skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as someone from a country where we have a state funded broadcaster, the BBC, which is supposed to be neutral and objective: in practice the definition of neutral and objective is politicized and the leadership of the broadcaster is also politicized.
I get your point, and understand your position. For my SaaS I also wouldn't want to deal with something like Parler. That being said, I don't personally believe that your analogy of your (or my own) SaaS platform is that relevant. The difference here is that Amazon could be considered a major infrastructure provider. It has around 30% of the cloud market share, which puts it in a very powerful category if they have the power to shutdown platforms. I personally do not feel comfortable giving that much power to a corporate entity without some level of overview by citizens (aka the government).
>Why should google link out to a site known to help organize a violent march against democratic processes?

Source? That's not AT ALL what happens on sites like these (imageboards). These sites have the same risk of having a few psychopaths as sites like Facebook. Actually there are more on Facebook. And these sites have moderators. Do your own research. Browse for awhile and you'll see how ridiculously the reality is different from what you've been getting from the mass media. That's why these sites are censored. Not because there are criminals plotting schemes on them, but because the discussions there are so against the "official" narrative that there are people scared that more and more will realize just how brutally they have been lied to by governments, wealthy organizations, etc.
old internet wasn't as centralized even if you pissed off one admin there were million others
Try running 16-bit visual basic, which I was still writing as late as 2000, on a Ryzen and your analogy falls to bits. I remember the entire win16 to win32 porting effort that had to go in. APIs are never stable forever.

Change is the only constant and I've learned to embrace it where possible or suffer later.
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
Honestly I just wish there was a faster standard than SD. 100MB/s for solid state is just incredibly slow now-a-days.

There's no reason you couldn't kick SD transfer speeds up towards SSD speeds other than the protocol doesn't allow for it.
It’s not clear to me that those companies have more power in our information landscape than MSNBC, CNN, or Fox News. Nor is it obvious that it is more ethically problematic for them to have an editorial slant.
That's why I said to look at any place. It you want to make the argument that the temperature differences are so small that we shouldn't expect to notice any difference from looking at many different before and after charts then perhaps those differences should be considered statistically insignificant... More likely to be something wrong with the measuring instruments (maybe changes in the manufacturing process of these instruments), or people are becoming more deceptive when entering their measurements or being more selective in how they combine different measurements.

Why should I trust a heavily processed, combined result like the Wikipedia page you posted more than random sampling of raw data directly from local meteorologists? It's pretty obvious that the more 'processing' of the data is carried out, the more inaccurate it's going to be. By the time we get to the global mashup of the data, it's been so heavily tempered by people along the hierarchy that it's basically useless. The global statistics are not to be trusted, they're the result of many meteorologists and statisticians playing 'Chinese whispers' at a global scale.
Wow that thread was infuriating and I don't even use GNOME. What a tone deaf response from the dev.
> I'm just curious how we trust companies such as Signal, Telegram, Mozilla, that claim they don't store and sell our data?

These are three very different companies with very different security processes and trust profiles.

In the case of Signal: if you trust that the source code they distribute is the same as the app available in the Play Store, then it's pretty easy to verify that the messaging data is end-to-end encrypted in a way that prevents Signal from having much metadata that they even could store. With "sealed sender", they don't even know who's talking to whom: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

There's the possibility that Signal could ship a different app in the Play store, but that would require active malice to do in a way that would not be trivial to discover[0], and at some point you do have to trust someone. It's not impossible, but it's hard to imagine a world in which Signal is compromised but other links in the chain aren't, because quite frankly, there are far more easily corruptible or hackable links in the hardware/software stack that you use, so Signal would make a pretty inefficient target for someone who wants monetizeable data.

[0] ie, an accidental divergence between the two would be more conspicuous
previously posted and flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25699993
Syncthing is solid. Maybe a little too geeky for most, but for tech-minded people it can really work. I've had little issues here and there, but it definitely solves some problems for me.

I generally use Dropbox for personal files and Syncthing for business. It's a great setup to keep those things separate.
AWS has somewhere around 30% marketshare in a market with well more than dozens of players. I have a hard time seeing it as a monopoly.
This is example of using “where does it stop” to justify lack of action.

Should I complain that Uber doesn’t allow people who didn’t pass background check to work for them, because possibly in the future they may extend it to people who disagree with a certain party? Should I complain that Amazon doesn’t sell rape videos, because later it can stop selling document documentary videos about politicians they don’t like?

