skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The danger is unreal not because it failed, but because it was obviously going to fail. We're talking about a bunch of delusional LARPers. If some foreign intelligence unit tries and fails to overthrow your country's government, that's insurrection. If it's the doofus who stole the podium or the guy with face paint and a horned fur hat, not so much.

What are you basing the obviousness of the failure on? The mob was seemingly a few dozen feet away from numerous politicians with the only thigs between them being a barricaded door and seemingly less than a half dozen security people.

>There were murderers and arsonists at BLM riots as well; that doesn't impugn the legitimate protesters. Similarly, these few actual insurrectionists don't make the MAGA trespassers, rioters, even murderers into insurrectionists.

How many murders were committed by the millions of BLM protester in the dozens of cities they protested in over the months they protested? Because these thousands of people in DC were able to murder one and get multiple of their own killed? The violence rate of the two isn't comparable.

>There is a danger to our democracy in that a sitting president undermining democracy by spreading lies about election fraud. More generally, the media and tech companies are deliberately cultivating division and mistrust among the American people. These are real, credible dangers to democracy. The MAGA LARPers were not a credible threat to our democracy.

What happened on 1/6 was a direct result of those first two. This is part of the danger to democracy manifesting itself.
That's the requirement for dev, prod is double that: https://www.google.com/search?q=elastic+search+hardware+requ...
> No, the richest and most safe civilization ever existed on the face of the planet is ready to give up on freedom because of TV picture and a bunch of talking heads on TV and Twitter that told them there was an "insurrection" (nothing of the sort happened of course)

This is completely off-base and devalues the rest of your comment.

The capitol was stormed which delayed the process for the peaceful transfer of power, and people on here are still OK with it because of their politics. This is wrong. Do not accept this response. We will not accept it.

Anybody who doesn't view this as a direct attack on our way of life is just wrong - they don't want to believe, because your politics.
We also need to change change SSN, address, sim card, credit card number, etc? it's getting expensive... maybe even your face?
So practically speaking, many Americans have to wait even longer than those in the UK? Even if they have insurance? And perhaps even a well paying job with good benefits (an assumption of mine based on the setting).
As the other comment has mention their is a very different motive between the business practices of Apple and google. I mean, Apple has branded itself as a company dedicated to privacy. By failing to deliver on that, it is bad for the brand image, and the more extreme the privacy violation, the worse for its images. Overall it seems better.

And Apple is at least domain restricted to a larger degree: no web analytics, no search engine, limited email and ads. Giving a company a small amount of information is much better than a single company controlling a large amount. It allows for much more accurate predictions to be made.
Maybe if the dog is perfectly healthy, but that is never the case. Unless the owner has significant disposable income, they will end up ignoring problems that need to be corrected.
Getting it through legislation is the only problem is what I mean. People can already purchase insurance on healthcare.gov. The infrastructure, the sellers, the pricing is all ready to go with no work. The insurance companies already do the same work so it’s not even like they need to hire people. It’s just cutting out a middleman.

Only politics is in the way, and current entrenched interests not wanting to lose their advantages.
> by that bar looting a Target - which we witnessed the whole 2020

You’re exaggerating and it’s deliberate, which revels the intent of your argument is dishonest.

Well-documented events in the summer of 2020 kicked off unrest. There was no mass-looting before that.
Based on his politics - he tacitly supports the politics of those, so he turns a blind eye, like many in the tech community and on here (a significant minority.) It's sad, but not surprising given the population of this site.

Anybody who supports democracy should be against everything that Trump has said and done as well as the riots and those who support it. Those are the most direct attacks on our way of life since the civil war. But they won't because Trump does what they like - it's bad faith, and always has been. It's not about free speech and never has been. Just more projection and attacks from the typical actors.
> "100% of Nazis were there" -- it's likely false. How do you even know 100% of Nazis were there?

This is misquoted. There is no "of" in the original chat. "100% Nazis were there" translates to something akin to "truth: Nazis were there."
You have been very lucky. Almost all managers I have experienced in my career were incompetent and had no clue how to manage a team.
Single pointer lists using the XOR trick were used, I believe, to implement the XDS Sigma 7 operating system block free list back in the day when memory was not free and core dumps were the primary debug tool. I remember writing a column on the algorithm for Dr. Dobbs Journal back in the 1980s. There are lots of bit twiddling techniques that use XOR. Henry Warren's Hackers Delight is a good reference there. And, of course, Don Knuth's AOCP has lots of information. Volume 4A, available as a fascicle, has a number of XOR algorithms.
Someone brought pipe bombs that he made himself...
> most people when they have a headache and know that most painkillers on the market will result in about the same degree of relief

I've not had this experience. For me, Ibuprofen works, aspirin and acetaminophen have zero noticeable affect. It's been that way my entire life. The other two might have some affect on fever? (no idea) but none on pain, at least for me.
I don't see anyone defending the other rioters. I certainly wasn't in the message you are responding to.

