skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank HN: For creating a place for civil discourse
About eight years ago I stumbled across HN. It was more substantial than Gizmodo, had a topic mix that was more biased towards my interest than other sites I was using, and the comments suggested that the community was smart and passionate. I quickly began posting and commenting and,,, was rate limited. I wasn't being a bad actor. I was just excited. What gives? In the ensuing research into why I was being being placed in time-out I (I'm now sincerely embarrassed to admit) did pick a few fights, did not follow the guidelines, and soon my posts were [dead]. A mature response would have been to be introspective, acknowledge that I was one individual being allowed by a community to join their discourse and I should graciously do so based on the guideline that are provided. That, or I should move on. Moderators of HN even took the time to respond to an email I wrote with my concerns. They were very polite in their response. Instead I submitted a pretty long rant under a new username against shadow banning. (I'm only bringing this up for context, please let that not be the topic here.) The post went to the front page. I was like whoa. I think I still have a screenshot of that somewhere. That of course did not help my case. The submission went dead. But I kept on coming back. HN had created a framework that allowed me to keep coming back, that kindly nudged me towards better behavior. I was learning be a better, kinder participant. Looking back, two things. One, I truly believe I was only worked up because I immediately saw the awesomeness that was HN, and I truly believe that some tweaks to it's rules would make it even more so. But still, my sincere apologies for the way I did that. Secondly, I'm still here reading and commenting because of the guidelines, because of the moderators, because of the community. Everything has gone crazy in the media, social media, political arena, etc etc. Headline News is still civil, still relevant and topical, still fun and super interesting and educational. And in the past roughly eight years I've learned so much about civil discourse by being a part of this community. Thank you HN for creating this space.
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Luckily they have no power, all their goods are mediated by global corporates with correct politics.
It would make sense if the DNC organized a rally on the day that Congress was set to formally accept the results of an election, spent a few hours telling thousands of people that their vote was stolen, and then Barack Obama instructed the crowd to march over to the Capitol, the crowd stormed the building full of elected officials, and even after that, no one from the DNC would admit that they were lying about a stolen election.

If that happened, then of course it would make sense to discredit the DNC.

In the end, Trump has robbed the RNC of its ability to be accountable to the democratic process. Hope it was worth it.
I agree. But this isn't what this is. This is a conversation AROUND definitions, not ABOUT them.

In fact, it is surprising how many arguments (online or otherwise) degrade onto "according to my preferred definition of X" once you nitpick them, revealing that there is no actual argument behind the conversation beyond the "I prefer this definition" one.
never thought you can use SQL and blood together in a sentence and that too together. "SQL blood test - FTW !!"
Good news! https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1348785240819466242?s=1...

> Here's a sneak peek at some new Signal features that will start rolling out in a few days:
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> • Chat wallpapers!
>• About field for your Signal profile
> • Animated stickers
>• For iOS: Media auto-download settings and full-screen profile photos (to match Android)
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> Good morning 🇮🇳! https://t.co/KEAbhMswRI
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Plus! Moderation; Huawei, Undaunted; The Extreme Persistence of City-Level Network Effects; The Vice Bailout; SolarWinds and Reputational Bounties; Cost/Benefit Analysis
Please stop with this fake thought-crime "stochastic terrorism." It's not clever, no matter how much Anderson Cooper loves to say it. People are responsible for their own actions.
There has been recounts and recounts. 50+ lawsuits, zero evidence.

I mean ... it's surprising that Clown Rudy Esq. had not manged to catch even one unfortunate voter doing something stupid. (Eg. accidentally voting at two places to make sure, etc.)
Because a proprietary or binary format would be easier to recover over time?

It’s usually pretty easy to figure out the right encoding for text files, especially when you know their origin (which I expect you would for accounting documents).

Additionally, UTF-8 is quite universally accepted these days.
From my own personal experiences, the most you typically get with a high profile speaker is the email address of their assistant or the agent from the speakers bureau.
To be entirely honest, the first one is clearly a bot with zero followers. The second one looks more legit I guess.
I strongly disagree.

Plain text is great for data that is just that - plain text.

As soon as data isn't text, the idea falls apart quickly. What would be the advantage of storing audio data as text? It would take up more space, be ambiguous, and would require more memory and compute time to load and save.

Same applies to many other forms of data that aren't inherently text or supposed to be manipulated manually.

Everything is not text and everything is not intended to be manipulated and interpreted by humans directly. This applies to audio and video data, but also to a lot of specialised data formats that are optimised for the algorithms that use them.

