skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact that they're now trying to control how people think is just an extra reason.

I thought they were controlling what people could post on the platforms whose terms require consent, not controlling the thinking of those people. Controlling how people think, now that *would* be impressive tech.
The newsletter looks suspicious but I confirmed with a Ubiquiti employee that it is legit
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So what is it you're wanting to have a "conversation" about?

Whether black people should be allowed to live? Gay people? Trans people?

Who is it you still need to have a conversation about whether they are allowed to have human rights?
I agree with this general idea, but also any bespoke service contract approved by a competent attorney will still have clauses for instant-kill under certain circumstances.

For example, no provider would provide service under a bespoke contract obligating them to knowingly host & serve illegal content (because this creates legal liability for the provider).

What is alleged about Parler would likely fit into the instant-kill provisions of even any reasonable bespoke contract.

[Edit: obviously this does not apply to providers specifically in the business of catering to high-risk customers. Stripe doesn't do gambling or porn, but other providers presumably have different pricing or risk mitigation/tolerance and therefore on can use credit cards to pay for these items.]
Keep in mind it's a synthetic sampling rate too.
The best argument against this is that it means your data will potentially end up splatted across even more more different servers controlled by various unaccountable parties.
Or all that is normal and complex human interactions of people with similar interests.
I'm calling total crap on that. At best this is civil law and contract interpretation between the two parties.

Or, should AWS be forced to host the Daily Stormer against their own freedom of association?
+ 1

ProtonMail indicated potentially entering the browser space: https://twitter.com/ProtonMail/status/1347930110553419777
Yeah, I'd say xterm is pretty freakin' awesome.

While Hackernews was busy grooming their Alacritty setup and holding drag races between it, iTerm, and whatever bloated terminal Microsoft came up with to see which could cat a huge file the fastest, I've been just using xterm. xterm -- it's the standard terminal emulator.

xterm:

* actually emulates a terminal and passes a set of compliance tests to determine how VT-compatible a terminal is (other TEs emulate xterm, poorly)

* is still compatible with bitmap fonts

* has a reputation for being slower than other TEs, but that's only because by default it doesn't cheat and commits every screen update. Other TEs, in order to increase their chances of winning the drag race, will skip updates they think you won't see. This can be enabled via a command-line option or X resource in xterm, but makes xterm less compatible.

* comes with every Linux or BSD distro and works fast on nearly any graphics adapter
I've played with Jami several times because it sounds good on paper but it just flat out failed to work a lot of the time. Messages sent but never received, no indication of why or what was going on. For my uses anyway, IM needs to be above all reliable - when I send a message I need to know the recipient will get it (and in a timely manner, modulo their availability).

Most of my network is on Telegram at my urging because it was the best option at the time, but I'm constantly looking for something better to replace it (as I'm aware of the downsides to Telegram). Currently I'm trialing Element with one of my contacts and I'd say it might be ready if I can get past the initial setup headaches, but Telegram just works so darn well and is so amazingly fast that it will be very hard to get buy-in for people to switch. Most people are overloaded with IM apps already, adding another one is tough unless it can completely replace and deprecate one they're already using. Jami definitely is not that IMO.
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It might be a matter of perspective. Poland has seen both Communism and Nazi occupation in recent history and can tell when suppression of free speech starts being harmful, on either side of the spectrum. We here in the West tend to be a bit biased.
Or they could use one of those federated/distributed system that are all over HN front page. Couldn't block that hydra
Eventually, all what media does is information routing from producer to consumer. The existing Big Tech paradigm is just one of [many][1], if you think that way.

[1]: http://doc.replicated.cc:8080/%5EWiki/owner.sm
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Those comments and posts are removed from Parler as well: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/09/politics/parler-lin-wood-...
We need a new media system
'Democracy' and 'republic' are not mutually exclusive concepts. The US has a democratic|representative|constitutional|federal republic.

It's quite disturbing to see an uptick in this claim in the recent years, as if democracy in principle is not American and ought be discarded in favor of a more illiberal system of governance.

(Also, the pledge is not law, so it's a curious reference to cite as some authority on the matter.)
What propelled such a quick and strong change ?
I know this is largely infeasible for anyone to do, but I really do hope the internet becomes more decentralized as a result of all this.
This isn't a confused deputy problem. There's simply no authentication on the endpoint. As the article says, it's Insecure Direct Object Reference.
Obviously yes. But depending on your distribution or locale settings you might have to launch the uxterm[1] wrapper instead of xterm if it doesn't work out of the box.

