skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self hosted Matrix server? They also use jitsi for voice and chat, so I don't know if you have to set that up separately. Maybe they have an ansible role or docker-compose that does both.
https://languagenow.app

I created an HTML app to help you learn Mandarin or German. It's flashcards for vocabulary and writing. I was very excited about it a couple of years ago but then I stopped and now I'm the only one using it.

It's written in go and postgresql and Vue, and right now its just running inside of a "screen" session in a terminal on Linode.
If you wanted to summarize that uncanny Canadian quality about television, movies, and lately startups, it's that they are the artifacts of a mandate, which is usually a condition of some kind of institutional funding, like SREDs, but also a bunch of other vehicles. The finite game is that a lot of capital and incentives come from agencies who have government mandates, which gives everything a certain tint.

So glad to read this. The author wrote a story some months ago about the reason SV angel works is because it's part of the social signalling for wealthy people. You make money, you show you can do it again, and that's what makes you a player. In Toronto, it's different.There are excellent global tech companies in Canada (Ubisoft, EcoBee, Shopify, Pornhub, etc.), but like everywhere, excellence is exceptional.

It's the "why is this weird? Oh, because they had to write around this condition of their granting agency." The US has tons of public funding as well, but much of it is defence driven, which has more general reusable business applicability than say, "culture," driven. Not sure what the solutions are, but something we should put words to as that weirdness has been a ceiling on growth and opportunity here for a couple of decades.
Sounds like a dangerous play. Next election cycle the roles could be reversed and your company might get into "monopoly breakup" group.

I doubt it is that to be honest. I think they are democrat leaning, they are trying to reduce their liability but in doing so putting themselves into the story instead of being outside of it.
>Try getting non-techsavy folk to set up multiple devices, the process is nowhere near viable right now

The process of setting up e2e on a new device these days is basically "scan this QR code and push a button" though.
Signal is my go-to messenger. I use it exclusively, and have advocated others to move to it. There are many sore points with Signal that are well known, but Molly has pointed out a significant one.

I simply do not trust the OS exclusively to keep the messages secure at rest. The fact that I could use a passphrase, swipe pattern, or other mechanism to encrypt the database separately from Android was a boon, and I'm greatly saddened that they have removed that feature.

Perhaps a second layer of encryption doesn't really matter all that much. If Android's security is as bad as I think it is, then a second layer might just amount to security by obscurity. But it's the principle of things.

angry_octet raises an excellent point. I wish this would return as a mainstream feature.
I would argue Facebook and Twitter's function as a social communications enabler can be replaced with any number of services, devices, even just real life. A meeting at a table is obviously not the same as a Facebook group chat, and a poster on a power pole isn't the same as a tweet, but if both platforms shut down tomorrow we'd just use one of the myriad other communication and organizing techniques we all have at our disposal.

Notably, a building owner can take down your posters, and a hotel can refuse to host your conference.
People in this thread are talking about attacks on tech workers in general that aren’t exclusive to Facebook.

It’s a lashing out sparked by wealth inequality and people knowing something is wrong with this country but not sure who to attack or vote for.

Nobody lashes out against Amazon warehouse workers because of brand.
Yeah I actually do think that the profanity can indicate more honesty. The trouble is, if it’s also combined with a personal attack on others it inflames conversations. Two people can then rile themselves up and derail an entire thread.

Of course the comment replying to you did the same thing: made a personal attack on you, and it derailed you into a personal attack with swearing.
Insurrection culture is getting worse. I don’t like where this is going at all.
> Facebook is still a great place to work but the brand is so damaged that it's hard to see how they gain consumer trust

"trust" is not meaningful where the whole purpose of Facebook is to profile people in order to influence (=manipulate) them through advertising and promoted content, and sell their data to third parties for other kinds of (mis)use.

That is what Facebook is about, in terms of its commercial model; it's not as though they're claiming something else and ask you to "trust" them.

(and of course, there's the small matter of letting the US government eavesdrop on all communications.)
I don't think that Signal which is refusing forks or third party clients is any better aligned with the FOSS spirit..

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

"You're free to use our source code for whatever you would like but you cannot use our servers" and they also refuse alternative servers or federation.

So basically you cannot create any fork or alternative client or make any change without their agreement.

They are very "Apple-like" in a way, "we known what's good for you, so just agree with us and don't try to go outside of what we want".

