skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Riiiight... "IF"
So you mean, like IF there wasn't a gargantuan 'security' apparatus in place just waiting to nip anything like that that was even remotely a _serious_ threat in the bud?
(yawn..your ridiculous)
hypotheticals don't work.
For a web browser, that's certainly getting into dangerous territory. You want your web browser to be updated as rapidly as possible; zero days are a fact of life.
This was more interesting than a dynamic web page. Be fair.

The time wasn't updating on every refresh, and even when it was it appeared to be going backwards.

Then the page was taken offline because of technical difficulties.
There isn't any direct benefit for many of the people I had in mind.

Indirect benefits are harder to evaluate and will be nature involve a bunch of hand waving, but there is a huge difference between say holding a research chair, and having a consulting business as an "available expert".
xterm -bg '#bebebe'
Seems almost like an unpopular opinion, but I think Cyberpunk 2077 itself is really not that bad.
And on PC, it runs pretty well already.

I think the main issue is the false marketing w.r.t. last-gen consoles. Hyping their product more than they could deliver seems to be the reason they are facing this backlash. But who could condemn them? Others are doing great with this strategy, see e.g. Tesla with their "Autopilot" (last-gen console are some older European roads here).
The platform refused to moderate that content.

In fact it was its raison d'étre.
You’re preaching to the choir. We’ve been having discussions on HN for years about the dangers of swapping the short-term benefits of AWS for the long-term dangers it can bring. I’m sure there’s some Nostradamus on here that predicted this exact situation with Parler. The dangers were obvious and clear to anyone who was paying attention but not everyone was paying attention. Hopefully, this gets managers and CEOs to double-check if the benefits of AWS/EWS truly outweigh the risks.
No one could possibly prove this kind of negative.
I think the poster was worried about slippery slope - today they come for the evil men, tomorrow they come for the unpopular men, the next day they come for me. In such a context i assume the poster isnt actually planning to host anything illegal or even distatsteful to current views, so a good contract should be fully negotiatable.
That's a really fair point, and it's a really hard problem.

In this case, you had people trying to overthrow a democratic vote. So they are literally the enemies of a free society. But the same laws and infrastructure to prevent this can be misused.

That's the hard stop. You can't have a governmental system that is fault tolerant to malicious misrule. You need to apply laws or laws lose power, and you need to trust those carrying out governing to obey some norms.
Apple and Google still have the Facebook app in their respective stores. Why not hold everyone to the same standards? Or are there differences I'm not seeing at a high level? Maybe sophistication/existence of content moderation is better?
ikonic89: how large is the database? The charts showed disk utilisation % but would be interested to know raw sizes.
This is fantastic. Are these original illustrations? So well done.
I've yet to find a country where that country's inhabitants aren't mostly concerned with themselves and I've been to quite a few countries.
I expect this type of regulation to be quickly put into place in every jurisdiction that actually believes in the principles of freedom of speech. The most salient part of this article:

> Under its provisions, social media services will not be allowed to remove content or block accounts if the content on them does not break Polish law. In the event of removal or blockage, a complaint can be sent to the platform, which will have 24 hours to consider it. Within 48 hours of the decision, the user will be able to file a petition to the court for the return of access. The court will consider complaints within seven days of receipt and the entire process is to be electronic.

As an aside: the excuse that private companies are not the government and "can do whatever they want" is the flimsiest of excuses. If businesses can do whatever they want, then surely all of them can ignore pandemic restrictions and open up if they so choose. And all the regulations already imposed on other privately-held utilities must not matter. And so on.

Clearly big tech companies are the new digital public town square and speech that is not permitted on their platforms might as well not exist. For people to have a useful right to the freedom of speech, these massive platforms do need to be regulated. Perhaps niche networks can go their own route but Twitter and Facebook are bigger than most nations and cannot be allowed to operate without due process.
You can set DDG in the settings, I'm using DDG on the Android version. It's also easy to choose it on the desktop version.
Out of curiosity, where are you getting the 90% from? I hadn’t heard that statistic before.
Yet 4chan has succeeded in may organized tasks. They played capture the flag with Shia LaBeouf [1], fixed votes for NYTs person of the year [2], and made the OK hand signal into a White Power symbol [3]. Sure these aren't super involved, but it's a bit dismissive to say they aren't capable of organized efforts.

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-good...
[2]: https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/21/4chan-takes-over-the-time-...
[3]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48293817
I'm betting on internet balkanization long term. Even in the West, people can't agree on what you can and can't say on social media.
Trolling and many other forms of online abuse may not be against any law but it is in the public interest to allow platforms to remove such content.

This initiative may turn out to be the opposite of what it claims to stand for.
> Really? Compared to film, music, visual arts? I would say it's the least diverse of them. It's starting to branch out, especially in the indie scene, but it's still in it's infancy.

