skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Former presidents remain protected by the Secret Service for the rest of their lives [0].

0: https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/6620
This isn't problematic for a platform that is unmoderated. It's only problematic when the platform is unwilling to respond to user content that represents a clear and present danger.
Cockroach Labs Raises $160M on $2B Valuation
I'm not anymore, because it was incredibly frustrating to test locally. My original goal was p2p, for two reasons. I didn't want a backend if I didn't need one, and I wanted to maintain a lot of privacy features for users. So now I just have a websocket relay server instead, which isn't my favorite, but it does the job.
Who better to get things done than people who understand what the company does because they have been there for years?
Why would you be selling options on companies with a 1% chance of going to zero? There are much more stable companies out there.
If you haven't read it, I think you would really enjoy the book Blindsight (https://archive.org/details/PeterWattsBlindsight/page/n3/mod...).
Airbus hit as new US tariffs come into force
Encription was banned in the US but it didn't work out so well.

Parler build itself on Amazon which was the big mistake the next company won't follow.

It's a wakeup call to anyone using the cloud that one day it might decide you are not welcome.
I assume some could actually answer your question with respect to designm but you would be asking the wrong question. Intel's main competitor is not ARM or AMD. It is TSMC's ecosystem. Which is ex-CEO Morris Chang calls it the Grand Alliance.
Fuck you fascist.
> The DNS is like a phonebook for the internet

We are going to have to come up with a new metaphor soon. I haven't seen a phonebook in ages. Honestly I would be more likely to tell my kid "Phonebooks were like DNS for telephone numbers."
"Because they typically introduce new technology which is somewhat incompatible with previous generations"

Just to clarify:

He doesn't meant that each year's new kit is incompatible with last year's. He just means that major generational changes introduce incompatibilities.

11-speed cassettes have been the rule for most new road bikes for quite some time now, but obviously when it was introduced it wasn't compatible with 10-speed systems.

11 has been around for a while now. Shimano has 3 "serious" tiers of road bike components: Dura Ace, Ultegra, and 105 at the "bottom". (The bottom here is the bottom of serious cycling, not the bottom of cycling generally; the lowest 105-equipped bike in Specialized's road line is $1,400 MSRP.)

When I bought a bike in late 2014, Dura Ace and Ultegra were 11-speed, but 105 was still 10. Then, for a while, everything was 11. You could (and can) mix and match within Shimano or within SRAM as long as everything was 11 speed (with the exception that you can't mix mechanical derailleurs and electronic shifters, or vice versa).

A year or two ago, SRAM introduced a new 12-speed electronic-only group at its high end ("RED"), which has since filtered down to its middle-grade ("Force"). SRAM still makes 11-speed mechanical and, I think, still makes parts for its first electronic setup ("eTap") which was 11-speed.

Shimano is behind, and still hasn't introduced a 12-speed system, but there's a lot of anticipation for it, which is what OP is referring to.

(I should also note for the record that Shimano still makes and sells lower-grade component groups, too; the cheapest road bike on the Specialized web site is intro level Allez at just $900. It comes with an 8-speed Shimano groupset called Claris, which is currently Shimano's bottom-of-the-line. They also still make a 9-speed (Sora) and a 10-speed (Tiagra).)
"Your Turn, Toront-Waterloo" (2017)
US Army PsyOps Officer Under Investigation for Involvement in Capitol Riots
Millions of people have cats.
In Ireland during the 1980s, 50% of kids cycled to school. Now it's 2%. I'm sure there's a qualifier there about urban/suburban/rural; I'll try to dig up the report.

I was one of those 1980s kids; the bicycle sheds contained several hundred bikes, all year round. I never heard of any kid being killed on a bike, out of 1,200 students over six years.
>Reality check: Parler contained realistic threats and refused to moderate or remove those threads.

