skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a horrible job it must be to work as a journalist for many of these news organizations. The pressure to please their editors and stoke their viewer base with a consistent narrative must be immense.

Surely, these journalists (pundits) must know what they are doing though. The question is why would an individual who sought to be a discoverer of truth allow themselves to end up in this situation.

Are they simply desperate to work in the news industry no matter what they have to do/say? Do they not realize that a large portion of the audience (from all political slants) is befuddled by their biased reporting?

True journalism appears relegated to freelancers sprinkled around the internet who unfortunately are not heard by the people that most need to hear them.

Yes, it isn’t going well.
Parler would have never been a business. Because, for some reason, those gatekeepers weren't entirely terrible in keeping really obvious and obnoxious assholes far away from their printing presses.

And let's be clear: nobody gets "literally destroyed", nor even figuratively, for publishing "one wrong thought". Parler had been peddling in low-effort violence-porn for the lowlifes that make up their userbase for what.. two years? That's hundreds of thousands of terrible... "thoughts". And nothing happened, until something happened, which happened to be peoples' deaths and a crisis of democracy.

For comparison: reddit got into hot water at some point, and managed to clean up their act. The porn websites are in a similar process. It's all just actions-have-consequences, really. And the public's ire is actually the more nuanced, soft approach to do it, compared to the blunt tool of criminal law.
Little Snitch is quite powerful. A more affordable, and simpler alternative to Little Snitch is Radio Silence (https://radiosilenceapp.com/) and TripMode (https://tripmode.ch/).
Will you be laughing when Big Tech don't get the payback they're hoping for and start playing against your side instead?
It doesn't matter whether they tampered with the vaccine. They destroyed trust in international vaccine Programs and the Health Workers that are administering the vaccines are facing the blowback.
Nothing is stopping anyone from starting their own webhost. Free market economy etc.
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You need to resample sound. If you play sound faster everything will sound higher like Mickey Mouse.

At 2 or 4 times the speed I think is a simple step, just omit every two or three of four samples.

Anyway, this gives different distortions. I am Deaf so I don't hear the distortions but I understand sound in a mathematical way. At a sampling rate of 44.1k the highest representable sound is about 22kHz. At 4 times the speed this is only the fourth of it, about 5500 Hz. If higher sounds aren't filtered they will wrap around and re-appear as low frequency sounds. I imagine that this sounds very weird.

And for n not being a power of two or at 8 times or more, you need to resample sound. Transform the samples into the frequency domain and back into the time domain but sped up. This is quite a mathematically heavy operation and probably there are other limits I don't know of.
couldn’t we contain it by having it on an air gapped system? Seems like a lot of work to properly implement in practice though; e.g if updates aren’t handled correctly could be another escape vector.
TOML 1.0 has been released
You can get ban over what you say in Twitter DM. Using your DM to harass someone is a bannable offence for example, and it should.

I think it is perfectly normal that community want to have a certain quality and moderate for this reason. Are we going to complain that HN ban trolls because it impede on their "free-speech" ? Or spammer ?

The case of Amazon is different though. If you have a contract with a company and the company terminate the contract with no valid reason, you should sue. It is their right to break the contract because they don't want to deal with you, but then they have to pay a fine because they were engaged in a contract with you and they broke it.
> “Free as in Freedom” has become outdated

Not sure if it's outdated, but what is clear is that the world has largely rejected it (maybe we'll come to regret it later). On the smaller end of the spectrum, the rejection of GPLv3 by most critical projects (in particular, the Linux kernel) has meant that locked down devices powered by ostensibly free software have become increasingly common. On the other end of the spectrum, the wholesale rejection of AGPL by, well, more or less everybody, has enabled the SAAS providers to "proprietarize" free software. And on top of that, we have the general shift towards more permissive licensing in the FOSS world.

Nowadays I'm more hopeful about right-to-repair and data portability style legislation as means to give individuals back some of the power over their own lives.

> The FSF thinks it’s OK to “sell” your program

I think originally it was because adding some "non-commercial only" clause would have made it difficult to cover costs of distribution. To an extent it applies even today, consider distributing free software from a (partly) ad-funded website etc. But as you say yourself, this is not per se a business model that covers the cost of developing the software, as you're giving the same distribution rights to the downstream user as the upstream developer.

Then again, the "four freedoms" always were a set of moral principles, not a business model recipe.
Well, it might be a sign seen in a restaurant in Flint, Michigan :)
> Pointing to righteousness and virtue to shutdown Parler may help some of the faithful sleep better at night,

Shutting down garbage-fires of anti-Jewish sentiment, racism and patently incorrect conspiracies isn't righteousness.

