skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have it removed so no other company can get to their scale? We have to always have a way to defer liability to the user who posted the content.

If a website is always responsible for whatever the users post you won't have much of a free internet anymore. However I think the issue with FB and Twitter is that they haven't had any repercussions for breaking the law in the first place.
It's common across all academia i.e. no engineering textbook is complete without 20 pages of raw, uncommented, single-letter variable-ed MATLAB vomited before the index.

I despise python, but MATLAB is positively satanic by comparison (from a software quality perspective at least)
So Wikileaks should have been suppressed?
My Dad, (85 years old), recently posted an idea about using flywheels to store electricity -- it would give him a real kick if he knew people from here were taking a look at it: http://aoi.com.au/devices/KPW/
Descriptivist linguistics sucks though. If people are using it to say "withdraw support" or "removed" that's what it means
The article you're talking about is https://www.npr.org/2020/06/21/880963592/vehicle-attacks-ris..., which is thoroughly sourced, including links to articles containing video of car drivers attacking protesters from this year. Try again.
That article had a lot of ads so I’m not sure if I actually got to the end when scrolling, but there really aren’t many direct quotes, just assertions by the reporter. To my eyes it looks like he is suffering from anxiety and confusion after this thing blew up. It’s unfair to blame him for anxiety. I have “crazy” worries sometimes too and being involved in a national scandal is probably enough to trigger that.
But the filesystem is still case-insensitive, which breaks a lot of build systems.
OK, but it was an odd omission, if we're discussing organizations that financially benefitted from football.
So they used a misleading photo in the header of an article and, when called out for it, immediately replaced it and acknowledged their mistake? Come on now. I wish other news sources showed this level of journalistic integrity.
Realistically if you don't want to manage hundreds of separate logins then what are your options? On the whole it still seems much easier to get reasonable behaviour and human involvement out of Facebook than out of Google.
I live in Northern Washington, USA and routinely get kicked over to Canadian versions of large websites, including Google and occasionally Amazon. So all of these are imperfect systems.

Your website appears to be recognizing me as from the US, which is correct. For whatever value that anecdote is worth to you.
That's no denial. That guideline specifically asks people to notify us so we can investigate. We do that every time anyone asks. I've personally spent hundreds (probably thousands) of hours investigating such things, have banned many accounts and sites for it, and have put tons of effort into writing code to combat it. We take it seriously. We just need some evidence. Surely you don't think we should lower the bar below that?

If you don't believe me, ask troydavis, who went to all the trouble of investigating the above case and writing the OP, whether we take evidence seriously and ban accounts and sites based on it. Or any of the countless other HN users who spot things and ask us to look into them. They're the ones who actually care enough about the community to help protect it.

The problem is that there's another side of the coin: most of the cheap insinuations of astroturfing, shilling, foreign-agenting, spying, botting, and all the rest of it—where by "most" I mean the vast majority—are pulled (begging your pardon) purely out of the insinuator's ass. Internet users just love to make this stuff up as a cheap way of throwing shade on whatever they dislike. That's the dross the guidelines ask HN users to keep out of the threads. This is important because gratuitously accusing others of dishonesty is a fast track to poisoning community, and it's 1000x easier to generate such accusations than it is to answer them.

> This is because these sites realize the exact opposite. That the percentage of this stuff is absolutely massive and they are terrified what will happen if the public finds out how common it is.

Here is something I can answer definitively—you're talking about what's going on in my mind and I think I can speak with some authority about that. No, that is not what's happening. What's happening is that I worry about the integrity of the community on two sides: protecting it from actual abuse and manipulation on the one hand, and protecting it from toxic fantasy bullshit on the other.
It’s funny cause the nypost is about to get sued out of existence.

Why was the pdf created in 2019? If the emails were supposedly found now and turned into a pdf for distribution.

It’s almost as if Rudy Giuliani is terrible at committing crimes like he’s been doing for the past 4 years.
This CNET article features a diagram of how the cat was wired up. Pretty crazy that 1960s surveillance tech would be miniature enough to go unnoticed inside a cat.

https://www.cnet.com/pictures/crazy-cia-spy-tech-from-the-50...

Also, I hope anyone looking for a band name is taking note of this project's name.
Thank you! CCC is great, and a guaranteed way to turn patience into savings.
> While one side of the cable was FireWire or USB, the interface on the device was propriety

The original iPod was FireWire-only. The 30-pin dock connector was developed to enable USB and FireWire connectivity as well as docking.
I did not know sops, thx for the pointer!
Literally all he did was monetarily support a cause ($3,100) in private.

