skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is meaningless without comparing it to how many instances of hate speech or calls of violence exist on competing sites like Twitter. What would you bet that it's not more than 98?

The better comparison would be instances of hate speech or calls to violence that were directly reported to Twitter by its hosting provider for the express purpose of requesting that they be taken down. I'd certainly give you even odds that the number of such reports that Twitter both received and ignored during that same time frame was fewer than 98, despite the fact that Twitter is orders of magnitude larger.

No doubt there are instances of similar behavior that go under the radar on Twitter and every other comparable site, but once your hosting provider has contacted you about a specific instance that's probably a sign you should do something about it.
Why do they feel that have to remind the armed forces of this? Do they think there is a conspiracy among leadership or rank and file?

Even if there were, a memorandum is not going to stop it. Oh, geez guys and gals, they told us to stop!

This is just PR and ingratiating themselves before the next budget.
Signal and Telegram are private communications. Signal doesn’t even know what the contents of these communications are.

Twitter and Parler are mostly public forums.
There is, perhaps, a slightly different power dynamic between you as a subscriber paying $9 a month, and you as a client of a huge near monopoly who can kill your livelihood at the whim of an algorithm.
Conversely, if you are willing to look past the surface-level compatibility and personality issues, you are going to find some under-priced, rough gems in the market.

Wall st. hedge funds do this well from my experience, not sure about SV.
Have your Slack chats been subpoenaed yet?

If not, you are very lucky that you are being sued by people with incompetent attorneys.
Someone remind Pelosi https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-coup-of-pelosis-own-116101487...
I think that's the sort of thing people refer to when they speak of "listening to the heart".
Forces – By Lars Brink
The oath to the Constitution and not to any President or general is an incredibly important feature of our military that should never be underestimated or undermined. I salute the Joint Chiefs to holding true to their patriot and solemn duty.
Having just attempted a repair on a pair of Razer headphones for my kid, I'd stay away.

It's all minimal cheap shit on the inside, barely held together with hot glue.
> The variety of viruses is totally irrelevant to the original question of what are one's odds of having COVID based on having cold symptoms.

It is an essential factor, unless you make the (implausible) assumption that we have essentially eliminated all other respiratory viruses except for SARS-CoV2.
Yes, but as a counterpoint that was due to offshoring of the domestic manufacturing base which was due to the setup of the international monetary system in 1971/1974 as well as a whole slew of policy decisions which made labor-intensive manufacturing businesses less profitable as a whole in the U.S. because of the necessity of running fiscal deficits and a strong dollar; so the red states were basically sacrificed in the grand scheme of things, not by their own volition.
It's incredibly reassuring to know that there are solid honorable people in our armed forces that eschew politics in favor of doing the right thing. I'm sure they don't hear it enough, but thank you if any members read this.
Glenn is absolutely right here. If anything, the article needs an update because of all the authoritarian shit (new patriot act, sending rioters to gitmo, etc) proposed over the last week.
Is this the first time something like this has happened?

Also, does anyone read these parts as contradictory & likely a lie?

> U.S. officials said Milley had not commented on last week’s events because he wanted to stay out of politics.
> The silence was in sharp contrast to June, when Milley made a controversial walk to a church with Trump after law enforcement officers backed by National Guard troops used tear-inducing chemicals and rubber bullets to clear the area of peaceful protesters.

Is it possible perhaps that the Joint Chiefs were seeing how the insurrection played out before picking sides? What would this situation had looked like if the rioters had murdered a bunch of congresspeople? Would the Joint Chiefs be saying "it's a national emergency and Trump must stay President to calm things down"?

I know there's a tendency to valorize the military leadership, but given how politicized the general environment is (& even moreso with Trump's known penchant for selecting for yes-men), is it really that absurd to think about whether they're doing some professional fence-sitting rather than trying to avoid polarization? It doesn't take that much to come out right away and say "an attack on the capitol is unacceptable & anyone involved will be punished. We will have more to say once we take in the totality of what has happened"
I worked in a recording studio for 6 years. It had started as a punk rock shop, but by the time I worked there had grown into a mid-level facility with a diverse clientele; I recorded two koto albums, remastered a Marcel Marceau interview record, did transfers of lost tapes from Cambodian surf rock bands wiped out by the Khmer Rouge... it was day after day of solving hard technical problems with very limited budgets to help individuals achieve their personal artistic visions, and an ongoing celebration of freaks letting their freak flags fly.

I dream of open source software communities with a similar ethos, but they must exist within a vast sea of tech industry assholery and misogyny, and are so easily swamped.
You can an article saying anything. But the global ice meltoff is not imaginary.

