skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless your an actual spy you could probably say you work at the NSA as an SE, linguist or something more mundane. I doubt you could talk about your actual work.

I’ve known people with clearances at Govt contractors. They could say what they do, EE/ME for X project but not many details beside that.
Someone has to put a deepfake Zuckerberg video up on Facebook where he forecasts a terrible financial quarter.

Maybe that would have some influence about how seriously they take takedown requests.
If you want to see what the term "skinny fat" means, I invite you to look at the hard-core vegans, especially the fruitarians and others who look like their lifeforce is slowly draining away.

It's a shame from a nutrition standpoint, but veganism is NOT a diet for optimal nutrition. It is an interesting diet from an ethics standpoint, I grant them that. And despite the long-term wasting away effects, veganism is superior to a standard american diet loaded with sugar, heavily processed carbs and vegetable/seed oils.
Yeah, very generic title, full of trash articles.

Seems like an outlet for disinformation itself.
Yeah that's the math lore what I was referencing when I put the word margin in quotes :)

I wasn't sure if the author was making an intentional callout to Fermat's lost marvelous proof he couldn't fit in the margin. But indeed, looks like he was, since he doesn't seem to have really mentioned the length of any other proofs.
Considering they have actively featured some of alcohol delivery apps in the store at some point (either at the Food and Drink category level, or in a "Plan that Memorial Day BBQ" type curation), then I assume that it is fine?

It maybe starts to get a bit more hairy since some of them now also sell tobacco and CBD products alongside the alcohol.
oh, for sure. it's just that at this point in time, on my macos firefox is simply inferior to macos chrome.
fyi i'm a power user (tens/hundreds of tabs, lots of web development etc), so this might not apply to everybody.
Then you notice it's dark outside... ;)
I disagree.

French law states:

"A partir de la veille du scrutin à zéro heure, il est également interdit de diffuser ou de faire diffuser par tout moyen de communication au public par voie électronique tout message ayant le caractère de propagande électorale." [Article L49 of the Code Electoral]

I.e. it is illegal to disseminate or to have disseminated any "electoral propaganda" message through any electronic communication mean from the Saturday before polling day (which always takes place on a Sunday).

Any Facebook post, tweet, email, SMS text, etc which content is aimed at influencing the poll is thus illegal and it is not hard to understand why they blocked that group during the weekend.
> RTX2070

That's the cause of your visual glitches (and the occasional "window stops working"). Switch to Nvidia's 430 driver and that should improve things considerably. It did for me anyway.

Never have these issues with Firefox on another PC I regularly use with an AMD GPU. Ditto for my Intel-only GPU laptop (though I don't use that much).
And a stopped clock is right twice a day. So all the stopped clock merchant has to do is wait for the clock to line up, then shout from the rooftops that they have the right time.

It's not enough to be correct by coincidence, process matters. We see this often enough in scientific papers where the statistics come into question. News process is different, especially given how sources work. Not everyone is willing to be recorded, and recordings are increasingly untrustworthy anyway, so at some point you have to start believing that the reporter heard person X say Y.

The worst part of the whole fake news fiasco has been people using the (very real) problems of the established media as an excuse to switch to consuming total nonsense from fabricated sources.

Interestingly, time itself is a social construct. Not just in the sense of relativistic time, but in the sense of how we came to move from individual local clocks ("decentralised time") to using time from the communication network which had to coordinate internally ("railway time").
It would start by taking an honest assessment of what the other person actually knows before you make blanket statements about what they don't know. I mean, don't get me wrong I'm not personally insulted, but in my case you have zero idea what my actual expertise is but you're already telling me that retrieving link is beyond what I can safely handle -- and you literally have no idea what my experience is. (I used to work in security!) Part of my job as a developer is security, I need to know attack vectors people use, so that sites I build aren't vulnerable, and besides that, I'm not some criminal mastermind but you don't even know if when I was younger I had fun hacking people and creating mischief. Point being, you can't come at people with this blanket statement of "you have no idea what you're dealing with!" because YOU don't know what they know. If you do that you're going to lose their empathy and attention before you even communicate what you want to communicate.

Here's what you can do: tell them what can go wrong, with specifics, and don't make assumptions about them. Be realistic about what the likely consequences are and what the worst case is.

If we wanted perfect security we'd never connect machines to the internet and superglue the usb ports shut. But in a realistic world, the level of security we choose is measure against how much risk we're willing to take. Lets say my risk profile is this: I don't work for the NSA and I'm not important enough that someone is going to try a unique zero day exploit on me. But it would be trivial to figure out my work email based on my linked in and my name, so I don't really care about them discovering deliver-ability. If the phishing attempt is bad, I'll probably spot it immediately and not bother to even open the email, but if it's good I'll probably at least investigate because I'll want to know if it was a legitimate email. Chances are, they're just trying to convince me to type my password into a web form (and assuming I use the same password everywhere). Of course, chances are also that, just based on my past experiences, about 90% of phishing attempts come from corporate security departments anyway. If someone really has a very clever zero day exploit of wget then they'll get access to a container with little sensitive data that I rebuild about a hundred times a day.

