skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the claims about the big tech censoring Parler got it wrong. It's not about censure. It's about legality, and Parler fucked themselves.

Apple told Parler to moderate their extremist content, and Parler refused. At that point, if Apple left Parler on the App Store, Apple would be complicit. Same story played out for all the services.

And guess what, treason by definition is infectious. Giving aid to an enemy of the United States. So Apple at that point would be opening themselves to a huge legal liability if they kept the app available. Nothing has been proven in court but big tech is naturally risk adverse.

If Parler has agreed to moderate extreme content, even if they had done so dragging their feet, they would still be alive.
Incitement Timeline: Year of Trumps Actions Leading to the Attack on the Capitol
What a beautiful website -- so inkeeping with their mission and ideas (this comes up quite often but, those dithered images really remind me of https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power.html)
Sort of... but the wind turbines often don't point well when you're at sea, and you intentionally anchor in calm places to avoid the swell.
Sailing specific PV would often have 40 silicon cells rather than 36 in series, to provide some headroom for partial shading.
Watt & sea hydro-generators have become quite ubiquitous recently, as if you're making passage your entire vessel is a machine for concentrating wind energy: https://www.wattandsea.com/index.php/en/products/cruising-hy...
> there were several news articles that it was employee driven

Any action by a corporation not directed by the board/shareholders is “employee driven", since everyone from the C-Suite down is an employee.

That's not inconsistent with it being based on terms of service violations, who do you think identifies those?
Scientists develop new gene therapy strategy to delay aging
> Do Trump’s statements really appear to be more of an “incitement to violence” than the statements of Pressley, Ocasio-Cortez, Pelosi and Harris?

Yes

Proof:

> We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesn’t happen.
- Trump at the January 6 speech.

January 6! And he is still not accepting the results

From the President of the United States, without any proof of fraud, knowing full well that he lost.

That is his grievance- he lost an election. After he was ignored he incited the mob to pressure Congress.

Also WTF:
> The assault on the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday was a huge unforced error by those who crossed the line into lawbreaking and violence.

Unforced error? It was not an isolated incident, but the culmination of series of events intended to overturn the election
Do You Listen to the Song
Raat ke saye tale song lyrics - Aakanksha sharma

Raat Ke Saaye Tale
Saans Sa Hai Jale

Thaam Lu Labon Ki Narmiyan
Phir Ye Pal Mile Na Mile

Raat Ke Saaye Tale
Saans Sa Hai Jale

Odhke Jismon Ki Chadare
Baahon Mein Khoyi Rahe
Aankhon Ko Aankhon Se Peeke
Soyi Rahe

Jo Bhi Dil Mein Hain
Karde Bayaan
Zindagi Ka Kya Bharosa
Kab Ho Ye Dhuaan

Raat Ke Saaye Tale
Saans Sa Hai Jale

Rok De Lamhon Ke Kaafile
Subah Ko Hone Na De
Behke Behke Pal Hai Jo Mile
Sone Na De
So... there already is a quasi-social credit system in place for anyone purchasing insurance in America?
NASA extends Juno, turning spacecraft into an Io, Europa, and Ganymede explorer
> You won't have any legal or fiscal relationship with the customer.

What does that practically mean when running a SaaS though? If Paddle was going away, you for sure have access to your customer email addresses to ask them to resubscribe and Paddle might help you migrate the payment details to another payment provider. How is the situation any easier or better with Stripe?

The Paddle invoice at least has your product/company name + website link on it, along with Paddle's details. It doesn't feel any different to buying e.g. Android, iOS or Steam products to me - I don't see why customers would care who is legally receiving the payment as long as they get their product.
I think that the problem is central to how phones are developed and constructed. Dell doesn't determine how long my XPS 13 gets updated; they provided the hardware, and I can put any software I want on it. It can keep running a secure, up-to-date OS as long as I want it to, until the hardware truly can't keep up (which, based on computer lifetimes these days, is a long time).

Conceptually, I dislike that mobile development hasn't followed a similar path. Samsung should not dictate how many updates my phone gets and for how many years. Practically, I realize that this is a consequence of how we've built SOCs and mobile hardware and there's no incentive for companies to change. That doesn't make it less problematic.
Bit-Banding
>we managed our own boxes.

The logic is that "your own boxes" is just another layer in the stack of places private companies can deny doing business with you. Did you manufacture those boxes yourself, from the silicon up? If you didn't, you better hope you don't get blacklisted by parts suppliers.

>You cannot change your race by "doing it yourself".

The analogy is: if she didn't like being denied because of her race, she should have started her own busline.

Of course, we have laws in place that say you can't deny someone service based on race. That's great, and solves that problem.

So tell me what law Parler broke? Has it been proven in court? Or did a private company decide that on their own? Why should they have that power?

