skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WhatsApp is one of the most uncomfortable and confusing messaging apps, UX-wise, I've ever used. It's as if they wanted to replace SMS, but were passionate enough about it that they copied all the shortcomings and annoyances, too.

End-to-end encryption in a proprietary app is a joke. "Please trust us we encrypt your messages".
Didn't Amazon just roll its profits back into growth in new industries. If they stopped that they could have shown profits earlier.
> [Ars quoting Musk in 2017] "We are pushing robots to the limit in terms of the speed that they can operate at, and asking our suppliers to make robots go way faster, and they are shocked because nobody has ever asked them that question," Musk said on a conference call last November.

I saw a video, years ago, when Tesla was installing/setting up/showing off the robots. The demonstrated method and tool to 'program' the robot arm was terrible, and the resulting arm motion was excessive.

My takeaway was Tesla needed experienced staff to optimize the arm path.

>[1980s GM quote] As Hamtramck's assembly line tried to gain speed, the computer-guided dolly wandered off course. The spray-painting robots began spraying each other instead of the cars.... When a massive computer-controlled 'robogate' welding machine smashed a car body, or a welding machine stopped dead, the entire Hamtramck line would stop. Workers could do nothing but stand around and wait while managers called in the robot contractor's technicians.

This seems like a solvable problem.
Biden has gotten zero bad press. Twitter and Facebook literally squashed the Hunter Biden story showing evidence of strong ties to Ukraine and China. Biden has only been given softballs in interviews and the media stands behind the fact he's cognitively sound when he obviously isn't.

The media is solidly in the house of of the establishment that led to the Bush/Clinton dynasty. They do not care about the truth.

Let's look at Gov Whitmer and Cummo. Their decisions lead to the deaths of thousands of elderly because they stuffed them all together in nursing homes that were not equipped for COVID. The media has done NOTHING about this story. Cummo wrote a fucking book praising himself!!

Biden and Harris will never face the same scrutiny Trump has.
Really?! Only $1B for a real company with unique and futuristic products? When I look at the valuations of some Internet companies - it is sad!
No, but they can use their enormous power and influence to get politicians into office that could write new rules allowing such.
If bing and duck can't do it, why could the government?
That the life of a CEO sounds horrible?
> without evidence.

we're talking about an election that was won with razor thin margins in a few specific swing states, with numerous statistical anomalies, hundreds of sworn affidavits, and a pending lawsuit to the scotus with 17 states attached.

prior to 2020 election, the democrats, CNN, NBC, and many others are _on record_ saying that Dominion Voting has the potential for massive fraud & shouldn't be used.

the problem is that they're effectively saying no one can question these anomalies, or the claims, and that "youtube" as the expert has adjudicated the election.

the truth is that it could take years of investigation to resolve whether or not some of the alleged evidence was credible or not, and neither youtube nor the claimants can say it's truth until then.

why does big tech get to decide who's right? that's the problem here & why it reeks Orwell.
Agreed. Elon just likes to stir the pot. He knows saying these things will get him headlines.
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There are plenty of counter examples, e.g. when rationing was in effect during WW2.
The left has become the authoritarian right without realizing it.
It's amazing to me how much movement there has been towards VAT. There's this map on Wikipedia, made a few years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax#/media/File:Co...

I think it was accurate when it was created. But when I double-checked, I found that something like half the countries had created a VAT in the meantime!
Not sure if I am the only one feeling this way, but I hope for the death of facebook (at least in its current form). I feel they are a net negative for society and have done enough shady things to deserve that tag. Disinformation, election hacking, free basics (aka attempted non net neutral free internet in India) marketing it as a service to humanity. Zuck is undeniably smart but has failed time and time again to make the moral right decisions, right from the start of facebook.
Property rights are intrinsic to our natural self-sovereignty (and agency). The State cannot grant rights.
Bet you thought that the slippery slop would stop at the "deniers" and the "anti-vaxers".
With uBlock Origin you can check "annoyance" lists and you wont be bothered anymore.
I use UUID PKs in Rails today. What support do you think it is missing?
At the risk of attracting more downvotes, I persist. The problem with corporate malfeasance and bullying, of which Elon Musk seems to be a specialist, is that people are afraid to retaliate.

We shouldn't be afraid.

I personally sued big corporations, as an individual, two times, and won. Granted, this was in Europe, not the US, but the warnings and hand-waving of people telling me one should never do that were similar.

If you care enough about the issue, and don't care much about the risks, which are usually wildly exaggerated, the odds are actually in your favor.
I'm curious why you bought a house in California to begin with. The cost of living was similar in the last two decades.
Pressuring state lawmakers to throw out the outcome of an election because you lost is the "constitutional process" now?

