skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reminds me of Pascal's wager. How confident can one be that one's chosen political team will definitely win out in the long run? 90%? That seems very high, but even if you're 99% sure, are you willing to act in a way that will surely warrant retribution in the unlikely adverse scenario? Seems like a pretty dumb wager to make.
AFAIK, they have not publicly released any data dumps from this (yet? Maybe they're planing to).

If I were sitting on a dataset like this, I'd probably try to share it with the authorities like the FBI and selected journalists who I feel would behave responsibly.
...and you are 100% sure that if this got before a court, the decision would go your way?
Honestly, you're not wrong. It seems going back to having a separate plug for thunderbolt would solve a lot of problems. Effectively, you already need to buy special cables for it, so they might as well look different to prevent confusion.
They ignored AWS’s warnings for weeks. It seems unlikely that a grace period would do anything.
When I open this link in iPhone safari I get a strange popup about downloading 3887 something? Strange...
highly disagree considering how much bs exists posing as fact/information.
This is not comparable because screaming fire in a theatre isn't an opinion, which free speech set out to protect. It is a dishonest argument to justify cracking down on dissent from my perspective.
> Parler allows hate speech.

Parler literally says it doesn't allow itself to be used for "civil tort". I can't argue with you if you refuse to even acknowledge the legal terminology used here.

Anyways I'll leave this link for you to learn more about how Civil torts are used to combat hate speech: https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
I think that's correct for thin film panels. But it appears that monocrystalline panels can be manufactured with some flexibility. Hence my usage of the term "semi-flexible". Sunpower, for example, claims to produce high efficiency semi-flexible monocrystalline panels that would flex sufficiently for use on a bimini top, for example.

It further appears that my statement "high efficiency panels are typically semi-flexible without the frame" is inaccurate- they are typically not reasonably described as semi-flexible, even without the frame and coating.
A more obvious criterion would be that there's no implication the people who compromised Parler actually do any kind of research on computer security. The article indicates this was a script-kiddie level vulnerability.

On the other hand if an actual researcher leaks data they're still a researcher; they might be a bad person, but that's orthogonal.
The Pixel devices do this well. If it doesn't trust the OS the bootloader shows a big scary warning. If the OS is signed by Google then it boots up without the warning.

So when you got your second hand device you just need to check the bootloader while booting. If it warns then you need to flash a stock iamge.
Key assumption: the perpetrator is willing to leave the driver alive.
Wait — there's a very important question here — why should Twitter face prosecution if news networks that aired hours of uncut Trump speeches do not? Should every organization that has published or platformed possibly violence-inciting speech from Trump (without heavy editorialization) be on the hook as well? Where does it end?
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It would be a potentially smart move by Apple to allow installing other OSs in iOS hardware. The market share grab part of this segment is mostly gone so they probably wouldn't lose much and it would help with their arguments about the App Store and other iOS restrictions. They could say that in iOS those are the rules but if you want to do something else with the device you own you can install something else. It might even win them some customers. They would win my business if I could install an open-source OS under my control on a phone like I do on my laptop. LineageOS is not even close unfortunately because of poor hardware support.
Is it fair game and legal to break into a wallet via cryptographic means alone? I mean without hacking someone's computer/storage to steal the private key that is.

I understand this is not realistic right now, but might be if someone has discovered new math or physics for example.
lawmakers != government
>Why would anyone design a system that way

Because they knew that, being a save haven for violent white supremacists, it was likely one or more of their service providers would terminate service and wanted to continue to operate despite any termination.
Yeah, but i'm sure they're encrypted at rest so I doubt they'll be accessible.

/s
I see it as technology that enables the legal framework.
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Hmmm... comes close to lynching a ton of people, if you ask me. Never mind who´s right or wrong, the point is that we all agree upon trusting a judicial system to do this kind of thing, don´t we?
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r/conservative r/conspiracy r/donaldtrump all come to mind as communities that (up until one was recently banned) complained about censorship while constantly banning users for providing debate.

Heck, I signed up for Gab and was almost immediately banned from the entire site after sharing my liberal opinion.
> getting into a Python code base was the most difficult one, because of the lack of typed method parameters

Yup, this is probably my main issue with Python. I love writing it when I'm working on personal projects, having to read massive Python code bases at work feels unnecessarily tedious due to how much work you have to do sometimes just to find out the type of something.
So cyber criminals stole millions of peoples private communications and leaked them online — people who did nothing and who are under no individual suspicion?

And HN is cheering?

Patriot Act 2.0 in 3... 2... 1....

What’s extra funny is I recognize the names cheering — and on other days, they’d talk about how the Patriot Act is wrong.

