skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook thinks of itself as a state and fundamentally misunderstands it's relationship to the traditional "big L" liberal democracies.

The first amendment[0] specifically defines congress, the law making body, as the arbiter of free speech. This is because without the force of government behind it, the concept of censorship is effectively meaningless.

In a constitutional sense, it is impossible for any actor other than the government to violate a persons first amendment rights.

Facebook, as a corporation, is not capable of violating first amendment rights. Even FCC section 230 [1] explicitly enables facebook to moderate as it sees fit. Facebook could decide that any post that contains the word "avocado" would be deleted on the spot. Or they could decide that only political posts that support Vermin Supreme [2] are allowed.

This would be completely legal.

The same way you are allowed to delete spam and comments by Nazis on your personal blog. You are also not liable if someone posts a libelous comment on your blog, just like facebook isn't liable.

Similarly, if you decide that you are a-ok with rabid neo-nazis commenting on your personal blog, well, then, sure, that's legal, but it also says a hell of a lot about you and your personal beliefs. There's a word for people that sympathize with nazis...

You could run the smallest blog or the largest, world spanning social network and delete Nazi content legally in the US.

So, when Mark Zuckerberg says he is defending free speech, he is using misdirection. He is fully aware that the legal, constitutional term "free speech" doesn't apply to Facebook.

He wants you to avoid thinking that the people that run Facebook are morally responsible for the legal, fcc section 230 moderation that they choose to engage in, the same way you would be morally responsible for actively allowing Nazis to comment on your blog.

It's so simple, a six panel stick figure comic can explain it. [3]

Zuck just doesn't want to show Trump the door. Why? Because he makes a lot of money from sowing division and hate. [4]

As Barry Schnitt, former spokes person for facebook put it [5]:

"Unfortunately, I do not think it is a coincidence that the choices Facebook makes are the ones that allow the most content — the fuel for the Facebook engine — to remain in the system. I do not think it is a coincidence that Facebook’s choices align with the ones that require the least amount of resources, and the choices that outsource important aspects to third parties. I do not think it is a coincidence that Facebook’s choices appease those in power who have made misinformation, blatant racism, and inciting violence part of their platform. Facebook says, and may even believe, that it is on the side of free speech. In fact, it has put itself on the side of profit and cowardice."

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment

[1] https://www.theverge.com/21273768/section-230-explained-inte...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme

[3] https://xkcd.com/1357/

[4] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270659/facebook-divisio...

[5] https://onezero.medium.com/dear-facebook-employees-7d01761e5...
"Extended Validation Code Signing Certificate. Signing code with one of these will automatically bypass SmartScreen."

Code signing certificate is indeed more expensive(i.e around $300). Still I would rather pay more than having a single provider(Apple)
Redesign police departments with separation of roles and responsibilities.

In most any other organization, especially ones where there aren’t enough qualified workers, you don’t have one main role where the entry level people and under performers are all doing the same work as seasoned veterans. You separate out roles, and entry level people do work that requires minimal responsibility and can inflict minimal damage.

You have a swat team, and they get called in when needed, but they don’t get to decide when to jump into action, someone else decides that, and the swat team doesn’t drive around looking for things to get involved in. There’s no reason the shooters and the deciders need to be the same person.

Is there any reason a cop writing a traffic citation:

* Needs a gun?

* Needs to approach another car on foot?

* Needs to exit his own car at all?

What if there was a role for traffic cop, which is entry level, unarmed, where the cop never exits their own vehicle, and where the only job is to write a citation, but _not_ also to run warrants and try to search the citizen’s car for illegal items?

If you had that role, the traffic cop isn’t on edge, worried he might get shot in the face for pulling over a guy with warrants. The guy with warrants doesn’t need to run, he just gets his citation and moves on.

Eventually technology will help enable this, say, once we have remote control drone cars to issue traffic citations.

Sure, there are tons of details to sort out, like a reliable system to identify drivers independent of the physical car (so there’s no person-to-person interaction required to write a ticket), but I suspect this is an area where the motives are so misaligned that technology will have to show up which forces these kinds of forward progress. The same way people fought for women’s rights for a long time, then the pill shows up and advances things forward by an order or magnitude.
Any particular person getting a 20% return is not suspicious. The question is whether the distribution of returns over all senators is suspicious.
What you guys are doing with fan out is pretty great - definitely some similarities. Love your work.
There is a significant reporting lag, between the actual stock sales and the notification on the tracker. For example, the
sales of Sen Loeffler that were widely reported in the news, were not released until 12 March, for transactions in early February. The stock market as a whole had already significantly declined, but was still a ways from its low, on that date.

