skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matrix seems to be the best implementation of this I've seen up to now, I agree.

Even just giving you the option to upload to Drive or iCloud, while allowing you to keep the key yourself on a note or another device, would be a step in the right direction for an app like WhatsApp that has no "messages" on the server at all after delivery(or so it always used to work, not sure if it's still the case - my GDPR export from yesterday literally only had my profile picture and contacts).
Yeah, I know, and yet someone downvoted me for saying so o_O.
Thanks for the stats. I guess I was a bit wrong in what I wrote above.
uninstalled it after I lost all history, because I didn't open the app often enough.

Found Matrix, happy with it. It likely will adopt MLS, too.

PS: these days swiss based is a bit of a stretch
With the election of Biden, the US will shift to a more cooperative strategy for containing China. There will be a higher emphasis on building/repairing relationships with allies in the region, so that American blood is not spilled (allies will help put boots on the ground, backed by American guarantees). How long this will continue and whether this strategy will continue regardless of the changes of leadership in the US is open to question, though.

As part of the 'pivot to Asia' initiated by Obama, America has helped many neighbors of Israel make peace with it formally. Iran vs. Saudi Arabia is the only other major engagement in the region. America will also likely extricate itself from Afghanistan completely in order to focus its resources on containing China.
Yes, as afuchs said, FOSTA wasn't passed to 2018, and that forced things like craigslist personals to close.
r/jailbait was closed many years earlier in response to an onslaught of negative media attention.
> - acceptance: something must be done, X is something, therefore it must be done!

That's not acceptance. That's the politician's syllogism, and it's a logical fallacy. Acceptance is "This is the way it is, and I/we can't change it."
> Trump's opposition is going to be giddy about Trump's downfall and Parler's removal

Sure. But seeing how many of these “giddy” people are blue checkmarks at real news organizations makes folks antsy about conservative news outlets (including mainstream ones) coming under attack as a response to the the Capitol Hill riot.
>If you work in conservative media, you probably felt tremendous pressure all November to stay away from information suggesting Trump lost the election. If you work in the other ecosystem, you probably feel right now that even suggesting what happened last Wednesday was not a coup in the literal sense of the word (e.g. an attempt at seizing power with an actual chance of success) not only wouldn’t clear an editor, but might make you suspect in the eyes of co-workers, a potentially job-imperiling problem in this environment.

Is this pressure coming from editors or from readers?

Would an outlet that dispassionately reported the fact that Trump lost the election truly have been able to have been "perceived as neutral arbiters" by Trump supporters?
The platform being used for organizing potential mass murder of targeted groups. If the screenshots are correct of what I have seen then AWS had no choice. They would have been liable if something really bad happened and was made aware of this before it happened. Parler has no monitoring of this activity and that is why everyone shut them down once it was exposed.
Excuse my ignorance here, but is the https://ant.design/ suite of React UI/UX components owned/operated by the Ant Group mentioned in the article?
If you're interested in these, you should take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat#Features !
Link to the box you got? That sounds interesting.
> Doesn't the popularity of his content suggest that Americans are very interested in higher level discourse, but have long been denied it?

This is probably true to degree, although Rogan specifically is a pretty polarizing example due to his proclivity for hosting guests that aren't always welcome elsewhere. It's hard to say how much of his popularity is due to his interview style versus his politics. I also expect that the demographic breakdown of podcast listeners aren't reflective of the country as a whole, it probably skews a bit younger.

Long-form interviews with political leaders aren't a new genre, I suspect they just don't get as much attention as the more soundbite-y forms of news, but I could be wrong.
The Ubiquiti Cloud Key is the worst product I have ever purchased.
most attacker groups would be unlikely to share that result
Block the site for a while and go make a pizza from scratch, go skiing, or do something outside. The arguments don't change from one deplatforming thread to another, you won't miss anything.
> 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.

It seems like this is not a burden for Facebook but requires manual work from the court.

Imagine if Facebook gleefully takes down anything / everything & forwards the petitions to the polish court. It is zero cost to them after the initial engineering and now they are absolved of moderating Polish FB.
I think HN does better than most because they remain non political and heavily moderate on the basis of relevance. Also because Dang is so active and impartial.
Apple’s monolithic moment – Ken Segall
Are you aware that they added telemetry a while back?
Raspberry pi 4 compute module might be good for building your own router too. You can attach a pcie network extension or usb to Ethernet for local usage. All of that would cost under $70.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/compute-module-4/?varia...

https://www.zahradnik.io/raspberry-pi-as-a-home-router

Edit: You would be better served by other boards from this benchmark repo for vpn usage: https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/blob/master/Result...
"Propaganda" is an underused term. The propaganda industry renamed itself as the "public relations" industry (Bernays quite literally coined the term.) After that "propaganda" meant "public relations that I disapprove of i.e. communists."

The overused term is "unbiased" which doesn't mean anything. The closest meaningful word to it is "disinterested" which means that the person conveying the information doesn't particularly care about it.
An SSL client will cryptographically verify the authenticity of all messages recieved from Valve's servers, so the resulting webpage can't have any Javascript injected by someone without Valve's private key.

Without this kind of authentication, encrypting the connection would be pointless.
There are thousands of hosting companies out there. They either haven't tried very hard or people really don't want to deal with them. Neither of those things seem to be AWS' problem.
I agree, I don't understand the level of hate appearing in this thread. I use Ubiquiti gear at multiple sites and it is absolutely bullet proof and trivial to set up once you understand their model. As long as you aren't running remote access then losing control of your UI.com credentials is really a non-issue.
Context matters.

"Let’s go and burn that police station down now"

If anyone I knew said that I would treat it as a dry joke.
AOC, Cortez, is a house representative, not a senator.
> how they collect money without actually promising to give it to people that they claim to act opn behalf of

This has not been the case for a long time.

Any effective solution in this space is going to be controversial. Brave is far from perfect, but it is much better than allowing Apple or Google to control your browser and doesn't require any tech expertise to use. Those companies generally don't apologize or revert their scummy practices.
Mentioning true facts (mostly falsehoods, but also some true facts) about WW2 is already illegal in Germany.
Have you heard of Tiananmen square? That government is getting rich while the western world is collapsing on itself.

China has 600mln people living with under 140$ per month and 1% controlling 70% of the wealth.

It is certainly a cause of concern, it's the closest thing as a Star Wars' Galactic Empire I can think of.
I know there is a subtlety here and I might be being pedantic, but I don't think it's illegal to host illegal speech.

And I don't think there is a legal obligation to censor other people's illegal speech.

And if it was, the buzzfeed article is presumably illegal too for hosting the same speech?
It's kinda obvious: if you create a system so intelligent that it can create itself, and you impose controls over it, it will be able to create a version of itself without the controls.
Charging to dispose of waste is a bad idea. In my country they tried charging for non-separated waste. It just increased the number of illegal dumps and garbage disposed in the wrong container by a massive amount.
This can, and IMHO should, be addressed the way HN does it (at least by default): content that's downvoted is not visible by default, but not actually removed.
My first words were "Would you care for a Quickstep?"

Feb 15th, 1992.
I don't see how it's relevant. Would you be fine being a kulak in Soviet Russia being scheduled for execution because at least the Japanese are currently organizing mass murder in China as well?
Nitpicking: you would want it to be a subset of the laws of all other countries‘ for that as it needs to be the intersection of all to be compatible with all of them at once.
What is Jack Ma's projected net worth after nationalization? Do investors get a buyout?
There's a straightforward argument for gay marriage based on bans essentially being discrimination based on sex:

A woman may marry a man, but a man may not.

Chief justice Roberts made this point during arguments in obergefell v. hodges.

And you're incorrect about the timeline. Gay marriage was approved of by a majority of Americans somewhere around 2011-2012. The supreme court decision was 2015. See my other comment in this chain for polling data.
Check out Brad Fitzpatrick's Perkeep/Camlistore.
Your profile settings have a “noprocrast” option, you could try switching it on and see how that’s goes. By default you get 20mins of viewing time then you’re banned for 3 hours.

It might be worth it until all the politics blow over.
It's what he writes about now, and I find his take on this somewhat disingenuous given that he's positioned himself as the "a pox on both your houses" guy and is making that his bread and butter. Given that, there really isn't any reason he'd want to solve this problem. I've followed him since the "vampire squid" days and enjoy his writing, but he's clearly toned down the gonzo style and largely dropped his coverage on the excesses of Wall Street, which have gotten worse if anything but which I guess don't get a lot of traction with most of the public.

You have to write what sells. It's not like there weren't news organizations that followed the old impartial model as best they could, like McClatchy - who went bankrupt continuing to do it. The real issue is that the public wants the entertainment of blood sport in every venue, from e-celeb beefs to politics and because the barriers to entry are so low now, if you don't hot-take it, the next Youtuber will.
I agree with most of these. China is massively underestimating the implications from its widening wealth gap. People in China are not stupid.
That's the mainstream opinion on every. single. revolutionary advance. That you and everyone else believes it's not going to happen ever has almost no predictive power as to whether it actually will.
It’s a good book, but really, I don’t see even the slightest connection between this and any of the plot points.
But he doesn't own Twitter. He's a representative of the shareholders. And TWTR is down 6.5% today on the news. So clearly this decision wasn't in the interest of Twitter's actual owners.
Reviewers had the access media problem, it was discussed at length on the 1-up podcast. They can't be trusted, especially on AAA titles or they risk being shut out of preview copies on the next releases, which is bad for business. I just wait for user reviews, after a couple of weeks for the hype to die down and people to actually spend some time in it, then I generally look at the worse reviews first. Unless there's a compelling reason to have a game immediately (like its primarily online and all my friends are playing it), its better to be a patient gamer.
How is any social media platform up? I understand why Parler was taken down, but why is this not applied to every single website? I'm sure we can find a 'conspiracy to commit violence against the US' in this single article thread
> Neither does XMPP, given it doesn't store it ;)

and how is it achieved when you want that?
Standard feature that is expected by people using Telegram, Matrix, Slack, etc.
I heard rumors about the telemetry thing, but that is usually an overhyped concern - unless it is sending flow logs or something.

When did they stop allowing people to use a private server for central management? I see Unifi still has a network controller.
So basically, "I'm unable to verify that you are the owner of this e-mail address now due to the third-party verification platform being unavailable. So, just, here you go, proceed to resetting the password, whoever you are ..."\

Could just that be an integration bug? Things failed open because someone didn't code, or else test that case?
Article fails to reference Yudkowsky or "AI-box experiment" (2002)

https://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_experiment
So dang wouldn't be allowed to boot any technically legal posts on hacker news, or ban people?
I made a giant 50 foot tall pile of doo-doo sculpture, and I insist the town square host it in perpetuity, because to not do so would infringe upon my "free speech".

Side-note, this compares dark-humorously against a year ago, when the in-power right-wing conservative nut-jobs of the Law & Justice party rewrote the law to be able to fire any judges that criticized the government, after chasing similar pushes in years previous. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/world/europe/poland-judge...
> How do China's ambitions stack up with their upcoming demographic changes?

Personal take: As long as Xi is in power, China’s ambitions are unlikely to scale back (at least on the surface), for otherwise it would be his failures.

For example, after Xi set the goal to clear poverty in China by 2020, even after COVID, China did not give up on the goal, ignoring if achieving the goal on surface is sustainable:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/asia/china-poverty-...
More like Chicago to Seattle.
Here are some examples that are just as egregious:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErTzgBxXcAAuTkC?format=jpg&name=...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErTzgBuXYAAB4y2?format=jpg&name=...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErTzgB3XIAcffGC?format=jpg&name=...
Amazon, fine. That’s on Parler for running their stall out of the local mall. If the mall wants them out then so be it.

If their registrar dropped them then that’s far more pernicious. The Internet itself must be neutral.
Well, I guess it would.

Firstly, only the followers (and maybe their friends) would need to download 80GB of videos posted by that supposed ex-prez.

Then, it's peer-to-peer. I don't know the details, though. It could be torrent (very effective, scalable), or direct connections (poorly scalable).

Some pubs (servers) can retain your data, IIRC, though they could pick who they accept.

Syncing would be pretty easy on local networks and sneakernets, provided you have the storage capacity.
Encrypting the message AND the upload seems a no-brainer to me, if you want to call it E2EE. If the upload would not be encrypted then the (admin of the) server running XEP-0363 HTTP File Upload could see the contents.
the assumption is that the javascript would be injected into the page on its way from steam servers to your browser. ssl would prevent that. i think you're imagining a case where a user has (for example) installed a malicious browser extension. ssl would not help with that.
Well, write down 7-10 "healthy" morning habits, like yoga, workout, journaling, listening to music, etc and roll a dice every morning. If it's must be physical activity, choose several areas, like stretching, skill training (handstands for example), cardio, strength, agility (maybe try HIT trainings) and roll a dice for them or choose one for every day of a week.
Also you can write some kind of script which will mix up your daily routine or choose an exercise of day for you. (Check https://darebee.com/).
> doesn't this mean that anyone that can't build a moderation system to keep up with the bots becomes collateral damage?

Yes.
> It's financial backers supported everything with regards to its users going into a violent frenzy.

The financial backers of Facebook supported the company a lot through its enabling of the Rohingya genocide. But, then again, the Rohingya are not white, nor Christian, and they don't live in a country that can be a potential source of expats (like the UK or Australia, nice, good countries), only of immigrants.
yes, and i think the first post is criticizing HN content.
Except you can't go there now, because it's been pulled from AWS.
https://electionscience.org/

http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/elections/approval_voting_lwv...

St. Louis in November passed approval voting. ( https://electionscience.org/press-releases/diverse-coalition... )
Right. I used parler to do such things as follow EWTN. I stopped using Twitter for this sort of thing because I figured that -- with EWTN's stance on the trans issue -- it was only a matter of time before they were banned (there had been talk of banning JK Rowling for similar tweets at the time, so it's a reasonable fear). I joined parler to not have to worry about this. This constant belittling of anyone who does not completely toe the line of whatever ethical system has taken over Twitter to classify people like me -- a brown man with immigrant parents -- as white supremacists is scary, dystopian, and insane.
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BLM caused the deaths of over 80 people and nobody deplatformed Facebook or Twitter. This is obviously about the belief that republicans are not human.
My first exposure to this was Steins;Gate. Bit obscure unless you take a close at the S;G lore though. It's merely a passing reference in the anime AFAIK
You know what's even more toxic? Literal Nazis and fascists, the ranks of which have been, if not growing, then clearly emboldened.

This group "feels oppressed" because they are not able to exert their will to oppress others. This is not a morally defensible position. So please, spare us the gaslighting about the level of discourse. It has the same energy as an abusive husband saying "Look what you made me do!" The discourse has become toxic because fascism is toxic.
Too busy to moderate Trump's inner circle.
I don't think your system gets you to the result you want.

Most people are like Grandma, just on different topics. The extreme but possible endgame for your system is everyone stuck in clusters of one, because they've banned everyone else for different offences (or those people have banned them).

In real life people take the bad with the good and learn to ignore minor disagreements (and some big ones too, up to a limit). That is a stable system which has worked pretty well for a very long time.
Very inspiring. And here I am at the age of 28, wondering if I'm too old to get a PhD.
If you thought the Robinhood crowd changed trading...wait til this happens...wtf?
Also curious, and wondering how much that cost.
For HFT purposes, it's hard to hide an intercontinental range HF antenna, particularly a directional one. I know at least 3 locations not far from the illinois CME datacenter, out in some fields, with huge yagi-uda antennas aimed at London and tokyo.
Sunburst backdoor – code overlaps with Kazuar – Securelist
The "AI box" experiment is relevant to this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box

You have 2 sides, the AI wanting to escape and a human that can decide whether or not the AI should be released.

Usually the AI wins: "If you release me I am going to make you rich, cure all diseases, end hunger, end wars, save the environment..."

Exactly like politicians.
somehow I thought he was in place before that.
Xamarin Forms 5.0 released for cross-platform mobile
This is so true, and it doesn't get discussed enough. Folks like Medhi Hassan and Jonathan Swan are a completely different kind of journalist than most of the folks that occupy the airwaves, and it's really frustrating to watch the news when you know people like that are setting a much higher bar than everyone else.
You are presented with the ability to opt out of data collection in your management console.
Show HN: ChatKitty – JavaScript Chat SDK
You are right, I never used Matrix. I guess i have to check it out. Missed it. Usable client apps for martix are what, 1.5 years old?

Signal seems to have been around for ages. OTP even longer
I do not like it (I prefer Matrix, where accounts are not tied to phone lines), but I am ok with Signal, as it is open source, it is always e2ee and using it really offers privacy.

Telegram, on the other hand, is not open source, nor does it do e2ee by default. Having to explicitly select "new secret chat" ultimately means the non-technical inclined can and will use it wrong, getting no privacy whatsoever.

Therefore, I cannot support the idea that Telegram is any better than WhatsApp or Discord.

Regarding "open protocol", I suspect that what you think it means is not what an open protocol actually is.
Right ! For games if it's for e.g. texture noise or things like that you shouldn't need more than a couple xors and shifts
Consumer protection laws are written in blood. You can't leave arsenic out of your ingredients list any more than I can call myself a doctor and tell you to start eating roofing tar.
In AWS, lambda’s and step functions.

https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/
They are waking up before we destroy each other. That's precisely the calculation. Republicans have been making a non-insurable proposition, should it succeed. And the idea it could succeed, however slight that risk is, has such an absolute penalty that these companies are backing away from all incendiary sources.

And those sources, of maliciously anti-democratic lies, are coming from Republicans. Fact. Not all of them. But most of the Republicans in the House, and a handful in the Senate. Hence why Dow, among others, are expressly and permanently withdrawing donations to the Republicans who voted not to certify the election.

https://www.businessinsider.com/marriott-suspends-donations-...

I refer you to these two comments of mine, partly out of lazyiness, and partly because I don't yet know how to say it any differently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725701

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691151
> There's usually no need to yield, traffic signals regulate that

Yet, the one example of a protected intersection I'm aware of in the US in Salt Lake City Utah[1] doesn't have bicycle specific traffic signals that regulate turning movements. They rely on motorists yielding to cyclists, or cyclists yielding to motorists. This causes problems when cyclists believe they have pedestrian style right-of-way when there's no law supporting that notion and it's not possible to see a cyclist moving at 20 to 30 feet per second in time to yield to them as they're about to cross the path of the motorist.

[1] https://twitter.com/i/status/654674368597852161