I mean, I'm not naive; I understand what Parler is/was trying to do, and it's gross. But the process shouldn't be arbitrary, at the whims of liability protected pseudo-monopolies.
Sorry guys, riot's over already. But, please do make yourself at home, we're expecting some turbulence shortly crossing over the 20th.
Right, and I'm saying that secondary market would have very few participants beyond those who already buy used phones today. Apple wouldn't even notice.
This is indeed probably one of the most common issues with all these independent services/microservices/let's build this fast/I just need that fragment of the API, so I am not gonna call the main API, let me just build a fast wrapper around it/...etc.

This is absolutely one of the biggest issues I also have seen in several companies.
I may have misunderstood the grandparent post, because I'm unclear on "you lurkers will be purged." Could you translate that part for me? Are you saying "purged" to not mean removed from society?
I’m surrounded by neighbors who still proudly display their Trump flags. They’re incredibly nice people who have never heard of Stripe, AWS or Parler and don’t own Twitter accounts.

When we see video of hundreds of people storming the capital, or dozens of violent online posts, let’s not forget that their are lots of Trump supporters who don’t participate in or like the drama of recent weeks and aren’t as integrated with “Big Tech”. They’re traditional Fox News watching Republicans for whom their content and information has been uninterrupted. These bans are tangential to their everyday experience.

For us in tech, it probably feels more direct as we’ve personally interacted with these platforms.
I look for overlap among what I really want to build that should be within reach even if it is not, and what that has in common with resources I already have that are or should be within range.
Constant Folding in Python
A lot of it really is having heated discussions or disagreements with parents about how a business should be run or a decision that needs to be made, and trying to leave that back at the workplace while maintaining the personal family relationship (taking the "colleague/employee" hat off and putting on the "child" hat).

For me, it was a matter of exposing my "professional" identity alongside my "child" identity, and a lot of the times these conflict.
Debugging Goroutines: How to debug like a pro
That assumes your users are tagging things correctly and arent intentionally trying to maliciously bypass the system.

What you're suggesting isn't all that different from usenet, which largely failed due to the spam problem.
I have 0.75BTC locked away in an encrypted distributed Android wallet that I am unable to remember the password for.

I received this BTC from an amazing soul here on HN (again, THANK YOU so much for that blessing if you are reading this!) who, after I wrote up a blog post about how I was arrested without any probable cause in Las Vegas, so very generously sent it to me after asking if it could "be of use?."

BTW, the end result of the bullshit arrest was I was released with time served and the felony possession charge dropped due to the improper nature of the arrest, which was all caught on the officers bodycam.

So at the time I read the email, I was literally walking down Fremont Ave. wondering where I was going to sleep that night (remember I had just been released from Clark County Detention Center) as my 34 nights in jail had made me lose everything I owned in the weekly place I had been renting. I was asked for a wallet address, so I quickly jumped on the playstore and dl'ed the first app with a good rating and was highly "secure". At the time I thought he or she would send me $50-$100 TOPS, so imagine my surprise when 0.75 (at the time worth like $600) plopped into my wallet.

I must have fat-fingered the password entry, and of course I couldn't remember the 12-word phrase that the app author pleaded with me to "write-down and store in a safe, secure place"..no matter I thought at the time because of course there must be a password-reset email/text thing. right? RIGHT?

Well, no.

Alas, no happy ending here...I lost my very interesting and well-paying remote LAMP-development job working for a fast-growing company that was focused on lowering the overall cost to everyday people of filling drug prescriptions ( I know the irony of it all has not been lost on me ).

The owner was someone I really respected and was smart enough to know his systems needed a total re-design for security and performance reasons, and to be honest years later I still have not recovered, work-wise and economically, from that night I was illegally (not my opinion, the actual criminal court finding and its' legal outcome) arrest. I still hate the feeling I get in the pit of my stomach I get when I think of the bind I put him in...ugghhhhhhh.

So anyway...I still have the wallet safely stored away on an unencrypted USB (kind of late for that) that is physically locked away. I did contact the app author and fortunately for me, his app code was FOSS on github and I have the archive. Another fortunate item here is that I know I only used lowercase letters and the password was 12 char long.

At approx. $30k in value, it's getting to the point where a concerted effort at cracking the damn thing is in order...however, I am personally very optimistic on the FV of BTC in particular and think I will hold off my attempts at cracking it until 1BTC=$100kUSD.

Finally...the main reason I wrote this up this long post was to ask the community if anyone here knows of any reputable services that crack wallets such as mine for a reasonable fee and that I can feel secure that they will not just steal the BTC if they do manage to open it?
Telegram and Signal the New Option
Implementing support for message retention policies in Matrix
Urbit

https://urbit.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M04AKTCDavc
I just had my 4000€ MacBook Pro (2017) die, 5 months out of warranty, because of a blown capacitor. (probably a $0.20 part tops)

They have to change the whole motherboard, lose all my data. Price of a new machine...

grumble, grumble
I thought the nice thing about Modula-2 was that you could browse through interface files to understand some code and then go into implementations.
Communism can be fun, right guys? I am not sure why the left hates freedom so much.

