skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux usually works perfectly fine with old hardware, a Intel Core2 Duo should be completely enough. That's even 64 bit hardware. Worst case you have to swap out Gnome with something more minimal, but that's unlikely.
Leaking silhouettes of cross-origin images using a timing side channel
Angela Merkel blasts Twitter's decision to permanently suspend Trump's account
I really liked Path and Orkut while they lasted. Well, not always, but I did find them nice. Maybe because I was younger.
I agree, that’s why I said “ It’s not a secret cabal of left-leaning owners, it is a publicly known set of left-leaning tech owners.”

Of course the key characteristic of secret cabals is that they are secret.

While I know of no evidence for secret cabals of big tech people, having individual capable of making unaccountable decisions is a different bad thing than secret cabals.

And I responding to someone saying these were big organizations with lots of decision makers. And that’s false for Facebook and google, since they have power concentrated.
This has been my experience too. I like the hardware, but MacOS is something I just tolerate. Lot of minor irritants, lack of ability/keyboard shortcuts to dock Windows, different short cut for switching window and application to name a few.
Do you know if this kind of setup works on other popular IDEs, like Jetbrains products?
It should be noted that SIMD-on-CPU is not to be the fastest SIMD in the world... but instead the closest SIMD to your data.

SIMD today largely exists in the realm of GPUs: the NVidia 3090 is a dedicated SIMD-architecture for example. But as an "external" device on a PCIe 4.0 port, your CPU can only stream 30GBps worth of data to it (the max-bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 x16)

The AVX512-units inside of an Intel chip is the same GPU-SIMD architecture, but smaller. More importantly, it shares L1 cache, and therefore has TBps worth of data-sharing.

As such, AVX512 becomes useful if you need a fast CPU to calculate some things, and then switch off to SIMD-paradigm for some reason.

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What's a good example of this "switchoff" ?? Well, Stockfish-nnue (now default in Stockfish 12) is a great example.

You might know that SIMD-compute, in particular GPUs, are the one of the best architectures for calculating neural nets. But GPUs are terrible with branchy-code (which happens often in chess: "if(bishop) then (calculate bishop moves)" is rather difficult to do efficiently on a GPU! Its hard to explain why, but its called "branch divergence". Look it up if you feel like it).

Anyway, a CPU is best at the "if(bishop)" kind of computation. But GPUs are best at neural nets.

Stockfish-nnue beats Leela-Zero, by using AVX512 on a small-and-lightweight neuralnet, but still uses the CPU for the fast if() statements.

This is only made possible because AVX512 and the rest of the CPU shares the same L1 / L2 cache, meaning you can get TBps worth of data-sharing, instead of GBs if you went "off-chip" to another computer (like calling a GPU-to calculate a neural net).

Furthermore, the NNUE neural net in Stockfish is composed of if-statements: only PART of the neural net updates, which means it can never be efficiently implemented on a GPU. Only something with fast if() statements can implement NNUE. (EDIT: Well... maybe not "never", but it'd be non-obvious to code up a solution. I think its possible, now that I think of it... but its not done in typical GPU code these days)

GPUs / classical SIMD compute want all of its data to update uniformly, without if() statements mucking up the logic. CPUs have giant branch-prediction and hyperthreading and other such features to speed up if-statements.

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A small SIMD for small SIMD-calculations, that combines with fast CPU-style branch-heavy code. A nightmare for GPUs to implement. Its something only possible with CPU + SIMD instruction assist.

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GPUs are likely still best for large-scale SIMD. Like giant matrix multiplications (or many matrix-multiplications, like in video games). Where if-statements are less common.
You're offering the information, the least you could do is provide your source.
> A single, fatal shot was fired for precisely that reason.

The people most imminently in danger in that case, as I understand it, were staff in the Speakers Lobby, not members or the Vice President, who were in the chambers.

But as I understand the timeline, the attack, with defenders just on the other side with guns drawn and prepared to fire, on the doors to at least one of the chambers also were ongoing before members had been evacuated from the floor by another exit, so the incident at the Speakers Lobby came very close to being repeated where members were more immediately at risk.
I agree with this. FB has succeeded in their marketing effort to be perceived, even by their detractors, as somehow separate from "mainstream media" when in fact they are one of the biggest media companies on the planet.
Maybe this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErTzgBxXcAAuTkC?format=jpg&name=...

Had something https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErTzgBuXYAAB4y2?format=jpg&name=...

To do with it https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErTzgB3XIAcffGC?format=jpg&name=...

The bar for "enough moderation to show due care" isn't that high, and they intentionally limboed right under it.

