skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Parler made this specific allegation under the Sherman Act.

Well, tried to. They didn't do a good job of it at all. What they actually alleged (relevant towards this theory) was:

* There was set to a mass exodus of Twitter users to Parler

* AWS also hosts Twitter

... They didn't even allege that AWS conspire with Twitter. Sure, they don't have any evidence of that conspiracy without discovery, but they didn't even allege a fact that could be proven with discovery.

These two facts are supposed to sustain the theory that AWS had no other reason to kick off Parler other than a conspiracy to keep Twitter the dominant platform. Despite the complaint itself opening up by alleging that AWS kicked off Parler because Parler espouses conservative views and later conceding that Parler knew that its content violated AWS's terms, albeit Parler was attempting to rectify it.

There's another issue with Parler's claims that I haven't seen anyone else bring up: if Parler was expecting the influx of Twitter users as a result of Twitter banning Trump, how would kicking off Parler keep these users on Twitter or otherwise buttress Twitter's dominance?
Another way of looking at it though, is he won the electoral college by a margin of 40k votes (the margin of victory in the states that mattered). He won the popular vote by a margin of 7m votes.
There has been no ruling by the court on the merits of the case. A TRO is simply a request for injunctive relief, asking the court to compel AWS to reinstate services pending litigation.

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> Packinghan v North Carolina (2017) - Access to social media and digital infrastructure cannot be prohibited by the state.

Amazon isn't the state.

- Correct. My point is that Packinghan, viewed in combination with Marsh, provides an interesting lens for issues concerning potentially monopolistic behavior. IF data storage and/or social media can be viewed as critical digital infrastructure, an argument can and will likely be made that the services are tantamount to a digital company owned town. We'll see! Either way it's very interesting and highly relevant to the industry.
I think it's because the MFD model is designed for trained pilots who have to take a test to use them, i.e. I'd love one, but I can just imagine the complaints about the different pages and things like that.

Also, I'd love one for home automation too. There's only so much data you need to display or enter so the reduced latency of a dumb screen going straight into the back of a internet connected SBC (or even microcontroller) could be really nice to have in the kitchen, rather than having to fiddle around with either just a phone or what would end up being a tablet bolted to a wall.
This, to me, is an interesting thing to think about. With enough effort and sacrifice, we could eliminate influenza or other communicable diseases globally. How much economic, social, and educational disaster is worth ridding humanity of influenza?

SARS-CoV-2 has been horrific, and we've lost millions of lives to it already. Assuming we can eliminate it and influenza along with it, would there eventually be a "net saving" of lives?

edit: this is behind a paywall.. not sure of hn's policy on that.
I have an existing app in Swift and Interface Builder. I hate xCode. Simple things like deploying the app to a device is hit or miss (usually miss). Is there a development environment that I could use for my app which is better? Happy to use any platform (MacOS, Linux, Windows).
> Because they're making use of a government granted monopoly on a physically limited common. They should in turn operate as common carriers.

Hmm, not always though. I use WiFi 99% of the time, including for voice calling, which isn't using any government-allocated cellular spectrum. So in my case, T-Mobile should be able to filter packets going through their servers and censor undesirable speech, right? Their servers, their ToS, right?
That's interesting. I'm half Polish and I know that there is a perspective that women do really well in science/STEM, but I don't think I've seen them participate at equal rates as men. And when I talk to tech companies in Poland these days, they say their engineering teams are predominantly male and they'd like to change that (which is one reason they want to partner with Manara!)

EDITED: Also, when I worked at Upwork as a PM, most of our software engineers were from Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, etc) and we had almost no women on the team.
Thanks! Next time it happens, I'll save an Activity Monitor process sample (pretty much the only way to get any insight into a locked-up Safari tab) and send it to your support.
I love how immediately obvious it is that the Harrier cockpit lets you see downwards.

Also, the red button on the stick really brings home just how much flying these machine is like a flying a loaded gun.
I don’t lose sleep over it haha, but it’s still annoying.

HN is one of the few communities that isn’t just a constant stream of zero effort content, and the discussion is more often than not both productive and insanely helpful.

But it’s certainly not perfect. There is group think, downvote/flag abuse, abusive comments (piped through a thesaurus is all) etc.

But yeah at the end of the day it’s as easy as closing the tab to get it out of my life :p
Sorry, I guess? It's been an industry standard phrase for a pretty long time. Screenreaders probably have a historical reason why they're named the way they are, but the short version is that's just what everyone started using. A lot of software terminology is like that, it's weird to people who are unfamiliar with it because there's no central committee somewhere that decides what everything should be named.

