skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you making the argument that there are coordinated, yet distributed, Antifa cells spread across America that pose a greater or equal threat then:

1) the mob that stormed the capitol building with threats to kill and kidnap US congressmen, senators, and the VP?

2) the several dozen Michigan militia members currently indicted for attempting to kidnap the governor of Michigan

3) the texas commuters who attempted to steer the Biden/Harris campaign bus off the highway
The truth for me is simpler ... this article, unlike most of the other news I've seen the last two weeks made me smile when I imaged them being freed by the crash. Re-hydration may not be so simple but thanks to the FOTON-M3 mission we do know that live tardigrades can also survive in space. Thriving and reproducing are pretty unlikely though.
I've always wondered how effective this sort of info security is. Could a state actor track down there sorts of operations, or can infosec be good enough to really leave no trace?
In what way could AWS possibly be a monopoly? They definitely don't have a monopoly on retail sales. They don't have a monopoly on cloud either.

Now are they competitive? Maybe, but that's not the same thing as being a monopoly.
> GCC does not require a C++ compiler to build it
> GCC front-ends are very mature and already support C++. clang's support for C++ is nowhere near what GCC supports.

These things were true when Apple first went with Clang, and this document must date from that time.

GCC is now implemented in C++, and Clang’s C++ support is excellent. The only issue I have with my c++17 code in Clang is I can’t yet rely on recursive template parameter pack deduction.
I'd like to believe it is plausible that no one on earth knows the effects of big tech and will not for another 20 years.

I dont have an opinion on pumping the brakes of an entire industry, and if I was trained to have one, I still might not want to share it.

But I am always very eager to hear what people inside the industry have to share.
Plants consume CO2 and ‘exhale’ oxygen. They don’t consume it.
OSSing a major decades old codebase is a huge undertaking and it's hard to see how it would drive additional Windows or even MSFT revenue at this point.

They do share source code if you're big enough that the revenue matters to them: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/
The massive cope working for the CIA's weaponized sex app (according to ABC News) is real.
Pandemic+unknown disease status is proof of danger.

You can argue that isn't a high enough standard, but it's a pretty clear one, and given the exponential spread, it's a real actual danger that can be controlled at the point of entry.
So does javascript. It's just that js is too mainstream, and a lot more practical.
While I disagree with XKCD's (and let me note, with many here on HN; I believe I first read this argument that only states can interfere with free speech defended by HN'ers) narrowing down of the concept of free speech to "only counts as censorship if the government does it" -- and it actually warms my heart that you and many others agree with me that corporate censorship is censorship, and even more important than state censorship -- I disagree that Randall Munroe is against free speech.

I think the issue is complex, but probably related to its sister concept of tolerance and with "the paradox of tolerance" [1]:

> "The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance."

It's perfectly reasonable to believe Randall Munroe supports free speech and at the same time believes someone spewing hateful vitriol can be kicked out of whatever private venue by the owners/administrators of said venue. In order for you to believe this, you simply must accept that Randall is using a different, possibly more legalistic version of "free speech" than you. Again, you cannot claim he is against free speech because he thinks corporate censorship is ok -- first, he doesn't exactly defend corporate censorship in his comic, and second, you're begging the question! You are claiming "corporate censorship" is against free speech, which is not a foregone conclusion and is exactly what is being debated.

Finally, the whole "this is because Randall Munroe is a leftie and, like all lefties, is against free speech" angle only serves to inflame the debate with name calling. Anyone going for this "like all lefties" is not interested in honest debate at all.

I feel weird having to point all this out because I, in fact, think corporate censorship is against free speech -- my concept, not what whatever amendment says -- and in this day and age, it's even worse than state censorship.
Doing it on purpose vs via black/grey market trickery is often treated as separate matters. Even if the legal mode is still full of moral issues that society has yet to fully confront.

Phishing people's bank credentials has been fully established as a computer crime (not even just bad within civil law).
The incoming regime will push for it, no doubt.
It appears the current CF stack is not valid JSON file:

$ http https://vantage-public.s3.amazonaws.com/x-account-role-creat... | jq '.'
parse error: Expected another key-value pair at line 420, column 17

(Haven't tried to execute it with CF)
The tariff imposing party always feels justified in their actions and can tell themselves this is “leveling the playing field”.

How does the counter-party nation feel about the tariffs imposed on their exports?

