skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data

This seems like a movement that would be at odds with the interests of people who fund elections. It could easily trigger the bazillionth instance of corps and legislators uniting to squash a public interest.
It's the clear double standard that makes this concerning.
Serious question, it seems AWS is by no means a monopoly on web hosting (Google, Azure, Digital Ocean, Linode, the list goes on). It seems to be they're well within their rights as a company to not host Parler, and Parler can try to go somewhere else. If no other companies want to host Parler, isn't that more a reflection of Parler than the hosting companies? It doesn't seem like they should be obligated to host, since that's as slippery a slope as not hosting is. Perhaps this is a decision where not everyone will ever be happy, and that's just how it's going to be?
I am, starting with file system access.
I guess they're concerned on having private companies deciding what should be considered as free speech or not.

Let's see what will come from this.
>People minimizing this attack and not treating it like a legitimate 9/11 scale crisis

We're still getting groped by the TSA and wrapping up a war from the last time we had a 9/11 scale crisis. We were tricked into spending trillions of dollars and thousands of lives invading a nation that had nothing to do with it and we gave some of the less savory government agencies a lot of power which they still have not returned.

I think the public is right to be hesitant to play the knee-jerk reaction game this time around considering how well it turned out last time.
Walmart doesn't do much long haul. They do the warehouse to store, but that is a lot of local roads so the logistics of getting drivers to/from the truck on highway access is harder than just keeping a driver in the truck.

The big truck companies are interested in this. They mostly highway travel so a team of trucker drivers in each city isn't as logistically difficult. Plus they can promise their drivers home each night instead of twice a month.
Trump could have gotten away with anything. Free speech has to have limits. Free speech, but not at the cost of lives. Trump crossed a bar, his constant spread of hatred and dividing the country led to people dying. It led to his supporters walking into the capitol with IED bombs. If they found Mike Pence or Nancy pelosi, they were ready to spill blood. People died. It has been discussed in Parler, thedonald.win, in r/TheDonald subreddit.

This is the line. If they simply protested outside, it would have been fine.

Although I am not okay with total ban forever.

The courts should be the ones deciding on such matters. We ought to have a civil debate about this. Both sides feel they are right.

I also agree that Big Tech is way too powerful and Republicans strongly feel they are suppressed. That ain’t right. Big Tech needs to be held in check. They don’t enforce their policies uniformly, neither is there a due process where both sides of the argument are heard and recorded before a judgement is made. Someone wakes up and clicks a button “Ban” without much recourse for their actions.

That’s the problem. We need more objectivity and accountability in the system.
>All durable consumer goods may apply for a repair QR code.

What if the QR code is mutilated?

>At landfills, items with repair QR codes are scanned and the company is charged 50% of the cost of processing the item.

This already exists in some jurisdictions, but the fee is levied at purchase time. eg. https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/ewfaqsgen.htm

>This would encourage companies to make repair & upgrade and longetivity a priority.

not really. if you made a phone that lasts 6 years rather than 3 years, the fees manufacturers pays doesn't decrease by 50%, it remains the same. That's because at the end of the day, everything ends up in a landfill. The only benefit to the manufacturer in this case would be the time value of the deposit fee for 3 years.
> would you want to work for such a company, or have it on your resume in the future?

Does top talent only work for giant ad networks that thrive through undermining privacy (and hence, free speech) while manipulating public discourse to the point where these companies hardly have any defenders left? I suppose so, money will easily trump other considerations, especially among the naive, ignorant or just plain venal.

The sad fact is your comment exposes how difficult it is for anyone in the tech industry to hold a sincere conviction that free speech is a good thing, which until recently would've been astounding. It's a giant backwards step.
No, you can't. There are private tweets, profiles, DMs and deleted messages/posts/tweets and for sure the profile data. This isn't a scrape of the site using a regular account, this is cracking admin accounts, creating their own admin accounts and using it to scrape private accounts, DMs, user information, and deleted content.
Even if we can't agree on whether monopolies should be allowed to censor [legal] public speech, we can probably agree that decentralization and federation (like some kind of social media blockchain) is the best solution.

...because there's no way any gov't can ever determine if some company is shadow-banning and manipulating feeds of the people they don't like, and if I can even get you to admit bigger government is almost always the worst solution to any problem then I've even made progress on that front as well.
Townsend Brown. I knew a guy who spent years trying to replicate that stuff. Wonder what became of him?
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>People are forgetting that if they're ok with this sort of behavior now, it'll be difficult for them to argue-against or prevent the same behavior when their opposites are in control.

