skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I think is that we now have some de facto tech organizations taking part of the role of international government.

In my mind, international government actually is necessary. But I don't think it is actually going to work as a traditional government and I don't think it's going to work as a set of de facto tech organizations that the governments fight with.

What I think can possibly work is one of Buterin's suggestions: decentralized protocols.

I actually believe that a path for global security, sustainability, and sanity is a "world government" that we evolve through shared decentralized protocols. And that governance including information distribution regulation, to be effective, will need to be tied into money in the form of sophisticated cryptocurrency.

I'm not saying this is easy. Traditionally government has been incredibly bad. But leaving things to private technopolies is just not a solution that can work out for the public good. And it definitely isn't going to integrate with any sort of democratic or other governmental model.

I think the starting point needs to be something like package registries. So the government is just providing a metaframework for sharing protocols and certain guidelines or constraints.
Otherwisee it is too hard to evolve and people get stuck with old ineffective protocols.
2020 was a great year for creator economy
shard972: innocent until proven guilty doesn’t apply in emergencies, e.g. insurgencies, coups, terrorist attacks, ...

But Im sure that if Parler is proven innocent they’ll have recourse
> Yes but the implication is that if you’re censored and asking the government for redress, your speech is abhorrent

That's your reading. Mine is that if the best you can say about a position is "it's not illegal" then you're on shaky ground. I.e. it's legal, but unconvincing. It doesn't mean you should be censored, it just means your position probably lacks merit if you can't mention anything else that's good about it.

> Your literal description of it is a red herring, a typical clever Monroe construction to avoid criticism

At this point I have to ask: you are aware I'm not the author of xkcd, aren't you?
I think the times reported (in a serious article) that China reported the first death on or around that date (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/asia/china-virus-wu...). I certainly recall seeing coverage of it before that although it was very muted.

But just a few days before, the Times is a lot more rosy,
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/health/china-pneumonia-ou...

"There is no evidence that the new virus is readily spread by humans, which would make it particularly dangerous, and it has not been tied to any deaths"

Clearly, between Jan 8 and late Jan, was the time of massive increased interest, so we're not really in disagreement.
Yeah, just today i noticed top-right-corner icons in QMdiArea are an absolute mess in the build I have, they get so tiny then big on cursor hover then tiny again...
Who could have foreseen that choosing to contribute to some of the most, if not the most, intentionally polarizing and toxic technology the world has ever seen may have consequences?

Obviously physical violence in reaction to non-physical action(s) is completely uncalled for. People shouldn’t be afraid to work for Google, Facebook and Twitter for fear of physical retribution. They should be utterly ashamed and embarrassed to though.
Are you using the Nouveau graphics driver? Chrome reliably crashes my machine with Nouveau (though nothing else seems to). After I install NVidia's driver, it's rock solid.

I get far more UI freakouts in Windows.
Peepeth: Code of Conduct (Adapted from a Discourse on Right Speech by Thich Nha
I dunno. "Life, uh, finds a way."
Absolutely! There is a page that describes the airdrop and includes a script to claim it [1]. If you have checked those boxes, it very well does mean you may have some premined somewhere. You could also try Bob [2] as well.

I agree with you! Recent times have shown how much we need the decentralized web than ever before.

[1] https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-airdrop

[2] https://github.com/kyokan/bob-wallet
Sorry but that sounds more like sticking your own head in the sand. Wishing for some people to go away doesn’t it actually make them disappear
C++ is really nice for low-level OOP, and compared with C it adds generics and classes. Compared to Python, C++ is lower-level and can have significant performance gains with a well written program. With regard to Julia, if you write your code in "the right way", it is also compiled and low-level.
That's pretty cool - reminds me about an experiment of improving small fridge efficiency by adding insulation on the sides of the fridge. In the end it worked out favourably for energy efficiency angle.

https://coolfridge.blogspot.com/

I'd be grateful if folks point out more improvements/builds that target off-grid home/office setups.
A Top Car Trading Platform Chooses a Scale-Out Database as a MySQL Alternative
This is like the most vague paragraph Salesforce could have written. “We took action, but we won’t tell you why, or what, or how.”

What’s the point of this press release then? I never knew the RNC used Salesforce prior to now anyways.
Facebook did the right thing here by booting trump off the platform and Mark Zuckerberg’s statement was good.

They didn’t change their policy, the context changed and Zuckerberg said as much.

Wouldn't the illegal state action here be forcing facebook or twitter to keep trump on their site? That seems like a violation of twitter's speech and their first amendment rights. IANAL, but I don't think private companies are forced to provide access - they are allowed ToS and allowed to ban.

