skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You clearly have no idea about PiS. They started off their cadence with pardoning criminals from their party and dismantling the constitutional tribunal.
All of that terrible stuff exists on the decentralized internet, yet through a combination of selecting the right platforms and right client software, I never have to see it.

You don't want a centralized internet and trust someone else to control it for you. You want control over your connection to a decentralized internet.
Don’t run a social network designed to host right wing extremists, and you should be fine.
Having a source identifier in a query string isn't remotely the same thing as hijacking links or injecting content into a page.
I did a double take after clicking through- when did Unifi change their URL to UI.com? I thought this was a clever scaled phishing attempt for a second.

Come to think of it, how many times have they changed their URL/how many are there? feels like im being trained to do something stupid.
Very enjoyable talk, thanks for sharing. Funny (amusing) to hear that lichess' competitors would pay professionals not to pay on lichess. Perhaps unsurprising in the era of influencers?
This article touches on the core issue holding back E2E encryption today. There's currently no way for a sophisticated application to implement E2E encryption without accepting tradeoffs in terms of the product.

I'm working on starting a new company called Comm and we're trying to scale E2E. Some more context here: https://site.ashoat.com/comm/comm

(We're currently hiring!!)
Stoicism Is Not a Philosophy
> but its not laughable on the level of most of the Trump election lawsuits.

I don't know, they do have some of the greatest hits from those lawsuits:

* Let's ask the court to prevent things that have already happened (it wants to restrain AWS from cutting off service to Parler, but it filed the suit after that happened).

* File exhibits that are atrociously unusable (the PDF of the service agreement clearly cuts out several lines of text, although I think this was unintentional).

* Provide a single paragraph of argument to address the single claim that actually gives your claim federal jurisdiction at all.

* Clearly incapable of reading contract plain text (in this case). The contract claims are likely to fail since AWS has a right to terminate it unilaterally (which they don't address in their filing all), but it's moot anyways because binding arbitration clause means the court has no right to hear it.

* Evidence for their claim boils down to "there's no other possible reason anyone would want to shut us down than CONSPIRACY!"

* Urgency is requested, but there's no motions to actually grant urgent relief (e.g., an emergency filing or motion for expedited relief).

* Plaintiff fails to spell its own name correctly in a few cases (admittedly, only one here).
He didn't call for him to be executed: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/02/06/37509512-9105875-...
This doesn't make sense. What are the rules of music? Sure if you want something on the radio it's wise to follow some guidelines, but obviously that's not where the diversity is. You can make a song with no defined key or time signature, it can be hours long or seconds long, it can have no vocals, only vocals, or controversially, no sound at all. You could go on and on. Video games have not pushed the limits in this way.
As previously several people commented, big tech shot itself in the foot by banning everyone they don’t agree with and suspiciously acting in the same time (Twitter and Facebook).

I don’t know what they expected, other politicians saw how much power platforms hold and they are not going to sit still and wait for it to happen to them.

Jack Dorsey is not an elected leader, and he has no right to act as the jury, judge and executioner.

I for one welcome this kind of bill, I am sad that this brings the balkanization of the internet, but it is inevitable.
Yep - the word quarantine itself comes from the Italian "quaranta giorni" (forty days). This was the amount of time that ships arriving in Venice from infected ports were required to sit at anchor before landing, so as not to infect the Venetians.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/bcac754d66374782a85a...
Many years ago, I was surprised to find out that XTerm can also emulate a vector-based tektronix terminal.

The only application for it that I found was a previewer for TeX's dvi files that could render on the Tektronix terminal by drawing a lot of tiny horizontal lines.
The real genius in the announcement is, "data hosted by a third party provider". Absolutely irrelevant, but subtly implying that the error was the fault of a third party.

That will be the new norm in these kinds of annoucements, I'm sure.

Just like SolarWinds dropping "Team City", saying "no evidence" of a breach of it. So why mention it at all?
They are probably encrypted in the backend DB with a symmetric cipher on the server with a key that Telegram have access to.
>handles sending photos, videos, and voice messages More or less kills XMPP, unless people are on the latest-and-greatest version of Conversations and maybe ChatSecure.

Are there any popular XMPP clients that don't support "HTTP File Upload" at this point? I went looking for a list of those that do and had to give up. They all support it now.
You just answered that in your own question :)

Trump is an elected official in the executive branch, and therefore not allowed to restrict the speech of citizens.

Twitter is not an elected official in the executive branch, and therefore is allowed to block people when they see fit.
If "the next Bernie" promotes violence then he's not the next Bernie and I won't support him and I don't understand what's so hard to understand about that.

Y'all think "it's both sides" but, in America, this call to violence (straight up armed insurrection) is unique in right wing politics. And if it showed up in the Left I wouldn't tolerate it.

