skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a combination of factors, optimization certainly takes a lot of time, but it's not the only significant factor. The modular multi-pass architechture also takes a toll. If you look at fast c compilers like TCC, you can see that they get their speed primarily from doing fewer passes over the source code. In the case of TCC it only does a single pass, which severely limits the types of optimizations it can do, but if you compare the performance of TCC to that of gcc or clang with optimizations disabled (-O0), TCC is significantly faster. So you can see that the architechture used to make large extensible optimizing compilers like GCC also inherently removes some of their speed.

I believe it is theoretically possible to write many of the optimizations that larger compilers have in fewer passes, but that comes at the cost of complexity and difficulty in debugging different combinations.
Also keep in mind Parler and Gab were explicitly designed for the far right that claimed wasn't being treated fairly by Facebook and Twitter (which we now know is not factually correct).
There's the catch: it takes a court ruling to declare someone a criminal.
> Yes you were. In your first comment you said "Nearly all of us catch at least one cold a year, mostly during the winter months. There are, quite literally, hundreds of millions of colds a year." Those are numbers in a normal cold year. This isn't a normal cold year.

You can divide the number by any factor you want, but there are still ~6x the number of viruses out there causing colds. Even now.
Your second sentence does not serve the argument against because it can be just as arbitrarily purposed for the opposite. That dense cities with packed schools and omnipresent media make it more efficient to sway them with "misinformation".
If we're talking about technical feasibility, then you're right, it's possible to compete with the app store with the web browser. However, the masses don't care about technology and protocols. It's about convenience and motivation. Any extra step will decrease adoption and engagement on the whole.

All things being equal, if it takes any more energy to do something then, statistically, it will be done less.
We'll know we've reached the tipping point when even the homeless guy on the corner says to an offer of FB clothing, "no way man, I'm not wearing that shit".
It's generally more productive to talk about the reasons why a proposed change is or isn't valuable than to talk about the kinds of people who believe it. I could construct a mirror version of your comment: "People who oppose this tend to be largely uneducated in the theory of voting systems and are typically located in rural areas, where of course they would benefit from the status quo." But such statements aren't really helpful if one is trying to come to a conclusion about an issue.

IMHO, some kind of electoral reform is needed, though probably not this particular bill. The current system forces the political landscape into a two party state very strongly right now, which I think has caused the nation a lot of damage. As someone once said, whose name I don't remember at the moment, "a two party state means that things can get arbitrarily bad, so long as the two parties get worse at equal rates."

As I understand it, a major concern of the drafters of the Constitution was to ensure that less populous states had enough power to prevent more populous states from bullying them into submission. I agree with that ideal, and think that any new system should conserve it. One possible option is to keep the electoral college, and the current relative weighting of densely vs. sparsely populated states, but to use something like approval-voting, or score-voting instead of FPTP. That would both weaken the two party stranglehold, and preserve the current weighting of state votes. I'd be interested in hearing your opinion on such a system?
In my head, there's a difference between "arithmetic" and "mathematics".

People (like economists) who add/subtract/multiply/divide _numbers_ are doing arithmetic.

Mathematics is _rarely_ concerned with "numbers" as such - they deal in "truth" and "systems" and "logic" and "patterns".
once again, same here: to maintain democracy, no political entity should be able to snuff the other side.

By your logic, it's OK for Bill Gates to buy all the press influence to completely silence the politically-other-side.

And my mention of net neutrality is to show how flawed your whole logic process is.

> What some people are arguing for is a sort of "opinion neutrality" for social media companies that forces them to treat all opinions equally without moderation.

hm I actually find this scary. Maybe you're from China, where deviant opinions/minorities must be snuffed down for "harmonious society"?
Another question: Why some sites still only accepts Bitcoin (without Lightning?) even though its fee is insanely high due to price increasing? It's no longer feasible payment method for a dozens of dollar.
I get your point, but the current result is that Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio and the other swing states affect the result. The rest of our votes effectively matter far less.

I lived in one of those states in 2016, and was surprised by how both parties actually seemed to care about trying to get votes, compared to all the other years I've lived elsewhere.
> He also managed to ruin the lives of many people
^ this part. The sad thing for me is that is we set all this technology stuff and free speech issues that we all go around in circles about.... Trump did poison the critical thinking skills of many people with straight up lies and gaslighting. Ultimately that is the part I am most depressed about in all this.
Sure but the EU, like China, like Russia are different jurisdictions with different laws. Their countries, their rules.
Sure given enough time to study chips and microcode it can be reverse engineered. Despite my degree in M.E. I've been a software developer for 30 yrs. :) So I know you're right.

I was just saying it's a practical impossibility for even an electronics expert and even after disassembling something, to detect if a device had been recording or not, just by examining the device physically.

