skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The experts are not randomly choosing strains. A few years ago it was 3 strains, they recently added a 4th. They could add a 5th next year, or drop back down to 3 depending on what they are seeing actually happen.

The real problem they have is the flu mutates. They know what strains they see now and can add them all easily enough. In the few months between deciding on strains and manufacturing them the flu can mutate to some new strain that wasn't even seen before.
Russia has already "silenced" Telegram in the past. I think he lives in Russia because he is Russian and enjoys it there.

Your attitude towards Russia is humorous, given that you're far more likely to be silenced in America these days. Except it's worse in America because you won't just be silenced. You will be completely cut off from life financially, communications-wise, commercially.

Ironically, the only people pressuring Durav to do things like ban Telegram channels is Apple and Google.
Admittedly, I don't know about Telegram. But I would probably guess the distinction is still there because if I had to guess Telegram doesn't advertise those groups, you have to look for them, which decreases the condition of "audibly hearing the discussion." Where as Parler being a social media platform first wants to encourage the network effect and engagement among it's users, thus encouraging this open discussion and connection among potentially dangerous elements.

Again in my non legal estimation of the law (not that I think anything I'm currently suggesting has been tried in court).
webmin

https://www.webmin.com/
>I reckon electoral maps are fundamentally useless when most districts are gerrymandered to the wazoo.

Littlestymear linked a map in another reply to my comment that seems to break it down purely by population in clusters of 250,000: https://xkcd.com/2399/

That map still suggests that clusters of blue in highly urban areas are surrounded by clusters of red in "less urban" areas, and never the opposite. Rural, or less urban environments have different cultures than highly urban environments, and this is readily observable.

>They also do not reflect movements that are fundamentally leninist in organization, where a small cohesive nucleus of activists defines the agenda and directs action.

I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean by this. Please be more explicit.

>Without a Fox News stoking and directing anger, there is no "red rage", and Fox people are urban people.

This is a misconception. One blames the media for the information purveyed rather than the sorts of people amenable to Fox's viewpoint in their news. If there was prima facie no distinction between those who adore Pres. Trump, and those who despise him, prior to their exposure to Fox News, then this might be a tenable position, but given that there are two different demographics, both of which have access to Fox News and yet react distinctly differently to it, tells us that there are other factors at play.

>What is true is that nowadays people can live in socially-isolated bubbles that do not communicate with other bubbles. This is not a function of geographical location, though, but hyper-personalized media consumption.

And yet geography seems to be at play in which media bubble you end up in, as do a number of other factors. Perhaps the media bubbles are as much a function of existing divisions as the exacerbated divisions are of the bubbles?
While I can totally believe Intel doing it for that reason alone - Isn't Intel only buying 7nm capacity while AMD is already moving to 5nm?
Sounds like regulatory capture at it's finest.
Yeah, I guess now they can get infinite amount of money, so what matters is the amount of money they can spend efficiently.
It resolves for me! Try installing a handshake resolver directly like hsd [1] for full chain or hnsd [2] for SPV.

[1] https://GitHub.com/handshake-org/hsd

[2] https://GitHub.com/handshake-org/hnsd
Liability and risk management. As soon as a lawyer becomes aware of a situation where an individual is using the service they are required to act to mitigate risk. There is no obligation for anyone to have access to a private service and they'll be weighing factors which include what 3rd parties might do.

In this case it seems that they would have considered the actions of the companies running the paywalls. How likely would they be to take legal action (not all of which is public) against Twitter? Fairly likely, if they feel that Twitter is helping to publicize the service they want to take down.

This is both in the legal and financial interest of Twitter. There is no real blow back from kicking off this person and their service versus dealing with US corporations. Copyright law changes and the impact of court decisions likely play a factor too. I find it hard to believe that some court somewhere, hasn't held Twitter (or similar service) liable for indirect copyright damages (that is likely being appealed.)
Virginia: Draw a (redistricting) plan from scratch
Blocked days are done pre-emptively. Consider: many changes aren't instant. They can take hours to complete. What if things start to happen when you're half way through?

Simpler to just stop making big changes that aren't 100% required to happen just in case. If it can't wait, approvals from someone senior who agrees it can't wait suffices.

(Source and bias note: AMZN for 8 years).
http://archive.is/lIGuT
"Some confuse NAT and firewalling because NAT effectively implements a default-deny-all-not-initiated-here rule in one direction which is what most home users want in a firewall."

To make it even more confusing what most people are confusing with firewalling is actually NAPT which is the specific type of NAT described in this thread. There are other types of NAT which don't require keeping track of state and which don't provide the default-deny-all-not-initiated-here rule side benefit.
I built a service that incorporates plain text accounting [0] into a larger note taking system [1]. The service has mechanisms for repeating transactions and API access which I use for integrating that data into other systems or sending to my accountant.

