skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only did twitter end up removing it, but it was a hashtag in response to a video from the protests of people yelling “Hang Mike Pence”, primarily not people actually calling for Mike Pence to be hanged. That I keep seeing this example being thrown around from conservative sources shows either a desire to argue in bad faith or a complete inability to research things beyond the absolute surface level. And it’s not like there aren’t other examples one could use to make reasonable complaints about censorship bias on twitter.
How many of those tweets were users commenting on news reports that the rioters were chanting "Hang Mike Pence"? https://twitter.com/search?q=hang%20mike%20pence&src=typed_q...
Bitmessage is a really cool project because it relies on PoW (proof-of-work) to send messages. Hence for spammers to flood the network would require lots of computing power. This means that the network should be full of healthy messages that should be human written. You don't need complex social trusted networks (like scuttlebutt does) to just enter the network and start relaying messages around - you trust they're not spam since there's PoW behind them.

However the PoW requirement when I last used this was quite low hence spam was somewhat still present. I'm also not sure how long a message is kept around the network: say I enter the network and send a message to Alice; how long will the message be kept alive in the network by peers so that Alice can still read it when she joins?

Edit: I guess my last concern is simply validated by the fact that the sender can just enter the network again and resend it. From paper:

>. If the sender of a message did not receive an acknowledgement and wishes to rebroadcast his message, he must update the time and recompute the proof‐of‐work.
This suggestion doesn't stand up to a moment's scrutiny.

Do you really think the best way for a government agency to access government IDs is to secretly run a Twitter clone?
> This could have led to the public execution of the Vice President and speaker of the house. This came close to being a dramatically worse event.

I remain unconvinced about how close that actually was, nor have I seen a compelling case that it was that close actually made.

Further, before it becomes close to "executing the Vice President", you can bet shots are going to actually be fired. Crowds of rioters behave very differently when gunshots start ringing out.
Maybe you missed this last week. Section 230 says nothing about providers not being able to moderate:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
> I can't even be considered once it's discovered I went to prison some 20 years ago

Is there any legislative push to seal records of non-violent offenders after N years of non-recividism?

Seven years for most crimes, and fourteen for fraud and corruption would seem fair.
I'm so sad today. I came from a very left-wing background, becoming conservative gradually over decades. I've learned to self-censor and keep my ideas to myself along the way to keep the peace, hoping the many left-wing people in my life would eventually see how intolerant they were becoming.

Looks like my choices are to stuff everything I believe down deep inside and hope I can participate in society, keep a job, support my family, etc. OR to speak up and risk losing everything. This is the true mob to fear. Everything is being torn down to get the "bad guys". Everything.
> 'I'm going to loose weight this year' Okay, how are you going to do that?

About this goal specifically, I found it beneficial to stop thinking about a target weight. Instead think about: What level of fitness do I want? What kind of health do I want? (the two are related, but not the same)

Main reason: If you take up exercise and are not obese or at the higher end of "overweight", you may not lose weight for the first couple of months (or ever!) depending on the style of exercise you've selected and your body's tendency to build muscle. If you take up weightlifting, and are overweight but not obese, you could see your body composition basically trade, nearly pound for pound, fat for muscle. You will look better and feel better but not achieve the weight goal, which can be disheartening to people who have an explicit weight goal even though what they've done has measurably improved their fitness and health. And if you take up running or something similarly cardio intensive, you may gain weight (building up leg and core muscles with running, for instance) in the first few weeks before any weight loss begins. This is similarly disheartening and demotivating.

Instead, think about what fitness or health level you want and why, then work towards them.

My fitness goal was predicated on being able to play back-to-back soccer games (rec league, 70 minute games). So I needed to be able to sustain nearly 2 hours of continuous movement including sprints and extended periods of running/jogging. So I took up running and got my 5k time below 25 minutes, then upped it to 10k runs. A single game left me feeling like I'd just finished a warmup, the second game would leave me feeling like I'd actually exercised but not fatigued.

My health goal was predicated on getting off a statin and reducing my blood pressure (largely work stress induced, but my weight and fitness at the time pushed it into the pre-hypertensive range). So I ate better in order to achieve that, and reduced (not eliminated, still drink coffee black) caffeine in order to improve sleep (both improved sleep and reduced caffeine also helped reduce my anxiety levels and my periodic panic attacks at the time left me, happy side effect).

Both of those left me at a lower weight than I started at, but I had no explicit weight target. If I had, I could've been demotivated by early weight gains (when I started running I went from 215 to 220lbs) or later weight gains (when I added BJJ to my exercise regimen I went from 175 to 190). Both of those were the result of increased muscle mass, but they both took me in the "wrong" direction if weight loss and a weight target were specific goals.
Yes, I very much do. And I want it to be recorded right out in public, on a bright, shiny public blockchain where everybody can see it, recognize them for the violent crazies they are, and dissociate from them.

