skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not your place to give medical advice to 12-year-olds.
Capitol attack is tech's '9/11' says EU commissioner
The difference is no single entity can likely "shutdown" Facebook, since it likely runs its own servers, or has multiple back-ends in case one shuts down.
I doubt she has the capability of "genuine".
Thanks very much! This does indeed work, for anyone else keen to do so using OSX:

1. Make sure you've recently backed up your iPhone

2. Open up terminal and $ open ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup

3. Pick the relevant Backup folder (look at the most recently updated column)

4. To find the files mentioned by umanghere, go to the folder with the relevant starting characters. Eg: 7c7xxx is in the '7c' folder.

5. Find the file and open using any SQLite browser. For OSX, this is a decent and simple option: https://sqlitebrowser.org/

From there, once you figure out the tables, you can ostensibly write a script to also migrate your chats from Whatsapp to Signal.

For media transfer, this may also be helpful (though I haven't tried it myself): https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/365950/accessing-w...

I may write a script for this if I get a weekend free soon, but happy if anyone else does it as well.
Anyone that invited one of these spying devices into their home gets what they deserve.
Is there something like this but for Windows?
Industry collaboration leads to an important quantum computing milestone
Show HN: A web-based WhatsApp backup viewer
There's a difference between people giving them negative press and the USSR.

One was a government and the other is random people saying "I'm not going to be your customer anymore"

There's also plenty of open source CRMs they could deploy.

If they're afraid of the cloud they could rent a dedicated server or colocate.

I'm sure if they host in a very pro Republican state they wouldn't have issues.

They could even host it in another country if they wanted to as well.

They've got a lot of freedom
I thought that only Moderna and BioNTech have the licences for mRNA vaccines.

Astrazeneca is working together with Moderna on respiratory diseases, which is interesting for me, as I have asthma.
Here's an article about HIV mutating in the body: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574155/

Influenza can barely even copy itself accurately.
Tutorial: Encrypting Kubernetes Secrets with Sealed Secrets
Not a lawyer, but perhaps this perspective would work in Finland?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863939
"One of the obstacles for progress in the quest for a working quantum computer has been the development of Qubits. Previously these have only been produced by universities and in small numbers. However, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, found that they could use CEA-Leti wafers. These industrially produced devices were found to be suitable as a platform for a two-dimensional array of qubits, a significant step for a working quantum computer. The results of this study have now been published in Nature Communications."
If home ownership is not the standard mechanism for long-term wealth accumulation and rental laws are such that they strongly favor the renter it makes no sense to use home ownership as your yardstick for measuring wealth. The ability to take on a huge chunk of debt with which you will speculate on real estate asset appreciation is not an indicator of income.
I read that it was a guillotine and Amazon employees, but your point still stands.
We should instead do both.
To add to this, this isnt just the case in business.

This quasi-feudalism is a nash equilibrium common to most large organizations, from business to politics to NGOs. Its simply a decently effective way to act that will result in stability in power
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Being anxious about the future
Discord uses IRC for it's chat
It can still be censoring, just the parameters are spelled out beforehand in the Terms of Service.

Also do we like Terms of Service now? I thought the mood across HN was that they don't really count as "consent" because nobody reads them?
I’m guessing these clauses in the TOS that allow companies to immediately cancel a dependent relationship are going to be a sticking point during the sales cycle at these and many other companies going forward.

Does Netflix (or other streaming services) host data on AWS? You can bet their legal departments are squirming right now at the prospect of losing their storage services due to some controversial show or documentary that they create which causes a stir with some political group in power.

Completely stupid move on the part of these companies.
PiHole?
I feel like Disney is having a corporate version of Eternal September.
Around $36K is spent on the average new car in the US. If your primary goal is to own a car as cheaply as possible with still great reliability, buying a 5-year old used Camry/Accord/CR-V/Prius (which will overwhelmingly not be pure electric) is a better choice than any new electric.
No one acted violently after reading your comment, but people did act violently after reading Trump’s Twitter. If you have an example of someone’s Twitter being taken down for inciting violence were no violence occurred, let us know!
Facebook Warns Employees Not to Wear Company Gear in Public After Banning Trump
The Threema app was not breached. The "messages" themselves were not "extracted", it was a zip backup and password was most probably known. BTW the accomplice who handed it over had it in his custody for months, so it's weird it was even admitted as evidence.
It's nice to store any information that's nice to have, but not important enough to expressly record somewhere. "search, don't sort" applies especially well to this kind of info.

Addresses were already mentioned, but that also applies to IBAN, email addresses, door codes, restaurants...

