skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe a good basis for differentiating “drugs” vs “medicine”?

Perhaps, although I don't think in the way I'd take your statement. Chesterton was quite opposed to the idea that drinking would be medicinal (although maybe he would have allowed that happiness is good medicine?). From the context[1]:

> A new morality has burst upon us with some violence in connection with the problem of strong drink; and enthusiasts in the matter range from the man who is violently thrown out at 12.30, to the lady who smashes American bars with an axe. In these discussions it is almost always felt that one very wise and moderate position is to say that wine or such stuff should only be drunk as a medicine. With this I should venture to disagree with a peculiar ferocity. The one genuinely dangerous and immoral way of drinking wine is to drink it as a medicine. And for this reason, If a man drinks wine in order to obtain pleasure, he is trying to obtain something exceptional, something he does not expect every hour of the day, something which, unless he is a little insane, he will not try to get every hour of the day. But if a man drinks wine in order to obtain health, he is trying to get something natural; something, that is, that he ought not to be without; something that he may find it difficult to reconcile himself to being without. The man may not be seduced who has seen the ecstasy of being ecstatic; it is more dazzling to catch a glimpse of the ecstasy of being ordinary. If there were a magic ointment, and we took it to a strong man, and said, "This will enable you to jump off the Monument," doubtless he would jump off the Monument, but he would not jump off the Monument all day long to the delight of the City. But if we took it to a blind man, saying, "This will enable you to see," he would be under a heavier temptation. It would be hard for him not to rub it on his eyes whenever he heard the hoof of a noble horse or the birds singing at daybreak. It is easy to deny one's self festivity; it is difficult to deny one's self normality. Hence comes the fact which every doctor knows, that it is often perilous to give alcohol to the sick even when they need it. I need hardly say that I do not mean that I think the giving of alcohol to the sick for stimulus is necessarily unjustifiable. But I do mean that giving it to the healthy for fun is the proper use of it, and a great deal more consistent with health.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/470/470-h/470-h.htm (search for "Omar and the Sacred Vine" -- chapter 7).
We’re now into “would you provide credit processing for a small terrorist organization” territory with the Trump campaign.

If they were a foreign non-state actor, it probably would be criminal offense to provide aid or transmit money for them. (For fairly obvious 1st amendment reasons it’s not possible to do that with fellow Americans, which is why the statutes specify foreign terrorist groups).

I’m not terribly surprised that everyone is dumping them.
Sound-based keylogging: Clustering keystroke audio recordings with t-SNE
You're saying whatsapp has a super simple vulnerability to expose peoples IPs?

Delicious
Why do you want it to work? Sunflower is cheaper, higher smoke point, and the flavour isn't relevant here (though even if it weren't going to be lost, you would not want it, another strike against olive anyway).
Freedom of speech, you cry.

Well, OK, this is freedom of speech…for Stripe. They don’t like what Trump has done. They are a private company. It’s their ball. They can take it home whenever they want to.

Speech has consequences, and if you foment a hostile takeover of Congress, you pay your price.
I mean. The time for an intern to go from nothing to a blinking LED is not an interesting metric at all for a professional tool.
IIRC if you disable POST requests, Chromium should show the searX instance in the Search Engines settings menu.
If alternative chat, payment, etc. are prevented from being created, that is not a "free market" decision. This smells like a politically aligned cartel, with key companies enjoying de facto monopoly positions in effect legislating what is and what is not acceptable.

Right now, we haven't heard from ISPs. The entire suite of services that are controlled by the monopoly FANGs can be recreated, including clouds and cloud-fronts.

If that line is crossed as well then we'll have a modern society entirely dependent on information infrastructure that is controlled by a handful of companies with pedigree rooted firmly in the defense and intelligence sectors. You can call that whatever you please, but it will not be pleasant.

[p.s. I vote Green.]
Apologies, the distinction wasn't some Vs all, it was that they hadn't even considered how the information got there. Then when they found out, they were immediately sceptical of the idea. Which was hilarious.

But also, unless you have a much better understanding than me, it is community driven. Even those who have some official capacity at Wikipedia only got there through countless hours of being a good community member
If they wanted to actually do what you say they intended. There's plenty easier ways compliments of left-wing domestic terrorism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...

Also when 5 members of Congress were shot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_United_States_Capitol_sho...

We've even got a New York State Senator claiming: "Seeing the Twin Towers crumble is no longer the most frightening moment of my life,” tweeted state Sen. John Liu (D-Queens).

https://nypost.com/2021/01/09/ny-state-sen-john-liu-explains...

Schumer also compared the event to Pearl Harbor: https://twitter.com/dailycaller/status/1346991088301715456?s...

