skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Whataboutism

I see it, and raise you a "thought-stopper"

>That has absolutely nothing to do with elections where there is actual doubt and irregularities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Element is FOSS and runs on Matrix. E2EE with stern verifications. Nice GUI. I think it's better than Jami and a good Discord alternative.

https://element.io/
If you think this is about Trump's freedom to tweet, you've sorely missed the point. It's about our freedom to hear differing points of view and make up our own minds about them.

If a handful of corporations with mostly homogeneous ideologies control who is allowed to talk to the public, then we don't have any real choice when it comes time to vote. We only get to choose from a pre-approved list of options that all have to conform to whatever Twitter and Facebook deem is acceptable. Twitter and Facebook et al are unelected and accountable to no one. That's not democracy. That's a corporate dictatorship with sham elections.
Great. Now about “Grim Fandango”...
Does Signal do group chats like Telegram does?
They should all be under your control, though. Once you hand off to your ISP it should be nothing but routers all the way.
> You vastly underestimate the complexity of the human genome

We mapped it out 20+ years ago. We learn more about it each year, but what's more, the extent of our knowledge increases exponentially, not linearly.

> Ontogenesis, epigenetics, environmental factors, ... there is a lot more on sex variant hardware front than genetics.

You act like these are factors that can't be controlled, if not entirely, at least to some degree.

> at that point of understanding and manipulating human biology

We are very nearly at that point. Within anywhere from 20-30 years, maybe even less. If you think "people" will have moved beyond limiting categories in that time, you're not thinking clearly about the past, but what's worse, you're not thinking clearly about humanity.

If you think we'll end up in a Star Trek-like world before we have the ability to successfully manipulate the genome, you can just look to the fictional history of Trek for that... we were supposed to be in the middle of the Eugenics Wars right about now. Turns out they'll come later, I guess.
well, there is a big difference between a democratically elected politician and some random troll.
>Anyone who's always willing to take the gun in hand or instigate others to do it before any evidence is presented either way is dangerous for society and for democracy.

Which is neither here, not there. Those banned weren't those that stomed the capitol.
Book on Application Monitoring?
Is there any recommended book on application monitoring? What someone should measure, some explanation of the various metrics (gauge...), some visualisation suggestions etc.
The article says this was a deal to have Facebook apps pre-installed on Huawei phones which Facebook also has with other manufacturers. This Reuters article says it was ended in 2019: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-usa-facebook-...
I'm aware of the possibility that is nuclear winter. OTOH, some volcano(es) could have a big burp anytime, and produce the same. (As they did several times, in the past.)
I've never used telegram so can't tell you how similar they are, but yes, signal does group chats.
What legal reason prevents AWS from enforcing its terms of service, to which Parler has agreed? This is a simple question that I feel is ignored by any of the "censorship" arguments.
> How do they attend school? they are driven to it?

Yes. An extreme example: https://mobile.twitter.com/fietsprofessor/status/12757189152...
It's important to notice that, despite the title, this is not just about email but rather about digital communication tools in general. Most of these points apply to Slack-like platforms too (which are isomorphic with email to some extent).
They didn't write "equals", but "correlates".
Well then you'd need to define "normal" and that's not easy because everyone is different. It can even be dangerous. Easy example: some people (still) define having a different religion or being gay as "broken".

People that go through depression, suicide thoughts/attempts and then recover are also different, because they gained new information.
You don't have to be Assange to spend some pre-trial time in prison, if you choose to skip on your court dates.
Yes, I can imagine a telephone company terminating a service, if you don't adhere to the term. In fact they are very very strict.

Also, email is still available, don't pretend these services are all there is, it just isn't so.
Fascinating and it sounds doable to me. However, not to my mother in law and most other people I know, which is the group that would require a method like this, but then it should be much easier.
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Germany has some of harshest anti free speech law, where you can go to prison for denying Holocaust
The French do vary the power of the reactors to follow the load [1] [2]. They don't purely rely on their neighbors, far from it. As a consequence, the usage factor of the plants is lower than nuclear plants in countries where they they purely use them for base load.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant
[2] https://www.oecd-nea.org/nea-news/2011/29-2/aen-infos-suivi-...
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So this OP's article is obsolete now ?
In recent memory tech companies started applying strict content moderation. This is a very new idea for social media, a very expensive idea as well. These companies existed for many many years with very little content moderation. I remember when Alex Jones was banned and main stream media in my country thought it was a bad thing, this was only a few years ago. To me this seems like the classic porter 5 forces model of regulations being used as a market force.

