skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suggest we all stop comparing these things.

Agreed, they are comparable only in superficial ways which remove context vital to the understanding of both events.

One group of people were protesting/rioting because police continue to suffer little consequence for murdering Black folks, despite years of effort at reform.

The other group protested/rioted by breaking into the Capitol and threatening to murder politicians because the current POTUS has claimed, repeatedly and without any evidence, that the election he recently lost was somehow rigged against him. Again, for context, this has come from the side of American politics that has for the past four years claimed that "elections have consequences."

To compare these two events on a "look who did more violence" level is reductive at best and at worst a bad faith argument in support of the folks who stormed the capitol.
How often are you logging into Steam? The app stays logged in for me pretty much forever
The general party isn't being steam rolled though? The GOP held more seats than expected in the house and senate.the general party still has robust representation. They are just deplatforming the most extreme members who seem to be the most predisposed to violence.
A second-hand recap of how it was done -

https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kuqvs3/all_par...
I agree with you Saad. I worded that comment poorly. There are some use cases that are gonna be used to keep people reading a lot of algorithmical gibberish for no reason other than increasing revenue, for example sports articles.

I think NLG is really interesting, the problem is that there are incentives to create long form content that doesn't add any value to readers.
That's a silicon valley bubble POV.

By all available stats, Macs are only used by about 25% of programmers. Windows is 50% and Linux is 25%.

This developer has purchased a (used) Macbook Pro but only touches it to build into iOS-land. The rest of my time is spent on Linux where I'm in charge and where I can get proper basic facilities like sane window and file management without the hassle.
Big Tech’s assault on Parler proves it’s gone full cartel
I'm not sure on the details, but according to my solar installer newer panels (or inverters or some other component) are no longer susceptible to this.
I have several aspirational backcountry & telemark setups here now. They look very nice. But now I can't travel. Not even regionally, really. Province-wide lockdown. And all lift served skiing shutdown, too. Also no snow in local area, so can't even hit that.

2020 continues on sucking, right into 2021
If the string changes each time, how could they possibly have the matching hashed password stored in the database?
Whatever you didn't like about recent actions of tech companies, section 230 made it possible.

If they should have cut people off earlier and didn't, or haven't gone far enough, section 230 says they have no liability to moderate, unless specific other liabilities apply.

If they cut people off that you don't think is appropriate, section 230 says they have no liability from moderation that they've taken, other than implicit liability of violating constitutional rights (which would need new case law to establish, if it's 1st ammendment speech)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876481
> no security measure circumvention took place

You don't consider exploiting 2fa fail-open being triggered by deplatforming by their 2fa provider being used to mass password reset accounts and vacuum up their private messages not a security circumvention?

What about using a arbitrary content type upload on their video subdomain to implement an XSS attack to allow them to download all videos, including ones sent privately between users?
I always forget some linux or osx commands (like sudo lsof -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN -n -P for checking which ports are being listened on). So I created this command, saves me a trip to google every time. Feel free to use
I don't understand your claim that terrorists are a threat to our democracy. As long as most of the people in the country believe in democracy, the country will continue to have democracy.

The real threat to democracy is allowing leaders to stop following the democratic process. For example, on 02021-01-06, 147 congresspeople voted to throw out the votes from an entire state, even after their party had pursued the appropriate legal remedies [0]. Next time, they may succeed in throwing out votes. At that point, USA will be an oligarchy. This is the real threat to democracy.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/...
The 3600 second + a bit (~1s) is a common thing that happens if your periodic scheduling work is one-shot and repeating is achieved through scheduling the task again after completion. E.g. consider the following code (in Kotlin, but hopefully still readable):

fun rotateKeys() {
publishNewKey(key = generateKey(), timestamp = now())
schedule(::rotateKeys, 1, TimeUnit.HOUR)
}

if `generateKey` and `publishNewKey` take around ~1s then you'll observe exactly this behaviour - the timestamps will start drifting from some original value.
The blog author appears to have never heard of Usenet.
SIM/operator locks have been already rare (in Europe) for a while, and that's great!

But there are Android phones that come with bootloader/OS lock, which often means old device is stuck with some ancient OS version (and some bundled bloatware), instead of being able to be reflashed to a recent LineageOS.
Italy Responds to Pandemic with 53 Innovative Startups at 2021 CES
Thedonald.win has interesting discussion about Y Combinator
they want to start tipping this forum conservative by developing rapport here as neutral, then downvoting comments that don't mesh with their worldview once they get the ability to do so.

"fauxgnaws 1 point 20 minutes ago +1 / -0
A great battlefront for this is news.ycombinator.com/news

They have interesting content for techies, and the site would be easy to tip conservative if done by careful, dedicated keyboard warriors.