Like really? https://i.imgur.com/ysWxd8f.jpg
I don't think so. There is a vast number of pages describing things like astronomical objects, types of tropical fish, species of fungus, etc. Conversations among editors about articles in those long tails tend to be friendly and civil. Just stay away from articles about "My Little Pony".
If they used it like Ford did I’m ok with that. If you use your ex-prez status for a force of good in the world. Building orphanages or communities and such.

If you’re just going to go golfing you can do that on your dime.
Definitely. At a previous job I set the password of my work Mac to my password less the first character to keep the muscle memory working. No need for an explicit "wake the screen" character.
> But these moves come across not as anti-extreme-right, but anti-conservative.

No, they're anti-"storm the nation's seat of government with an angry mob intent on killing members of Congress and / or the Vice President, as a last ditch effort to overturn a democratic election"
It claims that Telegram has always been encrypted and whatsapp originally wasn't.

There is no way to interpret that to make it true. Telegram chats are not e2e encrypted by default. They're encrypted between the server and the client, but whatsapp chats were also even before they implemented e2e encryption everywhere.
> Because cutting-and-pasting is a destructive action that can lead to data loss.

Isn't this the same for all cut-and-paste? It's expected.

What's special about files that mean they need special protection?

Pop them in the Bin until they're pasted if you want.

It's not as unfathomable as you make out.
I m sorry but all this concerted action feels (from afar) a lot like "if people don't vote the way we want, we re just gonna have to force them". It's not about overreach, but companies are not political entities, and reversing this relationship is a self-defeating travesty

And if they are doing it for cheap popularity points -- well trump may be gone in a week, but his voters won't leave. this just reinforces mistrust in the state itself
I take your point. I can't be certain why, because it's been so long since I used Windows, but I never found this to be a problem in practice — maybe I was just lucky. I guess you could make the same argument about cut in any context, except:

a) you could argue that cutting text isn't as destructive as deleting a file, although they could be one and the same if you happen to have an entire file's text selected

b) mechanisms for undo'ing text operations tend to be more sophisticated than undo'ing filesystem operations; I might argue that's a separate problem to be resolved

I'd be perfectly happy if this were an option, buried in some obscure preference panel somewhere, labelled "yes, I really want to shoot myself in the foot" but, as it stands, I don't even get that.
I feel that right now, there's a lot of people conflating the status quo with the way they think things ought to be.

I've seen a lot of comments that act authoritative about the legal consequences, but heavily editorialized to say "the government shouldn't".

I'm not going to state my personal stance, because it's complicated and frankly, I haven't put enough thought into it to be comfortable presenting it. But, you (the reader) should be willing to forgo your kneejerk reaction (if you have one) and think about the consequences of what you're proposing when discussing changing the status quo and desired legislature to "solve" these issues.
I need to switch between zero- and one-indexed languages often. It really doesn't make a difference.
No longer Catholic, but Matthew 23 has to be interpreted in context since Christ also says to call no one a teacher but we don't freak about that at all.

Also, St. Paul says you don't have many Fathers in the faith but he is one.

So in combination it means that no one on Earth replaces God as Father and Lord of all. Pope, Patriarch, Bishop, Priest whoever, insofar as they submit to God, submit to them. Otherwise resist and refute them.
When you say "coming for law enforcement", do you mean actively advocating for violence toward, or just, like, advocating for additional regulation?
> But political affiliation is not a protected class.

Classes that are protected now, were not protected at some point.

I think the discussion revolves not around whether political affiliation is a protected class, but whether it should be, in a sense- whether what is going on is good or bad for society, not whether or not it is illegal.

You are entitled to believe that it is good, of course.
I know what it means to me. I also know it’s limits, shall I explain what those are to you?
I just want to say that I really like the format of that article: short and to the point.
This argument went out the window when Amazon started infrastructure bans. "Build your own..." What? Internet? Country?
I don’t understand this. So you’re thinking if they hold or execute members of Congress that’s all it takes to overthrow the government? This seems ludicrous and yet I’ve seen multiple people espouse such a thing, so I’m wondering if I’m not understanding some kind of checkmate that comes with such a move.
> Personally I'm really sad that the original Windows RT or the first Generation of Windows RT Tablets were never cracked.

I thought they were: https://gist.github.com/acepace/df34b5213f1e0fae6529eb703d94...
At this point you should definitely go multicloud and I will have to present that point to my company or I would be derelict in duties.
"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Give me liberty or give me death"
The first amendment applies to corporations when they use the state to enforce their speech over someone else's. The actual case history surrounding first amendment rights is way more complicated than you're implying. There are situations where the government can restrict your first amendment rights; there are situations where you can have your first amendment rights violated by a company — and seek restitution.
> So, imagine I have a browser window open asking me to upload a file. If I have that file open, why should I navigate the directory hierarchy in the open panel? I can just drag the proxy icon for that document straight into the open panel. Bam, the open panel is pointing at the correct location.

