skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the lessons of Europe before WWII? The lessons of fascism and authoritarian communism arising in heavily censored states without the right to free expression? The lessons of fascists and communists enacting further censorship and surveillance as a means of enforcing their power? The lessons of fascism and communism corrupting well-meaning laws, laws initially curtailing civil liberties for the safety of society as a whole?
Yes the secret service made the call to take the president into a bunker because it never happened. Just wanted a little adventure that day.
Do they agree that they committed the crime or are they just making a tradeoff of a definite 5 years vs. a probable 25 years or something similar due to plea bargains?
I am trying to steer our discussion past the politics of this.

It is clear that there exists today violent content on both twitter and FB as well, but that is beside the point.

> If Parler implements moderation which will comply with Amazon's terms of service

Can you point to where in AWS TOS this is defined?

We need to agree first that this is a subjective decision on AWS part, regardless of which side of the aisle we fall on.

If we are able to agree on it, it goes back to my original point of the risk.

If you insist that it is objective, then should'nt there be an ombudsman for AWS to ensure that they are now in compliance to it? For something to be objective, there are clear rules that need to be kept on both sides.

> a service for allowing users to discuss kidnapping, rape, and murder openly?

I implore you to step out of the political lens for this argument. You don't have to search too hard to find such content on twitter and FB as well. The reason they can get away is I guess they can afford to have their own servers. This kind of environment stifles the new entrants and cannot be good.

> Can we operate on AWS/ Azure/ Apple's App Store/ etc and meet their terms of service

Honestly, I feel that the ground is not stable with these TOS and their changes, and their arbitrary interpretations.

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You brought up Apple... so lets look at how it took the app off its store because Parler promoted violent content; it is an admission that it is watching against it. So, tomorrow, if two guys use its own messaging apps to commit a terrorist attack, should'nt Apple be liable for it?

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Let me ask you for a minute to pretend you are right wing, and you start that recipe making app -- you will not be at peace even though current app is just fine.

This unease is what is not good for business confidence.
I tried many times to get MacOS to run on my AMD cpu windows machine so I could build my mobile games to iOS from Unity. I tried virtualbox and VMware and a few different ways of installing macOS on both. In some cases MacOS would install and run ok, but I could never connect to the iphone over usb and actually build to it.
I ended up buying a 2nd hand mac mini. I still feel dirty paying £300 for such a low spec machine. it runs like absolute garbage. But it has Catalina and I can actually finally build to iOS.. very very very slowly.

[Updating xcode today took 6 hours]

I wonder if I should try this? Do ye think theres any chance of it working on the same hardware that failed to work in virtualbox and VMware on Windows?
That's how I always felt about all the estimating parts in CS courses. They were all made up BS that would only work on very pre-defined things, like creating a new DB or website based on a template. aka "IT" and not "SE" stuff.
The concentration of your eggs into one basket is the biggest issue I see here. If your business email, SCM, DNS, CDN, storage, backups, compute, CI/CD, data warehouse/BI, desktop compute... all come from one company (e.g. AWS, MS, or GCP), then you can lose *everything* in a flick of the pen.

When you do risk assessments (e.g. SOC 2), you rank all your venders by risk, and answer "what could I do if I lost vendor X?" These are things a business is supposed to do, which is why many intentionally have more than one vendor for the same service, run hybrid cloud, etc when the answer to that question is "close my business."
Gotcha! Thanks for the reply, and thanks again for the project.

> So for each os there should be a separate module, basically 3 different projects that then can be used as native modules for Deskreen.

I hope more folks contribute to improving each of the different modules. I personally would dive in to work on improving Linux support if I had time, but I'm already very stretched thin, so that will have to wait.
Because there are no residents in those blocks. Literally no one lives there. That doesn't mean no one makes use of the Land, such as for farming, mining, etc.

In the context of the census, land use is distinct from land habitation.
Keep in mind that adopting directly from your state DFCS is generally free or reimbursed.
When everyone is dumping tether, who’s trading BTC for tether?
That’s a good point: neocons separated conservatism from the political right. That wasn’t the consequence of alt-right ideas reaching the seat of power. Perhaps the part of the political right that’s not conservative and generally opposes democracy is kind of the home of the alt-right.
There is also an empty lot in Pennsylvania which predates the Wisconsin site by several years.

In 2013, Foxconn promised to spend $30 million over two years building a robotics manufacturing facility in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania that would have employed five hundred people. They also planned to invest $10 million into R&D at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as part of the arrangement. In return, the state, county, and city offered Foxconn tax incentives and property improvements. Seven years after the ribbon cutting ceremony, the property is still an empty lot and CMU never received the investment.

