skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems a lot of people just refuse to accept things that disgree with their world view and dismiss the source as part of the conspiracy.

More educated people are less likely to do that. Also people who have no financial incentives to propagate such falsehoods are less likely to propagate it.

Flat earther movement is a good example. Some members made a business out of it to advance their personal goals. Like the guy that launched himself in a rocket to "check if earth is flat", but actually just liked lunching himself in rockets and similar things (had history of that), and claimed to believe in flat earth so that gullible people pay his bill.

We can't resign ourselves to defeatism and think that nothing can be done because people are stupid and ideas are toxic. Yes, some people are stupider and some ideas are more toxic then others but we shouldn't let that cloud the simple fact that we allow to exist the multitude of positive force feedbacks that promote more toxic ideas and more stupid people. We should work on those things first.

> I wondered if it'd be possible to make a honeypot website ...

Yes. We should forcibly mix those dumb ideas with solid education on the subject. Confront the two. Debunk one with the other in-place. At many different levels of complexity to reach as many people as possible.

You want to post you antivaxxer theories on facebook? Sure but your readers will get solid science next to it by courtesy of Facebook algorithm instead of ads and crap similar to yours.
> does intel have a node shrink coming soon, and can they execute?

Yes since years, no.
Nobody expected that the Capitol would be broken into, this could be that people don't know what to expect anymore and are panicking.
> 'The rioters had openly planned to disrupt the counting of Electoral College ballots for several weeks prior to the event, and had called for violence against Congress, Pence, and law enforcement. Plans were coordinated on "alt-tech" platforms – distinct from larger social media platforms such as Reddit or Twitter, which have implemented bans to censor violent language and images. Websites like TheDonald.win, founded after its predecessor was banned from Reddit, the social networking service Parler, the chat app Telegram, Gab, and others, were used to discuss previous Trump rallies and to make plans for storming the Capitol. Many of the posters planned for violence prior to the event, with some individuals discussing how to avoid police on the streets, which tools to bring to help pry open doors, and how to smuggle weapons into Washington D.C. Following clashes with Washington D.C police during protests on December 12, 2020, the Proud Boys and far-right groups turned against supporting law enforcement. At least one group, Stop the Steal, posted on December 23, 2020, its plans to occupy the Capitol with promises to "escalate" if met with opposition from law enforcement.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_St...
Interesting take.

I disagree that big business or money should influence politics in this way and I hope we don't come to that.
This. It's why it's so important for laptops to permit a physical slider to block the integrated camera. It is a low-cost, low tech way to verify that the camera is not picking up usable images.

The real problem is that we don't have something analogous for microphones. The best we could do is some kind of humming device that you could turn on near the sensor that would drown out any noises it might otherwise pick up (and also be unobtrusive).
Its perhaps the only modern high-level language(on the level of Haskell, they're adding GATs now https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/monads-gats-nightly-rust/ ) with C++-level performance.
Usually the trade-off with such languages is abstractions adding extra layers(Garbage collection/Reference counting, Continuations, Lazy eval) that Rust avoids
with compile-time pointer analysis(the borrow checker).
Its not really something i like aesthetically(syntactic complexity),
but its winning benchmarks and there serious libraries written in it.
It's really interesting to see the things people want:

1. Stickers

2. Status

3. Stories

4. Chat wallpapers

5. etc.

I guess it shows the different ways people use chat apps but I don't see any use case for status or understand why people want stories in yet another app. I'm sure they have their reasons though. Quite an interesting thread of requests.
Yes the wiki page states their Pinterest account was suspended, along with other media getting dropped from other platforms. Most pro life groups experience the same thing.
This community has been talking about the problems with social media for years. Breaking up Facebook or Twitter has been a call for ages. What is going on now?

