skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The electoral college absolutely does matter and absolutely does favor right wing politicians (for now). Every state gets a minimum of three electoral votes regardless of their population, so as a result, a single vote in a sparsely populated state like Wyoming has up to four times the influence that a single vote in a densely populated state like NJ has. The current political make-up of the country is such that right-wing politicians find far greater support in rural areas and thus are favored by the electoral college. So far only right-wing politicians have managed to win the electoral college without winning a majority in the popular vote.

Similar logic applies to the Senate: regardless of population every state gets two senators. Right-wing senators have received fewer actual votes (by individual voters) than left-wing senators for years, yet in that time right-wing control of the senate has been more common than left-wing control. Right now the split in the Senate is 50-50 (Vice President, a Democrat, breaks the tie) but the total number of votes cast for Democratic senators was much higher than the number cast for Republicans.

You literally have to deny reality when you deny that the electoral college and the senate represent a structural advantage for Republicans right now.
not to take away from your point and be too pedantic, but i think maybe left and liberal are being conflated?

actual bonafide leftists have very little real political power in ths u.s afaik...
It's not awkward.

You just say you can't make it each time for 2-3 of them, then explain things are just busy and you don't want to keep cancelling so let's remove the recurring event until you've got the time again.

What's awkward about that? It's basically just the standard way to gracefully end anything recurring, whether it's with friends, a unnecessary business meeting, participation in a club, etc.
The most regulated way to short it is via CME Bitcoin futures[0]. However, it's quite heavily leveraged at 5 bitcoins per contract -- meaning each contract is ~$157k of notional value at today's close. This, combined with the volatility of the thing, is easily above my personal risk tolerance, but obviously YMMV.

Given the history of how financial bubbles play out, I personally would not recommend shorting it outright.

[0]: https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitco...
IMO the headline is sensationalist and factually inaccurate. Gelsinger hasn't re-hired anyone. He doesn't even take on the new role at Intel until approximately three weeks from now.
This has been my primary source for hearing about promising tech before it reaches the crowds, so finding things to early adopt. Also interesting science and math, as well as startup related content. The perfect mix for my preferences (*).

* several recent posts have been discussing the changing content / discourse on HN, which I am increasingly holding as a belief as well
A lot of jobs produce net negative value, but the guy who pumps my gas, or the Wal-Mart greeter isn't at the front of that list. The guy who cold-calls me with telemarketing crap would be, though.

Everyone having an opportunity for employment is not dystopia. A real dystopia is when you have no good social safety net, but also have a large, unemployed underclass, which has no ability to make a living for themselves.
Maybe I'm missing something or I'm too stupid to understand the article but I don't see why anyone should be allowed to sell a new car with old safety standards for road use? I'm not from the US so maybe it is yet "Another US Thing I Don't Understand" (sorry). Where I'm at (in Scandinavia) not only would this not be allowed on the roads but even if I buy an old car and want to upgrade it (modern brakes?) it wouldn't be allowed without a car inspection and it would no longer have a cheaper vintage car insurance, registration fees, etc. etc. It would be very costly if at all possible. AFAIK this is equally so in all of the EU.

Seems to me this is a giant loophole. Like as if Coca Cola re-released an old recipe with real coke in it and everyone just went "Sure! It's authentic!"

Could someone enlighten me?
I know it's mind-boggling, but there are also a few other countries outside US and A. :)

In Sweden as an example, it's OK to share with a small group of friends[1].

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
How dependent is it on them as a service? If their website/service disappeared off the face of the earth tomorrow, would I still have access to my passwords locally?

I'm still hesitant to use any form of password management that relies on cloud services. I still like Keepass (with auto-updates disabled for security because their updater uses HTTP, of course), for my purposes. I can Sync my keepass file any number of secure ways that don't rely on a single provider.
Sure, with a sufficiently expansive definition of political everything is, but in the comment above, "politics" meant "dealing with the preferences of." So the local Republican politician would want stuff if you wanted to build your chemical plant, maybe a new baseball field, maybe campaign contributions. Your Democrat-aligned hosting provider would want you to not run the center of operations of their enemies. You are using politics in the academic sense, where two kids playing tag are engaging in politics, but that is not the only thing that "politics" can be used to describe. Companies should follow the law, not politics.
As an atheist (raised Catholic), I can recommend Unitarian Universalist congregations as generally very welcoming and friendly places. They're pretty common in the northeast US at least.
Some general aviation planes have this, I've only used one during a short test flight in a simulator but it seemed to work quite well.
I mean, have you ever heard of someone high on THC acting belligerent? I sure haven't. Alcohol, meth, cocaine, bath salts, everything else, absolutely. Ask a cop how often he gets called for a DV issue because someone is drunk.

