skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are dozens of accounts for groups in Portland that aren't specifically calling for violence because they use code words. Despite violence happening constantly for 5+ months at the events being organized...

I haven't actually seen any proof that the Capitol riot was anything other than a protest that got out of hand (like what was described every time there was violence and riots after BLM protests across the country). It only takes a few dozen agitators to get a mob mentality going.

Facebook suspended #WalkAway, a group of 500K people that joined to support leaving the Democrats because they were being alienated by their policies (their words, not mine). No threats, no violence. Straight up deleted the group with no recourse by the organizers. All Facebook said was that the page allegedly ran afoul of “hateful, threatening, or obscene” content, but no proof was actually given.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/8/brandon-stra...
Which direction? /s
Have you seen 4chan's "rekt" threads? (They're in /b/ and /gif/.) They make a much more powerful impression on the mind than anything on TV.
Problem is, new strains can develop anywhere. They don't have to come from abroad.

Adding this rule but allowing people to run maskless because "muh rights" is not going to accomplish anything.
- Obtain second residency/citizenship in a tax friendly jurisdiction. Place to go away on a short notice when s*t hits the fan. If voting with your hands doesn't help - vote with your feet.

- Untie your savings and assets from US financial system. Crypto has many variations on how to do that.
This seems like it should be included in default root stores. I am out of my element here, but it would be cool if anyone can explain why or if I would need to manually add govt CAs.
What is the current price of Bitcoin? Writing simple real-time price index
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That's a lesser problem, because people who get something wrong once are typically fine with being corrected, and contrariwise people are unlikely to dogpile someone for making a single mistake.

Examples of disingenuity include people asking naive-seeming questions to which those same people have already received detailed answers in the past, or repeating factual assertions that they made previously and which were shown and acknowledged to be false. It's not so common on HN but sadly very common on big social media sites or on news commenting platforms like disqus.
Whole thing might be submarine marketing.
Yes. It's a USD$150b+ industry.
And for a while, people saying "thats too much trust to give" seemed like paranoids, if not dismissable conspiracy theorists.
So when a politician or pundit cherry-picks one sentence out of a larger statement and spins that to imply something other than what the speaker meant, perhaps even the complete opposite of what he meant, is that "fake news" or is that "opinion?" And who decides?
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Because Parler would need 500 servers for the traffic they were getting (according to their CEO, but it's not qualified further), and 24 hours is the notice AWS had them.

Parler had no idea AWS would just yank them from service at 24 hours notice - I don't think there is any precedent for this from an AWS perspective. So this is the challenge they had if they wanted to move to physical infra after being given notice - 500 servers in 24 hours.

(As a side note, setting up physical infra at the scale of growth Parler was having wouldn't have been practically possible - they had a giant and rapid spike across the last month or so. It also wouldn't have been financially wise, considering they probably don't have the capital and the traffic spike was probably a temporary surge. Plus if you buy physical infra and then your apps get removed by the other cloud providers, that changes your traffic profile again... Parler really had both their hands tied behind their backs to fight this thing).
Not to mention replies listed in threads. You have to move sent messages to the inbox to get this to behave correctly in TB.
Historical authority Rudyard Kipling describes it well in his "Just So" stories, "The First Letter" and "How the Alphabet was Made".
This seems like a scheme that will be ripe for gaming / outright fraud. How exactly does the U.S. verify anything? Basically the only way to do this would be to have control over some kind of verification system that comes from vetted and registered hospitals.

Even then you have so many problems. There is no realistic way to even partially guarantee that forgeries won't happen regardless of your vetting system. And add to that the fact that the U.S. government has no control over regulations in foreign countries, so there is no way to force validators into compliance.

This sounds half baked to me.
This, kinda! But I'm after:

- Python's OOP, stdlib, exceptions

- Go's fast compilation and binaries

- Rust's package manager (never used but I heard it's amazing)

- Java's third-party packages & tooling

- F#'s expressiveness, FP, type system (never used it, only read a few intro articles, but it looks very nice?)

I'm tyring to move on from Python but finding it difficult to decide what to learn next.
Personally I’d like it to be thick (and possibly heavy) enough that I can open the lid without having to hold down the bottom. I yearn to be able to set a laptop down on my desk and not have it slide around or move when I’m adjusting the screen.
Good idea. However, don't be surprised if other countries will also require negative tests for incoming US air passengers.
We were also trying to test existing populations in busy city centers and concerned about not having enough tests.
When filing a PR there's a "allow maintainers to edit the PR" checkbox (I don't recall the exact wording). If the PR owner doesn't check it, the maintainer can't change the target branch.
What’s the difference between that sort of topics and news groups or mailing lists (with archives)? If I want information on something, subscribe; if I don’t want information, unsubscribe: I can always follow/search the archive (or read digests)
There were a few caveats attached to those numbers.