I like to say, on a summer day you defrost your freezer. The kitchen, of course, gets cooler for a while. But once the ice is gone, its a hot summer day everywhere.
Yeah this policy mismatch definitely seems like a "nobody in legal has noticed yet".

They're gonna notice real quick the next time they get sued by somebody clueful enough to subpoena that goldmine.
Maybe this is an opportunity to create a new kind of Show/Ask HN, called “Who’s got questions?”

For example. I’m a self-described senior electron/react/iOS app dev and I have created exactly one API in my life using node/express/GraphQL/mongo/redis on heroku. It works great! I had a ton of fun learning and deploying and now maintaining.

Now... I want to add some features such as long-running (30s-10m) batch jobs. How do I go about doing this? I noticed Redis has Bull ... but I’m still not clear on the architecture. I feel a bit stuck and nervous I’m going to pick something that’s going to fall over at the slightest traffic.
I can’t recall the name of the software off hand, but you can use your iPhone as an external camera for your Mac.

EDIT Looks like there’s a couple of options, for example EpocCam.
> If EU doesn't have valuable companies and cannot produce valuable products how come that EU is not much different for living standarts than the US then?

I think you need to turn this question around: if the USA has all these valuable companies and all this amazing innovation, how come our standard of living is the same or lower than that of Europeans? What's all that stuff for? Just making a bunch of people very rich?
> encourage competition through enforcing open standards

Big Tech destroyed this hope the moment it banned Parler and everyone cheered this ideological censorship.

Big Tech crossed every line in launching a coordinated attack on a rival. The damage this has done cannot be quantified. The ideal way to have gone about this is involvement of Courts/Legislature to decide if Parler should be banned or not. Not a group of private companies deciding to fuck a competitor. It is a horrible horrible precedent which has absolutely zero excuses.
There was significant ex-military presence at the riot. The woman shot was a 14 year Air-force vet. You can see how this could send mixed messages to US civilians and the enlisted
I have similar observations and concerns in regards to the United States’ overdependence on China as its supplier. I believe COVID-19 has revealed how dependent we are on China for even the most basic of supplies. America’s inability to domestically manufacture simple things such as masks is deeply worrisome. Think about it. We are unable to manufacture basic things at scale to fulfill basic needs of the country. We are no longer self-dependent. America’s generals have voiced concerns for years about how the majority of rare earth metals are derived from China. Metals of which are used in all of our sophisticated technology, such as computers, missiles, jets, satellites, etc. But COVID has revealed that these concerns span far greater than just technology and weapon systems. Similar to how the tech conglomerates can unilaterally erase the president of the United States in one fell swoop, China can also pull the rug from under us when it comes to supply chain. It’s a national security issue. We shouldn’t make ourselves so vulnerable.
I think they're saying

a) Do not commit crimes as a serviceperson, no matter who orders them

b) Anything that disrupts the transition of power is a crime

c) At 12:00p on January 20, Joe Biden is the commander-in-chief, not Donald Trump

I pray it works, because it could get really ugly if Donald Trump attempts to give orders to defend what he claims to be his stolen second term.
I responded to someone who didn't even attempt to make the case how all users of Parler are "violent extremists", they just pulled out that broad brush to justify a transgression. That's intellectually so dishonest I see no functional difference between that and what one would criticize extremists for, and I don't see a meaningful difference between "not minding" a breach of someone's rights and committing it, so that's the violent bit.

> He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

But if you don't mind their use of "violent extremists" apropos nothing, no, I don't particularly "care to" explain myself to you for using the same phrase in response to them -- I just do it because I can. You could simply remove or ignore my re-using that phrase and my point would stand unchanged. Address the core of an argument, don't just play "gotcha" while ignoring the context and the woods for the trees.
No one alive when that constitution was written thought abortions should be legal. (I support them by the way) And yet without any amendment, it was discovered that actually the constitution had forbade state laws against abortions that whole time! This constitution stopped being meaningful a long time ago. Reminding the troops of this (most of whom are young christian men) is probably a bad idea.
There has been some community movement on a rust implementation but it’s pretty big and still a moving target. I might wait a bit still
It should call the police.
There's a number of people that believe the military is going to be used by trump to overthrow the election results and instate a trump government. Otherwise known as the made up q 'conspiracy'. Sadly people I know believe this, and there are military personnel whom also believe it. Therefore it's nice that the joint chiefs declare a position, even if they shouldnt have to.
At the same time, it’s pretty scary that things got so bad, the armed forces had to weigh in on a political matter.
> Do they think there is a conspiracy among leadership or rank and file?

I mean that’s a pretty safe assumption in any organisation of 1.3m people.