I agree that slow creep into utopia is an dangerous option, with “would somebody think about the children” approach. But using that to argument to justify lack of action in response to horrible events that undermine society is more dangerous.
Trump's Speech That ‘Incited’ Capitol Violence: Full Transcript
Tomato is such a slick piece of software, combined with one of the most practical pieces of consumer electronics I've ever owned. Only reason I stopped using it was because of eventual advances in networking tech. My old WRT54G with Tomato got donated to my friend's game store, and still serves to this day as the public wifi access point there.
I'm working on this!

Mentorship for mastery is where the largest gains come from, so that's where I focus my working energy.

I have an individual practice where I do one-on-one tech mentoring from students to CEOs and beyond, and my clients see huge improvements in their capacity. It's very rewarding, and I intend to keep growing after lockdown ends. Writing marketing copy is harder than mentoring for me, so my website is lacklustre, but it works well enough at hosting my calendly link: https://imagineer.school

Mentorship doesn't replace the entire school experience, though. For that, I'm using the Sudbury Valley School model, and once everyone is vaccinated we'll open a K-12 physical school in Toronto 2025.

Is anyone else here working on democratic education models?
Not sure of the source of your 15% but I'm willing to bet that by value it's more - no Celerons in Apple's line up. Plus Apple wouldn't be going down this route if it didn't expect to grow market share - and although people don't care if it's M1 or i5 they do care if the experience is better.

Then Apple's success with the M1 will spur others - I would not be surprised if Microsoft follow them down the same route.
The same way that we trust that Apple doesn't log our keystrokes and send them back to the mothership.
GitHub reportedly fires Jewish employee after he posted on Slack about ‘Nazis’
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This is exactly why I won't use or develop for Apple products for any amount of money.

I can't justify wasting that much time and stress on a platform that clearly is more concerned with meeting the needs of casual users and media professionals rather than developers or those concerned with freedom, security, or privacy.
Charge annually? I use Zoho for email because of their $12/year/user lite usage plan. There's no way I'd pay for MS365 or Google Workplace given my usage. I also have an MXRoute account, historio.us, etc. where the recurring theme is they cost $20/year or less.
You don’t. Everything is about trust.
How AWS-specific your code needs to be depends on which AWS services you're using and how you use them. An EC2 instance is just a Linux system, as is a Lightsail system.

Other systems like MinIO and Ceph have S3 interfaces for object storage, so the code could be kept. Operationally you'd need to retrieve it from Amazon S3 and re-store it. RDS is an export, transfer, and import away from being loaded into a normal database server, but that can take quite a bit of time.

Getting geo-sensitive DNS and implicit testing of backends out of Route 53 isn't so simple. Getting stuff out of Lambda and onto a commodity platform isn't quick and easy. If you have data in Glacier there's a substantial lead time to recover your first byte.
I didn't find it unsettling but I got over body modesty issues a long time ago due to ill health, I'm just a machine for carrying a brain around and they are mechanics.

The last one the doc doing the colonoscopy was training (under supervision) and kept not making the turn, that was somewhat painful but generally yeah they aren't very painful (for me, ymmv etc).
Signal is open source, you and anyone else can inspect the code. You can then build it from source and install on your android directly avoiding the play store.
Maybe the realization that they are not NVIDIA.
I just bought 8 WRT54Gs and GSs to set up some Broadband Hamnet nodes for a mesh net.
He recovered from the mistake. The drop in VMW share price on news that he's leaving shows what the market thinks of his affect on VMW value.
Apple already has such a process - you may not agree with the criteria, but they do outline it quite clearly:

3.2 Other Business Model Issues
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(vi) Approved nonprofits may fundraise directly within their own apps or third-party apps, provided those fundraising campaigns adhere to all App Review Guidelines and offer Apple Pay support. These apps must disclose how the funds will be used, abide by all required local and federal laws, and ensure appropriate tax receipts are available to donors. Additional information shall be provided to App Review upon request. Nonprofit platforms that connect donors to other nonprofits must ensure that every nonprofit listed in the app has also gone through the nonprofit approval process. Learn more about becoming an approved nonprofit. [https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/nonprofits/]

Mozilla Foundation would be fine, but WireGuard is in hot mess as the "Donation" is not actually going to a non-profit organisation - it has in fact taken steps to avoid identifying _who_ the money is going to.
you don't know if they know, because you can restore that meta data
You mean the side that claims US elections are 100% safe?

I think that Trump definitively lost, but from the point of view of a European (from a former socialist country no less!) the idea that you can have "secure" voting without seeing a person and checking their ID card is ... laughable to say the least.

Yet claiming that as fact is in line with the current propaganda, so ...
I would imagine Wireguard usage in corporate networks to increase in the future, so if Apple only cares about corporate VPNs, surely there'd be reason to implement that as well.

