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A coup assumes the capacity to take over. What, they’re going to delay the rite of electoral college certification and one month later the military, CIA, etc is answering to Trump? What do we know about involvement of actual officials beyond Trumpworld core? Was the FCC in on the insurrection?

Usually a coup d’etat interrupts TV broadcasts immediately. Was there a plan at all?

Edit: the insurrection didn’t even have snipers to try and kill retreating congressbeings. I don’t think it even qualifies as a terrorist act. The gravity of the situation (an election that’s really within a statistical margin of error - if the goal was to ascertain the preferences of a plurality) makes it more than mere vandalism, but emotions are running way too high here.

The political climate may make the “terrorism” label stick. But there was nothing to it remotely resembling a coup.
The work-from-home has been a massive stress-reliever for me. I don't like cities, but most tech jobs are in cities. I get to live in a nice quiet suburb now. I loathe commuting in any form, and now I don't have to do that. There used to be work-from-home jobs, but they were the exception, and it was hard to be treated as a normal, engaged team member. Now nearly everyone in tech works from home, and even after the pandemic, it's going to be more widely accepted. It's tragic that is took a pandemic to get to this point, but it's the best thing that ever happened to my career.

I'm burned out from the lack of social contact, though. I don't mean coworkers; I'm glad I don't have to interact with coworkers beyond Zoom. I mean the lack of family-and-friends get-togethers; the inability to pop down to the pub for a quick beer with friends; the lack of new friendships made because of the distancing; having to treat everyone and everything as though they're radioactive; the constant doomscrolling. Everything non-work-related is stressful and hollow.

Work from home would have made my life better under other circumstances. I'd have gained all the commute time back; I'd be living near family, friends, and activities that I enjoy; I'd be far from cities that I dislike. I have some of those things, but in this perverse alternate reality, I feel like I'm being teased and can't have it.

One of the biggest downsides to the past year is the lack of vacations. I took a week off for a break, but spent it at home doing nothing. There's no way I'm getting on a plane before I'm vaccinated, nor going to a restaurant or bar, and I'm not keen on staying in a hotel.
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Many of the products weren't available but on Pantry. It was usually a lot of small, low margin items that would be a total loss for Amazon to ship one at a time. Pantry had a minimum order size as well. (similar to most grocery delivery's minimums)
Fundamentally, there's no "profit" to be made in OSS, nor public goods in general. If you try to charge for more than "at cost", someone else can and will come along and undercut you.

Why the scare quotes? Well, I don't mean all profit according to definition, but specifically the "returns for investors" type. Company profits. Technically you can run a sole proprietorship, and make (say) $100k in profit.. or you could structure as a corporation, pay yourself a $100k salary, and make no profit. It's all the same money, but it's two ways of looking at the portion that I would like to describe as fair compensation to a human for the work they do. When I say "at cost", I don't mean that it's fundamentally impossible to make a living working on OSS; I mean it's fundamentally impossible to get filthy rich with it.

And in my opinion that's a good thing. In my experience, "getting filthy rich" / providing outsized returns to investors almost always comes at someone else's expense. Usually the little guy. It happens when the poor sod paying you can't afford to switch to a competitor, so you're able to wring them dry. The counter-argument goes that we need the "filthy rich" incentive to motivate people to make these things. I think it likely increases the rate of innovation, but I think the amount of cool and useful OSS written by people in their spare time is evidence enough that profit is not a requirement in that area, only financial security.

There is a problem, though, where it's currently very difficult to even make a living wage working on OSS (again, or public goods in general). I think can be solved, and I am working on a project trying to solve this (as a volunteer; we could use help). I'll cut it here (I spent far too much time writing this comment already...), but you can read more at https://wiki.snowdrift.coop
Your fundamental assumption is that bad ideas die. I'm not sure that is supported by the evidence.

The converse of that is "If the idea persists, it's good". I'm having a hard time seeing the evidence for that as well.
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If the owner of a restaurant criticizes the local Mayor on television, and then the health inspector and fire safety inspector show up the next day and start measuring the distances between doors and windows down to the micrometer - this is all technically and legally correct. Everyone is acting with the authority that they have the right to. If violations are found, the penalties would also be 100% legal and correct.

Now if we choose to be fools and ignore what has actually happened here, we have the right to do that too. Most of the conversations about freedom, censorship, misinformation, private corporations, rights, authority, etc. seem to be neglecting the tremendous scope for abuse.

The mere accusation of being an infidel is enough to taint the perception of the person in question. Someone was banned from the radio for alleged misinformation. What's the vetting process? For most it's to check their political leanings, laugh, and not pursue the matter further. This is a dangerous standard to set.
> There are no alternatives.

