skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? Which court heard these grievances? The only court with the actual jurisdiction to hear them, The SCOTUS, dismissed the only case brought before them about it on "standing".

And before you claim that it was absurd to even ask the court to hear the case at all: two of the justices, who I can promise have a better understanding of constitutional law than anybody posting on hacker news, argued to hear the case.

It wasn't heard.
> private companies padding out the contract not government employees

I have no references to back this theory up, but I feel like this is where most of the waste happens.

[Gov spend public money] -> [pay private company]

The government isn't incentivized to get the best deal for our money which results in overpaying or just flat out corruption. eg. I'll overpay my friend's company and they will kick me back some money for choosing their contract.
Waiting for the likes of FB and Twitter to de-platform the PBS, after all their Principal Counsel with the name of Michael Beller thinks that Trump supporters should be sent to "re-education camps" and he also said that he would have "thrown a Molotov cocktail" on the White House had Biden not won. The video is here [1], most probably it will be taken down because it shows "our people" being as bad as "them". Those were not "lies", were direct threats coming from a person who does actively shape public opinion.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1r2rdmWsPE&
There are obvious parallels to draw.
I’ve been using Parler since June to discuss fairly mainstream views and talk about day to day life on a Twitter alternative. This week that option was taken away from me, without due process for me or the company in question. The alleged violations were nothing I hadn’t seen on Twitter, except Twitter regularly hosts even worse content, but I guess it has enough important people using it to crush alternatives on shaky claims and spotty evidence.
Learn fundamentals of programming by building a game. Languages: Python and Rust
Not a consipiracy. There are many modules that haven't been ported to Qt 6, but are planned to be ported by 6.2: https://www.qt.io/blog/add-on-support-in-qt-6.0-and-beyond https://wiki.qt.io/Checklist_for_Qt_6.0_inclusion

Personally, I can't migrate to Qt 6 because it lacks the location module.
25M new users joined Telegram in the last 72 hours alone
Always happy to hear a pitch :) My email is in my profile.
Parler isn't destroyed. They're in the process of migrating to Epik and will be back online. Epik is also who hosts Gab, InfoWars, and other similar right wing sites.

They signed a contract with AWS and didn't live up to it, so AWS cancelled it. That's how free markets work.
> The tariff will have a significant effect on production of the Airbus A320 in Mobile, Alabama, something which Airbus has claimed will only hurt US workers.

How will this hurt US workers?

Sounds like this is suggesting that either they will pay the workers less to compensate, or maybe even move the factory elsewhere to avoid the tariffs (moving the factory to mexico might mean the tariffs disappear until new tariffs against shipping planes from mexico get approved, which might take some time).
Elon gained 10^11 when to not starve 10^5 might be enough. So he could offset 10^6 - milion people starving.
It is not true that you can only legally communicate via digital tools. The US still has a post office
That, and I think it's also fair to acknowledge that language choice can be a serious barrier of entry to contributing to a project or using it in tandem with other technologies. Also if I'm looking to learn from real-world projects I would, personally, prefer to know ahead of time.

"Hi, my project does X, I wrote it in Y," seems a reasonable way to introduce something.
Just say 16.1mm. The fact that the keyboard and top of the screen taper to a knife edge does not make the machine take up less space in a backpack.

Here's a side profile:

https://help.apple.com/assets/5F46CA8B094622AD463B4A64/5F46C...
Do you feel this way about cake bakers to?
A common saying is, "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." The key idea in the second paragraph is that serious events might look silly or comical at first, but should not be ignored.

Read about the Beer Hall Putsch, about how it was characterized by contemporaries, about it's efficacy, and it's not totally unreasonable to say, "Is this a modern version of that event?"
To elaborate on what others have said re: retaliation, EU tariffs on goods are generally higher than those of the USA[0], so if anything this will just close the gap and make total tariffs paid more even. The USA in general has the lowest import tariffs on goods of all major countries (even after all the Trump escalations). It also has a large goods import gap (importing much more than it exports). It makes up a lot of that gap in services, so when France passed a tax specifically targeting its most important "service" companies (internet giants), it sees that as a HUGE trade escalation, even though that absolute tax those companies pay in Europe was previously laughably small in absolute terms.

One could argue that despite all the headline drama, evening US-EU goods tariffs and making US tech companies pay taxes in Europe lands on a more equitable arrangement, rather than de facto subsidizing EU agriculture and US tech.

[0]It's hard to find intuitively meaningful numbers for this stuff since it's so complicated, but you can see that the EU "general goods" tariff has a mean average of 5.1% vs 3.4% for the USA here: https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/tariff_profiles20...
I commented exactly the same last time this subject came up last week or so.

IANAL, but I did some research then, and my understanding is that the Supreme Court has ruled that to the extent that a union spends money on political activities, the dues they collect are no longer mandatory.