Maybe Twitter should be changed in some dramatic way if they can’t keep these calls for violence off the platform.
The same logic can be applied to the DNC.
Out of curiosity, how do you know the poster you are replying to is 'demanding e2ee without fully understanding'? Also wondering what you mean by 'really good' encryption?
And we have responded to these near constant threats by providing the president with the best security protection money can buy. Seems reasonable? I don't understand what your point is.
I mean, I'd really want us to work towards global communication, rather than a second steel curtain. But whatever works.
CPI inflation tracks the labor market very well. CPI inflation is about the actual working economy. Not some bubble fantasy numbers on some bank accounts. Yeah, everyone knows that the fantasy economy is growing. Everyone also knows that the real economy is not growing as fast as it should but you wouldn't know that if you didn't have CPI inflation.
I know that sometimes things like this happen, but it's a sign that organization is deeply broken.
Isn't that second tweet advocating for _not_ killing Trump?
Having followed Angela Merkel's comments in the past I did not read her comments as "pro free speech". I read them as a concern about power. What happened this week, in the long term, will likely be looked on poorly by history.
> Teamspeak never stopped working

Hah, I have a different experience: my Teamspeak server literally stopped working once they started requiring a license key even for self-hosted instances. I scrapped the server entirely and switched to Mumble.
HIV is one of the three new programs in this announcement. So yes, that's precisely what they're hoping.

(Pedantry: HIV is the virus that causes the disease AIDS. The goal is to prevent AIDS by vaccinating against HIV. It's unlikely that the vaccine would be able to help patients who already have AIDS.)
Interoperability/Federation, please

A walled garden has no long term future
Arstechnica version:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/electricity-and-cris...
> Should we just let people incite violence to their heart's content

Well that in itself is a crime, so prosecute it.
Absolutely, and we should reminds eachother to donate, even when it’s just a couple of cents. It’s about the thought that counts and the culture of appreciation when it’s useful to you.
Upgraded, now "as reliable as the traditional screening".

Annual and free in most of the UK for a couple of years now. Thank you, NHS.
Yes, you are correct.

From the infosec point-of-view, I believe simpler is better. Adding extra complexity always opens the door for issues which were not presented before, in the core product and core functionality.

From the business perspective, I understand it is a step to get the new demand opportunity.
I agree with everything except 4, anytime someone says the debate is over I almost automatically take the other side, shutting down discourse is never ok, even when keeping it open costs lives, we need to talk more about things we disagree on, not less. Otherwise we will continue to polarize. I'm also leary of stigmatising phrases like stop the steal or all lives matter even when only 1% of uses are anything but incindiary.

5 I agree with but wonder if we should change it, network news uaed to have an equal time for both candidates thing despite being private. That and what is happening with whatsapp in EU make me think some sort of legal recognition of the effective duopoly facebook and Twitter have.
Replace the value 12 in the introduction by 1,000,000 and see if you still agree with your premise :)
Most of it was confined to Northern Ireland, but there were several bombings in GB, at least one in Dublin, and one in Germany. Several IRA members were killed while planning an operation in Gibraltar.
Sounds like they don't use github to manage the codebase.
A long time ago when first installing Whatsapp I tried denying it access to Contacts. It literally didn't work, only showed me white screen with no obvious way to start a chat with someone.
Yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25728504 (230 points/89 comments)
Accepting Monero and Bitcoin costs you nothing and is a great way of solicitating donations as cryptocurrency users are historically massive donors.
Politicians who want to gin up anger and money from their supporters and stigmatize their political opponents, intelligence agencies and defense contractors who will see increased power and funding, a variety of NGOs and corporations who will be delegated power to “fight domestic terror”. Whoever benefited from the original Patriot Act. Plus lots of clicks and views for media outlets that have found a new panic now that the current president who generates all their traffic is leaving.
https://is.fi/taloussanomat/art-2000001494059.html

https://rescue.fi/article.php/20070131_effi

It was only district court but the prosecutor did not seek the court of appeals (which they legally have to do if there's a chance their view might succeed), leaving the precedent.
Is there a way to detect it?
bats have an unusual immune system:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bats-immune-system-virus...
Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’
You might be thinking about Signal PIN: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...
> and ongoing informing of consumers about dangers of sharing their data

I don't get it. What's the danger?
When you first link it up it does not sync history, which is annoying.
Competition is good.