1.: https://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/uxterm.html
Mitigation: don't try to overthrow a democratic government. If you want to build meinspace, be prepared to secure a server in Switzerland or something.

I mean, video inciting violence in the name of the Jihad are also taken offline. This is pretty similar. The rules are fairly clear and rational and always have been, the only difference is that they are now enforced and there has been a coup attempt by white supremacists.
I re-read it twice, but I don't see anything in the blog post advocating censorship:

> 1. Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

> 2. Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.

> 3. Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

> 4. Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.

> These are actions the platforms can and should commit to today. The answer is not to do away with the internet, but to build a better one that can withstand and gird against these types of challenges. This is how we can begin to do that.

I read the blog post as claiming that deplatforming / silencing isn't the answer. A lot more (outlined above) is required.
Too bad the parent was down-voted. IANAL but I think from other reading that it is correct at least in the USA. I think if one does not read & agree, it is dishonest to say you did.
Hey all! It's Rohan from Aqua. Really excited to get some feedback on what we've been working on. Feel free to post any questions/comments/concerns. It'll go a long way towards us building a product that we hope that all of you will enjoy using in the future.
This was confirmed to be an authentic email from Ubiquiti: https://community.ui.com/questions/possibly-breach/55bc757a-...

There's currently no source on their website that contains the same or more information.
I started up the old Turf app [1] for having some goal while biking. It's a great way of finding new routes you haven't seen before. Perfect for a short lunch-ride or in the night after the kids are in bed. It's a bit low on zones in the rest of the world but the nordic countries have a lot. England recently got an upswing too so getting new zones the whole time. And if you wish for zones or leave the app running over the night, someone will notice you and add zones for you.
Ofcourse there are some crazy competing going on too [2]. I'm not quite there yet...

[1] https://turfgame.com/

[2] https://turfvasterbotten.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/eat-sleep-...
I don’t think I’ve ever met an engineer who’s a domain expert who talks like that. Unless you have actual specific information about future plans and reason to believe in them, expecting everyone to qualify their prognostication with “this generation but it might change in some hypothetical future” is just not useful. That’s generally true of all technical topics. What’s stated today can change in the future. These aren’t physical limits being discussed.

Finally, Linus’ main advice is to stop focusing on AVX and focus on architectural improvements. It took an enormous amount of engineers to implement AVX512 and then even more to get rid of the power hit. I trust Linus (and back that up with my own experience and observations in the industry) that Intel would have been far better served focusing on architectural improvements like Apple did. It’s a blind spot Intel has because they know how to bump clocks and create x86 extensions but they don’t trust architectural improvements to deliver massive gains. Hell, this isn’t the first time. Netburst (which was their attempt) screwed up so badly they had to return to the P3 architecture with the Core line. Intel has the engineers but their management structure must be so bloated an inefficient to fail with such regularity.
You should be able to identify that a nazi takeover is happening and change your moderation systems accordingly. Any product person who is claiming to own the product should have eagle eyes on how their product is working or not working.
Nah, you're just letting the definition of terrorism float all over the place, like everybody else. Terrorism is whatever you don't like. Terrorism is bad guys. This is Bush playbook stuff.
What do you dislike about C# Winforms?
I'm comparing platforms, I'd like to know what do guys dislike about C# Winforms
I was in the Phish vs. phans chess.com match on NYE. I was wondering how this is handled. Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
There's loads out there. For example on Aliexpress

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001742170443.html?spm=a2...
>on something like jitter entropy when the pool is empty and getentropy() is called

This ended up being implemented in 5.4 kernel: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Regulated utilities have their own failure modes.
https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/18/...
Not even that most of the time. People just don't really notice or care.
And you never showed me one single QAnon post on HN.
> At the top, it was CCP and Western capitalists grabbed most of the profit, but leaving the waste to be suffered by the people.

That framing seems disingenuous given that per capita income in China has increased something like 10x in the last few decades and hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty.
Not to be snarky but OpenBSD's random system has always seemed very elegant to me and seems like such a system could avoid this failure mode in systemd, video[1], slides[2].

That said it's good that the faulty RDRAND was discovered. As pointed out this isn't the first time processors (AMD particular) have had such issues. Do we need to just be skeptical of this and run RDRAND tests every time a new processor comes out? Or perhaps even each microcode update?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmLWx8ut20

[2] https://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random/index...
Signal and Telegram at least have something to do with communication, Element probably makes most people think about rocks.
> I believe that companies are largely on their own team, neither right nor left

Wat? Dude, Twitter, Reddit and Facebook's moderation policies are clearly left to far-left. They've done no blanket banning for calls to violence from the left. None of these people have had their pages, accounts or posts censored:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eQzLcO5qhY

and they clearly called for the types of violence we saw in 2017 and every year since up to and including now:

https://youtu.be/BXR3d22BhHs

edit: but yes, your point about labour is spot on. I can see that happening next for sure.
As Parler's management deplatforms dissenting voices.
Why do you think Tarrio was in DC on the 6th, then?
As I just said to my wife, you'd have a better shot with a lawsuit against the sky because you got a sunburn than you would trying to sue AWS for booting you from their servers. At least the sun never got you to agree to a draconian ToS.

