skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps mine is a bit of a strange/controversial view among the HN crowd

Actually yours is the predominant view of those on the left and HN in general - “they are private companies so deal with it”. From a purely legal perspective, that view is almost certainly correct.

The issue is a societal one. Half the country isn’t just going to sit down and shut up because a few liberal billionaires told them to. They’ll create alternatives, and then we will have not just a philosophically divided country, but effectively two Internets - one for conservatives and one for liberals. Where does it end from there? Do hotels and restaurants in California demand to see proof that you are a registered Democrat before you are allowed to patronize them? Do liberal employers start carrying out mass firings of conservative employees?

We are seeing the beginnings of a country of ~300 million people being cracked in two, on a much deeper level than has ever happened before. I can’t think of something less American than a bunch of business owners ganging together to strangle the life out of a small business because they disagree with the politics of some its users.
And three doesn't make a monopoly but a oligopoly. Which doesn't sound catchy enough for a header-line.
First, to you comment:

Economists are not generally mathematicians, any more than physicists are. I draw that analogy intentionally because in both cases there are subsets of the areas where the lines get a little bit fuzzy and individuals are doing a bit of both.

Second to your question. The shortest answer is that mathematicians create mathematics.

There are significant distinctions in how they typically think about world (e.g. discrete vs continuous) or what motivates/justifies the work (i.e. pure vs. applied) but underlying it all at the core is the act of creation, and of understanding those creations and how they relate to other things.

Many non-mathematicians use some mathematics routinely as a means to an end, but for mathematicians it is much of the end itself.

A couple of people have commented on the ways in which it is like art, and aesthetics is important. Hardy said "Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." , and I can't think of mathematician who would disagree. Applied mathematicians tend to take motivation from a problem from somewhere else, but also value aesthetics of the solution.
And they discovered that Tardigrades are probably already everywhere, since they can travel through the mycelial network
I thought about that too. But utility companies ARE legal monopolies. So you DON'T have a choice of providers.

Jeff Bezos wants us to think of Amazon as a utility, but this is obviously one way that it is very different.
Not really.

The message is PGP signed. If the protonmail address is taken down, then another message will be put out with alternate means of contact that will have a correct PGP signature.

If you read the message there is indeed an onion address as backup in case things get taken down.

The PGP address is the important part. No matter what gets taken down, if they can get attention to another message with a valid PGP signature, then they can carry on easily.

EDIT: This is actually how Cicada3301 of all people operated. The PGP key allowed them to post a message even on Pastebin or /x/ and they would still be contactable and effectively uncensorable, because their identity was persistent and their messages were replicated.
No, of course it wasn't. If you can't put your internet handle behind your thoughts, it doesn't say much for your argument. Period.
Simple, how about just like a store is not allowed to refuse service, an online platform also not be allowed to refuse service? Is someone misbehaving, great, inform the actual authorities of their jurisdiction.

Actual governments, with the people's mandate, are the only ones with authority to set the laws. Not tech monopolies.
Suppose I buy 1000 VMs and use them to DDoS something.

Should the hosting provider wait for a court decision to stop it?
How should I do this if my net worth is below $20M?
I don't think you can square that circle.

Let's say it's 2024, and the dominant social media platform is called Witted[1]. They have their terms of service, but the terms of service have some ambiguity. In fact, Witted deliberately left some ambiguity, for two reasons. First, you can't absolutely codify human interactions - human communication is too complex. Second, Witted wanted the ambiguity, because it gave Witted more power.

Now President Harris is running for re-election, and she is aware of how much power Witted has. She wants to rein it in. Witted therefore finds some grounds for declaring Harris to be in violation of Witted's terms of service, and kills her account. That leaves the Republican candidate, Romney, a channel to voters that Harris can't adequately respond to. Romney wins the election. (There's talk about Witted being biased, but that resonates less with voters than what Romney can do with a Witted feed that Harris can't answer.)

Now, you say, that shouldn't be allowed to happen. I agree. But how are you going to stop it, without giving the exact same power to someone else? And who are you going to trust with that power? The government? Absolutely not. The EU commission? Equally not. But who?

I assert that there is nobody that you can trust with that power. But the power already exists, and we've just seen it used. Now what do we do? (Preferably before 2024 rolls around...)

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[1] Actually, Witted would be a pretty good name for a social media platform.
There is potential for an antitrust issue - two companies having immense control over the most popular way to access the internet, your phone. At least for now, it's really more of a convenience thing when app stores remove apps; limiting the feature set of your product offering to apps only may make sense, but it is an educated risk. If you feel you want the most people to access your content, you make it work on mobile and desktop computers without requiring a specific app store gatekeeper.

If you disagree with Apple removing something from an app store, you buy an Android compatible and enable side-loading, or you buy a Linux compatible phone, or if all else fails, you connect through a web site.

