skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How does this constitute hacking?

IIUC, the idea is that the whole thing was a setup from start to finish:

1. Burisma emails were hacked;

2. Hunter Biden's iCloud account was hacked;

3. They bought a Mac, dumped a bunch of the hacked photos, along with some real hacked emails and some forged ones;

4. Sent someone over to the computer shop with the frame up on the laptop already in place;

5. Either the store owner was complicit from the beginning, or they just used him as a dupe.

The above may or may not be true. But again, IIUC that's the line that Twitter is taking.

If that's what Twitter believe (or can credibly claim to believe), then they're executing the policies in their TOS.

I'm not saying it's true, and I'm not saying it ain't. That's just my understanding of Twitter's stand on this.
Absolutely. See Uber's actual response to their deadly incident -- absolving themselves of liability and blaming the backup driver.
You have the right to speak freely, but you do not have the right to make me listen. s/me/FB/ you get the idea.
You can create an account for free with limited access. If you worried about your personal information, you can use different name and surname
Yeah, I think the combination of not being able to realistically take breaks or travel is having the larger effect. My home setup would be fine if I had the room to put my desk somewhere not in my bedroom (it's arguably more comfortable than my office) but the routine of: roll out of bed, make coffee, desk, make lunch, desk, make dinner, couch/desk, desk, roll into bed sucks a lot.
My approach with Google and these other big companies is to use their free services but treat them as disposable. For example: I use Google Photos all the time, but my photos are also synced to OneDrive which, in turn, is synced to my computer giving me offline copies as well as another cloud-based backup. I use Gmail (and old Google Apps accounts) for email, but I have MS Outlook continually running on my desktop PC syncing all email accounts to offline PST files.

The key takeaway is to not to get reliant on any service (free or paid) without having a backup plan if it went away.
It's a very pretty language. It's Pascal if Pascal were made perfect. Because it seems amenable to Hindley-Milner Type Inference, if it had that, it would be perfect. Imagine having beginners program in a Pascal-like language without having to worry about typing out types!
> Are you saying publishers can’t arbitrarily decide what to publish or not?

Publishers can do this, yes. They just are not offered the legal protections of being a platform, if they act as a publisher.

The point is, that someone is acting as a publisher, then they should have these legal protections taken away form them.
It will probably never be possible.

Sure having fun with a jet of water is possible but having a super hot jet engine on your back? not sure about that.

EDIT: I just saw that dubai video. Uh it's possible but I would be surprised if it becomes a thing since the flight time was only 2 minutes.
I agree wholeheartedly: the "right to free speech" is not the same as a "right to be heard", but we have managed to conflate the two with all of this "free amplification", as you describe; there is a big difference between someone getting to say something to their followers and that content being broadcast and even recommended by Twitter to random people. I personally believe that if a website has a recommendation algorithm that should be considered an editorial decision they are making and they should be liable for the content they recommend (and much more so than they are today: the same level of standard we hold a newspaper to should apply); but, if a user merely posts something and people have to actively choose to follow the poster, then that's on them (as the website is acting as a utility connecting consenting parties). Doing it like this (which might even be the status quo of the law if Section 230 is repealed, btw) changes what kinds of apps can be built and what businesses models are viable "at scale", but almost certainly for the better: apps that work like how Instagram used to--where you just saw content from exactly who you followed in the order they posted it... something many (if not maybe even most) users preferred but which was clearly less profitable for Facebook--seem like they should be fine and you should get to post whatever you want to the people who opted in to hear what you had to say. People who generally like recommendation systems try to defend all of their algorithmic amplification, and then the sometimes-arbitrary-feeling censorship seemingly required to make them universally viable, but here we see Twitter taking the ridiculously extreme position to even block private messages... the regulatory fallout of this political decision is going to be fascinating to watch.
> I believe free amplification is terrible

It's exactly what they were saying at the invention of the printing press. Amplification becoming too cheap. Maybe being on the side of censorship is always being on the wrong side of history no matter the issue. Can you remember one time in history where we now like "thanks god they censor these thoughts!"?
Edge doesn't show 'Install as app' in address bar but if you go to menu > apps there will be 'Install this site as an app'. I'm using apps for Duolingo, Ventusky, Airly, Livescore, Plaza One, Poolside FM. I even tried to make an app for this website and it worked.

https://imgur.com/a/2OcJOfp
The contradictory statements by the so-called shop owner, who provided the emails, and the past behavior of Guiliani all points towards it very likely being false. And them holding this information until 3 weeks before the election points, after having it for over a year, further points it to being false informations.

And the nail in the coffin is the simple fact that they decided to release a PDF-image of the emails instead of simply giving the raw email with its metadata which would allow us to instantaneously confirm it. Literally all they have to do is post the metadata.
5. They enjoy socializing with coworkers.

