skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it depends on what their backend actually looks like. Someone quoted in the data leak thread that they spent ~300k/mo on AWS which suggests they're definitely past a few cages of equipment. Who knows though, AWS charges insane rates for the privilege of not needing to think about hardware and making trivial difficult problems like establishing geographic presence or redundancy across datacenters. Parler is probably going to eventually need to self host anyways though, and then we'll see what a popular website will look like when it goes back to doing things the old fashioned way.
Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:00.
I've been a Keybase user for a couple years now. I started using Signal when it was TextSecure. From Signal Insights 98% of my conversations are encrypted because I pushed Signal hard on friends, family and colleagues early on. I talk to one person on Keybase that refuses to use Signal (not exactly sure their rationale anymore). For some reason I thought Keybase was going to give me the early experience of Twitter, where I was able to interact with people in the same field without having to know them IRL. And while Keybase does recommend I follow / interact with some of those people it feels less attainable to start up a random conversation or jump into a public thread like I did early on with Twitter. To be clear I'm not saying that's Keybase's fault. As for getting non-technical family and friends using Keybase, well... I find that it's not as approachable. I think it is more convenient in some cases (chat history is probably the #1 item), but it's also clearly geared towards people who likely have an idea what PGP is (re: PGP key identity proof, etc). I wish there was something that mashed up the best of Signal, Keybase and Twitter. But at the end of the day I'd probably still use Signal for the majority of direct person to person messaging because of the time and personal effort I've put into getting my circle to use it. The switching cost is too high a bar now to consider anything unless it's exponentially better (and I don't think that exists). I also really don't like the fact that Zoom owns Keybase and can't see myself recommending it much moving forward over alternatives like Element.
My interests in retro:

- 20% nostalgia

- 30% intellectual curiosity (I know a bit about the 90s, not the 70s 80s ways, I was utterly surprised by 40s analog computers, and even a slide ruler is amazing to me)

- 30% old age taste for simple yet useful (I loathe the cost of aesthetics and the few benefits of todays most tech stack)

- 10% margin error
> The AVX512 fanboi contingent

Just so you know... I'm an AMD Threadripper fanboy, if anything. Since that's my personal computer. More importantly though, I'm a technologist. I experiment and play with many technologies, including SIMD compute, when I can.

Either way, I don't think flamebait comments like that are very helpful for discussion. But I'll try to focus on the crux of your argument instead...

> Meanwhile Apple and AMD are eating Intel's lunch with no 512 bit SIMD instruction units at all

Apple has 4x 128-bit Multiply-and-accumulate per-clock-tick on its M1. AMD has 2+2 multiply and add x 256-bit SIMD.

Those processors are actually very beefy in terms of SIMD-implementation.

There's also the Fujitsu A64Fx, which is an ARM-implementation of 512-bit SVE. In fact, 512-bit ARM-SVE is about to be widely-deployed on Neoverse.

SIMD-units are universally expanding across the industry. One of AMD Threadripper's biggest leaps forward from Zen1 -> Zen2 was the upgrade from 2+2 128-bit SIMD to 2+2 256-SIMD (doubling its throughput).

Intel is trying to stay ahead of the curve with 512, and they're really not that far ahead. Indeed: ARM's SVE is already caught up.

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NVidia's 32-wide SIMT is basically a 1024-bit implementation, while AMD's 64-wide SIMD is 2048-bit SIMD. With all of the "Deep Learning" going on, its actually a very important workload for a number of companies.

Linus is pretty much saying that Deep Learning / Tensorflow / etc. etc. isn't important. Which is... backwards thinking methinks. I think that deep learning is overhyped, but still I see the benefits of general SIMD compute in every-day coding situations.
systemd: It's not our job to hack around hardware bugs, it's the kernel's. We will not implement our own thing.

HN: How dare you.[1]

Also HN: Criticizes systemd for implementing its own thing

Systemd just can't win.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10999335
As one (non-American) lurker who is reading this thread to try and get a handle on just what the hell is going on over there, thank you for putting the energy in, and please don't give up.

