skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find this particularly disturbing. Not because I think it's anything on the part of Salesforce, but that all these different corporations believe that this is something they HAVE to do

It's virtue signaling, plain and simple. It's also free marketing for companies. Are we going to see random companies (e.g. soft drink companies) now proactively declare that they're going to refuse to cater to RNC events? I wouldn't be surprised.
Oh, yes, the cranks won't go anywhere.

But do you think it's normal that they are all yelling the same things? Those cranks on social networks are highly conformal, that's not easy to explain.
http://archive.is/vIt5m
As far as I've seen, Signal don't really accept outside contributions. I'm not sure if it's policy, or just a culture thing.

They may have accepted some in the past, but I've never seen it, and I've seen a lot of PRs closed unmerged.
I leave TODO lying around about what I was going to do next (clean these up before merging obvs), and also take actual hand-written notes about what solutions I'm thinking about. I tend to spend 90% of my time programming thinking, though.. once I know what I'm going to write it just comes out easily.
Yes. Absolutely. It so much more than makes up for lost government benefits.

Health insurance working for a decent US tech company generally requires some out of pocket, but the amounts are really quite modest. Premiums are typically mostly paid by the employer and not considered part of your compensation. If you're single you'll probably pay nothing for insurance premiums and potentially up to a few thousand out of pocket if you're a heavy user of health care, and maybe $5k in the absolute worst case (and the out of pocket is often tax free). If you've got a family, you might pay a couple thousand per year in premiums and $10k in out of pocket maximum. These numbers are honestly chump change for people who are earning $50k-250k more, with better career prospects and more high paying employers to choose from if a particular job doesn't work out.
Uber, Lyft Push Biden Team for Role in Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout
They are using AWS for their infrastructure. Based on their last Form 980, which is from 2018 their expenses were about $5 million. That expense was with < 10 mn users and a much smaller dev team. Since 2018 theyve added more android and ios developers.
I love Forth, but for me it is not a viable programming language to do general
purpose work in. It is not even particularly good in the niches it once served
in either, such as in the embedded realm and memory constrained systems.
Learning the language, and more importantly implementing my own Forth, has made
me a better programmer, but I do not think I would ever use it professionally.

It is quite a poor language for modern software development.
The advantages of Forth are nearly never useful to a modern application, mobile or
web developer. The advantages are; works well on a memory constrained system
(think kilobytes not megabytes), it is good for writing assemblers and cross
compilers for Forth (I think we can agree that most developers are not going
to be porting a programming language to a new architecture in order to write
a CRUD application), and poking hardware and hardware registers interactively
which goes without saying - the vast majority of programmers will never do,
only embedded and kernel developers on any regular basis.

Instead it has many disadvantages like poor string handling, global state
being the default and not the exception, poor support for structures (I
know you can make your own but that does not make them good), and even worse
memory safety than C. That is just that language itself, the ecosystem around
it is just as bad, there are few libraries for generic functions, and it is
most likely that they will require some kind of porting to the Forth you are
using, there is a saying within the Forth community - "If you have seen one
Forth, you have seen one Forth", they are different in quite fundamental ways.

It just does not solve modern problems but ones that were relevant in the
1980s on microcomputers.

The reason I like Forth is because I like reinventing the wheel, understanding
how systems are implemented, and puzzles. I do not like Forth because it is
good at getting things done.
With all due respect, TBL's W3C is also responsible for the last decade of monopolization. Not in the sense of acting in bad faith, but by keeping to fail on almost all accounts to bring forward the web, with catastrophic endeavors and priorities such as XHTML 2, WS-*, and the "semantic web". W3C had all the power and support they could wish for at some point, but they failed miserably to even keep browser tech in a sane state such that we'd be able to see new browsers being developed from scratch. Their current page for a HTML spec redirects to WHATWG's HEAD on github. In their name, newer specs for XML-centric tech such XSLT has been published by the sole commercial implementor of XSLT, violating their own guidelines of two independent implementations. The first thing they should do is reflecting on their abysmal track record; maybe they should make place for a true multi-national nonprofit standardization body rather than pushing forward as a pay-as-you-go organization.
Maybe you've missed the other decentralization discussions. I came here because of them, although I was (and still more am) concerned about decentralizing code hosting.
Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson defends lopsided content policing by social media
You mean, it's always someone else's fault?
Here's one that I have dated Jan 6th:

