skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree the “free speech” label has been taken over by these content-outcasts and turned into a dog whistle. Today, if a platform markets itself as “The Free Speech version of X” it seems to always mean “The platform that hosts only content so bad it’s banned from X”.
I agree, but every major decision takes into account societal forces. When I say “moral plane” I take into account broad societal forces. For example, broadly speaking in the USA the black cause for equal justice is broadly understood to be of much more importance and credence than the cause of the Aryan nation for white supremacy.

And to reinforce my second point, Twitter’s decision to ban or not ban someone is largely subjective (beyond the TOS) and they are sensitive to public pressures and the overall societal climate.

It’s not about my moral values but the aggregate moral values of society.
Indeed lockdown and quarantine are different things. The countries that have had proper quarantine eg Vietnam, NZ, Thailand have mostly done rather better with covid than those who have not eg. the UK and USA.
So chinese people should just sit down and live low class life. Got it.
You know, I think Corona finally did it. You can get plenty of talented people without paying for an SV office.

My dream involves full remote work for senior level devs with junior devs having to rotate in for the first few months or so
I don't think the Jan 6 insurrection was OK, or even close.

My point is that the tools for organizing an insurrection are being removed, and that's at least a little scary.

It's like fitting everyone with a shock collar and saying it will only be used against insurrectionists. The government will be a lot less worried about resistance, and the definition of "insurrectionist" is likely to move over time.

It just doesn't seem like a good direction to me.
What time zone? UTC?
PSA: The heavily upvoted description of the Parler hack is inaccurate
The work I do is almost entirely Google Anaytics/Ads related. So probably not what you're looking for, but if so, leave your email and I'll reach out!
No one is getting overruled, you now have one additional choice of links to click on for the same material, free of charge.
Are you seriously expecting anyone to believe booting Parler off from Google, Apple and Amazon all in the same day was not a political move?
I hope this will encourage big studios to stop releasing broken games, but I doubt it will. The incentives are just so broken due to ease of patching, a need/desire for cash after a drawn out dev process, and a general disrespect for their customers.

I think releasing a "broken" game in the form of "early access" from smaller studios can be good in terms of iterative and community development, but also that can be abused too. These bigger studios really don't have as much of an excuse in my opinion.

The only solution I see is to stop pre-ordering games and don't reward studios that do this, but easier said than done.
> I think most people who are active on social media are not aware of the effects it has on them. Social media is designed to sink its claws into your brain in an addictive way.

This is not true. Most are aware at this point that social media is not healthy and is addictive. Saying they don't is the equivalent of saying you didn't know smoking was bad in the 90s.

> To protect our democracy, we need to protect the ability of people to think for themselves.

I think your comment is weirdly contradictory because yes, I agree we should protect the ability for people to think and choose their media consumption for themselves. Don't like twitter's moderation decisions? Leave it.
No, gratis like Facebook. Signal is a not-for-profit.
A point to point link from Chicago to NYC would require many hops along the way, which is what they have with microwave today. The whole point of experimenting with the 20 meter band is to eliminate those hops.
the game is absolutely great. I love every second of it. It never crashed on me, and I also havent encountered many glitches..

rig:

- threadripper 1920X 12-core

- 2080ti

- 32gb ecc ram
Seems like everyone I talk to likes the game even if its not bug free and the combat isn't perfect.
Do you mean the reverse? I'm using a number of applications, the terminal is but one. So, I find a consistent interface is desirable.
Jack Ma is a member of the Communist Party of China.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alibaba-jack-ma-idUSKCN1N...

This is a classic power struggle between ideological and technocratic elements. Jack Ma vs Xi Jinping. Jack Ma, a communist party member, challenged party Chairman. As we can dispense with the notion that Jack Ma lacks the necessary wits, the actual interesting question is why did Jack Ma think it opportune to openly challenge Xi Jinping at this time?

In the US, this struggle is a non-issue as the ideological element (venture capital) finances and controls the technocrats (such as Jack Dorsey). We just however recently were treated to a purported “outsider” ideologue locking horns, via technocrat proxy of FANGs, with the ideological establishment. Given that this outsider also happens to (still) be the head of state in USA, I guess we need not wonder too deeply as to the logic of CPC reminding a prominent party member and fellow travelers of who still calls the shots in China.
Are there success stories apart from utilities and companies involved in the exploitation natural resources?
TikTok was not a copy. It was unique in a way it was a short video platform for dancing when it started.
It's mostly that the loudest, angriest voices tend to drown out everyone else.
What kind of internet bandwidth/latency do you get? And how do you get it?
Still avoiding the main point - e2e encryption does not prohibit syncing, backup etc for said data (without decryption)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_David_Dorn

https://www.voanews.com/usa/race-america/antifa-protester-im...
That's a trillion dollar question.

