skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand you. I have not played Cyberpunk but games from the TES family are extremely complex. It would be impossible for them not to have scripting bugs.
I believe that Goodwill will not accept mattresses or pillows, at least in Washington, DC.
Trump Resign?
still works for me, odd.
To extend on that... the entire premise of parler was that everyone was censoring them too much(for similar calls for violence) so they needed a platform that was immune from that. well when your entire premise is flawed from the start it's not a stretch to see that they would be targeted from that like stormfront.
Related: Twitter's stock fell today, and some are considering this to be related to their ban of Trump and the likelihood of regulation for social media (https://www.reuters.com/article/twitter-stocks-trump/update-...). Regardless of what actions may be taken by the incoming administration in regulating big tech in America, I have to think that every other nation is looking at the richest/most powerful/most influential tech companies (Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc.) and thinking about whether the employees and leaders of these corporations can disrupt their own country or political parties. After all, if they can take down POTUS, isn't everyone else a vulnerable target? And if so, isn't it a massive risk to have their countries' culture, politics, and elections subject to the whims of the progressive left in America? I have to think these nations will all plan to either heavily regulate international tech companies, or demand local/public ownership of their subsidiaries, or invest in their own native competitors (whether public or private). Anything less than a heavy response would effectively mean they are insecure and open to being controlled by an unaccountable shadow government ensconced in modern tech companies.
Active steam users for this game dropped much faster than that of Witcher 3 (which was similarly/less flawed at launch) based on public steam data. So, there's lot of evidence behind the message.

Anecdotally, the players I knew have stopped playing it altogether due to a variety of issues.
I disagree with everything Parler, but this is a pretty steep ethical violation.
I just installed Brave for Android, and for me Google was the default. It's very straightforward to change to Startpage or DDG, but much more worrying than the default engine is that it does not seem to be possible to add a custom search engine such as one using Searx! That's an absolute necessity in my opinion.
Losing the device is an interesting point. However I think due to the way that cross signing works they could use that device to sign new sessions anyways. They would also have access to key backups so I don't think that case is supported well right now.

For the rotating key it would be automatically signed by the previous key or master key so no user-visible change would be shown.
I am not talking about judging his 'worth as a person'; rather his 'worth as a developer.' Maybe in his private life he's a wonderful person, who knows? Who cares? It is his professional activities that concern people.
China between 1919-1949 China was ruled by "Warlordism" a weak central government and local strongmen controlling 10-100 million people.

Uncle Xi is killing China. After Mao the whole political model was "collective" so no one could become so strong he would become an Emperor, Xi changes that by removing the two term (10 Yrs) rule of leadership. The CCP had one thing for legitimacy, economic growth. For 30 years China become richer and freer. In 2007 even people in HK were proud to be Chinese. That is not the case anymore. China peaked internationally in 2017.

Post-Xi China whenever that occurs will be a large poor country surrounded by enemies without easy access to global markets. It is impossible to use any Chinese product without the possibility of the use of slave or child labour within the supply chain.

China is more likely to return to Warlordism than become rich.

TL:DR - China became richer and freer post-Mao and now that process has reversed and China is becoming less free and poorer.
I would have to see the exact text, but the way it was mentioned up in this thread it didn't sound like either of those.
They have a little device (IIRC they call it "cloud key" or something like that) that runs that interface pretty well. Much better than setting that UI up on a device yourself.
What alternative do you suggest? I'm using firefox and wondering if I should look at something else.
The only downside to this approach is that you have to use a modern computer to do anything with that retro like hardware. Not that that is a horrible thing but it's another layer.
At the time the constitution was written "everyone" in any given industry was thousands of small businesses each of which was only subject to the public pressure of the people in the town in which they were based. So it was literally unthinkable that a whole industry could deny service to one person. I bet if the founders had envisioned an entity as powerful as Amazon, they would have written in constraints for private entities too.
Guo Wen Gui has made some previous claims that seemed outlandish at the time, but turned out to be true, such as China forcibly taking control of Hong Kong, causing protesters to flood the streets; the CCP lying/withholding information on the transmission and the origins of the virus; billionaires being kidnapped/murdered after conflict with the CCP.

I would agree that he often exaggerates, and some of his claims do turn out to be false, but I think we should recognize that he correctly predicted a series of unlikely events w/ regards to China. I think his general intuition of the inner workings of the CCP is correct.
> Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:07.

The even more shocking news is that half of HN had apparently never seen or never heard of a "dynamic web page" before!
No, it's a violent call to action in front of an angry mob willing to commit violence.
To be helpful, hn.algolia.com, provides a fast, convenient index of previous posts.
during an active insurrection it is. or did you miss the planned attacks on the 17th
One of these is not like the others. I would genuinely like to understand why I should not trust Mozilla.
Its not a great solution. The application logs and writes to storage alot.

