skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because the perpetrators point out "they wouldn't censor us if it wasn't true!"

Where did they point that out, if they were censored? Seems like (and this is not nearly as ironic as it sounds) we need better/smarter censorship, not less.

The fundamental disease here isn't the propagation of incorrect facts, it's the evolution of communities where alternative facts become accepted canon. Once you have everyone's eyeballs on the same stories that they share again and again, then it doesn't really matter whether they're true or not.

So the same people that believe that covid-19 started in a lab believe that masks don't work, and climate science is bunk, and the election was stolen, and that Mueller is secretly working with Q, etc...

And that really does strike me as a cycle that can be broken. But yes, it requires control way up at the platform level to decide what can be shared. Real truth is real. Experts exist. And those experts should, yes, decide what gets published on mass forums. And in the world of just a few decades back that wasn't a controversial idea.

But ultimately it's all about norms. Because if there are entities (like a lot of folks here, sadly) who for cynical reasons really want some of that garbage to be shared, they'll always be able to break this by screaming "censorship". Which is what's happening now.

At the end of the day we have a group of people who came to power based on lies, trying to retain that power by suppressing all attempts to control those lies.
No. But saying that one party is full of liars and crooks does not by any measure imply that the other is full of saints. That is a false dichotomy.
Trump benefitted from millions of dollars of free publicity

Billions: https://www.thestreet.com/politics/donald-trump-rode-5-billi...

In 2016 most of the left-leaning media saw this as a win-win. Promoting Trump's antics would both boost their ratings and cause the Republican party to lose. Unfortunately they were half right.
"Does anyone find it amusing that Facebook and Twitter, which are basically venues for cheap entertainment, are now considered an important part of democracy by this author? If both these sites didn't exist people would go to Reuters, NYT, Imgur, etc directly. And nothing of value would be lost."

I value my ability to post articles that I think are important on Facebook, and to comment on them. Many others probably do too.
It is odd that they have resorted to charging miners higher fees while they have an excess of available power. With no way to store that power, why not put it toward mining? Utilities could work out deals with miners to mine on their behalf and earn bitcoin revenue.
That’s actually not true anymore. After their latest update, my cloud key plus gen 2 requires me to sign on using their SSO. Not something you can remove anymore. Lots of people are (rightly) up in arms about this
That being said, I still love my Ubiquiti products
It was perfectly reasonable to allow partial implementations among peripherals and host controllers to let cheap and simple devices exist. But allowing different cables was a mistake. Every single USB-C cable manufactured today must be required to support Thunderbolt, high-current charging and everything.
> wouldn't really situate math (the map) in a causal role

I know I can improve my communication skills, but it’s extremely frustrating to have such a hard time expressing a thought without having drastically different intentions bolted onto it. Maybe you’re right that it’s not terribly surprising. But I didn’t even kind of suggest that “math” has a “causal role”. I made another comment higher up relating how the way I think is another set of approximations and abstractions of reality. My point was far from saying that there’s some “truth” in math, quite the opposite.
What did you interpret "regulation" to mean other than regulatory modification of existing law (i.e. Section 230)?

> In April 2019, Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond warned Facebook and Google that they had “better” restrict what he and his colleagues saw as harmful content or face regulation: “We’re going to make it swift, we’re going to make it strong, and we’re going to hold them very accountable.” New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler added: “Let’s see what happens by just pressuring them.”

...

> As the Second Circuit held in Hammerhead Enterprises v. Brezenoff (1983), the test is whether “comments of a government official can reasonably be interpreted as intimating that some form of punishment or adverse regulatory action will follow the failure to accede to the official’s request.” Mr. Richmond’s comments, along with many others, easily meet that test. Notably, the Ninth Circuit held it didn’t matter whether the threats were the “real motivating force” behind the private party’s conduct; state action exists even if he “would have acted as he did independently.”
>>> only used for hate

>> This reminds me of "BitTorrent is only used by illegal downloaders", "bitcoin is only used by criminals" etc.

> Where's the lie.

Right here: https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_full_armhf/images/...

There are all sorts of legitimate use cases for torrents, including downloading large linux distro install images.
This lasted surprisingly long until you invoked Godwin's law.

I'm done.
For historical context, it may be worth noting that the framers of the US constitution did not envision having direct popular election of the President [1], nor of senators [2].

To be clear, I'm not indicating that the framers had the right idea about this. Rather, just mentioning that the risks of under-informed general populace exercising direct democratic election has been under consideration since the nation's founding.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_Colleg...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_U...
The first mistake is using MySQL.
Either he's personally familiar with the system or he has taken a theory and extrapolated upwards. I'm leaning towards the latter.
Prior to 1950, the median adult American did not have a high school education.[1] If your thesis is that modern-day Americans are too uneducated for democracy, then you'd have to conclude the same about nearly any point in our history. (Or any other democracy prior to a couple decades ago.)

