skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure they are bad guys.

This was also a bad thing to do, since, presumably - some of it was intended to be private or hidden.

It will be interesting to see what the results of the content are. There have been many arguments implying that parler was "pretty normal". We can now empirically find out.

As others have noted, this is also a lesson in design and code priorities.
Yes, it could've been internal security researchers.
The old age question with fail-closed is then not locking yourself out when things go wrong

Everything has/should have a "break window" escape, and yes, that's a security weakness, but I don't see many alternatives to that.
Same. Probably server messing up MIME type.
most of us are trying to reflect on whether this is 'private messages' or 'evidence of crimes'

I doubt anyone on HN would take seriously any other service turning over evidence of a crime to authorities because its 'private messages'. We might not like that it is there policy but we damn well would know it is their policy and not use services where it is technically possible to plan crimes?
This feels analogous to paper companies banding together and refusing to provide paper to a newspaper whose opinion column they disagree with.
So you'd prefer being silenced by people who you have no control over, rather than a government you elected?
Isn't that exactly what the above comment is saying?
> the media told me these guys are the bad guys.

They sacked the capitol and cheered it on (yes, almost exclusively as far as the people on Parler are concerned).

They are indeed the bad guys.
Decertifying a self driving car does nothing considering that today the driver is legally 100% responsible for the driving

The owner of the vehicle is also 100% responsible for making sure the vehicle is road-worthy. Decertifying the autonomous-driving feature should probably trigger a manufacturer recall, so the features can be disabled permanently (not just a via software update).

Or alternatively, most countries have a periodic vehicle check (like the MOT test in the UK), and having non-certified features enabled could be a reason for failing the test.
Checks and balances. Power must be distributed as widely as possible because concentration of power will always eventually lead to abuses. The problem in the US is that for decades, the executive branch of the government has been getting too powerful relative to the other branches, especially the legislature. At the same time, too much power has accrued to big companies and ultra-wealthy individuals. We've been seeing and will continue to see the consequences of these long term trends.
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That doesn't really match up with the ethos of Apple or why people buy their products though, so it doesn't make any sense for Apple to allow or endorse this.
That's exactly why there is a black market for 0-day exploits... because they are worth more than what are paid by the companies owning those liabilities
They'll be the ones collecting all the social credit data.
85% of Parler content archived, includes image EXIF information
My understanding of the science from watching one documentary is that a sequence of 3 hormones are needed at an early stage of development to activate heterosexuality in men, otherwise the baby is gay.

So it doesn't sound 100% DNA-related, though that could influence hormones. I wouldn't use the word "trait" exactly, which implies genetic inheritance, but maybe "expression."

Related paper - "Prenatal endocrine influences on sexual orientation and on sexually differentiated childhood behavior"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296090/

Not sure tha we know where autism comes from.
I tend to agree with this sentiment.

Unfortunately, I think even outside the oligopolies of tech, we have another underlying issue where even in a competitive market, market consensus can arrive that runs counter to democratic ideals.

I'd be surprised if all the tech providers actively coordinated on this. I'd be more willing to believe they all saw Trump as a threat to business and an overhanging risk for their business they tackled at an opportune time. One or two set the stage for the market (Twitter and Facebook) and then the rest followed through based on observed market feedback from Twitter/Facebook's actions, arriving at a concensus to censor Trump.

To be very clear, I don’t like Trump whatsoever and think he has clearly manipulated masses of people for years. At the same time, I don't think Trump directly violated policies. He's largely acted in the questionable grey areas of culture and society to push his will and has been quite effective at it.

This really brings into question underlying foundational principles surrounding free speech limitations and free speech protections, privatized communications' role in modern political discussions (essential to democracy), how we protect against oligopies or natural market consensus that may be harmful to underlying foundations to democracy, and so forth.

In this case I think we saw the oligopies and market concensus actually help democracy by protecting against a ridiculous yet growing insurrection attempt. What happens if that control or market consensus shifts to help businesses over consumers or general citizens of the US? There's clearly a lot of unchecked power here that needs to be corralled.
Part of the problem with electronics is often a brand new unit costs less than replacing a faulty part on an old unit due to miniaturization and having everything on chip combined with economics of scale.

Still it’s a worthwhile pursuit. At some point pocket PCs/phones will be good enough, just as for many a 2014 laptop is still good enough.
> I feel like I'm back in the school library trying to focus on my work while some loud, insufferable 20 year old with zero work experience two tables away decries sociology majors.

