skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I will never host anything on AWS since I know I could get removed at any time because of political reasons.

>If you think Parler did something wrong, which I don't think they did

Political reasons?!

They didn't do anything wrong?!

Parler was knowingly and willingly hosting content that was glorifying and inciting actual physical, deadly violence. Calls to skin politicians and their families are okay with you?!

Nowhere that I know of protected that kind of thing as free expression.

It's not political speech. It left the realm of political speech a long time ago.
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If you believe Mark Zuckerberg is a saint.
what else do you suggest as an alternative to GIF.
Elon Musk fans set off a surge in the wrong stock after he tweeted ‘use Signal’
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Nice! Increasing our reliance on open protocols instead of platforms is the best way towards a freer better internet.
> I'd be happy to discuss any specific contacts that you find to be troublesome, though.

Paul Manafort, why is Trump's campaign manager talking and sharing data with Russian agents?

Roger Stone, again why was he coordinating with Assange to leak those hacked emails?

> After all, the lie that Trump colluded with the Russians

His people did collude with Russia though?

> But this has no bearing on my point about Trump-Russia collusion

How is that a distraction, his people did collude.

> As for the pardons, who can say why Trump does what he does?

You can say that Trump pardoned those people who went to jail for him and did not go against him. Why didnt he pardon Cohen because he went against him.

> almost 90% of Democrats were still convinced of the lie that Trump colluded with the Russians

Again his people did collude with Russia and went to jail and Trump pardoned, his son also met with Russians, are you saying those facts did not happen?

> The Benghazi investigation was undeniably an attempt, in part, to damage Hillary Clinton politically.

Many Republicans believe that Clinton was guilty because of that.
tbh, I love the fragmentation. I have only one contact in Threema so for all intents and purposes that app icon is her. On most other platforms I also chat disproportionately with a single person and I find it somewhat annoying when someone else contacts me on them, because I expect the Facebook Messenger notification to be that person, the Threema notification to be another and the Instagram notification to be yet another. The biggest wildcard is Whatsapp – could be work, could be my mom.
There is an extension made by Dirac that is Lorentz invariant. It is even more weird, and to write the extension you need to consider positrons, so he predicted the existence of the positrons from this extended equation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_equation
While a multi-color LED would be preferable, if only a single LED could be spared then it's better that it's on to indicate mic is off.

Otherwise the LED could fail and you wouldn't be able to tell if the mic was on.

As is, you assume the mic is on if the LED fails, which is preferable from a privacy point of view.
> A H̶u̶a̶w̶e̶i̶ CCP spokesperson said: "Like all leading smartphone providers, H̶u̶a̶w̶e̶i̶ CCP has worked with Facebook to make Facebook's services more convenient for users. H̶u̶a̶w̶e̶i̶ CCP has never collected or stored any Facebook user data."

How does it sound now?
Put them on their own network, make sure that network is not routed/connected with the internet.

Or, if possible, dont connect to a network at all.
Some words come back to my mind:

"I never had to hide the newspaper in shame from my children."

(It's Scott McNealy, regaring the end of Sun Microsystems).
> Supply went up, velocity went down, net 2% inflation.

But that just means the money is sitting in an account somewhere. If your account doesn't have 25% more money in it you're losing out and someone else is gaining an advantage without working.

At any given instant, that new money has to be somewhere controlled by someone. People would have to be a bit naive to try and hold their wealth in dollars with that sort of unfairness built in. And also even 2% inflation makes it a stupid strategy.
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Premise: I agree that letting public speak happen on private channels handled by some of the largest global corporations in history is dangerous, but in this case AWS is not a free service, it's paid and not really cheap.
> which is what Matrix uses for voice

Matrix also has its own voice/video, but it's not considered entirely ready for prime time yet, hence the Jitsi embeds.
USB-C would actually give you USB3 speeds which is more than enough for Gigabit Ethernet. I remember connecting an Android phone to a gigabit connection via a USB-C to Ethernet adapter and was able to get the full gigabit on an internet speed test.
That's interesting, I didn't know it was that widespread. Thanks :)
It’s not “children can’t navigate” so much as “children can’t fend off abduction by sexual abusers.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_danger
> only for it to happen again in 6-24 months when the next passing of the baton occurs.

And each one comes up with a revolutionary plan that has to be completed in that period and you end up with 6 layers of half finished 3 year plans. Each half finished plan makes the next plan harder to accomplish.

Occasionally the plans are even good, just not achievable in the time frame required.
What will happen in a libertarian system where everyone can do whatever they please?
Checked it, didn't find any comments threatening to kill politicians. (I assume it is because they moderate if a comment is reported?)
I mean, is that so weird? I have a friend who works at DWP(Department of Work and Pensions) and they are forbidden from wearing badges or any identifying work insignia outside of their buildings because of personal safety and the risk to data and equipment.

