skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Embarrassing

The site not being online may be embarrassing from a risk management standpoint, but the app being censored from Apple Store and Google Play Store prevents them from having a meaningful presence ever again anyway.
Waymo's driverless cars were involved in 18 accidents over 20 months
I still remember the Dizzie Gillespie episode and the blood hound gang. It was a great show. Certainly led to me pursuing a career in science for a long time before realizing most of it wasn't like the show.
His campaign is going to go nowhere in the Democratic party. He might as well be persona non grata since he's asian.
Victim mentality is being utilized aggressively nowadays.
a select few pieces of abstract world-level information aren't super insightful as to why or why not the US is or isn't in decline. for example, life expectancy and happiness in the US were/are not increasing, which seem fairly relevant and may indicate that people in the US are not healthier now than they ever have been (whatever that means).

https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/addiction-and-unhappin...
Again, plenty of other unpopular websites have figured it out.

Parler just didn’t care.
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Usually to outrun debt service.
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Pleasure of Learning
and there is also dendron....

https://dendron.so/

I used all of them and settled on dendron. Because Dendron makes the same links and nodes as roam and all the others. But it is still also hierarchal. After so many years of hierarchy I can't let it go so this hybrid is perfect for me.
Google trends can be interesting, but it's important to keep in mind that people who have dropbox installed and are paying the subscription don't spend their time googling for dropbox.
Neat, but fails in the same way Obsidian et al do: files are not a good abstraction for atoms of knowledge. What if knowledge isn't textual, or is only partially textual?
Sounds like he's ripe to realize all the suppressed potential that UBI advocates are always talking about.
They just gave millions of people a reason to investigate rooting their devices.
Qualcomm acquires chip company founded by Apple execs for $1.4b
Some paths are quota based by country of origin, so getting a green card is exponentially harder for a Chinese or Indian citizen than an Aussie, for instance.
On the surface it looks interesting, but why the goal is a puny 5k USD? Just injection molds would cost much, much more than that.
There's overwhelming support in an irrational loyalty to a person or brand sense and then there's overwhelming support in the most people would choose a mediocre meal over eating poo sense.

The latter doesn't seem to be a problem and also looks to be the case here.
I can understand this for oneself. But to be this complacent/indifferent to your kids' future is just kind of amusing to me.

I haven't got billionaire status ambitions, but I also don't want my elder years to be effectively dictated by the vicissitudes of the political environment.
They tried to silence him over 50 years ago but his voice still carries.
> The Democrats have the power now and they will use it to suppress any opinion they disagree with.

Quite the hyperbole without any evidence. Where is the evidence that they have demanded for censorship? Or have done so in the past where a democrat has censored a social media website? Absolutely none.
Europeaners seem to think getting by is just fine. They're happy that they're hyper educated, that their kids are going to be hyper educated, that their healthcare is paid for, and they get lots of vacation. Because you can't save, you are entirely dependent, in a broader sense, on the government's stability (I am not using this sentiment in a pejorative sense like some might.)

Americans want their fair share of the pie, which will always lead to certain people making more and others making less. Compensation is more than just money to us. It's vacation, stock, better healthcare, expanded education resources and benefits, buying programs, etc... This can be both good and bad. I suspect you can find an endless list of rosy and dark examples to draw from. Most Americans would like to think of themselves as quite independent from the government, whether they want to admit it or not.

The value in risk and reward versus security and stability is just different. It's okay that they're different too. Personally, I believe letting people leave the US without monetary penalties so they can pursue cultures that more match their own values is the solution. I once thought that having a system setup so that people could switch places between countries might be beneficial, one that augments the current immigration system.
Tesla files to use new 'millimeter-wave radar' on its 'full self-driving' cars
You don't need to root your device to install an .apk. It's all about friction. The harder you make it for people to do something, the less people will do it. It's always a very effective strategy.
Fuzzcheck: Structure and coverage guided fuzzing for Rust
Must have been reading the news while typing it!
Like Emacs before it. Emacs has Org-mode. Why shouldn't VS Code have a killer app of its own?
The Electoral College and Senate are the worst thing for the Republican party and the country because it makes "radicalize a minority of the population" a viable strategy compared to "offer something to everyone."
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No worldview can account for everything that will ever happen
This is stupid!

Were there no riots before Facebook/Twitter/Instagram?

Did the KKK use Twitter to organize? What was Hitler's Insta handle?

The fact is that there are evil, violent people who will always find a way to organize. This is a sad fact of human nature.

What gets to me is the "old media's" attempt to pin responsibility for all social maladies on "new media". Call me cynical, but this stinks of WaPo, NYT, Fox etc. fighting to get back ad dollars by getting advertisers to "rethink" their links with these companies by exaggerating claims of the platforms' complicity/inaction.
This article I found is a bit more revealing in the technology summary for those interested.

https://cacm.acm.org/news/232327-the-outlook-for-superconduc...
> 3) ...