You’re right to bring in why existing tariffs exist, there’s always a reason, but when fairness is the cited reason, what you are really talking about is a retaliatory tariff. “Fairness” is the rhetorical justification when people ask why the fancy cheese is more expensive than it used to be; “our cheese is worse” and “it costs them less to make it” are just harder sells.
It was a catastrophic failure by the infosec engineers involved. (And by extension, their / our common processes.) Sure - the bridge metaphor doesn't fully land because a collapsed bridge is visible immediately. But the security failure is worse because of how long it took to become visible.

I think the people defending the engineers involved have a mistaken idea of what the responsibility of the security team is. Their job description is not "follow industry best practices" or "look for signs of a break in using their tools". Their job is to keep their company and customer's data secure. At this job they failed.

I probably would have failed too, so I have some sympathy for everyone involved. There's an open question of how we engineer our systems to make sure this never happens again. But none of that changes the fact on the ground that the security teams involved failed their responsibility to their businesses.
We don’t even know if this will work so I wouldn’t feel too bad.
I understand that. Not disputing that. But that is an entirely different (as in not the same) thing than being the source of the violent/illegal threats or incitement.

The comment I was responding to was misleading IMHO ("the speech Parler is being kicked off AWS for").

As you point out, they aren't being kicked off "for speech" they are being kicked off for insufficient moderation of someone else's speech, which speaks to the difficulties of being an at-scale content provider.
> FedInstant

for the uninitiated:

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/index....

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/what-i...
A thoughtful article, and sobering in its tone - given that The Register is often flippant where flippancy is due. The focused and sombre writing here speaks volumes. To me, this stood out:

This leap between diametrically opposed positions in just a few short days has sounded its own warning alarm. It has exposed the extraordinary power that Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon possess, and the fact that that power lies in the hands of a very small number of execs guided by no more than their current state of mind.
Technical Interviews at ReadMe
They'd make 6.2.0 a public FOSS release and not release 6.2.1, they'll make 6.3.0 a public FOSS release.
Reminds me of the "steve jobs effect" at certain points. CEOs and execs purposely being arseholes because greatness. Newton was a bastard. Steve was an ass. Prince was unbearable. If I act like a bastard...
$1 from 1000 people is equal to $20 from 50. If the project is widely used, I think the first model makes a lot of sense to encourage giving and to make a sustainable project.

This maybe unrelated, but something people should give some thought to when considering giving to open source projects. I give yearly to the projects I use, and I hope more people support open source this way.
Of course it has a right to exist, just like the rest of the internet that's not on Apple/Google/Amazon
Yes! Most developed countries regulate them as regional monopolies anyways.
You get more dopamine if its only good 10% or less randomly
>So how do we guard against this type of attack?

Only allow restricted CI servers to build and deploy production code.

Whitelisted list of software and security monitoring for CI servers so malicious software is harder to install.

Whitelisted list of software that developer machines can run (ie: no arbitrary third party code). Restricted docker containers for all local testing. There's a reason various companies do not give developers admin access to their machines.

edit: This or related concepts (SDLC, audit logs reviewed weekly, security team sign offs on system changes, etc.) are in my experience pretty standard in large enterprise security reviews for vendors that were high risk. The issue is that everyone probably lies and doesn't actually do any of these things even if they say they do. The incentives are set up to certify vendors rather than fail them.
Heads up: I'm unable to email pluto+support@cyaneous.com (the email listed for support.) I'm happy to follow up via email (heh) for troubleshooting.
It’s definitely troublesome. Racist memes may not be illegal but they are hugely damaging to a multi ethnic society.
>Doesn’t work so well when automation and cheaper labor from other places in the world are taking away the economic growth, and simultaneously people are having 0, 1, or at most 2 kids.

I think you are misunderstanding something. It works just fine. The problem is that there are these "waste" humans that nobody knows what to do with.

There is also a glaring flaw in your comment. Automation increases economic growth. If a single worker is 10 times more productive he can ask for 10 times the salary. A lot of low income jobs pay badly precisely because there is not enough automation to turn them into productive high income jobs.

Ok, back to the waste humans. The default answer to a surplus with no buyers is to just let the wealthy hand out a loan so that those with no possessions can buy the surplus and use it productively and earn money. For obvious reasons interest rates are down to 0% so this is not a viable strategy. However in principle it works the same with automation. Humans with zero net worth cannot work because robots are doing their job can instead borrow robots and use those robots productively. Debt is just a way to convince people to work today so that their productive output doesn't get lost.