Everyone should want Intel to perform at a high level.
I’m genuinely interested in seeing BitTorrent traffic stats showing usage across various categories.

I’d wager that the vast majority is illegal content but wouldn’t be surprised if software updaters were a dark horse.
Do you have a source for that? I would like to see the rest of the email. I tried a Google search, but could not find anything from a source I was confident is reliable.
Ask HN: When coding, how to do remember what you were doing the previous day?
I always try (not always successfully) to stop what I'm doing when it's time to go home. (If instead, I try to finish what I'm working on before heading home, sometimes I'll accidentally still be working 3 hours later).

For this to work, the next day I need to be able to remember what I was in the middle of before I left.

What techniques do you use when coding, to make sure you can pick up from where you last left off (without spending half an hour trying to get back into the flow)?

Personally I write "here" in the IDE to break the compilation, so the IDE will bring me back to that place in the code when I next try and compile. Sometimes I also add a line or two describing the very next thing I want to do e.g. "finish this off and then maybe move it to the viewmodel" etc

Anyone else?
The story at the time (true or not, who knows) was that the dig was meant to be a film but was too expensive to make so it became a game instead.
staring in iMessage blue text superiority

/s
> If the notion is of this person being lower or lesser because they worked for parler

No. I support free speech. But I for one wouldn't trust someone with my security who approaches his jobs like a "cowboy hacker". Infosec is hard and needs to be taken seriously. Only the paranoid survive.
The end arrives as Adobe starts blocking Flash content
A History of the Hypodermic
I can really recommend doing this for your personal finances! Tools like ledger are really powerful, and properly accounting is a great way to save on money. I can very easily go into my personal ledger and (say) get a report on "How much money did i spend daily on groceries last month" or "List all subscription services i pay for and how much they cost each month" or whatever. It gives you a great view into where your money is going and helps you plan for the future. It's very satisfying to run the command "ledger reg -Mn Assets Liabilities", which is "show me my net wealth (i.e. the sum of Assets and Liabilities) for every month in the ledger", and see your personal wealth grow over time.

But almost more importantly: if you're a programmer, it's really very fun! Like, i have my own system where I download my bank statement as a CSV and process it in AWK together with an org-mode table of payees that map each line on the bank statement to an account, which then generates a ledger file. Since it's just you using it, you can make it so it works however you like, and it quite satisfying to see it all come together.

It's also a great way to learn about accounting. Turns out, I really kinda like accounting! It has many of the same pleasures of programming or math, and seeing everything balance is very satisfying. In short: if you're a programmer who feels like they haven't quite got a handle on their finances, I can't recommend plain text accounting highly enough.
In fairness, SSH in and edit a file is the "standard" here. I used to manage a bunch of Cisco devices, and I don't believe there was a GUI at all.

I would generally expect the UI to be for enthusiasts, with the more advanced functionality hidden in the CLI (kind of like Windows). WAN Failover probably isn't super popular among enthusiasts
Well if this is the case it would not be inconsistent with Intel's usual AMD sabotage.
https://xscode.com/vscode-extension/
I don't know but I can speculate a couple reasons why they might:

-They might not want people who aren't officially affiliated to get "contributor" badges on github, so people don't get confused thinking they speak for the project when they participate in discussions

-github may not be their primary way of managing their source, so pull requests have to be transferred to their internal system first before being released on github

-better control over what gets into what version without having to micromanage when to accept pull requests
Off topic, but I thought I should share this joke someone sent me:

CALLER:
Is this Pizza Delight?

GOOGLE:
No sir, it's Google Pizza.

