skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crazy how you need a tool that reads another tool to figure out how much you're spending for the original tool.

I'm sure there was a purpose for how the AWS console was originally built, but if someone spent this much time for an alternative, there's a clear problem in its original conception.
I just browsed that website... that isn’t evidence and it’s spewing more lies about how Europe and other countries vote. Honestly don’t believe this stuff, please go and look up how other countries do mail in ballots... it isn’t controversial or insecure. Showing stats of how upset people are isn’t evidence is fraud...

“Witness count” is not evidence of anything, and could imply there are just more people willing to lie. Which is the more believable narrative given lying is happening.

They audited the votes in almost all the swing counties... nothing... in fact it was miscounted in trumps favour in some.

They did do a full audit in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania ... where else would you like one?
This is one reason why amazon pulled the plug and the violent posts were "rapidly growing". This kind of customer is probably a huge headache to deal with, and complaints were being sent/forwarded from amazon and "some" were acted on.

From Ars article:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/amazon-cuts-off-...

Amazon said:
"It's clear that Parler does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service. It also seems that Parler is still trying to determine its position on content moderation. You remove some violent content when contacted by us or others, but not always with urgency. Your CEO recently stated publicly that he doesn’t "feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform." This morning, you shared that you have a plan to more proactively moderate violent content, but plan to do so manually with volunteers. It’s our view that this nascent plan to use volunteers to promptly identify and remove dangerous content will not work in light of the rapidly growing number of violent posts."
The unfortunate reality is that moving to Telegram is moving to a new Facebook. Yes, they offer a bunch of fancy features, unfortunately it's at the price of true privacy. All your data, for all perpetuity, will be stored on telegram servers where you hope that at no point in the future will they be compromised or forced to rat you out.

This is not a problem that Signal faces as they do not keep any of your data.
Yeah I am one of those cold blooded Canadians. Weird thing is if you look at what's going in Canadian real estate, the shitty weather is not reflected in price at all.

Weather and the high cost of living in all the major Canadian cities (compared to the average tech income) were the two main reasons wife and I decided to move down South. Don't regret it for a moment.
Slack and all its clones are based on the chat room model, which structurally has the problem described in this article (and many others for productivity, such as wasting attention). Fundamentally, the chatroom model pioneered by IRC is poor for asynchronous communication because you can't sustain temporally overlapping conversations in a channel.

However, you can't "just use email" -- Email's threading model is great for asynchronous work, but it is poor for synchronous communication and also doesn't support modern features that make it easier to communicate ideas efficiently (shared history, markdown formatting, image previews, emoji reactions, etc.). It's essential to be able to have (semi)synchronous written conversations with people you're working with, especially if you don't want to spend your days burning out on video calls.

This is why we created Zulip -- it's designed as a real-time communication tool with email's threading model and all the nice features of modern chat apps that email lacks. And the reading user experience is actually a lot better than email, because Zulip provides is designed with the goal of saving time when prioritizing, skimming, reading, and replying to conversations. It's also 100% open source software (not open core!).
In Madrid city it may snow one or two times a year, but not all years, also most of the time the snow goes away the same day it falls. A few years the snow remains in the city for a couple of days, but is not that common and is usually seen as a joyful event.

But this time, the whole city was completely covered in snow, all of it. Cars abandoned in the middle of the street, people skying in the main avenues, it was crazy, no one I know has ever seen this here so if it has ever happened, it must been at least 80 years ago.
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In my previous example if the highest sell price is $9.99 and you offer to buy at 9.98 you are “offering liquidity”.

It’s not a service that’s on offer it’s a fundamental market behavior that any participant can engage in.
> The idea that Trump and his supporters haven't been heard is laughable

A bit of a tangent but - I know what you mean by this and I generally agree but I think their concern is not about the amount of media attention they have gotten but about how their views are represented (or misrepresented) in the media. The media tends to take the most extreme in a group and paint with a broad brush. Is being in the same camp as racists a good look? Not at all, but when someone calls all trump supporters or those who espouse beliefs in common with trump racists it ignites and incites and misrepresents.

I’ll admit to feeling this at times. I’m a moderate left and I once voiced support for tarriffs on Chinese goods and was called racist by multiple people because I have a belief in common with trump on that. It didn’t make me more likely to evaluate my belief on that it made me angry and sad and a bit silenced. How am I to respond to an accusation like that? I’m really not sure. If I had more beliefs in common with Trump I can imagine being a lot worse off in that respect.
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Maybe we could ban them like Parler for all the WrongThink!
> I have always thought that Slack is designed to make information go away, and that's why people like it.

