skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A difference between us and Europe is that our country was founded on maintaining a separation between the state (which runs the schools we're talking about) and religion, and Germany wasn't. The entire premise of the Constitution --- really of any constitution --- is to insulate those kinds of governing principles from public opinion.
The Dimensity 1000 does not exist and MediaTek is having trouble coming clean about it. Phones that were announced with the 1000 had to switch to the 1000L.
> you can either host the debate, or participate in it, but not both.

I think this is excessively narrow. I will admit that I wouldn't rate most journalists as among the experts in the fields that they report on, and I'm not sure they would either. But the good ones know a lot more about those fields than the average reader/listener/viewer.

If you're hosting a discussion or even just interviewing, I find it entirely legitimate to interject and say "wait, wait, you just made a claim that nobody in your field agrees with, how do you justify that?" or something equivalent.

Until very, very recently, it has been extremely hard to find US journalists that will behave this way. A few have done it with respect to election claims and COVID19 related issues. It is the exception rather than the rule.

Treating interviewees with respect does not preclude treating the audience with respect, and if the interviewee says something the interviewer knows to be nonsense, or at least questionable, it is out of respect for the audience that they should "participate".
> The game analysis feature is really good (I guess you can just run that client-side in theory? I don't know)

Indeed, this is how Lichess (optionally) does it (for free).
Not have VoIP or gaming get disrupted whenever a large upload runs.

On my previous ISP latency would reach 2000+ ms when I let Dropbox sync or downloaded a huge file. Even web browsing would time out. I used Tomato to prioritize DNS, my VoIP analog telephone adapter, the first 256KB of any HTTP(S) connection, and some 27000+ ports used by games.

My current WAN connection reaches 300 ms without fq_codel enabled. With it enabled there's no jump in latency.
If it wasn't Twitter, YouTube or Facebook, it would have been something else. MySpace could have very easily turned into the same thing. The 2000s and 2010s were a massive worldwide experiment of what happens when you give easy access to amplify voices to everyone.

Unless there's a wholesale rejection of the internet, I just don't think you'll get your wish. Turns out it's a hard problem trying to stop people who want to make a lot of money manufacturing conspiracies to drive clicks.
The "media" isn't a monolith. There were media outlets that did call rioters during BLM protests "terrorists" - and worse.

These same sections of the media called kneeling during the national anthem an insult to the flag and the country. Rather than a peaceful expression of free speech. Why the inconsistency?
Nice writeup. In case anyone wants to play around locally, the data used is present in the interactive editor linked in the article. You can just create the server_log_summary table as per the create table statement in the article and insert the data into a local PostgreSQL instance.
It's really a problem that many ISPs are lagging with transition to IPv6 still.
The sibling comments already stated this well, but yes you're correct that I didn't directly address the censorship angle. However I believe that becomes moot in the system originally designed by the framers.

As per Hamilton and Madison in my first link above, the original intention was to have members of the electoral college be unbiased, well-respected, well-educated citizens who each independently voted for whichever candidate they thought would be the best president. Only the members of the electoral college directly voted for a specific presidential candidate. On a local level, the presidential election consists of electing members of the electoral college, who each were not originally envisioned to be pledged to one specific presidential candidate.

This system quickly proved to be overly idealistic, with respect to the fast rise of political parties in the US. Anyway, my original point was simply that an under-informed voting public was always a major concern in American democracy, rather than a new or modern concern.
The context here is that there are already speculations and some indirect evidence about High-Frequency Traders on the High Frequency band for years (e.g. see [0] from 2018), which made it a naturally candidate. I'm not saying that it's proved, but a candidate worth investigating.

[0] Shortwave Trading | Part I | The West Chicago Tower Mystery

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/shortwave-tr...

[1] SHORTWAVE TRADING | PART II | FAQ AND OTHER CHICAGO AREA SITES

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2018/06/07/shortwave-tr...

[2] Shortwave Trading | Part III | Fourth Chicago Site, East Coast, Patent, Regulation, and Farmer Kevin Mystery

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2018/07/13/shortwave-tr...
The article references sites with healthcare information, military records, and more. The author states "Focus on availability, correctness, performance, and functionality, in that order... it might be tempting to fix the bug, but your only job in that moment is to put the site back in service".

It turns out some bugs can be security holes, or cost large amounts of money, or corrupt data, or trigger extreme exposures. So it's smart to understand a bug's risk, then choose what to prioritize-- because you may need correctness first, then functionality, then performance, and only then availability.

To get ready for launch, do your own work to prioritize your system quality attributes a.k.a. cross-functional aspects, non-functional requirements, quality of service specifications:
https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/system_quality_attrib...
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>because everyone is biased against him

What? Maybe it is because Trump is lying, and everyone around him see it.