Similar to no dev wants to touch movie streaming because of the huge legal hurdles and mountain of paper work for each country.
I don't think all legal nuances are visible in one sentence resume probably hastily translated from Polish, but in any case there's nothing unusual about it. Many countries already have anti-discrimination laws which can seriously limit what you can do with your private property when it's open for public interaction. I'm sure they will use it as a blueprint.
Didn't this already happened with the bakery that refused to make a cake for a same sex couple?

https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/bakersfield-bakery-own...
I wanted to argue against the 'Europeans are supercilious' comment, but this comment doesn't help. Dutch people do know that the extent of their bike lanes and infrastructure is incredible.

I've only seen the new 'megafietsenstalling' at Den Haag Centraal train station complained about because 8000 bike parking spaces was not ambitious enough and is not expected to be enough space. And yet, it's the second largest in the world after Utrecht (also in the Netherlands).

At a comparable train station in London, you would be lucky to find 10 bike parking spaces.
If the speech is illegal then they can moderate it. Who defined it as illegal? The elected Government of the people right? No one voted for Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg. People voted for their own elected representatives who make the laws.

Private companies must follow what is in the law. If hate speech doesn't exist in the law people should lobby their elected representatives to enact laws governing hate speech which is then enforced by private companies. If private companies start making their own rules and regulations that go against freedom of speech (again don't bring in the first amendment as it applies only to US Citizens. Free speech in my country is not the same as Free speech as defined in first amendment) then it becomes problematic. Who is the final arbiter of free speech? It is the Government, the Court or the private company? If private companies start deciding what is illegal and what is not illegal then why the heck should I elect a Government? Just let private companies handle everything and let's dissolve the Government.

At the end of the day it should be the law of the land which decides what/which content is illegal and which is not. It should never be in the hands of private companies to decide. They have Section 230 precisely for that reason. They aren't liable for anything that happens on their platform except for what is defined as illegal in the Constitution. If there is something that is unsavoury and there isn't a law for it yet, the companies aren't held liable for it. When a law is passed deeming that unsavoury thing illegal then and only then will private companies be liable if they do not censor it. You get what I am trying to say? Laws should be implemented by the legislature. Period. Private companies can decide whatever rules they want to set for their employees. I am a user of the public platform they provide. Not their employee. They cannot regulate my speech unless it is required by law to censor anything illegal I say.
Actually, you did.

> There may not be an obvious monetary cost to the negative publicity, legal and other costs Parler was and would incur for Amazon, but they're costs nonetheless.

What negative publicity do you mean if not political ones from one specific point of view? For me, parler did nothing other than offer an alternative to twitter which is equal shitty.

Amazon didn't have any publicity regarding this matter until they decided, together with a lot of other megacorps to remove everything associated with parler. Now they have had a lot of publicity, which is in my view very negative since now everyone knows that if you want to host anything that support any other viewpoint than those held by american megacorps you can be removed.

I have a hard time understanding how anyone can think this is good publicity.
> It is their right to break the contract because they don't want to deal with you, but then they have to pay a fine because they were engaged in a contract with you and they broke it.

That would depend on the terms.
I am all for censoring fascists
It was actually posted multiple times last night but got flagged because the only source was an unverified reddit post that was later debunked by the researcher that actually downloaded the data. All of the data that was downloaded was via publicly accessible links, no admin privileges were necessary.
Yeah this whole sentiment kinda strikes me as nonsense.

Never before in history has each individual had the ability to broadcast their thoughts so widely so easily.

Twitter/Facebook/AWS/etc can all refuse to do business with you. You can still throw an old computer in your basement and plug it into the internet and make your thoughts accessible to the entire world.

Domain name registrar or TLD banned you too?

Great, pick another registrar. Pick another TLD. Pick another country with different laws. You can do it all from the country you currently inhabit and the comfort of your office chair. You can make your site accessible via IP address or virtually unblockable via Tor.

Even if you're violating the laws and norms of the country you inhabit, you can host this in a way that's virtually untraceable back to you with little effort.

How exactly did one accomplish that in 1930? 1830? 1730? 1630?

What ability did a peasant in 830AD have to broadcast their thoughts across the entire world that we lack today?
It’s not the flattening of the economic cycle, it’s the lack of wealth redistribution which causes those with the assets (the top few deciles) to keep accelerating their gains every time there are bail outs.
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a law which was democratically approved, with public oversight, a mechanism for undoing it and not at the whim of private shareholders.
You are correct. This is not an new elementary particle like the Higgs' boson or the electron, this a (possible) new quasiparticle that is composed by a few/many elementary particles.

The more usual examples is the phonon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon. You can imagine a phonon as a wave in the crystal lattice, but if you talk to someone that work with solid state they just treat it as a particle.

