skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
good idea...but less profitable, though Facebook will continue to track these "banned" users as they roam around the network and trade on their information anyway.
The reason for magnetic field strength falling off as 1/r^3 is interesting: the biot-savart law says that magnetic field falls off as 1/r^2 from a magnetic source, but in reality sources tend to be better approximated by magnetic dipoles than magnetic monopoles. A "north pole" is always accompanied by a "south pole", and at distance there are "interaction effects" such that a part of the field strength is "canceled out".

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_monopole
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Interesting, I haven't noticed any slowdown, but I am running fairly low traffic services.

I do see that RemoteAddr is from a private IP range. Luckily I'm not using this information anywhere, but good to know.
> The difference is that Twitter can't put you in prison and it can't seize your property.

I specifically said I was talking about freedom of speech. There are many different kinds of freedom, and these aren't specifically free speech issues.
What do you make of this 2018 blog post and predictions discussing Uber, Waymo, comma.ai, Tesla, Google, General Motors, etc. https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/10/29/ai-winter-update/ ?
I agree they blundered here. They don't want to be hijacked by another "leaks" story days before the election but now the suppression of this has become the entire story, and its convinced a lot of people the story is true and dangerous to Biden. Even if the email is true I don't see how its dangerous and if the only media carrying the story are the NY Post and Fox it doesn't hurt Biden.
I said I want to see the raw emails. That would be enough to determine if it’s purely made up or if _someone_ actually sent those emails. Raw emails would provide a lot of extra information for almost no effort.

I didn’t see the video. Was it published?
How is the first amendment relevant here?
An interesting question is to what extent they're jumping through hoops to appear as distinct, legitimate, real users. Such as:

a) using a proxy from a residential ISP somewhere

b) never putting two or more sock puppets behind the same IP. Or assuming exclusive ipv4 use, not even any two clients from within the same /20 to /18 sized netblocks.

c) a reasonably varied selection of ISPs. Also variation in ISP netblock geolocation (maxmind geoIP database or similar) based on ARIN, RIPE, APNIC etc registration data. Obviously if you're promoting something that's very tech/startup industry oriented it would not be as suspicious if you had a bunch of posters "authentically discussing it" that geolocated to the SF bay area and Seattle.

d) a reasonably varied selection of common user agents. Also intentional variation on operating system and browser fingerprinting variables.

e) intentional training to avoid writing patterns and phrases that might seem similar, when one person is driving ten accounts

f) not doing dumb stuff that gives away your time zone, like if you have a bunch of people in a GMT+4 time zone that post things regularly on a 9-5 daytime work schedule, when they're supposed to be pretending to be ordinary internet users in a USA time zone.

From a black hat network engineering perspective there are a lot of ways that one human driving 30 sock puppets can appear from 30 distinct locations, as if there were 30 real humans with 30 different operating systems/computers/browser user agents and browser fingerprints.

As to what level of analysis tools are run on the server side to detect "low effort" sock puppets, that's another question.

From the point of view of a place where fake accounts/sock puppets post things, obviously an organization like twitter has a lot more staff resources to devote to writing custom analysis and correlation tools. Specifically for the purpose of identifying common patterns in inauthentic accounts.

I presume that dang and the people who run the ycombinator admin interface can see the IP address of every poster next to the post's timestamp, and might notice in a manual fashion if a lot of suspicious posts started showing up all from the same netblocks. But then again maybe not.

If you want to see the tip of an iceberg of one method for running sockpuppets, go google "residential proxies for sale" and start looking through the slickly presented marketing material.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=residenti...
Strongly object to characterizing Jones as "comedic." His rallies sound like 1930's fascist speeches.[0]

[0]https://youtu.be/vL8Dz4mGv1g?t=61
The same reason that Apple shipped broken keyboards with MacBooks for years. Because Tim Cook is not a product person. He is an operations person. Adding a fingerprint sensor is good for the product but bad for operations. Who do you think he's going to side with?

At the risk of using a cliche, I think Jobs would have made a different decision.
Trusting their intuition.
Countries Rush to Hoard Food as Prices Rise and Covid Worsens
The best Indian food I've ever had (and I only ate there once so maybe it was a fluke) was an Indian restaurant in Brno, Czech Republic, population 400k.

I can't imagine there were very many Indian people there, but the food was amazing.
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> I believe modern application of a law should matter more than what the writers of the law were potentially thinking at the time.

Section 230 has never been applied this way. Some people want to change it, but they haven't yet. There is no legal precedent that those people have to stand behind.

You're asking the courts to change the law based on executive preference. That's dangerous for a wide variety of reasons (ex-post-facto-ness, separation of powers, etc.)

