skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. The incidents are well documented in general news media.

2. Illegal to count votes without observers present.

3. Between deceptive removal of observers, and subsequent dramatic change in counters’ behaviors per video recordings, conspiracy is at least a reasonable suspicion of not proven outright.

4. Vote tally for one candidate spiked from decisive loss to commanding lead in minutes during this period.

Considering you’ve moved the goalposts for this subthread, from “no evidence” to “prove intent”, I’ll consider my point made.
It wouldn't surprise me if Signal was working on something like this already.
I don't think people doubt that the TOS exist, but that they are not applied even-handedly to all people regardless of their political beliefs.
This specific announcement is an incredibly run of the mill "Intel produced a new larger variant of a chip they already make". It's still produced at 10nm, this is not any kind of big step forward to catching up with Apple.
I can't say I feel that sorry for them. They've been engaging in political brinkmanship for months now since the election ended. Just last week the head of the RNC was sending letters to the vice president trying to get him to exercise extrajudicial powers during the 1/6 vote. [1]

The problem with brinkmanship is that it works really well... until it doesn't. Using it as a tactic takes some measure of intelligence to realize where the limits lie. Their current leadership has not displayed ability to recognize those limits.

[1] https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210105/i-hope-mike-pence-...
Some things can't really be bought unbranded, at least not in the quality and sizes I want, but that normally just a small labels like on jeans. I'm okay with that, but otherwise I don't wear branded clothing.

My employer got everyone jackets one year, nice ones actually, you just had to submit your size. I didn't, and it's not that I don't like my employer, I absolutely do, but I don't feel that it's necessary for me to advertise where I work. I also quietly ignored the dress shirts, polos and t-shirts that was handed out recently.

People can wear whatever they want, I don't really care. I just don't see the point in paying for branding, or using myself as an billboard.
This is a good idea.

I'm assuming you're in the US; in Europe, how to talk to people who are not "privacy-inclined", and who think GDPR was the silver bullet that automagically stopped all privacy abuse by each and every company?

I feel I'm fighting a losing battle where everyone is Winston Smith, and [spoiler]loves Big Brother[/spoiler]
Right, so that’s the argument for not making any significant changes in law for a while, right?

There are plenty of laws in the books to charge people who are actually doing illegal acts (like storming the capital)
Personal experience: the part you're missing is that Quebec looks down on anyone that's not from QC, maybe from the ROC, maybe from the US and maaaybe if they're from France (et oui, je suis francophone)

For each job offer I had from QC I had 3 or 4 from Toronto (which had other problems as well to be fair)

Also, Canadian startup environment is... weird? A lot of business models were castles in the air to be honest.

> 5 universities very close to each other(i.e. 10 to 20 minutes walk from each other)

Except, you know, for that minor hill between them... ;)
That’s odd. I’m using an ad blocker and a PiHole, and the site loads fine for me. Ad block detection is hard, I guess.
Likely because they wouldn't play ball with the then-Tweeter-in-Chief.
If the device reboots after remote update, wouldn't that enable the mic? I read that when you power on the device, mic is on by default. So that could be a way to turn on listening without consent.
No PR!

FB uses Subversion!
I know this probably isn't what you're looking for, but for me personally the solution is to not upgrade past macOS 10.15, and to very likely not buy any more Mac laptops or desktops (after 15 years of being a Mac-first user).

Obviously that's a personal choice, but for me losing that level of control of my desktop operating system - and seeing this as the start of a trend that will only get worse - is not acceptable, so I will look to other OSes to do my work.

I'm sure Apple will continue to sell tons of Macs and that's fine...
Germany did those things, but even your description of the situation suggests it was not the right choice. Doesn't the resurgence of fascism from "embers of fascist sympathies" suggest to you that shutting down fascist speech didn't do the job it was meant to do, i.e. extinguish fascism? The speech is a symptom; the ideas are the disease. To combat the disease, you need to supply better ideas, not shut down the speech.
> unrepentant asshole

This is pretty subjective. Should we just have a real-time poll to determine who is an asshole?

Separately from that, I think society needs assholes and trying to sanitize this element entirely will make us worse (queue Team America video).
It's always frustrating when right-wing nonsense makes its way into HN
My nightmare when setting macOS FileVault to self-erase after 10 password attempts:

> Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, has two guesses left to figure out a password that is worth, as of this week, about $220 million.

> The password will let him unlock a small hard drive, known as an IronKey, which contains the private keys to a digital wallet that holds 7,002 Bitcoin. While the price of Bitcoin dropped sharply on Monday, it is still up more than 50 percent from just a month ago when it passed its previous all-time high around $20,000.

