skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook really only wish they were in a position to be one of the most evil companies in the US, or world.

But they are nowhere close! The competition is just so very, very fierce. Koch industries. Cargill. Archer Daniels Midland. The unit of Bayer formerly called Dupont. The outfit once called Blackwater, Xe, now Academi. Halliburton. Alphabet. Microsoft, even still. Companies more evil even than them, that we don't even know the names of.
The 15 MBP has worst-in-class thermal design. MacBooks have always had worst-in-class thermal designs, as Apple prioritized looks over function on that. Hence why there's no visible vents.

What a 15 MBP can and can't cool is therefore not very interesting. Thermally it's terrible. 45W is still going to be a challenge for other designs, but it can (and has) been done without being deafeningly loud like a MBP or monstrously thick. Simply having intake & exhaust vents beyond just the keyboard & hinge alone massively improves things here. But yes you will hear it under sustained load. But you're also doing whatever you're doing a lot faster as a result - it's a tradeoff here. You could always disable half the cores if you don't like the 45W, Intel will sell you quad cores all day long quite happily.
Yes, but that is a “simple”* majority vote, and not the 2/3 majority needed in the House, Senate, and the states.

*not that any majority is simple these days, but you get what I mean.
Great, this time he cannot use tax payers to pay for his legal defense team.
I think you have it exactly backwards. The actual violent intruders last week absolutely coordinated plans around bombs / guns / etc via DMs and small private groups.

The mass gathering was propagated via Twitter-style broadcasts sure, but not the actual violent plots. Those will effortlessly move onto Signal.
That depends which blue states you mean. California and some others are net agricultural exporters.
The authorities follow up and the fines can be huge, even including potential jail time.

I mean 100%, no, but enough to move the needle on the number of infections? I doubt it.
Abolish the Presidency.

Presidential systems give too much power to a single person, which only entrenches partisanship and the worst of politics.
https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/section_9.16#myth_9.16.5 says that the Supreme Court has on several occasions interpreted that clause differently. The rule so far appears to be that it only applies if the states try to oppose the power of the federal government, but that doesn't apply to voting because control of vote apportionment is given to the states.
Thank you for saying something notably absent from the rest of this thread. The EC was invented because of racism, period.
True, and super eruptions are a serious threat. The last big one was called the Toba eruption about 75,000 year ago. It may have dropped the human population to 3-10 thousand people based on a genetic bottleneck that appeared at around that time[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
Everytime I install Linux, there is always something that's frustrating. Like the other day, I couldn't watch NYTimes video in fullscreen mode without Chrome crashing. Ok, so, I installed Firefox. Fullscreen video goes to my vertical monitor. No way to change this behavior.

Desktop Linux is developed by people who love CLI. It's not built by people that try to address problems of common mundane people off the street.

I'd rather use Windows than Linux for daily driver. Atleast UI will not freak out like in Ubuntu.

Half the time I read people saying have you tried Linux Desktop, I either see people who are tasteless and love being nerdy with tmux environment, or people who are expecting others to be like themselves.

As Linus Torvalds would plainly put "Desktop Linux sucks. It is the worst piece of shit attempt at Desktop OS". :-)
Interesting observation. Just imagine if google search was more engagement driven. It’s pretty great that it is only so to a small degree (in the sense of figuring out what links people are most likely to have been searching for, which is sort of a case of that positive feedback loop in engagement systems)
How much do you trust your compiler?
I was a fan of the innovative first version 10 years ago, good to see they brought it back and have made design improvements as well - see a walk through with Sandy Munro and the Aptera CEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DhzkUnIh58
What's the argument for rural votes currently having disproportionally more power than other votes?
You can edit html in devtools. You can also edit and save js files in devtools source tab and changes will be immediately visible. I think browser exposes apis for reloading as well, which is what framework devtools use (not sure about that one) so you don't have to use the browser for development. Does smalltalk provide anything over and above that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBiLT3LASk
The devil speech from 'A Man For All Seasons'
My bad. I'm behind the news cycle.
True, they go even further like most large tech companies, security(physical), IT, food chefs/preparers, even alot of recruiters are all permanent contractors.
Amazon Banned from Amazon Servers for Selling Trump's Art of the Deal
The consumer model got where it is because leaving software proven vulnerable in place is worse than the risk of a potential supply chain attack.
also makes me really question the "a facebook" app thing they put prominently into the whatsapp startup screen. I've heard it was literally just Zuckerberg's ego being damaged because it became so popular compared to the blue app but it seems like a bad move
You can be sure that any companies that host user-published content today are looking closely at the response to Parler, and are probably accelerating plans to get off of AWS. What happens when the Eye of Sauron turns to you and declares that you don't do enough to moderate?
The United States still has a senate that disproportionally awards power to rural and low population states by design, and house districts that do so in practice. It doesn’t need to also affect the presidency.

