skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not necessarily going for rock-bottom prices; I wouldn't necessarily trust a $15 2x10G NIC to have good consistency/stability or thermal management, among other concerns.

That said I think there's a market for boards between that $15 mark and the $200 I'd have to pay for something considerably higher-end.
The voting system was audited, repeatedly. Biden even gained votes because the auditing system discovered that some votes weren't being counted. It was brought to multiple courts repeatedly and the only thing done was that elector witnesses were allowed to be slightly closer to the people counting.
I was about to buy a Lenovo laptop recently, having nearly always had Dell before. Looked into on-site warranty options, found very little information, emailed them to get details and got no response. People online seemed to be saying they could only be purchased as warranty extensions and are expensive.

So I got another Dell Latitude. Refurb, i7, last model with expandable RAM. 5 YEARS of on-site warranty (which I've used numerous times and been very happy with in the UK/EU).

I also ordered some other kit from Lenovo, unfortunately they filled in a customs form wrong and UPS returned it to sender immediately. That was 3 weeks ago, they seem to have lost it.
You have to quantify "relatively rare". Its closest relatives of high genetic match do not have this furin site, as they admit in the paper you linked to, only the sister clade does:

"Moreover, SARS-CoV-2 is the only virus in subgenus Sarbecovirus having this feature, while even its closest relatives, bat coronavirus RaTG13 (sequence identity 97.7%) and pangolin coronaviruses (92.9%–90.7%), do not have furin site. However, in Hibecovirus, the sister clade of Sarbecovirus, a Hipposideros bat coronavirus collected in 2013 at Zhejiang Province in China has furin site at S1/S2. Interestingly, the other member in Hibecovirus lacks such site, similar to the situation of SARS-CoV-2 and its close relatives. Interestingly, the other member in Hibecovirus lacks such site, similar to the situation of SARS-CoV-2 and its close relatives. "

Notice they don't publish the genetic match of the sister clade. Howe exactly does it jump clade when its closest relatives don't have the site?

This is what they point out in the podcast. Can it occur naturally, yes, but what are the chances if its closest relatives do not have it at all and none in the same clade? What exactly is the mechanism that this can occure? Its not just the furin site, they also discuss 4 other amino acid chains present that expanded its infectiousness. If this was a relatively chance combination of bat and pangolin incubated mutation that someone also gained the furin site and 4 other amino chains, why has it not flamed out like past jumps such as MERS which had the same? Pretty fortunate for a new mutation.

>>The lab theory requires not only a lab leak but the active suppression of the sequence(s) of the viral isolate(s) used in the hypothetical gain-of-function experiment.

Agreed, and although I don't necessarily think highly of the sources (Daily Mail), there does appear to be suppression of evidence even recently:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9129681/New-cover-f...

I believe Bret's podcast also talks about a database that was also taken down shortly after the outbreak from the Wuhan lab that may contain the sequence of the virus SARS Cov 2, which is standard practice for engineered viruses for study. I've also heard that there were samples destroyed in China during the early outbreak. If they were truly transparent they would release all records and backups of their databases going back a year or 2 before the outbreak to prove no such sequencing took place. So far I have not seen that. Keep in mind that all these level 4 labs globally are at risk of being shut down if any of this gets proved. They become political hot potatoes. If the public became fully aware (as in the laymen on the street knew) that multiple companies exist that can print any virus DNA sequence for $30,000 USD, and one of them escaped, they would likely be horrified.

I do agree that this can arise naturally, but the confluence of rare events arising a couple blocks from a level 4 lab studying exactly this gives me pause.
If it was the megaphone that was the main problem then simply removing the engagement metric aspect should solve it. Reddit tried that when they stopped listing controversial subreddits from the main page and stopped giving new members recommendations to go there.
As someone who makes a boatload of money in large part because tech companies are not regulated, I have to say - it's time to regulate large platforms like utilities. You cannot cut someone's power because they broadcast a death threat from their house. All you can do is sue (if that). It should be the same with oligopolistic cloud and social media platforms, since "breaking them up" doesn't really seem workable.
I'm with you. I care about free speech. I care about the implications of censorship. But I'm also just tired of it all. If (for example) banning Trump from Twitter means we stop having entire articles and public radio pieces devoted to talking about them... it's hard for me to fight that.
Hyperoptic is amazing. I cannot recommend them enough. The only annoying thing about them is that not even a dynamic IPv4 is included in the price.
LTS = Long Term Support

It means that a specific qt version will get support for a "long" time. Support can mean direct customer support but it also can mean that e.g. security & bug fixes get back-ported (if someone with LTS support runs into them). It also can mean that proprietary extensions e.g. payments systems support the version of the software longer.