Yes it's not my hardware, but on the other hand, my company has entrusted me with local admin to get my work done and use of the internet. That's the risk profile they're comfortable with, and sometimes I get external emails and need to figure out if they are legit or not, and I don't work for a giant company with a huge security department so sometimes I need to take a glance to see if it's a legit email or not.
There is a firefox extension you can use to temporarily disable the PiHole blocking on your network with one click so you don't have to visit your PiHole webpage and do it manually.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-pi-hol...
All posts on twitter are public, which means anyone is susceptible to abuse from any other user, and twitter does next to nothing about it. This isn't the case on the fediverse.
I dont believe locally hosted ads are blocked.
So we're not "allowed" to hate groups of people then?

Please clear up whether it's "Ok" to hate the following groups, in your opinion:

- I hate rapists.

- I hate child pornographers.

- I hate Scientologists.

- I hate white people.

- I hate Italians.

- I hate businessmen.

- I hate Monsanto.

- I hate ISIS.

- I hate Right-wingers.

- I hate pedophiles.

- I hate liberals.

Please elucidate me on which of the above lines are "hate speech" and which are not, since you have this thing all figured out.
Anyone doing a pi-hole version for android? We all have an old phone that could be used instead of a rpi.
Ah, my mistake! I misremembered from the orders I've placed.
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It's not a trustworthy site, but I can't find any mainstream news sites covering this.

There's a https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/technology/facebook-franc... which has some background on the French Facebook group though.
Right, which is why you need a more secure system of entry. I've worked in finance and defense. Finance used turnstiles, defense used some light in person security.
Love the name and the product looks amazing.
The Labor movement. Social democratic policies enacted out of a fear of communism.
So you think those rare earth metals are mined with only solar power? :)

I do hope that "America's norms" aren't those of Trump and if you haven't noticed. Both democrates and liberals have agreed on the trade war.
Posted elsewhere (by me) in this discussion:

Fiber and colorectal diseases: Separating fact from fiction - World Journal of Gastroenterology
https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v13/i31/4161.htm

"This article reviews the physiology of ingestion of fiber and defecation. It also looks into the impact of dietary fiber on various colorectal diseases. A strong case cannot be made for a protective effect of dietary fiber against colorectal polyp or cancer. Neither has fiber been found to be useful in chronic constipation and irritable bowel syndrome. It is also not useful in the treatment of perianal conditions. The fiber deficit - diverticulosis theory should also be challenged. The authors urge clinicians to keep an open mind about fiber. One must be aware of the truths and myths about fiber before recommending it.

... a strong recommendation cannot be made for a protective effect of dietary fiber against colorectal polyp or cancer. Despite a lack of evidence however, current recommendations are still to increase dietary fiber. In the latest position statement of the American Dietetic Association[3], increasing dietary fiber is still promoted to protect against colon cancer despite stating that there is no proof of efficacy in this regard
...
Whilst it is not the intention of the authors to totally discourage fiber in the diet and the use of fiber supplements, there does not seem to be much use for fiber in colorectal diseases. We, however, want to emphasize that what we have all been made to believe about fiber needs a second look. We often choose to believe a lie, as a lie repeated often enough by enough people becomes accepted as the truth. We urge clinicians to keep an open mind. While there are some benefits of a diet high in natural fiber, one must know the exact indications before recommending such a diet. Myths about fiber must be debunked and truth installed."
Fake news have existed for millennia. This is so stupid.
The people who post those things also use the internet, email, chat apps, social media and everything else. At some point you have to accept that people can say and do what they want and only they are responsible for it.

Gab is no different than any other social media site in that what you see is a function of who you follow, but gab has no moderation at all so you will see things you don’t like more often. It is what it is, but it always seems strange to me to blame the platform for its users.
Those websites designed a bad model for collecting revenue; it was based on the assumption that viewers would watch their ads out of some misplaced sense of guilt, while the ads and data collection become more and more intrusive.

It is not our responsibility to prop up their poor model. If these sites want to make their case that they won't survive without our eyes on their ads, then they can open their books for us to look at the costs and revenues and decide for ourselves whether or not we should help them. But at the end of the day, it is their problem, not ours.
Dear Python2 User
Well some candidates where affiliated with the yellow vest.
>Most of the time when a team is writing low quality software it's not really a choice. No one made a conscious decision not to write tests, not to do PR reviews, or not to refactor.

