skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Do you think that any of the organizations that constitute these groups are run by social activists?

it is clear that they are, while they may not be owned by social activists the day to day operations are certainly controlled by social activists

Take the recent effort of google employees to form a union, one not to negotiate pay or working conditions but rather to demand a litany of things around social activism including the power to control the policys and projects of the company

Then there are publishers, tech companies, and universities that continually have their employees protest if their employer engages with anyone that they deem to have "wrong think" see the Reaction at spotify when they brought on Joe Rogan, or reactions to Ben Shapiro speaking at any Campus, or the reaction at Penguin to the publishing of certian books...

To deny these companies are run by social activists is to deny reality itself

>"Left" media is a tiny, powerless fraction of the media.

100% incorrect, the Left enjoys a majorty position in Fiction Media (movies, TV Shows etc), and you can see a clear political shift in narrative of TV Shows.

i like to binge watch shows, even long running shows. So over the course of a month or more I may a long running series back to back, several of them that ran in the early 00's till after Trumps election you can see a clear political messaging shift in them, from an attempt to being "neutral" in their politics to a clear hard left turn.

Further Print News media is clearly Left bias as well probably 70% / 30% left to right positioning

Your lone example of Cable TV news is a weak argument, and if you talk to many conservatives you will find there is a large contingent of people that believe that since Roger Ailes passed Fox News has also taken a left turn...

I think alot of your position is based on the fact that many of these places are "not as far left" as you, or other organizations, but this does not make them "right" either.

CNN is not as far left as MSNBC, but CNN is not right either.

Barrack Obama is not as far left as AOC but that does not make Obama a Republican
Many of the slots are vertical, i.e on desktops, so it’s a nearly pointless fact anyway.
> but unusually clean for a president

What's the standard here? Reagan arming Contra rebels by selling arms to Iran?

Or are you comparing to the presidential campaigns for President? Are you claiming that Obama and Romney and Clinton colluded way more with foreign powers?

Or are you comparing with Biden, who profited in no way from his dealings in Ukraine?
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That's not saying anything of substance unless you offer your own interpretation. "You're wrong" is not a discussion, it's a kick in the gut.

> The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Solid criticism with well laid-out arguments from you, no doubt.

> Besides, look at Pavel Durovs flagkilled reply here.

Since when do upvote / downvote count mean anything at all about somebody's opinion or statements? (I haven't read the comment though.)

Look, it's obvious you have a beef with Telegram / Durov. But you are not giving any arguments, only snark. That's breaking HN's guidelines last I checked.
This is the crux of it all. Spend a second to think critically about what is going on outside of the news media echo chamber and it becomes apparent it's not about a moral stance, it's about controlling narratives and exerting power against their political enemies.
There are thousands of bakeries out there, but only a handful of payment processors.
If there is one lesson to be learned from these last few weeks it is that you can not rely on any external service if you do anything which goes against the dominant political narrative. I have never been on Parler's site so I can not check the veracity of their supposed implied or direct support for seditious acts but that does not seem to matter anyway, it is enough to stand accused to be considered a witch and burned at the stake.

Build your own is the device, keep your equipment on your own premises, make sure not to have single points of failure - that implies you need to have a backup access provider just in case your internet connection gets cancelled. Don't rely on electronic payment processors, you can use them but make sure to have a backup. Don't rely on a single bank, have multiple accounts, preferably in more than one country.

It is a sad thing that it has to come to this but I think we'll eventually end up with politicised service institutions which cater to "progressives", others which cater to "conservatives". They won't state this directly but it will be known that a conservative builder is better of at this bank and that insurance company, he'll prefer to buy this coffee and that brand of razor, etc. A shame, really, the more divided society becomes, the harder it will be to find a common cause when such is needed, e.g. in case of a national emergency like an epidemic.
Trump's own agencies said it was safe. So what do you want? Snap out of your fake reality.
Note, for instance, that the whole of New York City is one school district.
Ask HN: What is a pain point in your life that is solvable but you procrastinate
A property tax is a wealth tax yes, and as you say it would be unconstitutional at the federal level, but they're enacted at the state or municipal level which is legal. At least that's the obvious position and the fact that the federal income tax required an Amendment supports that.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/constitutional-conce...