Even in tech, not everyone is an introvert.
Yeah, no thanks with that.
I think a big part of the backlash is because of 4chan culture going mainstream. 4chan's idea of finding weaknesses in society and attacking them "for the lulz" has been adopted by right wing youth culture. The culture war has lost all morals. I've asked friends that knowingly disseminate false information why they do it and they see themselves as part of an all out political war where anything goes. I don't see how democracy can function in such an environment where nobody knows what is real or fake.
The expensive standing desks are only 6-800.
It's a harder problem to solve when you've moved across the country (or world) to work for years at companies that actively cultivated a world of "work and play at work"/"hang out after hours" with legitimate professional incentive to participate.
There's a real sense in which Bay area tech companies invested in social infrastructure to make living in a place where you have no real personal connections sustainable, so if they stop providing that benefit, it can be a real problem to those with less social resources.
I don't think they can, is the thing. My iPhone is at least three times as thick as the screen of my MacBook, and I'd be surprised if they aren't using at least some of that depth on the front camera.

What I would like to see is official support for using the back iPhone cameras as a webcam, but I don't expect to: it looks like Apple wants to remove the last port on the phones, no matter how dumb an idea that might be, and then they'd have to deprecate this feature, which would draw attention to the loss of functionality such a silly move would entail.

I really hope I'm wrong about this implication of the new MacSafe, the idea of owning a phone with no wired connection just makes me nervous. But it would be in character for the company.
So, I agree that it would look slightly better if it were a macro.

Having said that, is it worth the additional language complexity and opening a Pandora's box of footguns? No. The idioms are not _ideal_, but I would not consider that to be dramatically painful, not would I even say it slows down development much.

I think it's very difficult to improve idioms at this point without adding complexity in the language to the point where, IMO, it's no longer worth it. I think a strong point of Python vs other languages in the same class is that there's a well-defined limit, both as a community language and language capabilities, as to how much complexity and rope you're willing to give the user.
Am curious what sort of metrics and studies that Dropbox HR plans to do to assess this change. The current COVID-mandated WFH atmosphere is a lot different than how things were pre-COVID. In particular, there's the impact of children at home, and for ICs there's a special stigma (due to COVID) to support isolation. However, Dropbox's culture has always been uniquely supportive of IC independence during pre-COVID times despite the fancy office, "Michelin Star" cafeteria, etc. Curious to see how the change is assessed, even if the detailed hypotheses supporting it are never fully explained.
If override can only be those 3 and they're all non-zero, and default is when override is 0, then the following seems clearer in my opinion.

if (override ? override == THING1 : foo == 42) {
code_here();
} else if (override ? override == THING2 : bar & 0x42) {
other_code();
} else if (override ? override == THING3 : true) {
more_code();
}
>They somehow managed to skirt on that

Not "somehow". Our national leaders in the US since Google was created have been fabulously pro-business, to the extent that they have never updated our laws governing privacy for the computer age (IE, limiting what businesses can do with data) and they've gutted consumer protections along the way.

Since the US government is so thoroughly corrupted by money, once a corporation is large enough they can effectively write their own laws. Google and others have done this, so there's no law stating that they must give consumers rights in a dispute, must provide their data, or even must be fair.

Government + money = corruption.
When they originally announced the Windows version there was a lot of fine print such as the resolution being horribly low. I don't see that listed this time at least on this page, so was wondering if that was resolved, or just more hidden now? I use the 4K Cam Usb stick and get full resolution and works great with Sony A7Riv though ideally of course always nicer to have one less thing to plugin but sounds like this isn't meant to come close to competing with those options but rather just better than nothing?
Many users felt locked in to FB / like it was a vital part of their life for quite a while before it became an advertising platform. It's only attractive to advertisers if it's a good product for users. They pioneered the business model of selling users out, and in general users think that's gross.
> Is this how it feels to live under the CCP’s control?

This is an overly dramatic comparison that trivializes the Chinese surveillance state.
And what would happen if the communists you hate so much were the ones deciding what gets censored?
I was just wondering about this myself. I'm not sure if there's a clear incentive to game salary information. If a company posts a lower-than-real salary, they risk seeming less desirable than their competition to candidates, who may then apply elsewhere. If they post a salary that exceeds what employees are typically paid for the position, candidates will accidentally high-ball when asked about salary expectations.

Falsifying details about employment happiness and health of culture do have clear benefits for deceitful companies however.
This issue is complicated by the fact that there's a thriving ecosystem of marketers and scammers who operate around Yelp, and will call and tell you they work for Yelp and can have negative reviews removed and other things. So people really are getting these calls, it's just that it's a scam.
Perhaps, instead of outlawing new technology and modes of communication, we should produce more speech to teach people how it works so they don't get sucked in by an algorithm and believe everything they read.