Firms will leave China once democracies around the world make a multi-lateral trade agreement and put our money elsewhere that's aligned with our core beliefs including or primarily free speech, say India. Get the agreement in place, have it come into effect in 2 years ahead of time, provide investment grants or loans to businesses (globally if they're aligned with democracy/free speech) who want to manufacture whatever will fill a gap in production for what the 80% of what consumers buy currently from China.

CCP could easily prevent this redirection of resources by allowing free speech and having elections.
The result of doing nothing is that in 15 years, the US becomes Germany, pre-WW2.

You can think of it as vendors getting 'canceled' for progressively less severe offenses.

Or.

You can think of it as people waking up to offenses that have been allowed to go unchallenged for way too fucking long. People 'waking up' or no longer keeping their heads down being the result of the current administration transitioning to a Lame Duck status.

The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. Yes, you should absolutely be actively paying attention. No static rule will allow you, or me, or that guy over there to go back to not paying attention.
No specific comments to the breach... But, I couldn't help but chuckle at We Take Your Security Seriously™.

Why does every company, after demonstrating a lack of security, like to say this exact line? I can just imagine the PR person hovering over the shoulder of whoever authored the post yelling "make sure you tell the victims of this breach that we care!"
>If UOKiK finds that CD Projekt Red acting misleadingly ahead of Cyberpunk 2077’s launch, and has not done enough to address the game’s issues, the developer could face a 10 per cent fine of its annual income.

I have no idea the merits of this investigation, but it is refreshing to see a potential punishment like this. Fines for bad behavior often end up as simple fees for rich people and businesses. If you want these financial penalties to serve as any type of deterrent, you need to make sure the perpetrators feel the financial repercussions.
The US Capitol Police handled the situation weirdly and it got out of hand. I'm not sure why they let protestors across barriers and declined assistance from neighboring agencies. Some people read a conspiracy into these events. I just know this wasn't even close to the first time people were upset at congress and demonstrated inside forbidden areas. Nor was it the first time large peaceful demonstrations were marred by a few acts of violence.

These people are upset because they perceive that different standards are being applied to the same actions because of the politics of the actors involved. I don't think this is going to go away as a result of us clutching our pearls at the horrific violation of our sacred legislative building.
Jobs rescued Apple from the brink of bankruptcy.. There would be no Apple to be up 900%.
There is no crisis in China, Biden owes even his pants to the Chinese Communist Party, this campaign was very expensive ...
People aren't digging on parlor for speech they allowed while criticizing them for not being free speech.

They are criticizing them because they heavily advertised to people that they should go to parlor claiming that it was meant to fight for free speech because Twitter and other platforms were restricting free speech. Except Parler itself was restricting free speech on it's own and thus people are rightfully pointing out the hypocrisy. It shows that Parler wasn't in favor of free speech, it was in favor of "our side".
Sedition
0x.Tools: Always-On Profiling for Production Systems
According to the state departments website, Trump's term ended ?
> but you can click on a lot of very similar places and you get different results.

Aha, didn't notice that, thx!

> I'm also confused why each device is handled separately.

Well, I can understand it more or less (I guess kind of similar to confirming in Whatsapp your multiple open sessions on different devices, to ensure that nobody is using something that you forgot/left behind?), but doing it this way is quite hardcore - on the other hand it could be that the whole thing is deeply embedded in the software's encryption principles/guidelines => it would probably still be ok, but it needs to be explained better, be more clearly accessible.

I guess that having a rotating key (with the software asking from time to time "do you want to accept key jf8k4d9k?") would probably be confusing for non-technical users and would probably generate uncertainty/anxiety/etc... ?
I’ve been playing it through Stadia (wanted to try out Stadia and Cyberpunk at the same time) and I agree people are hating on the game seemingly way out of proportion. It’s definitely buggy, I had to restart at one point because the game refused to allow me to reload in the middle of a fight, but claiming it’s fraud or “unplayable” is hyperbole.

I think people just got way too excited about from having nothing to do during this pandemic and then ended up really disappointed. I empathize with that but I don’t know, it’s a $60 game. That’s like four movies. I’ve enjoyed it more than the last four movies I’ve watched for sure.
Germany is north of Maine, it’s a terrible location for solar power and heavily subsidized. At best they hit a capacity factor of 11.6% in 2018. By comparison the US had a capacity factor of 28% for utility-sized PV plants in 2015, but it’s dropped as less efficient locations have been added.

A square meter of PV panels produces around 150W, that’s some low efficiency panels, you can easily hit 200+W/M2 using a high efficiency panel like SunPower Maxeon 3.