The federal takeover of a government-created corporation in a financial crisis to prevent it collapsing isn't really a good comparison to an ongoing process of "taking" large chunks of successful companies because their owners are required to pay taxes. And there is criticism of that control now, even if people accepted those actions were required at the time:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/business/dealbook/fannie-...
Nobody is claiming that it's a coincidence.

They're claiming that the "we're not providing services to Parler any more" public statements of Twilio unintentionally provided the information necessary to perform the hacks.
“putting up a sign on the side of a highway that looks like a photo of a red light”. People have done things like that and it works pretty well.

Tech aside, the point is that disrupting traffic or causing accidents is nothing new, you can practice it today just as effectively!
Please normalize video-on!

Different people like different things. Last year I had a team of ~8 people who hadn't worked together before working closely together. Cameras on most of the time helped us build relationships. I've just joined a different team now (who have been working together for 3 months already) and it's really hard to feel like I'm part of the group.

What's your issue with video on?
Telegram is not a third party. It's the only party you trust. When you use whatsapp, you trust Whatsapp, Facebook and Google.

The default setting in whatsapp is to show a full screen prompt asking you to backup to google drive. 98% of users enable this, meaning it is worse than Telegram. You don't even know who has enabled it.
I certainly hope that’s not the real Pavel Durov…
Development environments, Arduino compatible bare metal, NuttX and CircuitPython.
Vinyl sales surpassed CDs in 2020. I suspect many of those sales were albums released in 2020 by artists born after 2000. Very little nostalgia would be motivating those purchases.

If inventing the future, one must be able to discern what is a classic or canonical element of the past that is presently underutilized. One could make the argument that Elon Musk is nostalgia obsessed with what has been resuscitated from NASA technology that had been mothballed.

Perhaps Descartes was absurdly nostalgic for the times of Euclid, and Einstein absurdly nostalgic for the times of Descartes. Will we lapse into the dark ages if all the Amiga 500s stop working, probably not.

If we lost the knowledge of how to tech how the ARM architecture works, as was the case prior to the raspberry pi but after the death of the Acorn line of RISC PCs, we would have lost quite a bit of important knowledge.
I have ~2 devices with upside down usb ports, I usually look for the holes in the connector instead of the logo to see which side is up.

The major feature of usb-c isn't that it's bi-directional as in "you don't have to try 3 times", it's bi-directional as in "it's both an host and perpipheral port" but somehow everyone seems to forget that. That's why it's a C connector, it's both A and B
The article forgets one detail though: while attributing much of the fault in the traditional managers saying their engineers "Here's a ticket. Do this. Don't think.", there is also a class of engineers that actually seek this "state", less rewarding but also much less challenging altogether. If you try the SV model with them you will fail.
Ask HN: What is the one thing you find odd about any programming language
In an older version there was autocompletion for typing.

You could type /tmp/a. and it would autocomplete it to /tmp/a.png

It is a good idea, but I type too fast. So I would write /tmp/a.png and then the autocompletion triggered and replace it with /tmp/a.pngpng
s/likely/unlikely but possibly/
Yes I just meant that some consumption of alcohol (by the priest) is a compulsory part of the rite. At least here, the wine isn't generally offered to the laity, though you can get it if you ask nicely.

Also I thought I was going to be corrected on the other part of my claim. Apparently abstaining from alcohol on fast days isn't centralized Catholic doctrine and bishops/archbishops have some discretion on what they tell their congregations to abstain from.
If you found this interesting you will probably also enjoy having a read of Joey Hess' blog https://joeyh.name/offgrid/
Good luck scaling this to organization of 100+ engineers. You will soon learn the tradeoff between writing and reading code. And the stark realities of the dev hiring markets and the thing called a learning curve.
Can a utility refuse to provide service?

Yes. In general, a utility provider may refuse to initiate service if the requesting customer cannot comply with the requirements outlined in the utility’s tariffs or rules. Utility tariffs and rules are authorized by the CPUC.

https://consumers.cpuc.ca.gov/cab_faq/

Utilities must provide service to any member of the public living within the utility’s service area who has applied for service and is willing to pay for the service and comply with the utility’s rules and regulations. The utility’s duty to serve is not absolute, however. A utility may deny service for good cause (e.g., nonpayment).

https://www.nclc.org/images/pdf/older_consumers/consumer_fac...
By absorbing it they just pass it along to the consumer.