On Windows you can drag the file right onto the 'Browse...' button on the web page. (this does require some precision, as otherwise you'll open the file in the browser)

> Something shouldn’t act as something else, especially if it’s destructive. That, in my opinion, violates the principle of least surprise — an interface to C or R should not U or D.

Perhaps I'm too used to Windows's idiosyncrasies, but an open/save dialog is an Explorer window (at least in a functional sense). When you drag a file onto it, it does the same thing as an Explorer window. This does not seem that surprising to me.
Nothing against options, but having distros with a default on Gnome just seems wrong, defaults are supposed to be good and complete.
But it's not a parallel at all.

All the Hollywood studios (a bunch of different entities) conspired with each other not to hire those people.

Stripe is a single entity and isn't (AFAIK) working with others on the payment processing industry to block a specific set of people/groups.

And it's protected (and IMHO, should be) because it's a political organization -- Stripe has the right (as do you or I) to choose whether or not they wish to support (verbally, financially or through other material methods) any particular political party, policy position or candidate.

Let's say that you own a business that makes t-shirts. And you strongly support candidate X. Should you be required to make t-shirts for candidate Y (candidate X's opponent)?

And if you chose not to make t-shirts for candidate Y, is that morally wrong?
They have clear rules against inciting violence that were clearly violated. That's a good line to draw and enforce.
> And we're also at the point where some companies won't provide you with respectable service unless you @ them on social media.

Real-world example: T-Mobile. Their Twitter and Facebook representatives (called T-Force) have better customer service (they are more empowered to help you without supervisor escalation and fix things faster) than calling 611.
Hold up. The Microsoft Store doesn't work anymore on Windows RT? Isn't that the only place to get apps for Windows RT? It was only eight years ago, Jesus.
I’m sure they took it into account that certain people would feel “alienated” by this, but weighed it against what has happened over the last 4 years and what happened last week in the Capitol and decided “yep, worth it”.

Personally, I don’t understand how you can acknowledge that you ‘far from love Trump’ (paraphrase) but then consider a banning of his campaign (which is separate from the R party and from conservatism) as against you, a conservative.
How do you know whatsapp is e2e encrypted and there is no mitm going?
They would have done it sooner if it was politically motivated, as opposed to being in reaction to breach of their ToS.
Ecstatic to see this. Once this stabilizes then I can switch my shop to rust and not look back. If I find some spare time I will absolutely try to find a way to contribute.
Yet they won’t ban payments to law firms that fight for child abuse.
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Actually, thinking back, the primary reason I did that was that bash can’t dereference a variable by its name stored in another variable without an eval, and calling eval on each access of the variable was slow. By eval-ing the whole method ahead of time, I could access all the object attributes at runtime without any further evals. It looks like cmake has a getter/setter function that takes a name, so that wouldn’t be a problem here.
Replying to Chrissnell comment which seems to be flagged.

I agree with your sentiment, and I was there on slashdot in those times. Even though I have nothing for or against the political events happening in the USA. I fear that all these companies are using what happened as a pretext to stop giving service to people with different ideas.

Twitter censoring trump is OK. Reddit censoring some channels is OK. But blocking a chat app from apple/google store? AWS? Stripe? This is exactly what a lot of us fought for ed2k, BitTorrent DeCSS and other technologies: the technology is not bad. And even if we dont like the content, we should allow people with different ideas to talk a out it.

Sure, some of the people at the capitol committed a crime. But it's the same as if companies have banned cryptography because of DeCSS.
The requests come from a crawler they host, not from the client —- so not to simple.
I appreciate the direct answer - it sounds like it might still be worth learning from an academic perspective. Most of my project ideas are readily done with a Cortex-M and programmed in Rust, but I'm curious about Verilog/VHDL, even if just to expand horizons.
No.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Keep supporting these censorship policies and see what happens.

"Give me liberty or give me death"
Just like the handful of crazies the other day, you don't get to wash your hands of your bad elements. Imagine if this was the scene at the capital: https://youtu.be/c8j3h7fuYsY
And not everyone "right of Biden" is being deplatformed, unless you think everyone right of center is on Parler. Parler is a cesspool of hate groups and conspiracy theories, many of them Nazi or Nazi adjacent.
At least it was, yes. Not sure how it is today. I don't use it anymore.
I mean, the Capitol attack on Wednesday is where I draw the line, and Stripe seems to have drawn it the same way.
I said "for some reason" to indicate that Apple would never do this, not least because of NIH.
What’s amazing is this is, despite most commenters agreeing here, incredible evidence for the “they’re all controlled by the same people” crowd.

