skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure I agree with you.

First, the Chinese account is still active, they only disabled new tweets: https://twitter.com/chineseembinus

That's very different from what they did to 45's account.

Second, Trump was democratically elected in 2016 and two months ago he had 75 million people (13 million more than 2016) reaffirm their trust in him. That's somewhat different from the Chinese or Russian situation.

Silencing someone elected isn't the same as silencing someone self-appointed.
Leeds Bins: the challenges and rewards of building an app powered by open data
"Sorry, you need over 200 karma to create a poll."

It seems like OP cannot do that...
The Parallax Propeller has an on-board boot ROM, but no E(E)PROM. Not much an issue for the intended audience (hobby and educational sector it seems), but the delay between reset and program start (while it is being loaded into internal RAM via I2C from external memory) would be for some hard real-time use cases. Something to be aware of.
Why would "real" Satoshi first add the paper and now want to take it away?
Relational databases enable some very flexible data access patterns. Once you shard, you lose a lot of that flexibility. If you move away from a relational model, you lose even more flexibility and start having to do much more work in your application layer, and usually start having to use more resources and developer time every step of the way.

The productivity enabled by having one master RDBMS is a big deal, and if they can buy commodity servers that satisfy their requirement, this seems like a fine way to operate.
You're right, "blame" is too loaded of a word, and also inadequate. However, in order to identify the actions to take, you still need something like a full systems analysis of weak points. Your list is a pretty good start on representing those.
Agreed. Gandhi (note corrected spelling) certainly had his flaws.

Meanwhile, Gandhi's views on the value of science were not as well known and he is often mis-reported as "anti-science,". because he often harshly criticized animal testing and weapons development. He in fact admired the scientific method and its search for the truth.

What he was against was imposing imported western technology on a poor and illiterate populace without actually "teaching them to fish". His contemporaries like Jawaharlal Nehru wanted rapid industrialization to catch up with the West. Gandhi wanted the vast masses in the countryside to develop a scientific outlook and become self-sufficient, not just a supplier of raw materials for the educated urban elite.

His views on science are analyzed in a long article by Prof. Shambu Prasad:

https://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/views_on_sci.htm

A 2019 NPR interview with famous historian Ramachandra Guha about Gandhi's flaws and his evolving views on racism is worth reading.

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/02/766083651/gandhi-is-deeply-re...
Note that

1. The sera they tested this against obtained antibodies through natural infection. It's not clear whether vaccine-induced immunity is protective against this variant.

2. They only tested for neutralizing antibodies, but there is still T-Cell response which could provide protection.
Depends on who you ask, I think. I'm not into Amiga stuff or that knowledgeable, but I understand AROS is essentially Amiga 3 implemented on x86/ARM/PPC/M68K. However, it's not seen as being "Amiga" because it doesn't primarily run on "real Amiga hardware"?
Do you have a source for the Indus valley thing? That seems interesting.

> This threatens the Pro-Aryan groups for some unknown reason.

If you want to be a supremacist, you have to be supreme to something, and anything that might question that (even hypotheses) is a threat to that feeling.
If aliens sent a probe to earth 1 million years ago, we'd have no way of knowing. Even if such a probe weren't destroyed or buried over that immense time span, it could be anywhere and we would have no way of knowing what to look for. Even if we were probed just a few centuries ago we'd likely be unaware - it would be quite serendipitous for an alien civilization to just happen to launch a probe such that it arrives within decades of us becoming capable of global monitoring.

It's not enough to probe every planet in the galaxy, they would have to repeatedly probe every planet in the galaxy every few centuries for us to expect to find such a probe. For how many millenia would you keep sending probes to the same backwater before you knew all you needed to know?
> You really don't need "user accounts" per se, but a way to restrict process privileges, of which user accounts is just a decent abstraction

I contend that they really aren't.

> The important bit is you can create a process that can't accidentally fandango on core and overwrite all the system files.

