skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a "trusted to be mostly neutral" news organization

Until there's a definition of 'neutral' that everyone agrees with, that won't work. It's impossible to avoid making important editorial judgements unless you're going to literally report all information being generated. News organizations are not a substitute for doing research on the things that matter to you.
It's worth noting that the Unifi gateways have hardware offload for traffic routing.

While a Raspberry Pi might work for some folks, it's worth noting that these are two very different performance classes.
Cambridge Analytica happened because of an API and users who will click anything to learn if they're a Samantha or a Carrie.
The short version would be this:

It takes a bastardized definition of "trust" to make this statement true, and it's a definition that is most often seen in the wild when used to "sell" blockchain stuff as having technical capabilities they do not, in fact, possess. It is a dishonest and misleading definition.

There are several mechanisms of trust that exist, authorities are just one of them. Reputation is another, so are proofs, and so is consensus (which is the most interesting one for the case at hand). Blockchains are essentially "Paxos, but for a massive peer count, and with some mechanisms that allow it to operate in an adversarial networks", but it is fundamentally still just a consensus algorithm (in Bitcoin's case, one where people "agree" that John Doe has X amount of money).

Shifting to P2P essentially just means that:

- You will trust a bunch of random people instead of a centralized authority;

- You will trust that these random people don't have enough "power" to subvert the protocol;

- In this context "power" refers to computational power in the case of PoW and Sybil Attacks, or access to backdoors;

- You will trust that the protocol is sound, as well as the implementation of it;

There's plenty of trust going around in there, claiming to "do away with trust" is dishonest at best, and fraudulent at worst. To add insult to injury: PoW based peer networks that haven't achieved significant scale can likely be trivially overtaken by an adversarial actors, and making a system P2P tends to open it up to all kinds of forensic network analysis.

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For the long version of the argument I'd recommend this post from Bruce Schneier:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/blockchain_an...

> Most blockchain enthusiasts have a unnaturally narrow definition of trust. They’re fond of catchphrases like “in code we trust,” “in math we trust,” and “in crypto we trust.” This is trust as verification. But verification isn’t the same as trust.

> What blockchain does is shift some of the trust in people and institutions to trust in technology. You need to trust the cryptography, the protocols, the software, the computers and the network. And you need to trust them absolutely, because they’re often single points of failure.
Yes, you're right. The casting out of Ron Paul made me really mad. Thanks for reminding me.

No, no party is better really. The GOP is the same. It's run by the same kinds of old farts. My main source of good feelings towards the GOP is that I tend to agree with their unelected members. But more and more I'm seeing those members also hate the GOP establishment. I wouldn't be surprised to see the party fracture heavily soon. I hope the democrat party also has the same split. There are good, decent democrats that share common principles and who I'm sure cannot stand their party leadership. I mean, the DNC is so bad, that I actually feel sorry for my left-leaning friends who also seem unable to get any representation.
within the 4 stages of change, "acceptance" is a bit of a misnomer. Sometimes, it's labeled "commitment". The basic tenet is that some sort of conclusion happens in this stage (which may or may not be based on a consensus)
Hey, mang, your comment was deaded and it looks like you're shadowbanned, but your history looks clean. If you care, contact the site admins to de-ban.
This is just like the "fact checkers" that didnt last long.
>If this speech threatens democracy, peace, and safety, why hasn't it been made illegal by the government

Because of the first amendment, and how the courts have very consistently interpreted to allow hate speech.

>and how has the US managed to do so well for centuries with it being perfectly legal?

If by "do so well for centuries" you mean the US's economic output and world status over the centuries, I would argue that profiting off of Europe rebuilding itself after two world wars probably outweighed the detrimental effects of hate speech (among probably several dozen other reasons).

If you mean "how has the US done so well handling the negative effects of hate speech for centuries without making it illegal", I would argue that hate speech has contributed to some of the most shameful and barbaric social dynamics over the centuries, and the US is historically well behind other modern countries on this front.
FWIW, I tried using OpenWRT on a box with similar specs to yours and it was a nightmare. Ended up using FreeBSD instead and it was a vastly better experience. I think OpenWRT might only be worth it on very low-spec hardware.
That's where the commentary comes in, if a reader feels something important is missing, we'll have some mechanism for that to be verified and added.
SpaceX wins UK regulator Ofcom's approval for Starlink broadband base stations
Ubiquiti hardware and software is still amazing, and I'm willing to bet there are far more satisfied users than the few people grumbling on this forum. Cloud login is not mandatory if you choose not to enable it.

No products are perfect, but for the use case of "more technical than average user" looking for better quality than your typical home-grade gear, I have not found anything better or more polished.
The "rest" is still significantly better educated than those who never left, which implies they can fuel additional growth in China
Rappi Developers use Avo to build better product analytics
Nooo, not the plot! The setting. Really fun story though, yes.
It will be interesting to see if Palantir is the next to get "deplatformed". They have a lot of Federal contracts.