This level of coordinated action shouldn’t be possible in a healthy, diverse, competitive environment.
I meant the standard cut and paste and short cuts. Sorry.
> Let them die out as the only online island of neo-nazism and nationalist white pride.

GAB is a well known honeypot, and it doesn't even break the top 20 of White pride/Nazi sites.

This whole thing is marketing by them, Torba is using the exact same playbook as he did in 2018 ( https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/gab-the-alt-right-so... )

Parler was getting the attention, now GAB is.
There’s always this gem from Maxine Waters instructing the country to:

> "If you see anybody from that (Trump) Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/25/623206039/congressional-leade...

It’s pretty hard to argue she doesn’t mean to remove them by force.
> you're fine with the fraud

There was no fraud. People like Trump depend on people like you being unwilling to accept the practical reality.

The title of the article linked to in this Hacker News thread is "Facts won't fix this". And it's true. You are the proof of it.
Canada has restrictions on free speech that prevent things like saying hateful stuff. And so far Canada looks pretty democratic and fair to me.

Have a read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_expression_in_Can...
Gtk and GNOME is utter trash, it's going nowhere, has no art direction nor QA process. It's for the large part responsible for Linux desktops having negligible adoption. I wish there would be a open-source, but not free desktop environment built with Qt. Not free because you can't have just about everyone pushing their opinion on it. There has to be a team with strong design and QA skills behind it.
Crazy, thanks for the info - that's not far from where I am (Anapa). There's many devs living here working for western or Moscow companies.
You could look at countries as being part of a market. If one country decides to ban your speech, you just move to another one, right? But that's not how it works because switching countries is very difficult. We demand free speech from a government even if we theoretically have the option to move.

If you have a colluding oligopoly in something crucial to do business such as payments or communication, where it's difficult to switch due to network effects, being banned by them is like being banned by government.
Well, they haven't really relented, you still have to sign the agreement saying they can use your data. It's just that they wheeled out a spokesperson to say 'but we really won't - honest, if you are in the EU'.
> Where do you draw a line?

Somewhere on the right side of "storming Congress with a mob".
Why slap a narrative on me? I said nothing you’ve talked about and don’t believe what you ascribe you me. Why waste the time of both of us?

“As Fauci told the Washington Post here , at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, masks were not recommended for the general public, as authorities were trying to prevent a mask shortage for health workers and the extent of asymptomatic spread was unknown.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-fauci-outdated-...

The man was in a no-win situation, and he had to make a shitty call, but integrity doesn’t mean occasional honesty. He and many others walked through a one-way door and the best move for him is to resign so we can have someone with a clean ethical slate.

Let’s make this simpler. How do you feel about General Alexander’s testimony to Congress about surveillance of the American people?
Facebook and Whatsapp are effectively the same entity, as the recent requirement of sharing Whatsapp data with Facebook shows. It's basically Microsoft with Windows and IE using special hidden dlls to execute faster than Netscape and that was of course a landmark and exemplary example of anti-trust abuse by a non-monopoly in either OS or browsers. Facebook needs to be broken up and the special ownership rules privileging Mark Zuckerberg need to be removed.
Capitol protestors were "coming for" election transparency.

Please don't misrepresent or generalise very disparate groups of demonstrators.
Platform: wow people click ads more often than organic results. We should put more ads in there.
I think, for awhile, all this is going to be relevant to people's interest no matter the forum. It'll die down on HN sooner or later.

EDIT: s/for down/die down/
Cuz we built these platforms? I think my generation finds it useful.
The mob is coming. People are completely underestimating what can happen. History is riddled with stories that start just like this.
> Picking directories has been pretty broken forever as well. Say you start in ~/Downloads/foo and want to store the file in ~/Downloads, then navigating up will have "foo" selected, with usually no blank space to un-select (so you'd need to do ctrl+click or something to that tune); clicking "Save" (or whatever) will then descend into that directory instead of saving, so just using the mouse, or not using any shortcuts, you really can't do this.

That's a degradation from 2.10, or 2.16, from time even before the 3.0.
It's really a strength, not a quirk. Negative indexing and array slicing in general are great in Python. Really easy to pick up and way more convenient than any other language that I've come across.
> I don't use a desktop environment, only a tiling window manager, so that's probably it.

I don't use the Linux desktop often, so perhaps this is an ignorant comment, but doesn't not using a DE require a certain amount of elbow grease anyway? If you wanted a more polished/less DIY experience, it seems to me that you should be using a DE.
GrapheneOS is AOSP, not lineage based.

It has the full android security model, even allowing a locked bootloader, plus several extras like a hardened `malloc`. Don't know what you're getting at with that.
It really depends on your prior experience. If you're a programmer that's used to working with a command line-based Unix environment, the open tools will feel a lot more familiar than the proprietary ones.