skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We will now see a democratic government that is fully aligned, and has deep ties with, silicon valley. The big tech industrial complex has infinitely more control over our thoughts and proclivities than any previous power center.

Nope. Huge swaths of the democratic party are opposed to these SV companies because they see Twitter, FB, etc, as having played a huge part in Trump gaining the influence he did and the conspiracy nutjobs evangelizing their craziness as well.

I expect pushes for regulation, just a different sort than Trump would've pushed for.

Here we have people dying because a President who was afraid of losing spent months preemptively setting up a fraud excuse. An excuse that was enabled and amplified by social media platforms that also helped people spread conspiracies about the supposed non-existence of a global pandemic, and thus the need for different behaviors.

Even if you end up saying Trump himself shouldn't have been banned, you have a huge echo chamber problem that has now passed the point where we can dismiss it with stuff like "they just need to feel heard." Lots of people listened, and it led to lots of violence, and is the way we're currently (not) regulating social media sufficient?

All of these nutjob theories have gotten MORE prevalent in the past 4 years DESPITE their candidate winning the 2016 election and DESPITE their candidate completely failing to expose any national pedophile conspiracy or any of the other nonsense they spout... The ultimate influence of the big social media platforms has been anything but left-leaning.
Pretty sure NY Times has published more than one dissenting opinion over the years.
Thanks! I sort of assumed that pitch detection would just be FFT so I haven't searched for that yet. I'll take a look, it sounds like it could be the sort of middle ground that would be ideal for this.
Reading about how the bankruptcy system works in the UK a few years ago (when Thomas Cook collapsed) was mind blowing. How could any system where the firm has to cease operations immediately no matter the circumstance be considered a good idea?
Let's put it another way. Do you think the Arab spring and Libyan civil war would've taken place if DNSSEC had been in place and Gaddafi had control of bit.ly's TLS keys? I don't. Now think of that on kind of thing happening with routes. Yikes.

At least with the way things are now there's no ground truth. Every AS has it's own perception of the routing table and the ability to act on it. That's the way it should be. Securing BGP means less security because there is no global consensus even implied in the protocol. Securing BGP means centralizing BGP, not security.
Private companies have been disappearing small business owners for two decades. PayPal locks your account. YouTube decides to kill your channel for copyright strikes to content you created. Amazon does - all the shady things Amazon is famous for. Apple kills your app because reasons.

And so on.

This is not about disappearing people. Or businesses. This is about disappearing politicians.

The real game here is that the mainstream media - especially on the far right - have suddenly discovered they're no longer owners of the narrative space, and their game tokens can be removed without notice.

Of course they're unhappy about this.

So if we're going to talk about concentrated media influence, we should be questioning the international reach and centralised narrative control of the Fox network (and others) at least as much Twitter or Amazon's ability to ban someone who was literally planning an insurrection in the US.

There is no free speech issue here, because the kind of "free" political speech we're talking about is very, very expensive, and only available to a tiny selection of headline operators.

Everything else in the social media space is noise farmed for engagement, and is unlikely to unduly trouble anyone who matters.
I don't think you've fully thought through your position. You making less isn't some altruistic thing. You making less directly contributes to your (already likely wealthy) boss making more. It's not like you making less means the poor live better lives, it's essentially donating money to your employer.
Define successful...
Straight from the source itself: https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/facebook-twitter-block-the-pos...
Why would he need to be extradited to the USA in order to be killed?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation kind of works towards that, same as ACLU in some measure. There was also Chilling Effects (I think renamed to Lumen or lumendatabase.org ).

As an international spectator of USA politics, it was worrying how easily corporations took a side and disappeared a couple of applications and banned a group of people.

Imagine if this happened say during Chile's removal of Pinochet or other South American's revolutions where the people tried to overthrow dictatorships. Now think that USA government interests or the interests of any large nation (China, or even Russia) could flex their arms to entice Amazon, Twitter, Facebook and other large companies to block any type of dissident interactions.
Yea, I'm not sure what their plan is other than to keep trying to sell to institutions until everyone makes the switch to someone else.

If they actually want to survive long term, there are two paths as I see it:

A) Be legitimately better than AMD, this could include opening up the management engine, much higher performance chips at lower price points, or some sort of space magic utilizing their Altera acquisition.

B) Embrace RISC-V and push it to laptops and desktops HARD, while not pulling the Microsoft Embrace Extend Extinguish™ play. If they go this route then their stock becomes an exceptionally strong buy IMO.
They are summaried here: https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs/blob/main/pkg/redis/red...
> And who knows how much of how many people’s lives will be lived in poverty and other forms of misery because of the economic destruction we’ve opted into to slow the spread of the virus.

