skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." [0]

-- Winston Churchill

For any kind of platform that allows arbitrary users some level of control over the content that will be hosted, the options for ensuring that content is not harmful are:

* Community Moderation: users control contributing and moderating content. The platform chooses moderators, or enables voting for them. This gives users and all people (i.e. citizens) the most power, but has the most potential for abuse of the system to enable using the platform to host, spread and share harmful content.

* Platform Moderation: wholly moderated by platform chosen moderators. This is probably the most common system. The platform will use its own set of values and policies to decide what to moderate, and will likely target the most popular content deemed harmful. Per platform, this gives platforms the most power, but platforms much compete with each other

* Government Moderation: moderation likely by the platform, but with oversight from government - policy and values may be defined by the government; failure to moderate according to the government legislation could result in penalties or termination of the platform. If the government has sufficient checks and balances and citizen influence, this may be a desirable system, but if the government is not "of and for the people", it could also be used by the government to moderate opponents of the government as decided by that government. Anyone opposing the absolute power of the government may find their content "moderated" away. This is the stuff of nightmares for the founding fathers.

"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." [1]

-- Thomas Jefferson

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_democracy

[1] https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/whe...
Very much so. The description of the staged attack suggests months of work by a sizeable development team.
One government is optimistic in this case. This is the EU talking, they'll gladly deliberate for months before any action is taken.

Furthermore, wouldn't this worsen an authoritarian or Trump-like scenario? We are expecting the government to moderate itself? Wouldn't a yes man/crony just sit in that seat ala William Barr and let the tweets go unchecked?
What would happen if Trump was on your site and constantly violated your standards of behaviour?
That may well be. The problem is that Twitter has lost their credibility on the issue. If you make a habit of rolling around in the mud, then don't be surprised if people assume you stink.

This is the rejoinder to those who defended them by saying "they're a private platform, they can do whatever they want". And I actually agree with that. But in spheres of life without explicit legal protections, people will come to rely on informal reputation and cultural norms.

Twitter is learning the hard way about why companies jealously guard their reputation for fairness and neutrality. Taking a public and divisive stand on the culture war issue du jour is rarely smart business. Like many tech darling Icaruses, Jack Dorsey probably thought the time-tested rules of business didn't apply. Watching 10% of his company's value vaporize in a few days was a hard way to learn that's not true. Hopefully $5 billion was worth it to keep attending Bay Area cocktail parties.

At the end of the day Twitter has wrecked its reputation as a fair and neutral platform. It will take at least a generation to repair. A consequence of this will be that in situations like Uganda, nobody will afford it the benefit of the doubt any more.
The fact that it also jokes about Erich Honecker makes it seem like it is more about a like for bad taste jokes than a like for Nazism.

East German Communism and Nazism were both odious, but they are largely incompatible forms of odiousnesses.
There are two main tables: one that can hold any transaction, and another that's specifically for transactions I download from bank and credit card statements. It holds different data such as the unique identifier that banks assign in the OFX data (this helps avoid duplicate transactions.) Difficulty in dealing with data like that is a big reason I started to move away from plain text.

There are other tables to hold what I call "categories" (accountants would call these "accounts") and "accounts" (these correspond to the more colloquial usage) and commodities and other items like the balances from bank statements.

I considered both SQLite and Postgres. Postgres has nice things like true ALTER TABLE support but SQLite's ease of administration and simple API swamps any advantage that Postgres would offer for this.

My user interface is in Haskell, but one could use any language for that - I just like Haskell. It's all CLI based. I import the overwhelming volume of transactions from bank downloads, but when I need to enter something manually I currently just write a little Haskell script to do it (eventually I might add a CLI program to do this.)
> Curious if you feel torn supporting the US highway infrastructure? It can clearly be used for to traffic drugs, humans, blackmarket weapons, etc. It can be used to flee justice, evade police, abets vehicular manslaughter, etc. The list goes on and on. Is it even controversial to support the highway system as is? Do we loose sleep over it?

As we've learned from the now settled case law on Bittorrent trackers & co, it is not sufficient for your infrastructure to make it possible to support legal uses, it is necessary to show that that is the vast majority of its uses.
"The "coup" was a joke by any standard the only reason it became such a big deal is because DC cops allowed the rioters into the Capitol instead of doing their job."

-bavell
Bitcoin Is Created by Illuminati
There are two algorithm used in Bitcoin:

SHA256 refers to SHAR which means 3600 years of the planet X (Nibiru) cycle.

ECDSA refers to the elliptical curve of Nibiru.

This is called esotericism. They(illuminati/deep state) hide the truth in front of your face. Just like the illuminati/freemason pyramid on your dollar bill.