It's clear that you are arguing in good faith and the other person who keeps moving the goalposts and demanding more proof is not, and moreover it's very enlightening to see this scenarios played out nearly identically whenever I lurk and follow a discussion between the left and right in US politics.
I think for the sake of shireboy's question, WhatsApp can be ignored.

shireboy's point seems to be that it seems inconsistent to want moderation in one type of network and not mind not having it in the other. Though, it's possible that the users supporting the moderation are different than those supporting e2e networks.
> releasing games and meeting a specific quality bar.

Only if you're holding yourself to an impossible deadline. Given time – and, I'll argue, developers who weren't burnt out by the work schedule – and this could have been resolved. But they didn't take that time, they went ahead with a non-functional game just to meet the deadline.

They abused their developers to meet an (demonstrably) impossible deadline. This is a terribly way to run a business on many levels.
Ouch, that's going to hurt. USA government is a pretty big customer. Or do we not care about democratic elections in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Egypt, etc.?
That's a good question. You're right that a random grad student in a lab can't replicate, e.g., the discovery of the Higgs boson!

However, at least for the Higgs (and I believe this is standard for most such large experiments), there were actually two different groups using two different apparatuses, both at CERN.

There was the CMS[0] detector and ATLAS[1] detector, used and analyzed by two different groups of physicists, resulting in two papers[2,3], published on the same day.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Muon_Solenoid
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7235
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7214
And why sketchier businesses, such as casinos, had to turn to organized crime for loans and funding.
"As much as people in the West praise CCP's economic rise, and some even point to its authoritarian system as superior to our democracy..."

They do? I don't think this describes a large population.
+1 to exactly what? Scammy behaviour from a product that can potentially watch and track your every move?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...
winning argument right here
> I considered going into the gaming industry years ago, but the audience is such a turnoff.

I think that the issue isn't so much 'the audience' but the terrible work conditions associated with the gaming industry.

> It really holds the medium back as an art form

How? games are probably the most diverse art form in existence today, there is literally no rules to what a game can be.
I agree the War on Drugs is really a voter and general population suppression effort. However while __historically__ what you say did happen, and I do NOT deny it happened, I DISAGREE that it forever bans a properly implemented system that includes true empowerment of an informed and well educated voting population. For what I want to see, again, refer to my original post.
Additional source: "UPDATE: Sources tell
@BuzzFeedNews a "disgruntled staffer" is behind the State Department site's change of Trump and Pence's biographies"

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/134872560133...
Your claims about social, cultural and spiritual inferiority sound like outright zenophobia/racism.
How can I set an arbitrary background color? I want something like 0x1A1B1C as I have for alacritty.
Germany’s Merkel: Trump’s Twitter eviction ‘problematic’
Oh, right, a JIT (or a client-side AOT) would require permissions for writing to self in an executable way that aren't available to native (but third-party) iOS apps, right? Not even if you compile the runtime with your own xcode for your own device. Easy to forget about that when you are used to a garden with marginally lower walls (I'm not pretending that stock android is the complete opposite, just marginally less locked)
Parler is broadcast, Signal is point to point. It's a significant difference.
Parlor refused to moderate. Facebook at least makes an honest attempt to.

And in case you haven't noticed governments across the world are stopping Facebook. Zuckerberg has been questioned in Washington and Brussels.
Do we all agree with that now?

Are you entirely sure about that.
Ok. 4chan is also using them. So you think it's a good idea to cut them off and ban them all?
Nio ET7 electric sedan has 620 miles of range and an self-driving system
Prvhash 3.1 – 9GB/s Streamed Hashing, 1 cycle/byte PRNG for Everyday Use
Not really, the literal definition of fascism is a far right authoritarian group and it defines the trump administration well.
Hecto: Build your own text editor in Rust
I would bet that any legal standard would involve phrases like "good faith attempt" and "standard of practice". (If you find a circle of Nazis up-voting each other, you'll have to think up a new moderation scheme.)