>This is dangerous, and for any healing to happen I think that all Trumps evidence needs to be brought forward and investigated.

Healing also requires payment for actions and atonement.

What is dangerous is continuing to pander to the whims of a madman who ignores evidence, court cases, the law, and the Constitution, then riles people into attacking the peaceful transfer of power.

Everyone else is finally sick of this nonsense - because it's not reality, not according to law, and he had plenty of cases to present evidence, but he had none.

Trump had zero evidence. He knew it, which is why he didn't spend the $200M he raised from his followers on professional election lawyers like both Bush and Gore did in 2000. They knew there was a legitimate case, so they hired proper lawyers.

Trump merely kept the money (as it was stated in the fine print of his appeals), ripping off his base again.

I get the impression you don't want to consider that Trump is simply wrong and lying to raise money for himself, but that is what the evidence shows.
Yes, and it was off by default, because it had even bigger problems than PA.
Not to be tHaT gUy, but Christians aren't supposed to hate the sin in others. It's not our business, but God's.

>Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+6%3A37-42

Edited to add: I don't think there should be a religious exemption to hate speech.
You appear to no longer be claiming that blasphemy laws were a direct contributor to the holocaust.

Yes, widespread antisemitism was a contributor to the holocaust, but that wasn't primarily or even really particularly due to blasphemy laws. Taking anti-Semitism in pre WWII Europe and blaming it, in any significant part, on a lack of free speech, is not something that has any mainstream historic support. It's weird historical revisionism that's honestly a bit uncomfortable. (for example, Germany blasphemy laws pre-WWII, as written, actually protected Judaism)
Academically uneducated, yes. Intimately familiar with deadly and disfiguring pathogens, yes.

Younger generations in developed countries today are wholly unfamiliar with how destructive an unrestrained pathogen can be.
> One of things that has really helped our DB scale is the fact that we’ve moved a lot of sorting, merging, filtering from the DB into the code itself.

This goes against everything I have learned until now. Maybe an experienced DBA can explain when moving stuff out of the database is helpful? I mean sorting, merging and filtering is the core discipline of a RDBMS and many, many man hours went into it. How and when can a custom version be better?
https://capitolweekly.net/black-panthers-armed-capitol/

It's happened many times. More recently, in 1983 someone set off a bomb outside senate chambers to try and kill senators. IIRC Bill Clinton pardoned them.
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One of the reason Uniquiti is so loved by techies is that you can recommend it to family/friends or set it and forget it for them (regular users also find the phone apps impressive and easy to use - it's an Apple like experience for network gear).

At this point there are probably 20+ home Unifi networks that i'm responsible for recommending or setting up, doing the same with MikroTik might turn me into a full time sysadmin :)
Sounds like you might be interested in the IndieWeb project: https://indieweb.org/
Coming up next: "Timothy McVeigh vs. Clinton, where we consider both sides or the issue".

Would be ridiculous and offensive, no?

It's really not all that different...
ARRL mentioned this stuff in June 2018, then crickets.

The second link on ka7oei's page, a 2018 discussion among hams, names a few of the perps' ID's. It said 'WJ2XGD' was the only one licensed on 20m.[0] Quote: 'Emission bandwidth shall not extend beyond the bandlimits' = 14-14.99.

They're -not- required to ID themselves [Section 5.115] (an eyebrow-raiser).[1]

[0] https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=204018&x=. [License to M-Wave Networks LLC, Illinois]

[1] https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/ham-radio-mentioned...

This long, archived page about HFT tech briefly considers the HF option considerations (search for 'HAM radio')

[2] [https://web.archive.org/web/20171012010437/https://meanderfu...]
I just want to say thank you, this was a very concise explanation of a very complex concept.

I've been working with NATs for years and your comment helped me "click" and understand them at a different level.
Could you clarify a bit more on these proposals?

> * Break them up...
How do you ensure that all companies in a vertical will remain small? What would the legislation look like? The internet certainly enables more 'winner takes all' type markets, so not sure how you consistently keep social networks small when everyone will naturally gravitate to those that have the best UX + network effects (there are surely other variables, just listing 2 as an example)

> * Remove safe harbor provisions...
What does this mean? How are algorithmic content feeds currently treated relative to non-algorithmic content feeds? How would you target the legislation to not have externalities?

> * Pass a transaction tax
Never heard of this, what does this mean? Who is getting taxed? Advertisers? Publishers? Website visitors? How will your proposal change incentives? What's your take on how smaller news sites are dependent on the ad model and that ad models promote websites that are open to more people (as opposed to subscription businesses which incentivize optimizing for your paying customers and giving them exactly what they want)
I don't get how they would draw _so _damn _much attention to a broken game. The marketing team should have talked with development every once in a while...