If you don't know what's Nibiru, there is an archaeology book for you: the lost book of Enki.

I don't understand why most liberals can't wake up from this 3D matrix created by illuminati/deep state. Feel so longly and doomed.
Doesn't slack have full history if you pay for it? We use Teams and I regularly find myself searching for stuff I remember I was sent months ago.
It's just a social event they did. Nothing to it. The conversation continued a bit with a discussion on what exactly what means with "cultural marxism", and it's not as bad as this snippet might make it appear. But can't add context lest people give the benefit of the doubt, ey?
It is strange that they're not fighting it harder. I wonder if Plaid identified a better exit strategy?

Or if Visa is having some buyer's remorse over the $5 billion price tag and saw this as an easy out?
I don't know if you've heard of these guys:

https://miamifruit.org/collections/banana-pre-orders

Depending on the import laws in your state, you can get some really rare tropical fruits.
You can make threads in slack. The implementation is a bit weird but (as of last time I used it circa 2018) it did the job sufficiently. For features which required more focused discussion from a sub-team over a longer period of time there was a pseudo-room feature (I don't remember what it's called though)
o....kay
This is completely abnormal weather for Madrid. It would be objectively stupid for them to have prepared well for arctic weather, given the average temperature in January is not even below 0 C and they get on average almost no snowfall in an average year.
I feel that the information about the breach didn’t reach a mainstream audience, because of the other things happening (such as the US election and all the chaos generated). In the current climate it’s difficult to pass the message that a massive cyber attack happened and have people take you seriously.
UK. (I guess technically it’s not EU) does mail in ballots. ID is done via number and signature similar to US.

Australia/NZ/Canada do mail in ballots in an almost identical way.

Northern Europe do mail in using a register and signature. Honestly go look up the relevant electoral bodies.

Which bit don’t you like?

I figured if you were doing a page of evidence you’d put your most compelling evidence up front? Am I missing something?

So I agree voter id is an issue, but think of the numbers involved, even if you could physically vote many times... how do you vote more than 10 times with 1 hour queues? Where do you get the extra 10s of thousands of serial numbered mail in ballots to fraudulently fill out? Was there mass theft from peoples mailboxes?

The random upset republican voter saying they saw a “radical left van” is not evidence of anything important.
If they do store persistent documentation in emails, the problem lies somewhere between the chair and the keyboard.

Actually, forced deletion - if users are aware of it of course - is likely to sanitize everyone's practice. Email ain't a backup tool.

That's symptomatic of people doing the most silly things and then blame the failures on their tools.
What plugin could this be done with?
I just started taking care of React. When I saw that Instagram was developed with react, I wanted to look at the source code, there is a similar encryption in bundle files.

__d(function(g,r,i,a,m,e,d){ ... }

Is it possible to do this with a webpack or whatever? It looks different from the files react extracted for the production
You are not prohibited from connecting to Theo de Raat's private SSH server using OpenSSH. You are prohibited from connecting to Theo de Raat's private SSH server. The client has nothing to with it.
Agreed. I'll be banning generics from any code I have control over unless there's a very good reason for it. I saw too much of this crap in C#, and ran from it screaming.
Can you explain what Pelosi's Chinatown visit has to do with flight cancellations. And also who called Trump a racist for proposing flight bans.
You probably should say the "center" instead of the "left". Or maybe the "liberals". That's because the "left" historically has been as assertive as the "right" if you look at the extreme communist parties VS fascists/feudal parties.

I do think you have a point though, but you can't be liberal and authoritarian at the same time. So to push for liberal ideas and laws/rights, while also pushing to enforce it through anti-liberal means is pretty contradictory, and so it makes sense most liberals don't do so.

Also remember that liberal societies are the exception in human history, not the rule. Almost never have people rallied around the idea that each man has a natural right to life, liberty and property and governments must not violate these rights.
It looks unusual, and I agree with you that it might be an example of the things to come. But I'd love to see an analysis of snowstorms in central Spain using extreme value theory. It might not be that infrequent. In EVT terms, the return level might not be more than a few decades.

Central Spain is quite cold. For example, when the International Brigades came to fight in the Civil War they were expecting a mild Winter, but they were shocked by pretty extreme temperatures. Luckily, everyone got prepared as next few years were even worse. In 1937, Teruel Battle was consistently fought below -20 C.