And here's why: the system files are easily replicable, there's a copy on every OS installation media. My personal files exist in far fewer places and the OS does absolutely nothing to stop a malicious application from damaging them. See also: https://xkcd.com/1200/

We call them user accounts because they are designed around isolating users from each other and the system, but that isn't what we care about in a personal computing context. It is possible to jerry-rig the kind of permission system we actually want using the user account system, but it has a lot of problems in practice because it isn't designed for that. It is not a good abstraction.
Technically you could also say "you will never escape crime" because crime always pays more than doing things legitimately (why earn your money when you can just steal it?), and yet as a society we've managed to marginalize crime and reduce instances of it to single-digit percentages in most developed countries.

Why should it be any different for ads? Advertising is a cancer on society, by itself its purpose is to waste some person's time by showing them something they haven't asked for, sometimes in hope to drive a purchase. We've basically normalized intentionally wasting people's time (in aggregate this time can be expressed in human lifetimes) for the benefit of a select few (the advertisers). Advertising also has secondary negative effects where it perverts the incentives between service providers and their users (social networks' objective is to make you look at ads, not facilitate communication with your friends/family), sometimes up to the point where said service providers promote harmful content to drive ad views ("engagement" as they call it) where said content then leads to mental health issues, broken relationships and crime (like the radicalization of the right-leaning Trump supporters that ended up storming the Capitol).
If we can expect more surprises like this, movement will have to be curtailed till we’re sure we have things under control (like SARS).

We can’t have the whole world economy in lockdown because a new strain spread because prior immunization is ineffective against the variant.
Realistically that would mean vaccine passes so that you can only come into certain places if you can prove you have been vaccinated - and those can be made hard to fake if we set up a digital certificate system.

If each vaccine provider had a digital certificate signed by the relevant health authorities and then that was signed by a root US gov cert that everybody could download the public cert for, it would be virtually impossible to produce a fake one, and it would be pretty obvious which provider had faked the records.

We could even burn the entire system once enough people have been vaccinated, by publishing the secret key of the root cert.
In the State of Hawaii the Outdoor Circle successfully made billboards illegal. Businesses can still have signs on their storefronts but that's about it. Many mural artists have filled the void and you can see some in the news story below:

https://www.civilbeat.org/2017/08/lets-preserve-and-perpetua...
Algorand has...

https://community.algorand.org/blog/utilizing-algorands-asc-...
> . In South Africa, genomic data highlighted that the 501Y.V2 variant rapidly displaced other lineages circulating, and preliminary studies suggest the variant is associated with a higher viral load, which may suggest potential for increased transmissibility; however, this, as well as other factors that influence transmissibility, are subject of further investigation.

> As of 30 December, the 501Y.V2 variant from South Africa has been reported from four other countries to date.

https://www.who.int/csr/don/31-december-2020-sars-cov2-varia...
You start with a problem, then you think what system might be interacting with that particular subsystem. Then you start to poke around in there trying to intercept, dump code, add debugging and so on.
> It's not a hollywood interpretation at all, Satoshi created something that was an existential threat (at least long-term, in terms of the doors it opened) to fiat currencies / fractional reserve banking more broadly.

At its most charitable, the underlying economic theory you're supposing is out of mainstream. To the extent that it's a Gold Standard version 2.0, though, it should be pointed out that the kind of mainstream economists who actually run economic policy would usually view it as a specifically discredited theory: 100% of all gold-standard currencies have failed and been replaced with non-gold-standard.

In any case, though, the notion that someone with an alternative economic theory is so threatening to your profession that you need to send Deep State Operatives™ to shut everything down is Hollywood fantasy at best and Qanon idiocy at worst.
Remove bitcoin.pdf
We shouldn't need incentives because it shouldn't be a choice.
This is the killer feature that keeps me on the proprietary version of VSCode. Makes my life so much easier!
FRR: IP routing protocol suite for Linux and Unix platforms
With perfect (or good enough) prediction, you can replace drives before they fail, in controlled conditions in a maintenance window.
I wonder what the feasibility is of doing something like this for movies and tv shows?
Amazon software development interns (undergrad) in SF get $65/hr + a housing stipend. 60/hr seems far too low
My preferred version:

Heisenberg and Schrodinger are driving down the road when they hit a bump.

