skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People dying of "old age" is normal. Just wait until the UK strain (which seems to affect the young more[1]) makes its presence known this side of the Atlantic.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-31/faster-sp...
A great technical article, enjoyed reading it and finding out some more details of the platform. Though I think some of the flow graphs are a bit confusing with some of them having signs that I think should be the other way.

Some things I learned from this or was not aware of before:

The instruction "rep stosb" does an optimised 64 byte store if the size is large enough on some platforms, but only if aligned. This makes sense since it should be able to work with whole cache entries at a time.

Compiler unrolling 63 byte memset even when optimising for size (127 byte of less when optimising for speed). I would have thought that this unrolling would produce a larger executable, but I guess it's still worth it for the runtime speedup.

The trick of using multiple unconditional writes to fill a smaller range with values, where the middle portion is overwritten. So writing anywhere from 8 to 15 bytes using two 8 byte write instructions, or doing anywhere from 16 to 63 bytes using 4 16 byte instructions. This is a little bit of a revelation for me on how it was put together, like I knew some of the parts of the solution but might not have figured out how to put it together for a long time.
Every workaround is a solution, but not every solution was a workaround. :D
None yet.

I am sure the FB / Twitter / IG users are much easier to find.
How does me debating COVID now help anyone pay their bills?
This is becoming a super sweet routing platform! $120 board + $50 add-on card is a little on the pricey side, but ok. I wondered how they did it, but ahh, it's an x86 celeron chip, so of course there's PCIe. I really hope we start seeing more System-on-Chip from ARM &c with PCIe soon. RPi3's ethernet is powered by a single lane, which is more than most competitors do! Time to raise the stakes a little all!!

But all this.. it just makes me so so so so sad how little wifi gear is available to DIY with. If you want to DIY wifi you basically have to rely on OpenWRT, which is all hacked routers. Support for modern chipsets has been woefully scary bad. We're seeing some hopes, some code drops of some semi-modern Qualcomm chipsets, but as has been the case for most of the decade, Broadcom is totally 100% no-go useless, has no support, no drivers, I don't even know if we have a way to any of these boards any more.

But relying on prepackaged consumer equipment- it's un-ideal. I'd way rather be able to, like this add-on, build something myself. The cryptocurrency craze has shown that, in fact, PCIe works fairly well over a decent length of USB cable, and Thunderbolt mirrors that idea at 10x the price point/sophistication/complexity. The idea of having a m.2 card with some wifi hardware on it should not be that out there.

Yet there's near to no marketplace for good wifi gear. Compex is one of the few/only companies making anything what-so-ever, and it's quite expensive.

I've been meaning to try to run a Debian install on my Netgear X4S (R7800) router for a long time now. It'll mean, likely, trying to compile an OpenWRT & borrowing it's kernel & probably some modules. And kind of slap-dash throwing them in-to a Debian distro, and either uboot or perhaps having to kexec from OpenWRT into Debian. I'd really like to have a less exotic system to build wifi with. For now, my increasingly aged router continues to be one of the best options available for wifi that gives me any power or control. It's scary having such radically increasingly consumerized options dominate. It's scary to me how many techs around me in the world are happy to just buy more expensive fancy gear, go get Ubiquiti, rather than invest themselves in such a core critical foundational social technology. I want very much there to be some kind of call to action, some way to rally, but hardware keeps getting further & further away. This is the actual story of Big Tech that scares me, because it restricts what is possible. What big social networks do? Just go do something else online. But wifi? That is the last & most important mile of connectivity, to us & those around us. I know it doesn't entirely make sense, but it's something I think geeks ought to feel is important & ought to invest themselves, not just their money in. I'm tired of being well served by enterprise gear in the home, but not serving ourselves.
Fine, but even if we accept all that, Glenn's argument that this is "monopolistic" doesn't pass the laugh test.

Because in order for Parler to be unable to get racks in any datacenter, it'd be necessary for dozens or hundreds of different providers to all refuse access. That doesn't sound like a "monopoly" to anyone who has a dictionary or understands what "mono" means.

If the bandwidth and power costs destroy them? Then maybe they just don't have the resources to run their giant multi-million-user Nazi site, and they should go out of business, like all businesses that lack the resources to sustain operations.
The January 2021 Security Update Review
it’s standard practice for many certain political forums, If you don’t espouse the same beliefs, you will get banned.

Their counter argument is that if you bring up conservative view points, the liberal echo chambers ban you. So they should be able to do it in their free speech spaces.

This also unfortunately hides the fact that hate speech, dog whistles, saying that COVID is a hoax, pushing for falsehoods and getting upset about not being able to do so, is why you get banned.
When it became undeniable that the traffic was connected to actual terrorism, other sites acted swiftly to cut it off. Parler did not.

