skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
16GB RAM limit on a few years old portable machine is came from LPDDR3's max capacity. Intel CPU only supports LPDDR3 as low power memory until Ice Lake supports LPDDR4. Apple previously adopted LPDDR3 for MBP15 but they finally changed to DDR4 to increase capacity with sacrifying battery life a bit.
Okay Dr. Grant, I'm pretty sure the velociraptors didn't have an advanced civilization...
This source is particularly biased for obvious reasons. Legally speaking there are a lot of open questions surrounding NPVIC and anyone claiming anything at this point should be looked at with a heavy dose of skepticism. There are good arguments on both sides but they're not dispositive.
The most common criticism I'm aware of is that it leaks information about your system and its users. For example, you can gauge growth by how fast ids grow, and relative age of accounts. The former is potentially financially valuable. Often the latter is exposed properly through the UI, but the that can be a choice, rather than exposed due to an implementation detail. There are likely other criticisms as well.
Common carriers are a tiny minority of businesses. Plenty of other exception exist too, but they are exceptions. Because the default is that businesses do reserve the right to refuse service.
> On the other hand, do we really want a handful of unelected billionaires deciding what is acceptable speech

Billionaires like the Mercer family, who fund Parler?

You're on a site run as part of the outreach for a VC firm where the owners are best buds with Peter Theil, Facebook board member, early Trump backer, a billionaire who literally hunted for a chance to sue a news organization out of existence because he didn't like a story they wrote about him; a site where a large number of the companies they fund and people who comment are intimately involved with AdTech and/or social media.

And you're only now noticing that billionaires have an unreasonable sway on discourse?

You didn't notice that not only does Rupert Murdoch own print press, book publishing, an TV all over the English-speaking world? You didn't notice the Mercer family also setting up Cambridge Analytica and being principal backers of Brexit?
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> I considered him a respected journalist, but this article doesn't seem like it's either balanced or fact-checked

Having started a media outlet but given someone else the Editor in Chief job because he was more interested in being a reporter and didn't want editorial responsibility, he rage-quit to substack on his own because he also didn't like anyone else exercising editorial oversight of his work.

It almost seems like the practice of having someone detached from the work of writing a piece that is responsible for assuring balance, fact-checking, etc., is addressed serves a purpose...
Is that during a whole stint in the ISS for example, or the mainly stressful parts during ascent and descent?
What happened to innocent till proven guilty?
Google Glass should have been made as Goggles, design-wise it would have been a smashing success if they dared to do it.

edit: they had that mobile app called that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Goggles
> it cripples users for years before they can figure out what's actually going on under the hood.

it doesn't - python hides the unimportant aspect of the computer; namely, it abstracts the memory allocation and resource process. You treat the computer, under python, as an abstract machine which has unlimited memory, and don't worry about its use. you focus on algorithmic understanding and fundamental data structures.

Once you grasped the computer science fundamentals, then you tear open the box and learn the underlying impl. of a computer - such as memory allocation, and assembly, etc (ostensibly, by making your own operating system using C, and/or writing a compiler using C).

you can replace python with haskell, which imho, does an even better job as a first language.
It's OK to say "I'm sorry you didn't get your payday" and "your company's exploitation of my data sucks big time" to the same person.
> You'll have to come up with a more sensible criticism of icons than "pictography is 5000 years old" :-)

I have on HN several times. To sum up:

1. dictionary is impossible

2. cannot keyboard it. forget about typewriters

3. impracticality of using pictures to represent verbs, adjectives, etc., anything but nouns with visual manifestations. (not that people don't try)

4. no past tense, no future tense

5. there are a million English words. Imagine a million icons. (You can't.)

6. copyright law means everyone invents their own unique icons

7. the overwhelming number of icons need a cheat sheet, because the picture isn't obvious

8. the graphic for icons tends to get simplified over the years (where have we seen that before?)

9. takes more paper to write the same text

10. slow to draw them by hand

11. hopelessness of OCR

12. takes years longer to learn than an alphabet

To sum up, please repost your comment using icons only.
I used to be a fan of Greenwald, but after seeing his failure to condemn the Rs (and Russia), got very disillusioned.

Also, he is propagating lies:

https://twitter.com/evanchill/status/1349097133186707457?s=2...
Didn't I just say testing wasn't reliable then, because it was very new? So it wasn't a long time ago. Reliable tests weren't available en masse until maybe summer, and even then not in all countries/areas.
The difference, when it comes to civil engineers and building bridges, is we as a society have recognized their expertise and made it illegal to build a bridge except as designed by a civil engineer.