Yes because gaming actually unify all other art medium without being burdened by their 'rules'. Movies today have clearly defined cinematographic rules, very little professional produced movies can be deemed experimental. Games do not suffer from these kind of 'academic' considerations.
Bonus points from developing on slow hardware: you really have to code efficiently, as you notice, when something is going wrong and takes more time, than it should

Also I now like the combination of computer with pen and paper. So sketching design things or algorithms on paper, before implementing them as code. (started doing so, to save batterie)
People get their hopes up too much. I don't mean to "blame the victim" here, but at the same time I read all of the hype machine prior to a release and am not surprised that people are disappointed. Based on the hype and the expectations, nothing but the best game ever made will satisfy the crowd. This is the same for anything that is overhyped. Game of Thrones comes to mind as well. Everyone hated on the last season, but literally no matter what they did, it would be hated on.

People just need to relax, accept that things are imperfect, and enjoy the game once it is patched.
> The rdrand instruction is great for games, because it allows to make white noise without complex algorithms and system call overhead.

Eh. You're looking at hundreds of cycles per use. That makes it slower than a secure software RNG, let alone an insecure one.
There is a distinction between website and the quoted "social media services".
Nobody has mentioned r/anime_titties yet. It's easily one of the best I was a part of when I was still on Reddit. Everyone had different opinions and viewpoints and things stayed very neutral. Even the mods preferred to comment on potentially shady links rather than delete them.

And no, this isn't a troll; it's one of those reverse-name subreddits.
"Under its provisions, social media services will not be allowed to remove content or block accounts if the content on them does not break Polish law."

Sooo hop on a topic specific group. Get my off-topic posts removed. Being off-topic is not a crime in Poland. Get my shitposts reinstated.

The bill better be more specific than the article is.
I'm in biopharma, but I love nerdcore medical for awesome geeky posters with great design. Some of these might speak to you: https://store.nerdcoremedical.com/collections/posters

I love the immmunology one and the Path to ATP. You might like the Medical Stats one in the spirit of Minecraft.

Edit to add- shout out to the designer Eleanor Lutz, her incredible portfolio is here: https://eleanorlutz.com/
As an engineer who has worked briefly with one of the start-ups focused on here on their core product, Robert's critique of the the technology driving the current generation of template-based commercial solutions is absolutely spot-on. The results are useful but the template based approach along with the really lackluster tooling both my employer and competitors in the space had cobbled together made self-service nigh impossible. His assessment that these companies are really professional services companies dealing in bespoke one-off software solutions despite their efforts to market as robust AI products that magically turn some arbitrary JSON schema into prose is very fair I think.

I am eager to see if neural approaches develop to better handle constraints, but part of me thinks the level of control over generated prose that template based approaches provide is essential for customer-facing text and that part of the market will persist even when every other recipe in Google search results is GPT-3 generated rubbish around the actual damn list of ingredients.
De-Google Chromium, Firefox with the right extensions installed, Safari if you like the walled garden and apple ecosystem

Im sure there are more but all the bells and whistles Brave touts you can get elsewhere and you are not using a product from a company that has shady practices
> I don't think it's fair to blame this on gamers

That's sort of what I'm alluding to. Personal responsibility doesn't work when you need collective action, so something else needs to step in to fix this. Reminding gamers to not pre-order is pointless.
I mention it because this post is appealing to HN as if we have some kind of government power to influence whether cloudflare chooses to commerce with those customers. Clearly we do not. That power is exclusive to the government, and "you may choose your customers as long as it's not based on a protected class" is the overruling paradigm. (To the sibling comment disingenuously bringing up the bakery case: you'll note the key words - protected class).

So that aside, the post boils down to either "so what" or "we must do something to pressure cloudflare not to do this", neither option rising to the level of intellectual discourse I think appropriate for this platform.
I like how this article builds everything up. Well written.
I wonder how far you have to drive to offset the benefit in waste from shipping
Adding Interactive Visual Syntax to Textual Code (2020) [video]
I'm not sure how in the weeds you are with this specific issue, but it isn't just that this game wasn't "bug free". It is unfinished in noticeable ways, it doesn't match some of the expectations set by CDPR, and the company took active steps to ensure customers wouldn't know how poorly the game performed on certain hardware. Once again, I don't know if that rises to a criminal level, but this is much more serious than someone not liking a game they preordered.
A DDG search without filtering. Do a search and see much, much more. An honest question - do you seriously question if Trump was influential?