There’s also no harm in any organisation of that size in reminding people explicitly what their orders are, in no uncertain terms.
'QAnon Shaman' in Federal Custody Granted Special Organic Diet
Yes of course, but there also comes a time at such companies that have experienced exponential growth (primarily attributed to innovation) that the innovation curve reaches a plateau and the focus shifts to brining in the next hot CEO to deliver profits and profits only by reducing overhead and increasing market share. At this point, any innovation and employee morale goes running out the door.
Cool. When are we going to enforce the no politics rules again?
You use text records and have a key value pair in a record.
Viral Traffic Solution
Another crackpot theory by a non-native speaker. Chinese is logographic. You can't simultaneously claim that different dialects are seperate languages and also claim that they were secretly writing phonetically all this time. They wouldn't be mutually intelligible even in writing. Hand-waiving away a logographic system as a "syllabry with redundancy" is exactly the type of dumb semantic game I would expect from HackerNews. I guess you think a car is just a bicycle with more wheels and an engine too.
Mike Milley apologized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4JaQMxbC3c

Just before the election, he reminded Trump administration that all this nonsense is not going to dwell anywhere in the military: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMaI1Hg8dl8
1)If Trump gave an illegal order, the Joint Chiefs are reminding leadership and rank and file of their true allegiance and duty.

2)Unambiguously leadership on core principles is not a PR stunt.
Very good question.

It has been tested in court before and the test failed

https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/hans-bu...

> The Court first acknowledged that Mr Nix’s conviction for having displayed a picture of Himmler with a swastika armband in his blog post amounted to an interference with his right to freedom of expression. Then, it went on to analyse whether this interference was prescribed by law, in pursuit of a legitimate aim, and necessary in a democratic society. On the first two parts of this test, the Court noted that Mr. Nix’s conviction had a legal basis (Article 86a of the Criminal Code) and that it pursued the legitimate aim of the prevention of disorder.

> The Court went on to say that, “[i]n the light of their historical role and experience, States which have experienced the Nazi horrors may be regarded as having a special moral responsibility to distance themselves from the mass atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis”. [para. 47] Furthermore, it considered that the “legislature’s choice to criminally sanction the use of Nazi symbols, to ban the use of such symbols from German political life, to maintain political peace (also taking into account the perception of foreign observers), and to prevent the revival of Nazism must be seen against this background.”

> The Court concluded by reiterating that the historical experience of Germany was a weighty factor to be taken into account when considering cases involving Nazi symbols, and whether there exists a pressing social need for interfering with an individual’s right to freedom of expression in this context. ... Therefore, the interference was found to be proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued and “necessary in a democratic society”.

Sounds like wishy washy nonsense to me
Logically speaking, my sentence is correct.
I remember reading this while in college and being fascinated how it made these concepts easily comprehensible
I am flabbergasted that they mentioned Biden being the 46th president. This implies that the joint chiefs of staff do not believe Trump will be removed before inauguration when it is very much a political discussion right now.

Is it reasonable to suspect Trump will stay on until inauguration? Sure. But Trump could have a stroke and straight up die tonight, making Pence president for a week.

It’s fascinating to me why they didn’t simply say Biden will become our next president.
What happened in Washington hasn't happened since the war of 1812 when the British took over the city. To me, it's reassuring to know that the people responsible for defending this country have a calm steady hand and that they will not put up with bullshit anti constitutional behavior. They won't support a tyrant and they will ensure that a transition of power happens no matter what.
One of the guys who brought in zip tie hand cuffs was also a military vet.
Oh no, not at all a polite hint, I really do like when interesting things like this resurface and when there's a link to past discussions on it.
This reminds me of something I've always wondered:

Why isn't the United States, unlike the Roman Empire before it, constantly plagued by ambitious generals swaying large fractions of the military to their cause and trying for ultimate power?

For the Romans, this was particularly a problem for legions stationed in far-flung corners of the empire like Syria and Britain.

So why do US forces in, say, South Korea or Germany never declare allegiance to their local commanders rather than the State?
So profound and poetic.
Reminds me of this fun quote from the View: “Can’t the ACLU sue Trump for hate speech?”
Who tf would downvote that??
> I like setting up and configuring servers

That should be in about the last position on your list of reason why your startup makes decisions.

The top of your list starts with "I want to make money out of this" and "I know how to solve this problem a lot of people have" (probably but not necessarily in that order), followed by "I'm experienced and fast in programming language $X using framework $Y and database $Z", and with "I like configuring servers" at least 100 places further down the list.
> Trump's own children literally got jobs at the white house, ffs. The hypocrisy is deafening.

