skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Summarizing that as the courts finding that "the Biden administration was ordering social media companies to censor certain posts" is not even misleading, it's just false. And it's not particularly relevant to the actual subject of the article, which is the Missouri v Biden case brought by the three people named in the first sentence.

That's an incorrect summary, again neglecting the relevant information provided by the article. Those cases were dismissed due to lack of standing because the judges surmised that the evidence presented was insufficient, and so they couldn't move on to discovery to really prove those claims. However, the other cases, like Missouri, have moved forward and the evidence they uncovered through discovery does substantiate some of the claims in the dismissed cases, namely that government officials were directing social media companies to censor certain content. Per the article:

> But the Missouri judge reached a different conclusion, determining there was enough evidence in the record to infer that the government was involved in social media censorship, granting the plaintiffs’ request for discovery at the preliminary injunction stage. The Missouri documents, along with some obtained through discovery in Berenson v. Twitter and a FOIA request by America First Legal, expose the extent of the administration’s appropriation of big tech to effect a vast and unprecedented regime of viewpoint-based censorship on the information that most Americans see, hear and otherwise consume. At least 11 federal agencies, and around 80 government officials, have been explicitly directing social media companies to take down posts and remove certain accounts that violate the government’s own preferences and guidelines for coverage on topics ranging from COVID restrictions, to the 2020 election, to the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.
I've been following this company as a potential replacement to the evaporative pond method: https://lilacsolutions.com/technology/
AFAICT it's unclear if this is true, but I am certainly hoping for the (apparently unlikely) possibility that there are officials in the USG that are willing and able to intervene domestically to prevent stuff like these allegations from happening because it seems like no other entity would be in a position to do so at any point in the next decade or so.
That's pretty tough to do, since any IP can run a DoH cache.
Sometimes a well placed "placement new" is enough. Memory pools are also nice, but at least for my work we ditched them again once the Windows allocator became faster.

(I can count the times I did either of these on one hand, but of course this depends a lot on the code your working on).
The minimum bar (accreditation) is very different from top performers.

You may call every person who graduates medical school & passes the boards "doctor", but they're definitely not all created equal either. Same for lawyers, engineers, computer scientists, etc.
The issue isn't them punishing Disney (I mean, Fla residents do for the fact that they would take on debt for doing so, but whatever).

The issue is their motive. Motive is critical.
They had been “self governing” for decades. The city that now has to take on billions of Disney’s debt is suing Florida. No one wanted the responsibility of “governing” and zoning requirements for Disney. Not the local government and traditional the state didn’t. It was clearly done to punish them.
Although the original article is tangential, my bigger concern is that there is no explanation why. I find it abhorrent to 'punish' someone without telling them why they are punished, even if it is a contractual agreement that is broken or enforced.

Some have noted that they broke the T&C, but as per this article we do not know this. We can conjecture, but there is little indication to this until PayPal confirms if and which T&C was broken. We have ample examples where accounts are suspended or closed without breaking T&C.

My other concern is the comments regarding 'private venues'. Indeed PayPal is, in general a private venue, but at what point does such a private venue become an agent of the (whichever) Government? We also have examples where essential resources to function in the cyber space were contacted by Government entities and suggested, cajoled, threatened, or outright told how to deny such resources to counter-Goverment entities.

And, for those who think 'good, the bad people are gone', I say yes, today your 'bad people' are gone. Tomorrow, when the Government flips (and it always does) to your 'wrong side', you are the 'bad people'. Suddenly 'you are' the one denied. Ample evidence to this in history.
I think I’m spending around 1/5 of my monthly salary on rent here? I think I’d have been spending almost the same amount of my salary percentage wise back in Pakistan as well, possibly more. But I can’t say for sure as I was living with my parents back then.

Also for reference I’m living in a pretty cheap city in Portugal so rent is definitely cheaper here and in Pakistan I used to live in the capital so rent was a lot more expensive compared to other places in Pakistan.
What on earth does it mean for an area to be "underpopulated"? Must every living patch of earth be paved over, before we learn to value nature left to its own devices?
I wonder if something as simple as a Garmin inReach would still work?

Super low bandwith (literally just text messages) but it goes direct to iridium satellites. Plans arent super cheap but I imagine you could afford one for example if you really needed it.
I've been trying to get my hands on a beamspring for years (at a non-ridiculous price); I'll have to look into the Futaba switches. Thanks!
Rust 2024 the Year of Everywhere?
Go’s proxy client does not send a unique tracking identifier.
My problem is that the government has found a sweet spot where it can regulate speech and surveil without limits through dependent proxies. It has no need to mandate moderation guidelines.
You can use Moonlight (an open source implementation of Nvidia's gamestream protocol) and a cloud PC like Paperspace or Shadow, to stream any game you want. I used Paperspace primarily, you can get a decent graphics card for about $0.50/hr. In Seattle with 100 Mbps internet I wasn't having many issues with latency or lag, and it was hard to tell I wasn't running it on my machine. I put a lot of hours into Elden Ring this way.

