skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SF Chronicle charts are just really well done. For example this page I find to be the most useful one for California-centric coronavirus information: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/coronavirus-map/
According to Gen. Milley he was unaware of what he was walking into: https://text.npr.org/875019346
It still puzzles me to this day why developers are happy to develop for Apple products. If the red tape alone doesn't make it a deal breaker the % cut certainly should.
This doesn't make sense to me. Insurance in a collective risk pooling scheme. How do they take a cut when they are the ones paying out?
Vaping is, I think, fairly harmful. But it is absolutely clear that the government should step in and say no to these companies who are in the business of deciding which other companies are allowed to exist.
in parlers lawsuit they state that they deleted every post AWS brought to their attention on top of other posts they moderate. If you read their policy pre-DC riots you'll see they very clearly have content moderation strategy explicitly talked about in both the ToS and the linked community guidelines. It was simply not their marketing talking about it a lot for obvious reasons.

As far as I can tell there's zero evidence that moderation didn't happen with anything that was reported.
They should have taken out twitter as Trump used Twitter to organize the protest. Taking out a platform not even directly involved in the incident is hilarious to me.
Related.

The military has a hate group problem. But it doesn't know how bad it's gotten.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/11/military-right-wing...
Yes, incredible to read this. My family left Bangladesh when it was being run by a military government. We are so fortunate to have the military we do.

Its not an idea or a principle or a law. It’s culture. It’s a norm
that has been socialized into members of the military, especially the leadership, for hundreds of years. I live in Annapolis now by the Naval Academy and it’s quite a joy to see each new cohort of naval officers carry on the tradition.
No evidence has every been shown. It is easy to site a lot of people parroting the idea that it came from Russia, but aside from some vague connections, there is 0 hard evidence. If you were an Israeli, Iranian, Chinese, etc... hacker, you would obviously tunnel through servers in foreign countries that were easy scapegoats. So even if there was actual evidence (which there isn't) it still wouldn't mean anything unless it could be tracked back to an originating IP and connected to an individual with a motive and without an alibi.

The benefits of blaming things on Russia for certain political parties are obvious, but those politicians and media members continue to make claims while never presenting any evidence, so you really have to ask yourself what is more likely to be true; A bunch of vapid politicians self benefitting claims without evidence, or the far more obvious possibility that a group of techie people from some random country hacked an easy target for money.

Occam's razor say it is the later.
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Well yes, that's what "polarizing" means, that everything is pushed towards one of two groups, rather than being allowed to be anything in the middle. That's why it seems to me that Rogan is not polarizing, because his opinions don't strictly belong to one of the two groups.
I agree about the freedom of contract, and assume that the terms of service likely included the right of the provider to cancel the service and terminate the contract at any time, without giving any reasons.

The problem I see that everyone sees e.g. Parler as so toxic that they expect their reputation to increase, on average, for kicking them away. It's the low tolerance to dissent and the high social opinion pressure what is troubling, not the action.
Agreed. I worked for (very large company) distributing a mac app outside the app store. Other than the distribution + update benefits (and a couple entitlements) you get from the app store, the freedom you get by living outside the sandbox outweighs it IMO.
> "things got so bad".

We had an assault on the Capitol. What could be possibly worse?
Are there any example Hypercore websites? I had a look around but couldn't actually find many to test out in Beaker.
That the worlds foremost democratic power, one that project and lectures the world on the principles of democracy and rule of law, has to have this done is astounding itself.

Obama's warnings were so spot on. He foresaw the assault on institutions and warned that ideas carried by the Republican party and supported by them will tear the country apart.

And it happened in less than 4 years of trump rule.

Make no mistake, the country is torn apart for sure. Radical and in-human ideas have caught on and will become mainstream. The republic is on the road to crash and burn because the rot is spreading into regular public discourse, and so far, the democrats are losing.

It will not be long before a charismatic one, with deep seated ideas, sugar coated with good intentions will take power and slowly work the system from within.

Heck, trump did it overtly, and Republicans are still defending him.

To put it raw, the republicans are defending the idea that violent seditious insurrection activities and storming of the capitol do not warrant a strong punishment.

Its a sad coming decade for America, and the rest of the world.
I mean sure. But that was true under any administration with that many enlisted and career service people [as evidenced by base shootings, for example].

Bush directly caused more damage sending troops into Iraq for example. Did the JC make a fuss after that debacle?

The other is a conspiracy that is neatly attributed to DJT as if he ordered people into the Capitol. (We're attributing intent) We don't have to presume intent on Bush's part, history informs us not with attributions or guesses, but with evidence.
But his main point is that free speech is curtailed unevenly, which isn't false.