I'd argue the opposite: As the rank rhetorical hypocrisy on BLM-related protests vs. Trump protests shows, the marketplace of ideas has broken down and all that really matters is power. We're only a couple steps away from tech/media being able to dictate that we've always been at war with Eastasia, with a horde of willing partisans being eager to punish any sort of dissent on the matter. Being hypocritical is unimportant if you have the ability to mess with the lives of those who are too vocal in pointing out whatever hypocrisy. Most people are perfectly rational in not being willing to risk cancellation by speaking up.
I don't get it as well. Maybe the reset password page had a username and an e-mail and Parler stopped checking that those belonged together?
If we had a responsible administration we'd probably be seeing takedown requests from DHS over national security grounds. This isn't just a speech issue, it's safety. There's a void of government guidance on how to deal with this in a measured way, so deplatforming is the easiest and safest option. They can't force Parler to moderate their content and they can't let themselves be party to fomenting insurrection.
They were a startup at heart, and what dev with access to millions of dollars will be interested in running some enterprise VM solution over the shiny toys you get by using AWS or GCP?
A lot of schools weren’t allowing deferred enrollment for freshmen or transfers this year. If you’re part of the group that has to pay full tuition, the math gets hard but what would you do for that year? Just play video games for a year at your parents home? That’s essentially what you’d be signing up for most students. I guess you have to ask how long are you willing to put your life on hold. My partner decided to do her schooling online even though she knew it would be one of the worst things ever for her.
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oh com'n. As if twitter doesn't allow people to post stupid junk? Multiple accounts that posted "Kill all white women" "Today seems like a good day for another reminder that all republicans deserve to die" are still active along with plenty of other insane things. You can cherry pick bad stuff from any social media site.
> What one person calls arcane knowledge is another's everyday tools.

Point taken. If this had been something about Android I'd be staring at my screen drooling like a dog looking at a TV.
Lenders can and do buy this kind of data to underwrite their borrowers (credit cards, BNPL, student loans, mortgages, etc.). They don't need to get it from credit bureaus. Anyone who is underwriting off of bureau data alone is a decade (or more) behind state of the art at this point.
We need apps built on this technology. It will go a long way to making it succeed and working out the nuances. Interesting tech is interesting. Something that's generally useful or solves a normal problem... that's something people will pick up.
In some cases that can't give sufficient performance or functionality. Sideloading of native apps within a secure sandbox as on Android would be an improvement.
>It's the exact opposite of a free market. It's misuse of a common resource.

Why can't free markets result in the misuse of common resources? I feel like some are trying to square a circle here. Free markets aren't axiomatically the definition of good, and it's okay for something good to not be a result of them. There are these things known as "market failures," where unattended economic activity will lead to people's goals not being achieved. Overfishing and carbon emissions are market failures; far from being the opposite of a free market, they are well-recognized consequences.
Amazing "tutorial".

It definitely made me rethink each of interactions on my services.
In the same way that you'd be fascinated by Trump wanting to "open up those libal laws" when he himself would be severely affected (but could probably mitigate it away with enough lawyers)?

It's a special form of doublethink where aesthetics and actions can go into completely opposite directions. Many republican campaigns have made great use of this, particularly to appeal to rural america.
I bet Google just doesn't want you going to competing video sites and uploading content there instead of YouTube.
There are over 13,000 nuclear weapons ready to deploed at a moments notice in the world [1]. I agree that humans would not likely go extinct, but a full exchange of all of these weapons would probably cause a global extinction event, less extreme than the one the killed off the dinosaurs, but a very serious one that would be easily seen in the geologic record. I think that global annihilation is a good descriptor of that scenario but I could use "kill off 99.9999% of living things and cause 20-50% of species to go extinct in a few years". I have a PhD in Earth Science and have studied this issue some, but atmospheric modeling is not my specialty.

If you read my second statement, I do agree with you that great, unreasonable fear can be conditioned into people. This is what happened to the word "nuclear". The reasonable fear of nuclear weapons got put into children in the 1950's, but being children they just ended up fearing everything nuclear. And being normal humans almost all did not evaluate new evidence in adulthood and change their minds. These people are the Baby Boomers that have controlled society for a long time and have let coal plants exist for 50 years do huge environmental damage, while relatively clean nuclear power was abandoned.

P.S: The radiation from these bombs are not the problem, it is the nuclear winter that is.

[1] https://ploughshares.org/world-nuclear-stockpile-report
Yeah as a centrist, the double standards we are seeing is what concerns me the most. Instead of all violence and hatred is bad it's "well this is different because they are on our side", that's for "the right reasons", etc to read between the lines.
A reasonable comment was flagged and killed so I will repost it:

> The NYT lied to the American public to whip them up into supporting the Iraq War, which led to the deaths of millions of people (many of them innocent).

