skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a big part of this is accepting Amazon's claims as fact, which I would not. For example, Amazon claims Parler was not moderating when in fact Parler had some pretty strict moderation enforcement. One could make an argument of whether or not it was successful "enough" and you'd have to compare it to other industry leaders like Facebook and Twitter which both have copious amounts of child pornography, calls for violence, etc.

What I've seen is basically some screenshots of some bad posts, which doesn't tell me anything about what was really going on in a very large and complex system.
Maybe they, like me, read the court's frankly damning opinion and didn't find that your fact-less argument from authority contributed to the discussion.

If you wanted to write a "long form" (?) reply then you could have done so. In the meantime the hand wave above has to stand on its own merits; or more specifically fall on its lack thereof.
Because violence to advance a cause the powers agree with is suddenly protected under free speech all the same.

Many have pointed out that the storming of the capitol was not too dissimilar to many of the b.l.m. riots which were also often coördinated and featured chants of killing police officers.

And it very much seems that whichever side one be on very much dictates how both are treated with both sides claiming that it is about violence irrespective of speech, but it's quite clear that the tolerance for violence is quite a bit lower when it concern an ideology one does not agree with.
They do if you want a car that performs optimally at a wide enough speed range, like a supercar. But that is an edge case, and eventually even that might not require one.
Honestly Parler just needs to park their front end someplace, don’t think anyone would be the wiser if they used AWS on the backend for their database/storage.

But on the other hand Parler’s tech people seem mediocre so who knows if they could manage to not leak AWS ips or headers that would tip off they are using AWS and allow Amazon to figure out which account. Would only take one slip.

If they pay their bills and it wasn’t dead obvious AWS was involved then Amazon might not try hard to find them.
The Democratic Presidential candidate has won the popular vote in the last 7 of 8 Presidential elections[0], with the Dems having, on average, about 5 million more votes for those 8 elections. It's empirically fair to say the right represents about 45% of voters (which makes their power even more noteworthy).

[0] year,dem_candidate,dem_votes,gop_candidate,gop_votes

1992,Bill Clinton,44909806,George H. W. Bush,39104550

1996,Bill Clinton,47401185,Bob Dole,39197469

2000,Al Gore,50999897,George W. Bush,50456002

2004,John Kerry,59028444,George W. Bush,62040610

2008,Barack Obama,69498516,John McCain,59948323

2012,Barack Obama,65915795,Mitt Romney,60933504

2016,Hillary Clinton,65853514,Donald Trump,62984828

2020,Joe Biden,81268867,Donald Trump,74216747
FYI, the intermediate CA's signed by their new Root X2 certificate won't have OCSP URLs anymore.

Source: https://letsencrypt.org/2020/09/17/new-root-and-intermediate...
Is email the predominant form of communication people?

How many teenagers are raving about sending memes over email?

edit: My point isn't to say email isn't an instance of federated/p2p communication, but rather we need more types of communication to be run on P2P rails. Social, forums, media...
I can agree it is worth vaccinating the population to protect such people.
You'd really say 32 is 3 times more than 8?
Amazon also has monopolistic power and has destroyed many industries.
"I had rather a good time."
I joined a weekly game night. A lot of communities prior to pandemic) had weekly board game meets. In Sacramento, there is BoardGames and Brews weekly meetup. I'm sure similar kinds of things exist elsewhere.
Companies have to obey laws and laws are written by politicians. Unless you think companies should be above the law they cannot, and should not be expected to, avoid thinking about politics.
I think you underestimate their size. They were a lot larger than a home server.

As far as hosting, it can certainly be done privately, but it requires more work than cloud hosting, as gab learned when they went entirely internally hosted.
one of the main points of the program is that it allows for easy visualisation of bits and multiple number representations, unlike bc and dc :)
Also here are a bunch of signed messages calling him a fraud using the keys to addresses HE CLAIMED TO OWN IN COURT -_-

https://craigwrightisnotsatoshi.com/

Edit: Explanation/thoughts from Wladimir regarding the removal & future of Bitcoin Core - https://laanwj.github.io/2021/01/21/decentralize.html
Agree with this. The premise is nice but the execution and shadiness of raising prices so you don't really know how much you are paying for the instacart premium feels bad.

You'd think this business would be going through the roof during the pandemic. If it can't work now, how is it ever going to work?
Probably they lost empty containers.
Fitting a binary classifier on failure doesn't seem quite right to me.

