skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean to tie it to a more concrete example: Take the incident with the white lady and the black guy who was bird watching in New York. I'm pretty sure he'd love nothing more than to be able enjoy his pretty chill hobby of bird watching without it becoming racial or political or what have you. But the fact of the matter is that's not his choice.

So yea, being able to say you don't take a position in politics can definitely be a privilege.

Edit: Not to say I think people should really be hounding this lady anyways but just want to explain the point about privilege there.
It's a coded message 1 1 1 /s
Hacker News does start off many people with a shadowban–I know because I have vouched for many of these initial comments.
I would assume this is because you are a WASP with both high income and privilege levels and have never really experienced the fallout of hate speech directed towards you.
Its highway robbery for universities to charge the same tuition for "remote learning" that they do for in-person schooling. The dozen or so hours of academic instruction is only a fraction of the college experience that one pays for. Socialization, library access, gym access, athletics, dining services, student clubs and a whole other host of services and facilities that are denied to students during "remote learning" represent substantial value that students are paying for but no longer receiving. This is even more egregious when many students are going deeply into debt in order to pay their tuition.
> Personally it seems like vaporware to me, there's not much based on the lofty promises of a new OS/language/social network.

> not much based on the lofty promises of a new OS/language/social network.

You can literally set an urbit up and join a not-dead distributed social network right now, this second, in probably less than 3 minutes — it's explicitly not vaporware if people are using it to build thriving communities.
Wasn't Parlor created explicitly because Facebook and Twitter started fact checking content on its platform and white supremacists were feeling unjustly targeted simply because their posts were being flagged as being nonfactual?

It's not like they were going to start checking their sources or having any introspection. That's for wimps and losers.
When you figure out the secret for knowing you're right and they're wrong - objectively, such that you could prove it and none could deny it - let everyone else know.

Both sides think they have the facts on their side.

I'm not saying you personally are wrong, but the odds are stacked heavily against you, and the point is you have no way of knowing when you're right, and at least some of the time you'll be wrong.

And you'll be more certain than ever in the latter case.

This doesn't "wipe out nuance", it encourages nuance, because it encourages humility and curiousity when it's needed most.
I never made the case that they don't have that right. I just called out their statement.
If twitter had done this for advertisers and the customers, their price of their shares would not fall.
Open carry states might have a rough time.

ETA: maybe a better way to phrase this would be to contrast between open carry states and restricted carry states. IANAL, but in NYS, for example, my understanding is that these people would be breaking the law the second they marched on Albany openly carrying firearms.

ETA2: Downvotes for pointing out reality?
Your comment history is full of comments like this, but you never seem to elaborate. What's so good about China? Are you talking about their culture or their government?
Like what? Please don’t let it be Holocaust denial...
Absolutely the big studios should stop releasing broken games.

From a consumer standpoint - just wait a little. Don't get AAA games at launch. If you wait a few months, you'll get a much more stable game. If you wait 1-2 years, you'll get the game with DLC for $20.
Keeps melting .. in a fridge ... it should never be on more than 30s at a time surely?

I guess you’ve tried a lower wattage bulb ...
> I trust the state to test the medicine

How does the process of testing medicine compare to that of sex offenders? I don't think the two are at all comparable.

> It's made up of people like you and me

I'm not qualified to test medicine, or run medical trials, so I hope whoever does it on behalf of the government is not like me.

> I trust them with roads, with hospitals, with medicine, with food

All of which have proven physical-science process to verify them. I don't trust criminology/Phycology
as a science capable of making the calls you are implying.
+100!
So good, it’s crazy! PR is propaganda rebranded.
Can you link some other examples then? You keep using the affiliate link one but it doesn't seem very convincing to me. My takeaway from the comments on this post has been that some people really don't like brave but are either unwilling or unable to explain with more than surface-level criticisms.
> the people they interview-- like Ted Cruz-- end up looking like complete dumbasses

So first off, I haven't seen a specific example of this as I'm not a frequenter of Axios interviews. Could you post the interview you're referring to?

I'm having trouble saying this in a way that isn't flame-bait-ish, so I won't be using your word "dumbasses". Not because I disagree, but because it could be off-putting to Ted Cruz supporters in a way that obviously is intended to outrage them.

Sorry, but I feel it's important to be very careful with our wording here after the events at the Capitol. With that disclaimer out of the way -

Is it a stretch to say that Ted Cruz doesn't really need much help from interviewers to make himself appear unrelatable to average people? From what I've seen of him, that's 100% true.

On the other hand, I can also absolutely see the style of interviewer you're referring to. They're more excited about a "gotcha" moment than they are about an informed discussion with the interviewee. Is that what you're referring to?

