skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Every cloud vendor in the world telling you off" is a particular threat model only usually encountered by literal terrorist groups, torrent sites, Sci-Hub... and now right-wing filter-bubbles.

In this case, Parler will need to either build all their own infrastructure or sign up with some really skeevy second-world hosting sites. This, interestingly, means being hosted on the same servers that host actual terrorists like Hamas; if they intend to remain a legal corporate outfit their lawyers will probably have some very strong words about using such services. Building your own infrastructure is expensive, even without the particular threat of just being Parler. Notably, net neutrality has been dead in the water ever since Trump took office, so anything high-value becomes extraordinarily expensive fast.

I doubt other sites are going to face this same problem in the future. Parler's problem is not that they're on the "wrong side" of a political debate; it's that they deliberately aided and abetted the planning of literal insurrection. Providing any sort of service to them is a huge legal risk to your enterprise now. If the bar for technical deplatforming was lowered beyond "technically legal", you'd see the market for alternative infrastructure providers open up, because those are customers that AWS/Google Cloud/Azure are no longer serving. AWS can only "get away with" deplatforming Parler specifically due to the legally risky nature of working with them.
>The problem is if the reporters remain intrepid (as they currently seem to be), the people they interview-- like Ted Cruz-- end up looking like complete dumbasses. I'm honestly surprised they continue to get interviews with prominent figures.

I grew up watching the BBC, and even though I emigrated from the UK before the famed "I ask you again minister, is that a yes or a no" repeats of jeremy paxman, this was something that always struck me about politicians on the BBC: why did they keep coming back?

What I've realized over time was they kept coming back because they had to. If you were a UK politician at least well into the 1990s (and arguably right up to today), both the media infrastructure and the social culture required your appearance, even if you knew that David Marr or Paxman or whoever was going to chew you out.

That's not true anymore in the USA (it may also not be true in the UK either). There's really no reason why anyone needs to appear anywhere. Get a reputation as a fiery take-no-bullshit interviewer, and you won't be doing any interviews.

I don't think there's any way out of this now. The media landscape has exploded, and there's no outlet that is of enough importance anymore to hold people's feet to the fire.
There is no "scammy" behavior in our past. What you're linking to here is an affiliate link offering from pre-search UI in the browser. This involved no user data, no privacy impact, etc. See the official response here (with screenshots, so as to clarify how the feature actually worked): https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/.

If an affiliate link offering (shown plainly, and prior to any navigation event) worries you, wait until you see what other browsers are getting away with. If you're using Chrome, Edge, or Firefox, your browser serves as an out-of-the-box keylogger, sending each keystroke off to Google (Chrome and Firefox) or Bing (Edge) as you type into the address bar. Even an unintentional pasting of sensitive information gets transmitted.
You made me curious. Big refrigerators and shipping containers have their own diesel engine: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_truck
They are independent from big truck’s power system. That is a solution for powering electronics - external diesel generator.
Umbral Calculus
The actual rationale behind this is to protect bigots from getting kicked off social media for hate speech against LGBT people.

Article 256 of the Polish criminal code makes it illegal to incite hatred based on religion, race or nationality but not sexual orientation.
This isn't new. McCarthyism is the example almost everyone knows.
Do you have thoughts on cleaning burnt-on gunk?

I use cast iron and carbon steel for high-temperature cooking. If I really care about the non-stick-ness I'll usually use nonstick. But nonstick doesn't char well (and isn't safe). So when I want a serious sear or browning, I use iron & stell.

Problem is, if something burns on, it burns on hard. Soap doesn't really help. Water and scrubbing mostly do, but they don't completely get it off. I can't even tell when the remaining patina is seasoning and when it's just gunk -- until it becomes rough to the touch, in which case it's obvious, and I scrub hard.
> However, equally surprising to me, is the number of pro-big tech company HN people who are suddenly deeply concerned about unchecked corporate power. People who two weeks ago would claim that companies should drive out employees who disagree with them, now wish these companies were subject to the will of the people. You can't spend a lifetime fighting to reduce the power of the federal government and then be surprised at all that large corporations are the ones deciding our public policy.

I wouldn't say these are in conflict. The biggest reason I oppose political movement in SV corporations is because I believe they'd become even more censorious than they are now. Today's corporations are evil to make money and protect their brand, but I don't want tomorrow's corporations to be evil for a political ideology.
From what I understand of the CCP, "lying-low" is a polite phrase for "killed" or "disappered for ever".
How mRNA Technology Could Upend the Drug Industry
Look at, for instance, Arthur C Clarke.