Once you start reverse engineering the code itself you're likely to find any hidden surveillance, but even then not guaranteed, because sufficiently obfuscated code can camouflage what it's true purpose was.
The Invisible Dragon (Carl Sagan)
>I believe that it's considerably worse than 1918.

The COVID IFR is known to be lower than that of the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed between 50 and 100 million people in less than a year, and pulled that off at a time when the Earth's population was a quarter of what it is today and much less mobile. I have no idea whatsoever where you get the idea that COVID is worse than 1918. It most emphatically (at least so far) is not at all showing itself to be as bad, let alone worse.
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> Where does liability now fall when say, incitement to violence end up with someone losing an eye, a life?

Courts? The US is a bit weird in that one person is excluded for the normal legal system of judges, and instead replaces it with the congress, but regardless that is where the crime of "incitement to violence" and "conspiracy" is settled.

As with all other conspiracies, we also have the persons who committed the act of violence. If they are not dead they will hopefully end up in court and have their case brought up by the legal system.
In 1979 it got close without compromise.

I'm quite against compromise here. The productive parts of the country need to unlearn helplessness and get tough of we can't get a real democracy.

DC Statehood can help with the senate votes despite being a small state too.
A GPS repeater would only give accurate time, not position. The repeater only repeats the signal that's captured by the antenna on the roof. I use GPS repeaters frequently in my labs to supply timing to instruments.
> Otherwise what would malloc return, besides void*

IIRC, historically void* didn't exist, and it used char*. It added void as a unit type, and absent historical baggage could add... let's call it "noreturn" as a bottom type:

#define NULL ((noreturn*)0)
noreturn* malloc(size_t);
void free(void*);
noreturn exit(int); // never returns
int main() {
// where (T)... is any expression of type T
void x = (T)...; // throw away the value
T y = (noreturn)...; // a nonterminating expression
void* p = (T*)...; // pointers convertible *to* void*
T* q = (noreturn*)...; // pointers convertible *from* noreturn*
*(noreturn*)...; // notionally, this should always fault
*(void*)...; // read zero bytes, so always fine
}
> Phoronix even have GCC faster than Clang at building the Linux Kernel, even in an (according to a comment) biased sample where GCC wasn't built with lto enabled.

I don't see that this tells us anything negative about Clang. How is it a bad thing for the compiler to give you the option of a very slow build using additional optimisations? If you don't want that, then don't use that feature.
The point is to regulate social media for European citizens. They set the rules. If facebook or twitter cannot follow them they will pull out of that market allowing space for a local platform to take over.
Agreed, but excessive use of force is an altogether different problem than the cited 'race' issues. Indeed, something like 90% of Americans support some kind of policing reform according to a Gallup survey last year. Unfortunately, in America, we have only a ~30% chance of passing a reform that 90% of Americans want passed unless the corporations also want it passed.
Thanks, I took a look. It is not the most coherent presentation but I can see there were examples of crappy posts in there, but so there are everywhere else. The AWS letter made the most reasonable argument and it amounted to an indictment of Parler's technical ability to keep manual moderation working in the face of increasing traffic. Whether that really was the problem or just a virtue display from Amazon is unclear to me.
That's exactly what they are trying to change, the rules that applied to twitter like private companies and rightfully so. Nobody claims that what they did was illegal, but they want to make it illegal, the same way discrimination based on race became illegal after years it was legal.
What a, to put it simply, frustrating website to use. It's actively painful to try to consume the content on that page. Simply horrible.
Slowly Go will become Java :)

Go -> Guava -> Java
Not exactly correct. Rather, RMS resisted attempts to make the compiler more modular based on such arguments, but the initial design wasn't deliberately non-modular. The steering committee had to spend years persuading him not to block improvements that increased modularity, like plugins, and eventually found ways to persuade him.
Wait, do the red states actually feed the blue states?

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/state-export-data/ann... says the top exporters are California (blue), Iowa (purple), Illinois (blue), Minnesota (blue), Nebraska (red), and Texas (red). And even so, the margins are not huge - at most about 2/3 and 1/3, and usually closer - so the idea of "red states" or "blue states" doesn't quite make sense, I think.

EDIT: I ran the data - looking at the 2020 results (and rounding off Maine to D and Nebraska to R), "blue" states have $64B agricultural exports and "red" states have $73B agricultural exports. So the answer is that while red states export a bit more, it can hardly be described as one feeding the other.
hitting aim support for what? afaik they weren’t holding onto aim chats. tho my memory is fuzzy here
autoro- I have to ask, did you publish this yourself? It’s your only submission and your only comment
Cell phones don’t make money either. You make money with the App Store.