Having never paid much attention to Parler until now, I've been looking for more information on it in light of the ban. Can you link to any resources describing examples of realistic threats on Parler that its moderators refused to remove?
Antifa is threatening the store if they keep selling the book.
I was at Disney for almost a decade (possibly at the division ultimately responsible for Disney+, but I’m not positive - it’s hard to keep up with all of the changes and renaming) and this is 100% what I observed there. Over and over.

The ineptitude of the decisions that resulted from this were often hard to believe. And getting ahead was really a matter of getting in good with a new exec long enough to put you in a good position to move upwards to a different part of the company (or elsewhere).
iTools 2021
They voted for Trump, because they have much more radical leftist political preferences then Democratic party?
Cloudflare doesn’t yet resolve handshake names, but hopefully this changes soon.

Paging @jgc !
In one of the projects I was in, we did the same but then made a comment with the merged commit hash so that folks can check it out.
Great. Now they are not catching up with Telegram, they are catching up with WhatsApp.
I went to the gym this morning and some of the TVs usually show info in the corner about the song and artist currently being played over the sound system. Apparently it was using Flash because today it just showed the Flash logo with a question mark overlay.
openvidu is nice, in many ways it looks very similar to google meet. And the "get a room" functionality reminds me of a system I used to use long time ago called appear.in (seems they are out of business..)
I’m not seeing the difference. If you already have the cell phone in your home, you might as well get the smart speaker if you want the convenience of voice controls for playing music, setting timers, etc.
Depends on if authorities agree with that point of view. Accounting here needs to follow what can be translated as "Generally accepted accounting principles". If you do bookkeeping with pen and paper, you cannot erase a past mistake. You need to correct it with a new transaction. Basically, an append-only system is needed.
Giving? No.

Receiving and not reporting? Maybe, depending on local laws and how zealous the tax enforcer is. This probably falls into the category of "Not allowed, but too small to worry about." That works fine, until they decide to audit you for some other reason.
The intro is useful in laying out the metal preoccupations and biases of the author.
If you get married, give your spouse lots of gifts, and then get divorced, can the state take the gifts away from the spouse?
Second order effects are important to consider, but the idea that the world would be better off if nobody had ever built something like Netflix or Amazon is... hard to take seriously.
You couldn't help illustrate my point any better, thanks. My opinion is invalidated by my racial/economic identity. Actually, it's worse: the opposite of what I say must be true. Brave new world.
CockroachDB creator Cockroach Labs raises $160M at a $2B valuation
You need some cohesiveness and a guiding force/philosophy of where to go. Otherwise you just have a bunch of corps only incentivized to make money, with disjointed ideas etc. Most are only incentivized for short time horizons up to 10-20 years max. Govs can plan a 50-100 year vision for a nation (like China is doing).
How do HN readers, who I presume would generally support safe harbor provisions for free speech, common carrier rules etc, not find it deeply alarming that this is happening? 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?
What about nginx pronunciation?

It's Engine X, kinda hard to guess.
Parler, in a show of embarrassing lack of technical ability, unable to build and operate their own private infrastructure, destroyed themselves.
Mouse scroll wheel acceleration, implemented in user space
From a hackers perspective I guess it makes sense yes, and as we are on HN this is perhaps not surprising.

Still, this is not how humans usually interact. I trust there is no poison in my food without analysing it, I trust people to no shot me as I walk in the street, I trust the shopkeeper to accept that I have paid if the card reader says so… As ethno points out [1], some social work is needed here for our collective trust no to be misguided. Crucially, if the social work to buy trust does no exist, it entirely falls on you.