> The problem is that Mr. Thomas years ago lost the paper where he wrote down the password for his IronKey, which gives users 10 guesses before it seizes up and encrypts its contents forever. He has since tried eight of his most commonly used password formulations — to no avail.

> “I would just lay in bed and think about it,” Mr. Thomas said. “Then I would go to the computer with some new strategy, and it wouldn’t work, and I would be desperate again.”
back in mid-90s i did a contract job for a field office of the FBI. they had a policy that we were required to remove our ID badges when we left the building (to go to lunch or whatever).

the building itself was also devoid of any signs that indicated this contained an FBI office.

interestingly enough, a few months later, i was contracted for another job at a different FBI field office. that one had a sign out front and seemed surprised when i asked if i needed to remove my badge before leaving the building.
I'm sure Facebook does that kind of analysis.

I just doubt they'd be happy to share that analysis (or the data behind it) with phone manufacturers.
"the troubles" were in Nothern Ireland, not Ireland
There's e-mail for one. A great good everyone uses, which is definitely decentralised (much to the chagrin of a few large providers, which continuously act in bad faith to centralise it as much as they can). Signal could have been that, but for (mainly) mobile messaging. Because they went the jaded route as you do it's now just another way for one person to apply his dictatorial view to the masses. I agree with you that in a mountain of shit you won't really notice a little bit more shit, but that doesn't make it anything but shit. It could have been better, it is not. That's something that deserves a little lamenting.
Credit where credit due: I submitted this on behalf of my partner who built this during her coding bootcamp a few years back!
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I honestly don't see any new insights.

For example the stimulus money was used to buy stocks or pay off debt. Wealthy people get richer. People with college degrees are doing well financially. Water is wet. The Fed has been pursuing this strategy for more than a decade. Drive treasury yields down, people are desperate for investments. Everyone joins the stock market. If the less wealthy (middle class with good jobs) are joining the stock market you should be skeptical because that means even they don't know what to spend the money on.

What we really wanted to see is people spend that money on consumer goods to drive underemployment down. Inflation is a very good indicator for underemployment. If it's slightly above 2% that means lots of people are employed and looking for even better employment opportunities. Inflation did recover from the crash to 0% but it's still only back at 1.2%.

The only good news is that the economy doesn't have to care about viruses. Inequality is unsolved and still rising or at least staying the same.
What if the private entity is censoring at the behest of the government?
Exactly.

XMPP:

* supports three encryption methods (OMEMO, OpenPGP, OTR);

* has a great amount of clients [1];

* and also of servers [2];

* it is federated;

* the protocol [3] and the most established clients and servers are open;

* there are already several online services available to use [4].

And as a bonus, the famous "XMPP's myths & legends" [5].

[1]: https://xmpp.org/software/clients.html

[2]: https://xmpp.org/software/servers.html

[3]: https://xmpp.org/extensions/

[4]: https://list.jabber.at/

[5]: https://xmpp.org/about/myths.html
that would be more plausible if they hadn't beaten a cop to death.
Accounting rules in Sweden does not allow erasure of history. That is too easy to do with plain text. This can work for personal accounting but not for cases where it is legally required.
Could be the network. Long ago I’ve worked in companies where ads were blocked in the centralized manner, a blacklist by DNS or IP in the main router.
Big reward for any defector and that it is hard is a pretty good explanation for not having one yet.
even better: https://www.occrp.org/en/a-journalists-undying-legacy/kocner...
Looking Back on 4 Decades Making Software (Interview)
The follow-up to last week's post:
https://www.bti360.com/what-ive-learned-in-45-years-in-the-s...
https://lwn.net/Articles/829858/
How America Bankrupted its Cities [video]
It's slightly interesting to me that neither object-oriented nor functional-in-the-Backus-sense languages are represented here.

FP, I suppose I can understand, since ML started off with a plethora of discrete features, and things have only grown from there. Great paradigm, but not exactly something you'd want to even try to cram into a single file. But I might have expected to see some sort of Smalltalk- or Io-inspired language in the list.
Network triangulation =/= trig.
Facebook does not deserve any benefit of doubt. You should assume the worst from one of the most evil companies in the US.
That assumes you check whether the mute light is active on a fairly regular basis. If you just turn it off and don't check on it, the light is pretty much useless as an indicator.
It also matters how long it takes to kill - but yes. Assume it takes a month to a kill a person... that’s a lot of time to infect others, especially if say 10 days of that are asymptomatic.
Imho no, except for the network effect from when you have lazy friends/users who don't want to migrate away from the product they are already using.
I have a hard time believing that the person who set it up didn't think it would be perceived as a threat.
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The thoughts of reviewers based on their claims is that likely you will get something that is competitive with current gen ryzen mobile (4900h on the high end) on power usage/perf and competitive with m1 on perf, but not power usage. However, I don't see them drawing even with Apple on power efficiency, and AMD have their Zen 3 mobile chips in the near future, so it's more a holding on in technical quality. Likely they will outsell both though, given the M1's Mac exclusivity and the limited range of AMD laptops (and limited stock of TSMC 7nm everything currently) - try buy a 4900H system vs a 108xxH, it's much harder.
So I have always wondered, but now it seems particularly germane. Why does HackerNews not require some kind of verification or elaborate registration to join?

