skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm honestly baffled by this. I care who wins because of the POLICY DIFFERENCE, i.e. the difference between what the two parties want to DO with their power. I can't even imagine what kind of worldview I would need to have to believe that the desirability of a political regime is a function of the level of courteousness of the politicians within it, so I'm struggling to understand where you're coming from with this claim.
I'm not talking about cost. I'm saying that surviving deplatforming is much more difficult than armchair orange website architects seem to acknowledge.
back in 1999 looking at nspr (Netscape Portable Runtime - the foundation of Mozilla) i remember thinking - it just can be packaged alone as an OS, similar to Java OS (which i had been working with before that our Mozilla project).

There is also another aspect to it - one can imagine that the time of an OS which would run web apps as first class citizens (in the correctly engineered sandboxes/etc.) just hasn't come yet. In the meantime the browsers are just ugly stop-gap 0.x version of such an OS (there is a reason they are "browsers" as their roots (incl. deep architectural roots) are in browsing of static content, and everything else is bolt-ons - the integration of JavaScript engine for example back then could be best described exactly as a "bolt-on").
Soo.. Where in that paper does anything to do with AOC happen? Do they just mention her so they can put her image in the article?
They made a workaround for power users: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

One needs to make a mozilla account to complete the last steps and that's where I've been holding off. Mostly out of laziness and also from lack of necessity since I just moved on to other browsers in the mean time.
China is a sovereign county, they can run themselves as they see fit, but makes me question if our climate policies then make a huge difference.
so they said
I thought the attempts to deflect blame from Trump's obvious mishandling of the pandemic by saying "China caused it" were the thing that got deflected. Sure, China should be investigated, but let's not give anyone an excuse. Lab grown, wet market sparked, or something else, the US government totally mishandled the pandemic response. Also, if you call covid the "china virus", you're definitely endangering asian americans. As it stands, there's plenty of stories of asian americans getting harassed because of covid prejudices.

But is trying to find a root cause "political theatre"? Serious IT companies try to find a root cause no matter what the boardroom politics are, right?
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Much of the value of Arrow is in the things that will get built after Arrow is widely supported by data warehouses. Much of the data ecosystem we have today was designed to avoid the cost of moving data between systems. The whole Hadoop ecosystem is written in Java and shoehorned into map-reduce for this reason.

Imagine if, for example, you could use Mathematica or R to analyze data in your Snowflake cluster, with no bottleneck reading data from the warehouse even for giant datasets. This is the future that’s going to be enabled by Arrow.
In case you weren't aware, Glue's metastore is an implementation of Apache Hive, so not too different from the person you're replying to.
"Yeah but who built the cages" is a goalpost shift that signifies you "lost".

The point is to dunk on you. You've been dunked. The "conversation" is over.

I will give you this: in one way, you are right, I never intended to have a good faith conversation with you and that is because you are wrong.
Berkson's Paradox

The two envelope paradox

Check out chapter 6 of The Book of Why.
Some pretty thought provoking points. Most of the argument seems to hinge on the idea that power laws are proof of centralization and that we're just seeing them manifest in different forms. Most of the examples of dominant personalities all came about in a pretty democratic way. I think the real test will be if they become entrenched. If they can fall out of favor just as quick as they came into favor and be replaced by someone currently fairly anonymous, maybe it is not so centralized?

Also if we do see strong evidence of centralization in certain areas, does that mean this trend will continue in the future? I wonder if we are entering into a new phase (#3):

1. 1970-2000 - decentralized, and fringe.

2. 2001-2020 - centralized, and mainstream. eBay/Airbnb as examples platforms that normalized online transactions and acted as a single trusted intermediary

3. 2021+ - decentralized, and mainstream. A substantial majority now accept the internet. Where the intermediaries were once providing a service, they may be perceived as an obstacle.
And I just got f-ed by the Google Cloud team this morning, albeit their Workspace division and not GCP.

I have a GSuite legacy account for my personal domain name. Most of my family is on it. It was free.

I just tried to set up Google Voice on one of the accounts. I learned that they silently disabled setting up new phone numbers in 2019.

And on my main account, long distance calling stopped working about a month ago. No notice, no nothing.

It's been gradually bit-rotting for years, but this is kinda a big deal. My kids can't get phone numbers associated with their main Google account because I set it up when Google was supporting personal domains? That's obnoxious.

Support goes nowhere, naturally. Google says "Use workspace support." Workspace says "Upgrade to have support."

