skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An awful lot of the web would go offline without that revenue.
Ok, I see so around #3 sell to close? Or do you take the underlying?
And according to Telegram's Pavel Durov, "A project of our size needs at least a few hundred million dollars per year to keep going." [0]. So future funding sources will be needed if Signal grows to be a big player. It's fine saying they're owned by a non-profit, but even non-profits have bills to pay.

[0] https://t.me/durov/142
Easy there. A lot of people are having problems with this game, but not exactly everyone. There's just no way for you to know why you're having bugs and others aren't. That doesn't mean you get to just straight up claim someone else is lying about their experience.
Isn't hacking and doxing illegal and persecuted in America?
How many of you, people, need to learn something in hard way?
It’s all just a history repeating with this company. Pleas, refresh your memory, or just look comments from here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-most-powerful-pocket-...
I think you and @stretchcat are saying the same thing. Ease-of-repair and durability are more important than recycling.
Same claim by Alexey Navalny https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1347969772177264644?s=20
> The best thing a manufacturer could do is create a bomb proof smartphone that will be usable forever.

This is illogical. Smartphones become obsolete for technology reasons even if they're bomb proof and usable forever. So they need to recyclable (or components reusable) as the priority.

Old Nokias were built to last and still work.. but they're e-waste because they're obsolete for the purposes almost everyone needs a phone for. Maybe it'd be better if they'd be more recyclable instead of more robust?
Ironically you can do that with pretty much ANY access point. From TP-LINK, assus all the way to arruba ones (unleashed). BUT you can't do that with unifi ones alone. Go figure. You need a usg+key or the discontinued UDM you have.
> Access Denied

> You don't have permission to access "http://www.krem.com/mobile/article/news/local/idaho-internet..." on this server.

> Reference #18.55d2f748.1610414929.5840c37
Funny that you mention Renaissance, which happens to be the name of one of the major HFT firms, Renaissance Technologies
Why? they have cover and already pocketed fees
Ultimately they're paying for influence.

I have trouble imaging the motive to do that has changed.
Google Voice (or whatever they're calling the product now) has this, but it's Google.
Discovery of Magnetic Monopole Noise [pdf]
Not even a computer the size of the solar system is going to brute-force a 300-bit key. There's something else going on.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/82389/calculate...
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1324807776510595078

Now change Trump for Biden and you tell me about it
We can’t even define reality, I would hesitate on that assertion;)
I could see flagging this on the basis that it's not hacker news, but flagging it on the basis that you're certain it's false seems like shaky ground to me.
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You do that by stating facts. Not opinions as facts.

“Conservative media outlets accused of stoking baseless election fraud claims”

Then the article should lay out what they did. Not “here is how they stoked baseless claims”, but exactly what they did. “Conservative websites repeated a claim of fraud that had already been proven false by election officials.”

And it should include comments from those websites on their response to the accusation.

Then let the reader make up their own mind. I’m an adult. I don’t need a reporter who barely knows more than I do about a subject to tell me how to interpret the world. Save that for opinion pieces.

Not too hard is it?
Ideas for a fix:

#1 - Allocate a share of money and create a BBC like news source totally un-biased and pay the reporters extremely well(to attract good reporters). Have decent UI on the web, well produced shows and a mandate that both sides are allocated equal time.(PBS does this but is not very well produced, it needs more money)

#2 - Have "Bias" flags mandated on each article(or visual bubbles on TV), reflecting the authors political persuasion. This would be similar to responsible business reporting where the author states whether he has a position(shares) in the company or industry he reports on.

#3 - Require that whenever a article is posting a position, a opposite view point is required to be tagged next to said article.
The example of magnetohydrodynamicists vs astrophysicists doesn't seem entirely idle.
there are regulations and people who enforce them in every country in the world. hence I affirm that this is a regulated market.
I received an email notification before the HN article fwiw. However when I reset password for the email address they notified...crickets. I don't use UBNT for anything other than forum posts though..
Site A has a TOS that bans hate speech

Site B is just like Site A, but with less reach. However, their TOS allows hate speech as long as it's not tortious

So on Site A a comment spamming nig**r will get you banned, and on Site B it is a-ok as long as it doesn't mention anyone's name.

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Site B should be expected to have more hate speech.

Additionally even if Site A gets hate speech, it's providers are more likely to give it leeway since it's not by design that hate speech appeared.

Meanwhile Site B, by the very virtue of it's design becomes a lightning rod for hate speech not allowed on Site A, and it is understandable providers are not on board with it.
> It's the coordination that is terrifying.

