skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Giving how gullible the general public is, I think this will be a great way to stop the flow of garbage into their gullible minds. Sure the zealots and mentally unstable will find other means to communicate with each other but deplatforming Trump right now is critical to preventing another Capitol building repeat. He needs to be stalled until he has to show up in NY state for tax/real estate fraud charges. Then he will be more focused on that rather than trying to stir up more mayhem.
Aside from the legal/ethical implications a sibling outlined, I just kinda think it mostly doesn't matter that much.

People who have been vaccinated themselves will not care if the police they have to interact with are vaccinated or not (well, 95%ish not care).

People who have not been vaccinated should err on the side of assuming anyone they come in contact with is not vaccinated (and is possibly infected) anyway, and should take precautions.

No, that's not perfect, because precautions can still fail to work, but it's not absolutely the worst either.

On the flip side, I don't think it would be unreasonable to have police (etc.) who refuse the vaccine temporarily reassigned to roles that limit their interaction with the public.
As a person who was there for the early days of Agile, I just want to say it's sad that's what Agile has become. You're right, of course. But that's not what was meant. Somehow "Individual and interactions over processes and tools" became "individuals, please stop interacting and conform to these processes and tools".
Maybe go peek at some of Lin Wood's posts then.
Its not very wise to construct a political weapon to use against your opponents without also considering how they could use it against you.
> We got a two year investigation into the question of collusion... which found no such evidence:

No that is wrong. "The investigation found there were over 100 contacts between Trump campaign advisors and individuals affiliated with the Russian government, before and after the election, but the evidence was insufficient to show an illegal conspiracy"

> Many of you in this thread likely still believe the lie that Trump colluded with the Russians.

Many of you also believed that Hillary was responsible for Benghazi and Republicans wasted millions of dollars and time on that investigation and yet she was not guilty.

> replying with distracting "whataboutisms" regarding Paul Manafort

So he and many other broke the law and went to jail for that, why is that a bad thing. Why did Trump pardon them though?

How many people in the US went to jail because of the Benghazi investigations?

Mueller did not say that Trump was innocent, why didnt he say that?
MAME notoriously aims for accuracy over all else. In this case, I think it's just MAME using slow but precise "cycle accurate" emulation techniques as opposed to QEMU, which uses TCG to translate guest to host, and takes a few performance shortcuts.

Just speculating, though.
Parler user data exposed and exfiltrated
This is pretty much how I've resorted to solving the issue for myself as well. It's a shame when I personally like GNOME in most other ways.
Germany isn't the only country that speaks German...
Software Leviathans and the weird dominance of good enough
I think you are correct except it remains to be seen if the new alt-Internet is centralized or decentralized.
Algorithm design can lower the buffer size needed.
There shouldn't be any problem with these discussions when they're posed without hate. Immigration for example should be discussed in terms of cost/benefit and immigration of talent, policies, etc., not "Build a wall and Mexico will pay for it" or outright banning people based on religion (remember Muslim ban?).

The problem is that these are not conservative principles. This is just hate spewing, plain and straight.
> This is why Free desktop operating systems are a joke and haven’t been popularly adopted. It’s little things like this that add up.

That's it. That sums up what's wrong with the Linux desktop. It's the little annoying, arbitrary and broken things. It's that constant denial (the 2 decades old GNOME bug report is the perfect example), that it's not broken, people are just using it wrong mentality among Linux desktop developers that breaks Linux desktop.

I know, desktop is hard. I know we should be thankful to GNOME developers no matter what. I am thankful! I just don't want to use their broken software anymore. GNOME is dead to me since a decade. I just could not appreciate it as much as I wished to.
You can't you just have to let it happen until they implode and you can throw them in prison but at least you've limited their recruitment.
School's like Notre Dame have done surprisingly well by just having regular COVID testing for students. After they had thousands of students rush the field after a football game, I don't think they had a single COVID case.

I'm a bit skeptical with how much faith you put in those pursuing STEM degrees. There may be some correlations, but I think the delineation between "STEM and non-STEM" is oversold. Just because someone understands the correct thing to do re: COVID doesn't mean they'll actually do it
Note that Erdogan, an actual dictator, with military offensives on record (Syria, Karabash, Libya) and war-like operations (radar illumination against French warship, violations of Greece territorial waters) is not restricted at all on Twitter while the only US president in recent times that didn’t send troops abroad or start a new war is censored. It clearly shows that it’s not dangerousity of speech or personality that is censored.
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Hardly, but once you admit that there are those with whom compromise is impossible and suppression permissible then the discussion becomes a matter of degree.
Didn't George Noory still have Coast to Coast?
> When the Snowden story first broke back in 2013, many on HN argued that, hey it's all good, I have nothing to hide, and I trust our President.

