skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't about market cap. It's about people doing mental gymnastics and adjusting expectation to feel like they got a fair deal or didn't get screwed. People make all the same excuses every time a Tacoma frame rusts out or the 3.4 eats a timing set.
At one point it writes it correctly. Can be very confusing for someone no knowing.
Yes, in German, with an umlaut--but maybe they didn't want to be mixed up with a metal band.

It has a couple of meanings in Latin, one of which coincides with Kalanick's expressed interests.
‘It could be never’: Parler CEO says social app may not return
I'm so sorry. Do you want to talk about it? :P
Don't trigger me man :-|

I wasn't excluding the BSDs there, Stevens would definitely have covered dtrace, ZFS, Capsicum etc. But I hope that the Solaris/SysV specific stuff could be put in a forbidden appendix. No more ipcs please!
I think in our current economical climate it is actually good if there are rich people willing to part with their money, even if it is just a moonshot. What I don't like is that the VC model often just devolves into the same boring strategy of outgrowing the competition. Lots of good companies died because of this and lots of bad companies are still alive.
I'm going to try and not got excited here, in spite of myself.

Archive.org has an honestly fascinating recent history with this type of collection. They create a repository of something obviously copyright(ed)(able), make a really big release, I enjoy it for a week, then it gets cleaned out once the first C&D hits.

If this is still up and complete at the end of the month, I'll be surprised.
Also fun is `/roll 9999999999d2` which IIRC Roll20 blocks but many virtual tabletops just hang on.
What do you mean by "almost completely absent"?

A quick search showed that in 2017, AMD server market share was 1%, and in 2020 is expected to have reached nearly 10%[1] in 2019. This is still not the same as 15 years ago, but the market is also not the same, with cloud computing, and this increase is very expressive.

They are bringing IPC improvement with Epyc Milan and is pushing the same innovations towards the server market.

[1] https://www.hardwaretimes.com/amd-server-market-share-grows-...
I just don't understand how this is a sensible policy desicion apart from "I don't like how these platforms moderate, and i want them to be punished"
While your points might be true, you are arguing how there are hypocritical and dishonest people somewhere else.

You are also putting a heavy burden of proof on your readers: it generally sounds implausible that exactly the same people would complain about <100kiB being bloat and >1MiB not for the same use-case, but I am not going to go and fact-check that (with the implausibility of the claim, I would expect you to give direct pointers yourself or will simply distrust your claim).
You cannot be more wrong with this claim, you might not had to deal with this privately or professionaly I presume in which case it is understandable. Parler is liable for taking absolutely no precaution with their users data with whom they had a terms & conditions agreement (in short: users agreed to upload their data for a specific purpose)

Now, ripping that _user_ generated data from the website this way without justified (justified = platform user agreement + legitimate interest) purpose or intent or even agreement and storing / distributing / processing it is the epitome of a GDPR transgression and borderline criminal at least in the EU (saying this as a EU citizen). They are liable. I wouldn't touch that dataset with a 10 foot pole. And I would even less brag about it on Twitter, things we do for clout I guess... :)

I have no stake in this thing, it's just to emphasize that statements like this are what get people and businesses in big trouble. Stay safe! Archive only your own data or data you gathered legitimately. Take the rest up with a lawyer or ... read the laws.
I personally don't find their ability to remain online that surprising.

The Pirate Bay and other torrent networks were built by people with a passion for building, maintaining and hacking things. People who, even without a solid CS background, would spend hours a day learning new things, developing distributed protocols, evading DNS blocks and hosting their content wherever they could to make it accessible - included the small server in their own garage if needed. And they are used by people who don't mind learning a new protocol or how to use a new client to get the content they want.

I don't see the same amount of passion for technology and hacking among the Parler users, nor its maintainers. Those who believe in conspiracy content are people characterized by a psychological tendency to take shortcuts whenever they can in order to minimize their efforts in learning and understanding new things. So when the first blocker hits they usually can't see alternative solutions, because it's not the way their brains are wired. They always expect somebody else to come up with solutions for them, and they always blame somebody else when the solution won't come. And even if they decided to migrate their content to the dark web or on a Tor network, not many people will follow them - both because they don't have the skills, and because they don't want to acquire those skills. Plus, they'd lose the "viral network effect" that they get when posting click-bait content on public networks, the new censorship-proof network will only attract a small bunch of already radicalized people.

And even if they wanted to hire some smart engineers to do the job for them, we all know that engineers tend to swing on the other opposite of the ideological spectrum. Those who have built systems for escaping REAL authoritarian censorship would rightfully feel disgusted if asked to apply their knowledge to provide a safe harbour for rednecks to vomit their conspiracy-theories-fueled hate.
I thought that’s what local police were already doing? An overwhelming show of force against peaceful protesters in an attempt to deter lawbreakers.
In the UK:
Occasionally someone gets fined and makes it to the local newspaper and all his friends laugh at how unlucky he was.