(My own life was changed greatly by Trump's policies, but that would be anecdotal, and therefore not relevant.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/opinion/fact-check-trump....

https://www.thenationalsentinel.com/2020/10/10/heres-a-list-...

https://logiclogiclogic.wordpress.com/2020/08/31/what-a-terr...
On PS4 I ran into a bug near the end of "The Pickup" mission where Jackie gets stuck inside the All Foods building. The next objective is to talk to him, but once you exit the building you can't re-enter or call him. I had to go back to a previous save a few times. Sometimes the game just crashes and I have to restart the console. There have been some other bugs that I just found funny, like once I was driving and all of a sudden the car was stuck hundreds of feet in the air and I fell and died when I got out. I've been enjoying the game though and the bugs haven't really bothered me too much, but I see how they could.
> No, the twitter rules don't make caveats for different positions in society.

They do, though. (or rather, they did... I honestly have no idea what state their rules are in today, but they've changed some things) It's the only reason Trump was allowed to stay on Twitter as long as he was, and Twitter were transparent about that. [1]

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2018/world-lea...
Ha, you are right! Fixed.
Until it isn't and we are faced yet again with a much worse pandemic like situation.
>My point is that the tools for organizing an insurrection are being removed, and that's at least a little scary.

Insurrections were organized well before AWS and the like existed, and they will still be organized well after AWS and the like are gone.

Limiting platforms that make it easier to radicalize large numbers of people is still a good thing.
That's taking a lot of liberty with established history.
Regarding the majority party of the coalition which he is governing with.

The party has caused what constitutional law scholar Wojciech Sadurski termed a "constitutional breakdown"[58] by packing the Constitutional Court with its supporters, undermining parliamentary procedure, and reducing the president's and prime minister's offices in favor of power being wielded extra-constitutionally by party leader Jarosław Kaczyński.[46] After eliminating constitutional checks, the government then moved to curtail the activities of NGOs and independent media, restrict freedom of speech and assembly, and reduce the qualifications required for civil service jobs in order to fill these positions with party loyalists.[46][59] The media law was changed to give the governing party control of the state media, which was turned into a partisan outlet, with dissenting journalists fired from their jobs.[46][60] Due to these political changes, Poland has been termed an "illiberal democracy",[61][62] "plebiscitarian authoritarianism",[63] or "velvet dictatorship with a façade of democracy".[64]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Justice#In_majority_go...
The article you linked doesn't support your assertions and the linked explanation tweet from their CEO seems pretty reasonable: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269317625915400192

I don't see how I was simplifying the issue by asking you a question. It also seems to me like you are reaching for a reason to discredit the browser.
The irony. You mean they did exactly what twitter does but on the right wing? They deserve to be digitally obliterated!!!!
Are there any 48 port switches you would recommend? I've concluded that they're overpriced compared to multiple 24 port switches for example but I'm hoping I'm wrong. Never heard of Meraki for example.
Oh no, a right-wing conservative government is worried about censorship of their homophobic ideology. boo hoo
Matrix actually does authenticate additional devices, and handle all that.

It's already out there, just a matter of adopting it.
I was thinking just that, people playing in 2022 will have an awesome experience when everything is fixed.
Mikrotik? Easier?

Do not get me wrong, I love Mikrotik, but easier would not the word I would be using. This image (https://www.reddit.com/r/mikrotik/comments/jyjgnc/mikrotik_v...) sums it up neatly.

Also, Mikrotik is not directly comparable, you cannot replace Unifi Controller with Capsman.
You are right. Would be interesting to know who it is. Couldn't find anything for AWS atm. That could be big, but let's hope it's nothing to worry about. I appreciate they communicate this notice asap. Even if we don't have the details yet.
>you cant load icloud backup on android

for free

If you're willing to pay for an app, you can definitely do that.

https://www.syncios.com/icloud/how-to-recover-data-from-itun...

*I'm not advocating for this specific app, I've never used it and couldn't comment on how well it works, just an example*
I think you are mistaking something. Conservatism is not a brand. But what you are referring to is actually the vilification of the people who insist on wanting to keep (something they see as a right) what they have and built or was built for them by people who freely gave it to them. I suspect your misunderstanding of what conservatism is, is also a driving force that will destabilize things further because it is such a fundamental misunderstanding that conservatism is not like the brand of the Democratic party.

You appear to think of it as some kind of opposing sports team. I know the following will incense a lot of people here, but reality though is that the basic dualism is those how have and built something wanting to keep that; while those who did not build or have, want to acquire and take what they did not contribute to, build, or have. A thief is a person that wants what he did not create, deserve, or earn; yet wants to benefit from (or he would not steal it).