When I used Windows Phone, it was annoying that I couldn't download an app for my bank, inconvenient that I still had to use ATMs to deposit checks. And disappointing that I couldn't hop on the Snapchat bandwagon. But I was still able to communicate with friends and family, read the news, do research, learn things, and make use of the internet.

Allowing just a few companies enough control over the internet to take away your ability to choose how you use it is an antitrust issue.
Samsung Confirms AMD RDNA GPU in Next Exynos Flagship
Yes there is: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180321130859.h...
Greenwald cannot object to cherry picking and ignoring context without being a hypocrite.
You’re suggesting saving a fixed amount, which is bad for the reasons I outlined in the comment you responded to.
But if this happened 20 years ago it'd have been before SARS, and thus we would also not have the head start provided by all of that research
Yeah in the last decade, I have many times considered building a service that would have a better interface and access to information by fetching it from all my financial institutions, but what's held me back is the lack of APIs and I never even considered collecting user credentials as a viable option because of the potential security nightmare and possible libabilities. I guess it pays to be ignorant of all that and just plow ahead. Once you get billions in VC funding, you can fend off any consequences.
Whataboutism is a lazy neologism -- a weasel-word. I am surprised to see people use this term on HN.
> If you share your finances with N people (family) or N companies (free-lancer/consultant, etc), the path of least resistance to financial sanity is a well-maintained ledger.

that was it for me! i started using hledger because of:

- tracking irregular payments from a bunch of sources, often outstanding for a while

- tracking how much somebody owes me / i owe them

- being pretty much cash-only for a long while (long story). with cash, if you don't track the expenses manually, you wake up at the end of the month with a whole bunch of money gone and no idea what happened to it

- not knowing how much money i actually have available because it's spread across my wallet / bank account / paypal / piggy bank

hledger really helped me not go crazy with all of this!

PS. another unexpected benefit - tracking expenses can also help with ambient worries like "ugh i spend too much on takeout food". like, if you track it, at the end of the month you can look at how much you spent on it and conclude that it's actually reasonable (within your budget) and stop feeling guilty about it!
When I hurt my back and returned to work unable to sit, having a convertible was a huge lifesaver. It took a while to adjust everything to a standing lifestyle and having a pen tablet like the Yoga (I had a Dell 2 in 1) was amazing. While I now have a portable standing desk for meetings and such, while I figured it out the convertible was awesome.

Now I want a high-spec traditional laptop again though. :)
I was a big fan of Glenn Greenwald starting in the W administration. What went wrong with him?

The worst is that most of his current criticisms have considerable truth, which he destroys with his focus on bad examples.

Yes, it is a bad thing that FAANG have too much power, but removing Parler, a racist hate site where people blatantly plan violent crimes, is the world's most terrible example.

There isn't going to be _any_ model of an internet we want to have where sites which encourage violence will be acceptable. So what's his problem?
Show HN: Typewriter Email Project (Alpha)
Something I'm working on. Still need some cleaning but, works for me. I hope to start a trend among my friends.
The Fiction:

Thousands of tardigrades settled on the Moon, after stowing away on a space mission. They mutated due to solar radiation and reproduced. Now they roam in herds on the Moon, eating all the cheese, and plotting their glorious return to Earth.

The Truth:

There were no living tardigrades likely to be onboard. At best there were some dehydrated tardigrades in the tun state, embedded in epoxy resin, inside a disc containing an archive of humanity (See: www.archimission.org).

The total quantity would have been microscopic in size and the mass would have been far less than 1 gram.

At the time this occurred there were no regulations governing the delivery of such a low mass of non-living organic material to the Moon, which was not a protected location. No planetary protection guidelines were violated due to the extremely low mass and non-living nature of the alleged tardigrades. As there is no liquid water on the Moon, there is no way to rehydrate tardigrades on the Moon, nor could they reproduce on the Moon if there was liquid water there.

The Deeper Truth

The tardigrades were announced in the month of April. The tardigrades might have been a myth constructed as a media "beacon" to mark the location and time of a shipwreck on the Moon for future historians.
Kind of an easy question. What do you do if you find out a tenant is cooking drugs on your property? Same kind of thing is going to apply here. I imagine liability in either case is going to be a concern. I'm not worried for the huge hosts.
It will probably get worse before it gets better but I share your hope and supporting our hope are historical counter-cultural corrections to their over-the-top antecedents (e.g. the 60s vs McCarthyism).
They also care about squashing competition which prevents many apps like real web browsers, game streaming and alternative stores which can not pay the 30% fee.

IMO its fair for the app store to remove whatever it wants but there needs to be an escape hatch where apps blocked by apple can be manually installed. Since the API apps have access to is secure, this should not be a significant issue.

