skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's bullshit. There's no terrorists and no coup. Bunch of people occupying one building for a couple of hours is a lamest "coup" ever existed, and something that antifa and other protestors have done many times, including occupying Wisconsin Capitol for several days: https://isthmus.com/news/cover-story/capitol-occupation-walk... That's days, not hours. Nobody said anything about "coup". And calling those people "terrorist" is a grave insult to the victims of actual terrorists. This idiotic overblown rhetoric is a propagandist trick, especially heinous after we've been told for months that nationwide riots that caused billions of damage and many dead and injured are "mostly peaceful".

> This is no different than when everyone was banning ISIS a few years ago.

There's a huge difference between American citizens protesting and ISIS. There's also a huge difference between the service that allows people some of whom support the same politician that some of the protestors to speak and ISIS. Declaring that any service that allows people who support the same politician as anybody who commits a crime to be the same as ISIS would make everybody in the US ISIS - e.g. James T. Hodgkinson supported Sanders, so any service that allows any Sanders supporter to speak now ISIS? Bullshit.
Some provinces there literally have curfews and police patrolling the street to arrest anyone breaching curfew. Just because it's justified as an attempt to slow the spread ot covid, doesn't make it any less totalitarian.
OC was talking about government buildings which are typically open to the public.

I think you're talking about privately owned buildings.
Don't bother with NixOS then. Just use the nix package manager on Arch. You get declarative package management with nix shells, and you can take that configuration with you to any linux distro, or even macos.

I think it's fantastic that we have a declarative, deterministic, idempotent package manager that works across all these OSs. I've used it happily for years now without ever bothering to try NixOS.
The far right not-so-fringe elements led by the president tried to overthrow the government last week. If it had gone slightly differently they could easily have murdered a large chunk of the legislature.

As a result there’s been a wave of deplatforming of the voices that helped encourage that culture.

It is indeed unfortunate that this came to pass but it was a necessary response.

When you test the limits and protections, you ultimately change the nature of them. This is why you really want to avoid doing so in a free society because then you’re faced with the negatives of being forced to restrict freedoms to prevent that test from happening again and facing the threat of the next time someone trying, them having learned the lessons of how to test the limits much more effectively.
Run! There are a lot of places that yes will pay you less and not have free Lacroix but you will not feel bad working for.
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Great find! This Theological Markup Language (ThML) seems pretty interesting.
https://ccel.org/ThML/index.html
What were they beating police officers to death with, then. Harsh language?
Non-FAANG companies that I personally know pay senior engineers more than 400 k$/yr in TC: AirBnB, Slack, Square, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Twitter, Pinterest, Spotify.

(This isn't to name the even longer list of private companies that have comparable comp with reasonable assessment of their equity)
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No, I mean I can't reproduce the preview. I think you experienced a fluke. If it was anything else wouldn't that mean that WA wasn't in fact e2ee? Or at least link previews (I know Signal does this client side, I don't know about WA)

https://i.imgur.com/Y8hg6zW.png
> Broken crypto ("bunch of randoms have rolled their own crypto", to be precise [0]) is pretty much the only argument HN has against Telegram.

Also that there's no crypto for every group chat and every default 1:1 chat.
For the Haskell-inclined, there's a book in the works about building retrocomputers with Clash (a Haskell->VHDL compiler)

This blog post is by the person working on it and about the topic itself: https://unsafeperform.io/blog/2020-11-17-a_tiny_computer_for...
We're dealing with a religion at this point. Those with wrongthink in their heads cannot be brought back to the light. They are heretics and deserve punishment.
If the .org rules aren't enforced against 4chan, I can't see how they'll be enforced against the People's Republic of China.
> Violate them and you can take your business elsewhere.

Here, I fixed it for you:

Violate them, and if you are not someone whose political views we support, you can take your business elsewhere.
> If I was choosing a compiled language for system development right now I would choose C or Rust.

I'm not quite sure what systems development has to do with compiler writing? (I assume by system development, you mean something like writing OS kernels etc?)

Eg there are good reasons to stay away from automatic memory management when you are writing an OS, you want control over that. But those reasons hardly apply when you run a simple user space program like a compiler.
That's a pretty Nazi thing to say. Dang - shut this site down!
How many people had to die because our leaders wasted time discussing who was most worthy of getting the vaccine first?
In my experience it is the opposite of that. Many ‘product’ groups exist because engineering teams kept complaining about meetings and just wanted to be told what the build. Collectively as a profession we have ceded away many of the things that made software development unique and powerful over the last 10 or so years.
The same way he talks to you... with facts and evidence.

Either he has it or he doesn't.