...until I got my 3060. At a certain point it just makes more sense to buy your own card.
> There we were dealing with a deadly highly-contagious airborne pandemic with cases and deaths growing exponentially, which would have been hard enough to deal with without politicization.

Faulty modeling thought Covid was a super deadly highly contagious disease that would kill 4% of those who caught it. It only took a month or so before real world data proved that model to be wildly wrong. But did we celebrate Covid wasn’t as bad as we thought? Did we end the destructive mandates because hospitals weren’t flooded with people on respirators in the hallway?

Nope. Instead our “experts” never mentioned the “strong flu”-like IFR and the very steep age stratification of Covid and doubled down on the stupidity.

The models were wrong. Covid wasn’t nearly as horrific as what was predicated. But here we are 2.5 years later and a ton of people still believe Covid is the modern Black Plague. The experts, whose job it is to clearly convey the actual risks of Covid, failed absolutely miserably at their most important job.
I bet Hobby Lobby and the Christian baker would beg to differ…
the Pareto principle doesn't really provide a lot of insight into process:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-...
It doesn’t send any analytics. He is talking about proxy logs.
No, actually because of the language itself.

What matters most in high-performance computing? The algorithm, sure. What's in second place? Memory alignment.

Memory alignment determines whether or not I can use SIMD. It also determines how many cache misses I have.

Can I fight that battle using Rust? Maybe. Is it as convenient as in C++? Is any other language? as convenient as C++?
Do you feel the same way about telephones? How about electricity? Is it out of the realm of possibility that a conscientious electrical supplier might not want to power a racist's computer?
> They did the job of reducing mobility and reducing spread, which means that many of the 60-70% of the US population that has gotten COVID got it after they had been vaccinated.

And for the vast majority of them, COVID would not have caused serious health issues vaccination or not.

> This would not have happened if Bhattacharya's incredibly naïve plan of just closing off nursing homes had been followed.

Again, you have zero evidence to back up this claim. Toothless society-wide lockdowns may have been even less effective than a forceful targeted lockdown. Under Bhattacharya's plan, more drastic measures (but more limited in scope) could be applied to the populations that actually stood a risk. It is baseless to say this would have had worse outcomes since this plan was never put into action.

> 16% of Americans are over 65. Of those who died under 65 (retirement age in the US), composing roughly 1/4 of all COVID deaths in the US, many of those were high risk (obese, diabetic, etc.) The estimate of 40% does not seem unreasonable.

Over 80% of COVID deaths were among people over 65. And even then, people under 70 had a mortality rate of under 5%. You can call 100% of the population "high risk" if you choose any mortality rate over 0.00% as the threshold for "high risk".
If we use Nobel price as a proxy since we're talking of PhDs here, then only Harvard, amongst Ivys, is higher than UC Berkeley [0]

Harvard : 161,
Berkeley: 110,
Columbia: 96,
Stanford: 84,
Princeton: 69,
Yale: 65

and so on

[0] https://sawadee.wiki/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_univers...
Our companies evaluators picked up Cortex for a service registry offering because it did more for them faster, but they may switch over to backstage in time if they find the integration straightforward enough
I did write all of that, because I’m absolutely right. Google Yuri Gagarin and you’ll understand. He lost 100% of his body weight.
One of the reasons this is hard is because it's not that easy to really separate the three levels of abstraction. It's very difficult to state the business requirements neutrally, without coloring in any technical sort of solution (especially since the technical solution is usually what the customer asks for), and it's equally hard for many people to write a high-level technical design without filling in (or assuming) various implementation details.

In my team, I have started spelling out more concretely what I expect from the documentation at various levels. Keeping with the three levels specified by the GP, we always document:

1 - business rationale: what are we building, and who are we building it for (enumerate the stakeholders and their processes)

2 - component diagram: a graphical sketch of what different building blocks are involved (datastores, api endpoints, webservers, etc), and showing the direct connections between them

2 - data flow diagram(s): showing entry, exit and storage points for each class of data moving through the system

3 - starter documentation: what does a developer need to know/do before working on this project? This includes tooling, pointers to outside documentation, and a reading guide pointing to the rest of the project's documentation.

The rest of the low-level documentation is the responsibility of the team itself.

By insisting on documenting the second layer mostly graphically, there is less potential for overlap between the different layers. Of course, no documentation system is perfect, but I find the above has suited us quite well for what we do (we write business integration software, no huge client applications or software suites. YMMV, obviously).
Foreign Affairs is really high quality writing, and doesn't have too many ads. I also used to subscribe to N+1, and that was good too.
I recall most people thinking Marc Fleury was a jerk. But the whole Enterprise Java(tm) scene around 2000 was so scummy, starting from Sun on down.

