skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did the Panama Papers expose a crime? Who decides whether a crime has occurred? I would say that Snowden exposed a crime (perjury) by James Clapper. Manning (IMO) exposed war crimes.

Similarly, I think that it was in the interest of the public to report when it was discovered that Trump only paid $750 in taxes (despite not committing a technical crime!) or that Hillary Clinton received some debate questions in advance (again, not a crime!).

This standard that Twitter is applying appears to have no clear line of enforcement, nor does the principle you've put forth.
> Back in 2012-ish I began to honestly worry that the steady accretion of anti-information would eventually crush the internet if something wasn't done.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. A friend of mine and I spent a lot of evening hours talking about [loosely summarized] "where the internet was going" from 2010-2013. Unfortunately we seemed to be correct on many fronts, and it has made some faucets of technology almost unbearable.
There’s just no reason to risk it by having one account for both. Even if there are no conflicts with your work, what happens when you inevitably move on to another role?
What is allowed during menstruation (menses) in Islam and what is not?
Im putting some everywhere, and looking to take out a loan to put some cheaply loaned capital into desirable real estate. Crossing my fingers.
> One can designate unaligned access as "undefined behavior" and leave it to compiler writers to make things right.

Lots of hardware architectures have tried to levy this requirement on the software. Every one has subsequently walked it back and provided unaligned access support in hardware. Even RISC-V, which is as orthodox a RISC as it gets, supports unaligned access in hardware.

So that's got to be the baseline for deciding how much additional work must be performed when supporting something new: Any memory instruction may touch two pages, but the vast majority of them won't.
This is shockingly naive and biased. Forcibly changing a person's mind, their being, is arguably worse than physical violence. You'd have to be pretty creative to come up with something more dystopian than purging political enemies and religions via "voluntary" psychiatry.
You don't need distributed consensus to have a cluster of reliable services. We've had large-scale clusters of applications for what, 30 years? And distributed consensus being generally used by a few players for about 10 of those. Etcd is neat, but in no way mandatory for what it was even invented for. 99% of people just don't need it.
I saw this making the rounds today, even though it's evidently old news, about the b1 bomber being disassembled/scanned. Here's an article on the subject from late April 2020: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33151/air-force-sends-...
Recreation of 14th-Century Construction of Charles Bridge [video]
It works if you put "hey Google" in parentheses. But the original video seems to have be made private and I can't find a mirror on mobile.
Facebook and Twitter took drastic measures to limit the reach of Biden story
If that were true, we would already be hearing denials about those emails. The fact that we haven't, indicates to me that they are instead going to tack on the "official Biden schedule shows he didn't meet with this guy" line because the emails are legit.
Media loves talking about 3D Printing primarily due to its click ratio and viewership. As an mechanical engineer, I've had experience developing aircraft stages and frames - the whole premise of 3D printed parts going into an aircraft from airworthiness perspective is flat out insane.
Yes, Openland is primarily built for organizers who have the audience but need better tools for onboarding, engagement, moderation, and monetization. Happy to email/chat/talk in more details on what we have. We know the pains of Slack well and have solved many of them. Feel free to reach out at yury@openland.com or https://openland.com/yury

The landing page is for community members. We'll add a separate landing page for organizers soon.
Next thing we'll hear from QAnon is that the Clinton Foundation is putting MDMA in the water to turn everyone liberal.
I had an idea some years ago to make this app but based around a community of helping others find their song by humming and finding your own songs, i have a 2 year old react-native project with a basic working version [1]

I don't have time to finish it but i would love it if somebody would make this

[1] https://github.com/vespakoen/ontheweb/tree/master/humminggur...
To be fair I think autonomous vehicles should have a requirement that they come with a RADAR or LIDAR as a backup sensor (even if its a low resolution one). Using ML on images for everything is not going to solve your safety problems cause theres no way to gaurantee the system will not crashed when presented with a fake input. Its a darn sight harder to pretend to be farther away on a radar or lidar though. At the very least the autonomous vehicle should be able to gaurantee you don't crash into static obstacles.
What if local-first software/apps leveraged products like syncthing (on some layer in the back-end) to manage the offline data synch between the same software/app on other devices?
So you want to build an embedded Linux system?
I believe you, but please go on and tell us why
You filter spam; and that's censorship. So you'll either end up with a mired cesspool of spam or very strict censorship to reduce legal liability risks.
I’m sure for many this would be an absolute win.
> this level of verifiability

As far as I know, literally nothing about the story has been verified.
I didn’t say good bbq, just better than Arby’s. A low bar for sure. My apologies to the good people of North Carolina!