It's also some kind of light diary: you can easily deduce what you were doing on a certain day if you look at the corresponding message.

For me it's not important enough that I would want to migrate it to another app if I were switching (I'd just save the DB), but it's not completely useless either. And of course some people just store everything there, including things that were not messages in the first, just like they do with email. You can argue that they shouldn't, but if that's what they want...

Obviously that's also a privacy risk, e.g. in case you lose your phone. There are many countries where I wouldn't keep my chat history for more than one week.
The first firewall to do this should definitely lead with that in the headline.
Microsoft's beefed-up take on Linux server security has hit general availability
Father of the Web Tim Berners-Lee Prepares 'Do-Over'
M1 destroys the i7-11375H as well, with single core Geekbench score 100 points higher (7% faster) and multi core 2000 points higher (26% faster).

[0] https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i7_1137...
We don't know why salesforce did this. The RNC until now has not been denied anything from big tech that I recall. To me, this likely means someone in the RNC wanted to send out an email organizing an angry protest. Salesforce absolutely does not need to help organize an event they feel could lead to violence.
Old Disney movies are...boring? My kid would rather watch some CGI bullshit on YouTube or videos of kids playing with other toys...
Sure, I’m curious; however, you are merely making an assertion that 1) these events happened the way you’re presenting them, 2) there is no legitimate reason for the events to have happened as you’re presenting them, 3) this constitutes a conspiracy to commit election fraud, and 4) this indicates the election was wrongly decided.
> I think this is a society failure.

Is it really society's failure to fight back against a company whose entire business model is detrimental to said society?
You don't need to and probably shouldn't remove the outliers from your dataset. You can easily query it with:

SELECT * FROM series WHERE is_anomaly = f;

If you want you can wrap a (materialized) view around this.
We've also have coronavirus vaccines for dogs for a long time. More tolerance for side effects means easier approval means more vaccines which haven't been proven safe to the standards we demand for use in humans.
German investigators shut down big darknet marketplace
I think the new part is that they have started to censor anyone that is even vaguely conservative. Even open critics of Trump like Ron Paul, and now RNC.

The end game is obviously that anyone that is not a woke liberal will be cancelled. For the good of the country of course.
> No address-book access required

> It’s not necessary to grant access to the address book in order to use the service.

This section incorrectly marks WhatsApp with an X, stating that it mandates it. The fact is that WhatsApp can very well be used without giving it access to the contacts or address book. This section should have a yes for all the services in the list.
I think the issue is one of the consumer's intent: are you buying a phone with a bunch of extra capabilities or a microphone hooked to a data center around the world? And that explicit decision is what is jarring to people who value privacy.

Of course they both have microphones hooked to data centers, but the Alexas/Echos are almost worthless without the microphone enabled. Many people I know have turned off listening for trigger words on their phone.

That being said, I have a HomePod that I have to manually press the touch button on top for it to listen. I use it for music, an occasional family conference call and occasional for generic assistant stuff like weather.

I tried a Google Home but couldn't get it configured in that mode -- listen on physical touch only (that was 3-4 years ago). And doubly couldn't get it setup without deep integration into a google account. The HomePod complains occasionally that it can't answer because it hasn't been personalized to an account, but is otherwise totally fine operating without access to my every inner thought (web/location history, etc.).

I'm just as concerned about every modern car essentially being a microphone hooked to a datacenter on wheels. And new TVs. And a few refrigerators and kids toys. And light switches. At least phones (well iPhones -- haven't used the last few Android versions) are easy to setup without listening enabled. And on iPhones it's opt-in during the setup process (the Siri checkbox is default on, but you are prompted to decide with no other confusing decisions on the screen at the same time).
Censoring can be done by anyone with the power to enact it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
Do you have actual evidence or is this a gut feeling of what should be right? There is actual evidence of an armed protest being completely peaceful. Michigan had armed protestors in the Capitol building (which was legal at the time) at the start of the covid protests and nothing criminal happened. Open carry advocates regularly demonstrate at least yearly in many states, and again nothing gets violent. The presence of guns seems to make people understand the gravity of the situation and behave accordingly.
Timothy Dexter
We had plenty of cranks like this on Usenet in the 80s, long before the Internet rose to significant attention from nation states and other deep-pocketed actors.
Top item on the day I joined:

Microsoft rips off Plurk (plurk.com)
581 points by abraham on Dec 14, 2009
135 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994417
probably he doesn't have kids. That's why the virtue signaling.
Actually vaccines can be used for lots of therapies. One example is using personalized vaccines for creating immune reaction for cancer by sequencing the cancer DNA and comparing it with non-cancerous DNA.
It will not only irritate them. It will enrage them, add many others to their ranks, and likely lead to much more drama and violence.
The timing is certainly interesting.
Just published an article on the n8n blog about using Mattermost or Matrix to create virtual random coffee chats using n8n. It will randomly match up three people who are members of a chat channel together and send them an invitation to get together for coffee online. A great way to get to know your colleagues!