Also it usually works fine, but when it breaks, it breaks HARD
Timing.

It was right around the time congressional hearings were taking place about Twitter and FB suppressing conservative voices. A lot of conservative talk show hosts were talking about how they had moved to the platform and urging their listeners to do the same if they thought what Twitter and FB were doing was wrong.

When you have heavy weight talk show hosts pimping your product without paying them and they're touting your platform as one that doesn't censor speech, you're going to have a huge increase in followers.
I viewed such a bug on a Twitch stream. Avoiding spoiler details... The streamer was completing the Delemain (sp) questline and had to roll back to a save just before the decision at the end due to a softlock that happened in the scripted sequence after.
It sends a message.
Isnt 4chan self hosted? i remember reading blog posts about m00t's server migrations which was actually him strapping a server in the back seat of his car and driving cross country. but that was a while ago, maybe before cloud hosting became the norm.
What makes you mention the government here? Hacker news isn’t the government...
Why is Parler shut down and Facebook not?
When billionaires write the laws, and buy the politicians, police, prosecutors, judges, and executive, this is not the case.
You also have to weigh that with how unusual the news is. The more unlikely the event the more credible the source would need to be.

This doesn't seem impossible knowing the CCP, but it would take more than a single source rumor before I'd consider it credible.
Can't speak for Signal, but Telegram does have broadcasting via Channles. For example, I get a developer-friendly memes by @dev_meme
If you push to GitHub it won't delete it
I must admit - Ubiquiti has lost some of it's shine in the last few years, whilst AP and routing hardware seems to still be very good in terms of pricepoint, it does feel like the software side of things has been going in a very strange direction for quite some time.

I'm still quite annoyed by the fact that I was forced to migrate from Unifi Video to Unifi Protect - due to vendor lock in and the fact that the remote interface for Unifi Video was switched off this month.

I guess on the plus side - no one who is still using Unifi Video has to worry all that much.....

Hopefully it is just a case of resetting passwords and enabling 2FA if you haven't done it already - not entirely sure how much damage could be done otherwise, unless there is an undocumented backdoor into Ubiquiti products ?
Another example: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9019539/Facebook-pr...
"Agree with me or you're guilty too". Those challenges were defeated on procedural grounds, not because of a lack of evidence. The investigations of the 2016 election were started for less.
Well at least west have cheap iphones and other necessities, isn't it?

Corporate geed is the reason CCP is so powerful today.

Every single corporation I have worked with is willing to comply with China,it's censorship laws, and it's atrocities on the work force.
Yes. Durov was speaking about "few years", but it turned out to be 5. So if anything he was downplaying the competitor's issue, not the opposite.

So coming back to the original claim of yours: how is what Durov said is not factual and honest?
They do- and Telegram has been shutting down channels for incitement of violence since at least 2015

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-terror-attacks/secre...
> The audience of gamers strikes me as perhaps the most immature, needlessly difficult group of art consumers in the world today. Even movies don’t get the same kind of petulant obsession and hostility that games do. I’m not sure if it’s just a consequence of gamers being younger or what, but it’s a major turnoff to me.

It's like saying the people who play Call Of Duty online and Visual Novel X or Z are necessarily the same audience, no matter what game is produced, it's purely a stereotype, and it's not true.
Rather let the Chinese continue to ride on bicycles than the west give up on SUVs.
I think part of the appeal of the retro computers is learning to work within their limitations from memory, sound capability, etc. Sometimes having boundaries can fuel ingenuity.
I've been a Parler user for multiple months and have never seen any of the activity like the above poster is claiming. While I occasionally read the far-right stuff for fun (and the far-left stuff on Twitter), my interests are mostly in tech. Never once has someone tried to "recruit" me for any of the above.

I can only assume this nonsense is trolling/preaching to the choir, etc.
PSA: with Mailchimp URLs, it's best to remove the `?e=xxx` URL parameter. That way, A) you can't be identified by the sender as the person who shared the email, and B) other people can't flood your inbox by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email.

In this case, the cleaned URL that should have been posted is https://mailchi.mp/ubnt/account-notification
A piece of software injecting behaviour that aims to benefit the CEO of the company and earn him money should be considered what exactly? Have you ever seen any other browser do anything like that? I think you are simplifying the issues here. They did not advertise what they did, and only changed their behavior when they were caught out. I can point to quite a few other things Brave has done that is similar in nature. I think people should be informed about the product before considering using it since it pops up on HN once every 3 months.
You have to active choose in the settings to get ads. And if you do, you get "paid" in crypto for getting them. But I also like Firefox.
This is a very limited (not honest) interpretation of what he said though.

