skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the benefit of living in a civilized society is that civilized people don’t throw entire demographics to their death for the convenience of others. We are supposed to have the decency to make sacrifices for the benefit of the greater good, but our ability to do this seems to be quickly disappearing.

I’m really sorry my kid can’t go on play dates for a year, because it helps save other people’s lives. I also feel sorry that some people don’t have the empathy to understand why we need to make that trade-off. We have really lost our way as a culture if we really think grandma should die so the rest of us can live our normal lives.

Imagine we had your attitude during world war 2. “I’m not gonna go rivet airplanes or ration food because I have freedom and I want to live my life!!”
> While emacs has parts written in C, that portion really exists to enable elisp.

You might not have noticed that the parts of GNU Emacs written in C exceed 250,000 lines of code.
Moore's law is bout the most economic die, not about always more expensive top of the line.

If you take those out, there is a very clear stagnation on that graphic.
Bitcoin will be worth 500,000 per coin within 18 months
That’s a bold claim. Care to provide evidence to support it?
Trives of neanderthals were very equal too.

Obviously you have to compare apples to apples
Nifty. Looks like a ThinkPad laptop keyboard adapted to USB instead of whatever internals the laptops use.

Sadly, I'd never use it (very attached to ergo keyboards these days). But nifty, if only for the nostalgia value.
I was thinking of 'distributor' in the sense of supplier. Even so, I think a postal service has some obligation. Let's say someone were to send me a poorly camouflaged mail-bomb. I wouldn't expect my postal worker to just toss it on my front porch with an 'eh, not my problem!'
Efficiency can be measured in many different ways.

Having no dedicated database server or even database instance, being able to persist data to disk with almost no additional memory required, marginal amount of CPU and no heavy application dependencies can be considered very efficient depending on context.

Of course, if you start doing this on every change, many times a second, then it stops being efficient. But then there are ways to fix it without invoking Oracle or MongoDB or other beast.

When I worked on algorithmic trading framework the persistence was just two pointers in memory pointing to end of persisted and end of published region. Occasionally those pointers would be sent over to a dedicated CPU core that would be actually the only core talking to the operating system, and it would just append that data to a file and publish completion so that the other core can update the pointers.

The application would never read the file (the latency even to SSD is such that it could just as well be on the Moon) and the file was used to be able to retrace trading session and to bring up the application from event log in case it failed mid session.

As the data was nicely placed in order in the file, the entire process of reading that "database" would take no more than 1,5s, after which the application would be ready to synchronize with trading session again.
> It will be a sad day when a $2B business can't survive and is forced to sell.

You're forgetting that Dropbox has a very generic product, that eventually any large company like Google or Apple needs to replicate (or already has replicated).
Any of them. When you're hiding under your bed, it doesn't matter which mob it is.
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Which in turn is certainly derived from index variables in math (i for summation/product; i,j for matrix indexing and so on).
Benchmark sites like userbenchmark.com and cpu-monkey.com rate the 7-year-old 3.2 GHz Haswell as having roughly the same single-core performance as the 2-year-old 2.1 GHz (3.7 GHz single-core turbo) Zen+ CPU in the DMAF5. But that doesn’t cover the I/O performance, especially with Realtek Ethernet interfaces.

Most mini-PCs are using 2-GHz-or-lower Gemini Lake CPUs with much worse single-core performance, but much better video I/O performance. But that still doesn’t cover network I/O, and Realtek vs Intel. (And Intel i40 vs i211.)

Relatively few people have gigabit Internet, but it can happen suddenly. 3 years ago, I upgraded from 20 Mbps DSL to 1 Gbps symmetric fiber. Bye-bye to my old MIPS 24K router. But all these years later, my brother 1 mile away is still waiting.
I'm in the camp that the Republicans are toast. The people in power today will never give it up. Especially with such power.
Except for financially dubious start-ups, getting laid off at a tech company comes with a fairly nice severance package. Dropbox, for example, is giving 3 months salary, Q1 equity, and 100% of 2020 bonuses.
It is.

Here Biden talks about revoking Section 230 because it shields FB from liability for the stuff that it helps spread: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/17/opinion/joe-b...

> [Zuckerberg] knows better. And you know, from my perspective, I’ve been in the view that not only should we be worrying about the concentration of power, we should be worried about the lack of privacy and them being exempt, which you’re not exempt. [The Times] can’t write something you know to be false and be exempt from being sued. But he can. The idea that it’s a tech company is that Section 230 should be revoked, immediately should be revoked, number one. For Zuckerberg and other platforms.

More discussion about the difference between the Democrat and Republican objections to 230 - but that they both have some - is here https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-joe-... among other places.
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> There is absolutely no way to get 500k/year from being just an engineer in Europe.

