skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, it's very hard to keep a pseudonymous identify separate from your actual identify for a long period of time.

For example, in general my accounts related to video games go by one identify, while my other personal/professional accounts use my real name-ish. Problem happens when I have a discussion on a game account and want to reference something that I know because of activity in the other sphere. By linking to my real identify, the pseudonymous one has been identified. So, now I am careful what I say on those accounts, too, and I save my controversial opinions for in-person, offline discussions.
I see zero evidence to support your conclusion in that link.

"Someone wanted to say something else but military PR didn't want that" is wholly not evidence.

But to be fair I don't really understand the alternate reality conspiracy game everyone plays online and might be missing that you're having a laugh.
Not to be contradictory for the sake of it, but I see nothing specific about alien life in that. A̶l̶l̶ ̶I̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶a̶ ̶r̶a̶d̶i̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶M̶o̶r̶s̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶d̶e̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶r̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶e̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶d̶i̶d̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶l̶e̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶s̶o̶n̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶r̶e̶'̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶t̶a̶l̶k̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶i̶n̶v̶e̶s̶t̶i̶g̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶o̶r̶i̶g̶i̶n̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶e̶n̶s̶u̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶l̶o̶c̶a̶l̶ ̶e̶f̶f̶e̶c̶t̶ ̶(̶e̶.̶g̶.̶ ̶f̶a̶m̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶s̶t̶o̶r̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶m̶i̶c̶r̶o̶w̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶o̶v̶e̶n̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶r̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶o̶d̶d̶ ̶m̶e̶a̶s̶u̶r̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶l̶a̶b̶s̶)̶.̶

Edit: upon closer reading, you're right, the Morse code item was made up. But I still stand by my point that beyond the fact that they don't seem too keen to release the recording, there's nothing specifically in the document to indicate it is alien or substantial.
One theory holds that the world ended when the Large Hadron Collider got switched on and that everything since has been a demented simulation.
I sent this email asking my friends to switch to Signal
It would also be highly unlikely that native life on some moon would be out-competed by extremely maladapted terrestrial life. It'd be like a dog trying to outswim a shark.
It was offensive, so..
That will probably still cause social cooling, because you have to manage and be conscious what you are able to say on different identities. You are essentially training to be less spontaneous and more cautious about what you say in real life.
Totally agree! My comment was intended to those travelling for recreational purposes.
Try banning users. Try having moderators that aren't volunteers.
While obviously a timely example for Glenn to refer to, it is a strange counter example for him to refer to when he makes arguments that "Silicon Valley" is attempting to manipulate a narrative.[0][1][2] One could argue that a platform that is explicitly against the average political opinion of SV's employee base may be at a disadvantage, I am not sure Parler was the hill to stake that claim on.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/15/parler-...

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200627/23551144803/as-pr...

[2] https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1347939939120533506
I spent New Years weekend in Palm Springs going on day trips to Joshua Tree National Park. It was PACKED. The park is absolutely beautiful and everyone should check it out sometime. It's an almost alien landscape.

My hotel was full as well in Palm Springs. The only thin open late and popping was the Indian casino. They did check temps and make sure people had masks, but otherwise it felt like Vegas on a normal busy weekend.
This is definitely why I’m getting all these notifications from signal that people I know just joined the service.
Why stop at one load of cargo, though?
boy would this be the best possible outcome

alternatively we're just a zoological survey site
This was the result of a 25-year multi-team feasibility study about upgrading from the previous medium: floppy disks.
Even if it isn’t illegal it can be against the terms of service and void your warranty/insurance
> Well no, what I was trying to imagine was something beyond messaging that included public, user-generated content but analogous to common-carrier status.

I think you need to define was "common-carrier" means.

As far as I'm concerned, once a message is deemed to be intended to be public, "common carrier" goes away for the service that is going to be broadcasting that message to others. The copper/fiber/etc. lines between me and Twitter are still a common carrier, because even though my Tweet is going to be public, the individual TCP packets going to Twitter are still intended to be private.
The 'DIY Perks' channel on YouTube has a nice solution to maintain eye contact: https://youtu.be/2AecAXinars

You can't mount a webcam in the middle of your laptop display, as even a small camera and thin cable would get in the way of looking at the screen.

But using a two-way mirror, you can be looking at both the screen and the webcam at the same time, without the webcam being visible to you.
https://hypercore-protocol.org/protocol/#hyperswarm
More technical info on the p2p aspect(its DHT-based)
YouTube takes down Trump video, bans new uploads for a week
Capabilities are a technical problem with a technical solution. As in: an app can't use the microphone or access the Downloads folder without getting permission from the user, by design.