I suspect the cost for local enforcement or for the post office of preventing weed being sent via mail is just too high to be considered.
>The lawsuit parler filed states they deleted every piece of content (and more) that AWS brought to their attention. Moderation is hard.

From an Ars Technica article[0]:

"But far from getting cut off suddenly, Parler had months of warning, Amazon says. Amazon's filing included copies of emails it sent to Parler in mid-November (PDF, content warning for racial slurs) containing screenshots full of racist invective about Democrats, including former First Lady Michelle Obama, with a series of responses from other users to "kill 'em all."

And

"Representatives from AWS spoke with Parler executive leadership on both January 8 and 9 about the platform's "content moderation policies, processes, and tools," Amazon said. In response, Parler allegedly offered steps that would rely on "volunteer" moderation, and Parler CEO John Matze allegedly told AWS that "Parler had a backlog of 26,000 reports of content that violated its community standards and remained on its service."

So not so much.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/filing-amazon-wa...
As a mob attacked the Capitol, Wikipedia struggled to find the right words
Oh yeah, not a fan of the ultra-minimalistic Model 3 interior. And if I understood it right, they didn't even bother to put windshield wiper controls on a physical button or stalk, which boggles my mind.
I would not say that nuances were lost. At most, word usage and the way nuances are expressed have changed. People from the 1910s just happen to make use of many words that have fallen out of use for the people living in 2021.

Someone from 1910 would have a hard time understanding all the neologisms that were introduced after two world wars and decolonization until today.

For us from 2021, someone from 1912 uses words that are commonly found in written works from the same period (and after). This is why we feel it sounds like 'art'. Written words live way longer than spoken words.

Even today, common spoken French is very different from common written French.
Because I can install Signal on my Grandma's phone and it "just works". Sharing pictures, phone calls, etc, all work the same way she's used to.

Matrix is just not there yet. Hopefully soon, but not now.
Of course I will help you. Give your wallet address. Just make me minister of education, okay?
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/13/22228675/amazon-parler-ta...
Facebook Incubated the Insurrection
When you start using phrases such as the following, then you have step of out of the realm of making a point, to making stupid argument.

> "Big Tech has no principles other than its desire to serve the interests of the radical left and the Democratic Party"

That statement alone ignores the core fact these company serve their own interests first. But that aside, maybe these companies have a lot more to offer in general.

However this statement from Gab isn't one against FB or Twitter, it is a recruitment drive:

> The only way we can beat Big Tech is to build an internet of our own – and financial system of our own – where Big Tech has no power. Conservatives and freedom-loving people everywhere must vote with their feet and join the millions of people who are getting on Gab.

Truly just emotional rhetoric.
The size argument against jquery has always dumbfounded me. Bundle sizes in megabytes, "node-modules" folders with thousands of files and hundreds of megabytes are fine for modern web apps, but if you dare to mention jquery, you can bet someone will cry about overhead and waste.
In the UK (okay, not EU anymore but it was until recently) anonymous SIM cards are incredibly easy to come by. You can buy them in most corner shops, supermarkets, and petrol stations. Both big and small operators.

If you buy a SIM card from an operator's store they might ask for ID but they didn't the last time I did this (a couple of years ago).

When I last flew into the UK there were even prepaid SIM card vending machines, provided by the network operator, in the entrance/exit to the airport.

COntrast that with Switzerland, where I had to provide my passport to buy a SIM card.
I've been watching Colony on Netflix and became intrigued by numbers station broadcasts. Down the Internet research rabbit hole. Surprisingly, a fair few numbers stations continue to broadcast.

Makes me almost want to buy a shortwave radio. Any recommendations for a small, possibly handheld receiving device?

Alternatively, also investigating Software Defined Radio (SDR)[1]

[1] https://www.numbers-stations.com/articles/numbers-stations-l...
The Internet Archive is treated as a library by many jurisdictions, and that comes with some latitude with regards to copyright.

Any legitimate DMCA takedown requests would be honored with the content being made unavailable, but still stored on disk, for a later date (copyright runs out eventually for all works).
The problem is the lack of alternatives for non-technical people.

My grandmother can easily use WhatsApp or Signal.
The negative effects of alcohol aren't evenly distributed, some people are more susceptible to alcoholism than others.

I would expect weed to be the same. As such, I don't just want to know the net negative effect, I also want to know the distribution. AFAIK weed can agitate certain mental conditions - the average joe can enjoy weed, just the expense of a minority losing their mind. I might not find that acceptable.

There's also an argument that society should seek to decrease chemical over-indulgence in general, including alcohol, and maybe fat/sugar too; legalising another drug just increases the battlefront perimeter.
I keep coming across versions of this comment.