Thanks, and again I really hope I haven't offended anyone. If I have feel free to downvote me, I suppose. I'd appreciate a comment explaining why you did so I can work on being less offensive in the future, but if you don't feel like you need to explain yourself, that's also okay.
this was posted over an hour ago and I was the first to comment
Any idea what it would cost to develop a completely open source router?
First-hand reviews play an important role in the ecosystem, yes.

When someone hasn't even played the game and comes out swinging, though, it comes across as a bit silly, especially if you've played the game and disagree with them.
Interesting. So if I use systemd-boot, I always get an initialized pool during early boot, that sounds good. Perhaps systemd should take that into account and skip rdrand entirely if the pool initialization is guaranteed.

> This is the advantage you have when you're building an entire operating system, not just a kernel.

I'm now convinced that systemd really is an operating system.
Maybe in the future they'll be able to offer a lower-power user terminal meant for mobile installations (RVs/boats/etc.)? There might be some opportunity there to reduce energy usage at the cost of some speed.
For awhile I was actually using a UniFi NanoHD for my AP. Performance and stability were great but running a Docker container for a Ubiquti Controller (for a single AP) was annoying enough for me to bail on it. My old Asus router with OpenWRT has been fine for now and doesn’t require me to run a container. :)

I’m still looking for a proper WiFi 6 replacement that can hook up to my 10G core, ideally via 2.5/5/10G copper or preferably SFP+ DAC. Nothing’s jumped out at me yet though.
There are a wealth of proposals.

For example https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/letters-prison/... which links to on-going projects.

Many begin with the questions of what are prisons for? What is policing for? What are the problems these approaches are trying to solve?

What percent of violent crimes are committed by people in dire mental and financial stress?

Can we resolve those issues by creating communities that address their needs and difficulties?

It starts by asking questions about the ways violence and "crime" happens.

Maybe there are people where you are that are actively addressing the question.
This is only going to get worse until there are consequences for doing this. And with a significant portion of the nation's law enforcement sympathetic to right-wing causes I feel this will continue to escalate for some time.
I mean what am I supposed to say? Half the country is bitching about censorship while that half is also trying to overthrow the government to keep Trump it power.... FFS is God gas lighting me?! Or am ... its 2020 part 2
YouTube and WhatsApp inch closer to half a billion users in India
I love Axios, wish there was a European version.

But I don't read it for the interviews. I read it for the brevity and clarity. Interviews are muddier.
If you don't require a feature set, wouldn't the Internet or RSS feeds already qualify?

What does it need to have on top of RSS feeds?
> companies should reassess the risk of using these cloud services

Absolutely! If the horror stories of companies losing access to their accounts due to automated processes going haywire haven't convinced us that "cloud risk" is real, perhaps this incident with Parler will focus our minds to this possibility.
Most if not all armed protests before happen in states with legal open carry laws. If this is true, and armed people show up in 50 states, many of which this would be illegal, it will be a totally different ballgame.
> Not every new service can afford to moderate things like "FB or Twitter". And this is an important risk to account for.

If you're planning on starting a service built around user generated content, you should have an answer for how you plan on moderating content.

If you don't have a plan for how to address illegal uses of your service (fraud, child pornography, etc), then you run the risk of being shut down. This isn't even a question of "is it or isn't it incitement".

If you want to run on a hosting platform that exists as a business unit anywhere in the United States, if you don't have a plan for moderating at least the most harmful illegal content, you are at risk of being shut down. FOSTA and SESTA make clear that the the service providers and hosting platforms bear some legal liability for this content, and they will shut you down if you don't moderate your platform.
My personal wish list:

* Privacy. This means actual privacy and not some bullshit substitution, such as anonymity. If privacy were really important nothing would ever be anonymous, because you would always want to know who you are speaking to or otherwise deny access to the conversation.

* Portability. Decentralization is too preoccupied with fixed addressing. If I move my laptop from one building to another the network has either failed to resolve my device or considers it a different/new user. You can have both portability and decentralization.

* Services. There is so much more to a valid social experience than texts, which is 70s era computation.

* Control. End users should have the ability to deny any output, or else this entire conversation about decentralization is moot.

* Turing Complete. The application should be able to build an instance of itself that can then perform an end-to-end self-assessment via test automation upon that instance.
Who is marketing it as "solving privacy"?
Hardly surprising, if you legitimately believe the "election was stolen" why would you stop now? If you were willing to storm the capitol building, you're probably going to storm many more buildings. Did people really think that they were going to say, "well we stormed the capitol building and it didn't work, let's just give up?"