They also refuse to be on F-Droid for plainly false arguments. F-Droid offers double security : author signature + reproducible builds yet they keep pretending that you cannot sign apks on F-Droid and force you to download a non-externally verified apk on their website

Signal in itself is great but the people behind are not reassuring at all I think.
If you say something like "Dont worry its not illegal you'll be fine" you really need a link to some proof. :)
Afaik, Netfix is not breaking TOS of AWS. Parler broke TOS due to threats on it. Parler refused to remove those threads threatening or calling for violence.

Section 230 does not cover AWS, so AWS was theoretically liable if next attack happen.
I havent brushed off crypto, most of my time is just invested in ethereum now rather than bitcoin.
I've always liked this interpretation of MPAA ratings.

“If a man is pictured chopping off a woman’s breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman’s breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?”
— Sally Struthers
This is exactly it! Thank you very much.
well, there are some reasons for [1][2], it also was on HN before too [3].
I came up to it as i was looking for an alternate which is free, real end-to-end encryption (not just to the server) and doesn't need your or any phone number to create an account.
There is a payed Version (obviously for professional occasions) and also a Desktop Version. So all in all a great Package. I suppose it makes money through it payed Version. (havn't checked that, just assume it) It promisses not to steal data and says its not possible by design.[4]

[1] https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2020/01/23/deploye...
[2]https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22129436
[4]https://medium.com/cryptoblog/the-untrusted-server-19aff573c...
See also the protagonist Cayce Pollard, introduced in William Gibson's 2003 novel 'Pattern Recognition'.
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We might actually be on the verge of a civil war, but it won't look like the last one. It will look more like "the troubles" in Ireland.
We went through this at AIG during the financial crisis. No fun. I feel for them. We had to return our security badges and exchange them for new ones without AIG identifiable info on them so that we wouldn’t get harassed on the subway. And were told to keep quiet about who we worked for.

99% of the people at AIG had nothing to do with the business that contributed to the financial crisis. In fact, the business unit most responsible was in Connecticut (we were in the Financial District in Manhattan). So it was pretty frustrating to be a worker bee making a middle income salary and having no insight to or ability to influence the issues causing the financial crisis, and yet having strangers wanting to yell at or physically harm you.
No it’s not. It’s not consumers abandoning Twitter because Trump is there that caused Twitter to ban him. And it’s not because people boycotted iPhones that Apple booted Parler.

In most cases it’s the exact opposite. They ban people and things that are incredibly popular on their platforms.
Sure you can remove something that's just simply stitched onto a garment, I remove most of the tags from a lot of my clothing that way. The stitches usually need to be removed from many of my pants pockets too, so I'm very familiar with removing stitches.

However, the vast majority of logos I see on clothes are actually part of the clothing, that's what I meant by "stitched in." I realize now, via Google, I meant "embroidered on."

EDIT: Just went through my closet and I found there's another large category of logos that are screen printed on. There were zero I personally saw that could be removed with a knife without heavily damaging the fabric. Maybe men's clothing is different.
The cost of targeted ads, as they are currently implemented, is privacy. The juice ain’t worth the squeeze.
Happens every day. Mods can do a form of shadowbanning on a specific subreddit. So the very active and unaware can keep posting and posting and not know.

I don’t necessarily think this is unreasonable if used judiciously against the type of account which has shown unwillingness to heed rules or mod warnings.
> 1. "It turns out that Facebook also buys data about your offline purchases.

Off-Facebook activity (https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/)

710 points by bigbaguette 11 months ago | un‑favorite | 382 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178917
Canada also adds 1% to its population in babies, who can't work at all, and are fully dependent on others for housing, healthcare, and social programs.
Of course we're talking about what should happen; that's even the word you used in your first post.

Public utilities and antitrust are not new concepts, nor is this really a private property issue. It's about power and control over our private lives (which should come first before corporations). The internet has changed everything in less than 2 decades and laws from a century ago are no longer sufficient.

When governments start asking for social media accounts at border crossings, and Twitter claims to be a public square, and even it's CEO says that social media is a human right; we need to address the new digital equivalence of our existing protections.
> So if someone in (for example) Thailand posts something negative about Thailand's king Twitter would be required to remove that post, while if someone in the US does that they would take no action. Do you really think this is a good idea?

It already is happening that way. What is GDPR then? As a European citizen you can ask for removal of content about you while a US Citizen or an Indian Citizen doesn't have that right (not yet atleast). Another example: I am from India. Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India. Now in Google Maps you'll see it as part of India if you are in India. But the moment you travel out of India, Jammu and Kashmir is shown as disputed territory between India, Pakistan and China. If you land in China a portion of Ladakh is shown as part of China (Aksai Chin). If you land in Pakistan a portion of Kashmir is shown as part of Pakistan. This is because all 3 countries claim the territory to be theirs. So if you display the territory as disputed in India you are in violation of our Constitution and will attract huge fines and can even be barred from setting up a company in India ever again.