The problem is many people act like evidence doesn't exist - just like with voter fraud.

Adults can talk to each other and listen ideas and make up their own mind without Daddy Tech deciding for them what's right or wrong. It's called personal responsibility and it's theoretically the corner stone of western society.

When "bad" ideas are removed from the public eye... they grow underground. The way to fight them is to make them public where truth will prevail.
I think if you look into the history of hate speech, the internet and social media (defined broadly to include BBS systems and internet forums), you'll see this has been a constant problem.

One that groups like the NAACP and others have been warning about for years if not decades.
Are you accusing Bannon of war crimes?
Last I heard, this replacement program will only have support for Alpha, not VAX, and will expire after 1 year, meaning you have to get a whole new VM every year.

Maybe they changed their minds on that, though.
Wow, it's even more wrong than I thought. Something tells me they're going to keep posting the same debunked statistics under other throwaways regardless of how many times they get called out though...
Ah, yes, the spontaneously generated pipe bombs, firearms, merchandise (t-shirts, caps, you name it), messages organising weeks before, zip-cuffs, hangman's platform, and spears.
I am concerned about all the normal employees of these companies, that are taking these political actions. The higher up people can afford round the clock security. The normal SDE at these companies did not sign up for political activist company. What do they do now?
Maybe (or not, I didn't think that idea fully yet) it is time to start cutting the software development jobs in two jobs: Technicians and engineers. And maybe it is also time for developers to organize take the lead of their craft.
This is a consequence of the unfortunate intersection between C++ and Javascript.

UI design is an iterative affair and compile debug cycles just never seem to end. It is why you get all this meaningless requests to remove this tiny feature or that tiny feature. Apparently every little thing affects compile times and you have all these so called "developers" trying to gain attention or make some name for themselves by proposing insignificant things all the time.

As for Javascript UIs - well they are all built on C++.

If you can't get the C++ right, how can you get Javascript that depends on it right.

Says Joe Amstrong - "I think the only computer languages one needs are C and Erlang, don't you think so?
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Of course your causes are absolutely required and moral and just but those guys over there with their concerns, those we dont need to protect and claiming they are "violent mobs" is totally justified...
Here is another wall: https://testimonial.to/qlearly/all
"Only in the US" is only what matters when discussing US politics. Who cares what a news channel is considered in some other country?

And yes, all the news channels are equally terrible. This is not at all hard to find, but it may be hard to accept.
It has happened before and recently too, so it wouldn't be exactly be shocking. Sneaked in with other stuff, they told the banks to fuck with sellers of Tobacco, Porn and Drug paraphernalia.

> Operation Choke Point was a 2013 initiative of the United States Department of Justice[1] which investigated banks in the United States and the business they did with firearm dealers, payday lenders, and other companies believed to be at a high risk for fraud and money laundering.

> This operation, disclosed in an August 2013 Wall Street Journal story,[2] was officially ended in August 2017,[3] and the FDIC settled multiple lawsuits by promising to Congress additional training for its examiners and to cease issuing "informal" and "unwritten suggestions" to banks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
I've done a couple of interviews via Codepen where you're watched over video while you come up with a solution, and it's much more difficult than a typical whiteboard interview.
You would be very surprised at the number of people who have tuned out completely.
Can't explain it for you, but I saw something vaguely similar to that 10-15 years ago a couple hours drive south of there. Two satellite-type objects traveling across the sky roughly parallel and then they shifted trajectories so they crossed paths several times. Very perplexing.
Excellent. Thanks to you both!
People are writing Trump off. They think this is the end of the road for a candidate that received 72 million votes. Even the Dems are desperate to impeach him so he can't run again. Why else even bother with 2 weeks to go...

Trump will be back, that's guarantee and he will be more popular than ever. These companies like Twitter, FB, etc are finished if he runs in 2024 and wins. He would have won this election if it wasn't for a herculean effort by every Democrat and their supporters and add to that Covid 19, he would have won another 4 years.

This economy is going down the shitter real quick. Biden and his camp are in a lose lose. Only a mad man would have wanted to take over in these conditions. It is a guaranteed fail in the next 4 years...
Please by all means explain how these people were being 'silenced' before that lead to an attempted coup. Back up your claims.
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Default 1:1 chat and group chat are secured by the server-client protocol. No e2e encryption by default is deliberate

https://telegram.org/faq#q-why-not-just-make-all-chats-39sec...
On one hand, we have people wearing t-shirts promoting the Holocaust.

On the other hand, we have people that don't.