Oh no, the consequences of my own actions...
Curious: How did you do that? (scrape + chart)
Yes, it depends on the voting mechanism and other aspects of how the government is set up, as other commenters pointed out. I was talking about the US specifically.
The black cause is on a completely different moral plane than angry white people trying to keep trump in power.

To cut off service to someone is not destroying a business “competitor.” The fact that they were depending on your service indicates a type of cooperation not competition.
I don't think Twitter had any difficulty discerning right from wrong when it came to ISIS, even back in 2016.
The vast majority of this data was posted publicly. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Pacman clone created by Nvidia AI
Both widely criticized and widely lauded. Similar to what's happening here.
Sounds like democracy probably isn’t a good choice then.
Code Execution on Cran v4.0.2
Interesting RCE against CRAN package manager.
ICE spends $100m on AWS: fine

Slightly worse Twitter app: axed on short notice

What is the strategy of the woke AWS employees pushing for these removals?
Yes, several of the things that I want are unobtainium at the moment, but do come in some completes.
Something about how the images and their captions have nothing to do with the topic of the article seems very suspicious.
It's rather well documented that Aaron had been thinking about suicide long before getting mixed up with the DOJ http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/341150
You are not supposed to edit titles to opinionate.

Both parties get donations from corporations. Since the federal government has so much power, it is natural that groups try to influence legislators. If the size of government shrank dramatically, there would be less lobbying and fewer political donations.
It seems like a default to the status quo for most, and in a broad sense I think aligns with people’s notions that they should be compensated for their work. I don’t think that the majority position on the issue is particularly informed and perhaps if it were things would change.
Do you find that working in VMs or containers hampers developer productivity once you're up and running?
Ask HN: What is the right way to test your product idea while having a day job?
How do we go about launching a product and reach the point of at least 1 paying customer while we still work on day job and working on our side project in our free time/weekends? - Most companies prohibit alternate full time work or a working in a project with conflict of interest especially for employees below the rank of a director. What is the right way to handle this? If you had worked on a side project while having a day job - please share your experiences and tips.
Not trying to troll here. Genuinely curious... Can you explain this take? From what I understand bitmessage is a p2p/decentralized protocol for e2e encrypted communication and is fully open source. What sort of 3rd party trust is required?
Could a Muslim owned cloud service drop a gay customer, say an app like Grindr? I recall a case about a baker and a gay couple or something.

Is this a civil matter or criminal?

I grew up in a different era seriously none of this makes sense. Which groups are legally allowed to cancel the others? Where is that set forth in law?

Thanks.
"off the grid" - except for the social media presence, the website, the cloud backups, etc which are all outsourced, on-grid, big power eaters. Articles like these always feel like Japan itself: clean, because all the trash and polluting industry was sent away to the rest of Asia.

/me grumps away

EDIT that said, there are good thoughts in the article, eg: "Hard copies: Paper is a stable and widely accessible material, unlike digital devices which are subject to breakages and obsolescence". I'll have to print a lot of photos one day.
Isn’t this the story of Energiewende? The theoretical generation capacity is very high but their solar power capacity factor in reality is 10%, add wind and (debatably green) biomass and its still only 20% of installed renewable capacity. So that’s a significant gap that coal ends up covering (more than a few percent). Expanding the program by a factor of 5x to account for inefficient power factor is probably not in the cards considering electricity is already the highest price in Europe. Doing a u-turn on nuclear or a new initiative to replace coal with LNG is more likely in next two decades.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/germanys-energie...
You're misreading the article. He put himself on the list of people to optimize, but admitted he is sufficiently biased about his own skills that he wasn't realistically going to end up as one of the cuts.
WhatsApp is FB too
The DataGenetics article was interesting but doesn’t explain where “DSC” comes from. Wikipedia [1] explains that it’s an abbreviation for Digital Still Camera, corroborated by the Design rule for Camera File system (DCF) [2] which also specifies “DCIM” (an abbreviation for Digital Camera IMages) as the name of the DCF image root directory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera#Digital_Still_C...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy...
Is anyone here using kdb+/q for data engineering, specifically outside of finance?
The thing is, these types aren't usually complex in the way that logic is. Complex logic generally means lots of loops and conditions and such, maybe shared mutable state. Linear code that just calls a series of independent functions one after another is not generally considered complex, even though it may ultimately result in the execution of lots of code. What generally leads to these confusing errors is just simple types composed end-to-end. The problem is that while compilers are good at picking out the specific part of a function that's causing problems, they generally can't do the same thing with types, so it's kind of like if every time you got an exception, the entire module source was pinpointed as the problem.
Ultimately if someone with guns and tanks decides to deplatform you, it’s happening unless you can get your own guys with guns and tanks to protect you.
Is it me or there's some cognitive dissonance going on with the whole article discussing the ramifications of a nationalization without describing at all what sourced this "news" in the first place?