In case you didn't understand the parent, section 230 was written to fix the issue that prodigy had. All section 230 does is protect people who moderate content from civil liability. That's it. The law itself doesn't distinguish platforms or publishers. It distinguishes first-party and third-party content (and gives you protection for third party content, even if you publish first party content and moderate the third party content). That's all.

Nothing about platforms or publishers, and nothing about categorizing a company as one or the other. Only protection around certain kinds of content.
Sorry for not being clear. I am not the best communicator. What you should notice upon entering that search term are the wildly conflicting results. Google will present a "No" answer near the top, but if you scroll down through the thousands of results, you will see some saying "Yes", some saying "No", and some saying "We don't know". Google (and all of the other big social media giants) was quick to post a definitive answer, but is it the correct answer? The volume of uncertainty would seem to indicate that it is not.
It’s unlikely that video was taken with the laptop. Who copies a video of themself smoking crack onto a laptop and drops it off at a repair shop?
You can reread my comments and you will see I am not against you on this. I started my first comment with "If we...". I am including myself in with the people who are failing.

I believe we need to get better at explaining this issue. We need people who are "trying to spend [their] time walking you from A to B" because flatly saying "you should be against it simply because in principal it's a bad thing" is not going to motivate any political change.
Obvious bullshit isn't a problem unless you consider all the world's religions a problem. But if you do, then that's by far the biggest and most serious problem and YouTube really must stamp it with priority over the piddly flash-in-the-pan crackpot science and conspiracy theories.
I think it's absolutely okay for AT&T to censor what it wants on its phone network, provided I have the freedom to use a competitor. Back in the day, we broke up AT&T for precisely the reason that people didn't have that freedom. And then we let them merge back together, for some reason.

I also think that not only is it legally permissible for Gmail to censor links, they do so already. Try reliably delivering a newsletter from a brand-new domain name (I have). Censorship isn't any better when it's the emergent effects of unknowable spam filtering and abuse algorithms than a decision by a human. (I'd say it's worse, because at least you can ask the human what they were thinking.) But the solution there is for consumers to stop using products that don't do what they want, not for big government to tell companies how to implement technical systems.
From an analysis I saw, AB-5 is expected to cost them around $500m per year. Even though prop-22 would still be more expensive than their pre-AB5 costs, that's a pretty good ROI if they succeed.
The only reason measures to curb disinformation would have a partisan impact is because conservative parties (throughout the industrialized world, not just in the US) use disinformation strategies far, far more than do other parties.

Center-left/left parties use reality to galvanize their base voters into action. Their voters are people who aren't pleased with what's happening in their countries and want to change it for the better. There's no need for center-left parties to lie that their electoral opponents eat babies when their electoral opponents actually put children in cages.

In contrast, right wing parties overcome the inherent unpopularity of their revealed policy platforms (running on platforms of cutting taxes on the very rich while making life harder for the average person is not popular) by using disinformation to make a stated platform based on fabricated wedge issues. Hence, the imaginary convoys of South American migrants that were about to storm the US-Mexico border in 2018.

As such, restricting disinformation will have a partisan impact. Within the US, there is no Democratic equivalent to Qanon, so anti-disinformation measures that impact the likes of Qanon will have no impact on the Democratic party whatsoever.

Functioning societies must have zero tolerance for 'alternative facts.' Disagree over goals and interpretations, but facts must be accepted by all. Democracy requires an informed electorate and there can be no functioning democracy when one side is free to invent its own version of reality.
Have a look at this: https://apps.cygnius.net/passtest/
I use it not only for my personal email, but also for email aliases.

Whenever I sign up for anything I create a new email alias (foo@mydomin.com) pointed at my primary email. This helps me thwart faulty unsubscription services by just deleting the alias as needed or by detecting when a service has shared my email with 3rd parties or has been breached.
I don't think you're disagreeing with me.
No, that’s not correct. As I said, that was MUSCULAR, not PRISM.

The interception against US companies like Google was not done in the US, and there is a good reason for that. You are mixing up different programs.

Feel free to dig up the original reporting. They were distinct programs. PRISM requests are serviced by the provider and go through the FBI.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_progr...
That is true, but now his post has been "Flagged" so it is officially censored.
I've enjoyed all the posts in this series, but this is first time it's I've "empathized" with some aspect of the problem solving.

I've taken a couple of stabs at writing a mini/micro-kanren in a language which _isn't_ a lisp, often following along closely with some paper from Hemann, Friedman and/or Byrd -- and if the language _doesn't_ have macros it really does get awkward. As mentioned at the PS, for a good long stretch, this post is pretty directly transcribing the 'microkanren' paper, and without macros at some point Vidrun would have had to invent some of her own idioms.

