skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not trying to be offensive, but I am guessing you've either never written much with an electric typewriter, such that you would be capable of making the comparison to writing (and more importantly - revising and editing!) with a word processor, or you've never written much period.

Right back at you - in fact electronic typewriters came with a similar feature set to that of early word processing programs (of the 8-bit era): from monitor connections to integrated digital storage to the ability to run programs.

Modern electronic typewriters have error correction buffers, too.

Some authors (and that's who we're talking about here!) prefer typewriters for other reasons, too: seeing their work directly on paper and not having to worry about any kind of leaks (unless someone breaks into their house).

With authors in particular, what matters just as much - if not more - than just typing their work down, is making notes and keeping track of story arcs, characters, world-building, etc.

A word processing program doesn't help with that and this requires either specialised software or a different workflow altogether that doesn't benefit from traditional word processing functionality anyway.
Can I ask what networking gear you run at home these days?
Facebook doesn't create the content that you share. Is Google a publisher because you have a gmail account? What we are talking about at its core is a platform that allows you to talk to people you know or might want to know. Is it objectionable that my text messages are displayed in terms of arrival time? What if I want it sorted alphabetically by contact but the SMS app won't let me? And you can still send all the same information to people you know off of Facebook or on peoples walls or through messenger. Facebook doesn't create the content, you do. So how are they publishers?

Also, there is no meaningful difference between "publisher" and "platform" here[0]. So the entire conversation is built on a faulty premise.

What specific regulations does the NYT have for showing you news? What specific regulations does Google have for promoting different sites? The NYT gets to decide what they report on, they have no obligation to show you "the other side". How is that any different than the FB algo?

Now, their lack of moderation is a different discussion worth having. We can argue that it's harder to moderate at scale and be forgiving, or we can say that doesn't matter and that they still have the obligation all the same.

[0] eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-it-doesnt-matter
And you incentivize the creators of the waste to minimise it.
This may dissapoint you but, with very few exceptions, most of the time nobody knows why a stock is going one way or another on any given day.

Unless there's some significant news or M&A deal that you can tie to price action (and even then, you're most likely explaining only part of the price movement), you won't know why a price is moving.

There is a whole industry of people adding post-hoc rationalizations to price movements (e.g. CNBC, stock gurus and others). They do it because 1. what they say is not falsifiable in any way and 2. people find idle speculation about money to be exciting.
One cop died in the storming at the hands of the mob. One protestor died at the hands of the police.

Three protestors had fatal medical issues, and it's not clear they were related to the violence.

Another cop died of suicide days later. Nobody knows if his suicide is related to the events on the sixth.
They say it themselves

https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/about-google-drive-ba...

"Media and messages you back up aren't protected by WhatsApp end-to-end encryption while in Google Drive."
I think if you just google for 'Brave controversies' you would get quite a few, like I just did now. There are also plenty of links in this submission. From content injection to taking money on behalf of people that have no idea its even happening, and this coming from a browser whose selling point is privacy.

https://securityboulevard.com/2019/02/brave-browser-sacrific...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3284076/brave-browser-...

https://community.brave.com/t/does-brave-inject-buttons-onto...

https://twitter.com/vj_chidambaram/status/107647481470831001...
Not on by default; if you want to send keystrokes out to a search engine, you have to explicitly enable this feature.
Because the Apple and Google execs live in the US where the violence is happening.

It is very easy to be concerned about an issue when it is right out your back door.
It wasn't applied instantly? Was there some specific deadline they did not meet? Because Twitter does not remove bad things instantly either.
Could we not simply “batch” every trade within a second (or some nominal time value) to be concurrently executed?

I like your idea though.
You can find used 48 port Aruba or HPE switches on eBay or other market places for low prices. It varies, but if you are patient you may find an s3500-48p with 2 PSUs and a 4 port 10G adapter for around $200USD.
Does it mean we should keep technology backwards because a stupid minority will misuse it? In this case should we also ban cash machines, since idiots may withdraw all their cash & throw it in the wind?
This post is pure politics like a reddit cesspool, I enjoy splashing in the mud like anybody else but prefer keeping HN more technology oriented or at least has some connection to technology, there are other places for political discussion (yeah i can see the irony now that everything is censored...)
> If I want to chat and share posts with 3 friends who use 3 different federated nodes, my details end up on all 3 of those nodes.

This is not how federation works. You can talk to any other node without having an account there.

Sure, your private messages may be delivered to your friends' nodes, but is this a big problem?