But these are bad hombres, you see?
The distinction, that AWS, Google, and Apple have all claimed, is that Parler refuses to sufficiently moderate the inciting of violence. Perhaps that claim is in error, perhaps such judgements are too subjective. If so, large social media companies might avoid AWS for fear of it.
Correct, You obviously forgot the last 8 months where multiple people were killed, federal and private buildings were lit on fire, politicians were assaulted and they setup multiple "autonomous" zones.
Perhaps I missed the latest phase of word games where the word 'milkshakes' encapsulates this sort of behavior?
I don't think it's fair to lump everyone into a pile like that. I agree with the decision of tech companies not to host Parler and disagree with leaking its contents. The comments section on any forum is made of a variety of people with a variety of views. You shouldn't be looking at a web forum for consistency.
> Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act

I'm not that familiar with US consumer law. What makes this regulation favourable compared to the equivalent EU laws?
It would be interesting if power companies run by various oligarchs started disconnecting power to AWS servers: “go generate your own power”

Or maybe food delivery truck drivers is a better analogy since that isn’t a utility...
On a technicality because of where he was charged, not because of the law. I don't think he should have ever been convicted under the CFAA, but he was.
25 people died in their riots last year.
> He could've just as well used a typewriter - literally just writing doesn't require a computer at all.

That's completely silly and strange.

One thing about retrocomputing that is hinted at in the article, and is genuinely interesting, is that people used to pay as much as you might pay for a car to get a computer that could, for example, run WordStar. For those who write for a living, the productivity boost over something like an electric typewriter was that big.

I'm not trying to be offensive, but I am guessing you've either never written much with an electric typewriter, such that you would be capable of making the comparison to writing (and more importantly - revising and editing!) with a word processor, or you've never written much period.
Is there a source on this?
Of course, being unaware of how much you’re being charged is par for the course with AWS!
To be fair, there’s a story on here every week about how cloud provider alarms are happy to ping you 24h after the spend.
It would be nice if the outcome of this shitstorm were the introduction and enforcement of right to not be removed at will from these services. They are pretty much monopolies now and what worked when they were small is causing too much damage to others as they are big.
The find the whole narrative of dehumanising Trump supporters to be sick.

The memory of all the pathological mob like violence that occurred during the BLM movement which occurred worldwide should still be fresh in all of our memories. If only the actors who incited that violence were held to this same standard.
There is a fellow down in Port St. Lucie Florida that has launched a 100ah LiFePO4 with a 10-year warranty for ~ $550usd each. I saw his shop in person when I purchased some solar from him and was quite impressed with the work they've done and the research and testing that has gone into their products. I had already purchased my batteries by the time I discovered his product or I would have purchased from him: https://outlandsolar.com/

My partner and I live aboard a 41ft sailboat and both work remotely as programmers. I installed 1920w of solar on the boat and get approximately 3.5-4.5kwh per day in output, depending on which way we are oriented while at anchor. I installed 600ah of LiFePO4 batteries @ 12v and when combined with that amount of solar, we have pretty much all the power we need. We frequently cook with an air fryer and have a dishwasher on the boat that we run daily-- all off solar.
The hack is equivalent to if someone downloaded all of the content of Reddit, or a database of all tweets, if this post is to be believed: https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kv0jo6/psa_the.... Would anyone even bat an eye if that happened?
Can you provide (or estimate) numbers on that?

And also, what is the threshold for deciding which platform is on one side or another?
I do feel terrible for those people. Parler needs to be held civilly liable for what they've done.

The real crime here is that Parler was collecting sensitive information above and beyond what most social providers were asking for and still made shoddy security decisions.
I don't think it's as simple as that as you don't know what you're necessarily going to find at the starting line.

Last month on HN someone got £7500 from FB, but, everyone thought he should have got more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25401294

There is also a darknet diaries episode (can't remember which) but the guy who found a bug had got into instagram s3 buckets and source code, he felt he should have got the $1M bug bounty but instead facebook claimed he did it without permission to go further and got fuck all.
you suggesting the retiring employee be re-hired to fix this code ?
Since the only proof of owner ship is private key material. Yes. And in fact this has been done and demonstrated for certain ethereum or other systems.

edit: certain elliptical curve crypto systems use randomness as part of the encipherment process. If two uses of the same key have low quality randomness/no randomness, solving for the private key material essentially becomes a slightly tedious high school algebra math problem.

heres a paper from last year where they did such an analysis, found some weak keys, and then saw that those wallets had already been hacked/drained! (possibly by someone who did similar work, for profit rather than science) https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/023
> The frame is the single-most valuable component on a bike.