Why does it matter? It’s not like the validity or invalidity of Gary’s criticisms would be different if he had done other totally separate ML research.
> zForth was written for engineers, not for language purists or Forth aficionados

Ironically this sounds very much like the thinking of Forth's creator, Chuck Moore, who never wanted Forth to be a standardised language.

Also, here's an old reddit thread where zForth's author answers some questions: https://old.reddit.com/r/Forth/comments/4o0x3z/
I don’t think the article says that Salesforce has permanently dropped the RNC. They may just have cut off access to some email capabilities, or even specific emails. And comparing this to other election email without context is disingenuous. If rioters had just stormed the Capitol building over some accusation the DNC was making, you can bet they’d be getting the same treatment.
>build your platform to work without relying on other people's business

You can't although you can, of course, mitigate.

But are you OK with just a PWA on mobile w/o the Apple or Google stores?

And your platform is ultimately dependent on a network connection, probably CDN, domain registrar, DNS, etc. Those are a pretty high bar to get kicked off but you're not immune.

(And, yes, there are things like Tor and jumping around providers if you have a fairly lightweight web site--like most torrents--but that doesn't help you if yo have a site with many TB of data catering to unsophisticated users.)
Isn't the opposite, a kind of social heating, what we are actually observing though? This model does not seem to predict what I feel we are actually observing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park#Replication
Another funny one, the more "locally idiomatic" an expression, the heavier is my accent.
Learning Perl is worthwhile because it is ubiquitous on Unix-like systems and Perl-compatible regular expressions are the defacto standard regular expression syntax.

Perl may not be as popular now as it was in the past, but it is still around and lots of legacy systems that were written in Perl are still in active use.
This is complete and utter B.S.

There are dozens of reasons why Teslas are much better EV’s than competitors have come up with. Most owners (I probably know an order of magnitude more than you) are pretty clear eyed on some of the quality issues, service and especially the buying/delivery experience. Most (not all) owners I know like the mission of the company and really love their cars despite some of those issues.

To the issue at hand here, this is the eMMC endurance issue. Tesla should absolutely replace that for free since it is their software writing too much data that destroyed them.
Plenty of US tech companies are present in the EU including FAANG, it is not like Europeans work exclusively for EU companies. Suppressed salaries are pure profit. $T companies not just come from nowhere.

https://elsajohansson.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/what-does-a-w...
Are Android phones the only ones that exist? Is it even the most popular phone in the US? Is this a serious statement?
Structured concurrency in Swift: continuations, tasks, and cancellation
Is perl or "Raku" still used in serious new applications these days?

I'm not talking about gluing stuff together with scripts - I mean a large project operating wholly under it
that it stores all of your messages on a server, and not on your phone. Your phone being in plane mode disconnects it from the internet, but you are still able to browse your messages.
Yeah, if I got a penny everytime I heard that one...
No. Not all corporate actions have to be aligned to maximal profit extraction.
Not at 50TB though.
If you were to scape someone's private messages from Facebook - or their private posts - and then post them online en masse ... that may or may not be illegal in Europe, but it ain't ethically white. Grey at best.
Or it wouldn’t really be that much more. How do you come up with hundreds of billions of dollars? Who are the buyers?
The UK's domestic postal service - Royal Mail - is far too broken to even consider screening illegal packages. They make money from posting this stuff and they're too underfunded and stagnant to address it even they wanted to.
A few years ago I moved for work from a town in northern Italy to another. While only 70km away the two places have very distinct accents. After a couple of years people from my hometown would comment on how I sounded as a guy from the new town (people from the second town would never mistake my origins though, so I guess I had a funny mixed accent).
It's something like 4 hours.. probably bc of chrome. I dunno.
Legalization, probably not.

Criminalization can work. Portugal decriminalized in 2001 and overdose deaths dropped 80%. People weren't as afraid to get help.
The good thing is that it is under a grant to get the work done. Should be interesting to watch it get fleshed out.
yes! roamresearch is backed by a proper graph too
Those techies are often poor in their hometown. Many of them got a student loan, went to college, graduated in CS and then looked for a growing job market. Their own hometown offers maybe half the salary and some don't have any jobs at all.

They became rich the moment they entered the bay area. So hating on the "rich techies" is really misguided and will only further increase inequality.

Pushed out is a misnomer, really. If you have a booming housing market you should invest into more housing. These "rich" people will take the luxury apartments in 3 story buildings and the existing residents can keep their housing.

These things are not mutually incompatible. You just need to give one side what they need and they will leave you alone.
We have an excellent (and big) QA department, but 13 years ago when I started at this company we were only just beginning to hire dedicated testers. We had a mature product which was a communication handset and it worked well and was stable. Our software engineers had pressed every button they could think of in every menu and there weren't any problems.

Then we hired Kevin.