We're not talking about time scales of a few centuries though. We're talking about hypothetical civilizations potentially dating back to the evolution of modern homo sapiens, which is now believed to at least be over 300,000 years ago[1]. I honestly don't see how this could plausibly be falsified, since an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and an awful lot of entropy can happen in a hundred thousand years or more. I'm content to idly muse about it though.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/story/just-how-old-is-homo-sapien...
> Uh, no? Pensions are contribution based but that contribution comes from taxes on your salary...
Welfare is absolutely not contributory in Europe

This is just incorrect.

In Ireland, there is a contributory state pension [0] of up to €500 a week, which you are entitled to if you spent enough years in the workforce making tax contributions. There's also a means-tested non-contributory pension [1] of €237 per week which you are entitled to if you don't have other savings or income, such as the contributory pension. In addition to these, private pensions exist: basically savings vehicles with certain restrictions and certain tax advantages.

There's a similar two-tier system for unemployment assistance and certain healthcare entitlements. I understand many other European countries have similar arrangements, despite your assertion.

[0] https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_...

[1] https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_...
open source and self-hostable: https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote.next

hosted version is freemium on web or desktop: https://boostnote.io/
I think the issue is that both parties are empty husks.

They don’t represent anyone outside special interests and party machinery. They neglect their duty. Congress doesn’t engage in deliberation anymore.

So we end up ping ponging between two rats circling the drain. Their relative popularity is meaningless given how unpopular all of them are.
Dang, can you please expel these dangerous and repulsive people? ^
"created: 5 minutes ago" yeah right.
I'm old enough to remember writing IBM off in the early 90's and Microsoft off in the late 2000's. These companies had one thing in common: giant war chests of cash and legacy businesses that were still pumping out money by the truckload. It's not like a startup/small business that's riding on a razor's edge, these companies have so many resources they can keep searching for a way "out" of their predicament for a very long time until they finally land on the right combination of people, vision and timing.

We see it now with Google now being the "evil empire". They haven't had a real hit since Android and seem to be floundering, but online ad revenue is such a huge geyser of cash they're gonna be fine for a very, VERY long time.
lol

Can they keep the money?
Said person is a Trump supporter. Check out his Twitter. Don't expect facts.

People who are downvoting me: did you upvote his comment where he presented no evidence of censorship by Democrats and just passed it as a statement?
I implemented a form of this in JavaScript. Worked reasonably well.

http://blag.fingswotidun.com/2015/10/hex-cellular-automata.h...
Greenwald literally says in the twit you referenced that zero active Parler users were arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion.

Evidence says: "GPS coordinates taken from 618 Parler videos analyzed by Gizmodo has already been sought after by FBI as part of a sweeping nationwide search for potential suspects, at least 20 of whom are already in custody."

Evidence proved Greenwald's statement wrong.
That's exactly what's done most of the time, but it should be noted that it's convention and assumption.
I found this thread originally from Stratechery's daily update for January 13th, 2021. The article itself is behind a paywall, but the Twitter thread is insightful enough that I think it deserves more exposure.

https://stratechery.com/2021/internet-3-0-and-the-beginning-...
Soooo... You think this is how things should be?
Why not just use a web app? I don’t have the Twitter app installed because the web app does everything I need.
I have my problems with Facebook, but Parler didn't even TRY to keep violence inciting content away. Their solution at the very end was to hope some people would volunteer. That's simply not enough. Facebook doesn't do ENOUGH, but you can at least tell they're trying.
I feel like the real issue is that the President of the United States was giving them marching orders. The platform that they happened to use is secondary.
You should look at all salaries. Broadly US salaries are much higher across the board - whether in IT, finance, engineering, industry etc. So the question should be is how to raise salaries in Europe. Broadly, in economics salaries are tied to productivity. This is best captured by total factor productivity. So you would need to make economies more productive across the board. You can also generally predict the highest salaries with this. What is the most productive economy in Europe? Switzerland. Where are the highest salaries? Also Switzerland.
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> However, and again I’m not a lawyer, but I think inciting an insurrection is actually illegal?

It is, but even if they use the name of a crime or tort, Congress isn’t bound to apply the same definitions or rules of evidence as a court of law, and the decisions of the Senate in an impeachment trial can’t be entered as evidence of the facts found by the Senate in a civil case the way a criminal conviction can.

So, while the trial (regardless of outcome) may generate a potential trove of free-for-others-to-use evidence, I don’t think a Senate conviction (or acquittal, for that matter) has much direct bearing on future civil litigation.
I agree with you, but moving to Switzerland is not a very good solution to achieve that. Salaries are high there only because the cost of living is much higher than neighboring countries. The country is very small, so demand for workers is not high. Also, Switzerland is not part of the EU, so the salary levels there have little influence on the salaries in neighboring Germany, France and especially Italy.

