skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree with them here, but the thing that always gets me is how many people will support these same actions if, instead of being done by the elected government, they're done by unelected internet companies that hold monopoly power.

I get why that may be more of a problem legally, but not why so many people agree with it morally, because they come from people not otherwise inclined to agree with the proposition that a monpolist's business decisions are somehow above scrutiny.
I wish there was a giant, global social network protocol. Open and distributed that connected all of us. Email, but more modern to capture the kind of stuff that Reddit and Twitter are great at. Photos, videos, discussion.

I then wish we could overlay filtering to keep out the high-noise drivel and advertising. Probably using social graph metadata.

I'd like to have an anonymous or pseudonymous presence, the ability to cryptographically sign my posts, and automatically elevate the score of individuals along my interest graph. This should "just work" and be invisible to the average user. It shouldn't seem like geeky technology.

I know that this is probably a terrible thing to bring into the world given all the conspiracy theory groups (it keeps them in their filter bubble), but I'm dying to have something that removes marketing and spam and only brings me high quality content.

Marketing and spam are still the biggest problems on the Internet.
> In total, after their fraudulent reinstatement, the products and merchants earned in excess of $100 million in sales revenue.

Woah. Was not expecting it to be that big.

> More specifically, the Indictment alleges that the defendants served as consultants to so-called third-party (“3P”) sellers on the Amazon Marketplace.

Most companies have their employees sign onboarding documents or do an annual "business conduct" policy review. Any thoughts on a better way to manage something like this at scale? On one hand, I have a bad taste in my mouth from past employment situations that dictate "we own every though that enters your mind 24/7" - but consulting regarding your current employer, yikes.

I guess ethics aren't boolean to some.
Mayflower 400: the science of sailing across the ocean in 1620
"Intel Bulldozer" more like it.
Oracle seems to be getting a sweetheart deal from the government here, and Larry Ellison has donated substantial amounts to Trump's campaign.

Maybe that's not outright corruption, but it would raise eyebrows in any Western democracy.
ActivityPub exists.
I recently used paypal to send a dollar to a coworker with the description of “tardigrade”, after reading a story on HN about how they were blocking transactions containing that string.

Sure enough, the transaction was blocked, my account was disabled, and I had to send paypal an email saying that I wasn’t an arms dealer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24450828
No doubt, RPi has been a boon to the world and the popularity speaks for itself.
I actually tried this and it turned out to be quite a bit more complicated than predicted, due to clocks on the pis being slightly different

"I'll just sling udp multicast of the PCM samples around the network, can't be that hard right?"

ended up using MPD with pulseaudio over TCP, and they get out of sync after a few minutes, but good enough
It’s a photo of Lena.

“Lenna or Lena is the name given to a standard test image widely used in the field of image processing since 1973. It is a picture of the Swedish model Lena Forsén, shot by photographer Dwight Hooker, cropped from the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

See also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8707093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19181257

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15670650
I work for Amazon and have had people reach out to me about doing this with a large price tag attached to it.
You mean TSMC, under pressure from Intel and the US Govt as part of the Secure Foundries effort, is taking the threat seriously.
There is of course no clause of the constitution that forbids secession but SCOTUS currently interprets the constitution as creating an "indestructible union" if I recall the language correctly.

And good luck finding a good vehicle to overturn that precedent.

The TEU at least provides an explicit process for leaving
Malware authors like nice APIs, just like devs do. They love when it's really nice and simple to just push some data to a storage service.
100%. Its especially the arbitrary/selective enforcement.

Ive had it happen... even when we could demonstrate other apps doing the same and getting updates pushed through.
The entire world gains if the CCP collapse. If we weren’t willing to make sacrifices then Nazi Germany would likely be the world’s superpower today.

