skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience:

- no service/troubleshooting manual/videos available online

- no way to identify what replacement part to buy unless you're in the know already

- getting access to locking mechanism looked like it would lead to washing machine completely falling apart structurally (there was a somewhat hidden "safety" screw that looked like a last defense against people removing the front panel just by removing the apparent screws and hurting themselves)

So I bailed on this without a proper guide on safe disassembly procedure.

Thankfully wiggling the connector to the locking switch made the lock and thus the washing machine work again, after a first failure since 15 years ago or whatever. It looked just fine inside (surprisingly). Vibrations probably don't allow much dirt to accumulate. No obvious rusting/leakage. I was surprised.
Author states they did that, but that it wouldn't allow them to create a new user account after installation. Theres probably some PEBCAK going on there - doesnt seem like they have much experience with macs.

As for restoring via configurator - you need a second mac for that.
Traveling wave reactors, I believe, using thorium, natural uranium (rather than enriched) or spent fuel rods from light water reactors.
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It's also a pretty good argument against anonymity being the cause of toxicity, considering these chucklefucks were literally uploading their legal identity so they could then shitpost about genocide.

Actually why the flying fuck would someone think it is a good idea to plan an insurrection on this site in the first place?? It's like opposite day opsec
They're using this bad faith / fallacious argument all over the thread, so, at the least, it isn't personal.
Thank you-- I came here to post exactly this. Very easy to get something skewing by a second if, say, the key generation takes a second.
> conflating reasonable discourse...

This is precisely my point! Who gets to decide what's reasonable discourse?

I personally don't think the whole rank and file of establishment press jumping over each other to get in line behind the US state and starting two truly godawful wars is reasonable.

If I was in charge of distributing news to people in the early 2000s, I'd have simply disallowed all of it and made sure people only heard opinions about how the USA is the world's leading terror state. How would you like it if I did that? Luckily, you'll never have to find out because I don't have the power Amazon et al now have.

> Just don't cry when big American business wants nothing to do you with.

This is a deflection. I hate these idiots. Most reasonable people do. They're dangerous (not as dangerous as the US military, but I still wouldn't cross them). My objection is to the structural/cultural development of a tiny handful of companies amassing for themselves a huge cultural and epistemological power. They're increasingly able to shape reality in ways 20th century culture industry couldn't even dream of.

Cheer it on at your own risk!
"What if a conservative starts a tech company"

huge if true
Cadmium is not used by Si cells, which comprise 95% of the market. Lead has been used in back contact sheets but is being phased out. Heavy metals are not necessary for solar.
saw a picture of Peloi's house with the address attached.

It's sad how publishing the address of a politician has become akin to a threat.

When I was a journalist, all politicians had their addresses and phone numbers right in the phone book. We looked them up all the time. Voters were expected to be able to know exactly where their elected officials lived. It was also one way of verifying that they actually lived within their district.

But because basic knowledge has become weaponized and abused by nutjobs, the general public now feels this is a threat. How much society has changed in a very short time.
Simply burning it is an option.

(Though I must say, I don't care for this entire line of thinking - it just gives spamming advantages to the wealthy, which is exactly the reason for crafting an alternative to facebook in the first place.)
And what about trafficking 100kg of heroin? Everyone likes to pick the seemingly trivial examples to justify liberal values on jailing (“what if the 3rd strike is stealing a loaf of bread!”) but the reality is there are a broad range of crimes by a broad range of people. That’s why we have judges and give them latitude.
Miele appliances (for example) still last decades and all efforts are made by the manufacturer to find you spare parts if you need. But they cost 3-4x more than a budget appliance.

That's a key aspect of the market here: People tend to compare on purchase price. If manufacturers have to compete on price, of course something has to give in order to make cheaper appliances...

The market tends to give consumers what they want.

It's not all bad, though, because this also puts pressure on manufacturers to optimise, including by using less material. Appliances tend not to be that bad either unless perhaps if you buy really cheap cr*p.
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Louis Rossmann's youtube channel is a great source of information on this topic.
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Where does this leave someone like me, politically?

I am essentially a moderate libertarian, but the LP is a party of idealists afraid to actually implement their ideas, out of fear that the real world might tarnish their purity.

Republicans are essentially broken. Trump took over completely, got rid of everyone else, and then now he's gone. Not sure what's left, but at this point it doesn't seem promising.

Democrats seem OK on paper, but (feel free to disagree with the following) seems to be getting taken over by people who don't actually like the country, its culture, and frankly a large number of its people. Many of the policies being proposed seem more likely to go the way of Venezuela than Denmark. I am not saying most Democrats are this way, but the powerful ones in the party seem to be. EDIT: let me add that I don't feel welcome in the Democratic party unless I toe the far-left line on every issue. If I out myself as a libertarian, I feel like I'd be pushed away from polite society as fast as Alex Jones.