When you’re on a 14-24 hour drive, your options within 5 minutes of I95 are limited. There are some awesome options that need that criteria as well, but their hours often don’t match my travel schedule on that trip!
0 ROI? Are you aware of the total monopoly they have in parts of the country?

Without lobbying, competition would have destroyed profitability of telecommunications.
The flame seems crazy close to his feet. Is that really safe?
Given how life impacting gender dysphoria is and how often it leads to suicidal thoughts, I'd think twice about making statements like that.
I'm assuming it's a reference to the fact that engaging in editorial conduct voids a platform's section 230 safe harbor.
I think I would get into political extremism if someone tried to do this.
I honestly was just trying to understand what the person was trying to get across.
Yes, we follow them closely. Key differences:

— Mighty's main focus is on top-down content, not messaging with organizers and among members.

— Mighty's communities are all separate, with individual accounts and sometimes even separate mobile apps. On Openland people have just one account and inbox for all their communities. Much simpler than Mighty, Slack, or Discord.
Well, no. That's not the system we pretty much all use in software development. We use:

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

https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si-pref...
As others have already mentioned, HN is in fact actively moderated. It's by far the most curated public discussion forum I frequent. The civil tone that prevails here is in many ways a result of the community guidelines being strictly enforced, and backed up with a banhammer.

If you were to take the above at face value, would this change your perception about the value of moderation in online communities?
It's actually comical in a way that we possess the technology to build robots that can operate heavy machinery and practically interpret the world the same way we do, but we still have to worry about people holding up plastic signs.

It makes me think that the first real wide scale self driving vehicle deployment will have to come from a nation state rather than a corporation; the easiest way to solve all of these problems is by putting heavy investments into smart road infrastructure such that the car depends on sensors embedded in the signs or the asphalt rather than any camera feed. A school bus could just have a transmitter to indicate whether its lights are on or not; construction workers could be given road signs that transmit similar signals or better yet use a portal to construct a virtual geofence around wherever the construction is happening before it begins. These are all easily solvable problems in today's world; what is missing is the political capital to invest in these solutions despite the insane ROI.
primarily because they can't sustain their population with the farmland they presently have. Source? Why would all of a sudden China not be able to sustain its population with the current farmland?
Quest + VirtualDesktop is great untethered experience.
Money is fungible. Renters have skin in the game, because they paid tax (and because they live in the general society that those tax dollars are being used on). That they paid no property tax is not relevant, because it ceases to become "property tax" as soon as it's paid, and just enters a larger general pool.

People may have differing levels of skin in the game, but it's no more sensible to say that property tax should only be spent on things property owners want than it is to say that property tax paid by people named Dave should only be spent on things that The Council of The Daves want it to be spent on.
Thoughts on the App Store, by the dev behind AltStore
Its one thing to have a policy. Its another thing that the policy is Right (maybe) and that the policy is Fairly Enforced (almost definitely not).
> Which company is this? 30% is a ton. In senior roles, getting 10-15% raises considered a good “promotion”. 30% cut in pay would feel like taking two years backwards...

@nrmitchi is probably talking about GitLab and their “Compensation Calculator” [1].

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
Ask HN: If you get to open your own university, what would you change?
If you have free speech but no-one is allowed to hear it. Is it still free speech?

How is this any different to “you are free to speak but you’ll be murdered after you do”. You’re still free to “speak”, you’ll just die after. Freedom of speech right?
What does limited liability have to do with a corporation being owned by one person? I assume this poster is questioning the "giant corporation" part. Maybe you meant to say "any corporation"?
I recently had an epic earworm that involved lots of old school manual searching, which I'm kind of proud of.

For about two weeks I had this beautiful haunting melody stuck in my head. It would just turn on at certain times in the day and I'd find myself humming it. I have around 3500 CDs, mostly jazz but boatloads of classical stuff too. For days I rifled through bins of CDs (which is something I love doing) looking for the source. No dice.

Finally, a breakthrough: One day the song was playing in my head and I noticed the timbre of the instrument was a clarinet. And it was kind of raspy, which was weird, because the melody seemed more classical and classical clarinetists have super clean tone. I immediately knew to start looking for Don Byron albums, because he probably makes up 90% of my clarinet jazz albums. Sure enough, after a couple hours I found it. The last tune off the "Tuskeegee Experiments" album is a Schumann (!) piece called Auf einer Burg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTKk1u2bijY
Sony’s Spatial Reality Display, and you can buy one for $5k in November
Those things are so unrelated, maybe you should just meditate on why your mind went there? They do make pills to change your gender, you know.
Okay, so let me get this straight.