FaceBook and Twitter are decent examples---their moderation systems are pretty hit-or-miss, assuming good faith.
In this particular case, IMO, 2 things are true:

* The linked story is way out over it's skis, pulling together partial opinions from a bunch of sources to make a definitive claim that is not really supported. I doubt the Party themselves have even reached a firm decision on the matter yet.

* The (minor!) Radio Free Asia link is a random person they were interviewing, who gave an opinion. It's not RFA's official opinion on the matter, but I'll opine that they pick and choose who they have on based on US interests, that's their charter and raison d'etre.
I wonder if this will negatively impact mid-tier bike sales in 2-3 years time? Some of those riders would have bought a $500 bike, realized how much fun they were having and then upgraded. A $2500 bike is unlikely to be upgraded for a good while longer.

Not being able to dine out, take vacations, or go to concerts has put a lot of disposable income in the hands of a good chunk of the population this year.
Those items may be distasteful, but are they illegal? I'm not aware of a prohibition on selling Nazi memorabilia in this country.

On the other hand, inciting violence is illegal:

"by all the Patriots descending on Washington DC on #jan6 ....come armed...."

Another expletive-laced message posted the day before the riot warned: "To all our enemies high and low you want a war? Well you're asking for one...To the American people on the ground in DC today and all over this great nation, be prepared for anything."
Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill
True, but for those reading: this is a knock on roll-your-own crypto, not on application-level crypto or the defense-in-depth benefits it can provide.
How ignorant or evil must someone be to think Bush and Obama are like Nicolás Maduro?
Do you have an example of a bug that prevents quest completion? I've been lucky enough to not run into a single one during my 100+ hours so far and I've been trying to do every quest. I worry that these things keep getting said without people actually experiencing them. I have several friends playing on PS4 without the reported crashes. Not saying you haven't, I just don't have any direct knowledge of the issues that have been reported and when it is, it's very hand-wavy.
I've been using Brave for a couple of years, already (I think) and I'm quite happy with it.
By default it might spawn some ads but you can easily disable it forever.
It's the fastest there is.
there's also alot more chinese students studying abroad, compared to the old days. The creme of the crop stays, and the rest goes back.
>for some reason

Ignorance. If people had no real idea how coffee was made either, you wouldn't see much outcry over locked-down coffee pods either. "You want to grind your own beans? What an eccentric nerd! My coffee maker works perfectly with the manufacturer pods, why would I ever switch?"
Every week there's a front page story on HN to the tune of "X froze my account and won't tell me why, and their appeal process is totally opaque."

I think that to some extent, the availability of multiple providers, and the risk of getting kicked out, are the long term remedy. People will figure out how to mitigate sole-source risks. There might be a risk-reward tradeoff, i.e., the most desirable platforms from a short term profit standpoint might carry the biggest risk of getting shutdown. There will always be somebody who will let you in, at some level of service and security.
And to have a counterpoint, I'm playing on PC and have a lot of fun. I've seen so far only one bug (Panams phone somehow freezed in mid air during her talking scene)

I must say that I'm a bit glad that this time consoles were taken less seriously than a PC, in majority of cases is quite opposite (with a few exceptions like GTA V and CP2077).
The existing platforms work well enough for people who aren’t kicked off of them, or hindered in sharing their views. Liking, caring about, or knowing of the existence of these new platforms is a strong proxy for the kinds of political views that some find easy and safe to hate on.

Engagement inside Signal is with your existing networks and groups, and can only grow iteratively—not virally/exponentially—it’s a chat app. WhatsApp and Telegram do support and encourage broadcast oriented communication, and personally I do associate WhatsApp with misinformation-fueled violence in countries where it’s the first exposure people have to internet-style mass direct communication.