No one is pretending that the crazies on the left don't need to be accountable. There are those, of course, who believe that. But you are arguing against a point that hasn't been made--and most definitely one I did not make.

I'll say it myself, just to be clear: Anyone who riots (or foments an insurrection) needs to be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law after a fair trial.
It's no more powerful than a TV channel cancelling a show or a newspaper not running ads anymore.

Host your own hardware, it's not that hard. If you care about free speech so much don't go cheap on infrastructure next time.
"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. Today, we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections. But whether or not they stand strong for our country, our country. Our country has been under siege for a long time. Far longer than this four year period."

"So we are going to--we are going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we are going to the Capitol, and we are going to try and give--the Democrats are hopeless, they are never voting for anything, not even one vote but we are going to try--give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help, we're try--going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue."
Your description of democracy is on the nose, but that's exactly why I think it's reasonable to be concerned. One of the critical values that makes democracy work is the peaceful transition of power, and if there'd been just a bit more violence, it would be impossible to maintain even a polite fiction that this transition was peaceful.
The whole thing might even run at a net loss with corporate arguing it is an investment.

Amazon knows voice agents are on track to become a primary human-computer interface, a user agent for the internet, and Amazon wants to own a big share of that pie, because that is a gatekeeper tech. Those who own it can ensure people buy on their marketplace, and companies that want to sell to these consumers must pay a fee. Amazon can't reasonably compete with google or apple in the "voice agent on the smartphone" segment until some antitrust forces those to offer a choice of agents, so they do the smart thing: push hard for a quasi monopoly on ambient microphones.

Over time there could be an antitrust to tell Amazon they must open "their" voice agent infrastructure for the competition, and they will use this "investment" as an argument why that would be unfair to them. Even if, they will rather add an API limited to accredited competition instead of giving consumers root on the hardware.

The whole concept is hostile to the consumer by design: imagine a keyboard would include a non-replaceable typing agent that can only type on websites that are partners with the keyboard manufacturer (as in "buy the skill for your keyboard to type on HN") and all your inputs are first sent to the manufacturers servers. Hey you get auto-complete and the keyboard is cheap. That is the state of voice agents.
Simple and short answer: Yes, a thousand times yes.
> Can you point to where in AWS TOS this is defined?

It's laid out in the court documents.

https://deadline.com/2021/01/amazon-court-filing-parler-for-...

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

I'm not sure what you are talking about here? We need to agree that Amazon's Terms of Service are subjective? Or are we going to start digging into the rabbit hole of definitions of words like "Harm"?

As with any legal discussion, ultimately the courts decide. But the fact that the court didn't see a need to give Parler the injunctive relief they sought says a bunch.

> I implore you to step out of the political lens for this argument.

I haven't said anything political. I said Parler is in Breech with Amazon. Obviously that's up to a judge to decide, but early signs suggest the judge doesn't favor Parler. If the judge thought Parler was likely to succeed in this case, they'd have given them the injuction they sought.

> You don't have to search too hard to find such content on twitter and FB as well.

You can certainly find threats and hate speech on Twitter and Facebook, but many many people have been banned and many posts have been blocked for such speech.

Parler was created because of the moderating people were facing on Twitter and Facebook. If Twitter and Facebook didn't block this kind of content Parler would not exist.

> 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.

Depends. Is it a recipe app that allows users to make death threats to each other? This is literally what we're talking about here, death threats, rape threats, discussing kidnapping people.
Probably more to do with personality mix than circumstance. I've had bosses where I could say things like that and get away with it. I've also had bosses where if I said something like that, I'd be packing up my desk.
Sales - like marketing - definitely does have an element of psych to it.

Anecdotally, it feels as though it leans on a lot on the targets level of politeness and decorum to want to continue the conversation. I favour polite but abrupt and seemingly heartless conversation enders for this reason.

"Hello sir, would you like to help a child keep eating for $2 a month?" "No, thank you!"

