skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like there's a typo in the link for Urbit, should be https://urbit.org if anyone wants to take a look. Personally it seems like vaporware to me, there's not much based on the lofty promises of a new OS/language/social network.

Probably the only reason anyone has even heard of it is because it's the pet project of Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug, known (somewhat infamously, a few of his talks at conferences have been pulled) for his association with the neo-reactionary political/philosophical movement.
I think trying to get the notice out to users directly and quickly is at least one iota.

Details can some later, once the threat is fully evaluated.

If it waited until all the facts are in to put out a full fact sheet, the HN griefers would be jumping ugly that it took too long and was covering things up.
I never said this was good for society. My only intention was to illuminate a corporation’s point of view and why it would make such decisions given the constraints and incentives at play.
I really want to like Signal, just... it's so shitty at times.

Discord and Slack are great. Even Microsoft Teams.

Shitty things about Signal:

1) When you set "Disappearing Messages" it's for any messages that come in after that point. I think it should be for the whole thread. Even though the UX implies it's for the entire conversation, it's really just for messages sent after the setting was changed. Moreover... let's say you change the settings a few times... you have no idea if / when individual messages will disappear.

2) When you delete a message on your phone, it's still on your desktop -- and everyone else's devices. It's really frustrating that if I send a typo, I can't delete it or fix it. Worse, it appears to delete... and being native to Discord / Slack / Teams... I expect it to delete for everyone. They did change message text from "Delete" to "Delete message for me" but even that doesn't even delete across all my devices.

3) You can't edit messages after you send them.

4) Functionality is different on a phone vs a desktop. You can't do nearly as much on the desktop version.

5) It's funky when you change phones. You can't like sync all your old messages from one device to another. It'll pull them on to a Desktop client, but it won't pull them into a new Mobile phone client. Dunno, just bad UX.

6) Signal is still based on phone numbers... I don't trust phone number based 2FA, so I don't really trust Signal to be based on phone numbers either.

But it's not all bad! Some things they added which make it feel less horrible... they finally did add meta data previews for URLs. That was nice. They added ability to give tapbacks / emjoi responses, and "reply" to messages. I think all this in the last year or so. They're working on it... but like it still feels like they're aiming for shitty old cell phone text messages as what they are trying to replace... I wish they were aiming for Discord / Slack / Teams as those platforms have really done a great job with chat.

By far, the platform with the most improvement was Microsoft Teams. They had this wonky Skype For Business who knows hybrid approach. And they had a lot of the same issues around messages not being synced between devices. They fixed that in the last 18 months. I've been using Signal since Snowden, but in my opinion Signal still has a long way to go before it's something I would actually want to use to chat with friends.
I remember an episode of Planet Money podcast where they went to the village where a secret agreement was signed by some farmers to divide up the communal land and farm it individually, so they could sell the surplus and make some profit. In the podcast they managed to talk to one of the original signatories to the agreement, and he lamented that fact that after his farming days he had started many businesses but they had all been taken from him by the authorities.

Now given that the judiciary in China is just another arm of the CCP, there is no rule of law, there's just the rule of the CCP and the whims of whomever is in charge.

So you build something successful, someone in charge gets envious, then one small misstep and it all gets taken away from you. I don't actually know if it needs an actual misstep or just enough people to conspire against you.

This is also what worries me about Chinese companies buying other companies and property outside of China. There's a danger that at any moment the entire company will get nationalised and therefore China (or rather the CCP) will own it all. I'm not against some foreign ownership and investment, but usually this has originated from a country where the law rules the land and not some arbitrary dictator. (Yes I'm also concerned about middle-east money flowing in, but to a lesser extent because they don't try to hide it)
It's not correct to say that Apple doesn't make a profit on devices.

In fact, Apple makes a robust profit on every mobile device they sell.

This is in contrast to, e.g, gaming consoles, which are (at least were) sold below cost, with the profit coming from games.

Apple also won't stop you from installing whatever on your gizmo, legally I mean. With mobile, they do several things which make it pointlessly difficult, and I would rather they didn't.
State.gov says 'Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:00.'
We can all choose to stop using facebook, instagram, and whatsapp and their power evaporates.

In contrast we cannot choose to stop using the US government. Would you really prefer to have the US government decide what can and cannot be censored?
Maybe because it's still being imported, but the archive.org team probably needs to review it and make it more widely available (ie. on web.archive.org).
Hmm I think it's more the case that an application has to go out of its way to not render on the GPU. High level frameworks' basic rendering operations are, of course, always GPU accelerated. They'd be crazy not to be! It looks like Foot is rendering using CPU by talking directly to the compositor.
Afaik dissenter from Gab is a fork from Brave, presumably without the crypto.