My guess would rather be that Apple at some point cared about corporate VPNs but no longer do, and that option is mainly just legacy.
The problem with the conclusion is that it assumes identifying the healthy information is simple. Fewwilfully choose to be wrong. Everyone is convinced to be right. That is the true heart of the matter: the absence of self-doubt. (And, in many cases, even scorn to those who are not adamant about what they believe.)

To take a topical example, people who believe Trump are doing so because they believe he is the source of truth. They chose him over others because they think career politicians are a power-hungry liars while Trump being an outsider is telling the truth. If you start out with this premise, then everything Trump supporters do and think makes sense.

It has nothing to do with junk thoughts. It has to do with your fundamental beliefs and values.
What do you think China’s social credit system is?
I love this idea. I’ve found that it’s been hard for me to find a mentor. Especially one I can trust.

As a software engineer, it’s hard to even understand different levels when you’re early in your career.

I see that you can add your skills and endorsements.

Would it make sense for your product to pull this data from LinkedIn?

I know I wouldn’t want to replicate this info.

Best of luck!
Why Consuming Short-Form Content Is Sabotaging Our Long-Term Goals?
How well does OneDrive work for files that aren't MS Office files?
1. Opinion piece
2. Blaming one side of politics
3. Amplified by being shared on social media (here and probably elsewhere)

This piece is a perfect example of what raiyu was pointing out.
> although why you’d protest a free and fair election is beyond me.

Protests of discontent against duly elected politicians serve to remind that politician of the people's will, which the politician is supposed to represent during his time in office. Also, since politicians are usually concerned with reelection, protests show them a demographic that they might have to satisfy somehow in order to secure that reelection.

Sure, people coming out to protest Biden’s inauguration are likely to be an extremist fringe and there is little that a Biden administration could do to immediately satisfy them. But the fact that large numbers of citizens can come together to voice any idea peacefully, no matter how weird, has historically been concerned a good thing in the West.
Is proper identify verification something that Apple can do at a marginal cost significantly lower than $100?

I agree that the $100 fee in no way guarantees proper identity verification has been done. I also see plenty of other unnecessary barriers the fee creates, I just don't know what an obvious alternative would be.
more likely you carried on a conversation you don’t remember. I came out of a procedure and the doctor came out afterward to talk about the results and mentioned things I had absolutely no memory of telling him!
But think of the economies of scale and the $ saved in terms of RnD and marketing
If you haven’t, you should watch some of the first hand videos of the autonomous zone and compare them to the videos of the Capitol.
I forgot to add, if it's as simple as knowing the total bandwidth used, you can just log into Comcast and they will show you your usage. I believe it is accurate within a day, so don't assume they counted all the data you used that same day. The methods I mentioned are more useful if you want to know who or what (IoT) in your household is being the bandwidth hog. :-)
What you haven't provided any explanation of is why you think there's a small group of people that suddenly have 25% more money scot free. Read rojeee's explanation above. The burden of proof is on you. That's simply not how it works.
The CN is "*.transip.nl" instead of "timetagger.app" for some reason.
I didn’t mean aesthetically so much as how vibrant the city feels (and again, I’ve only read about and watched the game). But traffic and pedestrians are far more brainless than even Vice City, the city itself is far less interactive or dynamic, and there’s way less opportunity for exciting emergent gameplay.

> I found myself often just ignoring the actual gameplay and parkouring around the beautiful city.

That’s kind of what I mean - and everyone I’ve watched play Cyberpunk has done the same thing, ignore the quests and abuse the quirky movement system to explore places they aren’t “allowed” by the developers to visit, and admire the pretty views. It does look fun and relaxing - I often dick around like that in open world games.

But pretty views and nice models are only part of a good open world. In GTA the act of messing around in the city is real emergent gameplay explicitly supported by the game’s mechanics, and not just an improvised Mirror’s Edge. In GTA you can have an exciting chase across the city, and your actions have real (if transient) consequences for the surrounding cars and pedestrians. GTA’s cities do feel like real cities. The city in Cyberpunk seems like more of a set piece - impressively detailed and engineered, but without a lot of action.
> You (i.e. us) are just going to lose.

How? What is "their" end-game? At worst "they" cost us like 3,000 euro/semester in tuition, which is virtually nothing.

At best the people that came here stay, adding skilled labor to our workforce.

At the very least Germany gets a solid boost to foreign relations, established a foundation for international corporation in research, and educated a generation of people who have seen the other side of the pond, while remaining less ignorant ourselves. There's a reason Germany is diplomatically one of the best connected countries.

You can hardly buy a measly frigate for your navy for what this costs us, and I know which is more useful for enacting meaningful change.