Look at me! Look at me, I got these awesome new pants and I also shat in them.
Some NAT implementations ignore TCP keepalives. Alcatel branded ADSL modem/router I had used in 2005-ish certainly did and IIRC some more recent Zyxel ones do the same.
Wrong.

The fascists were strong feminists, they supported women suffrage long before it was legal in the USA.

They also supported progressive tax system, minimum wages and strong labor laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Manifesto
Obviously you can't post like this or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25710342 to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do this.

I'm not going to ban you right now, because although you've broken the site guidelines in the past, it looks like you've mostly posted good comments. But if you don't start following them, we'll have to ban you next time. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site to heart, we'd be grateful.
I think you’re probably right about the intention of the original comment, but that doesn’t change the fact that it puts the responsibility on the user to change their habits to avoid toxic content, instead of on the platform.

These platforms use our conscious actions (what we like, who we follow) and our subconscious actions (how long we linger on particular posts, what kinds of posts keep us on the site longer than others) and produce something that is often toxic. You’re right that if you’re hyper conscious of your own interactions you can curate a peaceful feed, but idle browsing for anyone even slightly political is going to lead you down a rabbit hole.

That’s something the platform can change, and imo is something the platform is responsible for, since they’re the ones who made the ML algorithm that’s amplifying toxic content.
this is a 2012 post and a whole lot of science has been developed since. See more with Microsoft [1], NCSU [2], Stanford [3] and others

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dna-storage...
[2] https://www.cbe.ncsu.edu/blog/2020/11/08/a-new-approach-to-d...
[3] https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13595440
That's exactly what makes it a great example. If we accept the premise that /r/jailbait was not illegal (but "merely" reprehensible), then under this new law, Reddit would have been breaking the law when they decided to ban the subreddit.
Europe is guaranteeing products are more expensive and further out of reach for the poor.
Mikrotik phones home too
They also offer server-side rendering as well (provided by volunteers through fishnet): https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet
Citing censorship concerns Idaho internet company blocks Facebook, Twitter
It does not have to be long time its up more than 5 folds in the last few months.
From Wikipedia

> Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity. It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate".

One post is not it.
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You present an opinion piece from Matt Taibbi on substack (where anyone can publish anything) as evidence of what mainstream news was writing?

You might as well cite any fringe blogger. Your proof is like some idiot writing Trump is an Alien Unicorn on a personal wordpress site then claiming mainstream news was calling Trump an Alien Unicorn.

No wonder you're convinced of wild things.

I'm done with this level of dishonesty.
Sadly the unixsux site lost its luster when Netscape disabled the <BLINK>_</BLINK> cursor.

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/login.html

Here's my not-so-subtle Solaris joke about how AT&T was ruining Unix:

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/panic.html
I wonder if this is the way bitcoin whales operate, except I doubt that option dealers need to buy the underlying currency.
Do you have any evidence that they are "getting together" or is that just speculation?
Because all the billionaires aren't on the same team.
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> You're way off the mark with your examples. More appropriate ones would be military weapons, multi-level marketing, payday loan firms with ridiculous interest rates, scummy advertisement firms.

Agreed. Modern economics encourages waste, such as multi-level marketing, payday loans, advertising, etc.

Hell, I'm sure most people's jobs here, indeed, most jobs would fall under David Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs".

> You might not remember that in the Middle-Ages a large portion of intellectuals were spending most of their time debating religion such as is God really omnipotent and what a specific verse in Bible meant.
>
> Now sure you can argue that they were doing only what the society and themselves considered valuable. But one can only wonder if those smart people had been putting their best effort into other things, say developing agriculture or better industrial processes.

... I cannot agree. A few years ago I picked up Anthony Kenny's "A Brief History of Western Philosophy", and "A New History of Western Philosophy". What these "useless" debates about knowledge got us were considerable changes in morality, metaphysics, and helped us create things that were useful in the long run. Indeed, the only reason formal 'science' is around is because of those changes in thought and reasoning.

Bertrand Russell has another sort of argument in the same direction, that I quite like. You can find it here: https://books.google.no/books?id=CnlbMP_vBmgC&pg=PA16&dq=use...

> I myself did a little day-trading at one period in my life and while I made money, I thought it was the most useless thing I could spend my life in.

Agreed.
The HN story is a link to the Ubiquiti email sent via MailChimp. You may not be on their mailing list, but Ubiquiti is actively letting people know. I got the email at 2:31pm PST.
I think they meant they were using scp to transfer files from the remote computer to the local one.
I’ve broken far far more phones than I’ve had to replace because they became obsolete. If we came anywhere close to most phones lasting until they are outmoded we’d be doing good.
> Unfortunately, backreferences, lookahead and lookbehind cannot be supported without major changes that alter asymptotic worst-case complexity.