So no, we won't always be returning to text and "leaving" text formats is a natural and important step for data that's not generated manually for and by humans (i.e. by means of manual data entry).
9s before the screenshot was taken, as shown in a tweet from 2 days ago. I don’t have enough info to say when the screenshot was taken, but the leaked copies of all the Parler data should be able to confirm/refute the veracity.
"my next 10 T-shirts"

reminds me of this fascinating podcast about the history of textiles.

https://www.econtalk.org/virginia-postrel-on-textiles-and-th...

The fastest spinners in the world used to take 13 days 8hrs a day of labor to spin enough thread to make one pair of jeans. A 200 thread count bed sheet would take 59 days. And neither of those include the time turning that thread into fabric.
Simply managing the text files with git would solve that retirement
Remakes of movies with cool ideas and poor execution make much more sense artistically, although I also understand why they're not popular commercially
>top down or bottom up

I tend to think of it as more along the lines of feedback loops. It's like supply and demand. It doesn't really matter which comes first, so long as both exist commensurate to one another.
Up until this point, I thought that when you bought a domain from a registrar, the domain was yours (since you can transfer it, after all), but now I'm not sure, and the article is not clear. How could godaddy "boot" someone? Isn't the domain theirs?
> Parler was a startup that was rapidly growing, a real startup with an actual ceo and actual investors, and AWS yanked the rug out from under them, and I doubt they'll be the last.

Reality check: Parler contained realistic threats and refused to moderate or remove those threads. First, that breaks TOS. Second, given that AWS new provably knows about those, once someone acted on those threats, they could be liable.

You are acting as if Parler was removed from those services by way of irrational knee jerk.
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That will depend on how much resentment the food photo artists will feel. Plus a lot of social media companies start with fringe groups but then grow more mainstream over time.

You are also assuming the censorship is only of people calling for violence. This morning Ron Paul's facebook page was blocked. I don't think he's ever called for violence. If the loudest voices on the left expand their definition is hate speech more and more, the less it is the fringe who get banned.
He's not complaining Facebook did exactly what he championed they had a right to do. The complaint is that they could not point out how he had breached terms of service/community guidelines as he was notified his account was terminated because of. If they could poiint to the offending material that would be one thing. If they gave advanced warning and said "Pack your stuff, we're done serving you. Period. You have X hours." It would have been fine.

Saying someone did X, Y, and Z, then refusing to produce evidence is the problem there.
I think those 2019 phones are most likely still in every day use.
+1.

btw, maybe moderna can go after AIDS sometime later? I wonder how mRNA vaccines will work for AIDS patients...
What precisely was Citizens United trying to do? Can you tell me that before we continue?
I'm not saying they were doing it perfectly. But at least they were trying to do something to address the root cause that people are gullible. You can't ban publishing lies because that's what more than half of human culture is. The thing you can and should do is put dangerous lies in factual context.
No, you misunderstand. I don't want a mob to hold a tribunal. I want a real military tribunal that follows all procedures, exposes their crimes and then punishes them.

The masses long for justice while the elite and elite-wannabes try to convince themselves that the system isn't completely broken.
That link is now broken, and that domain no longer works.

"This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

Now I'm even more concerned!
They should have to include a list of prices for common repairs. I know a few people who would probably shop based on the price to repair a broken screen.

We're at the point where repairs are an expected part of a phones lifecycle. Battery replacements are basically required now unless you want to buy a new phone every year or two. We really should start adding info about that to packaging.
True, but the original comment was quoting something that referred to quarantining and equating it with social distancing. Even if the original medieval author did explicitly endorse a six-foot rule, that original comment was wrong to blur the difference, and the parent was correct to call it out.
Zip folders: A Microsoft engineer's side hustle
"Plummer had already contributed one side project, Task Manager, to Windows. His next, a shell extension to browse into and drag and drop to and from ZIP files, he opted to sell himself. A rival, alas, took exception to competition in the shareware space from a Microsoft employee working in the shell team and complained to the higher-ups, we're told."
Yes, but you are "in the bubble that frequents HN" ;)
I did ... but tbh can't remember what my beef was with it now, I just remember that when I compared them all it wasn't a favourite, hahah ...

I settled on xdiskusage and gt5 (the latter when I'm on a terminal). Both great tools.
The reverse engineering work here showed that "LED is electrically tied to the signal which controls the microphone's power", which means there's no software way to turn the microphone on while keeping the LED red.

Measuring the current of the microphone would only tell us that at a specific moment, the microphone is off and the LED is red. But that might be a software switch, in which case nothing would prevent Amazon to turn the microphone from time to time while keeping the LED red.
Right wing and left wing violence and divisive rhetoric is at an all time high and each side wants to act like it's not happening despite clear evidence to the contrary.

