skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, that makes sense. Investing in companies based in predominantly black neighborhoods is easy to see that it’s legal.

But then announcing you’ll invest in “black businesses” seems questionable.

But to your last point, there is no “prevailing standard” to “invest rarely” in black businesses. At least I don’t think many VCs have that as an explicit policy.
I can immediately find BLM and antifa calls for violence like this on Twitter and FB.

I can also report them and it might be removed fairly quickly. How? Remember all those articles about the practical slave labor camps of content reviewers with psychological problems that everybody was horrified by? And how we said we needed to stop doing that? Yeah, Parler doesn't have those slave camps.

And by the way, do you know how long it took for FB and Twitter to get to semi-decent moderation?

FTA:
“During one of the calls, Parler’s CEO reported that Parler had a backlog of 26,000 reports of content that violated its community standards and remained on its service.”

Parler might have refused on some of them, but the above is obviously a big part of the issue. Plus, if some people are willing to justify Twitter leaving up the "hang Mike Pence" stuff, then surely there will be some disagreement about what exactly should be removed on Parler based on context, yes?
They're protesting because they think it wasn't free and fair.

Edit: What's controversial about this? This is literally stating what the protestors think.
Workarounds for Meltdown and Spectre can impose a nontrivial performance hit for certain workloads, but it's tough to compare a 20-month grounding of 737 Max with patched security vulnerabilities that the average consumer neither understands nor directly observes.
You can still peacefully protest it. Just beware the company you keep.
Nice bait, I'll go get my rod
Bingo and similar deal with Facebook. The best way to get leverage and power with FBGOOG is for advertisers to cooperate instead of compete. We are trying to do this with ecomm advertisers right now (by getting advertisers to coordinate instead of bid against each other) but goes beyond any particular ad vertical
It still is a right. I went to inauguration protests myself. They had fences up around the route and we had to go through metal detectors and be searched to get near the street. The cops pepper sprayed the crowd through the fences.

What isn't a right though is violent insurrection, sedition, and storming government buildings. Preventing that, when it's been discussed and planned in the open, and threatens our democracy, seems very prudent.
I always thought VMware was super lucky to have Pat as CEO. The mood is pretty grim today at VMware.
It was, hence why it wasn't really usable.

However if it was a proper implementation, then history would have been much different.
That could be said for any platform these days. It's certainly not specific to Apple!
The funny thing is that I don't actually disagree with you. The entire thesis that "paid speech equals corruption" is silly, though it may be true in some specific situations (and to further steel-man the position, the optics can be bad which can lead to citizens distrusting the motivations of the politician). I, myself, made a comment stating as such [1]. But writing comments impugning HN or HN users for having the audacity for upvoting comments, or having an opinion, lowers the discourse more than the opinion itself. There are also far worse opinions here than stating that paid speeches are corruption.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25746727
This is not by chance, this was by design. Hyperfocusing on race, sexual orientation and gender helps to significantly downplay the class, economic and geographical differences. So in this world Taylor Swift, Colin Kaepernick,Tim Cook and Caytlin Jenner are helpless victims of the system while a poor white unemployed Oklahoman or a Bulgarian truck driver are little better that vermins because they are at the helm of an hypothetical totem pole. supposedly calling all the shots.
I brought a WRT54G to college, and left it with some roomies when I moved out. I think I had OpenWRT on it. It sucked that no custom firmware supported the D-Link I bought to replace it. I finally got fed up with it, and I've been using another router with OpenWRT for many years.
I'm talking about using the phone's software to block the data connection.

If you don't trust that cellphone won't transfer your private data via USB, I don't understand why you trust it not to do it via any wireless connection.
What is pro-democracy about corporate rule?
I looked through your comment history. You claim got me curious.

Most of your downvoted comments (usually one liners) have comments under them (usually paragraphs) disagreeing with you and explaining why.

Meanwhile, your downvoted comments that have no explanation added are simply out of place for the HN community. Swear words, short controversial statements, very political messages, etc.

Do you truly believe this comment was downvoted because of a cabal and not because of its content?: "I’m tired of trashy Chinese tastes gaining so much influence in the world." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25527391
Some sort of type inference would make a lot of sense to close some left-over holes from C99:

E.g. why does this work:

struct bla_t bla = { .x=1, .y=2, .z=3 };

But when I want to assign to an existing variable a "type hint" is needed:

bla = (struct bla_t) { .x=1, .y=2, .z=3 };

Why the (struct bla_t)? The compiler knows the type of "bla" after all.