Last I checked (briefly after it was released), I didn't care that much for the right leaning comments. But maybe it has improved or it can be filtered.
Roads, or rivers. In rural areas of Poland, it's still common to find illegal trash dumps in the woods or by the streams; any ditch will do. And there goes everything, from biowaste to furniture and television sets.
Current CPP leaderships are blaming US/West for all the trouble.

Xi is just a little red guard grew up from the culture revolution the only economic solution solution was follow Mao's "Nationalize" way.
How much would you pay for UX/UI design?
Assuming that you have a lot of clients or personal projects that require UX/UI design help.. how much would you be willing to pay per month for senior-level design? You'd get approximately 4 hours of daily design work and can submit as many requests as you want.
So, when do you expect social collapse, and most of Fortune 500 pulling their presence out of the country? Give me a rough timeline. Three months? Six? Sixty? Six hundred?

It's easy to make non-specific, non-committal predictions of doom and gloom. I can say with absolute certainty that, say, the Euro will become worthless sometime between now and the heat death of the universe. My prediction is as useless, as it is accurate.

What kind of prediction, with what kind of error bar, are you ready to commit to?
Unfortunately I cannot reference Parlor's actual Community Guidelines (https://legal.parler.com/documents/guidelines.pdf) since the site is down for some reason. :)

However, based on what is described here (https://theconversation.com/parler-what-you-need-to-know-abo...) `there are policies against “fighting words” and “threats of harm”. This includes “a threat of or advocating for violation against an individual or group”.`

Based on recent examples of Parlor posts it seems like the Parlor moderators were not adequately enforcing this policy.
The web UI use to ask you for your encryption password, but that seems to have disappeared recently.
The article is essentially a copy/paste of a chain of screenshotted messages that'd been going around for a while.

This sentence specifically:

> With this type of access, newly minted users were able to get behind the login box API used for content delivery. That allowed them to see which users had moderator rights and this in turn allowed them to reset passwords of existing users with simple “forgot password” function. Since Twilio no longer authenticated emails, hackers were able to access admin accounts with ease.

Compare to this comment[1] (linked from MeFi) posted this morning:

> Well, because of that access, it gave them access to the behind the login box API that is used to deliver content (...)

Subsequent posts also seem to indicate that post is incredibly inaccurate[2].

So it looks like someone mixed up "scraping a public API" with some breathless tale of hackers doing hacker things, and HN ate it up.

[1]https://m.alpha.facebook.com/groups/majordomo/permalink/1016...

[2]https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kv0jo6/psa_the...
What I mean is that it's not a valid argument to establish the authority of the speaker.
Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:00
> No foreign keys, many things were done in the code itself (filtering, sorting, etc, to make sure the DB only ever uses the most efficient indexes)

This normally is terrible advice. You have to be sure that you really need it. Too often I see developers do this needlessly.
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There are a lot of people that are unwilling to give an abused minority even the slightest leeway, and instead while holding the majority position holding power, claim they are the ones that are abused.
Not sure what happened here, but it's interesting. It doesn't seem to have any connection to reality (as far as I can tell he’s still the president). Anyone know more about these pages?
Epstein's excellent book Range uses the terms, though I think they don't originate there.
I think you mean .org and yeah that seems alright and the open-sourcing is interesting (resisting trolling on node ;).

It's all about SEO, chess.com is the first result on Google and DDG for "chess".
I'd expect the bar to remain in exactly the same place.

AWS has continued to host the National Enquirer, even after that publication dug deep into Jeff Bezos's personal life. Said coverage perhaps accelerated Bezos's divorce, which cost him $30 billion in stock, as part of the settlement with his ex-wife. ($30b is 2019 valuation; it's much bigger now.)

If Amazon/AWS will quietly endure a $30b+ hit to its founder's wealth, without pulling the plug, I'd say the cloud-business risk you've identified should be one of the smallest stressors in your life.
Well, not terribly hard to find the two upstream ASNs and figure out where the datacentres are.
That's not what sealioning is.
Happens in doctors offices too. Now I try to request all paperwork in advance so I can read. At one (where I thought highly of the doctor who seemed very kind and competent), 2 people in the front office insisted to me that the "other document" to which the main one referred and said I was also agreeing was the same document that had the reference. After I refused to sign, one left and the other made a phone call to find the real "other" doc.