Most of the public was pro-Snowden, especially the tech community. Telegram rose like a rocketship as a result of concerns over NSA backdoors.
I haven't had an opinion on Linux-on-the-desktop for _several years_ now, but TIL about ... "Neocities" (!)

https://neocities.org/about
No. I want real accountability.
Trump can organize another attack on the next platform his followers migrate to. Will you ban that we well? What makes you think platforms are the problem and not the actual person that started it? Do you think with the ban of this platform the problem has been fixed?
I completely agree with this. You will find a ton of stories about nonviolent people who had to become/join violent groups in prison just to stay alive and not be abused incessantly.
Can you prove that the same people who said "so what" to Snowden said "this is fine to these tech actions? My personal experience is that the people who opposed to mass surveillance are fully in support of these actions. At least I do.

It's fairly clear where these companies are drawing a line, and for most people like me, it's a perfectly acceptable line. Being the cause of actual violence and death means you get to be banned. Fairly clear?

The more murky question is people who think all cake shops should serve gay weddings but twitter should also be allowed to ban trump.
Tough call and nuance involved there, but I doubt there's much ambiguity separating where one stands on Snowden's revalations and these recent bans
A school mandated field trip might involve a bus ride 2 or 3 hours long and it's understood that there probably won't be bathroom breaks along the way. They might make a special exception for one of two students occasionally but, by and large, the expectation is students should make the appropriate arrangements ahead of time and this is not an onerous provision.

If this burden can be borne routinely for bus trips, why not expect the same from an exam setting?
At my college, it was a bad year when a dozen students died (which can have a negative effect on the mental health of a surprisingly large # of people). With a 0.5% fatality rate, there'd be hundreds of deaths.
I've seen some of their hateful ads. Not cool.

There is more to it though: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/opinion/lincoln-project.h...
Those are great points in the video - I've seen them employed by people who care more about winning than the truth irrespective of political affiliation.
> When the Snowden story first broke back in 2013, many on HN argued that, hey it's all good, I have nothing to hide, and I trust our President

This is … not even remotely how I remember that period, more of a sense of outrage and companies rushing to encrypt internal connections and deploy PFS.

> If the leader of the free world can be banned from all social media and co, who are based in the very same nation, and who are monopolies, then what hope is there for the rest of us?

This isn’t a great fit: Trump isn’t being banned for being a conservative or talking policies, but for inciting violence which lead to a deadly mob. If all that happens are companies enforcing their terms of service against violence or hate speech evenly, that bothers me a lot less — especially since in this case it’s treating everyone consistently rather than singling him out for special treatment.
Does their union contract allow for that type of disciplinary action?
I'd encourage anyone thinking of purchasing this not to.

Reasons why:

1) Is this audited or reviewed by the community? Likely not (there's no verifiable evidence of it).

2) Managing keys is _really, really, really hard_. We have GPG, Age, Keybase, Keys.pub and a slew of other platforms and projects to help us do this and we still cannot get it right; a $15 eBook to teach you "The proper and safe way to hold cryptocurrency" is not going to solve that. Read up on the slew of free and audited information about cold storage and hardware wallets.

3) "How to invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies". Financial advice like this is a bit of a red flag. Again, free audited information available.

4) "How to stake your cryptocurrency for passive, residual income". This is again financial advice (you have to buy something to stake) and even if my yield of units of X goes up that doesn't necessitate the price of that yield going up.

This is a quick-fast attempt to get some free money from an unverified source, on a platform to easily churn-out sales (not necessarily a bad thing but an indication of low effort) to people who will fall for it.
Re read that.
I said:

>If the government were to attempt do as you suggest, the courts would slap them down hard.

The issues around Operation Choke Point[0] that you linked to were investigated by Congress and the Department of Justice and, as I said, smacked down hard.

The above isn't analogous to the current situation, but the result was exactly as I said it would be.

Thanks for making my point for me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
How do you determine which speech incites violence? Posts about the BLM movement increased the likelihood of a small minority of people engaging in looting. The majority of protesters did not loot. Just like the majority of Trump supporters did not storm Capitol Hill. If individuals will react to information with violence, that is on them. Big Tech is not the moral or behavioral conscience of the nation.
For the people who did not storm the capitol building, sure, but a lot of jurisdictions have laws where everyone involved is responsible for the worst that the group does, so getaway drivers don't get off Scott free if one of their mates murders somebody during a robbery.