Proprietary trading shops in London at the top end or L6+ at Google Zurich can pay that in total comp.

> I recall the React creator's base salary is 100k/year in London, and he works at Facebook.

And what about stocks? There should be at least another 100k in them. Facebook is a publicly tradable company, its RSUs are as good as cash, unlike startup paper money.
Social media companies created a mess -> break up Apple and Amazon? What?
Do you agree that these are the top desks of the future?
Republicans won an election and almost won this last one, they aren’t really that impopular, or at least not impopular enough to pretend they don’t exist
> By that metric, I can point to many statements by many democrats, including the incoming Vice President, that ‘directly incited’ violence.

I don’t think you can, but, so what?

> This is a ridiculous standard.

It’s basically (stated informally, sure) the legal standard.
I'm not sure what you're arguing here. Unless you know that the Parler/Amazon contract included a cure period, the specificity of that period, that Amazon hadn't notified Parler of contract violations previously (i.e., so they extended past the cure period), and also included no other relevant termination clauses (including termination for convenience), then we simply can't say that Amazon breached the agreement despite Parler removing content. There are a myriad of ways they could have fulfilled the agreement, and/or Parler breached the agreement with Amazon.

Please, separate legal arguments from emotional arguments. I'm strictly speaking legally.

Regarding Facebook, the choice to enforce, or not to enforce, a contract term is exclusively the right of the parties to the contract. Amazon may have unfairly chosen to enforce contract terms against Parler and not enforce those same terms against Facebook (for example; though I don't believe Messenger is hosted on AWS).

That's completely irrelevant; so far as I know, no law says all parties to all contracts must be treated equitably.

You will have a compelling argument when and if law enforcement chooses to crack down on child porn on Parler but not on Messenger. In this case though, you're comparing apples to baseballs: their similarities are vastly outweighed by their differences.
I liked Dropbox Paper a lot, but then they took away the ability to bulk export notes. There is no good reason to do that. Only bad ones.
Super interesting. I was expecting a kind of microgram camera... this is a monster pill, I have trouble swallowing small ones, I would probably choke on that. Could it work from the other side as a suppository?
granting children a small slice of agency isn’t disrespect
The evidence is hosted on Parler. Oh, wait.

I'm exhausted of these conspiracy theories of "the other side doesn't like me", and offering absolutely zero proof/evidence of their claims. "Somebody did something I don't agree with, so there must be a hidden agenda." The problem is that anyone that believes in these conspiracies will absolutely not listen to counter-evidence. To them, it is all just part of the cover up. I'm not saying give up trying to counter them, but it is absolutely tiring.

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Same here. There are exceptions to everything, but to me it feels like if someone distributes their work via Docker they are actually not on top of the complexity they are trying to deal with. Pushing that complexity into something like a Docker image doesn't make it go away. At best, a bit chunk of bloat is generated with at least trashes your disk cache. At worst, a big hunk of unmaintained software is waiting in a corner to be taken apart and hacked to pieces.

Docker images have an air of really big bit graves.
It is wordingsmithing, AWS does not host Twitter feeds, but they will be hosting Twitter timelines...

https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...

"Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) has selected AWS to provide global cloud infrastructure to deliver Twitter timelines. Under the multi-year deal, Twitter will leverage AWS’s proven infrastructure and portfolio of services to support delivery of millions of daily Tweets."
Korea and some other countries operated 5G mmwave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_5G_NR_networks
> I've found TED really disappointing

This suggests a consistency of quality among TED talks that I hadn't noticed before.

I like some and not others.

This is one of my favourites. The last time I linked to it on HN nobody liked it but I didn't feel rejected. I felt special.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeDt9dgFXFk
It was a made-up example. I suppose I combined the Rohingyan and Rwandan genocides. FB had nothing to do with the latter, of course.
"And Mr. Musk's endorsement of Signal last week sent publicly traded shares of Signal Advance Inc., a small medical device maker, soaring from a roughly $50 million market value to more than $3 billion. (The company has no relation to the messaging app.)"

