skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC Telegram's proposed business model is aimed at businesses only (i.e. extended feature set, metrics, etc) without changes for normal users.
Not just that. They were basically counting on a farely elite electorate being established in most states. Universal Manhood Suffrage wasn't even really an issue in the American revolution the way it was in the French Rev.

Even through the progressive era when some of these things changed, parties were more powerful and they definitely filtered popular intent. And that way more than today. We didn't have small 'd' democratic presidential primaries until the 70s and this last one was the first for the Democrats.
> Neutrons can be counted like this. Photons can't.

Yes, they can. There are detectors that detect individual, free photons, just as there are detectors that detect individual, free neutrons. There are many, many experiments that have been done using them.
The ‘War on Terror’ Comes Home
What viable alternative DDoS protection platforms are available to them?
I feel to the hype. And now I hold my friends and coworkers who hyped them in much lower steem.

Bought one Access point "PRO".

It is a hacked version of openWRT. No GPL sources anywhere on their site.

Downloaded the unifi controller to run on a debian 10 image.... a closed source java app. And it requires java8 from sun. pain to install on debian but fine.

Next, it requires an old version of mongodb. Sigh. no package available for debian 10. Compile from source, this is a nightmare on itself, but done.

A bunch more /fun/ with decades old software dependencies later, i have a unifi controller running.

Now, I learn that despite them advertising (and showing screen shots) that i can setup VLANs with that product (and the product page advertise support for N vlans) i learn it is just a dumb unmanaged AP. I write that off as a $150 lesson.

The UI says that if i buy another piece of the hype puzzle it will enable the feature i bought the "pro" AP for. But at this point, i know i will also learn i will need a something-key, and then something else. ...thanks. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

I will just save the dumb unmanaged "pro" AP to use with a setup from someone else. Probably pfsense based. Heck, the time i wasted to simply satisfy the anciently deprecated dependencies for their controller, I could have send tons of patches to pfsense so the UI looked just as good as theirs :) ...which i think is their only selling point.
They were literally chanting "Where's Pelosi" and "Where's Pence". They were carrying flexicuffs. They made a beeline for the Speaker and Majority Whip's unmarked offices. They broke windows, barricades, and one of them got shot trying to enter a hallway not a minute before was filled with Congresspeople.

What in the hell do you think would have happened if they had caught up to any member of Congress? Seriously. Even if you foolishly assume the most charitable and peaceful of intentions, the size of the mob and physical violence on display going through the halls of the Capitol should make it painfully obvious that any Democratic member of Congress they happened upon would have ended up seriously injured. The mob beat a cop to death.

There's simply no way a rational person could come to the conclusion that the mob wouldn't have injured or killed Congresspeople. If you can't see the mob's intent you're either being willfully obtuse or disastrously ignorant. There's not a charitable middle ground as these people documented themselves during the riot and months leading up to it.
It also won't post an advertisement every 3rd item in your news feed...
The lies need to stop somewhere. The invation of Iraq on faulty grounds destabilized the region. The prisoners of that war escaped and formed ISIS, which turned out to be an even bigger problem.

The lies need to stop somewhere.
I was also there, and when it wasn't working at first I assumed the DB was totally overloaded. Glad you got it working in the end!
Network effect and evangelism — i.e. you.

How come the absolutely, humongously overwhelming majority of families and friend groups don't use Telegram, but WhatsApp?
These contributions aren't made on the public blockchain, so there is no way (not even for Brave) to know which site(s) you're supporting. Note also that (by default) the Brave Rewards wallet has no requirement for KYC. As such, there is no information about [you] connected to these transactions.
Verify away. But facts are nothing more than isolated points. In my reading of Greenwald, he (usually) selects the facts that push his narrative. So verifying his facts is meaningless in the context of establishing the veracity of his broader claims. You need more facts than what he presents to see the full picture. And then his narrative usually falls appart.
A large part of that is simply that smartphones entered the market very recently and started out computationally weak compared to existing computers - the first iphone was released less than 14 years ago and had a CPU running at 412MHz!

Smartphones have largely caught up to traditional computers in terms of the time it takes for upgrade-worthy advancements in hardware. I expect we'll see smartphone upgrade cycles continue to lengthen until they mirror desktop/laptop upgrade cycles.
I am aware, but my contributions don’t merit enough karma, so I wander forever.
Is there a layman version of this? Something non cryptographers can grasp?
We can theorize and rationalize all day. But I just get a feeling this is something we will look back on as a red flag that warned us of a bad outcome.
If just Apple suspended them for a clearly identified infringement of codified policy and then gave them steps to correct it, I wouldn't care nearly as much as multiple sectors of industry banning one company within hours of each other. It's the coordination that is terrifying. When a group of powerful people says, "You have to let me do crazy thing, or the boogieman wins," you must forgive me for having doubts. I have heard that too many times to count.
I can show you people on the left who got deplatformed.