<FistName>,

The Vice President is right. TODAY will be a crucial milestone in our months-long effort to DEFEND Election integrity.

Over 100 Members of Congress plan to object to the Election results, because they share the concerns of millions of Americans about voting irregularities. This is our last line of defense, <FistName>.

President Trump and Vice President Pence will never stop fighting to deliver you a FAIR and HONEST Election, and now they need to know they have your support.

For a short time, when you contribute to the Official Defend America Fund, you can increase your impact by 1000%.

We’re calling on our STRONGEST allies to step up to the front lines of this nasty battle. With your help, we’ll uncover the TRUTH.

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Join America's Defenders

CONTRIBUTE $250 = $2750

CONTRIBUTE $100 = $1100

CONTRIBUTE $50 = $550

CONTRIBUTE $45 = $495

CONTRIBUTE ANY AMOUNT

Your support has never been more critical than it is RIGHT NOW, <FistName>.

President Trump will be reviewing a list of EVERY Patriot who stepped up when he needed them most. Can he count on you?

Contribute ANY AMOUNT TODAY to support your President and you can increase your impact by 1000%.

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Perhaps I'm stating the obvious but the people saying that are all Twitter users.
Yes, very simple.

1. The StarLink dish has an pretty unique shape. Pretty easy to look for it via some means (drones, aerial photos, etc).

2. You got caught committing some crime. When they search your property they find the Starlink dish. Maybe they find StarLink software on your computer. Then extra charge and fine comes your way.
I think myself and many others could have written the same comment.

I’ll add that it’s also delightfully easy to get started.

As an application, Accounting is kind of like Vim or Excel or other tools with steep learning curves and nirvana at the end of them.

You can start by just tracking one bank account by hand which is easy enough and fun, because you’re still learning how this accounting thing works.

Pretty soon you’ll be tracking your investments, ISOs, taxes, credit card points, and so on as absurdum. You’ll be the person who finds the bug in your employer’s W-2 generator...

It’s a steep time investment, but once you’ve written the automations, it’ll take you maybe 30 minutes each month. And you’ll never experience the feeling of “not being in control” of your finances again.
Sure it is you just aren't aware of it. Zero rating is a form of content control where you end up paying more for off-network content.
Github still doesn't provide a means to mark a pull request as merged if you've locally rebased and pushed.

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/2
https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/548

This is what's happening with Signal's PRs. Here is an example:

PR: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/pull/10266/commi...

Commit in PR: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/pull/10266/commi...

Rebased and pushed commit: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/6df839612...

Note that they have different commit references. Thus Github does not recognise this as a merge, and there's no way to explicitly tell Github that you did merge it.
Is there an API/application purely to archive my entire whatsapp, including voice messages? From an iPhone
Child abuse websites all get seized and their owners arrested by a court order. The websites don't just get "blocked".

Parler was not, and in all likelihood, cannot be convicted, because they were only sharing speech. The SCOTUS even ruled that anti-gay-marriage was considered free and protected speech because a good percent of the population has different opinion than the rest. Same for pro-Trump material. He had seventy two million votes just a couple of months ago. That's not the same as child abuse which is universally condemned by the entire population.
I worked for a defense contractor in the early 1980s.

I think it was 1983, just after I started there, that an edict came down to "truck-proof" the building. If I remember, 1983 was when Hammas blew up the US embassy in Beirut with a truck bomb.