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/technology/telegram-signa...
the problem here you're only looking at one measurement. but life is not measured using one number. honestly, some things can't be measured using numbers. and to those saying competition raises salary, I would say they're roughly right - but you're falling for the narrative fallacy.

the reason, salaries are high here (US) has mostly to do with inequality. remember the average ceo has 2100x wage than the average employee. and likewise, that also pushes the wage envelope for people in the profit center. but in tech not everything is code. support people etc are massively underpaid compared to the value they produce. also while scrum masters are massively overpaid. so yeah you answer is more cultural!! not competition or market factors. but cultural.

in america culture is individualistic, case in point there's huge wage discrepancy between people working the same role | level e.g one Software Engineer could make 20k more or 30k because of negotiation skills.

and I bet quality of life of an average engineer in low paid Europe is way better than your run off the mill engineer here in the US. Healthcare is atrocious! let's see what your high salary will do when you get a surprise medical bill. Last thing SV salaries are not representative of average american tech salaries. most people here seem to forget that.
Oh Jesus, I read the title and thought it was about 'The Troubles' coming to the US over the insurrection. Which I thought would be really bad. But then it was about covid-19, and, well ... that actually may be worse in terms of casualties. Good Lord.
> RSUs that appreciate dramatically

Well, yeah, luck certainly can factor in. There was a year I made around 1.35 million in total comp due to luck like this. Nowadays I mostly make around 150k.
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A lot of people confuse welfare with unemployment, I assume you mean that welfare isn't contribution based which is correct.

In some countries, e.g. NL/DE, unemployment however is contribution based and you always pay for it (it's tacked on next to your normal taxed), which when needed is limited to 2 years based on 60% of your last net income. The idea is that you should still be able to afford your current way of living without too many compromises when you got laid off and haven't found a new job yet.

In Germany for example welfare isn't great, it's around €400/mo though the state pays your rent directly.
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It seems daft but walk into a field of cows some time.

There is a daft meme that whales are cool and intelligent (lol etc) and so on. They are both cool and demonstrably intelligent and yet they insist on doing the same thing that they have done for millenia. There is no way that evolution can kick in for a race that lives for so long, for such a destructive force that was deployed so quickly (us).
Maybe not the majority, but what about total raw numbers of users? Parler was tiny compared to FB. If only 0.01% of FB users were trying to undermine/overthrow the election that's probably a lot more people than the total on Parler.
Fully trustless is where we started.
If I have a "pay by month" subscription, and I don't pay, that's not a debt. That's the end of the subscription.
The whole point of a stable release is to be, well, stable.

People want to be able to develop their things they need, such as their organization's website, online store, internal email system, support system, and things like that, deploy them, and then get on with doing whatever the organization was organized to do.

They don't want to have to be constantly fiddling with all those things to keep them working. They want to build them, deploy them, and then not have to spend much effort on them until they want to add new features.
I do this and it works. I had thought it was my own idea but now you've got me wondering if I heard it from somewhere, possibly the TED talk you're referring to.
Parler decided not to buy their own hardware and rent their own rack space. Plenty of other unpopular websites have figured it out.
> On the moon you have no atmosphere to do it with radiators with fans, so I gues you would have to make huge radiators which simply emit the heat away as infrared radiation?

Exactly. You can still transport the heat efficiently away from the computer using heat exchangers with some medium, but in the end radiators with a large enough surface area will be required.

Works well enough on the ISS, so I imagine it'd work just as well on the Moon.
That's right. There's now absolutely zero doubt GAFA works together to determine which content gets elevated and which gets deplatformed. Choices are made in coordination as the Trump/Parler shitshow demonstrated. Not acceptable for four companies to be more powerful than the US Government.
Reminds me of something I read a few weeks ago. An old lady who lives in a cabin in the woods is being interviewed. The interviewer asks: "isn't it incredibly inconvenient that you need to gather firewood and light a fire every time you want to drink some tea?"

"Isn't it inconvenient that you have to work for someone else for 8 hours every day, only so you don't need to start a fire?"

I'm positive you can do all of those things with an average salary, at least in northern europe. There is little to worry about once you have a roof over your head. You may not have that Tesla though.
> This post is decently interesting and fun although I can't really understand where it's going

Does a post have to be going somewhere to be interesting and fun?

If a post is going somewhere, do you have to be able to see where that is in order to find it interesting and fun?
> You’re right about the scope of section 230, and given that Parler is not considered a publisher or speaker (which I think is appropriate), there is currently nothing else to consider holding them liable for,

Generally, relieving them of being found to be the “publisher or speaker” of content they distribute would leave them as a distributor, having civil liability for content where they have actual (or constructive) knowledge of unlawful content that they distribute, rather than liability independent of their knowledge of the content based on the presumption of control that goes with status as a publisher.
Laying down sounds fucking great while working, but the desk hasn't changed in the past 2000 years so I don't expect any nifty startup to derail that constant.
> what could possibly be the dead's problem?

Opportunity cost.
Russian president was impressed and frightened by a grocery store.
https://www.nhregister.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article...

Russian might pilot stole a jet and came to America. For a time be thought grocery stores were fake American propaganda. He traveled the country to find out why we had so much.
https://www.amazon.com/Mig-Pilot-Final-Escape-Belenko/dp/038...