Aside from 1937, 1956 and 1971 saw pretty intense snowstorms. The 1971 one was much worse than the current storm according to the data I've seen.
If you're a member of "The Party", which I use to mean the elected members/party infrastructure etc, why the hell would you continue to support him, even pre January 6th. His behavior since the election probably just cost you control of the Senate and he doesn't really give a shit because, end of the day, he's an entryist.
Python and go have similar issues though. People do not audit and do no vendor their dependencies.
Most people look to authority instead of thinking themselves, you mean.
Not a Republican but looking at China with a very suspicious eye too. The recent CCP database leak is kinda worrying: https://www.msn.com/en-in/entertainment/tv/data-leaks-show-h...
> the only way to ensure equal access to a service is via regulation as a public utility

Right, but afaik the reason water/power/etc are made public utilities is because they are natural monopolies:

> Public utilities, the companies that have traditionally provided water and electrical service across much of the United States, are leading examples of natural monopoly. It would make little sense to argue that a local water company should be broken up into several competing companies, each with its own separate set of pipes and water supplies. Installing four or five identical sets of pipes under a city, one for each water company, so that each household could choose its own water provider, would be terribly costly. The same argument applies to the idea of having many competing companies for delivering electricity to homes, each with its own set of wires. Before the advent of wireless phones, the argument also applied to the idea of many different phone companies, each with its own set of phone wires running through the neighborhood.

https://opentextbc.ca/principlesofeconomics/chapter/11-3-reg...

This same is harder to say for AWS. The physical wires? Yes, but your hosting provider? It's not as clear cut.
I think you can put things as modern baroque software stacks with their effectively vast "attack surfaces" are not going to stand-up to a well-financed, patient, skilled attacker.

I recall that many companies have switched from a perimeter model of defense where systems are secured from the outside to a "defense in depth" model where each system is secured on it's own (plus the perimeter).

Perhaps folks should think about tightening the in-depth model and avoiding the consumer model of constant updates from a zillion providers. Or perhaps a single lab could verify updates of the zillion providers rather than leaving them on their own.
Not an expert by any means, but...

The issue is that this is caused by the collapse of standard weather systems.

This isn't a sign of an ice age, it's the sign of instability.
I think it's fair to say that these problems shouldn't be blamed on individuals, but systemic failure. In my imagination, someone should have seen this at some point. The system should have had safeguards to ensure that, regardless of any individual's personal failures.

That said, I agree it's a little harsh, since there's no evidence that anyone else could/has done better in this incident.
It's no colder in most of Canada (the most populated parts) than most of the midwest or the northeast. Average temperatures in the winter in Toronto are only slightly colder than NYC.

Yes, where I'm originally from in central Alberta, it gets cold as hell. But most of the population of Ontario (the most populous province) lives significantly south of the 49th parallel, on the same latitude as much of Oregon. Further south than Vermont, Maine, or New Hampshire, and due to weather patterns this side of the lake is actually a tad warmer on average than the south side in central NY.

TDLR: Most of Canada isn't as cold as the stereotypes. Lots of Americans live in colder areas.
I'm seeing more and more of this sort of argumentation these days: "If people are allowed to say certain things, they will destroy civilization. Therefore, we must preemptively destroy civilization by strictly prohibiting what people can and cannot say."
lobste.rs seems to be doing fine as a discussion site aimed at technologists.

This "hypergrowth at all costs" mindset is pretty suffocating. There's plenty of niche sites that are successful without the need of trying to be the biggest in the world.
I'm reminded of the music industry's clampdown on Napster and how that went.
I will need the matrix capability to load them into my brain. Otherwise,time it takes to watch all the videos is not something I can invest.
It's almost like startups have non technical workers that also have an equity stake in the companies they work for. This comment strikes me as almost entirely out of touch. No one expects these results, most people never see a startup they work for successfully exit let alone to the tune of billions.

"Being in the right place at the right time" sure it's partly that but if you think you're getting there without some really hard work you'd be sorely mistaken.

Also startups everywhere need good folks to work for them it's not like this is some secret club to get into, many people just have no risk tolerance for one reason or another.

You're line of thinking really get's at me because the reality is a lot more than luck goes into things even if the current popular line of thinking is to suggest otherwise.

Especially on a community that was established initially to talk about startups.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25718992.
I completely agree.

However, I want to repeat what I have already replied to another similar post.

All these speech crimes should be punished according to the law, as soon as they are committed.

Restricting the speech of someone, by denying access to publication media, just because it is believed that they might commit some speech crime in the future, that is clearly an arbitrary and baseless restriction of the free speech right.
I did not do that. You seem very eager to make straw men out of everything I say, so I think I'm done here.
Airbnb Announces ‘Capitol Safety Plan’ for the Inauguration
>If you’re not an expert why would you link a manuscript to stir up a thread?

>CLD is real

Well, I believe the right thing to do is to at least mention that these are controversial statements.
I really like this idea, just not for CS, but for any topic.