I like the pseudonymity in some ways but everything I have posted I will stand by. I am already a pariah in my social circles for going against the east coast preppy conventional wisdom, I don't care if I am mocked here too.

If HN really wants to be a quality refuge for high-brow discussion they should show a commitment to this by migrating from being a libertarian get rich quick forum to a place where actual debate can happen without spamming by bots, intelligence service officers, etc.
"The free market will solve it" is sadly no longer a uniquely US-based view, but it is still wrong. There are so many examples of this I don't even know where to begin telling you how wrong it is.
often these companies will not hire their own janitors, but contract a another company that doesn’t give them the same expensive benefits as the regular employees
I am doing exactly this in my current project - I put server logs of API services to column-based database with extensive SQL support, and it's feeling great.
SQL allows me to build great analytics dashboard in a simple dialect that I know, and in terms of performance it runs circles around ELK stack (short animated GIF preview of UI is available on https://apiroad.net/ )
Hmmm... but we did wage two wars based on 9/11. And are still killing people with drones.
I get what you're saying. In my mind, the plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan changes the priors in determining if it was purely symbolic.
Hehe, traffic management is really the only challenge in that game. Otherwise its almost a sandbox city builder.
I'm not installing another messaging app until it's federated.

I've told everyone sending me signal invites that they can email or sms me.
But are these measures appropriate?

Just like I criticized both the BLM movement with its violence (riots) and braindead slogans ("defund the police"), I think it's important to criticize both the right-wing rioters and the Big Tech response. None of those people, regardless of what they're fighting for (in particular if they're doing it in good faith) are using the right tactics to achieve their goals. BLM chanting "defund the police" while rioting and requiring more police? Right-wingers want their politics & cclaims of election fraud taken seriously while staging a faux-coup in clown custumes? What did they expect, the public opinion not to turn against them? These tactics are so ridiculous that I find it really hard to believe they were sincere in their intentions.

Same here for Big Tech. If they wanted to prevent "inciting violence" they'd censor specific tweets, not ban Trump and Paul Ryan. But, mostly, I think the best move against further violence was increased government action, both in case of BLM (e.g. destroying CHAZ in Portland) and in case of Capitol attack (increased military presence in DC).

I think (and hope) that FB&co are digging their own grave. They probably calmed Democrats for now, but they're a single scandal away from being dismanteled.
it's not "freedom of speech vs publication". If it was about distribution-rights on small vs big, it would be "freedom to whisper", not "speech" which implies speaking publicly.

Another concern: by your logic, net neutrality should be moot. Let ISPs choose and throttle online service by their whim.

Anyway,"freedom of speech" is actually intended to prevent any dictatorial entity from hiding the other side from the public.

imho, If the 'democrats' are actually 'democratic', they should have solved this with a much more elegant solution - eg. inviting people to a common, shared platform and refuting them there. Current FB/twitter/aws solutions are rather 'easy but dictatorial and may backfire', which is somewhat 'republican' in taste...

(* by backfire:
pro-trumps can think: "The other side is trying to snuff us. What are they hiding? Are they more evil than imaginable? We should do something to guard USA from them"

imho, the root of the whole fiasco is actually the press preventing the broadcast of Trump after the election. (the 'snuffing')
Better solution would be having open discussions to refute the pro-trump people.

Another thing is that by-standers will note about how 'undemocratic' the whole solution is, and whether they'll also be treated if they end up being the 'other' side of other issues
I have absolutely nothing to back up this statement, but I wonder if the problem with the Canadian tech scene is that, from a societal level, Canadians are more conservative and risk adverse.
> Exiting the Eurozone and reverting to national currencies is pretty much the only answer to fix their economies.

Apart from that would incur tariffs that would be far high than the trade winds exposed by the eurozone.

Having your own currency only really helps when you have a boat load of debt, and you want to inflate your way out of the problem. However that's exceptionally damaging in the medium term, especially if you have unstable leadership.