The site doesn't value free speech at all so they will ban whole IP ranges without a second thought and they are small enough that the moderator actually looks through the logs to find spammers and troll second accounts and such. If you try to upvote your own comments, have voting rings, etc you'll get shadow banned right away. They're computer science guys so they have graph algorithms and such to find trolls.

What you need to do is post regular top-level comments on rising posts (second page) and you'll get easy karma. Get to 500 and you can downvote. After that just lurk and downvote liberal SJW type nonsense. If you comment on a post then your votes on it are nullified so either comment or vote, not both."
The poster claimed this was a "9/11 scale crisis", I think it is not.

Rather than engaging in the reasons for why it might be, you choose to insult my reading comprehension. Take care, and hopefully you can be more charitable to those you encounter in-person.
No worries at all, I appreciate the conversation!

I think I expressed myself unclearly, the tradeoff I'm unwilling to make is not because I miss services paid with taxes but because there are many dimensions to evaluate a country.

From my point of view, I already pay a private health insurance on top of my public one because the public one is just unreliable - and that's the main benefit my taxes afford me. Someone who can't afford it, will probably grade countries differently.

And there are so many factors to consider: culture, english speaking schools availability, weather, detached houses availability, real estate prices, if your spouse likes the country, anything that could be important for you.

I lived in Dubai and I'm not a fan of how they deal with personal freedom (eg. LGBT rights, alcohol / drug consumption, sex outside of marriage) even if I like how they deal with economic freedom. Also racism towards American / European expats from natives is pretty vicious (albeit not as bad as towards expats from poorer countries).

Some people are indeed happy to live in Dubai - personally I found that there are several countries which offer a better tradeoff for me, low taxes and a good quality of life (whatever your definition is).
This is a great quote and I think is very relevant to what's been happening over the last few weeks. I'm no Trump fan - nor a fan of the actions of people at the capitol. But trump never asked for anyone to be violent or occupy the capitol. But he and related organizations (i.e. parler) are being treated as such. Seems a bit disturbing to me. The arguments used to try to shut up MLK Jr. in the 60s are the same arguments being used to shut up Trump. Heaven knows we don't need to hear more of what he has to say. But I'll defend his right to say it. And nobody needs to rehash "but these are private companies" crap. Their doing this to appease the full-stack blue fed gov't coming in. So, in a way, it kind of is government motivated censorship.
I'm making a wild-ass-guess here, but it sounds like when you clicked "forgot password" it would text you a code to punch in to verify your identity. It sounds like that part failed open. So once twillio went away, any code would succeed.
thanks for relating your incarceration story. with the benefit of hindsight, 'tough on crime' was plainly power exerting itself on the populace to enhance its own esteem, not an exercise in creating a more just society.

let's cut every sentence (and sentencing guidelines) by 90% right off the bat and use the savings for better rehabilitation programs (like more support systems, instructional content, and training programs). involve families and communities to integrate folks back into society.
The public ? Oh yes famous working people of 1937's Soviet Union, condemning enemies of the state en masse
It is certainly arguable that if this data contained evidence of serious crimes--such as plotting treason and murder of government officials--then under normal circumstances, it should be turned over to the appropriate agencies, such as the FBI, and not released publicly, so as to not doxx people who may not necessarily have committed any crime beyond the poor judgement of hanging with fascists.

Whether we can beleive that the FBI, etc, will deal with this appropriately is another matter.
Social media offer to pardon Capitol rioters is fake: DOJ
I agree that WSJ is a great newspaper / publication for those of us who consume business / market news on a regular basis.

I never even click on the WSJ opinion section.

It should be noted that WSJ has always held to the fact that there is no substantiated evidence of voter fraud throughout the articles written around the election. Again, not speaking to the opinion section (bc I've never read it).
Not just violence, genocide.

Funny (not funny) how it's spun and minimized though.

Also, paywall.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46105934

from the BBC:

"The network said it had made progress in tackling its problems in Myanmar but that there was "more to do".

Last year, the Myanmar military launched a violent crackdown in Rakhine state after Rohingya militants carried out deadly attacks on police posts.

Thousands of people died and more than 700,000 Rohingya fled to neighbouring Bangladesh. There are also widespread allegations of human rights abuses, including arbitrary killing, rape and burning of land"
Similar here. I slacked for a while but when my fitness started slipping made an effort to get out almost daily just for a spin. Not training, just decompressing and stretching the legs so when the weekend comes my buddies don't kill me out out mountain bike ride.
As they say: "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me"

Otherwise, you have to take this "are you daft" comment as assault
Additionally, the right laptop can use its internal voltage regulator to convert the 12-16 volts from the battery into the internal voltage.