Plenty of less-rich countries took much stronger steps to prevent economic destruction even with stronger control measures than the US took.

We didn’t opt into poverty/misery to slow the spread of the virus, we opted into it because the federal administration wanted to use the pain to generate opposition to slowing the spread of the virus.
> The WHO warns that lockdown should only be treated as a last resort, to truly flatten the curve and no more. We ignored that.

Countries that have eliminated the virus have ignored this for good results. Some like us here in Melbourne have used lockdowns to eliminate the virus, others like New Zealand have used them as a first resort to contain outbreaks. Because we eliminated it we're now back to (mostly) normal, we don't have young people sacrificing anything, we have kids in school, we have large sporting events and it's not coming at the cost of everyone's lives. Despite WHO advice most countries that eliminated it have also kept borders mostly shut.

Ireland is a tragedy because the were so close to elimination but never took those final steps to eliminate it and keep it out. The worlds tragedy is that they gave up on elimination, it would have been much cheaper and less impactful than rolling lockdowns.
You can verify the installed version on Android with the Github repo version. Yes you can essentially check a hash.
I can't speak for OP, but I can say that OP never said non-competitive behavior isn't worthwhile. The question being answered is how to increase salaries, not how to make something worthwhile.
What you're asking for does exist in the industrial market (and I'm skeptical of those 'industrial' branded sandisk cards). They still use pseudo SLC (storing one bit in every flash cell as 00(0) or 11(1) and correcting up or down on read back). They also will work with you so you can track BOM changes as they internally change the cards so you can track failure rates. They also give you access to tons of internal perf counters so you can do preventative maintenance (ie. swap the card if it's getting long in the tooth). They also just generally treat you as a business partner rather than a consumer, wrt support and what have you.

It costs a pretty penny though. $40 for a 2GB non micro card was the last quote I got.
No, The Hadoop SDK is a connector to access JuiceFS, is built using JuiceFS client, will be open sourced later on, stay tuned.
You seem to be confused between zerotrust and encryption. Zerotrust is about auhtentication/authorization at the application level. Also tailscale is as centralized as Cloudflare et al. What happens when tailscale servers go down? Can 2 peers behind NAT still be able to connect to each other? can they synchronize each other's public endpoint and public key?
Spread the neoliberal, inhumane meatgrinding cancer of American oligarchic capitalism to all shores! :D
Was the editor fired because of a "dissenting opinion" or because Cotton was effectively calling for martial law against protestors?

The NYTimes op-ed section has plenty of dissenting opinions and/or conservatives... just not ones calling for violence.
I see. That makes more sense.
It's almost like there was a unmissable event that occurred that both companies responded to.
It is absolutely possible at FAANG companies (eg partner level at MS, principal level at G) and other publicly traded (US) companies or startups. Most of it is in stock.
I'm not so sure, since a lot of software is somewhat cross-platform now anyway. You need to port the JVM, .NET, and Chromium (for electron), and you've effectively ported a large part of the desktop application space already.

Web applications are portable if you have a browser

Many modern languages that compile to native, like Rust, trivially recompile for multiple target architectures.

Others are dynamic and don't need recompilation.

Of course some major software is written in non-portable C and C++. But the question is whether some emulation isn't acceptable here.
Both AWS and payment processors are substantially different from message boards.
You don't have a right to stay in a private business if they ask you to leave. Fight back and you get arrested (and rightly so.)
None of the questions are hard. Not even building your own platform is hard. The only thing that is hard for the author, and the majority of their readers, is admitting to themselves that they are unwilling or unable to execute and provide for themselves.
What did the government do here?
> thought provoking articles, or just fuel confirmation bias for their readers?

I'd argue that NYT has fallen into the latter, with dissenting voices stifled internally, example Bari Weiss:

https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2020/breaking-down-the-c...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/07/14/bari-weiss-r...
In the US as a software developer you can and do get more vacation than the US norm, so keep that in mind.
My girlfriend loves Popeye's whilst I McDonald's. I'm from New England, she from California.
There's cultural differences here depending on where the employer is based. I believe the employee-CEO pay gap is substantially less for many European companies (excluding UK).
$200k is £146k

I've seen mid-level tech jobs in London banks for £146k which come with 34 days off including state holidays like new years day, christmas, etc

£146k for a full time contractor on 226 days a year isn't that much at all - £650 a day, which is in the "Senior developer" range [0]

With 30% tax in the US and the cost of health insurance, that would be $68,400

For a staff employee on £146k (which is quite achievable in finance), taxes would be 39.5%, or $79k in tax [1] (there's also local property tax, but that's in the ballpark £1k-3k a year depending on the size of your house). Tax could be potentially lower as a contractor if you're clever about distributing your income, but I know they've been clamping down on some avoidance schemes.