The borrowing strategy works out if there is enough demand for the robot labor, but what if there is no demand at all? You can just create demand out of thin air. Let the government print money and use it to buy consumer goods and services or let the government invest into domestic jobs that would otherwise not be done. Again, it's just a trick to make people work today so that their productive output doesn't get lost. The benefit from working is higher than letting the money sit around.

Why? Because that's the policy. 2% inflation is a target. Your money gets increasingly less valuable so you cannot sit on it. You will have to do something with it. If you put your money in gold you are doing so with the expectation that society as a whole is doing productive work. If you put your money into stocks you are doing so with the expectation that this individual company is doing productive work. Yes, these assets are inflation proof, but only because someone is actually working. If everyone put their money into gold the assets would just become worthless eventually because society as a whole is not doing productive work.

If CPI inflation is driving asset inflation then you simply cannot sit around and do nothing. Unfortunately the Fed is driving asset inflation directly and completely skipping over CPI inflation. At that point the system is built on circular logic without any connection to productive work. Capitalism without the capitalism.
No, not superoptimization. When I say "state-of-the-art", I meant "up-to-date techniques currently practiced in the industry", not theoretically optimal. For example, "state-of-the-art" cryptography is TLS v1.3, AES-GCM, or the Signal protocol, while a theoretically optimal one might be an "one-time pad" (or superoptimization in your example).

In other words, "We all know standard compilers are slow. Does it mean that for a compiler to reach ICC/GCC/clang's -O2 performance in benchmarks require inherently expensive optimizations? Or is it simply that ICC/GCC/clang's optimizes are poorly implemented in terms of compile performance?"
It kind of does: https://public-inbox.org/README.html
It's used for LKML (and many other lists) archives: https://lore.kernel.org/lists.html

(but it's read-only, there's no rebasing, people still use old-school e-mail clients)
Yea, we really should stop saying things like the government “requires” or “orders” something, if at the end of the day it’s not being enforced. No US state [EDIT except maybe Hawaii?] seems to have any kind of actually enforced public health rules around COVID besides business closures, where enforcement is spotty at best.
in my experience sequence diagrams tend to betray the challenges of distributed computing.
Yes, awhile back my bank account was decoupled from Venmo for reasons unknown. I unwittingly used Plaid to sign into my bank account instead of the usual wait a couple days procedure. No indication whatsoever - only found out because I saw an article, probably on here, about this company and their basically fraudulent practices.
It's honestly not that surprising, keeping the difference between their fork and upstream minimal makes it easier for them, so for things that they don't consider to be their 'secret sauce' it's easier to have the community involved in maintaining it (and everybody ends up winning).
If they are asking the state to enforce any contracts/agreements then that is very much consistent with a laissez-faire stance.

The 'Freedom of Speech'-line of reasoning is invalid in a laissez-faire context, though it _is_ however an argument I'd expect to bee seen as valid by several large crowds between the political extremes.
Indeed. It most certainly won’t be $20. If it permanently “cured” someone of MS they could charge hundreds of thousands and insurance companies would gladly pay it.
At the end of the day everything is a judgement call. In this case I believe you're an outlier, guidelines are usually structured for the general case. Should you specifically treat every cold like it could be COVID? Maybe not, but should somebody else who gets sick only 1-3 times a year treat every cold like it could be COVID? That seems a lot more reasonable.

Not to mention it is wise and courteous to stay home and avoid exposing yourself to lots of people when you are sick regardless of if its COVID or not.
Component by component, it would look like. And it makes sense to replace components with tried and tested open-source solutions to reduce internal maintenance burden for components with low visibility/profitability.

When was the last you heard somebody say: "I bought windows (server) because of the print subsystem"? I could see them adopting CUPS, for example. That way in 10 years they can stop maintaining theirs when current versions EOL.

But for "intimate areas" that may take time, or may never happen. Or they move into the hardware. So I remain skeptical wrt a 100% auditable (modern) tech-stack.

In the case of the browser-engine I wish though, that they had not picked webkit. What were the reasons against Gecko? Not "embedable" enough?
While this differs in form, it doesn't seem to differ in substance.

"a Parler executive told me that of the thirteen people arrested as of Monday for the breach at the Capitol, none appear to be active users of Parler."

So Greenwald reports that there were 13 people, a number small enough to stretch credulity, and they all happen to be inactive. The thrust of this statement, that it was a handful of inactive accounts is functionally the same as saying that there weren't any Parler users involved in the insurrection.

