skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you honestly believe Trump was trying to overthrow the government?

Yes, just like I think that was the US’s goal in Cuba with the Bay of Pigs. And just as with the Bay of Pigs, the active agents that were sent off were expendable and abandoned once it didn't work.

> Had that been his real intent I'm fairly certain it would have had a more significant outcome beyond people stealing random envelops and podiums.

Murder of a law enforcement officer is a more significant thing than stealing random envelopes and podiums, as is a mob being stopped from harming Congressional staffers and members at several points by only seconds (and in one case by application of deadly force.)

> It was a protest that went too far.

The people involved said online they were going to seize and kill security officers and members of Congress to achieve their goals, they did the first and were forcibly prevented from being able to do the second. It was a violent insurrection that went less far than planned.
The "ANTIFA" riots? Can you cite a source for this claim that the black lives matters protests were propagated in any sort of widespread, organized concerted effort by "ANTIFA"? I hear this claim often from Trump supporters but as far as I can tell, they either heard it on talk radio or Fox News. Considering Fox News' coverage of Trump prior to the election, I don't exactly consider them a reliable source. If you could provide a single source for these claims I think that would help your case tremendously.

Otherwise (and I'm so sorry if this sounds condescending), have you considered reflecting on the trustworthiness of the news you tend to digest? I think we can all agree that it's time for the GOP to reflect. Many of them were willing to throw away their principles by repeating Trump's lies that the election was unfair or stolen. Have you not yet arrived at this conclusion finally?
I’m curious what the legal liability is for platforms that host content that “incites violence”[1]

1 - I realize this can range anywhere from emotional calls to protest up to the “clear and imminent danger” doctrine. And the specifics of the “inciting” and context around it certainly matter too.
I use it all the time. I don't do group chats much, but I use it for 1-on-1 communication. It's so much better in my opinion because 1) it satisfies my needs and 2) I trust the provider, based on the reputation that has been developed around Moxie Marlinspike and the fact that all facets of Signal are open source. Telegram is not. Furthermore, Telegram tried to pull a quick 1 billion quasi-raise with their TON bs platform, which was a joke from the very beginning. Seriously, pull up the initial whitepaper for that platform system - total cash grab.

So yeah, @arthurcolle has used Signal, and likes it.
One would argue that reasonable people be reasonable.

Of course, 1% of trump voters may be giving the 99% a bad name.
Does it matter? Isn't a mob a mob?
> There is a good reason we have different categories for 'attempted crime' and 'crime'.

One of the important ones is the line between planning to do something and actually doing it. It's one thing to stand in a crowd chanting something stupid, quite another if the moment comes and you have to choose.

> What they didn't do is mostly because it didn't work, not because there was no attempt.

What I'm referring to is methods, not goals.

Nobody wants to imagine the level of violence that people are capable of when unrestrained. I don't intend to describe it here, but the world has seen it in other times and other places.
I'm glad to see people care and engineer new, more resilient platforms like this. Nevertheless, despite being generally anti-centralization and pro-free speech I have to conclude:

Large-scale social networks political bias should not be fixed by making social networks more free, it has be fixed by making social networks less free.

When "conservatives" call for violence or actual hatred (not just antipathy or disagreement) they must be stopped.

When "liberals" storm people and destroy their careers and lives for merely using wrong vocabulary or having and expressing an unpopular (even plain wrong) opinion they should be stopped too.

Large-scale social networks meant for general audience, those websites which have serious effects on off-line lives, are the new streets and they have to be policed the same way streets are. We don't want to live where street violence is a norm.
As they know that people are leaving and replacing them
>To the surprise of the researchers, over a third of the patients showed signs of kidney malfunction, which led to problems such as an increase in bodily waste in the blood and increased the risk of sexual dysfunction.

That is extraordinary. Does any other common disease result in kidney malfunction at such a rate?
All economic activity in a nation is going to benefit the government in some way. Is this a call for full cuba-level embargo of the nation of China, or what here?
Research actually backs up that deplatforming does reduce audience sizes for an outlet.

Which makes sense of you believe that some listeners will simply not have the interest in jumping over to a new platform. Repeat several times and with every platform shift the audience reduces.
I would like to add too that it's no coincidence that all these extremist groups were at Trump's rally. He has been talking to these people using coded language and rhetorical devices for years. Lots of gross rhetoric at every rally, for years and it's all recorded for people to go back and pour over now.

Then there was the great idea to hold a rally down the road from the capital building on that very day, actively invite a bunch of extremist groups you've been courting for years, whip those people up using inflammatory rhetoric and your greatest hits about the the election being stolen, tell them "Because you'll never take back our country with weakness, because you have to show strength and you have to be strong", and then invite them to walk down to the capital building with you..