You just feel betrayed that he went from criticism government to criticizing corporate, and to calling out the double standards in the culture that protect liberals, and punish conservatives, which as a "tolerant centrist" you should be against.

Instead you call him a gimp while it's your attitude that sounds like unapologetic hypocrisy feverishly licking the boots of whoever you're no longer allowed to criticize... As George Carlin (i think) said, that tells you who's in charge and what they fear. I'm sure they thank you for supporting their cause.
By comparison, Australia has done 12.1 million tests [1] for a population of 25.4 m people.

[1] https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/coronavirus...
I'm the child of indian immigrants. My parents adored trump in 2016, I was meh because all my friends told me he was a white supremacist. I thought my parents had gone mad. But then I saw that nothing my friends claimed actually came true and in fact trump governed like any other republican but way better because he didn't exclude people due to culture war issues and he didn't warmonger and brought peace.

But what really redpilled me was the impeachment farce where he literally was impeached for investigating his predecessor for crimes we now know occurred. That sends a very chilling message.
Because Donald Trump is unambiguously the commander-in-chief until either Biden takes office on Jan 20 at noon or he is removed from office. Until that time, Trump can issue military orders that do not abet the peaceful transition of power.

This move matters, because it is important that members of the armed forces be able to distinguish between lawful orders, which they must obey, even if they do not like them, and unlawful orders, which they must not obey.
I can finally put a face to the voice!

Nice to see money going in. Khan Academy has been very useful to me and I expect will continue to be a good resource.
>If the private company is "so powerful the government needs to step in" then it should be through breaking up a monopoly.

I definitely agree that the government does need to break up some large tech companies. But I don't agree that that should be the only form of regulation. I think the government should regulate technology companies in several ways. Here are some no brainers:

ISPs - Net neutrality required. No data caps allowed.
Device manufacturers - Right to repair. Can't lock down the device the way that gaming consoles and mobile phones (and TVs, etc...) often do.
Cloud providers - Greater privacy protections like they have in Europe.

>There are literally THOUSANDS of other hosting providers out there.

You're glossing over the other infrastructure examples I named. We're talking about a cumulative effect here. It makes me uncomfortable that key parts of the internet's infrastructure are controlled by private companies with little to no regulation on what they can do. And I feel like it's getting worse every year.

>So don't buy an iPhone? Buy any number of android phones

Not everybody gets to choose what phone they have. Maybe they got their phone handed down to them or donated to them and can't afford to buy a new one. For a lot of people, their phone might be their only computer. Also, vaping was just one example. Apple routinely blocks apps and only backpedals if the app creator has enough clout. They tried to do it with the open source blogging platform WordPress a few months ago.

If there were regulation in place that Apple could maintain their own app store, but couldn't block or make it difficult for regular users to install other apps then nobody to choose. Same thing with like a gaming console - buy a gaming console and you could install Linux and use it as a general purpose machine without having to break some encryption scheme.

It's clear that maintaining an operating system/platform is an expensive endeavor - and maybe it just isn't feasible for more than those two operating systems to exist. That's where regulation comes in. There need to be ground rules especially when the barrier to competition is so high.

>Parler isn't a protected class, vaping isn't a protected class, nobody should be forced to do business with them if they don't want to.

So companies should be able to do whatever they want as long as they're not discriminatory/racist about it?
I think that's a terrible standard. Actually, it's not even a standard at all as it can't be known until after an act, such as these, has begun taking place in which case it is too late. Unless something is known to everyone in advance to be "protest theater", so to speak, it is the act not an unknowable reaction that must be held to account.
To me, the electoral college is the resolution of the whole alleged fraud thing. The electoral voters are the judges. The electoral voters are actually able to vote against how their state voted; they might get voted out for doing so, and in some states they will face legal consequences afterward, but their vote still stands. So even if you think there was a fraud, if you couldn't convince your electoral voter, then that's it.

Well, at least that's how it goes in most states. Looking it up: "In 14 states, votes contrary to the pledge are voided and the respective electors are replaced". I guess one could see exactly which states those are, and calculate the possible effects... it would be nice if the above paragraph applied to all of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector#Faithless_el...
I distinctly remember my childhood when someone once told me that the U.S. civil war was “not about slavery” and how damn good it felt to think that everybody else had it wrong and that I was so smart for my contrarian views.