Generally it gets lost in the "who is worse than who" and some unmentioned desire for a regression to the mean. The problem is that a regression to the mean is either prompted by an event or time.
I just happened to setup a Teamspeak server instead of Mumble long time ago. Now it's hard enough to get friends use Teamspeak over Discord :)
Presumably once the kinks are worked out of this process, it could be merged into the main release of Signal. No second app required.
I don’t care about his feelings, hypocritical or not.

I’m alarmed when they start censoring people without even pretending they’re remotely dangerous. He simply has the wrong politics and is too popular.
Look at median income and things are different: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps...
Sort of, frankly a lot of people are simply stupid and don't even recognize their news source as biased, its "just news" for them.
> So we should just throw up our hands in the air and start killing each other.

Or, we can ban him from twitter. But violence was your solution last time, so why am I not surprised you're reaching for it again?
As if being nice makes you a good person. Excessive niceness is usually rooted in cowardice and naïveté, or calculating ambition and greed.

If you met me you’d find I’m pretty cheery and good-spirited, if a bit sardonic.
Ack. Ack. Thank you, HN. Nearly 13 years enjoying HN - certainly more times a day than I care to admit. Always nervous to tell people what a great forum it is, for fear of reducing the SNR. Remarkable that, even more than a decade on, it continues to be my homepage. Thank you PG and those that have fostered HN to be the great place that it is.
Ashtiname: The Covenant of Muhammad with the Monks of Mount Sinai
He's still the CEO, so he represents the company, he has the responsibility and capacity for deciding who to do business with (who to serve as a customer/user, who to allow to "enter/visit their venue").
It's possible that he insists on IPv4 for some reason, though IMHO this is a bad idea and he should try everything to move to IPv6.

As you might guess, the ISPs that are forced to use CGNAT due to the lack of IPv4 addresses, are also the ones who tend to be the first on IPv6, for obvious reasons.

I know of a big ISP, a relative latecomer, infamous due to its CGNAT issues, who last summer boasted reaching 99% IPv6 coverage.

(And at the same time, for some reason they had to be forced by the government threats, that otherwise they would not be allowed to use 5G, to add opt-in IPv6 on cellular, which they did at the last moment last month...)
Why the aggression?
Sorry. Yes, this is exactly what I was referring to.
Binary Recompilation via Dynamic Analysis and the Protection of Control and Data
Do you not find it suspicious that on election night four states where Trump was ahead simultaneously decided to stop counting, something that has never happened before, and Biden had huge spikes after they started counting again. One of the states claimed there was a water leak which turned out to be a lie to remove observers. With no observers present they restarted counting. This was the main event that spurred the fraud claims.

They only did a random sampling of signature checks in one county in Georgia. That's not a full audit. In Georgia, Biden overtook Trump with 89 percent of the votes counted. For the next 53 batches of votes counted, Biden led Trump by the same exact 50.05 to 49.95 percent margin in every single batch. It is particularly perplexing that all statistical anomalies and tabulation abnormalities were in Biden’s favor.
I'm not saying anything, but people sometimes do this kind of stuff. This isn't by any means a novel tactic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
> are you buying a phone with a bunch of extra capabilities or a microphone hooked to a data center around the world

Yes.
> A month or so after my trip I was sent a fine for not displaying my car license while my car was parked on a public road. I had driven down the road where the fine was recorded during the trip.

More of an aside, but what sort of car license must be displayed for parking but not for driving down the same road? Is it some sort of parking permit or disc?
Data collection cheat sheet: how Parler, Twitter, FB, MeWe data policies compare
Ask HN: Should we be concerned with BeiDou on Apple 12?
This is the first iPhone built in with the BeiDou navigation system. What are the security and privacy implications of that choice and should the average person have any concern?
You can put animated svgs in github markdown.
Intel getting TSMC to build some of its chips is also I think a way to constrict AMD supply rather than them actually needing the production
When posting to HN, please use articles' actual titles. "Massacre at Tigray’s Mariam of Zion cathedral in Aksum"

And that church is believed by some to hold the Ark, so your title is, in the very least, editorializing. The fact that people aren't allowed to see it makes the claim even flimsier.
Is there chat syncing across devices and backups on cards or does it defeat the app's purpose?
I don't believe I'm giving credence to any "conspiracies" with that comment, nor was it my intention in the least. May I suggest you stand by your words and consider a skeptic point of view on this alleged threat?
Yeah, there are at least sub-factions in that group that would actually very much like to put that gallows to actual use and seemingly came prepared to actually take hostages when they got inside.
I’m just saying that if you were one of those who liked it when Mozilla got rid of Brendan Eich, there is no reasonable way you could then justify switching to use a browser from that same person.