And I would argue that it is already not functioning properly so I’m not as worried about hypotheticals of how it could go wrong. We just had 4 years of ineffective populism thanks to the electoral college. It continues to elect presidents without popular support and a gridlocked congress with historically low approval ratings.
> Especially at $300 for the NVidia RTX 3060

Given the current market, I have my doubts that it would actually be $300.

But its a good MSRP and a decent product to boot. Its just a shame that this "unquenchable" demand is going to result in scalpers doubling the price of that item.
Speaking of launchd, it would be a much better idea to unload those services rather than just killing them so they don't come back.
The amount of empirical data about pure democracies that James Madison had in 1787 is minuscule compared to the amount of empirical data anyone with a free half hour and a connection to Wikipedia has today.

(Madison was also a slaveowner and an advocate of expanding slavery into new territories. Now, yes, he was apparently considerate to his slaves compared to the average slaveowners, and I suppose you could make the "by the standards of his time" argument, but - the standards of his time were that you could literally own slaves and still be a considerate person and a respected authority on fair republican government.)
Once my preferred political team is doing things like violently storming the US Capitol, I'll be happy for them to get this treatment.
I asked this before but why doesn't Samsung build video game consoles? They could easily integrate this and spin it off as a console device. It has the brand name appeal, it has the capability, and the capital.

Or did the door close in 1999? I'm ready for Samsung Gamestation
> but how would you deal with the notifications in a cli env

That's a very interesting question. I'd love to invent something terminal-based for fun and for future occasions when I'm probably going to need that but I never actually needed that so far. I use GUI DEs 100% of time and I don't really care to firewall particular processes on remote servers I SSH to - those have other security policies doing the job pretty well for them.

Perhaps it could be a named pipe a TUI app (TUI running in a separate virtual console, or in a terminal multiplexer) would connect to.

Vuurmuur is an example of a nice TUI firewall app.
i haven't used gnuplot before, what's your setup for getting these? a monthly-cumulative plot is exactly what i'm missing from hledger-web.
Yeah, when you advertise your platform as "Twitter but without the strict moderation", and then people find a ton of calls for violence on your platform, it's a little hard to argue you were actually trying to moderate said content.

Maybe they were, it'll be tricky to show it for certain from our vantage point, but it certainly doesn't help their case that the whole point of platform that they weren't going to moderate said content.
If the removal is done by the moderators not affiliated with the platform, this rule would not apply. As long as the platform (host) itself does not engage in political moderation. So you would create a community within a platform and moderate it as much as you want, as long as you are not an employee of that platform, just a regular user.
Franklin said, “a republic, if you can keep it”.

Prior to the mid-1800s there wasn’t even a popular vote; people voted for their representatives and the representatives chose the president. This slippery slope of republic -> republic with a popular vote -> republic w/ referendums -> full democracy will be our undoing.
This is a mess. Something I just thought about, there’s been a lot of talk about the US regulating the social networks, but will there be first amendment issues if the US tries to create rules or laws for how social networks can regulate communication? Seems like it might be a catch 22
I'm not an Ethereum expert, but I don't think it's typical blockchain stuff. TBH I find Ethereum extremely confusing, but it seems to bill itself more as "distributed compute units" instead.
They have that, it's the web browser.
This isn't a proposal for pure democracy. Depending on how you define it, that would require proportional allocation of the senate, or its abolition, as well.

Our not-so-pure democracy, based on the constitution Madison signed, has lately been quite the spectacle and proved incompatible with basic rights and security. It hasn't lasted very long, and arguably fell apart in 1860. Our president elect has been alive for a third of its lifespan, counting the long way from 1788. Which is another way of saying our president elect is pretty old, and our government pretty young.

There are founders aplenty to quote on the necessity of amendment, as well. But without further research, I'd guess trouble in the Senate, too.
I've gotten the impression Microsoft is taking a "open source new stuff" approach... After enough years and refactors and replacements, hopefully most of Windows will be open source. Things like the Windows Terminal project and Windows Calculator going open source seem to suggest this is the case.
What do you use for developing the 'front end' of your web apps with Django, do you just generate HTML from templates with Jinja, etc?
> I'm generally anti-regulation...