If there was somebody armed during this crime, they should all be held responsible for it
You failed to mention that Clinton lost 5 electoral votes as a result of those shenanigans, while Trump lost 2. None of the faithless electors voted for the other major candidate. How does that constitute "Democrats" trying to overturn the election?

What's more, Clinton herself was not the one trying to supposedly "disrupt the electoral college vote." If you're going to make up a story, at least make it consistent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016...

Edit: Also:

> “What the Committee did find however is very troubling. We found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling.

https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2020/8/rubio-s...
Your original post can be read as an indirect threat (don’t push them to the brink...or else). Why are you saying these things on behalf of a group of people that you’re not a member of?
Everyone said this would happen but Cuomo was more interested in virtue signaling about vaccine priority lists. Meanwhile, Florida has required all vaccine doses to be distributed, out of priority order if need be, and hospitals that fail to distribute every dose will not get more.
You are correct, I have been saying this for months/years. The reason this is escalating is for the same reason this always does: unwillingness to believe war is a possibility, then unwillingness to forgive until the suffering has gone on so long it is intolerable.
No, the issue is that an application needs to implement the preview widget and add it to the GTK file picker, hence this work needs to be duplicated by every application and of course most applications don't do that. But if the application adds a preview widget it should work regardless of which view mode is active.

Edit: Also the new GTK API for file pickers to work better with sandboxing and platform integration, lacks the ability to add preview widgets altogether.
My problem is with those who stand against "extremists" (ZOMG Those silly Nazi's) while supporting "extremists" (AntiFA/BLM groups responsible for dozens of riots, hundreds of millions in damage, many dead and federal buildings ransacked/burned, etc...)...

Why is it hard to understand how hypocritical it is of most groups screaming about the DC riots when those same groups are tactly supportive of worse over longer periods of time?

At no point did I say "being anti nazi" is bad... I said being anti-extremist while being pro-extremist is... questionable.
When a platform refuses to monitor and remove seditious activity and incitement for violence is when they fail and need to be dropped.
It doesn’t seem so hard to understand. The election and riot provided a big, obvious Schelling point, so everyone who isn’t a Trumpist knows that the time to act is now, because everyone else is moving now.
The US was caught red handed spying on literally everyone with an internet connection. I don't accept that a country having a spy ring is a credible reason to have bad relations with them.

And if there are worries about division between US citizens, possibly Amazon, Apple and Google need to be probed for Russian connections. Suppressing the speech of the sitting president is going to be quite divisive and makes the democratic process look extremely unreliable.

There is no reason to be concerned if people have connections to Russia is the point here. The top examples of problems on your mind are kinda trivial compared to what the US does to itself.
As far as I can tell, AES256-IGE is a made up mode used only by Telegram. That’s far from being a standard choice. I don’t know what authenticated encryption scheme they build on it, but on a very brief look, it doesn’t look authenticated at all.

See: https://mgp25.com/AESIGE/
This isn't sitting well with me at all. Of course it had to be done, but I also think it's a scary precedent.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

I realize that the banned groups and people were really into extremism (to say it lightly), but there's also the fact that the Pandora's box has been opened, where huge private companies can remove figures and communities of an entire political spectrum - leaving them voiceless. And given the way political democracy swings, I am quite afraid of the time this starts happening to us.

Also, just to clarify: I'm thinking this from the POV of the non-violent conservatives who are seeing this as an attack on their politics, and who can then use this as a justification to block BLM/"antifa" protests for "peace" if they come back in power.
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Maybe, I don't know. There was a group of people arrested in Michigan (?) for the kidnapping of the Governor (?), so it's possible.

But either way, I don't think it's relevant. If you want to boot someone off social media because they espouse a cause that others take too far, then there's a lot of BLM people who should receive the same fate. Anything else is rank hypocrisy.

It's worth adding that I think Trump is a puerile moron and "the election was stolen" people are loons (even the ones who didn't break into the Capitol or attend a protest). I'm not even an American, I have no dog in this fight.

But the double standard is so painfully clear, even from thousands of kilometres away. Applying these rules/bans/etc in such a blatantly partisan manner is only going to increase this divisiveness, the USA will tear itself apart from the inside.
Even if the clients are open source and if the verification of the protocol using ProVerif is sound, there is the possibility of a divergence between the "proof" and the implementation.

This is why it's important to have them in the same code base.

I've heard about attempts at inria to implement signal/double ratchet using F-star and verify the correctness. But no such implementation seems to be publicly available.

