skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could have, but didn't, because phones are a 1-1 medium and people don't go around cold-calling others to see if they're into white supremacy and conspiracy theories.

Not only that, it wasn't one person, or rather it was not one person alone. He was fed, indoctrinated and enabled by his co-conspirators who egged him on with anti-Islam material. In some sense they got off lightly: if the situation had been reversed and we were talking about an Islamic supremacist board promoting violence against Christians which resulted in a massacre, they might have been candidates for an airstrike. "We kill people based on metadata", remember? https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-base...

The ban would most likely be for refusal to comply with rules regarding extremist or crime-promoting material. For example the UK has a unit pointed at the major social networks making binding takedown requests against (primarily) Daesh material: https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Counter-Terrorism_Inte...

There are proposals to make the terrorist takedown regime mandatory across Europe: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45495544

At the moment the authorities are surprisingly un-worried about white supremacist terrorism compared to Islamist terrorism, of which there is very little on the chans. So they largely escape takedown requirements. But if the extremism escalates that may not stay that way.
Philosophy Tube is pretty good for exactly what you'd expect. The recent stuff is mostly political, but the old stuff is a really good starting point for general philosophy.
> You can reasonably expect that without any of this nonsense since it is so rare that things like that happen.

Deterrence is certain to play a part in the lack of incidents.
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Curious what you mean by a different direction? I'm a fan of John Gatto so I wonder what direction you mean..
Adjacent to pure "privacy" issues is a/the "data ownership" question, or maybe it should be framed as the public vs private data issue.

That is, maybe if FB own the data, advertisers buy it and states/others hack into it... the right solution is to "push the arrow through" rather than extract it. Make the data (or most of it) public. Publish it. It's not really "private" in a meaningful way. The subject (object?) does not have control of and/or knowledge of the dataset describing them. Also (this relates to my last point) data is not the sum of its part. A lot of what the data is only exists at the aggregate level, and without publication users can never have control, ownership or any rights to these crucial aspects of their data..

To put it in the form of a question: Are there ways of arriving at a better state, with less distrust and paranoia that involves opening data, rather than just better protecting it.

I'm not suggesting that it's simple or that I know exactly how it should work. But, if advertisers had the same access everyone has, I think it'd be less of an issue. If the default was "data is public," I suspect we'd find better ways of dealing with data that truly needs to stay secret.

As an aside, unconnected to privacy, data has become a new class of IP. We may legally consider it copyrighted (raw data) or patent-able (trained NNs), but as a practical matter it is a new type of IP... of rapidly growing importance. There are massive, world changing examples of what can happen when we manage to create cultures of "public IP" or sharing. The scientific revolution was (arguably) directly related to the new culture of publishing experimental results. CS was irrevocably changed by free and/or open source software, especially compilers, operating systems, libraries... The WWweb, in lots of ways. The pace of the current ML explosion is directly related to and enabled by open source, free software, scientific publishing and "open IP" generally.

Imagine how held back we would have been, if those cultures of sharing hadn't emerged. I think data sharing is probably similar in this regard to compiler code or scientific experiments. Openness creates value, potentially a lot of it.

Privacy is a meaningful reason/excuse for closed data. I think it's worth trying to solve these two together. Dunno how to phrase a question for that.
Just as a side note: here's an accepted official rule of Easter, which even itself has some differentiation - in my opinion - the craziest (that I know) rotating schedule ever:

Easter falls on the first Sunday after the Full Moon date, based on mathematical calculations, that falls on or after March 21. If the Full Moon is on a Sunday, Easter is celebrated on the following Sunday.

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/determining-easter-date...
Depends on the book. My kids (4 and 6) enjoy a lot of books that are full of puns that I catch as an adult that my kids don't get at all. They get a very different story than me or my wife, but the result is we can all enjoy it - if for different reasons.
Why aren't the keys revoked when there is a CC chargeback? People buy from G2A and the like because the keys work, make them stop working and the problem is solved.
Firefox Developer Editon comes with a dark theme too: https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/Developer_Edition_Theme
Share price was $187.71 prior to the announcement. As posted in the article - $190/share agreed purchase.
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What people do care about is being able to seamlessly use different platforms. Traditional services like Twitter, Fb, or Youtube are silos. The companies running these platforms have zero incentive to allow you to share data between them, and make it difficult for users to extract the data from the platform.

ActivityPub based federation flips this model on its head. All the services can talk to each other, and you can be using one service while your friends use another, and still be able to interact and share content. This is a huge feature for end users.
banning G2A, kinguin etc. won't stop those resellers. In Poland, there's a polish version of ebay (allegro.pl). Typing in any game and sorting by the price shows games being sold as shared accounts (xbox/ps4), or with ridiculous prices similar to those found on G2A and alike. And even if G2A were stopped from selling those keys, a new site would appear overnight.