Samsung has let Google make the money.
I mean that I'd use it. If it takes a while then maybe I can get by with mrustc for a bit (haven't tried yet) but the net of it is that I need to support systems which llvm does not, which has kept me from using rust in product thus far.
>It's not okay or fair to destroy a business arbitrarily and capriciously.

Yeah! The employees of organized criminal gangs need to feed their families too!

They're honest, hardworking people. Why should they be penalized because the repressive system in which they live persecutes them for extortion, robbery, murder, sex trafficking and the like.

Arresting them and putting them in jail is just cruel and unfair!
You're welcome! I've only played a small part in this amazing phenomenon, mainly DevOps and community-organizing. But it has been amazing to do anything to help.
> I can't imagine such propaganda in the USA.

In USA they still make most kids recite this every day in school:

> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance
I don't buy this. If I give someone a check (which has an account number on it) that doesn't mean they get to withdraw whatever they want from my bank account. What bank in the U.S. wont reverse fraudulent ACH debits?
I would wager that 90% of the business for Plaid, Yodlee, and Intuit is account verification; the thing that you used to do by having small ACH transfers of random amounts that you verify. The fact is that 90% of running a fintech business is identifying and bounding fraud risk, and these "banking API" companies are able to move the needle down a couple of basis points.

edit It's shit like this that just screams for the Fed to force FIs to implement a standard API for verifying accounts and making transfers. I bet half of fintech would collapse overnight, but the collective cost savings would be in the billions.
I totally get that, but I meant more in the philosophical sense. For instance many other build farms in the world have compiled the linux kernel before it got to redhat.
Big pros of telegram compared to wa:

1. So easy to migrate. Wa restore can take up to an hour from gdrive, telegram is ready as soon as it is installed

2. It's always on everywhere, i.e. when i open web.telegram.org or desktop qpp it just connects instantly, web.whatsapp otoh requires my phone to be connected, takes forever to start and fails half the time.

3. I can restore year old file on tg while wa fails unless i have it in a backup.

4. The api. So easy to implement and such amazing bots. Just search skeddy for an example.

5. Huge groups. Our housing group has 1100 members, don't think its possible on wa

Biggest con compared to wa:

1. An amazingly bonehead feature that fills up my inbox: it has tell me x or y has joined telegram with a red badge. Seriously and i would care why? I add hundreds of people to my contact list. I can't even turn off this feature.
Only 2.6G too, partial is understating it. That's like less than a percent of the monster IIRC. It likely doesn't even include any of the tooling to build it. It notoriously takes days to build.
Which is crazy because Fincity bought Intuit's Aggregation engine (Customer Account Data - that intuit launched back @ Finovate 2012-ish) - so the block wasn't because of account aggregation and more for Plaid's comments towards making a alternative payment platform that would compete with VISA.

Either way all aggregators use screen-scraping when they can't get a direct connection, because banks are slow and protective of "their" data (which is really YOUR data) it's a constant tug of war.
Didn't Parler remove all of those posts?
I think they should have the same rights as the local baker or local florist. Buying a wedding cake or flowers is a privilege.
> > For many kinds of criminal content posing an acute public safety hazard, it does, and it's very simple: if you have knowledge of the existence of the material, you must take it down or become yourself criminally liable for it.

> I'd be quite surprised if this is true in the USA. If you could provide an example of such a case I'd be very interested. The only time I'm aware of the Supreme Court ruling on online hate speech

This isn't about hate speech, which is protected speech. It's about a subset of content which is itself criminal (that is, for which the source would be criminally liable), where a service provider knows of the content and the facts which make it criminal (whether or not they understand the criminal prohibition itself)

And it's not about civil liability (things some private party can sue you for damages, and where therefore the Section 230 protection is likely to apply) but criminal liability, that is, things where the government can take action leading to criminal fines and/or imprisonment.

Examples of laws creating this kind of knowledge-based obligation are 18 USC Sec 2339A regarding material sorry to terrorists and 18 USC Sec 1466A with regard to obscene visual representation of the sexual abuse of children.
Do you even hear yourself? AWS banning Parlor will cause radicalization and terrorism? You are blaming AWS for the violence, not the sites refusing to moderate and the people doing it?

I guess shutting down mosques that promoted terrorism led to more terrorism?
then you go away too, grow up. There is no "Eye of Sauron". You allow shit that is illegal, then you don't get a platform to support you, simple.
The 'floating cities' we might lose forever
I can give one data point - you have a site that is hosted via static site generator (something like netlify) and users can upload images (that you probably store on S3). Then you provide a service that requires drawing on those images (maybe a map, or heatmap, or some markup tool). Usually you learn that the canvas is tainted and you adjust CORS accordingly.