Clearly we need to listen to the Nazis and debate them in the marketplace of ideas. Is that somewhere in Narnia?
> the Senators were similarly besieged (sans deaths) during the Kavanaugh hearings eighteen months ago

Men in camouflage with weapons and zip ties marched into the Capitol threatening to hang Senators? How did I miss this?
Yes, it's very much overreach.

They have been doing it on other less prominent people and businesses, and haven't suffered any major consequences.

But, this is major escalation in political activism, and likely will not end up the way things have worked out in the past.
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I love HN. It’s all anti-cop when it benefits their side. The war on drugs is a racket to enrich law enforcement. Islamic terrorism isn’t a big deal, law enforcement just says that to get those juicy budgets.

Then suddenly “the FBI says domestic terrorism is the biggest threat!! they would never lie or make stuff up to benefit themselves!”
What counts as “horrible hateful speech?” The media has been publishing articles recently with outright racist slurs against white people (using phrases like “unbearable whiteness”). Is that hateful speech? (I think so but then again I’m an elder Millennial.) And does the fact that it’s the President saying something warrant giving him more or less latitude?

The right and moral thing to do was to give the duly elected President latitude until it was massive in scope and objectively false. In my mind, that didn’t happen until last month when he continued to claim the election was stolen after the rejection of his lawsuits.
Serious question: Would those people have been at the Capitol without Trump's 'Stop the Steal' rhetoric?
With all due respect, you don’t know anything about me. When BLM protestors burn down a Footlocker, I say they did something wrong. But I also don’t assume that all BLM protestors are violent. And I don’t assume all Republicans are violent.

But all the people who invaded the capitol? They all invaded the capitol. Let’s be clear about that.
I'm doing pretty good actually. Hope that ruins your day.
This is why I rarely go on video to begin with (well besides having my laptop in clamshell mode and not wanting a webcam literally pointing at my bed 24/7

I'm a firm believer that video adds nothing to the call other than add distractions.
Taken to the extreme, what you're suggesting amounts to "large corporations should be allowed to kill people occasionally".

I can see a wide spectrum between my (admittedly over punitive towards corporations) ideas and this (somewhat intentional misinterpreted) idea of yours. But I do honestly think Uber and Tesla have evaded morally deserved punishments by blaming customers or contract staff who were pretty much doing what everybody would expect to be able to do using the technology as described.

"it's inevitable that even a responsible _person_ will screw something up" - but that doesn't mean we give them a zero consequence break if they kill or injure someone. (We do, however, distinguish between things like murder, manslaughter, and negligence-causing-death. And penalise differently, based at least partly on the ability of the punishment to discourage other people from doing similar things. Perhaps Uber was only guilty of negligence-causing-death for using minimum wage contractors as safety drivers. Perhaps Tesla was guilty of manslaughter by advertising as "autopilot" a thing that drives full speed into offramp dividers?)
Just print this FAQ and hang it by your desk.

FAQ

Q: What are you working on?
A: Look at the issue tracker

Q: Are you working on X?
A: Look at the issue tracker

Q: Are you still working on X?
A: Look at the issue tracker

Q: Is X finished?
A: Look at the issue tracker

Q: Did QA look at X?
A: Look at the issue tracker
a week ago I would agree with you.

what would have to occur for you to change your mind about the current reality, if a militia aiming to restrain (or hang) the vice president while carrying confederate and foreign nation's flags and beating a police officer to death with the American flag didn't get that point across already? because they've been trying to coordinate a followup so I'm not sure what stage of grief you're at, but I'm way past stage 1
It's clearly still sending the link, just their service isn't generating the thumbnail, perhaps blocked from their internal network.

I'm fact I had always assumed those are generated by the local application
Actually if you're serious about this, ping me at the address in my profile (XMPP/email). Even if just to chat :)
And yet they believe outright lies, lies repeated by GOP leaders, journalists etc, who at the same time denigrated the main stream media and scientists, eroding trust in neutral institutions.

Evaluations are hard to make when all the sources you trust are lying to you.
somebody should release a WWII/Cultural Revolution style poster "What did YOU do today to deplatform Trump?"

Something like this "What did you do today for the victory?"
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c2/33/2f/c2332f9706f7b768243f... or this "What did you do for the airforce?"
or this http://www.sovmusic.ru/jpg/posters/ussr0550.jpg
>I have yet to see a report that CNN broadcasts people that claim that the election was "stolen" or "manipulated". There is a massive difference between biased reporting and openly distributing lies.