No idea what a HSA account is, I guess some form of pension plan? That tends to come off pre-tax.

[0] https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/senior%20ui%20dev...

[1] https://listentotaxman.com/146000
Not necessarily, under certain conditions, the lawyers can get an advance on the money.
Thank you!

Absolutely.

First, we are working on surfacing open-source security advisories over the next couple of months in Openbase.

Second, we're still figuring out ways to flag other security concerns, such as 2FA, newly appointed maintainers, suspicious activity, etc. (this is to be expected in the longer term)
start your own social media network

just find another cloud provider

just use a different payment network

stop whining, cloudflare has only blocked you from half the internet

just generate your own electricity
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I mean, most companies are not in the business of serving your needs either, they are in the business of having you work for them.
Based on experience - no, you are mistaken. Wish I could say more.
The same could have been said about AMD 7 years ago. Then Lisa Su came.
Well yes. Thanks. It's exactly "notify"

-> click on the node
-> node is now ready to move
-> function executes desirable effects to all DOM tree based on the movement

- It's not framework. You can implement this solution regardless of what you are using. Even async rendering. It doesn't matter how you start rendering. From above to root or otherwise.

- This is the only solution, taking into consideration the above pontins, that executes "stream of write requests" to the browser. It doesn't write/read then do it again. No lagging. All manipulation runs smoothly 60fps.

- Every change in DOM is registered and updated in the DOM store and exposed. So you can implement (any DOM manipulation) whenever you need in your app.
The biggest reason I can think of: the sitting president attempted to overthrow the lawful results of an election by inciting insurrection. That is the sort of "high crime and misdemeanor" that clearly falls in the remit of impeachment, and Congress has the ability and the moral duty to say that the president is not above the law and should face punishment for his actions, even if it is at the very end of his term.

> he has repeatedly been saying he wants a peaceful transition

I don't believe him. I don't think he has actually conceded that he lost the election yet (he hadn't as of last Thursday--his video was only "the closest he's come to conceding", not an actual concession). Some of the reports of last Wednesday have said that he was initially happy that the mob had invaded the Capitol, and I haven't seen any signs of genuine remorse. As far as I'm aware, he has yet to criticize any of his followers who had done actions such as break into and vandalize federal property, which he was oh-so-incensed about 6 months ago.
Tether is also a "crypto position" and does not hold any special tax exemption status. If you exchange your crypto asset A for any other crypto asset B (e.g. Tether) it creates a taxable event under most jurisdictions.
If the US government wanted to send a hit squad to Russia to take him out, the fact that he uses Signal instead of WhatsApp isn't what would be holding them back.
10 January 2019
Eventually the browser itself might be held accountable. How dare chrome display child's pornography or allowing users to send http requests filled with hate. Chrome should be able to filter that stuff out
I was also reminded of this patent, which has the potential to be applied in problematic contexts. https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2016/06/apple-w...
Was about to comment this myself. It feels like the post meanders just like Sienfeld and makes a bunch of observations without stating anything.
Make non-competes illegal (or, well, unenforceable).
As an immigrant and child/teenagehood connoisseur of american TV, can confirm: Everyone is always very impressed with my fluent colloquial English. They don't believe I didn't grow up here.

What's funny is all the people online who were absolutely adamant that real life is nothing like TV. Yeah it is. Exactly like it. Comedies wouldn't be funny if they weren't real.

Down to the stupid round door knobs that you can't use with full hands. Why the heck do americans do that?
Thank you!
Right now we support JavaScript, but we do work on adding additional languages like Python, Go, Java and Rust.
Yes, but first you need to post your own benchmark

PS: That benchmark is impressive!
Most people didn't use to have a platform like Twitter where you could instantaneously reach the whole world, no. But the argument was always "If you don't like it just build your own thing". So, sure, maybe the NYTimes didn't have to publish you, but you could go buy a mimeograph or a printing press and put out your own newsletter, even if you had to stand on the street corner and hand it out yourself.

But now the companies that make printing presses won't sell to you. The machine shops that make the parts to build printing presses also won't work with you. Maybe you're supposed to mine your own ore and refine your own metal to build your own printing press?

In the long run, we're going to have to find a better way to deal with odious speech that by simply cutting people off and shutting them completely out of the public sphere. For one thing, this requires us to trust that the gatekeepers who control access are always going to be fair and just and only shut out genuinely bad actors. There's needs to be a process where anyone who wants to can still see and inspect the banned speech to audit whether it was really worth banning or not.
The grand parent maybe meant “turning off”. One could argue that’s the ultimate “tuning”. :P
Agreed. I do think moving on from the Trump administration will give people a chance to be mentally flexible again. The last four years greatly incentivized unwavering convictions, on both sides, probably beyond what was healthy.
I don’t get this. As a consultant do you get time off? If so why didn’t you use your vacation time? Why not take December off?