Show me someone on the right who was deplatformed who didn't preach hate.
You can also just run a docker container for it [0]. This has the added benefit of separating your data from the runtime so you can move it around as if you had a physical cloud key.

[0] https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/unifi-controller
Doesn't sound like the bar is moving to me from your examples. Not moderating content promoting violence is a decent bar.

> any company that is hosting user-driven content needs to have a plan for how to make sure they stay below that bar.

Yes... They need to moderate out content that promotes violence. This is a thing that they should do.
I am fairly technical and I prefer Brave because of the ads. It's the one model I think that has acceptable ethics and that can be an alternative to Surveillance Capitalism. Crypto is just an implementation detail, but an important one if you really want to make it a global alternative and that can include the unbanked.

It made me contribute to content creators way more than I have with Flattr (now owned by scammy EyeO, remember them?) or with Patreon. I can not do any of that with any other offering.

Lastly: what telemetry?
The second part is reminiscent of how “net neutrality” is pitched in the United States. I’ve never felt that definition was true net neutrality due to the reason you outlined.
Merkel among EU leaders questioning Twitter’s Trump ban
If the only thing it takes for censorship to not be censorship is that it'd make the lives of those in charge easier, then censorship doesn't exist.
Yeah but the suffering that had to take place in order for that to happen was erroneous we should strive to avoid that and not licking Bezzos and ZUckerberg boots is part of a society where Galileos have to avoid trials
>$89/year, which makes it a non-negligible expense for anyone wanting to run a full node.

Why on earth would a non-miner run a full node just to observe other people's transactions? Satoshi addressed this all the way back in 2009 in the whitepaper itself. Consumers (non-miners) would just download transactions they care about and run truncated observer nodes, and $89/yr isn't even that much money for a "full" observer (non-miner) node if you care about being a datahoarder. Killing bitcoin as a functioning currency because some people think Satoshi was wrong is mind-numbing. Of course, when your paycheck depends on not understanding something...
Amazingly this is why I’m attracted to Signal and have set all chats to 1 week auto delete.

To me text chats should be ephemeral.

If I want something to stick around for years, send to email.
Not if they have any sense, it’s completely impractical to implement.
Here you go

https://i.imgur.com/RJpoIGu.png
> Q: Open-world games are often really buggy, because there’s just so much going on. But I experienced very little of that in my time with Breath of the Wild. How did you pull that off? Was it just a really extensive QA process?

> Dohta: There was another point that we developed during our QA process. We came up with a number of scripts that would basically allow the game to be played automatically, and allow Link to run through various parts of the game automatically. And as that was happening, on the QA side of things, if a bug did appear I’d suddenly get a flood of emails about it. That was one tool that we found to be really handy.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/11/14881076/the-legend-of-ze...

Breath of the Wild used a tool to do automated run throughs as part of their bug testing suite. This is just a quote from one interview, but if you do a bit of Googling you can find some good information about their development and planning process.
> Security through obscurity isn’t an invalid technique if you also are doing security through cryptography too

It becomes a distraction vs actually writing a secure set of endpoints in the first place.. Folks get a sense of security from it which is entirely false.
Agree on Ubiquiti losing their shine. They seem to have fallen for the classic trap of vendors selling hardware without fully factoring in the cost of maintaining software and “cloud” infrastructure. So now their “growth hackers” have to keep coming up with things that should just be add-ons or bug fixes but instead they sell them as a premium feature or new product to make up for a lack of recurring revenue.

Basically they are alienating their existing customer base (who have already paid a premium price for the prosumer product upfront and expect things to Just Work for the price) in favour of convincing the next idiot to
fund their OPEX with shiny new features and toys that are a quick sell. Not realising (or unwilling to realise) that this strategy is completely in contradiction with their reputation and brand image as trustworthy prosumer hardware vendor, and just adds to the underlying issue.

I predict that it won’t be long before they run out of cash or investor confidence and have to sell out to a large consumer hardware vendor with deep pockets that will try to capture the Ubiquiti premium margins by selling their lower-value existing consumer gear under the Ubiquiti brand. I applaud them for having come this far while maintaining most of their integrity and reputation, but I’m afraid their strategy is doomed to fail and it’s starting to show.
Just like Shelley Miscavige is free and safe.

I often wonder how much the CCP studies Scientology, as I think Scientology has been really successful in avoiding any real consequences.
How would you define calling for the genocide of the Rohingya people? Would you define that as hate speech? This is an important question for right wingers to answer. Should we be tolerant of your intolerance?
pretty good but needs a better UI
And you're welcome to hold that view. But conflating threats with 1st amendment protected action is dumb.

