skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A proposal:

All durable consumer goods may apply for a repair QR code. At landfills, items with repair QR codes are scanned and the company is charged 50% of the cost of processing the item.

If one is not applied for, the producer must pay the full cost of processing the item up front.

This would encourage companies to make repair & upgrade and longetivity a priority.

It's a rough idea.
>The ramifications of this will absolutely set a record for the future as the inevitable reverse will happen.

Will happen? Try has happened. Partisan hacking has been a thing for a decade. Remember the DNC emails? Remember weev?

>People are forgetting that if they're ok with this sort of behavior now

What does it matter if I'm okay with it? Nobody consulted me before breaking into Parler. In fact, they didn't take my opinion into account at all. Sure, grey-hats are somewhat motivated by public opinion, but even Mitch McConnell gave a floor speech on Wednesday angry enough to incite a few keyboard taps.

>it'll be difficult for them to argue-against or prevent the same behavior

Because American politics consistently punishes hypocrisy, right?
If you hack a source and send it to Wikileaks, do you qualify as "security researcher"? This is what we're taking about.
Yeah, but you said it with what looked like a lot of sarcasm and criticism.

I said it with a tone of "Oh shit, I could have done exactly the same thing". Empathy.

But it's a fun point of the nuances of language, isn't it? Maybe I misunderstood you.
Nice article. From experience I would say the SQL knowledge should be advanced though. Not intermediate.
Maybe not repealed, but amended. Section 230 _allows_ for good-faith moderation, but says nothing about bad faith moderation. As much as I hate more legalese and overregulation, it's become pretty clear that these people can't be trusted to act with impunity, so an amendment to section 230 that prohibits arbitrary moderation might help. If you want to host user generated content, and not be held liable for it in a journalistic way, you can only remove content that violates specific, clear, well-defined guidelines.
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It's not truly safer. It's just smaller, and only has open-source apps. So it's harder to hide malware, but still certainly possible (nobody checks most apps).
I was thinking about it this morning. They probably didn't have an easy time finding new employees too because of the nature and controversy associated with the site, potentially part of the reason for lack of moderation.

Not defending, just observing. It's interesting from a business/development perspective when it comes to rapid scale and team size.
I think that it's a pretty reasonable payout - people running bug bounties are mostly interested in actual security impact and practical exploitability. And the necessity to hit G server thousands of times to extract even a short video reduces that by quite a large proportion; which is definitely not a shot at the researcher, it's a great find, but exploitability is definitely lower than more direct form of IDOR (e.g. input private video ID and get the whole video in response).

By the same logic, blind SQLi will typically be valued 'less' (hence pay out less) than SQLi with output.
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Ah. The way he worded his introduction made it seem like "two mis-taps" during the unlock process installed adware on his device.
How do you explain France?
Agreed. It’s a bit of column A and column B. Twilio shouldn’t have disclosed the services that Parler were using. Parler should not have allowed unverified users to log in ESPECIALLY if they’re dealing with PII. (Verified Parlers submitted photos of their licenses.)

Either way, this feels like something that will end in a lawsuit.
Description of Parler/Twilio Hack
That is your fault for not building more wind. Some areas in the US are > 50% wind. Other areas are not allowing it, mostly for political reasons (but you cannot draw a "side" - in different areas it is different political sides opposing wind)
I was going to buy a bitcoin at 6K but thought it risky. Now I feel dumb.
"But this particular issue of Trump’s Twitter suspension is clearly about not giving delusional lunatics more fodder for their actions"

I believe that the effects of this permaban (and the seemingly coordinated effort to purge the Internet of Parler) will be pretty much the opposite, reenforcing paranoia about unelected tyrants more powerful than any office holder in the U.S.
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More like “whose letters to the editor page routinely featured calls for violent revolution.”
Do you not understand that this logic leads to bigotry and genocide as people vie to out virtue signal one another out of fead
Either the entities themselves, or good faith individuals that are so exposed to the storytelling of one of the two parties as to consider it factual truth instead of just one of the possible ways to look at the world.

That being said, I imagine that if for the US the issue is so important as to repeatedly send their warships all the way to the South China Sea for it, trying to exercise some influence over the content of a wiki page would be quite a low-hanging fruit in comparison.
It's more analogous to a single server host refusing to host a site, while the material components (actual physical servers) are still readily available if likely outside the financial range for a site at their size (tbh though, I have no idea what sort of server needs this site would actual have).

Parler could still go out and build their own servers. The fact that this is a project driven by "free speech enthusiasts" and not actual engineers means they're probably going to have a real hard time getting the engineering stuff back in line.