FB, Twitter, etc. were bending over backwards to allow speech in violation of their policies because they thought that public access to the speech of elected politicians in rule of law democracies was important. With rule of law in question and direct incitement of violence they've changed tact (clearly within their legal right as I understand it). [0]

There's a quiet irony here that the same ideology that argues it's right for a private business to refuse to bake a cake for a gay couple in violation of a protected characteristic, is okay with forcing a private company to provide service to those aligned with their interests. Inciting insurrection is not a protected characteristic.

The fact employees have to be cautious about wearing the brand is because the faction that carried out the attack is dangerous, not because what Facebook did was wrong.

[0]: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/16/mark-zuckerberg-and-f...
You could also say the same of those working in oil and gas, coal, tobacco, whatever.

As much as we want individuals to be held to accountable, shouldn't it be the leadership of the company AND especially government that are ultimately responsible. They ultimately define the companies/practices existing as they do.
Your equivalency is false. Parler did not make any change of behavior. Amazon knew very well who they were and what they did when they were making 100s of k a month hosting them.

Furthermore it is simply not true that Parler refused to work with Amazon. Parler's policy forbids hate speech and incitement.

What actually happened was, when the mob decided that Parler must go, Amazon gave them little no notice or recourse before shutting them down.
Are you saying rules should be selectively enforced based on class?
I read somewhere recently that CRISPR was actually causing far more accidental mutations than anticipated. Apologies I do not have the source handy, though Google should turn up some information.
> delaying space travel

In the context of space and time in the universe delaying things by a century or two is like delaying something in our life by a blink of an eye.
While I'm happy for the author of this blog, I'm growing a little tired of the "I quit my job" narrative when a side-project is already making $3k (which imo is enough to live off of).

Impressive nonetheless and I found the section on re-aligning the way I live my life to match my goals to be thought-provoking at the very least.
46% of voting Americans are by definition, not extremists. I think it is best if we all try to avoid slippery generalizations between all Trump supporters and the furthest out. It feeds into tribalism, and can skew our own perceptions.
If SV consultants charge more than $225/hr then nobody should hire them. I'm on a team of damn good full-stack developers and the most senior ones (10-15 years) bill out around $150/hr. I guarantee you we're better than most SV consultants at what we do (though we are a small team). I'm in the US, but not SV, so that must make the difference, but people are really stupid to be over-paying by "way more" than 50% for quality that I guarantee is no better than average.
Looks like they used Njalla (https://njal.la) a provider that seems to focus on "privacy aware" domains and virtual private servers hosted in Sweden.

According to their FAQ, when you register a domain name through them, they own the domain but they respect the agreement between them and the customer to let the customer have "full usage rights".

They seem to provide rather fun named name servers. Reads "you can get no info".

dig +short ns solarleaks.net | sort
1-you.njalla.no.
2-can.njalla.in.
3-get.njalla.fo.

They accept a bunch* of cryptocurrencies and then PayPal.

[*]: "Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero, ZCash, DASH, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum"
I disagree with the conclusion of the article. Using this logic, one could say that you shouldn't speak about long term projects during voice call meetings. I agree that the quality of conversation drops when speaking over chat, but I would also say that communication increases. In my opinion, the increased communication more than makes up for the decline of message quality. I also feel that the author of this article is focused on Slack and Teams. Teams or a poorly implemented slack group can feel very disorganized, so I can see how the author came to the conclusion that they did.

I disagree with the notion that "live chat is for the things that can get lost." If the chat platform you're using has advance search features, announcement channels, and message pinning you can easily find information you're looking for and, in my personal experience, this is usually faster than searching through emails. Despite their major privacy concerns, Discord has an amazing search implementation that I wish more developers would take inspiration from.

Perhaps my view is influenced in part by my young age and by the culture of the company I work for, but I've always felt that people around me waste valuable time formulating emails to try to capture all edge cases of the reply. And usually this doesn't work, so multiple follow up emails over the course of an hour or even multiple hours are needed for something that could have been solved over text chat in mere minutes.
A whole central point of Parler was that they don't surveil and analyze their users. From reading that letter it seems like that is the problem AWS had with them. AWS wanted them to violate their principles of not surveilling users by introducing automated moderation bots.

I would guess AWS had a solid point that without it there's no way Parler could keep up with the moderation, but without knowing more details about what Parler was planning, it's hard to know.

Perhaps Parler had an interesting plan to crowd source moderation? Sites like Stack Overflow and Hacker News do that sort of thing with some success (augmented by real moderators). I have no idea if that's what they were thinking of, but it's an interesting thought.
No, they always knew the 500x valuation was BS. It's pretty much like they said, it was a defensive acquisition to prevent the data from going to any of their closest competitors. Visa had no idea what it was going to do with the data, but just wanted to keep it out of everyone else's reach.
I regret to inform you that you are wrong about Section 230[0].