What's that feminist lady who literally got banned for saying, "Men are not women."? I forget her name. I'm waiting for Joanne Rowling to get deplatformed for having the audacity to think that there's a portion of transgender men who are using certain aspects of the left's current moral panicking to infiltrate women's spaces.

How dare she have an opinion that's critical of ... shuffles cards... whatever group we feel the need to swoop in and save to assuage our guilt for being the world's most successful society!
Brave and uBlock Origin use common lists. One area where uBO goes a step further than Brave is in cosmetic filtering. That said, we're going to be pushing some updates this year which bring Brave up to speed in this category.
This article on WBUR's website hits the nail on the head:

The crux of it is that MIT refused to disavow any kind of trespassing charge.

(https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/01/15/swartz-attorney-ortiz)

For his deliberate mishandling of the Aaron Swartz case, as well as his cover-up of ballistic missile defense research misconduct at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and his personally signed thank-you note to an alleged member of organized crime like Jeffrey Epstein which was intended as a form of reputation laundering in exchange for millions of dollars in gifts that MIT received from not just Epstein directly but also from several of his billionaire friends who allegedly owed him a "favor" (some of whom now also stand accused of abusing underage girls on properties which were allegedly outfitted with surveillance cameras for blackmail purposes), perhaps it's time to revisit once again the call for Rafael Reif's resignation from his position as president of MIT:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2020/01/12/after-epstei...
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You don't know if I'm scrolling pixel by pixel. You should just not override how scroll works. It's not like it improves anything.
“you would see the army patrolling the streets and people protesting from North to South here”

I’m not downplaying the problems the US has, but I’m not sure that having the army patrolling the streets is an upgrade.
Thanks for sharing this. I’d always wondered how NAT works and this explanation worked well for me. Nice bit of investigation too!
Unrelated but when I went to university I was ssh'd into my webhost to build a website and some Ken (male version of Karen) reported me to the administration for "hacking" and I could no longer access my server without a VPN.

He kept a frown on his face and asked me what I was doing. I told him none of your fucking business and he assumed the worst.
I just rolled the metrics into Specific and it seems to work
So my Twitter was blocked for this
https://imgur.com/a/GnwRQFC

My twitter has been blocked for spreading misinformation around COVID-19. Twitter has not supplied any evidence disproving my statement.

I have only just realised that the RAC data I took my figures from was written in 2009. I will look for updated data.

Links for the statistics:
Data from ONS showing that 3.8 per 100,000 cases result in hospital admission for 15-44 year olds - https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19weeklyinsights/latesthealthindicatorsinengland18december2020#infections-hospital-admissions-and-deaths
RAC Foundation report on UK road fatalities - https://www.racfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/road-accident-casualty-comparisons-box-110511.pdf
I don't really understand how that is relevant to the OP's question about censorship. Did the framers also think that censoring the views of the POTUS would be required?

EDIT: Although going along with your point, I also remember the framers wanting the electors to be determined at the local level (district) rather than state. That would change things significantly, IMO.
I see where you are going here, but it seems to be many orders off magnitude off in time relative to HFT.
They should remove the permission request then, because it asks for it when you install from the chrome extension store. If the code is the same as the one in the repo, it shouldn't matter.
yeah, if you're using Firefox's DoH go to about:preferences and at the bottom click Settings for "Network Settings" and change the provider. When I changed it to NextDNS, the site came up
The “Arab Street” comes to America.

The term is apparently derogatory in nature, but imo it is an effective political metaphor for socio-political regimes that prominently feature bifurcated societies of ruling elite and voiceless governed masses: the palace and the street/market.

The “word on the street” has currency with the masses and nearly every utterance of the ‘palace’ is mistrusted, scrutinized, and parsed to the n-th degree to glean “the actual truth”. Conversely, the palace considers the word on the street to be irrational, volatile, and destabilizing, and dismisses it in its entirety as misunderstandings of “the common and the ignorant”.

It remains a minor puzzle as to why Soviet “misinformation” beamed via shortwave as Radio Moscow, Radio Peking, and other fellow red states were never, afaik, jammed in the West, yet in 21st century, western heads are deemed extra sensitive to bad information and need to be protected from exposure to content that poses some sort of social and moral hazard.

It is helpful to remember that the only states doing the jamming (“to stop enemy propaganda and misinformation”) were authoritarian regimes, and imho instructive to reflect on why that is the case.