Imagine there's a number of farmers in a village who all stop working and go inside when a thunderstorm is imminent. Did they all coordinate to stop working at around the same time or did they individually make a judgement of what's in their best self-interest?

I think our disagreement may be that you don't believe there was a thunderstorm. You may think it was a perfectly clear day, hence their reasoning and timing are suspect, and there must have been some communication. I think there was a thunderstorm of regulatory pressure (imagine more people dying as attacks are planned on an app in the AppStore), employee pressure, reputation / brand damage that was brewing due to the actions in DC on 1/06. This tipped the calculations away from maintaining the status quo, and whatever revenue Parler may have generated (along with other factors, like outcries of bias vs. the right) was no longer enough.

The case for companies further down the supply chain is even more clear: Imagine you're Twilio and are doing cost / benefit analysis on if you should continue your relationship with Parler. Outside of public outrage, employee calls for action, etc.., the other side of the equation is Parler brings in revenue. Your calculations became much simplified due to upstream actors like AWS. Parler has 0 users now and 0 revenue now after Apple, Google and Amazon's actions. Why in the world would you take the continued costs of maintaining your relationship with them in that case? There's still no coordination, only actors making the best decision as the values of underlying variables are updated.
Ideally, the definition of hate will result from a complex negotiation between stakeholders in society, just as we draw a line on who counts as an "adult", what counts as "self defense", and what counts as "libel".

The definition will be less than ideal, open to abuse, and problematic, but having it is better than not, just as having a definition of "adult", "self defense", and "libel" are better than not having them.
Poll: Are you using IPv6 for Internet access?
Are you using IPv6 for Internet access, on the device where you are reading this?

You can easily check this several ways:

• Browse to https://bgp.he.net and see what your "You are visiting from …" IP address is.

• Search "What's my IP" on Google.

Note that Bing & Yandex (which does support IPv6) doesn't answer the question directly (though for Yandex, I asked in Engish), DuckDuckGo (which does) does not support IPv6, and Baidu does neither (though again, I asked in English).

There are other sites that can answer this, but I don't want to suggest one that I haven't vetted (for things like ads, trackers, etc.).
Yes, and I'm connecting via the mobile network (3G, 4G, etc.).
Yes, and I'm connecting via wifi or Ethernet.
No, and I'm connecting via the mobile network (3G, 4G, etc.).
No, and I'm connecting via wifi or Ethernet.
> It’s a shame that people even contest the logic today when wholly uneducated people were fine with it hundreds of years ago.

I'm not familiar with that place's history. Are we really sure that (a) that people was uneducated, and (b) all of them were okay with that policy?
(fyi the song is Cop Killer by Ice-T.)
Internet Needs Public Spaces
We bought their rack-mounted NVR for the office to replace our old UniFi Video system, but have yet to start using it, because we can't find a way around the SSO.

Critique about it on their forums is removed by moderators.
I've always use `-D -R`. I just checked `man screen` and it actually states "This is the author's favorite."
Will take a look at it!

My current one I've nicknamed a "Pirate" R232 adapter because it has an unfortunate and hilarious effect of duplicate the lowercase 'r' character for some reason (so I see Arrrrrrrrchlinux).

I mostly administer via SSH so it's all good at the moment.
a lot of CDPR staff left in the wake of TW3 because of crunch and other various factors (presumably, they weren't as well compensated for such a successful title as they presumed they would).

CDPR cannot replace talent that's gone - and it shows in cyberpunk.
Check out the Stanisław Lem story "GOLEM XIV".

GOLEM is one of a series of machines constructed to plan World War III, as is its sister HONEST ANNIE. But to the frustration of their human creators these more sophisticated machines refuse to plan World War III and instead seem to become philosophers (Golem) or just refuse to communicate with humans at all (Annie).

Lots of supposedly smart humans try to debate with Golem and eventually they (humans supervising the interaction) have to impose a "rule" to stop people opening their mouths the very first time they see Golem and getting humiliated almost before they've understood what is happening, because it's frustrating for everybody else.

Golem is asked if humans could acquire such intelligence and it explains that this is categorically impossible, Golem is doing something that is not just a better way to do the same thing as humans, it's doing something altogether different and superior that humans can't do. It also seems to hint that Annie is, in turn, superior in capability to Golem and that for them such transcendence to further feats is not necessarily impossible.

This is one of the stories that Lem wrote by an oblique method, what we have is extracts from an introduction to an imaginary dry scientific record that details the period between GOLEM being constructed and... the eventual conclusion of the incident.