Also this would be nice to create a zero-initialized struct value:

const struct bla_t bla = {};

...this would basically be a C99 designated initialization without any initializers (it works as a language extension in gcc and clang, but is an error in MSVC).
Man I used one of those forever, I think I finally threw it out once 100Mb switch and G wifi wasn't quite enough. Tomato was probably my favorite firmware for it. I remember bricking it with a bad update one time and having to jumper two pins with a paper clip to put it in tftp mode in order to load working firmware.
I had the same thoughts. Just from an operational standpoint if your selling point is "we'll host the content one one else will" you should probably be self hosting or at the very least renting a rack from someone who is contractually obligated not to pull the plug on you.
Since Trump was kick out of all mass media and Parler brought down I wonder what does Airbnb knows that can take place that is doing this. When BLM took over DC this didn't happen.
Some protesters become rioters but some others were peaceful. What have happened to the freedom to assemble?
Threadripper Pro from Supermicro
Yes.

And even suggesting otherwise furthers the whole, "I reject reality in order to substitute my own narrative that better supports the position I'm trying to take," thing.

And, in this particular context, it's also a non sequitur. Go read the court filings. The story of what actually happened is being told there. It's a public record.
You can even argue social media decelerated. I knew some people who tried to claim the riots were peaceful, until video evidence showed that wasn’t true. It’s a lot harder to brush abuses under the rug when half the people in the crowd have a cell phone
I state that CRISPR benefits researchers. However, that is still a niche benefit relative to the long term societal benefits we anticipate from CRISPR.
They really don't deliver a huge amount of it; quite a bit (significant amount) is straight up rejected. What you get is the trickle that vaguely passed at least a few tests in the spam box.
A consumer union is a fantastic idea! If you give government this power, they will not listen to consumers or the business... Government only listens to politicians. Google wants more revenue and is highly motivated to work with a consumer group.
My impression is that media plays a huge role. The few, often foolish critical voices get an improportionate of attention and thus influence.
They design them. I don't know if they make them or not.
I'm a paying customer for Dropbox and I've just had it installed on my computer for when I occasionally had to share files with customers. Never really felt I used it to any extent but I also never canceled my subscription because I'm happy for what it is and I can't bother to find alternatives.

However my computer recently crashed and when "re-installing" Dropbox I discovered that they have many more useful "Apps" included like backup and password-sync and a neat paper scanning app for the phone. All of which I was very happy to discover. So I see myself keeping my subscription for the foreseeable future. :)
Real hard to make a business with a $2 a month fee. When credit card fees in the US, the bank is eating like 50 cents of it. I think 7-8 bucks/pounds is about the minimum price for many apps to bother with it. Below that rather just have a limited “free” tier.
What makes you do certain? The reach and minds share of FB and Twitter are unparalleled
But even those terms have lost meaning. China believes it’s a republic.
>"The companies Linksys was competing with were, again, focused on a market where routers cost nearly as much as a computer itself. But Victor found the sweet spot: A $199 router that came with software that was easy to set up and reasonably understandable for mere mortals."
> Listening to a professor speaking to himself from a distance of 10 meters is an awful experience compared to a video recording that you can stop/rewind. Heck, you can even take some proper notes that you will actually understand!

Ok. That's a win for remote.

Now my turn: how easy is it to gauge the mood of your entire class, turn to the person next to you and whisper a question or look at their notes? Go for coffee with classmates afterwards to discuss? Pull the lecturer aside or knock on their door later that day if you're stuck? Meet older students and grad students who can help you and inspire you?

People made the same "it's the future" argument for remote education when MOOCs launched. PG argues that uni's will still survive because they are certificate authorities. Both are wrong.

Peer learning is where it's at. And it's being immersed in that environment 24/7 that makes universities such special places. The learning goes beyond your set classes too - it's social, physical, it's relationships, it's hobbies and past-times and networks that will be the foundation of your identity and your life.

What we're talking about is that vs yet another Zoom call.
But most of Google's biggest projects (with the exception of Youtube) just don't have the network effects you're describing. There's no reason I can't use Bing when my friends use Google, or Protonmail when my friends use Gmail, or Firefox when my friends use Chrome, or an iPhone when my friends use Android.
> the case highlights the need to educate the public on the dangers of using drugs in ways that they are not prescribed.

Over 5,000 people died last year from antidepressant overdoses thanks to the medical establishment. I view people like mushroom guy as heroes who risk their lives to pursue leads and try and save millions while the medical establishment stumbles it's way around, being careful never to stray too far from the bank.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/895959/antidepressant-ov...
If you have BLM flags, you can even commit arson and CNN will cover your back.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/513902-cnn-ridiculed-for-...
Surely a contributor has a Mac, and could take over code signing, and pushing that into your dist or bin directory?