They put up those "anti-truck" columns in front of the doors.
> That’s unrealistic IMO.

Just ambitious. We shouldn't let Facebook off the hook with just letting them delete inconvenient stuff.

We should press them till they pay for their great power by picking up the responsibility of education.

> I can type out a hundred lies faster than you can fact check even one of them.

Yes, but you can't convince people of so many new different stupid things at this rate. Novel lies are rarely the problem. Most dangerous lies are not new. There's nothing new about antivaxxers for example. Trumpism works by the same rules that nazi propaganda worked. Snake oil. Flat earth.

How many new lies of this level of impact can you invent and publish and can you really do it faster than people can correct you if their voices are properly amplified?

> Besides we’ve already seen that facts don’t matter to a lot of people. They don’t care if something is true or not anyways. All they care about is having their world views reaffirmed.

Facts don't matter to them unless they understand them. Truth matters to them immensely. That's why they hold the (wrong) beliefs they hold. They care about being right. What they lack is education in the form and on the level that could reach them. For some of them, providing them with it might be very hard. But you can't give up and just censor whatever. It doesn't work. It didn't work. What works is education.
I am also questioning if shutting down Parler servers is a pure business decision.
90% of Americans don't know what AWS servers are so I don't think they would care if AWS kept running them or not.
On the other site 70 millions Trump voters will certainly take notice when they are ready to place their next Amazon order.
Nah, situations like that are not at all uncommon in software consulting. I’ve personally been involved with similar projects.

159,000/mo is 4 FTEs at typical consulting rates.

You need a DBA to manage the database, an developer to spin up some reports, someone to manage the project, and an ETL developer to get the data in and out?

There’s your $159,000/mo “database”.

Are there cheaper ways to do it? Of course. But that isn’t why anyone hires consultants.
And those are also very good questions since the PIN thing was new and new things could indicate being hacked, and people changing their public key is a thing that Signal does seem to try to de-emphasize as a strong security signal so I'm almost more impressed they noticed it and were concerned.

It sounds like your parents are very unusually observant! I have had coworkers much younger than that who cannot be bothered to read messages like that.
I've definitely seen it. Reusing HID is kind of clever, but the protocol is extremely bloated and hard to parse.

Ignoring that, I'm not sure it's an improvement. Most of the power savings is having the keyboard initiate an interruptible event to wake the computer. Interpreting HID like in USB means the keyboard can't wake the computer, the computer needs to remain on to service USB interrupt endpoints.
lol the post and the sun are hardly paragons of journalism.
If you are concerned about your privacy, you can use an OSS keyboard app. Hacker's keyboard is one for android. There are some on F-Droid. You may even prefer them to Google's offering.
Agreed. Applications spend so much time trying to replicate user interface features that are inherent in plain text via any text editor. For example, full text search is already built in via Ctrl-F or part of the OS via grep or desktop search. Same with customizing the font, infinite scroll, adding/copying/deleting items, find-and-replace, convert to pdf (just print it), etc.
A lot of this 3 million dollars went to business as well, did it not? Congress didn't ask 3 million dollars for individuals only. It was for individuals and businesses alike
Back when all ISPs ran over the same shared lines maintained for public use.
Thanks for sharing. I had heard of Handshake before but forgot about it. After the events of the past few days by so-called "big tech", I will be looking into this more seriously.
> some Apple system software ... are whitelisted and cannot be blocked by the user even if they want to

There are currently 3 ways I know of to block them:

1. Exclusions Blaster https://www.vallumfirewall.com/eblaster/

2. Enabling Little Snitch 4.6 kext under Big Sur https://www.obdev.at/support/littlesnitch/245913651253917

3. Convoluted hack: https://tinyapps.org/blog/202010210700_whose_computer_is_it....
Yes I have read that many times, and I regret to inform you that you have been terribly misled about section 230 further in no way does your link refute my position at all.