Back to this specific case, I guess the trick is to deliver your question almost rhetorically with both parties knowing that it leaves an answer that is common knowledge. Kinda like safe small talk about the weather.

Keeps the conversation going buying time for another hook to be deployed.
What I find funny is that these comparisons between SWE and "real" engineering generally involve a comparison to big safety-critical non-software projects like bridges and mines.

What about all the poor quality consumer-grade stuff out there? Are mechanical and electrical engineers not designing that too?
What kind of result would you expect with the query "coral", which doesn't have a dominant color, or a correct answer?
Pretty sure the EULA does not cover copying essentially a DRM key from the SMC and checking it into GitHub, conveniently set up in such a way as the repo does not in fact require Mac hardware
And how do you apply? Even when you have premade solution (from somebody else), you have to learn it. Most of the time you have to learn how to solve a problem not familiar for you.

The same applies to other industries. How do you imagine smart grid does appear?
I appreciate the analyses but struggle with the dissemination of opinion pieces from those who do not work in public health policy or have a MD.

Can someone please explain why we should give any weight to the musing of an EE software developer when this particular topic is so fraught with issue even from actual experts in the space?
But there it is.. Grievances. You think the Qanon Idiots don't have their grievances on the election? What the see as forced changes to their rights and beliefs? Feeling ostracized everywhere they go because of their beliefs that may be counter to yours?

Neither side sees themselves as terrorist, they see themselves as freedom fighters. Both groups are idiots and damaging the country. If you support either, you're adding fuel to the fire. Big Tech stepping in and shutting a group off the internet may see correct today, but all political tides wane and a new wave comes in, how sure are you that it will be the wave you want and not one where you're the dangerous one we have to silence?
Well, if we wanted to get picky, we could point out the following:

Comma splice [0]:

> I am not reading them for enjoyment, that’s what fiction is for.

Run-on sentences [1]:

> I am reading them to learn what they have to say and I have to wade through a morass of stories, pointless metaphors, geysers of words.

> They are aiming for eloquence but effluence would be a better term for what their reader gets.

But these are minor problems that are common in online writing and probably don’t distract many readers. The more important issues with this essay are pointed out in other comments here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_splice

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_clause_structure#Run-...
That's sad

In many countries the pharmacist is a doctor and they are there to handle simple cases. Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia all seem this way. VS the USA (and Japan?) where all the pharmacist does is handout the medicine some other doctor prescribed.
I don't have a vendetta. I used to work in sales. My first job out of school was cold-calling and I saw first hand what types of people tend to rise to the top in that environment.

I quit that job as soon as I could because I was sick of manipulating people or pressuring them into buying something they didn't want. At the end of the day that's all sales is. If your customer wants your product then by definition you don't have to sell them.
I’d like to see you tell your founder or CMO that the difference between monthly visitors and monthly unique visitors is “super nit-picky”.

The 20% margin is risible and those who live by SEO die by SEO: https://cdixon.org/2011/03/05/seo-is-no-longer-a-viable-mark...
Ditto. BLM and Antifa must be removed from various platforms.
I mean, there's a reason pharmaceutical companies in the US spend $20 billion a year marketing to physicians and it's not because it doesn't work. Doctors in the end are human and as capable of being influenced and biased and taking shortcuts as any other person. That doesn't mean they're evil, just human.
Gadfly is amazing too, and Makie is the future.
The plural of anecdote is not data.

Your wife notwithstanding, https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/kids-school-and-covid-19-... verifies that kids do not appear to transmit covid at the same rate as adults.

Furthermore does your wife have proof that it was the kids that gave it to her, and not the parents during pickup?
“You Will”, AT&T's ad campaign (1993) [video]
Troubling New Pattern in Covid,most concerning versions mutating in similar ways
I certainly do see what you're saying. I think at least 40-60% of what Musk says at any given time is pure sci-fi speculation or hype around an upcoming product/company. I also find it obnoxious how his fanboys and fangirls mindlessly clap at any word he says, like some sort of Pavlovian chimps. On this we cannot agree more.

However, whatever his motivation, I think the guy is genuinely intelligent. It's tough to not admit this. His mere intuition is fair match for the experience of many seasoned engineers (if what we read about him is true). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do think he donated to the Signal foundation. At the very least he has put money where his mouth is.
My understanding is that the insurance does not actually pay the price they tell you in your explanation of benefits.

So if it's any comfort, I'd guess your insurance wasn't getting billed on top of that. They probably paid $15 and pocketed your copay.