The industry needs rather a proper fix. How this would look like, I have no idea.
At least it wasn't Oracle?
Poe’s Law may apply here, but are you being serious? Please explain.
It's addressed in the article. By the time the game access is revoked, most players have already switched to another game and don't even notice the old one not working.
It’s always annoyed me that IPv4 addresses are valid DNS names. Unnecessary confusion and software workarounds to deal with it.
There has been some really delicious controversy against G2A of late. My favorite was the “unbiased report that [they] wrote to show how stolen keys don’t actually happen, want to put it up on your site without attribution?”
> many would prefer to see them dissapear.

I don't think it's as many as some think. A lot of this censorship banter comes from a very vocal minority who appear to be a majority only in their own minds.
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Maybe read their code and it's associated comments would help you? One of the benefits of using notebooks over a traditional IDE is that code is segmented into blocks. For me it makes it easier to read. it's like "ok, this cell will do this to our data, then this next cell will do this to our data". It's been more than a year since I took their class, and what I did to help with comprehension of the videos was to take notes in the individual cells while following the videos.
Nope - the statistics only covers working age (18-67)
This isn't the story—the story is that Apple killed two machines today:

- The non-touchbar MacBook Pro (RIP, function row)

- The 12" "MacBook" (which I adored, largely because it was so tiny)

What's strange is that it appears that this was a streamlining effort—but if you get into the weeds and look at the "base" model 13" MacBook Pro, it's not the same machine: it has two Thunderbolt ports, rather than four, despite sharing the same moniker as the higher-end MacBook Pro. Go up a model, and you get four for more money along with the better processor, which isn't immediately clear, either.

That means it's got fewer thunderbolt lanes, as well, which is a classic nickel and dime move that's going to make it even more confusing given most people just buy the base model.
And buying O365 via a vendor is actually a huge liability.

The vendor/reseller has full admin access to your O365 account ("subscription advisor"/delegated administrators). They can also transfer this access. If your vendor gets purchased or otherwise decides to transfer your rep' they'll just unilaterally grant some unknown person/company admin access to your whole O365 account.

But you're forced to work through a vendor for any discounts. You're penalized for working directly with Microsoft. And if you revoke this access, don't be surprised if your partner tells you they cannot support you until it is re-granted (even buying more licenses, because they need to "confirm your license allocation" or similar).

It is a huge HIPAA nightmare.
Yea that is one of many upon many problems with the Green New Deal. We don’t need drastic changes we need steady improvements because were all in this together so we all have to be onboard.
I mean, Red Hat has 12,000 employees already (granted IBM has 200K - edit 350K, see reply). Red Hat is not a small start-up.
What? That was the only one I remotely considered when I had a bit of money to spend earlier this year for running some graphic apps (after working on an XPS for years now). While obviously Apple knows best which models are selling, as a vi user I absolutely have no use for a touch bar, and won't buy one, ever.

What's "pro" with Apple machines these days? If anything, "pro" should stand for having options like non-glare displays, ports, and proper keyboards. My old 2003 PowerBook I used for a long time had an exchangeable battery, exchangeable RAM, PCMCIA, ports, etc. But Apple has kept (or even raised) the prices from the PowerBook times, yet only delivers shiny, super-slim, useless all-inclusive notebooks. It hurts to loose Apple as supplier.
Yes, I did mention you had it taken care of, just not explicitly pointed out :)
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A bit off-topic but imagine if there was an internet-free day, like Sunday...
I never saw The Walrus before - great content.

I consider it an aspect of “wealth” to have quiet time for introspection. While I do most of my hiking with friends, I block off long periods of time for introspective, or meditative, walks by myself in the wilderness (I live 150 feet from a trailhead, with lots of nearby wilderness).

I usually enjoy writing but after a recent move back to our home in Arizona, I was suffering from “writer’s block” and the way I broke through that was to toss my laptop in a backpack and walk for 45 minutes to my local library, write, then walk home. Walking 90 minutes might seem boring but this process worked well for me and got me unstuck.
Prev. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884
Yea pixelfed has always been bad at onboarding. It's been brought up before but nothing has improved except making a pretty landing page. On instances where registration is closed, the only thing you see is a message telling you that and external links.
Honestly, I'm happier to see an article talking about efficiency problems rather than just how to pay for it. I'd much rather our efforts on healthcare reform revolve around fixing the problems than paying for them.
Very few developers truly understand floating point representation. Most think of it as base-10, and put in horrific kludges and workarounds when they discover it doesn't work as they (wrongly) expected. I shudder to think how many e-commerce sites use `float` for financial transactions!