And yes, Twitter, under the first amendment, is free to associate with whomever they want (or to refuse to associate with them)! Twitter isn't compelling Meghan Murphy to do anything anymore than than twitter is, at this moment, compelling me to give them my wallet.

On the other hand, if you said "Give me your wallet, or me and my 9 associates here will punch you in the face," you'd be committing a crime.

That's the difference between being kicked off twitter and punching someone in the face. One of them is a crime. No matter how purely you uphold the principle of free speech, it doesn't make sense to compare someone who doesn't share those values to a criminal.
FBI is warning of armed protests at all state capitals between now and 20th.

I can't help but feel that by the time anything comes of this, the primary goal of AWS and a lot of other companies involved in the recent bans will have already been accomplished; smothering an escalation of the current situation until after the 20th.

It feels like we are witnessing a sort of immune response from these companies triggered to protect them from an existential threat to their business. Set off by Wednesdays events. Instability is bad for business.
Reporting on reporting based on "a person familiar with the matter".

So basically no information.
So many thoughts about OpenSocial and the reference implementation, Shindig. I have it thank for my time at hi5, LinkedIn and then Google.

Some little known facts about OpenSocial

- Hangouts Apps (remember those?) were based on OpenSocial containers.

- OpenSocial powered the LinkedIn Apps Platform and Labs for a number of years. The team built Rails and Node apps and deployed on Joyent.

- Eric Schmidt gave a pep talk to the working group pre-launch and mentioned about how open always wins in the end...

- MySpace was concerned about the attack surface of 3p apps running in iframes. They toyed with the idea of requiring a webkit browser plugin to run apps (!). It did lead to Caja* as a project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project

- The work on OpenSocial led in small part to the Activity Streams spec which led to ActivityPub and thus the latest Fediverse protocols. I like to think of OpenSocial as dead, but a good organ donor.

Fun times...
>A lot of democratic countries have defined hate speech.

They have very poor subjective definitions that boil down to anything any group considers offensive which is a moving needle, and that make make things like satire and certain forms of comedy illegal and have a chilling effect on valid criticism. It's also compelled speech, and in some cases leaves violence as the only resort, as opposed to a conversation and de-conversion from extremist beliefs. We've seen abuse of it in several cases, if no one is offended, they'll create a group or pay someone to be offended. There's no burden of proof beyond someone's emotional state upon hearing the words. You can say something to two people of a group, one might think its funny and laugh, another might report you and call the cops.

Also, turns out you can yell fire in a theater, especially if you at least believe it to be true, and that's something courts can't determine, lots of people say things that they believe to be true, that turn out to be false. Likewise, if speech is dangerous but true, its still should be protected.

In either case, best this be settled in courts and legislation, not corporate meeting rooms that are echo chambers of opinion.

>If we're talking about at the society level, because it threatens democracy, peace, individuals safety

We already have laws against that, its why hate speech laws are usually redundant and likely to be abused and scope creep into silencing valid criticism of an individual or group of individuals who can then be offended and have you arrested, at the very least putting you through months and years of legal trouble before you're acquitted, and that's only if you can afford proper defense.

You people need to look at history. It boggles me how uneducated people are today on the context of this issue.

Even the person that did the Parlor leak is a Meiklejohnian absolutist.
From my humble understanding of all of this - Trump was acting as POTUS when blocked people, while Twitter acted as a private company.
Hi could you please add "NSFW" to that? I am a vegan and these images are very disturbing to me. I mean, I saw someone said it was a deer so I very quickly clicked to confirm I should post this - I am mostly saying this for others and so people are aware this can be disturbing to some.

Thank you.

EDIT: Wow I kindly say something is disturbing to me and y'all respond with down votes. Thanks for the compassion.
Why the Canadian Tech Scene Doesn’t Work
Italian franchise[0] restaurant in Sacramento has this huge neon sign in their window: "health inspected". Neon. It's just that one instance of the store. Not that I've seen them all, but never seen that signage in their other stores.

[0] Maybe not technically a franchise. Not sure. There are a bunch in California.
Because it is privately owned. That officials choose to use such a channel for official communications is their responsibility.
>UDF support isn't really the same, to be honest. You're still prisoner of the select from pattern. Don't get me wrong, SQL is wonderful where it works, but it doesn't work for everything that I need.

Not sure how it's different from what you can do in Spark in terms of data transformations. Taking a list of objects as an argument basically allows your UDF to do arbitrary computations on tabular data.

> I forgot about Xgboost, but I'm a big fan of unsupervised methods (as input to supervised methods, mostly) and Spark has a bunch of these.

That's true, distributed unsupervised methods aren't done in most other places I know of. I'm guessing there's ways to do that with neural network although I haven't looked into it. The datasets I deal with have structure in them between events even if they're unlabeled.