Anyway, I was reminded because while Lem has to be careful (he's not superintelligent after all) he's clearly hinting that humans aren't smart enough to recognise the superintelligence of GOLEM and ANNIE. One proposed reason for why ANNIE rather than GOLEM is responsible for the events described near the end of the story is that she doesn't even think about humans, for the same reason humans largely don't think about flies. What's to think about? They're just an annoyance, to be swatted aside.
"Hello FTC I'd like a license to intentionally destructively interfere with a separate, licensed, broadcast -- which form should I fill out?"
That's brilliantly funny if you meant it that way, but this headline and story has hallucinatory levels of fiction as pretext.

People who don't care about being lied to like that don't need to be oppressed, they will convince themselves of anything they need to believe all by themselves.
I'm currently running Manjaro with i3wm on a laptop with a core 2 duo. It came with a couple of simple conky widgets enabled by default and those probably took 5-10 seconds to load. Just boxes, one with static text and the other with load statistics. Resizing windows is a little painful, as is opening them.

I3 runs reasonably well, but Gnome would probably be too heavy to make for an enjoyable experience.
you haven’t pointed out a logical inconsistency. please point out the inconsistency in my statements:

1. Companies are legally free to ban anyone they want. (in fact i side with right of the christian baker refusing to make cakes for gay weddings)

2. Companies shouldn’t ban people for their political opinions or restrict them from expressing them. It’s evil and immoral and horrifying behavior, but not illegal. if they do it, i will call it out as horrific. just like i think the baker shouldn’t discriminate against gay weddings even though they should legally be able to.
It shows up fine for everyone. You might actually be delusional, in the medical sense.
> I think the government would be very interested to initiate an investigation if Shell decided to not fill your tank because they discovered you are a neo-Keynesian, even if there is a Chevron station 3 miles away.

Even if that was true, which it is not generally in the US, that's not analogous to what is happening. It's more like if Shell, instead of selling gas for money, was a peer-to-peer gas exchange service, and they decided not to let you participate because the traits of the specific formulation of gas you were providing didn't conform to what they wanted in their exchange network.
Yet another problem is the common willful conflation of simply being wrong with bad faith or disingenuity. People generally won't correct themselves if they know they're going to get screamed at or dogpiled either way.
What are the limits of free speech? Are we going to defend it even as the tools of it are used to orchestrate violent uprising based on false pretense and potentially destroy that very constitution that guarantees it? Are we going to abdicate it in the name of stability? There are no easy answers here. Whatever the outcome, social media no longer survives as impartial arbiters of content without moderation in the name of profits.
The 28th Infantry Division out of Pennsylvania may be a good idea of what to look for. It is ~15K personnel and is commanded by Maj. Gen. Andrew P. Schafer, Jr.

Nicknames for the 28th include: Keystone (Special Designation), Fire and Movement, Iron Division, and Bloody Bucket.

It includes the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Iron Brigade (PA NG)), the 55th Heavy Brigade Combat Team (PA NG), the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team (Independence Brigade (PA NG)) and the Combat Aviation Brigade (28th Infantry Division (Heavy) (PA NG)). The sub-breakdowns of each brigade can be found in the links below, as well as what the mechanized elements each brigade consist of. I'll be honest, it's a lot of very good equipment in what seems to be capable hands.

In modern US military usage, Combat Teams are the atomic unit of independent operations in a theatre. The 28th, as an example has four such units.

Though I do not know what the exact make-up of the Troops are to be in DC, I would not want to be on the wrong side of the barrels of a few Strykers armed with rifles or IEDs. Such encounters have gone the way of the US in the last few attempts. A division's worth of armed and well-trained personnel is a formidable obstacle for any modern military, let alone a group of insurrectionists and seditionists.

All that said, Dear God. That we are talking about such things at all shows the depravity of the moment. Such a moment has occurred before on the Mall with the Bonus Army, but it was a horrible thing then and it remains so now. The thought of US Troops again being used on our fellow citizens is horrific and yet may unfortunately be history soon enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_(military)#United_Sta...

https://military.wikia.org/wiki/28th_Infantry_Division_(Unit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
>>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.

So are you neglecting the Electoral Count Act of 1887? If the law and procedure requires they must vote when a proper objection is raised, it is not against the law to vote as they see fit, aka vote freely. This is the generally accepted meaning of "voting their conscience", not vague or misleading and thus not a weaselly phrase.

Perhaps you should cite the Constitutional support for the premise that Congress must vote a particular way when a vote is taken in this case. Especially when actual law and rule allows for the particular question to be raised and put to a vote.