Apple/Google refusing to sell your app is just that: a store refusing to sell a product.
Citizen - we already told you China had nothing to do with the covid virus! Stop using your small civ brain and submit to our government sanctioned news outlets already! /s
> Fixation on "waste" is a by-product of unrelated worries which are fashionable today

We have finite resources on this planet. Policies like this that deal with negative externalities aren't driven by fashion, they are driven by our long term needs. And we do need to recycle more and consume less. This is part of the solution.

> cheap production at a distance is what labor should worry about, instead

You're simply describing the status quo. The same status quo which has resulted in the warmest year on record for how many years in a row now...?
Given the recent post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25728175 I was wondering how hard it would be to predict or brute force scan YouTube video ids, to find private ones.

It turns out that they are using 64-bit integers as IDs, allocated in some unspecified order, so scanning all of them is not practical.
> media told me

I create a Parler account myself out of curiosity's sake. The platform had basically no moderation, and was rife with open calls to violence. It was absolutely serving as a recruitment & coordination site for domestic terrorism.
Which has nothing to do with the cost of wind and solar.

You can tell this because there are multiple European countries which have a higher proportion of renewables than Germany, yet (as you point out yourself) they have lower electricity costs.
Ermm, people who are trying to violently and undemocratically install an authoritarian government while using slogans like “6 million was not enough” are literally nazis.

You’re gonna have to find another hyperbolically bad thing to accuse your opponents of fear mongering about.
I tried to access some of this - went to:

https://donk.sh/06d639b2-0252-4b1e-883b-f275eff7e792

Picked a URL from one of the files - eg.:

https://parler.com/post/c86aa37121374606aa63439ff15362aa

And put that into archive.is - eg.:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210110213100/https://parler.co...

All just seems to be Parler "tweets"; not particular interesting.
> when many European banks have lost 98% of their market caps

I can't find a single source for this claim. All Eurobank market caps look fine, even in COVID, for the past 5 years.

Can you explain this statement?
Yet they didn’t suspend him for the specific example provided.

Also, I don’t think it’s so clear that threatening a defensive act could be called “inciting violence”.

If a group of criminals were parading through a neighborhood performing home invasions, I do not think it’d cross the line to warn them off with a public declaration of “our house has guns and we will protect ourselves”.
> A lot of software breaks when you're not running 4kb pages.

The page size on windows is 64kb as well so portable software already needs to deal with supporting 4kB and 64kB pages.
What do I type into google to buy this? A bit of searching has not turned up anything similar to what you describe :( Lots of ads for Tile and similar (aka not GPS trackers).
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I think we’re nearing a fork in the road moment here. Down one path is a continuation of the burgeoning social media landscape: people stop caring about their privacy altogether in pursuit of that next narcissistic hit. Down another, after all this crap is used to regularly humiliate people and control their public presence, there is a backlash and a push for more control over data (from the masses, not tech insiders who the masses don’t even really know about).

Personally: I think society will take the first one. If it ever decides to backtrack or shift, it will be long after my kids (currently small children) are adults or dead.
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Understanding the Insurrection at the Capitol: Ending the Cycle of Violence
I would be near willing to bet that more of the Capitol Hill events were planned on private Facebook groups, chats, etc than on Parler. Signal is a chat app that is secure and group chats are big in planning... So are they going to ban Signal? Conspiracy theories are rampant on WeChat and even over text messages.
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For GCP, our stacks tend to be Composer (Airflow), BigQuery, Cloud Functions, and Tensorflow.

There's the occasional Hadoop/Spark platform out there, but clients using those tend to have older platforms.
Wikileaks doesn't vet anything, their policy is to publish whatever they're given. That's why Snowden specifically didn't take the NSA leaks to them.
That manufacturers are actually hostile towards end users says a lot about our current state of helplessness.
I got that vibe as well. It could be a hint at an incoming regulation sweep.
I think it’s actually a part of the plan. When the opposite party gains power in 4 years and does the same thing, you get to call them tyrants then, too. Clearly no one cares about being hypocritical anymore. All that matters is winning the media outrage battle of the moment.
Nope it was totally realistic.

I tried to create an account on Parler last night to check which services were turned off by AWS. I entered dummy data into their form. The POST to their auth service timed out...but the auth flow took you to the success page anyway?
They're different, literally. But would they take different people? Maybe there's a similarity.
They most likely misunderstand what is being proposed, most people think the proposal is to limit section 230 only to services that do not censor user content.
The description doesn't really make any sense. Did everything just fail open? I would assume that if your SMS/Email service stopped working then it would just be that nobody could login or sign up.
Trigger warning, but this reminds me of the Steubenville High school rape case (you can google it).