The reason why to use LTS is because you don't want frequently port your software a newer major version of the library/framework does not only cost you but in case you highly customized the library/framework or depend on a lot of very specific behaviour might go from costly to monetary unfeasible. (I mean consider you havily depend on a feature dropped in the new major version.)

As such if you sell software/hardware with software and you need to support it long enough because your customer expects it it always is a good idea to see if there is a LTS version which has as long or longer support then you need to provide.

Oh and due to longer usage LTS versions tends become less and less buggy over time as bugs are fixed but (view) new bugs are introduced as no new features are added and not parts are rewritten (beside bug fixes).
That’s a very simplistic view, and false reductionism.

You take no efforts to understand their grievances, hear them out, so their problems never get solved.

By reducing people to simple labels, it might be able to deal with them in your own mind with a reduced cognitive load, but this leads to further alienation and eventually full breakdown of coexistence.

These people are here. They have problems with how things are run. Deny them the soap box and you push them to the ammo box. I hope I never see this in my beloved country.
From the Signal Foundations's Wikipedia page [0], Acton's "donation" of $50M was more of a 0% interest loan, that has now been increased to $104M and due to be repaid in 2068.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation
Isn't it a 15% tax on aircraft parts (the 25% tax is on wine)? The first sentence of the article is "The United States is, from today, levying a 15% duty on imported aircraft parts coming from France and Germany."
The rules were changed months in advance. Due to this, suing only after a loss was heavily disfavored by the courts.
I do not know if Twitter uses AWS now but it looks like they will be, I believe that Parler mentioned it in the lawsuit it filed.

'Amazon.com Inc.'s AMZN, Amazon Web Services announced Tuesday that Twitter Inc. would be using its cloud services to support its delivery of users' timeliness.'

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/aws-says-twitter-will-use-...
Once I had a well-paying job, inverting this was the best thing I did for myself financially: setting up a 50% direct deposit to a high yield savings account (and eventually investing) and only considering the remainder spendable for my day-to-day expenses.
Thanks for the code!
Just installed it, runs pretty smooth so far.

Quick feedback:

- the popup to allow notification did not come (after manually allowing it works)

- the name seems a bit weird, I guess the Mc comes from Mac?

- I would prefer to have a setting that filters pipelines that are triggered by me only

- you can open the preferences window unlimited times

- a bit weird that it requires write access but I guess that's a problem of GitLabs permission management

Otherwise it looks really nice :)

I have been using a VS Code Plugin until now but having push notifications is really nice as I now can go through the sidebar notifications and have a list of all pipelines and can work through them instead of having only the latest in my IDE status bar
No rules were changed right before the election, except perhaps by Trump who tried to rail against mail-in voting and destroyed the USPS in the process.

This talking point - that mail-in votes were somehow less secure than previously - is such a post-hoc rationalization it makes me sick
>worse without it

Why do you think so?
This is a false equivalence. The clearest reason is that zero of these cases resulted in sedition. This argument is distracting, it is classic whataboutism. In no way is it the case that moderating the app stores and shutting down access to Parler or the President's Tweets equivalent to condoning Clinton's or Jackson-Lee's or Sander's actions. I recommend that you look at this particular case and draw your conclusions about it without complaining about the failure to respond the same way to very different situations from other people years prior.
Which seems in this context just like a card blanche to blame anything whatsoever on Trump. As long as he didn't explicitly called for violence, I don't see how he "incited" anything.

By that logic you could never criticize anything, because it could make people angry and they could do bad things in return. And of course that is what many people want, to rule and be completely shielded from criticism.
The French VAT is 20% on all alcohols. It doesn't make a difference between wine and beer.
CEO of Namebase here. We posted the original tweet announcing the news[1]. If any of y'all have questions about how sci-hub.hns works or how Handshake works in general I'll be online today to chat!

[1] https://twitter.com/NamebaseHQ/status/1348707701744922625?s=...
> Free speech is meant to be nearly absolute and protect unpopular opinions.

You're missing a part in this line that's very important, it should be "nearly absolute and protect unpopular opinions from the government."
Nowhere did Linus say that AVX512 being a power sink is an unavoidable consequence and should be dropped for that reason. He just said "AVX512 sucks right now - they should spend their resources elsewhere because the ROI isn't there". When he made that statement he was factually correct - Intel had spent a lot of resources bringing AVX512 to market, the first version is shit (making correct selection of turning on AVX512 support tricky), & they had to spend even more correcting it.