What you're after is a sociopolitical problem, and would take a sociopolitical solution. It simply can't be implemented in software, and it can't be implemented correctly in all cases, period: even if the app designer is a perfect angel, and only does exactly what they've pledged to with your data, the company could be bought by Evil Corp, or get hacked.
You know, this is exactly what I was warning you about.
According to two articles I perused, there were protestors at the Whitehouse and there were altercations with the police and security at and with the barriers, but no breach from what I read:

- https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/31/politics/trump-underground-bu...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/politics/trump-protest...
C05517813.pdf is.. just weird.

"TAKE 5 OF 8--POSSIBLE SCENARIOS FOR SUMMER KIDNAPPINGS OF
5 BARNAUL COEDS DETAILED, INCLUDING POSSIBILITY THEY WERE
ABDUCTED FOR SLAVERY, ORGAN TRANSPLANTATIDN SCHEMES, OTHER
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION"

Edit: this one seems like pretty random musings of a CIA agent in the USSR based on disapperances that happened there.

Probably just some serial killer? :/

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaul_Maniac
KFC Console just launched a few months ago, while running Windows. Once Games move to ARM, I think we are going to see a lot more consoles based on Windows. All manufacturers need to do is to plonk in some good gaming hardware, add windows to it and they are done.

I think the ship has sailed for launching an entirely new console platform. It's superhard for someone to claw market share out of PS, Xbox and Nintendo. Not to mention getting game developers and publishers onboard. It's a chicken and egg problem where users won't come until you have games and games won't come until you have users. Making a windows based console solves the games problem.
My point was exactly about that. People will believe anything. We've used the pretense of fighting against terrorism to invade other countries. Now you're being pandered to with raised fists, rainbow flags and feminism to go along with some of the immoral practices of neoliberalism and corporate capitalism.

Paradox, AKA cognitive dissonance. Just don't call yourself tolerant, nothing wrong with that.
Are you saying there are no honorable people in our armed forces that wouldn't ignore their politics to do the right thing? Yes, obviously there is politics in the military (e.g. making rank at the cost of your men and/or duty) just as there are people looking to make a paycheck. From the ones I've met and heard stories about the majority are hard working honorable people who truly believe in doing the right thing. It seems kind of horrible and short sighted to make such a broad all encompassing statement that doesn't take into account the possibility that there are honorable, hard working individuals that have given their life to an idea they think is greater than themselves.
You will not stop people from taking drugs. They will bring them over whatever distance, border, or other obstacle you put in place and the harder you try, the more money they'll make and the more havoc that will be wrought on your society and neighboring countries. How's it working out currently?

Criminalizing drug use and distribution creates a condition far worse than a legal and appropriately regulated market for marijuana, cocaine, heroin, mushrooms, opium, and more where users can buy standardized, well-labelled, individually packaged doses from a normal store (not a criminal empire).

Amongst all this crying about some idiots raiding the capitol and wanting to ban everyone for bad opinions, all these replies are hard to take seriously.
The "CDC link" consists of a single paragraph.

The 1957 flu had less than half the IFR of Covid. It infected a smaller percentage of the world population than Covid is likely to, despite much less significant public health countermeasures, and a tremendous increase in medical knowledge in the past half century. It was likely significantly less contagious.

Death estimates in the USA are in the 100k range, vs. Covid which has already killed more than 400k (if we count using a similar estimation method) and will likely kill at least 200k more before it is through. (US population has more than doubled in the mean time, but we are talking about at least 5–8x as many deaths.) The difference in hospitalization rate is dramatic.

If you want a summary or some numbers about the current pandemic, try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic

It is really tragic that the abject failures of the US federal response have made partisans so heavily invest themselves in the claim that Covid is no big deal and we shouldn't worry about it.
It says they made up a story about morse code to brush Dr. Davidson off, but it didn't work.
Yes, commands like `ls` are very fast as long as you are near the metadata server (Redis in this case).
The link..
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/12/m...

Rep. Mikie Sherrill, during a live webcast Tuesday evening, said she witnessed some members of Congress leading people through the Capitol on Jan. 5 in what she termed a "reconnaissance for the next day" when insurrectionists took part in a deadly siege on the legislative branch.

During the Facebook Live, Sherrill addressed her constituents to explain why she voted for a resolution to implore Vice President Mike Pence to remove President Donald Trump from office by invoking the 25th Amendment, and, after that measures failure, why she intends to support an article of impeachment against Trump for "incitement of insurrection."
Nice to see somebody respecting the law. Atlassian is still claiming that if they give my account to somebody else then they can ignore my CCPA claims.
Imagine how HN would look without moderation, if it allowed everyone to post "without discrimination". Then tell me that Section 230 was a bad idea.