So as far as I'm concerned, whatever performance cost these alternate methods may have, it would be well worth it to avoid the pitfalls of IEEE floats. Intel chips have had BCD support in machine code; I'm surprised nobody has made a decent fixed point lib that is widely used already.
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They are. One of the developers claims:

> In other cases, Mr Rose said, dealers cancelled the credit card transaction with which they had bought a key, after selling it on.

> By the time Steam chased this up and voided the sale, gamers may have tried the title out and moved on, never noticing they had lost access as a consequence, he said.

So maybe the chargeback process just needs to be faster. Or the games need to be longer maybe. I'd be curious to know how long the current process takes.
Actually there are platforms that leverage PHP (e.g. Gnu social, postActiv, etc.) - see the "Programming Languages" section for examples: https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/

Also, I imagine for new platforms, people just tend to scratch their own itch, and use stacks that they know. I do agree that something that is common and easy enough - like PHP - is always a good idea in order to foster more participants...But then again, maybe as these newer stacks are experimented with, someone finally figures out an easy, solid, safe way to host these platforms...Who knows...maybe in 4 years time all of these platforms will have migrated to something like Rust (for its safety, speed, reliability, etc.) because it will be as easy as PHP is currently to set up...? (Caveat: I am not a Rust expert, so have only heard of its benefits through others, so only using it as a random example.)

ADDENDUM: I will agree that everyone benefits from well-done documentation...so regardless of the underlying stack, if there is some really good documentation for helping people set up their environment, then that matters far more to me.
This isn't the actual story—the story is that Apple killed two machines today:

- The non-touchbar MacBook Pro (RIP, function row)

- The 12" "MacBook" (which I adored, largely because it was so tiny)

What's strange is that it appears that this was a streamlining effort—but if you get into the weeds and look at the "base" model 13" MacBook Pro, it's not the same machine: it has two Thunderbolt ports, rather than four, despite sharing the same moniker as the higher-end MacBook Pro. Go up a model, and you get four for more money along with the better processor, which isn't immediately clear, either.

That means it's got fewer thunderbolt lanes, as well, which is a classic nickel and dime move that's going to make it even more confusing given most people just buy the base model.
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What's your point? Keep in mind the TSA's own internal testing has found them to be largely ineffective.[1][2]

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2017/11/09/tsa...

[2]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-...
Or just write a userChrome.css and dump it in your profile directory. /r/firefoxCSS has the details
Yes, I am shocked too.

Who will be developing the lion share of what makes "the Linux desktop?"

If IBM wants to ever make money of this deal, the only way available for them is to kick everybody, but support people, and crank up fees to the max from big corporate clients.

Ubuntu has certainly stole the crown of "the server linux" as being built on a more sound foundation, and being more conservative in bringing disruptive novelties — something that just any sysadmin likes.
It's because governments no longer fear their people. And they know the more such laws they get to pass the less they have to fear, too. Just like in China, the moment someone even hints at organizing a protest against the government, they are arrested because the government has access to all conversations, tons of public cameras, etc.

The future is scary unless we turn this trend around.
I am probably overlooking something, but I don't understand what it does.
Contrast with dolphin.town where you can only use the letter e.

There's a feud.

https://oulipo.social/users/kit/statuses/101223229913710919
How would you get to space without the help of industry, which would be controlled? Underwater is much more likely. Even on the water.

International waters have already seen a lot of creative uses to avoid governments.
Without the local webserver, they fall back to Safari's URL handler, which asks whether or not you wan't to start the application in question.

They went through a lot of trouble to implement this ridiculous solution to avoid the kind of thing you describe.
That is very simple to change. Settings --> power and sleep options --> Additional power options --> Choose what closing the lid does

Or from command line https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Quickly-c...
It's probably like how millennials and younger generations are just calling everyone older than them a "boomer".
Yes.

The worst way to try to catch or curb money launderers is to create some kind of monetary system in which they will take no part.

Gold will not cease to exist because of a corporate “cryptocurrency”? As long as there are any fungible value stores in existence, there will be money laundering.
Definitely for far less. In one of the most expensive private universities in Pakistan, in the cafeteria you can eat three "home-cooked meals" for $4USD/day. I.e. on top of the ingredients you are paying for cooking/cleaning labor and space. You can eat for maybe half that at home.
Your comment is a bit ambiguous. Are you saying that even retail software could be considered a virus just because of what it can do on the system? Or was virus software making it onto the machine in other ways?
> Gotta say those machinations were much less troubling than the multiple times they pulled the rug out from developers during the '90s

Not sure what this is a reference to. Microsoft STILL supports running VB6/COM/C++/etc from the 1990s today. Only Visual J++ disappeared, but a court of law required that. I'd go so far as to claim that their success is in no small part because their backwards compatibility game is top notch.