Apps like Parlor may be full of ToS violating content but users should still be able to sideload the app and the government should be the one to shut them down if the content is illegal.
Maybe not if the board was forcing him?
I am concerned this is being used as a pretext to ban encryption or push for backdoors.
>I don't understand why we don't implement the isolation procedures of countries that have gotten this under control, following these procedures for both foreign citizens AND US citizens:

Because that would be communism!! /s
It's illogical to keep ecosystems alive that could potentially harm us and it's illogical not to spread ecosystems that are habitable for us.
At $10/lb, those are some expensive bananas!
Insurrection as a Service
This seems to be the Twitter account where most of the info was coming from:

https://twitter.com/donk_enby/

She links to a bunch of other articles and sources as well, including lists of moderators etc...
The app could still get blocked.
Right, but if I've got a job, and a community, the benefits of leaving almost never outweigh the benefits of staying, unless staying is headed for real trouble. And the question is, how big is the trouble that we're headed for. And, look, the crystal ball's on the blink again, just when we need it...
I've always wanted to purchase one of these. I'm a frugal man saving for his first home, every purchase feels like a step backwards. In instances like this another feeling dominates, I feel unworthy of possessing such a device because I can't use it to understand anything, I can merely gaze into the multicellular world as one would use a telescope to look at the moon. I understand my place in the world marginally better but at the end of day I get no concrete understanding. Certainly nothing novel.

I feel like this thought cheapens and spoils joy. I've been infected with it and I don't know from where.
I always have wondered why peer-to-peer wasn’t the obvious solution to hug of death. More visitors? More servers!

But I get that there are extreme technical hurdles here. Iirc Spotify started off with that and abandoned it. If so, the challenges have so far outweighed the benefits.

But it fits my sense of what the web should/could be. Asymmetric connections (slow upload) and hostile ISP TOS really cemented the server/client distinction ... but I live imagining that a different way is possible.

Congrats on getting Beaker to a real place.
Can someone comment on the Russian angle/ownership of Telegram.
Please, not trying to start a flame war but as a US person I’m trying to gauge if I should consider using it or not.

I don’t care about features, mostly care about security and privacy.
Now I'm sad.
It’s the people without symptoms. Doing a regular test every few days will prevent at least some spreading if you are a symptomless carrier
I'm in AZ, so in the summer with everything running and under load - about $500/month (not including the 3d printers). That's why most of it is spun down atm. Gradually moving stuff from the blades to ODroid H2s to cut down on power.
retitled dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22284397
Orgs have internal chat servers too.
Assuming that every Canadian outside of the country was on vacation is simply wrong.
In terms of experience using the product, I feel the Fastmail client handily beats both outlook and gmail.
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Technologies : C, C++, SIMD, OpenGL/WebGL, WASM, Typescript, Rails, PHP, SQL, Many CSS preprocessors, AWS, Heroku

I'm a competent C and C++ programmer. The C++ spec weighs a lot, so I'm hesitant to call myself an expert, but I have a good working knowledge of the languages. For a previous employer I worked on a commercial Windows IDE. My most recent project has been a WebGL architecture visualization tool for a real-estate company.

I've been working on the foundations of a 3D game engine for ~5 years, which has taught me a great deal about C, systems, and graphics programming on Windows and Linux. I chose to build it without third-party libraries, which began as a learning exercise, and ended up teaching me the value of simplicity.

As for hard technical skills, I've been practicing web development most of my career, so I'm familiar with many of the popular (and some of the less popular) frameworks and paradigms that have come and gone in the last decade. I can configure and maintain webservers, proxies and load balancers. I have a good understanding of the Linux network stack; I've worked on custom TCP & UDP protocols in the past. I have reasonably good linear algebra and some calculus chops from writing a 3D renderer from scratch.

Open to contract work, but would prefer permanent FT. I'm looking to join a company working on hard technical problems. Some topics that interest me include graphics, genetics, compilers, operating systems, compression, robotics and computer vision.

Outside of work I enjoy backcountry skiing, snowmobiling, rock-climbing, hiking and biking! I live in a small town called Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada and would strongly prefer to work remotely. I've been working remotely for many years and I love it!

If you think I could be a good fit for your team and would like to chat I can be contacted by email at jesse.hughes.it@gmail.com
Given our technological superiority over the majority of the world, why are states with far less resources vaccinating their populations so much faster? What can California do to streamline the process?
I think that's a good idea and I wish they would do something like this. FWIW I disagree that the console is a usability disaster. We're very prone to hyperbole in this industry. It's definitely got a ton of room to improve but it's not the worst and it's usable. Hundreds of thousands of people use it all the time.

I can give some background that might be helpful on why the UIs might not be open sourced.