One of the secrets of the openwrt community was that those little linksys routers used a 9v power brick but the power regulator was still stable somewhere north of 12v, giving you a lot more options for repeaters or mesh networking.
I have heard this called a faux-mute, catchy name
Just plant two electrodes directly into the brain.
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> the only way to get 'badged' is to use the mobile app and take a picture of govt ID (driver license, passport, etc).

Some people have argued, based on this, that Parler was set up by the NSA to get data on people.

Hoovering up data from social media is certainly the sort of thing the NSA would do.
Trump encouraged the mob like no one else.

This was Trump's mob no one else's.

They were there specifically to support Trump's effort to overturn a valid election whatever it takes.

Some of them even explained what they were prepared for and capable of beforehand.

Now Trump gets a Nixon moment where he can resign without further disgrace for interfering with the election process, and most likely benefit from less interest pursuing his other indiscretions after that.

Or he can end up being impeached and convicted for high crimes which might not all be misdemeanors.
These are not credible death threats.
Personally,I would like to see this happen in both parties. A seperate party for tea party fatalists and a seperate party for leftist-progressives. I think such a change would be helpful for better parsing out where each proportion of the populations values lie outside of the RNC/DNC framework.
Yeah I would definitely expect an engineer to have a grasp of basic statistics such as mean, median, mode and be able to interpret statistical graphs on a basic level (Modality, skewness, shape,
etc) .
Was it really? Where can I see proof of this?
Private Nextcloud instances available to EU Deutsche Telekom business customers
It's worth mentioning that many smartphone users upload content to Youtube seemingly mistakenly and unaware that they are doing so (also known as fat-fingering[0]). A quick search for:

DSC001.mp4

And then filtering that by recently uploaded always yields interesting results. For those that don't know, `DSC-XXX` is a standard naming scheme for digital cameras. More on the default naming scheme in the following link[1]

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fat-fingerin...

[1] https://datagenetics.com/blog/december22012/index.html
Eight companies planned to IPO this week
> Compare programming in 2000 vs programming today, what changed? We used C in 2000 and now we use Go.

Less even than that. C is more used than Go, even today.

> We need an actual advance in programming to avoid a future that looks like today except with 10x as much code to understand before you can do anything.

The future looks like better, more powerful libraries. You'll have 10x as much code, but you won't actually have to know 90% of it. (Until there's a library bug that matters to your program...)
Rare backup power can be supplied with hydrogen burned in turbines. The capital cost per MW(e) of a simple cycle turbine power plant is just 5% of that of current technology LWR nuclear power plants.
Indeed, I meant Atlas Shrugged, thanks for the correction!
> A smart charger can detect if a battery is present, or at least some load that is safe to dump power into.

> defaults to 5V 2A charging

i don't think you understand how power transfer works.

voltage is applied (by the charger), and current is drawn (by the device that wants to charge). a charger cannot "dump power into" anything.

when chargers and devices attached to them engage in some sort of negotiation, that's not the device telling the charger what to do, that's the charger telling the device what its limitations are.

if you attempt to draw 3A from a device that can only do 2A, the voltage will drop outside of the specified range. to the extent that a charger can limit the charging current, it does so by dropping/cutting off the voltage until the current goes down. which isn't ideal for devices.

(perhaps you're confused by thinking that USB "chargers" are like battery chargers, and arbitrary USB devices somehow act like batteries. that's all wildly wrong.)
I should have specified more thoroughly.

I am not seeing Spark being chosen for new data eng roll-outs. It is still very prevalent in existing environments because it still works well. (used at $lastjob myself)

However - I am still seeing a lot of Spark for machine-learning work by data scientists. Distributed ML feels like it is getting split into a different toolkit than distributed DE.
> b. Puts warnings on political issues, like statements that Biden's crime bill contributed to mass incarceration

I assume that point was an extension of OP's comment of: "that they use to ensure ideological conformity in their posts."

For those interested, here is a link to the USA Today article from the screenshot evaluating whether "the crime bill brought mass incarceration to Black Americans": https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/03/fac...

> Stephen Ross Johnson, of Knoxville, Tennessee, a board member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and past president of the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, told USA TODAY that it is "over simplistic" to say the 1994 crime bill led to mass incarceration.

> Asked if the bill caused or largely contributed to it, Johnson says: “The bottom line answer to that is no. Was it a link in the chain? Yes. Is it the beginning of the chain? No.”

> Johnson argues that the roots of mass incarceration can be found in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with legislation that created, among other things, the RICO statute, which broadened the scope of federal law as the war on drugs began to take shape.