Peter understood Donald just fine.
This was my first thought too. Does it make it illegal to remove spam content?
We don’t get to see the world where he didn’t do that. For example, let’s pretend his lawyers warned him that TWTR as a company and himself as an individual could be held liable for any future riot organised on Twitter. That would be worse than 6.5%, surely?
How is it great with one NIC?

Ethernet adapter and USB speeds seem less than ideal.
I think you got it right, just wanted to provide some supporting data, even if polling is a little fuzzy.
The new process seems equivalent to Canada and the United States. I agree its less favourable though.
Twitter, though, at least has moderators, and makes an effort to remove threatening content from its service. The speed and efficacy of Twitter's abuse team is a topic for debate, but they have (and enforce) policy.

Parler famously had no such policy, that's why it was so attractive to the insurrectionists. The CEO, even after January 6th, went on record that he didn't feel it was Parler's responsibility to moderate user-generated content at all. Whatever last-minute olive branch they tried extending to AWS regarding a potential future volunteer moderator system obviously wasn't sufficient for Amazon.
When some group, or citizens of a country, or people in a large "class" goes through culturally-significant events, it is perfectly reasonable for conversation to be pulled in that directly for some amount of time. My experience is that this place will always adjust itself back to it's core topic.

Side note: I've noticed these topics tend to burn out quickly because the post and the posters are getting tons of down votes and, due to the "algorithm" (dang), being slowly pushed away from the top. Speaking of: Moderating is often a thankless job, so thank you.
Yeah, it didn't make a lick of sense to me. I thought perhaps it was because I'm not an expert on security service, and my few encounters with AWS have made me painfully aware of just how much it is I don't know about it.

But the alternative explanation does make sense, and is exactly the kinds of errors I was afraid of making.
I don't, but it was a narrow case. Part of my home-made home automation runs on wifi so I was focusing on low latency and no packets lost when using wifi in my specific building. Top of the shelf routers all had some occasional hiccups. I think the good old WRT54GL did much better than them. Plus it was done with the set of wifi receivers available to me at the time (mostly cheapos connected to rpis & esp8266).

This is not a common use case, I was not interested in high bandwidth. I did try to disable beamforming and all other fireworks when testing though (but did tests with default settings too)
Sorry, this seems like just an attempt for you to rationalize your double standard.

> There are ways to do it.

It's more than "donating anonymously". I asked if you can point an alternative that lets me monetize my attention and give it forward. Show me any system as straightforward as Brave that lets me give 2-3€ every month to wikipedia and archive.org and any one else I desire.

> The affiliate link is just one of many examples.

Extraordinary claims and extraordinary evidence. I see you already failed at providing an alternative for supporting content creators, will you also back out of showing what "many examples" you are talking about?

PS.: Curious that you single out the CEO. If you don't want to use Brave for having a beef with the CEO it's one thing, but at least be honest about instead of making it about the product.
Go to your HN profile and turn on "showdead". This is how the entire internet would now look like.
Doing it actively. Try Conversations.
Facial recog biz denies its software identified 'antifa members'
> Based on your logic, if both parties rejected Stalin then you'd be in favor of him.

Yes, I'd rather have a social democrat that rejects Stalin than a fiscal conservative that embraced him.

Unlike the various 'what-ifs' of policy issues, anyone can examine the actual record of Stalin and his policies. And, in my opinion, anyone who finds him a source of inspiration, regardless of their stated policy preferences, has a severe lack of judgement.
Yes, this proposal taken alone might seem benign, but people are riled up about this because context matter: many of the pandemic restrictions are unlawful, because they are either introduced in decrees issued by prime minister instead of laws passed in parliament, or infringe on freedoms guaranteed in constitution without introducing state of emergency. As such, many courts are throwing out cases brought by police about violating pandemic restrictions. Proceeding law changes about refusing tickets now, just feels like blatantly like: "Oh, they are not accepting tickets based on unlawful regulations? Let's make it harder to refuse ticket!"
But the thing is, have you actually read the stuff on Parker this is about? These people are actively inciting violence. Their leaders are encouraging violent assaults on democratic institutions. They really aren’t that different from what happened in Germany in the late 20s and 30s. Whether they also come to resemble Germany in the late 30s is irrelevant.
> I’d note that if slavery were the reason for the formation, then the Senate would have been a bad idea as it stripped power away from the Southern states (as that article points out, Virginia alone had more than 10% of the total House votes).

Its true that with the apportionment of House votes in the Constitution, the Senate (by comparison) had weaker representation of the South (30.8% in the Senate, 35.4% in the House), but, as with terms explicitly protecting slavery, the concern wasn’t for the immediate effect, but as insurance against trends that were already apparent with the expected internal and external expansion of the US and its political development.