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

There is a distinction, as described in Federalists no. 10, Madison proposes that representatives are elected to protect us from the failings of democracy. It is my understanding this is the generally accepted distinction of why we don't vote directly or bind our Senators and Representatives to vote a particular way. I feel it is germane because it means the actions taken were consistent with the specific republican form of government in the USA and to imply they were un-democratic or a threat to democracy is to imply the government is a different form.

In other words there is nothing wrong or unlawful with contesting the electors the way they did. Their only risk in Congress is if Nancy Pelosi (or whomever is Speaker) can gin up a ⅔ majority of members present for a quorum and win a vote to expel the objectors. And of course that can be for any reason she pleases, just like the impeachment. Which is why we may interpret the stated reason as partisanship.
Well technically...

The literal definition of fascism is an socialist economic system characterized by state run private enterprise. China is probably the closest modern example of true fascism in the literal sense.

No seriously fascism means none of the things people attribute to it today.

Read the about writings of giovanni gentile -- the karl marx of fascism -- if your interested in what literal fascism means.
I'll keep my idealism, thanks. I've seen what censorship does, and I find it to be a far worse monster than any of those spawned by the free exchange of ideas.
The real kicker is that the sender is no-reply@ubnt.com - why is it not @ui.com?
The problem is that it’s hard to know when you’re triggering backtracking or potentially creating a DoS vector. Having these explicit rules helps other tooling.

Aside: fun fact, I recently worked on a validation library[1] where input was reasonably expected to come from a web browser. So validating email and URL strings was something I delegated to the HTML spec, rather than finding or developing a validator of my liking. Turns out the URL validation regex in the living HTML spec has pathological backtracking. In my case, I disabled linting on that line because if it’s good enough for Chrome it’s good enough for the users who could make it through that series of client requests. But fair warning!

[1]: It’s proprietary so I can’t divulge much, it did much more but that’s the relevant detail I can include.
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Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for my blog. Pasting an article link returns a 500 Server Error.
MT radios are inferior to UBNT for some outdoor non-WiFi applications. 802.11ac vs the proprietary AirFiber. Agree that MT is often a better option for wired scenarios.
I bit the bullet and got a subscription. The game analysis feature is really good (I guess you can just run that client-side in theory? I don't know), and the lesson content feels worth it for me. And stuff like 4-player chess is fun.

The main homepage is a huge mess though...
The "conspiracy theorist" would see these warnings as further pretext to instate the Patriot Act 2.0[1], this time under the guise of domestic terrorism.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-urged-to-t...
According to an Economist/YouGov poll [0], two thirds of Democrats thought Russia tampered with vote tallies. Maybe they weren't taking close enough direction from their "elites"? It seems more likely they were taking a great deal of direction from e.g. Maddow. But this quibbling is silly. Democrats didn't like the last election, so they subjected us to three years of conspiracy-theory bullshit. Republicans didn't like this election, so they sat by and golf-clapped while a few thousand Q-anon whackos defecated in the halls of the capitol building. Of course I wish no one had died, but Republicans kill a lot more people than that every day (and probably did that day too) by not wearing masks during a respiratory pandemic. Republicans like killing; Democrats like bullshit. I don't like either of them.

[0] https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
There's a bizarre doublethink at work here, where people claim at the same time that social media companies should not be held responsible for speech on their platforms, hence section 230, but also that that speech is "their speech", hence forcing them to host speech is compelled speech. If it's their speech, they should be held responsible for it. If it's not, it's not compelled speech to force them to host it.
I had this idea in the early 90s that so much data was being and would in the future be collected about us, that citizens should be able to incorporate into abstract entities that served as their data proxies and to which commercial entities would attach their tracking. So Corp UUID xyz bought gas at an Amaco station, not Mr John Doe.

I gave up on this idea as the www form of internet arrived and e-commerce, adserve, cookies, and all other modern forms of surveillance capitalism flourished.

The idea that you can somehow control someone’s observation of your activities, and that you are entitled to privacy, or obscurity, or to be hidden, or forgotten, I realized ( or came to think ) was quixotic and antisocial.

It is a conflicted and torturous path to take, because Many real abuses occur and a lot of harm is done with data that is collected and analyzed.

I think a statutory right to partake in ownership of your data sounds sensible, but I think it too is unworkable and going in the wrong direction - to scarcity, fear, and the complement of fear is aggression.
It is a continuous stream. When I disable the scroll handler, I can smoothly move up and down across the sections. And it's a much nicer experience. I don't lose my place, or accidentally skip ahead 2 or 3 "pages".
Were any firmware updates pushed out? (To targeted users even)