This guy founded a financial services company (cool, help rich people acquire yet more money), did the "hard work" of being big boss in charge (I mean, maybe it really is much much harder than being the outsourced slave labor who actually makes whatever "consumer goods" you're upselling -- sure), dealt with a bunch of assholes in finance day in and day out (people in finance? rude? why I never), probably missed the early childhood of both of his kids in pursuit of making the extra hundred million bucks or whatever, then got diagnosed with cancer. The cancer bit is sad, but getting treated by the best medical doctors in the entire universe would probably help a bit with that! (instead of being fired, losing your health insurance, and bankrupting your entire family, like every normal working person in this country).

Now, he's making a "big transition" to being a retired millionaire.

I really do appreciate the candor. It helps me to understand how people who are so wholly and tremendously disconnected from regular people justify their own existence.

Whoops, did I say all that out loud?
>> I really wish they hadn’t been discounted as erroneous without attempts to replicate by the larger scientific community.

Sure. But what if LENR is real? They may be opening pandoras box.
BTW, I found out my program relied on two globals being next to each other when I translated it to another language and it didn't work :-)
It wasn't hacked. Why is it ok for ANYONE, let alone a political party and news orgs, to get away with one-sided comms?

Just as bad, if not worse than Trump.
> It's not like the sites would continue to exist exactly as they did before only with a different coat of paint.

Sure, but that’s orthogonal. Let’s say for the sake of argument that all those things came true — business models changed, financial interests separated, etc — but from the users’ point of view, everything works exactly as it does today. Success?

> I think the actual escape hatch would be enabling users to filter content collaboratively

This exists today — shared block lists, etc — and it’s insufficient. There’s a reason that when Twitter announced that they would suspend the accounts of people hoping for Donald Trump to die of COVID, the response from people who often receive death threats was “you mean you could have been doing this the whole time?!”

> I assume (without having checked) that filtering spam would still be allowed even under platform rules.

What is spam? “I made $X from my couch”? Repeated links to my blog? Trolling conservative communities with liberal posts?

The problem with carving out exceptions to your ban on moderation is that it moves your complaint from “all censorship is bad” to “censorship of speech I don’t like is bad”.
Not every transgender person suffers dysphoria, though.
> MDMA can be a shockingly mind-altering drug for some people, and usually in what they self-report as a good way.

The problem is self-reporting as a good change means nothing here. What you really want to know is if the original person, knowing the full transformation, would prefer the outcome. You don't get that because the person making the self-report is the person that already underwent the change.

For example, if I had a pill that made you a serial killer, but nevertheless very good at it, enjoying it, and totally lacking empathy for your victims, you'd probably self-report as being happier too. But the you of today would be horrified.

If I held conservative Catholic views, that's probably what MDMA would seem like. I'd be happy with who I am with strong moral values, but there'd be this scary pill out there that could make me give all that up, destroying what meaning my life had previously. It's not much consolation that I'd later self-report it as a positive change.

Lobotomies used to be justified based on self-reported outcomes. Is there anything objectively different here?
Id say no to the free speech since that sounds similar to shouting fire in a movie theater
I've seen you post things like this multiple times and while I'm not an egyptologist, it's pretty clear that you're getting some details wrong and consistently reaching bad conclusions.

First of all, there was no carborundum in ancient egypt. Silicon carbide was only discovered in the 19th century and doesn't occur in large deposits naturally. I assume you mean corundum, which is most definitely workable with time, patience, and lots of abrasive powder. All of these were part of the Egyptian toolkit.

Secondly, I assume you're referring to the sarcophagi of the Serapeum. They're impressive, but nothing outside the realm of the known tools if given enough time and skill, neither of which they were short on.
There are linters that raise an error when there is a fallthrough without an explicit comment [0]. I feel like that should be a must for working with C code.

[0] I don't remember which one it actually was. Possibly something commercial for MISRA compliance.
I really think cold fusion is a prank. Like when my dad would send me out to buy "headlight fluid" just to mess with me.
==And before you say it, "muh private platform" is not an acceptable argument. This is dangerous to our society.==

More than one thing can be dangerous to our society, like if these platforms were used to spread falsehoods and misinformation unchecked.
The restrictions prevent me from buying a reasonable dose at the store. How am I supposed to do it, go around licking bus seats? I don’t know anyone positive in town, and asking in public forums has not gotten results.
Organizations like MAPS (Rick Doblin) are pioneering the use of psychedelics and other drugs (mdma) to aid in psychotherapy for vets with PTSD, with some extremely impressive results.

Ibogaine is also a fascinating drug to look into. It’s frequently used as a treatment for heroin and other severe addictions. The trip is multiple hours long, and described as life-altering - many people describe vivid recollections of the worst moments of their lives, but stripped of the painful emotions associated with them. But the drug essentially interrupts the addiction cycle and requires those pathways inside your brain, with some pretty impressive rates of remission.
People should be given information about Hunter Biden's payments. It would benefit Biden's campaign if there's nothing to hide.
Local first software is more annoying and requires more sophisticated thick clients to develop for, especially as more of the world become connected, with even airplanes being connected and soon, the middle of nowhere with starlink.