Unfortunately this will make a lot of people more sloppy shoppers and the next step will be to limit the percentage of purchased goods that can be returned which will play right into the hands of the junk manufacturers.
AWS gives 5Gbps connectivity to instances, according to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/ec2-networkin...

So, if the sum total of Parler was 70 Terabytes, as claimed... the transfer time would be 38 hours, if it was hosted on one instance... but it obviously wasn't. It was more likely only a matter of minutes.

This shows a new type of cloud hosting vulnerability. Your entire corporations infrastructure could be mirrored faster than you could notice.
Now do Bluetooth
> That's up to the user, I've never backed up my WA data to any cloud service.

You don't but almost every person you chat with backs it up.
That page doesn't say that, and "tied to the phone number" sounds like they will only give you the key if you can authenticate via SMS.

Do you have a better cite or did you check directly recently?
While it does feel reactionary (if that's the right word) that the services are only now revoking doing business with Parler, they are within their rights to stop the contract one-sidedly. I'm actually fairly sure that in the contract they don't even have to state a reason, but don't quote me on that.

Something something free market.
Oh I'm so glad this has been posted!

I've been a victim of that specific malware and I was wondering how on earth did it happen as I'm usually careful enough when it comes to security. I also had the barcode scanner app. I didn't go as far as the author and I did a factory reset.
Doesn't seem like any other groups are interested in supporting them either or else they wouldn't have any issue paying to self host/finding a willing provider.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/09/facebook-p...
This quote would be illuminating in other crypto discussions on this forum, highlighting a common misunderstanding.

> To me, the goal of crypto was never to remove the need for all trust. Rather, the goal of crypto is to give people access to cryptographic and economic building blocks that give people more choice in whom to trust, and furthermore allow people to build more constrained forms of trust: giving someone the power to do some things on your behalf without giving them the power to do everything.
> Public education in the US is funded by neighborhood

Sometimes, usually not. It's often (but not always) funded by “school district”, which is often much larger than a neighborhood and may be a large metro area, and often with statewide funding mechanisms that reduce disparity between districts to less than it would be on its own.
> Republican party being mostly indifferent about it.

Well it's hard to argue against it when the people being cut out are trying to pipe-bomb your headquarters as well as the Democrats :/.
Which Synology NAS model did you go with, and how are you finding the performance? Thanks
>I haven't read the comment though

Maybe do that. Not being snarky, you’re missing important context.
Ask HN: How to Assess the Quality of an App
What are some good measures and/or frameworks to assess whether an application is of 'high quality'?
The author is saying "maybe things that look A WHOLE LOT like malice are actually incompetence". It's pretty clear that he thinks it's a backdoor, even though he basically says "maybe in actually wrong, but I really don't think so".
The explanation is a jumbled mess, but I think there are two key parts here:

1. Somebody reverse engineered the iOS app, which allowed them to access Parler's API and enumerate all of the content on the app

2. The Twilio shutdown affected SMS verification for new account registration, meaning people were now able to programmatically create many new user accounts which they could combine with #1 to scrape all the data without being rate limited
Indeed! I updated the post.

Thanks.
We shouldn't be like that. Tailoring for the crowd just becomes a game of "who can invite more of their friends".

The tone of this place _should_ be curated. We're tech, we're educated, we're start ups. If we lose that, we lose our soul.
Turkish Antitrust Agency blocks compulsory WhatsApp data sharing
Not that they need much to discourage Parler, lol.
The URL lists were used to distribute archiving of media content. 70TB of text, image, video, and metadata content was downloaded in a few hours with essentially a volunteer botnet.

The team at archive.org is importing the full archive right now.
The verification, according to their ToS, was only required if the user wanted to take part in their monetization program. Their ToS states that US law requires them to gather certain PII for auditing purposes. A regular user didn't need to submit anything but an email address.
That's a good point. Having skin in the game and perceived existential threats are the real differentiators between in-groups and out-groups. Unfortunately, it's not so simple:

1. Many people believe that their view of existential threats is universal. They can't believe that the other group may reasonably see other things as existential threats.

2. Party, this skepticism is justified. To make things more complicated, the social/media bubbles do influence people and can make them perceive certain things as threats, while they are actually not so important to them. Of course, nobody admits that their own views could have been heavily influenced by their own social/media bubble. But the other side is, of course, uneducated bigots, or brainwashed clowns, or something similar.