Time to stock up on ammo.
This looks like a long list of opinions that not everybody will agree with.

Could you provide the exact quote for inciting the violence?
they actually are, when we're discussing selective rule enforcement
Indeed. If you look at any report/book/etc about the strategic production of war goods in WW2, you'll quickly realize that the Germans over-engineered most of their equipment. This resulted in fewer weapons and more maintenance for said weapons. The famous Tiger II tank (and most of their other planes/tanks) took longer to make, required more maintenance, consumed more fuel (a precious commodity for Germany at the time), and required more one-off spare parts (even the tracks were designed for one specific side of the tank). On top of this, Germany had more tank models than the rest of the allies combined. The allied tanks were simpler and could be mass-produced at insane quantities, parts were interchangeable, and could more easily be taken from disabled machines.

The Russians even went further, specifically engineering their tanks to only pass QA to last a very short amount of time (as little as a few dozen KM of use) during the first half of their involvement in the war because they'd be destroyed before then on average anyways.
What's the root of the problem here?
In other words, why has an important usability bug been ignored for years?

Is the problem that Gnome is mostly funded by Redhat, and Redhat mostly focuses on enterprise usecases, as that's how they make money?

I remember years ago Ubuntu had their 100 papercuts initiative, which seems like exactly the sort of initiative to fix a bunch of smaller desktop usability items that enterprises might ignore.
10 Years(-Ish) of Elixir
Before Parler went down, there were posts about a "Million Militia March" [0] during Biden's inauguration. I'm glad the National Guard is mobilizing in advance this time.

[0] https://www.fox5dc.com/news/bowser-calls-for-more-security-c...
Illegal but unenforced unless its called in. There are a number of these in my neighborhood in effort to stymie tourists.
No one will be judged for having an account, because a lot of people were signed up just to monitor and watch. It is trivial to claim that you only signed up for that reason and to expect the claim to stick. If you happened to be frequently posting the chronicles of the elders of zion or talking about how you wanted to pursue an ammo box solution to a ballot box loss then you are going to have a lot more explaining to do.
I immediately thought about the car stereo guys they run stronger alternators and power massive amount of subs and speakers. But I know nothing about big trucks and their electrical needs. They have refrigeration and other electrical needs I am unsure of.
Please expound on and clarify the term "social evolution".
Silicon Valley Turns 50
No I wasn’t assuming that users would tag messages themselves. Presumably the system itself could just filter things by keywords.
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There are a variety of YouTube personality with right leaning views that have built their entire reputation on the site. OAN, Fox, Shapiro, Peterson and more grew through use of YouTube and still do. And they do get labeled and have anger built against them - but they also label and build anger against others. That’s how things work on all sides.

Bannon routinely calls for violence - against members of all parties.

Free speech is not dead and this is not even a case of free speech. YouTube has banned other people calling for violence.

Companies can choose what to promote.
putting "think of the children" aside for a moment, I would be very concerned about the legal implications of participating in such a network. depending on the implementation, I would assume you could be exposed to similar risks as in hosting a tor exit node.
The point is that the economic equation will change. Why is it that it's cheaper to buy new than repair old? In part, it's because the cost of disposal has been shifted away, rather than being incorporated into the price of the replacement.

Having the manufacturer pay a tax in advance does put pressure on the consumer, because that tax has to be incorporated into the product pricing.

> Moreover, anything that involves an "assessment" is bound to be gamed by the manufactures. See e.g. the recent VW car emission scandal.

I agree it's a challenge. I wonder if there's some way to close the loop - so that manufacturers who game the system to achieve an artificially low disposal price end up making up the shortfall when the fake price isn't achieved.
Twitter let Trump spew his garbage right up until the point that it led to an armed insurrection.

So far, Parler and its associates have come a lot closer to dismantling American democracy than Iran ever has. That's why they get taken more seriously.

As Twitter said, it's not just the content, but the context as well. When Iranian soldiers invade the US Capitol, I'm sure they'll face a Twitter ban as well.
Signing posts, comments and likes is essential for federation. That way fake messages can be prevented. And it allows users to do their own calculation of what to show in a feed. E.g. only likes by whitelisted people could be considered.

It's technically not possible to avoid leaking private messages, but metadata like license and level of confidentiality in the posts should at least provide hooks for legal enforcement.
I started reading it circa 2008, created my account in 2009.

In a way, HN is still a reflection of society, although more civil due to pg (then) or dang (now) moderation, plus the fact that a lot of users knew each other back then.