Signal invented new cryptography to justify its existence. WhatsApp scaled chat, SMS-analogous to start, for the world to use. Telegram invented secret ways to MitM chat connections, and wasn’t under US influence. Parler exists to make a political statement in the current US political context.
One's opinion has a very profound bearing on how he interprets and report on facts.
Still more trustworthy than the mainstream alternatives (Google, Mozilla, Apple or Microsoft).
I have the PS4 version (yes, base not Pro) and it's 900p-720p dynamically switching and 25fps, maybe 30 in better cases. Which is utter trash. It's like watching movies in 360p on Youtube. Or listening to music in 64kbsp. On top of that the story doesn't save the game either which is mediocre at best especially compared to what was promised.

Then look at Ghost of Tsushima or RDR2 on the same console.
We can and should break up monopolies, or structure taxes and regulations to be unfavorable to monopolies. Current government policies favor large corporations due to both tax incentives and regulatory capture.

Chick-Fil-A stopped donating to anti-LGBTQ groups. #deletefacebook did work but most users just switched to instagram so it had a minimal effect on revenue.
My go to question for interviewing candidates is "What trends do you see in web development now or you see being important in the next few years?". There's no right answer there, I'm just looking for something relevant that shows they've got some knowledge of the field outside of being able to bash out code to order. For juniors I don't really expect much while seniors should at least be able to talk a bit about a couple of things, but having interviewed prospective head of development candidates I was amazed that two out of four just tanked on the question, one just couldn't answer at all.

Candidates who know there are things they don't know about I don't mind, but candidates who are unaware of these things at all are typically uninterested in broadening their knowledge, and not someone I'd like on my team.
> 1) Users don’t want to lose their entire message history when they lose/change their phones so apps of this kind never become massively popular.

I think this is a key point to consider for Signal and the other "good" messengers - there's ways to do secure backups, it just needs to be implemented so well that you won't miss the convenience of Google Drive backups.

I tend to fall back on anecdotes a lot, but the first thing my relatives ask me when setting up a new phone is "will I have my texts" - people want to be able to look through the past 10 years of conversation and especially media with someone and WhatsApp makes this as easy as one click during setup.
For anybody reasonable? Not at all.
The thing is CD Project Red has released it's games in a really rough state before. All of the Witcher games were brutal on release.

But every time they have not only released thousands of bug fixes/improvements for free, but also delivered large dlc/content updates.

The difference with CP2077 I believe is that it was just the highest profile launch they have ever had by a wide margin. They are too big now.

I don't regret pre-ordering at all, because they have always done right by me.
May be it would be possible to rip kernel with drivers from iOS image and run custom user software over it. It should be very close to UNIX anyway. People want to run userspace software, not just Linux kernel.
> ...it turns out xterm has incredibly low input latency compared to modern terminals.

This boggles my mind. What on earth does a windowed terminal need to do that should result in any latency on a modern machine?

We had full ANSI-addressible displays that ran faster than the eye could read over serial lines in the 1980s. What on earth additional does a terminal program do and why would I want that?
e2e does not prohibit it. But makes it hard or impossible even for an advanced user (i tried moving my whatsapp data from iphone to android once, not sure of the current status with signal).

Telegram is all about convenience, security is just bolt on. Everybody says they care about security, but hardly any TG user does it, because it is inconvenient. Install it on any any new device, confirm your phone number with an sms and whoops, all your chats and drunk and stoned pics are back.
Are we living in a Phillip K Dick novel?

I'm seeing:

Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:39:22.
"a rock-solid strategy for moderating it"

You mean, like Facebook and Twitter?
So sounds exactly like Twitter then ? I feel that most of HN has never visited the fringe ultra-liberal anarchist side of Twitter. Of-course the stuff they say never comes in the news 24x7.

Basically, a lot of folks are asking: Why are we censored, when they aren't ? Why the extraordinary double standards? When someone talks about peaceful protesting and is banned for incitement for violence, why is someone calling for explicit murder allowed on Twitter (with accompanying graphical images).