I consider myself that trusting the Echo (or other home assistance devices) is too much work for the meager benefit it provides.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25747404
It seems like neither side actually wants that.
The Emerging Ship: How to Save a Failing Project
"Corporate culture was also very different in my early career. Cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking was rampant until the late 80s. I’d sit in smoke-filled meetings and come out wheezing, reeking of tobacco. Also, the dress was different. I was required to wear a conservative suit, tie, and leather shoes until around 2000 when business casual became popular"

Bit different nowadays . . .
If anything recent events demonstrate how much chuff can be cut out of the defense budget. 670 bUSD/yr and a blank check to spy on citizens and they can’t keep a medium sized mob from threatening the legislative head. That doesn’t conjure up a feeling of revoking citizen rights. That conjures up a feeling that the entire defense and intelligence command structure should be revisited, and potentially burned down.
After US Capitol assault, a different cybersecurity threat emerges
A good old paper TODO list. A plain text file works well too, and can be passed around in repos if you're working on different machines. I plot out everything I need to do up front and then get to work, adding more if necessary.
If I suspend my disbelief and lets say an average American makes more than an average European, is that before expenses or after? Because once we start factoring in rent, healthcare, cost of food or any other cost of living. Then is it of comparable quality? I know as far as healthcare goes it's a far lower standard that costs far more, the level of stress is far higher, the working hours are far longer.

So even if they are making more money, I don't feel like it adds to their wealth or their lifestyle, which was kind of the point of making more money isn't it?
The R line for the flip flops goes to the SoC, but we don’t know if it’s tied to SoC’s reset line or if it’s a GPIO on the SoC. In the former case, you’d have to reset the SoC to turn on the mic. In the latter, you can just turn on the mic without reset. In either case, the LED always shows the true state of the mic.
You have to click on some of the links. Check under docs, you'll find details about several different systems that are all under the umbrella of "plain text accounting". It's not one app. They have links to information on ledger, hledger, and BeanCount which all work similarly but are not (entirely) compatible (in particular, I know there's a common subset of both ledger and hledger which covers most personal accounting needs, but they each have some features the other lacks, never used BeanCount).

https://plaintextaccounting.org/#docs
It doesn't have to imply that developers are lower quality for this to be a troubling signal - if you close an existing office that is doing good work to save money, that shows where your priorities lie. And I agree with your sentiment, I worked with some very talented developers in Shanghai, but there are a lot of factors at play that make it hard to build a solid team from the other side of the world, factors that are legitimate and feed into the misconception that these countries have inferior talent.
Previous discussion from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696939

Does anyone know how this compares to Chicken scheme? It looks like they both are able to transpile to C and have good FFI support.
I don't see any Windows installation instructions there.

Is it really that hard to distribute an application? A statically linked executable, or a portable directory with an executable in it. Thousands of projects do it every day. Why do so many developers insist on making a simple thing like actually running their software so complicated?
A monopoly is composed of “one” entity. It’s in the name. This is not a fair characterization of what happened.
Biden has been very comfy as a senator with the expansive IP claims made by Hollywood. I think he is going to be something of a disappointment to you.
45W hardly strikes me as "mobile". That's in the realm of laptops with fans and big batteries, right? I figured a "mobile" processor would need a maximum TDP of 15W or less.
BLM riots didn't just loiter in government buildings, they burned them down. How many BLM leaders were banned from Twitter from inciting that with unambiguous "burn America to the ground" kind of stuff?
I'm getting a little tired of seeing this specious meme floating around. It's barely more sensical than the one that Parler is a free speech zone.

The reason for the Amazon ban is not the simple fact that Parler had people making threats. Per Amazon's email to Parler, it's that they had seen an on-going escalation of credible (much more so than the two tweets you linked) incitements to violence, Parler had a history of dragging its feet about responding to specific complaints about infringing content, Parler failed to furnish a tenable plan for how to implement an effective content moderation policy, and public communication by executives indicated that they had no good-faith intent to do so.

Furthermore, while I agree that Twitter doesn't do as great a job at stuff like this as one would like, either, this is just a really ill-chosen place for Parler's supporters to try and make their stand. The cast iron pot does not help its case by calling the steel kettle black.
Sure. But this where we get back to "aggressive" interviewing technique.

