skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of these are correspondences with random people with varying levels of credibility. Taken alone, we can't draw any conclusion from a single person claiming an observation of a UFO.

Statistically, however, there needs to be a convincing psychiatric study that people with no history of mental illness and "good moral standing" in the community can have a single hallucinatory event, often with multiple witnesses and specific details common across different sightings, to discount these observers as crazy, like so many here do. What is the mechanism? Our society is mostly based on witness testimony and trust, at the end of the day (we are coming back full circle with the advent of deepfakes).

I'm not talking about seeing a dot of light moving strangely in the distance or something seen for only two seconds. Skeptical people rightly point out that those typically have a prosaic explanation, and often not a very exceptional one.

I'm referring to the "close encounters" in which the witness(es) couldn't possibly mistake the giant black triangle silent floating 50 feet over a car with dozens of witnesses. Or the ranchers who check on the strongest bull in their herd one day, and the next find it precisely mutilated about a field, along with a dozen others, with no blood to be found. Or the entire schools full of children reporting metal objects landing with beings coming out to communicate with them telepathically.

I do not doubt that some of them are crazy, but all of them? With what mental illness?
No i meant in the community forums - since there’s likely been a large addition of users in the past few days due to WhatsApp. I suspect a decent chunk of tech forward people have moved.

So I was wondering it if was Eternal September for the forums.

But I think I see where you are coming from = there is a finite number of people who will come to a coding forum, not an unbending wave, which would make Eternal September less of a good fit.
You are assuming that suicide cults are somehow harmful to the goals of CIA.
I was never a Parler user since I’m not a big fan of social media in general. Also, I’m not a mobile app developer/administrator so forgive me if I sound ignorant.

I’ve only read a few bits and pieces so I have a few questions.

1. Does getting booted off AWS actually mean the end of the service? Somebody sent me some quote about how the software was built to run on bare metal servers, so are they having difficulty getting servers at OVH/Linode/DO/whatever? I know that Amazon is HUGE but it’d be a trip (and HIGHLY worrisome) if they actually dictate who gets to be on the internet as a whole.

2. Again, never dealt with apps. I’ve 100% always dealt with clients using websites, packaged software, email, phone calls etc. Is user behavior and/or mobile browser design such that having a mobile-friendly interface (like mobile.twitter.com) that’s entirely under Parker’s control an untenable way to run the service?

Maybe I’m just old but I’ve grown up as a huge fan of bookmarks and still make heavy use of them today, even on mobile. I don’t install almost anything on my phone unless the app is a huge value add like VR/AR stuff or the Audubon bird guide that I can use offline.

I suppose my overall question is: Is this irreparable? If so, that’s pretty terrifying.
That boat has long sailed once Big Tech banned Parler and everyone cheered it. America is no longer a country where free speech is paramount. Atleast in other democratic countries Censorship happens through the elected Government. As a citizen you can always remove the elected representatives if you don't like the Censorship implemented by your elected representatives for whatever reason. You can't remove/vote out Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon et all because of the powerful grasp they have over digital communications and media.

The very fact that Parler was banned by Big Tech and not by US Congress puts a very bad light on America. Why would any Government trust American Government's word if a Private Company can undo it or act unilaterally without Congress approval? What does it convey to the World leaders? Is there 1 power center in America or 2? We used to mock Pakistan for having dual power centers (the elected Government and the military since their military doesn't come under the control of the elected Government). It caused a lot of confusion for World powers to interact with Pakistan as no one knew who the controller was. Was it the elected Government or the military? I'm seeing the same thing happening in America. Why should my Government take US Government seriously if a private company can ban/censor US Government communications?

Deleting a sitting US President's account is not going to be respected by any Government. Period.
Yet, the author of the paper himself says that Dr. Davidson is no fool and wouldn't buy the excuse if you read the message.
> This is meaningless without comparing it to how many instances of hate speech or calls for violence exist on competing sites like Twitter

Is Twitter hosted on AWS? I thought they had their own servers, but I could be wrong
Not sure why people are unhappy with ERPNext, the folks have been working hard. It is great to see how they have been contributing to the community with list of softwares and plugins.

Being in a business for a decade and competing with the likes of Oracle, SAP and Microsoft is not easy. Show some love and be part of their community, contribute and make it better for everyone.

Cribbing is not the solution but contributing is. :)
There's a difference between refusing someone service because they're black, or queer, and refusing a corporation service because their user base stormed the capitol to disrupt a free and fair election. If those men had found Pelosi, Schumer, or "The Squad", the same people they've been talking about killing for years, what do you honestly think would have happened?
The profits from Parler are a rounding error on Amazon's balance sheet.

