skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing particularly wrong about it. Twitter does something like this with a bit of timing thrown in the mix, which is why some smart-asses have made self-referencing tweets:

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20090805/

I believe they also for a long time had a public API^.. and I'm pretty sure they soft-delete posts (bonus that they could revive the tweet down the track if it was a 'mistake'). I don't think the Twitter team are amateurs though.

Having monotonically increasing IDs for non-distributed systems removes the possibility of duplicate IDs. In distributed systems ID conflicts are unavoidable, and you might have less conflicts if you generate random IDs, as well as it becomes difficult for an attacker to guess IDs.

^ likely it would have been rate-limited, which isn't a problem if you've got a large pool of users you can authenticate with
There's so much of this on HN on any even remotely politically charged topic. 99% of the conversation on anything technical is logically consistent, good faith discussion, but mention anything that the right wing political zeitgeist has decided to diverge from reality on recently and suddenly I'm surprised anyone manages to string together complete sentences.
Maybe a blow to China too, who can no longer police their internet as a great wall, if the sky is open?
They’re not worried about a military coup, they’re worried about a civilian coup by the civilian who commands the military.
The one bit of data you're missing here is that electors are selected from the ranks of party loyalists. They are not impartial judges of what happened, nor should they be. It's unlikely there will ever again be a scenario where faithless electors void the will of the voters. Even in the case of Trump, a historically bad candidate, there were only a handful faithless electors, and most of them were defectors from Hillary Clinton!
But "Hang Mike Pence" trending in Twitter is OK. Amazon should ban Twitter as well.
From Amazon’s POV, the same sequence of events may look like this: people were kicked off from Twitter; they sign up for Parler; the amount of insurrection planning on the platform skyrockets; FBI starts calling Amazon; leadership decides they’ll rather take a lawsuit than risk being involved.
In case you haven’t noticed, US politicians (and military leadership is definitely political) love to proclaim they are defenders of the constitution (when it benefits them) and make excuses why the constitution doesn’t apply (when it benefits them).

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Edit to respond to reply below asking if there are no honorable people in the military.

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Not saying that there are no honorable people in the military. There are plenty.

What I’m saying is getting to leadership position in the government, business or military requires a lot of political savvy.

Of course everything the Joint Chiefs said is accurate, but also view it through the lens of how saying it now benefits the person saying it.

It’s pretty apparent that the Capitol Riot has led to a major shakeup across the entire government. It’s apparent that everyone is looking to position themselves as best they can for the post-Trump world.

Think of it like after Germany was defeated in WW2. Collaborators told stories of how they bravely resisted. Those who just laid low painted themselves as brave partisans. Some hated Germany for their own selfish reasons but post-war could exploit their resistance and claim to be nationalists. Others saw a power vacuum and realized now was the time to exploit it.

It’s quite interesting to watch.
You can turn off notifications for your contacts joining Telegram in settings, but what’s annoying is that it will still create a new empty chat for the both of you and that cannot be disabled. It’s annoying to have to delete that chat manually for contacts I’d never even chat with (but are there for non-Telegram purposes).

The other solution for this is more of a nuclear approach where you disable contact sync and manage contacts in Telegram manually.
That is not what I was expressing. I am observing that this censorious behavior will predictably lead to others using violence. 70 million Americans voted for trump. How do you expect them to respond to this censorship?

We have got to find a way to get along.

Those who leverage their power this way will create the outcome they claim they want to prevent.
WhatsApp and Facebook’s ultimatum to users reveals a privacy disaster
Basically what happens for very important non-technology news, is that users flag the post off the page (which is intended behavior according to the admins.) Then dang picks a post to resurrect and focus discussion on. I believe the last time this happened was when the US presidential election results came in.
Actually, if you hand someone a check they indeed can just use your account and routing number to pay for things using ACH.

Hence why I avoid ever linking my bank to anything.
Destroying Parler sets a bad precedent. Who's next? As people cheer for Parler's destruction, consider what happens if the pendulum swings the other way. This isn't even necessarily a free speech issue. Editorial control implies a lot.

All that the valley has done is demonstrate quite clearly they are now too powerful and need tighter regulation. Protections can now be removed.