The point being that it’s not just a moot point whether they are actually a PAC. It is recognized in law that the purpose of a union is for collective bargaining in the workplace, and some of the special legal protections that a union holds (like mandatory dues and legal immunity) can fall away when the union is actually operating like a PAC.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25634087
A simple solution to this is to apply these principles only to accounts of a meaningful size and to exclude "petty cash". Tracking capital assets with double entry accounting systems has a ton of benefits for someone in your position:

* Tracking the cost basis of your capital assets

* Tracking fees related to transactions involving capital
assets

* Calculating taxes

* Analyzing allocation of capital assets into categories

* Tracking drift from a target
> It contains about 0.5% (Edit: actually 0.05%, off by a digit)

Your original figure of 0.5% was correct and your edit is wrong.
Amazon and Facebook staff warned of threats to safety
These are different things. Signal is designed as a secure, more robust alternative to SMS/MMS.

IRC is not even close to filling that role. It’s not more robust nor more secure. At the same time it does several things that Signal doesn’t. Signal, as a messenger, is not a “chat room” or “social network” in the same way that IRC, Matrix, and even Telegram function. There are. I thousand member rooms you can join. It’s meant for secure, small group, communication.

Maybe that will change and they’ll broaden, but I would rather see them keep to their niche and do it well. I have no problem having one messenger app and another for “communities” of sorts.
This is ignorant. The Ford Fiesta for example is a top-five car in the EU. They're everywhere.

https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/2019-full-year-euro...
>the cross-desktop one is electron-based

I don't think so, the one I use on Linux uses Qt.
I read it and Amazon said they found 98 posts across serval weeks that were related to violence and the included screen shots showed very little engagement with those posts. I read that Parler had 2.3 million DAU in December. Feels like weak sauce from Amazon, but I do get their objection to the CEOs moderation comment.
An Optimization Exercise in Golang
As cyberspace seems to take the tyrannical turn, look for lower-tech forms of communication to grow popular.

We could even see 18th-century pamphleteering again as ideas seek to escape the zampolit.
There was at least one man at the "event" who thought it was funny to wear a shirt that said CAMP AUSCHWITZ on the front and STAFF on the back.
Can someone help me to understand this election fraud stuff? I promise I'm not a quack.

I pretty much ignore anything Trump has to say, since he was obviously going to say it was rigged upon losing, so his opinion contributes no info to my mental model.

I keep hearing from conservatives that the actual evidence was never properly examined in court, and that the cases were mostly dismissed on issues of legal standing. Not being a lawyer, I have no idea how to interpret the legal results from any kind of objective standpoint.

I feel crazy, because every rational person I usually turn to is saying that it's a settled matter, but I haven't seen any good "breakdowns" of the actual allegations and their validity.

Back in November I felt pretty confident dismissing stupid Benford's law claims and sketchy graphs pointing out "Biden spikes" in Michigan. I had the data in hand and could confidently dismiss those. No fraud.

I watched the whole interrogation with the PA whistleblower mailman who talked with Project VERITAS, and I came away understanding that he was paranoid and confused and probably in way over his head. No fraud.

Electronic voting has always been criticized, so I don't know why this year should be any different. But that just seems worse, that potentially decades' worth of elections could have been tampered with if any of those Dominion claims are true?

But it's been weeks and weeks and there was a bunch of "evidence" since then, and I don't have the time or energy or legal expertise to make any sense of them. I feel like I'm going crazy because all my moderate/liberal friends are convinced it's the stuff of conspiracy theories. This is keeping me up at night, feeling like the whole exercise of democracy could be a total sham, and possibly always was.

Is anyone else having this epistemic crisis since November? Is this how people become conspiracy theorists? Can anyone else relate?
My T470P has all of that - following models have at least one dimm soldered which is crap.
It's literally in the official release planning and announcements that many modules are not part of the initial release.
Same. I keep a spreadsheet that I update once a month with assets, liabilities and net worth. Takes me about 5mins and is a good check to detect unexpected spending or trends.
To add a bit of info for Romania, the public healthcare is (still) plagued with corruption (pun intended). I've heard people saying that one is better off on private clinics ...financially! About heat and electricity subventions, I've just found out that for one block of flats (with 3rd comfort-level living spaces, i.e. for mostly poor people) there haven't been any submitted heating subvention applications for years, and that includes this pandemic-affected cold season. The unemployment goes 75%+ of previous income and is dependent on various factors. For example, contributions to unemployment fund has to be paid at least for 12 months in the last two years¹.