I think it's exactly the opposite?[0]

People like it because, except for the free plan, you can find anything that was ever discussed.

[0]: https://slack.com/pricing
If all it took to stop Nazis and fascists was to educate them through compassion and understanding, WWII wouldn't have happened.

The fact is, like the fascists of WWII, these insurrectionists have bought into a Big Lie. This time, the Big Lie is that the election was stolen. By extension, they believe that anyone who does not also believe the Big Lie is the enemy of democracy and must be stopped at all costs.

How do you get through to these people? It doesn't matter how much evidence you show them that it's all a lie -- they're choosing to believe the Big Lie over anything else, consequences be damned. They believe it so strongly, they're willing to commit atrocities to impose it on other people.

You can't let this go unchecked. We learned the hard way in WWII the consequences of letting it go unchecked -- it ultimately took mass military mobilization and the deaths of _tens of millions_ to quash it. Unless we want a repeat, we the people who have _not_ bought into the Big Lie need to nip this in the bud _now_, by imposing harsh enough consequences on them that they _can't afford_ to keep the Big Lie going.

So, I don't believe that fascists, Nazis, terrorists, insurrectionists, etc. deserve a platform under any circumstances.

> How would we know when we're not the other side if we do the same actions?

It's the paradox of tolerance. We must not suffer the intolerant, lest the intolerant seize the reigns of power and impose intolerance of other things by violent means. We know we're not the "other side" if we're only being intolerant of the intolerant-of-other-things.
The relationship between border towns is very tight. You would ruin the entire southern economy if you banned cross-border travel entirely.

Back in the day before Mexico required passports to enter, many people lived in Tijuana and worked in San Diego. I'm sure this still happens today, and of course, you have to consider that many migrants work in US farms, etc.
They are materially different. A pardon reflects forgiveness and seeks to redress civil disability typically as a result of a systemic injustice.

A commutation is a lessening of the penalty. It implies that the act was wrong and the sentence was deserved but perhaps it was heavy handed. There is no implication of innocence in a commutation.
I've heard that the vaccine doesn't make you less likely to transmit COVID - just less acute symptoms. So getting the vaccine doesn't really help other people - just you. From this perspective, this doesn't make much sense (unless the objective is to make $ for the corporations).
I saw Twitter's Public Policy team melting down about this. What did they expect? Pandora's Box has been opened
From [0]:

"Seibert said the U.S. ought to follow Germany’s example in how it handles online incitement. Rather than leaving it up to tech companies to make their own rules, German law compels these companies to remove possibly illegal material within 24 hours of being notified or face up to $60.8 million in fines.

""This fundamental right can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the framework defined by legislators — not according to a decision by the management of social media platforms," he told reporters in Berlin. "Seen from this angle, the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the U.S. president have now been permanently blocked.""
https://harmful.neocities.org/
Hm, that fails to land as a criticism. Depends whether you're talking about (a) "free speech, the legally-protected institution" or (b) "free speech, your right to be awful and not suffer consequences". The xkcd is saying that people saying "but my free speech!" are defending (b) by describing it as (a), which it's not. That's basically true. Afaik the part xkcd definitely gets wrong is the part about "can't arrest you for what you say", which isn't really how it works (for instance https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/11/hello-youve-been-referred... discusses the case of how it enters into civil suits).

Of course _philosophically_, yeah, the people who included (a) in the constitution were interested in (b). Everyone's on board with free speech as a concept here. But at some point if someone is yelling Nazi stuff, I'm gonna punch them for it. It's not a legal question at all; my actions aren't governed by laws, just what I feel is right to do. That is the same point xkcd was making. I don't know enough to say whether AWS or whoever has the same right because they are operating in a legal system. But as a _person_, yeah, I can do whatever I want to you, including 'show you the door', if you're awful.
well, it doesn't omit it; it just applies it to all preceding arguments that didn't have a qualifier, same as normal golang function arguments. It's still being explicit about the constraint being `any`
Nice work! I was looking for a wiki system with a similar workflow the other day and was surprised not to find anything. If anyone knows of a wiki system that supports this kind of review/merge flow I'm very interested.
No, that's not common. I guess that their humor is beyond edgy for most people. A related page is cat-v.org, which contains similar edgy jokes (see "Herrensystem 9" http://glenda.cat-v.org/gallery/)
I was a bit whelmed when I used it.