AWS is self serve. Anyone can sign up. So, yes, it is unexpected unless you imagine Bezos is negotiating with Parler's CEO.
Everyone knows the MiB are the ones in charge of alien investigations. This is just a diversion./s
The same author did a recent post on why they wouldn't use Signal. https://ruky.me/2021/01/08/signal-thank-you-for-not-collecti...
But that's not UFO centric, that's death cult centric.
The $100 fee is not the issue.

You also give up 15% or 30% of revenue to Apple; have to go through app review on every update facing arbitrary rejection; have no direct relationship with your users; can't offer upgrade pricing on significant new releases (existing users either get the new release for free or you make it a new SKU thus forcing everyone to pay full price, including existing users).
Nuance. AWS is not a house.
Elon stans blew up the spot.
I have noticed I avoid watching "inappropriate" things on netflix because I am afraid of the suggestions they will generate, which inevitably everyone will see when I bring it up on the TV. The few times I did, I thumbs-downed it to avoid that.

I wonder how much unconventional content is being harmed by this. It's really annoying.
We actually have more substantial disagreement than I thought - I thought Zuckerberg’s response was reasonable and AOC’s question was stupid and unanswerable without nuance.

Their policy is to not block the speech of elected political leaders in democratic countries with rule of law. They followed that until rule of law and democracy itself became at risk (via incitement of violence and insurrection). At which point they blocked and said exactly that.

Twitter’s handling of this was more confused and haphazard. They were obviously trying their best, but their position was less clear and led to more inconsistencies. The 12hr suspension prior to the ban was also dumb.

I also don’t buy the cynical take that FB’s moderation decision was financially motivated as opposed to motivated by principle (I explain this more in depth in the blog post). It would have been way easier for them to just ban political ads and flag trump to cheers from the press than to take a principled position. Those ads are a tiny source of revenue.

Yes Mark’s charisma is off the charts bad, but the content of what he says and writes is good.
Metal Detectors at Capitol Draw Anger from Several Republicans
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or legitimate... having worked in government IT before this sounds sadly plausible.
> But yeah it's a less-than-ideal solution and it sucks that it doesn't work without creds flowing through

I can appreciate that Plaid is trying to push stuff forwards, but (Presumably) storing your bank credentials in plain-text is a far worse than a "less-than-ideal solution".
I ran a crawler to collect posts and comments on Parler
> I keep hoping that eventually there will be some kind of push back against identity politics, and that we will go back to more of a "live and let live" kind of attitude.

"Live and let live" only ever worked for acceptable identities. You did not have that luxury if you were, say, gay prior to the early oughts.

I think you're looking at the past through rose-tinted glasses. It was less 'live and let live' and more 'sit down and shut up if you are different'.

Now those people have a voice, and a lot of folks are finding it quite upsetting.
The fascists turned a pizza place into a conspiracy theory about pedophiles.

They manufactured a conspiracy about some omnipotent leaker of facts and called this fictional character Q.

UFO facts from government archives might make them declare war on the Pepe frog or some other bananas reaction.
CRISPR is a great example of a technology that has not yet made a meaningful economic contribution. Although the technique for editing DNA was discovered in 2012—and a Nobel Prize was awarded to its two discoverers this year—no treatment using CRISPR has been approved outside of clinical trials. So far, its impact has been limited to making researchers more productive—not a bad thing, to be sure, but not close to CRISPR’s full potential. As trials progress, however, I do think some CRISPR treatments will come online in the next few years, especially those targeting genetic disorders that we have very limited means of otherwise treating.

From Notes on Technology in the 2020s - Eli Dourado
However it is very easy to get something 3D printed and sent to you. Though perhaps less cost efficient.
They probably should implement the full security theater at the Capitol too... not just at the airport...
As if the government hiding things is a conspiracy at this point.

The official narrative has always been that if the masses found out about ET visiting us they would lose their shit. I don't think much would change even if this is how they found out.

Its not like suddenly learning there are aliens means they don't have to go to work tomorrow.
So how is the legal responsibility of the military being stated officially by the military “political”? You’re tired, I am too. But maybe your quarrel is with the people who are making this a question that needs answered, not the answer.
Signal is not an open network, federated, or decentralized. One can’t run a Signal server and communicate with other Signal users on a different server.
acquisitions aren't necessarily great for employees because liquidation preferences apply.

with SPAC-mania they could merge with a SPAC or go public. my point is the path to going public is much easier now than a year ago.
Where does it say they made it up?

> "This was intended to satisfy Davidson that he did not in fact have a space message"

Without other context, that reads to me more like:

1) Davidson made a prior claim that was received as being farfetched.

2) The set of people responsible for this document had another party to assess the signal.

3) They came to the conclusion that it was domestic morse code.