I would think it would definitely be worth putting up an issue, asking if any have a Mac for that reason, especially since you have users actually asking for Mac builds.
Lots of long time republicans don’t recognize their party anymore after the tea party and trump waves of populism washed away their platform and moderates. I don’t meant that to say those who kept voting with it anyways aren’t doing so with their eyes open, just that I feel this transformation is bigger than something engineered by party bigwigs; they are surfing to where the votes are.
Americans love talking about “white” and “race”, but just substitute “irish american” or any ethnicity you want. It still surprising that it’s allowed.
> It is fairly obvious to many now, after the continued scaling of the GPT-x series models, that genuine intelligence is an emergent property of the kind of systems we are building.

I respectfully disagree. GPT-x series models are performing interpolation on an unfathomably massive corpus. It is not hard to find cases where it directly reproduces entire paragraphs from existing text. When given a prompt on a topic for which it finds multiple existing texts with similar degree of matching, such as different articles reporting on the same topic, it is able to blend the content of those articles smoothly.

I mean, GPT-3 is around 6 trillion bits of compressed data. The entire human brain has 0.1 trillion neurons, and it obviously has a capacity far beyond GPT-3 - even in the extreme case if we assume all the neurons in the human brain are used for generating English written text.

In my view GPT-x is very, very far from any kind of general intelligence.
To be fair with the way COVID numbers are going, having an event where people from across the country congregate in one place then go back home is probably a bad idea anyway.
The country is still pretty left, but structural disenfranchisement went full throttle starting in about 2010.
Yet another article that doesn't understand what the Freedom in GPL is about. GPL doesn't give you freedom to use the resources of the project. It doesn't give you freedom to expect gratis work from developers. It doesn't even give you freedom to reuse the name of the project for something else. What it does give you is the freedom to use the given resources as you please, to modify and distribute them however you see fit. The servers of OpenWhisperSystems are not part of these resources, the free time of its developers are not part of these resources.

> One doesn’t need to think hard to see what Merlinspike is advising. He claims democracies suck because of the hardships of human organization and proposes autocracy to manage the world in favour of the helpless people occupying it. Why? Because democracies are inefficient and people don’t want that!

There is a _huge_ difference between a government and a software project: there is a monopoly on the form of government so there can only be one, while a software project can be forked if people disagree with the leadership, and we all know that it has happened many times. The author seems to have discovered that software projects can be run and thrive as authoritarianisms, like Python and Ruby have for so many years: there is one person at the top who has the final word, and they are called BDFL. There are way more projects under this type of management and it works exactly because it is free software: unhappy people can fork the project and propose a new leadership if they want.
If you are not concerned by the actions of big tech in the past week, you are not paying attention, or you are not properly weighing the implications.
Think of how many lives will be saved by limiting attendance at this super spreader event. They should be applauded at mitigating another Coney Barrett reception situation.

The fact that DC officials would allow anyone to visit is irresponsible at best and criminal at worst.
"Answers that are objectively and dangerously wrong."

I don't think anybody reading an Internet discussion has so little time not to add to the downvote: "This part of your comment is horribly wrong, I warn others against doing it."

Actually, I think I would be more convinced to be careful with that sentence than just seeing bunch of downvotes.
Historically there has been an argument in economics over whether markets necessarily tend towards consolidation, and I'm inclined to agree with Stiglitz that they do: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/joseph-stiglitz-are-m...

Especially in markets with strong network effects. Barring government action, operating systems / platforms will necessarily either directly subsume their most profitable applications, or capture all the market "rent" from them.

Ultimately "network shared storage" is a feature rather than a product. For much of their history they were value-added resellers of AWS.
We're talking about entitites that run COBOL code from the 60s and are too afraid to update or replace it, for fear that something break.

There's a reason why most enterprise-oriented systems take inertia quite seriously — it has been something their customers greatly desire who are losing considerable capital on even minor downtime.
Show HN: I created a writing course specifically for HN
Do they check to see if you list your property on a different site and pocket both the reimbursement and separate rental?
Lichess.org actually does have a 5fold repetition rule that applies without players claiming it -- https://lichess.org/faq#threefold

Kind of funny that your hypothetical example was exactly reality in this case.
I use Signal (centralised) and Matrix (federated) as my primary messengers. They both have their pros/cons, but this article is a pretty lazy attempt to paint Signal as some anti-competitive "authoritarianism".