Schrodinger says: I think you ran over a cat!

Heisenberg: Is the cat dead?

Schrodinger: I can't be certain.
> which is simply not true

None of us know what was available back then but you are right, maybe there was an option to work with someone and maybe even with results in a similar time frame. But considering the greater risk I don't think there is certainty how a collaboration with an external partner on a new technology would have ended. I am also not convinced we need RISC-V to move education forward meaningfully and I think what they've got here will do the job.

Hopefully people will be able to buy something similar based on RISC-V for <£5 soon and that'll kick-start even more options in this space. But we don't seem to be there quite yet.
Yeah, this is not great news. I hope the vaccine makers are looking at adding coverage for these variants to the existing vaccines. That should be relatively easy to do for the mRNA vaccines, but possibly harder for the adenovirus based vaccines like the Oxford/AZ and the J&J. The question is whether they would have to go through a full phase 3 trial for this kind of addition or would this be more like how we add coverage to different flu viruses to the annual flu vaccines?
Please don't give up! but please also don't break the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your two comments in this thread contain one fine, substantive statement: "Aliases in powershell are not turned off by default. Aliases either exist or they don't. When speaking of aliases alone, bash is no simpler nor more complex than powershell." If you had simply replied upthread with that in the fist place, it would have made a fine comment with a very high signal/noise ratio. Unfortunately the rest of both comments is just noise, tanking the ratio.

As I explained upthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25862312), the internet is crazy-making this way, but it's not some property specific to HN and it's not something that's somehow changed lately. It's intrinsic to the medium, and we all need to build our skills in coping with it—which includes not reacting from a provoked place. That's not easy, but it's necessary to the sort of community we're trying for here, and we need everyone to work together on that.
From the article:

"These data highlight the prospect of reinfection with antigenically distinct variants and may foreshadow reduced efficacy of current spike-based vaccines."

So it suggests that only spike-based vaccines may have reduced efficacy against it. I suppose the inactivated-virus vaccines should be fine. Which would put China and India at huge advantage (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...).
The Decline of Violent Conflicts: What Do the Data Say?
Ironically I can’t view this article without disabling my iOS adblocker.
Kicking the Hornet’s Nest – The Complete Writings of Satoshi Nakamoto [pdf]
SpaceX Fights Back Hard and Rejects All Competitor Arguments Against Starlink
i love the posts on r/bitcoin where they invest like $50 and ask if they should sell.
What does a "Cyber threat Intel" do? Can you perhaps elaborate a little more on this, please?
The victim actually took steps to have content removed and Twitter failed to do so (initially). I wonder if payment vendors will give Twitter the "Pornhub treatment" and de-platform their access to financial services.

> Finally on Jan. 28, Twitter replied to Doe and said they wouldn’t be taking down the material, which had already racked up over 167,000 views and 2,223 retweets, the suit states.

> “Thanks for reaching out. We’ve reviewed the content, and didn’t find a violation of our policies, so no action will be taken at this time,” the response reads, according to the lawsuit.
What does it do? (It's something about emails, but I'm not sure what.)
> The images are being released under Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication – which is essentially copyright and royalty free.

