skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't boil the same water more than once.

This is common in the West [1], I do it, probably picked up from the Chinese around tea. I've also seen ice nerds talking about it in a positive way.

My conspiracy is when you have dirty water any memes that encourage boiling more water will proliferate. (Since you'll drink the old boiled water over collecting more from a stream)

[1] https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23144234?searchTe...
> It's like "no offense, but"

No offense, but this was a strange micro-rant.
> what the other options are

add political views into the list of non-discrimination laws and let the courts decide, if it's important enough to have to be legislated, that's the closes framework upon which to model it.
The leaders who tirelessly promoted Russian influence conspiracy theory and supported violent riots last year are somehow not blocked.
I assume this is combined with some kind of mandatory GPS tracking. The GPS tracking knows the phones location and the call confirms the user is next to their phone.
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN threads. That's not cool here. Also, please don't bring in someone's personal details like that. That's a form of personal attack and we're trying to avoid the online callout/shaming culture here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Wait do you really think Google is referencing Goggles and not Googolplex?
I think the well that is poisoned is not individual fields or institutions but the idea of institutions in general. It isn't that conservatives have any reason to distrust the National Weather Service or the Center for Disease Control specifically, it is that they distrust all institutions. I don't think there is much the NWS or CDC can do to change that while still remaining objective and truthful.

Like you said, some people may already be gone for good. My main concern is not necessarily bringing those people back. It is preventing them from corrupting the perception of more people who are still open to discussion. That brings us back to the original topic of social media censorship. Sometimes it isn't enough to constantly argue down these dangerous ideas. We likely need to start banning people who are actively doing harm.
FWIW this was all several years ago. I don't know if the mail server still exists with the same name.

And I still don't know what's wrong with a torchlight hike/march. (They call it a hike, you call it a march) It sounds like something I'd do.
> Having businesses dictate who they want to serve seems like censorship but having the government dictate it seems way worse.

That's what judges and courts are for. Neither government nor platforms should be able to make these decisions unilaterally.
Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6
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I'm fairly bearish on GPT-3, but this is actually a pretty cool application.
Yes, but it's not part of suckless.
Currently not. At one point in my brother's career, he came pretty close.
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I can't count the number of communication breakdowns any more with Covid. Apparently to get any number of people on the same page about something is not possible. Even with the internet. Blame it on information overload, or perhaps apathy.

I hope when Biden takes office he does daily Covid briefings where they disseminate accurate knowledge which would include correcting previous things we thought we knew. I know democrats that actually watched the Trump briefings because there were actually intelligent people behind half the info. I think many people tuned out the moment he recommended injecting bleach - but there was still value in the briefings. It was something that I know a LOT of people actually paid attention to.
Hmm, in my view writing operating systems and compilers is also pretty far on the side of "applied CS" right around building websites and smartphone apps. But this doesn't strike me as a problem unless people are really confused and choosing CS programs in order to get experience building websites. From what I saw when I was in college a decade ago, even most of the smaller schools were starting to have special "Software Engineering" tracts since they recognized the growing popularity (or at least prestige) of programming jobs. I chose CS because I was fascinated with the actual science and math, and I wouldn't recommend anyone with the same fascination to skip theory courses.
How to Save Democracy From Technology: Ending Big Tech’s Information Monopoly
Was there a breakup fee on this one? I'd expect it's pretty standard to waive that when it's due to unforeseen regulatory obstacles.
> Steam presumably scaled naturally (through decades of growing usage and also decades of huge scale DDoS attacks) to something like that for other reasons and are possibly missing safeguards to prevent it being misused.

Just to drive the technical point home: such scale is basically just not feasible. We're talking literally thousands of servers doing nothing but md5 hashes, to vaguely bring cracking a shortish password into the realm of possibility. No one would set up such a system, any sane sysadmin would investigate the load long before it gets to such scale, and the budget would raise questions. Even if Steam uses md5, every little piece of logic around the hashing function multiplies the CPU load compared to bare hashing.

DDOS protection is done on specialized hardware, again long before the count gets to thousands of servers. You buy a box and put it in your datacenter in front of the balancer servers. In my experience, one box nicely handled load going to about two hundred application servers (iirc), likely with plenty of capacity to spare.

See this vid for an example of how cracking was done on GPUs in 2016. Each of the GPUs cranks out ~10 billion hashes a second: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U-RbOKanYs

Here's the current benchmark of frameworks doing bupkis but writing plain text in responses. I was mistaken in the earlier comment, it's about seven million responses a second: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r19&hw=...