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/pubs93/93442.pdf
Jones was at the riots. In fact, he claims to have paid for the rally that preceded it.
The bongcloud attack changed everything
I'm not suggesting it's unique, but I am suggesting that expecting them all to be delivered fast, high quality, and reasonably priced is a very tall order.
NPR is not government-funded ... it is funded mostly by donations from wealthy listeners and corporations

“Only 4 percent of funding in fiscal year 2017 came from federal, state and local governments ...”

https://www.newsweek.com/where-does-npr-get-its-funding-call...
Why would that be a better analogy than the European system that allows you to do the exact same thing?
Why does systemd need super random, unique numbers? Why can't it fall back on something like a PRNG until /dev/(u)random gains enough entropy?

The original crash report generates an error for a file name already existing. A simple PRNG algorithm, perhaps seeded with a "random" RDRAND number, should fit that purpose easily, shouldn't it?

A 32 bit random number, as used to generate the examples, isn't good enough to guarantee uniqueness anyway. It seems like the original reporter's specific CPU silicon or their loaded microcode does have a problem (because the boot fails on that particular chip so often) but the general dependency on RDRAND continues to confuse me.
Because the current trend of private companies engaging in censorship is not really "voluntary" private action. A large contingent of the people pushing for censorship will not take no for an answer. If the companies will not "voluntarily" censor their platforms the "right way" then they will use the newly elected government to make them censor their platforms and punish them for their willful efforts to shirk their "duty" in the name of evil. The wave of censorship going on right now is about as voluntary as paying your taxes.

That is not to say that censorship is evil on its face. Like taxes, it serves an important purpose especially in private discourse. HN would not be as it is without the tireless efforts at moderation and censorship in the name of pruning out low quality discourse. To disallow all voluntary content discrimination or censorship is to lose direction. However, the key distinction is that the vast majority of the censorship on HN is not backstopped by the threat of government censorship to comply. If the calls for censorship stopped at the private sector and did not threaten the intervention of the government if they did not get what they wanted then I would have absolutely no problem with these private companies silencing individuals in much the same way I have no problem with HN banning people.

I suspect somebody will chime in saying that the censorship is now totally voluntary because they have realized just how bad the consequences of their existing policies are with the riots in the capital. To that I say, have you ever seen Zuckerberg talk about free speech [1]? Just look at 4:50 or so. 5:20, is literally a total refutation of the current arguments. At every step along this path he has spoken in favor of free speech and fought the calls for them to censor Facebook. As far as I can tell he is a true believer in the principles of free speech. There is no doubt in my mind that if he truly believed that the government would not intervene that he would not only not censor, he would immediately revert to their policies as of a few years ago with respect to censorship.

Really this argument seems to come from people saying that the 1st Amendment only applies to the government, so private censorship is totally fine. True, but are you really following the spirit of the 1st Amendment if you threaten government censorship? If people really thought the government would not censor, then they would assign zero credibility to the threat and ignore it. That people truly consider the threat is an indication that they feel it might actually be acted upon.

Also, I am not saying that government censorship is bad in all cases. There are cases where unlimited free speech may not be worth the consequences. However, such rules should always be carefully considered and we should not turn a blind eye to the fact that we are, in fact, using the government to stamp down on speech. It is with great regret that we should make such decisions since we can find no other alternative and we should acknowledge that we have engaged in evil to fight an even greater one.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP--X4GhuP4
That's a good point, but I think it actually services to show just how bad this situation was. It's not a stretch to say that faithless electors are a "feature" of the electoral college. One of the stated reasons behind choosing electors rather than voting directly is that the electors could exercise their own discretion in the choice. I agree that it's unscrupulous to attempt to coax electors like that, but it's at least within the bounds of the framework of presidential elections.

This was a crowd of thousands of people, many armed, attempting to interfere with the actual process of counting the votes of those electors. More than a couple members of the crowd had zip ties, which can only be reasonably explained as hostage taking paraphernalia. A literal gallows was erected, and members of the crowd were chanting for violence against Pence and Pelosi (the next two after Trump in the order of succession). A couple IEDs were found on the premise. A police officer was beaten to death. If security hadn't managed to evacuate congress and the VP before the crowd got to them, it seems likely that there would have been deaths among them.

Treating those two things as equivalent is absurd.
It already is :)
Bitcoin is the polar opposite of liquidity. Bitcoin markets are notoriously thin.

This hasn't been true for a while, especially lately, as tens of billions of dollars flows through bitcoin exchanges everyday.
What does their fix look like? I guess you can't change this limit for all connections otherwise they'd have to buy more IP addresses for their NAT routers, so maybe they only fix it for SSH connections, them being few?