You may have missed it being in Germany, but for 3 years CNN, NYT, MSNBC, et al reported 24/7 that Trump colluded with the Russians to win the election. The Justice Dept spent millions thoroughly investigaing that claim and it turned out to be all lies.
> leader of the free world

Always a rather arrogant phrase, but especially absurd now.
Thanks :)

I choose to use the username because in big threads, most of the bars are very thin. There isn't much room to show anything anyway...
I read most of the comments up to this point and was surprised that no one has mentioned how the system config is versioned, and the boot loader allows you to select from past builds, making it incredibly easy to recover from config issues (and thus also easy to experiment with different configs without fear of having to waste hours recovering a certain state).
> Fair point. But it has evolutionary disadvantages, too. If food scarcity has been a challenge across evolutionary scales (which seems reasonable), then the utility function might prioritize scarce resources for the reproductively fit.

That's typically how it has been prioritized, if food scarcity was an issue.

> My point is that it's challenging to make a watertight argument that "we should do X, because evolution suggests that we should."

Sure, but most of the time I would bet dollars to donuts that environmental variables we evolved in will be better for us than new ones, just like in well-aged software time-tested inputs are more likely to work than new stuff you've never tried before.
Apart from choosing RSA over elliptical curves, which primitive in particular is the problem? Otherwise under the hood it's AES256-IGE and SHA256?

The key exchange is a strange choice for a modern greenfields project but hardly that noteworthy.
I’m reading the FBI warned the Capitol police about it ahead of the rally. So again, I don’t see them “not being taken seriously”.
Well that escalated ... steadily over four years.
Where did you ever get the idea that C and Rust are more performant than C++ code? Modern C++ produces the fastest code of any language in wide use, empirically, and I don’t think many people would argue that. People don’t use C++ because they love its elegance — who would? — they use it for its raw power and expressiveness.

C has not been used for applications where performance is a priority for many years now. C lacks the expressiveness to make many software optimizations practical. I’ve written database engines in both C and modern C++ and it is no contest, C++ is much more concise while producing faster code. People primarily still use C for portability.
> Can’t we all try to find consensus and compromise?

Can you explain the compromise possible between "fighting the COVID 19 death toll should be based on science" and "Fauci should be beheaded"?
Hmm, that is a weird conclusion to draw from the observations.

The article and the conversation here suggests that the Silicon Valley model is a good way to give developers more leverage and also to get more out of them.

That model is generally far from cooperatives and still has plenty of hierarchy.

Getting 'organised' and into cooperatives might still work, I don't know? I'm just saying that the available evidence here points to a very different direction.

(Cooperatives have been tried, and there are some software companies inside and outside of Silicon Valley that work along similar principles. But by-and-large they aren't the companies eating the world.)

Matt Levine's Money Stuff often harps on the theme of investment banks being run like workers' cooperatives in practice.
So some lies are ok, just not the ones you don't like.

How are we measuring this scale please? I'm uncertain.
I think this exact comment sequence with these exact links has been played out on every Hacker News thread about Telegram since its inception.
The requirements should be coming from elsewhere and hopefully you are involved at the start of the project.
Hopefully you should be catching all issues regardless and the increase catches look good to your matrix.
The idea of capturing ppl's conversations is weird. Details of that work are captured in the project stories and version control commits.
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How about Adam Schiff, whose lie that he had seen "more than circumstantial evidence" of Trump-Russia collusion was the cornerstone of the case for a Special Council?[0] We got a two year investigation into the question of collusion... which found no such evidence: "The special counsel found that Russia did interfere with the election, but “did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple efforts from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.""[1]

And yet, even after Barr released his summary of the report, 84% of Democrats and 41% of Independents believed that Trump had colluded with the Russians.[2]

Many of you in this thread likely still believe the lie that Trump colluded with the Russians. If the past is any guide, many of you will attempt to defend the lie by replying with distracting "whataboutisms" regarding Paul Manafort, or obstruction, or what have you, willfully ignoring the fact that that *the overwhelming majority of Democrats* were, less than two years ago, convinced of a lie that is eerily similar to right's lie-de-jour regarding the results of the 2016 election.

[0]https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/schiff-...
[1]https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...
[2]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-poll/des...
“It looks like I have to create a server and then join a federation? How do I do that? I need to register a domain? Where’s the common server? How do I get a user? How do I get other servers to federate with me?”

My experience with Matrix has been a lot of confusion about it. I feel like I need to know about too much to even start in a meaningful way.
This isn't an episode of West Wing. Thousands of radicalized Trump supporters tried to overthrow American democracy through a violent attack on Congress and the Vice President. These people aren't going to listen to you or me, they are in a cult where they worship the President and his rotating cast of confidants. Going after those specific people is the only way to turn down the temperature and prevent future acts of violence.
No. That's pretty much the main reason.