Things have changed. The sociology majors are neck-deep in cultural Marxism, so STEM majors do have something to mock.
Let's just hope autonomous trucks displace the dangerous "king of the road" drivers with little regard to safety of those around them out of jobs first. Getting that type of trucker off the road can't come fast enough.
From Wiki on his case:

> While the judges did not address the substantive question on the legality of the site access, they were skeptical of the original conviction, noting that no circumvention of passwords had occurred and that only publicly accessible information was obtained.

It's a pity it didn't make it to full review on appeal to get a solid ruling on this.
Trafficking Pangolins from Nigeria to China. Seems like a bloody good way to spread a new disease.
This is just: "Don't invest what you aren't prepared to lose," which has been the advice for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for a decade at this point.

The headline makes it sound like they're threatening legal action or some sort of regulation, at least to me.
Please don't port the system or switch to a new source control system. I completely understand the temptation, but these are your best guess at priorities and almost certainly not your company's priorities.

Additionally if you switch to SVN to git you will likely drop all history. history that might be tied to an issue tracking system, even if that is an informal one.

In my opinion, your best first move will be to document the code as you work through it.
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So, you agree with what I said.
According to reports, their monthly AWS spend (prior to today, obviously) was ~300k (or 3.6M/year).

7.7k is not really a noticeable increase, and any alarms that did trigger would likely have been attributed to increased user growth and platform load.

That is if someone was even seeing a billing alarm alerting with every other issue that was going on.
If that means that Parler refuses to moderate the actual planning or threatening of crimes, the legal system would shut them down. Section 230 doesn't protect social media companies from criminal liability.

If that merely means that Parler allows posts that make people angry with a fair amount of violent rhetoric, well, that's all social media. In that case, the distinction is partisan, not principled.
That should be assumed in the "engineer" part of the role.
That's not really how it works, jury nullification notwithstanding.
Versus France, Germany is only twice as dirty for only twice the price which seems like a pretty good deal if you ask me.

IMO the policy has been a natitonal disaster for German, not only have prices increased without materially offsetting carbon, it has also made them much more dependent on Russian gas which increases the economic cost of standing up to Russian aggression in Ukraine and elsewhere. The promises of jobs from domestic production of panels also never quite panned out due to competition from Europe and installation/maintenance related jobs are likely offset by reduced competitiveness from electrical costs not to mention increased strategic dependence on China for components.

Wind has been quite a bit better but locals are starting to push back from what I've been reading.
You sound like the kid that couldnt understand why no one hungout with them
Beware of suspiciously cheap lifepo4 batteries from China, they are by no means all the same.
This is how you create “baddies”.
But not our eyes so you are still tracable.
If we allow cars, all the jobs breeding and caring for the horses will disappear.
Clearly censoring political speech is an issue that cuts right to the heart of democracy. The idea that corporations should be in control of public discourse is foreign to us. Government embodies the will of the people through democracy enabled by free and fair discourse and so it has the sole authority to set the rules of discourse in the name of the people and there is no devious feedback loop at all.
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Factor in how rare it is to find a software defect like this and how many fruitless hours of work go into finding it, the author is hardly breaking even. The only financial advantage I see is bestowed by the credibility gained from the publicity. Considering the monetary damage that a defect like this can do to YT and considering the thriving black market for zero days, $5000 seems irresponsibly low.
Most of the time people would look at from a legal or illegal standpoint

Trumps calls for Law and Order, to use legal remedies to clamp down on disorder in society, ethical or not, would not be considered by most a "Call for Violence"

However calls for protestors to "burn it all down" would be a "call for violence"

//for the record I do not think either should be censored, but I am a free speech absolutist so...
They already are. Phones from 2016 for example feel completely usable today. That goes for the repairable ones at least, like the LG G5, but even the older LG G3 holds up well.

If all modern phones were as repairable as those we could eliminate so much garbage!
That's not what the parent poster suggested nor the one you initially replied to. What's being discussed is big tech acting as one given their homogenous political inclinations, and user Jochim thinking this is representative of "society" at large as a way to normalize and whitewash this chain of political censorship.
>What exactly the difference between "private sector data" and "citizen messages"?

That "fuck businesses", while "leave actual people ok".
I wonder if there is a decision that can make everyone happy. If social media companies didn't do anything, they would get blamed for not doing anything to prevent what's happened in the Capitol building. If they do something, then the freedom of speech argument comes in.

Not an expert on freedom of online speech by any means, but how come private companies saying what the US president does is violation of their policy is a freedom of speech issue? When this happens to an ordinary user of the platform, is it freedom of speech issue as well? You accept terms and conditions when you signup, it's as simple as that. Why being the US president should give you right to be exempt from that policy?

