subscription model.

Signal is approaching similar metrics (except it’s supported by a $50m endowment from Brian Acton instead of donations).

It’s easy to say that the mechanics of chat are pretty simple and a global chat service can be maintained by a roomful of engineers, but is the original algorithm-free, chronological Twitter that much more complex? It’s hard to believe there aren’t any other billionaires out there who would be willing to create an endowment securing the perpetual existence of a free social network.

Charging $1 a year like WhatsApp used to wouldn’t be such a bad idea once it got bootstrapped either, since it would make it much harder to run bot armies.
Right, if someone wants to build a business and can't do it without making it easier for hate groups and terrorists to organise, why would any government allow the business to exist? It's fundamentally a threat to any nation for it to allow profit from enabling sedition.
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Absolutely correct, I just did that this weekend: big effort trying to explain all pros vs cons and the its technical background and future outlook, prepared test chatroom, wrote simple instructions to create account and try it out => got ignored, failed miserably, hehe :)
We need to get things straight: everyone should praise the rise of Chinese people's living standards, which has been astonishing in the last 45 years or so, and has taken 850 million people out of poverty[0]! This is not something a reasonable person can argue against! The increase in human wellbeing in the whole planet has been almost entirely due to the Chinese in the last 50 years.

That doest' mean we should praise the CCP (at least not in its current form!), though. Far from it!! Now that people have a decent life standard, they should, and probably will, raise against injustices being committed by the governing party.

Maybe they don't want a democracy modelled on the West, and that's ok!! We need to understand that there may be other ways to govern a country as big as China. But everyone in China definitely wants to be given a fair go to live their lives as best as they can, and to have at least a level of freedom that lets them live a happy life without causing problems to others (after the last few days, even the most avid defender of free speech in the US seems to agree a level of moderation in the public discourse is required, the only point of disagreement seems to be in how much).

It is really painful to see China moving back to authoritarianism in this way after a couple of decades in which it looked like they were embracing, slowly but surely, more freedoms and human rights. Let's hope that they find a way out of this instead of incessantly criticising them as if they were the devil all the time!! I honestly believe that even the CCP highest party members want to see the improvement of the Chinese people's lives, it would be completely irrational to believe otherwise... they are just humans like all of us... the problem cannot that they are evil!! The problem is that they have misguided fears of what may happen if the people is given too much freedom and try to mercilessly prevent their fears from becoming reality (like, you know, a revolutionary government taking power by force, which is the worse that could happen anywhere, even in China).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China
well, cloud is done for. nobody can rely on such provider any more. they fucked themselves so bad this time that they won't get any new business. maybe finally people will get back to bare metal and pay 1/100 of what they used to spend.
Well, if no one listens to you why even make the effort to keep in touch. That's a different problem and solved by Twitter and similar
It's stuff like this that makes me wish for a _version_ of Windows that is completely built & operated by Valve. Or atleast, I wish Microsoft could implement such features for their login interface.

I love gaming on Windows & PC and would love to have the PC have a "Big Picture mode" friendly UI, _throughout_ the OS. Some gimmicks I have had to resort to are to set up my PC Sign-In to be _without_ a password and on a _local account_ on my Win10 PC, along with having Steam start in BigPicture on startup. This way I can switch on my PC and have my controller connect to start gaming just like a console; but way better graphics of course :)

It's these tiny affordances that collectively add up to great User Experience features.