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
In business, the customer is getting value from the economies of scale of the business, while the business collects their margin to further grow those economies of scale. If the customer is reducing the value for other customers, then they are breaking the virtuous cycle of the business. This is unstable and will result in either the customer or the business being hurt. If the business is hurt, all of its customers are hurt to some degree because the cost will be passed onto them. This is a matter of consumer protection. Bad actors who reduce the value of other customers should not be tolerated. Simply sharing vendors with Parler had costs for other companies and reduced the value from doing business with the vendor.
Why hardware startups are hard and how you can make it easier
A business that is impossible to get into without the "blessing" of the industry its in is the very dangerous circumstance that monopoly and cartel control of an industry creates. Glenn got the summary of the problem correct without getting the details right.

If Parler's business were illegal, the government could step in and shut them down and the service providers wouldn't need to do anything at all.

The other poster below you was quite right in that the US government is using its monopoly on force (and the threat of it) to effectively bully the service providers into denying them service. Illegal or otherwise (the judiciary/military version of "fuck around and find out"). Ideologically they just happen to be more than willing censors here.
Black tape. I have it on multiple items in front of me right now. It fixes annoying blue lights as well as logos, and black tape on black plastic is almost invisible.

For my laptop I use metallic tape as that was one of the few where the light would not shine through it. It also look quite natural on it.
> It would change everything!

Really? How? What is one aspect of life that would change for anyone not in the space exploration industry?
I think starting with a language with static typing would be better. With Python or Javascript you still need to know how the types work otherwise you can run into unexpected "defined behavior". Something like Golang makes a fair compromise between C and Python: it is statically typed, compiled, and has a garbage collector.
You're using ridicule in order to avoid addressing my point. I'm uninterested in engaging you in those terms, particularly since I was polite in my reply to you. Your snarky reply failed to address anything of importance.

You pretty much ignored my reply, did a silly search & replace (ignoring HN's guidelines of assuming good faith and replying to the best possible interpretation) and decided to feel clever about it. Thanks, but no thanks.

> Who are you responding to?

Not you in that particular sentence, but user bonoboTP and others in this thread.
Hangul and Indian scripts are both independent of Aramaic in that they don’t share letters, but presumably Indian scripts were influenced by the idea of alphabets (since the Aramaic karoshti script also was used in India) and Hangul was influenced by how Indic scripts work (though the letter forms are different)
It's very possible there were several and nobody noticed them, or nobody attributed them correctly.

There are also the Spectre and Meltdown attacks which exploited Intel cpu pipeline bugs regardless of the OS running on them.
You get an upvote just for the sheer brashness of that comment! :D
My job as a production-side journalist (sub-editing [UK term], copy-editing [US term]) used to rely on "reading in" before any shift. This meant looking at any relevant global/national/regional newspapers/magazines available - and the newsroom would have the ones that you didn't already have delivered at home.

In the mid- to late-90s and beyond, much news could be accessed online; I moved from print to online work in late-1994 at a UK newspaper group.

It was not such an upheaval for those of us who worked in news. Our dumb terminals working from mainframes had, way before my move in 1994, provided us with news "wires" from agencies - news wholesalers that provided our retail news outlets with content we could not have covered for ourselves: AP (in the US), AFP (France) PA (from the UK), AAP (from Australia and thereabouts), and Reuters (from pretty much everywhere), and a host of other agencies from elsewhere.

So, for (ahem) quite a few years, I have accessed news from all over the world, as it has been reported by media outfits (agencies) with more people on the ground than, say, retail media outlets - news brands.

Because of that, when I check news in the morning and throughout the day, I will go first to AP, AFP, Reuters, PA etc before checking their customers: The Guardian, the Times (NY and London), CNN and all the rest. Yes, some retail outlets (and I'd include the BBC in that) still have quite a few reporters on the ground, but the numbers dwindle every year.

Agencies - the wholesalers - have no axe to grind when reporting news. Their customers might be Fox at one end, and The Guardian at the other. Agencies tend to report straight down the middle; their customers spin the facts that they receive from the agencies by leaving out bits, reordering the content, supplementing that content by soliciting quotes from parties with an axe to grind etc. (This was my job, back in the day, to render news that made people feel good about their own view of life; to sell them their own prejudices.) You can still pretty much rely on agency copy to be straight.

You asked, "If you don't user social media, how do you get your news/updates?"

I would ask you, if you do use social media, how do you get your news? How do you know what news is?

It is still worth going to the closest thing you have to an original source; this is usually an agency - if it seems reliable. It is, of course, also worth looking around to check other sources - but make sure that they are primary sources.

The uncomfortable thing is that news will not come to you unbidden (so, via social media channels) without an agenda; if you want news without an agenda, you must look for it, which involves work/effort. If it arrives in your feed, it will be there because of an algorithm, which is blind and dumb, but always exploitative of you as a product.
Rather well for the Batman, using any underlying type of transport technology/protocol like 802.11s, RSN-IBSS, wired links!, etc.