A hacker accessed and leaked video of the situation in question (IIRC after officials refused to take action, and gone as far as too allegedly cover up the incident in order to protect the athletes and school's program).

At least one of the individuals responsible for leaking the video was charged under CFAA. IIRC this individual received a harsher sentence than those involved in the underlying crime.

You'd like to think that a judge and entire state would be understanding, but that's not always the case and not something to depend on.
Why are you comparing individual stocks to a currency?
If you look for known good chinese LFP vendors on forums it minimize the risk, lots of people are reporting to spec or very close to spec batteries. And when they are issues looks like most chinese vendors will just send a replacement if you document your problem well (compare this to local store return processes ...).

But LFP batteries have gotten really cheap, so the price for a mistake is no longer prohibitive.
> I recall that in the UK they are building one that is over time and way over budget [2] (spoiler: they started in 2008 and as of now still aren't producing any electricity, and the government-promised price of ~100 pounds/MWh was in 2016 already beaten by solar, implying that over the lifetime the nuclear power plant will cost the consumer 50 billion pounds on subsidies and 20 billion on construction)

Oh I know. I'm french, the Flamanville EPR is a running joke. But this is merely a consequence of dubious political choices having lead to putting a hold on building nuclear power plants for a long time, which means the people who knew how to do that are either in other companies or retired. There has been a horrible loss of skill in this subject in most of western Europe and the US. We've built dozens of nuclear power plants are are one of the cleanest countries in the world when it comes to CO2 per kWh. I dare say that at one point we definitely understood how to do it.

Korea has demonstrated they have the ability to build multiple third generation reactors in 5 to 6 years. So does China.

> And sure, you can't control the sun or the clouds. But with a bit of effort you can create a grid that evens out the impact of the weather. High-voltage power grids in Europe are increasingly interconnected and help fill the gaps in electrical power cross border. Excess solar energy from Germany can simply be transferred to the UK via the Netherlands.

The way the electrical grid is made in Europe is fully made with centralisation in mind. A few core production points distributing to everything else. For this to apply to solar, that would require absolutely gigantic solar parks.

> Excess solar energy from Germany can simply be transferred to the UK via the Netherlands.

Except Germany doesn't sell their solar energy. Germany is running on coal and natural gas, producing over 40% of their energy through these means. The absolute insanity of phasing out a solution as effective and safe as nuclear has lead to horribly worse.

> But with a bit of effort you can create a grid that evens out the impact of the weather.

How ? solar panels produce a _pitiful_ amount of energy. We would need dozens of millions of them. A small nuclear power plant produces about 10 TWh per year. A well running solar panel produces, if you're lucky, 300kWh per year. Thirty million solar panels, thirty million square meters plus the needed infrastructure, maintenance... for one measly small nuclear power plant.

Wind is not better. Hydraulic is okay, but most countries have run out of space to make dams. Geothermal is very limited.
It's actually somewhat the opposite—green indicates a new user, iirc the threshold is less than two weeks old. I don't quite get the purpose either.
The Polyform Project has a set of standardized source-available licenses. These can be used for a dual-licensing business model. Customers can use the software for free under the terms of the source-available license, or pay to buy a proprietary license.

https://polyformproject.org/
I think it's missing the resources to one of the hardest sections: Data modelling, like Kimball and Data Vault. That, and maybe a section to modern data infrastructure. I'd put a link to [1] and [2] for a quick overview and probably [3] for more detail.

[1] https://www.holistics.io/books/setup-analytics/
[2] https://a16z.com/2020/10/15/the-emerging-architectures-for-m...
[3] https://awesomedataengineering.com/
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Quick question, how many BLM mobs beat two cops to death with flagpoles? How many built gallows and rushed into government buildings with handcuffs looking for politicians to execute? How many battered down the door to the room where the Vice President and Speaker of the House were hiding chanting "Hang Pence, Hang Pelosi"?

And how many of them were inspired by prominent politicians telling them "We are never going to concede", "we are going to take our country back", "it's time for a trial by combat", "we are going together to the Capitol", "Mike Pence betrayed us", etc etc etc
Huawei has QR scanner built-in in the gallery app
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/content/en-us00326153...

I believe that its built-in app also has a QR scanner in HiVision package, but it requires to accept a scary privacy agreement.

Firefox for Android embeds a QR scanner in its address bar:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/scan-qr-codes-firefox-a...
The latter is also conspiracy, and a stretch at that. What would Twilio gain? The most likely explanation was that everyone ditched Twilio as a customer and the remaining skin was quickly pecked off by vultures.
Yes, power companies have different regulations than AWS.

Which means the analogy is boring.