It does feel good to be an elitist contrarian, but being reality-based is better.
I'm not super concerned about losing money on a hobby project :P hard limit 1grand let it ride.
The idea behind the fines is to get compliance and not to destroy the company.
Yes, I am almost totally apathetic after being forced to sacrifice myself to protect the very same class/group of people who when they were younger, voted for and made the policies that got us into the messes we are in today (climate change, unaffordable homes/land, wars, etc.) for their own benefit. I'm glad Boomer Joe and Mary got to live their last few years together, but also a bit miffed that I and many of my generation have no future to speak of.
There were concerns about some elements of what you're talking about with some WW2 generals. For example, MacArthur was at one point considered too popular for it to be politically feasible to fire him, after his insubordination during the Korean War.

In general, I suspect this change stems from a few things. One is that generals do not lead soldiers into combat as directly any more. Another is that soldiers no longer stand to personally profit from combat or war -- there is no taking of booty, raping and pillaging are at the very least heavily frowned upon, etc. And another thing is that combat actions are less frequent these days, so any given soldier has a shorter sequence of experiences and victories with a given commander.

But I'm not an expert historian. These are just some guesses.
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The lawsuit parler filed states they deleted every piece of content (and more) that AWS brought to their attention. Moderation is hard.
I'm curious what you don't like about Prisma?

I like Active Record + Arel (from Rails) a lot, and have found Knex relatively unpleasant in comparison, offhand Prisma has looked more pleasant/usable to me...
Actions did line with words dude.
There are politics of the normal sort, then there re politics of the sort that transcend the normal. If for example, Trump declared war on China, I for one would hope that HN would put up a discussion thread so that smarter than average individuals meet to discuss important issues.
Yes, you're right, this is only the ID, you'd need to get the actual key off a keyserver.
You can hope for this, but polls show a large group of Americans listened to the years of obviously false information topped off by the recent months of "election fraud" disinformation, and ended up believing the batshit old guys. It would be nice if things worked out rationally, but that's not a guarantee.
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It’s the same reason you don’t have to pay a bribe to have a phone line installed. American culture and socialization.
You answered your own question. Yes, it _is_ that messages are private vs public. Telco has no concept of public. Everything is direct communication. Similarly, you can talk to as many people as you want on twitter in DMs about doing illegal things, and if none of them report you, you won't be cancelled. (I cant confirm whether or not this will trigger a law enforcement investigation or not though). This is why so many spammers user forms of Direct communication. Because the spam ads/posts/etc are usually moderated into oblivion.
When JFK died, did Johnson not increment the count? That’s what I’m saying here. No one can be 100% sure Trump will be alive next week.
The surface of the moon is similar an autoclave. The little buggers won’t get far.
The number incremented when Ford took over when Nixon resigned. Why do you think it would not increment if Pence took over the remainder of Trump’s term?
I really don't think you need to bring DJT into this. There are clearly and unambiguously some active-duty people who seem to be unclear about where their duty lies, and this is an unambiguous statement to them about where the military expects them to be.
It's a land of contradictions. Always has been, unfortunately.
The USG3P can do gigabit (I get very close to gigabit speeds in internet speed tests - ~950/950) but I can’t use IPS/IDS without severe performance penalties. It basically becomes a fancy router with little in the way of actual “security” besides its basic firewall functionality.

I am aware of the UDM Pro and USG Pro but those things are expensive 1U monsters. Maybe fine for SMB use but this is for home use and I’m very space constrained.

If Ubiquiti made a small footprint security gateway with some modern hardware (the USG3P is some 8 years old at this point!) I’d buy it in an instant.
I know this post is only an hour old, but (in light of the article content) I found it amusing that there are no comments.
I have a hard time believing you read it.

The letter is a message to those in uniform reminding them that they are to protect to constitution. Considering the police, military and ex-military involved in the Capitol violence it seems reasonable.
The OP very specifically stated that this didn't happen in the 90s. Facebook and Twitter didn't exist in the 90s, Geocities and MySpace did. Thus why the examples are from that era.
thanks (I was not trying to misrepresent what he said)
Parler sues Amazon, claims antitrust violation and breach of contract
Eh, even C supports clean templated type safe containers:

https://www.github.com/glouw/ctl

Why Go is so far behind is behind me
I'm surprised there isn't a startup solving this. Cross-platform Sparkle for updates (probably written in Rust), payment processing, DRM. Maybe even some sort of App Store-like thing for discoverability.

I'm also kinda surprised how desktop app development is not not quite as "hip" as mobile. I'm guessing it's due to the relatively difficulty compared with mobile.
Gab is now the 647th most popular website in the US, explosive 90 day growth
> The electoral voters are actually able to vote against how their state voted

They’re actually not. Thanks to a (trump era) SCOTUS ruling, EC votes are now fully regulated by the states.
This isn't just about "other companies" though - that's what is so crazy to me about this. We've reached a point where the idea of creating and providing software is almost exclusively thought of through the lens of capitalism. That's so dystopian.

