skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing to keep in mind when considering Republicans:

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

Jean-Paul Sartre
It's a weird variant of TOTP, but you have to be rooted or modify the app in order to extract the secret to use with other apps. Years ago I wrote a script to do it, but I'm not sure if it still works -- it's not really worth doing imo

https://github.com/steamguard-totp/steamguard-shared-secret
Kind of sounds like blogs and RSS as it already is.
The worst part about the giddy, gleeful way in which they are shutting down these echo chamber apps is the complete lack of thought as to how this impacts and further radicalizes the users. I have a brother who is into Qanon and Alex Jones. All of this just feeds into and cements the narrative, and pushes him into alternative platforms where he is even less likely to hear or see more mainstream view points.

It literally makes the problem that the people supporting this are CLAIMING they are trying to solve worse. I think it works wonderfully for the problem they are ACTUALLY solving, which is to cement an image of normal members of the political opposition as radicals on the verge of terrorism.

I spoke to my brother last night.

In an utterly predictable fashion, the Parler shutdown has made him worse. It turns out that when multiple global corporations collude to halt the communications of people who think they are being persecuted by a colluding body of global corporations, it makes their movement stronger. Who would have thought?
Those arguments always forget 1 thing.

Facebook recommend users to join groups, follow pages, and even shows content that is not from people you follow. So it isn't just a telephone company that allows you to make phone calls, it's a service that makes an editorial choice about what they show you.

If they show you posts that incite violence in Myanmar and show you fake news that make you outraged about a certain ethnic group, it's possible that among a population of many millions, some people will decide to act on it. Remember, those people might never have been exposed to it, it's Facebook that recommended this content based on the engagement the posts were getting!
How many people died in the raid of AREA 51?
It’s also abundantly clear that the men that founded our government believed that some powers are reserved for individuals and not for governments. The ability to restrict speech is one of these.

> “
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Kind of a funny moment in time we live in where some are clamoring to put people in jail for tweets/hate speech/mean words while simultaneously advocating for lower jail populations.
>The attack was against AT&T, there was zero public interest in the information from a whistleblower perspective, the victims were customers of AT&T, a telecommunications provider.

You think there's "zero public interest" in knowing that a large US corporation, with private information about a significant fraction of the American public, has neglected their obligations to protect that private information? And that they've ignored all pleas to treat the vulnerability with the seriousness it deserves?

>Also, Weev is open and proudly a Nazi, so the optics of bringing him up while defending the rights of a Fascist website isn't great.

How are his political leanings relevant to the question of whether accessing this data would constitute a crime?
I guess it depends on what jobs you're looking for. There's a lot of exiting companies/teams (like mine) looking to hire people but we're on the "old stack" using Kafka, Scala, Spark, etc. We don't do any ML stuff but I'm on the pipeline side of it. The data scientists down the line tend to use Hive/SparkSQL/Athena for a lot of work but I'm much less involved with that.

Not all jobs are new pasture and I think that's forgotten very frequently.
Interesting, I guess we're just talking about different populations of 'people complaining about censorship.' I never spend time on forums whose main stated purpose is political discussion but still hear a lot of discussion about censorship in my daily life, so I don't really jump to gab, r/conspiracy, r/donaldtrump, etc when I hear that phrase. I don't think I'd characterize those places as being the majority of people concerned about corporate censorship, though
Having worked with all of the founders of SecureDrop (Aaron, James, and Kevin) to audit the alpha version it was tough to see Aaron go. Also super sad that we lost James a couple of years later too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dolan_(computer_security...

Cheers to everybody out there working on Internet freedom software. Thank you all for everything you do, next time you're at FOSDEM or browsing around some issues on github for your fav secure comms projects, let them know they are appreciated and they aren't doing this difficult work in a vacuum.

My .02
-Erik Cabetas-
Ask HN: Increase the weight of a downvote vs. upvote on HN?
Social networks where there is no downvote button are known to become very toxic. People can say awful things against their opponents and get praise from people on their side. People on the other side have clapbacks as their only means of response.

Although Hacker News is by far the least toxic social network I participate in, I notice recently there has been a higher degree of toxicity. Increasing the weight of a downvote relative to the upvote could improve matters. It could be done as perhaps a week-long test to see if the community likes it, if it should be adjusted, or if it should be removed all-together.
The 1994 crime bill included a number of provisions that increased incarceration at the state level, such as:

> $9.7 billion in funding for prisons, [including] incentive grants to ... qualifying states that enforced mandatory sentencing of 85% of a person's sentence conviction,

> [eliminating federal grants for] lower-income prison inmates to receive college educations during their term of imprisonment,

and funding for 100,000 more police officers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law
Yes, experts are real.