On the plus side, nobody's home was seized as they were in Wisconsin.
Why not ask funding from the NIH, or sell access to the companies doctors use to get their suggestions, like UpToDate.

I can see why doctors themselves wouldn't pay for the service; it's a net loss of money in the business sense, and they already believe they're prescribing evidence-based treatments, maybe just not THE best evidence-based Tx.
> smeared feces, stole laptops

> absolutely an insurrection attempt.

You must have a really low bar for "insurrection". If stealing a laptop is "insurrection", by that bar looting a Target - which we witnessed the whole 2020 - would be a Galactic War or something.
As pointed out in the other comments here, the EULA definitely allows you to run macOS in Ubuntu if you're using Apple's hardware.
Really just depends on the task. For this particular case I used a Faster-RCNN model with weights pretrained on the COCO dataset
I watched the ProPublica streams and while it indeed came across as a Wallmart insurrection compared to say the fall of the Ceausescu regime in Romania it would have been vastly different outcome if the crowd actually managed to get their hands on Pence or any senior house/senate member.
> I never unserstood that ridicule

Perhaps try the response with a different issue and respondent swapped in?

Q: There are reports there is no evidence of a direct link between [...]

Vaccination-autism policy advocate: Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; [...] But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.

Q: The real situation is worse than the facts show? (later NATO press event)

UFO-abduction policy advocate: The message is that there are no "knowns." [...] Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.[1]

[1] https://www.nato.int/docu/speech/2002/s020606g.htm
>its culture and ecosystem there's a lot of overlap

It's just "being more modern than the 1980s". Rust's the first low level lang to be able to say that.
Ford closes German and Louisville plants as global computer chip crisis worsens
>That is why Honda is a bigger company than Mercedes

I was curious if this was accurate. Here are some recent numbers for revenue and unit sales:

Honda -> $144B revenue

- 12.4M motorcycles, ATVs, etc.

- 3.3M automobiles

- 5.7M generators, small engines, etc.

Daimler -> $207B revenue

- 2.4M automobiles

- 0.5M trucks

- 0.4M vans

- 0.03M buses

So, Daimler seems to be about 40% larger in revenue, but Honda sells almost 40% more automobiles. But 2.4M automobiles for Daimler seems like it's still comparable in scale.

Honda seems to still be largely a motorcycle and small engine company, in the global picture, while Daimler has a substantial business in heavy duty commercial vehicles including nameplates that aren't necessarily associated with Mercedes by the average person.
No, he did not.
That was a very interesting statement, and food for thought.
I'll try to allocate time for this.

I did write my own editor in C and it was delightful and it addressed my pet peeve with Emacs: the two wasted lines at the bottom (on small devices every single line matters). However I don't actually use it myself because it's missing too many essential features and it would take too long to write them. Also, cross compiling C for multiple platforms is actually tedious due to silly differences between eg. macOS and Linux.

The holy grail for me is still the editor from BLS Pascal which was a full screen editor in about 2 KiB of Z80 machine code. I'm still not sure how Anders managed so much functionality in so little code, but there's just a few little things I wanted differently (which as having Enter split lines and delete joining them).
I mostly agree with you, but then the solution should not be a proper definiton of hate speech instead of letting it go? Also, I don’t see it misrepresented in actual laws, but only in non-law-related contexts.

If we trust juries with the proper application of not always clear laws (and we do just that currently), than I don’t see the point of the usual “slippery slope” argument.
There's plenty of other, very-explicitly-Hackintosh projects on GitHub, that they haven't gone after either.
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Took many years but honestly Apple Corps was right to be concerned. Think how much more brand recognition Apple computer has now, and that's pretty impressive considering the Beatles.
I am currently in the "process" of migrating, and like you I have a zillion accounts, some of which I've forgotten. I've stolen this from somewhere here on HN I think:

- I did _not_ setup mail forwarding. First because I don't want Google to know I'm leaving, and I don't want them to know what my new address is.

- like all big changea, the switch to a new, custom domain name is a good moment to make some cleaning. By not forwarding mail I'm curating my existing life to only the things I actually care about. If I haven't received a mail from a specific site in years, maybe that site isn't that important after all

- most emails I receive are from some account on some website, so I know I have to migrate this account

- but I still might receive important mail from people who still use this old adress. I just copy/paste the content from a client connected to the new adress and reply

The issue is that this kind of transition might last for a long time. I haven't decided yet how long I'm going to do it though.
You clearly did not watch any videos of the event unless it was on a certain news network ???.
Writing-advice is tricky.

The people who need it most are on the far side of a chasm they can't bridge without learning to read their own writing.

Doing so takes a mix of interest/dedication and practice that I suspect are hard to hack. The closest you can get, I think, is to spend some time breaking down, analyzing, critiquing, and "fixing" things others have written. You may also fare better, in calendar time, if you like writing and reading as ends.