These days, batman is absolutely painless to setup in Debian and OpenWRT, and works great. (Only caveat is, that this excludes Intel Wifi because they support neither 802.11s nor RSN-IBSS for total meshing.)
Sounds like ‘repair the police’ would be more apt then
Sorry dang.

Should I just flag posts when people are pushing misinformation? It feels wrong to call in an authority to delete their post instead of dealing with it directly, but it seems like directly confronting people leads to the above.
Private mode should not be detectable at all. It serves no purpose to the user if sites can detect and block its usage.
When emulating x86 Apple translates the x86 code into ARM code, so it is executed later at almost native speeds.

Only for programs that depend heavily on just-in-time compilation for Java, JavaScript etc. Apple must fall-back to interpretation of the x86 instructions, being then much slower.

Also the outperforming of AMD/Intel has been somewhat exaggerated. Apple M1 is faster in single-thread than any old Intel or AMD, but it is slower than any new Zen 3 CPU and it will be slower than the top models of Intel Tiger Lake H and Intel Rocket Lake. In multi-thread M1 is easily beaten by many processors.

On Christmas I have upgraded the CPU in one of my computers with a Ryzen 9 5900X, so I could verify that in the single-thread benchmarks that I could run on my computer, the values matched those published elsewhere for Zen 3 and they also exceeded the highest of the values published for Apple M1, by e.g. from 3% to 4% in Geekbench 5, until 24% in gmpbench.
The Obama AG killed Aaron Swartz.
A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries [video]
Interesting, because I went on there after the attack and found nothing of which you speak. I found no plans for attacks, calls to violence, or anything else. There were a few links to pro-Trump news articles, but that was about the most “right” thing I saw on there.
when you subscribe, you then get sent everything.

1. Killfiles

2. Contextually-scoped lists. If a topic is of limited concern yet intrusive, split it to a separate list. Moderation and management may be necessary. Technical teams should be scoped correspondingly. 100+ team members is excessive, 3-15 far more typical.
You don't have to influence any of California, which is essentially a 1-party state for statewide elections.

California hasn't elected a Republican to the US Senate in 32+ years.
The media gave him his reach, so ideally FB would de-platform the media and repair their feed back to being mostly about friends and family.

Introducing news was a disaster.
RobustIRC: IRC Without Netsplits
That’s a bit like saying that taxes aren’t necessary because rich people might donate the occasional library.
VAIO argue that they design great cooling system (with TruePerformance brand) so their laptop with lower TDP CPU performs better than other manufacturer's higher TDP laptop with crap cooling. It looks interesting because it's also portable, but it's expensive due to VAIO's selling scale.
> The productive parts of the country need to unlearn helplessness

Thats so reductive. the "productive" parts of the country are completely dependent on the "unproductive" ones for anything that isnt software or finance.
The Democratization of Censorship (2016)
Agreed. Ownership would be way too confusing to start out with.
> People want the Network, and in our era it so happens that's the Internet (previously it was the Public Switched Telephone Network, and before that the Universal Postal Union).

You're absolutely right in that it changes.

> Historically most attempted revolutions fail.

Yet, my statement still stands: Historically, revolutions happen all the time. Risk of failure is not a reason not to proceed. As they say, "give me liberty or give me death!"

> ICANN's control of the DNS root is by consent

I agree with you completely. Let's see for how much longer the people will consent to their rule vs a democratic rule by the commons!
This is true.

In a strong 2-party democracy voting against one party looks equivalent to voting for another, even though the intention is not.
Photographs (and videos) of wind turbine blade transportation
On the other hand, they know exactly what the uploader claims the files are. If they don't take the files down and these turn out to be real, they could be held responsible.
I'd like to see Dynamic Relational implemented to have something in-between "architecture-less" and familiar RDBMS conventions. It's close enough to existing RDBMS to reduce the learning curve, and can be incrementally "locked down" via added constraints and types (via formatting constraints). It tweaks the RDBMS/SQL wheel just enough to get dynamism, NOT reinvent the wheel.

It would be great for prototyping and rush-jobs. For example, a lot of orgs needed to get Covid-related employee illness, notification tracking, and/or vaccination tracking up and running ASAP. Something like DR would make it easy.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66385/dynamic-database-s...
I get downvoted all the time, I never threaten violence over it. It may sting the ego a bit but come on man, it is just internet points.
Modern CI/CD pipeline for front end projects
The tree of liberty remark was not a quotation. They were quite explicit in their violent intentions.
Non-classical photosynthesis by earth's inorganic semiconducting minerals
what makes Russia the world's number one urban warfare country?
Finding life on another planet, even just single celled organisms, would help with the study of biogenesis, which is one of the greatest mysteries of biology.