One politician being corrupt does not reduce the likelihood of another politician being corrupt.
For the tribeless among us the hyper partisanship is also very evident.
Nice idea. I just tried it - looks like alpha is ignored for colors specified in ::visited and the alpha of the non-visited color is always used.
Note that that's an opinion piece and it doesn't appear the author has actually read the U.S. Constitution. Section 8 says: "The Congress shall have Power To... make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;"

The use of nuclear weapons is clearly covered by that clause and several others giving Congress the power to regulate the military, whereas the Executive has the authority to execute those duly regulated rules.
You should have enough karma to downvote and flag this post if you think it goes against the rules. We can't expect the poor HN mods to enforce the rules 24/7

Aaaannnnd it's gone front the front page, that was quick
AWS also has Cognito which is closer to Auth0 I think?
Normally they would not say anything at all. If they wanted to fence-sit, they can just continue saying nothing, indefinitely. No one would think it strange. This statement is what's unusual.
I remember seeing a LOT of annual temperature graphs that started at 1998. It was particularly popular with data ending in 2008, because then it seemed like a natural choice to use a nice round 10 year window.
Even if Pence is taking over Trump as President, the number doesn't increment. It doesn't imply anything.
Urs Hölzle or Paul Buchheit, maybe?
I have a hard time reading this as anything but PR, as a sibling commenter pointed out. There is zero chance that the military will stage a coup. None. If you don't believe me, I encourage you to ask members of the military themselves what their feelings are on this.

The military is under the command of the civilian government. There's no protocol for them to act alone. I don't understand why we insist on telling each other these ghost stories about a potential takeover.

It really doesn't matter if there were a few ex-military people in the march on the capitol, either. They're not military leaders.
>Where are people to see these shining examples and learn not to go down that path? How do they sharpen their arguments or even know the opposition?

The same place they've always been. On college campuses debating with philosophers. As well as everywhere else that happens.
> Would you be equally supportive if Twitter had deployed a private army of mercenaries to police the Capitol?

I'm done with this conversation as it doesn't seem to be productive or in good faith.
One person wants to speak, 80 million people don’t want to hear him, 70 million do, so who’s rights are abridged?
Many far-right organizations encourage their members to join the military whilst keeping their affiliations secret, mainly for training and spying. However, I'm sure they would love to sow disarray in the military if it meant achieving their coup. They wouldn't even need a majority of the military to be Nazis; just enough to sow confusion, draw attention and influence decisions.
Twitter Was Facing an Internal Insurrection If It Didn't Ban the President
Swiss Golden Exchange
How do you define hackable?
Also it is trivial to run unsigned code on a mac.

Signed binaries are a totally reasonable security feature for computers sold to people that will install anything. Having a reasonable (hard enough to find) workaround is totally acceptable in my book.

I also believe you can trust a self signed codesigning certificate if you want a more permanent solution (citation needed)
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Groupthink in Action: Individual Differences Disappear in 50-Person Groups
If U.S. forces defended the constitution, they would have stopped the confirmation of a fraudulent election.
You have to realize that people on both ends of the spectrum believe in these same crazy conspiracies.

Otherwise this wouldn't be news. There were articles from left-bias organizations over the weekend fearmongering about enlisted Trump supporters.

Believing in dumb bullshit takes _ALL_ kinds.
Is it possible perhaps that the Joint Chiefs were seeing how the insurrection played out before picking sides?

Not likely. Loyalty to the Constitution, and not the President or any one person, is the living cultural bedrock of the US military. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Milley spoke about this recently in the most explicit terms:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nMaI1Hg8dl8
The imagery of that photo op is more powerful than the apology that wasn't heard by as many people. Actions need to line up with words. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt though. Thanks for the context.
One reason is that civilians have ultimate authority over the armed forces, although generals have become President many times.

Another is that there is so much money to be made in the military and the surrounding defense contractors, and in the modern day glory with violence and conquering is less pleasurable than big houses and luxury cars.
Indeed! There is a popular saying, "Arithmetic is to mathematics as spelling is to writing." Of course, a mathematician is often good at arithmetic just like a writer is often good at spelling. However, someone merely good at arithmetic is no more a mathematician than someone good at spelling is a writer.

A related story from http://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothendieck-part2.pdf quoted below:

> There is also a running joke that mathematicians tend to be bad at mental calculations. The story about Grothendieck prime comes to my mind: In a mathematical conversation, someone suggested to Grothendieck that they should consider a particular prime number. "You mean an actual number?" Grothendieck asked. The other person replied, yes, an actual prime number. Grothendieck suggested, "All right, take 57."
> We know from documents and writings of the time that the founders didn’t agree on the Constitution before, during, and after it was written. They couldn’t even agree on whether it should be written, with many fighting against it on principle. The debates were harsh and sometimes violent, nearly tearing the country apart before it had been fully established.

https://benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/the-vag...
Afaik that's more to do with cellular patents than processor patents