And then:

>That is a much bigger and much more time-consuming problem.

Right there is the choice.

Most comments here are blaming management. I've worked in a team where the team themselves were the ones opposing it. Yes, like you said, they worked for years without doing all this. But then management actually gave them leeway to spend time learning it and implementing it - on the job, but it was left to the developers to figure out how to learn it. They could learn it solo or form learning sessions - whatever they wanted.

Only a few developers took advantage of the opportunity. And the rest who hadn't then actively opposed changing the code for testing.

People generally don't want to change. In this case, it definitely was a choice.
An interesting podcast about when the minorities themselves choose not to date among their own groups. Colonized desire: https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/50/colonized-desire-episode-2-...
What I'd like to see is if there's any other social media pages on the other side of the political spectrum that have been blocked.
Does anybody know if this effected other FB groups? Were any other political groups silenced around this time in France?
Nikon’s been offering chip-based video crypto for years, it’s just not popular in consumer-grade hardware yet. If it was, we’d all be up in arms about our devices having a unique fingerprint in every photo (or video) that could be used to track us.
> People are not forced to stop talking about politics on a public forum the day of the elections, that's complete bullshit.

They actually are in some European countries. France included.

EDIT:
Link to the law in question in the official site for FRance with English translation:

"From the day before the election at midnight, it is forbidden to distribute or have distributed newsletters, circulars and other documents.

From the eve of the poll at midnight, it is also forbidden to broadcast or cause any message that has the character of electoral propaganda to be disseminated by any means of communication to the public by electronic means."

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?idArticl...
The conversation here goes pretty well, no real names required. I actually think it's the opposite, real names bring in our real world problems and identities.

A fresh name is a fresh start and maybe you take the chance to do better this time.

It seems like people feel free to post the most atrocious nonsense on Facebook under their real name or maybe using one of the apparently billions of fake accounts that look just like real people. I don't think trust really works in internet conversations with strangers, you can't ever know their motives even if you know their names.
The question to me is whether salesforce executives really think they can stop their customers from selling guns, or whether they are just virtue signalling.

The reality is that retailers that sell guns will continue to sell guns, and salesforce will lose customers as a self-inflicted wound.

The argument "if you don't do it, someone else will" isn't valid here, because CRM software is not a necessary economic input for selling guns.
This is what we do at Office Snapshots (https://officesnapshots.com).

We post about office design and our ads are primarily for office furniture or other services related to the industry. We also self-host the ads which are non-animated jpgs and sell them without using any ad networks.

What you describe works well for us :)
Articles like these make me eager for advances made in the 'authenticity' market. I recently learned of a company called Truepic[0] that specializes in photo and video verification.

From the New Yorker article I read:

"Truepic, a startup in San Diego, aims at producing a new kind of photograph—a verifiable digital original. Photographs taken with its smartphone app are uploaded to its servers, where they enter a kind of cryptographic lockbox. “We make sure the image hasn’t been manipulated in transit,” Jeffrey McGregor, the company’s C.E.O., explained. “We look at geolocation data, at the nearby cell towers, at the barometric-pressure sensor on the phone, and verify that everything matches. We run the photo through a bunch of computer-vision tests.” If the image passes muster, it’s entered into the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchain. From then on, it can be shared on a special Web page that verifies its authenticity. Today, Truepic’s biggest clients are insurance companies, which allow policyholders to take verified photographs of their flooded basements or broken windshields. The software has also been used by N.G.O.s to document human-rights violations, and by workers at a construction company in Kazakhstan, who take “verified selfies” as a means of clocking in and out. “Our goal is to expand into industries where there’s a ‘trust gap,’ ” McGregor said: property rentals, online dating. Eventually, he hopes to integrate his software into camera components, so that “verification can begin the moment photons enter the lens.” [1]

[0] https://truepic.com/

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/in-the-age-of-...
Dear Person in the Year 2219
> What's wrong with the "old" way

A couple things:

1. It facilitates a world in which only large content providers, who can afford to individually sell ads to advertisers, to exist.

There's a lot of overhead to ad sales and individual companies do not want to work with 1,000,000 providers, they want to work with 10-100.