Link (you have to accept the initial terms of use thing, and then reload that link): https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/view/ptr/370492b8-ed0a-4...
>Perhaps there's an auto manufacturer or two that got it right. However, I've never driven a car with physical buttons that got it wrong.

You gotta give it some time, because modern physical control interfaces in cars had over half a decade to evolve to reach this point. With regard to touchscreen interfaces in cars, it simply feels like those are still stuck somewhere in the pre-iPhone era of touchscreen interfaces for phones in terms of usability compared to physical controls.
I know exactly how the police will be defended:

"20 minutes before the video you saw, police announced that the protest was closed and declared an unlawful assembly for the purposes of public safety. All people remaining after that warning were in violation of the law and the officers followed their instructions to clear the area."
The turbo button originates from Taiwanese "Turbo XT" clones that would run an 8088 or V20 at 8, 10, 12 or even 16 MHz with turbo engaged and 4.77 with it off.

Later 386 and 486 systems implemented turbo logic in different ways. Some by reducing bus speed, some by disabling CPU caches, some by inserting wait states for memory access.
> One thing that I don't think gets mentioned enough is that cell phone pictures generally look good on a cell phone, but blow it up to an 8x10 or a 24" monitor and you'll quickly see how poor they are.

This is so true. Those small but glorious OLED screens really do flatter.
Facebook/Twitter/et al created the systems which focus people's attention and incentivize the production of divisive poor quality information in the first place - why shouldn't they take responsibility for fixing their mistakes?
It certainly sounds intriguing...
The knife vs gun scenario is not disputed. The police didn’t make that up. It’s broadly accepted by combat experts. Self defense classes, firearms classes, and knife combat classes will tell you the same thing, and it’s easy to demonstrate.

This is what it looks like even when the officer knows it is coming:
https://youtu.be/2h0-q_IJbxE
Good. US sanctions on Iran are violations of international agreements, decency and a treacherous renege on the Nuclear Deal.
They also probably don't have a sufficient fraction of their net worth in public stocks to make insider trading worth the risk of the repercussions of being caught doing so.
How do you do stun, turn and signalling?
The game has gone worse since the original developers left. More and more bugs that ruins game-play. I guess the game still sells good though.
I hope it's Antifa (a terrorist organization), and not regular kids that go out and beat up old ladies.
The most important piece of equipment to improve is between your ears.

Take lots and lots of photos with your phone. Get a gorillapod tripod for it. Get down on your knees - people mostly look best when the camera is at chest height. Kids look best from the floor. A lot of other things look better from these angles, too.

Look at your photos a lot. And them some more.

Start to see your preferences--the kinds of photos you like taking, and things in your photos that you want to fix. Youtube is a fantastic resource if you want to get better.

After six months or a year of this, you'll have an idea of what you want out of lenses (and therefore a camera).

Buying a camera before doing this is wasting money -- but hey, it keeps the manufacturers in business. :-)
Exactly this. Is there going to be recourse when pension or retirement funds are lost? Nope!
They know it's destructive and harms people and they do it anyway: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270659/facebook-divisio...

Barry Schnitt, former spokesperson for facebook:

Unfortunately, I do not think it is a coincidence that the choices Facebook makes are the ones that allow the most content — the fuel for the Facebook engine — to remain in the system. I do not think it is a coincidence that Facebook’s choices align with the ones that require the least amount of resources, and the choices that outsource important aspects to third parties. I do not think it is a coincidence that Facebook’s choices appease those in power who have made misinformation, blatant racism, and inciting violence part of their platform. Facebook says, and may even believe, that it is on the side of free speech. In fact, it has put itself on the side of profit and cowardice.

https://onezero.medium.com/dear-facebook-employees-7d01761e5...
Unfortunately, I don't think this comment should be voted down. I suspect it's exactly the orders police are given when the order to disperse a crowd/protest is given.
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Thanks! Yeah, so that seems potentially distasteful (and maybe with bad optics for the executive) but I just don't see what's illegal about it.
> When does one decide to give people second-chances?

I don't think anyone is denying them a second chance but merely suggesting they probably aren't the safest option to invest your money in due to the immense amount of fraud they got up to.

Fool me once, shame on you...
Why do you prefer Windows 98 over XP?
Well Zemmelweis has also been pushing unproven medical procedures. He turned out to be right. Without him we would have already been dead.
I think Australia offers a better life for the average person than the U.S but that's just my opinion (though I've never been there). At the same time it's so far from anywhere else, if you're Indian or Bulgarian you better stick to Europe if you want to keep in touch with your family and friends.