Read the entire article at https://n8n.io/blog/how-to-host-virtual-coffee-breaks-with-n...
Wouldn't they be easy enough to triangulate quite precisely anyway?
Twitter bans 70k QAnon accounts as conservatives report lost followers
Netflix are very strongly liberal though, so I don’t think there’s any such risk.
Seeing a lot of comments about how the justice system sucks. But... isn't prosecuting people who destroy evidence exactly what should be happening?

Bad person does bad thing > prosecuted

Bad person tries to hide bad thing > prosecuted for that too

As far as I can tell, this is what a good justice system looks like.
The two parties that hold all the power in the US make sure that it’s just the two parties. How do you reform a system when the people who benefit from the system hold ask the cards?
They say to to a physicist a cow seems to be a sphere, to the first approximation.

Well, this article seems to be misleading drivel, to a first approximation. Why are people supposed to waste their time reading this?
Typing in voucher codes to watch a movie sounds terrible.
It's time for the Republican Party to be legally banned -- the same way the Germans banned the Nazis after WWII and the Russians banned the Soviet Communist Party after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Failing that, however, it is altogether proper for private entities to neutralize the Republicans and not give them a bit of oxygen -- in the interests of preventing further violence and undermining of the democratic process.
That regulation can very easily take a form that shores up the power of big tech and takes out their enemies.
Yes. This is no different from the civil rights movement when we as a society asked, "is it right that a restaurant can refuse service to people they do not like?". In the end we decided no you cannot discriminate. Same thing needed here.
While all these other privacy-respecting messaging alternatives are getting more attention after WhatsApp's updated privacy policy, it would be prudent to note that most casual users will be clicking yes as soon as the new policy pops up.

Sometimes it's not a case of not knowing any better. The convenience of reaching almost any of your contacts directly from WA cannot be understated. This is what Signal & co. are up against. Most old folks won't be switching as WA just works for them.

It also doesn't help matters that data plans from ALL telecoms in my country come with FREE WhatsApp bundles.
What's Wrong with the Way We Work
I don’t think you can really pick this part the way you are approaching it. There were many many other tweets that added up to this, and Twitter really didn’t decide that any particular tweet was a problem until people chose to be violent after reading them.
I thought building housing for the homeless was a good solution. Of course if it's built in an expensive area and the construction company is expensive, they run out of money way before enough are built.

700k$ for one house? That's crazy!
No, because they are not equal threats.

A dangerous terror cell, which has already invaded the US Capitol, is now threatening to bomb critical infrastructure. If this was the Taliban you wouldn't be asking this question.
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"Donate to me" sounds like a pretty explicit appeal to give money, so I would personally steer away from that to not get in trouble with the law ("rahankeräyksellä [tarkoitetaan] toimintaa, jossa yleisöön vetoamalla kerätään vastikkeetta rahaa" & "yleisöön vetoamisella [tarkoitetaan] suullisesti, kirjallisesti tai muulla tavoin ilmaistua pyyntöä tai kehotusta antaa rahaa keräykseen").

AFAIK, just adding your PayPal details or bank account number to your website would be okay because you would not be making any sort of an appeal.
> The end game is obviously that anyone that is not a woke liberal will be cancelled.

You say "woke liberal", I say decent person. If you're an unrepentant asshole, you damn well should be cancelled!
Go Panic (Transcript)
Healthy mice mirror a companion’s pain or morphine-induced relief
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/03/slovakian-busi...

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22231150/threema-as-evidence-in-t...

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22397627/threema-messages-fico-dr...
Can you connect to Discord using a standard IRC client?
They forgot to mention one crucial thing - only Signal has an open-source backend.
Encryption in transit / at rest are arguably so common that they're not really worth mentioning as a differentiator. Are there any messengers that don't do this? I'd say the qualitative different to E2EE is quite major.
"This lock doesn't really prevent unauthorized access to this room but you know, 'perfect is the enemy of good!'"
Obvious perhaps, but I do not think that the leap from "disillusioned" to "violence" is one we should accept as normal, and indicates just how far down the rabbit hole we are already. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.
I'm curious, are there examples of emails inciting violence? I live in Europe, all news we get is filtered through several layers of reporters (mostly incompetent).