These peculiarities always existed from many years. It is not new for social media platforms to regulate such things. They have already been doing it. It is far easier to regulate these small issues than regulate the entire social network. When you do the latter scope for getting it wrong is way higher than scope for getting it right.

> Twitter can't decide what is illegal only a court can do that. Irregardless of how clear the law is, there will have to be an appeal process and anyone unhappy with Twitter's moderation...

Why can't Twitter decide? They can decide. They already do it for illegal content. If you upload child porn or threaten someone with murder it becomes illegal and Twitter will remove it either automatically or when reported. That won't change. You can drag Twitter to court but you will lose in the first hearing itself when evidence is presented. In fact you'll be setting yourself up for prison time by voluntarily implicating yourself. That is why having it codified as a Law is so much more effective. There is no scope for ambiguity. And it's not easy to file a court case. You have to pay lawyer fees, you'll have to pay court fees at the very minimum. No one in the right frame of mind will needlessly move court over a tweet they put out which even they know is illegal. In fact, Twitter can be dragged to court if what they banned wasn't illegal. That gives more power to users and counter balances the Section 230 power that social media companies enjoy.
"In contrast, infinite games are played for the purpose of continuing to play. You do not “win” infinite games; these are activities like learning, culture, community, or any exploration with no defined set of rules nor any pre-agreed-upon conditions for completion. The point of playing is to bring new players into the game, so they can play too. You never “win”, the play just gets more and more rewarding."

Sounds nice...
If the U.S. DOD is involved, then no -- it will not be
'open'.

Americans always play weird games with the truth, what they think you'll allow them to get away with when they lie straight to your face.
For now, I’ve resorted to extracting the rootfs of the cloud key plus firmware images, and running UniFi protect in a LXD container on a raspberry pi.
I’ve not tried this with their cloud access, and could not get the app to work with it yet.
I’d like to do a writeup at some point, but not sure if I could get in legal trouble...
Ringleaders will come and go, but that won’t stop the millions without hope or opportunity from looking for alternatives.
>Republicans have fought for people's right to do so. If you recall the case of baker that didn't want to make a gay wedding cake.

IIRC The baker had no problem with supplying a cake, the only thing the baker did not want to do is custom decorate the cake. The nuance being, they would supply the base product to everyone but did not want to endorse something they object to.
I find this particularly disturbing. Not because I think it's anything on the part of Salesforce, but that all these different corporations believe that this is something they HAVE to do. Government's don't just rule by hard power; they also rule by soft power. Soft power is social power. And the fact that companies believe that there will be negative consequences if they do not disavow the party that is now out of power, and all those that supported that party is a very dangerous situation. I think it's bad for business if that level of coercive power, hard or soft, is hanging over companies.

I think it's especially bad for startups. Parler was a startup that was rapidly growing, a real startup with an actual ceo and actual investors, and AWS yanked the rug out from under them, and I doubt they'll be the last. I wonder how many promising companies that would otherwise be able to exist because we cared about their products and not their politics are likely to stop before they start, or else die early due to this environment.
Purchasing Power Parity. The raise could end up entirely going to rent and healthcare
The complete lack of sense of scale that is on display when making comparisons between either of those and a one-term clown who will go down as a footnote in history is borderline disturbing.

Get some perspective.
Do you think that is why they banned him?
Not even less than a week ago, there was a thread about how to "nail the Facebook interview" and how it is kind of expected to cram and prep for these "abstract problem-solving whiteboard interview"

If there is one thing that Facebook developers should not have an issue with, it's in passing these kind of processes.

I'd worry about the opposite: if the typical image of a Facebook employee is of a drone suited at "studying to the test", working at a company with zero ethical principles and justifying it by the good money, then how will they be able to adapt to a more value-based job?
I was surprised to see my dad and a few relatives ask me about Signal today and when I logged on, they were on it.
It's a failure when people don't feel physically safe to state their entirely opinions, identities, and allegiances, yes. It's the principle of free expression.
That's bullshit, CGNAT is likely to cause all sorts of issues that the average users aren't going to realize being caused by their "I"SP (A frequent one : being unable to host video game sessions). They aren't getting real Internet, and are being treated as second tier citizens.
It punishes the decision makers at the company, all of whom hold concentrated positions in their company's stock.
There is already a substantial inequality in consumption across different income bands. E.g., 2018 data shows that the "Bottom 40% of US income distribution account for no more than 22% of total consumption. Top 20% account for almost 40%." [0]

I could see the capitalistic economy continuing to function despite a shrinking middle class if this consumption inequality grows.