So can I use them on my game?
Same could be said of contracting COVID.
Do you have a link, or some sort of corroborating evidence to support this statement
Not "All Your Chats". Franz is doing this already. It has a free version with limited features. The down side is it is a CPU hog. It doesn't support WeChat, neither is your Beeper. That really sucks. It is probably due to WeChat's closed API that they never really wanted any 3rd party to interface with it. Not sure if anything you can do about it.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments, call names, or take HN threads further into flamewar. All that is against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I was struggling to remember where I'd read it :) Thanks :)

No idea if it was his idea or not.
Well AMD should be worried about both Intel and Apple. Competition with deep pockets.
Better, but still a bit shaky. Probabl 'I refunded Arpanet...' (in 1991 Gore Bill). Arpanet was started in 1966, and he is not that old. It is clear Gore was an important supporter of the expansion of the internet, but it is hard to put it in a catchphrase with doesnt sound like 'first I created heaven and earth...'
Interesting. I always assumed that “oráiste” was the word for the colour as well as the fruit. Out of curiosity, I looked up the translation for the Orange Order which gives two translations: “an tOrd Oráisteach” and “na Fir Bhuí” (the yellow men):

https://www.focloir.ie/en/dictionary/ei/Orange+Order
The primary benefit of the vaccine over 'natural' immunity (other than avoiding actual exposure) is the emphasis on neutralizing antibody formation.
For a service like letsencrypt, the independence factor is also a major reason for self hosting.

I can forsee letsencrypt in the future going to building their own cloud (on their own physical infrastructure), but speaking as a letsencrypt user of their free certificate program, I would lose respect and interest in their service if they went with an AWS or GCP or Azure approach.

The independence from other major players (and the ability of their team to change and move everything about their service, as needed) is one of the reasons I use letsencrypt.
Submarines like that do not use pressurized atmospheres. They hold back the water pressure using the strength of the hull alone. (Also the aircraft would be launched when the submarine was surfaced.)
Unless I misunderstood something, it seems they have a single primary that handles read+write and multiple read replicas for it.

It shouldn't be too difficult given the current use of MariaDB to start using something like Galera to create a multi-master cluster and improve redundancy of the service, unless there are some non-obvious reasons why they wouldn't be doing this.

I think I also see redundant PSUs, would be neat to know if they're connected to different PDUs and if the networking is also redundant.
There's a great paper about small sample sizes in the context of experimental surgeries (where usually the work is done at a single regional hospital on 3 patients): "If nobody died, is everything OK?" It's cited in Glantz's Primer on Biostatistics.
Corellium Ported Linux to the Apple M1
Damn, that whole comment section is an amazing time capsule of sentiment regarding Microsoft and other tech companies! Well worth a read.
I kind of expect it to be called "Windows for Rust".
I think a lot of people will leave or be forced to leave if they can work remotely and if taxes go up even more, especially if they start taxing "wealth."
Sometimes people have to use things that are non-standard so that they can become standard. Besides, converting to and from standard regexes shouldn't be hard. Yes there are disadvantages to using a non-standard third party library but maybe there are advantage too.
This is a good supporting point. If you actually quantified the effort and resources it would take to study every species of ant it would likely be quite small although not trivially so. Yet it is still left up to the personal interests of professional biologists to lobby for research programs. It could play out similarly on a galactic scale in which case our first point of contact might be a grad student from the biology department of the local Uni.
Worth noting that peer review is also a bit (or a lot slow) and not perfect, and that all peer-reviewed studies have in the past been not peer reviewed.
It would seem that the horse is already out of the barn. Flights would have needed to be curtailed much earlier. In addition, we're seeing similar mutations popping up independently in geographical areas - seems to be evolutionary pressure in these directions.
Mozilla gave up on distributed web a long time ago, Just look at the libdweb[0] project. No update in years, nobody even to get almost complete patchset to firefox reviewed and merged.

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb
CP/M vs. DOS (2005)
Interesting. So how come you ended up 80 % in marketing and 20 % as a developer?
Do you have a CS background? Or is it perhaps an economic/business admin degree?

If I am not mistaking, James McNellis from Microsoft had a philosophy degree. So apparently it doesn't matter what degree you have, the only metric that seems to be of importance is your ability to code.
> There are a lot of bad things you can call the BTC core devs but they sure as hell seize every opportunity to grab power.