IE6 was a nightmare, but that wasn't "pulling the rug" rather just being lazy and not developing the browser at all (because it competed with their proprietary platform -- Win32). Once Microsoft deploys something and developers start using it, typically they support it "forever" (even IE compatibility modes remain to support IE5/6 code).
The number of uninsured people has been climbing the past few years and the expense of healthcare has continued to grow in relation to inflation.

Those are two factors that drive down life expectancy
So game developers want to keep their users from re-selling what they have bought. If you ask me, the bad guys are the devs who want to make this impossible, not the platform that allows it.

But hey, if this is really such a big problem, just track where your keys are being used; if thousands of chinese keys are activated every day in, say, europe, you might have a point.

But empty accusations without proof won't convince me that they are in the right about wanting to shut down such a platform.
That website's layout looks weirdly alike Aliexpress'
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dont you dare!
That's a pretty good way of making sure, because you defer trust to the intermediaries. While it definitely works for high profiles like this, it is obviously not scalable for larger audiences
Luckily I use Pi Hole I just Blacklisted zoom.us and zipow.com
Does this acquisition open up the market for a Linux company to move into the Linux enterprise space?

Maybe Ubuntu could pivot into this space.
What happened to the original iPhone’s plastic screen?
They don't need to form the blockchain to reverse a transaction. Since they control redemption and minting, they can simply refuse to redeem from the "losing" party and mint new units to compensate the "winning" party.

>They will still need a human layer to verify theft has occurred and it isn’t a fraudulent claim of theft where just I stole from myself

Or have something similar to credit cards where you're forced into arbitration.
Those shared accounts might be accounts hacked with known/breached passwords.

I previously had my mostly empty UPlay account hijacked by someone with a Kazakhstan IP. As I recall they renamed the account and added new friends and had been playing a game I'd received free, but didn't change the password. Mostly just spurred me to switch everything feasible to 2FA.
There's also the concept of white, grey and black hats. Just because someone finds a vulnerability doesn't make it okay to abuse it. The right thing to do is to disclose it, and businesses like Google do benefit from incentivizing it.
I have no specific bad feelings about IBM, but I don't like the constant drive towards consolidation.

It makes us worse off, I feel. Nearly all these big mergers are about cornering markets, reducing competition and avoiding innovations. At best they're about finance shenanigans.

It's not as if redhat customers are likely to be excited about this.
Either they take too long to revoke the key, or the gamers didn't play the game for that long, meaning they most likely wouldn't have bought it at its full price anyway.
Maybe this is just coming from my background as an academic and general nerd, but personally I would rather read a book that I don't fully understand, but had lots of notes and references to explain the context, than something that's been conceptually "translated".
I'm curious what your objection is to GTM. I've been using it for a decade and have really come to see it as the only reliable option for us.
Interesting, I buy keys from G2A regularly and haven't lost access to any titles yet. If this was a significant problem I'd expect to at least have a few lost titles out of dozens I've bought personally and for friends.
Why don’t they provide an API to easily use your personal data in other places? Why don’t they use federation services to let Facebook talk to ActivityPub services? If they truly cared about privacy they would give you a way to use your data outside of the platform.
I think the fact I had four accounts, one personal, and three that were posting a lot of content twice a day contributed to one of the accounts getting banned. I think there are a few things that will get you banned, and it's not hard for IG to tell what actions are coming from the app and when they aren't. Uploading via Selenium or another headless browser emulating a mobile device seems to be the best way to do it without emulating an entire phone.
Another major obstacle is the limited scope of a lot of these projects. Each project, excepts the microblogs, focus on a single media type and ignore others. So you still have to have multiple semi-siloed accounts to participate with various parts of the fediverse. As a pixelfed user, you can't interact with plume/write.as users or vice-versa. It's cool that I can follow all of these users from my Pleroma (or microblog.pub/mastodon) account, but they can't interact with me. It's only one way interaction.
I see G2A mentioned, but kind of wish they'd list okay but similar services or if they're shady as well. Are Green Man Gaming, Humble and things of that nature okay or are they hurting developers in some manner? I'm pretty sure GMG and Humble are selling keys akin to Walmart selling physical copies (just as a storefront working with vendors/publishers), but there's really no way of telling as a customer for sure.
Your email provider blocks thousands of emails it thinks you dont want. Youtube blocks copywritten material on upload. Those are things a publisher does (reduce noise, detect plagiarism.)
The article conflates developers with publishers (many indie-devs still sign with publishing companies). My understanding is that it's primarily the latter who want to prevent actual reselling.