skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They received a MOSS grant once upon a time.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/04/10/mozilla-awards-3650...

That said, given Mozilla's current financial troubles, it seems pretty unlikely they'd be in a position to hire.
Easier to just seize the servers at that point, no?
Who is managing to do work on a properly old machine?

I’m most familiar with old Mac OS machines. Like, before it was called Mac OS. And they are extremely difficult to connect to anything on the contemporary internet, because none of the available browsers have the ability to work with contemporary security certificates.
Can you not see you’re suggesting segregation of the entire Internet?

What happens when registrars cut them off? No DNS routing for them until they build their own registrar? Will the point at which the segregated internet’s join become a DMZ guarded by both factions?

This entire app, and business, was shut down for a few bad actors. Traditionally you subpoena for info, but cancel culture stepped in again.
MLK said that violence was the language of the unheard. The silenced will turn to violence. That's not surprising in the least.
Broken crypto ("bunch of randoms have rolled their own crypto", to be precise [0]) is pretty much the only argument HN has against Telegram.

They use the same 7 year old russian article [1] to show the said broken crpyto, despite that being written like the month telegram launched on HN. They have fixed all these long ago and even rolled out MTProto 2.0.

Nobody wants to break this crypto despite criticizing it. There's a 300K$ cash prize [2].

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913632

[1] - https://m.habr.com/en/post/206900/

[2] - https://telegram.org/faq#q-what-if-my-hacker-friend-says-the...
That is precisely what IPFS and ETH domains are for:

https://docs.ipfs.io/how-to/websites-on-ipfs/link-a-domain/#...

I don't want this to sound wrong, but I perceive most of the people complaining about censorship to be hypocrites. They'd be the first to censor if they were in charge of these platforms. They are some of the first to ban in moderated communities like reddit.

The reason they're upset is because they are not in control. I think in some ways they are like the people scared of change, and the once change has taken place they are scared of not being in control.
> They were minutes away from killing elected representatives.

For that to be true the people invading the capital would need to have intent to kill, weapons, and minutes access to those representatives. How many of those things are proven to be true?
Fantastic. Appreciate the personal feedback. I do have mild hip and knee issues so I wanna address them before they get worse. How long does his program take, in other words how long do you spend a week on this?
MATE continues to be fantastic; I see no reason to switch.
Have you considered that it's not brigading, but a broad swathe of unrelated people genuinely feeling a certain way?
That...is so insightful that I am speechless.

I’ve never considered it from that angle.

Brilliant.
Bands of rubber barons!
You can get extremely low latency audio with Mumble, feels like they're right there. I've used it for podcasting once.
Why would that be a sudden stop unless it is hidden and pops out at the last second? Simply putting up a photo of a traffic light is going to be detected as, well, a traffic light as the car approaches. Maybe with a blind curve or with some other similar obstruction you could create a situation where the photo of the light isn't seen until the last second but you can do the same with human drivers and a fake stop sign.
If you truly believe that DC was BURNING, then I think you have fallen prey to those lies.
Depends on the price.

We could prevent humans from using communications technology to plan violence by banning all such technology. That would be an unacceptable price imho.

There is _always_ collateral damage. You can’t ban all the bad content and only the bad content. There’s a wide range of mitigation strategies. If we discussed specifics it might possible to establish some first principles.

If end-to-end encryption were banned and the US government had full access to all private communication they might be able to stop some violence. On the other hand many governments, the US included, would likely use that power to commit violence. I would not support this particular strategy.
A trade secret is a type of intellectual property and has a place in law.
some previous names for cloud compute entities were "grid compute" and "utility computing". some veneer of old-school small fries still exist thank the stars but absolutely, more & more of the internet is powered by the hyperscalers. absolutely terrifying seeing the scales keep tilting heavier & heavier towards fewer & fewer options.
Ya, I know about that guy. But there's a big difference between a regulator ignoring one guy, and the general public ignoring all of the bad press about Tether. But time will tell. We should know in just a few days now.

For what it's worth, I opened a short on Tether, just in case. It's trading above $1, so it's a free option right now.
DT Suzuki has a funny quip in some book where he knocks Christianity for drinking intoxicating wine, whereas Zen drinks tea. I laughed but actually wine rules.
I'm really enjoying the reckoning. They get what they deserve and so do all the loyalists.
> The time for an intern to go from nothing to a blinking LED is not an interesting metric at all for a professional tool.

This is highly dependent upon how often you use the tool.

If I do an FPGA project once every two years and the scope is less than 3 months, user-friendliness is very much a useful metric for my tools.

If I'm doing an FPGA project that is going to take 15 months, then lack of user-friendliness certainly won't stop me (but it will make me grouchy).
My reading of current events are that we are more likely headed towards modern Russia where journalists are imprisoned or murdered for not supporting populist ideals than we are headed towards some sort of communist state.