First, you have superintelligence that we recognize, reject, control.

Later, a superintelligence has learned guile, self-preservation, and most of all, patience. We don't see it coming.
It isn't a very noteworthy scenario, because it requires the person who _has_ been given access to a private video/ID to share it with someone who shouldn't have access. In that already-rare scenario, the person with access can simply download or record the video anyway, thereby leaking it (with audio and high-resolution to boot). And that's with everything working as intended.

Chained with another exploit to actually be able to discover someone's private video IDs, it would have been worth a much higher bounty.
You missed my point, I'm saying that the reason for social networks being popular is because they allow various actors to submit others to their propaganda.

The reason people prefer posting to facebook or twitter (or even medium) say compared to their own blog, isn't the challenges in setting up a personal blog. It's because on facebook and twitter they can push their post to a big audience, even if no one is searching for the kind of content they're publishing.

A self hosted blog/website does not have this feature.

Just as an example, the government does have an official self-hosted blog: whitehouse.gov and the President could have simply published all their thoughts and messages there instead of Twitter. They could also easily have a personal self-hosted blog. But why didn't and don't they? Instead choosing to post to Twitter?
That's the same as reddit's system. HN hasn't fallen into the pit of lowest common denominator jokes is the strong moderation, but the system still has inherent issues with high-quality posts losing visibility because they're less appealing.
“Your faith in the legal system is appalling.”

https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-06-26
It is easy to see where that trend is going. Little steps by little steps, GAFAs while turn the West in an environment similar to Iran or China when it comes to freedom of speech.
I doubt it, a compiler bug like failing to consider rdrand volatile would not occasionally fail, but would fail consistently (perhaps every nth iteration, but it would have a pattern). I struggle to see how a compiler could miscompile it to make it inconsistent.
This. I also think modern columnar databases and other techniques somehow makes Kimball to be obsolete or relaxed some how, but I could be very wrong.

For example we use Vertica and DBA told us that Vertica loves wide tables with many columns, which doesn't look very Kimball to me. This gives me some trouble as I'm not really show how to model data properly.
Before covid I would have just said go visit China and travel the country. I don't think westerners really understand China as cliched as that sounds. If you add up all the western countries together + their westernized protecterates/allies, Japan, SK, Taiwan. You would only get half the population of China. Think of the scale of that, your internal market is literally twice the size of the entire western market. That goes for domestic products like soap bars or video sharing but also industrial policy like airplanes, high speed trains, etc.

China is basically another planet that also happens to be located on Earth. That's a good analogy I think. The CCP is the current planetary govt. If you are the government of Mar's you wouldn't really care much about happens on Earth would you? (I.E. the rest of the world).

Relations in China are the ultimate expression of realism. Politics is power politics, authority resides in he who controls the guns. The branches of government that matter are intelligence, military and security. Because at the end of the day, the only force is coercive force. This isn't particularly new or fascinating as it's been true throughout Chinese history. The rules of international politics applies to domestic politics in China. I.E. the law of the jungle. It's a very old political culture so I imagine a lot of methods were tried and ultimately centralized authority backed by a strong army came out as the most efficient way to unify and govern the land. The governing method of China has and always has been for the last 2000 years some variation of Legalism. Dress it up as communism or socialism with Chinese Characteristics or any other neologism but Legalism has always ruled the land in an unified China.

I don't think the west is kowtowing to China, the western elites just recognize the balance of power has shifted in China's favour and have started to accept the "facts of the ground" so to speak, but they have not communicated this in any coherent way to their domestic population which continue to cling onto the pretence of the economic and political superiority of the western bloc, hence the dissonance between what is preached and what is actioned.

As for the article I don't put too much stock (no pun intended) in it, mostly because I follow BABA stock quite closely and while it has lost a lot of value recently, news like this should really cause big moves if it is true. I could be wrong and maybe in a month's time we will all be nursing big losses from the rug being pulled from underneath us. But as it stands this has not been picked up any major newswire as far as I know (FT, WSJ, Bloomberg) so I am holding my positions, not shorting or placing puts. Money talks, bullshit walks.
Thank you for a very clear example of the exact downplaying that's been discussed.

> Basically a bunch of beer belly rednecks

False. Was a huge mix of people, including very well off folks, off duty police officers and former military. Flying to DC on a week day is not exactly a working class pursuit.

> broke into a building after a protest/rally was over, yelled

Amongst other things they were yelling that they wanted to kill the Vice President. Five people died. You can claim their shouts to kill the VP were bluster if you'd like, but personally I'm in no doubt that things could have gone south very, very quickly if they'd found Pence, Pelosi or anyone else. Just watching the video footage of the violence is enough of a hint of that.