If you are EXTREMELY knowledgeable and careful, you can transact with Bitcoin anonymously.

Less than 0.01% of the people who make a bunch of noise on Twitter or who stormed the Capitol are going to know how to be able to figure it out correctly.
In my case the Manufacturer (LG) already did the updates, the phone was offered on 2 of 3 carriers, of the 2 one of those carriers are still offering updates for it, but because it was a less popular model on the 2nd carrier it is not longer getting updates
Indeed, and I could have prepared myself for the situation in any number of ways, including monitoring my components status, designing around the dependency, and so forth. I think. Not all suppliers make it easy to discover the status of components.

Do you think that a sole source relationship carries an implied contract of continued service? Should that be a regulation? I don't think I'd like that.

As I understand it, AWS didn't force Parler to sole-source their computing infrastructure. And Parler claimed that they had prepared for such an eventuality.

I don't know if it would apply to the current situation with Parler, as my understanding is that they did agree to terms of service, and that the dispute with AWS over their content moderation didn't come up all of a sudden.
Sailboats are very much like a reverse merger.

The two happiest days of a boat owner's life: the day they buy the boat, and the day they sell the boat.
to clarify, since most people without personal experience in the US criminal system don't know: in the US, you can be, and usually are, sentenced based on crimes and/or facts you were not convicted or even charged for.
FBI: Multiple days of “Armed Protests” planned in all 50 states, and US Capitol
> best to just scan and pattern match the kind of exchanges occurring before moving swiftly along.

How do you do that? I've noticed lately that HN commentary (at least in threads like this) has trended increasingly pro-censorship[1] lately, and it's pretty disheartening to read.

Would rather do something like what you say, but I'm not quite sure what you mean.

[1]: Which is a bit ironic, thinking about it.
The "state of nature" does not include property rights. Markets rely on those property rights (a form of regulation), and are therefore a fundamentally artificial construct.
The complaints have been heard and dismissed for lack of evidence dozens of times in courtrooms across the country.

The president and his lawyers making a claim without presenting evidence is not grounds for overturning an election, full stop. They’re the ones who are lying, fomenting insurrection, and deserve to be shamed.

The people who believe them are unfortunate.
Did they provide any evidence of that, or was it just editorializing? It's not uncommon for new users to start out with limited privileges on some platforms for spam and fraud prevention reasons.
We have the data. That would be easy to prove what percentage of active users called for violence both in public and private messages.
Interesting. How about a doctor, could he legally refuse treatment as well?
It would be great if there was a step-by-step write-up on how to do this with Windows 7 and Windows 10 (as close as you can get anyway)
Even here: my comment is already flagged.
Sounds like a big company problem. In most startups anywhere in the world, I would think they would be pressed for cash to just hire software engineers.
I tried to build one in high school, but it did not work :(

I think the school had a hand powered high voltage generator with some kind of leather band

I took it to university and gave it to a professor who might have a more stable HV power supply. I got it back after a year, and they said it was too dangerous to try it out, or something
The primary requirement for a decentralized social network is "one app and it works". If your network requires anything other than installing a single application via the normal, easiest software installation pathway, it has failed and will never be adopted. No matter how l337 it is, if the installation instructions start with "Unzip this file, open port 999 on your router and prepare to edit the text file to start the server..." then it will never and can never work.

Better yet if one can just open up a web browser (installing nothing!) and use it.

ALL other requirements are secondary.
OP never said if he bought a legitimate Apple cable or a third party one. I don’t think I’ve ever seen genuine cables in these kinds of shops even when I travel to Europe but that could still be a locale thing.
Take two copies of K_4. Connect them with a single edge. The minimum cut is the single connector edge while your proposed strategy would delete the three edges out of one of the vertices not incident to the connector edge.
> This really makes it more of a propaganda weapon than a free speech platform.

Which is not surprising, given how the term free speech is getting twisted these days. It seems the term is now used more often to whine about others who don't want to disseminate a faction's lies (without comment!) than to actually argue for the free exchange of ideas in good faith.
Linus Torvalds slams ... himself over latest Linux build
I'm not sure if the reference was intentional, but there are (or, were?) coffeemakers that only work with manufacturer authorized coffee beans. Keurig infamously added a protection mechanism that required "special" coffee-pods to function.

This was, however, seen as outrageous, unlike the current state of smartphones, for better or for worse.
PULLS SUPPORT ? What an odd way to say deny service. The BBC journalists went mad a few years ago and now that's what is left.
If you read your first sentence, you might see how funny it actually is:

"You're the only one who's confused. BLM is both a sentiment and a real political organization. The sentiment is overwhelmingly popular whereas the actual political movement is not."