Kevin had the handset for 40 minutes before piping up "crashed it". The lead comes over to have the sequence explained to her, and says "huh, nice edge case". Half an hour later "crashed it again" (in a completely different way). Explains the sequence to the lead again. An hour later this happens again and he explains the sequence and she finally bursts out "Why would you even do that?! How did you think of pressing those buttons like that with that timing?!!".

Good testers just think differently than software engineers.
You've highlighted my main issue with American political discourse today.

Like, there's a very common narrative of "when side A has a large proportion of climate change deniers and anti-masks and anti-vaxxers and Young Earth creationists, and side B doesn't, there's no point pretending these sides are symmetrical", which I mostly agree with.

But somehow that narrative quickly becomes "therefore we should suppress all Joe Biden scandals (including corruption and sexual harassment), encourage all corporations to deny service to Republican partisans, and brand anyone trying to bridge the gap as a class traitor" and I'm left wondering what the fuck is your country doing.

(antivax used to be a non-partisan position, by the way, but since the Trump administration I've seen some data that suggests it's becoming a mostly Republican one)
Once the ballot is open is anonymous.

https://www.quora.com/Is-voting-anonymous-in-the-United-Stat...

It’s interesting that you were adamant about fraud not happening, yet didn’t know the actual argument. Further not knowing our elections are anonymous shows that you’re just arguing a point you don’t know. This is what I meant by the left not listening. The assumption is the right is “uneducated” yet here we are explaining what the real problem is while reeducating you.
Matrix is interoperable.

Moving to signal is going to end up being the same problem that moving to WhatsApp was: single point of failure.
Please share here on HN when you do the comparison. This class of device (somewhere between a Kindle and an iPad) are of interest to me, but the market is a little immature and I don't feel like being a beta tester.
> doesn't mean it was done as a quick and dirty implementation or that it's hastily made feature done via cutting corners.

I wasn't implying that. The ContentFilterExclusionList was already present in the first WWDC beta and could have been there internally for many months prior, who knows. I was using "hack" more in the sense of bypassing a security system. I said "It never should have existed", which is not a comment on the quality of the design of the thing that did exist.

> People forget this is not just a single feature, but part of a change to how network filtering is done (not through a third party kernel extension anymore), accompanied with new APIs.

I'm not "people". I'm well aware and haven't forgotten. I've been a professional Mac developer for 15 years. I've used the Network Extension API myself. You may remember me from such news stories as the Mac OCSP appocalypse. https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/15/apple-responds-to-gatekeep... It's incredibly tiresome when HN commenters try to "Macsplain" to me.
To me the biggest issue that was raised by the Trump bans is that we shouldn't be relying on these channels for communication with our governments and elected representatives. Boris Johnson had a brief flirtation with Facebook Q&A sessions.

Our governments should broadcast any messaging in the widest possible sense. Official government websites, live feeds to anyone who cares for it etc.
They're referring to that the 'traditional'/'proper' way to implement Forth is to write the whole thing in assembly and carefully consider how best to make use of the particular instruction-set.
The failure of our species to govern itself so laws are enacted is optimistic?

You're statement that "it would still be possible for most regulations to be bad" is sheer lunacy. Are you listening to yourself? If I listened to your logic, I'd expect airplanes to be falling from the sky, computers are not possible, and the moon landed must be fake - because they is no way, the misunderstandings, the calculation problem, the unintended consequences... humbug.
https://signal.org/donate/ would maybe help so they can apply resources to this issue!
Did not take that particular class, but loved taking the equivalent at my university when I was a student. I highly recommend taking this type of class to anyone who wants to understand what happens on a low level, but not down to the OS internals level. Systems programming.

Threads, processes, shared memory, synchronized access, pipes, file descriptors, ...

The list goes on, but at the end of the day, basically all higher level constructs boil down to these system primitives. Understand these, and you have a much better foundation to understand high level concepts built on top of them.
The argument was done by person up thread. Go argue with him.

My claim is that those are two separate topics. I will be happy to argue that claim.
It's conceivable you looked at the same data as other people and came to different conclusions. Diversity of opinions and beliefs, that's not a bad thing is it?
What do you think about the Porsche Taycan?
Is the 68k port of Netsurf still kept up to date? I assume it would be slow, but Netsurf itself is quite usable, though I wouldn't say it's a modern Internet experience.
The best example of this thing can be seen through the crypto giveaway scams on Twitter. Since the intent is to scam the other individual, this is the best snapshot you can see of someone trying to achieve an end within a few hours through bots (as opposed to political manipulation which made run on a longer time frame).
Most of what I do on my Mac is using Rosetta (developer) and I can easily get an actual 12+ hours out of my MacBook Air compared to around 4 hours from my 16” MacBook Pro. It’s just as fast (or faster). It’s astonishing.
Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets (2018)