A cursory search seems to show this is a regurgitation on a sourceless Radio Free Asia article (https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/alibaba-probe-1225202...) from December?
He was not going to get crushed by the government, he was going to serve a 6 month sentence in a low security facility. This is the sort of sentence one might receive for stealing a car. Are those individuals “crushed” by the government?
> you must have a reliable on-grid source ... which then may as well be your primary.

Not at all.

With net metering it makes sense to be on the grid during the day when you're making more power than you need, then if and when you need it you can pull power from the grid.

In Australia my Dad got a 5kW system fully installed for $5k AUD, and he gets paid a few hundred dollars from the power company every three months now.
Can you show any proof that the mob was armed?
Which makes it even worse. A 4 month plea deal on a 50 year maximum sentence is clear evidence of that something is vet wrong.

It either means the deal or the max sentence is wrong.
Sure, in theory. But I feel like on both platform you end up just seeing tons of shares/retweets of whales/influencers. (particularly the way they reorder content on your timeline so it's presented by what they think you want to see)
I think what I've learned this week is that there's an economic failure mode that has societal harm. It goes something like this:

1. Some people want to share toxic harmful material with the world. Sharing that has real material hosting and serving costs that those individuals would rather not pay.

2. Platform hosts like AWS, Twitter, Facebook, etc. will host material for people. They pay for that by also showing users ads and the advertisers fund the company.

3. Advertisers don't want their brand associated with toxic content. But when a platform host has a sufficient diversity of good and bad content, the brand association is with the platform itself, which is neutral, and not the content it is shown next to, which may be toxic.

The end result is that advertisers end up inadvertently funding the dissemination of toxic content. Extremists are essentially free riding, sort of like riding on the back of one of those rolling billboard cars and tossing out pamphlets.

This happens because the host is essentially image laundering the toxic content. When a host isn't diverse enough to accomplish this, you can see that advertisers won't touch it. That's why Parler is toast. Advertisers do not want to be funding this stuff but the hosts they use are too much of a black box to give them much control.

So why do hosts end up accepting this toxic content? Is the relationship between host and toxic content authors parasitic or symbiotic? Cynics believe the hosts deliberately allow this because toxic content drives engagement and increases advertising revenue. A charitable perspective is that hosts would rather not be free riders for toxic content, but the problem is that separating the wolves and the sheep is too difficult (where "difficult" involves some combination of social, technological, and financial costs).

What I haven't seen is anyone suggest that it is an emergent property of financial incentives. The primary way these hosts compete in the marketplace is through network effects and economy of scale. Social media host success is dominated by network effects. Advertisers go where the eyeballs are, and people go where the other people are. I don't think there is any natural stable equilibrium that leads to a large number of small thriving social media companies.

Economies of scale exacerbate that. Users don't like viewing ads so the less ads a host shows, the more popular it becomes. This puts heavy competitive pressure on them to minimize costs which relies on all of the economies of scale that software and tech offers.

The end result, I think is a consolidation onto a few hosts which in turn host so much of everything that they end up with a neutral brand that advertisers can use even though there is a mixture of toxic content in there. I don't think anyone intended this to happen.

But the good news is that if we do create regulation to break up tech monopolies and push against the natural forces of network effects and economies of scale, we may also see a natural decline of toxic content free riders. Because as these hosts get smaller, they're less able to be used as image launderers.
If we still have sexual offender registries, etc., then you might well know that this person was a sexual offender in the past. Also, if we as a society have better resources for counseling and so forth, we may actually be able to help teach these folks better ways to live in society.

But it is a big mindset shift. If someone has paid their debt to society - their debt has been paid, and they shouldn't continue to be punished.
The existence of someone's address in a phone book isn't a threat. There's not anything inherently devious about making that information public, but you can't just view that in isolation. 99.99999% of people have no use for that information. If you're publishing just that person's address without comment, you have infer the intent from the circumstances. Nobody on Parler is sharing her address to show that she's an honest politician actually living within her district. The implication of sharing just one person's home address with people who hate her is to encourage malfeasance at such location. I think this implication would have always existed.
No. They are most likely punished for their crime via a fine or a temporary license suspension with the only deterrent for future crimes being larger fines or longer suspensions.
You're slightly wrong by stressing "THE". They are SOME of the bad guys. Those weren't the only racially charged and violent riots that happened this year.
Wow. This, alongside Jack Ma being "missing", is really curious.

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/jack-ma-missing-232138645....

Best, semi-legit source I can find, there's other news postings, but from more tabloid and sources that aren't as sincere as Yahoo Financial News.