Depends. And parts can be fenced with much less risk than entire bikes. I doubt that trackers provide any actual safety improvement, neither in the small (what will you do with the information you might get?) nor in the big (will trackers eventually reduce the number of thieves?).

What might help, I think, are serial number registries. Rohloff hub serials can be registered by owners and checked by would-be buyers, which I think does have some of the desired effect of making those bikes less attractive to thieves.
That’s the joke. The obvious choice for the AI is to slow down without applying full breaking power, find the nearest safe spot to pull over, and then call for assistance. But, boring yet practical solutions are hardly worth discussing.
Try it in china. Or all is just for non-china. And if you think you can’t do that this reveal most significant problem.
I wonder if they'll broker this exchange; if the state says you can get the data, do you go to Alipay or the state's version of Clearbit?
It doesn't get you free speech but what it does give is power to the people to decide. Elections of those law makers. There is no avenue for the people in the current model.
This made me miss the Sharp Zaurus that I got a lot of use out of in the mid 90s.

It's interesting now to look back at that transitional time in computing where you had mini-laptop devices as well as handheld organizers like Palm, both to supplement a full-size PC. Now the smartphone is all of those things for many users.
We KNEW this was coming, now complete the Tik Tok ban, or hand over to US corporations the US side of it at least.
Pretty sure the side with the hackers also has guns though?
When repair labor costs more than automated production, then it's cheaper to replace whole units than mend parts.

This is very much in line when what the Luddites understood. Fixation on "waste" is a by-product of unrelated worries which are fashionable today, but cheap production at a distance is what labor should worry about, instead.
You're pretty quick to forget the Autonomous zone in Seattle where people died, or the continuous destruction in Portland over the last few months.

Either Parler and Twitter are both dangerous or neither of them are.
This could really be said for any currency speculation. I expect crypto attracts more of this than other investment vehicles, but currency speculation and forex trading are insanely risky.
Big changes in architecture are often catastrophic and result in far more debugging costs than just fixing the current product piecemeal. I know that sounds terrible and unfun, but read Fowler on the concepts of refactoring and you'll see that Job #1 is maintaining a working product. In other words, don't throw the baby out. Change the bath water.

In refactoring, you attack one piece of "code smell" at a time. You can improve one variable name at a time, for example, and test to make sure it works. You can refactor a function and not touch any of its dependencies and see if it still works.

The worst thing would be to start a big rewrite and then leave the company without anyone to fix the old thing or complete the new one. I totally agree with you that documenting the current monster is a must-do. As you write that doc, you'll see where the biggest code smells are. Things that make no sense in the doc or are hard to relate together in writing are probably poorly designed code.

On the subject of comments, I think they're overrated. Comments are only necessary when the code isn't self-documenting, which implies that it has a poor naming strategy or uses patterns that are difficult to recognize visually. It's better to fix the code (especially names of variables and functions) to make the code itself human readable than it is to write comments.

Hope that helps!
If the beginning of that sentence is referring to 2011, then there's a five year gap until full e2e was implemented that the comment pretends never existed.
Either way a platform that freeley allows the organization of violent mobs has no place, and neither does anybody who supports it.

I feel the same way about Facebook [1]. This is not whataboutism. I truly believe Facebook should also be shutdown for its role in Genocide.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
The US is also the global hegemon right now so any and all problems it has are at the forefront of most news. What an outsider may see as troubling, the average american isn't really batting an eyelash.
My advice is, go directly to the source and read the papers of the services you are using (dynamo, s3, etc.).

IMO doesn't make sense to become an "AWS expert". I would take an engineer that can compare SQS to Kafka (self-managed vs kinesis), MQQT and RabbitMQ and offer an educated guess on which is better suited on our use case, taking into consideration the context (no of engineers, skillset required, application characteristics, etc.) than someone who's going to answer "SQS!" when a service requires a queuing system.
Real high efficiency monocrystalline si cells are not flexible in any way, for example the typical 156mm cell that makes up a 315-400W rated 60 or 72 cell panel. In fact they're quite brittle and fragile when not encapsulated on a backing sheet and under protective glass.

Monocrystalline by definition is not flexible, you're referring to thin films (cadmium telluride or amorphous silicon or other)
> On the other hand if an actual researcher leaks data they're still a researcher; they might be a bad person, but that's orthogonal.

I would disagree. To me at least, the difference between researcher and hacker is what you do with the knowledge you have.
Hey we have these things called TRAINS ya know
Had Trump not been President, he would have been ejected long ago for violating Twitter standards and terms.

One could argue that it was unreasonable for Twitter to give him special extra leeway compared to other users, up until it finally decided it did not have to continue making special concessions for him.