One of the things I'm interested in is to see if it's possible to bring these verification technologies to more mainstream programming languages such as python.

https://github.com/adsharma/zre_raft/blob/main/zre_raft/zre_...

is something I'd love to verify.
You could argue that. I think that by 2021 most public figures should understand that deleting a post is not equivalent to not posting it in the first place. "In a deleted post..." is a common way to start news stories these days.

He either posted something stupid like an idiot and then deleted for damage control, or he's playing five dimensional chess with us, but my money is on the former.
The max flow is the prime to the min-cut. But you don't use min-cut to find the max flow.
Not everyone did. Only virtue signaling addicts like Cuomo and Newsom.
> At some point the lies need to stop.

Imagine that all the news agencies actually spread the lie. Imagine that for the next 4 years of Biden's presidency, they would talk non-stop about election fraud, how he's illegitimate, and how there needs to be an investigation. Imagine that the opposition party appointed a special investigator who's sole mission was to take down Biden by uncovering fraud.

Now imagine that after 4 years, it turned out that all the evidence for fraud was actually based on lies, opposition research, or fabricated dossiers. The investigation found some other issues - but nothing that could take down Biden. Turns out they tarnished the presidency for four years for no good reason. You think apologies would be in order right?

Yet that's exactly what the Russian collusion narrative was. A lie. A four year lie perpetrated by the Liberal media, the Democrats - including very prominent leaders who openly lied to people's faces - as well as some members of the intelligence agencies.

So why didn't those lies need to stop? How would Democrats react if they had to deal with 4 years of fraud investigations, #Resistance, #NotMyPresident?

And let me be clear, I think these will be remarkably similar events in a way that's going to look almost comical in hindsight.

Imagine the outrage Democrats would have had if instead of being investigated, the courts had simply dismissed the Russian collusion narrative? If they marched, looted, and rioted with the courts entertaining the investigation, how bad would it have gotten if the Republicans of 2016 acted like the Democrats of 2020?
In both cases rioting and looting are unacceptable and the rioters should be arrested, but
the BLM protests are based on legitimate political grievances while the Trump protests are based on a total fabrication and manifested as a literal attack on the foundation of our democratic intuitions. The philosophy behind the election fraud narrative is utterly unredeemable and should be condemned on its face.
Depends. Many algorithms are “solved” to the point where keeping all the data in memory is a requirement, which means you can’t do much.
The people you refuse to reach out to by and large are not made up of fascists. And so we will get what always happens when this kind of mindset takes root en masse.
sold my company to atlassian in 2006. i worked at atlassian for nearly a decade. ran bitbucket for years. ran product at docker after that.

any notion that engineers should not be on customer calls, or driving engineering specs is the opposite of what i would consider the best implementation of agile.
> We’re leading Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia by hundreds of thousands of votes, and then late in the evening or early in the morning, boom, these explosions of and bullshit, and all of a sudden. All of a sudden it started to happen.

> Rudy, you did a great job. He’s got guts. You know what? He’s got guts, unlike a lot of people in the Republican party. He’s got guts, he fights. He fights, and I’ll tell you.

> We’re going to have to fight much harder and Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us.

> We’re going walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.

> I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

> It was going to be great. And now we’re out here fighting.

> I want to thank the more than 140 members of the House. Those are warriors. ... Where is Hillary? Where is she?

> But it used to be that they’d argue with me, I’d fight. So I’d fight, they’d fight. I’d fight, they’d fight. ... What happened to Hunter? Where’s Hunter?

> Now that’s many, many times what it would take to overthrow the state. Just that one element. 400,000 ballots appeared from nowhere, right after the election. (Use of “overthrow the state.”)

> Let them get out. Let the weak ones get out. This is a time for strength. ... They want to indoctrinate your children.

> We did good. We got rid of the ISIS caliphate. ... In Wisconsin, corrupt Democrat run cities deployed more than 500 illegal unmanned, unsecured drop boxes, which collected a minimum of 91,000 unlawful votes.

> When you catch somebody in a fraud, you’re allowed to go by very different rules. So I hope Mike has the courage to do what he has to do.

> Looking out at all the amazing patriots here today, I have never been more confident in our nation’s future.

> So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’re going to the Capitol and we’re going to try and give… The Democrats are hopeless. They’re never voting for anything, not even one vote. But we’re going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.

- POTUS Trump

That’s only part of the stuff he said during the speech immediately before they marched, at his direction, to the Capitol building. He mentioned being peaceful once in his speech. Most of the undertones of the speech were about fighting/being strong for their way of life and belief in him being the rightful winner.
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People do get dumb in mobs, so that could be true