One of the revelations was that the accounting system could be used for a few different types of commodities: time, effort, inventory, etc.

[0] https://tatatap.com
[1] https://tatatap.com/beans
> If I tell you that smoking leads to cancer, it's also a slippery slope type of argument

It is not. It is a statement of fact, proven by numerous studies.
The demo look cool. How do you find background image? unsplash? I am currently building my SaaS on top on puppeteer to generate screenshots as well.
The creation of new root TLD is decentralized, you can request a new one and then a bidding process for it starts where everyone can bid for it.
Amazon is treated as if it were Google, despite not having quite the same track record. Amazon has walked a thin ethical line in terms of managing their labor force, but I haven't seen the same level of involvement in things like PRISM.
MTProto has been audited multiple times.
How to Calculate Your Sun or Attitude Number
I think the test is pretty straight forward and is basically an issue of risk and is not really directly related to the internet.

If having anything to do with X creates the perception of Y being liable for any legal and civil improprieties, then Y will dissolve any of its relationships with X.

<my take>
For the parler case, Amazon didn't want to be held responsible for hosting content that (maybe) caused the problems in that nations capital, and certainly doesn't want to be held responsible for any future content/actions.

I think this can be justified by preservation of shareholder value.
</my take>
>save for exploratory divergent forays in case the situation has changed

Sometimes, crime does pay. So there's a risk-reward strategy to being the kind of person prone to commiting crimes.

Two years ago, doing X might have been a net negative; now, maybe due to police cuts etc. it's viable. But it's hard to know this in advance; to find out, someone has to walk the territory.
Any sane person at the time would have sold it immediately for $50
I learned Forth specifically to get a posted job shortly after this book was published but my first exposure to the language was through a port someone in my local computer club did onto the ZX-81 (he also built a raster graphics system!). There are concepts in Forth that are included in some modern languages/environments but I agree that it's really not suited for much today. We used it in control systems and today would probably choose something like Erlang instead - it was perfect for this type of application.
Hey there, would be great if you reference these merges in the issues so it would be visible to everyone (and especially the devs who put in the work) that the code is used.
> It’s hard to formulate structured “plain text” formats that are human readable, human writeable, machine readable, and machine writable.

XML? Or is that too far from plain text?
Isn't this Consumer Reports?
Yes! There are DNS bridges that read from Handshake’s registry that you can use, like NextDNS:

https://www.namebase.io/blog/how-to-access-handshake-domains...
Next step is to censor the IP address.
1. Hamstring might not be fair to "Intel Compiler", as it was designed for Intel in the first place. Unfair Comparison would be a more valid description. i.e The problem is not with "Intel's compiler", the problem is with the benchmarks and marketing.

2. Keep in mind fastest Single Threaded benchmark is still somewhat true considering Intel can turbo up to 5Ghz.

3. TDP comparison between AMD and Intel are meaningless these days. They have different definition of TDP.

4. So if you put 2 and 3 together, that is like saying they have the fastest Laptop processor by overlocking it to 5Ghz with a higher energy usage within limited time frame.

Final Note: Generally speaking one should avoid wccftech unless you know precisely how to read into their rumours and findings. ( Unless their source are official like in this case ) Anandtech is a much better source.
> Your first answer is ethically debatable in a way that entirely depends on what is perceived to be "right"

Indeed, I am not a moral absolutist. Its an abstract question, in which the answer tells more about the person rather than the state of morals as a whole. I must point out that I feel and know that I have compromised my morals by working at FB. That aside it is perfectly possible to work at $company and do good. There are plenty examples of resistors and rule benders that have helped people from the "inside" of terrible regimes.

I don't want to belittle Facebook's moral failings. But I am worried that shitting on facebook is being seen as fixing the problem. That was my intention, not to throw a dead cat on the table and run away.

Myanmar Is a special case. I don't think facebook actively caused the issue, but their in-attention made it worse. My (limited) understanding is that Facebook was acting like the local radio stations in the Rwanda genocide. Again, if FB had placed resources when first alerted, they might have been able to temper the spread.

India is my area of concern. The leadership there all come from the same schools, know the same people and think the same negative things about their Muslim neighbours. (this is a simplification of course) Some changes have been made, not least because of internal pressure.

on point 3, yes. AR worries me, but not because Facebook are making it.

For it to work for facebook, they have to work 10 times harder than anyone else to prove that its safe. Which I think is valid, my only wish is that same level of scepticism is applied to _all_ players. AR _needs_ to be safe, because it is so invasive. The problem comes when AR manufactures start allowing Apps. At that point all hell breaks loose.
It's all evopsych game theory
Seems like the two projects have different goals.
> This feature obviously helps protect some users (non tech-literate ones), but for many it means completely turning off many useful security features [...]