Other examples (described in the article) are the holes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_hole and even the "electrons" inside a conductor/semiconductor are really a bunch of particles around a real electron, an the mass of the "electron" is different than the real mass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_mass_(solid-state_ph... .
https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/a-frustrated-artist-a... - came up if I search for 'meaning of frustrated poet' which is the kind of thing where the phrasing most often comes up.
Telephone companies ban spam callers all the time
> […] the userbase will eventually congregate to one place

There’s a big catch, though. “Eventually” is the key word. It takes a long time, and the disappearance of one forum does serious damage to the community, and the community has to go through the work of recovering from that damage.

I’ll say that I’m not sure it happens.

We often get this idea that these online communities are like magical cockroaches that will keep coming back. Being a /pol/ user is not the same thing as being a cockroach. You’re just a person. At some point, if being a /pol/ user is inconvenient and frustrating, then maybe you give it up. Site operators go broke or get tired of the community.

The internet does not make communities immune to attack.
We have been over this before: if you want to take surreptitious images on Apple, you operate the camera at a low enough duty cycle that it doesn't look like it's on.

It could have been wired to indicate recording for a minimum of a second after each image capture. But it wasn't.
It's not Canadian companies that are 'keeping salaries' low, it's Valley Companies (and to some extent, American companies) that are paying a lot.

Also - the USD varies at 1 to 1.5 CDN that has tremendous comparable effects.

The 'reason' is that a vastly disproportionate amount of the surpluses go to the winners.

'2cnd place is for chumps' - at least in the context of 'winner takes all' games.

Everywhere outside of the Valley is 'second place' and it's going to be hard to compete otherwise.

Another way of looking at it:

The market does not want Canada to be 1st place.

Canada is literally designing itself in every way to be a 'suburb' (i.e. as 'second place' country) - no specific identity (i.e. Post-Nation-Nation), high basic standard of living, high levels of material consumption, but no innovation, leadership or otherwise. The 'town square' is a shopping mall full of products and services designed elsewhere.

In crude market terms it's 'more efficient' to close the local coffee shop, put up a Starbucks and have workers take marching orders from Seattle where they can concentrate Product Innovation and R&D.

Canada used to have a few automakers - but with 'consolidation' they were all bought by US firms - which in raw market terms, makes some sense.

The same would happen to all protected industries: Bell/Telus, CTV/Global, CIBC/BMO - all of it them be snapped up instantly if they were not protected.

It doesn't matter if AT&T/Verizon are 'well managed' or 'poorly managed' relative to Bell/Telus - the fact is they are 15x bigger and that's that. 'Headquarters' will be in Virginia, not Toronto. And that's where the surpluses will go.

Canada brings in tons of 'educated workers' and then sends the best and brightest of them right away to the US (I've seen this happen time and time again). Who can blame anyone with 'no ties' to Canada moving on for 2x salary? So Canada gets 'good workers' ... and the US gets 'the talent'.

An Ontario MP, trying to attract Cisco to Toronto indicated that Canadians work for less salary than Americans and that he would do everything within his power to keep it that way.

So there you have literally the leadership trying to do what they can to keep salaries low, to keep the system firmly in '2cnd place', by design.

This is the Canadian National Strategy.

If you want to do something exceptional, go to specific places in the US where systems are designed for that.

The theory being that it's better than being in a left out US state like Arkansas, West Virginia etc..

In some ways, it's commendable, because Canada relative to the world has a really high standard of living, stable 'everything', good basic rights etc.. But of course, there is not a lot meaningful to do. That's the deal.
That would make EFF a de facto certifier, taking on the role of state and make it a (bigger) target for big business. Really, we need laws (and a system that isn't broken. More like in Scandinavia, less like the Federal Communications Commission).
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Deliveroo probed in France after couriers refuse kosher orders
Do you think the centre of Amsterdam has wide roads? It does not.
Illegal content is decided by courts
The online far right is moving underground
What if, as an engineer, you were forced to work with a measuring tape whose graduations change all the time?

As a matter of fact, what if you were ask to build things using a measuring tape with graduations that are increasingly far apart over time?

I'd wager you would be a little upset and quickly ask for a proper measuring tape so you could do your job properly.

Sounds reasonable, right?

However, the exact same thing is happening in economics: everything is measured with a measuring stick whose length changes all the time.

And this does not seem to worry anyone: economists merrily keep on measuring things like household debt in USD and everyone seem to agree it's the right way to work.

A good and proper shared hallucination.

Worse, the length of the measuring stick is changed, not in a random fashion, but in a way that makes the power that be look good on TV.

Once in a while, people try to do the right thing and present inflation-corrected numbers, but that's far from being the norm.
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I'm using Element very sparsely, but keep getting annoyed by it. I did not care to touch any settings. I have a persistent tab in my browser and it keeps having the notification dot for silly reasons:

- My connection flaked out (duh, I closed the laptop lid).