The other trick to having the embedded kanren really work with the host language, which is swept a bit under the rug, is that `walk*` / `walkr` in this post implicitly assumes that everything in your universe is a variable, an atomic value, or a cons. In that sense, it's a little funny that (I think) her kanren can't really solve "inside" of the structs that she asked to be provided.
I have been getting unsolicited e-mail from my local state rep, and I actually appreciate it. It's not campaign-type stuff, it's actual info about what's happening in this district and resources that are being provided.

Granted that feels different than a phone call, but the intent may be the same.
How many TV stations have allowed themselves to run shows with covid vaccine misinformation? Is it censorship that they mostly don't?
From GP's article:

>Then we get to these early internet services like CompuServe and Prodigy in the early ‘90s. CompuServe is like the Wild West. It basically says, “We’re not going to moderate anything.” Prodigy says, “We’re going to have moderators, and we’re going to prohibit bad stuff from being online.” They’re both, not surprisingly, sued for defamation based on third-party content.

>CompuServe’s lawsuit is dismissed because what the judge says is, yeah, CompuServe is the electronic equivalent of a newsstand or bookstore. The court rules that Prodigy doesn’t get the same immunity because Prodigy actually did moderate content, so Prodigy is more like a newspaper’s letter to the editor page. So you get this really weird rule where these online platforms can reduce their liability by not moderating content.

There is precedent, but you are right in that the whole space has been allowed to act unchalleneged for so long. This is something that needs to change and we need a modern precedent to point at.
> Chinese government coercion typically only extends to users who are physically in China.

[Significant Country X] intelligence activities are typically not limited to people who are physically in [Significant Country X].
I like this write up a lot, particularly the examples and the metrics, but I wonder, what would be the relative performance of sampling using some of the middle digits of the UUID?
I dunno, I feel like it’s reaching saturation. Those that want VR are getting it, but then there’s those of us who are gamers, but forget it’s even a thing until someone mentions it. I am a gamer myself (have a 2080, sitting out the 3000 series), and I honestly don’t want one nor see how it can make gaming more enjoyable for me. So to me it seems like it’s going the same route attempt #1 did in the 90s, there’s some market but not enough.
It's hilarious to me that the Post is now viewed as pro conservative. Framing the Post as pro-conservative is like calling Joe Rogan alt right. Finding some of the progressivism that has performed a hostile takeover of the democratic party hilarious, contradictory, and satire-friendly automatically makes you pro-conservative.
Among Us inspires full VR, horror-themed version of hit game in VRChat
To think that your personal transactionality with Twitter, whether you pay for your SLAs or DMs etc, is what matters here is myopic at best. Because this soapbox found itself to be used at planet scale, 24/7 available and proven to be increasingly influential, even consequential, on our institutions that depend on healthy public discourse. Not only your analogy doesn’t follow, trying to apply market based normativities on problems of democratic processes is very misleading.
The fermi paradox isn't even a real paradox.

We don't have enough information on how likely or unlikely life is to occur because we haven't even been able to replicated it yet.

It could be that life is so unlikely that it we're lucky to be here.
The reinfections were likely from a genetically different strain. So was Trump more right or more wrong with his simplified message? I would say that if he tested negative, he would be unable to transmit infection so that part would be true. I would say that he could not be infected (with the same strain) so that would be also true. I don't believe any sensible person believes that they become immune to all strains after recovering from one, and I do not believe that Trump was saying this. Do you?
>they can't refute the ideas of Covid flat-earthers

What is a covid flat-earther? If you are trying to lump flat earthers in with a group of people who are lockdown sceptics you're doing yourself a disservice.
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If the stupid public can't educate themselves then let Survival of the Fittest take over.
> like Countly do (even self hosted, you can only store a fixed limit of events under their licenses)?

Just fyi - event storage is not limited either in Countly Community Edition or Countly Enterprise Edition.
I feel like focusing on the classic games of the past so heavily like this means missing out on so many great newer games. Sometimes it pays to take off the nostalgia goggles and try out some newer offerings too.
Room temperature plus one atm pressure is a separate term, STP - "Standard temperature and pressure".

(Of course it's hilariously not "S" at all, because no one can agree whether the "T" is 0 deg C or 25 deg C or somewhere in between. But when we're talking about room-temperature superconductors that's not really a big deal.)
JTAG's the extreme case though: it's not like most existing hacks have involved that level of access. It's been mundane stuff like just going in through the USB interface. If Apple eliminate the USB interface entirely, they're still going to have to make it available by some other means to service/update the device. Which means they'll be adding that software stack to wifi/bluetooth.

