skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds almost as conspiracy theory-esque as some posts you'll find on parler or other corners of the internet. Would like to see some proof or screenshots as least. That might make a facebook post worthy of posting to HN.

Edit: I Read the posts from the relevant twitter account which shared some screenshots. Some of the lines from this facebook post other twitter posts are I think still a bit of stretch / speculation, but it definitely seems parler's data has been lifted by a number of parties.
People forget about the streisand effect. Forget about morality, is it even effective because it seems to cause the opposite effect and no one seems to care.
This reads like hackerman fan fiction. Not sure if I buy it. Is there a better source?

Edit: OK, I just read the Twitter feed of the poster in the screenshot. This is a massive misinterpretation of what the archivists are doing. They're doing an archival web crawl and sharing a docker image for volunteers.
First, “harm” is a purely human concept.

That aside, there is no collaboration without competition, there is no peace without conflicts and vice versa.

This is how living systems evolve.

Digging deeper you’ll find that our world is inherently dual.

And people just follow natural tendencies and reflect that fact like any other system.

But sometimes on a much higher scale (just like we produce energy or food on same high scale).
Do they allow creating accounts just for testing? Would I risk that they close them?

One thing that annoys me about the lack of a test environment is also that they allow only one webhook URL per account. I have three environments for my SaaS, dev/staging/prod. So with Chargebee I have the "live site" (as they call it) linked to the prod environment with its own webhook URL. Then I have the "test site" shared between dev and staging. But with Chargebee I can add multiple webhook URLs, so all events get sent to both dev and staging and each environment only cares about its own events.

With Paddle, unless I create three accounts for the different environments, I would have to somehow share a webhook URL between at least dev and staging if I create one account for dev/staging and another for production. I guess I could create a simple app that proxies requests to the environments by looking at some string that tells which environment the event is for (I know that Paddle allows you to add a passthrough setting with some custom data - do you know if this persists across all future events for a subscription?)
That really depends on the state. Some states redistribute tax money across school districts.
My goodness it’s a good thing you don’t freely associate with a site called Hacker News.
FBI has taken over dark web porn sites (I shouldn't have to explain what that means) and used them as honeypots for months before making arrests. It's a pretty common tactic.
He has something more powerful than facts, lies.
I specifically said (Trump|QAnon). It's pretty hard to tell the average trump supporter apart from the average QAnon supporter.

And you could look at my comments and those who commented in return to find your 3-4 posters. That's pretty easy, right?
At this point the partisan hyperbole is thick enough that one can take a look at the title, domain name and reliably predict the content of the article.

It would be encouraging if individuals could take the media and political institutions 'seriously'. Instead, as you observe, the divisions are being driven deeper. Dissenters are being labeled terrorists. Those who wear there tolerance on their shirt sleeves can't tolerate disagreement. They claim that only intolerant people disagree.

If 50k+ people march on the Capitol Building, at what point are the politicians within responsible for failing to represent their interests? Isn't that a basic premise of democracy, that violence will be averted by proportional representation?

If half the country finds no credibility in media reportage, at what point are reporters responsible?

Was there nothing else that the media or the political establishment could have done to address the public's concerns and add legitimacy to the process? Or is it simply enough to dismiss them all as terrorists?

Obviously this strategy hasn't worked thus far, yet the establishment seems keen on doubling down.

According to the narrative I've seen, the above non sequiturs should be ignored. The circumstances are special. It is all the work of an exceptional conman. The people have been deceived because they are not as intelligent or compassionate as their betters. Of course, you dear reader are part of the in-group. Allow me to throw you some platitudes as I demonize the others. Our form of tribalism is nothing like theirs.

This time is different, but it is also the same as that other time. That time another political figure kept repeating the same lie. Be sure that is not our tribe repeating lies about the out-group. Did I mention that this time is different?
Is Parler a Russian OP? Is this conspiracy theory or facts? https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1327270213256179712

I haven't seen any "proper" news channels touching founding/funding subject.
NewsBlur has a built-in Twitter client.
Same in India as you mentioned. Dealers have some inventory for "want to buy NOW" customers.
I know someone working to archive Parlers content on the archive team, but everything being downloaded is publicly available urls.
Moxie clearly states that: the competition is framed in such a way that it would be bordering impossible to break it even uf it had been using primitives known to be broken.
The Pfizer trial had about 20,000 people in each arm. That's just not enough data to detect rare side effects at a rate anywhere near high enough to know that the vaccine is safer than covid itself for younger/healthier populations who aren't at risk. For the young, healthy, 0 to 19 age range the infection fatality rate of COVID-19 is around 1 in 2.5 million: https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/9/e003094