Suppose someone makes the claim that tax cuts for the rich, or for capital gains, improves the economy. Journalist/host says "what evidence do you have of that?". Politician/pundit says something misleading, irrelevant or demonstrably false.

This is the crux point. The journalist/host can at this point either (a) move on (b) drill down into the claim made by the politician/pundit. But (b) will be clearly seen as oppositional by both the politician/pundit and by the audience (and correctly so, because that's the whole point).

In the current media landscape, this journalist/host will shortly end up with no significant guests at all, and will be described as "confrontational" and "partisan".
As a current FB employee this matches what I've seen of the offices I've visited. In fact, all swag I've received in the year I've been here also doesn't have FB branding on the exterior.

Regarding the original article, I've received no warnings about wearing FB branded stuff outside, so the warning may have been specific to DC or specific locations.
Why migrating to Signal when there is a much better alternative as Telegram?
This right here. At least Apple gave them time to implement moderation in their app. A really unrealistic 24 hour timeframe, but still.

Truth is it was good PR to obliterate Parler for everyone involved and they weren't a big enough player to be able to fight back.
I don’t think this is correct . You can calibrate a threshold for a metric empirically without interpreting the metric probabilistically. Ie that z > N is empirically a good threshold for anomaly detection calls for no necessary further interpretation.
I have seen that disclosure. Its a wonderful bit of spin there. Apple's PR is really good, it allows signal to piggy back like a champ.

You can uninstall messenger/instagram/fb. you can't easily stop apple or google snooping your location, health, finance and contact information and use your phone.

Facebook don't have access to my location, health, financial, search or browsing history. I know because I did a GDPR request. Depending on where you live, you can do the same.
If only there were a well-known, long-standing government agency that would protect the president and investigate threats against government officials. Some sort of service... Y'know, we could give them a cool name like 'Secret Service'. We should've thought about this after multiple early presidents were assassinated. /s

The Secret Service investigates these types of things. What relevance is this to bomb threats at the data center of a company?

I get whataboutitism is retort de jure for anything that touches on politics these days. But at least try harder.
Vitalik Buterin on De-platforming and the way forward
Unfortunately, even if you go to extremes, all (ISPs, Browsers, etc) have to do is choose not to connect to you.
For people that mention software like Ledger, Excel and Google Sheets to do their accounting, what do you do to make sure you don't accidentally delete/duplicate/edit a transaction and how do you import the latest transactions in an automated way?

For example, I started using FreeAgent for taxes and the game changing feature for me is the (Open Banking based) transaction feeds where transactions are pulled daily from multiple bank accounts, where you're prompted that you need to explain/categorise each new transaction and the explanations + transactions get locked-in once they become part of a submitted tax return.

You can easily change the category of a transaction in the UI but e.g. deleting or modifying a transaction amount will require multiple steps and for you to ignore loud warnings. The automated import takes care of avoiding duplicates and making sure nothing is missed compared to doing it manually.

I've done accounting with just spreadsheets before and I hated how easy it would have been to make an accidental edit and not notice. Manually exporting and importing CSV files is fatiguing and error prone as well.

I find this similar for invoicing software: you could keep a spreadsheet of who you need to invoice, if you sent it, if it's been paid, sending late reminders etc. but there's a lot of freedom to make mistakes and mistakes here are high impact. Invoicing software automates many of the steps, forces you to follow a set process and gives loud warnings if you deviate or make unusual edits.
And just like that, free speech is back
The DoD, or at least the USAF, has decided that 5G is going to be a critical part of their infrastructure.

https://potomacofficersclub.com/will-roper-announces-larger-...
Congrats!

I got my first GitHub Sponsor the other day and even though it is just $1 / month it made me feel like a rockstar. Also I got $3 on BuyMeACoffee a few months ago and it was wonderful.