The violence we saw is just the start, some parts of the MAGA crowd have been radicalized.
I've been working on https://github.com/jalal246/dflex along with a paid job. But I made it clear that it's an open-source project. maybe it's different if you are not working on open source. About time management, I can't really tell. Spent the last year working all day, 24/7. Currently, I am experiencing burn out with another side effect including insomnia. So I recommend having a balanced life. Don't push yourself too much and play the long terms.
The blog post is old. Telegram now has auto delete for chats for e2e chats and even manual delete including deleting your partners messages if you want to (on both sides - obviously not in groups).
So yes the quick chat that you dont want to be archived anywhere can be deleted quickly and easily. Ofc this does not prevent the other side from storing it in advance but its rather unlikely and It would no longer be possible to proof that yous send these messages. It would just be a text file that could be crafted. So depending on what you sent you have plausible deniability even if a backup exists.
Old Compilers and Old Bugs
> if I'm worth $30 a month in advertising revenues

Per service though, are you willing to spend $30/m each for what facebook was, for what twitter was, for what youtube was, for what reddit was, before ads took over? (that's over $100/m on 4 sm sites... now we're getting into medium, tech news sites, gmail, google search, maps, etc. And what about the people who can't afford a $300/m "internet" bill are they just cut out of this brave new world?
I would really appreciate a few examples. Ads, love them or not, have funded the Web thus far. Blockchain is making it even easier to integrate support into the Web. Brave sees the potential in both, and leverages the two together. Users are able to privately and anonymously be rewarded for viewing an occasional ad notification, and turn that into meaningful support for content creators. All other methods of supporting those who make the Web great tend to involve digging into your own pocket (not everybody has disposable income), and/or handing over personal details to a third party. Brave's approach requires neither of those.
Up until early September the weather was quite warm and the COVID rates were low. Both were not the case in December.
It may have just popped onto the front page
> Many GNOME-ish terminals use vte which drops frames if it can't keep up rendering.

Cannot you that with Xterm too?

XTerm*fastScroll: true
Payment for order flow comes from dark pools, run mostly by HFT. Payment for order flow incentives brokers to get more trades, and reduced commissions gets more trades. I don't know that other brokers would have gone all the way down to $0 without Robinhood pushing them, but they were already down to $5-$10.
There aren't a lot of advantages to VHF/UHF over the direct microwave links that they're already using (and a handful of disadvantages), so it's probably not likely.

The big perceived advantage to HF is eliminating all of the hops, despite the dramatically reduced bandwidth. With VHF/UHF, you'd still need the hops, but you also have reduced bandwidth. If you need to hop, might as well make use of the bandwidth that you can get with microwave.
President has been set long ago. From child porn, pirating websites, to al-Qaeda websites. There is nothing new about Parler being kicked off hosting sites. It took me five minutes being on the site to see calls for violence.
To prod this a bit: Qanon is popular and growing conspiracy theory. Should a news organization covering it spend equal time detailing the supposed evidence of an international satanic pedophile ring as they do discrediting it?

If such a news organization became mainstream, do you think this would lead to people being more or less informed?

Regardless, I think the "zero editorializing" idea is self-defeating. As others have said; there is near infinite information and finite webpage space and broadcast time.
That's a cop-out answer, especially in the current highly polarized state of affairs in the US. The more polarized the environment is, the easier it is to define neutral:

Start with a firehose stream of "all information being generated" (which, implicit in your comment is neutral) edit it down. The extent to which the edited-down stream pisses off one side more than the firehose stream did is the extent to which your stream is not neutral.

Note that this isn't a suggestion to both-siderism; I'm not suggesting that the resultant stream will treat both sides equally, just that it's precisely as biased as the "firehose."
At least on PC, there have been a few minor patches that fixed some of the most pressing issues like broken quest lines or the save file becoming corrupted if it surpassed 8mb (which apparently could happen very easily if you played a lot on the same save). The last was released 19 days ago.
Good for her! Europeans generally don't have the same commitment to free speech as Americans do, but even Merkel sees this as going down the wrong path.

Impeach and remove Trump? By all means!

Turn off his Twitter, email, water, gas? No.
You can easily loose most of your money in stocks too... I just made $1k in stocks and $10k in crypto though...
The fact that you disingenuously refer to search suggestions as a "keylogger" doesn't make me feel anymore confident in the honesty of your company. I feel as if this is a immature response given you purposefully avoid describing what it actually is (which is still something I disagree with being a default).
I've never used those ones but I can recommend these ones (originally from the US, moved to Switzerland): https://pcengines.ch
As they say, Libertarianism is awesome in theory and a violent authoritarian dictatorship in practice.
> 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.

They’re still sending out the email. Mail chip will be rate-limiting the send rate to prevent email providers from block listing them.