The alternative is to not use iOS-based devices, which seems like a pretty good idea all around from a transparency avenue (and like I've said before on this site, like the broken record I am: transparency is a dependency of trust). That's exactly Librem's argument, and it's a compelling one: you have no control over the device or visibility into the software running on it, so how can you trust it to be operating for your benefit instead of that of some third party?

Even Android devices typically allow sideloading, and quite a few even support custom ROMs. That is: even devices with software maintained by a literal ad company are more transparent - and therefore more trustworthy, even if only marginally - than any iPhone or iPad.
If anything elastic is contributing to lucene. https://www.elastic.co/blog/this-year-in-apache-lucene-2019
I'm glad someone had the courage to say it. Now if we could just recognize Taiwan, and punish American companies for supporting abusive and inhuman practices against the Chinese people, we might actually get a glimpse of potential change.
It's not even clear that there's a solution here beyond let the platforms exercise their best judgement and sort of muddle along.

Ensuring a diversity of platforms with no one/two/three platforms controlling the vast majority of interaction would probably help.
I think it is a measure of civilisation that the US has not lost control to barbarism and kakistocracy.

But it should not have come so close... The Trump rioters have been cultivated and groomed for destruction by a genuinely sick political party with funds from wealthy donors.

> I am no longer convinced that this would really make the world a better place

What definitely would make the world a better place is for people to understand, through education, that intelligent debate must exist and compromise is often necessary for civilisation and culture.

Any person who espouses murder by threat or deed has simply become a tribal animal.

"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech." -- a dictator
Australia is probably not a great example to use. The political landscape there is a problem in and of itself. Plus Murdoch, etc. They have their own problems to deal with. Google PR wants you to focus on Australia's insane politics. It distracts from the larger issue.

But. If you look at this in principle, without focusing on the specific country, then it is difficult to argue in Google's favour. Countries may want to preserve their media institutions, unlike the US. They may not want to watch journalism die at the hands of Facebook and Google.

The way Facebook and Google "decimate" is by being middlemen and extracting the lion's share of online advertiser revenue. They are positioned to collect larger amounts of data by being middlemen for all online content and thus can offer more value to advertisers than any single media publication.

These two companies have plenty of cash. If a country asks them to pay, they can. After all, neither produces any content.

That is the issue as I see it. Not Australia in particular but whether a country's media institutions can ask Facebook and Google to pay.
The US can expect similar headlines for critising Critical Race Theory.
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Reminds that Facebook messenger started out as (non federated) XMPP and worked with OTR until they re-factored everything.

For a little while it was possible to just use pidgin, and have OTR work with Google talk (also boycotting fédération), Facebook and general XMPP.

But now the silo walls have been reinforced.
That applies to licensees not to the copyright owner (a person or other entity), though the copyright owner would be wise on requiring a CLA for contributions.
> where bad ideas die and good ideas spread.

Why do we assume this is true? Billions of people get scammed in the world yearly. Yes. Billions.

Mass hysteria[1] is a thing, and sure in the long term an idea __may__ die out (again, there's no real evidence of this). The damage done until it does die out can lead to a rise in cult of personality like how Hitler came into power and became so popular in Germany.

There isn't some natural filter of hate and __bad__ ideas in humans. People are sheep and will put their weight behind anyone who resonates with them. Not necessarily "good" ideas.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases
Heck, Amazon themselves got locked-in to Oracle for the first 25 years of Amazon's existence. Vendor lock-in for your IT stack doesn't prevent you from becoming a successful business.
I think the author means he is the developer/license owner, in which case he can do whatever he wants, it's just other people that have to follow the license.
AGPL does not restrict how you use the software, rather, it requires that you offer the same freedoms to your users as the original license offered to you. You can sell AGPL'd software.
Interesting history, and the subtext seems to be that this is precedence for deleting Trump from social media. But the connection isn't presented, it is assumed. And in my opinion, doesn't exist.

>As a media historian, I find more than a little similarity between the stand those stations took back then and the way Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have silenced false claims of election fraud and incitements to violence in the aftermath of the siege on the U.S. Capitol – noticeably by silencing the claims of Donald Trump and his supporters.

If you're going to link accusations of election fraud with Nazism you need more than "more than a little similarity".

And bundling up accusations of election fraud with incitements to violence is very sloppy. Someone can believe fraud happened without advocating violence.

If we don't allow that seperation, then anyone who is critical about anything to do with the election is inciting violence. Of course, when this standard is applied it won't be done evenly. Instead it will be targeted to certain groups. At that point it becomes political persicution.
3 of these are banned in most lockdowns.