It's right.
"Include anyone but white/male/hetero/christian/upper-middle-class-or-better people in your consideration"

Jewish and female authors were absolutely commonplace before the invention of the Internet.
I have no love for big corporations, and I'm happy to finally see growing opposition to their capitalist power, but other kinds of "taboo" content, like porn, face the same hurdles and do fine. Taboo publishing has rarely been mainstream, and always held at arm's length from "civilised" business." Let's not pretend that Parler is shunned because of its users opinions on government spending; it's shunned because its violent content is so distasteful to most people that no one wants to touch it with a six foot flagpole.
There may be exclusions or other terms which override the 30-days

There are. From what I can see, section 7.2.b.ii.A via 6.1.b and 8.2.c (violation of the Acceptable Use Policy due to harmful or offensive content) or possibly even 6.1.a.i (security risk to third party) of the AWS Customer Agreement could apply.

According to the Amazon letter, over the "past several weeks", Parler was asked to remove 98 posts by AWS, which they allegedly did not do in a timely manner. Parler claims that's a misrepresentation, because they removed everything they were asked to "over the last few days".
Well, sort of. They have their idea of what they want (approximately "security for the masses"), and if your pull request doesn't go in the same general direction they don't care about it. If it does, they're positivish but they still aren't eager about fixing your code.

FWIW I've had one (very small thing) accepted and another not. That second wasn't a net positive if "security for the masses" is the only important goal.
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Death threats are punishable offenses under the law. _UNDER THE LAW_!
Amazon is _not_ the LAW. Amazon is a public company like any other. They should report these actions to the police and they will investigate and take _legal_ action!
I don't think that's a very scientific approach as a vaccine may have other effects on the symptoms.

Finding lingering bacteria would be the right call. Autopsy or biopsy. And then get better testing, less "false positive".

With no specific (set of) symptoms, symptom based evidence seems inherently weak.
> They are in America because the US government knows to leave them to it

That's great up to a point but I feel like that point is in the past. Companies need freedom to innovate but beyond that point they will use the freedom to commit abuses. Incidentally the government also represents the targets of those abuses.
I've written before that there'll be a second eugenics movement. It'll likely happen when we have more knowledge about the human genome and a very easy way to edit it.

You're also assuming because I think a thing will happen, that I want it to happen. There are lots of things that I don't want to happen, that I'm almost certain will happen.
One might also argue that since Parler hosted illegal content that it's fairly normal that companies would not want to associate with them.
I'm not suggesting they have, but it will make people in these rural communities rather paranoid or impressionable.
>Harshly but speaking honestly, this attitude is why Google is in America and not in the EU.

America certainly has a better track record launching innovative tech, that's indisputable. But I don't think the reasons can be waved away as simply "lack of regulation". There are dozens of variables: some related to the different market environment, like having to support dozens of languages to reach the whole European market vs being able to reach more than 300 million users just with english in America; some related to European bureaucracy making harder to start businesses and raise capital; some related to the culture in the US being more entrepreneurial...

In any case, American companies being better at disrupting the market doesn't really take away from the fact that it's lead to a monopolistic situation, and that said situation is having unwanted consequences.

> Google is better at ranking search results than any parliament or regulator on the planet.

The point is not that a regulator should rank results, but that there should be a set of enforced good practices regarding how the search/ranking system and the company's personal interests can interact, how should the data extracted from users be handled, etc.

In theory, if we end up deciding that social networks, messaging systems, internet search and the like have become so necessary to consider access to them a basic right, I wouldn't be opposed to developing public-funded alternatives freely available to the public.

In practice however, I fully agree that the chances of public bodies feature matching private alternatives are almost nil, and that's just one of the many points that make it unfeasible. So we have to settle for making sure that private actors play clean, and possibly funding potential alternatives to help the market be more diverse.
What about is verisign or Dohnuts or one of the other big registry "private companies" start blocking domains?

I dont think that has happened yet, but I am sure it is just a matter of time, I see no logical or legal reason they would not face the same public pressure that AWS did for hosting Parlar as an example, what is stopping Verisign from delisting Parlar.com from the global .com registar
There’s no “extra component” in the physical design. Both flip-flops are in the single 74x74 package and if you’re only using one, you have to drive the other to a known state anyway, so why not use them both anyway?
You're seriously mistaken. Good luck being a plumber in most EU countries with only commanding the English language. That may work in tech but on a construction site or any blue collar job the customer or your boss will address you in the local language not English or your native tongue and if you don't speak it then you're a huge liability for the business.

Also, all bureaucratic issues with the banks and local authorities for setting up a business if you're self employed are also not done in English but in the local language.

Try getting a blue collar job in Germany, and I don't mean a barista in a hip touristic district where all clients are foreigners. You're expected to pick up the local language yesterday.