If you're trying to do a search online for the kind of tool you're looking for, probably the phrase you would want to search for is "OCR software", short for Optical Character Recognition, or if you're trying to tag images just straight-up "image recognition."
I don't see how Packingham or Marsh are likely to be relevant here.

While the former has some lofty language about central social media has become in society, it's still a decision about state action.

Marsh seems like a reach as well - PragerU tried that and it didn't work. I'm not convinced Parler would fare any better here.
Key point: "I get my health insurance via my wife who is salaried."

What if you had to provide your own health insurance?
Is this what you have in mind? See the section on mirrored domains.

https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains.html#mirrored
For me it was the other direction. I started using err returns because I knew it was idiomatic, but after doing that for months and seeing no benefit I decided it was just idiotic to continue.

When I want to handle an error case locally I still use them, but that's extremely rare.
LIFO. Thanks, corrected it.
Thanks for flagging that; we'll take a look
Unfortunately, this kind of blatantly illegal detention among Indian authorities is not new, and far from uncommon. India has a decades long history of suppressing anti-Hindu speech, largely at the local level due to morally bankrupt bureaucrats, but occasionally also spilling into the highest levels of the legal and justice system.

Censorship is, and has always been rampant as well as widely unacknowledged throughout Indian society. With the right-wing swing of Indian politics of late, perhaps this has exacerbated a bit just as it has across many other parts of the world.
>Seems to me this is a giant loophole.

the key for those loopholes is low volume and similar limits. It allows to start making cars, like Tesla had with original Roadster which otherwise wouldn't be let on the public roads. I think it is a great approach in US to have those limited loopholes in various domains which allow to start making things - such loopholes are absent in for example Russia (my old country) and through the Europe and that affects the entrepreneurship and innovation.
If you eschew RDS, the largest you can go up to seems to be a u-24tb1.metal.

448 vcpu, 24TiB of RAM, $70 an hour. ~$52k per month.
Currently they're just planning to build cars from the spare parts inventory they bought. Technically they won't be new.
> they waive certain modern safety regulations

That's not how replica cars work. It's not like anyone in Nascar actually races a stock Toyota Camry -- those are just silhouettes and that's how replicas turn out as well. Visually similar, but completely gutted as soon as you open it up.
> This is funny (as in, LOL funny) to point out because it makes parler seem completely inept, but it’s only technically correct.

This is one of the cases where technically correct is actually the best kind of correct, because it goes directly to Parler’s claim that Twitter is a similar situated entity hosted on AWS being treated differently.

> They just negotiated a fat contract to host twitter, and that’s set to go live in the next few months. Can that really not be considered an endorsement of twitter’s content with respect to AWS’ ToS?

Um, no?

(1) Because if Twitter is under the standard TOS, they’ll be subject to the same reactive enforcement and quick cancellation as anyone else. Bringing someone on on those terms simply means you have the same trust as you’d extend to a random member of the public that they won’t break your TOS.

(2) Since they just “negotiated a fat contract”, they may or may not even be under the same TOS as are offered to people who just want to pick up hosting without negotiation. Which would be even farther from an endorsement of their content adhering to the general TOS.

> I do think that parler can make an interesting case about AWS picking a winner and damaging a loser.

Its possible that they could do so in the abstract, but they have made an argument along those lines, and its pretty clear that that concrete argument, as opposed to any hypothetical one they could have made, was, in the context of the particular evidence they’ve profferred to support it, unconvincing to the judge.
No, literally all I'm saying is that a technical support liason at AWS is not going to be in a position to discuss legal issues regarding the customer's account. It's not their job. If AWS operates similarly to most other companies I've worked with, technical support staff are strictly forbidden from discussing legal issues -- that's the responsibility of the legal department.
UC San Diego developing a facemask sensor that detects the novel coronavirus
Nice. Thinking about it more, I think I could live without it but I have it with Gmail at the moment. I like the per-address basis though, in Gmail I add the domain alias then when I add an email alias that alias applies to all the domains.
His access was revoked because having unused keys to the Bitcoin code is an attack vector.

Citation here BTW: https://twitter.com/notgrubles/status/1247592193319198720
i think it would be widely successful, i'd buy one
How Bitcoin is helping middle-class users survive the pandemic
Yes - only one domain is the primary/default, you go into their Aliases section and have to set up a foo@domain1.com to foo@domain2.com mapping (if you use the add domain wizard it makes it for you). You still need to set up your DNS records for the second domain like the first.