Not only is TechDirt take factually incorrect on the history of Section 230, I am talking about REFORMS to Section 230 to make it CLEAR what the section should mean, which IMO should be legal speech, not simply allow the platforms to set their own moderation standards

The Ninth Circuit has as stated the intent of Section 230 was "Congress wanted to encourage the unfettered and unregulated development of free speech on the Internet, and to promote the development of e-commerce"

The clear purpose of section 230 is promote not impede free speech. TechDirt on the whole has taken very pro-censorship stances provided it is "mah private companies" doing the censorship

This is not inline with the actual facts of law, nor it is inline with how we as a society should be progressing

I know it may come as a shock but people can have differing opinions from TechDirt....
Why the false equivalency? BLM's stated goal is to end police oppression of people of color. White Nationalists' stated goal is to "cleanse" the country by force.
I can think of one valid purpose: GHG emissions.

Amazon, unlike say, Google, does not disclose their carbon emissions. Like at all. It is important to have this information public, for the sake of our planet. Amazon gets an F for disclosure, while Google is getting some A's:

https://www.cdp.net/en/responses/658?queries%255Bname%255D%3...

https://www.cdp.net/en/responses?utf8=%E2%9C%93&queries%5Bna...

I assume the reason is that doing a GHG assessment gives a lot of information about the operations of your company, so Amazon would rather be secretive about its operations. Knowing the location of datacentres allows you to deduce what power grid they're attached to. Scope 2 emissions depend a lot on where the electricity is coming from, and they're likely the vast majority of Amazon's emissions due to the size of AWS. Their Scope 3 emissions due to deliveries might also be significant, but it's harder to be secretive about that.
Thanks, this is very useful feedback! Will work on the layout and formatting, as you suggest. I admit, they are quite small, the pictures. I'll try to have less words per page in the next version (and large font!). フィードバックありがとうございます。

...and, yes, anime is the way to go!
Here's another one I got dated Jan 6th:

<FistName>,

We need to make sure you’re aware of how important today is.

Congress will vote this afternoon to certify, or object to, the Election results. Over 100 Members of Congress have vowed to fight for President Trump and OBJECT TO the results because they are concerned about voting irregularities and potential fraud.

The stakes have NEVER been higher, <FistName>. President Trump needs YOU to make a statement and publicly stand with him and FIGHT BACK.

Let’s get 1,000,000 signatures from Americans supporting their President and Vice President and DEMAND transparency.

Please add your name NOW to stand with President Trump and Vice President Pence against the Election results. >>

STAND WITH YOUR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT

CONFIRM YOUR INFORMATION:

<EmailAddress>
ADD YOUR NAME NOW >>

President Trump and Vice President Pence are really counting on your support right now, <FistName>.

We’re sending them a list of EVERY Patriot who steps up today. Make sure they see your name.

Please add your name IMMEDIATELY to publicly stand with President Trump and Vice President Pence.

Thank you,

Team Trump
I'm sorry what?
I got flagged when my post was literally only this one line:

"Are MAGA-shouting or the anti-Obama rumors illegal? How about the countless anti-Trump rumors, including the ones involving his children?"

Either both are illegal or neither is. If anything, the many of the anti-Trump rumors have reached a point that the anti-Obama have never had.

I remember back when the Internet was the place to be open minded and avoid the real world biased or ill-informed discussions. Now its the total opposite.
Computer scientists: We wouldn't be able to control super intelligent machines
Typically I have a little to-do list on paper where I write down what needs to be done to implement a certain feature. I stike out the things I have completed and add new items on the go. Sometimes the to-do list is ordered (eg. when implementing a step-by-step algorithm); most of the time it is just a few unordered items. When I stop in the middle of such an item, I typically use the same technique as you: I add an invalid line of code, probably with a small note in the source code.
None of which meet that bar.
There were geostatistical methods that made certain assumptions about routing, network propagation speeds, etc. and with a large enough targeted sample using places with known geolocations, you could narrow down to a somewhere around 50 miles (this was many years ago). I imagine techniques have improved since then (as have counter measures to add noise to the data).