Normally that wouldn't be a big problem, as vaccines are usually rolled out relatively slowly, so population wide monitoring should pick up on any issues. But countries are aiming to vaccinate as close to 100% as they can get within a matter of months.
Another interesting quote:

“ Following this approach, in our model we consider the message encryption scheme used in MTProto 2.0 as a robust authenticated-encryption scheme, abstracting from its actual implementation.”

So yeah, they’re abstracting away the AE part of it, which may not be an accurate reflection of what telegram uses.

That being said, they’re aware this is a strong assumption:

“ Namely, the only assumption we make is that the latter is an authenticated encryption scheme, guaranteeing both integrity of ciphertext (INT-CTXT) and indistinguishability of chosen plaintext (IND-CPA). These properties are difficult to prove in a symbolic model like ProVerif’s, but can be proved in a computational model, e.g. using tools like CryptoVerif or EasyCrypt [5, 2]. This assumption may appear strong, especially considering that Telegram has been widely criticized for its design choices (such as ad hoc cryptographic primitives and an unusual encryption mode), and vulnerabilities have been found in MTProto v1.0 (but actually, none of these attacks have been replicated on the new MTProto 2.0). Still, proving the logical correctness of the protocol under a fairly general threat model is very important because, if a weakness in the protocol exists, it must be looked for in the “lower-level” part of the protocol, among the chosen cryptographic functions and other implementation choices.”
"Stripe is the Christian bakery and Trump is the gay wedding."
Sure, the consequences of soft endorsing violence on Twitter are really huge; like being denied from using or just posting on Twitter.

Clearly not comparable to being put in a jail, and losing a job as well as future access to some jobs.
Imagine using incremental counts as a file name for all your received files in this day and age
I don't think sending a one liner and a link to Wikipedia is keeping in good spirit with this forum.
You can on zoom (at least if you’re the host and the other is presenter). I use this all the time. It might even work if you’re not the host. I think it’s called Annotations- but the friction is that it’s a meta mode and IIRC you can’t do that while living in the main menu.
And the entire post is in quotation marks, without it being clear what the person is quoting.

I guess they're quoting this twitter account? https://twitter.com/donk_enby
See also this pre-print:

https://twitter.com/iDRAMALab/status/1347280648915062787
> The thing is, I don't think the complexity is even close to the same in the two cases.

Agreed (but probably on the opposite end as you)

It seems a lot like you've been scorned in the past and that's driving a lot of your statements now (which is totally fine and fair). I'm trying to bring up that, for every problem you've just defined, the literal exact same problem exists for colo/managed servers, except it is now also your problem to keep the lights on and the machine running.

> literally every small business I have ever worked in as a tech worker has had several people at the office who were perfectly capable of buying a switch or firewall or router and spending the few minutes required to configure it or buying a server and installing Linux/Windows and then whatever server software it needed again very quickly.

I'm sorry, if you believe that building and deploying production-ready server infrastructure is as easy as "Just going out and buying a switch and spending a few MINUTES installing linux" (emphasis mine) - I feel like we aren't talking about the same thing at all. Not even close.
I doubt it. There's a long history of self-important "we're going to create an alternative to X social media site/service, but with FrEe sPeEch!!!" sites built by largely incompetent grifters.
This is an issue with X11 which I don't know exactly where it comes from and what causes it. Yes, it has to do with the async nature of it all and I agree it's stupid and it's a miracle the desktop even works. Over time, I've been wondering if Windows dodges this simply by having syscalls that interface with window procedures while Xorg deals horribly with it by being pure userland. Another issue is, there's no mapping of pid <-> X11 window. It's simply impossible with the current design of client-server.
Yes and no.