Reminder that if you're in a lockdown or want to help prevent the spread of Covid, stay at home. Travelling to and using holiday homes still contributes to the spread even if you maintain social distancing.

No judgement on lesinski, I do not know the guidance or prevalence of Covid where they are, but this thread is explicitly about lockdown environments so I think it's important to re-iterate that these are sadly not suitable things to do for many of us.
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Whatever you call it, nobody would want lawyers to be fired or huffpo being de-platformed for saying Trump stole the election had Trump narrowly won instead of narrowly lost.

The only difference is that the people in charge of big tech agree with you instead of the republicans. That won't always be the case.
When charging to takes hours to complete (even fast charging takes more than an hour on my Bolt), you don't have the convenience to charge when whenever you want/need to.

If I'm at a low charge (<50 miles) I dont drive my EV unless I set aside extra time to charge. I might as well leave it at home plugged in.
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They have a lawsuit open against the third party. I would presume that "inspired" is covering themselves from libel until they have a judgment that this happened (assuming it appears).
As one person pointed out on the site, the shadow of the airplane can just be made out on the actual runway, while it is clearly missing from the ramp / taxiway in the foreground.

The wheels are, in fact, off the ground, but only just, as revealed by the smoke in the next image of the sequence.

I, too, was convinced by the absense of heat blur.
It's really hard to have sympathy for anyone here. On the Amazon side, they of course are pushing on that ethical gray line by using Elastic's name and track record to build their own offering based on Elastic's Open Source software.

On the Elastic's side they simply seem to be mad that Open Source is working exactly as it's supposed to work in favor of a big company that happens to be a competitor. It's like they want to have discretionary control on who benefits from Open Source and who doesn't.
It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.

I'm not the expert they need. I'm an expert in debugging. The tricky bit with debugging is, X can't happen, but X did happen. Magic did not cause this. Unless you have 1000 machines, cosmic rays probably didn't cause it either.

"X can't happen" is actually "All of my assumptions say 'X cannot happen'". Therefore, one of your assumptions is wrong. Don't shrug and put it off on someone else. start testing your assumptions.

In this case there's probably a PhD in testing that assumption. My question is, is that a future PhD or an existing one?
I'm surprised to see the reaction here on HN, but I'm starting to realize I'm from an older generation of open source contributors and don't share the values of some here.

The point of open source wasn't to enable viable business models for companies like Elastic. The ASL is commercial-friendly, but the design of the license wasn't to enable any specific business model. It was to ensure the widest range of freedoms.

A lot is made of the way Amazon is "taking advantage" of the license, but they aren't. They're doing exactly what is allowed, what anyone is allowed.

IMHO, if you're releasing your work under an ASL-like license, then you're making a specific promise to the community about the freedoms related to your code. You're making a promise to all the adopters and contributors. The license is a promise (literally a contract) about what to expect from each other so that we can all contribute on the project together.

When an actor unilaterally changes that agreement, it's understandable some may be upset.

And while I know it's trendy of HN to discount non-profits like Apache as out of touch or old-school, they serve an important function in the open source ecosystem. As a non-profit, Apache doesn't really care too much what Amazon or any big or small tech company does with the code, as long as the original code remains open source and there is a community that can continue to work on it. The continuation of the community is paramount, above and beyond any one company's business model. We want software, particularly internet middleware, to be stable and last for generations.

When we take a long term view for the health of the interview, Elastic's move is great for Elastic, but not for the internet as a whole. Consider where we'll be if/when Elastic collapses. Right now, Elastic has plenty of fans, but we have no guarantee that they will remain competent, competitive, and innovative over time. If their hosted service suffers, their new license ensures that no one else can compete.

The advantage of broadly supported open source projects is that they can out last any one company (e.g. Sun) or any one person, so that we can build a technical commons for the future.
Yes, sadly that seems to be what has happened at Google, Facebook, Twitter etc.
I'm genuinely interested in examples of great projects from those funding sources.

When I think about OSS databases for example I can't think of any widely used ones that don't have at least one commercial entity that provides maintenance and support which funds development.
> it's not "FOSS" at all

Source? I don't remember the url, but the other day someone posted a link to an opinion posted by someone at OSI back when Elastic was thinking of getting certification that basically said: "This licence would probably satisify the OSI defintion, but it's a bad license because it's too vague and you should use the AGPL-3 instead".
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Have you been fully wfh in the EU as well?

Personally, I feel a bit like I'm going crazy. I really miss getting dressed up for the office and the social outlet of chatting with coworkers. We were flexible re: wfh before COVID but most of us still went in a few days a week.

I love my spouse but miss having more people than just him to interact with!
> Only as long you don't have the wrong opinion.