> with no plan whatsoever

To an extent I agree with you here. It was a mess of anger and resentment, not a convert military operation. But there were also pipebombs, and the current theory is that they were going to be used to distract Capitol police. People arrived with plastic zip ties to be used as hand cuffs. It doesn't require the whole mob to be organized, it just needs a small group within that mob. Just because the plan was not successful does not mean there was no plan.
Note the last part of that article, though[1]:

You're also not allowed to refer to camps like Zgoda or Jaworzno - which were labour camps operated by poles on behalf of the communist regime - as 'Polish concentration camps'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Polish_death_camp%22_contro...
My Meraki APs were replaced with Ubiquiti (MR32 -> AP AC Pro) and holy god what a difference. The Merakis just had absolutely AWFUL range. I tried everything I could for years, and they were just terrible.
It’s time for Congress to hold social media companies liable
But that isn't the standard that was used. It seems to be something more akin to 'don't not moderate content that encourages...'. Except it isn't quite clear what moderation is considered good enough, as one can look at other sites which hosted and continue to host similar content. Sure, they haven't taken the stance they won't moderate, but they haven't done enough to moderate the content to remove it.

Or is it that stance? Perhaps that was the defining standard, that they took a stance instead of passively allowing it to remain like other sites do (until called out, at which point they'll react based on the size of the call out).
> Funny (amusing) to hear that lichess' competitors would pay professionals not to pay on lichess

That is true, nevertheless, many of the same Grandmasters still play using anonymous accounts. For obvious reasons, we should not point out which accounts these are.
If I want to chat and share posts with 3 friends who use 3 different federated nodes, my details end up on all 3 of those nodes.

Consider email as an example of a federated network: My name, email address, and text of my emails exist today on hundreds (thousands?) of different servers. If I decided I want to "delete" my name from the global email network, that's close to impossible.

The same would be true of a federated social network, but with a more intrusive and personal set of data. Users will not understand that they cannot delete their own mastodon toots (or whatever it calls them).
No, still very shitty beta sadly. In mikrotik communities routeros7 is a meme (it'll never arrive). Even though its here, its not.
What happened to it's not systemd's job to fix kernel bugs?
What is he proposing then?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErGzmjYWMAI_POS?format=jpg&name=...
Doesn't it seem like one of the missing measurements for directors/VPs should be "amount of disappearing expertise"?
I'm sure most of those people had weapons back at home. If they actually wanted to stage a coup, I'm pretty more than one police officer would have died.

>Again, let's not downplay the seriousness of what happened.

Let's not overplay it either.
I went to the Brave website and had a look around Friday evening. I have also been using Firefox since back before it was even called that.

Part of me thinks I should make the switch, and then part of me think that I'd just be indirectly backing Google by switching to Brave.

Anyone have thoughts on that?
I agree whole heartily, but I think we should go bigger. I think we should create a fourth branch of government, call it the Informational, whose job is to independently educate and inform citizens of matters relevant to their citizenship. This could be modeled after the supreme court, that is life-term (or reasonably long) nominations with a public vetting process.
Reading with a Pencil
HN is not full of morons. I do agree with you that Parler is generally misrepresented, but there is plenty of dissenters here. Things aren't as unbalanced as you perceive.
These arguments about hypothetical super intelligences are interesting, but my concern is not very great because we can just pull the power plug if necessary
Lol yeah, I tried building my own wheel, and getting it true was such an art that I ended up writing my thesis about bicycle spokes...
China has a rapidly aging demographic due to their one child policy and preference for male leading to a skewed gender ratio. All of this compared to its neighbors, US & Europe which simply uses immigration, leaves China in an unrecoverable state. The leadership knows this and all they can do is kick the can down the road.

Unless they come up with robots or start opening up immigration (which will be a hard sell), you are going to have old single men competing for whatever economic avenues they can find. Single men living in dense urban zones in poverty is guarantee for unrest. ex) Syria

PRC is Qing Dynasty 2.0 and it will be divided up by foreign powers when its weak. Sort of like how NATO & EU prevents Russia from retaking its former satellites permanently and this is exactly why Putin is in Crimea, Georgia, and now Latvia (massive open terrain allows fast ground, air invasion of Moscow and this has always been the central core of Russia both past and the present security policy).

This time, it will not be allowed to unify. The West, China's neighbors who are after its loot, will simply allow all 55 minorities to declare independence, and massive civil war is a real possibility between competing regions.

