skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it a coincidence that the world’s oldest democracy also happens to have many of the most robust corporations?

These corporations are societally expected to uphold a cultural respect for free speech and the rights granted in the First Amendment, but there is no legal basis to compel them to allow speech or activity they do not approve of.

Extrajudicial behavior such as terrorizing a legislature is harmful to these corporations’ profitable predictability. Operators would be in violation of their fiduciary duties to allow such a direct threat to their bottom line to continue, let alone grow.

In other words, money cares more about itself than anyone’s feelings.
>How can we have a meaningful discussion as a nation, when there is no apparent common ground? No set of agreed-upon facts?

I think that's the important thing right there. Echo chambers and identity politics have divided the USA greatly.

The way forward is not to divide more. For example Biden inferring that Trump is hitler and calling Senator Cruz Goebbels the nazi propaganda minister is not going to heal the divide.

>Now I of course have my own very strong opinions and I'm sure I have a good comprehension of the truth. But that isn't going to convince anyone on the other side anymore. To people on one side, the other side's minds appear to be just poisoned.

Imagine this for a second. Say you are going to spend all your waking hours reading the news. You could read every major source. You could review videos, pictures, you could have a good knowledge of what's going on in a small part of the world. You wont know what's going in 90%+ of the world.

The problem is that you cant do that. You dont have the time to do that and so you only look at a few sources. We then have the problem that the news cant be trusted. It's beyond clear that they publish outright lies.

That's why we have these delusion vs reality issues. To fix this problem isn't to give people more time. It certainly isn't to remove opposing viewpoints.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. -George RR Martin
Which heavy metals are those? Be specific.
The amount of victimization through projection currently taking place is kind of shocking. I don't know of a single person that has been called a Terrorist for anything other than calling for violence against others. Why self-proclaimed "peaceful" conservatives continue to lump themselves in with white-supremacists and domestic terrorists is beyond me.

You can pretend that people are being persecuted for being a Republican but 30 seconds of fact checking will disprove that. In fact the only ones calling for violence against Republicans are those very same white supremacists and domestic terrorists because it seems that anyone that doesn't align with Donald Trump is somehow not a conservative. Mike Pence isn't a Republican? Really? I can't think of a politician much further right, and somehow he's no longer acceptable.

If your political belief system is "whatever Trump thinks this week" then maybe it's time to re-evaluate what you really stand for.
Protected lanes should be accompanied by protected intersections as well: https://youtu.be/FlApbxLz6pA
Becoming Silicon Valley
I think it's more akin to selling a coffeemaker that only works with manufacturer authorized coffee beans. It's a coffeemaker and it may not produce the same quality coffee with other beans but it's perfectly capable of producing coffee from any beans you feed it.

That said, Apple has no incentive to work towards enabling this. Both Apple's profit and customer's expectation are in the vertical integration that Apple provides.

(I'm not in anyway saying iOS is not restrictive or that they shouldn't do it. It's just that there's no pressing reason for them to work towards achieving it.)
I find that types can reduce readability as well as enhance it. They add noise and make it harder to concentrate on the variable names which are often much more important than the types which are often (but certainly not always) obvious from context.
A very interesting question. The technology makes previously impossible arrangements possible.

There will be repercussions, changes in work and family habits, but how far reaching they will be is unsettled.

This, as of now temporary arrangement, does give workers options. There can be more even sharing of parental responsibilities, more options for work and more options for education for those who have kids.

For those with kids there is the possibility of more traditional oversight (fewer kids coming home to an empty dwelling) maybe greater parental oversight of curriculums.

So we’ll have to wait and see how it pans out.

I don’t think families will have four kids again, but some who struggled wit one may have two instead.
Gonna say thanks to the European Union for that one. Much maligned, very bureaucratic, somewhat slow but honestly compared to how much tech regulation in the world is solely focused on surveillance and stripping privacy from people the EU still seems to at least have the roughly the right idea most of the time.
PNAC has nothing Jewish about it and you’re a troll
You could start a Mastodon instance that ticks all those boxes and federate only with instances that follow these guidelines.
How would you suggest to actually do that without just moving problem from moderating content to moderating tags? How would be people motivated to correctly tag their own posts or alternatively prevented from maliciously tagging posts they don't like?
Well, if you go that far lol. I remember OTR on Pidgin and Adium back in the days. Not sure I'd consider these third party tacked on solutions e2ee messaging app that can e2e encrypt your chat. OpenPGP doesn't come with email and OTR doesn't come with GTalk.
If there was a law preventing businesses from refusing service to a group of people, then the government is effectively requiring those businesses to associate with those people. Association is protected as free speech, so that's government-compelled speech. And the First Amendment prohibits the government from "abridging the freedom of speech," which means no compelled speech or association.