There are some quite natural questions you can't answer unless you can predict some stats on when failure will occur, and if you have any drift in the dataset, you might just find features correlated with age (and hence having more time to fail) that don't inherently increase risk.

I would recommend:

(a) using survival analysis

https://lifelines.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/aft_survi...

or (b) flattening the data to be one observation per time window, and predicting failure over specific time windows.

This is a good talk also. https://dataorigami.net/blogs/napkin-folding/18308867-video-...

Although I'm not sure about this case, in general the approach in the article (tree-ensemble predicting binary classier) works well for many business problems!
The electoral college actually favored Biden this time. He got 57% of EC votes, which is much higher than his share of the popular vote.

This is all pointless anyway for a union of states. Germany is underpowered compared to Luxembourg in the EU by design -- the same is true in the US. Should California ever go back to being conservative, as it was until Clinton, it will disadvantage Republicans just the same.
@mecurialshark, likely has nothing to do with trying to change your opinion. Likely has more to do with you posting your credentials as a reason to trust you but giving us nothing more than that.
Interesting, as a native speaker I am only familiar with it meaning mutual exclusion, with a range of connotations from "the former is the opposite of correct" to "let me adjust that thought slightly". However, Merriam-Webster supports my experience with the first 4 definitions and then drops a "but also" as the fifth. Sometimes I hate English.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rather
The basement of the Rijks Museum is nothing short of incredible. There is so much precious art there that I don't even want to think about what damage a fire could do. There are so many works that that had not seen the light of day in 50 years or more that they had serious storage issues, never mind cataloguing what they actually had. I've been in there twice, once to look at a painting that had been damaged to help analyze the paint with a for the time very high tech chromatograph, once on invitation of the guy that ran the place.

Super happy to see this effort resulting in such an amazing collection free for the world to enjoy. Your typical tourist in Amsterdam will visit the Rijks for one or maybe two paintings and they won't care about the rest (your guess which two), but there is a lot more there that is worth you time and some patience.
They have been saying this for over a decade. I do think it is a good idea, if at least for a niche collector's market, but so far the leadership of the new delorean co seems to just be throwing promises every year to see if something sticks.
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I mean... I guess it lives up to its name.
This kind of thing drives me crazy. Peer review is very valuable, but it was basically instituted to make sure government science grants were not being wasted. It also has a function of keeping crackpots out of the public information stream and increasing paper quality. However, Newton (and "Satoshi", though not at the same level as Newton by a long shot) didn't use such mechanisms but their ideas were eventually accepted (in some fashion) through wide ranging debate.
Ask any pilot what the most complex part is about switching aircrafts and getting a new type rating. It's never the way the plane handles, is always either remembering the mandatory systems knowledge or how to use the FMS.

I flew along on a small private jet recently, their system was 10x easier to understand and more capable than the typical airliner... So it is possible, probably even at a lower cost.
> parler can make an interesting case about AWS picking a winner and damaging a loser

Parler made this specific allegation under the Sherman Act. It was rejected because "Parler...proffered only faint and factually inaccurate speculation in support of a Sherman Act violation. AWS, in contrast...submitted sworn testimony disputing Parler’s allegations." That said, Parler "has not yet had an opportunity to conduct discovery," so maybe there's a bombshell text somewhere.
Scheduling stuff with friends does not preclude also having spontaneity. It's just that for busy people spontaneity doesn't happen often enough to maintain a friendship.

Spontaneity doesn't happen unless you have lots of extra time lying around and most busy people don't have that.

In fact ironically I actually have to schedule blocks of unscheduled time for myself and schedule blocks of unscheduled time for time with my partner. Those blocks of time just mean that I don't have a specific plan and will do whatever I/we feel like doing when we get to that time. That allows for spontaneity in the context of me alone as well as in my relationship.

However, for friends that doesn't really work so well. It's not like if I have a block of unscheduled time that a friend is just going to magically knock on my door (I don't live in a college dorm, but if you do, that might work.) For friends we kind of need to agree on e.g. where to meet or what to do, so for friends it's usually scheduling scheduled time.
You can even do more than that.

I have different categories per services: paid services go to @paid.mydomain.tld, social logins go to @social.mydomain.tld etc. So that means something like paypal@paid.mydomain.tld or twitter@social.mydomain.tld.

Edit: using Route53 for DNS subdomain wildcard.
One of the design criteria for Unicode was to guarantee lossless round-trip conversion through Unicode for a bunch of encodings that Unicode superceded. If one of those encodings contained both a K and a K-for-Kelvin, then Unicode also had to allocate two codepoints for it. I don't know if that's the case for these characters in particular, but it is one possible explanation.