I will admit, I am not following these news very closely but these emails could be very damning.
Some years ago I used to feel the same way about the world. I was so broken inside that I couldn't see any light. But things can change! The only meaningful thing I can tell you is: don't lose hope!

Go out, go running, do things you like to do, learn more everyday, get a job you like or work hard to get there one day... And if you're crippled by depression go to a psychologist and get cured, it's possible, just don't fucking lose hope!
> Who knows which way the wind blows in a quarter or a year or a decade?

Let's hope the wind is always blowing against trying to violently overthrow a government after a free and fair election in the United States of America.
I don't think the guillotine was meant as a literal threat to his life personally. It was a wage protest lead by a former Amazon employee and IIRC was never violent.
Which group caused 3 Billion in damages this past summer? I'll wait
The question is how many are novel though, not how many there are.
How secret could they realistically be?
Why Rich People Went Nuts for Monkey's Testes in the 1920s
I don’t think anyone seriously views that shit show as an attempt to “overthrow an elected government”.
Selling software should be okay, but I imagine that's a significant burden to a lot of open-source developers who are not aiming to make it a job.
>The thing is that it is difficult to resolve when that has been the case for decades, if not centuries because it's like that everywhere and you cannot decide to re-do half the country's road network and to raze everything that's in the way, especially in the UK.

My point is only that this is exactly what the Netherlands has already done, which shows that it is perfectly possible to resolve (and, in general, without any razing - the Dutch are at least as proud of their history as the British)

The fact that the Netherlands looks good now is because these exact same problems have been solved over time. The UK could even benefit from an easier time, since it gets to just copy the best-working solutions.
What dictionary are you using that says censoring can only be done by a government? It seems like a tech employee talking point so they can pretend they aren't censoring people.
I bet the developer who made the commit that triggered this wasn't expecting it would have such an effect.
There seems to be a general return to plaintext tools like HN: danluu.com, plumebio.com and lite.cnn.com
The number is probably lower but still the bar is high for qualified immigrants (then there's the familiar reunion/refugees/etc)

Too bad Canada treats most of them like they came in a dinghy from some weird 3rd world country and leaves some of them in survival jobs (especially in a certain big eastern province)
There are many obvious reasons to believe fiat currencies have value. But perhaps the most obvious one is that having and using fiat currency is required by 99.9% of people in order to stay alive. Staying alive is quite valuable.
I didn't mean to suggest that vanna isn't important, it's just part of the same mix of things to think about when prices/vols/rates move. Somehow it never came up much in conversation by that name, but it was a thing to think about.

The squeezemetrics people seem to have quantified it, it's actually quite impressive. The GEX and VEX thing seems to be what you are alluding to, and they seem to have crunched the numbers.

Browsing the papers it seems they assume that the customers are selling the calls and buying the puts? I think it makes sense, it's more sensible than saying all the open interest is one way on the market makers.
Those details are not public AFAIK, so we don't know how the prosecutors got the "deleted" messages.
> and now we're down to cloud infrastructure providers and payment processors

Payment processors have always been heavily restrictive about what they allow. There have been articles talking about the hoops that OnlyFans has to jump through, for instance, because Stripe doesn't like pornography.

> just be prepared to move your goalposts when people start pressuring ISPs to block the content

Or search engines—like scihub and thepiratebay have had to deal with.

So we're already doing all of thee steps. In the end, it comes down to the same thing, though: what content should be blocked?
As soon as I reach this age, I will try to work as Appliance technician, fixing stuff like refrigerator, laundry machine, etc.. It is something that I do for fun, and I see a real shortage in this market. People call you, you fix it. Done. No deployment, no issue tracker or SCRUM.
Just a friendly chop off your head threat!
I’ve found that all the Reznor/Ross collaborations work really well for deep work in general, coding or not.

The Social Network soundtrack is a favorite to start anytime I’m doing “heads down” work, but most of their catalog fills that need nicely https://music.apple.com/us/artist/trent-reznor-atticus-ross/...
Ron Paul previously had thoughts on private businesses and discrimination you might want to read. https://mises.org/wire/government-should-leave-bakers-alone

> Rights are not gifts from government, so the government cannot restrict them unless we engage in force or fraud. The bakery did not use force to stop any same-sex couple from getting a wedding cake. It simply exercised its right to decide who it would accept as a customer. No one would support private individuals forcing bakery employees to bake a cake at gunpoint, so why is it right for the government to do it?