Filing frivolous lawsuits based on not one shred of evidence other than "too many Dems voted!" is the "constitutional process" now?
So much of what you just said is completely untrue. Not a single leading Democrat is calling for any of those things. Emptying prisons? Completely disbanding the police? Outlawing criminal laws? What does that even mean?
Logocentrism is a dead end. If you want to see the world as a conservative would, take up weightlifting and start your own business.
I think back to that "First they came for the..." poem.
Oregon was founded as a "white utopia", so I guess it makes sense.

I think we need to admit that we are all racist. Every ethnic majority thinks they are the greatest, it seems. If we can't even admit it, I don't see how it will change.
Libel is a statement that damages the reputation of a person. Libelous statements are not protected under the First Amendment.

Ideas about election fraud do not fall into this exception to the First Amendment unless they refer to individuals and make defamatory statements about them.

For the record, I'm not saying there couldn't be a reason to ban these statements, just that a libelous statement is not a good comparison because it is one of the established exceptions to the First Amendment.
This reminds me of an idea I’ve had for a restaurant, but know I will never actually build myself.
Standard “Sports Bar” setup with TVs everywhere, but all of the TVs are playing the live broadcast from exactly 8 years ago.
(I picked 8 years so that the news would match up with the US Political cycle, the Olympics, and most of the time the leap year cycle.)
I always thought that it would be fun to watch the breathless reporting of long past news in real-time at a place like that.
It doesn't matter if it actually happened or not, YouTube's exact words are "We also disallow content alleging widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical U.S. Presidential election." Nothing in there about only disallowing it if somebody believes it happened.
I thought new evidence came to light that FB used illegally obtained metrics about IG and Whatsapp that allowed them inside information about the accusations.

Something about the FB mobile app siphoning off mobile data about other app usage
We are going to look into this for the next version and perhaps combine the pir-sensor with a proximity sensor. (You can’t use proximity only since people walking by the bathroom will also trigger it) but in the current version this is instead solved by letting the user adjust the time it will play since last motion detected, and the side lights (acts as night lights during night) also indicate when the music is about to turn off so you don’t get a quiet surprise ;)

I have tested this myself for a year and it works great.

There are some features so that you can have it playing without the need for motion if you know you’re going to spend a longer time in the bathroom without moving (for example showering/bathing).
When that private entity achieves a near-monopoly on search, then it becomes the arbiter of what does and does not get heard.

That's concerning enough in itself for free speech, but add in pressure from government to "self-regulate," and you arrive at effective government censorship/suppression. When Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey are brought before Congress to testify about what they're doing to stop the spread of "fake news," the implicit threat is that if they don't pro-actively do what Congress wants, then Congress will force them to do so (or punish them in other ways).
To clarify. But I never said what you thought I said.
I would find it much more interesting if you were to engage on the legal argument being made rather than this sort of perfunctory dismissal.

Are you stating that as long as public officials are "daring to improve their democracy" that they are free to ignore Constitutional requirements that the legislature has plenary authority to proscribe the manor of selecting electors?

Note: Setting aside the likelihood that any of the alleged unconstitutional actions resulted in a different electoral outcome, isn't it important that election law is established through the Constitutionally proscribed legislative process and not via executive and/or bureaucratic actions independent of the legislature?
I’m relatively new to ZFS, but I thought you can send/receive over ssh (much like rsync). What’s the purpose of the VPN layer?

My use is relatively small, just a home user with less than a TB worth of data. Definitely not worthwhile for your team to set up as a one off.
Perhaps I'm stating the obvious, but the video you linked to is still up. This, despite the fact that the specific claims made have been roundly debunked. Pima county, the county referenced, has done a hand count and it matched the machine count almost exactly. That news is widely available.

These videos being up isn't contributing to the debate so much as providing a lot of smoke that can be pointed to as evidence of fire by people who mostly haven't watched them and can't be bothered to do their own research (I'm not accusing you of this, to be clear).
I don't know how much they did with Whatsapp, but I do know they integrated the Facebook ad serving platform into Whatsapp. Breaking up Facebook and Whatsapp would cost Whatsapp that ad serving platform, which is probably nontrivial.
This reminds me of my approach to reading the news around election day. Every day's news was just waybackHN's random day function:

http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=random-day
Fun fact, assuming you meant lipoic not liproic, large doses of R-ALA will put someone into a ketogenic state.

From what I understand, ALA is rather unstable and degrades quickly, so for accurate dosing using stablized r-ala.

Anyway, about 1000mg and you'll be in ketosis a couple hours later!
You should see what Robomasters is cooking up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhvZhPaxQ4

2019 Finals -https://youtu.be/-o_WYEoxWGY?t=438
I, uh, never thought I would see an article by an unabashed fascist whose twitter handle was, for a long time, "Fisted By Foucault" show up on the front page of Hacker News...
> You can't compare them to entities that only exist to cause harm.