The only reason you're able to have this conversation with us is because of Section 230. Without it, the only people left on this site would be spammers, trolls, and racists.
Hmm, ok perhaps you’re right about soldiers being confused. But if any CiC thought that path had a possibility for positive outcome, they’d be delusional. The institutions will not permit that.
An aside, why are Parler users such thugs?
If you're interested in watching someone try a bunch of these bananas, check out WeirdExplorer on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skpfnZEpWh4
I had the opposite first reaction; give the conspiracy theorists a big dump of juicy mostly harmless nonsense to sink their teeth into, to get their minds off the more disturbing stuff, if only by a little.
Question about Folding Home “outside” for Covid-19 research
With the outdoor air temperature being the only thing that changed under quarantine, has anyone else with a gaming rig and NVIDIA card felt the urge to stick it outside in cold weather and run a few cycles of Folding@Home for COVID-19 research? If so, how are you protecting your machine from the elements or "weather events"?
It says that they tried to satisfy him with a fake story and that he was too smart for that.
This is about tone on the Signal Community Forums, not within the Signal App. As Signal is an encrypted chat app, there is no Signal culture within the app that could Eternal September.
where is BARNAUL?
Damn, that's absolutely terrifying.
> Section 230 doesn't "grant these businesses privileged immunity." Section 230 applies to all persons and all devices connected to the Internet in the United States.

This is specious; said blanket immunity is a privilege, and we do not demand any concessions in return. We allow platforms (happier?) to profit from the benefits of operating as a public square and an editorial publisher, simultaneously.

> If there was no section 230, it would destroy free speech on the Internet.

Prior to the CDA’s passage in 1996, the internet provided almost unlimited, unhindered free speech. What we have now pales in comparison.

If you think existing protections for common carriers and “mechanical distributors” are not strong enough, then we can surely update them for the internet.

However, that does not even remotely begin to justify the give-away that 230 represents. If we’re going to grant the privilege of immunity to platforms such that they can safely privatize the public square, we ought to demand they actually make some concessions to operate like actual public squares.
I'm not sure how you conclude that from even your quoted source: slavery, states' rights to own humans as property, and the westward expansion of slavery and slave-holding into the territories are all about slavery. Slavery was a root tension from the founding of the Republic with an earlier Civil War in the 1820's only staved off by the Missouri compromise.

Since you are one of the top HN posters, I encourage you to read the founding documents and speeches of the Confederate States, as well as reputable historical works such as McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom".
Assisted Living Facility Merced CA vs Nursing Home
When you or your loved one can no longer take care of yourself, we often think of moving into a care home. Let's find out whether you should move into an Assisted Living Facility Merced, CA, or a Nursing Home.
The TDP of the 5900 is 105w with 12 cores. So let's say 8.75w/core. A 5950X is slightly higher per core wattage.

The M1 has a maximum power consumption of 15.1w (13.8w + 1.3w) so for the high powered cores that is 3.45w/core and a miniscule amount for the low power cores. A mac mini tops out at around 20w during 8-core CPU benchmarks. While a 5950X PC will draw around 96w at the wall when idle.

I know a Ryzen desktop CPU probably won't necessarily draw its entire TDP but it is not in the same league as an low powered CPU such as the M1 or the latest Ryzen mobile CPUs in terms of power consumption.
"link" to me implies something along the lines of a FB/Google/GitHub OAuth login, not that they steal my credentials.

I guess technically they just say, "you will be prompted to enter the username and password associated with those accounts" and don't specify that they (Plaid) will be using your credentials, but I don't think it's clear enough that you are giving your credentials away!
That he didn't think it was a space message [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Davidson#Personal_life
> Rule of thumb: If a discussion will matter after today, don’t have it in a chat room. Check out Discourse, Twist, Carrot, Threads, Basecamp, Flarum, or heck even GitHub issues.

I see; anything but e-mail! Gotcha.
Samsung has absolutely abysmal app store experience(remember they do have their own both on mobile and on their wearables).
Honestly that AOC clip was just the first thing that popped in my head as an example of "Why people don't trust what Facebook says about their policies".

I wouldn't really say that AOC oversimplifies the issue. I doubt she was interested in an in-depth debate about political moderation with Mark. Her drive was just to either elucidate the truth of Facebook's policy, or show Facebook as deceptive. Mark decided to dodge the question, so he ended up showing Facebook as deceptive.

Fact is, Facebook decided to go the no-moderation route. That's their right. But they should stand behind that policy and the consequences of it. A good CEO would've answered AOC by restating that they are not the arbiter's of truth. Not exactly that difficult of a response. But Mark chose the worst, whishy-washy, slimy response probably because he didn't put any points into his Speech skill and every other dialogue option was greyed out. Either way, it makes Facebook look spineless and deceptive. Hence why I used that clip to demonstrate why people are rightly skeptical of any suggestion that Facebook might be applying their policies consistently.