Going with the jeans example, the 500 middle class families buying 5,000 pairs of jeans at $40 each ($200,000 total) may be replaced by 50 upper middle class families buying 1,000 pairs of jeans at $200 a pair.

I'm certainly not endorsing nor condoning such growing inequalities.

[0] https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1308013103855087618
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Looking for examples of good design from api to the docs

Thanks!
-> The attempted overthrow of an elected government

You're giving that rabble too much credit. It more resembled the spasms of a dying bird, than a Bay of Pigs.
It's not a question of property damage, this is the great foretold National Security Emergency. We've spent twenty years giving up our privacy for this.

If you want to bring up costs, it's only fair to call into question the damage to the US reputation internationally. Having this type of security threat on a national scale is terrible for trade and strategic relations. I'm a Canadian, I don't trust my closest neighbour right now. That's an entirely incalculable cost.
mandatory One page Thing[1] for J.

[1]:https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
> “We don’t think there was fraud but to ensure faith in fair elections and democracy we fully support a full investigation / audit. We have the utmost confidence in the outcome of this investigation / audit.”

How many times do you want them to recount Georgia? Read the transcript of Trump's call with Raffensperger—they investigated all of these rumors, and they turned out to be nonsense.

And the simple answer to your question is, because nobody believes that a "full investigation" would ensure anybody's faith in the election. Accusations of fraud started the night of the election, they're not based on evidence. And so no amount of investigating will ever be enough. Or as Jonathan Swift put it: "It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
So only woke liberals are “decent human beings”? Ron Paul is an “unrepentant asshole”?
British Model Naomi Campbell signs deal to market Kenya
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-cyber/se...

"A Senate Intelligence Committee report released on Tuesday supports three U.S. intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russia tried to help Donald Trump win the 2016 U.S. presidential election."

Are you saying there wasn't collusion?
Sheldon Adelson, Billionaire Donor to GOP and Israel, Is Dead at 87
Do you mean 'responsible'? I don't see how they could possibly be held liable.
Boardgame Recommendation Engine based on collections from boardgamegeek.com. Needs more work. Built it off of the R Shiny platform.

https://larrydag.shinyapps.io/boardgame_reco/
And hand writing post it notes is the same as owning a newspaper?
This is a good point and I agree with it. The market will sort this out better than we could with regulation. I do think that some may see this is a reason to go back to their own data center. It's also a reason why some content creators moved off Patreon to their own subscription services. Although to rebut my own point, that doesn't seem to have affected Patreon much at all.
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That’s a perfectly reasonable reason for a business to do something.
Scientific predictions do not align with a political flavor just because you slapped the same label on both.
I wouldn't be worried too much about fabrication by journalists. I assume most of those "leaks" are intentionally dispersed by 3-letter agencies as kind of unofficial press releases.
You’re right, we can make sure to stop any such attempt early on, before it gets big.
Signal increased limits for group calls
few still: https://www.appledystopia.com/news/intel-and-amd-processors-...
Latvia? That's home to Mikrotik, this sounds quite dodgy. Prolly it was a move aimed at draining some talent from them.
I think you have to read the standard as: did this lead to violence? If you do, it doesn’t seem like a double standard anymore.
Five Whys
Or they’ll be even more awesome as Disney’s technical abilities are integrated and leveraged in their theme parks. People pay good money to visit the parks for a reason. You can’t get that experience any other way.
A deploy freeze is meant to stop production from potentially needing to be rolled back when bugs are introduced at a time engineers are away (holidays) or fighting other fires (earnings calls, DDOS, Prime Day, etc).

You don't want engineers breaking things when you've got something else distracting you.
You do however choose your religion and yet that is a protected class...

This is not a road we should be going down.
So, medium and long term, what's the plan here (in the market)? Are we going to have "Republican Friendly" services for everything? CRM? Social media? Patreon alternative? App stores??

Seems like the market at some point is going to step in here and serve - wait for it - about half the country, 150m people. (and then let's not forget about the rest of the world, who probably don't want to get involved in US politics, and aren't particularly happy seeing the interference of silicon valley companies in everything - see Merkel and France's ministers statement in the last few days).
Or it could just be cronyism

It's this. In my experience (line manager), when a new C-level is hired, within two years, they've usually replaced 50% of the VP/directors that sit below them in the org. That's far too much churn for it to be because those particular VP/directors are brilliant - by extension, that would mean the outgoing VP/directors were not - except many of them went to work for the recently departed C-level! They can't all be brilliant and they can't all be useless, so we're largely left with cronyism.