And let's tweet this during the assault on congress for good measure: Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution

I'm not sure it mattered if Trump meant for this to happen. He's toxic, and he's dangerous.
Strong sell signal
> what’s being banned is systematic destruction of people’s willingness to believe facts in order to support a world view that is inconsistent with facts.

If that where the case, we would see banning of gender studies and a few more ideas pushed by the left, which is clearly not what’s happening.
The only problem with services like Paddle is that your customers are not your own anymore technically. The customer will belong now to Paddle and if something happens with Paddle or your account, you'll lose all of them.

PS: We're using Paddle for a few years and we're a bit concerned by this.
It's easy to do things slowly, by the book, taking all the time in the world, while the world is waiting. It's part of the skill and mastery to know which corners to cut and which things are essential and which can be fixed later, and judge the effort to result ratio accurately.
Can you explain how I'm a bad faith actor.
> On Windows you can drag the file right onto the ‘Browse…’ button

I know, but I was illustrating a point about how the open/save panels work. That’s why in the following example, I mentioned that I’d just drag straight into the app.

> Perhaps I’m too used to Windows’s idiosyncrasies

Yes, you are. If you want an Explorer window, you should open Explorer. When you see a file picker dialog, you don’t see an extra Explorer process spawn nor does that dialog get added to Explorer’s list of windows.

> This does not seem surprising to me

Because you’re looking at it from a technical level, not a user interaction level.

At the interaction level, what is the goal of an open/save panel? To pick a location. It doesn’t fundamentally need to do or be anything more than that. That its default behaviour is destructive is classifiable as ‘surprising’.
Not extremely cheap, but the ULX3S fits the bill. It's got the inputs and outputs and all.
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Our current law makes a sharp divide between children and adults, but I think when you ignore the current law and instead look at the reasoning and the data we have, the comparison is pretty sound. The gap in knowledge and domain specific reasoning ability between the average child and adult is smaller than the gap between the average adult and a corporate team of lawyers. While I think that is already a sign the issue needs to be considered, we have corporations exploiting this knowledge gap to their advantage. There are also many countries have recognized this as a problem and have developed different attempted solutions, such as creating limits on what sort of contracts can be enforced.

So I do not see how the overall idea can be dismissed as nonsense.
Let's consider this from purely a business perspective. Surely Stripe has done the numbers and they stand to lose revenue from continuing to process payments for this particular website, right?
As per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot Wikipedia already tries to add all referenced pages to Internet Archive.
Professional tools are judged by such metrics. Manufacturers put tremendous effort into onboarding neophytes because they know whichever stack of tools get the job done with the lowest cost labor will grab a lot of market. The old heads that can write Verilog from memory are trapped in zoom meetings dealing with 'managers.'

Sadly this frequently manifests as huge, Eclipse based bloatware with byzantine installation processes and comical fragility. Precious few understand the value of lightweight, robust tools and confuse elaborate graphical wizards and code generators with quality.
agreed. nothing novel about people lying to convince other people to do something.

what’s novel is the centralized nature of social media (in terms of # of people reached from a single source) and the fact that some incredibly wealthy companies control these sources and face an existential risk if their platforms are used to create enough civil unrest that whoever ends up controlling the government is convinced that these companies are too dangerous to leave unregulated.
There are huge potentials for disruption in the VC market. If Facebook would give free Oculus Quest to all its employees I think we would have VC in VR by now. The big problem is presence, and organic discussions in large groups. The grid view of Zoom et al. still sucks. There needs to be a 3D, or AR, or VR experience that allows us to move freely and talk more naturally to people in the room.

Latency is always going to be an issue unfortunately, maybe the camera could be better at recognizing facial expression and body language to indicate when someone is about to speak, or wants to speak.
It’s a figure of speech. Grow up.
Anyone that says terrorists should be allowed to freely communicate and assemble is defending terrorism, right?
In the UK, Fox News had to cease broadcasting because it had breached multiple times due impartiality rules[0]. In the US, some are advocating for a return of the fairness doctrine.

[0] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fox-news-stops-airing...
>measures to restrict people from using their services at the exact same time with no realistic alternative

Why must it be through an online payment processor?

My bank will send payments for me. And I can write a check and mail it to whoever I want.
> That's exactly what our tyrannical Russian government says

Tyrannical governments will always find a way to abuse the legal system.

Most people would be in favour of laws against corruption, but corruption charges are one of the most common ways that autocrats use to suppress opposition.
I tried C-shift-A, but didn't work.