Which, itself is curious, because CNBC spins it differently:

"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-is-l..."

Which also falls under the AU-CN struggle, but also curious about how CNBC did not outright say he's missing yet.

And technically, both could be correct, imprisoned means missing from society but not exactly "missing" in terms of knowing general wherebouts.
Why do these people stay in the US?

In Europe if you say that you were imprisoned for smoking pot, people will just laugh at the situation, because it’s so hard to believe.
The one where they were trying spin forced IUDs and sterilizations as a way to promote gender equity and reproductive health[1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/twitter-takes-do...
I'll just quote myself,

> attempting to blur that tells me more about your priors and biases than anything about the situation

And right on cue, here comes someone who would rather talk about Eminem and Epstein to blur the situation than talk about the actual situation.
> Blocking does not scale if you interact with a lot of people (see many famous examples of celebrities quitting Twitter over harrassment), which is something Twitter would obviously want its users to do.

This seems to be viewed as a sort of "bug" of scale; I see it as a feature. If you become extremely popular and your voice is amplified, you're going to have to contend with being criticized and scrutinized to a greater degree.

I fall into the Sam Harris & Joe Rogan Greater Internet Reply Theory: "Don't read the comments. You can't read the comments." Jamie Foxx said it best on why you don't need to read them, "Sometimes the comments'll get in that ass."

I will simply never agree with removing someone for the content of their speech. I do think that you eventually reach a point of harassment (for example, if you reply to every single tweet of someone you don't like with, "You're a cunt."), but by-and-large, a lot of the "problems" simply result in people not being able to ignore others, either by using a button on a website, or just by sheer willpower of not looking at a comment.
Maybe arrange some (even if trivial) perks along the way, after you finish your "chores".

Before the pandemic I was more willing to get up and commute to work just to get the cup of (quite good) coffee from our espresso machine and chat with friends. I feel even with all the slacking-off I was more productive than WFH.

Having said that I have a hard time sticking with any habits at all, so well...
> I was referring to the comment where you say HN is “bizarrely” more “pro-censorship”. Where you see “pro-censorship”, many see speech that historically has never been protected

I didn't use the word "bizarrely" and I'm not talking about condemnation of unprotected speech (and again, not just because I'm not from the USA). I've seen people arguing that the concept of free speech itself is "outdated" and that societies that hold it are "doomed to collapse", and that's just an example.

> [Trump]

Again, I wasn't talking about parler nor about Trump. I would appreciate it if you stopped trying to imply that I'm talking about stuff I'm not, or steering the conversation toward subjects I've never even alluded to.
Open source app targeted with fake 'adware' and 'malware' reviews
Nobody is defending plea deals here. Aaron was offered an excellent deal, regardless of how indefensible plea deals might be in general.
Getting Started with Signal
I think this argument conflates two things, one of which is true and slightly terrifying. The terrifying thing is how few scientists understand the statistical underpinnings of their studies. The conflation happens because he thinks this is stratified by field. In practice, there are plenty of sociologists with a decent grasp on this, and a truly astonishing number of biologists who don't. Don't believe me? Read the studies of biology papers and how many have serious problems in their statistical treatment.

So we've got a serious problem with how science is being done. Probably doesn't affect whether or not expertise exists, or which fields it exists in. Unless we're going to start saying biology isn't real.
Does refactoring Legacy Code pay off in your career?
They could have just talked to half of congress as well. Do you have any proof they were planning to hurt any members of congress?
I agree. As someone pretty far on the left I was shook by the banning of Donald Trump, and this trend of censorship makes me really, really, really scared.

If you're anything but a very centrist Democrat, this should scare the crap out of you.
I posted a few weeks ago - someone in Kentucky is trying to make it a felony to post such information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25485245
Comments like this show you when the left finds its four year lunatic messiah like the reactionaries did, they are going to be just as bad if not worse.
Reddit's Lisp to Python port used web.py written by Aaron: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

web.py source code - a framework in a single file:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060106081029/http://webpy.org:...

RIP Aaron.
It's not hard to imagine a situation where normally avid/active cyclist are taking fewer trips (since they aren't going to an office 5 days a week or whatever) but this loss is dwarfed by normally occasional non-cycling people taking more trips than average.

The latter group is likely two orders of magnitude larger than the former, so the interesting thing will be if some people become "converts" as it were, when the restrictions are released. I can see arguments both for and against.

It would be interesting to see an analysis of this in a couple of years, but comparing areas of long term disruption (e.g. USA) vs. shorter (e.g. New Zealand) but that also has all the usual problems of comparison.
https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/parler-grab/blob/master/parle...

There might have been other attacks in the way you describe, but it doesn't seem to be used by the team behind archiving the content.

https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_neparlepas