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> Obama is the only president in recent memory not actively involved in some scandalous behavior.

Uhhhhh... Not involved in scandalous behavior that you knew of, perhaps. Fast&Furious [0] would have been a major scandal in a Republican administration (despite the fact that it was started by a previous president), and the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki [1] was a massive step in the erosion of civil liberties in the US. These are just off the top of my head, I'm sure that there are others.

Not to say that Obama was a bad president, but "no scandals I've heard of" and "no scandals" aren't quite the same thing.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal#2009%E2...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
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Love the downvotes for this. Anyone who thinks for a second that Twitter and FB have some kind of set of principles that this story and only this story have crossed is deluded.
One of those tweets has has reply debunking it.

The other makes a specious claim about implied claims of timestamps that no one made.
Oh I'm sorry, do you work out the logistics of managing an energy company? Do you know the base costs and how hard it is to tell your board, investors, and petition local, state, and the federal government to employ these mechanisms? What about the NIMBY's you forgot to account for? How about the expertise to manage these things?

Leftists always act like green power is "super easy" and "it just works." Green energy is a time and money pit. Also while we do have batteries, how do you expect an energy company to store terawatts of power? That is far from cheap as well as hardly feasible.

Green energy is the goal. But this isn't goddamn star trek yet. We're far from even being capable of having it replace half of our supplies of power.
No, that's not it; it's because anti-abuse is a cat-and-mouse game, so while you can discuss it (in an appropriate setting like a junky meta thread you didn't start), you can't expect HN to be forthcoming with details, because those details lower costs for abusers, and maximizing costs is the whole ballgame.

Kibitzing HN moderation itself is one of our oldest pastimes.
So sick of "but that's less profitable"... these companies should exist to serve their customers, not shareholders
I have no particular reason to believe Eich would have done better than his replacement. The marketplace has not been kind to mozilla's entire business model.
Linux/KDE are doing a good job, I've been using them as a daily desktop driver for years.

For something more original there is Redox: https://www.redox-os.org
As a high school teacher, this is my issue too. Often, athletics takes priority over academics, with our high school basketball and football teams being required to take a class during school with their coach that basically amounts to extra practice. And this instead of being free to pursue whatever elective they want; it's frustrating as hell. Not to mention that according to the HSAA of my state, they can literally be failing three classes and still play. Which is just utter bullshit! And that's on top of the fact that sometimes the players don't get home until after 10 on a weeknight, and then still have homework, or have to wake up early the next morning and such on top of all that.

Not to mention that schools rushed kids back into classrooms this year partially to help justify them keeping their sports programs running, which just turns me off all the more from (school) sports.
Thanks. How many filters are there in total? We could still have an extension that splits lists up into 30k chunks.

I’ll gladly install 10-20 extensions if I have to, along with a master extension that handles cosmetic filtering.
Is it? A quick look at the Mastodon / Twitter links at the bottom of the article should make it clear the author is (rightfully) proud of his butt. I suppose that won't prevent the rest of HN from getting offended, so maybe it's somewhat inappropriate. But not wholly.
I hate companies pushing narratives like this - but if I had a startup and really needed cash I could see why some people would leverage their list of contacts for some cash from a desperate political campaign. Ethically I would never do this, but there are always people who stoop lower or think their politics are "above" that of their customer's.
Sounds like you had a bad Aikido instructor.
> It was hyperbole, but the point still stands. 3000 kids, not everyone is making the soccer team.

The national “top 100” lists of biggest high schools start in the low 3,000s; that's not typical, suburban or otherwise, either.
Why should that matter, given that was more than 200 years ago?

>In 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought the Post for US$30.5 million. [...] The Post has been criticized since the beginning of Murdoch's ownership for sensationalism, blatant advocacy, and conservative bias.
> Workplaces are a neutral environment

Political neutrality is a cultural attribute diametrically opposed to "change the world" narratives and "eat your meals at the office" work-life balances. A lot of company cultures are politically neutral. Google isn't.

That said, a company controlling what their employees say in public about matters of strategic commercial importance doesn't strike me as politically pointed. It's a business acting like a business.
Sorry, but TPM is extremely partisan and must be recused as a source in this discussion.
I think that one of the primary reasons things have stalled is the fear we all carry around because we don't have any decent operating systems. With MS-DOS you could copy the OS disk, write protect it... load up any random piece of shareware and just try it out. There was zero chance it would toast anything, and you might find a gem.

