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Some quick research indicates that while we won't lose our water per se, there are potentially other issues along that line of thinking: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/hydrogen-economy-might-im... (2003)

Edit: you might be thinking of helium, which is inert, and so I believe does escape the atmosphere more easily.

You're kidding right? I hate that behaviour of MacOS. If I told the OS to shut down/restart, I meant it. Kill everything and get on with it, I shouldn't have to babysit.

If I told it to update, I didn't mean "oh pretty please but if it's too hard don't worry about it", I meant "I know this ii. update is going to take an hour for a point release for some reason, but I'm going for a walk now - go ahead so IT gets off my back".

Also I've had many issues with my macbook overheating/discharging in my bag because I hit sleep, it looked like it was sleeping, but it was still on/woke up. Admittedly not a huge amount because of COVID but still.

I feel like if the answers to those questions change the outcome, then the problem is more nuanced than a single line quote followed by "that's just insane". Especially since I think it's more than possible to come up with a list of questions that justify the court's decision.

(Probably something like "does the news org initiate the discussion, do they have the ability to moderate the discussion, does their branding appear prominently on the page").

I disagree that it's obvious. If I run a hosted WordPress blog, and someone comments on that blog, is WordPress the publisher of that comment?

I think it's worth adding: the domains that these organisations rank are chosen by those organisations. How the ranking works is chosen by the ranking org. A major source of revenue for the ranking orgs is conference sponsorships, and one of the things included in those sponsorships is access to the analysts writing the reports.

It's also worth noting that ranking companies don't rank products, they rank vendors. So a company that does everything kind of ok over multiple products can get an advantage over a company that solves one problem very well with one product, if the ranking companies choose to define the category in an overly broad way.

And you know there's AWS people on the call, because that's the only reason you're using Chime.

For anyone not willing to click - this is a Louis Rossman (right to repair campaigner) video. I haven't watched it yet, but it's unlikely to be totally click bait and wasn't submitted by the creator (I don't think).

Of course the problem with this approach is that (at least part of) the Bitcoin community see it as non-inflationary - see above. So if you remove that cap then the value surely comes down significantly.

Ransomware is a key one, also.

Did anyone ever really try to pitch that RTX Voice actually needed 20 series hardware to work as opposed to being something Nvidia were gating to try to sell more cards? I thought it was pretty transparent myself but maybe I just assumed.

This style of writing was annoying to me, and I couldn't make it all the way through the article, but I take it that you don't need to install these skills before Alexa will go ahead and just pull them in from a third party? That seems... risky, at best.

Simple: credibility. Right now, the default position is that they're insecure and they don't know what they're doing. A post-mortem with a solid RCA shifts that to "we've identified this, fixed it, and put in place systems to ensure it can't happen again."

It's the aviation industry playbook; air travel is perceived as safe (partially) because of the big song and dance they put on about safety analysis after an incident.

Hahahaha what? I have to remember to reboot my Mac every couple days or it becomes unbearably slow. Not only that, but once a month there's a security update released that, you guessed it, requires an update. If there's some magic to not requiring an update for those please let me know, because I'm sick of waiting 30 minutes every time I install an update.

My god, I wish MacOS would restart automatically! The amount of times I've gotten a nastygram from IT about an update I just expected would be installed (or at least notified!) automatically...

FWIW the only organisation I know that's ever truly locked in data was SAP, through their byzantine licensing and horrific API. Snowflake is no more locked in than anything else with a standard SQL interface.

I work for Snowflake and I'm always curious about this way of thinking. How is putting the data in Snowflake any different to any other RDBMS, or even S3, in this regard?

You don't own the underlying storage, true, but there's a defined method of getting data in and a defined method of getting that data out. The API is different to S3, sure, but it's an API all the same.

> Can't do a simple select * from s3://file.parquet

That's not really true; Snowflake can query directly from S3 just fine, even from other clouds. You just need to set up the credentials (or supply them in the query, but that's not usually a good idea).

Disclaimer: I work for Snowflake

>proprietary database

Oracle, Microsoft and SAP all do very well out of their proprietary databases for OLTP. In analytics, Snowflake was the largest tech IPO ever last year. For whatever reason, the database market seems to be entirely ok with proprietary software.

Disclaimer: I sell Snowflake for a living.

I keep everything in a combination of OneNote and Google Sheets, which I link back to Salesforce with the Salesforce connector for Google Sheets. It is... not perfect, but spreadsheets were the only way I could find to quickly get the information down that I wanted to.