So you can estimate the necessary time just with http responses: 50 alphanumeric characters is 62^50 = 4.16e89 permutations, divided by 7.3 million = 5.7e82 seconds, or 1.8e75 years.

On that four-GPU box from 2016, cracking would take 3.3e71 years—which is considerably better but still doesn't quite fit in the age of the universe. So even md5 stolen from Steam Guard wouldn't help much in the case of a long password (unless some miraculous attacks were developed since 2016).
Yes, it's an intentional misspelling
And this is probably the only reason we still have that as an option. The Surface Pro 7 Plus just came out with a removable drive, so hopefully that shows there really is still a need for removable drives. But for consumers I think the only option will soon be cloud.
Maintaining the illusion is an important part of any propagandists toolset. Of course your enemies will see right through it, this kind of content is produced for the people you have thoroughly cut off from all other sources of information. It reenforces the the true believer's inner narrative that they are a part of GoodGuyInc.
Besides all of these steps I think it's important to consider every convenience, every dependency, every package you add as another attack vector. This is even more relevant considering the product SolarWinds sold.
For me personally Telegram is far superior to Whats App.

Better file management and organisation. Deleting messages if you want to (this can be a downside).

Adding people without phone numbers is another feature I like. Just so they can't ring me up if I block them.
> 2.5G is perfect for hobbyist use because it is significantly cheaper than anything 10G at the moment

No, not really, it's the other way around.
SFP+ based 10g networking equipment is much cheaper and and with much higher availability. And if needed, you can always adapt it to 1/2.5/5.10g networking using sfp+->rj45 transceivers. Only disadvantage was that you had to run fiber.
Maybe it will change this year, bot for now 10g was a way to go
This after repeatedly violating rules that tend to get other uses banned.
> Having businesses dictate who they want to serve seems like censorship but having the government dictate it seems way worse.

Leaving B2B aside, for B2C it is basic consumer protection laws common in EU. If a service is offered to a general public, then provider may not arbitrarily exclude someone from using it. If a provider excludes someone for violating ToS, then the excluded one may dispute that at appropriate authority / state office.
All members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff released a statement today that reads in part:

"The violent riot in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021 was a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional Process...

...the rights of freedom of speech and assembly do not give anyone the right to resort to violence, sedition and insurrection."[1]

Additionally the FBI had a national press conference where they revealed the following:

"Federal prosecutors are looking at bringing 'significant' cases involving possible sedition and conspiracy charges in last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol... the Justice Department has created a specialized task force that will look at everything from travel to movement of the individuals."[2]

The message isn't "ban everything" but "ban the things that are a threat to democracy, according to the FBI and the Joint Chiefs." If you find yourself on the other side of the argument, maybe it's time to consider why.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/politics/joint-chiefs-memo-ca...

[2] https://ktiv.com/2021/01/12/watch-live-at-2pm-fbi-justice-de...
tbh at that stage I might as well register for a degree and get the piece of paper
In order for a policy like this to be workable, you need tests to be widely available in the countries people are travelling from because the whole point is to test people before departure - and they simply weren't in most non-US countries.
They will increase their "TCP established connection idle-timeout" from 1 hour to 2 hours and 4 minutes as I requested.

This shouldn't make much difference for them. Most connections are closed within a few seconds anyways. Long lived connections with no traffic are rare.

With no data whatsoever, I'm guessing less that 1% increase in NAT table size.
> Have you ever entertained the idea that a similar thing could apply to the side that you support?

Of course, and I fully support it because it's foundational to a healthy society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Anecdote from a German that visited Spain to see the family: Spains government requires <72h old negative covid test before entering the country, with 6000€ in fines if no test can be presented. Also, a form about symptoms etc had to be filled out.

After arriving at Valencia, Spain, there was a big line where we had to show the form's result QR code only. Not a single passenger was asked for the covid test.
That's often true for startup founders too. However mission-driven some of us are, we still live in a capitalist world with bills to pay.
a good CS program teaches you that everything is exactly the same
I switched to Telegram long time ago when Putin presented an ultimatum to hand over the private keys to its founder, exiling the founder as a result. He never had any problems or ultimatums with WhatsApp.
Keep in mind that it's almost impossible to teach everyone everything.

The people who write compilers still have to learn a lot on the job because writing a good compiler is a lot harder than writing a basic one. It's turtles all the way down.

Ultimately I think teaching you how to write a compiler will put you in much better stead than teaching you just how to use one.
SSD litteraly mean Solid State Drive.

Embrear does marketing, adding shiny names make it look better, it's like retina, it mean nothing but people think it mean it's a good screen.