I'd say I agree with the points in the article over the non-contextual, anonyomous, blanket statement that the crime bill brought ("caused") mass incarceration of Black Americans.
Markets suck at pricing on negative externalities. It is literally the textbook example of market failure. That's why we need regulation (e.g. Carbon taxes) to step in and make sure those costs are accounted for.

I don't know what kind of hypothetical utopian market you're referring to, but it's not one that exists in human societies.
I think "citation needed" is appropriate here. If we are bringing US education system into this conversation, the sheer number of humanities ( and the people they apparently teach ) suggests the opposite of what your post suggests.

Dare I say, if more technical education was required, some of the issues in US could be, at least, ameliorated.
@wcerfgba That is such a great quote about unix and an existing codebase being good enough! Do you know the source? I'd love to refer to that in my presentations at work, etc. Thanks!
I'm assuming it's more that they used to support logging in without SSL, and they just never saw a reason to put in work to change the login to get rid of extra security once HTTPS became mandatory.
Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago
"Aaron is dead. Wanderers in this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder.
Hackers for right, we are one down, we have lost one of our own. Nurturers, carers, listeners, feeders, parents all, we have lost a child. Let us all weep." - Tim Berners Lee.

Thank you for everything, Aaron.

--

Discussions at the time:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5046845

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5048820

Blog post in 2016 by Noah, Aaron's brother: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10881413
I don't claim anything about the veracity of the post you responded to or about your claims either. Except that your claims aren't an apt comparison because your comparison is logically flawed. Instagram paying some users for their content isn't the same as Instagram paying people to advocate a certain political agenda. And having a moderation system in place isn't the same as having a moderation system in place that is designed to ensure only a certain political viewpoint is discussed. And you've made no claims about Instagram enforcing only one political viewpoint.

I was just pointing out that your statements, if true, still don't support your conclusion as they don't provide an apt comparison to the claims about Parler.
> > I don’t consider myself a left winger. Name a prominent mainstream conservative (in the vein of say Bush) that ought to have been banned that wasn’t. I’ll wait.

> There isn't any left. Those who ought to have been banned have been banned along with those who did nothing egregious. It was a proper purge.

Lol ok, “there isn’t [sic] any left.”

Perhaps as an American I’m not familiar with what passes for conservatism in your country. But if your definition of conservatives excludes George Bush, Lindsey Graham, David Koch, Ron Paul, etc., then sure, all conservatives have been banned from Twitter!

I’m a gun-owning Christian non-Democrat living in the downtown of a big city. Having a pearl-clutching violence-endorsing non-American tell me I should worry about BLM and the Democrats “purging” people with my beliefs is surreal. If Bush is a liberal to you guys then I guess I’m as liberal as can be.

I’m out.
This is the opinion section, which is what went down the tubes post Murdoch acq. The actual business/finance sections are still good.
That's if you meet the terms and conditions:

https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1262649

Notably, you have to have been paid up (somewhat understandable), active for 60 days if postpaid (not really reasonable at all), or if prepaid, active for 6 months (absolutely not reasonable). This basically precludes someone selling a phone secondhand entirely if they haven't unlocked it first by holding the value of the phone hostage (phones are worth less when locked). Completely anti-consumer. And AT&T isn't even the worst about this. I once tried to unlock a phone through Rogers and they wanted $120 to do it! This was back around 2011 so their policy might have changed but given Canada's terrible telco situation I doubt it has changed much.
The internet itself is a decentralized network where anyone can just throw up their own server. How did we handle the policing of illegal content for the past 30 years? Simple, we just let the feds deal with it.
They have money. And children. And grandchildren. Those things equal influence. They also have votes.
Sounds like historical revisionism. Power limiting is possible without negotiation. It's easiest, for me, to find references to the safety aspect more than anything else.

Note also a fair number of laptops (read: every one I have used and checked) use PS/2 internally because it is interrupt driven and even lower power than USB. There are also plenty of laptops that advertise high current phone charging while off, some of which do negotiation, some of which don't.
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thanks for the old.reddit link
Personally, when I discuss politics online I don't expect the other person to acknowledge anything. My audience is all the people on the fence lurking and reading and forming opinions on the topic.
Uh, the "rise of authoritarianism" is the tech companies acting -- at the moment that Congress confirmed Biden's win -- to silence conservative voices (yeah, yeah, private companies, I know). Twitter and Facebook have given Marxism (i.e. BLM) a platform during these past few years, whose explicit goal is to dismantle American democracy.

We're indeed seeing the rise of authoritarianism...I think you're confused as to who the authoritarians are.