So it's more expensive to write local only software as a result, you will probably deliver features more slowly than your cloud-first counterparts and thus you'll eventually be out competed unless your leveraging local first to deliver something that your cloud first counterparts can't do well, like speed & performance.
Ooh that is a really great visual to explain it.
Its predominantly China's fault. They achieved a monopoly on rare earth metals by undercutting competitors by ignoring safety and environmental practices.

Rare earth metals are not rare. They are common, but processing them safely without environmental impact is not cheap. Whenever competitors show up, China floods the market to push down prices to bankrupt them.

The world needs to start putting environmental and social tariffs on Chinese goods, to force them to improve environmental standards, and put a stop to human rights abuses.
We should also look at addressing the issue of conferencing tools not actually being able to handle true high quality streams like you might get on Twitch or YouTube Live. My Canon EOS R and L lens may look great in 60fps through an HDMI capture card, but what point is there when it's still going to be a 24fps 360p[0] video stream on Zoom even if I choose the HD option? Sure, the pandemic is somewhat to blame[1], but I'm just using Zoom as an example.

Google Meet goes up to 720p maximum.[2]

Google Duo doesn't do 1080p unless you're on a Samsung S20. Not even Pixels suppoprt it.[3]

WhatsApp does great 1080p video calls on your phone (I think? I haven't verified this), but you can't make video calls on desktop clients.

Skype seems to be the only consumer-facing free cloud video conferencing tool that will do 1080p and look good, but I haven't tried in years -- the redesign and general clunkiness drove me (and everyone else, seemingly) away from it. I can't believe support for 1080p video calls in 2020 is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

I stumbled upon TrueConf[4], and might give them a go with my setup to see if I can get an actual 2020-esque video call going between my family. TrueConf appears to be self-hosted, which I guess is why there's no restriction on quality (takes bandwidth and transcoding out of the picture for the service provider, so zero cost per call.) Although this may be great for me, it's certainly not for the average joe, so the aforementioned industry-wide issues still need to be addressed and quite frankly I find it embarrassing that we have such low quality video calls in 2020.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/h88yrdu2gu9kh59/zoom.png?dl=0

[1] https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/207347086-Group-HD

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/u74x9g89mtts6ho/meet.png?dl=0

[3] https://www.gsmarena.com/google_duo_will_be_integrated_into_...

[4] https://trueconf.com/
That pill is amphetamine, in its various forms (minus the gender switch). Sadly it's only legally available to ADHD and eating disorder patients.
The problem is you're operating under the fallacy that only concentrated power is a problem. Regulation (concentrated power) is the only thing that keeps distributed power from steamrolling over people just as much.
It's so easy all you have to do is shine lasers at their eyeballs and it bricks the car!
I feel like this post was written with some of HN's highest karma posters in mind.
Show HN: Simple Web UI for managing Kubernetes clusters (like k9s)
Here is a good explanation of what likely happened[1]. The laptop shows up at this repair shop in early 2019, and the shop owner "declared that because he is legally blind, he could not identify the person who brought it in".

Supposedly, this blind shop owner then gains access to the computer (doesn't say how, was it unprotected?) and it contains lewd videos of Hunter (again, blind shop owner). So he copies the drive (which is likely illegal in Delaware) and then he reached out to the FBI, or the FBI reached out to him, or someone else reached out to the shop owner (i.e. Rudy) and told him to reach out to the FBI. We don't really know because they can't get their story straight on that one.

Months later, and the FBI still hasn't announced an investigation, so they go to Plan B and Rudy hands the (likely illegally ) copied hard drive over to the NY Post.

Even if you believe their story, the shop owner likely broke some laws by copying and handing over PII to NY Post. But I am personally more inclined to believe that either the laptop was planted by someone, or that shop owner (who is an avid Trump supporter) was in on the ruse, and that the laptop/source material was not accidentally left by Hunter.

[1] https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/15/1986703/-Dezinfo...
If they want to take that stance, they should also be held liable for

Why? I pick up a piece of rubbish from the ground, so I'm responsible for everything that anyone litters? It doesn't make any sense.

Twitter isn't claiming they prevent every type of bad on their platform, they're just trying to prevent one type of bad for now
Did you consider spinning up a Tor hidden service on the desktop app and sending the onion address and credentials via QR to the mobile app?
You might consider System76 laptops.

https://system76.com/
I'd like to point out that with just this story in mind, you're describing an "ad-free road".