Forcing same-site would require a server side proxy (defeating the point of using a CDN).
Not sure I agree. That task was "quantity surveying, estimating, and arithmetic" not mathematics.

A mathematician would have proved for all cities and terrain topologies there's a critical viscosity of liquid above which it is impossible to effectively drain them, along with an estimate of the lower bound of that viscosity.

<grin>
That tweet isn't Greenwald; it's an ankle-biter wittily captioning "LOL" a non-linked picture that he apparently copy-pasted all by himself. The first half of the picture is a shot of Greenwald's perfectly factual tweet. [0] The second half is another non-linked shot of another tweet, this one composed by a Twitter user somehow skilled enough to actually link to a gizmodo piece. Examining that, one discovers that the fancy satellite picture is actually an "artist's conception". (Another clue might have been the perfectly regular grid that the parler users were supposedly creating.) The only actual reference to actual locations is the caption "@donk_enby later shared a screenshot showing the GPS position of a particular video, with coordinates in latitude and longitude." [1] Once again, this caption is on a picture without a link. However, if one actually types the pictured coordinates into a map app, one discovers that the hypothetical parler user was terrorizing a general store in Delaware. [2] Hey, they got the timezone right: the Delaware coast isn't that far from DC!

In general, rabble-rousers on the internet don't link to original data, because "easily-fooled people" like yourself will just believe your first impression. And helpfully share that with HN!

[0] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348322148704804864

[1] https://gizmodo.com/every-deleted-parler-post-many-with-user...

[2] https://goo.gl/maps/jkTzy46xqPCmsmwn6
Sure, that is fair. In that sense, Samsung could plausibly build a console and software tools around it as a reference design to encourage a gaming platform company to adopt Exynos.
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>Otherwise, please explain to me how all of them just up and decided to do this at once?

Maybe because they were shocked and horrified (as I and many other people were) at the assault on the US government?

Just a crazy thought.
New Brazil data shows disappointing 50.4% efficacy for China's CoronaVac vaccine
Show HN: Similar Books
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I created a site called Similar Books to help people find books to read. I've never been a huge reader but would like to read more. I find I have no idea what book to read and I didn't want to waste to reading a book I won't enjoy.
The site works by users entering a tv show, movie or game they like and we'll recommends some books. Books have links to Amazon where if a book is purchased we'll take a commission.

So far the biggest issue has been manaully finding content. It's a slow process but hopefully it will slowly grow to be a great resource.

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It being less profitable effectively makes it an impossibility without regulations.
Reddit appears to be restricting access to this post. I am unable to access it without creating an account AND installing the Reddit apl.
I used to work at a company with a 100 year old brand, and they took their perception seriously. Every few years, they conducted a brand audit and I got to attend an internal presentation on how they do it. Along the way, they mentioned that Facebook has the same brand perception as the IRS. This was about eight years ago.

So yeah, I can also see auditors not wanting to wear their IRS swag...especially during tax season.
"44 minutes ago" sounds so much more "urgent" and "fresh" than... 2021-01-13T00:44:00Z.
Not really. To geolocate a user the cell providers would need to know the absolute position of all the LTE repeaters and cells (which they might). But they'd also need to compensate for indoor propagation (which is much more complex than outdoor).

Also AGPS only provides satellite ephemeris, which enables a faster time to fix, not better accuracy.
For options, taxes only become a big limiter if one waited for the value to rise substantially from the strike price, thus creating a large spread that will be taxed as income. If shares are purchased as they vest and held for over a year, the gains will be subject to much more favorable long term tax treatment when sold.

Larger companies will typically switch to RSUs, which get taxed like income, and isn't great for a non-liquid asset. Thats what double-trigger RSUs solve, by not having the employee own the shares until a liquidity event, they won't need to pay taxes on them until it happens. The catch is that now the employee needs to hold onto the shares for a year to get a more favorable tax treatment.

Taxes will really only take close to half if employees insist on selling their shares in less than a year.
YES PLEASE
My Experience Testing Hardware Using Rust
> I doubt any of the other compilers under comparison were designed to be difficult to extend.

I'm sorry to say your doubt is mistaken. GCC is deliberately designed to be difficult to extend.

https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2007-11/msg00193.html
How are Germany's Nazi laws permitted under this framework?
I think you should read the article again (I'm assuming you did read it before commenting, and must have just missed the relevant parts):

> contrary to what many have been led to believe, Parler’s Terms of Service includes a ban on explicit advocacy of violence, and they employ a team of paid, trained moderators who delete such postings. Those deletions do not happen perfectly or instantaneously — which is why one can find postings that violate those rules — but the same is true of every major Silicon Valley platform.