This is a non-idiomatic usage of this expression, unless you're saying that power grabbing is good?
The cat I had growing up was OBSESSED with olives. He would eat one, then roll around in the spot where it was on the floor. It was the same reaction he had to catnip, but more extreme.

My current cat is much less interested in olives, but loves catnip.
I'm keenly aware of the PSA debate. Policy about its proper use been see-sawing back and forth for a decade.

Starting about 10 years ago, just before it mattered to me, official policy decided to NOT screen using the PSA test. The belief was that underinformed primary care docs were overreacting to a high PSA number and ordering too many biopsies which often led to "unnecessary" infections. Of course, the right response was to do a better job of interpreting the test results, ideally to refer the results to a more expert urologist before doing a biopsy, not to cut back on the test.

Given its low cost ($50) and very high sensitivity, the PSA test provided a very valuable service that could be equalled by no other test. Physical exam is often wrong, missing a large fraction of positive cases of cancer. And biopsies introduce infection most often in older patients. Younger ones can tolerate biopsy better, but were disallowed from PSA screening entirely due to this overprotective policy.

The right solution was clearly to interpret the PSA test results more judiciously by introducing more expertise prior to biopsy, knowing that PSA is overly sensitive for diagnosing cancer. Fortunately the official policy has since been reversed, and PSA has returned to routine use -- now with inclusion of a second test or a urologist prior to biopsy.

The same blunder took place in mammographies at about the same time. Too many false positives led to too many biopsies and thus routine screening with mammography was deemed unacceptable and it was deprecated as well. Fortunately that overreaction has also ended.

Sensitive medical tests are essential. Overreaction to possible misinterpretation of positive results by inexpert GPs is the problem, not the test itself. I routinely thank the stars above that my GP was expert enough to know that.
Or maybe he employed more run-of-the-mill unsavoury techniques like low-level bribery (gifts, expensive wine-and-dine), plenty of shmoozing and the like. These techniques are not exactly useless in getting new business; however, most modern workplace rulebooks will consider them illegal/unethical.
> The only people who are optimizing for three-figure costs every month are either:

In our case, we are doing the same for around 50 clients, so it sums up :-)

> Who would do this and why? Why would you have a load balancer in front of a single server?

afaik, for publishing something to the outside world from EKS, that's the only way - even for single node clusters
This all sounds reasonable to me. Seems like the victim's first recourse should be through the Law not Twitter.

>but the tech giant failed to do anything about it until a federal law enforcement officer got involved, the suit states.

>A support agent followed up and asked for a copy of Doe’s ID so they could prove it was him and after the teen complied, there was no response for a week, the family claims.

>Only after this take-down demand from a federal agent did Twitter suspend the user accounts that were distributing the CSAM and report the CSAM to the National Center on Missing and Exploited Children,” states the suit, filed by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation and two law firms.

EDIT: Here is the timeline as far as I can tell.

Dec 25, 2019: John Doe Becomes aware of Content on Twitter

january 2020: John Doe and Fam: Report Content for Breaking Twitter Policies.

January 28,2020: Twitter doesn't think the content breaks its policies

January 30, 2020: Law Enforcement contacts Twitter to Remove the Content. Content is removed.
Unfortunately, mainstream media won't pick on it, nor will the story gain traction because it is published in the NY Post. (if it is true)

Edit:- to the folks down voting me, please show me some major outlets (NYT, BBC, etc) reporting on this. As far as we are concerned, this kind of stuff should be news.
Remember, if you pay median, 1/2 the engineers are making more at other companies.
And worsened maternal heath while deskilling obstetrics.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/09/the-score

Blind Taylorism is dangerous. What we measure gets managed at the expense of unmeasured things.
YoYo Games, the company behind GameMaker, is now part of Opera
LISA: Linux Switching Appliance