Toots are public by design. Everyone understands that and it has nothing to do with privacy.
Vote-by-mail is not problematic

That is the party line, but you have no way of actually knowing that. The election audit to which you refer has no way of knowing how many votes were cast by identities that were simply invented because of the ease of registration in many states (which has now been combined with proactive sending of mail-in ballots, thanks to COVID). Sure, they can tie together people who voted in more than one state, but that isn’t the attack vector that anyone with any sense would use. Show me a good way of identifying brand new identities used to vote in states where there are easy ways to bypass ID requirements (such as California). There isn’t.
That should include allowing drive thrus to stamp the car number plate onto packaging.
I said as much below, and got downvoted for it. Open carry states are in a different position entirely, though I’m not sure any state police department wants to deal with mass arrests of armed criminals. If they show up in Albany armed, for example, they’re already breaking the law. This could get very ugly.
I'd appreciate it if you could avoid the term "leftist" in future - this may be a cultural thing, but here in the UK, it's almost always used as a derogatory slur. I get the impression that's also true in NA, but forgive me if that isn't the case.

Can you provide an example of a violent statement posted on Twitter by AOC?
Where was their voice in court when the courts refused to hear the election case at all on its merits?
Axios is not any better than other sources such as CNN, NYT, etc. The main problem is that news is cheap and free in the digital era -- so what is left to sell is opinions, conjecture and analysis. Axios is no different in this regard than other organizations.
Thank you for a very reasoned reply. I guess my fear for my karma was unfounded. ;)

Two follow up questions: How do you objectively determine Parler is dedicated to extremism but Signal is not? I think Parler would argue (even if incorrect or insincerely) that they choose not to be the arbiter of right and wrong too, or at least to do so as minimally as possible. Since we can't see into Signal, we don't have any data on the % of messages dedicated to extremism.

"If a member of the public can get in then why can't someone from the CIA/NSA? It might as well be in clear text. If they can't infiltrate these groups then we have much bigger problems".
Isn't that an argument for allowing Parler to stand? It actually _is_ (er, well, was) clear text, and I would be _shocked_ if CIA/NSA weren't monitoring it. Wouldn't we be safer with bad guys coordinating on Parler than on Signal.
This reminds me a little bit of Perl 6
I don't like the national patriots blood drive.
For a short while, it was super trivial and cheap to fix smartphones. Lots of little shops would have spare or alternative parts for popular models. Today, it's extremely hard and expensive to do so. If we would get "calorie labels" on smartphones using iFixit reparavility scores, I'm sure maybe people would be influenced by them.
This is a knock on application-level crypto.
By far one of the most useful courses I had while pursuing my degree was on writing assembly for 16-bit DOS. The course didn't just focus on writing assembly for its own sake, but rather as a way to teach lower level concepts.

e.g. the entire concept of CPU registers, translating 1:1 between assembly and machine code, examining C compiler output, low-level debugging, disassembly, etc.

Day one of the course had us download and set up DOSBox, which was brilliant. DOSBox will run on a huge number of platforms and, as you and others suggest, locks you into a very well-known simpler 16-bit system that can't ever change (the games it's meant to emulate would stop working).
People tend to fall for conspiracy theories and charlatans when they are desperate. We call a large swath of the country "flyover states". These people feel like what they are doing is the only way to make themselves heard. We respond by doing more to silence them. This is not going to end well.
If we're going to talk about universal access obligations then this should be where we start, this is real unavoidable infrastructure.

Yet we don't often see calls for this from anyone worried about deplatforming, they're more worried about having an audience than a right.
Crispr: What is the future of gene editing? [video]
Was it three, including the one that committed suicide?
Definitely feels like a challenging philosophical question -- if you have a superintelligence how much more room is there above it in intelligence and what does that additional intelligence buy you?
Do you see how by using the word “censorship” as if it were a unitary concept with an agreed-upon meaning, you have made it difficult to continue this conversation?

I didn’t present any position at all other than saying that neither extreme is realistic — which I think you actually agree with. But you’re trying to argue with me anyway.

I was just trying to answer your question on how to recognize a more nuanced and productive discussion: look for people arguing about specific behaviors; avoid people arguing over the definition of the word “censorship”.
12V DC 0.5A was typical, stable from 5-30V depending on the exact model.
Chicago to London one way is around 35ms over fibre but that could be down to 21ms over the air like this.

That signal is only about 10-15khz wide[1] from that diagram. That’s not a whole lot of data transfer ability, measured in the low kbps range rather than mbps. Very low kbps when you add in error correction.

We are moving out of / have left the solar minimum so the MUF is usually well above the 20 metre band each day now so going forward, it might be a good capability to have while it lasts for the next 8 years or so.