We don't click on links that go to web sites we don't trust. We don't open email attachments, we're paranoid... because our operating systems weren't designed for the age of the internet.
> I think there was likely not much thought put into the number of early voting locations. It's always been viewed as a low-budget, customer-friendly alternative to voting on election day. That probably should have been re-evaluated given the pandemic and the likelihood of greater numbers of early voters

This part of your earlier comment makes it seem like you are arguing that the early voting issues are simply logistical issues because they didn't "re-evaluate" their process for the pandemic.

I am pointing out evidence that these problems aren't from a lack of planning, but from active suppression.

If you look at any particular incident (like the long lines for early voting in this case), you can think of a lot of innocent reasons it might be happening. When you see the pattern, and you see clear and active suppression, you can't just say "well, all of these other incidents are just poor planning"
I'm not sure what you're implying, Buzzfeed News is independent from Buzzfeed (the clickbait site) and they do real journalism.
That's right, the marketing site and blog were built using a custom Shopify theme.

For sure, this app is geared more towards dev teams and startups instead of formal workplaces, where having fun on Slack is tolerated :D
Original action being discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24780798
The post was nuked from the platform based on a policy prohibiting "spreading of hacked material", when Twitter has zero proof the material was sourced via a hack.

If they have proof, why haven't they provided it?

The majority of sources for the Washington Post and New York Times are leaking classified or privileged information without authorization, most of the time illegally. If they were caught, they'd be in jail.

How is this different?
My primary concern is about whether the information I'm looking at is factual or not.

If Russia had proof of corruption on the candidate they did not excessively favor then I would be interested. When historic propagandists have "proof" I need corroboration otherwise I'm being controlled by the propaganda as it was intended.

Remember Benghazi? How confident everyone was, for years? Nothing came from it because nothing was there. The people that were talking about Benghazi were only people that benefited from it politically. Remember Al Franken? Remember when people that didn't benefit from it politically agreed he should step down after his behavior?
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Good for Twitter for doing the right thing
The Gameboy did not use the Z80. Gameboy CPU was derived from the 8080 with a smattering of Z80 instructions (very few in the big picture). However, the Sega Master System was a full on Z80.
They are a private company and are under no obligation to be fair or unbiased, the same way the NY Post has no obligation (and isn't) fair or unbiased.

Given that the administration has no qualms about using the DOJ to persecute tech companies in a politically motivated manner, I see no reason why Twitter and Facebook can't play dirty and fight back using underhanded means.
Also, for basically it's entire existence Google has been a political organization. It had a firm stance on gay marriage long before Obergefell v. Hodges set it as the law of the land.

The search engine wouldn't have had a special rainbow stripe at the top for certain search terms if the company wasn't deeply political on the subject.
IoT startup launches, with funding, to monitor, predict industrial failures
From time to time I consider paying for their pro plan but haven’t pulled the trigger yet because of the infrequency of downtime on my sites vs. the monthly cost.

You could build a bare bones version of uptime robot with minute interval checks and charge maybe $36/year for fifty checks and I would start to consider it. But like with uptime robot I’m not sure!
Obama had his share of scandals (and I am not saying that to downplay the clusterfuck that is the Trump admin; Obama's pale in comparison, but they are still there), like IRS targeting of right wing orgs, Operation Fast and Furious, drone-ing (of US citizens), all the Snowden revelations, and "Obama's war on whistleblowers" (as The Guardian called it), for example.

Or other things like the "De-Ba'athification" policy in Iraq which most likely played a major role in the empowerment of ISIS (not really a scandal, more of a failed policy, but yet something that can be criticized).

Point being, there was a lot of things to rightfully criticize about the Obama admin, and therefore Obama himself ("the buck stops here").
Two organizations have these supposed emails, Fox and NYPost. They could mathematically prove their legitimacy by simply posting the entire raw messages, with headers. DKIM was active at the time these messages were supposedly sent, so if the signatures match up, authenticity is confirmed.

The fact that this hasn't been done is concerning, unless it's being sat on for future impact.. the "drip drip drip" method of political bombshell news isn't a new tactic. If we're still here in a week with nothing other than screenshots, we can probably write the messages off as frauds. I'm withholding my judgement for a few days.
The default mode is not E2EE. The same key is used by all participants and is distributed by Zoom's servers. In this mode, all features are available, including the ones that require a cloud service (like 1-800 number support).

If a meeting is set to E2EE, then a bunch of features are turned off and the keys come from the host* and are sent to the other attendees enveloped with their public keys. Zoom's infrastructure never sees the keys, only the encrypted content packets that are relayed to all the participants.
> I think Heroku is not alone in providing this level of ease, but that's what I've been using.

I do. At least for the vast majority of my experience, for webapps nothing comes close in terms of dev happiness.