And I don't feel this type of discussion can really happen many places (aside from HN maybe) because the left is completely in control of all media now, and all education.
I think you are allowed to have empathy for both.
I think about him from time to time and it still makes me incredibly sad.
Hmm,

in Germany, the Telco's gave up locking the phones in 2017. Because it was to expensive. I can not remember if it was a hard lock - as in any other sim card is blocked or just their additions to the OS. bought a phone in 2017/early 2018 - Xperia 10, where on the boot screen a Deutsche Telekom logo appears but otherwise the OS unaffected by vendor edits/additions. But updates are really slow since they go through Telekom instead of directly from sony which is already slow.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean that to be an exhaustive list of how to be a good parent. It was meant to be an example of specific and measurable sub goal on the path to what someone feels leads to being a good father.

It's off topic, but you seem to have some insight into this. What steps would you take to achieve a goal like that?
This myth that Parler doesn't moderate is simply not true. All screenshotted accounts I could find on Buzzfeed - such as ones from @QanonLV were banned from there before it was taken down.
If you think every person on Parler is a bad person, you're mentally deranged, period.
It's not just tech companies which are cancelling. By Parler's own admission from their CEO, banks and payment providers, logistics, and law firms are cancelling on Parler. And friends and acquaintances too, I imagine.
> discussing them from any angle that isn't the accepted progressive orthodoxy results in the ban hammer

What are some examples of this?
> This is incomplete. TLS does allow for ciphers that enable

> Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) to prevent this.

Sure, it was simplified. I can't remember exactly what the support was like for PFS? And given it probably requires additional exchange for DH, I imagine it would be disabled due to resources reasons.
As expected, it's BS: https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348666166978424832

Seems jason scott's archive team, using existing tooling they built for scraping, scraped parler before it went down.
i like how there's two narratives here.

like i get it, personal information shouldn't be leaked and i feel bad for those users who weren't a part of the extremism and getting potentially doxxed for it.

at the same time anytime this happens to a larger corporation don't we absolutely SHIT on them for the substandard security procedures? and whatever happened w/ parler is looking more and more amateur hour here, nothing sophisticated to get the data.

just because it's some "underdog" suddenly it's okay?
Ramification is Parler is going to be first company to see how effective CCPA is in punishing companies that have inadequate security.
A lot of people love GNOME, so I'm speaking from a place of personal opinion and not as objective fact: I loathe GNOME and only used KDE on my Linux desktops because GNOME seemed to have a motto of "there's only one way to do it, and it's going to be awful". KDE isn't perfect, either, but GNOME was a death by a thousand cuts.
Libjpeg-Turbo is intended for general use for compression and decompression and from the list of users [1] is far more often used for decompression. Your mentioned projects are only for JPEG (re)compression, which is something else entirely.

[1] https://libjpeg-turbo.org/About/Software
I doubt any of the StopTheSteal group has read Kropotkin or spouts on about mutual aid. Interesting characterization there...
Yes long term it's no biggie, the thing is, as a newcomer, good luck sitting on big losses when you never experienced that before.
I wonder if big corporations that sign deals with AWS in the future will write this into their contracts? ("Amazon agrees that, if they want to terminate our service for any reason, they will give us 6 months' notice so we can replatform our site.")
Refusal to impose extralegal speech restrictions is treason? No, it doesn't work like that. See the Brandenburg case. You have no idea what you're talking about.
You make 4chan sounds like a utopia. Clearly you've never seen the revenge porn, gore, doxxing, etc that happens (or at least used to happen, havent been there in years) on b/.
As someone who has been on both sides, it amuses me to see programmers (many who could not be called engineers), reduce non-programming roles to sending emails and having meetings. There are absolutely some people who frustratingly cannot do any work on their own without a meeting - they are mostly good at guiding a group and making sure communication and progress is happening. However, there are SO MANY skills and functions outside of programming that go into building the right thing the right way at the right time. Costco doesn't beat Sams with more engineering, they did it with strategy.
Those geographically distributed SSL-terminating load balancers could still conduct such an attack, SSL or not.
Is that not just a blog?
> If there's no way to turn a profit then why would someone pay for it to be setup?