If you understand China, they are forced to follow Beijing. People from South are more westernized and business minded. The southern coastal provinces are best poised for economic recovery and could be the favored state.

When the smoke clears, a unified Korea is in the best position to take over because of its soft power in the region.

Nobody forced people to become America, people put it on themselves to become American. This is the power of culture and China simply played its hands too early and were caught stealing chips. Figuratively and literally
Incorrect. Take the example of Sherrod Brown, Democratic senator from Ohio. If he leaves office or dies the Republican governor, Mike DeWine, picks his replacement. He is in no way obliged to pick a Democrat.
Aren't these effectively lab tests of robots that can navigate a home?

[dancing] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw
[cleaning clutter] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8-w9eF24gU
Honey bees sting in defense. If you want to know "Is there anything in this world that doesn't even defend itself?" you are correct: The answer is Absolutely not.

Nothing survives that doesn't have some kind of survival instinct and some means to protect itself when threatened.
I can only tell you what I have heard from many people myself: 4€ for a chat app is not on.
> Suppose the Big Tech companies are far-right instead of left.

Wait, when did corporate capitalism become a left-wing position?

What you really mean is "supposed the Big Tech companies became far-right instead of centrist neoliberal capitalists".

> In this scenario people wouldn’t be saying “freedom of speech is freedom from compelled speech; you can say what you want but you just need to create your own platform / internet; etc.” T

Yeah, just projecting a story of how people would act in a counterfactual in order to base an argument on it is problematic because its obviously quite easy to just assert whatever behavior would best suit the conclusion you want to draw.

One could equally easily assume that left-wing opponents of the action you suggest would, instead of focussing on state regulation (presumably, if industry was that much more tilted against the left than it is now, through the influence of industrial money the government would be even more tilted against the left than it is now, which would make the government unhelpful in any case), the left would instead organize outside corporate communication channels (as it has in the past) for boycotts, demonstrations, and mobilization for both the interests that were being targeted and against the firms that were trying to block them. Of course, in that case, the argument you are trying to build on top of your story about how the left would behave falls apart.
Sorry for being obtuse - it wasn't my intention.

I'm thinking of "Unifi Video" that is going out (EOL announced six months ago), where you could either buy their appliance OR download an official .deb package and install the NVR software on your own server.

They replace that with "Unifi Protect" that comes ONLY as an NVR appliance. No more .deb packages. It also requires you to buy one of their other products (Cloud Key 2), IIRC.
I've noticed a high correlation between people who callously want to ban all sorts of speech and people who just seem completely miserable and think the US is the most awful place on earth.
> If you are unwilling to do that, then you need to make sure you diversify your cloud. It's much less likely that two competing cloud vendors would shut you off at exactly the same time.

Isn't that what happened, they lost all of their cloud providers because the providers could not justify being part guaranteeing reliable service delivery of under moderated content?
Despite the name in the Amazon listing, it has nothing to do with Mikrotik; also a 1Gbit ARM Mikrotik router/firewall can be had for considerably less.
Reminds me of the joke: How can you tell is somebody is a vegan?
This sounds incredible and I really hope mRNA doesn't end up being the Graphene of this decade (the fact that it's already used in the biggest "mass market" product imaginable suggests it won't be).

My question for people that know more about this stuff – do we need to tweak our regulatory framework for therapeutics like this one that are extremely laser focused? When you are literally targeting a specific RNA code, the chances of side effects should be pretty minimal in general, correct?

Or is the fact that all this kind of immunotherapy still too new, require the same amount of oversight?
Or it could just prevent you from limiting its total energy budget.
Laws still exist against things like perjury, even though the existence of the law is not a technical means in itself able to prevent perjury. Note that one of the comments upthread specifically mentioned legislation. The current notion that many people in the tech world have, which roughly states that what determines whether something is kosher is whether it's technically possible to accomplish, is something that needs to change, instead of things just staying a permanent Wild West forever.

There's also an old phrase that putting locks on your doors doesn't actually stop a determined attacker, but that it's okay because they're not meant to—that they're meant to "keep honest people honest". It's a principle that applies here.
Yes. It's a PR/business reputation move.
Look at Ethereum smart contract wallets today[1]. They have social account recovery in case you shoot yourself in the foot.

If it can be used for your money, it can be used for your chat history.

[1]: https://www.argent.xyz/blog/a-new-era-for-crypto-security/
It is troubling that Trump disputes the recent election. It was also troubling when Democrats and news media firms disputed the previous election, but more so because that went on at least until Mueller embarrassed himself during Congressional testimony. At least in this sense, "both sides" is just the truth.