I had the same problem and did the ~/.ssh/config trick years ago. Interested in contacting my ISP so that they fix the problem for all users (although it might be fixed now, idk).
In that case your claim is completely unfalsifiable. I might equally well claim that processes exist because they're works of art, and the fact that some processes are not aesthetically pleasing doesn't refute that.
Apple wouldn't exist without a great man to have led it back from, quite literally, the brink of death...

Or did you forget where Apple was when Gil Amelio got ousted for Steve to come back?
> Yet we never opened mail to protect society from loonies trying to organize a coup. We never censored phone calls.

It would be prohibitively expensive to find enough like-minded loonies to organize a coup using telemarketing or physical mail marketing, and the act of doing so would annoy enough people that you would get shut down anyway.

Deplatforming dangerous loonies on Facebook and Twitter is not a new thing. It already happened with ISIS.
Regulation is policy created by regulatory authorities.

Sorry, but I don't buy the idea that one congresscritter's comments, in isolation, constitute a credible threat or inducement. And, if there really are "many others," maybe they should have included that in the article, rather than spending 80% of their space arguing the bogus "section 230 turns private action into state action" line.
There are also multiple file pickers (Qt/GTK) and they don't share history or recent file list. Also in GTK picker if I select an existing file on Save by accident, I can't unselect it and I have to write filename again manually myself or close the picker and try again. This is annoying, time-consuming and frustrating.

File pickers are one of the things I don't like on GNU/Linux unfortunatelly, saying that as someone who daily uses it as a primary platform.

MacOS and Windows file pickers work better.
>It is hard to craft rules that allow everything without leaving a site unusable

Does government cheese have to be tasty? The point is to provide the public square, in all its public square glory. If you want something slick and curated, you're going to have to give up some rights.
The Gnostic Gospels (1998)
This + VPN idle killing sessions has forced me to get much better at tmux. I highly recommend for others who use SSH often, especially with WFH, to give it a try. The pane structure has made me much more efficient at my work nowadays.
Or why not charge to make a post and NOT refund it? One benefit of this is posts are likely to be more thoughtful.
I look forward to AWS removing itself from this lawsuit now it has worked out it is fully anti-violence.

Surely it’s ethics aren’t just swayed by money and political pressure?!
I won't use leftist again. My anger at censorship is coming out. The proper academic term is postmodernist; at least that's what the Cynical Theories book by Primose mentioned.

I told my husband I would stop looking at Twitter since it upsets me so I'm handcuffed to find specific proof there. But, I was primarily referring to the list tweet where AOC mentioned gathering republicans who worked for Trump. There have been other similar sentiments expressed by her to punish people over time; she has an activist side which can get aggressive for a Congresswoman.

To be fair AOC isn't the worse I've seen as far as Twitter threats. The worst I've seen is the guy who acted like the controversial professional Mike Adams's suicide was good who is currently a North Carolina professor. Also, there were tweets against Rand Paul which were violent after he got attacked by a neighbor. There have also been tweets for years mostly by random accounts threatening Trump; Gab has organized all the data.
Nah, then you just show them this :

https://eatliver.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/flat-t...
Or https://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/ - slightly less (yet sufficiently) powerful but looks better.
> There was never even the slightest chance of the government being overthrown though.

That doesn't really matter, does it? Isn't it like criminal conspiracy where all that really matters is for at least two people to plan a crime? AFAIK it doesn't matter if the plan is bad, there just needs to be a plan.
Hacking Bitcoin Wallets Through JSON Parser Bugs
What happens when it doesn't? I've messed with my ssh config and TCP keepalive settings. I've made sure to set my computer to not go to sleep when I have open network connections. No matter what I do, if I leave the terminal window open overnight and come back in the morning, I get a broken pipe and have to log back into my cluster, and reattach my tmux session. I've pretty much just given up on finding a solution.
Firearms were confiscated by police at the protest. That's what makes it an "armed" protest (ie people with firearms.)
HN has always had a libertarian/right leaning nature, but this whole thing just shows how easily people can be pulled into supporting outright insanity. I'd love to take a time machine and transport folks directly from the recent past to this moment and see how they interpret it without all the intervening brainwashing.
> Neutrons are countable with integers.

No, neutron observations in experiments are countable with integers. But the model that correctly predicts all those observations does not have "neutrons" that are countable with integers everywhere and at all times between observations.

> including explaining why particles come in countable units.

What observations of particles are you claiming that QM (which includes quantum field theory and the Standard Model of particle physics) cannot explain? I'm not aware of any.

> many people think that QM predicts that EM waves come in "countable" units called photons.