Yeah, that's not confusing at all. Kind of like "Hey, 'Defund the Police' doesn't mean defund the police" Maybe the organizers should hire (better) PR firms.
Wish you were here, RIP
Teeeeeeechnically I think yes, however in practice active cables are extremely rare (they start beyond 2m, not 50cm EDIT: incorrect, sorry!) and the redriver might even work for USB3 even if it's not specified. There isn't really all that much difference on the barebones electrical level; the most significant factor is the symbol rate, which is in the same range.

(Not sure if the Type-C negotiation will prevent them from working; it might.)

Ed.: after a quick check, active cables seem to crop up at 40G && >= 1m. 40G 2m cables seem to all be active, at 1m it's either. Couldn't find any "20G" active cables.
Ah, right, I misread the original description of what they were doing.

As is, then, it really is just making the hashed password the new password. If I can get the hashed password out of the DB, I can load the login page and simply skip the initial hashing step that's done on the frontend. I now have access to the account without ever knowing the original password.
Regardless of technical viability, any service without moderation is a service mainstream society will shun, which really just means people won't use it, build tools for it, or generally accept others who use the service.

People seem to both want a service that is immune from society and also used by society. That's a conflict that won't resolve.
I think it's a trap either way. The flip side can also be just as problematic.

Having people sincerely wishing you the best, congratulating you on your initiative and dream-chasing tends makes it feel like you're doing something positive. All you've done, however, is talk about it and are already getting rewarded. That undermines real motivation to start/continue far too easily.

Let those rewards come naturally and from within with actual progress.
I’m getting out of tech by 55. Maybe I won’t go insane in a smaller shop, but watching everyone without experience commit the same atrocities over and over is like hell.

After a remodel I learned how lucrative cabinet makers have it. I started building my wood working shop a while ago and at some I’ll transition to that.

I’ve got some growing and I have a lucrative position, but this battery is about depleted.
Twilio's stock took a noticeable bump upwards today.
How are they not when they support the same group of politicians?
"looking at the examples provided in the buzzfeed articles" isn't much better than looking at screenshots on facebook.
I agree that the flow is not optimal, but for most users it will by definition only happen once in the lifetime of the device. Even if the can’t find the instructions from Google, they can still bring to Apple store for help. If you had to reset Apple devices to default as often as you have with Windows I’m sure they would make it more user friendly.
Power-only cables really are not a thing for USB-C. You need at least the configuration channel in order to negotiate charging voltage and maximum current.

Maybe it's possible to make one lacking both USB 2 and 3 data though, but I haven't seen one yet.

Nor have I seen a public USB-C outlet, for that matter, and I probably wouldn't be plugging my laptop or phone into one anyway: My own charger doesn't only protect me against bad intent, but also against cheap charging circuits that might or might not accidentally expose 220 Volt to my laptop's mainboard in case of faults.
Free Speech is such a disgusting thing we should never allow low IQ people to exist. Is that what you are saying ?
Sen Cortez, Sen Warren, Sen Sanders, Rep Pelosi are a good start.
You could also have A just sign the token for the same effect.
When talking about coal pollution lets not forget toxic metals released into lakes and rivers, such as mercury and arsenic.
I'd rather host this and most other internet services on a box in my house, next to my router. Or, it could be my router. Either way.

It's just really annoying to do that right now and the solutions that attempt to make it easy and slick aren't quite there.

This type of thing could be made more popular with normal people if it's easy enough since popular features which "break" the business models of companies like Facebook become popular (e.g. filtering of news feed that under the users direct control or lossless storage of photos).

I think most people would be happier owning the hardware than renting an online service.
Lost in the woods are ya?
No, it just means they are rarely worth it.
There's a legitimate debate to be had over the consequences of the 1994 crime bill and whether or not is was a good policy. The point is that Instagram (and every other social media platform that puts these disclaimers on their posts) is not merely moderating content any more. They're actively participating in politics and trying to persuade their users to feel a certain way about controversial topics. Which is to say, they're really no different than Parler or any of the big box media outlets.
I thought ECDHE or X25519 suites were pretty common these days; I appear to get the latter when connecting to Cloudflare hosts for example.
> I remember my first attempts at programming and being annoyed that I can't add a string and an int; ever since that little bit of housekeeping of using types made sense to me and I can clearly see how it eliminates entire classes of errors.

Type inference doesn't make these errors go away.