This wasn't a great idea. But it likely felt good.
Boot security. Check into it. They know. Just, obviously not highlighted.
Nope Pence would become 46 and Biden would be 47.
Mmmmm.... I think that could be pretty easily solved by simply allowing other app stores or something like that. That way maybe people can have the best of both worlds. (Also, preferably, the setting to allow other app stores would not be hidden behind a ton of menus).
More likely we'll voluntarily abolish the US.
Redhat.com's Enable Sysadmin linking to gab.com
When I read a few PDFs in this collection - it does not seem helpful. Anyone else perhaps can confirm that this is the case?
Does anyone else get tired of this non-stop narrative pushing in headlines? The patent is innocuous while the article constantly clutches at straws trying to make it sound evil. It's about posture and gait estimation and mentions ethnicity in China once, nothing novel at all other than locking it down in Chinese patent courts.

There's two links of this same article (one uses the .co.uk tld) on the front page right now, neither has comments and the article itself is hilariously bad.

First subheading: "Forced-labour camps"

Oh jeez maybe it wasn't about computer vision and race detection after all.

Technology is an agnostic tool, racial detection in modern computer vision in the west is taboo but it certainly happens quietly, undoubtedly there is demand.

I can get Azure to tell me your gender and age right now[1]

Or I can use the cameras in my insurance brokers office to tell if you are lethargic[2]

But for some reason detecting a persons race is offlimits and the western world is terrified of even bringing it up despite the fact that there is securities companies and governments using "bad man" detection tools in numerous ways [3][4][5][6]

Make up your own mind here.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/co...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13714

[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00138-020-01123-z

[4] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.01219.pdf

[5] https://www.technocracy.news/tech-startup-claims-can-detect-...

[6] https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/airports-facial-recog...
That's one of the ideas behind why these platforms which facilitate so much societal communication should not be treated as private corporate entities with regards to free speech they should be treated as public utilities
It's not much more complicated than just sticking it in an S3 bucket. This article seems to be more about the broader implications for your business about choosing one route vs the other. Guilherme mentions that GitHub Releases work fine for open source apps.
Starlink should host from space. Maybe servers on the moon.
Honestly I'm not sure they could: unlike The Feed which is something you look at when you're bored, search results don't benefit much from the normal click maximizers - i.e. "What you read next will SHOCK you!" isn't a useful result when I'm searching "difference between lawnmower blades".

We're basically there already as far SEO spam goes, and Google goes to some efforts to try and minimize that because it's a bad search experience and drives people away.
Hmm... The article says: "On July 6, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in both Chiafalo v. Washington and Colorado Department of State v. Baca that states may enforce laws to punish faithless electors." Is that what you mean? That seems like a "may" rather than a "must", and also talks about punishing them afterward rather than about voiding their vote.
According to Wikipedia :
"Gab is an American alt-tech social networking service known for its far-right and extremist userbase. Widely described as a haven for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right, it has attracted users and groups who have been banned from other social networks."

I'm a bit surprised (SAD) to see an otherwise quite informative article from Enable Sysadmin linking to this trash on Redhad.com
How does this compare with seaweedfs? That also has fuse and can store metadata and small data in redis and provides its own s3 api, so there's one less moving part.
I don't really understand the continuing appeal for CockroachDB. Yes there is some cool tech, but given that all transactions are synchronously distributed, there's a hard cap on how fast it can be. I have yet to see any significant case studies about real workloads, while their competitors like Vitess are seeing whole-scale adoption from their users - including Slack and HubSpot.
I cannot fathom how “military oath to constitution” is politics, but a zillion articles about tech companies deplatforming fascists as a “free speech” issue isn’t.

Edit: okay assbutts. Downvote all you want but anyone want to actually use words to say why a military oath to the constitution is “politics”? Thought not.
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Which we do you mean?

In Australia and the UK (at least) the standard spoken form would be '4th of September, 2019'.

This aligns with traditional short-date formats in those countries (dd/mm/yy[yy]).

But that just emphasises why adoption of an international standard is needed.
It’s a fantastic video. I k ow I am looking a gift horse in the mouth, but I cannot understand why he chose to show a video of related text rather than the actual text he’s saying. Yes, it is available as subtitles, the language is so hard to follow, everyone is going to need it.
Yeah. I see my friends sharing less and less content on FB these days. But then again, most stuff you see on a typical FB feed today is ads, groups, fanpages, Marketplace and whatnot. Definitely way less content related to friends (other than their fanpage comments).
Can we just go ten years back where everything was more spontaneous and candid? Where the thing to raise your pressure was your crush's hot beach photos, not people making themselves idiots in politically charged flamewars.
I've been learning a new language for the last few years and without Ankidroid, there's no way I would have made as much progress as I did. Being able to study while away from my computer was really a game changer for me. I build my decks with lots of audio, images, and other fancy features of Anki, but I've never had to worry about whether a feature will be compatible with AnkiDroid because everything in AnkiDroid is seamless.