Keep up the good work.
Zoom Phone now used by more than 1M people to stay connected
Well yeah you're right. But makes sense Telegram storing them in the servers. You can use the APP without an active Wifi connection thanks to that. Also, you can always choose to chat using end-to-end.
What does this even mean? This is an incredibly vague article. I'm surprised Reuters published it.

Are they going to revoke US RNC's Salesforce accounts? (That sounds draconian.)

Are they going to revoke any Salesforce accounts associated with the Trump campaign? (That is still draconian, but justified in light of recent events.)
Ask HN: What are your favourite productivity tools?
I'm always on the lookout for new apps and was wondering what others use to stay productive?

As a starter, I use CleanShot X [1] to take, annotate and share screenshots every day. HazeOver [2] is a nice app to keep you focused by dimming the background of other apps on your desktop. I drop all my links and references into My Mind [3]. It can be easily searched and removes the burden of organising the content upfront.

Disclaimer: I'm crafting Raycast [4] which is a productivity tool for developers.

[1] https://cleanshot.com

[2] https://hazeover.com

[3] https://mymind.com

[4] https://raycast.com
My implication is that the political systems in most nations are becoming more recalcitrant to acts that cause massive overhauls due to deliberate beurecracy. I would be curious if you and others think that Canada would be able to pass any new massive social program today.

So what we have now is that some countries ossified after passing lots of welfare systems while others ossified before. The ones where welfare is present end up serving a higher quality of life for its lowest ladder of folk, ensuring a better scenario for them to not radicalize much (just comparatively, look at France).
Completely agree. I wish they'd do a remake of In Time - interesting concept that was poorly executed.
I agree that the lone wolf nature of the attack makes a difference, but if we are going to paint other lone wolf shooters as products of their political beliefs then we have to apply the same standard in this case.

>they generally were not paraded around as heroes by people of similar political leaning

I would invite you to look at discussions of the incident on reddit, it might change your mind. That said, I agree that the celebration of politically motivated violence is despicable, and the unwillingness of some the members and supporters of the republican party to condemn the recent riot is a terrible mistake.

My main goal with my first comment was to remind everyone that painting the people we have political disagreements with as irredeemable monsters can drive people from both sides to violence.

I'd also like to thank you for taking the time to reply instead of downvoting and moving on, this is a tough subject and I don't think my hasty 1st comment was sufficient to the task.
Tor - there's always a way
F*Ex
Saying “no one has any qualia” is the kind of thing that gives philosophy a bad name — it’s obviously false to everyone who hears it, by the very fact they feel something in response.
Blocking individual accounts is something Parler can do (and chose not to), not Amazon/Facebook/Google who don't have access to the contents of those accounts (at least not easily).

Also, it's worth looking at some of the hacked info that was released - Parler had a serious moderation system, but it was used to make sure people had MAGA viewpoints, not to prevent violence. This is not some free and open platform, it was a controlled one that purposely built an echo chamber of violent rhetoric. Twitter and Facebook don't allow the same kind of violent rhetoric, lies, etc., and while they may not do an ideal (or even good) job at it, the fact is they're broad platforms used for a whole lot of things for a whole lot of people and are absolutely not comparable to Parler.
Joint and several responsibility. I’d love it if people couldn’t be manipulated, but we’re bald monkeys in suits, not Vulcans.
Boy, if only we hadn't insisted on browsers becoming so ludicrously complicated so we could kludge applications onto them we might be able to solve at least one of those problems.

But I guess that plane has sailed. All hail the one true platform: Chrome.
Shouldn't Twitter ban them too?
The memories. Still 2/3rds broken on Ruffle. :-(

But what can you expect when the internet is run by a witch burning mob.

That said I better get my pitchfork out and join in before I get burned myself.

Ahem, burn flash, burn flash, it turned my PC into a newt. Burn ITTTTTTTTT!!!!!111!!!!

All hail the true lord and savior JavaScript that never had any security issues and has a frozen API so has no reason to introduce new ones at any point.