I'm pretty sure you have the "some" and "many" the wrong way around. In reality, this feature protects many users (non tech-literate ones), but for some that feel the need to turn it off, it, well, won't protect them, because it's turned off.
Elegant simplicity is much like the adage in racing: slow is smooth, and smooth is fast
- We need more growth!

- What if we waive impact fees so new construction doesn't pay for its impact on transportation and other services? Wow look at all that construction!

- Oh no, we don't have enough money to pay for increases to transportation and police and fire and libraries and schools!

- Try to pass increased property taxes on existing residents, who vote "No" because they always vote no on any tax increases.
Imagine some day in the 1600s something started stopping people from reading parchment scrolls.

Huge swaths of art is going to be lost, forever.

Glad to hear what Newgrounds and Ruffle are doing.
I used IRC regularly for ~20 years and still don't miss it compared to Slack.

I miss the people and the tone of the conversations and some of the aesthetic of clients like BitchX but as a technology, I don't really care.
Cantillion Effect. The closer you are to spending new money created through lowered interest rates, the more you benefit.

2021 marks the end of the 50 year interest rate dropping cycle starting in 1971 with the end of the gold standard, now that FED rates have hit 0%. If home prices are going to continue to rise, it's going to have to do that through an increasing money supply through increased government spending alone, which is farther away so they will either benefit less or not benefit at all.

If the money supply is constantly increasing like it has the past 50 years, you have an inflationary spiral where your goal is to spend as little as possible and squirrel away as much as you can in assets.

On the flip side, if the money supply is constantly decreasing, you want to get out of assets as much as possible and into cash for a deflationary spiral.

If interest rates begin to rise, the money supply might begin to shrink. That flips the incentives, and suddenly asset prices dive much faster than the interest rate would have you believe. You could have a $400k mortgage on a home worth $210k or less.
No one said AWS did something illegal. Any company can do anything given how Terms and Conditions are written. Doesn't make that immune from discussion tho on their ethical side.
The post you linked joined this month (January 2021), a tweet which is very recent, with no likes or retweets, from an account with zero followers. I don't see a good way for Twitter to handle this automatically.

It also isn't a credible threat of violence: It has no specific plans, locations, or times, it does not have the support of thousands of people and high-ranking politicians to gather and enact those plans, etc. If this manifested in a large movement that resulted in serious damage and harm (e.g. like the attacks on the Capitol) then this comparison would be a lot better supported.
> I'm 58--old enough to join AARP, too!

Fun fact: AARP doesn't have age limits, anyone can join. I'm in my mid-40s and I've been a member for a few years. Depending on what you like to do, they have some useful discounts that are based on membership, not age.
Can someone make this comparison that doesn't have a biased viewpoint towards these products? This is promotional material, not a fair comparison
My comment wasn't meant to be 'dismissive'. The idea that Black doctors provide a better standard of care for Black babies is a reasonable explanation for the data - perhaps even the most likely. I just thought other explanations should also be considered.
I do understand your point, but it’s hard to win the hearts and minds of anyone if you’re censored and cannot be heard.

Secondly, this is hacker news. Our culture is to route around these kinds of things. ;)
They'll likely have those high frequency crowd dispersion thingies on trucks.
No he didn’t. He just made that one post with the questions and you randomly accused him of sealioning. Just asking questions is not sealioning. I know where the term originated.
For those who prefer a GUI, I moved from spreadsheets to GnuCash [1] a few months ago and it's been great so far!

[1] https://www.gnucash.org/
> The "unemployed men" is a narrative

Perpetuated by whom? Why would anyone involved want to blame unemployed men? Those who support storming the Capitol wouldn't want to portray themselves as "frustrated, unemployed men," and those who oppose it wouldn't want to blame a supposedly innocent group. Where does the perception come from?
> Nobody on HN is tripping over themselves to compare the US to Italy, Greece or even Spain

I disagree. Italy is typically included everywhere - it's a G7/G8 country, with a GDP bigger than Canada or Australia, and trumps Spain on pretty much any indicator (let alone Greece). It has its problems but it's not a poor or bankrupt country by any means.

> At that point why compare to the US though? If the comparisons exclude former communist Europe and poor Mediterranean Europe

In terms of population, the EU as a whole is 30% larger than the US. It's somewhat inevitable that there will be some pruning when trying to compare apples to apples. It's just a fact that Eastern Europe is not representative of the larger Union any more than, say, Mississipi, Oklahoma or Alaska are fundamentally representative of the whole US.
> It's like when people say "I'm feeling melancholy". NO! You're feeling melancholic!