All of the entities I mentioned (including Robhinhood) have created a ton of wealth/jobs/income/etc. for a lot of people (easily 100k+ individuals).

How do you reconcile that with "only exist to cause harm"?
because the other states don't suck near as much ass as california
Lawsuits Filed by FTC and the State Attorneys General Are Revisionist History
If your audience reacts to content like it's a dog-whistle, maybe don't be surprised when you're banned?

Talking about "investigating voter fraud" when Trump was claiming voter fraud with no evidence and then getting retweeted by supporters who already had made up their mind isn't helping GoFundMe determine they are not faced with a dishonest actor.

Agreed about disclaimers: Why not go with a disclaimer that says "The president's claims are currently unfounded and have no legal merit and could endanger trust in our democratic process. Some of my analysis could reveal the impact of COVID-19 deaths in some districts or active voter suppression in some states". Enough to tune out misinfo sharers and be a bit more honest about what most analysts predicted would happen.
What happens if someone gives a fake name and address? or of a random person?
> However, the move to Manifest V3 also involves curtailing the power of extensions, including those that I trust as much or more than the browser itself. I want uBlock origin to be able to intercept and filter requests according to the logic that gorhill deems most sensible rather than however Chromium wants it to be done, since I trust gorhill far more than Google (and possibly slightly more than even Mozilla).

So what happens if gorhill's account is hacked or he gets tired of working on the extension and sells it to the highest bidder? These are not theoretical problems, they've happened multiple times in the past.

I'm not saying Manifest V3 is the perfect solution but these are very real problems that cause me to not install any extensions that can access all sites.
*Over 50.

They haven't had a single win. There hasn't been any substantiated claims. Zero. No evidence of wide spread voter fraud has appeared.

Yet they continue with these talking points.

Polite society needs to say "Enough!" to these liars who are tearing apart our democracy in service of Donald Trump, of all people.
Your mirrors can be more than 2 wide, you can have automatic hot standbys, you can make each mirror its own zpool so loss of some drives doesn’t lose the entire pool.

Actually losing a mirror vdev doesn’t lose the whole pool anymore for several years now. I’ve recovered data off a zpool where I lost one of three mirrored vdevs. It’s not pretty, but your data is still there. Any files on the missing drives are just 0 bytes.
It's worth noting that part of Facebook's culpability regarding Cambridge Analytica is that the CA "personality survey" was able to gather "personally identifiable information such as real name, location and contact details" of participating users, and also "the app did the same thing for all the friends of the user who installed it".[0]

I suppose that a lot of personal data could be gleaned about someone (and their friends) from a rogue ActivityPub node reading the posts that were federated with it, but people would be suspicious if, for example, Mastodon suddenly started asking users for their phone number, Social Security number, and a picture of their driver's license.[1] And people would be very unlikely to sign up to a node which was actually run by Cambridge Analytica, right?[2]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/06/cambridge-analy...

[1] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/parler-is-not-the...

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201116/01141545710/what-...
I'm suspicious because oftentimes things are more complex than a single source. These articles all point to a single prop (47) and seem to really point out to shoplifting. At the same time the homelessness increased 14% from 2016 to 2017. So is there more crime because of lawmaking or more crime because more desperate people with seemingly no other recourse?
Not claiming to know better, but when it comes to social issue I'd stay away from claiming "mathematical" like correlations. Just my 2c :)
The Inbox by Gmail version loaded instantly, had inline emails and loads of other cool features that got half-arsed forced into the older gmail codebase.

Google made a superior replacement to the current gmail experience and then just threw it away like it never existed.
> You do agree that we have surrendered our right to steal or to murder?

Who has a right to steal or murder? Those are by definition violations of other people's rights.
>I agree and find the attempt at a breakup a bit frustrating. This is an action that could have profoundly disruptive effect and it's not really clear what the positives or negatives would be.

This organization itself is disruptive. As interesting as it is to discuss the potential costs and benefits, there's been a very real cost to society for these issues. It makes no sense to wait for further damage reports if that's at the cost of further damage. It's simple cost vs benefits really. Also I thought disruption was a good thing..?

Downvoted so I'll just add one more thing; this isn't a conversation that is new. I'm coming to this with that context. Do I want them to fail? No. The desired outcome is that they will self regulate. But if not, there should be competition. Monopolies naturally have negative side effects, that's why we try to avoid them.
Citation on "increasingly missing" please. I tried finding out more about that for security reasons (a customer of ours checks the referer for anti-CSRF purposes and it seems to work perfectly fine in any browser so long as you don't do something like https->http posting) but from what I saw it was actually quite reliable and add-ons that block it are rather rare even among privacy what privacy nuts generally recommend to install.
Definitely. It is obvious that there is some:

- Time to publish, it’s not instant like the internet

- Allows people to editorialize and review, even if they allow publishing

- Allow critics to voice their opinions before the book blows up

I’m in no way saying we need to have a CCP level control over what gets published or not, but I am just pointing out the virality of social media that didn’t exist before the internet.