With "wrong opinion" do you mean inciting hatred and violence, and spreading misinformation?

Because by that logic, we should also allow ISIS, Al-Qaeda et al. to do their thing.

Outside of these "wrong" opinions, parent commenter is pretty accurate. I've seen and heard of people launching a website in less than a day.

Let's not forget that freedom of speech does not give you freedom from consequences. AWS, Twitter, Google, Apple and everyone else has no obligation to give you a platform, especially when it looks bad on them, or it goes against their ahem morals (or rather: the employee's morals). Just like I, as an equal citizen, have no reason to hear you out or to spread your message, if I don't like your message.
The Fermi Paradox and the Drake equation are so fun to think about in terms of this kind of stuff. Ants trying to comprehend the possibility of aircrafts.
You need roughly 30-40% of population. That would result in the transmission rate low enough that the disease will die down on its own then.

Thankfully. I'd rather not bet my future on people who cut ventilation holes in their masks and claim 5g gives brain cancer.

Anyhow Whenever I get a chance to take a shot I will. Better save then sorry.
> So yeah, I think Zuck will be more than happy to say, please tell us what to allow on the platform and we'll follow it to the letter and deflect the blame to the regulators.

He would never do that. He needs regular users to stay on the platform. The censorship isn't to appease government regulators, it's to keep from alienating regular people who don't want to be exposed to it. Deflecting blame to the regulators wouldn't stop users from leaving and heading to a platform that did more effective damage control.
I think this is the only answer. I see a lot of people up in arms when it comes to speech they care about (e.g. Twitter removing QAnon) yet utterly silent when it comes to speech they don't (e.g. Tumblr removing NSFW). The "slippery slope" is only a problem when it hits close to home. This makes me think that if the shoe were on the other foot, team "free speech" would be more than happy to play censor.

The only way to prevent that is to keep entities from gaining so much power in the first place.
Carrot is aparently the first vegetable that comes to most people's mind.[0][1]

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It's not hope; ARM64 is compatible with ARM64 by definition. The same binaries can be used in development and production.

Windows ARM development (in a VM) should be much faster on an M1 Mac than on an x86 computer since no emulation is needed.
There isn't any performance ceiling issue. Intel ISA operates at a very slight penalty in terms of achievable performance per watt, but nothing in an absolute sense.

I would argue it isn't time for Intel to switch until we see a little more of the future as process nodes may shrink at a slower rate. Will we have hundreds of cores? Field programmable cores? More fixed function hardware on chip, or less? How will high-bandwidth high-latency gddr style memory mix with lower-latency lower-bandwidth ddr memory? Will there be on die memory like hbm for cpus?
Looks great. For someone who's not taken the plunge into Serverless yet, how would the costs compare to the more traditional options of hosting an app? i.e. a Rails/React app on Heroku

Of course 'it depends', but roughly speaking?
I don't disagree with you. The evidence appears to support that conclusion, so I'm trying to understand why Facebook is given a pass. IMO Facebook has been the single greatest catalyst for abusive online behavior in twenty years, but it's in a protected class. I would like to know why. Is it just money?
My favorite is to use sibling element selectors and checkboxes to make no JavaScript single page sites. Not the most useful (except maybe for tabs) but a really cool trick non the less. You can really take advantage of the sibling selectors to make no JavaScript modals and menues as well!
AMD and Nvidia both used VLIW in the past and both moved away because they couldn't get it to run efficiently. If embarrassingly parallel problems can't execute efficiently on VLIW architectures, I somehow doubt that CPUs will either.

The final versions of Itanic started adopting all the branch predictors and trappings from more traditional chips.

The problem is that loops theoretically cannot be completely predicted at compile time (the halting problem). Modern OoO CPUs are basically hardware JITs that change execution paths and patterns on the fly based on previous behavior. This (at least at present) seems to get much better data resulting in much better real-world performance compared to what the compiler sees.
Except that very often the app is not available for that platform.
It's time for more predictions.

1. Apple's CPUs will not improve anywhere near as fast as the competition. Computation per watt of (some) competitors' products will outpace Apple's in just a few years.

2. Intel will come roaring back on the back of TSMC, but first will need to wait on growth of manufacturing capacity, as certain competitors can get more money per mm^2.

3. Intel will fail to address its product-quality problem, but it will not end up hurting them.
> Why is the clock so complicated? In this blog post, I examine the clock's circuitry and explain why so many chips were needed.

Thousands of words follow before getting to the answer. What is the point of such a tease in a technical blog post with no advertising?

Do people think this makes good writing? Have authors internalized the clickbait style they read in so much other media? It's too common to be accidental.