It's inadmissable in court, but that data can be legally used as tips, leads and to inform an investigation for more legal data collection avenues: it's called Parallel Construction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

An example would be a police tip phone-number: it's all hearsay (unless it's a confession) and largely cannot be admitted into court directly, but it definitely leads to collecting solid evidence later on by investigators who can get warrants.
It is transparent lie. They came in prepared for it. They had bombs, zip ties, clubs, etc.
Do they really think the election was rigged or is that just what they say to signal each other and 'trigger' the libs? These aren't starry-eyed idealists whose naïve beliefs about politics have suddenly been crushed, they voted for for the rudest blowhard on Twitter after having him as President for the last 4 years.

They know he pushes hardline policies, they know he's super-antagonistic, they know he's been impeached for corruption, they know that half of what he says makes no sense. They may not like or approve of Biden (I don't either tbh) but Trump voters absolutely know who he is. Poll after poll has established that a plurality of them them don't really give a shit about democracy and that loyalty to Trump is their top concern.

I think what you're worried about is that if they get shut down they will become more aggressive, and I agree that's highly likely. But the approach of appeasing these people and soothing their ruffled feathers has been tried for years and they have just become more and more aggressive over that time. You have a draw a line somewhere, and their attempt to overrun Congress and halt the confirmation of an election seems like a good place to do it.
Yes. You had to take a picture of a government ID in order to get certain user privileges.
I disagree largely because you're extrapolating the exception to be the rule. There were hundreds of thousands of people there and 99% of them never even entered the Capitol buildings.

I think the most telling part of intent is coming from the arrest data. There have been less than a handful of arrests due to firearms. Two of them were alarming (one had mason jar IEDs, one was making assassination threats at Pelosi). I am sure we will get more of what I would agree with you were "people with an intent to intimidate officials", but they are going to make up less than 99.5% of the hundreds of thousands of people that were there to demonstrate. The bulk of arrests have been curfew related - no surprises there.

I think it helps to put ourselves in the mindset of the people there, regardless of what side you're on. These people were upset that while the "fraud" of 2016 (the Russian collusion narrative) was thoroughly investigated and proven to be false after 3.5 years of dragging the President through the mud, the 2020 "fraud" allegation feels like it's being completely ignored.

And look I do not think there was enough fraud to change the results (I assume that in any election with no voter ID there will be some fraud, period). What I think is problematic is when instead of investigating allegations to appease 70 MM of your constituents, you instead say "no investigation and if you even ask about this you must be de-platformed, banned from the internet, and are probably a terrorist". That response is extremely dictatorial and not the sign of someone acting with good intentions. That's what scares me much more than anything than the fraction of a percent of demonstrators did.
I have users in my database anyway, so in the worst case scenario I can just revert to Chargebee (I will leave the current integration as is just in case, and disable it in favor of Paddle) and ask users to subscribe again without recreating the whole account and without losing any of their data. It's unfortunate to ask users to resubscribe though...
I pretty much agree with everything you wrote. The part that scares me is this:

> It's a mistake for the Democrats to obsess over blaming and castigating those people, instead of focusing on convincing them, swaying them, educating them, peeling away voters and ultimately delivering real life improvements (the big part of that) if they truly believe they have a better path to offer for their future.

What if there simply isn't a better path? Between automation and foreign competition, it might simply not be possible to return to an economy like the one we had post-WWII.

This is where everyone comes along to tell me about UBI, but I think this is not addressing the problem. A lot of people don't want to be handed free money, they want opportunities to work and improve their lives. A slower treadmill is still a treadmill. I wonder if it is simply impossible to provide that, and maybe the current reality is close to the best this is going to get.

I think maybe the best possible future is one where many (and eventually most) people live out their lives hooked up to an opiate IV and a VR headset.
You're speaking as we - I'm just gently curious who you mean? Have you surveyed (even informally) HN users?

But anyways, I like your point about the usability of the imageboard format. I really don't like the Reddit/HN style
> what is the evidence for this?
>
> ...this is a not a mob out for literal blood.

No, this was 100% a mob out for literal blood. There is a STAGGERING amount of evidence.

There's video of a large crowd of the rioters chanting "hang Mike Pence!" They erected a gallows with a noose outside the Capitol. There's video of people yelling that they came to get Pence and Pelosi. Squads of milita wore tactical armor and helmets, and carried not just assault rifles and handguns, but also flexcuffs. You don't get that stuff in the spur of the moment. They came prepared. Other rioters were carrying lead pipes and wooden rods. There was even one rioter caught on video carrying a literal pitchfork.

They beat one police officer to death with a fire extinguisher and injured more than 50 others. That is clearly a mob out for blood.