And obviously, pricing is prohibitive given that this is now a B2B offering, and my whole family is on the domain. Cousins, aunties, and all. $6/user/month gets super-expensive super-fast.

Stuff like this means Google loses millions of dollars of business elsewhere. I keep swiping my credit card for Amazon, as does my company.
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Yeah the book is crazy! And it has maybe the best two tricks you can do with a faro shuffle too...
Raspberry Pi's raspberrypi-sys-mods Package Installs vscode Repository
Code Smell 61 – Coupling to Classes
Requiring a credential could be discriminatory if it has a disparate impact on protected classes.

Griggs v. Duke Power Co.[0] is the Supreme Court case on this topic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
Could I message you about this? I have some questions about doing something similar but very formulaic
Does anybody have a recommendation on a tutorial for implementing RSS from scratch, for a personal website? I've been meaning to on mine but haven't found a good resource

Edit: Found one https://alexanderle.com/create-an-rss-feed-from-scratch
The webpage took approximately 30 seconds while 'loading' in times new roman. And then the interactive scrollable demo is an further-infinite load spinner. Even if I thought what they were offering was a remotely good idea, I don't think I'd buy web components from people whose website screams 'we have no idea how to build web components'.
is this induction, but in opposite direction?

N+1 backup is N backup

1 backup is 0 backup
The linked article has five trackers from Google-owned domains. You don't have to use Google products for Google to track and profile you.
Stupid is a bit harsh. I mean, your idea is not good and unlikely to make significant money ever. But there's no shame in trying something.

Just polish up ye olde resume and start applying for jobs. Nobody is going to fault you for quitting your job and trying something.
Here here. Yeah :/
Interesting. For a bunch of different regions ("swedish", "russian", "korean", "brazilian") the results on the image page are partially undressed women, but nothing NSFW. For "asian" there's a bunch of nudity but nothing pornographic. It's only for "japanese" that I start getting porn results, and nothing but porn results, in fact.

Interestingly "norwegian" gets me a bunch of pictures of people in traditional garb from far-right websites. "indian" is clean but weirdly marriage focused.

If you change your region on DuckDuckGo to Japan, you actually get some clean results at the top before you get to the porn.

I've yet to find anything racy for English speaking or western European countries (other than Sweden).
> I've never open sourced it though because I guess it's a bit of a grey area

I'm maintaining the TT-RSS plugin feediron https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron that fetches full-text data, so my thinking is this:

At the end of the day if it's a openly available website and you are personally (through your own server) fetching the resources I don't think anyone has a right to complain.

Now if you were offering it as a service it might arguably be a bit more grey, but only if you're ignoring the robots.txt file
This is such a cool passion project, thanks for sharing your collection with us. Will bookmark this one for sure.

It's great to see remnants of the demoscene pop up like this from time to time. I'm sure there are many of us relative old-timers here that got their first taste of graphics programming thanks to those demoscene BBS tuts from back in the day (Denthor of Asphyxia anyone?).

Just the other day I was reminiscing with a fellow programmer on freenode about mode13th shenanigans and the all-nighters that ensued.

This HN post put a smile on my face. Cheers from South Africa!
Twitter uses AWS like Parler did.

We've seen many, many calls to assassinate the previous president stand on Twitter, for years. We've seen actual calls for purges, political violence, and mass execution of Trump supporters on Twitter, also for years. We've seen planning of Antifa rioting, including how to hide oneself from police, raise money for the culprits, destroy property, create flammable materials for the purpose of arson, etc.

This appears to be selective enforcement.
Apart from the lobbying power of Facebook Twitter size company, it is pretty hard to deplatform them.

On a purely technical level Facebook runs their own infra. They would be hard to deplatform. The only people who are probably capable of doing that is the l3 type service providers. Even there Facebook , google own investments in undersea cables.

Also the size of their deal value to the vendor makes a huge difference. Amazon's revenue impact from parler would not even be a rounding number in their annual report. The impact of loosing fb for many vendors could kill them .
> You obviously did not see the material that the company allowed to be posted on their services in contravention to their hosting provider's terms of services. Always abide by your host's AUP.

AWS AUP: "You may not use.. or instruct others to use, the Services.. for any.. offensive use"

"Offensive"? That word is so vague as to be meaningless.

This turns into a dangerously simple attack. Just post something you know will offend someone. Et viola: you just killed a company.