With the first Congress seated after the apportionment due to the 1790 Census (which included Kentucky, admitted in 1792), the Senate already was slightly more favorable to the South than the House (the South had 38.4% of the Senate and 37.1% of the House). With the Congress seated after the 1800 apportionment, the South had 46.1% of the Senate, and 39.0% of the House.

The idea that the Senate would have been a “bad idea” in terms of political power in the South assumes that no one at the time of the Constitution had even considered the possibility of thinking a few years down the road.
You say that like it's a bad thing. The web used to be much less centralized than it is today, and not to its detriment. If we're talking about breaking up the physical Internet, that's clearly bad, but having alternatives to the Facebook/Twitter/etc monolith would be a clear net-win.
There's an obscure clause of the 25th amendment that declares the presidency null and void if it should be announced as such on the state department's website.
Really curious to see what comes out of this.
LMAO...

Where is the basis of this not enough resources for middle class life style?

Tell me, what is middle class life style anyway? If you are talking about the American consumerism middle class life style, sure, I think most educated people nowadays do not really like that form of life style, or find it actually comfortable.

And even if that's the style everyone wants to. With tech advancement, why cannot everyone afford that, while still keep the environment health and sustainable for human?

Please enlighten me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report
> American bike infra design and culture has been a failure on nearly every level

In what way? I live in a town with a major university and there are plenty of cyclists on the roads leading to and from campus as well as on campus itself. This is the case at many universities I've been to.

Also, as far as I'm aware, there are no protected bike lane installations anywhere around campus or in town, but we do have a nice rail trail.
> My problem is with those who stand against "extremists" while supporting "extremists"

It sounds like you see an equivalence between "rioting" and "rioting". I get what you're saying, but I'm also pretty sure that the people you're calling hypocrites have a more nuanced view than that and differentiate based on context and cause and don't consider "white supremacist Q-conspiracy-lie-believers rioting" (which this was) to be equal to "people rioting because police officers keep killing in circumstances that don't warrant it without serious repercussion" (which the BLM riots were).

We can also note that many of the BLM riots only turned violent _after_ local police started shooting gas, pepper balls, and rubber bullets at crowds. But even if that weren't the case, the causes and contexts would still be different.

It seems to me like the people you're talking about are in fact neither anti-extremist nor pro-extremist. They're anti-white-supremacists and anti-police-getting-away-with-murder. Those are not contradictory positions.

> groups screaming about the DC riots

I haven't seen anyone screaming about context-free "DC riots". I see people screaming about "white supremacist Q-anon-lie-conspiracy-believers rioting in DC trying to capture or kill congresspersons and overthrow a (mostly-if-you-ignore-voter-suppression) fair democratic election" and I think that makes a big difference.

It's not the riots that these people are worried about. It's the reason for the riots, and the reasons are not equal.
Who else is on your short list? I sometimes say that Ronan Farrow is America's last reporter, but of course there must be more than one.
Will be interesting to see what happens to the GOP over the next two years. I'm thinking there could be a split.
That doesn't make any sense. What is that even supposed to mean? Yes, Polish people have only the free speech that doesn't violate the Polish law. Some people might think that the laws could be more strict or more relaxed, but this is just how the law works.
Operation Mindfuck
Naw, just shenanigans.
> I'm honestly surprised they continue to get interviews with prominent figures.

All that matters to them is staying relevant. They don't care about friendly or unfriendly interviews.

The figures need the media more than the media needs them.
All warning or informational labels are forced speech.

But, it's worth remembering that people used to do things like add morphine to products without labeling it. Most countries limit free speech when it can harm others directly.
Social network Parler dumped by AWS, says it prepared by using bare metal
> The United States Government decided it was fair, in many administrative and legal venues, across the country. Many Republican officials and judges affirmed it, even under intense and illegal pressure from the President and his cadre.

So if the Russian government and Russian courts decide their election was fair and just, should Amazon shut down any websites which counter that viewpoint?

Because that's the precedent we are presumably setting.

> The severity of insurrection in US legal code is such that the military may be deployed domestically, and those service members who abetted it are guilty of an offense whose primary punishment in the UCMJ is death.

Yep, same in Russia for questioning election. You get sent to gulag. Or in China - what do you mean you are talking about Taiwan being it's own independent country in a group chat?

> This platform was used to coordinate an insurrection against the United States Government, and refused to act against those doing so.