Solar isn’t a great fit everywhere. So, people really can see wildly different outputs from the same setup based on location. At 28% capacity factor averaging 60+W/M is very possible.
Ubiquiti has typically been the "cloudless" provider which is why I've used their stuff. They've been sorta moving in a disturbing direction for cloud control. I don't want that risk.
I believe it is not buffering draws, although have never checked the source.

Edit: I found this at the arch wiki:

Troubleshooting - Flickering on scroll

Warning: Double buffering may cause non-bitmap fonts to render incorrectly.

Rebuild xterm using ABS and include the --enable-double-buffer flag:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
...
--with-utempter \
--enable-double-buffer

Could be more friendly.
It was more meant as an imperative, as in, "a president can't despise his own citizens", even though we empirically know it's not true, but...

To me is a huge abuse of the authority of science. The results of science normally lie above any democratic discussion. No mater how you vote and what your values are COVID-19 exists, and global warming exists either. If you publish an opinion piece - even if it's a well-informed opinion - as a scientific paper, you are basically saying "here's what the policy should be, and you're not entitled to discuss it, because we know better".

I'm not against scientists having an informed opinion an political matter, and I'm not even against scientific journals publishing opinions if they consider them important enough, but there should be a distinction in this case between the part where science is published and the opinion column.
If the page gets fixed, it's archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210111200247/https://www.state...

Interesting to note that the time seems to be jumping around. Some staffer with backend templating access behind it?
Parler has right wing users. Telegram has not been labeled right wing. That's the difference.
Are MAGA-shouting or the anti-Obama rumors illegal? How about the countless anti-Trump rumors, including the ones involving his children?
Last time this was brought up HN user @Zackees debating about semantics whether this was a genocide or not.

Would love to hear his perspective on this now that FB admits this. I guess it's 'technically' not 'genocide' so its all a-ok according to @Zackees, it's all the MSM's fault.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=zackees
They chose differently.
If the first few people to see something downvotes you into oblivion before the majority arriving later get a chance to see your content, that's silencing, not merely not being listened to. This is doubly true when those first few people are likely to be regulars that refresh pages often. This means that a few people that are ideologically on the same page can drive the ideological view of an entire forum without actually being a moderator.
From my point of view, the conversation is more about supporting privacy vs not. I don't think anyone is supporting WhatsApp, specially after the recent news.
Army investigates psyops officer for role in Washington on day of Capitol riot
Arguably that's the reason most people stay away from it. If you can put aside your feelings about the now-departed founder and boot it, you may find that it's everything you're looking for. I'm totally dumbfounded at the rationale people are invoking in recent days not to use urbit but instead some other derivation of previously tried technology.

It's not vaporware — I use it everyday to interact with many people. It's not where it hopes to be but it's going there at quite a clip.
Someone testing something in production looks like. If this was a real thing it would be in the news not as an odd footer.
Yeah, I can agree with that. You really need to know what you're doing. We have benchmarks for most of such "micro-optimizations", though now we can know how things are going to behave before we even make them, just from the experience.

Definitely not something I'd suggest on an average traffic website.
All of the money HFTs make would have been made by other investors, presumably for reasons more related to predicting or responding to actual changes in market conditions. HFTs are parasites that basically leech value from those trades by executing them faster than you can, and forcing you to buy at a higher/sell at a lower price. I think the platonic ideal of a marketplace involves making money by determining the actual value of goods, not stealing information from others and jumping the line.

They also contribute to a lot of market instability, see for instance the flash crash[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash
Good problems to have :)

I’ll keep the feedback method in mind for future usages!

Also, I get it, having started to work with the WebRTC stack myself. While the service is free to use I think I can stomach a few issues while it’s actively being worked on :)
Sounds like their cloud provider environment was breached. If that's the case then access to databases with salted and hashed passwords is to be expected, is it not?

Would be good to know which provider this is and whether it was the fault of the provider itself.
> I'm curious about why you're asking for examples in the first place

Because you said: "I've noticed lately that HN commentary (at least in threads like this) has trended increasingly pro-censorship[1] lately", "[1]: Which is a bit ironic, thinking about it."

I haven't had that experience and don't understand the irony. Just trying to understand where you're coming from and thought links might help.

I think I misunderstood "lately" to mean the censorship / violent speech debate about the resulting Big Tech deplatformings, which is why I keep bringing those up. In the US, taking down violent, insightful speech is not considered censorship, which is why I was confused about who you're referring to that is "pro-censorship", but again maybe I crossed some wires there.

I care about free speech a lot and if there's a growing trend that speech that's always been protected by the 1st amendment is being targeted, it's a line we all need to be very sensitive to and vigilant in defending.
Argh, why do I learn about this from HN when they pretty much force me through the cloud login with UDM-Pro. Nothing in the dashboard. Also I think http://unifi/ is crap from a security standpoint. Their threat management also seems to be just some kind of a bad joke.They could for example do a nice hardware based honeypot that you have to untrigger with physical access. They could offer so much more for prosumers providing sane defaults for a common case of having multitude of devices at your home which can be categorized as intruder but expect to be on the same network as your phone.