Some might call this "keeping two sets of books", but apparently it's par for the course here in the glorious USA.

Up until recently [0], it was common for insurers to have rules preventing health care providers from telling you when it was cheaper to pay cash.

[0] https://www.aarp.org/health/drugs-supplements/info-2018/gag-...
wow, there seem to be a lot more blue dots around - these are all junk; the red one are fewers - these are active sats. Also if there is a longer sequence of red dots on the same orbit then these are all spacelink satelites. Amazing site, thanks!
I was referring to the specific claim being made in the comment I replied to, and in particular the attempt to present an attempt to use violence to prevent an important government function as no more significant than a street protest. The attack on the Congress was trying to prevent recognizing the legitimate winner of an election, not just drawing attention to a cause in a public place.

From that you could easily draw the conclusion that I don’t approve of any use of violence or threats of violence against elected officials but I don’t expect you to since you’re pretty obviously more interested in playing whataboutism games.
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Hosting: Yeah I really need to expand those hosting options. It was one of those things I expected to do much sooner, but didn't end up getting as many requests for hosts as I expected (at least compared to other features). That's changing a bit now now that Divjoy gives you something a bit more advanced. That attracts customers with more complex needs and, it would seem, more opinions around hosting. Firebase Hosting and Heroku are up next. Probably AWS after that.

Previewing code: Happy to send over an example codebase if you shoot an email to hello@divjoy.com :) I'm going to be rolling out a code preview so customers can explore what their code will look like when exported. Plan is to let non-customers browse at least some it it.. or maybe just view half of each file.. or maybe I'm overthinking it and I should just let everyone see the code and emphasize they aren't legally licensed to use it. Anyway, definitely something I've been thinking about.
What would have happened if any of the riots this past year escalated to violence because of heavy handed actions of the "left". In fact, we know what happened, death and destruction.

Why is this not viewed in the same way? It's a complete attack on our country and government, but was somehow sanctioned?
Through Russia? Oh, the irony… it burns.
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It's been a revolving door for a long long time
Wouldnt the extra branch kill any performance improvement you were getting from the xor trick?
I tried this, naively, on WSL2 and had no luck. May try again tomorrow.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the PsyStar case, but this seems likely to be illegal.

Psystar, among other things, released "Rebel EFI" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation#Rebel_EFI), which was a way to circumvent OSX's checks that you were running on mac hardware.

Judge Alsup ruled that Rebel EFI was a circumvention technology, and thus not legal under the DMCAs anti-circumvention provisions.

The snap is not running macOS on mac hardware. Even if you run it on a mac laptop, it's using virtualized qemu hardware. It includes a magic hardware string to make macOS run (https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap/blob/def1652e916f/snap/...). That magic string is a circumvention measure which dodges a check macOS makes on boot to see if it's on legitimate hardware, and so I think this project is performing circumvention, similar to Rebel EFI.
Honestly, Apple's decline traces back to losing Steve Jobs. The strategic changes were immediate, (and aimed at shorter term gains, things that people besides Jobs thought were being left on the table) the effects just took a long time to really add up to something meaningful. IMO, they never really recovered, they just are massive and have a HELL of a lot of momentum. It takes time to undermine that all even if you do everything wrong. They definitely are still doing some things right, but IMO, the type of thing you are complaining about is a leadership issue.
Ask HN: Documenting Design Regrets?
I'm wrapping up a project that overall I'm pretty happy with, but I can see how a design decision here or there might become a source of errors down the road. That said, it's also possible that the project goes in another direction and that concern never bears fruit.

I wish there were some sort of template like an Architectural Decision Record to document the things I'm thinking of, how they might become an issue, and some basic ideas about doing things differently.

Any suggestions or things to look at?
OK, now I understand what you meant about "a forward proxy on the client side" (as that's exactly what I mean by "use a proxy to strip the encryption"). But I still don't understand why that allows you to not have to use HTTPS-only on the originating server to get the benefits of HTTPS-only?
Automotive mechanics is a learning process, fixing cars is a side effect.

Practicing medicine is a learning process, healing people is a side effect.

See how ridiculous this sounds?
> so that the business can forecast

Forecast to what purpose? What is the business actually trying to achieve for which they believe, maybe wrongly, they need accurate software estimates?
I was referring to the comments by Parler's CEO that Amazon, Apple, Google and others banning them or ending service within a narrow window was the result of collusion.

I think it's a combination of avoiding liability and Parler's failing to comply with moderation policies.