Give it a couple of hours and no doubt you’ll have an email as well.
Yeah, absolutely agree.
Are you referring to me? I don't think any of that reflects my opinions.
Ok, so it looks like the two tweets were:

"The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!

"To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th."

I fail to see the issue with these tweets. He is not planning to attend an inauguration because he will not be inaugurated President? Is that such a huge problem? Is it even something that the incoming President was requesting? And what is the issue with the other tweet?

This is a bizarre hill that Twitter chose to spend 10% of their market cap on. It seems like there must have been something else that they could have picked that would have made more sense.
Mine got OS update just this week. Not sure what the Android version is though, it's now my girlfriend's phone. It did the OS reinstall screen.
Decentralized Platform Ideas for Companies Like Parlor?
A collection of peer-to-peer decentralized projects: https://gist.github.com/marciol/6c381b45c469108ad079

Something like https://storj.io/ where one provider can’t kick you off the network.

Any ideas?
thanks for the clarification. (and apologies, I always put the h in the wrong place)
> PiS is actually pronounced piss

no it isn't. It's pronounced peace
Amazon can't shut down any company at the push of a button. It can only shut down a company from using its services.

There are many other hosting providers in the world. If Parler hadn't hosted its service on AWS, then Amazon wouldn't be able to shut them down.
I’ve spent some time working in electronic trading, and I agree with you. Not only is the compensation very comfortable, but it’s the most interesting work I’ve ever done. That’s a tough combination to resist.

As a result, it attracts people who should be out there curing cancer, developing new technologies, researching fundamental sciences, and so forth. It’s something everyone around me has acknowledged at one point or another.

And yes, there is real benefit to providing liquidity. And yes (to another poster) exchanges love them some sweet, sweet algorithmic trader action.

IMHO this is a “bug” in capitalism that can’t be edited out by tweaking a line or two. I don’t know what the right answer is.
> It was deleted because of AWS customers that threatened to leave.

What is the source of that statement? I did not find anything confirming that.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. You don’t want all these people to feel like they don’t have a voice.

Trump, for better or worse, was the voice of half the country. Now, lots of people feel they have taxation without representation. Worse, they’re feeling as if they’re being persecuted.

IMO they should let him have Twitter back. If need be, have them approve his tweets pre viewing. This would lower tensions. It won’t fix the underlying issues, but you want the leader to empathize then disarm.

I also have to say, I haven’t seen where this is being planned. Facebook, Twitter... parler (lol)? I’d like to see evidence of it, not trust the FBI here.
Not sure I understand the /dev/urandom concern in that comment. If this doesn't need to be cryptographically good and you don't want logspam every time a new number is needed why not seed this once with /dev/urandom. Surely a single log message is better than trying to reinvent the wheel, especially since this isn't the first time I've seen this particular code linked on HN due to the assumptions not holding true.
What altitude would you have to be at to have line of site to Tokyo and London from Chicago?

They're probably aimed somewhere above and in between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave
The wikipedia page I linked to clearly points out that polish people WERE involved in the holocaust. Not all, in fact I believe the vast majority of poles were not collaborators... but that doesn't mean this law doesn't make it legally sketchy to talk about the poles who were collaborators
Tired argument because people seek out the 'news' they want to hear. Some iron-clad, dull, unbiased news channel isn't going to solve anything. People like Taibbi will just pretend it doesn't exist as it gets poor ratings.

We have right leaning people jumping ship from Fox News for not being pro-Trump enough. I would love for people like Taibbi to address how to reach those people, not rehash the same tired argument of complaining about the media.
If you set the option to load the seed, yes. That is how I understand it at least!
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I have two, and yes, they are freaking amazing. I run CentOS on mine.

I don't usually run any services since I prefer to dedicate boxes to things, but I have in the past run a number of services, including minecraft and minetest on it and it flies. Really pleased with it.
You're right, if it weren't prohibitively expensive to store social media data on Ethereum (for example) then that's exactly what all the decentralized developers (including myself) would already be doing.

I checked the Gas price on ETH and quickly concluded that's not even remotely sensible to use it for social media networks, and the bigger problem is that if something became hugely popular that could drive up ETH gas prices too, so building on that infrastructure seems risky from a cost perspective.
So I guess I don’t understand the counter-argument. I assumed you agreed using “whiteness” as a pejorative is a problem.

I agree anti-Black racism is far more destructive. But I’m not trying to establish a hierarchy of the kinds of racism. I think anti-Black racism is far more destructive than anti-Asian racism, but as an Asian I’m pretty happy to see both kinds be deemed taboo in polite society.

We can’t have someone’s skin color being used in pejorative terms, and insofar as there are many people who think it’s acceptable, that only underscores why I’m tremendously skeptical of private sector censorship, where those people will disproportionately be in charge of shaping debate.