If you had said 10 years ago "ARM sucks because it's in order" you wouldn't be factually wrong on that front in that in-order sucks for performance, but you would be factually wrong because the first iPhone was already partially out-of-order and 10 years ago you'd be looking at the iPhone 4 which was a Cortex-A8 superscalar design. Also in-order is fantastic for battery - that's why M4 & below are still in-order. Note that me saying this doesn't imply that will remain the case for all time, which is how you seem to be interpreting statements like that which would be an extremely poor interpretation on the part of the reader.
for me, libertarianism is a cancer. that doesnt make me a communist, and I am definitely not. but hyper-individualism is a literal poison to society.
same 500 error for me
Is Parler content, or a service? If the former, then taking it down seems reasonable. If the latter, horrifying.

Of course it's both, like all social media.

The content is horrible now, but it's quite possible -- likely even -- that it would have broadened quite a bit. It was a likely home not just for political extremists, but also quite acceptable content that's being deplatformed elsewhere, like firearms-related content.
Show HN: Vantage – An alternative AWS console focused on developer experience
How does this help the conversation? Are you engaging me in good faith?
If not, why?
Apple M1 has togglable TSO with ACTLR_EL1, not sequential consistency.

You also don't run as TSO by default, has to be toggled on by the kernel when context switching to a given task.
As per Wikipedia: "A majority of developed democracies have laws that restrict hate speech, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, India, South Africa, Sweden, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom."

The Unites States is not in that list. Hence it is more vulnerable to problems associated with allowing hate speech (i.e. incitement of violence by foreign-state actors, etc.).

Companies that operate on the global markets tend to operate with the standards that are acceptable globally. In particular: "On 31 May 2016, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter, jointly agreed to a European Union code of conduct obligating them to review "[the] majority of valid notifications for removal of illegal hate speech" posted on their services within 24 hours."

So in that particular case, influence of these companies might be bringing United States closer to best practices adopted in the majority of developed democracies.
> Parler was a hate site,

What evidence do you base this on? Do you have evidence quantifying how Parler users are more hateful than Twitter or Facebook?
How many different proposals for generics have there been?
> However, to say that free speech is absolute is absurd, because absolute free speech in this context would require the limitation of rights of organizations and owners too.

I agree, but that's a common position here.
DNS can clearly be a target, same for TLS certificates.
Tu quoque; it seems uncharitable of you to respond to a "question in good faith" by immediately accusing them of bad faith and of lying, and asking them to prove their innocence by proving a negative.

I think the parent raises a very legitimate question of what defines a "hate site, filled with conspiracy theories, radicalization and racism." I've never had a Twitter account myself, but some of the publicly-available content I've seen there there certainly fits that description. Conversely, I did briefly have a Parler account, and what I saw in my particular bubble did not fit that description at all - It was crypto enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and comedians. I'm not trying to imply that my anecdote is data or that Parler is some bastion of positivity, but the way your premise is stated only requires a single counterexample: some "hate speech" exists on Twitter, and not everything on Parler is.

You say, "the purpose of Parler's existence is (was) to facilitate communication that larger social networks stifle." To me that sounds like the old adage that "the Internet treats censorship as damage, and routes around it." At least five years ago that was largely seen as a feature rather than a bug. But recently the tide of popular opinion seems to have shifted in general favor of censorship. Undeniably there are some bad ideas out there, but I worry that the "cure" of censorship is a slippery slope that could very quickly become worse than the disease.
There is also Redox OS as another rust project. I'll edit with a link later but y'all know how to google.
Eh, count me in those stats I guess. I don't know if apathy is the right term though. I searched for stats fairly frequently but not anymore. We have a vaccine, the story isn't likely to change much for a while. I will continue distancing in relative isolation which has kept me from getting ill for a year now. Maybe it won't in the next few months, but I kind of doubt it.

What exactly would I learn from searching about the latest COVID death stats? We're beyond the point of arguing with others about on takes on it. It's no longer a political issue of paramount importance.

Things are likely to get worse for a month or two and then gradually get significantly better.
> One of Greenwald's observations was that no planning occurred on Parler

No, that's one of his unsubstantiated claims that conveniently fits the ideological tirade he's been on since long before the events in question.

Other journalists have pointed to planning on Parler, including citing specific posts.
Patrick O’Shaughnessy (host of Invest Like the Best) on growth without goals
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I get that you're trying to be clever and say that it is actually both, but the question was clearly phrased so that the second option was in exclusive opposition to the first.
Download Opera Browser 2021
The benefit is mostly for scenarios with a couple more degrees of freedom than what you describe. If you share your finances with N people (family) or N companies (free-lancer/consultant, etc), the path of least resistance to financial sanity is a well-maintained ledger. If you see this stuff coming in your future, your future self will thank your present self for getting started when things were easier to track.

It's also a single source of truth for your entire financial existence. You can use it to track your asset allocation. Which some people in the bracket you describe care a lot about.

Of course, you can pay people to do all of this stuff for you. (Accountant, Investment Broker, etc). But there are well-documented costs to these solutions. Basically, you have to trust them a lot, and if you don't speak their language you can't verify their choices.