Actions taken by the US info-tech cartel recently will only serve to deepen the national divide, and (per historic patterns) erode the legitimacy of establishment voices and institutions.

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I'm very interested in whether the republican party splits away from it's base - or the moderates leave altogether. One can claim that it's a small portion of the republican party which supported the insurrection - but for the last 10 years that portion has pushed the rest of the party to vote their way.
Sure, but as someone not from the US it looks like that education ain't worth much in the US as you deliberately undermine peoples ability to learn critical thinking by teaching creationism in schools.
> However I think due to the way that cross signing works they could use that device to sign new sessions anyways.

So you don't think that if I cross-sign devices A and B, and then I would cross-sign devices B and C, if I would revoke B then C would automatically become invalid as well?

Kind of similar question about "key backups" (to which keys would device C have access to?).

(I honestly did not ever look into all these details - I was hoping that this would be covered by more clever people)
The issue is that there is a clear risk to democracy and everyone is in a panic to figure out how to save the democracy - so extreme measures seem okay to people temporarily and in this instance. It’s just that the different sides have the opposite idea of what the risk is and what those measures should be... everyone on both sides is so panicked right now
How does lichess handle abandoned games? About half the time I don’t even get to claim the early win and i can see the other player is already playing another game
People mostly buy things they don't need. That's how corporate capitalism works. Most of things people buy, they drop second day and forget about it. To give a prosaic example - if people use phone for calling they don't have to buy new phone every year.

People are also conformists so they believe new is better. Most of them don't want to wait for this better to arrive, if they wait, they imagine things how this new stuff will look like and create false dreams.

They didn't invested time, they wanted to have things they imagined to be good - nobody imagine bad stuff for themselves. They lived in this imaginary world for long time and created pyramids and flying cars and as always at the end reality hit them hard. The bigger your imaginary world grow the bigger slap you get at the end - that's simply called life.

The real problem is people don't have much freedom these days besides internet and games due to how other things outside looks like. And world looks like this cause of the same people who think they live in the world they imagined not in the real world. The insanity grows bigger and bigger and sometimes blows. When it blows people are angry and fight. After that there is peace cause they go back to their imaginary world full of borders they already created.
This is why I said "de facto".

I'm not implying the US government was behind this.

I'm suggesting that the end results in US and China are similar in some ways, though implemented by different actors.
No difference? There's a huge difference between transmitting user input with and without explicit consent. Do you think there is no difference between me taking your car without asking, and you lending me your car?
The idea of applying mathematics/rationalization to storytelling is interesting, but I feel like models get bogged down eventually. There's a reason why the humanities exist as a discipline - any attempt to broadly systematize storytelling (and by extension human experience) gets bogged down in epicycles.
In the context of government, is this not the relationship that already exists between the communications teams of politicians and (good) journalists?
It depends entirely on personal preferences.

You might find it baffling because some authors were early adopters of word processors and PCs in general, but others were not and some prefer to not use computers to this day.

I don't argue that there is no use for word processors in writing, what I'm (obviously very poorly) trying to communicate is that productivity (measured by what exactly in this context?) doesn't depend on using these tools.

Quentin Tarantino once told Reuters that he prefers to use pens and a notebook (the paper kind). Similarly with Joyce Carol Oates:

> I always sketch out material “by hand.” Why is this so unusual? Every writer has written “by hand” until relatively recent times. Writing is a consequence of thinking, planning, dreaming — this is the process that results in “writing,” rather than the way in which the writing is recorded. [1]

Creativity doesn't seem to suffer when not using a PC.

Neil Gaiman shares this sentiment [2], so even quality sci-fi doesn't require much tech.

Danielle Steel managed to write 179 books without using a computer [3] - quantity isn't it either.

George Clooney apparently has his writing partner do the typing as he himself prefers to write everything out by hand as well:

> I'm probably the least computer literate writer there is... Literally when I cut and paste, I cut pages and tape them together. [4]

So the superiority of word processing software simply doesn't materialise for everyone who's in the business of writing.

Writing is, after all, first and foremost a creative process and everyone has a different approach to get the most out of their creativity. The tools used are the least important part in determining whether that productive (e.g. successful) or not.

For some (including me, most of the time) technology is a welcome helper and improvement, while others do just fine without.

[1] https://www.salon.com/2012/09/13/joyce_carol_oates_romneys_g...

[2] https://www.verbaltovisual.com/neil-gaiman-on-writing/

[3] https://www.glamour.com/story/danielle-steel-books-interview

[4] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1wdzwq/hello_reddit_ge...
And might even be the future. Do we need something as big as Facebook? Maybe social networks in the future proliferate on "topic" lines where each network is tailored to whatever topic.