I personally think it’s better to make financial sacrifices now and try to isolate China from the rest of the world, instead of waiting for them to do to Taiwan, Laos, Thailand, Japan, etc. as they have done to Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, etc.
How three Dutch hackers gained access to Donald Trump’s Twitter account
This paper is surprisingly accessibly written given the complexities involved and depth of expertise of the author, DJB, who has made great contributions to many fields.

Unfortunately nearly all decision making processes are vulnerable to this kind of attack: processes are never clear, selection criteria always up for debate, and generally people pick a special option to present preferentially.

This generally just leads to suboptimal decision making - we're lucky to have DJB's focus here to improve this one.
This is normal now.

Most of the cracking groups have given up, because of Denuvo, they just crack small releases, the few people that were actually cracking Denuvo were not even the big scene groups, most likely individuals with certain skills, but at lot of them just disappeared as it became too hard/took too long to make it worth the time.
Is it weird that I was doing that as I read your comment?
Cars have less built in switching costs than phones. You can only have one phone at a time and there is an entire ecosystem of services and apps are carried forward when you buy a new one.

A better metaphor might be renting a home. Imagine if you could only fill it with furniture and appliances that have been approved, and you can only park certain types of cars in the garage. You could always move, but then you have to buy new everything.
The only notifications I use on my computer are meeting reminders, otherwise I would forget 90% of them!
You mention the number of employees and the complexity of the software. Neither matters for the valuation. Maybe it should, but it's not what the market cares about at this stage of the company.

The $50B is for the 100M users MAUs, 50M of which are active daily[1]. They have a billion downloads as well.

As a comparison, Facebook paid $1B for 30-40M signups on Instagram2[2][3]. Their MAUs and DAUs at the time would've been a small fraction of that.

So if we consider TikTok's downloads to be equivalent to Instagram's signups, the valuation isn't crazy at all (especially since TikTok has revenue).

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/24/tiktok-reveals-us-global-use...

2. https://www.vox.com/2017/4/9/15235940/facebook-instagram-acq...

3. https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/13/instagrams-user-count-now-...
How do you moderate marketing and spam without also 'accidentally' censoring controversial views on an open platform?
You should try strip away the current Denevuo, that is the big challenge, current versions nobody seems able to crack for some time.
Please have her ask her doctor to get an ultra sound for blood clots!! First of all, that’s really common in very active people who stop being active suddenly and it seems to be even more common for Covid patients.
Also, I am not a physician - I just have some personal experience with blood clots. Hope she recovers!
Once again, a reminder that for more than a decade, we've been living in a djb monoculture. I fear the day djb is retired (or compromised .... hopefully that hasn't yet happened).
"We're susceptible to process attacks" plus "pointing it out might be an attack on the process" is much much better than not being aware of attacks on the process.

Supposing this is DJB attacking the process, well, the other participants can simply find the fly in his ointment, point it out, and stop the attack. It's hard to argue that DJB's paper doesn't represent progress then since we can both, reason about its claims and reason about it being an instance of an attack on the process, whereas prior to this we weren't seriously considering attacks on the process at all.
And what is blocking it's wide adoption? If it's so great, why can't I use it to get my mom off that damn facebook?
> It was. Now it's a cesspool.

All of it?

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians for example.
I'm not sure what you mean.

> Almost every web app.

No? My point is exactly that almost every web app is not io bound. They're just... slow. They write bad queries, they make bad usage of resources and block on requests, etc.

> Even WhatsApp scale runs on a “slow” dynamic language.

But that has nothing to do with being IO bound. Whatsapp, via Erlang, works by having tons of connections on a single box. And you can watch plenty of talks by them about how they've had to work with BEAM to get Erlang to actually be IO bound.