The OP is a huge deja vu in its tone, too, immediately bringing to mind the awesome millenium industry innovations of J2EE(tm), big metal application servers, Enterprise JavaBeans(tm) (transparent RPC!), XML based everything, Sun Certified bullshit, and so on and so forth. God what a crazy time that was.
Rope Around the Earth
I don't think theres much of a side. Russia invaded a country and murdered its citizens. Hopefully it will be downfall of Russia, and hopefully Putin dies a slow and painful death.
Redwood Materials (Founded by Tesla’s ex-CTO & cofounder JB Straubel) has agreements with Ford, Volvo, and Toyota and currently recycles 6GWh of cells annually [1] [2]

Sourcing from recycled cells is cheaper than mined inputs. With that said, batteries last much longer than anticipated [3] [4], so while it’s environmentally responsible to recycle end of life cells (versus landfilling or them ending up in an incinerator), they won’t be a significant material stream for some time.

[1] https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/news/redwood-materials-crea...

[2] https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a40613774/redwood-m...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32758881

[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2022/08/01/electric...
Or point to point connections using simple "WokFi" setups.

Maybe you live in Iran and just happen to REALLY like cooking Chinese food? And so do ALL your friends :-D
Why not go with a server or two or some VMs on Hetzner/Kimsufi/OVH/Netcup/BuyVM etc where they have very generous included transfer or even unmetered (BuyVM) ?

I get it that everyone wants to use the trendy newest tech (workers etc or whatever the latest is), but your bill could easily be 20% (or less) of the $5k kind of numbers you are mentioning.

I guess if those kind of numbers are just water under the bridge for you than you may as well go with the easier cloud setup/infra though.
Strawman argument then? I'm simply disagreeing that cable TV has a similar kind of mental health impact referred to in the article, just because there are similarities in how they operate as economic/social entities. I have no reason to believe you are trying to deceive anyone and specious is a great word :)
pico2wave with "-l=en-GB" option to get the British lady voice is pretty decent (way better than the other voices it does for some reason).
Well, pirates don't care about licensing of audio or video formats, but most do care about fidelity. For audio, generally, whatever source was is used: Dolby Digital+, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Atmos, AAC or AAC+ if source is wack.
AI Paparazzi captures photos of Celebrities in everyday life
Cool, now do Twitter.
The reference links to a Telegraph article quoting an explanation:

>Toby Young, general secretary of the FSU, wrote to the vice-Chancellor claiming that the website and policy "proposed a system of policing speech and everyday interaction" which would be "inconsistent" with its duty to uphold free speech. He pointed out that section 43 of the Education Act 1986 requires universities to take reasonably practical steps to secure freedom of speech within the law for employees. "This policy, as you must be aware, would radically interfere with how your academics teach, argue with and learn from students, as well as how students interact with each other," Mr Young said. "It would mean academics and students were under constant threat of being reported and investigated for having committed some wholly innocent but perceived slight, which would inevitably have a chilling effect on interactions that, in a university, should be free and unguarded."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/24/cambridge-remove...
I feel like this is because school, especially college, and particularly exams, is about as high-stakes as most people's lives ever get, so they look back at that time as peak-anxiety. Think about it: you're being evaluated and the result of that evaluation shapes the next step in the pipeline, and ultimately the trajectory of the rest of your life! Well, at least that's what the university officials, professors, your peers and parents all tell you. You pretty much have a series of "one chance" events that you must pass or you're done for. Failure of any step is permanent, and affects your average (seemingly) forever.

The whole path from elementary school through to college graduation feels like a career development game where the stakes are raised every year. Fail once off the path, and it's Walmart Greeter for you, forever! It's no wonder I still wake up in a cold sweat over it, 30 years on.
If you want to see it, turn on 'showdead' in your profile.
We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity
And the military was running pysops on that too:
https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-social-media-psyop-military-rus...

And then there was this plan from 2019:
"Providing lethal aid to Ukraine would exploit Russia’s greatest point of external vulnerability. But any increase in U.S. military arms and advice to Ukraine would need to be carefully calibrated to increase the costs to Russia of sustaining its existing commitment without provoking a much wider conflict in which Russia, by reason of proximity, would have significant advantages." - Overextending and Unbalancing Russia https://web.archive.org/web/20190601000000*/https://www.rand...
This could maybe be nice for accessibility?
In my observations, the people who are most afraid of Covid and most likely to “take it serious” are those who are white collar and privileged enough to not have to do hard labor. People who do shit for a living that can get them mailed or killed wrote Covid off a long time ago.