¹ (in Romanian) https://www.cursvalutar.ro/blog/ajutorul-de-somaj-ce-este-cu...
That's what a union does.
Wait till they collect dues and send that all to China.
It's funny that your lies about the left are lies themselves. Actually, it's not funny and it's how trump whipped up thousands of people to attempt a coup last week.
http://archive.is/9epym
A lie is intentional. If a person legitimately believes the election was fraudulent, even if it was not, it's not a lie. It's a mistaken belief.

Calling the other side liars is precisely the kind of polarizing rhetoric that can undermine democracy. They are not liars if they legitimately believe what they are saying. 70% of Republican voters and some 10% of Democrat voters actually do believe there was election fraud [1].

The way to combat mistaken beliefs is to allow them to voice their views, then refute their arguments, not to call them liars and suppress their views. And even if they do not accept the refutation, the arguments should be left up for people to read and make their informed choice.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/09/republicans-free-fa...
Does anyone know how this is compliant with the QT Company's agreement with the KDE Free Qt Foundation?

I was under the impression the Qt company was legally obligated to release all updates under the LGPL, and failure to do so would result in the latest release of Qt being relicensed to BSD.

Specifically, section 3.2 in this agreement. https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/Software_License_Agreeme...

I understand they have 12 months from now until that clause kicks in, but based on their announcements it looks like the Qt company has no intention of ever releasing these 5.13 updates as open-source.
Facebook and Twitter do not have the violent posts solved by any measure. But at the very least they make the gestures and put money towards trying to fix it.

Parler has been vocal that they have no plans solving it. If they had at least showed some vague plan to resolve it, they would have earned some sympathy.
Using GPT-3 for plain language incident root cause from logs
Is Substack becoming the Parler of journalism in a way? It seems to be attracting "overton window" challengers from both sides, but I wonder if it's going to devolve into a cesspool in it's own way.
There's a handful of extremely accomplished professors, but beyond that contributions come from all over the place. Anyone with a bright idea can contribute. As for getting paid to do it, well, you are probably right, but for many people it is probably also just a bit of a hobby.
Come on now. The President and prominent republicans and their allies fanned enough flames by claiming election was stolen. Its not one speech or one instance, its the collective narrative thats been going around since the time it was clear that Trump is going to be on the losing side.
Needs a [2013]
This hits on the head a broad pattern in my computer usage: never close something you'll come back to soon.

I've known many people who finish the workday by clicking Shut Down on their workstation, and start the next workday with a fresh boot. That is so alien to me; I click Suspend, so each day everything is exactly how it needs to be to continue working, including terminal output, running processes, open windows and their state, etc. This saves me time, and jump-starts my brain by basically loading in the swapped-out mental context I was in yesterday instead of reinitializing the same mental state from scratch.
Platforms are a form of the public commons that have been privatized. The privatization is the problem, not the content. What is happening is that the form of free public speech has become, over the past 15 years, something that we now have to pay rent to use. FB, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, Parler are private forms of communication that we now all have to pay rent to in order to communicate. There needs to be a free public commons of communication. If that existed this problem would not exist. It is, as most here have asserted, a dissonance and problem with allowing unelected billionaires to decide on free speech. This is because it attacks the form of free public speech only because of the content and our economic order. The solution is to create an international public commons that protects communication, health, etc.
It's bizarre in that Ron Paul likely would advocate that it's FB's platform and private property and therefore has the right to censor and remove posts, even choosing who they do "business" with. Ron Paul would likely advocate for less government and against government regulation. I want to know and hear from Ron Paul on his take on his FB situation.
Not OP, but chiming in: I do many workflows with very large photo and video files. Having an affordable, widely-available single-board-like or single-board-compatible product with a 10Gb SFP+ cage would have a measurable impact on how quickly I can seek assets from my home NAS.

Right now the cheapest options are to get a 10Gb PCIe card from Newegg or similar, which'll run you about $200 where I am, and that's just a PCIe extension card.
Qt 5.15 will be the last Qt 5 release. It's also LTS, ergo all further patches eleases from Qt Company are for LTS branches...

They have to make these changes public under their agreement with the KDE foundation after no longer than 1 year. If it wasn't for that agreement Qt 5 would be abandonware from a FOSS perspective, much like Qt 4
W540 here. Never leaves my desk so who cares it’s a tank. 32 gigs of ram quad core i7 and super zippy.
They are engaging in collective bargaining. And they are bargaining around how the wealth and power they help generate is used in the broader society.

A union is a PAC. It's a PAC that allows the workers to exercise some level of collective control over the business they create through their work. It's not just about bargaining for better pay or working conditions - that's a fabrication of the propaganda spread in the US as part of the effort to dismantle our labor movement.

If you look at the history of labor organizing, it's always been about power - whether power is held in the hands of those with capital, or whether it's shared with those who do the work.
I hear about stuff like this from Facebook pretty often, and to some extent from Amazon and Microsoft.