I left a donation - thanks for all of your effort!
FYI The budget bill included Covid relief, but that wasn’t the purpose of it. It’s the same thing that happens every year.
Doesn’t work with FaceTime, unfortunately.
On your website you have a pricing page. Do you have much revenue?
Telegram develops and launches new features the fastest among the popular messaging apps. It’s kinda unbelievable how fast it moves the needle and leaves the rest far behind. Look at the newly launched Telegram Tips channel to see all the features it has, explained with animations and text.
Sorry. Was going from memory.
Yeah, he advises a bunch of companies. This sounds like they want to show themselves as elixir forward for recruiting purposes, which makes sense.
FWIW their competitor Teller uses the bank's own native APIs.

The idea is the bank can't shut off Teller clients without shutting off their own customers. This involves a lot of iOS reverse engineering.

So things like Plaid's Capital One integration breaking for months have never happened with Teller - who've been running for something like 5 years now.

https://teller.io/
Except 83% of the USA population lives in urban areas. Parent comment is suggesting that any candidate would rationally only focus on urban areas, urban issues, urban trends, etc.
I forget where I read it, many years ago, and I will probably butcher it but the gist of the idea was:

Freedom of Speech includes the Freedom of those whom the speech would be directed at to HEAR the speech. The abridgment of freedom of speech denies not only the speaker the right to speak but others the* right to hear what they may or may not disagree with.
100%.

Germany is so wrong about this, and this is not the way we should go.

We Americans needs to grow thicker skin and cherish our free speech more. If we don't, we're going to slip into a world with less liberty.

Libel, slander, and "yelling fire" are sufficient limits on free speech. Seeing or hearing people say things you don't like isn't going to kill you. Society already has the tools to shun those who act egregiously.

We have other legal mechanisms to quell the events that happened last week. Prosecute for politicians inciting violence, fine trusted news organizations spreading misinformation, jail those who destroy property, trespass, or assault another person.

We have ways to stop radicalization too: being better to one another and making sure people have their needs met.

I vehemently disagree with Voat, Parler, thedonald.win, /r/sino, J. K. Rowling, and many other communities and persons. But they have a right to carry on, and we shouldn't deplatform them.

If we didn't have free speech, we wouldn't have gotten to where we are today. I'd rather live in America than a country that has less free speech.
As someone who's worked in fintech for 10 years, I think this is a bad take. Out of all aggregators (what this is called), Plaid is by far the most open and privacy-forward.

First, they're transparent about being a 3rd party that's part of the flow (see https://plaid.com/blog/the-all-new-plaid-link/). It's clear it's Plaid, they use neutral colors and not the bank's, etc. They have a portal where you can manage your data (https://my.plaid.com/).

Second, they are very open about not selling data (unlike most of the their competitors). It's in their terms and their website (see https://plaid.com/how-we-handle-data/). I guess that could change, but from working with them I know it's part of their positioning so I'd be surprised if that changed.

Third, they've announced bank integrations and afaik they're moving to OAuth where the banks support it (I've seen this in the wild, but can't replicate right now). The key here is where banks support it. I think you have to look at the historical context: the banks do not want you to own your data as a consumer. They don't want fintech apps to exist. Having talked to banks about integrating directly with them, it's onerous and only the big players can do it. Plaid's fighting the good fight for fintech startups.

But yeah it's a less-than-ideal solution and it sucks that it doesn't work without creds flowing through and it's not clear regulators or banks will work to make it better. That sucks. I just think bashing on Plaid here is one-sided.

(throwaway account because I work in fintech)
Although the repo looks new, the founder said they've been building it for 4 years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25724925
The thing is finding the terminology, in the case of Redshift that is Sort Key, Distribution Key and primary key (though these aren't true primary keys they do influence the query planner).

It took me a few minutes but I found indexes are called projections in Vertica and are more like materialized views than true indexes, here are the docs with a breakdown, https://www.vertica.com/docs/9.2.x/HTML/Content/Authoring/Ad...

And here is a general walk through of the architecture including key concepts such as projections.
https://www.vertica.com/docs/10.0.x/HTML/Content/Authoring/C...

In a few cases I have had to go to published white papers on the technologies as well.

But honestly it's all searching for the right words and then crawling through docs and papers.
It's pretty easy to post online pseudonymously so I don't feel like it's a big issue.

I post online a lot and the vast majority is pseudonymous or anonymous.
Signal’s Eternal September?
It's definitely a thing - a couple days ago I've read an article where they did interviews with three people who got reinfected here in Czech Republic. It also mentioned a fourth person who unfortunately died due to being infected for the second time.