I expeced an alternative to the AWS console, but got a monitoring dashboard. Didn't seem like I could do much with it besides looking at my resources.
Do people actually use UML in practice? It's not something I've ever really found useful for my own development. Maybe it's more of a communication tool than a design tool? Or am I being too hasty?
In europe, we long accepted that uncensored talk of hate speech which in practice is almost always racial hatred will lead to the eventual overthrow of democracies and therefore deserve to be censored.

Is preserving democracy worth putting limits on free speech? I'd argue absolutely. People are animals.
None of those sound all that inflammatory. Mostly just political rhetoric.

"We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong." -- In context, he is saying: "Cheer for the Republicans in congress, maybe not so much for the ones who aren't backing me because they aren't showing strength" -- nothing about that seems like it is incitement.

Yet somehow Democrats saying worse things is applauded.
Compare that to where actual violence is implied:
"If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere."
- Maxine Waters
"Go to the Hill today. Please, get up in the face of some congresspeople." - Cory Booker
"We owe the American people to be there for them, for their financial security, respecting the dignity and worth of every person in our country, and if there is some collateral damage for some others who do not share our view, well, so be it, but it shouldn’t be our original purpose." - Nancy Pelosi
Indeed I am coming from Python (and some Go), and I'm coming to Rust because I want a language that makes me think about these things. But those who do not want to be bothered are likely to be turned off.
Its funny how one person can make a difference. I used to visit a small banana farm in La Conchita before a mud slide destroyed it. I had never seen such a variety of bananas.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-28-fo-banan...
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And you would be smart not to. It's like people haven't learned from history and what happened to Facebook and WhatsApp. Moving to Telegram is simply moving to a new Facebook and hoping that they don't sell out or get compromised. All your data is stored by default on their servers and out of your control. Switching to Signal is the only real viable option going into 2021.
I wonder how much of that was about firmly keeping the ownership of 'writing' in the hands of the elite? Writing in that way would have been extremely costly, and so is another use of wealth in a vastly wealthy country?
Twitter’s official statement on this is one for the history books:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Policy/status/1349059275461685250
Does it really matter for Linux world where you jest compile software from open sources anyway?
Unfathomable? People do have short memories. Remember this?

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/nancy-pelosi-visits-sa...

Trump floated the idea of cancelling flights, initially from China, cause that was the only hot spot, back in Winter only to be called a racist.
Yes, an alphabet was used in Ugarit that may have been invented first. It arose from cuneiform and its ancestors died out long ago. The "Phoenician" alphabet used for archaic Hebrew and which later developed into the Greek and Latin scripts is what's being discussed here.
I know that traditionalist Hindus believe human civilization is much much much older than is generally thought in the West.

This doesn’t strike me as impossible. The glaciers would have obliterated all trace of any northern civilizations older than 12000 years for example.

Not to mention superstitious successor cultures could plausibly have destroyed artifacts as well.
I think this depends on the student. I do not have a CS degree. I dabbled in Python, but the first programming course that I took was Harvard's CS50 MOOC. I really appreciated learning C because it taught me about the underlying system through concepts like memory management. I agree that Python is friendlier, but I feel like C trains a particular mindset. Python may be more suitable for those who want to get off the ground quickly.
I read through this and it is unclear what the point of this is. Most real world RSM deployments (Spanner, DynamoDB, etc) are composed of many separate RSMs one for each shard/partition. The requisite performance is readily provided by the aggregate performance of these essentially independent RSMs. Don't see any real situations where adding additional hardware to make a single RSM faster makes sense. Any ideas?
That's where I think people are missing the point to some extent. I'm taking on good faith what was reported by these companies - but their statements claimed they observed actual concrete planning to organise actual violence and further insurrection. Stopping speech is one thing. But the claim is it is not the speech they are worried about, it is the violence. The infrastructure is being used for more than speech. Removing the infrastructure is being done to impede those larger effects.

Does it change the flavor if I rewrite the phrase as

First they came for the murderers and I did not speak out ...

?
> Also IMO UML and those Software Engineering classes are not useful for Bay area styled tech companies.

Out of interest, what do you base this opinion on?
My mom used to have lots of banana trees, but she ripped them out because she did not like the way they looked. I would fry them with salt and pepper. Best tasting fruit I tasted in a while.
> The 3 biggest technology companies in the world united in the last two days to shut down an upstart competitor who was, at the time, literally the #1 app on iPhone and Android.

Maybe Facebook, but...

How did Parler compete with Apple? What market were they competing in?

How did Parler compete with AWS? Did they share the same sort of clients?

How did Parler compete with Google?
> U.S. officials do not plan to drop restrictions that were adopted starting in March that ban most non-U.S. citizens who have been in most of Europe, the United Kingdom and Brazil as soon as possible, the sources said.