Unfortunately, experts are only expert in a few subjects, and experts (well... all humans even) are bad at knowing when they've left their field of expertise.

Linus Torvalds for example is clearly an expert programmer. And then suddenly he talks about AVX512 and I wonder if he knows anything about low-level programming or optimization. (https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=193189&curpost...).

Case in point: with Rocket lake (on 14nm nonetheless), the power-limits associated with AVX512 have already been largely lifted. It didn't even take a few months before Linus's words became obsolete.

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/08/19/icl-avx512-fre...

100MHz difference single-core, 0MHz difference multicore. Virtually no penalty for using AVX512 on new systems. Linus was ultimately trapped in the Skylake-X way of thinking, and not looking forward to the next chips.
> I am gonna handwave this one slightly because I don't fully remember all of the details, but full program inference and subtyping is undecidable. Rust doesn't have subtyping in general for this and other reasons, but lifetimes do have subtyping. I am sure this would get ugly.

Correct. Haskell is the only language I know of with globally decidable type inference, and uses the similar hindley-milner method as Rust... but no doubt some of Rust's language features can break global inference. In Haskell, many common language extensions can also break global inference.

I think if Haskell was written today they probably wouldn't pick global inference as a goal, Haskell "best practice" types the function boundaries in the same way that Rust enforces.
Windows 7 on 36MB of RAM
No, it's not a one-party system, at least not in the case of Russia. It's just that anyone from the "wrong" parties can't use any mass media to get their message out.

If the tech companies want to short-circuit the right's ability to organize from now until the 21st, that's kind of reasonable, given recent events. Past that, though? They need to be very careful about continuing this. If they do, they need rationales and policies that are clearly stated, and clearly seen to be applied in an unbiased manner.
Not disagreeing on incentive but for clarification...

My understanding would be that freeing non-violent criminals would be a matter of legislation and the court system. The choice would not be up to the prison. But do you think the prisons influence the legislation (or, horrifically, the judicial system)?

To say that it's a the root cause is to say that for-profit prisons drive legislation on drugs, but I do not believe that is the root cause of that legislation.
Not just that, I just noticed that the Steam app does not support iPhone backups. Blizzard app does, as does the Verisign VIP Access app. Pretty lame. The restore SMS didn’t arrive on time either that evening, fun!
Essentially people want a free social network that doesn't use its users data for mining and advertising, doesn't track user data, doesn't archive their messages if they delete them/their account/they die, and free from moderation. Is that really too much to ask for?

The answer is yes - yes it is too much to ask for - you don't get a free service without paying for it in some other way - mostly these days through the data mining/advertising side of things. If there's no way to turn a profit then why would someone pay for it to be setup?
My concern here is that, from the perspective of those looking for these, the relevant time spent is not only that spent on identifying this bug, but all the times spent looking for bugs where there were none, or where they didn't see them.
Definitely agree with #2, especially with big goals (or what they call BHAG in the article).

Seriously, go around and tell people that you want to write a new york times best seller and see what kind of reactions you get lol. Talk about destroying your motivation quickly.
>> IMO, this is more about Hyundai's autonomous vehicle efforts.

I disagree. As the article points out:

..., why not just buy an autonomous car startup instead? Boston Dynamics is more about “robots,” which happens to be dead last on the list above. ...

I think Hyundai's VEX, Wearable Vest Exoskeleton, is inline with what the company is trying to do with BD:

https://www.roboticstomorrow.com/story/2019/09/hyundai-motor...
Why would they know they would take heat for their moderation policy? Are there any other examples? I can't think of any.

Edit: I mean examples where companies lose access to core services due to their moderation policy. I know twitter and facebook get shit for theirs all the time, but nothing substantive ever happens.
I think this is a contested claim and you can find prominent academics on the other side talking about

a. how federal action modeled action for states, including substantial incentive schemes for incarceration (indeed that is how almost every Federal bill works)

b. how the rate of incarceration given the crime being committed increased post-crime bill.

I think it is a discussion to be had, not something to be a priori fact-checked as "False."
On the internet everything can appear equally legitimate. Breitbart looks as legit as the BBC. Sacha Baron Cohen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM

Excerpts:

Voltaire was right when he said "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." And social media lets authoritarians push absurdities to millions of people. President Trump using Twitter has spread conspiracy theories more than 1700 times to his 67 million followers.

Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach. Sadly There will always be racists, misogynists, anti-Semites, and child abusers. We should not be giving bigots and pedophiles a free platform to amplify their views and target their victims.

Zuckerberg says people should decide what's credible, not tech companies. When 2/3rds of millennials have not heard of Auschwitz how are they supposed to know what's true? There is such a thing as objective truth. Facts do exist.
One interesting thing about certain CA is that they bear a very close equivalence to certain pseudo RNG systems like shift register. E.g. GoL on a constrained grid with the starting state equal to the seed.
Dilution of whisky – the molecular perspective (2017)
As others have pointed out, yes they did moderate, just for different things.
How do I as a consumer know if a product will last or not? High price does not automatically signal longevity.

The other thing is that nothing lasts forever, so eventually you'd need to repair. Most things you can't repair by yourself, so if the repair costs more than new, and the suggested increase for disposal, I'd still end up buying new to save the hassle.

My wishlist is:

- For consumers, incentivize repair over disposal and buying.

- For companies, incentivize manufacturing quality and design for repairability.

But the question still stands how to do either?
Do you, like, not get the “6 million...” reference?

They also had functioning gallows, and a guy with a taser and zip ties running around in the Senate chamber just minutes after it was evacuated, and lots of “kill Mike Pence” shouting.

Some people were there to take selfies. Others were there to take hostages.
Twitter operates in the US so it is in its best interest to do what it can to maintain stability in its own home. To anyone working in US Government, Iran saying stupid things is common. What is not common is for US citizens to incite insurrection and chaos and then a sitting US president endorsing it.
> I've never seen last one in real life, maybe it has some critical flaws I am failing to see?

Doesn't Kerberos solve this with s4u2self and s4u2proxy and other delegated credentials?

I'll admit it isn't quite the exact same, but the general idea is the same.
Data is from: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...

The question asked was: "Supporters of President Trump have stormed the US Capitol to protest lawmakers certifying Joe Biden’s election victory. Based on what you have read or heard about this, do you support or oppose these actions? (%)"

Breakdown groups were: Strongly or somewhat support, Don't
know, N/A - Unaware of the story, Strongly or somewhat oppose

I would be interested in seeing the strongly and somewhat support breakdowns. I have no problem with groups protesting elections, I think that the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol building did the worst thing for their cause.
Can you bet on drone racing now?
Show HN: Markdown ↔ Wikitext Cheatsheet
Is the intention to disallow certain content or to protect users from certain content? Because if it's the latter I think just having user friendly blocklists would be sufficient. If it's the former then obviously decentralization is totally antithetical to exercising control from a single point of control.
There's usually no need to yield, traffic signals regulate that. The idea here is to create a more forgiving environment where making mistakes is less likely and less harmful. Thousands of these intersections have been build, here's some examples and some US context and research:

https://youtu.be/5HDN9fUlqU8

http://www.protectedintersection.com

https://altago.com/wp-content/uploads/Evolution-of-the-Prote...
Why does Telegram make all important security features opt-in?
It's actually trivially possible but the entropy for each shard will be abysmally low, requiring very long (60 words+) passphrases. So you're right, there's no trivial way (by hand) to split a 24 passphrase in 5 shards. However, it feels like a detail: such sharding is possible even if it's not trivial:

https://iancoleman.io/slip39/
LOL, this is as ridiculous as, "You were once handed a leaflet about the Nazi Party in 1937, therefore you are a Nazi."

If we don't move past this kind of absolute nonsense, you really will have a violent confrontation on your hands, because you're going to end up alienating millions.
No, that means the people reporting these massive numbers of votes not counted are liars.

There is ample statutory and regulatory provision in every state for processes that confirm every aspect of what you are questioning. It’s as if you know nothing about elections or election systems.
> Suggesting a policy prescription in the title of a scientific study puts the legitimacy of the study in complete question.

Does it?

> The researchers must approach the question as one which can be falsifiable, else it's not science.

Isn't that what this study was—they had a hypothesis which they wished to test: "We should do X." Then they did whatever they reported in their paper, and found that their hypothesis was supported by the evidence.
California is not a one party system. It has republican representatives both in the state and national legislatures. It has had one-party rule for a long time, and whether it has “worked” is far from clear. On the contrary, the beleaguered opposition has meant that the government is increasingly running with things that have mostly symbolic or political value rather than work together to solve urgent problems such as the deplorable housing situation and fragmented public transit.
Great article. I have had many debates with people within the last year about the concept of "experts," and have frequently found it almost impossible to break through the myth that

1. Experts exist, and you should believe everything they say.

2. Expertise is fungible, so an "expert" in one small sliver of healthcare is also somehow an overall expert in healthcare.