So even for a country with just 10 millions of people you can still find enough people who had covid twice to interview - how we fucked up the second and third wave notwithstanding.
>Being contrary to popular opinion is an awful heuristic for correctness

Seldom in politics and culture.
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I'm not sure I follow tbh. Wu writes:

> You want to write Chinese, you need an IME. Apple/Microsoft/Linux/Google all have their own IME, but they aren't very good- typing on them is SLOW. Most Chinese use [...]

So, the ask is that Signal (a western company) develop a Chinese keyboard that is better than the vast majority of Chinese keyboards on the market (something Wu says is hard for western companies), and then force all Chinese users to use it, even if they prefer something else? What happens if they develop a bad one?

Keyboards aren't that special here. Signal opens up links in web browsers and some users install insecure web browser (also more commonly in China than in the US). Signal runs on an operating system and some users install insecure operating systems (also more commonly in China than in the US). There's no logical stopping point here until the whole device is Signal.

I think it's good for Signal to try to do one thing (encrypted communication) well, rather than trying to do everything.
That's ok, I'm just asking the question in general. It's not that Amazon just decided to do it out of nowhere, people demanded it. So shouldn't Twitter be shut down by their cloud service provider, DDOS protection provider, domain registrar, payment processor or whatever service they do business with? Because I don't see anyone arguing for that.

Just as an aside, did they really tried to argue in court that AWS should suspend Twitter too despite not having anything to do with them? Jesus Christ, the incompetence in some of these people.
>Rather, one company... chose not to process online credit card transactions for them.

I don't see how people can make this argument with a straight face. If you accept that this one company should be allowed to decide to cut off someone for ideological reasons, you tacitly accept that all companies could cut someone off for the same reason. Hiding behind it being "only one" right now is to use a technicality to dodge having to defend the principle you are implicitly advocating. The action isn't more right or wrong because one or more company is doing it--you either defend the principle at full usage or you disavow it.
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Because it makes it seem that banning Trump was bad.
True, kooks do exist there, no doubt about it. But this statement will do nothing to change their minds (if they had any plans --which I doubt any would be that stupid, but then we have had base shootings, so...)
I haven't yet seen anything better than NNTP (the protocol of Usenet) and a decent news client, which used to mean tin on Unix and MT-NewsWatcher on MacOS. We used to have patches and CVS commit messages on code review groups and fork discussions seamlessly into dev groups. Mailing list email to NNTP gateways allowed ready collab with workers outside the group. Common NFS share allowed easy joint work without huge amount of code & build duplication. And it was possible to just grep every message in the News spool.

This was much better than Slack + github + email + Confluence + Teams + file shares + SharePoint -- no one knows where anything is or which chat system a conversation was on. Searching Slack is a fool's errand.

I attribute the failures of these systems to be their reliance on the pattern of centralised SQL+httpd+templated crud+js vs federated standardized exchange+text.

In modern web apps the client is embedded in the app by its very nature, and so the proprietary nature of each system makes community contribution impossible.
This is the letter of the law and regulations as they stand, but hopelessly naive as to how actual military command is handled. The military deployed a previously unused weapon on the president’s command without any consultation. This responsibility has been largely delegated from congress to the executive’s discretion (with review) for nearly two decades.

Reminding active service members that their oath is to the constitution, not the executive, at this moment is prudent.
But if Theo were to grant me access, but disallow e.g. putty, that would be well within his rights, no?
> ever again be a scenario where faithless electors void the will of the voters

Again? Was there a first occasion? Wiki says "They have never swung an election", citing a Newsweek article. Or do you mean there won't be any faithless electors at all?
For completeness another interesting case is Grover Cleveland. He served two terms, but they were not consecutive.

Some lists count him as both 22nd and 24th, and some count him as just 22nd.
“Transmission”, a popular Mac bit torrent client did it the simple way. They ended up distributing a disk destroying malware to their users.

If you only distribute your Mac software outside the store, and aren’t inherently ineligible for the store (like a full disk space measuring program) I just assume you are up to no good or don’t care enough about my security and pass on your product.

If you aren’t willing to fork over $100/year to at least minimally tie an identity to your actions and go through all the signing nuisance then you don’t get control of my computer.

Now that we are living in a notarized application world I may have to rethink this and loosen up, so the nuisance you go through notarizing your app is in some sense the entry fee to sell to some security conscious customers.
> What bank in the U.S. wont reverse fraudulent ACH debits?

Ah that’s the key though, you have to tell them to reverse it. I think you have 60 days in most cases. But the onus is on you to dispute the debit.
This just showed up on the front page last week! https://peerjs.com/