As for North Europe: I think it's several factors keeping people moving there en masse, the language + familiar culture are very important for immigrants.
It's just harder to fit in in a place like Sweden when you don't know the language or the local culture. Even if you never set foot in the U.S you know it. You know Trump, Thanks Giving, 4th of July, New York City etc etc. It may be really superficial knowledge and isn't really gonna help you to make friends there, but it's a big part of why people still want to move there.
It was the days where people owned their own software and DRM had not made it's way into games, since the internet has enabled PC game theft on a massive scale, by valve, ea and activision.

OS/2 was an alternative Operating system oriented towards businesses that could run apps from different operating systems under one unified framework.
Meh. All information is ephemeral. We'll all die at some point, and until then, grep & find will work just fine.
Thermal power requires a reservoir of cold temperature; your car's engine would do nothing if the incoming air was just as hot as the post-ignited air.
Apparently, they own 69.4% of the wealth as well, so it would seem to be proportional.

That number feels wrong, given it's exactly the same as the tax one, but I couldn't find another source.
https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/19635/wealth-distribution...
One of the most poignant comments on police militarization I've heard seems to have come from a television show.

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander Adams (Battlestar Galactica)

Obviously, this doesn't directly address the militarization of the police, but it should be easy to see how it can go both ways. Outfit the police as a military unit, and they'll start acting like one. How much surplus military equipment was sold to police since the Iraq war?
USB Video class allows the device to provide a list of formats supported, and the host to choose one. That seems suitable for the host to manage bandwidth across its USB links, even if other devices are also using bandwidth.
You can root your phone, but then you lose SafetyNet which means that things like banking apps, etc. won't work. For "normal" developer access there's adb which does have some special privileges (nowhere close to actual root, but better than nothing), but using it to change screen background settings would be quite clunky. Even using the adb shell to delete the file would run into restrictions on general storage access that newer Androids have.
People don’t think forwards and we’re hypocritical.

They’re all for censoring or not censoring if it aligns with their agenda. And they’ll do a 180 when it benefits them.

I believe the Gores’ dream of the PMRC may yet come to fruition for different reasons...
I partially agree with point 3 despite it also not being blanket true. Yes there are good, great, and amazing programmers everywhere. Yet there also does seem to be a positive correlation between pay and ability (gasp!), even between areas, from my personal experience. Sorry I know a lot of people get offended by that.

There are also different cultural aspects about software that change between countries. Growing up in the US and going to college after big tech was already ascendant, probably the main reason I went into technology is that it seemed the best way for me to make a money (esp. given quality of life, eg not having to do the IB grind). Anecdotally a very large portion of the career/money oriented people I knew growing up and in college also went into the technology industry. I assume the same is true in some countries like China and India and less true in countries like Spain. You can see cultural differences regarding how well-regarded being a software engineer is in Western Europe vs. other countries in titles, how software companies are run (eg by former engineers or “business people”), pay, etc. If I had grown up in Spain and for some reason didn’t want to move to Switzerland/US I would probably not have gone into technology.

This also is evidence of/creates a feedback loop where pay->market rate->interest->talent->pay causes regional software markets to diverge.

By all means though, if you think you can get the same work done in another country for less money, do so. I think you’ll find that the $20 you’re picking up off the ground actually comes with a high interest rate. But you won’t believe me until you try it yourself
Shodan is very expensive to get do anything useful with. How do people manage? Some searches are restricted to enterprise users, paying is not enough. There is a chinese alternative I haven't tried much called zoomeye: https://www.zoomeye.org/
TIL Echo Look existed. If--like me--you were wondering if they introduced and discontinued the product in the last two weeks, it's actually been around since 2017. How Googley.

Off to the landfill with ye!
It's called virtue signaling. Also, it's ironic that on the internet, a place conceived to be free from censorship, you're advocating censorship. Ideas should always live and die on their own merit, not because someone else has deemed them seditious.
> I lost the ability to have my text messages read to me, or to respond by dictating them

Out of curiosity, which Tesla? Because iirc there was a firmware update pushed out closer to the end of last year, which added that functionality (both having texts read and being able to respond by dictating), and I thought it went out for all Tesla cars.

The only reason I asked about the specific model you drive is because I know that some older Model S and X cars receive slightly different versions of firmware updates than newer ones like Model 3, but afaik the differences are usually related to autopilot/FSD features, not to UX features like this.
Thank you for posting this. I read it a few years ago, loved it, and then was never able to retrieve it later on.
Incognito Mode states plainly that it DOES NOT prevent the website you are visiting from tracking you.

Another commenter said that this wording implies that it DOES prevent Google Analytics, since it is not part of the site.