As for more evidence, for months in advance, Trump supporters filled Parler, Gab, Twitter, Reddit, TikTok, Facebook, and many other social media outlets with detailed detailed discussions of plans to commit violence and in many cases murder at this event. NYPD and the FBI received a ton of reports from concerned citizens who saw this social media chatter. The insurrectionists talked about what weapons to bring, which politicians to target in order of priority, and so much more. It was reported that they had maps with them of the tunnels under the Capitol building so that they could cut off escape routes.

Freshman lawmaker Lauren Boebert tweeted Speaker Pelosi's whereabouts multiple times during the riot. She did not tweet anything which indicated any degree of surprise that the riot was occurring.

Jim Clyburn has two offices in the Capitol, one right next to the front doors and one way up on the third floor. It was reported that the rioters ignored Clyburn's obvious office next to the doors and instead made a beeline for the more secluded office on the third floor.
Europe is horrible. Idiots at a biology lab that I had the misfortune of working for a while categorized Bioinformatics devs and analysts at the same level as technicians.
Well, for one using a file picker doesn't imply mouse usage and secondly, how would you do something like uploading a pdf or picture in your web browser?
the data is available on the twitter account linked in the article including screenshots of internal moderation tools. Seems real enough.

edit: not sure about the no-fly stuff, that may as well be made up
However, the Mac was about the only system getting this right by rigorously prioritizing UI events on the system level.

(Which is also, why applications like Photoshop on Windows weren't a viable option for professional users for some time, until hardware became faster. How do you draw or paint, if the events representing your gestures are not synchronized, as they are subject to system load?)
The FBI doesn't just up and tell people when it gets a warrant. They only have to disclose if they prosecute. And even then often not.

At this point were in national security letter territory.
Actually I know I do when I say it. Mainstream news is fine if you avoid the opinion stuff. Just approach it looking for details and facts and weed out the opinion. Trump ruined "fake news" as a descriptor by claiming that all news other than news which supports him was "fake news"
I think it's the same thing with any provider. As long as you have users in your own database, you can just ask them to resubscribe when you switch provider. Not sure if some users would cancel because of this inconvenience.
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There's a difference between allowed to use to investigate and allowed to use in court as valid evidence if it was not properly acquired with a valid warrant.

The issue is that 97% of all federal court cases are settled before trial and never reach that stage because people often admit guilt and take a plea deal and don't know their own rights.

Also relevant: https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE
This kind of companies don't have software engineers per se, they outsource everything and just keep management around, even IT.
Cynicism like this gives space for the lies to spread.
2016 was stolen? by whom, the Russians?

Here's the thing: How can you expect any one to believe on the one hand that for four years we have had an illegitimate president who is simultaneously a Russian agent and Orange Hitler...

and yet tell me that 2020 was a perfectly run election?

Are you telling me that patriotic Americans across the country would not due their duty to remove an illegitimate President by any means necessary (including fraud)?

I'm not even saying 2020 was stolen, but the cognitive dissonance in saying 2020 was legit but 2016 was not is massive.
Unrelated, but the fruit of the poison tree doctrine (which you are citing) has exceptions, like the good-faith exception.
I'm just curious but what were the issues with a few of elementary OS's core decisions that you have?

I know personally I'm not a fan of Ubuntu or that it's the LTS version too but I know that you can use Pantheon, it's desktop environment, on other distros (something I have been considering myself).
Prosody is also used by the Jitsi videoconferencing solution.
Alexnet software has improved 44x in past 8 years, hardware something like 11x.

https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-efficiency/
Using TFA's analogy, that's a workaround where you use the neighbour's toilet.
> My initial intent was to find a way to judge if given project is a good use of time for a first time contributor, someone not affiliated with original authors.

so what does this contextless number you submitted here tells us about that? Please be careful with spreading around stats like that without context.
People are able to evaluate bias in others and propaganda they disagree with far better than their own biases and propaganda they agree with. No person or group should have the power to decide on their own what is "true"
Demonetization has been a common occurrence for leftist online figures, even ones that are not at all "radical".
I did not see a link, but I do see the Twitter screenshots at the bottom. I don't have a Facebook so maybe I can't see links in the post. Could you post the relevant link?

Edit: I have now seen the Twitter account and relevant screenshots / posts, thank you for making me take another look
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