But weed? Nah. People on weed just want to eat pretzels and watch cartoons.
So deplatforming by surprise is okay?

Facebook and Twitter don't own their data centers. If the DCs responded to the same pressure about hosting illegal content, the social media giants would disappear too.

Edit: the downvotes and rate limits are about to push me away from HN for good. This is ridiculous.

My platform is anti-fascism. I'm tired of people on both sides trying to shut down the other side.
I'm nowhere near $75/h. A couple of years ago I built a solution for the company I work for that heavily contributed getting hundreds of thousands in revenue( and continues to do so). All it took was a few weeks. Didn't even get a bonus or something and this is a tiny company. Right work can be worth millions,so even $2000/h may not look high enough.
Unfortunately you need an account to see pricing. It is cool that they eventually will be able to serve US customers (currently EU only).
India: Muslim comedian detained over anti-Hindu jokes he might crack
> Packinghan v North Carolina (2017) - Access to social media and digital infrastructure cannot be prohibited by the state.

Amazon isn't the state.

> Marsh v Alabama (1946) - Constitutional protections of 1st and 14th amendments applicable within confines of “town” owned by a private entity.

Which doesn't apply here, as Amazon isn't a company town/acting in a quasi-governmental capacity.

> AWS's behavior may be viewed as an antitrust issue, acting in conjunction with a cartel.

The court ruled on this, and pointed out that the accusations were factually erroneous.

> Moreover, they may or may not have provided sufficient notice (a contract issue).

The court ruled on this, and sided with Amazon (zero notice in this circumstance). If anything Amazon giving them 24 hours was above what the contract required.

I suggest reading the court's opinion before replying, since it undercuts many/most of the points you've tried to make.
There is also the CREDO app, check the Google Android app store.
But Less isn't the same as Not At All.
I have a hunch that the pcie card itself is most important as it is doing bifurcation.

So each drive acts like it has its own slower (but fast enough) pcie slot, and then the raid0 combines the bits back to double the performance.

Could be wrong but I get 2,900 megabytes per second transfers from RAM to disk and back.

And this is PCIe 2.0 x16

so maybe if you want , 3,000, 4,000 or 6,500 megabytes per second then I have nothing to brag about. I’m pretty amazed though and will be content for all my use cases.
I do at least partially share your concerns, but the Chinese Embassy can always just release the same information through a press release from their website. Anyone interested (including news agencies) can still get that information. They're not really being silenced.
AFAIK, nobody has suggested removal of OCSP from end-entity certificates. This article you linked (and the comment you wrote) is purely about removal from intermediate CA certificates.

The majority of OCSP traffic will probably be for end-entity certificates; most OCSP validation (in browsers and cryptographic libraries) is end-entity validation, not leaf-and-chain.

Removal of intermediate CA's OCSP is probably not really relevant to their overall OCSP performance numbers (and if it was, it was likely cached already).
If it were a treaty, you would be correct. But Paris is just an accord. Its totally non binding and has no real commitments.

The US just needs to:

* make a plan (doesn't need to make sense or work or have details),

* measure some things (you define what you measure so again, pretty easy).

* the accord prevents anyone critising or questioning your plan or measurements. So it's 100% mark your own work and I won't check.

It's nice that Biden has put the US back in, but he can do so exactly because it won't make any difference to anyone's lives.

And that's the real problem. The world needed a binding climate agreement and it needed it in 2000. Here we are 21 years later and we still can't manage a non binding, "you do you", placeholder...
Hiding in those pools of 'replaceable' engineers are the next generation of top-level engineers. Intel seems to have failed to recognize that fact and now have become as replaceable as their employees are.

Having a boring or menial job is not an indictment of a person's potential or capabilities.
IMHO, the primary argument is:

> It is completely unambiguously obvious to me that Bitcoin, a brilliant achievement technically, is functioning as a Ponzi scheme, siphoning money from the pockets of rubes and into those of exchange insiders and China-based miners.

Can anyone confirm/debunk this claim:

> A few large holders commonly referred to as whales continue to own most Bitcoin. About 2% of the anonymous ownership accounts that can be tracked on the cryptocurrency’s blockchain control 95% of the digital asset, according to researcher Flipside Crypto.

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/bitcoin-w...
Let me tell you about Mozilla. They get 90% of their funding through google. Google is their customer, you are their product.

Anyone who thinks Mozilla is independent is in deep denial.
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> It's marketing copy, not some sacred text they are desecrating. Their goal is to be a little silly and maybe elicit an emotional reaction, judging by your reaction it seems like it worked well.

So, if I'm hearing you correctly: good marketing involves making someone so disgusted by the this ever pervasive Corporatism so much that it will actively make someone avoid eating there ever again? And thus reducing their potential market share?