An example of 2 was a conversation I had recently with someone in the healthcare industry who, in this single conversation, said

- Cuba has better healthcare than the US

- All doctors would be fine with the State forcing them to provide their services because doctors are not profit-driven and only care about The Greater Good.
You're conflating different groups of people because you don't understand the nuances of the different groups at play. These are not the same groups in the slightest.
Nuclear power was set to decrease the cost of power by an order of magnitude. It was stopped due to perceived risks while coal was allowed to continue to be used at known high death toll of millions of people per year.

You cannot legally build a nuclear reactor in a normal way. You have to design it completely and then get it approved before you build it. This costs around $500 million dollars, as NuPower has shown. If you change the design much at all you have to get it approved all over again. Thus only one new reactor design in the US has been approved for 50 years and it still has not been built yet.
Solar panels use cadmium and lead in trace quantities that makes recycling certain parts of solar panels unprofitable. I can easily see this being like plastics all over again.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/01...
Paying more isn't enough. Consumers can't cover the liability costs that come along with opening an electrical panel channeling a household's mainline. The cost argument imagines 5% more cost for a few features to aid some simple maintenance. The off-the-shelf cost of those features could well be 5% more. But the support logistics, legal coverage, manual drafting, etc won't be covered by that 5%.

The idea of repairing a washing machine is great. But our world is growing more complex by the day. The average individual is going to lose any hope of having even enough shallow expertise to crack into these devices without endangering themselves and others. If you pursue this fight, I'd put money in the industries developing "needed" technologies that pack toxic gas in vacuum parts to further increase the expertise needed to touch their internals.
Floyd died from a fentanyl overdose and was resisting arrest as he was having a panic attack. Watching the full uncut video, the officers showed remarkable constraint in dealing with him. It's a sad story, but its not a murder.
Yeah that prevents mass surveillance but doesn't prevent targeted surveillance (think steam account with valuable skins).
... that's not a counter argument, you realize that, right? Saying things like that shouldn't be sanctioned on twitter, either.
It depends on your perspective. Normally when I talk about what a loop "does", I am talking purely about the contents of the loop.
> If Company A borrows $10 from the bank and then loans $10 to Joe, it's got $10 in assets and $10 in liabilities on its balance sheet.

Yes, it's equity hasn't changed. However, the debt on its balance sheet has, so the enterprise value formula of EV = market cap + debt - cash now has, because the loan asset won't be counted as cash, but the loan liability will be counted as debt.

That's why no one calculates enterprise value for bank/insurance companies. It doesn't provide any insight or meaning.
Imagine if they published a portion of the contents of a laptop they legally owned.
Perhaps you should consider their concerns as valid as a first step. They are not even in an age bracket which will suffer from covid directly.
fail open heh
Gold doesn't have that much intrinsic value either. It's hard to obtain, but so is bitcoin. Gold has the advantage that it has some use in personal adornments - but I believe that's a marginal use. Bitcoin is easier to buy, sell, and store. I've said many times that the best description for bitcoin is electronic gold, not a currency.
Whoa - [citation needed] on "Most of science has been debunked"

We've learned to be much more skeptical, and the previous standards were scandalous, but there's a difference between "too much of" and "most of"
This might work.

A big issue with paying for disposal is the motivation to avoid payment. It's hard to get people to dispose of trash responsibly. If they had to pay, we'd be surrounded by illegal dumps.

I think there should be disposal fees, but they must be paid upfront. EU actually has recycling fees on purchase, but they seem to be laughably small (like < 1 EUR for a vacuum cleaner).
> does it really matter if electricity prices spike?

One of the reasons the electricity costs spike is because you’re maintaining two generation facilities in Germany and Spain. Solar takes massive investment but the coal plants still need to be maintained and fed for when the Sun is obscured. And I think I recall that in a place like Germany, electric demand actually goes up, not down, when the sun is obscured - more people indoors.

I would also like to add that it matters significantly on an individual/family basis to productive capacity and well-being when electricity costs go up, whether manifested as blackouts or much steeper bills. Not everyone is wealthy enough to absorb that without noticeable pain. There’s a bit of a “let them eat cake” aspect to comments like this.
There are a collection of hyperswarm bootstrap node IPs that can get the discovery process started for new peers.
It was brought about because the insurrectionists were shouting that after posts on Parler called for it. Twitter then moderated and banned it.

You're really cutting out a ton of context here to fit a narrative. Parler was the source of the posts and parler would not moderate it.