(Note that I am not expressing a personal preference.)
You're doing a great thing for your teen. Have you ever considered hosting a cryptoparty[1]? I just learned about these recently and found out the makerspace in my city used to do one every third thursday, but stopped sometime a few years ago. I've been thinking about getting in touch with whoever used to host it to see about starting it up again

[1] https://www.cryptoparty.in/organize/howto
Whatever factors you use to determine "newsworthiness" will be perceived as biases.
I'm honestly not sure what the public response would be. I'm inclined to believe the revelation that the microphone is always on would not effect bottom line too much. Though maybe if a good meme campaign materialized people would join in on the public flagellation. But I bet more on people appetite for a public lynching than sacrificing their own convenience for long term considerations
LibreDWG 0.12
> the one with T*p

Oh come on. Drop the hysterics and write the name of the person you're talking about.
Banning them is holding them accountable. Their irritation is not rational, they are quite "irritated" by the peaceful transition of power; no more coddling of these bad faith actors, when they stop fomenting chaos in our society then they can be allowed to shitpost on twitter once again, because of course, restricting the freedom to stoke violence online is the real story here, not their literal attack on democracy.
First link: no mention of Threema

Second link: behind paywall

Third link: no mention of Threema
I recall playing the Full Throttle demo over and over again when I was a kid. I finally played the full game for the first time a few years ago when I discovered it was available on steam. It was great, but I was surprised how easy it was compared to some other titles in my memory, like Day of the Tentacle, then again my problem solving skills have improved since I was a child.
"vigilante" refers to illegally using powers (especially physical violence) that are reserved to police and not permitted to the general population. This is different from private organizations exercising their First Amendment rights to free association.
>But, mostly, I think the best move against further violence was increased government action, both in case of BLM (e.g. destroying CHAZ in Portland) and in case of Capitol attack (increased military presence in DC).

I think you're underestimating the depth of the problem. The fact that the Capitol attack got as far as it did was because factions of government intentionally did not act, or even blocked action. All of society needs to fight this, at every level; it's an existential threat.
In the 1970s this was a thing in England too, for the same reason. My Dad was advised to check his car for bombs and he wasn't anybody important.
> well that would be like putting two terminals next to each other.

Pretty much! Not a perfect solution for sure.

I used to only rely on tmux, but nowadays I often prefer opening more terminals windows. I found out that by overly relying on tmux, I kept opened a way too high number of shells (browser tabs, anyone?).

Now for most tasks I open a terminal without tmux, that way I'm forced to close it if I don't want to have a cluttered desktop (I never minimize or hide windows, I don't even know how to do it on my wm).
Oh, the comment was only addressed to GP and a misused meme.

It is -not- a comment on LuLu or the substantial and valuable contributions and efforts of the developer in question. Hats off to him.

https://www.objective-see.com/
They're prosecuted by the law, just like real illegal dumpers. That's my position, that there should be a public internet content distribution platform that operates at-cost services for users and whose only rules are the laws of the United States. An internet utility.
We were not talking about whether the Muslim world appreciated Greek thought, we were talking about how much the Muslim world preserved Greek works otherwise unavailable. Regardless of your boasting of Muslim scholarship, many more Greek works have come down to use in manuscripts copied down in the Christian world. It is only a comparatively few works that we must credit the Muslim world with preserving.

Again, go look at the manuscript sources for all those OCT and Teubner editions.
hope you kept it and sold it a few days ago when BTC hit 40K USD. yes?
Making VoIP Calls with Antique Rotary Phones
Alsatian wines would typically be labeled with the varietal on the bottle, for just that reason- Alsace is known for a variety of world class white wines.
As far as I understand, the point of Signal's current move is to take advantage of the huge number of people who (for once) got interested in moving away from WhatsApp.

Then, I suspect there could be an implicit specific criticism underlying your comment but I don't get it.
Intel's 10nm SuperFin process at 5 GHz is quite impressive. Clocks like that, combined with the core improvements, should allow Intel to compete on performance and core count.
Couldn't they have implemented mute in software? There would be little outrage if they had (users don't care about the difference) but spy agencies (e.g. NSO Group) would have a backdoor.

The fact that they used a hardware switch means they did it the right way.

By contrast my Logitech camera has a light to show when the camera is running - but the light can be disabled via their software which makes me uncomfortable with fully trusting the light.
Indeed. A misconfigured NAT setup can also result in some traffic being NAT'd correctly and other traffic not being NAT'd, but ultimately still leaking out onto the wire (in either direction)

Beware when you're doing pure NAT, it doesn't always do what you think!
Qualcomm’s new in-screen fingerprint reader is bigger and faster
When you're docked in a marina or similar its unlikely there would be space.
When you're sailing or motoring somewhere you want the minimum drag\resistance through the water, and more importantly, the waves would smash them to pieces in no time. To make them weatherproof would mean making them less like a floating solar panel and more like a small boat.