Control click seems to work.
you are ignoring the “why”.
You can't. People making absurdist statements like that and claiming them as "opinions" when someone rebuts them are the principle reason I stopped looking at social media sites (and I barely looked at it before then). If someone says, "The sun didn't rise today" and everyone else points out the sun in the sky, and their reply is "Well, that's, like, your opinion, man", it's safe to ignore them. Don't engage because they have tacitly admitted to being an unreasonable, delusional individual.
That makes even less sense. The solution is to be adopt stricter controls not less.
> But pragmatically, they likely don't answer the phone. Or email.

> So, it is still easier to

... hold them responsible in court for damage/injury/deaths caused by the actions their vehicles take which are not under control of the driver.
Couldn't have said it better. Thank you for this.
There's a loophole in US law that a family member can receive bribes, in this case $1 billion from the CCP and Ukraine, which is what Hunter did while Joe was VP.

However, obviously corruption is corruption.

Hunter has no useful skills, so what possible reason would the CCP even talk to him, let alone give him $1 billion, aside from influencing Joe?
I can totally understand that sentiment.

I don't know about you, but for me the obvious way in which politicians and other powerful sorts have abused and perverted religious devices (and systems of control) to achieve their own ends has left a really bad taste in my mouth generally w.r.t anything "control-y' about religion.

The religious motivation behind control in monasteries is something different, though (at least when uncorrupted by politics and power).

Monasteries are, by design, very controlled environments. That's _exactly_ what they are supposed to be.

A place where you can safely get lost in ecstatic bliss, altered states of consciousness and the sometimes-difficult psychological territory of self discovery that typically follows these experiences.

The guard rails are put there by people who have travelled the road before and know what the pitfalls are.

For anyone curious about that (from a Christian monastery context):

* Cloud of Unknowing (Anonymous)

* The Dark Night of the Soul (St. John of the Cross)

* The Interior Castle (Teresa of Ávila)

Similar material exists for guiding e.g. Buddhist monks through the sort of territory that comes up when people spend a lot of time alone in contemplation (The Visuddhimagga, The Vimuttimagga in the Theravada tradition, The Tibetan Book of the Dead in the Vajrayana tradition).

Shamanic traditions likewise have very strict schedules of diet and spiritual preparation before aspirants can consume psychedelics - and ceremonies are (traditionally) performed under exquisitely controlled conditions.

Incidentally - westerners who play with meditative technologies or "psychedelic" therapies absent a regular, working relationship with a guide who know the territory do so at their own peril, IMO.

Thousands of years of contemplative and meditative practice have yielded independently arising systems in many different cultures which call for a controlled environment where a practitioner is surrounded by peers who know what to do, and more importantly what _not_ to do when things get a bit weird.

That's JUST for the individual practitioner.

Now add another layer for "things that can go wrong when trying to manage / lead a large community of people doing these things together".

Many mystical traditions (particularly eastern ones) solve this problem by having rules about how long monks and abbots can stay in one place.

Here, we see some western solutions to the common problems of community governance (at least: the sorts of problems one was likely to encounter at the time).

I've meandered really widely around the point! :)

Really I just wanted to call out that there is a valid (within the context of the goals of spiritual practice) use for a very controlled environment that should be considered separately from the common understanding of "religious control" (i.e. the powerful and political abusing religious devices to exert control over the masses).
> The issue with Facebook doing this is the fact that they're a huge company that is buying these ads where the smaller company cannot.

You're telling me Coke can't advertise soda because there's a small local craft soda manufacturer here in town?
So do all the news networks. What’s your plan for that.
If the “save” button did indeed create a literal Explorer window, I expect it to come with all the trimmings — but it doesn’t. Plenty of what makes Explorer what it is aren’t part of the actual control that both Explorer and file picker dialogs use.

To me, thinking of file picker dialogs as literal Explorer windows is as contrived as file picker dialogs not offering full CRUD abilities — except one approach is vastly friendlier and safer.

I understand the technical decision, too, but there’s nothing that could prevent Windows from making file picker dialog behaviour non-destructive.
I'll definitely check that out. When I was younger I loved playing practically any video game, but as I've aged, I only play a few games a year and they generally need to be pretty unusual and heavy on the story side. I want the experience and not the frustration of having to die fighting a boss 10x.
Not at all. Free speech but with consequences. And there is free speech in America and free speech on the internet in America - however the moment you're on private property of a technology company's property (website or app or other) - it's their rules you follow.

People easily, and they are doing it, post to thedonald.win to say whatever the fuck they want there because the moderators are allowing it. So I don't accept your premise that these people playing victim role, behaving as if they're being persecuted and claiming they're blocked from free speech - because they're not.

I presume you don't just let anyone into your house whenever they want to, and to say whatever they want anytime?
there's a good precedent, just send everyone guilty of thoughtcrimes to Gulag, problem solved.
Impressive work, but it leaves open the inevitable question of whether the software that is distributed actually implements the protocol as modelled in the proof. With reproducible builds and a trustworthy build environment, we can hopefully assume that the binary matches the source code, but there isn't yet a proof that the source code doesn't have some unmodelled edge cases (as in the 2017 Key Reinstallation AttaCKs[0] on WPA2).