IMO i3 is badly named, I did read it multiple time _in context_ and I only found out later that it was a window manager..

git, java, go and c and are pronouncable name and are most of the time in context.

It's funny that you put firefox in the middle, because when an old person I know started to use computers for his first time, I learned him to use Chrome. When I came back several week later, he was using Internet Explorer.
Why ? Because it's called Internet Explorer and he forgot about chrome.
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I think it's just answering the question in reverse. It converts an IP to a domain name in that you don't need to know the IP with DNS.
The problem is these companies are too big and powerful now. If a small business refuses someone its no big deal, go to another business. But when these titans join together to make an action that affects you and there are no alternatives left, thats a different case.

If both Apple and Google ban your app when the app is legal and useful, is it good for society that there is no way around this?
> You can reduce the benefit of such a hack by not having information critical enterprises all running the same binary blob.

That assumes that you actually inspect the source, right?
This is _exactly_ was I was thinking of organizing for a small rural forest town in N. California. I'd become a small ISP for the town. Maybe I could get a grant. I wasn't looking forward to customer complaints, but I think I could have done good for the town.

However, with Starlink almost imminent, this sort of capital outlay and risk doesn't seem like a good idea. Starlink, ideally, will give reasonable bandwidth with little physical infrastructure, to places which have no other service or cell other than Hugesnet.
In C, you learn to modify a letter to upper or lower case, by finding its ascii number, and adding to it, or subtracting from it, a magic number.

In Python, you just use the .lower() or .upper() function.

One and done. Move onto your next problem.

In C, you hope to not trigger an array-index-out-of-bounds error, resulting in a segmentation fault. Then, not understanding what you did wrong, and then having to fire up the debugger to find your needle in the haystack.

Hours later, you’re just like, I just want to modify a string. Why is it so difficult?
Discussed a couple days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25704433

with an informative top comment from a Ugandan HNer.

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25749447
Well, to be clear, they'd be working on contingency. Unless this guy is otherwise wealthy, he probably won't have a million dollars laying around to give them.

I wouldn't hold my breath on companies willing to work on contingency to break a piece of crypto the US government uses. Not that the government is particularly competent at this, but it's a reasonable bar. Plus there will almost certainly be legal issues stemming from cracking devices the government uses.
> it's not possible while Apple and Google's curated stores are the only way to install apps

I disagree. We have DNS, email, and HTTP. That's a pretty capable set of distributed protocols that have been on those phones since the beginning.

The stores are not a problem here (although they are in other ways); rather, there is a lack of apps that people want to use, or perhaps a lack of people using those apps.

I use Riot (now Element), which uses the Matrix protocol across all my iDevices, and it runs just as well as on my Mac. but hardly anyone I know is on it. It's much more private of a solution that WhatsApp, and although not as refined, it works pretty darn well for my use cases.
ok

- I don't like that the backend is in PHP. PHP is expensive to scale out. You advertise it as the Facebook killer but how can you kill Facebook with something that can't handle more than about 50 concurrent requests per commodity hardware server.

- I don't really know what it is. There's a short video that says you can do this and that but you don't show how you do it. In your mind it all makes sense. As someone coming to this repo I read it's an OS, then it's not an OS it's a PHP script with a JS frontend. It uses MySQL and I think MySQL performance and scaling. Not a good experience.

- Over the top sales pitch. You claim things that just aren't true. You're trying to sell it as freedom from Facebook and Google. Yeah I bet it does have many features, but why do I need it? What do I use it for? Why would I use it and not the other thing? Don't lie to me (It's an OS it's not an OS). I'm a technical guy and I see you're trying to blow it up so it's bigger than it actually is. Oh you can sign up everywhere? What's so special about that? The whole sales pitch it doesn't target me. It reads like one big ad of bullshit someone is trying to sell me.

Maybe you're just too smart for me and I'm not smart enough. I don't want to offend you. I know it's hard taking criticism for something you've spent the last 2+ years working on to get smashed in negative feedback because people don't understand your vision.

The only use case I saw was this yang2020. So ok it's script to promote politicians. Should I ever run a political campaign or know someone who does, I'll consider it. Right now I don't really know what it is you've built. Yet Another Social Network?
Going from a single host name to "literal Nazis!" is quite the leap. And everything else like "they walked with torches, ergo they must be Nazis" is not even leap, but just outright BS.
Pretty sure JavaScriptCore predates Chrome. V8 was Chrome only.
Ask HN: What prevents the far-right from using Telegram instead?
So Parler was shut down. It's a setback, but only a temporary one? What prevents far-right activists from using Signal, Telegram, or any of the other encrypted/private platforms where the platform can't even know they're breaking the policies? (WhatsApp?)