3. I've seen people from both sides who would project values of their tribe when they have no skin in the game, but once they do, their stance reverses to the opposite. A girl I used to know is a staunch leftist and always talks pro-immigration. However, when she had to rent out her apartment, she rejected all candidates who looked/sounded like an immigrant.
something that needed to be said, the only nit I have is the direct comparison between kristalnacht and the capitol riot. I would have preferred it be viewed as worried that this could be a precursor to the us's own kristalnacht, instead of it being the same as is.
BTW, where is that Press Release? Can't find it on the Twilio website.
Half of the time logo is missing from cable or flash drive (especially designer drives). Another problem is not everyone is using laptops even today, and that meme is originating from the times when laptops were much more rare and less usable. In the PC you just don't see whatever happens in the back when you are plugging in cables, especially since most of the time ports are vertical.

And the meme itself comes probably from the fact that USB-A port needs rather precise positioning to connect. Even if you are inserting connector the right way from the start, you will most likely hit metal part of the connector against metal parts of the port at first try and it will cause you to doubt yourself. You then turn it (incorrectly) and fail again, turn again (correct now) and try connecting more slowly and precisely and only then it fits :)
I've had the same issue as the author of the post.

The barcode scanner wasn't any shitty app, it was the one that was recommended a long time ago by Google authenticator. I had left it installed on my phone and it must had had the dodgy update that got it banned from the app store.
you don't need common ground Constitution is common ground. what are problem of just following the Constitution. Democrats and Republican abolish Constitution that is a problem.
Andrew McNutt's Forum Explorer also visualizes forum discussions and supports HN [1] (it was discussed on HN last year [2]).

[1]: https://www.mcnutt.in/forum-explorer/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19912550
About QR code, isn't that the sort of thing that would be super more efficient to do in hardware at the camera chip level?

This makes me think that it would be nice to be able too load "camera sensor scripts" in a similar way to GLSL for GPU, for filtering and analysis using hardware. (it might be possible, I am not an android developer)
one of the two is still an explicit call to murder tho.
Nothing about my comment could reasonably be described as "extremely hostile".

You seem to be exposing a bias.
Perhaps it’ll make people think twice before posting, which would be a blessing on the world if looking at the standard of 98% of Twitter posts.
Well, that's how probabilities work and I am not seeing your rephrasing as adding anything valuable to that discussion.

Unless you put concrete % numbers on both sides then your replace is identical with the original.
If someone says "so this guy killed himself with three shots in the back, but maybe that's a common method of suicide" doesn't mean you think it's suicide. It's a turn of phrase to accentuate how much you don't think it was suicide.
It has nothing to do with "the dominant political narrative", and it has everything to do with violent rhetoric on their platform that they refuse to moderate. This violent rhetoric is against the Terms of Service for the external services that they rely on, hence the termination of those relationships.
I'm sorry, but where did you get that information from? The FAQ only states:

> Media and messages you back up aren't protected by WhatsApp end-to-end encryption while in Google Drive.

That makes sense, why would you re-encrypt the messages with the end-to-end-key which is individual for each chat, if you could simply use a symmetric encryption for backups?

So the statement

> It is encrypted with a per user key known to WhatsApp.

could still hold true, there's no information contrary to that in the FAQ (but no information indicating another kind of encryption either).
One would anticipate the Russians/Chinese would be very curious about any new radars, so if there are any Russian/Chinese stealth drones they may well be deployed to sniff the spectrum
The idea of an always-on group audio chat is absolutely revolting to me.
thats a very general statement, and should be appended with “yet”
Of course you want to have control. So why does whatsapp and others do their best to prevent this?
There's going against the dominant political narrative, and there's organizing and committing federal crimes like breaking and entering into congress.

You have freedom of speech and the government cannot arrest you from saying things on the internet. However, organizing a raid on the government will get you in trouble, and never forget that nobody is obligated to give you a platform.
They're actually well on their way to switch to GTK3. I guess it takes a while.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/06/gimp-2-99-2-released/
I think all the content was hosted on S3
The only point of the article seems to be to make the terrible headline. "Slightly busier week, things still going according to plans" isn't worth an article.