Tells us you don't understand the purpose of regulation.

The entire premise that regulation is bad is a disinformation campaign against rational thought. Do you understand how regulation comes into existence? Regulation is the result of someone, some corporation, some city, some legal entity abusing the public's trust to the degree a law is enacted to oversee future such situations because the general public has proved it cannot self regulate this aspect of the public's trust.
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I'm pretty sure in the next ten years that will be fixed.
> The problem in general is that there are conflicting interests between what the developers want to do to reduce their work effort and operational application security.

The most secure work is the work that doesn’t get done.
Well of course, but as a percentage of the content posted on other platforms it isn't even close. You can't just dismiss this on that argument, "it depends" is a thing and it is real
> Why would lower-population states reduce their own representation power?

That is why the supporters of this amendment (and similar approaches like the NPVIC) should be prepared to settle for a compromise which preserves the disproportionate power of the lower-population states.

In fact, such a compromise was proposed in 1950, with the bipartisan Lodge-Gossett Amendment[0]. The idea behind it was that the electors in each state would have to vote proportionally to the popular vote within that state while not changing the number of electors granted to each state.

Because of the small number of electors in some states, rounding issues can be quite significant in some situations, and I believe the proposal required fractional electoral voters, representing a tenth of a percent of the state popular vote.

[0] https://www.fairvote.org/past_attempts_at_reform
Funny how people always bring up this quote and not the one from Federalist 58 where Madison warns against requiring supermajorities for general legislative work which many defenders of the EC also support (i.e., the filibuster rule).

"It would be no longer the majority that would rule: the power would be transferred to the minority. Were the defensive privilege limited to particular cases, an interested minority might take advantage of it to screen themselves from equitable sacrifices to the general weal, or, in particular emergencies, to extort unreasonable indulgences."
(1) safely gets you to a $200k salary, though. (2) is much more risky to practice.
After their recent post [0], I just can't wait for the new update from the Mozilla Firefox that will have this fabulous feature built in /s

I have only seen yours and some other speculations as of yet [1], but you'll never know, weirder things have happened. Luckily we can start using Surf browser instead.

0. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9xK44imGVc
> plots of murder for example

Parler claims to moderate such illegal speech. I'm curious if anyone here has evidence that, when brought to moderator's attention, Parler has opted not to delete such content?
> This is a lot more similar to the electoral college making the losing candidate president than people want to admit.

Not really comparable, as Von der Leyen and Weber, the denied spitzenkandidat were from the same party. The fact is that the spitzenkandidat system is not an official rule, it's just an informal agreement that the previous legislature managed to strongarm the european council into accepting for Juncker.

I agree with you that some kind of political reform to have a more representation union would be welcome, but your interpretation of this event is a bit overblown.
I'm not the original poster, but I'll share my opinion. As an undergrad I took two semesters of software engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (CSC 308 and 309), and as a grad student I was a TA for a year-long senior-level software engineering sequence at UC Santa Cruz (CMPS 115, 116, and 117), which culminated in a capstone project. In these courses we were taught formal software engineering methodologies, with an emphasis on iterative development (at UCSC we taught our students Scrum). However, at the companies I've worked for, which include a mixture of traditional, conservative companies (such as an aerospace company, an "old-school" Silicon Valley enterprise giant, and a traditional Japanese IT company) and large Web giants (like Google and Facebook), the software engineering processes I've encountered in industry have been much more informal.

Granted, at both Cal Poly and UC Santa Cruz we learned very useful skills that are very important when writing production software, such as source control, code reviewing, coming up with effective testing strategies, and other things that I use in my career daily. However, we learned other things that I haven't encountered in industry yet, such as writing formal requirements documents and drawing UML diagrams.
I don't think -- for even a single microsecond -- that anyone anywhere close to those hearings feared for the lives. It's absolutely absurd to compare the two situations.

This standard ("does anyone feel unsafe") should always be used as a check against ones haywire common sense.
Well, it's the headline we're talking about. As I wrote, "Yes, the headline is quite misleading."

Without that headline, this post wouldn't have been made it here.
Yeah, that’s a fair way to look at it. Thanks for that. It also matches my experience with giving it too much unrelated input data: even the first line of the summary will often be completely fictitious in that case.
CES is itself shameless plug time! I don't think there's anything wrong with showing off your plug :-)
Yup.