If US president wants to talk, it has its official channels, he can organize meeting every day that they can host 100s of journalists. If US president wants he can write whatever he wants at his website. I really don't understand why political leaders continuously picture things like social media websites are the only medium the president can talk at?

I have criticism for the social media sites tho, if the president of where I'm from was doing what Trump has been doing I'm pretty sure they wouldn't give a damn and wouldn't take any actions. If social media companies want people to believe to their policies, they must apply them to everyone.
For what is Hunter being investigated for? According to several articles, its for tax and money laundering which is not at all what everyone was making a fuss about a few months ago (the laptop/emails, which reminds me of Hillary and "Her Emails!").

Given that there's uncertainty around it, can we really conclude that "they broke the law" and that it's unfair that big tech did not withdraw their support?
I'm surprised to see how many people can not think for themselves but follow what media is telling them. I hope I don't do that myself but try to understand the matter and follow principles rather than sides.

What I'm surprised the most is that with these complex and not obvious questions (at least to me) people without any shadow of a doubt are certain that it is right for big tech to censor Trump, shut down parler and take political sides like it happened.

Maybe Trump is bad but at least i want to see his stupidity or his wrongdoing rather than other people to chew the news and feed me like im an infant.

To me these questions require philosophical debates and dialogue (even with myself) to understand f it is right for a company to impose their political worldview on their clients - I don't feel it is right.

But if others take these positions very easily, to me that is an indication that they got these ideas from somebody else rather than thought them through.
The legislation does not cover all devices so there is both deliberation and lobbying when choosing which are going to be regulated.
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> The infinite loop being UB was added because it prevents some important code motion optimizations

Which ones?

If this optimizations are so important, how come Rust was designed in such a way to make them impossible? Also, how does this fit, e.g., the benchmark game results which show that Rust is faster than C for all benchmarks considered there ?
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This hack is great because the dev didn't have to read assembly code or parse WireShark logs or deploy any kind of cracking software. They simply observed the ecosystem carefully and deduced a failure mode through some serious mental BFS.
Whenever I'm involved with any of that sort of bureacratic nonsense, I have to tell myself

"It's actually fine that this incredibly stubborn, idiotic, impolite, incompetent person is working here, handling passport forms [or whatever it is I'm seeing them about]. Could you imagine if they had become a heart surgeon instead?"
this. Current outright banning and gagging will surely backfire.

The pro-trumps will raise the question: "what are the other-side so afraid of, that they are trying to shut us off?"
So instead of calming them down, it'll actually have the opposite effect - the feeling that the other side is much more evil than imaginable.

And the questions for bystanders will be "If the powers-that-be can snuff that side, what guarantees that I/we won't be snuffed?"

If you see the foundations of democracy, 'Freedom-of-speech' is actually a device to ensure no political party can have dictatorial powers over what the public can know. Moreover, democratic societies are actually more resilient due to these 'room-to-wiggle' - the other option will be much more violent 'revolution' experienced by dictator-states at their end.

Anyway, the other side is producing gibberish, then so be it. Just refute them properly inside a shared platform.
Schrodinger's Tech Sector - rightist/libertarian and leftist/progressive at the same time, which one it is depends on when and who's observing!
TON - Telegram Open Network. Blockchain-based technologies that also included the cryptocurrency called Gram, but is way more than just the cryptomoney. I highly recommend reading the "technical paper" if you have time and technical understanding. It's absolutely fascinating (was written by Pavel's genious brother)!

Durov decided to develop it and got billions of euros for that. It had some delays, but otherwise looked ready.

But then USA came in and said using jaw-dropping argumentation and forbid Telegram from running it ANYWHERE in the world!.. So Durov had to officially abandon the project.

Currently TON is still being developed by non-Telegram teams.
Probably a good thread to ask: A few years ago when looking for it, I was able to easily find deep-discharge 100Ah 12V lead-acid batteries at reasonable prices, which would have allowed one of my projects to go off-grid. However, what I couldn't find was a charge controller that would be able to reasonably e.g track charge and time. I didn't have the time and sufficient expertise to design such a charge controller myself.

My options ended up being buy a pre-made, significantly more expensive UPS and pay for the up-down conversion loses; Or just used my 12V feed with no monitoring and hope for the best. I chose the latter, which ended up OK given this was a research project with a limited time horizon.

Is the situation any better today?
Applying the rules uniformly means Twitter should wait 4 yrs and then ban them. I am sure you will agree to that.
Sorry...TFA? What's that?
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> I have a degree in electrical engineering and after years I only just realized that there are actually PCIe M.2 storage devices that only support AHCI mode not NVMe.