4) They passed that explanation and details back to Davidson to satisfy his presumably intense curiosity about this signal.
The Zoo is in its infancy. I hope to add a bunch of things, fix a bunch of things, and explain everything better. I appreciate all comments and suggestions, and will do my best to respond. - Dan
this is easy to debunk.. it's overly specific.
Well, I am not sure about Java 11. It took 25 years, yes and organization I work has just entered the java 8 world completely. It was originally written in Java 7 and it took 5 long years to completely transition to Java 8. Even then (Java got a repl now!!!), I am skeptical of the language in terms of beginner friendliness.

So, if you are going to read some code from the world you should be familiar with the archaic notations anyway. Even in frameworks, which java shops in neighborhood is mostly about, has intro docs with terms from almost 15 years ago and assumes people who read are aware of it. The thing that really bothers me (not that it is bad in an objective way) is how much old java platform has OOP encoded to its DNA. And it is great at it.

It is a language meant to be used by people who are familiar with writing such code. The FP is really enjoyable, but kind of ugly and seems retrofitted into the OOP. In general, I like opinionated crisp languages, but Java is getting away from that. In nutshell, it is disorienting for me now a days.
Sources? Which one do you believe to be true?
It's an old reference, sir, but it checks out. I was about to clear it.
Have you considered using a Matrix [0] bridge [1] to relay Signal messages between any Matrix client and Signal? Most bridges work very well for messaging in my experience, and some web clients (such as Hydrogen [2]) use less than 15MB of RAM according to the the most recent status report on it [3].

You already have the domain knowledge to host another service on your own domain, and so running a Synapse server is well within reach. At least this way you have the choice between two imperfect choices: running another service vs. not having a Signal web-client.

[0] https://matrix.org

[1] https://matrix.org/bridges/#signal

[2] https://hydrogen.element.io

[3] https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-specia...
I didn't mention anything about a browser.

Note that, for example, your isp can see whenever you are using tor or a VPN. From there, they can inspect the packets to work out what pastebin you have visited. Eg. simply by measuring how many bytes you have uploaded and then finding the paste and comparing the length of the paste with the number of uploaded bytes. (Just a basic example, there are more advanced methods). See https://witestlab.poly.edu/blog/de-anonymizing-tor-traffic-w...
California Housing Reform: 2021 Edition
Yes?

There are several iterations to deals that size with increasing levels of scrutiny.
Nonsense. It's overly specific. Try again.
Did you read the last sentence?

Edit: And to be clear, he was an expert on UFOs.
I just made this decision today. I'm out. I'm done with all of it. If everyone wants to hate each other and spend each minute of their short lives pointing fingers, fighting, and stressing out, go ahead. I'm going to try to find whatever peace I can and find people I can respect and whose company I can enjoy. The rest of this is poison.
I’d never used it before using it for ledger, either!

It’s kind of tricky. I have an AWK script that reads a ledger report to compute the X and Y-value pairs. These are written to a temp file that is read by GNUPlot.

It’s a bit of work to get setup, but I’m able to copy paste the idea around my reports.

I’ve also found the GNUPlot manual to be very easy to read!

I’m away from my laptop now, but I’ll add a gist tomorrow.
My source, the Meteorological agency of the UK gov’t is the wrong source?

I mean, the journal Nature devoted a whole issue to explaining the pause.[1]

So despite all the effort to explain the pause you’re telling me there was no pause? So what were they trying to explain?

[1]https://www.nature.com/collections/jtrxxgrmgl
The Arctic Ocean Is Teeming with Microfibers from Clothes
Yes, good point
I don't agree with her but her only argument is the government should make these calls rather then private companies. She probably even agrees with what they did just doesn't think anyone except the government should have that power.
Previous HN discussions (about the source website that this article cites).

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14585882

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363
You’ve been had. The American South was corrupted by a pervasive evil system from which it has still not fully recovered.

You’re talking points echo “the Lost Cause” a 160+ year concerted effort to rehabilitate the history Of the antebellum South through obfuscation, misdirection and half-truths.

I’d recommend https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Lost-Cause-South-Fought/dp/16215...
If the truth is out there, start with yourself.
But they don't. Go into the Terminal and type sudo spctl --master-disable (I have that command memorized!) and you can run all the unsigned code you want.
Sorry - I meant 5990X. The 5950X is solidly within the "diminishing returns" frequency/voltage range.

The 5990X is at 4.37W/core at its maximum power consumption - 280W/64 cores. This is from full TDP, which yes it very rarely touches, and when it does it's crunching way more numbers than most benchmarks use.
A spurious "again." Although I do expect fewer and fewer faithless electors in the future, as more states work to make the linkage between the vote and the electoral college direct.
Former Sen. Barbara Boxer is now working for a Chinese surveillance firm
That's C with pointers.