I also liked their idea that AWS is trying to protect their contract with Twitter because users are leaving Twitter(hosted by AWS) for Parler (which was hosted by AWS at the time). If I have a glass of beer in my left hand and switch to my right, have I lost my glass of beer? How would that possibly benefit AWS unless somehow Parler negotiated better terms than Twitter? If anything, the opposite seems likely.
I like Gnome. I use it every day and I'm very satisfied. There might be little issues here and there, but no other DE gets out of my way and lets me do my work like Gnome.

Thanks guys and gals!
Pick a point and draw a line in the sand. Then enforce it.

So many HN replies amount to "we all agree this is a problem, but we can't fix the entire problem perfectly, and it has some hypothetical drawbacks, so we shouldn't even try."

(Never mind that as a result of inaction in the face of disinformation and hate speech our societies are rotting from the inside, and many, many real-world atrocities are being carried out as a direct result.)

This is, by the way, a fundamentally conservative viewpoint. Cf. gun violence, homelessness, living wage, etc. Just because something is a complex issue with imperfect solutions doesn't mean we have permission to do nothing.
Parler was essentially 90% MAGA shouting. There was virtually no content that was non-political and it was basically the Twitter version of the anti-Obama rumor emails my boomer dad kept forward me from 2008-2016. I had the app, checked it quite a bit while trying to understand the other side better.
At a certain level of daily MAU, (say 100k?), every single post most be manually checked before becoming available to the public. They should be checked for a) child porn b) violence c) doxxing

They are free to run algos to auto reject, sort whatever order.

This would likely be too burdensome, and the socials would almost certainly have to start charging for access, which in of itself would probably remove much of the problem.
Ergonomics. The HN crowd is really quick to forget that many users have no patience to setup several passwords and/or keys after installing an app.

You and I discussed quite a bit already and we can't agree on many things -- but I can still see where Telegram's team is coming from in their security decisions. A balance between ergonomics and security has to be struck if you want wide adoption.

We likely both abhor how quick and easy it is for many users to just say "yeah, sure, get access to my contacts so I don't have to re-add my people one by one" -- I feel that this practice is responsible for trillions of personal data points sitting out there in warehouses waiting to be used for advertising profiling, but what can we do? Seems that this is what the people want.

Having stricter -- and thus non-ergonomic in terms of UX -- security as an opt-in is apparently the best we can do in this age. By "we" I mean "all programmers and corporations".

Before you say it: I used Matrix and Riot/Elements for several months. The app itself is hopelessly behind in basically everything: it's not responsive even on a very modern Linux laptop, it often hides messages (and shows them up again a few minutes later after the app somehow force-refreshes its UI by itself), synchronization of chats when logging in from a new device was almost non-existent and took minutes to recover a channel with like 30 messages (although I heard they are working on this)... Even notifications would fire 9 out of 10 times and I had to make it a habit to check the client every 10-15 minutes or so (since it was a work chat).

Very far from convenient. Not to mention part of the time non-functional.

Telegram makes security trade-offs, I have no doubts about it. But it's a damn good app in almost all regards -- and me and many others can forgive their lack of to-the-letter end-to-end encryption implementation.

If there's an app with such a good UX and polish like Telegram that also does end-to-end encryption and doesn't drown you in GPG-like keys and passwords management minutiae, I'll gladly switch tomorrow.
domains auto-generating junk or derivative content should be detectable from both human annotation or automated means. If a site with low click through rates, traffic and extreme volumes of text appears, it's worth a re-examination by people.

In particular at search time, google has a vested interest in limiting both the number of links to a particular domain and the occurrence of content farm links when Wikipedia would suffice. Content farms are pretty detectable in any objective relevance annotation workflow.
I refuse to believe that this is all some sort of collective mental illness. That's not only unfair to people who legitimately have psychoses, but also it lets them all off the hook. They knew damned f*cking well what they were doing.
What problems in your life/surroundings are the most annoying and how could you offer a solution?
I.e. When developing digital rights (this, in any case, will have to be dealt with), we will use the analogy with leasing. So?