> Why won't AWS, Google, and Apple collectively ban them? Their open calls for violence were far more consequential and severe and serious than anything on Parler

The question is a good one. In the hope of avoiding a similar fate, I'll state the original implicit question explicitly: Where on earth does the authority come from, which authorizes Amazon, ostensibly a private corporation, to arbitrate ANYTHING to do with public speech? Beyond just, say, their raw power and the inability of anyone to stop them.

It's truly shocking to me that so many people are celebrating this. Not just, "Yeah, it's an overreach but these are weird times," or something like this, but just totally, brain-shut-down, unwilling to think through future implications, etc. This sets a precedent for the very, very small number owners of core tech infrastructure--not just media platforms, but physical server infrastructure!--to decide what we all get to see, and ultimately what's right and wrong (right: endless war, wrong: right-wing insurrection, however inept).

Even if you think it was a necessary move (I don't, but surely reasonable people will), if we want to be adults about politics, we have to grapple with it and take these kinds of questions very seriously, not just heap censorship on top of censorship, avoiding the question.
But for the people that did, it was absolutely a haven.
>Is there really a formal proof or Software Engineering paper that proves this?

Yes (page 7):

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.10220.pdf
I believe what you described is a job of Platform Engineer/Systems Engineer/Data lake Architect, especially JVM aspect of it.
The interesting job is in the beginning when you build the cluster initially, or do major extension, after that the ops/maintenance is usually outsourced to cheap labor offshore - so this kinda job is personally not for me.

spark has dataframe API which is similar to pandas api and can be learned in one day, especially if you know python.

same for Airflow and other frameworks, it just a fancy scheduler that anyone can pick up in a couple days.
Probably same reason everyone else uses cloud services. They're just way easier, faster and cheaper if you don't have the engineering capacity in-house. I'm sure they're pivoting to self-hosting right now, but it could easily be 2 months of frantic work to get back online with a system that can only handle a fraction of the traffic. And I'm sure they get hit with DDoS attacks 8 days a week.
Snowflake I suppose for the average ML use case. Not for your high-performance ML, but for your average data scientist, maybe?

Edit: I may be wrong[1], would be curious to know what users who've used Spark AND Snowflake would add to the conversation.

[1] https://www.snowflake.com/blog/snowflake-and-spark-part-1-wh...
Why are we always asked to care about awful people who would happily see us all dead?
Giant corporations and the media, who used to encourage BLM and Antifa riots, are now openly using their power to humiliate and destroy their business competitors and political opposition. But who cares. Let's see what's new in Netflix.
Solar is not 15% the price of nuclear. This falsehood comes up pretty often because the extreme cases of "late by half a decade" have been parroted incessantly by antinuclear folks. When one actually looks at the numbers, on average the time to build a nuclear plant is 5 years and nowhere near the cost of the late colleagues.

Nuclear plants also operate *efficiently* for decades whereas solar panels only for a few years to a decade. That means replacement has to come more often for panels. They also require more land to generate the same amount of energy (I don't know if that's taken into account in the calculations).

And of course energy has to be retrieved from other sources when solar won't operate which might be more expensive than solar.

While the price of solar is dropping of course, so is the price of nuclear as new reactors are being developed and prototyped: can't remember the name right now but one was funded by Bill Gates and is built in arrays from multiple mass producible units. That allows building smaller, localized reactors at a lower price.
That's uncalled for.
World of Warcraft also uses SRP for logging in via the game client. Or at least they did when it was originally released, I don't know if that's still the case.
> Those devices will be easier to take apart and recycle though.

That's not a given.
For things like smartphones I would much rather they enact laws to make them more recyclable than more repairable. And, let's be honest, smartphones don't require repairs often, if at all. Most common issue is probably shattered screen and that is already replaceable everywhere.

> and people aren’t really upgrading fridges or stowes because a new model is available.

Indeed, but they may replace an appliance (which already tend to be quite repairable) that is 5-10 years old and that has broken down because the cost of repairing it (parts plus labour) is in the same ball-park as the cost of a new one. Making appliances even more repairable won't change that.
How do you detect "Game Over" when simply capturing a single pixel?
I wish they guy behind this didn't have "Made Sure That DRM Was Baked Into The HTML5 Standard" on his résumé.
If you're intent on using solar anyway then I don't see how having a fallback generator would compel you to just give up on the solar. How often do you have to repair or replace panels?
A new engineer who wants to throw away everything and start from scratch. I've never heard that one before.
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Literally tens of millions of people strongly supported the attack on the Capitol. And instead of realizing that this is a bad idea, they are doubling down.
So you can name a bigger attack on the US that has happened in the last 20 years?

Far fewer lives were lost, but the impact and implications of this are on par.
It seems much safer. F-droid apps are finely curated open-source apps and anti-features are marked and easily avoidable.
> I just want a world where stuff lasting a lifetime exists.