Apple might be different because they’re mostly just making devices? The social implications are less obvious.
You should use Firefox and toggle Reader Mode. No CSS changes necessary.
And the same for a company. Politics is just an emergent phenomenon of groups of people.
> We will ensure Alphabet acts ethically and in the best interests of society and the environment.

I guess they don't consider global mass surveillance for the purpose of selling ads to be an ethical or societal problem, then. Good to know there's no reason to take anything they say seriously.
How to opt-out WhatsApp x Facebook data sharing if you're in the EU
Parsed from outside, this piece could be the mirror image of its criticisms, which is what makes it extra interesting. It's like the myth of the Tower of Babel, where there was a divine event that caused people to be unable to understand each other, and could no longer speak the same language.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel)

Our language itself has a virus in it that is spreading through minds and causing shared meaning to decohere. That's really the level of disconnect there is with about 80m Americans on either side of it.
It's not a slippery slope any more. We already fell off and it just happens that the immediate casualty is Parler. But real victims are not far behind (in fact, they already exist, they are just not important enough).
surge LOL it's not even drop in number of whatsapp users

I used for years combo signal+whatsapp, main reason is much better photo quality on signal and I like simpler UI, but I moved my family including parents away from Signal after they started to nag everyone with creating PIN I don't want

and don't get me started un unreliable message delivery if you often switch between wifi and mobile network, whatsapp will deliver messages without any issues, it takes very long time for signal to switch to correct network

so I installed tyo my parents and wife Google messages as backup option with chat feature, but that's not option for me without GMS

looking forward to some IM app with SMS support to replace mine Pulse (which also got into hands of shady company, so it has now blacklisted updates)

also they are talking about those features for years and introducing nonsense instead bringing basics, heck it took them years to be able to send multiple photos at same time, you had to send it one by one until like 2018, I think that speaks volumes about priorities/skills of Signal devs
Some fun conf talk/blog title clickbait inspiration that Devs will “get”
Yes I'm no a scholar in Greek and Latin manuscript but I doubt that you are more of a scholar than Dr. Columba Stewart the author of the allegedly "pop-science article" that I have referenced and provided you. He is not only a Benedictine monk, he is also a very reputable scholar and has been an executive director of the Hill Museum and Manuscript library since 2003 that has Harvard, Yale and Oxford University as his alma mater. Heck, I cannot even think of anybody else that has more credential than him in the Greek and Latin manuscripts as being maintained by the monasteries [1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba_Stewart
I guess it's country-dependent then? I can see debit/credit card and PayPal as options as soon as I click on "support".
I mean that's really the crux of my argument. Nothing illegal happened unless AWS violated their TOS/contract. The idea that someone HAS to do business in perpetuity with you or else you'll be ruined is...bizarre? It's the whole reason contracts exist in the first place.

If you don't like the laws, you get the laws changed. There are all sorts of legal, but icky things that exist in the world (bakers being allowed to discriminate based on sexual identity, jobs being allowed to fire you for political affiliation, etc)
Well, no, but they actually can, so it's not the question.

I doubt that most people able to read and publish complex scientitic papers would "struggle" to follow what is overall a one page sequence of instructions to enter in a computer. You don't need to understand containers to run docker.

I don't really get the analogy with the mechanic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Big tech wily-nily blocks anyone they want, often for political or direct fiscal gain, without regard to the consequences of their actions to others.

"Why, just yesterday, Stripe blocked Trump's campaign account. Terrible!

"I think a great place to rant about this is on Twitter!"

'(-_Q)'
Zero click exploit delivered trough Apple servers
The Spy in Your Phone | Al Jazeera World
History is full of people whose thinking stopped at "no smoke without fire". Those people are still here today.
How do you know what their plans are for tracking-based advertising?
Did Signal for Android drop Google Play Services? I thought they still supported push notifications through Google on Android unless you opted out or use a phone without Google Play.
Indeed, but it's more painful to get these things set across all the systems and accounts I use, even given Ansible. Doable, but titeInhibit is kind of nice. :-)

With Kitty, which I've been playing with and doesn't support titeInhibit, it requires deploying a termcap package everywhere, which is also painful, but I ended up building a version with those escape codes removed, which was kind of a benefit of having to use and deploy a custom termcap.
WhatsApp charged £1 to use its service forever when it was a start up.
What a great rabbit hole! It's pretty interesting to see how some of these sites are "protected" (big HTML warning stating "DO NOT ACCESS THIS") and some oldschool-IT named domains such as https://itdashboard.gov/ .

Given the recent SolarWinds breach I wonder how these networks are impacted. Most of them look like from the early 90s.
I wish I was that young ;)

There is nothing that stops the government from increasing property tax surrounding train stations.
Then what are you arguing for?