It's a lot cheaper and easier (and less likely to involve swat teams) than hiring some sketchy DDoS outfit.
A Late Burst of Climate Denial Extends the Era of Trump Disinformation (Jan 12)
You're making a value judgment when my argument is simply about keeping your website alive in the face of powers that wish to control or censor you.

Imagine hypothetically that you have website about the plight of the Uyghurs and Amazon was a Chinese business.

Amazon's behavior revealed they are not above terminating service for businesses. I can imagine a world where they become emboldened and attempt to deny service to parties they don't like.

Perhaps you're hosted on AwS and they make an offer to acquire your business. Can they shut you off or raise your prices if you reject their offer? Can they escape antitrust scrutiny and use this as a strategy to low ball you?

I view the response to Parler as an operational test of the death star.

We have less and less power the larger these giants become.
You present a false dichotomy. "Google's Privacy Sandbox" versus Third Party Cookies, as if those are the only alternatives. Now you are following along with another false dichotomy!

> This is HN, and we want the web advertising industry to go away.

Here's a crazy idea. We don't need either Google's monopoly preserving Privacy "Sandbox" or third party cookies... and we don't need to do away with web advertising. We're not in a black and white world.

Google can advertise on their home page and make money without all the crazy tracking bullshit. We know they can, because that's how they funded all the bullshit tracking.
Your solution should implement a retry on failure rule, before returning an error to the client. This is standard in proxies like envoy and others.
Google has dug themselves into a deep hole when it comes to anything remotely related to web advertising. They own the top 2 browsers (Chrome and Firefox), they own the largest web ad business, and a lot of web tracking technology is used for delivering ads.

Any changes they try to push for in web standards will incite an angry response even if there is the appearance/possibility of any advantage to google ads.

I think the correct way to deal with this is to do what people are expected to do in any conflict of interest case: recuse themselves from any and all web standard committees and orgs. If they aren't willing to do that, unfortunately they should prepare for an expansive anti-trust action.
Is it just me that reads:

"NNCP supports file transmission, file request, and remote execution , all subject to controls, of course. "

And thinks "I wonder how soon the remotely exploitable root shell is discovered in that?"?
I appreciate the apology and admit I overreacted. I owe you an apology as well. You're right - my first post did not have a lot of information, and my language was belligerent (in both of my replies).

I've been having a bad day and you caught me at a bad time. That's my fault and I need to take a break from the internet. Have a good night.
I think you're overestimating the ability of many "Silicon Valley darlings" to recover from what happened to Parler. First, at least these days, most Silicon Valley darlings are pretty heavily tied to whatever cloud service that hosts them, so disaster recovery exercises mean spinning up another project in a different AWS availability zone, not moving from AWS to GCP or whatever.

Granted, given Parler's mantra they should have known they would be particularly vulnerable to getting kicked off AWS, but I'm highly skeptical that many Silicon Valley darlings (and I've worked at some) would have been able to spin up something quickly on a completely new hosting platform.
Sure. An amazing engineering feat... but the UI still looks the same as it did years ago. Compare the UI to MS Office, WPS Office, Softmaker Office, etc and rank the UIs by level of polish.
This was a good article and looks like an interesting project.

Regardless of whether or not you choose to _deploy_ with Docker, _developing_ in Docker containers using the VS Code Remote extensions really solved all of Python's (and Javascript's) annoying packaging problems for me, with the bonus that you also get to specify any additional (non-Python) dependencies right there in the repo Dockerfile and have the development environment reproducible across machines and between developers. YMMV, of course, but I find this setup an order of magnitude less finicky than the alternatives and can't imagine going back.
AWS provided multiple times over evidence of violent content that was against their policies and asked Parler to step up moderation, which didn't happen.

AWS arguments:

https://twitter.com/KYWeise/status/1349200096345296897?s=20

> Parler itself has admitted it has a backlog of 26,000 reports of content that violates its (minimal) community standards that it had not yet reviewed

https://twitter.com/KYWeise/status/1349203942614335488?s=20

> When I said Amazon cited many vile and violent examples of posts that it flagged for Parler, I meant it. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErlVjN7U0AEr1gt?format=jpg&name=... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErlVjPBVEAEs9sg?format=jpg&name=...

https://twitter.com/KYWeise/status/1349202898459115520?s=20

> Such a requirement also poses a risk to Amazon itself, with posts calling for others to "burn down Amazon delivery trucks" until they "reverse course."
that's when you pour almost all of your savings...