[1] I don’t know what scale division the ticks at the top represent but the SSB signals to the left would be up to around 3khz wide.
This place is not a place to learn about bitcoin Greg, it’s all changed :(

Thanks for this.
Ask HN: Should a tech startup buy a general business insurance?
Hello folks,
Our startup has recently passed 100k MAUs and one potential risk we've discussed is receiving a lawsuit and how we could potentially respond to it.

We are working in the ML space and it's a concern since big companies can sue smaller companies for any reason (whether a patent that shouldn't have been granted in the first place, etc) and get away with it since a startup our size doesn't have the lawyer resources.

We did some research and looks like we could buy business insurance, so we're wondering what HN thinks of those insurances and if they are worth having? What else could we do to avoid issues? What's the worst that can happen if we were to receive a frivolous lawsuit and waste our money on responding to it.

Thank you so much!
How about email?

Seriously... setting up your own email server. All users use a web client (there are tonnes out there, with the option of using thicker clients).

Bots can be used to organise the groups, add new users, etc.
Yep, I've been thinking along these lines. We're going to be gathering a huge amount of data from source, program execution and other sources and applying machine learning to this.
> Nothing mission-critical unless you are willing to make compromises you wouldn't have to with a bigger vendor.

That's the interesting question though. How much does that bigger vendor cost relative to UBNT? For example. I needed about 20 48-port gigabit switches for a new building. Aruba 2530s run about $2k each, so $40k total. The UBNT equivalent is under $400 each. I can buy 5 UBNT switches for the cost of 1 Aruba. Even assuming that I buy 50% extra switches as spares to UBNT, I'm still only spending $12k for UBNT, a savings of over 65%.
Wasn’t Zecco doing $0 commissions back in 2006 already?
The black guy was the one who attempted to lure her dog away from her to teach her a lesson by "doing something she's not going to like" to her dog(which certainly sounds like a threat).

He admitted to carrying dog treats with him to do just that. And then he posted the video online, attracting even more attention to what would normally just be a "crazy people are crazy" experience that you get in NY when you confront strangers for bad behavior.

I've been accused by a crazy person on the subway of being a rapist, but that doesn't mean that I'm oppressed for being a male of a certain color. It was just a crazy person doing crazy things.
You're not wrong, but you're missing the point.

So long as those people feel that they don't have a voice, they will earnestly believe they are victims of an oppressive dictatorship.

From their perspective, they're fighting for liberty the same as the Boston Tea Party did way back when.
You should consider asking them why.
A death on one side does not erase a death on the other side. This is not a game.
Despite being headquartered in USA, aws is a global company and these questions about the future is common sense. Not everything is about American politics, people around the world are used to violence happening on your soil, it's just another news.
One of the fatal medical issues was a man accidentally tazering himself to death while trying to loot a portrait of Tip O'Neill, so it seems reasonable to infer that one's "related to the violence"
It was a Honda Accord Special edition with the Purpleish paint job from the 90s. Don't remember exact year, but a very specific, not generic looking, car.
...or for the "gotcha" tone.
An ideal would be someone like Rogan but with a spine and some teeth, someone willing to stand up to his interviewees and bite them a bit when they say something outright wrong or fuzzy-headed. It would require the interviewer to, first, get acquainted with the idea that facts are more important than feelings, especially the feelings of the people being interviewed, second, learn the facts relevant to a given interview and have them on hand, and, third, develop a position on the topics relevant to the interview based on those facts and have the basic fortitude and honesty to defend that position. It's difficult, but it would draw in people put off by Rogan's style or lack thereof.
Vote-by-mail allows pressure tactics and potentially removes the privacy of voting. For example, abusive spouses can control the ballot of their victim. It also allows payments for votes, because the ballot can be checked by the payer.
> Where CDPR really screwed up is

scope creep.

That's the only answer. There are tons of other failures, but scope creep was the biggest.
A failure of critical thinking skills at the national level or willful ignorance?
Facebook is in a way better position financially to use human moderators than something like Parler is. Sure, Parler has orders of magnitude less volume. They also have orders of magnitude less money. Facebook can afford to hire 1,000 human moderators for every 1 human moderator Parler hires.

This whole "Parler can be better than Facebook because they are smaller" argument is just as illogical as it sounds.
It's the same type of thing as abortion protesters. They believe the doctors and patients are committing murder. Why wouldn't they do anything in their power to stop a genocide. And of course there's a lot of overlap with trump supporters and anti-abortionists
Trump's voice has hardly been taken from him. He has chosen to be less public in recent months/weeks. Presidents have communicated via TV and radio for much longer than they have via Twitter.
Assuming the data is relatively clean in the first place - there is a lot of data sources where SQL would be an absolute swine to work with.
Yep. Some of the brightest minds in the world, including many of my friends, are wasted figuring out how to make more money from online clicks.
I don't think it's the election, I don't see anything from him that would tie to that. I'm guessing it's all the anti-vax nonsense he's wrapped up in.