Those editorial boards you speak of get things wrong constantly. Limiting who can respond to them in front of an (at least) equally large audience is dangerous and a disservice to all, especially minorities.

Limiting who can publish and the size of their audience is categorically a violation of free speech. There is no daylight there.
Whenever I see a comment like this, I have to point out that they are already deciding what you want to see and hear. On most of the platforms in question you're being suggested content by a bunch of algorithms that you can't inspect, understand, or control. And while it's not censorship, drowning signal in a flood of noise is not that different.
Ubuntu server is decent but, Debian is better IMHO. I'm using stable for servers and testing for desktops for 15+ years (eh, wow. time flies).

Deploying servers with PXE is fun though. We use PXE and XCAT to manage our fleet. Commissioning ~200 servers in 15 minutes with three commands while sipping coffee is really satisfying.
I think these are still trivial though in that they don't use any external resources like a database. Are there no examples that do that?
>If I told you that I owned a hedge fund and would make you 10x returns, that's speech.

If I gave you money based on that speech it would be hard to argue in court that you didn't engage in fraud. I'm not a lawyer, so I'll agree with you.
Over dense populated cities?
Can Zoom &c even push higher resolutions?

Serious question, I have no idea.
It was more likely Japanese but that doesn't help you.
I'm guessing that statement is there only for liability reasons.

Canon Canada just tells me to go to Canon USA and to use that software!

https://canon.ca/en/Features/EOS-Webcam-Utility

No subscription required for me. It installs the driver, restart your machine, then the camera is ready to use.
Anthropophobia, or fear of people, is now the most searched-for phobia online
The road to hell is littered with "free ice cream this way =>" signs.
Not to mention that the source for the story gave a follow-up interview with several contradictory details[0]:

> He appeared not to have a grasp on the timeline of the laptop arriving at his shop and its disappearance from it.

He owns a computer repair shop and doesn't keep basic records of the devices he services? The moment he knew what he had, he didn't start taking any kind of notes?

> Throughout the interview, Mac Isaac switched back and forth from saying he reached out to law enforcement after viewing the files in the laptop to saying that it was actually the Federal Bureau of Investigation that contacted him. At one point, Mac Isaac claimed that he was emailing someone from the FBI about the laptop. At another point he claimed a special agent from the Baltimore office had contacted him after he alerted the FBI to the device’s existence. At another point, he said the FBI reached out to him for “help accessing his drive.”

How does he not remember who contacted who regarding the device? Also, how would the FBI know that he had to device to reach out to him first? This inconsistency is absolutely damning.

> Social media postings indicate that Mac Isaac is an avid Trump supporter and voted for him in the 2016 election.

> Mac Isaac refused to answer specific questions about whether he had been in contact with Rudy Giuliani before the laptop drop-off or at any other time before the Post article’s publication. Pressed on his relationship with Giuliani, he replied: “When you’re afraid and you don’t know anything about the depth of the waters that you’re in, you want to find a lifeguard.”

Seeming to realize he’d said too much, he added: “Ah, shit.”

So Rudy was your lifeguard? the reporters asked. “No comment,” he replied.

He wasn't comfortable admitting he had been in contact with Giuliani, even though it's pretty obvious at this point that he was? That doesn't sound like a citizen fulfilling their civic duty if he was in contact with a political operative.

This story absolutely stinks to high heaven.

0: https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-reportedly-gave-hunter...
It's a custom driver for Mac, so it will not just work without additional driver support of some sort. There is a standard USB webcam protocol, which the cameras' firmware does not implement, in favor of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24793187
I've been a dev for 20 years and I have a second hand Ikea table that works great and a $60 chair from staples which I'm thinking of upgrading to Steelcase from ebay that is a few hundred. My old PC is much quicker than my crappy PC I used to have in the office.
Half of what keeps NYC pedestrians on the sidewalk is the fear of being run over by cars. If pedestrians know they can just safely cut in front of cars whenever they want, I fear the average speed in the city is going to drop from 12 to 6...
Do we need to link to that famous Dropbox comment again?

Sometimes convenience can be enough.
Chrome 87 Beta: WebAuthn in DevTools, Pan-Tilt-Zoom, Flow Relative Shorthands
I work in this space (being purposefully vague), you are getting a customized image of some sort - PXE really isn't related in this way, that's just a method to get the image onto the destination disk. The official Canonical Ubuntu Cloud Images produced for use this way have the MOTD behaviour and snapd in place based on my exposure to them. https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/
This is an absolutely fantastic project. It's such a pity that fundamental basics such as "how does a CPU actually work, from first principles?" isn't taught in schools any more. I know that in Germany at quiete some middle schools, such things where taught in the 1970s in super modern computer science classes. This is quiete unbelievable nowadays.
Thanks for the context. So basically there is no audit or certification, just an assertion from the company.
There's an in-person CIO Symposium event I usually go to and this year it was spread out into a series of short virtual events. One very common theme is that necessity made them do things that they were skeptical about, thought would take too long, would be really hard and... the world didn't end and, in fact, things turned out better than expected. A lot of experiments that people were afraid to perform were performed for them and things turned out not bad. Or even well.