And is 'loyalty towards a company' for having few shares a good thing? loyalty towards what ends? towards massive financial damage?
I wonder if there is room here for an existing company that already makes money via a subscription, to pivot into search.

I could see Apple or Netflix or Amazon, try and expand their offering to include search. They already have income streams that rely on the consumer, so they can build products that are in our best interest.
That's really cool, but didn't you guys got sued for tracking people even after they opted out?

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-sued-for-allegedly-tracking...

If I remember correctly you were also tracking logged out users. Are you still doing that or how do I opt out if I don't have an account? Do I have to install Chrome?
A large amount of insurrection planning was performed in Facebook groups.

If you're going to apply a standard, at least apply it fairly.
Yeah except you did talk about cost. Cost is not the issue here.

> surviving deplatforming is much more difficult than armchair orange website architects seem to acknowledge.

Somehow the internet is full of websites (some of which probably had much higher traffic) that did just fine though
I wouldn't consider simple regulation an enclosing of the commons, but when you add on to the need to invest capital in the form of vehicle registration fees and license fees, it starts to become more enclosed.
YouTube Financially Deplatforms Swath of Indie Media Accounts
Based on past records, Chinese government have no reason to trust those journalists (that they are not influenced by CIA).

Your point of view is that the western world represents absolute justice, and you can judge us based on your value system, this is not the case, at least from our viewpoint.
Anyone sold by the "re-education" line is not looking at the history.
What do you think about the new Scala 3 syntax?
What's the difference between the ebook and the one free one in the website?
IMO, Gogole having a monopoly on tracking me is clearly worse then the ability to track me being shared – and I can significantly hinder 3rd party tracking!

I'm far more afraid of Google strengthening its monopoly, on general principle.
I mean, you already conceeded that the US isnt doing much enforcement or regulation of competition.

So that already establishes the point.
Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby are 2 of the best live albums of any genre
Source?

Also, looks like you might have missed this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26021189
I teach a graduate course on R every year. One of my points on the Tidyverse is that it does an excellent job of providing clean and sound extensions to core language functionality. I emphasize how thoughtfully designed it is. It is a refreshing change from other languages, which feel more like a collection of random parts.
£28,000 is not even a slap on the wrist for the BBC.
>"Always abide by your host's AUP." These basically say things like "your users may not use the services to offend others." That's literally impossible to abide by. In fact, it appears to have been a company-ending event in this case, which makes it a devilishly simple attack: post something you know will get everyone worked up, et viola: you just killed a company.

The way you're wording this sounds very much like you haven't actually seen the kind of stuff that was going on there. It's not simply a matter of people being offended.
Thanks for sharing this, awesome project. The feature set looks pretty comprehensive from the screenshots.

Is there a way to export the created canvas from the editor?

I’m imagining a workflow where people/teams create the RSS processing canvases and then share them using an export.

Also is there a CLI tool?
I expected a year lease of a working computer. I got neither.
Not for me. There are many people simply against everything the current dispensation does. Election rigging is a serious allegation and must be accompanied with ironclad proof to be considered seriously. If such proof was available, this would have gone to the Supreme Court. Absence of any legal action indicates that these allegations are not credible.
Even worse, the rate of vaccine development and production seems to be falling behind the rate of covid mutation.

I.e. the way we do things means we cannot stop covid.
I don't think they mean the literal information encoded in the RNA. The fact the RNA exists is, itself, a signal. It shows that there was previously a signal that caused the RNA to be transcribed. And then once you start including concentrations and degradation times for all the various things involved in the system...

Well there's lots of information there which can be used to infer aspects of previous states. I assume it's more of this aspect that is being referenced, rather than what is encoded in the RNA.
We do have an internal retry mechanism for certain kinds of errors, but after too many tries it will return an error to the client. Our clients already have to include a robust retry mechanism because we have to deal any sort of network instability.
That's great! Take the opportunities you have to do good for the world. Everyone's circumstances will present them with different ones.
Well, the only ones it's had with >$10b revenue historically are advertising, and literally like two or three products. You can't generalize from a small n. But there are plenty of horror stories of being deplatformed by Google advertising too.

Those make money. There's a limited time window during which Google Cloud can bleed money. If that runs out before it's profitable, businesses on it can say "bye bye," face bitrot, or see huge markups due to lock-in.
What kind of semiconductors are used in automobiles?