About this threat, the paper says:

"Concerning implementation flaws, our formalisation can be used as a reference for the correct implementation of MTProto 2.0 clients (and servers). Tools like Spi2Java or FS2PV can be useful to this end."

[0] https://www.krackattacks.com/
Seems some people don't like what they see in the mirror.
I think the more interesting part is that the ACLU was committed so strongly to non-discrimination in 1986.

And I agree the settlement doesn’t prove the claim was valid. But why would protection matter less when you’re wearing the garb of the political view you’re trying to express?

If the law is trying to protect unpopular political views from being excluded in public services, it matters the most precisely when they’re wearing MAGA hats or Newsom 2022 pins.
For me, it applies to everyone. I try hard to not hold a grudge. It's difficult but emotionally rewarding.

If we are trying to be good open source citizens and avoid unnecessary fights, you can apply it just to that.
Rudy and Trump were busy calling members of congress DURING the lock down to get them to object to the count in order to delay the process.. For reasons. I'm not sure what they were hoping to do by just delaying everything.
I assume this is because the metal bars in the cattle-grid appear as a very reflective object in the cars' radar sensors which it interprets as an obstacle?

I can see this would be a problem with cars that use only radar or radar+ultrasonic. Besides Tesla (and Waymo) cars which do sensor-fusion with vision, what other cars attempt to corroborate radar data with confirmation it's an obstacle and not a coincidental highly radar-reflective object?
I was trying to expand that the joke is already a reality :D
>So forcing businesses to associate with someone in order to protect fair elections or free speech rights wouldn't be incongruous.

A fair point. How would you apply that in this case?

I'm not being snarky, I just don't see the relevance of applying your (correct in certain circumstances) reasoning in this particular case.
I'd like to draw attention to the more risk-averse of their two portfolios. They are offering 10.41% APY on United States dollar pegged stable coins as of today. That is 34 times the rate in my bank's savings account.
> like the NASA Artemis project and Space Force.

The latter I could see happening, but not being eliminated, the former is just bad politics. Biden is almost definitely going to be more like Gerald Ford than some would like him to be, they'll probably have some kind of formal investigation into the Trump administration but not much else from the executive-branch itself.

> But I evaluate his and any other politician’s policies on a case by case basis.

This is fairly naive, i.e. ignoring that (Trump being the most shining example but in no way unique) politicians are two-faced by default, policy alone doth not a president make - no amount of policy would allow you to decide what type of president will condone QAnon or write a short love letter to people threatening to shoot up the capitol building.

As per YouGov, an overwhelming majority of republicans and a supermajority of democrats thinks China is a strategic enemy of the United States now, it's just plain bad (not just bad, diabolically awful) political strategy to undo what little Trump did. Some of his tariffs might go, but they were effectively just a Tax on US consumers and didn't move the Chinese an inch so that's not really up for discussion.
These shortcuts have been a thing for quite a while too, they come from the IBM CUA guidelines [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
> Push-to-talk is barely supported

I've been using [1] for system-wide push-to-talk on OSX and it has worked well for the most part.

[1] https://github.com/yulrizka/osx-push-to-talk
I feel the "driver" of the driverless car should be responsible too. We are nowhere near actual full unsupervised autonomy - people should still be actively looking out for the car doing the wrong thing.

You don't get to abdicate responsibility on the road just because you bought in to some corporations marketing.
I'm the same way. I spend a good amount of my time being pulled into production issues or debugging a particularly difficult issue with the product. In both of those cases, the "code" changes often take only a few minutes, the problem solving can take hours.

I get a lot of satisfaction from that. Of course that means that as a team lead/manager, I have to have a lot of self discipline to allow my team members to do the same and not try to solve every problem.
Who claimed democrats attacked the capitol?
Unlike Twitter, I am used to HN users having dialogue about the substance of an article, not simply dismissing articles out of hand based on the ownership of the publication.
Nice. It's like the phrase "Drink to remember, not to forget".
Google round earth conspiracy
Don’t put yourself or your company in a position where China would influence your ability to make the right decision. That doesn’t require an embargo, but some companies maybe are best served by abstinence.
That's a strange framework to decide who the fascists are.
Ask HN: Lessons learned, failures and successes using MS Teams in the workplace
My agency is moving to Microsoft Teams and my area is being rolled out next. I’m familiar and pretty savvy but I’m a little worried about a lot of my staff and co-workers. I just wanted to ask for any advice, do’s and don’t’ or other tidbits when using software like MS Teams or similar products like Slack.