Most of the coordination actually happened on Facebook, not Parler. None of those arrested so far had a Parler account.
> I agree to follow the rules of your service

You have to be careful there, too, though: Amazon is claiming that Parler (to use the most currently relevant example) did violate their terms of service, because their terms of service are so vague and broad that they can be used to apply to almost anything.
> Far Cry is trash

Having recently played around with this series (3 and 5) for the first time in my life - since they were heavily discounted over the holidays - I have to say, for shooters they could be a lot worse. FC3 has clearly influenced other games that came out since. Production value is high, graphics are great, they run fine on 5+ year old computers and the stories are fun. I'm neither bored nor overly frustrated.

Really my only issue is the lack of non-lethal play options, but you can play stealth most of the time and it's a good challenge for me. Not a shill or anything, I was just surprised to be enjoying them.
In my experience, it's easy to hire the next Haskell programmer and hard to hire the next ten.

My experience with onboarding non-Haskellers has been pretty good, though I would certainly admit the argument that they were unusually talented individuals.
> could the super intelligence give rise to something more intelligent than it? The answer must be yes,

I don't see any reason to believe that intelligence forms an infinite ladder, I mean, it's fun to think about, but surely Zeno catches the tortoise eventually!
$350-$400ish search AliExpress for "i5 7200U firewall"
I've been having them for over a decade.

The "only" problem is that it isn't easy, and thus most people do not use them at all.

Therefore, I cannot recommend XMPP.
It seems Brave is often combatting some bad pattern on the web by replacing it with something worse.

The latest affiliate link controversy was from 2020 [1]
Weird ad browser notifications is not that old [2]

Probably others. Happy to be wrong, I haven't researched it much, but what exactly is the case that they have a good track record of any significant length?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...
[2] https://community.brave.com/t/turning-off-brave-notification...
Basically a bunch of beer belly rednecks who broke into a building after a protest/rally was over, yelled, and left in 6 hours with no plan whatsoever. Id hardly call that much of a planned out effort to overthrow a country.
Sure buddy.
> What are the best mitigations here, both technical and social?

Buy a server?
We actually see Trump/Sanders directly overlap in Tulsi Gabbard, a democrat who supported Sanders, but who often disagrees with Trump (and indeed, was the sole democrat to not vote for impeachment). Many Trumpers like her too. I like that she is honest personally. She has both criticized the antifa/blm riots and the riots on the sixth. Brought up concerns of both police brutality (concerns I share, BTW), and election integrity (which I also am concerned with).

I actually have supported with many actions of Antifa / BLM (probably wouldn't guess that from my post history), including the protests at Pelosi's and McConnell's houses, and the disruption of the globalist meetings you mention. I don't agree with them in their destruction of property, especially that of small mom-and-pop businesses, or even big business if it affects small businesses (by raising insurance rates for example). And obviously, I disagree with anything actually threatening lives.
That isn't a substantive reply to my comment.

Taibbi frequently argues that "both sides" are equally culpable. "Both sides do it" is a lazy argument which fails to make reasonable distinctions between two very different groups of people.

In this case, his both-siderist argument is that liberal leaning journalists and commentators are just as guilty as those on the right, because they (according to him) feel pressured to use the word "coup" rather than the more accurate term "insurrection".

We can do without this sort of pedantry. It's not sensationalizing the situation to call it an "attempted coup". It's very near to what happened, even if it's not the most accurate description.

A bunch of thugs armed with blunt weapons, firearms, and zip ties for securing hostages broke into the capitol building with the stated intent of preventing the peaceful transition of power. Let's not downplay it simply because they were unsuccessful. Let's not be coy with word games.
Actually setting up a server is not difficult.
Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDddKmdLEdg for setting one up with video conferencing.

Finding a server is not difficult - in the worst case you take the default server.

And given the server is not locked down, you have access to all other servers (and their users) as well.
So I don't really get where you are going with this.
I do enjoy hn's discussions even if my opinions are rarely shared.

In general I don't mind reading opinions which are different from mine and I enjoy a window on people in tech and startup on issues that space from technology to politics.

I felt in the past it may be a bit to addictive (I don't do any other social media) and ended up restricting its usage (first fully, then by time, then by device).
I thoroughly enjoyed the plot and felt like Panam is up there on the list of top NPCs in gaming. Like, you genuinely feel like you're becoming friends throughout the missions.

I also thought Johnny was a really well executed. He really made me feel like some asshole is taking over my brain, and you slowly develop a bit of empathy with him and you can feel that he's doing the same with you.

Plus, the scene where you play a gig as Johnny is so awesome. I've never played a first person game where something like that was done. Looking out on that crowd of people, I really felt like a rockstar.

Yeah, the side missions were filler. And every NCPD job was identical. But they didn't feel any worse than Spiderman, and much better than FF7R (the cats...). You didn't even have to do any of them anyway. It was just something to occupy you if you wanted to run around and explore the city.
> Suddenly your return type will depend on the implementation of your callees

Why would that be a problem ? It's super common in templates and has never troubled me the least