No, many people think that when you observe faint EM fields, those observations come in discrete units. When you shine very faint light through a two-slit apparatus onto a screen, you see individual dots on the screen as individual photons hit. The interference pattern that the wave model predicts only shows up over time in the pattern of the dots. Each individual photon observation is discrete. And that's what QM predicts. But QM does not say that there are always countable little photons everywhere and at all times between observations.
My belief is that this is a canary in the coal mine. We know that password systems don't work in the long run. There's been lots of reasons to get people away from passwords for day-to-day things. Some canaries are going to die sooner than others, and I have some ideas why this particular canary of mine died early. There are other complaints out there about Steam specifically of hacked accounts where passwords were "guessed" and then email accessed. Additionally, I have a pretty good idea of why, for what I think to be very dumb reasons, my account is a particularly well known to be "high value" account (going back to the parent comment way above that depending on how you value it, my Steam account is worth more than the PC I connect to it with). Steam itself is also in the weird "entertainment" place where it has bank-like features, but not quite the same pressure to have bank-like security (because it's just "games" and "hats"). The article here itself points to things likely written prior to 2012 that are still in active use today in Steam's login path (whether or not you believe age/tech debt implies "broken" most banks have upgraded their login systems likely four or five times since).

(My account is one of the oldest accounts on the platform, predating Half-Life 2's launch, and originally accessed via dial up internet. It has several now rare collections of games and at least a couple now "impossible to buy" games. Most critically to it being "well known" to have such value, it has several of the most rare/valuable "TF2 hats", which I think is incredibly dumb and that the marketplace is a huge gambling mistake, and those were known at the time when all Steam inventories were public [oh, the spam and phishing attempts that generated back when that was public and easily accessible]. My limited regard for the marketplace and limited use of it would make it somewhat obvious if I had "sold them" in the time since inventories allowed going private.)

As for a keylogger, specifically, I would go insane if I ever had to type 50+ character passwords. The keys you will log are Ctrl and V. Sure that opens up questions to clipboard logging and/or Password Manager incursion, but as I mentioned above, I have enough reason to suggest the threat isn't that sophisticated (in part because it is just "games" and "hats"), and paranoid circumvention in place already (even beyond the ones mentioned specifically in the above comment).
Why is scrolling pixel-by-pixel rather than smoothly between sections inherently the right way to do it?
Author here. Having written a lot of Haskell, I don't find lazy evaluation to be an issue nearly as often as it is a benefit. Yes, it can be difficult to reason about at times, but more often it ends up leading to simpler code. I would say that if you're consistently highly concerned with evaluation order, then yes, Haskell might not be the language for you.

But I would also say that you shouldn't be concerned with evaluation order when writing Haskell, in the same way you usually shouldn't be concerned with what the query optimizer is doing when writing SQL.
Interesting, thanks for explaining
I’m pretty sure it can be allowed to run unattended for several milliseconds at least.
Something similar was used for landing the original Mars Rovers - not actual full data telemetry channel but just a very simple very low bandwidth signal that can be translated to symbols, each signifying an important phase of the landing being reached.
The article says it was an anonymous leak of information that's normally only distributed among law enforcement
There would have to be a defined point when ones' consciousness ceased to exist, which means we have to define exactly what a "consciousness" is in this context
Its usually defined as conscious awareness
Which came first, sleep or the brain?
>The GDPR absolutely does apply outside of Europe.

No, it doesn't, as you yourself admit two sentences later when you write:

>You're pointing out that they may not be able to enforce the law against an entity that does not operate in the EU.

Yes, which by definition means the law does not apply to that person to entity. That is the fundamental nature of law and sovereignty.

>The law itself says so.

Completely irrelevant, in the same way it's irrelevant if you or I order some societal change on our say so. Law is about power. And again, also in the exact same way that it's completely irrelevant if Pakistan or whomever have blasphemy laws on the books they say apply to everyone, China laws against "disrupting society" or someone sues a US entity under the UK's very plaintiff friendly libel laws. They can all be told to pound sand.

>But even if a company doesn't operate in the EU today, it may want to in the future. Or it may want to be acquired by a company that does. The future is unknowable, so I'd imagine they were advised to follow the law, even if there would be no immediate consequences to breaking it.

Sure, but that doesn't mean the law "applies". A company can voluntarily take whatever actions it wishes that it believes may benefit it in the future, but a core point of law is that it's INvoluntary. Since the GDPR doesn't apply to anyone outside of EU jurisdiction (or under treaties giving it local effect), they may choose to run it because they think it's a good idea, or not. Those within EU jurisdiction do not get that choice.
Another problem is subjecting your goals to backseat driving. I think this is most commonly seen with weightloss goals.