Supporting round-trip conversion may sound pointless now that Unicode is ubiquitous, but it was probably necessary to make gradual adoption practical.

Ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_compatibility_charac...
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I always find it a bit weird when papers say "we found no evidence" and then slap a p=0.10 next to it ... surely a compatibility with the null hypothesis of only 10% is some evidence ...
I worry less about having the worst of the worst speak, as it is platforms inevitably trend extreme as folks either drop off or are pushed out and the result is just a one sided platform without some heavy handed moderation.

Here's I think the real issue, we make discussion platforms... people don't want to discuss. They just want to put up and push posters of what they believe.

And we're surprised when things go wrong.
You make friends by being places where other people are and having something in common you can talk to them about.

Pick up a hobby where you interact with other people. I ride mountain bikes, but there are lots of options. Look for clubs which might interest you. Or go back to school part time.

All of this is near impossible in COVID times. Get vaccinated, wait until group meet ups are common again.
> HW embedded within the memory that could be given a small (safe) executable program to process the memory in-place rather than evaluating it on the CPU

Well, that seems to be the exact definition of what UPMEM is doing:

https://www.upmem.com/upmem-announces-silicon-based-processi...

Between the M1, GPUs, TPUs, RISC-V interesting times are coming in hardware. I blame the physical limits, which are putting the Duke Nukem development method to an end (you promise the client 2x the same performance in 18 months, then play Duke Nukem the whole time). The only way to better performance now is through hardware specialization. That and avoiding Electron.
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I'm not aware of any other CA giving out free certificates to anyone. I know that some other providers/hosts will do free certificates, but only to their users (last time I checked).
Will take this opportunity to mention Migadu[0]. Their pricing is simply based on email volume, at all pricing levels you get a ton of features. The web interface is really good if you like that sort of thing, the support is responsive and helpful. They're also based out of Switzerland as well in case that's significant to you. Highly recommended.

0. https://www.migadu.com/
Congrats on the launch! Subscribed and can't wait to get access :).

Do you know what is WhatsApp's stance on a Matrix bridge and using it to provide a service? They've known to have a pretty harsh stance on other services that attempted to integrate ([0], [1]) and even banned users from the platform for attempting to scrape their own data.

Would be very curious to know more details about your WhatsApp integration setup. Thanks in advance!

[0] - https://www.xda-developers.com/whatsapp-sends-cease-desist-a...

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/89g926/whatsapp_...
Twitter signed a big contract with AWS immediately prior to Amazon killing one of Twitter's competitors (Parler). And Twitter has a serious problem with child trafficking, open support for calls to violence, etc.
"popular vote" has absolutely no bearing on anything in this discussion. The US is not a direct democracy, it is a representative republic.

The 50 senators who represent semi-conservative states represent the same number of states as the 50 who represent more liberal states.
That'd be true, if it happened.

Plenty of conservatives left on Twitter.
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God, Covid has severely hurt my friendships. It's hard to even think about "schedules" or anything until the summer -- over a year with minimal friendship contacts.

Video calls don't work for me, and everything is closed in SF. It's hard to explain, but video calls just don't seem real to me. It does very little to energize me in my friendships. I don't know how people do it.

Half my friends have taken the opportunity to move away, so they're gone for good except for a few times a year that we travel to each other after Covid. The other half I'm desperately hoping things naturally get back to pre-covid friendship levels.
> Hollywood, Silicon Valley, academia, and the news media all lean left.

citation needed.

Silicon Valley is a monument to capitalism and most if not all entrepreneurs lean libertarian.

As for the news media, as an example, Fox News has the highest viewership in the US. And for the others, ever thought about why you're not seeing a lot of coverage about unions/worker rights/worker strikes? Don't mistake anti-Trump rhetoric with 'left leaning'..

So I'm not sure we're you're getting your 'data' from.
Somewhat agree. These are ultimately politically reactionary platforms. Not making a value judgment, but they're clearly geared at winning over conservatives to their platforms and are intended to be platforms for right wingers. That may mean tolerating everyone else while they're growing and trying to gain clout but I can see that changing quickly once they have power.
I don't understand why they stay in Oz. What's the point? Being a SaaS provider they should be able to set up camp in Switzerland and be done with the privacy concerns.
Without addressing the specifics of the TRO (which is simply an early stage request for injunctive relief, asking the court to compel AWS to reinstate services pending litigation):

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

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

Packinghan, viewed in combination with Marsh, provides an interesting lens for issues concerning a digit company owned town. If data storage and/or social media can be viewed as critical digital infrastructure and a private organization provides those services, an argument can and will likely be made that the services are tantamount to a digital company owned town.