You can make many arguments around it, the fact is that the internet fundamentally changed the way conspiracy theories propagate.

Even if controversial books are published, someone is going to a bookstore and buying it. There are reviews on ebooks. There is so much discussion. No such thing is exists in echo chambers.
If you can see the data, you can share the data. Preventing sharing is exactly as possible as DRM, i.e. only doable by outlawing general-purpose computing.

So while I value privacy, I'm not sympathetic to using privacy as an argument to restrict your own access to your Facebook data, for you to decide yourself on how that's shared. If you misuse your view of your friends' data, that's on you and up to your friends to punish/discourage you for.
Can Google imprison you? Not in the US, unless their lawyers find a nice way to make a prosecutor go e.g. for some fancy computer espionage charges (see Aaron Schwartz for example), but companies in the past had regimes in their bag and made people go to prison or vanish entirely, or perform forced labor for them.

Can they seize your assets? Not directly, but try getting sued by the legal department of a mega corp and see what you have left when it's all over. The end result is the same.

As somebody else pointed out, we already had companies that effectively acted as unelected governments in the past, like the East India Company. They used to execute people.
Or become a reporter and experience it for yourself.

https://blogs.findlaw.com/dc_circuit/2020/11/doj-argues-us-c...
Because internet search engine, video sharing platform, streaming entertainment content division, or a self driving car division of other competitors are clearly products belonging together.
The fact he is a conman, legally has been found so (Trump university, his own charity, two easy examples off the top of my head but there are plenty more) and yet this is the man they believe?

It's a true sickness in this country. I don't know what it is, the racism, or what. Why seemingly functional people are taken in so easily by an obvious conman.
I agree with where you start out, but I think a proliferation of partisan platforms would
simply lead to more filter bubbles and more polarization. I would much rather see the Fairness Doctrine reinstated (in the US, anyhow) and expanded to Internet platforms, than to see everyone flocking to their platform of choice, becoming even more oblivious to alternate viewpoints.
As a life-long Democrat, I didn't realize how much false received wisdom I had internalized until I married a Republican.

As another left-leaning person who has also had this experience recently, and who is rather disturbed by the delusions and hypocrisy from “my team”, I’ve noticed that your posts lately seem to do an excellent job of offering a more complete picture. Often, completing the picture involves clarifying the right-leaning viewpoint. It’s unfortunate that you usually get downvoted for it, even when you aren’t inserting your own opinion and stating things that are objectively true.

Just curious, has the combination of the bad behavior by many on the left in conjunction with receiving additional context from the right, pushed you towards the center or even the right? Or are you merely trying to act as more of an ambassador for Republican views?
Before COVID and the prospect of multiple companies considering optional WFH became a possibility, I figured I was pretty much stuck here for career reasons, so might as well build home equity for 20 years or so.
It's hard to take anyone seriously if they're basing everything off of opinions of never living somewhere.

The US isn't perfect. But the idea that it is this lawless wasteland that is terrible is just flat out wrong.
Collisions only affect new transactions, they aren't able to tamper with the existing blocks (you need preimage attack for that), and for the record the first collision on md5 only came in 2004 and 2017 for sha1, way after the theoretical vulnerability was proven. There's plenty of time to move from one hashing scheme to another.

> There is no such thing as a non-"brute-force-resistant" PoW function.

Well, maybe on the semantic debate, but there's a big difference between fast hash functions (sha-2 and the likes) and slow-by-design ones: ASIC.
Just hit F12 and check in the network tab what is sent on both XHR and navigation. It does send the referer in general.
Personal experience and the experience of a lot of people who have used MDMA, backed up by the studies below. I’m not saying you will become depressed. MOST people feel a “fried out” feeling the next couple days unless supplementation is taken, and that effect is well studied and established.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10619665/

Here is the basing study - and the neurotoxic effects of MDMA being metabolized to MDA in vitro are well documented:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2457659/

Yes - these are rat models. But it’s not like we are allowed to test for toxicity in humans at these levels.
> 5-HTP is a precursor to serotonin and taking it for about a week before your experience allows your body to synthesize more

Prolonged use of 5-HTP will also cause heart problems, same reason fen-phen does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenfluramine/phentermine#Adver...

I don't know of any studies of exactly how much is needed to cause problems, before taking 5-htp one might want to look into that!

I am always rather concerned that 5-htp is available OTC, and is even added to energy drinks, when it is known to have such harmful effects.
There is something incredibly ironic about that, unfunded pension liabilities for pensioners who no longer reside in the locale that gave them their pension.
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20mg Cialis, just saying.