(I bought two domains and did exactly what you're asking - after using the first for a day or so, having decided I liked the other one better I reached in and simply flipped the dropdown and chose the second one to by the default, clicked OK and it all just worked nicely)

When I look at my set message headers, it would appear that your primary @fastmail.com (or whichever of their domains you choose) is your actual primary, and that even your first domain is just an alias to the actual user account domain.
Not sure if this answers your question specifically. But yes, they do allow for domain aliases. I specifically use their wild card alias. For example, let's say I own the domain `mydomain.com`. Fastmail allows me to have `contact@mydomain.com`, `apple@mydomain.com`, `linkedin@mydomain.com`, etc. on the fly.
Moreover, every single Microsoft patent will now be used to fight against any patent claim concerning Linux, related open source software, and a limited set of codecs.

Did Microsoft contribute all of their patents to the OIN? I seem to recall IBM only contributed a specific subset back in the day.
I think the trusted 3rd party is essential to these transactions. At least in the UK, the conveyancers aren't just providing escrow or legal services, but also a professional, guiding voice through the transaction as a whole.
> This is an example of a tech person extrapolating their expertise outside tech.

Isn't this exactly what Bitcoin is?
In 2011 it was pretty difficult to build a BEV. In 2021 you just call up Magna and use their stock platform, like the Fisker Ocean is doing.

Maybe they are full of shit and always have been. But I could see a good team with limited resources realizing how in over their heads they are 10 years ago, only to circle back today and be able to pull it off.
Apple only.
Yes! That's exactly what I was thinking. I think I like the way fastmail does it more than gmail too.
I am not so sure about this. I think they should certainly allow emergency access to shut down all access but not necessarily give access to a trusted party. Life can change quite unexpectedly.
Also, needs to be a person who does not have family with the monetary and system-navigating resources to try to keep them from getting committed. Poor and/or alone, not able to appear and speak like a "respectable professional", you're fucked.

Or in your example if you have family that wants you to be committed and has money and the ability to appear and speak professionally and navigate beurocracies, oh yeah you're never coming back.
I think there's probably some sort of understanding between them and Apple which allows them to do their thing as long as they don't publish too much publicly.

EDIT: In fact, it might not even be that. It doesn't exactly make commercial sense for a company whose entire existence is based on their extensive IP knowledge of apple hardware to post every detail publicly for others to copy. They are a for profit organization after all.
Why do you believe this judge is part of an over-arching conspiracy of powerful but mute people who are attempting to inhibit the adoption of bitcoin through cosplay?

Why wouldn't those super-intelligent, powerful people do something about the actual Chicago based exchange that already trades Bitcoins?
Seeing "TUCOWS" was like smelling something
I hadn't smelt in decades. I barely remember
what it was, just have positive associations
with that word from my child hood. Very cool to read
that I'm not alone in that.
Hard to do it without an existing connection to be honest. I'm not sure if all the "join a hobby group", "play a sport" etc. responses actually work for people, but they definitely don't for me.

Plan a picnic or hike and hit up old Facebook/LinkedIn contacts who are living in the area, or ask existing friends to bring along their friends/coworkers.
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip
Regarding Marsh v Alabama: "Recently the case has been highlighted as a potential precedent to treat online communication media like Facebook as a public space to prevent it from censoring speech. However, in Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck [2019] the Supreme Court found that private companies only count as state actors for first amendment purposes if they exercise 'powers traditionally exclusive to the state.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama#Subsequent_hi...

Manhattan Community Access Corp. finds that _public access television stations_ aren't subject to the First Amendment, let alone private web hosts.

I mean, as an attorney, I think it would be kind of interesting to see what happened if the Supreme Court ruled that private web hosts in general, or Amazon in particular, are somehow state actors. It would be one of the most practically disruptive-to-society court decisions I can think of, about as interesting to watch as declaring that all warehouses are now public parks. But it's against both recent precedent and common sense.
Despite the time machine nostalgia, I have heard DeLoreans are not very good cars to own.

Low availability and high cost of replacement parts, not many mechanics are familiar with them, need to avoid scratching them in any way because you don't paint them...

Not to mention gas consumption, safety, etc.

You can make a profitable business from a DeLorean. Like selling wedding photos and such... but as an everyday car it is not the right choice.
> rather than a days-long ACH batch file

Same-day ACH exists today. Even for international transactions. Most ACH batch files can be processed in as little as an hour. To the extent there's anything preventing "instant transactions" its (1) AML regulations and (2) internal/contractual (Visa, etc.) fraud prevention, not the ACH process.
>Instead, new versions of the software will be offered under the Elastic License (which limits how it can be used) or the Server Side Public License (which has requirements that make it unacceptable to many in the open source community).