P.S. The truth of it is perhaps deeper than that. Facebook is taking the no moderation policy at least partly because of money (otherwise, they wouldn't give a shit). Since they've done that it's in their best interest that Congress _not_ provide guidance, because _any_ guidance will more likely than not require some amount of moderation. And that means less ads, which means less money. So really Mark's non-answer was more about being willing to sacrifice Facebook's image in exchange for continuing to muddy the discussion and promote inaction. Any other answer, one way or the other, would have proved AOC's point and given Congress further impetus to have a discussion about online political speech.

Or he really did forget to put points in Speech.

P.P.S. Whatever one might think of Twitter, Jack Dorsey's response during that whole fiasco was fucking superb, and relevant to the tangent we're slightly on about political speech moderation: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1189634360472829952.html It really just sums up the issues nicely. Again, regardless of how one may feel about Twitter or their decision there, that response is what I'd expect of a cogent CEO.
What evidence? The article just says they downloaded all the posts. Am I missing the one where they reference the events at the capitol?

The main exodus to Parler happened after Trump was banned from Twitter, i.e. after the events in question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaul
Maybe: "Barnaul is the largest city and administrative center of Altai Krai, Russia, located at the confluence of the Barnaulka and Ob Rivers in the West Siberian Plain"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaul
It almost feels like whoever released it was having a last laugh. You want it, here you go.
What says you @Dang? Do you not see the problem?
What the conservative media is reporting is happening to parler, and what actually is being alleged in the lawsuit are two very different worlds of events: https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/134916216569825280...

The stuff parler allegedly turned a blind eye to goes way beyond objectionable viewpoints and well into violating contracts.
That doesn't seem enough to reject the premise of the article, which explicitly calls out that chats are great for both "Low-stakes status updates" and "Swarming around red alerts or outages", a high CPU alert that was just a notification is the former, a high CPU alert that people discussed and fixed is the latter.

Also, your "database", singular? Was the answer something like 10 times? Would that scale?
I’m tired of both and the discussion is devolving like all political chatter online
Mexico reports 1,314 coronavirus deaths, the biggest one-day increase on record
Yeah, this seems a bit bizarre.

Without any knowledge of what this incident is referring to and with only this context, "the message was in identifiable morse code and from a known US licensed radio station" should by default be more plausible than "a space message".
From what I can tell (I could be wrong about this) this has nothing to do with the recently legislated requirement to release information regarding UFOs that was added into the budget bill. This seems to just be either coincidence or timed to take advantage of recent interest in UFO material due to the news about what was included in the budget bill.
I wouldn't call UFO conspiracy theories harmless given the past occurrence of UFO suicide cults like Heaven's Gate.
I’m curious how many AWS houses could move to private hosting in that short of a timeframe.
A bunch of people just stormed the Capitol less than a week ago on account of being Terminally Online, I don't think there's a lot of evidence for this hypothesis.
If this twitter thread is right, it sure does look like honeypot

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1327253991936454663?lang...
Did you even bother to read the Newsweek article? It says they banned anyone posting left-leaning content. There are plenty of articles saying they didn't censor violent right-wing content, but you'll have to read them to figure that out.

> There is the one the Republicans put forth, which is that they're doing it to gain favor with the party that will control the House, Senate and Presidency in a few days and be prosecuting the antitrust suits against them.

So, at the same time, and for the first time in the six election cycles they've gone through, every single cloud provider came to the same conclusion and course of action without any outside pressure in a way that provides more evidence for antitrust behavior. It's a theory, but not a good one.

> And then there's the business reason, which is that they don't want a new competitor and are taking an excuse to crush it.

There is no timeline or even universe where Parler is competition for Facebook, Google, Apple or Amazon.
I know right. If Facebook gets a whiff of this, they’ll ban people for conspiratorial discussion and making stuff up.
I’m marking this to remind myself to update my research. If anyone has references they are appreciated.
It means that if states have laws regarding how their electors elect, those laws are the final word.
Planetary protection is one of the worst ideas ever drempt up and likely to significantly harm progress in the future. God forbid we actually find life on Mars, it would likely cause a century long (or more) delay on any colonization efforts of Mars as scientists-in-name-only try to prevent contamination of Mars by humans landing there.
I hope they fail. Some users report they deceptively impersonate the users bank in order to extract as many data points from them (loans, lines of credit, ...)
Aligning yourself with Communists is definitely not in the realm of "moral or compassionate".

People wearing Che Guevara t-shirts are declaring themselves to be Communists.

People wearing hammer and sickle t-shirts are declaring themselves to be Communists.

People supporting Communists are Communists.

Communism killed many more people than Nazism did.
Russia Russia Russia is today's Blood Libel.

A fabrication to be hung on any adversary as a means to delegitimize them.

That you'd claim that a leading journalist writing about Civil Liberties somehow became a fan of Russia is a great example of that, and a disservice to polite discourse.