"IO bound" is a meme. Most people just mean "my queries are slow". Unless you're saturating your NIC, you're not io bound with regards to throughput, and unless your queries execute in ~<100ns you probably aren't IO bound on latency either.
Isn't AWS moving from Xen to KVM (actually I see my instances run on KVM), how does it factor here (KVM not even mentioned)?
The Harmony remote without the display works better, lasts longer, and is more durable and resistant to obsolescence than the ones with the display and touchscreen. Buttons last a long time. I bought one for the living room 15 years ago when Amazon had a special on it with the Harmony hub, and it's been working flawlessly ever since. The battery life on the thing is incredible: The CR2032 has only been replaced once in that time!
The Mystery of Tom Pritchard’s Bike
You’d subscribe to viewing sites that implemented the view protocols / spam fighting you wanted.
Because your mom, like many people, probably trusts corporations more than random service hosts. Plus her social circle is already on Facebook, network effects.
I used TreeStyleTabs for a few years. But then, one day, I accidentally closed it -- and the browser was running so much faster I can't stand TST anymore.
I doubt that realistically it would make any difference.

There being open source alternative apps to consume a service means exactly nothing to the officials pushing for this ban.

The action seems to be politically motivated, and technical details like "the protocol is open" are not going to be understood by politicians.
I find the majority of responses to these published findings to be fascinating. It's like when we learned in the past few years that humans only have a finite capacity for willpower within a given (short) timeframe. The near universal reaction among my intelligent friends was something like, "Well, I'm sure that's true for all those OTHER people..."

Disclosure: My smartphone (currently) remains by my side. But this has got me thinking about the dilemma.
I can't imagine having to sysadmin a bunch of raspberry pis in a serious "production" setting with all the reliability problems they have, that would be godawful, you'd go through a brace of SD cards every month
Muddy Waters got a report on GSX too.
are you certain the STL stage had the error?

In the 3dp discords i'm a part of it seems that i'm continually reminding everyone that slicer features are usually the culprit. Features like 'detect thin walls', 'ensure vertical thickness' and 'extra perimeters if needed' can and will very quickly ruin a print where the STL is error-free.

That said, one can accomodate these features by modifying the STL so that the slicer transformation occurs in such a way that allows a usable product, but as far as where the error is introduced, 9 times out of 10 it's the slicer.

What should happen is that the slicer should err out to the user when the shape of the end product is predicted to be radically different than the request, but I haven't ran into such features yet. Most slicers just happily try to print stuff that is physically impossible to do, and might be radically different than the shape of the STL -- usually resulting in a plate of spaghetti if you're using an FDM machine.
> That's great but vine had and still has a great brand

Gen Z doesn't even know what vine is. That's the majority of tiktok users. Reels and TikTok already have the brand. Relaunching vine would be dumb. Only millennials would care and it would just be the millennials that used it before, not new users.
>Both the US (and its allies) and the Soviet Union (and its satellites) made extensive use of shortwave radio

Spot the bias.
I wouldn't write ActivityPub off as a failure. It has a healthy developer ecosystem and is doing fine so far in its adoption.
Sorry to hear that. I dont know what the contract says, but I would be inclined to lawyer up and tell them to get stuffed RE the repayments.
What's the full text tab search addon you use? And doesn't it conflict with the automatic tab suspend?
I know because castling developed from the King's Leap [0] which came about as the game evolved to faster more exciting play. By allowing the Queen and Bishops to move an arbitrary number of spaces various mechanisms were tried for protecting the King revolving around moving multiple spaces or jumping pieces. A common sequence became to move one's Rook adjacent to one's King, then using the next move to "jump" the King to safety. This eventually became formalized as modern castling and can be seen by noticing how the pieces move when castling kingside vs queenside.

[0] http://history.chess.free.fr/mediaeval-chess.htm
Isn’t the correct solution to replace '<' and '>' with '&lt;' and '&gt;'?
Survivor of CIA Torture and Rendition Supports Assange at Extradition Trial
Kind of OT but the links to articles mostly work, and I stumbled onto this ArsTechnica article postulating about rumors of an upcoming iPhone release:
https://web.archive.org/web/20061201011009/http://reddit.com...