Is it "game over" once these discussions/organizations move to encrypted platforms?
Are the people running Twitter high 24-7 or just during election season?
How do you know the tests are legit
Please, continue to spell this out. Laws that forbid an organisation from applying its rules because that organisation is popular? Laws that compel an organisation to allow users to perpetrate abuse if they're important in one country? Where does liability now fall when say, incitement to violence end up with someone losing an eye, a life?

Don't misunderstand me - I absolutely think that those who allowed Trump to directly incite violence for years have blood on their hands. They absolutely have liability for this. They disgust me. But now suddenly the conversation seems to be that Twitter, for example, should have been forbidden from kicking Trump off now or years ago when they should have. So who would share the blame now?
She was not elected by the voters. The voters were told that the winning party's candidate would be the commission president.

Now von der Leyen is. She did not run in the election.

This is a lot more similar to the electoral college making the losing candidate president than people want to admit.

We elected the parliament under the impression that the MEPs would then elect the candidate of the party that got the most votes. Then, they didn't.

The EU is not very democratic and if we don't fix that, we will lose it. And that is the last thing I want. I want the EU to succeed.
> Are they just flat out missing some infections, or do they require a much higher viral load to indicate positive?

they do require a higher viral load than the pcr test to accurately show infection. the pcr test studies have shown to be 0-30% false negative later in the illness after symptoms have shown (when there are fewer antigens in the body). both the pcr and the rapid tests are expected to have a near 0% false positive rate though with most false positives being lab contamination or mishandling. even if the test is 50% false negative(not the actual number) it would still drastically slow the spread of the virus coupled with other measures. This is more of a defense in depth instead of a firewall; the swiss cheese layers of threat reduction.
In the central parts of Spain they do have heating systems and proper insulation. Winters are cold there, just not as cold as this year.
Some schools distinguish between computer science and computer engineering.
One might say, if we are the only life to enjoy the solar system (in any reasonable proximity), then does it really matter?
The Ken Thompson Hack: Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984)
> they are cargo-cult idiots who do things like unironically create a linux distribution with static linking as a design goal and namesake

I've always wondered at the docker images that a) include their own shared libraries and b) typically only run a single process. Seems like static linking would be fine.
> He may be a PhD, but his theories are fringe and widely disputed.

I forgot that I wanted to mention this... I can't find the video on YouTube - its probably been lost to time, but there was a video where Michael Crichton was speaking to a crowd about scientific truth. I'm going to do my best to recall exactly what Dr. Crichton said, but it was something along the lines of, "The story of plate tectonics really is the story of a single person having it right and everyone else having it wrong." He's referring to Alfred Wegener, of course, who theorized continental drift back in 1912 or so. He was widely mocked and his theory totally rejected by - and it really isn't hyperbole to say this - every single geologist.

Sadly, Wegener died long before he would have his theory confirmed.
If you're hinting that what is legal is not necessarily right, it seems odd to fall back to this position when the original comment about the 1st and 5th amendment are legal, not moral.

Instead of just mentioning the 1st and 5th amendment, it may have been better just to say that the US has a culture of privacy and personal freedom.
What you've linked to is a splicing of several segments of video which attempts to link together events, groups, places people and organizations most of which are not actually linked together. For example:

* A person says "looting", and in a following or preceding segment another person, on another channel at another time says "Antifa".

* An image of cars on fire in the background, and segments by some anchors or pundits saying that protests are important, or should not be polite.

So, while I'm no fan on MSNBC, CNN etc., and think they're being rather hypocritical with their treatment of the confirmation protesters - that clip is just under-handed smearing by its author and by you.
Yep, my dwm re-compiles, installs and restarts faster than a theme change in gnome.
> The left likes to listen - an admirable trait, but listening and collaborating too much dilutes outcomes.

Who on the left (or any pole/dimension) has actually sat down and made a serious effort to understand in high detail the various grievances and world views of the type of people who stormed the Capitol, or conspiracy theorists?

I'm not asserting that no one has done it, but I have never encountered anyone who has. The best I know of is the Jubilee YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/jubileemedia/videos

What I have encountered though, in very large quantities (essentially, the entirety of journalism and social media comments on the matter) are people who make detailed claims about what these sorts of people say, or believe, or want to do - and typically, they state these beliefs not in the form of opinions, but in the form of facts. But to be fair, I doubt that they even realize that they aren't facts, that's just the unfortunate way that our minds perceive reality.