2. It's substantially less efficient and only works for brand advertising or mass-market direct-response advertising.

One of the greatest things that Facebook and ad retargeting enabled was the rise of direct-response brands. Previously if you were selling a niche product - and most larger brands started out with a niche product - it was very difficult to reach an early audience who would be interested in purchasing your product. Facebook and Google flipped this on it's head, enabling millions of businesses to more efficiently reach customers. Facebook alone made the direct-to-consumer brand explosion we've seen over the last 10 years possible.
Up and Running with Gatsby #5: Adding Pages to a Gatsby Project [video]
The internet increased the synchronization of what people believe at what time, fake or real. It’s like around the world everyone knows the same 30 news stores every day and has one of just a few standard opinions about them. That then influences what a huge number of people think and do in all aspects of their lives at the same time. I think before it was more out of sync at what time people knew something and that knowledge started affecting what they do.
The journalistic ignorance around firearms is staggering: 'assault-style rifles', 'fully semi automatic', etc etc.
That's because the first adopters of an unmoderated platforms are those who were kicked out from the moderated platforms, whether rightfully or wrongly.

Indeed, many settlements in the yesteryears were founded by outlaws and dissidents (also see: the Pilgrims and Mormon settlement of Utah)
Different countries have different norms around political speech. Report at 11.
Well, I find it extremely useful.

This is my new go-to item when someone asks me, "What would you bring with you if you could go back in time to the year 1600?"
If sites actually curated the ads they display instead of saying "Give us money and we'll let you and whoever's paid you show whatever you want and run whatever scripts you want" they wouldn't get blocked by the pi-hole. I'm sick of malicious ads on even major sites because everyone's too lazy to give a damn.
Do you have evidence that historical forms of fake news and propaganda became less effective over time?
Redisql sounds interesting, are you getting any customers/tranction?
The NSA has a number of open-source projects maintained by employees who are active on GitHub.
I've had a few instances of firefox on Mac and Linux starting to spin up the fans, and show high CPU usage, and I've had trouble pinning down which tab was causing it.

Is about:performance the best place to do this or is there something like Chrome's task manager that shows CPU and memory usage per page, and per extension?
Others in the oil and gas industry are looking at this too. Natural gas is cheap and plentiful, natural gas generators (that can burn Y grade) are common. Vertically integrating around power seems the logical next step in bitcoin mining. I'm waiting to see the first bitcoin mining company that builds their own ASICs and drills their own wells.
Designers have monitors with better gamut and contrast so it looks fine to them?
I'm telling you - and I mean this completely without hyperbole, lower your conspicuous consumption. Get rid of your luxury car, don't project your wealth.

To be honest, if you live anywhere on the peninsula (looking at you Atherton) and even areas of San Francisco - a reckoning is coming. Neighborhoods will burn.

"There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us."
> The question to me is whether salesforce executives really think they can stop their customers from selling guns, or whether they are just virtue signalling.

If Facebook and others can kick white supremacists off their platforms, why can't Salesforce kick gun sellers off of theirs?

> because CRM software is not a necessary economic input for selling guns.

So what's the problem if Salesforce isn't necessary to sell this class of firearm?
One big problem with entirely static ads is that websites are global but the ads running on them are for brands that are likely local (at least to a specific country.) If I visit the NYT website in e.g. Norway, should I still see ads for an American brand of paper towel that doesn’t exist here; or should I see ads for Norway paper towel brands?

The flip-side of this is that I’ve noticed that YouTube shows me PSAs from my own municipal government (“there’s an election soon” ads, “we’re building a new piece of civil infrastructure” ads, etc.) I actually kind of like that; I don’t have cable, so it’s not like I would see them anywhere else.

The entirely-static ads model does work when the consumption of the media is entwined with the consumption of the advertised brands, though. For example, a podcast can certainly advertise its own tour, since—given that you’re listening to the podcast—you likely want to see the podcaster speak in person, even if you can’t make it there.

Or, of course, if a (global) website is just advertising another (global) website. The NYT can advertise Amazon just fine.
Is this a new thing? I graduated highschool in 2001 and each grade letter was 10% and equated to a grade point.

90%+ => A (4.0)
80%+ => B (3.0)
70%+ => C (2.0)
60%+ => D or F depending (1.0 or 0.0)

At university, we only used grade points and they were very, very similar in scale.
And then see that a solar eclipse was predicted for today.
All of these affect one another but there isn’t clear and strict causal relationship or ordering.

Value follows difficulty but also difficulty follows value.
So you block access to Google's DNS (except for your local DNS server) on your router.

And so the arms race continues.
Most of the Mastodon network will ban Gab immediately (and the founder of Gab acknowledges as much in the comments of the article), community dilution is very unlikely. But they will get to share federation with a variety of other alt-right and free speech zone Mastodon servers which have been banned by the larger fediverse community.
WhatDoTheyKnow Pro helps TBIJ get the whole picture on council land sell-off
As much as I hate the bad parts of Gab, I am glad they are standing up to their principles of being a truly free speech social network.

The other social networks just love to censor everybody they disagree with, even a particular orange looking website.

I am also excited and glad they are utilising open source software as well. (This was bound to happen sooner or later) This can make activitypub & decentralised networks mainstream.