This is what Durov actually said:
https://t.me/durovschat/515221
No, we don't. I thought trying not to shit in the same place you eat was common sense, yet here we are...
They're all essentially controlled by Google to some extent, from the perspective of "web standards" churning... but then, so is Brave.
Yes it does. As we automate more, there will even be an opportunity for everyone to work less.
Or the lung cancer causing particle emissions.
> The problem isn't releasing a broken game. There's a huge challenge in making and releasing games and meeting a specific quality bar.

That's true for any complex product. There are reasonable expectations, and indeed laws, about products being fit for purpose. I don't see why video games are unique.

It's possible to patch them after release. This partially explains, but does not excuse, the pattern of games releasing in a broken state.
> billions of yuan flowing from Chinese consumers to Bezos' pocket

I started my post with the assumption that Amazon is never going to get big in China. Regardless of whether Bezos is nice to the CCP or not, the CCP is not going to allow Amazon to displace Alibaba.

My comment is referring competing for business in the rest of the world. Other countries where Alibaba and Amazon are both trying to gain marker share.
> How? games are probably the most diverse art form in existence today, there is literally no rules to what a game can be.

Really? Compared to film, music, visual arts? I would say it's the least diverse of them. It's starting to branch out, especially in the indie scene, but it's still in it's infancy.
> they are about propagating your thoughts ideas and knowledge to others. The emphasis of a social network is on "propagation" aka, propaganda.

That is the issue with centralization: you have no control over your feed, no control over your data, no control over discussion on your content.

On the other hand blogs/websites are all federated by design. You can control who views your content, shares your content. You control discussion on your website. You are also responsible for your content and moderation. You can also curate your own feed with RSS.
4chan lacks any kind of organization whatsoever. It's hard to say that 4chan is any particular thing because it's so amorphous and liable to switch to something else new. That makes it hard for most people to see them as potentially dangerous.

Their posting style also helps. They talk about absurd things, in absurd ways. They look insane, they don't even try to make things reasonable. That makes many people underestimate them, because they seem far too loony to do anything significant. It also makes deplatforming them unappealing. Where are these people going to go if 4chan stops existing? No one wants to see this on their Facebook feed.

In short, 4chan acts like they're too incompetent to do anything.

Parler is full of people who are coherent enough to actually stage some kind of a violent, semi-coordinated attack.
They can. Just fork Linux and do their own thing, with blackjack and hookers.
> the concept of "private" is set based on the account ownership, not the id itself

I feel like this article should demonstrate why private should be both things whenever possible.

> you could set a public video to private, or vice versa

You could, but if you don't leak the ID all over then it should provide an extra step of security.

> security by obscurity

Hiding an ID like this isn't all that different from hiding a key.
> lies about our elections

for the past 4 years the media spun a narrative of Russian collusion, one that largely proved to be false and filled with fabricated stories.

Nanci Pelosi tweet May 2017: Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts.

https://twitter.com/speakerpelosi/status/864522009048494080?...
It also appears Spain has an enormous amount of geothermal potential.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13640...
Because Parler was basically a Twitter clone. These are not ‘first adopters’ by any stretch.
I am not sure why people are treating this like it's new? There is already a massive list of things you can't do on AWS, for example running a spam operation, pirated software trading site, drug trading site, etc. Is it really so surprising that this list also includes running a site where violent attacks are planned?
Those deaths are almost all among the extremely old or extremely unhealthy. Consider that that vast majority of doctors and nurses are neither.
I've ran into a couple of quest bugs, however most of them are about finishing things in certain order of operations, generally it will unlock the next task anyway, and then you can switch the target from the Journal.
I looked into the coverage in the Polish media and it looks like this headline is blowing it out of proportion.

Yes, we do have an agency here in Poland which, much as in many other first world countries, monitors consumer goods’ quality.

But all UOKiK did is signal that they are going to be looking into the matter. Not exactly an investigation - more of an inquiry. One made from complaints from dissatisfied customers.

If they were to find that the allegations are true, they would be entitled to taking 10%, but that is the maximum punishment and they would probably have to go to court to prove it all.

Other legal sources say this is would be an extreme sentence and that this almost never happens with UOKiK.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Reductive thinking of how Chinese politics works gets the US into trouble. Particularly, the idea that the CCP is primarily a sclerotic, nonfunctional tumor on society, operating through sheer force of malign will, and that a democratic transition would be enabled as soon as the US helped cultivate alternative domestic institutions to the CCP.