A more apt analogy, in my opinion, to the day to day realities of managing production applications and infrastructure is the regulation surrounding the maintenance of certified aircraft. There are minimum competency standards that are enforced by law, it is unlawful in almost all circumstances for a non-certified person to perform any maintenance or repair on a certified aircraft, and, crucially, an aircraft cannot return to service unless a certified mechanic signs off on the repair. Not the CEO of the company that owns the airplane, not some middle manager, only the expert (mechanic and, sometimes, inspector) can sign off on returning the plane to service.

Without that kind of legal cover, management can and will steamroll over anybody who is impeding their initiative of the day.
A source for the claims presented in the parent post; that Parler was mainly used/intended for awful things.
Mozilla brings its VPN to Mac and Linux
damn, here's me clicking More on Hacker New.. and this comment was 12 hours ago.

I think I'm going to start noticing these everywhere now...

Have to give some kudos to iOS 14, letting me hide all the apps so I no longer need to individually adjust their notification settings so I don't see that incrementing notification number!
When advertising revenue is involved less revenue does not mean poor. Look at how much money google and facebook have to waste!
> It is significantly less powerful than LittleSnitch

To make it no-less powerfull somebody has to invest time and expertise into extending the kernel for it - AFAIK LittleSnitch works this way on MacOS.
Instead of attacking the people who support it, why not make a counter argument?

I think a city vote is a person, just like a rural vote is a person and do not see why a rural vote is worth more than a city vote.
Cell phones totally make money, at least for Samsung. Samsung just released 2020 3Q earnings. Mobile division revenue 30B and profit 4B, >10% margin.
There were open calls for revolution on Twitter. I reported them to Twitter, friends, and the capitol police the weekend before.
That’s not what you said. You said you would punch them.
that was before the 2018 ruling this was back in 2012, I remember Craigslist sued someone for scraping under CFAA.

Thanks to EFF, this scummy tactic used to kill Aaron Swartz is no more.
>The issue to me is that people view free-speech-as-moral-principle often as a binary choice. It's either "you allow all speech or it's immoral"

I disagree with this argument not because I disagree with your conclusion, but because the issue is much, much darker.

It's not that folks are claiming "you must allow all speech," it's that they're saying "your free speech rights aren't as important as mine. As such, you should be forced to host/amplify my speech even if you don't want to do so."

That's not advocating for free speech, that's demanding that some folks' free speech rights be limited in favor of those of others.

And that's not only wrong, it's hypocritical and morally reprehensible.
Hamilton said:

"But a representative democracy, where the right of election is well secured and regulated & the exercise of the legislative, executive and judiciary authorities, is vested in select persons, chosen really and not nominally by the people, will in my opinion be most likely to be happy, regular and durable."

Is there any evidence that countries or US states which allow referendums have worse political environments than those which forbid them? Also, how many countries and states that allow referendums have fallen down the slippery slope from there to "full democracy" and whatever disaster you picture at the bottom of that slope?
no it's not. The language _requires_ those incantations, but to explain it all to a beginner requires a lot of time and effort which, to the student, doesn't look like any payoff (until they have internalized it completely, and understands their meaning).

It's the same as human learning natural languages - you have specific grammar and rules you _just_ follow, without understanding their etymology or how it evolved to be this way (and their uses).
Auto-incrementing ids makes guessing subsequent or previous items trivial. There was a post here a few weeks ago about it -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244872
> He was widely mocked and his theory totally rejected by - and it really isn't hyperbole to say this - every single geologist.

It is hyperbole. It is accurate to say the geological establishment was solidly against Wegener, but it was far from the case that all geologists were against Wegener; he had quite a few supporters (and even more in adjacent scientific communities such as meteorology and climatology). In fact it was a contemporary geologist supporter of the day (the oft-underappreciated Arthur Holmes) that eventually would supply the missing piece of the puzzle, namely the mechanism by which continents would drift.

In general I've never really liked the simplified story of continental drift that gets passed around because it ignores the really big stumbling block that Wegener was never able to get around which is that while he was very diligent about noticing similarities between continents he kept proposing wildly impractical mechanisms (e.g. tidal forces) that had implausible empirical predictions (Wegener's estimate of continental drift speed was eventually found to be off by several orders of magnitude). It implicitly peddles the story that Wegener's theory was essentially in complete agreement with empirical observations, but was just blindly rejected by the scientific establishment, which is not true in this case. (There are other more plausible cases where this has happened, but they are usually a tad more subtle.)

That is while Wegener's observations were first rate, his theory was deeply flawed, and not just in the way that "all theories are wrong" flawed; it had deep flaws that directly impacted its ability to make useful empirical predictions in the realm it claimed to be applicable. He proposed continental drift but never discovered plate tectonics.