The fundamentals of italy are difficult to overcome by leaving, or blaming the eurozone. Italy has a rapidly ageing populace, and a drop in fertility. None of that is going to be fixed by leaving the euro.
It's extremely different. In Apple's case we're talking about a personal computer that someone paid a few thousand dollars for and is their general purpose machine for their own private affairs (unrelated to Apple), and in Facebook's case you're talking about a single-purpose centralized communication app that is free.
Well, duh, there's no NAT in IPv6...

A dynamic /64 is still not proper Internet though.

As a residential customer, that would be a static /56 at least :

https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690

> /64 is not sustainable, it doesn't allow customer subnetting, and it doesn't follow IETF recommendations of “at least” multiple /64s per customer.

(Why are ISPs being skimpy on IPv6 addresses?? Doesn't this imply that they will need to do extra work in the future to move those /64 customers to /56 or /48 ?)

> An alternative is to reserve a /48 for residential customers, but actually assign them just the first /56. If subsequently required, they can then be upgraded to the required prefix size without the need to renumber, or the spare prefixes can be used for new customers if it is not possible to obtain a new allocation from your RIR (which should not happen according to current IPv6 policies).
Should blogs preserve deleted Tweets?
August 6, 2018

#1: Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs(https://letsencrypt.org/2018/08/06/trusted-by-all-major-root...)

#2: I’m a very slow thinker (2016)(https://sivers.org/slow)

#3: Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-...)

edit: That was with https://hn.algolia.com/ though, not by clicking on the date. Liked the idea before reading everything. With a click on the date I get a similar, but slightly different result. Neat feature though.
Did you really have to acid etch a chip package to find this out? Can’t you measure current/voltage across the microphone?
We really don't need China in the equation, since they have chosen an altogether unique and separate ecosystem for their shit. The big ones IMO are the US, EU and India.
They had gallows outside, armed participants broke into the building, some participants that got into the senate chambers were carrying soft cuffs, one group didn’t stop trying to get to capitol staff and Congresspeople until a women with them was shot.

If I was Bezos I wouldn’t shrug off a guillotine but you have to ignore a lot of what happened in DC to try to make the events and intent equal.
The main divide doesn't seem to be between states, but between urban and rural. If you look at a the map by county, I think it gives a decent picture: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2020/11/10/electi...

This is one from 2016 and is red-blue binary. It is perhaps the most illustrative: https://blueshift.io/election-2016-county-map.html

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. I think it's important to emphasize, there are a lot of people who genuinely believe that systemic voting irregularities influenced our last election, to the point of having changed the outcome, and don't view Joe Biden as having been legitimately elected. Furthermore, they believe that the courts, especially the Supreme Court, refused to even hear their case, and that Congress would in no way give their grievances with the process an open debate, before accepting results they viewed as fraudulent. This puts them into a position of desperation. The videos of people being arrested at the airport do not help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxwJ5HXSzuA

Given the geography. I expect to see red-hats (Trump people) going into the cities where the blue-hats (centrists) and the black-hats (Antifa/BLM) live, and then retreating into the rural areas, where supportive sheriffs are more likely to run interference against other law-enforcement agencies. To some extent, this is what we already saw at the Capitol Building, as well in places like Kenosha where people like Kyle Rittenhouse came from out-of town (albeit within reasonable driving distance) to the city where violence was occurring.

EDIT: better link

EDIT 2: The phrase "I've thought a lot about this" suggests that one has thought more of themselves thinking about the issue, than about the issue itself. As such It has been removed.
PiHole and strict privacy settings on the browser. I'm guessing the settings are a little too strict for them. I'd be ok with (some kinds of) ads, but I guess that always comes with privacy issues.
> If Montreal weren’t in Quebec, it would be an unstoppable startup scene.

I'm really puzzled by that statement. I don't see Quebec as having anything particularly different from other provinces that is harmful to startups. French? Everybody in Montreal speaks English anyway, and developing i18n software is super-trivial if you do it from the start; not something that would impact startup velocity in any meaningful way.

Or was this meant the other way around? That Quebec founders are disadvantaged in the same way that black and female founders are disadvantaged in SV?
I'd argue the easiest to implement language is macro-assembly then the C subset known as cc_x86

https://github.com/oriansj/mescc-tools-seed
This article was from 2018. Since this article, Huawei has also been sanctioned.
I think Google is constantly fiddling with search results design
I paid €0.80 for the app in 2014. Yes, that was a temporary discount, normal price was €2.99, I think. It is €3.99 now, single payment. I still wouldn't call that expensive.
> i.e. what lead to the 4th Indiana Jones using the lame Crystal Skull story instead of the great Fate of Atlantis story?

This is a great example. I would love to know if this, specifically, has even been discussed.
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