The US having English as the default language everywhere means much less friction for everyone including foreigners be them employees or entrepreneurs.
Isn't it kind of funny how they're all worried now? It's not like the big platforms didn't ban people before Trump.

But they were small fries, who cares, right?

Wait until they hear about doctor appointment waiting times for normal people and how they can't get proper care. Now that would be a shock.
Personality changes as described don't really matter IMO, because broken. Regardless if machine or man. Does not work as intended anymore, or at all.
"Objective-C" is the name of a programming language used for Mac development, previously the primary programming language before Swift and still popular among Mac developers.

"Objective-See", the name of the maker of LuLu, is a pun on Objective-C.

"Objective Development", the name of the maker of Little Snitch, is likely also based on Objective-C.
> Country is a failed state if the policies are dictated by the terrorists that stormed the capital. Our decisions <...> should not be dictated by threats of violence.

How is this relevant in Parler's case? It is not demanding any state policy changes. It is not threatening anyone with violence. It just wants to be open for business, so that its users, including Trump supporters, could talk to each other.
at least the DC government is more than taking it seriously.

D.C. government has no authority over the D.C. National Guard units.
That was not a good time when William Randolph Hearst could help start wars. But the same thing happened in the 90s when the big networks helped start the second Gulf War with fake news about weapons of mass destruction. I, for one, am tired of being fed fake news by those in power.
Not everybody on hn is american, I thought speaking Polish would give it away.
Ask HN: Why did WhatsApp exempt Europe from it's enhanced data sharing?
As per : https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55573149
and https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/how-we-work-with-the-facebook-companies

Europe and the UK seem to be exempt from the changes. The key quote from the BBC article seem to be "Facebook says it does not use WhatsApp information for those kind of purposes (i.e. ads, --Ed.) in Europe, because of negotiations with European data protection bodies."

In practice, what does "negotiations" mean in this context ? Are Europeans clearly protected under European data protection laws (with the UK lumped only until the can be technically / legally separated once Brexit clears up) or is there a risk that these same changes will be eventually applied here too ?
Indeed. It's fairly common to mix up stateful firewalls with NAT. You can have a stateful firewall without NAT, but you can't have NAT without a firewall. It's actually the firewall that is keeping track of connections.

The big difference here, though, is carrier-grade NAT. That means the firewall is not under your control and might have a tiny state table. NAT is bad enough as it is, but CGN should never have happened. It's just depressing to think about, to be honest.

Even with IPv6 many ISPs are still doing it wrong. They'll give subscribers dynamic prefixes which means having to use unique local addresses (ULAs) in addition to their Internet routable addresses because the latter keep changing. This kind of stupidity makes people at home want to hang on to their IPv4 LANs because they seem more under their control.

If only I could get an ISP like Hurricane Electric to provide me with a DSL line at home for a reasonable price. Consumer-grade ones are all hopelessly bad.
> ...in terms of BTC and not USD (which has increased in supply > 25%) in the past year.

It's just shocking to me how people here don't understand inflation. There's such a disconnect between economics education in school and where people end up in reality.

Remember folks, supply is only half the picture. Velocity of money matters. They both matter. [1] Supply went up, velocity went down, net 2% inflation. The fed nailed their target. Once velocity goes up printing will slow, or reverse, to maintain the - wait for it - 2% target.

2%. Not 25%. I mean are you telling me you paid $4 for a loaf of bread last year and now it's 5 - and nobody noticed?

Compare the performance of both BTC and other speculative assets, and stocks, in USD. That's the only one that matters, because taxes.

> Another related one is: https://www.fiatmarketcap.com/

Holy moly is this one off base. This is not how you compare currencies. China has 4X as many people as America does. There's local and regional differences in the cost of goods in the area.

You can compare currencies in a lot of reasonable ways but this sure ain't one of them. A good way is something like the way DXY (the Dollar Index) is calculated - it's based on the relative strength of the dollar compared to a basket of other foreign currencies. But this in and of itself is also not a meaningful number in the sense that the relative strength of a currency is a knob - turn it one way, and you favor exports over imports, and the other way, imports over exports.

You can also convert to a neutral currency like USD then compare the PPP factor - which shows you how far a neutral dollar goes in one country vs another, and this varies based on market conditions, regional conditions and local conditions. In some island nations, the dollar won't go as far as goods are expensive. In Canada, it goes much longer. [2]

Currencies. Do. Not. Have. Market. Caps. Equities have market caps. You measure market caps of companies in terms of currencies. Why? Because if you have a $1B market cap in equities and you start selling, you'll be left with way less than $1B in hand - selling increases supply. If you sell $1B in currency you get exactly $1B dollars.