Now, it's arguable that the other sites knowingly facilitating crime and just hoping to escape consequences because no one was going to make a big deal of it, and they only cut it off because the risk of that strategy increased after the Capitol attack. But while that may paint the past actions of the other firms in a worse light, it doesn't paint Parler’s actions before it was cutoff by other suppliers in a better one.
And who decides which ones are unjust?

I think intellectual property laws are always unjust, but most people disagree with me and they probably think that what sci-hub is doing is wrong.

There are probably some murderers out there who think that murder is justifiable in some cases.
Interesting points. But, unnecessary humiliation as well.
Why is there so much bullshit propaganda on HN these days?
The sad state is that even the most employees of Tech companies from India - >SWITCH (all different companies acronyms) just are not aware of OSS. Even now from UK, when I spoke to my sister (an amazing java programmer in TCS - graduated out of a top uni in Bangalore) about Signal(app) she was surprised, remarking what is the problem with WhatsApp? who cares about OSS? Like the gaming T-shirts in DO hacktoberfest

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658052

they are constantly looking to see if I can make a buck. Contributing free is something that will need generosity - only after they get rid of some amount of poverty and improve their economic levels.

There was some hope when XDA and Android ROM tended to explode in India, but it is a bit lost. Most ROM-groups locked up asking for PayTM money (equiv. of paypal) for even seeing your github repo. (Think it was a bad thing github
gave free private repos - after MS acquisition).

(PS: I am from India)
They said "only banning one side" which reads to me as "all conservatives were banned"
You've been oversold if you think the pandemic was completely preventable.

Many deaths are preventable but eventually you die.

500k "preventable" deaths every single year in the USA from smoking. Many others could be "prevented" by eating healthier food or getting more exercise.
This really reminds me of the vision before having a migraine. Is there a scientific literature on that?
Your right to say it (& not be jailed)

Not your right to be provided an audience
I agree, I am totally drained of everything covid, its been 24/7 news saturation since March(exceptions being election, BLM protests). Once I get my shots and my family gets theirs I am going to take a much needed and extended break from the news.
Ditching the Blueprint for API Management
Just twitter fortifying their mote?
That's a pretty sick burn on Parler, I guess.
Not entirely sure why this was posted on HN... how is this relevant to tech? Article seems 100% political
We can empower democratic institutions like the FTC to be able to take action in these cases, rather than leaving important decisions in the hands of private corporations.

> ...what Parler is doing should be illegal, because it should be responsible on product liability terms for the known outcomes of its product, aka violence. ... But what Parler is doing is not illegal, because Section 230 means it has no obligation for what its product does.... Similarly, what these platforms did in removing Parler should be illegal, because they should have a public obligation to carry all customers engaging in legal activity on equal terms. But it’s not illegal, because there is no such obligation. These are private entities operating public rights of way, but they are not regulated as such.

[0] https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a-simple-thing-biden-can-...
Well, whether you assign the expenditure to vacations or vehicle is a choice (and I could see arguments for both). So software isn't going to help you with that.

I use YNAB for budgeting and they basically advise what you're requesting - figure out what the "average" is over a given period of time and just budget that amount. Say you contribute $200/mo to an all-encompassing gifts budget, you may only pull from it a few times a year but the money is already earmarked.

Amortizing things doesn't make sense for a home budget - the whole point is to know whether or not you have enough money for x.
unfortunately its not only about growth. everything in our life is based on short term benefits. officials are elected for a few year and just want to push for new development to show growth. No one wants to be the one saying lets hold onto growth and fix what we have first. that is valid for cities, companies, governments.
another thread here in HN about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25751218
This is a good source for combating that effect: https://www.allsides.com/
I'm more concerned about the app store bans than AWS ban.

The app stores are true monopolies that as gatekeepers to users loading apps on phones (particularly so in apple's case). There isn't really any alternative to them.

In contrast, a hosting solution can be swapped out for another hosting solution. While non-trivial (especially if you are using a bunch of AWS specific services), there are viable solutions.

Parler has already found a new hosting solution with epik. [1]

Given that anyone can host a website (potentially even by buying their own bare metal hardware and procuring IP addresses), then one always has the ability to disseminate one's ideas. The "public square" equivalent is simply having your content online as it is available for all to read / consume.

That does not entitle you to speech on other people's platforms. That is the equivalent of saying you should have the right to go into a private venue, hosting a private event, and espouse your ideas.

