skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Don't be a dick, because plenty of people are smarter than you, and even people who are not smarter than you can come up with really good ideas and perspectives."
Both sides, huh? lol
I had no idea that CNN had a "lite" version. Do you know any other major sites that have lite versions?
I saw someone say a comment that made me laugh a few days ago: Trump going on Fox News to say whatever he wants to millions of people, while claiming his speech is being prevented.
This is so true but my biggest struggle. Everything I have just shipped before I thought it was ready did really well, yet I still struggle to do it. I built my own static site generator, which I use for my own blog: https://github.com/kiramclean/morphy

I need to at least add documentation, and obviously there's a million other things I think I need before I tell anyone else about it.
> Apple is a company, and as such are only allowed to care about their bottom line.

That's a myth. It is neither descriptively the case, nor normatively an obligation, that a company maximise profits to the detriment of everything else. There is no such law, legal or economic. (There is shareholder value theory in economics which suggests that shareholder value maximisation is the optimal solution to the principal-agent problem, but that rests on very restrictive and utterly unrealistic conditions. Furthermore, shareholder value optimisation is not the same as short-term profit maximisation, either.)
the speed at which such a small team is working at is commendable but just take a look at the beta forum and see the how much faster they are moving in the new beta release for Android. Its a far more buggier release compared to the careful approach. Keep this up and signal will be a remnant of its former self.
Malware (and I include in this definition several services shipped by the OS vendor) typically doesn't rely exclusively on DNS lookups. Many will fallback to hardcoded lists of IPv6 addresses if you blackhole DNS.
Of course reporting just this information is non-neutral.

Wouldn't not reporting that information also be non-neutral? As you are, from one perspective, hiding information that one side doesn't want to be shared, thus favoring their political stances.
And even if we do, we will never know for sure.
Impeachment wouldn't strip him of anything (despite the many tweets and stories about it, there is nothing special about a second impeachment).

If he is impeached and the Senate votes to convict, then he will lose benefits. At the moment, however, it is believed that the Secret Service detail will remain in place regardless.
For the benefit of others, let me explain.

It's about scale. A disagreement that should stay between a small group of people and often could be solved by mediation, a conversation, or community service ends up being a national event.

An individual who has a specialized skillset loses the ability to be economically viable. They might not be able to get another job in the field.

Often, they are being used as a scapegoat.

If you make it impossible for a person to get a job in his or her field because you disagree with what they say, that's a form of violence. If you're going to economically eliminate someone in a scaled way, make sure it's worth it; it should be a last resort. This is really about scale.
> I can think of one valid purpose: GHG emissions.

I can think of another purpose which is valid to some people: sowing chaos.
Same. I literally blogged about this last month: https://vancelucas.com/blog/when-fact-checking-comes-to-web-...
RIP Aaron Schwartz. You are a patriot for truth and freedom.
Didn't last long?

> sci-hub.hns/ could not be resolved by HNS.to. Please try another Handshake resolver..
>The success of iMessage and the entire Apple ecosystem in the US proves that a walled garden is exactly what people trust and want and are willing to pay handsomely for the privilege of being part of one.

People don't care about open, closed or whatever. They care about being able to send a message to others. If only 10 % of your friends are on signal, but 100% are on iMessage, most will just use iMessage.

So the success of iMessage (and the apple stonewall) is arguably just the success of the iPhone.

> Seriously, get out of the tech bubble for a while and see that most people have no idea what computer brand they have or what their OS is called and they don't even care. They just want to click the internet icon and start browsing memes, play candy crush or watch youtube.

You're basically making exactly my point. They don't care, they want to be able to browse, message, play, watch stuff, etc. They also wouldn't care if their messaging app would support different protocols, as long as they're just able to easily message their friends.

> Interoperability/Federation is something the average user doesn't understand and won't even bother too as long as their basic needs are already comfortably fulfilled.

This is why it would be incredibly helpful for a big app to start supporting different protocols. If signal becomes THE app for connecting with friends (no matter if they use icq, irc, email, jabber, etc), it might come to a point where people rather use Signal, because that's the app that can reach ALL your friends.