Also, personally, I value the experience of interacting with students from other nationalities a lot.

> In the US [...]

And? This is not the US.

> You've been indoctrinated

Yeah, right.
and how does this proof that they don't save what you send them?
I've heard that but can't find the cases went into discovery and were heard to weigh those claims. Do you know which cases did?

I'd love to read the details because that's not "debunking" but outright "disproving" which would be immensely useful.
So how do I build the Signal server and confirm it's identical to the one they're running?
Many of these companies have held terms of conduct which condone enabling violence on their platforms. While they have failed to moderate the entirety of their platform, it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t de-platform the cause of the coup attempt.

Trump has many avenues to address the nation, of which he had no hesitation to use when he made claims that the election was stolen - how many of you stayed up election night to watch this?

Not to mention as I write this Republicans are saying we shouldn’t impeach Trump because of “peace and unity” after a Munich Putsch-like attempt. Just now I read an article that panic buttons were disabled during the coup attempt, and some of the participators were given a full tour on Jan 5th to prepare.

Reach on these platforms indoctrinates people into an extremist movement. These companies do not need to serve individuals if it violates their terms of conduct. It is not unconstitutional for them to do so. This is the responsibility they hold given the impact of their platforms.
> trust that the source code they distribute is the same as the app available in the Play Store

And, of course, one has the option to build the source and install that.
FWIW, I've had a Netgear Orbi system (1 base, 2 satellites) for some time and haven't noticed any issues.
That is a somewhat misleading statement, you may know what's on your device but you don't know what is happening on the servers
$100 is lot of money in many parts of the world, specially if your app is free.
No. What it needs to end is the American obsession with the rights of people to say whatever they want in any context and expecting no consequences whatsoever.
I know some ppl who need that kind of stuff while sitting on their toilet :Ð
AWS doesn't host the feed.

> But AWS does not host Twitter’s feed, so of course it could not have suspended access to Twitter’s content

Quote from a legal document AWS filed.
I am going to take your argument in good faith. People form their beliefs thinking its the right thing.

So, this is exactly how leaders want you to think. I suggest reading up on how coups happen and how the leaders in those situations use the media and exactly what they say and how they say it. We have a lot of examples in this world and they have been very well documented too. Also in these cases its irrefutable evidence once the coup has happened who the bad guys are, so the books will not be controversial.

Here is a book to look at if you want - Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present.
Telegram has reproducible client builds.
As long as you don't expect your society to also pay to keep you alive when that self-experimentation very predictably goes wrong.
HN doesn't have a billion people on it, nor does it let you target advertising to affinity groups. One such group could be community members that voice free speech concerns when racist speech is deplatformed, but refrain from commenting on a story where say, journalistic freedom is curtailed.
As much as it is open source, there's no way to know for sure that the software running on their servers is the same that's published on Github.
That state machine looks ahead more than one symbol and has a lot of memory even if you consider it one big state.

You have to verify it decodes invalid instructions as a fault which means testing the entire search space.

Hypothetically you could use a bounded model check but you need to test roughly 10^36 combinations which is still thousands of years if you can do a 1000 billion billion a second. You need a formal proof of the operation too.
> I think as consumers we're starting to get totally unrealistic expectations about what kinds of services small companies (ie. not behemouths like Google, Microsoft, Apple) should be able to provide to everyone for free.

The number of consumer services the average consumer actually pays for is very small.

Video services like Hulu and Netflix are the primary exception, but they benefitted greatly from being compared to $100+ cable TV packages. It's easy to get people to transition from an expensive thing to a cheaper option.

It's much more difficult to get people to switch from a free service to a paid service. YouTube is a good example of a platform that provides huge value and endless hours of video content to people, but selling people on the paid version of YouTube is a difficult battle. The outrage over the mere existence of YouTube premium on casual social sites like Reddit should be downright scary for anyone considering a Freemium service.

Dropbox gambled that the average consumer would outgrow their 10GB free account as they took more photos and videos with cell phones. That gamble was correct, but of course other providers swooped in to offer better targeted plans. I'll take $3/month iCloud with transparent integration over $10/month Dropbox with a separate app.

Dropbox business angle is promising, but again it's much easier for companies like Google and Microsoft to add storage plans to their existing office suites than it is for Dropbox to add office suites to their existing storage plans.

As a techie, I wish Dropbox had stayed as a small $3/month for 100GB offering that did file sharing very well and nothing else. The latest apps get in the way more than they help, and I cancelled my paid plan because the core set of files I want to keep Dropbox-accessible is under 10GB. Bigger files go to other free services on an as-needed basis.