The comments below are well worth a read. Here's a sample:

"...yaaawn...

it's going to take a REALLY impressive phone for anyone to give a damn at this point.

and as far as that pug-fugly blue & green mockup goes, if that's the phone (and it's not, where are the numbers? ive would not let something that ugly be associated w/ apple) it would be a disaster."
Tried the grayscale thing for a couple months. I primarily consume text on the internet, so it didn't do anything for me.
Why are you defending the status quo?
Marketing. They have zero budget when compared to Facebook.
And a flame war, aka lot of comments compared to votes on HN, result in less time on the front page. So there is not the biggest benefit to oversell.
I guess they could include it in the anti-malware checks they run but I've never seen or heard that remove apps before.

Wouldn't surprise me if it could though.

The best option would be AOSP without google bits included.
Such as China (see: Facebook, Youtube and Instagram).
> Fortnite use is down. iOS downloads are waaaay up.

Maybe you're not aware, but 80% of Fortnite players are on consoles.

https://newzoo.com/insights/articles/newzoos-battle-royale-s...
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

The FTC itself says that there are situations that a company with significant market power can be forced to deal with other companies in certain situations.

> very specifically applies to companies with monopoly power only

Monopoly power, according to FTC, is defined as significant market power. So not a literal monopoly.

The FTC defines that here:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

"Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct"

> nly when done by a firm creating or maintaining a monopoly power.

This supports my point. The FTC is agreeing with me here, by saying that the government can force companies to deal with others, if it relates to their anti-competitive behavior, and they have signficant market power.

Read up on what the FTC means, when it is talking about this. It is talking about significant market power.
I kind of agree with you. I am still impressed with his commitment to donate his wealth to charity. Facebook may not have started with the best of intentions, or with complete integrity - but that doesn't equal the scale of evil (i.e actual genocide) that Facebook is now responsible for. He just made the same mistake a lot of us also would have made: underestimating humanity's capacity for evil.

That being said, at some point it seems clear that FB internally recognized that FB was being used to support violent authoritarian politics - and the Zuckerberg/Sandberg/Kaplan crowd should be held responsible for that. It is shocking to me how badly they seemed to have acted (and are continuing to act) in response to bad faith political actors, and how much they have torched their own reputation as a result.
Awesome. I did the same while learning both Golang and git, and implemented parts of git in Golang. [0]

[0] https://github.com/ssrathi/gogit
Deconstructing the Monolith (2019)
They can issue the order, the question is how diligently would the order be fulfilled. Check file name? Check hash? Do a heuristic analysis a la antivirus? Filter network traffic for app signatures on to of this?
On the off chance that this isn't concern trolling: https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf

p. 38 and beyond. Also check out the table of contents; it will point you to other technical specifics.
The article says 10 employees and contractors accepted the bribes but this seems to be focused on those paying. I hope they also go after those accepting the bribes.
The researcher apparently joined Snap after the paper was published.

A paper like this would look pretty good on your resume if you're applying to a social media company.
Read the DOJ filing, linked in a comment below. The auditor physically sent a person on site whose job was to watch the financial people log into the banks web interface, verify the balance, and print bank statements for the last 12 months, all in front of the auditor. The passage doesn’t make it clear why the auditor didn’t watch the ceo pull the records for the accounts receivables account

Update: filing Is here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1317641...

Relevant Passage:
“As part of its due diligence process, the Audit Firm had an employee (the “Auditor”) conduct a physical site visit at NS8’s offices in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Auditor was directed by a more senior Audit Firm employee to have someone from NS8 log in to the online portal for each NS8 bank account, display the current account balance, and download monthly bank statements for fiscal year 2019.”