FAANG offices in the EU pay significantly less.
Exactly. They make money selling 1 or 2 TB to people who need a few GB.
> In the US, our freedoms come first and our founders constrained the governments` ability to interfere with those rights, even in the name of safety.

No. Contrary to popular libertarian belief, the founding fathers were actually trying to found a state, not a minarchist collective. While they did believe in a limited government, they also believed in the necessity of effective government, and they did not believe that personal liberty always took precedence.

Indeed, that quote you're pulling out is almost always misconstrued. Benjamin Franklin was arguing for more taxes to fund a defense against French and Native American attacks on the frontier[0,1]. In other words, for the power of government in the name of the collective and against individual liberty where that liberty threatens society.

The same Ben Franklin also became a devout advocate of vaccinations after losing a son to smallpox[1]. He certainly would not have been on the side of anti-vaxxers defying government quarantine or mask orders because "liberty."

Ben Franklin didn't even believe in absolute free speech, or that the owners of a "platform" had no right to determine what could or could not be published on that plaform:

"In the conduct of my newspaper, I carefully excluded all libelling and personal abuse, which is of late years become so disgraceful to our country. Whenever I was solicited to insert anything of that kind, and the writers pleaded, as they generally did, the liberty of the press, and that a newspaper was like a stage-coach, in which any one who would pay had a right to a place... "

...an opinion most of Hacker News would consider Orwellian and fascist.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...

[1]https://www.chop.edu/news/feature-article-ben-franklin-pro-v...
Nothing to do with the uptick of trump supports coming to the platform...
Not having an app does not mean that the mobile interface doesn't work.
Worked in several highly unionized companies.

You get a lot of devs with 20+ years of experience with very respectable wages (in European terms) who are not able to implement fizz buzz by themselves within any reasonable timeframe.

The younger devs, although considerably more skilled due to more recent education, aren't encouraged and mostly lack ambition, all they have to do (and can do) to make a good income is to hang around until they have 20+ years of experience.
Well, not to worry — that dream will not be realized any time soon. There are too many people in today's tech industry who are utterly, adamantly opposed to it and who will strive tirelessly to defeat it.

My heart remains in the independent music industry, not here. The tech industry is a horrible place.
you mean through the browser?
I'd love to be able to paste an image and have it figure out the image markup and storage in the directory.
My takeaway from the OP:

> Never underestimate how long your “temporary” hack will stay in production!
Why are we letting Twitter off the hook when it was literally his biggest megaphone? Is it because Twitter is popular with liberals?
Most non techies rather use apps in my experience, but I may be wrong.
Maybe Intel and AMD could be pressured into not selling them CPUs. You aren’t censorship resistant until you can fab your own chips.
In totalitarian states, everyone is equally poor.
I use dropbox for saving import documents/receipts/statements. Being early adopter, have 5GB storage. All
I need is a peace of mind that I don't loose important stuff if my computer breaks down or temporarily becomes unavailable. I don't need any other feature. If I had to pay about $10 per year, I would just use it happily. But their minimum plan is >$100. I occasionally use file-requests feature. If it was like pay as you go type, that would be good too. I think reasonable low tier pricing will get them consistent long term revenue.
Makes me wonder why Amazon hasn’t throw together a Dropbox like competitor free with Prime.
Rails is still great for a project between the sizes of small and large, the former and latter of which will benefit from tools with a lighter touch (like Go), in my opinion.
More bad-faith argument than refresher on CNN's part. The right (or lack thereof) to someone else's platform is well understood. What they are intentionally ignoring here are the procedures and protections typically extended to users of quasi-monopolistic platforms (esp. utilities).

So, instead of participating in an honest debate, they paint the other as being simply too dumb to grasp the 1st amendment.

Slimy.
File-based knowledge systems also assume knowledge is neatly partitionable in relatively large chunks.
Probably going to zero.
It also doesn't make sense because terrorists would obviously be using encrypted channels primarily, not some shabby public plain text forum. And most organization would be on Facebook, with orders of magnitude more users and better tools.
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This is getting confusing. The tweets sound like you are concerned about write scalability, and here it sounds like you are concerned about read scalability?

> So we can get, say, 1000 updates, bundle them all, get it synced in say ~100ms, and then answer all 1000 requests at once, and still only take ~100ms.

I assume the same trick is applicable to RDBMS as well? So you batch the 1000 updates, and do one commit with a single fsync.

> Virtually every other database I've used is quite naive about how they flush blocks to disk, which dramatically reduces their effective transactions/sec. It's rare to see one that made all the right choices here.