My argument was that drawing a distinction between a "site" and modules that are part of that "site" but are from other parties is dubious.
The name does not inspire enough confidence for me to click on the link.
Given the current political climate, I'd like to make sure we're extra vigilant about keeping that content off HN. I've already deleted three accounts on other community sites. HN is my last refuge. I'm flagging it all.
Dyson is a con with a big marketing budget. I had their "revolutionary" cyclone nonsense for three years thinking I have a great vacuum, until my cleaner complained that literally everyone else had a decent vacuum cleaner and mine was useless. I bought a different one - it uses about a third of the energy, and usability and capability-wise it's on a different planet. And it's cheaper!

Not to mention the incredibly useless hand dryers in half of UK pubs.

Dyson is the perfect example of how if you strike the right(???) note with your marketing you can sell any crap at a premium price.
My L560 is seemingly supported through fwup -- provided the existing firmware is not too old:

fwupdmgr commands fail with:

Not compatible with firmware version 0.1.22, requires >= 0.1.42

And indeed history on fwupd.org goes back only to 0.1.43:

https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/com.lenovo.ThinkPadN1HET.firm...

Leaving a bootable ISO as apparently the only option. The snag being that the documentation refers only to Windows, and describes various Windows-UEFI interactions.

https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles/n1hur35w.txt

So, the $1500 question is, could there be some hidden risk of bricking the laptop, at least for Linux installations?
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My preference is to see political stories here only if they're related to technology or tech companies. That seems to be the line mods are straddling now, as far as I can tell.

For pure political stories, there are a million other places to discuss those, and honestly some really disturbing opinions (e.g. eugenics) come out of the woodwork here on those types of stories.
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Incognito Mode states plainly that it DOES NOT prevent the website you are visiting from tracking you.

Another commenter said that this wording implies that it DOES prevent Google Analytics, since it is not part of the site.

My argument was that drawing a distinction between a "site" and modules that are part of that "site" but are from other parties is dubious (also, likely impossible).
My approach is very similar, except the folder is called "Inception".

Sometimes I like to walk the Inception tree and reminisce.

I don't know when or how it became a tree, but over the years a few "Inception_", "Inception2", and "zzzInception"s managed to sneak in.
There are a few products I want to keep up on without actually having to go follow up on them. There are a few newsletters I enjoy that are things like "thoughts of the day" type things. A few that are technology based and either point to updates in, say, AWS or similar. It is not too unlike an RSS feed.
How much do we need the police?
im curious about why this happened
Hi feross! I presume this uses simple peer? We’re using simple peer in our app (currently on the front page as well). Thanks so much for your work!
Huh, my 1st computer hat 640KB of RAM (does it count as a computer?), the 3rd one had either 4 or 8 MB. My current one has 16GB, so you're right, that is actually 2048 (or 4096) times more...
That table is why I posted the question.

It’s unclear if that’s the list of supported cameras or if it’s a list of cameras and only those with entries in the next two columns are supported.

Either way I can’t wait to get home and mess with it.
I disagree. Most people will read that as saying the changes he made were inconsequential (in other words the changes "basically amounted to nothing").

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/amount+to+nothing

If you meant inadequate (weren't enough), rather than inconsequential (had little to no effect) you could have said it.

Edit: That's not to mention that you twice doubled down on the idea he "did nothing" in other comments.
An arrest doesn't need to be violent for it to be a bad act. At that point they were surrounded and would have had to push through the police to "disperse." They repeatedly asked police officers where they should go and were met with silence, so it's not clear where they were supposed to disperse to. They were arrested without the police saying a word as to why they were arresting them.

That screams of "I'm trying to figure out a way to arrest you, but I can't think of a reason. I'm going to do it anyway." Police should not be arresting journalists (or citizens!) for no reason. Being released quickly doesn't suddenly make the original act okay. It just makes it so it doesn't get worse.
No it is not stable. A week ago, death per 1M was below Ireland. Now it is above France (!). Ireland's rate barely changed.
The situation is far more nuanced. If you said instead "The government can be a tool used to suppress competition," I think most would agree with you.

The distinction is that there are plenty of other tools companies can use to suppress competition, and Government also can be used as a tool to encourage competition.

A strict black and white view point that more government = less competition is absurd.
This is the reason we need a less globalized world where dangerous regimes like the United States can't claim most of the world's commerce through imperialism then turn around and gatekeep because "its theirs"
His second chance is to put groceries on the shelves under close supervision, if he can do it long enough without incident, he can be trained to be a cashier. But in a management position? I'd need 15 years of employment without incident.
It depends. Why did you rob the grocery store?

You were hungry?

Your family was hungry?

Your city water supply was toxic enough to impair your mental development?

You fell under some bad influences at an impressionable age?

Now, what are some possible motivations for Jeffrey Skilling's actions at Enron?

Let's list a few, you go first.
not everyone is terrified of social interaction