“Based on my interview with a member of the NS8 finance department (“Finance Employee-1”), I have learned, among other things, that on or about March 11, 2020, Finance Employee-1 and ROGAS met with the Auditor in ROGAS’s office. The purpose of that meeting was for ROGAS and Finance Employee-1 each to log into the online portals for the bank accounts to which they had access (for ROGAS, the Revenue Bank Account) and download monthly account statements for the Auditor. During that meeting, Finance Employee- 1 logged into the online portal for the Expense Bank Account -- to which Finance Employee-1 had access -- and downloaded monthly account statements. Finance Employee-1 understood that ROGAS was doing the same for the Revenue Bank Account during the meeting”
Yeah, escaping entities when rendering, using prepared statements in the database. It's not rocket science.
And whose fault is it that "all other similar apps are banned in China"?

Given that context, without overwhelming evidence that there's absolutely no connection between the Chinese government and WeChat, this is fair play, and the only valid arguments against this move are tactical rather than legal.
This is legalism, if you have enough money, certain laws don't apply.
EROI of renewables is just fine, and getting even better. Attempts to argue it's not have been thoroughly debunked.

About land area: you said this "I'm making the claim because it is painfully obvious that unless you're making calculations about spherical cows there's nowhere near enough resources, surface, and specifically predictability to have renewables be more than marginal for a long time." If land area (which I assume is what you meant by "surface" there) isn't a showstopper, why did you list it? But thanks for admitting now that it isn't a showstopper. I consider the point conceded and that part of your claim retracted.

> Ad hominem

Argument from authority can be met by impeaching the credibility of the authority.

> So you ignore the IPCC reports?

Show me in the IPCC report where it supports your claim "it is painfully obvious that unless you're making calculations about spherical cows there's nowhere near enough resources, surface, and specifically predictability to have renewables be more than marginal for a long time." I'll wait.
Original reddit shows me 12 threads "above the fold" (without scrolling). Current old.reddit shows me 8. New reddit shows me 3. The extra space is taken up by useless garbage like "give award", "share", and "save", operations that I'm not going to want until I've actually clicked through to the thread. I don't see how that's progress.
There is definitely some find-and-replace code. After you click the submission button, the title is immediately "corrected" (submitters can manually edit the title back later), with good intention - anti-clickbait. It basically does three things: remove superfluous words, remove superfluous caps, and properly capitalize the title. Most of the time it works well, but annoying when there's a false-positive.

Examples I've seen so far (note that it's not always triggered, there must be some "if" conditions here. It's not always reproducible).

* All lower-case titles are capitalized.

Generally good, but not always enforced, it's strange.

* Unnecessary caps are removed.

Many false positives. "MIT CSAIL" becomes "MIT Csail", DARPA becomes "Drapa", etc.

* "%d Ways To Do X" and "How To Do X" becomes "Do X", per Guideline.

It misfired when I tried to submit "20 °C – A Short History of the Standard Temperature for Dimensional Measurements" by NIST. The "20" was removed and I had to edit it back!

A submission of "How we threat model" by GitHub became "We threat model", makes the already-short title unreadable.

* Clickbait words are removed.

Generally good. But false positives exist. For example, "Massive Parallel" is a legitimate concepts in computing, but the word "massive" will be removed. I just tried "Massive MIMO", which is similarly a legitimate concept in communication, got removed as well.

Try submitting this paper "Pilot Optimization and Channel Estimation for Multiuser Massive MIMO Systems" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0045), you'll see that the word "massive" is deleted immediately after submission (but as I said, the reformatter is not always triggered and not always reproducible, perhaps your high karma will stop the filter from doing it).

* "Your Statement is 100% correct" becomes "Statement is 100% correct".

This is a good one, the unnecessary personal element is removed.
It's not about what the app does, it's about the eyeballs looking at it.
I heard in the beginning most of the posts were posted by the admins. They had a box where they could just type in a new username for each post, to make it look like people were using the site.
1. NextCloud supports Calendar and Contacts sync if you are comfortable going down that route.

2. They're just bluetooth ear buds, they work with every phone that supports bluetooth.
You actually can, there's a desktop version.