Nowadays, I'm constantly amazed at how the right is able to turn ANYTHING into someone else's fault. The right divides the country ("let's own the libtards", "the election is a sham", etc) but no, it was the left! The right does a coup, but no, it is the left that cannot let bygones be bygones.

Do they think we are dumb? are they dumb? what is going on?? Black is white is black, war is peace, etc. etc. and no one even blinks at this.
It is if it means you may not be able to feed your family for the month.
4chan is moderated
> These people have been using social media to spread nothing but disinformation.

Since when was it Twitter's job to make sure that only true things are said? "Somebody is wrong on the internet" used to be a meme, but now its a solemn responsibility of content hosts?

This is a really dangerous path as it applies to political speech.
TinySeed Applications Are Open
That would be ok too, I guess... Let the one with the best data win.

As for my employer (= French govt) policy, I'm actually not sure there is one, but if there was, that would probably be to convince people to get vaccinated.
Yes, I didn't bring that up because I feel like Solar's manufacturing pollution isn't comparable to coal's ongoing and inherently massive pollution.

Coal pollutes both in destruction of the physical land (strip mining) and in ongoing pollution from huge amounts of carbon emissions.

Solar needs to be a responsible in how they get the materials (mining) and dispose of broken or outdated panels.
How do you know it isn't that human society and evolution are thrown out of whack by laws?
It's unlikely. There was initial talk of reviving the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, but it's faced broad enough opposition that it seems unlikely to pass.
WSJ's opinion pieces are horseshit but their reporting is still top-class. To be fair, most opinions are horseshit to people who dont enjoy that flavor of horseshit.
Google Titan security keys hacked by French researchers
> why doesn't it just do the cross-function inference

It could! This is an explicit design choice. There are a few different reasons. They're all sort of connected...

In general, Rust takes the position that the type signature is the contract. If you inferred the types on function signatures, changing the body of your function could change the signature, which means that breaking changes are harder to detect. It also leads to "spooky action at a distance" errors; I could change a line of code in function A, but then the compiler complains about the body of some unrelated code in a totally different part of the codebase, because that changed the signature of function A, which changed the signature of function B, which is called in function C. My error shows C is wrong, but I made a mistake in the body of A. That's confusing. Much nicer to say "Hey you said the signature of A is X but the body is Y, something is wrong here."

I am gonna handwave this one slightly because I don't fully remember all of the details, but full program inference and subtyping is undecidable. Rust doesn't have subtyping in general for this and other reasons, but lifetimes do have subtyping. I am sure this would get ugly.

Speaking of getting ugly, Rust is already criticized often for compile times. Full program inference would make this much, much worse. Again with that changing signatures issue, cascading signature change would cause even more of your program to need to be recompiled, which means that bad error message is gonna take even longer to appear in the first place.

I think there might be more but those are the biggest ones off the top of my head.
I do recommend googling "obstruction," in its myriad forms.

Of course, communication companies banning their heads of state is probably normal, unless we'd like to sealion this thread?
That is like saying the reason the bank was robbed was because it had so much money in it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strateg...

The Bush administration officials who sold those lies to the public were zionist jews who had written this policy paper just 5 years before Bush appointed them into the government.
They probably use OTR.
Twitter did act against a Chinese tweet about Uygurs the other day
Google is monitoring emails for 'disruptive' language after workers set up union
They're going to hear about how big tech is conspiring to censor and take down their man though. This stampede is going to tick off a lot of moderate, "incredibly nice" people that would have otherwise been fine.
According to a friend who worked there, Kitty Hawk's flying car flight controller is written in Haskell. Gotta love those MIT researchers.
no markets--free, 'naturally-forming', or otherwise--are devoid of rules, whether they be implicit (e.g., dollars as trading medium, refrain from taking by force, etc.) or explicit (e.g, trading hours are 9-5). there is no 'good old days' where markets were free and the traders were good, upstanding people by happenstance.

it's just as 'natural' to prohibit the ability to unknowingly harm others without pricing that into the transaction.
By that standard, Instagram is a propaganda weapon.

It both:

a. pays popular users

b. Puts warnings on political issues, like statements that Biden's crime bill contributed to mass incarceration [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/ben_awareness/status/1339293381625864195
Boot from the recovery partition, format the main partition and reinstall the OS. It's not difficult.

Even if you manage to completely hose your SSD configuration to the point where the system can't boot from the recovery partition, you can use the free Apple Configurator 2 to do a factory reset. (which would also wipe all data)

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-configurator-2/revive-...
The Curious Strength of a Sea Sponge’s Glass Skeleton
GLX Delay (Accelerated GLX for Xwayland with the Nvidia Driver)
This looks great, can you add it to F-Droid? I tend to trust stuff that's on F-Droid more, even if I do end up installing them from the Play Store.