The reality is that the CCP is a dynamic organization, which has the ability to react to new situations and effect new goals in creative ways, in some ways better than Western liberal democracy. "Dictatorship" rhetoric obscures that reality and encourages lazy thinking about liberalism reigning triumphant at the end of history.
Best mitigation is to involve as few 3rd parties as possible. Find more obscure allies in the space who are not motivated (controlled) by public perception and political gains. Consider building your own tools and technologies to replace 3rd parties.

For instance, the load balancing and DDOS protection products sold by Cloudflare are not the effects of some ancient mystical artifact that we could never hope to emulate. These are simple network engineering practices that can be replicated by any experienced IT staff. Sure, you might not be able to mitigate a theoretical 100+ terabit DDOS attack, but is this actually a problem in practice for your business? Even if you have ridiculous capacity, at a certain point you would still have to defer to ISPs, law enforcement and other external measures in order to restore sane operations.

Certainly, there is no perfect solution. But, the more of your stack you have under your exclusive physical control the better.
> Assuming that a superintelligence will contain a program that includes all the programs that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world

Rest easy folks. This is purely theoretical.
Not sure I understand the point of using that band past amateur radio. Around 20m band is terrible for point to point communications. The antennas are huge, the bandwidth is low, the noise floor is really high and it’s prone to just about every annoying atmospheric condition possible.
There is no need for action. The only thing people need to do is to stop preordering games.
Tell that to MySpace, Friendster, etc. There is room for prove product disruption if the iteration adds significant value, or if the quality of service of the current leader drops off.
> We can and should break up monopolies, or structure taxes and regulations to be unfavorable to monopolies. Current government policies favor large corporations due to both tax incentives and regulatory capture.

And putting unelected billionaires in charge is going to do exactly that? No.

> #deletefacebook did work but most users just switched to instagram so it had a minimal effect on revenue

No it didn't. Neither case the bottom line of both companies was impacted in any meaningful way.
The why doesn't matter. (the tl;dr is that they apparently never bothered to support some popular features within the context of e2ee, and believe people ultimately don't care about e2ee by default)

What matters is that:

- It doesn't do e2ee by default.

- It is not a properly documented protocol[0].

- It is not an open protocol.

- It has a history of extremely poor cryptography practices[1][2].

- It is not open source.

Thus, we should steer people away from it, and into acceptable solutions that meet these fundamental requirements.

Matrix, Signal and Tox come to mind; I have experience with all of these, and I can only recommend Matrix.

[0]: https://core.telegram.org/mtproto

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726068

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641399
I think game companies underestimate how much the game will be explored in detail even in the first week by the community, and mistakenly release incomplete content thinking it will be fixed without notice. I don't know but hopefully they patch and it keeps improving.
They have a desktop client. It's very basic though.
Most cryptographic constructs you feed CSPRNG data into break spectacularly if they receive colliding data so I guess they all have design issues too. Including the TLS connection you’re typing your comment through.
And he is right. If you want e2e use signal, threema, or OTR/OMEMO.

The majority of telegram users want convenient messaging, group chats, news channels and voice group calls. Think slack with a fast native app.
A nit - I think your high/low bar metaphor was backwards. A high bar means that standard is more strict while a low bar means it is less strict.
It's a matter of preference and threat models. Brave isn't perfect, and has had some controversy in their business practices. They also have some telemetry and cryptocurrency ads. For non-technical users I still think Brave is the best overall bet, especially on mobile devices. There's a great privacy comparison linked in a different thread.

For more technical people, ungoogled-chromium [1] is probably the cleanest option. It's completely free from ads, telemetry, "pings", "experiments", and the like.

[1] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Or the best!
But they aren't. You can go there right now and find posts calling for violence. They have no automated system and have no plans to implement one which is why they were kicked off AWS. From the AWS letter they were kind enough to post:

>Recently, we’ve seen a steady increase in this violent content on your website, all of which violates our terms. It’s clear that Parler does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service. It also seems that Parler is still trying to determine its position on content moderation. You remove some violent content when contacted by us or others, but not always with urgency. Your CEO recently stated publicly that he doesn’t “feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform.” This morning, you shared that you have a plan to more proactively moderate violent content, but plan to do so manually with volunteers. It’s our view that this nascent plan to use volunteers to promptly identify and remove dangerous content will not work in light of the rapidly growing number of violent posts. This is further demonstrated by the fact that you still have not taken down much of the content that we’ve sent you. Given the unfortunate events that transpired this past week in Washington, D.C., there is serious risk that this type of content will further incite violence.