Regardless, even though Wegener had an incomplete theory, his preponderance of other evidence is what kept his theory alive and eventually led to the acceptance of continental drift with the rise of plate tectonics in the 50s and 60s.
Analogies are fun, but here's a better one. What do you think would happen if you bombed to rubble a mosque that for the most part is frequented by regular people but occasionally is visited by terrorists? For the sake of fairness let's assume you first gave the mosque 24 hours to put in a place a system that you are confident will prevent any terrorist from coming through the door.
You might be right about that. To be honest, there's enough people beating on the right that I'm sure they will end up abandoning what's made them unpopular. They may even split, who knows.

I end up focusing on the left because right now, no one is paying attention to the fact that there's a back and forth war going on here between extremists that is cultural in nature. I happen to be closer to the left in politics, though I don't ascribe to the culture. Who fights this war online is the idealogues, who fights it in the streets are normal people. It's disconcerting.

It's tiring to see, hence I even bother to say anything about it. That said, my energy is just about up. If this country wants to tear each other apart, have at it.
The Hypercore/DAT protocol guide is top notch:

https://datprotocol.github.io/how-dat-works/
Having an AST that maps (nearly?) 1:1 to the source code is important for debug info and doing proper error messages, so doing this at the AST and writing it back out is going to be much easier to test (prove, even).

The "source"-level rewriting tool is going to build some kind of code and data structure that... parses and performs semantic analysis of the code.

Also, if x-x gets turned into zero by the parser just scrap the project and bring out the firing squad.
So what sort of return would someone buying this expect?
Have you ever been on Parler? I had never heard of it until the left decided to cancel it and it made news. So I went there a couple of days ago, and saw nothing of which you speak. Certainly nothing that would equate it to an “Antifa social media network”.

Speaking of Antifa...if Parler is equivalent to it...it’s bit hypocritical that they still have a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/antifaintl?s=21
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Astronomers observe the death of a distant galaxy for the first time – CBS News
The Smalltalk-72 emulator is particularly fascinating. Both to be seeing what they had accomplished 48 years ago, and to think that they've got a decent emulation of it running in the browser.

Haven't actually made it very far in, just due to learning curve. So many UI conventions that we take for granted nowadays but that didn't exist at the dawn of the GUI. Typing \ rather than pressing the return key to evaluate expressions on the REPL, for example.
From looking at the tour slides, a list of threads in the current chatroom (which Zulip calls "topics") does seem nice. I have often wished I could get Slack's all-new-thread-messages view filtered by channel.
>in late January

what I said:

>In fact a year ago, exactly

Key word is exactly, as in Jan 12, 2020.
Saying something like “Refresh the tree of liberty” or “hang the traitors” etc. still doesn’t rise to the level of illegal speech or an imminent call to violence which is the standard under the law. In fact, if you were to claim language like that crosses the line we would have to pull books off library shelves because the same language has been used repeatedly by politicians in American History. I’ve also seen similar language used in reference to Trunp like “He will get what’s coming to him if he comes to our city” etc.

It’s distasteful but it’s legal and part of our political culture.
Greenwald is unrecognizable from the Snowden era. It’s like a dementia victim morphing into a completely different person. Very sad to see him like this. The Hunter Biden article fiasco is embarrassing for him, and this makes it appear he is just doubling down in tabloid garbage right-leaning-for-attention nonsense.
I suppose one could argue your scary example has already occurred. I believe stripe cut off Donald Trump [1]. As a non-American, I don't really care about Trump and may be a bit ignorant here, but I find the big tech companies cutting him off under "inciting violence" a bit of a stretch. To me, it's actually extra scary to cut off a politician's fundraising for disagreeing with their "politics".

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-stops-processing-payment...
ICC hypothetically could've been used
Old fashioned news papers...
70,000 people banned today
You’ve mentioned Section 2339a multiple times in various threads. I think you may fundamentally misunderstand the necessary elements of the charge.

Specifically I would point you to a legal analysis of this particular section [1] which includes the following;

> Under the provisions of 18 U.S.C. 2, anyone who counsels, procures, aids, or abets a violation of Section 2339A or any other federal crime is punishable as though he had committed the offense himself. It is understood that “[i]n order to aid and abet another to commit a crime it is necessary that a defendant in some sort associate himself with the venture, that he participate in it as in something that he wishes to bring about, [and] that he seek by his action to make it succeed.”

As I believe is made clear in this analysis, providing hosting services to a social network that includes discussions about storming the capital in no way implicates either the hosting provider or the social network under 18 USC 2339A.