It takes an incredible amount of privilege to support the Covid mitigations. Consider that not a single person who enacted them missed a single paycheck because of the mandates. I imagine that holds true to most of the people cheering those mandates on or calling them “minor inconveniences”. A lot of privilege needs to be checked here.
Tmobile is actually the one that will be partnering with Starlink. Apple is partnering with GlobalStar which actually really sucks (currently) and will have pretty much the worst satellite network for at least a few years. If they really got their shit together and started launching satellites ASAP they could probably improve a lot in a year or two.

Also GlobalStar only covers the continental US and a little farther......

Depending on how strict they are you might be able to smuggle in a Garmin inReach and connect to Iridium now (or an actual Iridium or Inmarsat satellite phone or modem)
Totally anecdotal, but I've been in a number of tenure-track hiring meetings at multiple universities and someone always brings up the idea of "pedigree". As in, "X has a good pedigree" etc., as if that's an argument for hiring the person above and beyond their track record. So at least in my personal experience, these things do enter into the process.

Of course, the process involves a lot of other variables too; there are plenty who don't talk about pedigree, but there's often someone who will point to it as a rationale.

I hear similar whispers about federal grant receipts, etc., in that people who get stamped with approval in the form of training fellowships, predoctoral NSF awards, etc. are seen as sort of "understanding the system" etc.

As I think of it, I can think of lots of other "in-group signaling" in various domains, so maybe it's not unique to academics. But that cuts both ways when you're talking about exclusivity and "old-boy" networks.
I’m kind of directly affected by this as a consumer, as I am a big user of Plex, but can no longer receive sound with my antenna television if I run it through Plex.

This is because ATSC3.0 requires Plex to secure licensing for AC-4 audio in order to process the sound, which they legally haven’t been able to do yet.

Unfortunately, my reception is significantly better via ATSC3.0, yet I’m left waiting and unable to utilize it.

https://forums.plex.tv/t/atsc3-0-broadcast-and-ac-4-sound/64...
Microsoft's claim at the time was that IE couldn't be removed from the system because it had been integrated into the OS. The government was able to show otherwise. It really had nothing to do with the architecture, but the legal arguments Microsoft's lawyers were making.

But despite that, let's not gloss over about what MS did. If they had been successful there wouldn't have been one web, there would have been two: One for MS (ActiveX and proprietary MS extensions) and one for MacOS/Linux/Netscape/Mozilla/Opera etc. This would have been part of their "Embrace/Extend/Extinguish" strategy they were known for at the time.
Pick your statistical software package & chart to generate code for!
https://chartmaker.visualisingdata.com
What would be more interesting is this: are the researchers in the 80% category as productive as the researchers from the 20% of elite institutions category (on average)? This could be studied and measured, and would go a long way toward dispelling the notion of prestige.

I see what they are getting at - yes there needs to be more diversity in academia and education needs to be more available, and widely distributed, across society. I don't see however, how this is going to motivate hiring committees to take an otherwise promising, and competitive person from a lower prestige institution, who is almost certainly competing with an equally qualified person from an elite institution. Making the case that this person would also be a very good bet might help.
There is no bias. Russia is a terrorist state that has brutally and illegally murdered civilians in a country they chose to invade. Hopefully it will be their continued downfall.
How can a single, unprivileged process in an multi-task OS cause such effect?
I was explicitly told by my undergraduate professors that universities like to hire faculty members from universities ranked higher than them so take that into consideration for choosing your graduate school. Apparently universities have been using this hiring strategy for decades so the outcome does not seem all that surprising or jarring...
GOG is the go-to example for why this isn't a walled garden. It is an extremely difficult market to penetrate, but right now there is a niche for every need out there.
Slight historical aside here: for those too young to have been politically aware before the Obama era, the filibuster (a) is in the modern form a relatively recent invention (b) was rarely used prior to the Mitch McConnell era. McConnell and the Fox News generation of the Republican Party turned what was meant to be a tool for a last-resort veto into a sledgehammer continuously used to bludgeon the other side.
Berkeley is actually higher than Harvard, because Economics doesn't count. ;-)
I guess it depends on what you mean by faster.

Higher IPC, higher clock, more cores, more cache, more cache levels, more memory bandwidth, faster memory access, faster decode, etc.

One idea I imagine would be possible with a 1000x speed would be real time software defined radio capture, analysis and injection.
This quote comments on our prejudices about technology, but has nothing to say about whether or not a given development in technology is actually good or bad. Things don't always have to just keep getting better, and often, in practice, they don't. So, the challenge is to firewall our immediate response to something in tech from our overall evaluation of it.
Cloudflare is the last place I'd imagine it'd get political. Recent revelations were nothing short of shocking. Cloudflare is supposed to be strictly proxy and firewall, yet, they're bending over to a tiny group of activists.

SV corporations are spineless.
Ehh, that's not the case anymore. It used to play some roles because source material used some ancient inefficient codecs. WebRips are well, ripped as is. BDRip generally ripped as is as well.
You can't lie to people and then expect them to trust you, just because the lie was supposedly in their interest.