As Justice Ginsburg said during oral argument regarding private digital networks, “the point is that these people are being cut off from a very large part of the marketplace of ideas. And the First Amendment includes not only the right to speak, but the right to receive information.”

And as Justice Kagan stated during Packinghan oral argument, "whether it’s political community, whether it’s religious community... these sites have become embedded in our culture as ways to communicate and ways to exercise our constitutional rights.”

Moreover, AWS's behavior may be viewed as an antitrust issue, acting in conjunction with a cartel. A party does not need to have majority market share to function in coordination with other dominate players in order to form a cartel that can manipulate the market.

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

Either way, it's definitely relevant to industry and likely to be litigated on appeal following the trial court's ruling (whatever it is).
>you can see what kind of response that's gotten

I don't think we have. Like I said, I have not seen any serious offers to work on a non-intrusive patch for this, to put up the time and/or money and to maintain it for the number of years required. That's what you want to look for. And if you want to bring it upstream, you have to sell it to them in a way that shows it will not increase their maintenance burden or break the currently in-place designs. (This is not a GNOME specific thing, this is how basically every open source project operates. You generally can't just dump code on upstream and expect it to go well)

If you want to do fundraising, some trusted person has to put in the time to do it and to manage the money.
> So can the MMU be a distributed beast that lives in the CPU, the memory and the IO?

That "blah = blah->next" memory operation could be:

* Going to swap thanks to swap / overcommit behavior on Linux/Windows.

* Or going to a file thanks to mmap

* Going to Ethernet and to another computer thanks to RDMA

So... no. I'm pretty sure the CPU is the proper place for that kind of routing.
Exactly. Where were they when Christian Bakers didn't want to sell cakes for gay weddings?
I'm also curious about Beeper's plan re: potential response/pushback from Apple and the status of (likely broken?) E2E in iMessage.
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These guys offer something similar as a service: https://www.senseye.io/how-it-works
How well would same city with fiber between work?
Your mom isn't changing any time soon.

Stasis is ok with some things. Use this to encourage existing friendships/ relationships you feel worth preserving. Do other things to meet new people and make new friends.
I haven't gone as far as emailing support, but my single tweet asking if there would be a postmortem after a previous incident did not receive a reply. My other tweets to them, such as inquiring about a recent increase in spam, received replies.

I've admittedly put in very little effort to obtain postmortems from Fastmail. But I also posit that I shouldn't have to. Postmortems should be made readily accessible, just as the outage was. I reserve my detective skills for figuring out my own service's outages.
> I am saying the deservedly poor reputation of the NYPost is irrelevant in this case because the reported facts are easy to independently verify. The reputation of a newspaper counts when their reputation is what we must rely on, which is not the case here.

That's where we disagree. You're saying the the only job of a paper is to report true facts (or at least try its best). I'm saying its job is to report true facts and true impressions. True facts can be used to create false impressions, and the impression created often matters the most, especially when you know your readers aren't going to read your story like a careful lawyer.
It's probably more sustainable than most US metro areas. Look at stats like VMT per day, household gas usage, and keep in mind the US is also a fossil fuel exporter.
All politics aside, I was more sympathetic to the "build your own alternative" argument regarding the general deplatforming trend of the last few years.

Now I'm not nearly as sympathetic to that argument. Having POTUS45 removed from twitter was basically the chance in a lifetime for Parler, and in that critical 48 hours their hosting provider pulled the rug out from them and their app was removed from BOTH app stores (I have a hard time believing there wasn't some form of coordination here). It seems especially sinister to me, but maybe that's because I'm viewing it outside of a political lens.
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I have briefly experimented with Mediatek and RTL wifi SoCs, but found SDK and documentation severely lacking / buggy. What’s your experience?
I only added an event monthly: "talk to a random friend".
It's a nice experiment so far, I use it mostly to talk with friends from my home country I guess, that otherwise I wouldn't talk to
That's not a counter argument to what I've said. It's a platitude that I think everyone agrees on.

You don't even need to conjure "magical disappearance". Social networks often come and go as fads. YikYak, Snapchat, TikTok.

The thesis of what I said is that P2P mechanics are largely invariant of and shielded from business decisions, social mores, etc.

We should consider building more P2P things.