I hear your argument. No VC-funded start-up is likely to make moves in this space. But your question ignores a whole sector of the economy: non-profits. I believe there even have been some non-profit social network attempts (perhaps even still active), though I can't recall their names.
I doubt this. I'm on Parler and frequently see posts (I presume from left leaning folks) trashing the right side (e.g., Trump). Those posts are allowed with no issues. It is true that most opinions are right leaning (some viciously so), but that IMO reflects more on the members than on the moderation policy. Discussions on Twitter have a similar mix (left leaning to rabid Trump bashing), and I honestly don't find any difference in the fervor, except that Parler is right leaning and Twitter is left leaning.

The general tendency these days, fed by narratives from interested parties like the media, is to mash all right leaners (pretty much any one supporting the conservative ideas and opposing the Democrats) as clueless, racist, redneck, neo-Nazis (a bit of hyperbole here, but you see what I mean). Once you think that way (that "they're all nub jobs"), pretty much anything from leaking their user info to shutting them down to throwing them in jail would seem OK. Please, please don't fall into the trap and accept the "all right is nuts" narrative and decide for yourself.
I've been looking at this situation in practical terms. There are all sorts of ways to communicate online even when big tech does not want you to. The problem is that these solutions do not scale. Big Tech alternatives are also notoriously obscure and/or hard to use for the average person.

Additionally, running any service in the modern day involves dozens of third party companies. Even if you solve the technology problem there is nothing stopping the bank from closing your account. What about your accounting firm, choice of payroll software, or even the landlord? All of these links in the chain are easily intimidated into cutting you off. What happens if someone sues you? We've already seen legal firms refuse to represent Parler.

I really don't see a way out of this situation, to be honest.
Driving someone to suicide because they acted against entrenched copyright interests was one of the most DoJ moments ever.
There are countries without for-profit prisons where people are locked up for non-violent drug offences.

To me, it seems important for the severity of punishment to reflect the severity of the crime (where severity is some function of outcome & intent). Clearly locking people up for smoking pot or snorting coke is pointless. Locking people up for victimless crimes in general seems strange.

I think the idea is for these punishments to serve as course-correcting examples for the rest of society. But I'm having a hard time imaging a society that defines its mores based on how much jail time a given behaviour might incur. At least I can't imagine it being a good thing. If we want to reduce harm from drugs, we should work on reducing harm from drugs, instead of blindly banning all drugs and locking people up. But it seems that we, as a society, don't want to tackle the harder problem.
The President of the United States has the same venue for disseminating information as his predecessors: White House press conferences.

As for the five people you mentioned, the CEOs of the "big tech" firms, are not one entity- you've got to go well beyond the pale (as has happened in the past week) to get them all to agree that it is their company's best interest to deplatform you.
Well, there’s this by me:

> Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler?

No, and neither does Greenwald, because its not like Parler has a real-name-to-account lookup function he has access to, or authorities have compiled and released breakdowns of all the social media accounts of arrestees, etc.

At best, Greenwald is fallaciously treating absence of information about their Parler use as information of absence of such use, at worst he's just making stuff up.

> The planning was largely done on Facebook.

Planning, including for the violence, was done on Parler among a wide variety of different sites. Actual journalists who are interested in investigating and reporting facts, and who haven’t abandoned actual journalism for pure ideological propaganda like Greenwald, have covered this, including the content of specific posts:

https://theconversation.com/far-right-activists-on-social-me...

https://www.propublica.org/article/capitol-rioters-planned-f...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/01/07/capitol...

https://www.vox.com/recode/22221285/trump-online-capitol-rio...
It's not strange if you view it through from their point of view. Rightly or wrongly, these people just want to see much less centralized moderation. And they feel unherd and oppressed (again regardless of whether that's actually true, that's what they experience and feel).

They see things in a more absolutist free speech lens, meaning any content that is legal should be allowed. And they don't see platforms as being responsible for moderation. They view centralized moderation as inherently biased and illegitimate. If they can't or wont allow legal speech, then they think 230 should be repealed and these sites should cease to exist.

They are reacting to takedowns from social media sites, SaaS providers, IaaS providers, and financial services because they view these sites as an oligopoly acting in unison to bar them from the basic infrastructure of modern life. Imagine if typewriter companies ganged up to stop selling to right leaning newspapers and authors. Or, imagine if telegraph companies said they wouldn't transmit messages for Abraham Lincon.

On 230, they see social media sites as a monopoly due to network effects. Also/alternatively they talk about a bait-and-switch, where the social media sites held themselves out as public squares when they were small. But once they were big, they started enforcing their views.

Generally, I think people are failing to put themselves in a Trump supporter's shoes. Imagine you genuinely believed that the election was stolen. The court cases were almost all dismissed on standing and laches. From their perspective, no one will substantively address their videos, affidavits, statistical anomalies, etc.

And when they protest, people call them violent insurrectionists, despite all year BLM doing very similar things (again from their perspective).
Here's a start, almost every single field is implicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Economics, social sciences, even medicine.
> If there's no way to turn a profit then why would someone pay for it to be setup?