I'm working on a social-ish network for TV. Is Facebook good for live discussions about TV? No. Is Reddit? No. Is Twitter, kinda but not really. That's the problem I'm trying to solve just for TV.
Can't even get a verification email sent to my address. Amazing.
Yes. Yes we are.
finally! been waiting for any UDP VPN from mikrotik since ... 2008?
All chronologies of the 2 major parties in the US are flawed because the parties spent the 20th century switching their positions. The exodus of southern racists from the Democratic party in the mid-century controls almost all the polarization in our politics. Reagan gets a lot of blame for being at the helm during the rise of the moral majority, but if you read Perlstein, the coalition Reagan was backed by has its roots in Goldwater's southern strategy.

It is no more reasonable to say that Democrats were staunch opponents of civil rights into the 1960s (Truman integrated the military!) than it is to say that Republicans were religious conservatives. Southern Democrats opposed civil rights, and Northern Republicans were New Deal economic populists.

I did the (probably pointless) exercise a few years ago of reading the GOP party platform documents from 1972 through 2012, tagging each with specific issues like "block grant benefits to states" or "oppose campaign finance restrictions". I don't believe for a moment that these documents are representative of the real party, but it's interesting that you can watch the GOP's position change so clearly over time. Into the late 1970s, the GOP was open to abortion!

The parties have held relatively coherent positions since the 1980s; I think when people talk about the roles the parties have had in US history, as opposed to specific politicians, we should probably limit ourself to the parties of Reagan and Mondale and their successors.
You have to wonder why what it shows you is toxic. My FB feed is mostly animals and math jokes, a few updates on my friends' kids plus some landscapes from my home country. This is what I want from it and nothing more.

Am I using it wrong? Are you?
I think our election system would be improved with instant-run-off voting (aka alternate vote), election holidays, and blockchain voting - with citizen blockchains.
People counting paper ballots is not bullet-proof.

Please don’t cancel my life and career for trusting the integrity of the math behind cryptographic hashing more than black box voting machines.
The question was "are we really so stupid that..." The answer, at least according to the Framers, as implied by their actions, is "yes."
Why do you need a train/test split for a z-score? It's just telling you if data is extreme beyond some threshold defined by the distribution from which it originated.
Thank you for your answers in this thread. There's a lot of misinformation about Brave on HN.
How do I get them from asking about it to doing this? "App store" seems like a dead-end answer...
> Mass communication seems to be the culprit.

I would change that to: Irresponsible use of mass communication.

The tool is no more to blame than the duffel bag in a burglary.

Mass communication is a powerful tool with many uses, both beneficial and harmful.
Let A and B ∈ Team.
After standup, ask A what B did yesterday, what is B working on today whether or not B is blocked. And viceversa.

Then wait for 30 min, do the same. Then wait 3 hours, do the same.

What will happen? they will forget about it because it is irrelevant to them.

Therefore the scrum ceremonies are just bullshit and a waste of time.

Quod erat demonstrandum. Fuck scrum.
> raised the cost of higher education to levels prohibitive for the majority of the population

Do you think there was a time when the majority of the population were college educated? Or realistically had access to college education?
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I have no real opinion on HFT, but I think its outrageous the FCC allows people to interfere with other services like this. Let them use point-to-point microwave relays or fiber cables
> Just as an example, was the 2016 election 'fair' in your eyes?

Yes, of course. I wasn't happy about it, but I was aghast that so many people voted for a con man, not convinced that it couldn't possibly be true that more people (in the right places, at least) wanted him than the second-worst political candidate I've ever seen run for President.

Also, by the time the certification comes around, the actual voters, all 538 of them, have publicly voted, so not only did I think the election was fair, but by then I knew it was 100% legal.

IMO big tech doesn't really do much censoring until pushed into a corner, now or in the past; they're more about the money than the politics. The Russians (along with a few other players, no doubt) absolutely fuck with our elections, but they do it the old fashioned way -- by spreading propaganda on social media and convincing American citizens to believe in conspiracy theories, and turn against their fellow citizens, etc.

FWIW, no Democrats stormed the Capitol in 2017. The losing candidate conceded, and relatively quickly at that. After losing by a lower margin than Trump in 2020, while beating him by millions of votes nationwide.

There isn't really a good way to spin it. Trump supporters storming the Capitol is bad, but it's actually a fairly distant second place to what the sitting President is doing.
I'm curious as to what you are doing with qos in a home setup.
how this is different from any torrent client like qbittorrent for instance