And about your other point, it's unfair to look at just a simple case of writing "string" or not as the only thing inference provides. Although I'd argue that leaving out types where possible helps readability-- it's really the more elaborate cases or intermediate steps during a longer transformation that inference helps with. Not to mention the fact that inference in closures is also really nice.
Barclays? Was cracked both times by me :)

Disagree that hardening the API server is any better. This is the approach common in the US market, and my team has broken everything available there too. Also disagree with insinuations that these banks don't have good, modern stacks. Barclays in particular is great. Way better than any challenger bank.

Lloyds also took a similar approach to Barclays but they did a better job than Barclays did (although Barclays did a great job themselves too) and so we never got around to finishing it before we pivoted to the US market. As far as I know it's still unbroken, although I'm pretty sure my colleagues could easily break it today. We've since developed far more sophisticated reversing techniques.
One thing which concerns me a bit about this is that removing Parler removes a big chunk of evidence about how this was planned and who was involved.

- Is this archived?

- Does Law enforcement have access to that archive?

Seems like once it's abundantly clear there is zero profit left in this the owners will abandon any link to the data and let it all rot and vanish. This strikes me as a lost opportunity.
The ramifications for pursuing and persecuting traitors to the United States of American are going to be what, exactly?

Please tell me how rooting out seditionists is a bad thing.
Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines
I'd prefer we just have a daily politics thread and remove all others. I'm really tried of seeing the same arguments over and over, no one agrees with each other, no one will compromise, no one wants to see their own faults, it's so depressing.
Repeating a concrete example from another comment:

> Take two copies of K_4. Connect them with a single edge. The minimum cut is the single connector edge while your proposed strategy would delete the three edges out of one of the vertices not incident to the connector edge.
I am in no way implying that "C++ has a haskellish culture". Neither I would consider it of any advantage. All I said is that modern C++ programmers have no problems using the concepts. There is plenty of those that are used in gobbles of libraries as well. Sure old libraries do not have it but so what?
Show HN: A Windows utility to mute your mic while typing during video calls
> Someone who uses the platform for anything other than political speech has little reason to jump platforms to something that has significantly fewer people and an underdeveloped interface.

In addition to qualms about the idea that there is a significant amount of speech that is truly "other than political speech", I think you're missing a huge (in fact, the biggest) reason for flight from social networks: the mass-scale gaslighting that happens when closed-source algorithms decide to depict the lives of your friends in a way that's designed to produce consumer behavior rather than to give you insight over your community.

To me, the reason to herald the rise of more decentralized social networking is to separate the profit motive from the feed.
In the initial post about the Capitol being shut down,t here were people saying that everyone who broke into the capitol building needed to be tried for treason and executed, or saying that the police should have opened fire and killed anyone who broke in. The mods removed the comments, but HN isn't some paragon of virtue that isn't susceptible to the same calls for violence as any other site.
Yes, it's irreversible. Has been for a very long time.

But reversing it isn't really anybody's goal. The goal is to limit it to something like 2°C, ideally 1.5°C, at least over the rest of the 21st century. The slower climate change is, the better we (and the rest of the ecosphere) can adapt.

There are worst-case scenarios even with that much change, but they don't form the main part of the discussion. In a game-theoretic sense (low probability times high cost) they are probably worth discussing further, but it's hard enough to get people on board for much lower cost solutions. It's generally felt that the 2°C target makes the apocalyptic scenarios unlikely enough that we focus instead on the merely-wildly-unpleasant consequences.

You, in a developing country, are most likely to feel those wildly-unpleasant consequences. But as you observe, you also have the least input to them. As unfortunate as it is, it's fact that fixing the problem will rely on developed nations to fix a problem that they will feel less than you do.

Above 2°C, even those developed countries will feel significant pain. The question is, is that inevitable?

The answer is somewhere between "yes, it already is" and "yes, unless we do something drastic before the end of the decade, which looks increasingly unlikely".
“good” cables would just require you to press the data button (always default to power only)
I could definitely have formulated my opinion better...

If Amazon acted alone, I do not think that there would be an antitrust case. But given that Amazon acted together with the app store duopoly, in what appears to be a coordinated action with the same goal, I think the antitrust case applies. If two very dominant players make a pact with a third not-so-dominant player to squeeze somebody a bit more, it only makes their anti-competitive behavior harsher.

BTW, I believe that Parler really could have prepared better. It is obvious that they did not have a good plan B.
>But the process shouldn't be arbitrary

Curious to know what the process other than market forces should be. Government? Paaah.. they can't even protect kids in schools being shot, control the pandemic or even distribute vaccine in any competent manner. (lots of other examples also come to mind!)

If the president calls for the boycott of Goodyear [0], isn't it also fair for Goodyear to not sell to any of Trumps companies? (Too lazy to look at other boycott tweets)

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/20/finance-2...