There's probably a good discussion to be had about how to regulate services like AWS though. The dynamics are probably different, with power companies not quite having the same potential for wanting to disassociate from noxious customers.
If the admin of this site is seeing it, please note that the captcha guard you're using is broken. Not only is it mandating storage of cookies, it is absolutely refusing to accept my answers as correct despite several trials.
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> I don't want this to sound wrong, but I perceive most of the people complaining about censorship to be hypocrites. They'd be the first to censor if they were in charge of these platforms.

> The reason they're upset is because they are not in control.

Do you notice how that starts me, as someone who is firmly anti-censorship, off on the defensive as you seem to view me as an insincere or stupid bad guy?

> I think in some ways they are like the people scared of change, and the once change has taken place they are scared of not being in control.

As a general principle I’m for the idea that we aught to allow free expression of ideas, especially online since that is the way to share ideas. Life happens very differently for people even just domestically in the US, and when our viewpoints come into conflict I’d rather understand what they have to say and talk about it. How is that possible to do when there’s a party in the middle that is able to determine what you’re not allowed to read? I'm scared of not being in control of that and thus censorship in general, not about having my version of truth be published.
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>that Parler refuses to sufficiently moderate

Where can one find a definition of "sufficient" in this context?
Cassettes were the last consumer media format to support recording your own audio. I think that's one of the big draws of the format, since CDs and streaming are primarily consumption-driven.
Not sure what Youtube gains except keeping people in the ecosystem, but Youtubers sometimes offer early access to their Patreon subscribers, which is done by uploading a private video and then changing the video to public after the exclusive period has finished.
Good on Al Jazeera for publishing this. I'll never understand why US Media believes that censoring this kind of thing will satiate and calm down those who would've been "radicalized" by it - when usually the exact opposite occurs. As a democrat myself I have to question how this is "inciting a inquisition of government" but Chuck Schumer or Pelosi suggesting harassment of political opponents or CNN saying "protests aren't supposed to be peaceful" is fair game?
>The way this forum was purged from the internet is making me uncomfortable.

Parler's app was pulled from apple, google, and their hosting at AWS got pulled. Under the 'reasoning' that people are violating rules on their platform.

That doesnt really make sense. Whereas if you look at it from a 'big tech censorship' point of view. That's what's happening. Very clear that's what's happening.

Even wikipedia has banned conservatives. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

Could you show me where on that wiki page they show any of his scandals? Benghazi, the IRS scandal, the AP phone records scandal, Fast and Furious, Solyndra or the Hillary Clinton email server, Obamagate, etc?

Kind of interesting how Obama's wiki page doesnt list ANY of his scandals. Whereas trump's page was clearly not written by any republican.
Disagree. I'm willing to throw heaps of hard earned money to recover my time spent being bothered by such problems. I researched and tried many "premium" brands, with minor exceptions they proved to be planned for obsolence too. I had good experience with small companies/kickstarters. Once they grow to the point of being "popular", economies of scale and CFOs show up to the table and eat your cake.

In all of the following I got a new thing looking for some new feature or because I could I guess, and had the older device outlasted the newer one: Bose headphones, any mobile phone really, Thinkpad laptops, Audi cars, Brother printers, any and all household appliances.
I would be very wary of giving even more power to those who already have plenty of power. Also, there's no constitutional right to an audience. Everyone that gets kicked off of Twitter can continue to say anything they like, but they don't get to access the built-in audience that Twitter provides.
It's an essential feature for scheduling and organization.

Imagine your business is built on Youtube. You want to be able to test things in your videos internally, and upload them prior to a scheduled release date.
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Parent is probably alluding to market caps before the great financial crisis. So about 14 years back.
You were right. It was risky. It's even more risky now. Hindsight is a terrible way to value assets.
I went mad trying to find a decent voice recorder for my mom. Eventually settled on some ad-littered app, but at least it didn't request any extraneous permissions. Every other app asked for every single permission under the sun... to record voice.

The one thing I've noticed about the iOS store is that apps are more up-front. Many have a price tag attached to them, which I prefer. Android apps are all about giving you something for free and then in the back doing god knows what to make pennies off of you.

The whole ads-in-apps situation is from some sci-fi novel. Let's make screens bigger, so we can fill more of it with ads.
That’s worthy of discussion. I’m not siding with or against Twitter here. Just saying the issue isn’t as one-sided as many might like to believe it is.
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Why is it awful? If something you say isn't end-to-end encrypted you should assume it could be made public. I wouldn't be upset if PMs from Twitter or FB were leaked either.
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I sold my bitcoin at 6k when I lost my job. IDK how I feel.