At this point, iMessage would either die, or also start to support open protocols. (Or more likely: Apple will ban messaging apps from the app-store)
Theories about superintelligence are as useful as theories about God.
Right. My mistake. I should have thought it through more thoroughly before posting. Hopefully my comment doesn't mislead anyone, I'll try to do better in the future.
It cannot be made technically impossible of course. But it can be made impossible using the regular user interface.
Ah yes I had forgotten they have an FM repeater now! That reminds me I need to try it out. Thank you.
The main signal developer (Moxie Marlinspike) is strongly against this architecture and won't accept either 3rd-party apps using the Signal servers, nor the main Signal client using 3rd-party servers.
So you have a link(s) you can share to said media that we can review?
True story, I've been using Matrix with Element for a while. I don't use it for anything much because no one else is on it. Some friends and I have a groupchat on Signal and we decided it would be good to have a backup method to chat if Signal breaks (or to just move to for the reasons that there are, such as not being centralized by design).

It took me at least twenty minutes to figure out how to add my friends to a room I created too long enough ago to have memorized the UI. And they added "Communities" which I created one of but cannot even tell what functionality it even provides.

I don't know if that's a client issue or not but it seems like (maybe?) it's trying to be a social network in addition to a chat app? Some kind of adding in Discord functionality or something?

I guess as long as I can not use social network features and still use it like I use Signal... to flexibly chat with whomever I know the ID of.
I think what he meant was that the domain resolution can be validated using the blockchain as opposed to needing a centralized/single actor certificate authority.
I use ledger-cli + ledger-guesser [1], which uses use machine learning (brain.js) to classify entries automatically.

I've been relying on this for the last 3 years, it works very well.

[1] https://github.com/j3k0/ledger-guesser
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Not a stupid question

You don't have to mess around with proteins.

Producing a new protein and especially purifying it is a ton of work.
mRNA is comparatively simple to produce
Along with Andrew Yang's Democracy Dollars to wash out industrial complex lobbying $ with citizen $ by 8:1 ratio, along with Journalism Dollars to take away power from the duopoly and mainstream media to craft and perpetuate just the two main narratives they want, and ideally the Freedom Dividend/UBI to reduce the stress on people.
Currently (and for laptop CPUs specifically)

1. AMD Ryzen 4900H

2. Apple M1, though the Intel 10875H is pretty much the same perf (though at 3x the power usage)

3. Only Intel uses this, so whatever Intel's fastest chip on this process is.

That said, it varies by use cases, and M1 leans heavily on accelerators so has big wins in some and big losses in others when compared the 4900H or 10875H, which are closer to each other in single threaded benchmarks.
Stories are implemented to keep the user engaged. I think the fact that people are even asking for them in other apps could be interpreted as clearly working or even as being addictive.
We're inching closer to realizing the "reductio ad absurdum" of censorship.

Someone actually got censored, and took "well, if you don't like how the DNS does things, you can just make your own!" as a literal challenge.

Wonder if this will eventually lead to further fragmentation. Hopefully encryption will keep it out of the lowest levels of infrastructure, I'd hate to see separate fiber lines put down to share controversial communications.
Don't you remember the last war on terrorism (that is still going on, btw)?

Weren't there a bunch of politicians, government agencies, and corporations (i.e. Dick Cheney + Halliburton) who gained billions of dollars and permanently revoked constitutional rights (i.e. Joe Biden who helped author the Patriot Act)?

The answer to the question of "who profits from a war on terror"? Is plainly and historically obvious: the military police industrial complex.
They who? Social media sites or companies with bad acting executives?
Just tried to download and install handshake. Requires docker. Just tried to download and install docker on windows 7, failed install, requires more stuff.

Opinion: This will never become a realization until these people realize the average Joe is not going to jump through all these hoops just to get an alternative browser up and running. It should be simple and seamless. Less than 1% will bother with all this.
Have you seen the recent disclosure of the data gathered by Messenger?

https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/04/app-privacy-labels-messaging-...

That's a data hoover, not a dustpan... and it's not been collected "willingly".
It is unreasonable to expect every individual to shoulder every "other" groups genuine or perceived injustices. It just is.

This new flavor of the month which attempts to make silence on an issue a state of complicity and therefore ... a sin is something that I find deeply manipulative.
Seen that a few times. In software shops it usually seems to look like a few process changes which change what "good" performance looks like, derailing promotions and other career advancement for people not in the know for the new normal. Coupled with asymmetric expectations e.g. loud criticism of other teams forcing them to move to the new normal while vocally defending their own team. Usually people who were on their way up just choose to leave at this point rather than slog it out.

The best move I've seen in a senior reshuffle is to setup a 1:1 with the new leaders, I've done this with leaders up to 3 managers up. They like the initiative, and it gives you a chance to find out which projects they like, and which they want to end, and what they want to see come talent review time.
Having the right to take an action is different from executing on that action.