If someone has learned to read themselves, you can give them all sorts of great advice. If they haven't, the best you can do is give straightforward "rules" they'll have some hope of spotting and fixing in their own work.

Edits:

- Yes--I think this holds for programming.

- Taking a newswriting class is my stock recommendation for ~working people who ask me "how write?"
U.S. asks Australia to scrap proposed laws to make Facebook, Google pay for news
Yes, in the same way an object on mercury takes more energy to reach orbit than the moon, an object falling to mercury releases more energy than it would falling to the moon.

What’s counter intuitive is what makes something a strong bond. Chemical bonds are more complex than simple gravity fields, further most chemistry involves both forming and breaking bonds. As such talking about specific bonds as strong or weak isn’t really an explanation so much as a corollary.
I wondered why they would create so many unnecessary blocks.

I had interpreted a "census block" to be an arbitrary unit, but it seems to have originally designated actual city blocks. In 1990 they decided to divide the whole country into blocks. [1]

"An automated computer process looks for all visible and nonvisible features in our geographic database (MAF/TIGER) that should be a block boundary and creates a block each time those features create a polygon." [2]

Kind of an interesting extension of the "block" concept. It would seem that population density should be more of a factor. Automatically generating 5 million unpopulated census divisions seems a bit like something out of a Terry Gilliam movie.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_block

[2] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2011/...
Democracy has a severe flaw, it favors reproduction not progressiveness nor the greater good. In any nation with true democracy, a disenfranchised portion of society can win power simply by out-reproducing all other groups for a few decades. All of a sudden a Putin or an Ardogan get voted in and from then on, kiss a brighter future goodbye.
It's a broken system that needs a better alternative that actually does empower progressiveness and the greater good.
Building for a Future Based on WebAssembly
Intervene early and permanently.

Trading second and third chances for bio parents at the cost of children's futures is too high a cost in my opinion.
A 6-hour upgrade sounds like that mini is probably still on spinning rust. Rather than mess around just get the cheapest SSD you can find and install that. Also from what I've heard it comes down to certain AMD CPUs missing instructions macOS assumes are present, so any modern virtual machine that doesn't emulate every instruction can't help there.
> It's hard to argue against some restrictions on free speech - most everyone agrees you shouldn't be able to say "fire" in a crowded theater

Heh, most everyone, except for the Supreme Court. That argument was overturned.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
Point of public transit isn’t to make money by fares, it’s to generate value at the destinations. I find it silly how people complain that American rail in general loses money, without addressing the fact that American rail systems make horrible use of the real estate of their stations - in most of Asia there’s huge mixed apartment, office, retail complexes on every station owned by the rail companies - and guess what it’s good for business when you build a human funnel into real estate you control, see how profitable JR/HK MTR are.
> NB: The price you pay as a British patient is usually £0, unless you are a working-aged and working English person -- at which point it is £9.15 per item [independent of its cost]

For comparison of terminology, this is what we would call a co-pay in the US.

You pay 9.15, your health coverage pays the rest. Thus you are “co”paying.
"Multi-cloud HA" could be a hot resume item for 2021.
I think you're misidentifying the problem as being about modern technology for speech. It's not. Trump could have done the same exact thing in the day of fireside chats. A lot of what drove Trump's rise isn't Parler (which didn't even exist in 2018) but talk radio.

The problem is that American is a diverse county of 330 million people who hate each other, and we're too idealistic to engage in the sort of social friction-easing that other societies do to reconcile competing factions.

For example: we clearly have a significant fraction of people in this country who want to pump the breaks on immigration. From a sociological standpoint, it doesn't make a difference whether its 47% or 51% of people. It's a lot! And what's the first thing Biden does even before he's inaugurated? https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-politics-legislation-im...

> President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to immediately ask Congress to offer legal status to an estimated 11 million people in the country has surprised advocates given how the issue has long divided Democrats and Republicans, even within their own parties.

Instead of thinking about America, imagine we're talking about some third world country. Better still, take yourself out of the timeline, and imagine we are historians looking back on what happened 50 years ago. How would you analyze the probable outcome of what Biden is doing, in terms of general principles of how people behave and how countries work?

Frankly, what's going on in America right now is utterly obvious and completely unsurprising to me as someone from Asia. I always try to analyze these things by asking "what would Bangladeshis do?" What would Bangladeshis do if the opposing party tried to give legal status (and voting rights) to 11 million illegal aliens? There would be violent riots in the streets. That's just the predictable consequences of that situation.

None of this is the result of Parler or whatever. It's just the ordinary challenges of running a giant country where people have a very shallow shared culture to tie everyone together.
Why even bother to post something like this?