>I completely agree that it's faster than Spark, but it's also super-expensive and more limited. I suspect it would probably be cheaper to run a managed Spark cluster vs Snowflake and just eat the performance hit by scaling up.

I used to do that on AWS. For our use case, Athena ate its lunch in terms of performance, latency and cost by an order of magnitude. Snowflake is priced based on demand so I suspect it'd do likewise.
Who determines what speech gets shut down in the public square? In the US, it's a mixture of courts and legislation setting laws and their interpretations, lawsuits establishing damages for certain types of speech, and then of course cops on the ground making individual decisions on a case by case basis and using violence or threat of violence to arrest people.

I am not sure how any of this is apologizing for corporations instead of any other aspect of our system though...

Edit: For the lawsuit aspect of shutting down speech, check out this very topical lawsuit: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/11/cybersecu...

Even if this particular suit fails, I hope that it demonstrates that there are entire bodies of law set up to silence some forms of speech.
This is a highly speculative article with vast, global, implications.

People should be taking this with Kilograms of salt.

Food for thought: if this was to be true we would be seeing several bit coin whale operations going on from insiders, and this isn't the case even with the substantial drops in bitcoin value in the last 24 hours.
It's not rocket science. It's devs treating QA like second-class citizens and substituting (cheap) person-hours for proper technical tools.

Any sequence of events can be represented as a directed graph.

Any event check can be validated against that directed graph as feasible.

Instead, Bethesda (equally guilty) and CDPR seem to let their devs add whatever checks, and then trust QA to untangle and validate the infinite number of combinations.

tl;dr - open world games are incompatible with traditional QA methods and tools
Rebuilding the most popular spellchecker. Part 1
War in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Drone strike, also irrelevant since those activities also didn't break Twitter's ToS?
Are you talking about some sort of:

1) universal plugin to each app that allowed for standard access to raw API data

2) middleware service that you would authorize access to for each of these apps and have the service "know how to join"

3) data lake that allowed one to import all you data into and join together (perhaps with SQL or GQL)
Gay marriage has a popular majority in the UK and Ireland in both polls and referenda. Is it that different in the US?
Interpreting old documents is hard, and where there is silence or substantial ambiguity it seems right to err on the side of popular opinion.
Work-from-Home Culture Is Changing Cities Like San Francisco
I'm well aware of how XMPP works as I've been using it from the start.

It is with this knowledge that I cannot recommend XMPP.

e2ee should be at the core. Not as an entirely optional extension added decades after.

As I already stated, because I want the non-technical inclined to have privacy, I can only support options where e2ee is the default.
Actually, r/jailbait was removed as a reaction to the FOSTA laws which explicitly carve out an exception to section 230 for content that could be considered related to sex trafficking, so in this sense it actually did create a new legal risk compared to other non-sex related subs.
Edmund Melson Clarke, Creator of Model Checking, Dies at 75
It is a messaging service, but it's also free, with a non-trivial server requirement, and with no monetization available for the service (neither ads nor subscription).
r/NeutralPolitics/ used to be good for discussion as well due to heavy moderation including requiring sources for claims. I've not read it in quite a while though.
> Brave seems to pop up here every now and then

Yes. "Oh, another unwarranted mention of Brave!"

Isn't Hacker News a website on things that gratifies own's curiosity? How does an article about how to get started with a browser that isn't new is supposed to fulfill this requirement? By making us ask ourselves these questions?

These mentions which just look like ads need comments like yours at the top of the post.

It's not even hard! The presentation of a new version with interesting new features would fit the bill.
The ads are via notifications.

There has NEVER been link hijacking or content injecting on a page, what are you smoking?
Would recommend reading through the previous threads on HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
You don't remember it that way? Every national paper and magazine tied itself in knots to explain Trump as the result of economic anxiety among misunderstood white people who don't have a racist bone in their bodies, they just fly that confederate flag from their front porch for non-racism reasons.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-ris...

Here is a fair summary of the "real americans in diners" genre of post-Trump jounalism.

https://thecounter.org/trump-rust-belt-diner-presidential-ra...
This article is from December
From what I’ve read of Taibbi’s work he’s the last guy interested in stoking any kind of culture war - but he does a very good job of both analyzing how it’s been developing and predicting how the end game will work out.
They put all of their users eggs in one basket in the cloud. That makes for a very interesting target.

They could have not done that. The users were probably unaware that their data was even placed on the cloud servers of some third party.

Ubiquiti used to be cool. They've taken a nose dive in recent years in several ways: Firmware upgrade suddenly including telemetry by default, forcing people to use their NVR appliance instead of installing their software on their private servers, etc.

Had Ubiquiti not moved people to "cloud solutions" an attacker would have to attack millions of peoples equipment. Now he only had to attack one providers network.