Your 2 attack scenarios are: device is in evidence lock up, and can b cracked at will (so a security company probably comes up with a kit for cracking and hooking them up, sells the service to LE) - or what happened with T2, where the software stack just gets exploited.

Since you'll still need all those management interfaces that currently are only on the physical port to be somewhere - well I'd put money on removing the port actually making the device more vulnerable. Briefcase of GPUs to crack wifi and rootkit a phone if you can get on the same network.
Truecaller works even though the app is hard to stomach privacy-wise.

Google recently unveiled plans for its "verified calls" feature, so that might help if you're on an Android 11 device.

I personally do not answer any calls from numbers not on my contact list. If a call was urgent, I'd normally recieve a text message (if informal) or an email (if formal, like the bank, for example) from the caller eventually.
Change 4 on the dark side of the moon (2018)
I used to use Pocket for a few years but eventually wanted a solution with better categorization

I was also learning web dev at the time, so I put together a web app using React/AWS + open sourced everything:

https://github.com/brianjychan/links
While it's possible all the social media heads all secretly believe their product is evil, the real answer to why they don't use it appears answered by the mention that Mark Zuckerburg needs a team of 12 moderators to keep his page clean.

A lot of these people make use of a social network internal to their company.
> Workplaces are a neutral environment. You want activism, do it outside of work.

Equal pay regardless of gender is a political question. In the name of "leaving politics out of work", should we disallow women and nonbinary folks from advocating at work for equal pay?

Equal opportunity for people of color is a political question. In the name of "leaving politics out of work", should we disallow people of color from advocating at work for equal opportunity?

Accommodation for disability is a political question. Paid time off for pregnancy is a political question. What rights we grant to older employees is a political question. Whether LGBTQ folks can be fired for being out is a political question.

The system as I've seen it works pretty great for youngish cishet white men like me. From my perspective, things at my workplace seem quite "neutral". But when I get to know people who are at all different, I find that the workplace is not at all neutral towards them.
I have one more that I have seen used within corporate networks. If a proxy is used to build docker a lot of engineers add ENV http_proxy, https_proxy in the Dockerfile. This causes the proxy to be on by default. Use ARG instead if you just want the proxies at build time.
"I didn't know that black-hat content marketing existed" (from the Twitter thread)

I haven't laughed so hard in months :)))

I've talked with over 150 founders (I'm running a website that deals with acquisition channels & user growth [1]) and this is like uncovering 0.01% of what's going on out there.

I became friends with some of these founders, and some of them admitted that a significant part of their growth was "paying for being featured in publication X"

Don't get me wrong, I'm against this "black hat content marketing" practice, but let's also consider the other perspective:

a) 80% of the content on publications like TechCrunch [2] is all about Google/Apple/Tesla/Virgin. I challenge, you go there RIGHT NOW. COUNT the % of stories about FAANG companies.

As the markets go into a "winner takes all" mode, these publications only cover the big winners. So people only hear about them, which amplifies the whole "winner takes all" thing, and the vicious circle continues.

Some of these big publications have made "attempts" to be "indie-friendly", but that's one big BS. I won't name the company I contacted (it's a biger publication). I basically told them: Hey guys, got an interesting article that was featured on HN front page 3 days ago, can I do a deeper piece for your publication?

Their answer: "Oh, that's great, go to our sister website X.com, we feature non-FAANG there". X.com was a website that wasn't even in the Alexa top 1M list.

I also have some doubts that the OP has removed some bigger publication names (maybe afraid of getting sued? No idea).

My point is: As publications get more "closed", the incentive for getting there via other means is going to get bigger.

[1] https://www.firstpayingusers.com
[2] https://techcrunch.com
Europe has a much longer and more recent history of censorship than does the United States.

Currently it’s against the law in Germany to insult the leader of a foreign country. Some (many?) have laws against flag burning. Religious restrictions were common in some countries within the lifetimes of the current generation.

I’m not even talking about the ex-Communist countries.

Europeans simply don’t place the same emphasis on freedom of speech as Americans.
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So, a lot of the problem users have with SaaS products is worrying about their data.

Why don’t one of you super evil Uber-genius types solve this problem with an intermediary?

In the music world, specifically plugins, there are numerous solutions to run your plugins on a separate platform from your DAW, to increase speed and free up processing power.

Why not build an intermediary for something like Notion, for example, so people can feel comfortable with where their data is stored and for having more control over it?

Just a thought for you coders that dig a challenge.
I'd much rather operate under the constraints of a single or few paradigms to perform certain tasks, and another for other tasks, rather than have an endless sea of options. Turns out science agrees with me here in which one is better for productivity and creativity as well.
Yeah, I've driven around quite a bit in California, Nevada, Missouri, Kansas, and Pennsylvania, and not once have I seen a sign like that.