You do have to give up that control and stay within the rails, though.
Hello! Thank you :)

(1) HCP Nomad is coming. We announced HCP Consul public beta and HCP Vault private beta today (on AWS, more clouds later). HCP Nomad is planned but not quite ready to talk about beyond that yet. That is "managed Nomad."

(2) Re: Heroku-like app platform. Watch tomorrow's keynote or catch up on our announcements tomorrow. It isn't this, but I think it'll give you an idea of the vision we're heading towards and that is relevant to this idea.
One could also remove the expected shadow values (and hues) depending on the color of the clothing and the color of the light, at least approximately.

Should work as long as there aren't complicated interactions of the material with light that hits it.
> This story breaks that mold in that it involves social media censoring private conversations via DM.

This isn't a new behaviour.

I've experienced it personally: Back in 2011, when I published the big archive of paywalled but copyright expired Jstor documents with attached manifesto facebook silently vanished any message containing a link to it or the title of it, even in private messages.

One reason you haven't heard more about this behaviour is because the fact of the matter is that its extremely effective.
Probably that it's been around so long, an entire generation of Netizens aren't aware of it. I genuinely had forgotten about it until this post, so it's a nice reminder.

Super helpful project, especially to see past surface-level ploys like some holiday "sales" where the discounted price is actually just the going price, and they put a fake crossed-out price near it.
I do have code I can show, but I do not want to reveal my GitHub username attached to my Hacker News account.

Thankfully you don’t have to rely on me - tons of name brand Python scientific tools use Cython for speedups.

Pandas, for example, uses Cython heavily. Here is an example tutorial that may help you,

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/enha...
ArsTechnica has a much better description of what is going on:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/facebook-twitter...
Public education in its present shape was created during XIX century industrialization with a purpose of freeing parents from having to take care of kids and go work in a factory, and producing next generation of obedient workers, that industrial economy needs.

For some reason despite most of western economies heavily de-industrialized, and economy shifted to more creative and free-spirited arrangements, we never reformed education system. Anyone that does not fit the "obedient worker" is penalized by the system, and for decades we are shown plenty of high impact "geniuses" who in their childhood struggled in schools.

Out of time to look for better sources: https://qz.com/1314814/universal-education-was-first-promote...
Operation RAFTER is one of the most important projects of this nature that actually worked. The Wikipedia page of both it and creator could use some love unfortunately (One day I'll get round to it)
Disappointed in this statement, it comes off as very fake. People are not upset that this event could have been communicated better, they're reasonably pissed that Twitter is very obviously filtering news on its platform for political purposes.

There is no evidence that the stuff in question was "hacked," and Twitter itself is becoming a disseminator of disinformation by stating so. But even if it were - they gave no such affordance to, for example, Trump's tax returns, which could have only been hacked/leaked/stolen to be released. That's a straight-up double standard.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357663/facebook-removed-...
Jack and Zuck have zero incentive to discourage anything that limits communication or discourages both sides from buying as many ads as possible.

I would go so far as to say that Trump could not have been elected without misinformation promoted on Facebook and Twitter and the net result has been a massive probably irreparable rift in our nation and will ultimately when the dust settled have aided in killing addition hundreds of thousands of people that didn't have to die.

An trivially manipulable echo chamber designed to magnify lies and hate is not a matter of minor import without clear real world consequences.

It's possible that they are apt to desire to do a little self regulation now in order to avoid a heavier hand doing it for them later. Is this a trend you see reversing soon?
Not to mention boys have lower grade averages across the country and women make up almost 60% of college students. You don’t have to be a men’s activist to recognize that if those trends were reversed such a disparity would receive a lot of attention with social pressure to recalibrate the learning environment.
The 15-year-old student I saw crippled for life by one HS football game probably didn't make his own 'decision' to take that risk.
Sitting smugly about having a car and a yard and an extra bedroom during the COVID pandemic.
I don’t want to crap of the author, though: 2016 was a different world than we have today. I hope that we can all reflect on how this mess we are in today is, at least in part, due to efficiency and optimizations in all aspects of humanity. And, I really hope that we can cut it out before we all kill ourselves.
Can someone explain why it even matters. I know HN isn't for politics but I don't understand why having dinner with your son's work friend is that big of a deal. Trump, who is the President (not VP), meets regularly with all sorts of people who spend money at his resort and other businesses and no one cares about that.
So real they get themselves into obvious lying situations: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/business/media/buzzfeed-n...

Buzzfeed News doesn’t have listicles, but it doesn’t have journalistic standards either.
James bumped up against the fact that regardless of what Google wants in terms of a free exchange of ideas internally, it's an American company and retaining staff under American employment law and the law of the state of California, among other states.