It's a bad faith argument, yet it's everywhere. I'd think HN would be better than that, yet here we are, having the same fight every time free speech is the topic.

Also note that the parent mentioned "government action" whereas the GP is referring to a business taking action. The distinction is incredibly important, yet so many free-speech purists respond to corporate action as if it was a government action.
> You are comparing the exercise of freedom of speech to committing murder. Not quite the same thing in my opinion.

The point is they weren't only exercising free speech. They were inciting a violent riot.

> Those sites are offering illegal goods and services. That is why they are offline. Companies are generally ordered by law enforcement to take them down. Again...hardly comparable.

Again, the calls to march into the Capitol, provocation of violence, etc... are also illegal. But you won't find our government ever willing to take that stand. The distinction is less clear than you suggest.

Lets put it this way, no one is suggesting to blacklist the WSJ or the National Review. The Parler is the equivalent to an Antifa social media network for planning attacks on right wing establishments.
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There 200+ moons in our solar system alone and an uncountable number outside it. Each second we delay space travel, millions of moons are consumed by black holes or obliterated by asteroid collisions.

If humanity became space-fairing earlier, perhaps we could save some of them. We're probably committing more alien genocide by delaying space travel than we ever would through contamination.
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There is quite some debate about whether - despite its name - the NPVIC counts as an "Agreement or Compact" in the sense that constitutional law has interpreted that phrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
Plaid broke the law and now someone can acquire it at a huge discount. They played themselves.
which means it wont work and would only be counterproductive
Former Ripple CTO Has Lost His Password to $231M Bitcoin Wallet
Strange that there is no public key provided...

You can't verify a signature without a public key.
Eh, I think this is more clearly about diplomacy than, say, the "well regulated militia" stuff.

And still, i the compact is repealed, the states are free to apportion their electors however they like. States could also independently match the popular vote when it wouldn't make a difference. Even such a "dry run" would shake things up.

Bottom line, unless there is a different law to require the states to apportion electors a cetain way, I don't really know how to stop it.
Who says it is the end of the story for Parler? They came on the scene many years after Twitter and Facebook. They have a lot of catching up to do, with a lot less money at their disposal. In the early days, Twitter ran on Ruby on Rails, hardly a scalable decision, either.
Is Madison even correct about this? Is the U.S. less turbulent than other countries where the power of each vote is more equal? It doesn't seem so to me from where I sit, but maybe I'm missing something?
Consoles don't actually make money (unless you're Nintendo).

The games make money. The online service subscription makes money. Samsung probably can make good hardware, but I don't see them getting into the software / online platform business.
Inflame them to do what? Rural people are overrepresented in our nation’s politics. What’s the worst they can do? Start an armed rebellion? We’re already there.
So they are renters hosting a party on your property where people do illegal things.
It was evidence from a Facebook whistle-blower with concrete pictures and concrete name of the project, not some random questions.

Of course the CEO's answer was all non-answers. Nobody was surprised of that.

Then Mark was asked personal questions and he was shocked...the same questions that he knows about everybody in the world.
Also, the pirate bay is still alive to date, so clearly it's doable. They've seen orders of magnitude more deplatforming than Parler did and they survived it, same for sci-hub. This is proof that it very much is possible to survive online, Parler just doesn't either doesn't have the skills or doesn't want to put in the effort.
That's the point of a trusted build farm. Devs commit changes to git, and either request a build or the build farm polls for commits and builds the latest commit on trusted hardware+toolchain.

A malicious attack could change the code but it would be detectable because git would preserve the malicious parts in the repo, and further tie a specific malicious binary to a particular commit making it easy to find the malicious code itself.

As long as not all developers are compromised then whoever is doing the code review would see the malicious code when they pull the branch to review it.
Yes, please, do that or at least moderate the content.
It didn't happen, there are consequences.
Imagine a site that regularly ignored content posted that was illegal, and you just sit back and say "prosecute them then"... but they never do. What happens next in your world?
The beauty of the current system is that the federal government gets no say in who is president by placing the election into the hands of the States. Imagine what Trump could have done if the federal government oversaw elections. The electoral college needs updated, but it might not be a good idea to replace it with a popular vote administered by the federal government
Game consoles are about building a functioning content platform. The hardware is only a small part of it. You can see that with Nvidia's half-hearted attempts with Shield.