CALLER:
I must have dialed a wrong number. Sorry.

GOOGLE:
No sir, Google bought over Pizza Delight last month.

CALLER:
OK. I would like to order a pizza.

GOOGLE:
Do you want your usual, Sir?

CALLER:
My usual. Do you know me?

GOOGLE:
According to your caller ID data sheet, the last ten times you called, you have ordered an extra-large pizza with three cheeses, sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms and meat-balls on a thick crust.

CALLER:
OK! That's what I want ...

GOOGLE:
May I suggest that this time you order a vegan Pizza with ricotta, arugula, sun-dried tomatoes and olives on a whole wheat gluten-free thin crust?

CALLER:
Why a Vegan Pizza? I detest vegetables.

GOOGLE:
Your Cholesterol levels are not good, Sir.

CALLER:
How the hell do you know?

GOOGLE:
Well Sir, we cross-referenced your Mobile phone number with your medical records. We have with us, the result of your blood tests for the last seven years.

CALLER:
Okay, but I do not want your rotten vegetable pizza! I already take medication regularly, for my cholesterol.

GOOGLE:
Excuse me sir, but you have not taken your medication regularly. According to our database, you purchased one box of 30 cholesterol tablets only once in the recent past, at Drug RX Network, 4 months ago.

CALLER:
I bought more medication from another drugstore.

GOOGLE:
That doesn't show on your credit card statement, Sir.

CALLER:
I paid in cash.

GOOGLE:
But you did not withdraw enough cash, according to your bank statements.

CALLER:
I have other sources of cash.

GOOGLE:
That doesn't show in your last Tax Return, unless you bought the Tablets using an undeclared income source, which is against the law.

CALLER:
WHAT THE HELL!!

GOOGLE:
I'm sorry, sir, we use such information, only with the sole intention of helping you.

CALLER:
Enough already !! I'm sick and tired of Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and all the others.

I'm going to a remote island without any Internet, Netflix, Cable TV, where there is no Cell phone service and no Big Brother to watch me or spy on me.

GOOGLE:
I understand Sir, but you need to renew your passport first. It expired six weeks ago...
I use termius. They're quite reputable (and YC backed [1]).

You're right about the keys if I'd be syncing them. But for my specific use case I happen to use passwords for these servers.

[1] https://termius.com/about
Do you really think any of what you just said will be effective to your target demographic without being far more detailed, containing any sort of sources, or while being this unnecessarily inflammatory?

All the people you wish would care will scoff, dismiss the comment as being looney and that'll be that.

You have to realize that, unfortunately, in every part of life, marketing matters. Got to make a message your audience will appreciate.
Serious question to those cheering on the deplatforming power of the big tech monopolies:

Are you still going to be onboard when Signal is banned from the App stores? How about when backdoors are required?

Bear in mind, Signal has no moderation - that's baked into the product.
The Dig was derived from a story idea for a TV episode that Spielberg was involved in (supposedly Amazing Stories). But that wasn't filmed, so the idea got finally handed down to Lucas Arts.
I think it's a little funny that any page getting shut off now is news. That doesn't preclude the fact that there's still lots of important things to talk about around platforms and social media and whether the bannings were good and justified, etc. Make no mistake about that.

However, just saying, it's a REALLY good time right now to make a bunch of noise if your page gets shut down...
Most of us are just coming from Reddit and trying to feel smart, don't be hard on us.
I’d be a bit careful with those numbers. Who knows how many people really had it. Maybe a good number of cases showed no symptoms and thus were not detected?
Figure out how people will continue to donate and not deviate from their original mission, given the push from new users for feature parity with Telegram and WhatsApp.

I cant imagine that $100mn lasting if people are doing group calls, file transfers etc. because those are expensive activities with the needs for servers, bandwidth.

Previously they had the luxury to coast because of that donation, now not so much.
The right sees post-BLM riots which have led to numerous deaths and millions in damage and Antifa running amok in the Pacific Northwest and think the same thing.