> A Nursing Home had Zero Coronavirus Deaths. Then, It Vaccinates Residents for Coronavirus and the Deaths Begin.

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/20...
The reality is that users aren't necessarily aware that their keystrokes (and any unintentionally pasted input) are being sent to Google long before they explicitly navigate anywhere. Inspect the network activity and you will see a log of individual keystrokes (depending on how quickly you type) sent to Google. Firefox waits until you have 2 characters in the address bar before they send them off.
> This is just a regular old election loss. Why should it be worse than any other loss in the modern era?

Twitter, FB, Fox, OAN, etc, have been helping the President spread lies about not actually losing for months (going back to before the election itself). If people believe that, then this is the logical result.

It's astonishing how many people think the more dangerous thing is that the social media companies are rethinking their hands-off approach...

The really dangerous thing is the people fanning the flames for profit and disclaiming responsibility for their actions under the guise of "free speech." "I didn't destroy the country, I just told other people to..."
pfsense and opnsense are BSD based routers.

openwrt is based on Linux
Has any virus actually been headed off with a vaccine already having been created in anticipation of the virus coming into existence eventually? That's really interesting

Edit: and how useful would it be if it was? I was under the impression that covid vaccines were made extremely quickly and that it was regulatory issues that held it until now
It would be silly to not treat the suicide as a consequence of the situation. Either a head injury or simple psychological stress. He lost colleagues at the very least he should have had access to better mental health resources.
Most Machine Learning Models Are Irreproducible, Software Contracts Can Help
The video you posted from June 2020 does not seem to contradict WaPo's August 2020 article that says there's no definitive link between this murder and the BLM protests. A comparison: armed vigilantes overran the capitol and bludgeoned a police officer to death as part of their riot. These two events do not appear similar in that way.

You say you're concerned about the violence on both sides and there being a double standard which you find distasteful, and yet all of your posts are attempting to paint the BLM protests with the same violent core as the folks who overran the capitol, which given any kind of context or detail isn't true at all.

To my original point: the context around these events make it clear that they are different and should be judged differently -- context which you've continually ignored to push this narrative.

If there exists a double standard, it isn't that "violence on the left" is suppressed, it's that if the capitol were stormed by BLM protestors who've finally had enough of police violence and systematic racism, they wouldn't have gotten into the building, and they for damn sure wouldn't have walked out under their own power.
Define "privacy-invasive" in a way everyone agrees.
Half? Or 0.00001%? Is there any polling data available?
When the closest allies of the USA (France, Germany), the Russian opposition leader and countless other leaders telling you, that banning a president of your country goes against everything the USA meant in the world, maybe it's time to hit a pause button and reflect on that. For many people all over the world this is the lowest America has ever stooped.
wonder why this is downvoted

it's pretty fact-based and in plain sight

probably normal HN bias?
Brave doesn't have popups unless you explicitly go out of your way to ask for them. Out of the Box, the web is quite a nice experience with Brave, which is not the case with any other browser I know of.

Brave does have ads in the browser's empty tab. I'm fine with that, if that's how they monetize it. I've even clicked on a few because they were interesting to me, which I haven't done in years on any other platform.
I guess it partly depends on how varied your types are. In some domains you can find yourself working with 10 variables that are all strings, or all floats/integers. At that point the type isn't that helpful for distinguishing which variable is which.
One week "conspiracy theories are stupid", another week "hey look at these conspiracy theories"
According to the website:

> The Factual automatically analyzes how credible a story is based on diversity of sources, factual tone of writing, author's expertise, and more.

It also costs $5/mo, FWIW.
Self host mastodon [1] and put it behind several CDN's [2]. Have multiple domains that are each created from unique registrar accounts on different registrars. Ensure your userbase bookmarks all the fallback domains. I have no idea which registrars are least likely to yank a domain offline as I have never hosted anything political. Keep the TTL for ALL your DNS records low so you can ditch a bad CDN or DNS provider. Your legal team should have a contract with each registrar and CDN that explains and accepts up front what type of content you are going to be hosting and what the registrar and CDN have to do in order to cancel your accounts and what is expected from your abuse team. I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.

[edit:] Oh right, ensure you have regular backups, encrypt those backups and distribute them to multiple servers on multiple ISP's. Or have something like postgres+citus in each location and do local backups at each hosting provider. Get the same legal agreements with your hosting providers.

[1] - https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon

[2] - https://www.cdnoverview.com/#cdns