I think (though am not an attorney, so not sure what a really honest, articulate, kind one would say) that if attorneys who wrote these long, difficult agreements applied honesty and the Golden Rule, they would start reading them themselves more often in general life, and they would word them so that their target audience would have an easy time understanding them, etc etc. But the executives have other things on their minds I suppose, and don't push for this (or care...?). (maybe this is one of my pet peeves--sometimes I wonder if it just makes life harder for honest people). But I still think being honest and kind is totally worth it in the long run. Wrote more elsewhere on that.
AirPods Pro connected to Mac hardware still run 144ms. That’s an eternity in live audio world, latency for a genuinely “pro” digital wireless microphone system is closer to 1.4ms.
Xi Jinping rising to power.
The comment you are replying to does not even attempt to make that judgement. Use your own definition if you'd like.
Ask HN: What are the recent innovations in your field?
We all work in various sectors and are often unaware of some of the advancement achieved in other fields. What's happening in your industry?
I was addressing OP who said the content was illegal. AWS is within their legal rights to boot anyone off because of the Terms and Conditions. This thread is about the ethical side of what they did.
Yes, I should have appended "... for others"
I have no idea about phone number changes (I've had the same phone number for 20 years), but my phone broke not terribly long ago and I had to reinstall everything. As I recall, my Signal data came back just fine. Looks like you have to enable it[0], so I assume that's what I did.

> The "tied to your phone number" thing is weird for me, both Telegram and Signal.

Isn't this restriction also applicable to WhatsApp?

[0] https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
By the abstract, it seems that the very same superintelligence we'd want to contain would itself be "something theoretically (and practically) infeasible."

No?
At least we know third party have access to our salted passwords et. al?
The criticisms of those people were about what they said and did though, not who they are. That is not gaslighting but speaking back at power.
Congress has held numerous hearings about censorship starting way back when the first nose-ring wearing, openly socialist, 20-something overlords in Silicon Valley started censoring heads of state, and government officials for clearly and blatantly partisan political reasons.

I mean after the election a poll showed 68% of voters had never even heard of the Hunter Laptop, because BigTech started banning anyone who dare even mention it. So don't be fooled that the censorship is to stop violence, it's to achieve political goals, and has been ratcheting up for the past 6 years. Twitter was canceling people for life even for daring to say such crazy things as "There's only two sexes."

Cancel culture has been getting out of hand for a long long time now, and people have had all they're going to take of it.

Now the left has gotten so brazen they're conspiring to shut down entire internet companies under these same false pretenses. And you have the audacity to call this "alarmist". Wow.
>It's been tried for seventy years against the USSR, with no effect [1]

Uhhhh, so you don't think the cold war was a major reason the USSR fell? That's the first time I've heard that take. I mean, obviously what killed the USSR was a failure to dictate an efficient economy (what is likely to kill the CCP as well), but the Cold War defenitely, in my opinion and in the opinion of every piece I've ever read on the subject, sped things up significantly.

>As we have seen in Western democracies when their governments are more concerned with blaming external enemies, rather than fixing internal problems.

I think this is a skewed view based on a shallow view of most western democracies. The most publicized actions are those taked by leaders in unilateral context, which are most often related to foreign relations and military operations, and thus not related to domestic issues. However, if you look at what the vast majority of these democracies spend their time on, on a man/hr basis, it's solving domestic problems. The US is a prime example. Trump represented <1% of the government's actions, but got 90%+ of the media time. Meanwhile the entirety of congress was working on nothing but domestic issues.

>Change in the CCP will have to come from movements within China. These kinds of changes take generations, and will not always result in the kind of change you would like to see.

Agree for the most part.

> Even in an authoritarian country, there is still a feedback loop between public sentiment, and their ruling government

The fact that these feedback loops do not exist is why most authoritarian regimes fail. We are seeing the slow decay of those feedback loops in China from their more liberal economic policies 10+ years ago.

>Strong-man anti-China posturing will not do anything to China

Posturing, no, but policies can and do have a large effect.

>In the 90s, tough-on-crime was popular in America, for the same reasons, to devastating consequences.

It had it's problems, but the falling crime rate over that time was in part because of these policies. NYC is a perfect example of both sides of that coin.

> Today, we've moved on to tough-on-China (which will result in devastating consequences if it ever moves past rhetoric, and into a shooting war.)

Well yeah. No one wants a war. It would pretty much destroy earth at this point. I think if you want to point to rising risk though, most of the blame needs to go to China itself. It's ever expanding territorial claims are the largest risk factor. We can talk about how the US lays claim to a large part of the Pacific, but then we have to start talking about the validity of most of the world's borders, so that's kind of moot in my opinion.
That is the point though. The reasons cited by AWS for their actions were due to violent posts and content moderation. When addressed with the issue Parler said they'd use volunteers to proactively moderate violent posts, but AWS said that "nascent plant to use volunteers to promptly identify and remove dangerous content will not work in light of the rapidly growing number of violent posts".
Thanks for the reply.

Is there any middle ground?