I mean Trump did everything in his power to become the next Putin.

Your concern about sending people to the Gulag is pretty far-fetched.
If you think there was an implied threat of violence, then yes.
"This page assumes the status quo as of Plasma 5.7". Plasma is now on version 5.20 so the page you linked has some pretty old examples. The KDE folks are working pretty diligently to clean stuff like this up as they find it. Nate Graham's weekly blog documents this and other updates to the project.

https://pointieststick.com/

I personally like KDE and it's Breeze Dark theme a lot.
>When the trifecta becomes republican, will liberal podcasts be banned?

If they incite violence perhaps they will

>I believe flagging and moderation and proscribing individual videos is better than banning channels outright and deplatforming.

That may indeed be a better course of action, though when you have habitual offenders, in this case bannons channel got 4 warnings, its a huge burden on you to keep checking each and every video, and the violence gets incited while you spend time checking.
> How would any government exist if it were simple to coordinate violent acts against people you don't agree with?

Isn't it already the case that it is simple to coordinate violent acts against people one doesn't agree with?

>How can we even exist as a society is if don't we force people to use the framework of governance?

Why wouldn't we be able to?
What's to stop someone from throwing out a bunch of jagged glass or nails on the road to puncher someone's tire? Very cheap to deploy and extremely dangerous. The thing that stops this is human decency. And yes, that safeguard does fail sometimes. But fortunately, either situation isn't permanent -- as soon as a cop (or any city employee or private citizen) drives by and sees it (especially the fake traffic light) they can call it in and have it removed in short order.
ironic coming from a country whose source of wealth has been (a large part) natural resource extraction.
KDE or MATE, really.
The Confusing World of USB
Would it be a good thing or a bad thing if pedophiles couldn't use encrypted messengers to exchange child pornography on the internet?

As always the means need to be weighed against the end.
I don't think companies would save us from a fascist government; if the government falls, everything falls. So, in the meantime, trust the government more than companies (which gives you a higher stake in seeing it and Constitutional protections don't fall) by tax-funding public platforms/news delivery networks that have to abide by the First Amendment. That seems like the only way to cut this knot.

Besides federated dark web anarchy, which is a nice thing to try in parallel.
Liberals own the media companies that are doing the banning. The government has no role in this. My claim is that if you don't like what the companies are doing, you don't like free markets. If you don't like that the government can change every 2 years, you don't like how American government works.

Both of these are the smart opinions to hold.
I don't recall seeing much about it? Though, I have to admit I don't do social media much.
I don't think anyone would say it was a "coup" per se, but they might say that it was an "attempted coup". To determine whether that expression is correct, we have to consider what the intended outcome was, and how things would have likely played out if the mob had encountered even less resistance.

Obviously it seems that one of their targets was the VP, and I can't imagine they would have let Nancy Pelosi continue as second in line to the presidency. There was also the strong possibility of enough fatalities occurring that the Democrats would lose their majorities in both chambers. Perhaps most importantly, the boxes containing the electoral votes could have been captured and the votes destroyed, putting the constitutional process in uncharted waters.

So imagine the situation, where the joint session cannot continue, and Trump sends in his hand-picked troops to "secure" the Capitol. Congress has to amend the Electoral Count Act to clarify how the votes should be counted if the certificates have been physically destroyed. In conditions similar to those at the passing of the Enabling Act of 1933[0], we could imagine Congress deciding to fall back on the procedure outlined in the 12th Amendment for "if no person have such majority". Arguably that would be the correct procedure even without a change to the ECA.

The outcome would thus be for Trump to win the vote by 26 states to 24, maintaining his presidency through means outside the legal and constitutional order. That would naturally and correctly be called a self-coup or autogolpe, in my view.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933#Preparati...
> Similar observations could be made about advertising on the web, from standardized banners leading towards today's web horrible mess.

I think we have two separate issues here.

One is the business model problem. Google puts ads on YouTube, then out-competes actually-free software alternatives because they have money from advertising and for-pay alternatives because they don't charge money to users. Hello surveillance capitalism.

The other is the Twitter problem. It's harder to block (only) low-quality posts than make them, therefore Twitter.

I think the first one is just a coordination problem. We need a one-time expenditure to get the likes of PeerTube to a level of usability, reliability and performance equal to YouTube, and that's it. Then you don't need YouTube anymore, or Twitter or Gmail or anything else that could be replaced in that way. It takes a one-time expenditure of resources to create the technology, so we just need a way to raise the money. Once it exists it's a lot easier to raise the smaller amount of money needed for incremental improvements. (And really it's already happening but it's taking too long to get to the mass adoption phase for lack of resources.)