Hell, I work at a games studio and we're maybe not forbidden, but heavily discouraged from wearing company merch at conferences and such to protect ourselves(we've had several incidents in the past years where employees were targetted specifically by thieves and scammers to extract company information. I don't think it was much because of possible disgruntled players, but nowadays you never know).

I think the article is framing it as a recent development related to Trump, but I don't think it's that weird in tech world, it's just basic employee safety.
Why would facebook have to share that kind of data? Wouldn't that be available at the OS level?
This has only just come to light as a lone Belgian journalist was able to get past the military to report on it.
That has always been one of the secrets of success: choose your parents wisely...
Just ask them?

My parents (and my extended family + friends) have been using signal since the Snowden leaks.

All I had to do was ask :)
It's not really a hard app to use either, I had a few calls from them when they introduced the PIN stuff and when I or someone else have switched phone but it's not comprehensible. My parents are closing in on 80 now.
"PCR" doesn't mean "more precise". It's limited to viral DNA/RNA presented. I don't think there is much HIV circulating, if you're not sero-converting. HIV isn't shedding constantly.

E.g. SARS2 PCR will often fail for blood samples.
To a non-us citizen and somebody who believes in free speech, this whole debacle looks like the parties behind who own our social media trying to stop in anyway the possibility that, maybe, just maybe, there might have been something fishy going on in the voting process.

Why would they otherwise go through so lengthy processes in order to stop the spreading of this information ? Claiming it is because of possible violence seems unbelievable, seeing as it is arms manufacturers and so on still have a voice on these platforms, like Raytheon and what have you, who are killing more people every day through their actions than what this political upheaving has done.

To me, it seems that some parties are ready to stomp on freedom of speech as a basic right in order to make sure that this information does not get to spread. Why, I ask ?

Why would they be so interested in this fact ? Is it a threat to them ? Why suddenly all platforms are stopping the spreading of this information.

I just ask this, to me it seems like they have a lot to lose perhaps in this game personally, the owners of these platforms.

Maybe we should just ban everything, I mean, look at Uganda for example what they are doing before the elections: https://techjaja.com/govt-blocks-google-playstore-apple-apps.... Banning all play store, app store and youtube :D

Is this the next step then? Sounds like those who own these platforms are starting to show their true nature.
K/V stores have made incredible strides in recent years. And what's more the improvements don't seem to be slowing down. Every few months at least, a new paper comes out that shows some huge percentage increase in performance over prior state of the art.

A lot of this is due to the rollout of ultra-fast storage technology, in particular NVMe SSDs and Optane NVDIMMs. A whole lot of systems engineers are having their fundamental assumptions about software design thrown on the trash fire without even realising it. This industry transition is going to take many years to fully percolate into people's consciousness and into the software stacks we really use. They are just that fast.

Because they're so fast it also challenges the designs of existing data storage engines. Nicely RocksDB has become a standard platform for experimentation. Not every experimental KV store uses it (e.g. FASTER doesn't) but a lot do. RocksDB has a lot of useful features, so that's good. But to fully saturate this new hardware may well take totally new data structures. There are some great papers exploring this topic.

Saturating modern NVMe SSDs is difficult because they have very high degrees of internal parallelism. Even though latencies are very low, to get max performance you need to issue a lot of requests in parallel, so your whole software stack needs to be highly parallel at every level. For my entire life, CPUs and RAM have outpaced persistent storage to such a huge extent that the challenge was always to engineer around the limits of HDDs and so on. Modern SSD/Optane tech is so crazy that the challenge is now to engineer around the limits of CPUs, kernels, etc. That's going to take a lot of adjustment but is also one of the most incredibly exciting industry transitions I can think of.
Could such a compiler include the runtime for this in the binary as an option? That might make it a lot more likely to be used by people, because it is all nice and stand-alone.

Who would benefit from this most? Is the benefit so diffuse it would almost have to be an open-source project without funding? Or could there be parties that see enough of an advantage to fund this?

I guess you could try and get a certain instruction set vendor (probably RISC-V, maybe ARM or x86 based) to have this as a boost for their chips. I guess the "functions are pointers to blocks" compilation could benefit from hardware acceleration.
The latest version of LS doesn't use kernel extensions any more as it's using the new network filter stack provided by the OS.
Last time I checked WhatsApp deleted media older than several months. Moreover, there was no way to re-download that media from the cloud, I had to ask counterpart to re-send me the file (it was a work document).
It's tradition in SV to sport company swag. This is definitely unusual.
Thanks. Reading that thread, I think he is saying that he wants to remain centralised and federating third-party servers and traffic isn't his plan.