I think I come at this problem the opposite way to everyone that actually builds these products/tools. I want to mindmap and brainstorm all of the topics, and then take notes on them - preferably with a time component to that. Even more than that, I want to be able to take notes on the relationships between nodes, since that's where the real gold tends to be.

Mindmap tools generally don't work for this because they want a single topic for each map, and all the words on the one page. KM/KB tools don't work because I can't just draw the relationships between the points, I have to go in and actually create notes that I then get to visualise.

I really wanted to like Obsidian, but the way it treats folders puts me right off. I tried Neo4j Bloom, but there are UI difficulties and it's not really great for notes. I'd build it myself but I have no idea where I'd even start on a UI.

I think that's exactly what happened. He hit a point of no return and rather than go ahead, decided to save himself.

> You either are unaware of the meaning of the word "disingenuous", or you know my own intentions better than I do.

I'm simply crediting you with the intelligence and experience to understand that what someone says publicly is not always in line with their actual goal. Therefore, by pretending that Parler's terms of service represent their actual intentions despite evidence to the contrary, I believe you are being disingenuous.

> Did Parler express suprise that some of its users attempted to (and in some cases succeeded) incite violence on their platform?

I have no idea. It doesn't matter. "I didn't think the leopards would eat my face!" is not a credible expression of surprise when you invite a bunch of leopards into your home and set them loose.

> Again your tendency towards superlative undermines the discussion, but "everybody knows it" and "the damage has been done"?

I don't think it's undermining the discussion to assume a certain level of conversational and contextual shorthand. "Everybody" does not mean literally every person on earth, it means "people with interest and experience in these matters". I apologise if English is your second language or similar - I'll try to be clearer in future.

> This is a very strong statement indeed, claiming that you have knowledge that Parler's moderation has been so ineffectual that every user on their platform is able to view all inciting content before it is taken down.

Not every user needs to have viewed content for that content to be damaging. However, the more people that see damaging content the more damaging it is. Most social media platforms expose more recent content to more users, so damaging content will do most of the potential damage within a short time. Therefore, platforms with actual intent to reduce damage will need to remove problematic users from that platform while also employing a highly effective moderation team to identify new damaging content as quickly as possible.

It stands to reason that a platform that only wanted to look like they were reducing damage could employ an ineffectual moderation team to remove content only after the majority of the damage was done. I suggest that's what happened here - it seems clear that large amounts of inciting content were available for long periods of time (hours/days).

I'm not American, but what I saw on my TV last week was an outgoing President organising an armed mob outside the seat of Government and inciting them to disrupt the democratic transition of power. There were people inside the building that were clearly intending to take hostages.

There was a gallows out the front.

In any other nation on earth, this was an attempted coup. Just because it failed doesn't mean that those involved didn't have intent.

You've made some good arguments throughout this thread, but this one in particular is disingenuous. You can't market yourself to people that were deplatformed specifically for inciting violence and then credibly mock surprise when those people begin inciting violence on your platform. By the time the limited number of moderators get around to deleting or hiding posts the damage is done, and everybody knows it.

Does this gratify anyone's intellectual curiosity though? Ie. Is it on-topic for HN? I don't get to make that decision, but I do think the bar for US Politics Article #5046 should be higher than "rendering a square on a quad".

A good analysis article around _why_ technology companies are moving in one direction on moderation policy at once? Yes. Excellent.

As-it-happens news articles? Ehhh. Not as much. There are other places on the internet for that sort of thing.

I'm not so sure about that. I think it would take more than flashing a photo for 100ms (or just putting up a photo at all for that matter) to trigger a human to stop. You have to overcome the context and I think that's harder than "one photo on the side of a highway".

The only logic I can think of is that the equivalent text based emoticons - :), :(, :D, D:, etc - are usually 2 chars.

Absolutely it's possible, but as it was a shared computer, it's also likely to be one of the oldest in the fleet. It's also likely to be one that no one bothers to ask for specific attention to. As a result, it's likely that no full disk encryption was ever applied.

From what I've read, full disk encryption was optional in the House until very recently. If this was a shared machine it's almost certainly not encrypted.

Do you have evidence that what you're asking for is possible? I'd be interested to see websites that hit the benchmark that you're aiming for.

I just tested a HN profile page (famously one of the lightest weight non-static websites) and it takes between 300ms and 600ms to load. I'm not saying that Jira can't improve, but if HN isn't hitting 250ms then I think telling the Jira guys that nothing less than <200ms is the minimum standard is unrealistic.