If it is generally useful to society but unprofitable to provide, isn’t that the category of things that the government should fund and operate like a utility?

That said, I don’t think the government should be in the business of running social networks. But at the same time I didn’t think China would get so much more right about the Internet than we have.
I believe OP is more insinuating that the combination of (ip, user identity {username, cell number, real-world identity}) is an attractive data source for such an agency.

Of course they already have all government IDs. But tying it to a username helps correlate data across other services, and additionally if the user checks from mobile phone or other device, tying it to recent IPs could also be useful. OPSec could prevent some of that, but how many users are doing that?

Just a thought. Not an endorsement.
Honestly I doubt there is. So if you co-located in a large ISP, you will still sign a contract which most of the time they put it very generic morality clause for types of content so they can pull your service at a moments notice. So even assume you had enough money to get the infrastructure you need to plug into the net, and you usually do this via co-locating and buying net access. Only way I can think of right now is you'd literally have to go the the length of setting up your own first tier ISP (like Google, Facebook etc do), which is doable but not cost effective. Cause outside of that you are either running on someones cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) or you are running under a contract of an ISP that has similar terms. Maybe I am missing another avenue, though, always possible.
Maybe we should stop idolizing free speech, and instead work towards inexpensive speech :)
> George Bush, Lindsey Graham, David Koch, Ron Paul, etc., then sure, all conservatives have been banned from Twitter!

Do I feel they are truly conservatives? Nope. Not at all. At least not in the what conservatism means.

> violence-endorsing non-American

When did I endorse violence? Are you out of your mind? I literally said that I would want to see the insurrectionists thrown behind bars for what they did. Point to the part where you found me endorsing violence or take back your words.

My take on the insurrection and what should be done to those who desecrated the US Capitol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25729582

> I should worry about BLM and the Democrats “purging” people with my beliefs is surreal

I never once mentioned BLM or Democrats purging conservatives. I accused the leftist lobby in Big Tech doing the purge because of how tied they are to their ideology. Whether BLM/Democrats had a role in it I don't know. So I won't even drag them into this. You want to extrapolate to include BLM and Democrats that is your headache not mine.

> If Bush is a liberal to you guys then I guess I’m as liberal as can be.

Bush was an opportunist. An establishment war hawk. A Conservative only by name but a Statist in every sense of the word. Bush was anything but for limited Government. These are the people you resonate with? People who bombed other countries ruthlessly based on a hunch that there are "weapons of mass destruction" (ex: Iraq and Afghanistan)? And you have the gumption to say I endorse violence? Look into a mirror and you'll see the person who endorses violence stare back at you.

And since you mentioned "Cato Institute" in one of the posts above, let me link an article that succinctly explains why Bush is not a conservative: https://www.cato.org/blog/bush-was-not-conservative
Because they want to? Sometimes that's all it takes. Besides, the proposed solution is being developed by multiple corporations who will profit precisely from not having to pay licensing anymore.
Does this also cover the repair of software bugs?
I'm in perfectly fine faith, and I'd love for you to point out the fallacies.
Don't a lot of truck drivers own their trucks?

Anyway, the human is a witness which adds problems.

He's also a potential murder victim, which drives up the potential legal consequences by a lot.

I don't have much real world experience with heist execution, so take my speculation for what it is.
I really enjoyed the writing style.
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2015/jul/31/report-find...

> In the Public Interest (ITPI), a Washington, D.C.-based research and policy group on public services, reported in September 2013 that it found so-called bed guarantees in around 65% of the more than 60 private prison contracts it analyzed, including contracts from Texas, Ohio, Colorado and Florida. The bed guarantees, or “lockup quotas,” ranged from 70% minimum occupancy in at least one California facility to 100% occupancy at three Arizona prisons. The most common bed guarantee was 90%.

> Public officials who agree to lockup quotas, according to corrections experts, become obligated – against their communities’ best interests – to keep prisons filled to ensure that taxpayer dollars aren’t being wasted.

> “It’s really shortsighted public policy to do anything that ties the hands of the state,” said Michele Deitch, a senior lecturer at the University of Texas School of Public Affairs and an expert on private prisons. “If there are these incentives to keep the private prisons full, then it is reducing the likelihood that states will adopt strategies to reduce prison costs by keeping more people out.”

Horrific is the right word.
I'm not sure "don't incite a violent mob" qualifies as a technical approach, but it seems likely to meet your requirements here.
I mean that's true I don't want people to avoid love of the craft and art of it, I just think people need to evaluate is what I'm doing useful or a fun puzzle
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