I've long thought that we should reinterpret campaign finance law from this perspective. Specifically, that because the internet enables anyone to get their ideas published and accessible, then we should remove the ability of political campaigns to buy ANY advertisements. Having the right to speak should not be expanded to having the right to BUY eyeballs / impressions. You should be able to speak all you want, freely, on the internet. But all traffic should be earned, organic traffic from folks actually wanting to listen to you.

The ability to use targeted advertising to target specific messages to specific political segments seems disingenuous. It allows the politician to choose their voter instead of the voter to choose to listen to their politician. It is like digital gerrymandering.

Given that a politician can easily host videos, content, etc that can literally be consumed by the entire planet with relative ease (not to belittle the complexity of youtube), free speech exists fundamentally in the foundation of the internet / web.

Attacks on those fundamental components of the internet are concerning though. For example, SciHub having its domain names revoked and thus being unable to have DNS properly route to their servers is of grave concern. But the recent developments of NextDNS and similar decentralized DNS solutions are promising [2].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/parler-moves-to-epik-domain-...

[2] https://www.coindesk.com/pirated-academic-sci-hub-handshake
Wow - wasn't he paying all his employees even though his casino's were closed?
A nice trick to detect anomalies in an array of arbitrary data is to make N subarrays (each with different size(array)/N elements removed) and compress each of them.

The subarray that compresses the most has the anomaly removed.

It's not very cheap, but it's much more general than median or average or string comparisons. It relies on the fact that compressed size is estimate of Kolmogorov complexity.
Optional:
WWAN* 4x4 MIMO 5G (LTE CAT20) / 4G (LTE CAT12)
5G available May 2021

That's the most important spec IMO. Can't wait to buy one in May.
I have no idea who that person is. There's a number of posts on here about NeurIPS with some links to archive.org that features a Twitter feed where a number of people were encouraging harassment of each other. Watching how they postulate against each other using their various ideologies is shocking to say the least.
Meet Vantage: AWS, but with DigitalOcean's simplicity
I'm a mechanical engineer myself. I've built microphones before in a college laboratory where all we used (proved) was "any object that vibrates from sound, which can be used to alter an electrical current, can be turned back into sound"

Even the most basic form of digital audio stored as PCM (redbook, etc) is actually nothing but a file where every data-point in the file is an integer representing the 'magnitude' of a disturbance during that short milli/microsecond of time. Any vibrating 'disturbance' is the very definition of "sound" itself too.
racial comments from throwaway accounts really ought to be disallowed. I recommend well-meaning people just flag and move on.
The lies in this case start at the top, and are clearly intentionally untrue.

That people farther away from the origin point come to believe these untrue things does not make the original lies anything other than lies.

On a small scale, it may be true that countering a mistaken belief with facts and reason is helpful--though a lot of research suggests that's not the case even one at a time--but on the large scale, lies must be called out as lies, and letting them stand leads only to repetition and widespread belief.

Had there been a better job done of calling out and suppressing the lies at the stage they were still only lies, it's possible we would have much less mistaken belief.

Also, the idea that most people are suffering from "mistaken belief" rather than being aware they are lies strikes me as naive, but that's a matter of opinion.
I don’t know what your city life is like, but I have made it a priority to get to know my neighbors. In case of emergency I think we can all depend on each other.
It's too bad this is targeting end of year, I have so many applications for this--test assertions, http controllers, SQL--this will remove a lot of duplicate code. I also think it will expand use cases for Go, especially in the UX area where you have to implement duplicative getters and setters.
And they are, Qemu isn't even remotely in the same performance category.

(it was intended to be easily retargetable to other platforms instead of being tailored to them, not even using the hardware FPU at all for example)
Is this a bit like Jhipster but then for JS/Node instead of Java/Spring Boot?
Could have, should have. This isn't material to the discussion at hand. (It is however good advice in general.)
Absolutely, though I think the numbers prove my point.

What single cause has resulted in 4,000 daily deaths, day in and day out for weeks on end? (and likely for many more months to come)
No.

It conflates the principle free speech with a narrow legal reading of the first amendment. Whether on purpose, or accident, I cannot say. The alt-text is also only illuminating in the sense that the CCP might heartily agree with it as well, as they see their crusade against free speech as nothing more than maintaining the public order and peace. In publishing the comic and leaving it up, Munroe has done more to damage the principle of free speech in the West than any opinion article I can think of, because it chains together several fallacies in a clever and funny way.

A comic response to xkcd - https://sealedabstract.com/rants/re-xkcd-1357-free-speech/in...

A legal rebuttal to anybody thinking AWS’s actions were legal (they were not, and hopefully a judge will agree soon) - https://cdn.pacermonitor.com/pdfserver/SGS7Z4Y/137165184/Par...
> It's not apathy, it's fatigue.

I absolutely agree.