Is Sunpower's claim of 22-25% efficient monocrystalline semi-flexible panels not to be believed? Have I been fooled by the marketing? Are these thin film panels? Nothing I can find online suggests this is a dubious claim, but it's possible I'm simply failing to find correct information.
The existence of trans men is not female erasure, and JK Rowling's insistence on that point is transphobia.
The context around a lot of riots from the summer sits in my head pretty heavily. I don't like seeing rioting and vandalism as much as the next person, but I also recognize where it came from. I'm having a tough time reconciling the capitol storming in the same manner. The only similar emotion I have is pity toward people who were clearly lied to and who have insulated themselves from rational thought.

To be clear I don't ever want to see guns or explosives at a protest, nor do I want to see riots, but I also understood the anger last summer and found it difficult to condemn it when the people most affected were at their wit's end. I get the sense that last week's protestors were in a similar mindset, but their reasoning was highly flawed and easily debunked.

I'm sure anyone coming at this from a different perspective would see my view as hypocritical and I recognize that, but there's a feeling in my heart I can't shake about what happened last summer when it came to police brutality, one that can't easily be broken by a whataboutism.
Being smaller they can and should user human moderation. Twitter and Facebook have problems because of the huge number of posts. Parler is still small enough that then _can_ moderate.
It seems that everybody seems to hate this game, or rather unfinishedness of it. Meanwhile, I am playing it since 2 weeks on PS4 (not Pro) and totally enjoying every minute it.
It's your opinion that Trump incited violence.

If you ask Trump opposition, they will all say he should go to jail for 1000 years for hundreds of crime that Trump committed.

I'm not close to he situation, but
I'd feel much better if a judgement like this actually comes from a trained judge with a proper due process.
I love signal, or at least the idea of it. I've been trying to get family onto it and away from WhatsApp for years, and we finally tried this week.

Unfortunately, my messages to the family group are stuck spinning (24 hours now) and I'm not seeing any new messages in the group (and should be). Nightmare.

If anyone knows a fix I'd love to hear it (have tried leaving the group and rejoining, restarting phone etc)
If you don't live in the 3rd world, there is in any case a high likelihood that you can earn it back. It is on the scale of a months salary, not years.
I mean, I've not been there, but according to Congresspeople affected, they feel that it would be impossible for someone unfamiliar with the building to stumble upon their offices. Especially since even members who've worked at the capitol building often still get lost in the complex.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/08/congress-democrats-...

> House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) mentioned that looters had found their way to his unmarked, third floor office and stole his iPad. He questioned how they could locate that office but not his clearly marked ceremonial office in Statuary Hall.
That is essentially the thesis of American foreign policy in Asia since the 1980s. The results have been mixed; yes, they have a huge, prosperous middle class now, yet the government remains about as authoritarian as it ever was.

Now, with technology, in fact things are getting worse. Everyone is required to have a cell phone, everyone is spied upon, a "social score" is maintained and if your score dips below a certain threshold, you may not travel etc.

If the EU thinks that making more trade deals with China is going to temper any of these, they're naive indeed.
“Michael R. Pence's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:47:13”
Because it's wrong, new accounts absolutely do not get shadowbanned. People make burner accounts for 2-3 anonymous posts all the time.
xterm is sadly very slow (you see line by line re-draw in midnight commander and things like that) on glamor/GPU accelerated Xorg server on all my ARM devices. I switched to st (https://st.suckless.org/) on my ARM devices, and while it has less features, it doesn't have this performance issue.

I never figured why that is, other than it not being a CPU issue.
The one child policy makes China’s aging problem particularly rapid, at a time when they are not wealthy enough per capita to make the transition. One child supports two parents and four grandparents. Plus a low retirement age that is only now getting extended. (60 for men, 55 for women previously). Over a third of Shanghai is over 60, as is a quarter in Beijing, Tianjin, etc.

Now the one child policy has been relaxed, but it will take a while before extra kids are available to work, and at this point it’s sort of a cultural norm to have one kid (plus prohibitively expensive to raise two kids and provide them decent resources).
How does Twitter's market cap relative to Google or Facebook have anything at all to do with Antitrust law?
I'm no expert, but I understood that those were more "diplomatic" investments. The ports in Sri Lanka, for example, are impractical and unused, their function fulfilled as soon as the deal was agreed.
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> Parlor was created in response to hate moderation on other platforms.

Again, not true.

Parler was created in response to biased moderation of other platforms and was intended to be bipartisan.
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Putting certain restrictions on The Four Freedoms for the sake of building a sustainable business sounds very reasonable.

Some licenses put restrictions on freedom 0, the right to run the program. That's the approach taken by Prosperity and the Polyform licenses.

https://prosperitylicense.com/

https://polyformproject.org/licenses/

The Parity Public License takes a different approach, and expands the concept of copy-left to require developers to release the source code for all of the software that they develop with the program, not just software that they distribute to others.

https://paritylicense.com/
Exactly, a lot of devs complain about meetings and just want to code.