The second problem is harder, but maybe some kind of proof of work system for account creation. So there is a one-time cost of some kind for account creation, negligible for an ordinary user who will use it for ten years but costly to a spammer who will have their account blocked with all its posts removed in 30 seconds.

Also, in article about first commercial spammer:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...

> Occupation: lawyer (disbarred in 1997)
Fair enough. I did not know that there were earlier warnings. A three-strike rule sounds fine.
Capacitors fail frequently. Bit rot corrupts floppy disks. Rubber foam used in various places turns to goo. Also batteries on the motherboard often leak, which can be damaging as you might imagine.
If they plant the least, someone else should plant the most.
If Times Square sold advertising that incited violence against the government, I think they would be involved in any charges.
Their target audience are the elderly and those who are illiterate in technology in general. I have personally seen people around me click the first result that shows up without even stopping to read what is written on it. They just assume that "I asked for Signal and it is Signal". That is the amount of trust they have. It is only when they get fooled do they go through multiple stages of confusion before they finally realize what is up: Hey why do I have this app? -> I never downloaded it -> Is this a virus? -> Have I been hacked? -> Let me ask my relative/friend who is a computer geek -> Oh it is something I download myself? -> Oh this isn't Signal? -> Oh okay I get it now -> Shall I uninstall it? -> Okay I'll uninstall.

There are some who skip this and just assume that the app they downloaded is Signal even if the app clearly says Facebook Messenger.

^ This is how scamsters take advantage of the elderly and those who do not have basic tech know-how. You'll be surprised to know that there are millions like that.
Or alt+d or F6. These are mostly universal.
I think one of the most interesting thing about working for a tech company is how transparent everything is and how much more power engineers have in the decision process as mentioned in the article. There’s a higher tendency that transition companies are purely revenue focused (for reasonable reasons). When that happens, the engineers’ customer is sales. When a company is focused on the idea (which makes money too), the engineers’ customer is the product.
Isn't this essentially what happened with AWS?
UNEP Breached, 100K+ Employee Records Accessed
Do you have links to any of these posts?
I had long assumed that Project Gutenberg was based in Germany; probably due to its namesake.
I think it is easy to make fun of these folks as goofy and weird.

But history is full of revolutions and their followers who are a little odd.

People who are happy and comfortable aren't usually your typical ground level revolutionary right?

I'm not sure we should be all that comforted by how odd these people are.
macOS came first.

Other file managers don't really cut and paste. They have a weird modified cut that doesn't exist anywhere else.
> what happens is that the next election will definitely be stolen, and no one will be able to do anything about it

People were open to evidence for some time, but none emerged. I expect people would react differently to claims backed with evidence.
You guys are truly admirable!
> For proof of this, check out your aluminum baking sheets. If they’ve been used, they’re almost certainly covered in a shiny black substance that’s a complete pain in the ass to remove, even with abrasives. That’s essentially what’s on your cast iron.

I'd never made this link before, thanks for pointing it out! We have plenty of baking sheets like this and I thought it was a form of black rust or something but your explanation makes so much more sense.
I don’t think America has an extreme half, and to say so is a gross over generalization. Those expressing violence are limited to a very small but _extreme_ minority. Not all republicans support trump, very few who support trump support violence.
Your sick man, IMO. This isn't about any power play. This about the escalating calls for violence in our country.
Please make your points more substantively than this. Your comment is the fulcrum tipping this thread into flamewar, and that's because the ratio of grandiosity-plus-inflammation to information in it is super high (high is bad).

(I'd make the same reply if you were arguing this way for the opposite position, in case anyone is still worried about that.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well one, no Ottomans, no fall of Byzantium, no Renaissance. :-) But more seriously, the Eastern Empire was in communication with their Muslim neighbors. For example, the iconoclastic controversy and the final resolution in favor of icons only makes sense in a context where your neighbors are much harder core than you are about idolatry and it’s embarrassing to the intelligentsia.
It is getting ridiculous... the companies are getting really scared, I think.
This is what I think too. I bought my cast iron pan for $15. I use the heck out of it, and I don't think about seasoning one second. If I need to cook something that will stick, I put oil or butter on it, and I wash the pan afterwards. Even my stainless steel pans, I use them as I like without worrying about anything. I use oil/butter when I need to, and then wash. What I love most about both is that I scrub it with SOS pad if something gets caked on. I don't know why people are so concerned about "seasoning" the pan. My All-clad frying pan was $100, I've had it for a few years now, lots of scratch and dents but who cares? I'll probably use it for a long time and not think about replacing them. They are indestructible and even if I had to replace them, it wasn't an arm and a leg.
Or... competition responds to other competition. If your competition fires 50 employees, you no longer have the pressure to keep an extra 50 employees just to compete with them. Same principle here, that's why all these bans are happening together.
I think we can't reasonably be doing front page stories every time one of these things gets reported. It's going to keep happening. Different people have different feelings about that, but we've had thousands of front-page-thread comments on much more important stories than Bannon's dumb podcast channel. At some point we should just refer back to those threads. I don't need to see Bannon's culpability litigated on HN; we're getting to Politico levels of granularity here.
I don't suppose there's a VAX 11/780 simulator running VMS out there anywhere, is there? Wouldn't that be fun for some of us.
Democratic members of congress have repeatedly called for the breakup and/or regulation of "big tech", just for different reasons.
Never seen it in Australia either but maybe I'm sheltered.
I'm in favor of payment processors doing the right thing but I also want people to have ways to move money where they want. which seems like something the internet has failed to evolve, without these very very high priced middlemen. I wish banks would do something useful. they don't. seems like they won't. this guy deserves nothing but choking society by these narrow narrow deciders, these enablers of basic functions opting out... grossly imbalanced & disgusting that this is such a death knell, that events like this are catastrophic. coproations should not have such a chokehold on basic society.
Protesting racial injustice (peacefully) is absolutely required.