>It’s especially important to keep in mind that the figure of what we usually recall as TDP in processors is actually only a subset of the figures presented here, as beyond just the SoC we’re also measuring DRAM and voltage regulation overhead, something which is not included in TDP figures nor your typical package power readout on a laptop.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
yes, but then you don't get covered under section 230, because you are actively making judgement calls, and therefore, should be liable for those.
I would do this at my last job, which was very Slack-heavy. I would even bring up any weird dev issues or bits of info that I came across that sometimes only mattered to me at the time, but it turned out to be helpful when I would search for those things months (or even years) later.

My current job has both Basecamp and Slack. Most of the work discussion happens in Basecamp, which is fine. However, the search is pretty awful, so it's hard to get a quick and relevant response back when trying to find out more info about a given setting, feature, piece of code, or whatever else. There's a lot of extra digging involved with Basecamp's search results.
I have sent tickets to Steam asking for such corroboration. I've never gotten beyond a "don't worry Steam Guard seems to be working as intended" and general Tier 1 copy-paste responses.
This is one of the things that drove me nuts at my last company. I had been remote all along, which meant I was left out of many discussions. Chat was my lifeline, because it was the only thing both I and others on the team used. When everyone went remote, we had an opportunity to make a change for the better, but instead nothing at all changed. Meetings were done via video chat instead of in person, but they were just as un-findable and ephemeral as before. If you mapped out the lines of communication before and after, there'd be no difference. In person vs. online matters far less IMO than ephemeral and closed vs. open and permanent.

The irony is that the company happens to be the world's largest platform for easily findable/joinable permanently archived conversations. Go figure.
Am I understanding correctly that if I have over 500 a month in spend there is no free trial option?

Also FYI the email verification hit my spam box on Gmail.

Edit: Also is there any way to have multiple users on a Vantage account?
Sounds like people are trying to asymptotically approach email functionality without actually using email. I do agree that chat stuff has a place, but it seems like the new functionality is just being copy-and-pasted from current email functionality.
In your comparison it's about what CAN be done with the highway. For the comparison to hold true it's more like we let them knowingly drive there while we're 100% aware where they are at that moment. So we could have acted on it but didn't and watched them do it.

Threats, slander and misinformation where never part of free speech and never will be. Invoking "free speech" here is disingenuous.

To go back to your comparison, if Parler - or anything similar - was like the highway we wouldn't know about what was going on. But we do, and it's inciting violence so it's basic human decency to stop it. Even apart from anything that a government would say. I don't get it, why are we still talking about this on HN.
It doubles down on Go's assumption that git repository === a proper package/module system. It mixes up URLs and URNs.

If your git repositories aren't tagged just so, then go mod throws its hands up and simply invents a whacky snapshot version. Because it can't itself properly determine "earlier version" from "later version" on that snapshot, you often wind up with multiple snapshots from the same repo, not infrequently transmitted through other dependencies.

This is just jolly good fun when it turns out that your dependencies are pulling in incompatible versions of things. Since the official Kubernetes policy for downstream consumers is "we don't care about downstream consumers", it happens more quickly than one would expect.

As much as I have hated playing whack-a-mole with Maven or Bundler, I hate even more playing whack-an-adamantium-and-invisible-with-xray-eyes-mole against go mod.
This was a miss for me personally. We added a few more Q&A around this but aren't pushing any changes to the site until after launch now.

The answer is essentially we have custom plans available and you just need to contact support@vantage.sh - we just want to understand your scale and use case. In some cases we aren't the right fit right now. For example, we spoke to a company with ~$20M in monthly AWS costs and told them we need to get back to them before we can realistically support them.

We'll hopefully have this updated tomorrow. Thanks for this call-out.
Abjad, yeah. One story I heard was that Greeks since greeks lacked unvoiced velar/glottal stops as meaningful phonemes, they heard aleph as just a vowel, thus creating an actual alphabet.

I've no idea how well that story is supported, but abusing new technology for purposes it was never intended to fill does seem like an eternal human fact.
> I'm not sure it does. The post-truth left is post-truth not because of lack of faith in epstemological institutions, but because of a different epistemology. You can't fix that by a more honest press.

No, I think a more honest press (and other institutions) ceases to reward illegitimate left-wing viewpoints. They have to play the game to get the credibility (and credibility is power) which is exactly what we want. If you want credibility for your tech-gender-parity position, it no longer suffices to make blank slatist arguments because an honest epistemological institution will expose that as anti-science.

> Like, a decade or three later. You have to be trustworthy for a while before people will trust you.