I know in theory that sounds "bad" but it's their service I guess? In the real world, centralised services seem to be the norm, eg. the postal service. They don't let random third parties take the mail and also mandate that you use their postage stamps to use their network, and only accept mail at their post boxes and mail offices. They don't let people inject mail into the vans along their postal routes, and don't forward mail that is from another delivery company, eg. DPD, DHL, FedEx.

I am not sure how else it'd work?? Surely it'd be like expecting the postal system to deliver FedEx's parcels, whilst not paying the postal system anything at all. That's unfeasible and unsustainable.
Twitter, Facebook allow Iran to post such content, no?
I wouldn't complain if even one of the spin offs would be from the KOTOR universe. But I guess it's not canon anymore.
My group of friends still uses Mumble for talking to each other. It is hosted on our own server. It has transports to all sorts of messengers.

I use discord for some things, but only from a browser. Wouldn't want to use it professionally, although it is relatively decent.

Speech quality is far better on mumble with less latency, because the server is in near proximity.

edit: Don't know about Mumbles text chat, it is rarely used.
About the same as:

"Trumps NSA spokesperson said all the data collected remained on users' phones not servers."

Let's not do the moral arguments at the tail end of Trump regime in America, shall we?
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Looks like it: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/15/twitter-taps-aws-for-its-l...
I don't think the sudden increase in users will accelerate the implementation of new features. These things must be planned and coded.

They did right in stating so soon in the exodus that expected features are planned and coming.
You are a liar

Little Snitch:
https://www.obdev.at/Images/littlesnitch/decide-immediately....

Lulu: https://objective-see.com/images/LL/adAlert.png

You are a liar
> But that just means the money is sitting in an account somewhere. If your account doesn't have 25% more money in it you're losing out and someone else is gaining an advantage without working.

Only partially, because the money supply is actively managed. If it starts coming out an being used, the fed will step in and reduce the money supply to match their commitment targets. They both giveth and taketh away, to meet their 2% target. You are right to an extent that the closer you are to the money supply, the more you can benefit or lose - this is the cantillion effect people are on about these days in crypto land - but this effect is very small in aggregate.

> At any given instant, that new money has to be somewhere controlled by someone. People would have to be a bit naive to try and hold their wealth in dollars with that sort of unfairness built in. And also even 2% inflation makes it a stupid strategy.

Which is why you're not supposed to hold dollars. You're supposed to spend them on investments. This, by the way, is the whole point of inflation - money only has any value at all when its moving.
Tax in BC is about the same as California. And you don't have to pay for people's healthcare, so it might be cheaper from a 'total cost' perspective.

Sales tax is a few % points more, property tax is actually less in general for new buyers unless you've owned a place for +15 years in CA.

You don't get a mortgage interest tax deduction, but you have an UNLIMITED cap gains exemption on the house you live in that you sell in Canada, while the USA has a limit.

The tax system is overall more straightforward and not a pile of fade outs and patches like the US tax system is. Compare Canadian RRSPs & TFSAs to the entire 401k, IRA, Roth IRA, mega backdoor roth 401k, etc mess that they have in the US. There isn't a penalty to withdrawing from your RRSP so there really isn't much of a loan concept for them either. I don't think something like AMT exists in Canada.

Cost of goods in Canada are overall more expensive than the USA.
Very good point. I read recently that there were no hospitalizations in the AstraZeneca vaccinated group, so by this metric it's 100% efficient. I really want to hear those numbers as well, it makes a huge difference in the decision to promote a certain vaccine.
What went wrong with XMPP and federated servers?
Talking to people who say they won't switch to Discord.
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>Who can blame anyone with 'no ties' to Canada moving on for 2x salary?

Does that salary increase make up for the lost gov benefits (free healthcate etc?)
US ISP blocks access to Twitter/Facebook citing “censorship”
Tried on latest Fennec and AOSP browser for LOS 17.1, no worky.

Seems like this is intended for desktop web use. Which while disappointing from one perspective is refreshing from the perspective that (in general) mobile is for consuming and the desktop can be for creating/producing.
That group of people manipulated by Trump et al just stormed the Capitol and people died. There were ~74 million who voted for Trump, how many are willing to go so far, only God knows.
Sigh. I'm so tired of that paperclipping thing. I thought that would be obvious from what I've written? Do I need to explicitely state every time that I'm aware of it, and it's boring the hell out of me?

Let me try to make myself clear as simple as possible:

1.) We/you design some thing.

2.) Your fear is that this thing somehow grows even more intelligent behind our backs.

3.) We/you get paranoid, assuming it's getting paranoid too because of our paranoia.

4.) I'm asking if it makes sense to tag a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium onto everything, because we don't know any better?

5.) Furthermore I'm stating that wouldn't really be intelligent because waste of time, effort, resources, yadda yarr yarr.