Each service team builds their own console. Most of the original AWS consoles were written in Java with GWT. Some eventually moved to Angular. There's a big push internally to use a more consistent and familiar UX experience across services. There's an internal UI/UX platform called Polaris (I'm not leaking anything here, you can see this in the source of some consoles and in the console.log statements that leak to prod) that most of the new services use.

Most new services are built with React + Polaris. The console API for many new services is not the same API that is exposed to the SDKs/CLIs. These APIs aren't public or documented. If they open source every console, and people build on that, they're tied to supporting those APIs in perpetuity. That slows their pace of iteration on the console.

If consoles are open source it could be another potential vector for service updates to leak through.

Another concern is that releasing the UI kit for the AWS console is going to make it way easier for phishers to build out convincing lures. TBH I'm not super concerned about that.

If I were AWS I'd open source the UI toolkit and give various service teams the option of open sourcing their console. From there I'd release a theme/color scheme for people who want to build extensions.

AWS is very customer feedback driven. However, most of the customers providing feedback are not the ones using the console day-in-day out. The people actually using the console are not the ones talking to AWS. If you hit a UX issue then use that feedback button on the bottom left of the console and let them know.
> Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to force others to listen or post your recorded message.

I don't think anyone, from Trump to Alex Jones, is asking to be able to force people to follow them on Twitter or youtube. But they should have a right to be there, and talk to people that have chosen to follow them, that's quite a different thing.
> the court has generally (and wrongly IMO)

Well thank god you are not in charge of Policy in the US.
> Even with the internet.

Especially with the internet. In the 80s the main media outlets reported the page and almost everyone followed. The internet now has a million “experts” for every actual expert, and even good opinions can doffer depending how you look at the facts.
I wonder if this could end out with a GPU driver in the mainline kernel and a faster PinePhone.
Thanks for sharing your story, it's useful to hear anecdotes. I also want to emphasize I was making a general comment and not intending a personal criticism.

The points raised by bigiain and mxcrossb are well-made, "cold-like" symptoms are COVID symptoms, the loss of taste and smell only occurs in some cases. CDC has a full list of coronavirus symptoms[1].

I fear that many are flying, socializing etc. when they are actually symptomatic (e.g. headache, sore throat) because they consider these minor symptoms, or perhaps they can just "hope for the best", but the severity of the symptom doesn't change whether or not someone is symptomatic.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/s...
For a tenant: You call the police and they maybe get arrested. They're still legally allowed to enter the property until you evict them, which takes 30 days or more in most jurisdictions. You might be able to start eviction proceedings. You eventually sue them for damage to the property.

For a webhost, you call the police and....well what they're doing isn't illegal so the police have no reason to care. If they were doing something illegal, ultimately the police might ask (or depending on the law, might need to get a court order) to ask you to shutdown the account. At this point, they'd no longer have access to the account.

In fact, if you imagine a person who does both on the same day, if they got out on bail, they would still be allowed into the house during the course of the eviction process. So they could continue using the house for a minimum of 30 days.

I don't find this comparison to a landlord at all compelling.
auto incrementing ID is a bug if it allows people to get access to data they shouldn't.
The idea is to create a mix between old letters and emails. Yes, we have HTML emails, but you have to save the images on a server, people have to download the images, size is not always right, compression kicks in, etc. Nah. Too much trouble.

Better to send out a PDF with your own signature and letterhead, like grandpa used to before we messed it up with this whole e-mail mumbo jumbo.
To understand the Capitol rioters, look at Goya's inflamed hate-drunk mobs
- Licence

- Not designed to be difficult to extend

Everything else is basically irrelevant because as Clang has aged it's both slowed down and reached parity in both compile and execution speed. Phoronix even have GCC faster than Clang at building the Linux Kernel, even in an (according to a comment) biased sample where GCC wasn't built with lto enabled. GCC also (last time I tried) does better debug info.

LLVM is much easier to hack on, though, although some parts are more similar than you might expect.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-Fast...

You should try and fettle with both to see what works best for your project.
They have already tested positive on their 3rd (PCR) test.
It's possible to maintain software quality (or quality of any endeavour) without being rude or making people feel bad.

On the other hand, there doesn't seem to be any correlation between rude behaviour and high levels of technical quality, nor is there any plausible explanation for such a correlation.

My hunch is that any successful project with a rude atmosphere succeeds in spite of the rudeness.
> Python

The computer science classic of all time (by Knuth) uses an assembly language to teach analysis of algorithms. Using Python (or Scheme, for that matter, as is done in SICP) will only take you so far. C is a good middle ground.
Do they ask for the state to intervene? Then it is inconsistent.

If they are just unhappy with the way their hosting providers behaved, and what arguments they used to explain their eviction, then, well, it's understandable.