Can you elaborate on this? Anyway RDBMS worth its salt should be able to saturate the disk IOPS, i.e. the act of flushing itself wouldn't be the bottleneck.

> Our database has very small amounts of data but a very, very large number of parallel readers.

So the control plane is the sole writer of this database, and there are maybe 100s/1000s of other readers, who each has a watcher on etcd? Who are these readers? If they are different processes on different machines, how did it work when the database was in the json file?

Sorry for the barrage of questions, but I have to ask out of curiosity.
> where the goal was to overturn the results of an election

If that was really the goal you'd think they would have gunned up a little more than they did. Instead, very few people were actually armed, so that seems rather disorganized for an actual coup.

> A lot of people supported BLMs pre-violence protests because they wanted police held accountable.

So protesting for police violence makes it OK to loot stores and burn cars that have nothing to do with it? How is that EVER ok? If you condemn violence you need to condemn violence no matter who instigates it, not only when it's very convenient for one to do so. because this is exactly what was happening 6 months ago, people cheer-leading the violence on Twitter if it was BLM related.
> I'm so done. If I cannot live in a country where a politician, of any background, cannot call on their supporters to protest

Calling on your supporters to protest is fine. Calling on your supporters to protest, with a pattern of all the protests becoming violent is less fine. At some point you become complicit in not enforcing the value of peace strongly enough. And when trump rewards violent people, and celebrates them, and encourages them, and then things turn violent, people see through the indirection.

And I'll note that the left doesn't have a pattern of a leader whose calls for protest reliably all turn violent. People protest outside Mitch mcconnell's house weekly, and they've never been violent. They don't give him peace, but they are peaceful. That's what democratic politicians encourage, and what they show they value, and so that's what happens.

> Unlike all the politicians I mentioned above, the moment Trump heard about the violent breakins,

Reports from wh sources indicate that he had to be forced to include statements like "stay peaceful" and "go home" in his tweets.
Funny, the package in question exists because _I_ thought I could do better and wanted to DIY.
I just use the wAP ac (and cAP ac) as-is. I don't feel compelled to install OpenWrt.
Facebook and Google do not pay for this data. Flo sends it to them for free, because it improves the performance/ROI of Flo's marketing.

Facebook and Google have no semantic understanding of this data, so it does not have inherent value to them in terms of creating configurable targeting segments. These are arbitrary data points sent by the app, and they might as well be labeled "A", "B", "C", and "D" rather than their sensitive names.

Flo can optimize their ads towards occurrences of event "A" or they can run ads towards "people who have triggered event B in the last week but not event C", but this doesn't offer specific value to other advertisers or FB/G themselves.

That said, when all of this is put into an ML black box, you never know how data points may be correlated. Maybe the system learns that people who trigger event "D" also end up buying baby clothes. That could lead to observable ad patterns, even if no one can explicitly tie event "D" to pregnancy.
Matrix since you can self-host and have control while still being able to communicate to other people on it through federation
We've even backformed a verb, "lase".
The problem is the capital cost of the cryocooler.

The upfront costs of a cryocooler, spread out over the usable lifetime of the cryocooler (they're mechanical, they wear out), vastly exceeds the cost of electricity you save by switching from CMOS to JJs. Yes, I did the math on this. And cryocoolers are not following Moore's Law. Incredibly, they're actually becoming slightly more expensive over time after accounting for inflation. There was a LANL report about this which I'm trying to find, will edit when I find it. The report speculated that it had to do with raw materials depletion.

All of the above I'm quite certain of. I suspect (but am in no way certain) that the energy expended to manufacture a cryocooler also vastly exceeds the energy saved over its expected lifetime as a result of its use. That's just conjecture however, but nobody ever seems to address that point.
Keeping in context that I've not worked with him in (gulp, 30 years!) at Intel he was one of the folks who put problems into the whole picture. So a customer would say, this chip doesn't work, over at Systems Validation we would get hopefully enough information to re-create their problem on an Intel built board, and Pat's job (at the time) was to co-ordinate between us, design engineering, and marketing to figure out how to tell the customer to proceed.

The "actual" problem could be anything from the customer misinterpreting the datasheet (Marketing/Comms problem), to insufficient testing (Factory/Production problem), to chip function (Design Engineering problem). As a "new college grad", or NCG in the lexicon, I admired how he dug out details from various folks to get to the real problem. He always had ideas for things Systems Validation (SV) could do to maybe trigger the problem that made sense to me. He really embodied the philosophy of fixing the problem not fixing blame on some group.
Fair. Both things happening were likely necessary.
Solid idea, but the same thing that makes it work is what makes it impractical. Helium is almost impossible to contain long term, and would have to be replenished regularly.
Appropriate use of an xyz domain IMO, it's catchy. Bravo.