To be fair, there were only a handful of those really early on when M.2 was just getting started and OS/BIOS support for NVMe wasn't universal yet. And hardly any of them were released as retail products; they were mostly OEM-only drives. All of those drives went out of production 3-4 years before the first host devices that require NVMe and can't work with AHCI started to show up: USB to NVMe bridge chips for external enclosures. So if you haven't encountered an AHCI M.2 SSD yet, you probably never will and knowing about them is just an obscure historical curiosity.
Will prowse has a link to the vendor he chose in the youtube video description, if you search for "supplier" in the forum you'll get plenty of feedback on various known vendors.

I chose one (after sending a few private message to forum members) but I'm not recommanding it until I get and test my batteries.
The other thing to keep in mind here is that serious vulnerabilities can also be sold on the dark web for ~50K+ IIRC. They can also be sold to multiple different entities looking to build bot nets or whatever it is that people who are always wearing Guy Fawkes masks while sitting in dark rooms do. If you're paying just 5-20K, you're kind of counting on the people who find the exploit being nice and doing the right thing.

Maybe that's mitigated because people with the know-how to find exploits like that are usually well-educated and not desperately in need of money, but people can be greedy.
My gut guess is training data for their ML. Do ads run on unlisted/private videos?
I think that depends on Twilio's knowledge and intent. If the specific purpose for suspending services was to allow unauthorized access, that's conspiracy.

It'd be as if a bank's security guard quit and walked off the job the day of a bank heist. He has the right to quit, but not a right to coordinate with the robber and leave his post for the purpose of assisting in illegal activity.
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True, but this is Hydundai Motor Group, not Hyundai Robotics. The two are separate.

IMO, this is more about Hyundai's autonomous vehicle efforts. A BD robot is almost completely different than an industrial automation robot, the former attempts to use 3D mapping to dynamically generate an unpredictable path around obstacles between two points, while the latter is designed to always follow exactly the same kinematics between hard-coded points. A car with a steering wheel and forward/reverse electric motors is a lot more comparable to a Boston Dynamics robot than a 6-axis industrial arm is.
Indeed, and I think it's because Parler is best known for hosting violent, far-right content, that is linked to the recent insurrection at the Capitol Building. Whereas the other services you cite are much more generic in their clientele.

So based on this, Amazon made a business decision to deny service to Parler, due to the adverse publicity (and perhaps, potential legal liability) generated for them by hosting this content.
Suck his wallet dry is the usual goal I believe.
There's no way a "driver" can autocorrect for a vehicle that makes an emergency stop out of the blue -- the vehicle is still stopped, and now poses a safety hazard for the surrounding traffic.
And you think that banning him didn't do that? I am supposed to believe that they were so considered that he might say something that might cause some actions, but they didn't considered at all what their action of banning him will cause?
You might be right, but I think it's disingenuous to market it as though this "solves privacy". Worst case, people are lulled into a false sense of security.

Data-storage + authorization doesn't solve any (new) technical privacy-issues; this is "data protection" rather than "data privacy" in my book.
I see what you're saying but this is still a bit ridiculous. You sue a company when malpractice occurs, that is not possible with btc. It simply exists. Its like saying you dont have investor protections when you buy oil or corn (unless we are talking about the exchange, and by the article I'm not sure what they're getting at).
To keep people from going to other video hosts who offer those features. It's a value-add for the platform. It lets you upload videos well in advance of publishing them, or temporarily remove them. You also have to consider the fact viewer numbers are so low for private and unlisted videos they may as well be free to host, aside from the drive space they occupy.
You are currently witnessing the result of defunding humanities in favor of technical education.
> What type of dialog can pop up on your Android screen after unlocking and install "malware"? What is "malware" here? It looks like they mean an app from the play store?

That would be the case if you enable sideloading, but that isn't mentioned in the article. Is it possible to install an app via popup without going through the store? This needs some clarification.
Yes, it's quite strange, but I'm guessing it's mostly due to media disinformation about section 230. People who are actually informed and in favour of free speech and opposed to megacorp oligopolies are strongly opposing changing section 230. Rather, they advocate breaking up the megacorps or making them utilities.
Protests inside the Capitol building are actually surprisingly frequent. But why did the events of January 6th result in Congress evacuating their chambers, and moved to defensible positions? Something was different this time?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/35-times-capito...
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This is a setup I'm using in all my Rails projects. Maybe you find it useful.