Essentially a person with such a mindset is a "liberal" with other people's things, opposed to a conservative that wants to keep what he earned as well as you keep what you legitimately earned. It's really just age old conflict captured in Aesop's fable of the Ants and the Grasshopper. That model manifests itself in the real world through things like the "communists" who want to take over what they don't understand and did not build and yet think they can operate, let alone even maintain; the people that object to huge student loans they willingly agreed to and want to benefit from, while not wanting to pay the cost; or immigrants to anywhere who want to receive what is essentially a part of the wealth and what others of a country built, not only zero cost, but to immense benefit and profit at the cost of the local population.
Kathy Griffen reposted her "Trump head" photo again two days ago. So much for her "sincere apology". No bans for her.
https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1348355262155878404
Pistol Packs 50 Rounds of High-Velocity Personal Defense Weapon Ammo
You can mitigate anything (i dont think you should, but that is a different question). I dont think the original poster was suggesting that type of thing (more a fear of slippery slope), but for the sake of argument, if they were tor hidden services would be the obvious way to mitigate.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
It’s not so much the farmers as it is truckers. CA has a lot of agriculture but some places like NYC have a very limited food supply. For some reason a lot of people have no idea how dependent they are on rural areas. I never forgot this tweet from some politician from out East who was flying back from Denver or somewhere and posted a picture of the ground below the airplane (farm fields with patterns from circular irrigation systems) and he says “No idea why the ground looks like that!”
> That phenomenon is called counter-signaling, which I first ran into listening to Dan Jurafsky making the point that if a menu uses the word "fresh", its a low-brow restaurant. A high-brow restaurant would never use the word "fresh" -- the freshness is implicit in the other signals.
https://kelley.iu.edu/riharbau/cs-randfinal.pdf

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713050
Hardly a fact. As a privacy minded person I hold the Nexus/Pixel devices quite high in regard in the android ecosystem.

Better to be screwed by google, than to be screwed by both google and samsung/whatever.
Genuine question, and I'm certainly no expert in this - just a curious end-user, aren't the backups that WhatsApp creates and uploads to iCloud/GDrive kind of encrypted? As in, I can't simply download the backup file and access the messages and media?

My understanding is that in order to restore/access said messages and media, you would need the SIM/phone number that created the backup file and would have to register again with WhatsApp to receive a decryption key from WhatsApp servers. So doesn't this mean in effect that even though it's not super secure, the backup file stored on iCloud/GDrive is also protected from Apple and Google's prying eyes?

EDIT: For anyone interested, the backups are indeed encrypted. See: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/136072/how-can-...
The only thing missing from signal among the things you listed is news, no?
I think China is fighting hard to block any other Western companies from entering their markets.

I suspect Apple is tolerated only because so much of Apple's manufacturing costs are in China.
You have the notion of “protected class” backwards. Everyone in this country has the right to equal protection under the law, but private companies are allowed to discriminate except in cases of protected class.

AWS can say “we don’t want Parler as a customer” but they cannot say “we don’t serve black people on our platform” as race is a protected class while being Parler is not.
> I hope this will encourage big studios to stop releasing broken games

The game wasn't "broken" at all. I've finished it a couple of days ago. It works fine on the PC.

It wasn't a matter of releasing an unfinished game as in the "early access" model like you are describing. It was a matter of deciding to release the game in platforms that were underpowered, like the PS4.
Companies will end up with some creative solutions - if it can not be removed it can be made hard to access.

Courts usually don't like to be jerked around like that. Sure, there are always loopholes, and it's difficult to tell whether authors will have the tenacity to keep patching the law but Ziobro's party (very surprisingly, I mean even their supporters barely believed this) managed to really clamp down on various VAT evasion schemes.
Deplatforming, for the better or worse, is putting a bigger spotlight on decentralized platforms to mitigate the issue of hosting something that businesses are unwilling to touch. They'll always try to find a platform they can leech on that cannot be moderated as easily, because not one holds the keys to the kingdom.

I feel like that attempting to silence a group by deplatforming is similar to attempting to block/censor a service provided over the Internet, the network sees censorship as a system failure and it will always attempt to find a route around that.
From $0 to $20MM Annual Revenue Rate, here's how we did it
Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like staying off HN for a bit?
The topics and quality of discussion have really changed over the past week and I'm not that interested in more free speech flame wars or questions like "Would decentralised distributed git-blockchain replace twitter and save us from tyranny if Trump pushed one block to it?"

Anyone else feel in a similar way? How are you dealing with this?
If someone assaults me or otherwise violates my rights, but I can't file suit to defend my rights, then in practice I essentially don't actually have those rights. This is elementary.

Read the PRC's constitution some time and see all the rights that it guarantees, yet no one actually enjoys those rights. They exist on paper only.

You continually ask questions that attack positions which no one has suggested. I've had to ignore about 80% of your comments because they are just diversions. No one said a word about "corporate personhood", for example, and no one is even talking about legal representation of corporations. It's not possible to have a meaningful discussion like this.