Is there a better alternative? When I tested multiple routers mostly regarding low latency, network stability and reliability a few years ago nothing came close, especially when having multiple access points.
Is this a documented sequence of events? Is there a book/resource to read into more details on these types of evens played out?
China's 1.3B population is not equal. around 700M still lives on $140/month income, with no education to "accomplish anything they want". It will have 500M 65 year olds by 2050, too old to "accomplish anything they want".

China suffers brain drain to the West. Many of Chinese Ph.D students and scientists I know curse the day Xi Jing Ping declared himself to be the emperor, and is actively moving their families out of China as quickly as possible after 2018.

China has had very little luck in advanced semiconductor or airplane engine productions
It sounds like you have done your risk analysis and settled on an balance of risk and moderation effort that is acceptable to you. That sounds fair to me.

> Now, if 20% or 50% of my users are posting hate speech and calling for violence, yeah I would be worried, but I would be less worried about moderation, and more worried about why my hobby attracts extremists. Might call for some self reflection.

LOL! I think this is actually the right take! Definitely also applies to your social network...
Small-scale alcohol fuel production is an option. Grow sugar beets and make moonshine. It's still solar power. (No pun intended.) The molecules of alcohol are made of air and water and power from the sun.
or maybe they are taking bets on when it happens?
Whether or not there are some rational voices on Parler is beside the point: Parler is not moderating the voices that support and plan actual violence. That means that any company that supports Parler, including Apple and AWS until recently, is potentially also complicit in that violence. Those companies have warned Parler that they need to moderate, and Parler has not acquiesced.

Apple and Amazon absolutely have the legal right to not do business with anyone, for any reason; and they have the ethical obligation to not do business with anyone openly proposing violence.
Ubiquiti had a data breach, but what could hackers possibly want to know which we didn't know already? All their customers are overpaid engineers who got sucked into dumb influencer marketing convincing them to buy overpriced industrial grade networking kit for their 50m2 flat. </sarcasm>
Just to clarify, when Haskellers say that Haskell is good for "correctness" they don't mean it is good for "verification"[1]. "Verification" means something like "formally proving the behaviour of a system". It is very hard. "Correctness" to Haskellers means modest things like "the compiler tells me when I passed a NULL (Nothing) to a function that didn't expect it" or "the compiler tells me when I mixed a part name for a part serial number".

Modest, but nonetheless Haskell does this in a ergonomic way which is very effective for writing quality software.

[1] or at least any reasonable ones don't
Thanks for the correction: https://lichess.org/
Yep, gamers especially are a particularly tough crowd, and quite a few of them have large audiences.
I honestly do not understand this fetish with decentralization, do you really want a social network filled with child pornography, violence and other shady stuff? Because that's what's gonna happen guaranteed. People are just animals without rules
What we need is a distributed content distribution network, which just happens to be social. Something like a social bittorrent network with distributed search and inline website display.
i don't think so... you can gain expertise in anything.
Google Voice would probably be the best free option.
Check back when Bernie (or the next Bernie, if he doesn't run again) is deplatformed, and we'll see who was confused.

Just remember back to how the media and establishment pulled together to stop Bernie during the primaries. Think this new tool won't be used the next time they're in danger of losing power to an outsider?
>Insurrection is bad, but the possibility of insurrection is good

Let's be realistic here though. The ONLY reason "insurrection" was even close to being on the table is because of the delusional rantings of the President for the last two months (and everything leading up to that.. but that's a different discussion).

This entire election fraud thing is absolute insanity, and anyone who was paying attention saw this coming months before the election with how he was setting everything up to look like if Trump didn't win- it had to be fraud.

So my point is, no one is trying to "stop the possibility of insurrection". They are trying to actively say: 'I am not supporting giving you a platform to spout insane lies anymore, because it has and could cause real measurable harm".
Even so, systemd should be able to deal with name collisions even with numbers coming from a true RNG. That causing errors is a design issue, IMO.
While supply struggles to catch up with demand (and with 'regular' order levels) the used bike market will command high prices. Unless those people who spent $6k on a bike 'need' the money they'll be looking for a premium price.

Once the market stabilizes the bike manufacturers and dealers will go back to offering generous trade-in and 'last years model' discounts and those impulse bikes will have to drop a lot off their original price to look like a bargain.
I suspect it will look a lot like the US used car market where a new car is cheaper than the same thing with 20k miles - by the time you account for manufacturer promotional discounts and dealer haggling.

Also I'm not sure I'd want to roll the dice on any used carbon frameset or wheels. Are modern carbon frames less brittle than I am led to believe?