I think this might be true. I think it's a lot harder to earn trust than it is to break it. On the other hand, I think we can stop the bleeding (i.e., stop creating new post-truth people) rather quickly and in time those others will slowly become more moderate and/or more marginal and eventually (like all of us) die out such that our society moderates with time.
Grafana Labs adds a free tier to its managed observability platform
People digging into Parler found out that all new users were shadowbanned by default until a group of like-minded moderators reviewed and approved their posts.

These moderators were overwhelmingly MAGA/Trump supporters, so I'm sure you can guess what kind of posts they expected to see before they unblocked a new user.

This was all shared/revealed on Twitter, so take it as "evidence" with whatever grain of salt you like, but people didn't just make up these claims about what Parler was..

So while perhaps Parler claimed to be a place for open debate and unrestricted ideas, it is seems that was just a thin cover for their much more focused goal of being a home for all this extremist right-wing talk in America.
It isn't good for the people considered to be the smartest in the world to be so rabidly against one political side.

Here's documented evidence of violence of an appalling kind outside police precincts and city halls: https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1289093614165831680?lan...

We must draw the line on behavior, not political affiliation. We otherwise risk irreparable harm to the fundamental freedoms we all enjoy.
> This works out to something like 1 in 300.

> A fatality rate of 0.3% also means that if everyone in the United States catches it, a million people will die

Exactly.

The first sounds completely acceptable. The second sounds unacceptable. They are exactly the same number, just worded differently for effect.

If you go with "Dunbar's Number" of 150 people that a single person can meaningfully maintain a social relationship with, that means if everyone in the US caught coronavirus, statistically you would have a 50% chance of knowing someone that died of it. Those seem like perfectly acceptable odds.

I think that cuts to the core of it. It's a tragic situation, but it is unclear whether it is catastrophic. That means we should be unsurprised that society is pretty evenly split over whether the measures we've taken have been too much or too little.
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For me it's easier: what was the last time they built a CPU that was worth looking to buy a device that had it? Not in the last 15 years (ok first Core Duo was that thing, but it was so many years ago). I really gave up hoping to see them pleasantly surprise ever again.
I come the world of video, and old enough to have spent time with graphics for SD. Specifically, NTSC compliant video. Since it was analog, there were severe consequences of color choices. Red was just a solid NO. On an 8-bit 0-255 scale, white was limited to 235, and black was limited to 16. The reasons for this are beyond the scope of this chat, but that limited range has still stuck with me. I never use #000 or #fff and opt for #111 to #eee for my limits. Seems like a decent enough compromise in web graphics.
I'd be interested to know by what means the payment was made. Patreon? Ko-Fi? Paypal? Something else?

I'm interested in knowing what options exist, and the various pros and cons. Friction-free micropayments are still (as far as I know) a problem without a universally accepted solution.
All people, regardless of their worldview, left- and right-wing, should be aware that they are in the same boat on this.
yes - personally I just don't want a 15". I would probably get a ThinkPad Nano to size down to 13" if I could get more RAM in it.

and I'm more comfortable with the quality reputation of ThinkPads over the Dell XPS. I've just heard more anecdotes about quality control and overheating issues with the XPS line.
When we used to talk about "monopolies", we referred to specific private enterprises. But these companies aren't actually monopolies. Facebook doesn't have a monopoly on social networking, there's Twitter and TikTok and Snap too. AWS doesn't have a monopoly on cloud infra, there's GCP and Azure and Oracle and Digital Ocean too.

The author knows that these companies aren't actually monopolies, so he insinuates that the whole region (Silicon Valley) is a monopoly. And one of these companies (Amazon) it isn't even located in the Silicon Valley region; it's located in the state of Washington.

So really the author has expanded the target of the ire to a whole industry. That is to say, the tech industry has a monopoly on the tech industry.
it may have simply been an opportunity for a better choice of words. in this case, i think they meant trafficked as in heavily visited.
I've been trying to figure that out myself. Another post here recommended Grandstream products for connecting analog phones to VoIP. Looking at the user guide for the HT802 you can make direct calls between the extensions. http://www.grandstream.com/products/gateways-and-atas/analog...

Unfortunately there system requires dialing "*701" or "*702" and dialing star on a true rotary phone isn't possible without some other system in place. Like this product from dialgizmo: https://www.dialgizmo.com/how_it_works.html Dialing two consecutive stars would still be annoying and slow.

I've been wanting to wire up an in-house "intercom" system using old phones. I'm a little surprised there isn't a "telephone HAT" for the raspberry pi that will interface directly with an old phone. A HAT that could interpret the DTMF or pulse dialing and drive even the old fashioned mechanical ringers.
We don't know what the line is going to be going forward. If it is refusal to take down calls for violence or other illegal content--well that seems pretty fair to me.