Political donations are not private. They're a matter of public record (a point Eich himself has agreed with in interviews).
Democrats’ victory will be built on purple House seats, COVID blowback, and suburban women and seniors getting cold on Trump. That’s not going to last forever. The “demographic destiny” thing is looking increasingly dubious as Trump continues to outperform expectations among Latinos, even after, well, four years of Trump and COVID and everything. Meanwhile, there is no bench of strong moderates behind Biden. Republicans will be back in office sooner than folks think.
One of the main reasons I read hacker news is the comments. To me they make this site one of the great wonders of the Internet world. Would you mind linking to a few of them that you regard as non-human generated?
It's not only that. In the Social Dilemma they basically say Facebook/Youtube/etc promote disinformation because it increases engagement/money
In the grand scheme of things, the Pandora's box Twitter and Facebook might have opened today seems minute next to the Pandora’s box the Bush administration opened after the 9-11 attacks, the homeland security and all.

I think after the election we will have completely forgotten about this conduct while we still have to live with the spying on innocent people, non-sense travel restriction, and human-rights violating immigration system for years to come.

Making a scene of this decision just seems like stirring a storm inside a teacup, all the while we are experiencing a hurricane from the patriot act.
Do you consider it a risk, that Amazon one day can decide to turn the tap off?
Great site. Been using it since maybe close to inception.

I wonder how much $ you can make on affiliate links.
The NY Post story allegedly includes a picture of an FBI subpoena for the laptop in question.
The general idea is that for those that wish to bootstrap their business, and/or delay time before they take investment, they're odds of success increase significantly if they're able to show consistent progress, get support from peers and earn experimental or operational capital.

For example, our first winner plans to spend their funds as such:

"I'll be able to pay for the CI/CD pipeline for the next billing cycle, this lets me route the amount planned for that cost into the referral program which will, hopefully, help the platform acquire more users."

Essentially by choosing this project as their winner, the community has enabled the startup to cover some of their core operational costs so they can experiment with a new marketing/sales channels. This is exactly what we were hoping HackerStash could do :)

At face value 'points' can lead to distorted incentives, but we're working hard to ensure that altruistic behaviour is most rewarded. Second to altruism is evidencing clear progress in your own project, with some big features coming in the next few weeks to support that. In fact I'd say the later is our current weakness but not for lack of attention, just we've decided we'll learn and iterate faster with more eyeballs on the product, users in the contest etc.

Thanks so much for the feedback, also glad to hear you like the UI!
This is why I listen to audiobooks when trying to fall asleep. If I can't fall asleep, I'd rather someone read me a bedtime story than have my own thoughts bouncing around the inside of my head all night.
The Mozilla Foundation's 8 person board of directors seems to receive no salary, so your donation wouldn't pay for that.
I'd love someone smarter than me to do a back-of-the-napkin job on that. Are we talking a firecracker, a cherry bomb, a few kilos of TNT, or a MOBA?
What it feels like when you've found product-market fit – Issue 45
> why would they risk having the same thing happen again unless they're actually intending to do it right this time?

Why would they continue to claim their solution was E2E encrypted after already admitting it's not?

Zoom doesn't care about security. They care about marketing. And customers aren't willing to hold them to task for their BS.

I work for a US defense contractor who uses their infernal software - specifically for export restricted communication no less! Apparently it's very easy to get FedRAMP authorization[0].

Zoom has no reason to care about security because their customers clearly don't care. E2E encryption is just another marketing bullet for their website. There wont be another backlash because everyone who cares already abandoned the platform.

[0] https://marketplace.fedramp.gov/#!/product/zoom-for-governme...
> They set shortsighted tasks which leave no time to actually improve the software fundamentals

Does anyone have anecdotes to share where the software engineers were set free, and they bankrupted the company with irrelevant development?
I have figured it out why this move was done despite being stupidly obvious. It is done to provide cover for the next thing Section 230 repealed. Section 230 provides immunity for website publishers from third party content. By repealing section 230, big social media tech gets an even larger monopoly but that's not the reason why this happened. There are lot of people on these social media platforms who are behind the scenes worker type of people. They know how things work and run their mouth freely. Somebody predicted Kamala Harris as VP 1 and 1/2 years out. The politicians can't risk losing control.
FTP is legacy in the sense that it hasn’t hasn’t had the masses giving it love but it’s not dead by any stretch.

ProFTPD, pure-ftpd, and vsftpd are all active projects that are shipped with every major Linux distro. It has first class support on Windows through IIS. Every platform has native clients for it.

FTP is guilty of not being cool anymore but letting it die completely seems like such a waste. FTP could be the already widely-supported solution to the send a file between two devices problem that has a million bespoke solutions. Oh well.
Want to wait less at the bus stop? Beware real-time updates
I've been using it for several years, and really appreciate it. Thanks!
The NY Post story allegedly has pictures of the receipt as an attachment to the FBI subpoena for the laptop.
> What's the alternative to censorship? How does Truth prevail in the public square?