Still, we do have some laws compelling speech (tobacco warning labels) and association (restaurants can't refuse to serve Muslims). But there has to be a good justification. Warning labels express facts and prevent harm. Protected classes are all things considered "inherent" to a person (gender, religion, ethnicity). But there's a high bar for these kind of laws. And preventing people from choosing relationships based on politics is clearly against the First Amendment.

>built off of public infrastructure

This describes almost every business.
Are you sure the percentages are correct?
It does on my system. Maybe firefox trick works on Chrome too.
It managed to do it for the first time Dec 24 2017 https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7lu6di/mrustc_alterna...

> It's managed to build rustc from a source tarball, and use that rustc as stage0 for a full bootstrap pass. Even better, from my two full attempts, the resultant stage3 files have been binary identical to the same source archive built with the downloaded stage0.
It's not a question of chargers: It's a question of laptops in standby.

The historical design intent of USB is that, even when your laptop is in standby it still powers devices like your keyboard (so you can press keys to wake it up) and in exchange, devices promise to consume less than 2.5 milliamps (12.5 milliwatts) until they've negotiated permission to draw more from the host. After all, it'd suck if your laptop battery was going down noticeably even when the laptop was in standby.

Of course, loads of vendors of cheap devices ignore this - the makers of a $5 rechargeable bike light or USB fan aren't going to put in the components needed to negotiate charging speed. But in principle if you made a USB cable with only the power pins connected, compliant devices should only charge exceptionally slowly, if at all.

(Wall chargers, instead of enumerating as a USB host to negotiate power, used to put a certain value of resistor across the data lines, to signal what current the device could draw - this hasn't always been standardised, which is why phones and USB chargers can be incompatible)
Don't ever believe you have freedom when leftists around.
Have you just arrived here as a time-traveller from Victorian London?

I have fabulous news! Forsooth, in this, the Year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Score, Plus One, it has come to pass that mankind hath, by workings most subtle, made manifest many wondrous heating apparatuses that requireth neither coal nor coke, nor indeed train oil.
Learn Three.js while building a 3D game with physics
distributed ML != Distributed DWH.

Distributed ML is tough to train because of very little control over train loop. I personally prefer using single server trainkng even on large datasets, or switch to online learning algos that do train/inference/retrain at the same time.

as for snowflake, I havent heard of people using snowflake to train ML, but sbnowflake is a killer in managed distribited DWH that you dont have to tinker and
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Starlink Dish Phased Array In-Depth Analysis – The Signal Path [video]
Earliest human culture lasted 20k years later than previously thought
First of all, I basically agree with this.

Here’s something I don’t know: Sometimes I wonder whether some people in prison for non-violent drug offenses did a plea bargain down from a violent offense.

And if that were the case, should this affect our opinion on any of this?
> However, in reality, not only does the carrier not mind if the phone keeps being used (as long as it’s on the carrier’s network) but the lock doesn’t expire once the customer pays off their plan.

I recently paid off my AT&T iPhone X and the process to unlock it couldn't have been easier.

https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/
Crowd wisdom: Predicting Trillion dollar markets
Great. Doesn't this impact Tesla too!?

Good ... those fricking drivable iPhones need to be opened up.
I don't think everyone who voted for trump is aligned with the most seditious followers....at the end of the day there are really only two parties to vote for and a lot of different issues lumped into those two parties...single issue voters (e.g.,those against abortion) are going to vote for the Republicans. It also wasn't half the country, it was less than half of everyone who voted which was ~25% of the country. While it's still a substantial number of people I think saying that its half the country and that they all support the most heinous party leaders is disingenuous.
> On that note, using UUIDs would be more 'secure' than auto incremented numbers, wouldn't it? I don't like how much space they take up in my URLs though.

Or just assign them in blocks that are out of order. Any intelligence gained from the leakage of such blocks would be misleading. Misleading is often even better than non-existent.
I keep being somewhat baffled by Steam's login process every time I'm forced to go through it. Apparently Steam is such a cesspool of (pre)pubescent teenagers, with rampant account hacking and theft of funds, swag or whatever, that they feel the need to fortify the process if only to make it more inconvenient for the hackers.

- “Remember the password” barely ever works, even on desktop. Since I don't quite log in every day due to being too old for that, I have to redo the process every time—on a machine that I bought with my own money just for myself and intend to protect with both technical means and physical force.

- Somehow copy-pasting passwords from KeepassX/XC doesn't work on Mac, with the shortcut. Not sure if this is a misfeature of Steam, but I have to paste the password to an editor first and then copy out of there into Steam. (Seems though that ‘paste’ in the context menu does work—this might've changed since I first noticed the issue.)