- Connection for one of my contacts flaked out (?!).

- Something in the signatures changed.

I get how any of that might be a sign of compromise. But I really don't care, I don't use this for anything sensitive. And with only about 20% of notifications being about an actual message, I've developed a blindness towards it.

Edit: having written that, I've noticed it is not doing this right now. Come think of it, it might have stopped a while ago and I simply didn't notice (c.f. developed blindness).
This makes sense on a personal level, but it highlights the hypocrisy of AWS decision
Sony's Bravia Core streaming service will deliver video comparable to Blu-ray
AKA Zowie Bowie, David Bowie's son.
Amazon wants to keep their large enterprise customers happy who complained about being hosted along side a xmm on controversial site. Are you saying Amazon can’t pick and choose customers and should be forced to lose money if they get boycotted by other customers that want to be as far away from controversial sites as possible?
Its because real life is not black and white. Its shades of gray mostly.

And while its ease to spot and codify extreme cases on both sides, its impossible for a law to clearly codify a clear line where good turns to bad.

The 'original' argument for this type of conversation is: what makes a nude picture an art piece, what makes it porn. If we were given 100 photos we would probably agree in most cases whats art and whats porn, but try to write rules for distinguishing them.
oh, i see, i missed that. so you want each of the split windows behave like its own session or something, and switch terminals within that freely.

that does make sense and i can see that's a useful way to work actually.

so how does screen do that?
There's plenty of people who didn't do anything wrong getting demonetized and deplatformed.

Could be someone else (who's more "important") didn't like them or just an algorithm problem.

They often have no recourse, and the government tells them "well, it's a private platform, we can't do anything".
Wait, this person is in Denmark and can't change ISP?

If this happened to me then I'd change ISP. NAT on your home Internet? What is this, the US?

I thought if you were in Europe you'd pretty much always be able to get public IPv4, IPv6, and IPv6-PD. I know I can.
It’s notable that per the CEO of Parker, banks and payment providers, law firms, and mail and texting services have cancelled on them. At the heart of this power is the freedom of association.
But they sell the service and then stop providing it.
AWS can decide whether they want to do business with fascists just like bakeries can decide whether they can sell cakes to gay folks. What’s so hard about this ? May be they should not attempted coup if they wanted to set up their Dynamo DB
Trademark offices make it hard to register similar trademarks.

However, what you described is not a conflict search “Windows” and you get www.microsoft.com etc, but search “Storm Windows” and no search engine is going to show you www.microsoft.com/... as the top entry.

It is however a reason not to choose single word trademarks.
Should we remove the SafeMath library for Solidity 0.8?
Ask HN: Does support and success should be one team?
I'm interviewing different companies while developing a new solution for support teams and see that many companies still have separated teams for support and success. What's your experience and opinion? Should they be together?
Are you suggesting police and courts are not executing laws in USA?
> You need a team who you can trust to execute without looking over their shoulder

You also need a team that actually knows the business.
What a nasty bug! I would never have guessed that the order of stack-pointer arithmetic and operations on stack variables mattered. I wonder how much of the generated code must be "pessimized" to be interrupt-safe. This could be an actual pessimization if a section of code is only executed with interrupts turned off (I don't know if this happens within the kernel).

How does this relate to user-space code? Could the same bug manifest is user-space code when handling signals? I don't know much about how exactly signals are delivered and handled in user-space processes.

edit: Now that I think about it red zone in user-space pretty much assumes that the equivalent can't happen there. It appears that red zone is disabled for the kernel precisely because of interrupts. I still wonder how signal handlers interact with the user-space thread's stack.
This is an old, stale debate. The common usage of the word "communist" is defined not by vague Marxist theorising or tiny enclaves nobody has ever heard of, but rather the typical end state of actual communist revolutions. That's how the word is used in practice.

This has the unfortunate property that at least for China the end-state is constantly evolving, but only in relatively unimportant ways. China has a freer market than the USSR did, but even the USSR had to abandon completely planned economics almost immediately after Lenin took power. After that it was mixed, just like China's. And in all other ways they are the same: no democracy, rampant censorship and propaganda by state-allied corporate entities, no real private property rights (if you can lose your IPO by giving a single speech criticising the government, it's fair to say whatever private property rights you thought you had don't really exist).
Extra rights for politicians should not be a principle in a democratic society.
Bike, walk, scooter, bus, train, car. Here's a breakdown (in million trips, 2016 numbers):

Car as driver: 4854

Car as passenger: 2127

Train: 350

Bus/tram/metro: 407

Scooter: 163

Bike: 4041

Walk: 2702

Other: 242

Source:
https://www.ad.nl/ad-werkt/auto-populairste-vervoermiddel-na...