I notice it in other areas too like verbiage such as "business logic" or "product owners"
TypeORM is no longer maintained in a frequency that gave us enough confidence about the future.

See this discussion
https://www.reddit.com/r/graphql/comments/duecak/comment/f77...
I drive a semi truck. I find I can drive more miles if I drive to the shipper and receiver simultaneously. But it really screws up my Google maps timeline.
I’m so confused. About 8 years ago there seemed to be consensus that global warming had “paused”.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metoffi...

Now, it looks like it hasn’t? So basically what we though the average temperature each year was wrong and this new data is right?
Direct Deposit. Soldiers aren't paid by their commanders. The US had an problem early on when man wanted a commission he would be responsible for raising and outfitting his unit. The troops were very loyal to their commanders as they paid their wages, provided the gear and supplies they would need. There were cases of commanders disserting and their entire unit would leave having no other source of funds. The federal government eventually started paying the promised wages.
> how many countries and states that allow referendums have fallen down the slippery slope from there to "full democracy"

A joke, right?

I can’t speak for all states, but the last midterms in FL alone had 10 referendums, some of which changed the state forever in big ways, constitutional amendments, etc. (e.g., allowing felons to vote, permanent tax changes, etc.).

If you think that doesn’t represent a low enough bottom of that slippery slope, you’re out of your fucking mind.
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This is pretty cool. How does the storage format work? Would I be able to download storage chunks from s3 and somehow recover my files from chunks?
> It only has one level threading but that might actually be a good thing because we slack with non tech people too. One thread is sometimes hard for them to grasp. Make that a regular threading model and they will utterly get lost

Off topic, but this astounds me.

Not trying to be elitist (I'm genuinely curious), but what is it about threads that throws them off?

They seem unrelated to software. I would have thought "non-tech" people would also understand them.
I unfortunately am not able to find the source. Basically, there were provisions for resigning vs. impeachment. Nixon resigned before impeachment.

Trying to scour wikipedia over this. I'll comment here if I find the source.
I don’t get where’re you’re coming from pinning this all on Trump & Republicans. He’s a symptom of the complete bed-shitting incompetence of Democrats.

Hillary Clinton pioneered the idea of blaming election fraud on loss and illegitimate elections.
That’s a good point. Tho, community access is increasing faster than personal access, especially at schools!
What difference does it make? As of writing, he will be the 46th.
TL;DR: data about us being collected, saved and published by social media makes us all more risk-averse when it comes to expressing our opinions online.

I tend to agree. I have a twitter account and I try to never get into political discussions there, because I know that expressing the "wrong" opinion could cost me my job, as it has others. Even expressing something that I view as positive and encouraging could be misinterpreted. I feel like around 2000-2005, there wasn't so much pressure to be politically correct. People could discuss ideas more freely. That being said, I was younger too, and less risk-averse.

That being said, I also remember that in the early YouTube days, comment threads were completely filled with hate. There were people posting messages like "you're ugly, you should kill yourself" constantly. You'd look at these people's accounts and you saw all the comments they posted. There were trolls who would just run around and post hate comments, particularly on LGBT videos. I really wished that someone would delete these accounts and all their associated comments, but YouTube did absolutely nothing about it for years. It was pretty depressing.
The military, like the police is a different beast, in America or otherwise.

The troops are conditioned to follow orders. That is why, the troops are always gauged and defended on the basis of the orders and their faithful execution of the orders, no matter how horrific they are. Troops are punished for not following orders.

Those in the administrative side of the army, they are punished for orders and decisions.

So, to subvert the military, you don't have to control the whole of it, just the leadership.

In the present case of America, the military is under the full command of trump. He holds all power and that power is absolute.

Unfortunately, he is a fascist moron with dreams of authoritarian rule.

These statements from the military are essentially telling him, the military will take a decision when push comes to shove, and that decision by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be on the understanding of law, and their oath to the constitution, even though they are bound to follow the orders of the president
It's not that simple.

A president can't just say "invade Cuba!" and it gets done in Today's world (maybe it was the case in the 1800s). Advisors and the Military (and Congress) have to concur that it's within reason do do such a thing.
It was actually the day Silicon Valley realized Parler was a platform for recruiting, planning, and executing a violent insurrection to end democracy in the US that they all ran in the opposite direction.

Perhaps these companies are all secretly happy for the excuse, but there’s no question they did the right thing in this case.

The president and his supporters are unrepentant, proud of their successes, and will do more if they can.