I'm a bit out of the loop here, can someone please tell me why Elastic decided to enact this seemingly Anti-OSS license?
I do not possess power to read minds, nor anticipate the court's actions. I find it all, very interesting!
Intel employs 5,900 people in Santa Clara county and that is their corporate headquarters so obviously they think they gain something from a large Bay Area footprint. The idea that Bay Area hiring is primarily "little startups that need to go out to bars" is also very odd.
Same here. Used Fastmail at my old company for years and wish my new company moved onto it. Google Mail is so damn slow.
> Wonder how big the manual for flight simulator game would be.
One manual for the F-14B is about 1k pages, so I would assume this would clock in significantly more than that due to the added capabilities (in information at least, possibly not pages due to the F-14 being pre-HOTAS and things like that
http://server.3rd-wing.net/public/Ked/natops%20F14B.pdf
> You're so, so spectacularly wrong on this, I am honestly gasping for air.

Calm the fuck down. It’s a conversation.

> Accountants are the only people who know if your company is alive or a walking dead. How do you expect to run a company if you don't know reliably and with precision how much money it actually has/makes/spends? Money is the lifeblood of a company! Don't you want to be constantly improving the way you make, spend, and report it to investors and the public?

You entirely missed the point. At no point did I say accounting was not important. I pointed out though that investing more and more into accounting does not boost returns. If that were true, every company could just hire thousands of accountants to boost their profits. This is what separates a cost center from a profit center. Your department provides value in the same way that running water does. It’s critical and you don’t want to skimp on it, but it’s just a part of the business that isn’t helping grow the total market capture.

> The biggest companies in the world typically end up with CEOs that come either from sales or from accounting.

Why would you include sales together with accounting? Sales is precisely the opposite of accounting in this regard because it’s very easy to tie sales directly to revenue. So easy their compensation is literally based on it.

Not so hot take: CEOs that come from accounting and not a customer-oriented profit center are the worst. They know what the numbers look like but are fundamentally disconnected from why customers give money to the business. Seeing the minutiae of the ins and outs of money gives a super false sense of understanding the business. Accounting CEOs are terrible in any industry that requires innovation or getting ahead of trends.
I think it's important to point out that the US has plenty of silicon fabrication plants. They just don't produce the cutting edge 3nm chips, instead they focus on the older chips that make up the bulk of the market. Silicon chips are still the fourth largest American manufacturing export.

Given the expensive involved in bleeding edge manufacturing and the comparatively low volumes of sales, the consolidation of manufacturing capacity is not really surprising.
I like the way with all our academia it's down to a beer company exploring how we will deal with death in the future.

Or a messy divorce I guess.

[edit] This seems a little ontopic, even if Reddit style fiction - https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/l1z248/what_happe...
it's become somewhat of a best-practice with mainstream news too. The Guardian, WaPo, Der Spiegel, ... are all using it:

https://www.theguardian.com/securedrop

https://www.washingtonpost.com/securedrop/

...
first thought: What, Tucows still existed?

clicks on link

second thought: That's not Tucows! Where is the logo with the two cows???
The announcement: https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change

The "Why" behind the change: https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-AWS

tl;dr Elastic alleges that Amazon is infringing on their trademark and is offering Elastic's products as a service on AWS without being a good partner.

From Elastic's summary of the license change: "The SSPL allows free and unrestricted use and modification, with the simple requirement that if you provide the product as a service to others, you must also publicly release any modifications as well as the source code of your management layers under SSPL."
I guess in most countries, you can renovate an old antique car from the 1920s and that's ok for people to drive around in. It's only a small step from that to saying that someone can upgrade an old car with a new engine and sell them.

From a government perspective, as long as these cars are niche, they probably don't mind so much. I can go and buy a 1955 Morris Minor fairly easily and it won't have seatbelts, but the assumption is that I would be aware the car doesnt meet modern safety standards.
OFAC compliance seems like an obvious comparison?

If your company gets put on an terrorist list, you'll be removed from US services very quickly.
Because they want to make money?
If you are Elastic, how could you compete against AWS even if it is your own software ?
Well, that's an easy one. I "knew" that in 2013 after a bit of research.

I'd be more curious about something less obvious, e.g. in 2030 50% of software running was not written by humans or the like.
Adding a random Jellyfin anecdote: Jellyfin stable (10.6.2) is buggy and somewhat unusable for me — videos wouldn't play because of some browser compatibility issue.

This seems to have been fixed in the 10.7.0 RCs, and they've been quite wonderful.

The only feature I find lacking is being able to use Jellyfin on a Chromecast, via their iOS app. It seems to be blocked by the lack of upstream SDK support: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-expo/issues/16
But tiles don't need to be spatially indexed — they're offsets on a 2D plane in a Mercator projection. I've only worked with bitmap tiles, but it's my understanding that vector tiles use the same system. So all you need is fast (x, y) lookup.