Apply the rules equally, or not at all.
There have been success stories in the healthcare and financial sector too.

That being said, the example I'm giving here is actually a lot more than just a utility company - there is also a profitable R&D arm that did a lot of work on LTO and LiFePO4 that found its way to market, as well as has a successful construction arm.

It also did consulting work for the Three Gorges Dam in China notably but also a lot of other projects.

There is also an electric bus project that is in current development with a partnership with Volvo and Novabus as well as a Chinese/Italian/American/Quebec electric motor manufacturing joint venture, that has shipped a few dozen buses locally and is being considered for international orders.

So, I think that it can fairly be said that nationalized companies can be successful beyond simply utilities and natural resource exploitation.
I'd be surprised if Jack Ma didn't.
Trump has received many warnings. Kathy Griffin was forced to delete those and she complied and hasn’t erred since.
The problem is that someone (Parler in this case) would have to actively build automated moderation systems or be philosophically aligned with moderation in order to fulfill the TOS in this case since its the users driving the violation. The baseline shouldn't require them build something, that seems like a burden too far. Suppose the violators were bots, doesn't this mean that anyone that can't build a moderation system to keep up with the bots becomes collateral damage?
Now this... is real totalitarianism.
You didn't hurt my feelings. It just surprises me that someone thinks "Wow! I have a strongly held opinion about X which I really must share with the world!" but then doesn't even bother to take the minuscule amount of care required to note how X is spelled.

It just suggests the poster's examination of the subject in question has been pretty perfunctory and their opinion slightly less than well thought out.

[But congratulations on not being a Yank. That's something, at least]
Ubiquiti is amazing for your home. You can cycle 50km on your Peleton and still get excellent WiFi signal. Which other router can deliver such outstanding performance!
As a former Ubiquiti employee, I'm sad to watch the slow decline of the company. There was a steady exodus of engineering talent through 2020. The CEO was focused on moving to countries where engineering was cheaper and employees complained less about constant crunch mode. If you search around, you can find interviews where he brags about closing the San Jose office because he thought everyone there was too entitled.

The saddest part is that we had many good engineers who could have continued to do amazing things with the UniFi momentum. So much time was wasted on dead end products like FrontRow. Most everyone I know left for jobs where we were treated better and paid more.
What you're seeing isn't billionares vs. government, but warring billionaires via government.

Belligerents are difficult to suss out, but the Mercers, Adelson, Kochs, Murdochs, Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, possibly Mark Zuckerberg on one side. Bezos, Gates, Steiner, on the other
You've linked the same article on nearly every thread on this post, why is changing affiliate links for cryptocurrency important?
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The blame mainly lies with the Xi dictatorship, where as previously the CCP was ruled by committee. I can't imagine the CCP doing this in the era before Xi and post Deng Xiaoping. imo the CCP is gone. It's the Xi Jinping Party now

The good news for the West and China's Asian competitors is that he is effectively helping slow and cripple China's progress. Xi advocates a return to Mao centralism while ignoring all the good that came with Deng Xiaoping's decentralization reforms. With this act, he is also introducing a lot of uncertainty for any foreign investors. This gives the West time to recuperate since the failure of the anti-BRIC TPP.
I’m familiar. I think ES franchise is prone to this, so was GTA and RDR2. The issue is gamers expect an entire world of simulation and effect. Ambitious large open world games suffer from this as dev teams don’t have enough QA to test everything and dev’s have to test it themselves. This ends up with a “works good under these circumstances” which circumstances are different when players play it at launch.

It’s a hard problem. Extremely large open world, thousands of scripts and triggers and things to test. I sympathize. Gamers are the hardest genre of users to please.
Doesn't Telegram have broadcast (channels)? And isn't this a highly requested feature for Signal? This seems to be what will happen to any communication network unless restricted significantly.
> and WhatsApp makes this as easy as one click during setup.

unless you switch platforms. then you lose it all