[1] - https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a530624.pdf
There are classes of failures that are so difficult to diagnose that an automated tool with a 5% success rate is still super useful because of the time savings (hence the reason for log analysis tools). That being said usually the log content is insufficient for these classes of problems where context of the symptom is just as important and the logs can sometimes be useless.
Mark acknowledging his brand is now toxic to both the left and the right and not a moment too soon. Love it.
I love the fact he linked to a hackernoon article. Thanks!
Buying a .net domain with a cryptocurrency I presume? Anyone know what service they'd use for this?
Yeah, at this rate I'm honestly waiting for the day that I, a staunch democrat, will get a letter from my bank, accountant etc that I'm being banned for white supremacy solely because I'm a bald skinny white guy. And being white / bald is enough to be considered a white supremacist - I went bald at 19 and it wasn't a choice. The gall of this fucking country is unbelievable - this is why we can't have nice things.

And it goes without saying, racists and racial supremacists have no place in modern society!
It's tempting to think that it's concern trolling by fascists, really. No interest in whether Google wants to get rid of a high-profile AI ethicist, because hey, it's a private company. No interest in Facebook censoring breastfeeding groups because OMG NIPPLE. No interest in, as you say, making it impossible for legal sex work to operate. No complaints that Apple forbid R18 material in the app store years ago because Steve Jobs didn't like it.

Now, suddenly, it's a great big issue because a bunch of neo-Nazis got run out of town? Not a great look, eh.
A lot of college/university course work is openly available on the internet. This includes syllabi, textbooks, class notes, tutorials, homework assignments and solutions.

If one wants to learn, for example, algorithms, one does not need to do this in a self-directed manner. Several learning paths already exist. If one is having trouble grasping a specific topic, sites like Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Khan Academy, and YouTube exist for one to ask questions on. I have had many issues cleared up by reading through previously asked questions, including seeing the person who a theorem is named after answer the question. Is it quicker to ask a teacher a question? Yes, of course. What will lead to longer lasting learning? For me, it's figuring it out on my own.

Eventually, one will come to a point where there is no longer an answer key, a teacher to guide you, or a well-worn path to follow, what happens then? People need to learn on the job all the time. Learning how to formulate a question, find the resources to help answer that question, and determine if what you have found answers the question are all key skills people need to learn. It helps to do this in a structured setting, but can be learned through the internet.

If self-directed means some people are not good at working without deadlines, then they can form a habit. Set aside time and work through some of the above material.

Cal Newport has put out many articles, blog posts, books, and now a podcast on how to learn and be a good student. I'm sure there are many other resources, including the soft-question tags on some of the previously mentioned websites. Old "Ask HN" posts are also a phenomenal resource. So, I think those who are not good at learning on their own really do have a tremendous amount of resources out there. Will some people even after using all of the resources still fail to learn, I'm sure some will. I think many people, myself included, aren't putting in enough effort to really find their limits, or to discover a process that works for them. Yes, for some people they can figure it out, others will have guidance from teachers, friends, or family, but for others many resources exist to learn the process on their own. At the end of the day, it's easier to go on Tik Tok than it is to crack a textbook and grind problems.
I'd much rather see a super majority of Congress choose a prime minister at this point.
I'm always amazed that the top-tier security firms use... Linux. And the Militaries of the world use Windows (like come on). You'd think there would be some crazy million-dollar-per-license impenetrable operating system out there. The race to the bottom is palpable.
> Syllabaries and logographies are no less "advanced" than alphabets.

They're certainly much more complicated. But more advanced? That's not clear to me.
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Al Queda Media has issued a statement in support of Parler, wishing them success in their campaign to destroy the United States.
"People have just beat a cop to death on the capitol steps, shots have been fired in the capitol building, and the secret service has escorted everyone in the line of succession to a secure location."

"We'd better wait for true experts to determine if this situation is serious."
very cool view on my checkered history of failed and abandoned personal projects lol. nice to have it confirmed they're not still costing me money though!

one question. I have a couple projects on Amplify that don't pop up on my Vantage dashboard. Is it just a subset of AWS services that are included?
He did post it on Twitter but that's OK as long as they really switch in the near future.
You're a bit too quick to jump to that conclusion so firmly.

There are other cases. Does you company have internal tools exposed via the intranet? If you happen to know the URI scheme, from say an ex-employee, you're able to exfiltrate information if you get a current employee on VPN to open your page. This becomes a tool in a layered attack. Sure it's careless to have such anonymous endpoint on your intranet. But there's a reason why anonymous images can't be plainly read back.
That's not a good thing