Even Good Samaritan Chomsky has no response to the Paradox of Tolerance.

As someone who's still on the free speech bandwagon. I think that this situations is pretty straight forward. One of the founding motivations for free speech is that it allows us to form accurate beliefs. Any approach that uses censorship to deal with the problem of misinformation and lying doesn't even pass the sniff test as a solution. This is because if the censor is factually wrong, it's game over. There is no recovery from that situation. The second you start filtering information that disagrees with your beliefs is the second you lose the ability to change them when new information comes in.

You can't fix the issues with free speech by selectively attacking individual topics based on your belifes about ground level truth. You have to do it at least 1 meta level up. Ask yourself, if humanity was a collection of nodes in a network, and social media was the protocol, "how do I choose a protocol which maximises the probability that the nodes in the network all converge to the truth even when I don't know it a priori".

You'll quickly find that platforms like twitter, instagram, and tiktok are the opposite of the answer. Each of them is engineered to minimise critical thinking, source checking, viewpoint sharing, and discussion. Facebook and reddit are bit better, at least on those you can post an essay and respond. Hacker news is even better, it has a simple UI that prioritizes text.

You also get more interesting ideas, like integrated cryptographic signing into social media platforms, or tuning feed algorithms to promote discussion using simple unbiased mechanism.

There's a whole bunch of shit we can do to solve the problem. Most of it hasn't been tried. Don't let people who are extremely intolerant use the paradox of tolerance to shut down opinions, ideas, and cultures they won't tolerate.
> I've personally spent hundreds (probably thousands) of hours investigating such things, have banned many accounts and sites for it, and have put tons of effort into writing code to combat it.

> No, that is not what's happening.

Not to try and get clever and twist your words, but these statements do not appear to line up particularly well with one another.
> Money gets your word out. If people don't like your word, though, they won't vote for you.

Note that money also buys a lot of analysis, message testing, etc. to figure out which version of your word people like best.

> See Bloomberg, Hilary (outspent Trump 2:1). Many other examples of well-funded politicians failing.

Sure, having deeper pockets doesn't guarantee you'll win (particularly if you're a dark horse), but it is the way to bet.
If the posted title is correct, this is an article about some comments about some images surrounding an event...the start of an election period.

So if I comment on it, I will be commenting about an article about comments about images about an event. This would violate my rule refusing to comment on things two abstractions away from what passes as reality.

It should violate your rule too.

Cf. the children’s song “There’s a hole is the bottom of the sea”.

“There's a fleck on the speck on the tail
On the frog on the bump on the branch
On the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea.”

Or “There was an old lady who swallowed a fly”

“She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she’ll die.”
Chrome vs Edge: Edge Declares War on Chrome with Features
Using a real VGA video card from PCem emulator
Alex Stamos promised that they have no way to do this. https://web.archive.org/web/20200702200900/https://twitter.c... But the tweet has since been deleted.
Without naming your site or sharing any details, would you be willing to share how many daily unique visitors you are getting that it has reached over this threshold?
Agree, and the second takeaway, as cliche as it sounds, is “talk to your customers.”
The Future of Hotel Design
It's disheartening to see this misinformation expressed so strongly - Chromium's privacy mandate led them to implement Safari's version of ad blocking - the status quo of allowing extensions to see _all your web traffic_ was a _massive_ platform risk for privacy.
I'll be the next one to parrot the whole "nicely done" atmosphere -- it really is cool.

It's amazing what we can do in a browser these days[0] and it's only outpaced by how quickly, it seems, those things become dramatically better.

I worked on a project to build a web-based 3D configuration tool for designing custom industrial objects to be 3D printed (aluminum/various metals and some plastics for prototyping). During the two-year span of developing this solution (which went over due to non-3D-in-the-browser-related issues), the various technologies we were working with went from "we really need to do everything except for the final rendering of the (simplified) object on the client" to "it's less code/moving parts to do most of it on the client-side ... and moar textures". I believe the customer did just that a year later.

[0] 3D Accelerated and it works in Linux on the desktop ... in Firefox ... brilliantly. It's not that I'm surprised Firefox works -- it's always been fine for me on Windows. It's the combination of Linux and Firefox on nvidia hardware that usually results in odd tearing/performance issues in FF for me. Since recent updates and enabling experimental acceleration, it's buttery smooth.
An awful lot of my decision making in the last ~13 years has included the question: what if the Camels don't exist tomorrow? Which isn't particularly unusual for a business, but it can make planning difficult.
It actually is literally Ambien, or at least the identical active ingredient, just at a lower dose. Also taking it sublingually gives it a more rapid onset of action.