Take a subject matter expert and let them curate a set of free videos to help anyone learn.
I lived in an ashram for 3 months in south india.
There were a lot of superstitions but the ones which were strangest to me was not being allowed to cut your nails after sundown and to never step over a sleeping dog.
Unions sue to overturn California’s Prop 22
Yeah, in the US, depending on which dystopia you think we're living in, it's very easy to envision either some Trump crony making sure nobody was disrespectful to him on Twitter OR some "deep state" agents starting to censor him way back in 2015 to try to prevent his getting elected in the first place.

I've yet to see a realistic proposal for what should replace Twitter's ability to choose its own TOS that isn't either a worse situation like that, or isn't some "only illegal stuff should be taken down" that probably results in far fewer open places on the internet accepting user-generated content for broadcast in the first place.
> denying him access to publication media because you believe that in the future that person might say something that might have who knows what effect on other people, who might do some crimes.

Is this the case here?

The statements in question are already made. Typically, the deplatforming happens after a violation has already been made. Which seems to be the case here, unless I am misunderstanding.
The windfall typically isn’t anywhere close to millions of dollars for regular employers. We’re talking about payouts on the level of buying a new car or placing a down payment on a home.
> The primary message from all of these governments is that the platforms are out of line.

Yes, and one reason for that, as stated by Merkel, is that the US doesn't have a democratic framework for managing hate speech. Because such a framework is illegal under the first amendment. And her statement suggests that the US adopt a more German framework for adjudicating such speech, so that corporations don't need to make their own rules.

Your claim is that Twitter is "effectively" acting as the government. That's not true under a significant amount of law and precedent. (There are cases where private entities are acting as a government, and importantly, trying to use government force to suppress speech, Marsh v. Alabama).

In fact, one could argue that by censoring speech, Twitter is explicitly not acting like the government, because Twitter is taking action the government cannot.
Big tech has no power at all
Their VP of Security posted a blog post entitled "Does your vendor take security seriously?" one month before they announced the breach.
There is no "typical goal" in tech or anything else. Different people want different things in life.
The scuttlebutt is that Disney executives simply don't know what LucasArts IP they bought when they bought Lucasfilm and it will likely take new blood at the executive level with some bit of videogame literacy.

Some of that might also be complicated by existing licensing contracts. For instance, it's not clear from the outside how much Double Fine (and thus Microsoft) owns now of the games they managed to remake (Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango). Maybe Microsoft has the movie rights now? That would be funny, though Microsoft's attempts at movies to date have all been cursed.
Yeah, the US is better than many countries with regards of laws that allow you to stand your ground. That's exactly the reason that made me consider moving there. Not any more :-(.

I might have overplayed the 'commie' part a little. Still what I see there is quite in line with the practices of the former Eastern Block - I am from Bulgaria and I had "the chance" to live in a communist society until I was 8. The witch hunting is copied basically 1:1, and also the "witch profile" is surprisingly the same - evil capitalist "pigs", presumably white and presumably racist/nazi.
Sounds like there's too much being read into it.

I use st, it's one of the best terminal emulators I've found, and I'm not going to stop using it just because some possibly-associated dev made a kinda-sorta-tasteless joke when they named some random server.
I see a lot of people here complain about their toxic community. This was always the worst thing about suckless and it put a lot of people off about trying to engage and help out, including me. Luckily the most toxic of them all left a few years ago now and the mailing list is now a lot better compared to how it used to be. I'm not on irc anymore so dont know about the conversations happening there but I hope it also has become better. Its interesting how one persons bad influence can throw shade on an entire community. Most of them are really nice.
Assuming that all the facts stated are true, this is some bottom tier management. What a way to take a story that had nothing to do with GitHub and make themselves the villain of this story.

What were they thinking? I'm having a really hard time imagining how they thought this would go well.
This makes it sound like something dirty.

Tech workers want to buy homes and go on vacations just like everyone else. That's a good thing. They had an opportunity to make a lot of money making banking services easier for everyone; that's awesome and should be encouraged.
Greenwald has credibility because of his reporting on Snowden. That is primary and basically only reason why he is celebrity.

And due to that, for many (including me in past) he is given trust and benefits of doubt other people don't. So I see parent comment quite relevant - the truth telling is matter of past.
Amazon, Google and Twitter privacy heads: Tech companies must explain data use
Electricity and CRISPR used to write data to bacterial DNA
That is flipping due process on its head, the state has the duty to prove I am a danger to others, I have not duty to prove I am not

Having a position that I have to prove my innocence is completely devoid of any due process and is unconstitutional
That’s what I meant when I said it’s normal that we are ill-prepared for this situation.