13 inactive accounts vs no accounts has little meaningful difference in meaning.
Netherlands here, I routinely get them back within 8 hours after taking the swab. At work (hospital), we can get them within an hour if it's urgent.
I can't agree that it has a right to exist but absolutely people who want it to exist have the right to work to make that happen. Just as others have the right not to participate.
You might say it really "took you on"!
Are you familiar enough with AWS contracts in general, and possibly the Parler contract specifically, to know they breached the contract? (Honest question, as you may be an employee of Parler, for example. HN is an interesting place).

I ask because contracts typically, despite their duration, contain a variety of exit clauses. In this case, Amazon could argue they were exercising a "compliance with laws" clause (if it was in the agreement) such as,

"<Licensee> will not use, or allow its products to be used, in violation of any laws or regulations."

It becomes a legal argument as to whether Parler's members that advocated violence against the government caused Parler to violate the clause, and whether that amounts to a material breach that triggers contract termination.

That is very different than a blanket statement that Amazon "breached that contract and bowed to the mob." In fact, Amazon can sue Parler for breaching the agreement and exposing Amazon to significant liability for (at the most extreme) aiding and abetting terrorism.

Note that I'm not arguing either way, simply stating what lawyers are likely discussing behind the scenes.
> Did you read the article and the phrasing of his comment? This appeared to be during the initial peaceful protest;

Article:

> he sent the original message because he wanted to warn people to be careful: *The mob rampaging* through the US Capitol
I know right, Freedom is scary we must have Authoritarian control over our lives... For your own safety if not we may get it our heads we are autonomous individuals and not part of the borg
> Actually yours is the predominant view of those on the left

Actually it is the predominant view, left and right.
Except in this specific case, where the right doesn't like it.

> We are seeing the beginnings of a country of ~300 million people being cracked in two, on a much deeper level than has ever happened before.

The Civil War may beg to differ. The real issue is that we've never reconciled the divergent view point from that war. Race is still the largest dividing factor in this country and this incident was about race (and ego) more than anything else.
So why do they push for generic options instead of the newest and greatest drugs.
Teams is built by boomers, for boomers
It is probably 99% true. You can occasionally find a company that is proud that they made their users happy. Notch with Minecraft might be an example of that.

If you listen to VCs talk it is 100% about exit price.
Presumably whatever food people provide with the water.
What's your definition of proletariat?

The Wikipedia one (which I am not saying is correct, but is the first one I can find) mentions "..oppressed by capitalism, forced to accept meager wages" and "..who owned little or no property".

250k/year for L4 (out of college + 2 years average) isn't "meager wages" anywhere in the world, objectively.

My criticism is that this doesn't seem to be about showing solidarity and getting a better deal and working conditions, rather it's primarily about enforcing their environmental and state political ideology over the rest of the company. I would never object to a group of people who want me to work more efficiently and get a better financial deal.

Call me whatever you like, but I don't want to suddenly find beef off the cafeteria menu, be forced to pay extra for parking because I am not driving an electrical car (or because I am driving at all instead of biking) or be told my project is cancelled because it helps the democratically elected US government and that I have to donate from paycheck to entities I disagree with to help them in goals that hurt me at a personal level because the media that they follow managed to portray them in a positive way.

I really don't know who "the rest of us" you mean are, that they want to show their solidarity to, so I can't comment on that part. Did you mean they like to show solidarity to software engineers in other companies? Because I don't know how would they do that given their current direction.

Whatever little freedom we have left should be cherished at all cost because once we lose it, it won't ever come back.
We know that if you called the BLM protests communist cause the organization is founded by vocally avowed communists, you'd face backlash too.

People are histrionic and pearl-clutching morons, it's just a part of the zeitgeist.

No, we did not go through Pearl-freaking-Harbor or 9/11 at the Capitol; the Capitol had machine guns mounted on the steps in the 60s and was bombed twice by the far-left Weather Underground.

Last summer during the protests many more people died and I heard no one saying "this must end now, what an unimaginably dark event" after the first 5 people died in politically-motivated indefensible, and wanton bloodshed.
No, literally look at the CDC links I provided. It says "Estimated COVID-19 Infections, Symptomatic Illnesses, and Hospitalizations—United States" - 91 million

The key is estimated. Most covid cases go unreported.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
You're really going to group Prince with Newton and Jobs though? lol
1) Antitrust accusations include participating in anti-competitive behavior, which may or may not be with a company who has as a monopoly.

2) Antitrust accusations are relatively low cost to make and sometimes used as cheap political tools to score points with a base, despite not having a chance to go anywhere.