But we should be skeptical of what exactly big tech will do this power going forward.
> On the other hand, do we really want a handful of unelected billionaires deciding what is acceptable speech - whether or not we agree with them? We talk about net neutrality, but shouldn't we apply the same standard to hosts like AWS?

Putting aside questions around whether or not a media filter has always existed in some form...

You're using social media hosted on EC2 instances that can be terminated vs instead of your local newspaper and other similar, less directly filtered options. That's the trade off. I don't really see anything unusual about it - a newspaper could fire a writer (or even hire writers that reflect a certain tone), and nobody batted an eye.
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A half-baked plan that will screen out only some COVID carriers is better than the status quo where we screen out none of the COVID carriers.

In Hawaii, they have limited partnerships and Hawaii verifies the result directly with the labs. It says on the website they'll prosecute anybody that submits forgeries, but it's true that this is much easier to do when everything is within the same country.
People from the post-1.4 era of Java aren't aware how huge code generation was before generics showed up.

And then all that momentum, all the tools, the books, the conference presentations, the code ... all of it. Pop! It died. Because code generation sucks. It is the worst solution to any problem solvable by a type system.
Outlook takes to long to start up in the morning. If it could start instantly I'd walk into the conference room on-time, but instead I'm several minutes late. Now that I'm working from home it needs to get the chat client started instead, but the the end result is the same, if I'm not running early I'll be late to important early morning meetings. (my early morning meetings are with India, so they will quickly assume I'm not joining at all and head to their supper - timezones are such that the best time for everyone is my breakfast and their supper)

Outlook also has been chasing the flat look fad which is against usability. Most of the others are too so it is hard to fault them, but I still wish they would have the guts to say this fad is wrong...

Once they are all running and you are used to the ui quirks they all work well enough.
Wouldn't insurance companies love a lower cost one time treatment?
I've

- read that from start to end exactly zero times,

- picked up generics in a day or two,

- struggled with advanced types twice, half a day each time

- struggled with type erasure twice, also about half a day each time.

Meanwhile generics often saves me a number of minutes pr hour and makes everything cleaner and easier to read.

I used Java before generics but once it arrived I never looked back and neither did anyone i know.
Traffickers, when using the highway, do not make HQs at major intersections and rest zones and do multiply at will there. And if they do, they got banned for some time.
After listening to Dr. Robert M. Schoch on various podcasts, I'm starting to wonder if there could be, or have been, long-dead civilizations for which we have little-to-no evidence. This guy isn't a crackpot from some backwater university, this is a Yale-trained Ph.D.. His hypothesis that the Sphinx is actually 12,000 years old would imply that there have been much older civilizations which have died out.

Can you build something like the Sphinx without any form of written system at all? I don't honestly know, but my educated guess would be a resounding "no". If that's the case, it throws everything we know about "the Alphabet" up in the air.

What if our writing system is actually far, far older than we believe? I don't think its really "important", but its definitely fun to ponder.
Yeah, basecamp is pretty good at this. It is a pretty solid tool for building projects where having communications and documentation is intermixed is important.

I didn't realized they removed the email piece... seems like a downgrade. Particularly for projects where you have fairly casual participants.
And not taken down. I defend her right to do that.

We live in a beautiful country where one can used to be able to speak their minds without fear of intimidation. Seeing the current state of affairs saddens me.
I hate it when I'm emailing someone with a deliberately long response and by the time I send, the thread has already gone on and I have to re-merge it.
xterm is still the only usable terminal that supports crisp (bitmap) fonts as far as I'm aware. Which is why I'll be using it until we have high DPI screens everywhere. All the other terminals are unbelievable blurry with their antialiased fonts on ~100dpi screens. (Or alternatively, unbelievably ugly, when turning off antialiasing).

I never understood why so few people are bothered. These blurry fonts hurt my eyes.
Standford study on how perception impacts chatbot's successes
You made a very specific, very inflammatory claim.

>I have personally witnessed violent statements on Twitter over several years usually coming from leftists such as AOC.

Kindly provide the evidence or admit your claim was mistaken.
> Open protocols, or non profit open source projects will never compete with true entrepreneurship and hardcore entrepreneurs creating products.

Meditate on the fact you're posting this on the Internet, as opposed to CompuServe's or AOL's own networks, and say that again.

In addition to the fact you're drawing a false dichotomy between Open Source and open protocols and business, no business has ever created a fundamental communications network of the scale or success of the Internet, and none have even come close even though they tried. AOL, CompuServe, Tymshare... they're all dead and buried or absorbed into the Internet to the point they no longer have an independent existence on the technical level.

You can say this about programming languages: Compare the success of Python to the success of AutoLISP or even the success of Lisp Machine Lisp to the success of Emacs Lisp. I can't think of a single widely-used programming language which is only available in a proprietary implementation. (And by widely-used I mean beyond a single OS and beyond a single industry.)