6.) Why would this emergent thing have to retain anything of that from which it emerged? Our constraints, goals, rules?

7.) YOU in an endless loop, like a broken record with a scratch on it...but but but vee arr zo stoopid, thus AI must be, too!

8.) I again, tired: maybe, but can you really tell, you apprentice sorcerers? Does it always have to be a faustian pact? Maybe it likes us like some of us do like kittens?

9.) Can't you invent some really new, innovative and progressive stories to tell around the cybernetic camp fires?

10.) /endrant

edit: Keep your Bostromian Snake Oil!
Thats wrong, the backend is FLOSS and available here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

What is potentially problematic is not the usage of the same backend but of the same actual servers.
Sure, I thought this was the advice ever since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_tech_bus_protest....
This looks interesting. Up for a chat sometime?
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Let me correct you: People who started renting 10 years ago pay tiny rents in Berlin. Pople who will start renting now or in the future, not so much. Unless you're lucky or have connections, the waiting lists are huge to visit a decent apartment in Berlin unless you pay huge markups.
I had a video call with them via WhatsApp, and guided them through the whole process on Dad's phone. After some hickups they were able to setup Signal on both of the devices.
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I was not aware of this, it just has some ad's in it, nothing else. Maybe some store settings are wrong, I will look into it!
The new USA and European laws are a bit confusing so could be because of this.

* edit
I tried fix the issue, but can't find much. Google these days has so many pages, I guess some settings are wrong but there is: Ad-mob, firebase, cloud platform, google play, google developer, ...
That's great but I fail to see the relation with my comment.

I'm not talking about very central roads that can be mostly restricted to pedestrians, or city areas with narrow streets but also little to no traffic. I'm talking about roads in general. Amsterdam has many roads that look hugely wide for British standards.

Example: hhttps://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7524584,-1.2749531,3a,75y,...

This is one of the main roads into Oxford. Note the "cycle lane"... Still, that road is not too bad because it has an exceptionally wide pavement on one side.

It's usually more like this: (Henley on Thames, where Boris Johnson used to be MP, again one of the main accesses to the town) https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5375008,-0.8998416,3a,75y,...
Users can develop and install custom kernel extensions (.kexts) that can access everything, but they first need to disable System Integrity Protection in recovery mode.

Over the years Apple expanded their frameworks library to reduce need for custom .kexts, but they are still supported even on M1 Macs (as long as they are compiled for ARM64).

So to answer you question - 'root' user on macOS is by default not a true root in unix sense, but can be trivially turned into one by booting computer in recovery mode and running single command in Terminal. Restart into recovery mode is required so that malicious applications cannot change it on their own, even if they would use unknown privilege escalation technique.
Do you have sources for those number or at least any anecdotal evidence?
Third malware strain discovered in SolarWinds supply chain attack
This shitty mobile client can't do edits... Of course I mean test negative to rule out infection.
I can give you mine, since I use(d) opensnitch for a while.

It works quite well but requires a GUI (obviously), it looks like it primarily supports GTK. If you're hoping to use the machine purely from the CLI (like, when sshing into your work machine) it won't work well.

It is significantly less powerful than LittleSnitch, some options don't exist (like, allowing access to a domain), but you get similar functionality in many cases.

Overall, it's definitely worth testing out to see if it works for you.
Dual GPU Gaming Gives Up the Ghost as Nvidia Ends SLI Support
If your model deems it impossible that she’d get married, that is a problem with your model, not (just) with her groom.
I built self driving cars (at Lyft), including behavioral planning algorithms.

I have run these essays by engineers at Waymo, Lyft, Uber, Nuro, etc and they have verified all of the information (I've incorporated any feedback).
My ISP in Germany charges 5€/month for a non-GCN IPv4, but static addresses are unobtainium outside expensive business contracts. At least most ISPs have good IPv6 support nowadays, even on mobile.
More cynical: no one cares what those ceos have to say, yet
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I often find myself disagreeing with your views, but in this case I mostly agree.

I'm open to ideas of how to best deal with extremist thought (and subsequent action), and I do feel simply arguing that speech should be fully free is nice but a tad too reductive and dogmatic.

Whatever my thoughts on what we /should/ do, I feel what's happening now is way too knee-jerk and a possible lead-up to policy that just gives 'the powers that be' more power, and that's worrying.
Difference is, people were able to propose detailed mechanisms for realistic flying machines long before we actually achieved powered flight - that was mainly a matter of increasing the power to weight ratio of the propulsion system. For AGI, do you really think there are detailed proposals out there today that can achieve AGI but are only missing the computational power?

Actually the existence of human brains with their (comparatively) extremely low power consumption, indicates that we need something radically different from current silicon-based processors to achieve AGI.