Then the question is: I paint pictures in a rented house. They evicted me quickly and did not have time to pick up my work. Should the owner return my paintings to me?

Returning to Trump: will his content be returned to him?
I use Signal and Matrix with different usecases, Matrix being more a replacement for IRC and Signal for communicating with friends.
I second scarmig's recommendation of Bill Bishop's blog, it's a great resource and he publishes free pieces regularly so you don't need to subscribe. Another great free resources is the sinica podcast. I also recommend following Dan Wang's blog, he works at Gavekal Dragonomics and generally writes in-depth about manufacturing and the semiconductor industry in China, but also China more broadly. His recent post at the end of the year might be a good start. 'Reading the China Dream' is another good source, mostly commenting on and making accessible Chinese intellectual debates.

https://supchina.com/series/sinica/

https://danwang.co/2020-letter/

https://www.readingthechinadream.com/
To clarify, I believe that if you don't think you can adequately moderate your service, then you should absolutely not be running it. If your venders do not think you are doing a good enough job moderating your service, then they should not be forced to do business with you.

All I am trying to say is that it is important to realize that how you moderate your service may very well be judged by your venders and you could have a bad time if they find it lacking....
I set TERM=vt102 to get rid of the garish colors. You still get the basic colors, which can be useful sometimes.
Encryption in Matrix is shit, and is making me feel foolish about inviting various friends onto Matrix.

I set up my own server using Synapse, and invited about half a dozen other IRL techie friends to join me in there to continue chatting during Covid times.

Considering we've all worked in tech for decades and run our own servers/services, none of us can really work out how the hell it's supposed to work. I mean, after lots of time consuming verifying of devices it kind of works. Except recently, all of a sudden, one of the people in our main chat room can not see the messages I sent from one of my devices. It tells him to get my keys from another session, he has only every used a single device/session. There is no UI that either of us can find to help fix it. We can chat fine in a different encrypted room, or if I use a different device.

I'm not pulling anyone else into the Matrix ecosystem until encryption stops being just so god damn awful.
It's difficult to predict how much something will cost in the future. If your example was followed then a device that lasts a year and a device that lasts 10 years would have the same added cost. This is not ideal, since it may not be obvious to consumers how long the device will last.
In your opinion how should Twitter handle neonazis and fascists? How should US society handle white supremacists?
In case anyone is wondering, an SR-71 makes slightly less thrust than two F15s (i.e. one B1) so that should help you imagine how loud an SR-71 with the throttle pinned is.
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Is this kind of submission really a good idea?

I have real concern that polling like this only succeeds at falsely distorting and amplifying the small[0] differences between people within a community. It draws battle lines and suggests that people ought to take a position now and sort themselves into buckets. It does not ask us to think beyond a straight line from yes to no, black or white, right or wrong. It does not encourage us to remember our innumerable other shared interests and values.

An observer glancing at any of the submissions about Parler’s fate in the last week will clearly see that opinion is divided. Quantifying that division, as this poll does, might satisfy some curiosity for hard numbers, but what is the cost to our sense of belonging to a community to do so? What is the cost to our ability to put our differences aside in pursuit of larger goals?

The question of what to do about the influence of social media and conglomeration of power among big tech companies is clearly a defining one for our age, but I don’t know how we’re going to get closer to a thoughtful answer with polls like these which—intentionally or not—seem to me almost purpose-built to drive ideological wedges between people and nudge them toward taking hard-line positions. In a time where the lack of nuance itself is driving so many negative outcomes, this feels dangerous.

[0] I don’t mean that this is somehow a minor or unimportant issue, but rather that people on HN are more similar, even in disagreement, than two random people on the street.
This is introduction. Impeachment itself will not occur until voted and approved.
The Foreign policy magazine did a nice series around xmass, about how much the US had corrupted the communist part.
The very reason Xi did his purging rounds to cut away the US influence from China.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/22/china-us-data-intellige...

Edit: misread your comment but the series is quiet good, not what you asked for tho from a neutral source.
I’m curious what was your estimate of the likelihood of what happened last Wednesday before it happened? Were your priors updated in any way since then?
Appears to be a hack of whatever CMS is being used; Trump is not listed anywhere else on the site or the biographies search.

Although a hack of a .gov domain is not good.
Yeah I'm bitter. I want to bring structure, tools and discipline to small scale data gathering, but the big tools are just too time-consuming to get up and keep running with just a few hours.
But, AIUI, this content has been "slipping through" their moderation for a long time (and getting worse) and they did nothing.

So, infective moderation combined with apparent indifference.