- And of course, the weird variation on 2fa, via email, instead of the good regular TOTP. As is tradition by now, I'm also given the choice of installing yet another app on the phone, which somehow doesn't quite seem to serve my interest.
Tether’s Paolo Ardoino and Stuart Hoegner do a podcast–transcript and comments
Tab Stash
> If no other companies want to host Parler, isn't that more a reflection of Parler than the hosting companies?

Yes. The funny thing is that it happened to people who foam at the mouth about the rights of private businesses to do what they want and decry government intervention.
There's a fundamental imbalance in our attempts at using marks, tokens, & bills to simulate resources & desires, and it is thus: the natural world doesn't work this way at all. In the natural world, living things die. Living things die because things never actually stay exactly the same, so nothing goes on forever, and to achieve something like forever, living things copy themselves before they die, bestowing their resources upon this copy. But, in the natural world these resources stop right there and don't compound. Capital, because it exhibits no entropy outside of inflation, does compound and will always send us right back here again to societal collapse in eternal return. Our desire, birthed in hunting & gathering, which was formed to stand in opposition to entropy, like entropy, has no limit. Thus our desires will always lead to excess capital accumulation, until such a time that our tokens and assets can become entropic or until we collapse. The lion will lay with the lamb, or we will be the hand of our own destruction, enabled by technology, or in the language of the Daodejing:

"To understand others is to have knowledge;

To understand oneself is to be illumined.

To conquer others needs strength;

To conquer oneself is harder still.

To be content with what one has is to be rich.

He that works through violence may get his way;

But only what stays in its place

Can endure.

When one dies one is not lost; there is no other longevity."
That’s true but Instagram doesn’t claim to be a free speech platform
> The problem with decentralized social networking is that there would also be no control

Decentralized social networking expects the user to control the user's own social input.

> else it'll end up as a platform for hate speech

A decentralized social networking user is not necessarily an anonymous social networking user. Such a user will still have contacts on computers and phones they own, still leave a connection trail on ISPs, and can still be held accountable. It's more difficult and less convenient for law enforcement--but privacy vs. law enforcement aceess and society's needs/interests thereof is a separate argument/topic.
I have no idea what BFS means in this context.
I think the "story" here might be a bit of hyperbole as what is going on here is just an archiving of the public contents of Parler similar to what happens all the time with Twitter.
I'm not surprised GPT is awful at that, but there are good ways to do it. Look for papers on "factoid question generation".
Absolutely. There's no reason to lock anybody up whose only crime is that they got high.
I guess as long as it isn't a form of "we are the good guys = we cannot lose (at least in the long term)"…

I guess that I found the whiplash with the next phrase somewhat funny.

As far as for Google, they're certainly very competent at their job of gathering (and using) the world's information. Which makes them both tempting to use, and also extremely dangerous. Also, remember their old motto ? I wonder how many of today's googlers still believe that they're the "good guys" ?
Yes, but I am shooting for something even simpler. Like going from SOAP to REST. I think a simple API will encourage more implementations. My vision is also something a little more narrow, such as: profile -> follow|unfollow, post, post -> comment|like|reply set of uses cases. It's not trying to cover all possibilities of social media interactions.
Hello fellow follower of the cult of cargo!
I didn’t mean for users to tag their own posts. The system itself would just tag everything.

Of course you may still get people trying to get around this, but I think you could avoid most outright awful stuff.
The kernel source is here[1]. I don't see any hardware drivers there.

[1]: https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu
100% agreed. But before that let's not assume anything that is criminally and even capital punishable.
The whole reason 8chan was created was because they were kicked off of 4chan for disgusting behavior (specifically doxing/harassing game journalists)
The negative externalities of coal aren't adequately captured by taxes, sure...but what does that have to do with government subsidizing solar? Clearly they have.
I believe that it does, yes. We haven't hit that in stable yet, though, so I am speaking purely in the present. You're right that it's looking good for stabilization in a few months, but anything can happen, in theory. I'm more trying to illustrate the point, that significant features can depend on something that's unstable currently. Those impls landed well before it was even marked as being stable in nightly.
Things every SRE should know – Part 01
I'm not really a haskell fan, but the lion's share of that effect more that likely comes from the small sample size of companies using haskell. Even if it were somehow superior, there just are enough people trying it to be coming up with a unicorn startup or two.