I live and die by regexes, and regexes without backreferences and lookahead would be pretty useless to me.

I guess such regexes are useful for _something_, but I am not sure what it would be.
Even I hated those things in my messenger app.

Until this happened https://instantview.telegram.org/

Instant View is so fast (and private) i'm never reading articles any other way.
By default `<prefix> t` shows a clock in the current pane, really handsome looking and it scales nicely as the pane changes shape.
HN is really well moderated IMO and I think you are right in giving credit for its success to this superb moderation.

However I think you are wrong in assuming HN has remained non-political. There is a lot of politics going on in most threads. While blatant partisan shoutouts are usually not voted to the top and remain at low impact. Participants regularly engage in heavy political discourse. This includes responsibility to security breaches, workers rights (especially those of tech workers; e.g. should remote working be encourage; is flexible vacation policy good actually), taxation policy (especially those around start-ups), housing policy, transportation policy, justification of international sanctions and their effects, etc.
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I meant something else. When groups are not in their own respective bubbles, indeed, non-extremists might be exposed to extremists' propaganda and potentially can adopt such ideas, and as a result, increase the amount of overall extremism.

On the other hand, similarly, an extremist exposed to non-extremists' propaganda potentially may be affected by it as well, decreasing the amount of overall extremism.

Or perhaps the total amount of extremism stays the same and instead it is spread out over large number of people, removing "spikes".

I do not know if it is true. But just an idea to consider - the discussed process of de-platforming removes _two-way_ communication method.
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To everyone who suggested aws.
> broken far far more phones

Maybe just be more careful? 'Take reasonable care of your things' should possibly come between reduce, and reuse-recycle.
> It would be feasible to reduce hours of work and release workers for the pleasurable activities of free time with families and communities, but business did not support such a trajectory.

This may be an explanation for the failure of John Maynard Keynes' prediction in 1930 that the working week might drop to 15 hours a week, with people choose more leisure as their basic material needs were satisfied.
> Speech is not gasoline

It's a metaphor. Let me extend it a bit: Speech is the drought of repeated lies about the illegitimacy of an unwelcome outcome drying out the underbrush of widespread discontent.

Speech gathers the tinder of a crowd committed to "stop the steal".

Speech is the accelerant convincing those so predisposed that violence or the threat of violence is acceptable and even to be admired.

And speech is the match tossed offhandedly aiming the mob you primed and egged on at the target you want to intimidate (and that's the most charitable interpretation).

> you've placed the cause of this on algorithmic ranking as much as speech itself.

To be clear, I find algorithmic ranking to largely be the cause of mostly the 'widespread discontent based on repeated lies' part, although there are clearly also various 'automated radicalization' effects happening as well.

> Great, let's stop interfering with speech, it leads to bad things.

I don't think we get to unring that particular bell (especially since such ranking efforts predate both Twitter and Facebook). Applying ranking techniques to the prioritization and selection of a subset of items from a variety of sources is one of those ideas that was inevitable because it was obvious to a sufficiently large number of people, whether the result is a live feed, an automatically arranged 'front page', a playlist, or some other format. It doesn't even matter which specific techniques happened to be used, they were all going to be tried by a lot of folks until somebody got the results they wanted (more engagement / time on screen). Tech companies like Twitter and Facebook are going to continue to try to mitigate the toxic side effects on public discourse, but I don't think there is a way for them to back away from algorithmic ranking unless government regulation simply forbids it outright (which isn't too likely). For that matter, I'm not sure how useful HN itself would be if the front page wasn't being automatically ranked based on engagement+recency with editorial decisions being made to nuke certain types of posts/topics for being attractive nuisances.
> RDRAND is not the problem. [...] If this was a one-off bug in systemd, it could get a pass, but it isn't a one-off.

Fair enough.
https://archive.is/y193e
It's useful to keep in mind the "magical decentralization fallacy": the mistaken belief that decentralization on its own can address governance problems.
(more detail: https://aviv.medium.com/the-magical-decentralization-fallacy...)
Except for the indictments waiting him upon leaving office. Trump is referred to as "Individual #1" in indictments that sent people to prison, and in the Cohen case, this is clearly Trump. That phrase becomes unsealed when prosecutors unseal it, and they're most likely waiting for Trump's term to be over, making it clearer he can be Federally indicted.

Otherwise who do you think "Individual #1" is?

So when Trump is cleared by these indictments in the future I'll admit there was nothing provable in court. Until then we should wait to see what these existing charges do when they hit Federal court.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/11/20/937044524/once-out-of-office-...