> It's been 10 months of terror and horror

I blame this squarely on the saturation coverage it has been given by media networks. People need time to hear themselves think or they'll go nuts. Politicians haven't been terribly helpful either.

I personally find it hard to get too worked up over it anymore.

When my neighbor caught it in July, I was very concerned for him. He was the first person I knew personally to catch it and I was worried for his health. Thankfully him an his wife and kid got through it fine.

Then in September another neighbor caught it, I checked in with him daily to make sure he was coming through it okay.

In October, my 98 year old grandma caught it. I thought great, this is finally the time. She's going to die from it. And then she got over it just fine.

In December, I had an aunt and uncle catch it, both in their late 60s. Both got over it just fine.

I learned the other day the reason I hadn't heard much out of one of my best friends is that just before Christmas him and his wife caught it. They also got over it just fine.

Heard this weekend that another of my neighbors had it in their house. Also getting over it perfectly fine.

I don't say all that to discount the tragedy for those who have died from it.
It's a terrible thing and I wish it hadn't happened.

But we were sold Ebola by the media, and we got an unusually deadly seasonal flu.
It's not that Amazon was able to find these comments, it's that they had looked for examples, given those examples to Parler, and even that low barrier for moderation wasn't reached after a normal amount of time. As in 'here's specific examples of what you agree clearly need moderation, and are calling for terrorist attacks on our (Amazon)'s infratstructure, you (Parler) still haven't taken down days later'.

> It’s our view that this nascent plan to use volunteers to promptly identify and remove dangerous content will not work in light of the rapidly growing number of violent posts. This is further demonstrated by the fact that you still have not taken down much of the content that we’ve sent you.

They sent the examples well before they sent the final letter, gave Parler plenty of time, and Parler refused to even moderate under those extremely generous circumstances.
The linked page claims that CloudLinux has pledged $1M/yr to AlmaLinux which solves one of the main concerns I have about Rocky.

It also seems like CloudLinux has already been doing something like this internally so it shouldn't be an issue to get the project up and going. It will be interesting to see how they do vs Rocky.
I honestly don't see that on any reputable retailer I could find
> Federal mask mandate

I'm not sure what difference that would make since masks are already mandated everywhere by state and local authorities. The real issue with masks is that (a) many people don't wear them properly (I routinely see people with it only over their mouth, not their nose, or with a huge gap between their face and the mask) and (b) anything that covers your face qualifies as a "mask", no matter how coarse the weave of whatever material it is made of.
> You are confusing the 1st Amendment with 'free speech'

I'm not Randall Munroe, how am I confusing anything by simply explaining he doesn't claim to be against free speech but rather is clarifying what he thinks free speech is?

I'm ok if you disagree with him, but please don't make claims about what I think, when I didn't say what I think.

I was replying to a comment arguing that xkcd doesn't support free speech because the author is leftist. I showed the author does support what he believes is free speech. That's all.
I don't get the sense that people realize how much more problematic it is.

They've heard on the news that it spreads faster, but they haven't digested how much faster or what that means when health resources are already taxed.
>The most glaring example of this was public health authorities pushing for hard shut downs of pretty much all public spaces, but then turning around and giving the greenlight to densely packed BLM protests as critical to public health.

The BLM protests weren't the first protests since the pandemic started. There were anti-lockdown protests going on before that which were just as if not even more "greenlit" than the BLM protests. I will also note that the BLM protesters were much more likely to follow basic precautions like mask wearing and only holding events outside when compared with the lockdown protesters. In the end multiple organizations reported that there were no noticeable COVID spikes related to the BLM protests.

>Another example is the imbroglio about vaccine prioritization, though that's more about values (is it worth saving more lives if the saved lives are disproportionately white?) than it is about factual claims.

I don't know what you are talking about here. Care to share a link to a mainstream institution arguing that we should prioritize diversity in vaccine recipients over saving lives?
The 1st means you can't be jailed by the government for discussing gay rights.

It doesn't mean private individuals have to humor you. It doesn't even mean they have to listen to you.
Because part of the justification for sloppy and capricious banning without anything resembling due process is that you're free to go elsewhere.

This justification doesn't work if elsewhere is shut down too.
Exactly, I already have my sources for updates and I don't need to search anymore.
I don't think that developers in general have great interest in maintaining obsolete code which would only cause some users to continue using that old code, perpetuating the maintenance headache. Money buys you that interest, but in the free software world you better move along with the developers.
There are nonviolent ways to break the law, usually that suffices. In a democracy/republic it should then come down to the numbers.
> if I do that I get arrested for breaking social distancing...

This is inaccurate at best. The gathering in D.C. last Wednesday had a legal permit for thousands of people to join.