Our capitalist system produced so much food that socialist countries thought it all fake propaganda.
A bigger problem is that they may not be able to do the recall at any price.

TSMC is backed up out the wazoo right now, and has cut off so many carmakers that just last week [0] Toyota and Ford have each had to halt an entire production line solely because they ran out of chips.

Automotive chips aren't commodity products anymore. They all have individually-unique cryptographic keys (laser-fused at the foundry) so they can authenticate each other and lock out tinkerers. The carmakers love this concept, but it just came back to bite them.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-bb12adb61060...
> Currently, however, only one side's ideas are being banned; even if they don't call for violence, only if they "make people angry".

> With and estimated ~200 protestors entering the building, we've effectively silenced tens of millions in response.

Last time I checked, right-wing ideas haven't been banned from social media. Unless you're conflating those who hold extremist views and mainstream views under one category, which is a dangerous and counterproductive classification.
Aren't the Republicans in power today? Who else can they blame for losing it, but themselves?

They knew who Trump was all along [1], but they stuck by him nevertheless. There are bound to be consequences for that kind of poor judgment.

1: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lindsey-graham-nominate-tr...
It comes down to everyone wanting to do what they want and finding collective in that separation. Ultimately it's just cult mentality and that's what humans are like. This is why we war.
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The fact that there's relentless pro-parler, pro-insurrectionist takes hitting the front page, but Amazon's detailed rebuttal to Parler's legal claims or technically quite interesting citizen investiations of the attack on the US Capitol tells you a lot about HN's worldview.
There are ToS at Colo facilities also, renting rack space isn't foolproof either.
> Congress can impeach for almost anything - it doesn't have to be anything illegal - they just need to have enough votes for it.

I know this part is true. However, and again I'm not a lawyer, but I think inciting an insurrection is actually illegal?
Sites like stormfront manage to stay up, despite being way older and arguably more extreme.
There's less of a media monoculture today than there was in an 80s and 90s, when the Republican perception of media persecution and bias really started to accelerate.

Basically all of the resulting right-wing media empires that were built still exist!

I'm unsympathetic to the "we need a right-wing social network where our death threats don't have to get moderated" argument, so let's see if a few more attempts that are in more good faith get blocked by Apple before I care too much there...

The problem with how far these big chunks of their voter base have gone into extremism is that it really undermines their complaints about being treated unfairly. If I'd predicted even a year ago that people would get shot storming the capital over unsubstantiated claims of fraud that Trump himself had stirred for the better part of a year I'd have been mocked even by "moderate" Republicans as having "trump derangment syndrome" and told I was being unfair to Trump by assuming he would act so badly... and yet here we are. At some point we have to start dealing with Trump, and his base, for who they actually are now, not just in idealistic terms of "Repubs and Dems are the same, just on opposite sides."
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Great project !
The experience in the Web PKI has been that you can pay lawyers to explain to a judge that they should order the thing they actually want done, rather than accept contorted arguments from other lawyers that a different order will achieve the goals despite not ordering what is actually desired.

For example the EFF spent effort helping US judges understand that if they want to order that stealmovies.example must go away they need to order the example registry to remove this name, not try to force Let's Encrypt to revoke certificates for it as Hollywood lawyers were advocating.

That won't magically stop judges from making orders you disagree with but it does force them to be clear eyed about what they're about, and that means you're more likely to prevail with simple just rationales either in court or subsequently in popular opinion.
> I’m in the camp that the Republicans are toast. The people in power today will never give it up.

The people in power today in the Federal government are the Republicans, with the exception of the House of Representatives.
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Right! I thought that the first one, the AltWork Station looked super cool. Not cheap though.
> Also everyone keeps talking about working for FAANG but.... The vast majority of US engineers don't work for them.

True, but since FAANGs have offices all over the world, employ a ton of people and doing market research for salaries they should offer, it might be a pretty good idea to look at them and compare what they pay per country to see disproportions
Good for Tesla I suppose, as they can point at TSMC as to why they can't perform the recall. If forced to do the recall, they'd be rate limited by TSMC's production capacity. The longer Tesla can extend and pretend, the less painful the expense to them of doing the recall.
there's plenty of big colocation and hosting companies in Russia.
It takes a bit more structuring but $300k is not impossible. Especially if you have management skills and good communication skills next to solid tech chops.
Most of network file system provide open-after-close consistency, same to JuiceFS, it's mentioned here [1]:

https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs#posix-compatibility
It’s absurd to think that anyone was trying to murder anyone and you can’t actually believe that. Everyone is so over the top, all of the time, it’s exhausting to even read it. My hope is that once Trump is gone everyone can STFU and get on with their lives but I guess that’ll never happen because someone somewhere will still be wrong on the internet.