Of course the tech companies which provide platforms must do some enforcement of the content being presented by its users. If that content is illegal in a given jurisdiction, then the tech company can face penalties or complete shutdown if it does not make an effort to police its users.

The difficulty comes in deciding what speech should be allowed and which should be suppressed. Even without the governmental legal jeopardy the companies face, the US is a very litigious land. Anyone with a motivated lawyer or enough money can sue the platform for enabling speech that they find personally damaging. And of course with content "owned" by an entity, that entity can sue the platform for allowing their content to be distributed illegally.

If [edit typo carification: if you] setup an account on xing.com (German LinkedIn-like service) and put as your profile description that the Holocaust never happened, you can be sure the platform will suppress your speech or kick you off completely. It is hypocritical for Merkel to point at Twitter when she surely supports similar tech powers locally.
Granted, I am no truck driver myself, but from my vast experience hitchhiking in the EU and former USSR and hearing stories from drivers, robberies or theft of cargo happen quite often at truck stops along the roads, most of which lack cameras or even much lighting. Other trucks may be present, but their drivers are usually sleeping and wouldn't intervene anyway, because who wants to risk their life for a stranger when all cargo is insured anyway?
When the first amendment was written, the only organized means of widely disseminating information were the government, religious organizations, and private publishers. The last two, of course, were regarded as a vital balance to the first, but (as far as I know) no-one suggested that the freedoms that came to be enumerated in the amendment required these two channels to be compelled to disseminate whatever screed some arbitrary person came up with. The Federalist Papers, for example, were published because the owners of several newspapers chose to do so.
No. These guys ARE the bad guys. Not "because the media said so". They are objectively the bad guys.

Parler's members are the rejects that couldn't survive on mainstream platforms due to their poor conduct. That userbase just planned and executed an attempt at insurrection against the US government.

The market overwhelmingly has agreed that Parler violated ethical standards egregiously enough that severing business ties is appropriate.

I fail to see the importance of these people's privacy in the wake of recent events. I also fail to have sympathy for people who trusted this hacked-together Twitter clone with their personal information.

Leaking this information sends a clear message: Extremism and violence are intolerable, and every possible means is at our disposal to fight back against it. That includes exposing violent extremists to the light of day.
Where does it say private messages are being leaked?
> Among the thousands of open source projects, the ones championed as successful open source business make up a tiny proportion i.e. the exception not the norm.

I think this is a correlation not a causation thing. Specifically, open source is a great place to put hobby or WIP projects - SaaS isn't, you wouldn't want to pay for others to use your stuff for free. Certainly, historically, your point is valid - SaaS has benefitted hugely thus far, but I think it seems rational this starts to change.

Open core feels like it has the advantage of the source-only approach yet also enables a community to use a free product on top, generating faster growth and user trust and feedback, all of which are harder to create with SAAS. The downside? You have to build two products. At least for those willing to do the VC route (not for everyone), it is possible to get funding to do this.

Disclaimer: I am a co-founder of a VC-backed open core company!
The US Political class is just that good!
Yeah, I meant to add the caveat that it was one of the most publicly notable government energy investments for the simple fact that it ended up in scandal, since many aren't even aware that the government invests in companies like this. I wasn't trying to criticize the initiative.

> Solyndra had such a chilling effect that the DOE stopped taking those risks.

It's frustrating to see that a private company's bad behavior wound up being a stain for the government like this.
The EU and USA are on completely opposite trajectories right now.
Oh that's super interesting, I've never thought of that! I'd never really thought about what it'd take to bump the L1I/D caches over 32KB.
But it exists - it's not that stuff is worse now than it was before, you just have to spend the value (not amount) of money you spent back in the 60's. Our family houses are full of stuff that lasts a lifetime and/or can be easily fixed - you just can't buy the first thing the ad in TV suggests.
It fascinates me that the people most offended by the recent actions of google, amazon, facebook, etc are the ones pushing for the repeal of section 230.
A bit off topic, but what does YouTube gain from offering private and unlisted videos? It's convenient hosting, but it seems like they don't get nearly the same benefit as from a public video.
I'm a big fan of CyberChef

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
What are those cases? This is just ensuring that consumers have the option to repair so the manufacturers aren’t mandating waste or planned obsolescence
Wouldn’t it be “I feel overwhelmed?”
>Speculation and accusations are distinctly unhelpful.

Unless you are the one making them, apparently.

I’m not trolling. And I made no “accusations”. I have no objection to Twitter’s decision. Sorry I didn’t make that clear.
Certain brands like Nature Made are certified by the FDA as having exactly the number of IUs advertised.

https://www.fda.gov/food/dietary-supplements
The same exact thing can be said of the account suspensions/removals.