I think this is part of the point you are trying to make, but everything requires maintenance. Not sure what model fridge you have, but a bulb replacement should be not too hard to pull off on your own.
This supports my personal observations that less masculine men are more often than not liberal. (Especially socialists: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/weak-men-more-likely-to-b...).
I've been looking into Game Boy Advance development as a way to build an indie game. There are several reasons I chose it:

* It's not extremely limited like an NES, e.g. I can imagine some of my game ideas working well on it.

* The limitations it does have restrict what I can do, helping to prevent me from scope-creeping myself out of ever releasing something.

* It's a well-known platform, with several high-quality emulators. This means that no matter how much modern hardware changes over time, it should remain playable due to the fact that emulators will be kept up to date on newer hardware.

* To your point about it not becoming obsolete in the future, it's a fixed piece of hardware. I can learn the ins and outs of that hardware, and my knowledge/tools etc. will still be useful if I want to make another game on the same platform.
I've heard about the security of a mobile banking app about eight or so years ago, when mobile banking was still very much a new thing and trust was a big issue. They too opted to write a second encryption layer on top of TLS / SSL, fearing MITM attacks. That was also when iOS didn't support SSL pinning yet.

It seemed to work for them, security researchers went to town on it and while they quickly discovered there was a second encryption layer below SSL, they were unable to determine what it was and how to crack it.

IIRC their encryption was never broken, and thanks to that track record, they slowly increased daily spend limits over the mobile app.

Long term, because they were very forward-thinking and they had competent native app developers (as opposed to the competition who struggled for years with mobile web / crossplatform tech), they increased their market share by a lot, now being the largest bank in NL; can't find historical data, but they went from 37% in 2016 to 40% in 2018.
They could just hire all of the former drivers as guards. Not just against highway robbers, but even merely Luddites, pranksters, and protestors.
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That's some seriously American optimism
I guses that works, but it only really prevents surreptitious password collection. If you're in a position to do active attacks (eg. MITM), you can just substitute their public key with your own.
IIRC the pixel is the first pixel of the time bar, and the entire screen flashes white when you lose, so I just detect that.

The code is here:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/gamelights/-/blob/master/misc/cap...
There's also the charm of programming graphics and sound chips, and having the same resources available as those from the 80s. There aren't endless computer magazines devoted to learning about programming the arduino and all the interesting tricks to get better graphics. Sure we have tutorials and all the information available on the internet, but arduino is niche, while commodore 64 was completely mainstream. You can definitely learn the same concepts on both, but I think it's subjective (depending on how someone learns) which is the better platform to learn on. In fact, I'd argue to learn on both!
All great points. Is there any research that SMART goals work or are they just a management fad / anecdotally useful?
The no-soap rule came from back when soap contained lye, which does indeed strip the seasoning from cast iron. This knowledge was passed down, and became false as soap changed formulas. Not because of "hipster culture", by which I think you mean consumerism. Try to have an open mind.
Many had images of their driver's licenses revealed also. Calling this close to lynching is definitely hyperbole, but it's also true that their identity and addresses were revealed and their lives are in eminent danger.
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Republicans have a perfectly good voice on conventional social media.

No one's censoring people on social media for quoting William F. Buckley, but for actively planning and encouraging a violent insurrection.
But why not buy a cheap motog phone and save $500 in the first place
There are many DIY charge controllers nowadays from aliexpress to commercial grade. I remember looking at them for LiFePO4 batteries but almost all of them will support Lead Acid since it's just a few more lines of code.
Isn't that basically true for any neutral store of value(Silver, Gold)?
This sounds like a reasoned moral choice for you and I applaud it. Some entrepreneurs will feel the same. And some would also be looking for providers other than AWS if they didn't hold Parler to the letter of their TOS in this case.

It is also true that AWS and all network providers exist within a societal context where the speech and actions of the participants can result in consequences. Where the line is drawn and why is a never ending tension. Very, very rarely is the extreme moral position universally true IMHO -- there is possibly content you would like kicked of AWS, and there will be poeple who can defend anything in the name of free speech. Good luck with the SAAS, and may your customers not be scoundrels!
The parent example is alluding to owning stock in the banks, not holding individual deposits at those banks.
> token becomes too powerful and can be made to call any service.

If UA token is passed as is down the chain of microservices, then every service starts to accept it. Intercepting this single token allows attacked to craws whole internal system. It wont grant access to other users data, but nevertheless it doesn't seem like a secure solution to me.

> Each sub-service can have in token what is required to access it, and that can be managed by main frontend service.

This would require UA token to contain audience claim of every single internal service, this is unlikely to pass security review.