Did working those extra weeks mean more value to you?
They could give up on design and just try to be an American TSMC.

There's a lot of interest in that from a national security perspective anyway.
> erosion of civil discourse

What erosion of civil discourse are you talking about? 10 years ago half or more Americans were against gay marriage, today 30% of the US is against that, except nowadays they are also called neonazis and are being deplatformed from major platforms. Do you think 50 years ago there could be civil discourse on legalizing rape or celebrating Holocaust? No, these people would get the same treatment. Or, as a non-imaginary example, just remember McCarthyism.

What changed is the level of discrepancy of Overton windows between rural and urban America. That’s all.

> platforms being used to organize illegal activities

Hah, but when they are used to organize illegal activities in countries like Egypt or Belarus it was not an issue.

> proliferation of misinformation (during a pandemic)

If you think that an average citizen is too stupid to think for themselves, we might as well just abolish voting rights. And surely there is a better way to combat misinformation than giving censorship powers to private technocrats.
The benchmark that matters to me is battery life. I read that you can get a full day out of these things if you work them hard and 2 days if you're not so demanding.

The fact that you get this sort of battery life with high end desktop performance is incredible.
Big Tech platforms are more and more functioning as utilities, and I believe they should be regulated as such.

Actually, any digital platform with user-generated content should be regulated in such a way that frees platforms from pressures from the government (Section 230) and from social justice (ban bad guy that's not convicted and will have no recourse or penalty expiry)
The american average vacation time is not the reality at tech firms. I easily get 1 month or more of vacation working at a large one. Same with 3-6mo+parental leave being very common along with fairly decent healthcare because your employed by a wealthy company.

Things that are not good for the average american is not the reality for the average big-tech software engineer and you have to compare apples to apples.
> I guess Go package discovery remains an unsolved problem.

Or did you just not really search, like most of us excited to DIY? :-D

Godoc is pretty good, the package shows up for the searches I'd probably do in a similar situation.

https://godoc.org/?q=etcd

https://godoc.org/?q=etcd+watch
If you run out of money then you're screwed.

What do you do if you are a person who runs out of money and can't pay debt? Surely you have your assets repossessed and some form of debt charge hanging over you for some time so you can't get into that position again (or rather that others will know not to lend you money again)

Is it different in the US?
Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
I've always found it hard to reason about relaxing consistency, and I think people underestimate how much complexity they take on by moving away from serializable isolation towards something looser. (Fun fact! Many databases out of the box don't correctly handle the classic transaction example -- read an account balance, subtract an amount from the balance, and then add the amount to another account's balance.)

Usually people design their app with the expectation of strict serializable isolation, relax it because of some production emergency, and then deal with the business consequences of the database doing the wrong thing until the company goes out of business (usually not due to database isolation levels, to be fair).
I'm always surprised when people get so agitated when I bring up his books (Clean Code being one of my all time favorites). Even if you disagree with some of the specifics, if there's one big takeaway like you said, it's to develop your "thoughts". He has thought hard about all of these things, and will force you to as well.

I imagine it's like if you were trying to be an olympic marathon runner, you'd study things like humidity and shoes and arm motion deeply, and he kind of does that (function naming, nodes per block, comments, test coverage, et cetera). Even if you don't agree with him, as you suggest read it and play "devil's advocate", and you will be forced to think about details that will make you a better software engineer.
Telegram is very clear that they do store our stuff on their servers. And in clear text unless you choose end-to-end encryption.

My concern is not about my data being stored on their servers. My concern is about having having marketing data being sold to third parties in order to target advertising at me, just as when you leave "third party cookies" active on your browser. That is creepy and invasive. Would Zuckerburg ever do such thing?
Is "the Internet" really a platform, though?

I see it as more like the telephone: customers that want to receive calls (i.e. TCP connections) sign up for the service and receive a number (i.e. an IP address) that others can then use to contact them. And some of these customers choose to have their number published in a public directory of subscribers (i.e. DNS) to make it more convenient for others to find them.

At the most fundamental level, the Internet is nothing more than a vast and automated network for establishing point-to-point (i.e. private) calls between two parties.
This is how I've learned to negotiate with my 2 and 3 year olds when they are being intractable and rebellious. They don't like the idea of whatever I'm offering them for some reason, but getting them to admit they want "grapes" more than "apples" is enough of a concession that it makes a kind of consensus.