You have the right to paint your house polka dot pink but everyone is still going to think it was the wrong choice.
Good thing. Signal coming up with usernames
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Signal has repeatedly demonstrated they don't care about chat history.
Democracy ensures that there's enough bureaucracy between the mob rule and the enforcement that it allows people to forget there's a mob.
> It's funny how they try to segment the market because they can't deliver the same power to everyone. Yet we all deserve it.

You may feel that you deserve the sun and the moon, but getting Intel to agree with you on that will be harder than getting blood out of a stone. If you pay for it, you can have the best processor. Otherwise, you'll be getting something less.
I reckon electoral maps are fundamentally useless when most districts are gerrymandered to the wazoo.

They also do not reflect movements that are fundamentally leninist in organization, where a small cohesive nucleus of activists defines the agenda and directs action. Without a Fox News stoking and directing anger, there is no "red rage", and Fox people are urban people. Without someone running 4chan, there is no Anon/QAnon, and the likes of 4chan are run by urban geeks. Trump always defined himself as a proud NewYorker. And so on and so forth.

What is true is that nowadays people can live in socially-isolated bubbles that do not communicate with other bubbles. This is not a function of geographical location, though, but hyper-personalized media consumption. It happened already in the 70s on the left, for example, where people who only read "alternative" media could not understand how their points of view where not as hegemonic as they thought. Now it's just spread to everyone thanks to the web: at some point you'll gravitate to a media bubble and probably stay there forever.
No it wouldn't. It would provide history, but it would not prevent you from changing a transaction that was booked the previous month.
You proved my point.
No attempt was made to violently overthrow the US government during that riot inside the Capitol building while elected officials were formally accepting the results of the 2020 election.
"jewish":

Trump's own daughter and grandsons are Jewish.

"black, hispanic":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd0cMmBvqWc

"anti-lgbt":

Trump himself attended several gay marriages in public way before running for president, late 90s/early 00s. None of the examples Amazon or Twitter gave were anti-LGBT. Trump got 72 million votes. Statistically, there is 7 million LGBT atleast who voted for him.
> You need a team who you can trust to execute without looking over their shoulder.

A better solution, for the company, would be trusting the existing team.

Being able to engender trust and showing leadership seems like what an executive should be paid for.

The benefit for the exec is that installing their own team gives them a lot more leverage without needing those skills above - since it can be understood that a quickly-installed team will be quickly-uninstalled if you stop getting paid, leaving the company with a void.

This is very high risk for the company and seems to me like it only comes about through poor management and nepotism.
Because web browsing isn't (or at least, shouldn't be) CPU bound. If you're just browsing the web you want light and cool with long battery life.
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Doesn't sound infantilizing to me. It reads like normal people talk. That's good.

Infantilizing is what 'Frondo refers to, "ninja rock stars" job descriptions. What they have in common with business jargon is using a lot of words to communicate near-zero actual content. They use language to press emotional buttons in the audience to create a desired atmosphere (importance and fun, respectively).

I think GP did a really good job, and I prefer their take.
Remove the requirement for a phone number. I prefer apps that are first class citizens on other non-phone devices.
Drugs are controlled against the alternative treatment often enough. The study needs to be designed differently, but statistics can do this.
Safer, yes. (No interaction with the nucleus, very simple and straightforward conceptually, plus a few engineering tricks to make it amazingly effective: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source... )

Cheaper, well, it depends. (Vaccines are already cheap, especially because they are mass produced.)

But I'm guessing - but I'm a total layman - that Moderna is betting big on their mRNA platform. The "beauty" of it is that you really need to just copy-paste some part of the virus (pick protein from the viral genome), and literally just paste it into their vaccine deliver platform. (See the link.) And this means R&D costs could go waaaaay down.

Sure, clinical trials are still needed to make sure it's safe and effective, but now they have a very good choice of nailing it on the first try, every try. (Basically unless they pick a wrong protein, it will work "every time". And it's already possible to get antibodies from folks who have "seroconverted" - that is they have become immune to something, because they have the antibodies against that thing. So, they sample a lot of people, look at what the human immune system did, and just pick the most common/stable protein target.)

The flu virus is problematic because it evolves/mutates fast, so old antibodies might not fit the new proteins. Yeah, sounds crazy, but some (!) small mutations lead to still functioning but sufficiently different proteins. (Of course we don't really see all the mutations that led to non-functioning proteins.)