Of course, WFH is a mixed bag and I expect 100% remote to be rare but I do expect a lot more flexibility at many companies.
k3s swaps etcd for kine, which is an app that implements enough of the etcd API to support kubernetes. It uses dqlite under the hood, but you can use a different database if you want (though it's not clear to me if you still get Raft if you do so).

It looks like Canonical is just using dqlite directly.
Right, but this leak didn't come from Burisma.

Now, it could still be a GRU operation, but it's not what the article was talking about.
Your political agenda is quite clear.
Thanks for the fact-checking! I looks like I didn't recall correctly (or maybe it used to be true but changed at some point, who knows?).
Cuomo is a center-left Democrat, how does that compare to Trump's alternative in 2016?

Really it sounds like tens or hundreds of thousands of people could die during a pandemic, regardless of what effort goes into paving a politician's way into office with censorship.
The president doesn't make major annoucements using HN. The fact is, Twitter has taken on a different role.
At 36:50 there's a quite interesting segment that's basically I, Pencil [1] with the moral inverted: https://youtu.be/_Q2m_mCIrQY?t=2210

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil. I read the original for the first time recently, and was amused that it ended with a rant against the post office.
I am not trying to be pedantic. There are many contexts in which 'prove' might be a reasonable term colloquially.

However you are referring to a social science when you talk about differences between kids of different generations. I think using 'proved' in that context puts you on pretty shakey ground.
It's impossible because amplification is a zero-sum game. There's a limited amount of attention per human being. Thus everyone vying for attention is competing in this game, and any criteria for choose one amplified voice over the other necessarily results in bias.

It is a completely unavoidable artifact of our attention span and mortality, with no possible workaround. Hence why curation and bias becomes the value propositions.
I have trouble understanding how a sustainable business model can be built in indoor mapping?

- its indeed a pain to find which aisle your product is at but usually does not take more few minutes to find it (it's not like customers are wasting hours). For cases like neighborhood groceries, customers do develop some knowledge of where to find things are (stores change the ailes but not so much) so not much of repeat usage either.

- for grocery and shopping, isn't it good for the Shop to have customers spend more time in the store? "walk through the full store and pick what you want..." I would say some customers also enjoying browsing through the wares (the so called retail therapy)

There are definitely some real problems like helping passengers navigate through different gates/ terminals, large office buildings, finding the right department in a large hospital building and so on.

However given the investments needed in setting up the different IOT sensors to help the mapping + navigating effort, I really wonder if this indoor mapping can ever have a sound business model?
Why there is a national shortage of refrigerators
"Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me" Was the phrase I grew up on. Seems like the opposite today where we allow looting and riots but saying the wrong thing gets you in trouble.
The port is definitely going, but maybe they'll put a magnet in the MBP lid so you can snap your iPhone onto the lid with the camera facing you over the top?

Not really their style though.
Well, whatever the case is, stupidity is overdetermined.

Here are a few ideas not mentioned.

* Similar to #13. Expansion of rural broadband, mobile computing, and cell phone networks, combined with post-9/11 entrenchment/mainstreamization of fringe cable news and talk radio. That's a lot of "information" getting to folks with below-average formal education.

* It has always been somewhat unfashionable to call religious people "stupid", but the steady decline in religiosity may have led to gullibility in other areas of life, particularly politics and conspiracy theories (MAGA/QAnon/Fox News/4Chan) that we are more apt to call "stupid"
I'm skeptical of the military applications of elephants on acid to begin with...
> I don't think I ever realized how much of this venting must have subtly happened in person, but since COVID I think most of it gets bottled up and people get very frustrated when they can't casually talk through these issues in person.

I hadn't considered this angle before reading your comment, but the psychological impact of this alone is huge. As any therapist will tell you, working through frustrations and integrating negative experiences instead of bottling them up is crucial.

This is something I already struggled with prior to COVID, and I've been seeing a therapist for years now for this (and many other) reasons.

The thing about bottling things up is that it kind of "works" for awhile. Until it doesn't.

So we probably haven't even started to see the longer term impact this will have over time.
This is incorrect. The 3 letter agencies refused to say this, which is why Paul Wolfowitz had to create the Office of Special Plans inside the Pentagon so that there was an intelligence agency that produced the sort of analysis results that the White House wanted.

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