Assembly without registers is absolutely pointless since the only thing that matters in any flavor of assembly is how to get data into registers when you need it and then remove it before you override it.
I know right! It's like many of these conspiracies may actually be true! It's like the CIA invented the term to brow beat researchers of inconvenient theories.

screaming la-la-la and putting fingers in ears
So Teller reverse engineers a bank's internal APIs and uses those to manage your account?
I'm guessing Rebekah Mercer didn't give them enough money to build their own datacenter.
I like to purposefully research and keep informed about things I don't like, that's how I recognized the name instantly. I'm just questioning the fact of tumbling onto this bag of hate on redhat.com
Product looks really nice, going to pitch this later this week to our accounting and devops teams.

What made you decide to build this as a separate product instead of advocating for an improved ui while still at Amazon?

I guess to put it bluntly, are their people at Amazon who defend the current state of the console?
Worried about Signal, WhatsApp is taking out full page ads in Indian Newspapers
> The consensus among European historians (that don't have to tow the party line and be "patriotic" about it) was that slavery was just a pretext.

I see no evidence of this consensus; could you present some?

> That is, if by "it was slavery" anybody means:

> - "the North cared for the welfare of blacks and wanted to save them from slavery and went to war for it"

> as opposed to:

> "the Northern interests wanted to take away that advantage/economic mode from the South and the westward expansion states".

Er, neither of those is the reason. It was about slavery in the sense of “The South issued articles of secession because of fears that the long-term arc of history in the Union was toward abolition.”

The North was concerned with preserving the Union. The war was about slavery for the South, who started it, not the North.
Sure, a landlord can evict you for damaging the property the rented you. But was AWS “damaged”?

And landlords cannot evict you for being charged with a crime and cannot evict you generally if you are convicted of a crime (some exceptions no doubt).
Wouldn't a former senator (from the most-populous state in the country, no less) be able to make money working for companies that wouldn't be so risky to work for? How could she think this wouldn't come out, given Trump's approach to China?
There’s a time for getting along, and now is absolutely not that time. The fact that 74 million voted for Trump, who is inciting violence against our democratic process means that this is the time to choose a side. It’s been forced upon us and the dust is far from settling. This is NOT a slippery slope or censorship, jfc...to do nothing at this point is unfathomable.
I totally agree with you, but it's worth noting that what you're describing is TCC (permissions for camera, accessing certain folders, etc), which is somewhat orthogonal to code signing. It's also much harder (practically impossible in many cases) to actually disable than Gatekeeper if you don't like it.
They banned Ron Paul? This is getting insane. He is so far outside the Trump camp. He was the only person to vote against the Iraq war. His voice is a voice of peace and classical liberal values. You might disagree with him, but to ban him is just insane.
In the “startup” world, this is simply the only way to do it when your goals are to be everyone’s service. Banks rarely create open APIs, and even when they do they are fragile and subject to whims as the banks are optimizing for security first (plus: they need strong incentives to maintain APIs since it’s not even in their core business).

And since you can’t rely on an API, “there’s no other option” which compounds with the fact that coding up a web scraper for a specific bank takes maybe a dozen programmer-hours. Then throw on a disclaimer to cover legal, and start counting your billions of unhatched eggs.
I agree, in the sense that "break them up" seems to be an undefined action left as an exercise for the reader.

I'm not necessarily against reasonable regulations, but it is hard to agree or disagree if there is nothing on the table other than "break them up". Some specific framework or principle or proposal is needed to have any sort of a cogent discussion.
See also this Black Mirror episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)
Where I live, while the use of leased property in various unacceptable and/or illegal activities is a basis for canceling the contract and subsequent eviction (among other reasons more directly relevant to housing), one generally needs an order of court to evict a tenant if they protest. This applies to both housing and business proprties, though people's homes have greater protections.

Also, in some situations here the landlord may lose the grounds to proceed if they won't press the issue as soon as they become aware of it. This is exactly to avoid situations where the one side arbitrarily decides throw the book on whatever the other's activities they can pin down on them.

(Whether the comparison is adequate depends ofc if AWS has consistently made complaints to Parler about the objectionable content. Their message included a part where they pointed out they had requested moderation action earlier, so I suppose they have.)

I can see the issues relevant to cloud hosting are different enough so that analogies are not 1-1 anyway. In general, it is a good principle that content that encourages violence and other illegalities is removed from the public. It would be still also a good idea to have procedures where the hosted party could protest if they are engaging in illegal acts or other breach of contract claimed by other party and the enforcement is applied equally.
No mention of using an "air gap" in any of the comments here.

Air-gapped networks are a pain to work with but are incredibly effective. I still haven't read anything on how the attackers actually reached the build server though, so it's hard to say if it would have worked in this specific case. I wonder if the lack of a clear statement of how they made the initial breach is due to

- bad searching on my part

- they still don't know

- they're still trying to mitigate it

- they're still trying to word it in a PR-approved way
How do they manage it possible ?
Selectively enforced laws grinds my gears.