Now, the lack of skilled haskell programmers on the other hand, that's a pretty scary proposition if you're starting a company and may find yourself riding on a rocket, needing as many able hands as you can possibly find.
FYI small typo in last word here:

> Enter your JSON data below to create an interactive graph of its strucuture.
What would you consider a "violent drug offense"? Or, am I misreading your question?
"Powerline" is an Anker name for their cables, and (to my knowledge) they all support at least USB 2.0.
That is not planned obsolence. Nobody said this tablet should stop working by 2021. It's simply the result of limiting cost of software development. If you are creating a new version of android, you cant affort to support all devices. If you create a new version of chrome, you cant affort to support all version of android. If you create a new version of youtube, you cant afford to support all versions of chrome, etc, etc.
So that makes it permissible for private actors to publish 70TBs of private Parler users' messages?
Agreed but that part of a larger problem such as fast fashion and throwaway trinkets for the home.
I have a thought about building a generic p2p system over webrtc. As a hoster, I am incapable of moderating content since I don't keep the data (it's all in people's own hard drives, e.g.). The hard part though is that getting people to write webrtc-based apps is unreasonable, instead I'd let you get apps that expose html/js data and serve html/js over RTC.
Are they distinguishable by their terroristic activities alone?
Interesting, how then do you explain the answers to the posts past the first root level comment ? ;p
If you root your phone you can get the secret out and use it with regular TOTP software that implements that variant (I forgot the name - I just know Bitwarden supports it).
However, the other take on this is that half the country is unhappy enough that it culminated in storming the Capitol. Sure, they may not look very presentable or act very civilized. But they have numbers, power, and anger. Sweeping this fact under the rug is not going to help.

This is what I don't get about these discussions. Any time someone says "the liberals are not interested in uniting the country" someone comes back with "but these people are rednecks and they are bad!" They are still part of the same country (for now) and if it is to stay a country the leadership is going to have to figure out how to talk to them. Because the process by which these people become not part of the same country anymore is called civil war.
That only works if the string is the same each time. But it won't, if it changes like TOTP code.
I wrote about bike GPS trackers here: https://ampedcycling.com/do-electric-bikes-have-gps-trackers...

The Guardian bike tracker is one potential option. I would caution against a generic bluetooth tracker, I am not sure if you can integrate it with a SIM card easily.
Have a look at Pinephone. It has no official developers, but the community created >17 operating systems for it with constant updates.
There can be a difference in degree, it's not a binary option.

Personally I think both are dangerous, but thanks to audience self-selection and rules of the platforms, Parler is more dangerous of the two.
Perhaps GlobalProtect was referring to HR 4192?

https://www.aclu.org/letter/aclu-statement-opposing-hr-4192-...
Technically you are right, there isn't much difference between them because anything we call a 'wild' honey bee in America, was once a 'domesticated' honey bee brought over by European settlers.

Also, I did not mean to suggest wild bees are not in trouble too, my gripe is these articles, without mentioning, like to quote numbers commercial beekeepers have observed in their hives.

They never explain to folks how the commercial bee-keeping industry works. They just want you to think everything is 'natural', and all these giant farms are being pollinated by wild bees alone. They aren't.

You point isn't wrong, the wild and managed bees are essentially the same. The 'wild' honey bees are just domesticated ones that escaped, or didn't come back to the hive. The problem is commercial farming in America tends to be all 'mono-crop' and by it's nature has destroyed any biodiversity and any chance of wild bees thriving. So they depend on commercial beekeepers to come in and do the dirty work.

It goes both ways, it's a mutually beneficial arrangement becuase the beekeepers get access to high quality food for their bees, which will then in turn produce more honey. Unless 75% of the hive dies or fails to return, and the colonies collapse. Which is happening all too often now. It's a really big problem to be sure.

Sounds like you keep bees so you probably are more knowledgeable than me. Sorry, I just get mad because I can think of very few articles I seen on the topic that explain the topic in a reasonable way. It is clear they are trying to push their own agenda.

Good information I found on the National Honey Board website:

https://honey.com/newsroom/presskit/honey-industry-facts
One reason not to trust TLS is that it's one system that you want to be secure for all your users - indefinitely. If in the future there was some method to crack the TLS or the appropriate keys/certs were leaked, any recorded traffic could be retroactively cracked.

Remember also it wasn't so long ago we were talking about things such as POODLE attacks. For all we know, some bad implementation of TLS 1.3 could default to some crappy easy to crack algorithm.

I believe there was a paper (can't find it now) that speculated about the cost to crack a specific TLS setup to be about $10 million USD in processing, going back some years. (I think it was in reference to some half of VPN traffic at the time using the same keys.) If Moore's law still applies in any sense, that cost likely halves every two years and people only really change their passwords if they have to.

Another reason is that it reduces risk server side if you are never handling user passwords - at worst an attacker gets a temporary hash that's valid for a short time, specific to that server. Maybe they can do some harm during that time, but you can ultimately revoke that key and undo the changes to the user's accounts.
Starlink draws about 100w without much variation unless you shut it off completely.