Then again I guess polarization does sell ad-space, look at CNN/MSNBC these past 4 years who made billions in ad money for their perverse 24 hour version of 2 minutes of of hate with Trump spam. But I fail to see how that works on people that aren't the senile boomer demographic who rage on Facebook and foment more division and discord demographic?

Honestly, I was so glad that I went dark for those days. I avoided all the pointless Trump-Biden inauguration drama and was actually super productive and it reminds me I should do that more often.

I actually went back to Jermey's Scahil's expose on Trump's 4 years on the Intercept and watched Curtis' HyperNormalisation that reminded me why I have the views that I do.
Doesn’t that come off really pretentious when you give out your email? I don’t think I really want that feature.
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Unfortunately nobody has figured out how to do decentralized discovery/recommendation. Google Search centralizes discovery for the web, Facebook centralizes discovery for the social graph, YouTube centralizes discovery for the videos, Whatsapp centralizes discovery for chat.
Facebook isn't even a party in this legal proceeding. The only ones are the court, Amazon, and Parler. Facebook could commit genocide tomorrow, and it would not affect this lawsuit.
I also distinctly remember more fires, property damage, and calls to ruin peoples lives during the summer.
Agreed. In previous epaper discussions here on HN, people complained that epaper doesn't have enough contrast ratio to make sense as a market. But lower contrast ratios are perfect for things that should not stand out any more than an actual physical paper or canvas would. Ambient artwork and ambient displays are perfect applications for epaper/e-ink.
That would be 625 species with radio technology at approximately the same level as ours. Presumably as technology progresses, their transmitters and receivers improve whereas the distance over which they communicate stays relatively constant and thus their output power should decrease. It's also possible a more advanced civilization uses other communication methods, for example optical fiber might render satellite communications totally obsolete.

Further the 0.16% is the fraction of the galactic disk area, not stars. Also note that the 0.16% is the region we could sweep with a theoretical telescope that we might be able to build in the near future, not the region we've actually surveyed thus far.
The world must not accept the jailing of Alexei Navalny
There is no technical limitations on everyone paying their taxes in Yen (or Euros), but there is a rate limit on bitcoin.
This was done in the UK and parts of Europe basically to appease the taxman.

See https://www.netlawman.co.uk/ia/ir35

The consequence, as partially intended, is that companies are hesitant to work with individual contractors. The problem is that if you want to start a consultancy, you're going to have a fun time finding your first client.

The correct solution is to decouple employment from taxation/benefits/pension/health-care/everything.
100% agree, he has a reason to paint a certain narrative. (I added my edit before you replied I think).

Either way, without knowing the full picture from both sides (like a court case going through discovering to fully put out the communciations between Amazon and Parler), we don't know the answer. We see that Amazon canceled Parler with little external communication. And we see what Parler is saying. Amazon could share what they communicated with Parler (assuming they legally can), then we could see another side to this story.

It would be nice for this court case to go through discovery, then we'll know who said what and when. But until then, we have very imperfect data and have to weigh it as best we can.
Slowness of transactions and low throughput is a weak argument against Bitcoin. With innovation, or workarounds, I just don't see that as a real hangup here. Anyways, would be interested in author's opinion of other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum.
I'm glad to see that Scott's back. His previous blog was quite impressive.
Indeed, people have drama'd a lot about Australia's surveillance laws, but they have little applicability to Fastmail. Additionally, if you are worried about government surveillance, your safest bet is just to be storing your data under someone else's government.

If you live in the US, it's very easy for the US to get your data, and more irritating for the US to ask Australia for your data.
Tesla should have bought this brand and maybe used it for their high-end models (plaid, roadster) similar to Toyota with Lexus.
Yes, because gross.
That said, I can't recall ever seeing a spot of rust on a DeLorean body panel, even after 40 years. Certainly some were parked near the ocean in England or California. You probably don't need full up marine grade alloys for something that only has to deal with salt spray. It's not like you park the thing underwater every day.

I would expect the frame and engine/transmission to be more of a concern. I'd be doubly suspect of the electrical components, since it's a 20th century British car.
Where's the hypocrisy? Should AWS drop facebook as a customer?

I don't think anyone is suggesting that Facebook is free of guilt, but there is evidence that Facebook does at least try to keep their site clean, and for the most part they do. Its certainly possible that Facebook had (in absolute terms) more violence and planning than Parler, but as a percentage of the overall content, it's much smaller.

This doesn't excuse Facebook, they can do better, but it isn't hypocritical to say "the group with 10% violent content that tacitly encourages it isn't okay, while the group with .1% violent content that actively innovates in trying to keep things clean is okay".

Of course, that's only true if FB is actively innovating, and, well, that's questionable (Yann Lecun has made some concerning statements about Facebook's role, or lack thereof, in radicalization).
By analogy, I come back to HN because it's like taking a stroll through an interesting tech-focused pawn shop: each time I visit there are new facinating things to discover and learn. (In contrast to a stroll through a typical shopping Mall where you only see mass consumer goods from mainstream brands).
I partially blame software infrastructure here.