There’s plenty of video evidence contradicting the rosy picture you paint.
Fed finally changed the long held monetary policy.

What do changes in the Fed’s longer-run goals and monetary strategy statement mean?
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/09/02/what-do-c...

> Previously, the Fed said its definition of price stability was to aim for 2 percent inflation, as measured by the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index. It described that goal as “symmetric,” suggesting that it was equally concerned about inflation falling below or above that target.

>In the new version of the statement, the Fed says it “will likely aim to achieve inflation moderately above 2 percent for some time” after periods of persistently low inflation. Fed Chair Jerome Powell called this strategy “a flexible form of average inflation targeting”—which Fed officials are calling FAIT—in an August 2020 speech at the Fed’s Jackson Hole conference.

>Average inflation targeting implies that when inflation undershoots the target for a time, then the FOMC will direct monetary policy to push inflation above the target for some time to compensate. With this new approach, the Fed hopes to anchor the expectations of financial markets and others that it can and will do what’s needed to get and maintain inflation at 2 percent on average over time.
They did get messed up as the day went on
My suggestion that governments shouldn't rely on third-parties for their infra, didn't go down well with HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25639520
Watermelon.

"Average color" is not really what I want.
Yes, exactly - it's though big enterprise contracts that generate revenue, but they are hard to close as a startup. Selling this service to companies that already have those contracts is a faster way of creating value for those customers.
This is a different problem - the laws of physics when formulated in the usual way with a time dimension are mostly symmetric or reversible, i.e. there is no obvious difference between past and future. As you said, one of the proposed solutions is a low entropy initial state that can break this symmetry and help to explain the perceived difference between past and future.
Glad you like it! By functions as a service do you mean functionality hosted by me or shipping serverless functions with the codebase? At the moment you get any necessary server logic as serverless functions (formatted correctly for your chosen host) or if you choose "Other" for your host you get an Express.js server. Definitely interested in supporting AWS cognito/dynamo/s3 or bundling all that up into an AWS Amplify option.
I agree with this analysis (and I support the Democrats in all those things you mentioned).

What happened was not just increased talk of our government being a democracy - it was also that our republican form of government, over the course of the years, actually made itself a democracy, step by step, from the Twelfth Amendment to the Seventeenth Amendment to the various judicial rulings of the 1960s that recognized the "one person, one vote" standard, among many other steps.

The difficulty with the "We're not a democracy, we're a republic" argument is the same difficulty with monarchists today who have to deal with the fact that their beloved legitimate rulers abdicated or otherwise ceded power legitimately. We certainly were not a democracy in 1789, given the number of people disenfranchised, but we chose to become one, which is an entirely intra-vires thing for a republican government to do.
Hah. I was thinking the same thing: https://alexbeals.com/projects/colorize/search.php?q=rainbow
No, I don't think you misunderstood and it sounds like we are roughly in agreement. I agree that Musk's other ventures also challenge existing incumbents but I feel like ISPs are probably more (even if much less than I would like) nimble than in transportation (terrestrial and otherwise) industries and said ISPS already have better service at least in well populated areas than Starlink could possibly provide via radio frequencies even in low earth orbit. The window of opportunity seems small to me.

I guess I'm just wondering if I am overly sceptical of the hype around Starlink that I have seen, if I'm somehow missing something fundamental.
I have no knowledge of old-style satellites, but have worked on cubesats (low earth orbit) reasonably recently.

Star trackers give you location in orbit and orientation of your satellite. I don't believe you can get absolute time from them, especially given that Earth time is somewhat decoupled from Earth's orbital dynamics.

What you can do is get time using GPS, like you would on the ground. Not sure if that's possible for higher orbits, but definitely for low orbits. There have also been some experiments with laser-based synchronization (a PPS-style signal, I believe?) and you could get a coarse sync with a regular old radio uplink.
I clicked your link and clicked on a couple tabs even but did not find data on what most people have liquid or illiquid. Can you point me to it?

$100k sounds like a lot but....I live in San Diego. All in, it costs about $4,200/month post-tax to live here. Sure, it can be done on much less. That means $50,400/year post-tax. So your $100k whether liquid or not only lasts two years max.

Let's say a real recession occurs and you lose your job. If your $100k is in the asset that crashed -- say real estate (which I like real estate) or speculative tech stocks -- oh boy. You're now probably at $70k hopefully. If it takes you 12 months from losing your job to finding a job. Now you're looking at only $20k left in your account....that is scary.

I know I am being paranoid because you'd get unemployment + could probably find a lower level job quick in the meantime + you would cut your $4200/month to bare minimum. But that's my point, I live in this fear and the $100k provides some peace of mind.