We are too divided and it’s because of the media, both social and mainstream.
> The main divide doesn't seem to be between states, but between urban and rural. […] This makes peaceful resolution very difficult, as we're dealing with two groups who largely live apart from one another, with different geography, culture, and social mores.

Randall Munroe did a twitter thread[0] on the election map he did for xkcd 2399[1] and he actually discusses about the bias in common election maps: in fact there is no such geographic split.

Or, as he puts it:

> There are more Trump voters in California than Texas, more Biden voters in Texas than NY, more Trump voters in NY than Ohio, more Biden voters in Ohio than Massachusetts, more Trump voters in Massachusetts than Mississippi, and more Biden voters in Mississippi than Vermont.

[0]: https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1339341149488746498

[1]: https://xkcd.com/2399/
Correct, it's only going forward from that point, which is a deal breaker for many. New device = no chat history.
The success of iMessage and the entire Apple ecosystem in the US proves that a walled garden is exactly what people trust and want and are willing to pay handsomely for the privilege of being part of one.

Interoperability/Federation is something the average user doesn't understand and won't even bother too as long as their basic needs are already comfortably fulfilled.

Seriously, get out of the tech bubble for a while and see that most people have no idea what the brand of their computer is or what their OS is called and they don't even care. They just want to click the internet icon and start browsing memes, play candy crush or watch youtube.

Even my young friends who are mechanical/civil engineers and make good money don't see any issue in having personal information in the hands of Facebook and Google controlled services or any other free on-line services who make a living by monetizing your personal data. They either think people are over-reacting about this, as like, if they were truly evil, the gov. would shut them down or for them it's just too much friction to bother readjusting their lifestyle to something else and prefer the comfort provided by these companies.
PayPal blocked donations against legal challenge of Unitary Patent in Germany
From this article:
https://wccftech.com/intel-launches-tiger-lake-h-tgl-h-mobil...

Intel say they have the fastest single threaded performance of any laptop processor.

They show a graph of a benchmark of something called SPECRATE * 2017_int_base compiled with the Intel compiler.

Does the Intel compiler still hamstring AMD?

Also is this benchmark useful in real world usage?
For one, let's stop with the self-masturbatory "I'll wait" bullshit. It doesn't add to the conversation and it just makes you look like an asshole.

Destroying private property and destroying public property are both wrong. Reasonable people can disagree about whether one is worse, and which one.
It was, for very early revisions of Discord.
"Lahjoitukset minulle voi osoittaa tämän linkin kautta"

"Minua voi tukea tämän linkin kautta"

"Lahjoita minulle tämän linkin kautta"

All are acceptable.

And since "lahjoita" is entirely equal to "support" then also

"Tue minua tämän linkin kautta" is entirely fine.

Of course the Finnish justice system is known for being unjust and arbitrary in many cases so your mileage may vary.
(Brought to you on the open internet which grew directly from a DoD project.)
I believe the Signal devs expressed a lack of interest in doing this since it would mean embedding secret Whatsapp encryption keys in Signal.

See: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/1014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686179
At the current state of events, in-life meetings are low on my priority list, but this would be fun to do at some point in the future.
I have not seen that resource before, thank you for sharing, it appears to be a great starting point!
It would make sense but I'm not sure how it is implemented. I can also just imagine revoking old devices because I don't use them anymore or have reinstalled them. In that case I wouldn't want the things it signed to be revoked. (Really just saying don't trust this key for anything in the future, but past things are fine).

Maybe the best solution would be revocation after a date. So you can say "don't trust anything after {time-i-lost-the-device}" or "don't trust anything after {now}" and it does the right thing. However that could be complex to implement correctly in software. Lots of bookkeeping.
Integration to Matrix.org... I think we could have a very interesting outcome.
I don't see a PayPal logo underneath the 'Pay' button.