I've tried to do reproducible research, but just setting something up when I get the exact version of GCC, python and python packages I want, in such a way I can get the same versions 2 years later, is a collosal pain.

Just dumping a pile of code people won't be able to run isn't super useful, and becomes a source of continous complaints and requests for fixes.
Speaking of nostalgia, I remember downloading Trumpet Winsock from Tucows way back when....
FIDO-based SSH requires support from the server, because it's a new authentication method. So this is great in an environment where you control the servers, and some day it'll be pretty great for almost everybody, but today e.g. you can't use FIDO for GitHub. Whereas the older methods did not have this dependency.

On the other hand, one really nice thing is that FIDO lets you force employees to actually use organisation mandated security if that's appropriate. There's no way to force the remote SSH client not to store that RSA private key unencrypted, for example, even if it is company policy to use a 16 character passphrase; but if you issue every employee a Yubikey (picking one famous brand) the FIDO authentication step can insist that a genuine Yubikey was used, that the Yubikey says a PIN was entered and user presence confirmed. The OpenSSH design passes the digitally signed assurance from the Yubikey to the remote server for assessment, so you can't just comment out a few lines of SSH client code to bypass it.

Should you actually do that? Probably not, but it's an option you didn't have before. Certainly if your key people already swear they obey a policy requiring this there's no harm in enforcing it, is there?
Scaling up means each query is faster (3x in this particular case). Scaling out means they can support more clients/domains (more DB shards, more web servers, more concurrency, etc).

These are two distinct axes that are not incompatible with each other.
Thinking about the law is a world away from thinking about politics. Companies should think about how to comply with regulations, but they should not be biting their nails over whether the candidate who's backing their chemical plant will give a speech about Marijuana decrimininalization that's convincing enough to secure him the position necessary to force the local regulatory body to change the acceptable limits on effluents so that it becomes possible to continue running a process on an old line.
> ads means you can't have child porn and terrorism on your platform.

Doesn’t seem to be true in the case of Twitter

https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/twitter-sued-for-allegedly-ref...
> The electoral college actually favored Biden this time

I think we're operating on different definitions of "favored". The definition I'm using (and which most of the English-speaking world uses) is "have a fundamental advantage". He won the electoral college narrowly. He won the popular vote handsomely. That's a sign of a thumb on the scale in a pretty fundamental way.
Not all 700k works of art have a copyright free image because there are also modern works that are still copyrighted.
This is an interesting instance of cherry-picking and retrospective determinism in an attempt to convince the reader that the author's personal bias is valid and deserved.

After reading this we should be careful not to make an argument from fallacy. This may be a fallacious argument but that does not mean the conclusion is wrong.
I mean that is a great salary all in all, be happy with what you have.
are private jets under different regulations (rules)?
AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
Can I have domain aliases with fastmail? I saw I can have email aliases but can I specifically have a second domain aliased to a primary domain?

EDIT: They do. https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains.html#mirrored
Moderation scales with the size of the site. Obviously a tiny little web forum with a few dozen users isn't expected to have a Twitter-sized moderation team -- but if you're at a few million users and growing fast, you're expected to have some plans in place.
Hahaha. Having worked at DSTO (many years ago) this is SO believable.
Dozens is a bit disingenuous, and you are comparing a protest movement over the course of many months involving up to 20 million people. How does this have any relevance to anything?
I think access to media markets should be treated similarly to trade restrictions. I don't think the Chinese government or Chinese companies should have access to the US media market without appropriate reciprocity.
> I find it interesting that people think down voting my comment will intimidate me into changing the analysis.

I find it interesting that you think you can read minds as what expectations downvoters have about their downvotes’ effect on your behavior.

As you say, “That’s not how anything works…”
Down voters might find my comment above as not a new idea: The Economist began advocating for Gay Marriage in 1996.

This 2004 article includes discussion of the benefits of acceptance: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2004/02/26/the-case-for-ga...
Ask HN: People who moved from HCOL cities to the country. What was that like?
- What was your job in the city, and what is your job now? Any positive or negative impact professionally?

- What was you last living situation in the city like?

- What is your new place like?

- How long ago did you move?

- Why did you opt to move?

- What do you like most about life in the country compared to life in the city?

- What was hard about about adjusting to rural life?

- How did you pick your location/property?

- What would you tell others looking to relocate from HCOL cities to the country?

if you'd prefer not post publicly, I've got a google form here: https://forms.gle/1oivSS3jBUTXguMq9
TIL that Tesla Tequila is an actual thing, and it's somehow even more ridiculous than Tres Comas.