Claiming such protests are "violent mobs" is nothing new:
https://twitter.com/BerniceKing/status/1300196044693741574/p...

Also note that some of the violence was instigated by the police:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/26/opinion/blm-p...

OTOH mobs in DC, Michigan were motivated by "masks=slavery" & "election fraud" both of which are completely imaginary, and EXACTLY one "leader" has been promoting it: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-longstanding-history-c...
for portables, batteries need to get replaced somehow.
My site sells and hosts our own ads and I have thought about starting something like this.

It would be interesting to sell space against specific queries for a time duration vs per click or per impression.

This approach doesn’t lend itself as much to optimizing for every individual user action, but instead as the quality of the content and users as a whole.

I would focus on a few niches to start which have lots of ad spend that you could get a piece of. Maybe you could then pour those dollars directly into improving the organic results for those niches.
The irony of this is that you’re so close to being right, but you’re focusing on the wrong group.

On Wednesday an armed mob literally rushed the Capitol because people didn’t vote the way they wanted them to, with the intent to just force them. It might end up being a “self-defeating travesty”, but only time will tell.

But you seem more worried about a virtual “mob”, which frankly seems insanely out of touch at the moment. And more than a little bit insulting, given that there are actual mobs running around trying to kill members of congress.
If you have to use Firefox on shared computers occasionally, it may be worthwhile changing your habit to use ctrl+pgup/dn instead of ctrl+tab; ctrl+tab defaults to switching in order of most recently used tabs these days, while ctrl+pgup/dn stays with current tab order.
I think it's terrible UX for cut to mean different things in Explorer and Word.
The big tech oligarchs couldn't give less of a shit about that.
So they don't spread it to their patients?
Are you sure you don't just have some unconscious bias that is keeping you from objectively seeing this study for what it is?

There are about 4x more white people in America than Black. So it makes perfect sense that you would have 4x as many white patients as Black in the study.
yes. Even one of the examples is a RISC-V core. However, your expectation should be around a RISC core that can be used as a microcontroller rather than a RISC CPU for running linux.
Censoring ISIS beheading and recruiting videos was effective.

Any resentment or suspicion of censorship was far more than offset by the reduction in reach.

Suppressing incitement to violence along with the recruitment, training and organization of violent actors is essential.
Write up of a pen test. Records were accessed, not leaked.
AWS in space: A mesh network with microservers that no earth entity can block
Not just "Little Snitch", all Firewalls that had their own kernel extensions. With macOS Big Sur, Apple started insisting that thry have built specific API's for firewall softwares, and every firewall app had to use only that, and their custom kernel extensions won't be allowed. But Apple's API are ofcourse designed to allow it bypass their whitelisted softwares.

More here: https://medium.com/tripmode/apple-started-hiding-the-traffic...
I think apple does some trick on facetime where it just draws over your eyes so they are pointing at the camera while you look at the screen.
Historically when governments have executed it the concept has ended in genocide? I'm not trying to accuse you of ill intent or supporting such a position, but once a government is given these tools the inevitable outcome has been such once the willing political party takes power.
Too many people are trying to rationalize the polarization of our society, focusing exclusively on the ends and ignoring the means.

Remember NPR's puff piece justifying looting? Or (I think) CNN's reporter standing in front of a burning building while saying that the BLM protests were mostly peaceful? (They were, but the not-peaceful bits were downplayed in an obviously biased way). There was another interview I saw where some guy was talking about the change they wanted to see, and peace and justice and so on, and was interrupted when in the background the crowd cheered when they finally managed to topple a traffic light (that traffic light never hurt anyone)
Thank you. Is there a sci-fi book where NEOs are used that you'd recommend? I'm not too versed in that genre.