The article has two main points:
1) Signal is a centralised platform
2) Signal has prohibited other projects from using Signal's servers.

Addressing point (2) first since it is the most absurd:
Projects like LibreSignal and Wire attempted to build projects (and in the latter case, a product) using Signal's infrastructure. LibreSignal even was using Signal's name in the product.

Simply put, Signal's servers are Signal's. It's their right to prevent other groups from using its own infrastructure for their own products. It's a matter of (a) legal liability (b) assuring users aren't confusing improperly implemented clients as Signal's own.

Fret not, the Signal server implementation is up on GitHub. Run your own server, assure that you're not using someone else's copyrighted name as your project name, and you're all set! In fact, that's precisely what Wire managed to do.

Addressing point(1), the reason I use Signal AND Matrix is because while I really dig Matrix, it is just many orders of magnitude easier for me to on-board non-technical friends and family on to Signal and Matrix, and that's almost entirely due to it's centralised nature.

What's more, I frankly do trust Signal's crypto (marginally) more than Matrix's. It's not possible to send unencrypted messages on Signal, I've rarely if ever been asked to verify codes, and I know that Signal doesn't store metadata while Matrix does.

Matrix is wonderful, I use it all the time, but it's not a panacea. Same goes for Signal, for which I can't self-host, or run inter-app bridges or bots.

So all that to say, this article was pretty lazy and imho exceptionally unconvincing.
It can be more efficient. It depends on how sophisticated an emulator you are writing and how well the emulated CPU semantics match the host CPU semantics. For a simple emulator of a CPU which is vastly different from the host CPU an FPGA will likely be much faster and lower power consumption, since although FPGAS are generally slower than dedicated silicon but they are really good at simulating arbitrary digital logic very fast, while CPUs are quite poor at it.
https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/features
The Crooked Geometry of Round Trips
This was addressed in the document. The basic answer is AWS doesn't host Twitter(so it's not hypocritical), and Twitter blocked this phrase.
Yeah, at the moment companies are pretty free to refuse service like this, based on their own policies, but I think there’s a decent argument for a legal framework. The biggest tech companies are indeed a core place that communication happens, I believe formalizing what types of content should and shouldn’t be moderated could be a good idea.

This would be very contentious, though. Many, many Americans would be strongly against the government telling private companies how to moderate speech on their platforms. It may even be unconstitutional - would a formal, legal framework represent the government restricting free speech?
Rich Europeans need to stop buying stupid stuff like hotels
"social unrest" is an insurable event. It would be a bit of a legal dance to classify this as such, but it is a thing.

Edit: in fact, the more I think about it, the more I realize it could be the other way around too - the insurers could have told AirBnB to cancel all reservations in DC, because they are unwilling to take the risk. They might have calculated it would be cheaper to pay everyone off upfront for the reservations, than risk much larger liability cases if they go forward with them.
If you enter Mauritius you have to get four tests in total over several weeks. Islands are taking advantage of their isolation to get this pandemic under control.

Madeira has been very successful during all of 2020 with not letting it escalate.
Or are they looking for that one acquisition that (this time!) will fix everything?
If you remove “falsely” your message is stronger. That needless judgement thrown in there is like a slap in the face to anyone who wants to talk about these issues rationally, no matter what they believe.
No, in some European countries he would be considered right or center. In much of the developed world, he’d be considered centrist or left.

Europe != the ethical measuring stick for the rest of the world.
> not a way to remove a competitor

Competitor to what? Amazon isn't particularly relevant in the social media space. (Goodreads and IMDB are the most social sites they run afaik, and that's a bit far fetched)
Very much this. I don't use Dropbox personally. But I have clients that use it extensively and when they all share large files with me I am suddenly in the pay tier just because someone added me to a folder with 100 10 minute videos in it.

It feels an awful lot like double and triple dipping to me.
Agreed - it's not a given. that's the point - the puck /isn't there yet/. But if you were going to pick the next thing after Backbone, Angular and React, Svelte is your best bet.

I picked Linux when everyone used Solaris.

I picked Python when everyone used Perl.

I picked node when everyone used PHP.

I picked virtual DOM frameworks when everyone used Angular and Backbone.

Feeling confident picking Svelte.
Totally agree, I don't have anywhere near as loud a keyboard in the office so only been a problem since working from home.

Easy to forget you're not muted on a call and start typing a reply to something else - not trying to suggest anyone is in the wrong other than myself!
Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation