skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their market share dwindling to zilch can't come quick enough.
Probably to mitigate the way one mitigates against other disasters, such as natural disasters or political upheaval in a nation: have an exit plan to a partitioned cloud environment.

Since we're talking political consequences, the partitioning here would be political. Whatever nation owns the companies you do business with, find counterpart companies in nations on poor terms with those host nations and have a plan in place to ramp up infrastructure in those nations quickly (or keep it on "hot standby").

There is the risk that data migration could violate laws in the originating nation, if you're exfiltrating data that the host nation's laws don't allow to be exfiltrated.
Just pointing out that Parler was the #1 most downloaded app on the Android app store for some amount of time. (Around the #1 or #2 spot for a couple months? At least a few weeks.)
At some point it is the same thing. By act or omission.
This isn't on the players. That's very much in the same line as blaming someone driving their car for the Gulf Oil Spill.

This is 100% on CDPR management. It's their job to set the right deadlines, to manage expectation and hype.

They failed, and should be held accountable for that failure.

EDIT: Yes, downvote this. Support CDPR's management and their shitty practices with their employees and their lying to players and investors. I'm sure you'll love the games that come about as a result.
I believe the support for Signal comes from the privacy it offers from Facebook, et al., and by extension also possibly the government (Snowden, et al.), not because it can be used to coordinate violence.
... and if you have that declaration mechanism, then it can easily work for any call in any position whatsoever!!!

So that further separates the concept "tail call" from "call in tail position".

Any position can be the tail position if we just wave he right magic wand at it, so the concept becomes meaningless. All we are left with is the style of call: returning versus goto-like.
Seeing a lot of the same numbers. Coded message perhaps?

(Just kidding. I've played too many ARGs I think...)
I posted even earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25684254

But I’m happy to see it got some attention after all!
We Are What We Remember
https://twitter.com/tarah/status/1348727605617258496
IMO The fact that they chose not to deliver review copies of the last-gen version until after the PC reviews were already in is the worst part of it. It seems pretty clear that they wanted to buy the game based on the PC reviews, when the last-gen version is clearly inferior.
I think this is the best way forward.

The system needs integrity to work but it needs discipline to maintain it. Now it has neither.

Political pressure creates an us vs them mentality where reality must pass through a filter to get to the public and whoever controls this filter wins. This is the battleground of divide but it is also how we know what’s going on. This is why we have several versions of events and one’s belief in a version is entirely dependent on one’s political views, not evidence. Evidence is tacked on after the fact.

One thing I like to do is give people the benefit of the doubt. This helps me understand where they are coming from in their own words. Most people on any side of any discussion are decent and deserve to be heard.
some parts of the site apparently require a SSN and drivers lisence
The over 40 hours I've put into the game now have given me way more than $60 worth of enjoyment. Yes, I've encountered bugs, but overall I am really enjoying the game and the various quests.
I'd be very interested to see what the CCP would do in that instance. I don't believe they've gone after Western billionaires in the same way that they've gone after their own before.

Also, with Bezos being the (second) richest person in the world, and with Amazon being very much a household name, I wonder if they would risk the backlash from Western governments and private entities if they were to carry out a "disappearing act" on Bezos.
No. The constitution does not allow them to throw out votes.

A republic is a form of democracy. Arguing semantics has no place in HN.

And "vote their conscience" is a weasel phrase. They had a duty to tally the votes, a procedure to follow. Some of them didn't want to follow the procedure. Changing the procedure requires a constitutional amendment, agreement from a supermajority of states. Regardless of their individual thoughts on the matter, the laws of the land do not allow them to vote to disregard the law.
Everyone would shut up about Telegram if they stopped making misleading security claims.
to start, yes :)
That means you as a Infrastructure provider can jugge what normally justice will do, but when you have the money to run your own DC you can jump over that problems?

You can't since you still need to have an upstream internet provider. (or in the case of Facebook, access to internet exchange points). If Facebook was promoting illegal content, even if they host their own servers, they'd lose their internet connectivity.
I don't think it's helpful to group Google, Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft together like this, as though they were all "of a kind". There are some very different business models and priorities among them.
It is illegal to conspire to commit violence against the US
But is that Parler breaking the law or its users??
Here’s one right off the top of Google search: https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/game-break...
Precisely, thank you. There are molten salt reactors [1] that are projected to be cheaper than light water reactors too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
> What are the best mitigations here

What are you trying to mitigate?

You can't mitigate "Getting banned for making a place to plan a coup". You can't mitigate "I want a place to allow posts advocating criminal activity".

If people were openly discussing breaking and entering houses, should that be allowed too?

Why should we tolerate publicly planning violence when we don't tolerate publicly planning other crimes?
I find Safari good enough. Slow to support new APIs maybe, but it's perfectly serviceable for a daily driver. What's your issue with it?
The audience of gamers strikes me as perhaps the most immature, needlessly difficult group of art consumers in the world today. Even movies don’t get the same kind of petulant obsession and hostility that games do. I’m not sure if it’s just a consequence of gamers being younger or what, but it’s a major turnoff to me. The fact that CDPR devs got death threats because of game delays just says it all. Can you imagine something similar happening to a filmmaker?
At the risk of sounding snide, it appears that if your business plan is to attract the type of users that foment hate and violence ... you are in a risky business.

Anything other than that at this point is a slippery slope fallacy.
Site's down for me due to "technical difficulties", but fails to give me a "Reference ID" so that I can contact support. Interesting...
Something has gone very wrong with how people perceive software if "hasn't been updated in three months" is enough to call it "abandonware".

Software does not, and perhaps I should say should not, need to constantly change.

This is completely orthogonal to Gab's political leaning.
If this speech threatens democracy, peace, and safety, why hasn't it been made illegal by the government, and how has the US managed to do so well for centuries with it being perfectly legal? Odd, the speech you're talking about being legal hasn't seemed to affect things much at all. Actually, we've done nothing but thrive despite hate speech being legal. Why haven't people been clamoring for decades to change the constitution because of all the mayhem caused by hate speech?
You're wondering why making threats of violence against a person or trying to rally a credible threat against them isn't permitted under the first?
NCRI Assessment of the Capitol Riots
I have to point out. Messages being leaked is actually in the title of the article.

>70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
I started playing it on Linux (Wine+vkd3d-proton), but I paused the playthrough - I'm waiting for some patches for spatial audio to land and also for a newer AMD GPU, they are pretty hard to get now. By that time the game will also accumulate some good amount of patches.

As a Linux gamer, I really don't get this whole drama and I appreciate that CDPR even provided the game to Wine and Mesa developers in advance so they even added a whole new Vulkan extension to improve support for it.
I received one as well approximately an hour ago.
That's what substack aims to be.
Even if section 4 of the 25th amendment were validly invoked, it would not end the president's term. Such a procedure only temporarily removes the powers of the presidency to the VP. Ending the term would require impeachment.
Lin Wood called for Pence to be executed. This got shared a ton (like tens of thousands of times). A few days later there was a mob in the capitol chanting "Hang Mike Pence!".

Lin Wood didn't say that on Twitter, because he had been previously banned on Twitter for similar rhetoric. Not sure about his status on Facebook, but Parler was absolutely where this stuff was happening.

The denial here is just wild. Like... this is all over the news.

Edit: some collated examples that just went by on my twitter feed, including the Wood threat: https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1348463074295107585
Yes, I know everyone hates Donald J. Trump.

And I know that most people have such a distorted view of his actions that someone could probably write an accurate biography with a fake name, and he would not be recognized by the left or the right.

But, please. He was the president, and he did a tremendous amount of things by all counts. He changed the world's attitude towards China and towards the Middle East.

Any other president would probably have used Covid to become dictator (see other countries), he instead boosted the States' power.

You may think that he made changes for the better, you may think for the worse. But he is commander in chief and he is leaving by all counts in another week.

A little respect looks a lot better and is much more manly than acting like a big baby and sore winner.
To be honest, thats a claim that you have not proven. If anything, Firefox and safari are probably more trustworthy based on my own subjective opinion. They have never injected affiliate links or promised to do things which are borderline scam-like behaviour.

I personally treat all software with a level of distrust. But brave has done things which all point to a certain behaviour in which people should think twice before using the product. You can get the benefits of privacy that Brave touts from other browsers. If you want to donate to content creators, plenty of ways to do so as well.
At least in the mainstream right wingers are the left wingers of yesterday. Two good examples are how free-speech and free-markets are considered right wing today.
No dog in this particular fight as I don't care either way but to answer your question: I've seen plenty of examples involving TERFs or questioning transgender women in women's sports where the ban hammer was brought out.

Another example is being egalitarian instead of equitarian. Being strictly egalitarian gets you labeled racist pretty quickly in many online forums. Just this past week in my neighborhood Buy Nothing group someone put up an item and made it available only to BIPOC people. Some people called it out as discriminatory and antithetical to community-building. They got called racist and accused of white fragility and were both muted for two weeks. No one on the side of orthodoxy got muted.
Why government intervention is necessary is unclear. At best one has an implicit contract during a pre-order, which was violated due to its bugs. That anyone could seriously believe that any complex software will be "bug free" strikes me as risible. It seems to me that people are making a bet on a pre-order. No regulation is necessary in any event: this can be handled using class action law, and true egregious misrepresentations are kept in check in this way. These kinds of regulations are a jobs program for the officious personality and a way for politicians to seem relevant, but is mostly a form of or invitation to corruption, as the powerful influence the crafting of law to keep the small fry at bay.

Buyer beware, IMO. Wait 'til it's out, reviewed, etc., and then you'll know.
> The DailyStormer got "canceled" by vendors for not even trying to moderate content that actively promoted violence (among other horrible things). Now Parlor gets "canceled" by vendors for not doing a good enough job trying to moderate content promoting violence.

There is no daylight between the the Daily Stormer and Parler with respect to their willingness to distribute content that promotes far right violence. They also share that same objective as their founding motivation.

Just different branding.
Hmmm... I'd agree that many people in the west don't have much of an idea how China or the CCP work. Calling them communist is pretty hilarious even if the word is in their name. The country has grown into it's own new empire much more like those of old, I think shaped by the expectations and education of its people.

I'd also agree that because many of China's educated upper class (political and economic) have been schooled or at least traveled or met foreigners from the US or other democracies, they understand many of the mechanics. However, I would completely disagree that even a bare majority of Chinese have much conception at all how western politics work. Even those who are educated in the US/Europe rarely understand politics except at a single point in time.

I would count myself as one who has a fair knowledge of politics and business in China having spent almost 2 decades traveling and working with businesses there. I have some understanding of their history, socialization and education, as well as, business practices. What I can say is that they are very different depending on where you are (Shenzhen/HK vs Shanghai vs Beijing vs Chongqing). They speak differently, they live differently, and they do business differently. Also, China's politico-economic environment has changed very significantly in the past 20 years often with political leaders. and Xi has been one of the more rapid/dramatic changes.

I've learned that I do not understand the inner workings of China/CCP... even the workings of the US political system over the last 4 years border on incomprehensible. I would say that some of the business people I have seen most taken advantage of are Chinese expatriates who invested back into their homes and had relatively large businesses taken from them, because they thought they understood - align your interests carefully with someone who is on the ground or even family can take everything (this wasn't a single instance).
Here is what I dont understand, is Parler violating Amazon's TOS or its users? Suppose that some of the users are bots, doesn't that mean that in order to fulfill amazon's TOS Parler would have to actively build something (moderation systems) to keep up with the bots? Doesn't this make any service that can't do this collateral damage? What if people built bot systems good enough to sidestep twitter (speaking in code for example, using a cypher) and levelled them at twitter, etc. would the same thing happen?
Imagine Mozilla were actually producing TV sets. Then reread and reevaluate.
Decentralisation is best exemplified by email or http. Yes, they enable all kind of things, including bad ones. They behave like infrastructure, just like roads. I enjoy Mastodon because I can find the instance I like best and still be in touch with people from other instances. My instance blocks other instances that they don't like and publicly explains why. When I won't like it any more, I will take my data and move somewhere else without looks my contacts or anything.
Once Nextcloud will have a decent implementation of Activity Pub, I will start my own instance just for myself and I will only see content that I want to see.
Twitter claims to be neutral but their moderation reveals their active left-bias.
That crime is separate from trying to throw out votes.
No end-to-end encryption though. It's optional for direct messages and nonexistent for group chats.
Bait-and-switch topic in the opening paragraph. Insists that what people ask for, e2e chat, isn’t what they actually want or should want.
Corp-to-population ratio suggests otherwise. Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Isle of Man, the Channel Islands including Guernsey and Jersey, Crete, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, and Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, Panama, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
A hypothetical Brave Rewards extension would pretty much just check which domains you visit and proportionally send them BAT tokens. As long as there are APIs to check the current domain and send HTTP requests to Brave's servers I think it would be fine.
To paraphrase Upton Sinclair, "It is easy to get a man to believe and promote something, when making massive amounts of money depends upon his believing and promoting it."
Web Development 101
It wasn't that long ago that really poor quality auto generated content was clearly working for SEO purposes, so I'm not convinced Google is ahead of current state of the art.
on a new PC ?? the conversations came over ??
So this whole anti china rhetoric had nothing to do with human rights or unfair trade but everything to do with the west not want to squander its middle life style because our planet can't actually support it.
I appreciate your honesty but I wouldn't actually expect the chinese to actually sit down and accept it tho
Comparison of Tiling Window Managers
Hmmm...

Well, first problem is using RDRAND in this case. RDRAND isn't meant for seeds, its for a random number.

If you're seeding something, you're supposed to use RDSEED, which has more guarantees about seeding / entropy behavior. I don't think RDRAND was ever intended to be used as an entropy source.

(Think of it this way: RDSEED is kinda like /dev/random, while RDRAND is kinda-like /dev/urandom)

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RDRAND is an older instruction than RDSEED. So that then brings up the question: what is the proper startup behavior of systems without RDSEED but with RDRAND? Well, since RDRAND never had entropy guarantees, I guess its up to other sources of entropy (see clock-entropy, such as RDTSC).

RDTSC isn't a source of entropy, its just a clock. But as a GHz-level precise timer, it can be used to capture entropy from some other source that does have time-based entropy. (IE: hard drive response rates, or something).

Will the hard drive respond in 10,000,000 clock ticks? Or 10,000,020 clock ticks? That's a source of entropy, a bad one, but maybe you have enough hard drive I/O going on that you can get enough entropy to boot up Systemd.

EDIT: Hmm... hard drives may not be on all systems. In that case, DRAM-latency could possibly be the answer. DRAM refreshes on a regular basis, locking the CPU out temporarily. As such, the amount of time it takes to access data from DRAM is actually somewhat random (in the scope of a GHz clock anyway). Maybe that could be used as an entropy-source of last resort? (as long as RDTSC exists anyway).
Enumerate what you think is the tremendous good and bad.
What is even more interesting once you know how it works at that level is to learn how electricity works at a more fundamental level.
The USSR worked hard on semiconductors and airplane engines, but ultimately failed to keep up with the West.

Turns out, people with the means generally prefer living in countries with (a) individual freedom and rights, (b) freedom of the press, (c) an independent judiciary, & (d) economic surplus that responds to demand for luxury goods.

We can whataboutism on where the West currently stands with regards to these things, but if you're pro- and con- ing various options as an educated professional then you have a choice.

And if culture is a major consideration, then you could do worse than the Chinese communities in neighboring democratic states, or the literal democratic Chinese island...
RasPis have a fair bit more grunt than people give them credit for.

The big problem with the Ubiquti thing is that it takes a long time to start, so if your usage model is to start it whenever you want to make a change it's rather piggish. If you start it once and leave it running forever on a dedicated device it's not nearly as bad.
Uber was a victim of fraud, not a failure of advertising. They should've known better and used more checks to catch it quickly but they already run plenty of targeted campaigns precisely because they work well.
Read the responses to that. Rather immediately debunked. Greenwald is a contrarian that did not do his research.
I would think this is actually good for them, as more internal demand relative to supply will help further transition away from exports, and also help increases their productivity (at least if they make working hours less insane).
So what main issues are you talking about that were "bullshit" advice from scientists in general exactly? You make a lot of super vague arguments with no specifics, and while it's nice to agree with children's fables like the boy who cried wolf, unless we agree on facts that happened, it's kind of a rhetorical argument with no real bearing in reality.

Also, I've got to say, "cancelling" anyone who's ever wrong from being an "expert" in the public sphere sounds like a really poor idea. Everyone is wrong sometimes and that's a crazy standard which would have tons of its own perverse incentives, probably even worse than the ones scientific journals and the like have now. Do you want scientists on the record terrified of saying anything besides the most vague and unfalsifiable statements? It's an untenable situation if you bring it to its logical conclusion. I do agree with you that there ought to be more consequences for scientists willingly spreading bad science though, beyond what there is now--but the solution won't be simple.

Given the vagueness of your post I'm not sure why you have the perspective that scientists produced a "non-stop wave of bullshit". From my perspective, I saw a bunch of demagogues and populists cynically manipulating a major demographic for personal gain while sidelining and ignoring the broader scientific advice and recommendations in the country the entire time, while over 350000 people died.
Yes, this happened to me after iOS -> Android switch all messages was wiped, you cant load icloud backup on android
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCGp-zYjUKA

Is about capital and demand. If people want to have independent platforms, they will appear.
I don't think it's fair to blame this on gamers. With all of the hyperbole over various games being "broken", most people that are hyped about a specific game are just going to buy it and see for themselves. Unless it's literally unplayable (as may actually have been the case here), most people won't refund it.

This has been going on for years and years, it's just getting worse over time. It's always some variant of this conversation at $GAMEDEV_STUDIO:

Focus group feedback: Our test groups are noticing 10% of players are running into this bug/issue. It's frustrating them, but there are workarounds.

Management: All of our marketing materials target release date XX/XX/XXXX. If we try to fix this bug we'll have to push the release... How many people will _not_ buy the game because of this bug?

Focus group feedback: Nobody that would have otherwise bought this game would decide not to buy it over this issue.

Management: So we ship as planned, and fix the bugs in a patch.

Over time studios realized that you can get away with much bigger bugs affecting much larger portions of players. Ship sooner, start recognizing revenue, and push post-launch patches to fix the "really bad bugs". It's shocking how bad the quality has to get before it starts making headlines.