Does anyone know if the EU travel ban is going to get lifted anytime this year (with the Biden administration)?
Your argument again misses the issue of security.
Yes, tariffs hurt efficiency on a global scale and they hurt consumers in your country (as they now will have to spend more to get the same goods they could have get cheaper). Creating or keeping less efficient industry gains in scenarios where foreign actor you depend on for imports stops meeting demands (either on purpose to hurt you or if disaster like a pandemic hits). It's a trade-off between efficiency in a perfect world and security in a real one.
Hey, thanks for that comment and I'm glad folks are noticing our approach. We are happy to blog about it. We've had a tremendous amount of success with it.

Security is a top concern of ours and this was really the only option for what we are doing.
Slock is the only one I use, but it's great.
They were not asleep, they were deliberately letting the car drive off a cliff because they thought admitting there was a cliff there would make them look weak.
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I am curious if anyone knows of any financial service which will split the cost of buying stock options with you for a higher percentage yield in the event of a liquidation? Thanks for your input.
To put this in context as well, most places (at the least in the southern parts of Spain) don't have central heating systems or proper insulation. A fireplace or reversible A/C if you're lucky.
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> The topic under discussion here is whether the "new public square" (or things like payment infrastructure!) are considered critical enough to society that we want to protect access to them.

That's one core question. Another is whether it should be up to these companies to police their own platforms. Inciting violence is illegal. They're banning people and platforms inciting violence.

"Repeal section 230" seems to be about making these companies responsible for policing their own platforms. When people incited violence/genocide on Facebook in Myanmar, some people held Facebook partially responsible. Now, there are people are inciting violence on Facebook in the US, and it's still an open question whether Facebook should be held liable.
My understanding from reading up on the 11th gen Intel CPUs is that the integrated graphics is supposed to be improved for first time in several generations. I have the same problem as you running a 4k screen from a Macbook with a 10th gen CPU.
I wholeheartedly agree. But I think it’s just a matter of preference for top-down or bottom-up
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> Several thousand out of bounds, missing keys, null reference exceptions, hash collisions and the hair starts to get thin on top.

What does any of that have to do with generics?
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> and am so glad to never deal with the kind of over-engineered generic madness that is so common in Java

Over engineered how?
Well uncynically, a small number of crackpot theories end up being true. Science needs crackpots on some level to drive the truth forward.

Cynically, after having already achieved some level of legitimacy, having one or two big crackpot theories is a good way to drum up publicity/notability. If it turns out to be true, you would also be enormously respected and influential. So it’s incentivized by more than just discovering the truth
I think it also works as a mental tool. It helps you think about the structure of your software.
I'd say telegram isn't likely to get banned from app stores as there is intentionally no support for e2ee in group chats, and dm's aren't also e2ee by default.
This is exactly why at my org, slack is one of the de-facto sources of truth. And it's awesome. I can often find the solution to a specific, niche problem that someone else discussed 4 years ago in a few seconds. Assuming your org pays for whatever it is that allows full archival, it's a great way to capture org-specific, tribal knowledge that you won't find on google, but that nobody will take the time to add to an internal wiki or something accessible beyond their immediate team.

If you want a chat nightmare, try microsoft teams. That quickly became one of the most painful parts of one of my previous workplaces.
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I'm going to agree with the parent comment: The question of ISPs being a public utility or not is crucial for this discussion because it goes to the core of the issue of what should be a privilege and what should be a right.

If you can be booted from Amazon because it's a private company then you can also be refused service by your ISP. And there's an argument to be made that, at some point down the chain (AWS, DNS, ISP) you should have a right to internet access. Should Amazon be forced to offer unconditional access to Parler? Probably not. But right now there's nothing stopping ISPs from cutting people's internet connection just because they don't like what the customers are doing with it, and that's a much thornier issue.

Regulating ISPs like utilities would delineate a clear line in the sand for problems like this.
Nah they weren't asleep, but they were standing on the wrong ship, looking backwards.
They brought bombs and at least one cooler full of molotov cocktails. Bombs were planted in the capital building and at least the RNC headquarters, and possibly the DNC headquarters IIRC
> I don't understand why we don't implement the isolation procedures of countries that have gotten this under control

I'd hazard a guess that it's because they don't want to completely kill off tourism, an industry which is hurting pretty bad because of covid (see TSA arrivals screened https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus/passenger-throughput)

No tourist would be interested in coming over to stay two weeks on their own dime locked in a hotel, only then to be able to do some actual traveling.
In fairness, the home page says "Backed by 1M annual investment"