It's also possible - super total speculation here - that the scientists/professionals/experts have a better guess on what to target than our immune system. (Relevant buzzwords: immunodominant / conserved epitope; epitope is the part of the target protein that the antibody/T-cell/B-cell actually matches/binds-to , and if the virus changes that part, boom, new virus, "doesn't look like anything to me", for example in case of HIV: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21115730/ )
I believe Russia's goal in that work was not to get Trump in but to destabilize. They are certainly succeeding.
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You posts remind me of how Goebbels propaganda machine described the jew: crooked nose, small eyes, greedy,...
Any reasonable length pin would not contain enough information to act as a safe encryption key; it would be too easy to brute force.
The tense is wrong in the title. The process is still going on, and many currently financially thriving cities are still buying into the false promise of unchecked growth without consideration for infrastructure, services, and overall quality of life.

I also take exception to the use of the gestalt 'America' as if there were some central force orchestrating this phenomena - there isn't, just the same incentives that push developer's voices in city governments louder and louder.
> Most content creators need to be compensated to continue making content.

False. The continued growth of Vimeo and even YouTube show this as well.

> Advertising isn't the only solution but it does allow viewers to watch without paying.

False.

> PeerTube needs content creators to get on board.

If by "content creators" you mean Fuck Jerry Media or whoever, then no, it really doesn't. If by "content creators" you just mean "those who create content without the expectation of financial gain" then PeerTube is doing ok.

> Having options for monetizing content could encourage creators to use PeerTube.

Again, if "How do I monetize this?" is your primary reason for the content, maybe the content doesn't need to be there. That's the point that people are missing.

If your goal is "make money" instead of "share useful information" then you are part of this problem.
Also helps with ownership. They have to maintain the thing, and it's easier to do when the person who committed it is a co-worker you can get a hold of.
Docker does not work on non-professional versions of Windows. Was very annoying as a student.

EDIT: Seems that progress has lead to this no longer being true.
if (result.origin == (select origin from origins having max(count) and type == result.type))
priority+=10;
else
priority-=10;

Not manual, so OK. Right?
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Does anyone know how to completely delete the Ubiquity account? I can't find an option anywhere on the website.

For now I've renamed the username and put in a fake email address (sadly the username `deletemyaccount` was taken).
I don't know about Signal, but Telegram blurs the lines between a messaging app and a more general purpose social network. Telegram has public groups (supporting 100s of thousands of users) and channels that feature comment sections. It wouldn't surprise me if Telegram ends up getting banned by app stores because of their resilience and respect of privacy.
> But do you think it's normal that they are all yelling the same things?

Yes, for the same reason everyone on Twitter knew about "Bean Dad" or "left shark" or the latest popular meme of the day.

Quite a few of them come from or are amplified by Fox News, Newsmax, etc. hosts, as well. Instant distribution of the latest talking point to millions.
I have been doing this for years, but for me the biggest downside is the lack of API at my financial institutions to pull data , which leads to a big time suck weekly/monthly logging into sites , navigating their poor UI to download CSVs.

Otherwise there is a great ecosystem of tools (and I have automated a lot of my own with Python) for parsing, classification, and import of data into the plain text ledgers.
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I went through all the apps I've installed in the past, and the only barcode scanner I've ever installed was this one:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxi...

So it might be another completely unrelated app that triggered the issue, or it might be this one, no idea!

I've reset my phone to factory and re-installed only as and when I needed an app and so far no more ads.
Essentially, isn't this just another domain registrar (Namebase.io) providing a few TLDs, following a much more complicated process, the advantage being a much more solid DNS entry substitute? If you run a high-traffic site, won't you still be at the mercy of hosting providers, CDN providers, etc.?

Related question: Is there a true uncensorable (sic) protocol for hosting a website?
Twitter says they did it "due to a violation of Twitter policies, in particular the Counterfeiting Policy."

The precipitating event was a lawsuit in India and the subsequent reactions.

This article gives more details: https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-bans-sci-hub/
Apple's M1 has shown us how antiquated and far behind Intel has become. My Macbook is not only much faster than my XPS unit, but it doesn't get hot, nor does it use up the battery in 4 hours.
Personally I have an opposite problem of thinking too much about work after hours, but in case I really need to remember something it is written into notepad or note taking app. All modern text editors after introduction of Sublime Text (I use VSCode) have persistent sessions in settings, so I just keep lots of tabs (like in browser) and clear them after feature merge.
What do today's 5G innovations look like? Can't the DoD jumpstart to get there. BTW DoC includes NOAA which has pretty advanced networking, and I think purposely have held off from 5G due to large uncertain risks