While I fully agree with you and it sounds incredibly weird, dictionaries don't agree with you on this one. They consider "melancholy" a synonym of "melancholic".
Regarding your second to last point, have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_limit
We are not talking about hundreds or thousands of dollars here, are we?

Do you get in trouble with the Tax Man because you tip your server at a restaurant or gives some spare change to the someone on the street?
I found that ledger worked best if you made it a daily habit to go in and record transactions. Also, since I recorded mine in org-mode files I could use something like Beorg to edit it while away from the computer.
I don’t know that I’d call it hypocrisy. Most European politicians who’ve commented on this seem to be expressing a strong, principled view that the state is on top and nobody should be allowed to exercise power over it. This sounds strange to a lot of us in the US, where we don’t generally believe the government deserves special respect, but it’s our attitude that’s atypical from a global perspective.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tough-times-ahead-for-Intel-in...

these new chip is based on 10nm. this article say "Intel's current 10 nm yields are nowhere near viable for “full production”"

that's from 4 weeks ago. did Intel fix their yields problem in 4 weeks?
> apparently videos of our prime-minster on his bike went viral!, how funny for such a normal thing.

This is a very intentional and knowing part of Mark Rutte's brand. You often see him being filmed jumping on his bicycle - I mean, here, in the Dutch news. He is doing that deliberately to invoke national pride.

Compare image searches: "Mark Rutte fiets" (the prime-minister, apparently thousands of results), "Hugo de Jonge fiets" (the most media-friendly deputy prime-minister, no relevant results)

Also, there are frequent news stories within the Netherlands that are just "look, the Royal Family cycles".

It's something the Dutch are very proud of. Strange to claim otherwise.
> In case of whatsapp and keeping chat history it can mean years of chat history becoming public if for example your Apple / Google account (where whatsapp automatically stores your conversation backups) gets hacked.

This just isn't the threat model most people care about, nor do they have to. Given a choice between preserving their chat history with their loved ones and not having any of it in the off chance that it might be leaked somewhere, the vast majority of people will opt for the former. Once you value chat history and other media in this way, then the risk simply isn't relevant. Again, this is all irrelevant. You people keep thinking on this one track of "but it's not secure" when that isn't the overriding concern for these people. It needs to be secure enough while not completely disregarding one of their core needs (preserving history). It's non-negotiable and no amount of discussing of risk or privacy will change this. Again, I find it insufferable that tech people are so unwilling to take normal peoples' needs into account.

Signal has the opportunity to become the default secure messaging app while also providing "secure" backups. They don't even need to be cloud backups, though that would be preferred. Even local backups can be sufficient. But as long as they don't account for the needs of "normal" people, Signal isn't a real option.

If I go to my friend's girlfriend and say, here's this awesome secure messaging app that you need to switch to and she switches, then something happens to her phone and she loses all her precious chats, how do you think that's going to go over? I can blabber on about privacy and risks all I want, I'm still the asshole.
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Great post, laughed throughout and it also is scarily not far from the truth
I think it's fair to say that there's an equal belief implicitly in the power of legal systems - but only when it's convenient for a point OP is making.

Thinking how a quick decision now will possibly turn in ten years down the road is how we can retain our rights but still move our democracy forward. A perfect example is championing the destruction and banning of all right leaning social media / twitter users... but when SciHub gets banned all the sudden its a travesty of free expression. Unfortunately, this line of reasoning is not a two way street. Even as a staunch liberal try my best to not let my anger at the other side get the best of me and play into the hands of the corporatists and statist who actually want to recreate what many refer to as fascism (melding of the state and corporate powers).
I addressed that point already in the post you're replying to.
Kubernetes Is the Most Expensive Way to Run a Service
> We can only guess their motivations

I don't understand this perspective, but I guess my own is built from experience. We can never know exactly what Twitter discussed internally before taking this action, but there is lots of external evidence and signals as to what happened. It's unlikely to be different from the action taken by most other corporations with legal teams.

Small organizations with outside counsel can surprise us with their decisions since there are more concentrated opinions and higher risk taking. Perhaps GitHub and youtube-dl is the only outcome that has surprised me recently.
http://archive.is/sQJO0
I don't think potential chaos sowers would have much difficulty finding the data centers themselves. All they'd need to do is to narrow the location to a town or several towns, go there, and start asking pizza delivery people for directions.
This seems to be a more reasonable approach - derive a relation from a law of conservation. Starting from the differential form is fraught with indeterminism. Assuming this works, I wonder about maxwell’s equations. I assume they would have to be consistent with a conserved electromagnetic quantity added into this. Gravity?
The paper itself: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00913