If you know the general area you can probably use public satellite imagery to narrow it down a bit. I suspect there some other clever information you could use to find the locations if you really wanted to.

Even with all the information I'm not sure how feasible it is for any small group to orchestrate a real disruption given how distributed data AWS centers are. Lots of failovers exist and probably a lot people outside AWS know little about.
I thought Mandalorian was the definition of low quality fluff personally. Only saw season 1. Weakly designed fight scenes, several filler episodes with pretty poor plots (most egregiously the prison one), and my personal least favorite, the super ai droid that 360 no scopes everybody, dual wielding pistols. I've asked a few times why people thought it was good and most often the answer is Baby Yoda (on HN).

shrug. ymmv
I’m being sarcastic
Imagine only being able to

- email to the same email provider

- phone only to the same telco provider

- access a website through a dedicated browser

- ...

Still don't understand and bother?
I leave the IDE, terminal and browser window open and send my laptop into hibernate.
When I start it up again this context usually is sufficient to pick up where I left.
I had this exact conversation with some friends yesterday, and here was my response to them edited for clarity:

And the difference between Parler and Signal is that Parler is a social media platform, Signal is a messaging platform. It's the difference of having a group of terrorists[0] in your restaurant everyday audibly planning a terrorist attack versus being the site of a message drop that occurs discreetly. Accessory charges are likely in the former unlikely in the latter.[1]

[0]Replace terrorists with criminals or whatever is palatable to you, it was the example we were using at the time.

[1]Standard disclosure I am not a lawyer/prosecutor/etc.
Hope they get on to their own gear sooner rather than later. Any exorbitant cloud costs they can avoid are funds that can go into development, and I'd rather what I'm donating goes to said devs and not AWS (not that there's anything wrong with AWS per se, but donations are harder to come by then business revenue and VC funding).

Would really appreciate if Signal would give rough estimates of their infra needs (average and peak bandwidth, storage, compute, etc).
I like Thunar's method, giving a big yellow warning on the top of the window but not inhibiting the user outside of that.
Beyond those institutions that have a financial interest in this. What would be the motivation for someone like twitter to ban scihub?
Finally some fresh air in this censorship atmosphere.
No doubt, but it's probably emotionally easier to work with that knowledge and attempt at foresight in the abstract, than how it would feel to receive a letter from your employer saying something akin to "brace yourselves".
Ransomware: User encrypts its own files? (AV bypass)
What is hypocritical about AWS's decision to terminate Parler?

AWS doesn't make any claims to providing universal service and like most (if not all) service providers they can terminate service for a variety of reasons.

I have no inside information but it was probably a combination of some of the following factors.

1. Compliance with the AWS acceptable usage policy. AWS says that Parler didn't comply with the AUP. All the facts won't come out unless this lawsuit goes to trial and that seems unlikely. Parler's CEO doesn't seem to think moderation is important so it's easy to believe that they didn't put a lot of effort in it. It's also possible that they can't afford to comply with the AUP but that isn't Amazon's problem.

2. Cancel culture. It was only a matter of time before AWS started getting bad PR for having Parler as a client. Petitions for dropping them were already circulating internally and externally. It's easy to say that you shouldn't drop clients in response to pressure but there is a point at which doing so is a rational decision.

3. Liability. Parler was allegedly used for planning illegal activities. If another significant attack occurs then a class-action lawsuit will pursue both Parler and AWS for contributing to the attack - this happened with the September 11th attack. The costs of defending or settling this lawsuit could easily run into the millions.
Here's also another article about it:

https://www.drillednews.com/post/autodesk-climate-corporate-...
... Thereby ensuring that the project will fail in the long run, but the move will save their corporate seats in the short run. Typical.