Ambien never did much for me, but I'd be curious if the sublingual delivery worked better.
GDP of India is $2.9 trillion; But Modi regime gave just $21 as Pandemic relief to the Poor https://archive.vn/aOe2F
Can you elaborate a bit what do you mean?
Even Netscape Navigator (the browser-only version) had an FTP client built-in
I'm a Docker maintainer and have been for years.

The default is terrible. It got into 1.0 and just got stuck there :(

Changing defaults on such widely used software is, unfortunately, hard.

For whatever reason Docker prepends rules.
There are things you can do to add your own filtering (Docker forwards to the "DOCKER-USER" chain where you can put your rules), but it requires people to know what is happening I order to use it securely.

It would be really nice to be in a more secure situation by default... open to suggestions and contributions for Docker 21.
> We consume more literature in a year than last generations consumed in a lifetime.

This is probably true if you take the average person, but there have always been people reading their entire lives, and there has been a mass market for bad literature for hundreds of years. Cervantes was decrying the state of literature and the huge amount of poor, samey chivalric books in 1605.
Seems most likely that they're trying to flag "suspicious" account creations in the run-up to the US election, and that the left hand that implemented this algorithm didn't speak to the right hand that was launching a new product that required an FB account.
You've obviously never got into the CRM system radar of a low level sales person at Cogent.
Those guidelines are voluntary, sure. But there are actual laws included (section 5 of of the FTC Act (15 U.S.C. 45)) that make some things actually illegal.

Specifically: "Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful."[1]

This voluntary guide helps people understand how the FTC inteprates that law. Deciding not to comply because the guide is voluntary doesn't preclude prosecution.

You are right insofar as there is no law that specifically says "on the website reddit.com you must disclose if you are paid".

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/45
This is what I mean by random: no DNA sequence is privileged over any other, and no (known) physical process produces anything but random DNA sequences (excluding, of course, copying already useful DNA sequences).

DNA has about as much structure as bits on a disk (with coding for one of 20 amino acids as the "bits"). No DNA sequence is more likely than any other to exist.

I think that means we need to identify strong physical processes that produce useful DNA strands; you, apparently, aren't as concerned about it. Maybe you're right, but from where I'm sitting, it's hard to imagine what those physical processes might be since the strands they must produce are extremely, unimaginably rare in practice.

DNA is basically information[0], and we literally have no example of a chemical process producing valid DNA information, nor is it all obvious how such a process might work in practice. In the past, large amounts of time + equal likelihood of producing random DNA was considered sufficient to think "well, useful DNA stands could appear randomly." We now know that's extremely unlikely to the point of being effectively impossible, statistically-speaking.

[0] https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/dna-is-a-structure...
First statement is absolute numbers. Second statement is regarding relative numbers. They can both be true.
Interesting. I have the Apple Smart Keyboard Folio (not the newest magic keyboard) and I've looked everywhere for a way to enable key repeat, to no avail. Am I wrong in thinking that traditionally key repeat is handled at the OS level, rather than the keyboard level? It seems weird to me that each individual keyboard would be in charge of implementing that, especially when the settings for it are part of a desktop OS.
Hey nice site. Do you plan to support amazon.in as well? I am currently using Keepa, they support .in as well as alerts on telegram
How about Apple actually make a God Damn TV set.
On 4th August 1932 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_Award British regime offered separate electorates/countries to Muslim/Sikh/Christian/Parsi/Buddhist/Jain/SC/ST communities where Upper caste/Brahmin/Bania/Kshatriya should live on a Visa https://archive.vn/BFZlJ https://archive.vn/1iser https://archive.vn/imIlk
> There is a ton of offshore oil in Southern California

There was a lot of offshore drilling before 1969,
before blow-out protectors were required,
until one big spill at the cusp of the environmental
movement turned most of the California coast against
oil drilling, and anything like it offshore, even,
ironically, off-shore wind farms - for now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill#M...
Why not tell it now, if you know it?
Nonwhite Democrats are culturally far more conservative than white progressives on every issue except for racial issues. This will come to bite Democrats in a big way probably, as I’m almost sure the republicans will sooner or later nominate a nonwhite candidate (Nikki Haley??) and Democrats won’t get the ‘demographic’ vote they were hoping for.
Except Millenials are becoming more conservative as they age, and Republicans have way more kids than Democrats: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/republicans-more-kids-democra...
Many people I know here in Japan wear crosses and have figurines of the Virgin Mary and so on not because they care about Christianity at all, but because it looks cute.