Edit: to be clear, I'm not saying that maintaining a ledger is the right choice for everyone. It's a trade-off, like anything else, I just wanted to explicitly observe the variables that were at play in my decision. YMMV
If they are lies then why can't they be refuted instead of suppressed?
This brings up the question - What is the role of government?

Ensure contracts are upheld, to harm bad actors (via prison, fines, etc.) and to protect us from foreign invasion.

so, where did that fall apart in our current American system and what can we do to save our democracy? As the article has hinted at, regulation has gotten too esoteric for a bipartisan split in congress. When you have almost 500 people arguing about the use of SPACS for going public, limits on PPE loan, rights of citizens and business in regard to the pandemic, etc. etc.

John adams said 'God forbid we be 20 years from [..] a rebellion.'

We as Americans need a bit more of a centralized system and move a bit more towards an oligarchy. Same things that plagued the roman republic (Bipartisan politics) are plaguing our system. Augustus' answer? bring it down to him and 30 other people who where the most important people from each 'area' and the only thing that gave him more power than the rest was the fact the he was the only member who didn't rotate. Otherwise, it still came down to voting albeit with a forum that allowed for open discussion without rambling into nonsense and listing to 500 people say the same thing over and over.

Eth can uphold contracts
Fixes having a delay of multiple month is enough for many companies relaying on Qt to pay for LTS ;=)
It's hard to grasp the fact 4,000 Americas are dying each and every day from COVID.

When 3,000 died in 9/11 it was an outrage, but now it's more than that each and every day and everyone has become numb to it.
Not sure the official varietal designation, but many latino-operated grocers in Metro NY area carry the "little banana" bunches common to Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. They are memorably terrific when ripe. Tarter than the Cavendish. With a softer fruit inside.

I feel we could grow more varietals of everything as American palettes expand. I've seen many types of chili peppers in farmer's markets. And I'd put the taste test to Haitian mangos arriving here in early May with the best Alphonses the Indian Subcontinent has to offer ;)
I noticed.
The most interesting part for me is that Firefox and Chrome use the same drawing library for 2D canvas.

Does this mean that all engines use the same library? Or does WebKit use something else?

It reminds me of the Web SQL situation where everyone used the same library (SQLite). Eventually, the standard got deprecated because of that.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/duck-pest-control
It mentions in the video that most money for road initial construction comes from State/Federal. Thus the true ongoing costs are masked and so it continues.
Suicidal ideation is regular & there's a very clear step jump function in how its treated by psychotherapists vs a genuine intent to commit suicide. Until you make concrete plans to harm yourself or others, ideation is just that. Most people keep it private but I don't believe there's any literature that indicates that voicing that ideation publicly somehow makes you more likely to actually enact it.
I mean, the reality is America is too expensive to be successful in commodities markets. We have to prop up farming with subsidies just to keep them afloat. Hardware was commoditized a few decades ago and doesn't provide the margins for a business to thrive here without government help.

It's good, because it means we are generally focused on more profitable endeavors. It's bad because it means most of what we 'need', since commodities are the basis of our lives, get produced elsewere. This was fine when we had the wool of globalism pulled over our eyes, but COVID and the rise of China have shown us it was a pipe dream the whole time.
The millions of people reading the accusations in the newspapers can not easily check the accusations. That is the issue.

Yes, copies of his tweets exist, although I am also not sure if they are legal. Iirc Twitter demands that downloaded Tweets are being deleted when they are being deleted on Twitter. Trump himself may have the rights to publish them, though.
Discord might have a lot of Nitro sales, but that's probably dwarfed by their CDN and bandwidth costs of all the streaming that goes on with it. The infrastructure to relay massive scale of streams (even without transcoding) is not cheap. There's only so many streaming minutes at 720p that a single $9.99 nitro sub can support.

They also do gif transcoding and a bunch of other things that do take actual compute resources that cost money.
There was a book written by an american who researched the justification for the patent system. I will try to find the title.
Instead, what we need, is better education on how to parse and digest information we receive from others

The way it works is that you and I reject information based on reflex.

If someone tells you to drink bleach to cure covid-19, would you do it? No, of course not. it wouldn't take a second for you and I to even consider it. No rooms for critical thinking there.

What you want people to do, is based on a slow thought process and careful consideration, but nobody have such time.

Disinformation agents can just keep spamming us with even more facts to consider since they can make up anything they want. Gish gallop as it were. Verification is slow, even just surface level check to make sure the facts match up.

So how did we not become fooled? Because we trust certain authorities and reject other out of hand.
Can you DIY your own domain registrar and payment processor though?
In Tobago, it could have also been a green fig. (Not saying you're wrong of course)