Comparing money supplies between different countries based on number of units issued, are you serious? It's an utterly and totally meaningless number. It means nothing.

You've given me a headache. It's not often you see stuff just so plain wrong on HN.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/velocity.asp

[2] https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/PA.NUS.PPPC.RF/r...
Do you mean selling uncovered calls? With a covered call your potential profit is capped, but you aren't exposed to the infinite risk of buying the stock (since you already own it) at a bananas price if it exceeds your strike.

Selling covered calls can be a fine substitute for limit sells if used carefully. Assuming one is comfortable selling at the strike price, the covered call trickles a little profit in the meantime.
Very nice, and fun too.
I wanted more colours, almost right away.
No orange, but a black background!!!
This is too public, FAANG should've stuck with backroom deals heh
Should you be able to litigate against being sent to Coventry? If a broad swathe of society finds you so objectionable or reputationally risky that they don't want to engage with you at all, then should there even be a recourse for that?

There is really nothing stopping a "hosting for radical and extremists" cloud service from existing. In fact, it does exist, and it's named Epik. Their dedictated hosting prices look quite high to me, but that's just the free market in action.
Indeed, figuring out exactly what is available where on Disney Plus could fill several Reddit forums...
thanks, I was looking for that kind of thread
If coup is what he really have done then he should sit on his trial, right? This is very heavy offense, judges should decide and if they rule him guilty he should go to jail. It's judges who should decide if he is guilty or not, not AWS or Twitter.

As I understand those who were involved in any crime are going to be chased and put in front of the judge.
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> as far as I can tell it hasn’t gotten new content since 2014

It sure has.
But these debates are never about facts anyway. There will never be a yes/no debate about whether or not it's raining.

There will be a debate about whether climate change is going to cause huge problems and therefore mitigation measures are needed - some of which may lead to higher taxes. For some people.

Objectively the answer to the first part of that question is "yes". At this point there is no plausible argument to be made for any other position. Denying it makes as much sense as claiming that it's not raining when it is.

But interest groups who are horrified by the second part can use a standard repertoire of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) techniques to persuade less educated voters that it's not true., And also that they are being victimised by the people who are saying it is.

Which is why public debates aren't about facts or evidence. They're about "Who is the victim - and is it going to be you?"

Once that frame has been established it's very difficult to break out of it, because the debate is neither adult nor rational.

And this is the frame in which public debate has operated in the US since at least the 50s, and probably longer.

Which is not to deny that some people are victimised by others, but to point out that it's very easy for those who are perpetrators to claim victimhood too - and to do it convincingly, even when it's nonsense, by using FUD, lies, and other rhetorical tricks in bad faith.

Trying to push for ground truth and pointing out logical fallacies will do less than expected to prevent that, because the rhetorical games that are being played operate on a different level.
You should read this, if you haven't already:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/kbx6ki/unifi_sono...
These boycotts are often spoken of, but I never saw an actual successful example on industrial scale. Does an electricity company lose money because it provides power to Trump's mansion and people run away, not wanting to share the same electrons?

Even the BDS movement, probably the largest-scale boycott promoting organization in the world, pulled no one big into red numbers AFAIK.
That isn't even the same user.
Here in Japan too, bottom-up is the standard pattern.

Japanese people can learn to use BLUF, but it's very much not the culturally expected approach.
Like their intention is to really moderate things honestly lol. They know exactly how manipulative they are being, they want to control thought, hence the urgency of not questioning it.
Due process is not a concept internet communities have really ever understood, outrage and reaction rules the internet, not calm, dispassionate logic or process
On conference room phones (polycom spiders and similar), red usually indicates muted.

From an end user mental model perspective, I think Echos are closer to that than to recording studio equipment. “Normally, to use this device, I speak to it and it warns me when that function is disabled.”
> It's kind of hard for our bubble to imagine that people survive on minimum wage (30k/year in NYC 2021), and yet literally 1.9 million did in 2016.

It’s easy to “survive”. It’s not possible to properly save for emergency expenses, retirement, and have access to routine dental care, or plan an upward path for your family.
Spam.

Edit: here is Russ Allbery's legendary rant from 22 years ago on the subject. He is effectively arguing with himself in the preface, saying he doesn't want anyone banned from USENET, but I agree with the ranting Russ in the body.
That is the other side of the same coin. If you are a free user, you are treated as a product.
What you are saying is equivalent to "the state is incapable of defending our values so we make ourselves the police". What do you think that implies?
This is parody, right?

Take the bottom 50% (or whatever) in generation A. Count what percentage of their children end up in the top 30% (or whatever). Thats' mobility. And it's highest in Northern Europe, by any reasonable standard.