Once it became clear that what he said could be interpreted as creating a hostile work environment, the company's hands were basically tied on having to let him go. The alternative would have been much worse for the bottom line. And the subsequent lawsuits and dismissals have made it basically clear that he had no legal leg to stand on.
You realize that Google already "censors" spam emails by redirecting them to a different inbox right? No one seems to complain about that.
For christ's sake yes.

Russia, a known bad actor, who has been openly trying to destabilize America for years does not get the benefit of the doubt on literally anything.
Everything that Russia "has" should be outright considered purposeful disinformation until it is clearly and widely proven otherwise. They have lost all credibility to provide proof of anything. Particularly in an election year.
>not great

That's an interesting euphemism for "exploiting lack of competition to shamelessly interfere with an election."
The media never reported on any of his scandals because he never had any scandals because the media never reported on his scandals because....
So many scholars, lawyers, and employment commissions disagree with the assertion that everything Damore said was correct that I don't think it's even worth covering this ground again.
I've always wondered how CCC interfaced with Amazon. Are they using bots to scrape the site? Are they just coasting along until Amazon tries to shut them down, or is there some kind of agreement in place?
I'm not sure that the cat agrees with you.
I'm Popeye, and I approve this message.
A lot of leftists like to think they know about concepts we all would like to see. They get super upset though when you get down to the bean counting because they think we should revoke an economy for the sake of some greater cause.

We all want green power. However we also expect the lights to turn on when you hit the light switch. Every. Time. And at an affordable rate.

For some reason many leftists want this utopia of workers rights and high pay along with an equitable distribution of wealth but then forget many of their ideological polices if implemented would be idiosyncratic to each other.

Whats the point of having higher wages is proportionally the expenses you dole out are still the same as before? How do higher electricity costs because of green energy help the working class? Leftists treat their beliefs worse than a religion that it's sickening to hear more than actual christian garbage thrown around every now and then.
I do think it’s wholly inappropriate to comment on another person’s body parts in a public forum, when it is not the topic of discussion, even if that person appears to be proud of said body part. But I can see your take on it
Can you define what some of your acronyms mean? COW, DTRT, ORM. I think I know what an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) is, but not in the context you're using it.
they don't care, millions have been going to mitchell baker's pocket for the last decades
That was a completely different situation. The Wikileaks cables contain marked classified government information that is still considered classified by the US government. (I will not debate whether or not the basis for their classification is valid.)
AWS provides service to the USG, and having unsecured classified anywhere on their servers likely violates the terms of service (between the USG and AWS).

The leaked emails from Hunter Biden's computer were not classified. (Well, at least they weren't marked as classified by a USG entity.) The computer was not "hacked" to obtain the emails either. It was left unclaimed in a computer service shop.
Ask HN: Looking for post about SRE visiting another company, comparing practices
I'm looking for a blog post I read sometime within the past 6 months, if anyone could help.

In it, an SRE (I think from Netflix?) visits another company (I think Pinterest or Yelp?) for about a week or so, to just observe and learn from Company B's corresponding team. Company B also sent a similar representative to Company A.

The post is largely about comparisons/contrasts/learnings the SRE observed. At some point they make a statement that, if they had to choose only one, they would prefer having comprehensive dashboards reporting live prod statuses over extremely comprehensive testing.

I've tried every possible combination of Googling/ HN's search but couldn't find it--anybody happen to know where it is?
Does your Quaker Meeting pay for groups.io? Their website seems to say that the cheapest plan is $20/month, too much for my group to afford. Thanks.
should say something like "goes to some non-profit exec leeches"
Did they do the right thing? By engaging in the censorship of a large newspaper and at least one politician, the resulting streisand effect amplified the message far beyond what it would have gotten had they left it alone.

If the goal was to suppress disinformation, they failed miserably.
Japan in particular is completely unsurprising as Christianity features prominently in a lot of anime
Many moons ago in K-12 (80's-90's) in California public schools, I had really bad ADHD (undiagnosed until 35, often labeled "weird") with ASD, anxiety with stuttering, depression, and emotional disturbances. The schools basically put up with me because I was in a gifted program, though I must've been an annoying AF over-eager hand-raiser and a weird, nerdy kid.

My family wouldn't allow psychological or psychiatric intervention because they believed it was a conspiracy against children.

25 years later, I've tried the main classes of AD(H)D medications and cannot tolerate them even though I need them to function in society. (On benefits at present, looking to start a 3D printed custom parts business.)

Antidepressants: I wish there one that worked, but I've tried 14 of them; I'm looking at the dissociatives, psychedelics, TMS, medical implants, and surgical options.
Which would imply the story is true, but that won't stop HN white knights from claiming otherwise. Even after

> The Biden campaign did not dispute the veracity of the emails