skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Godwin's law just says that as the length of a discussion increases, the probability of a nazi comparison approaches 1. It says nothing about that even being a problem, much less losing the argument. Even better: as the length of a discussion increases, the probability of any comparison, any string of words, any combination of letters, "approaches 1". Something you can say about anything you might as well say about nothing.

People heard the meme a lot, so they think it has weight without actually having thought about it. Encouraging people to reveal this about themselves, with pride no less, is the singular useful property GL has.
If I had to guess I'd say they are not much afraid of the Saudi's (who only oppress people somewhere far away) but are afraid of a fascist take-over of the US, since they live here and have most of their money in the US banks.
Excellent breakdown. Thank you. Yes as I've said only legislation will end this tyranny.

To guard this data to the point they were willing to throw Aaron Swartz in jail for 35 years is beyond reprehensible. It's simply abhorrent the way they have acted as gatekeepers to this kind of knowledge.

They are responsible for slowing things down. Not speeding them up. These gatekeepers are holding us back. Lives could be saved. Millions of them. This data is a benefit to humanity as a whole and it should be treated as such.
So, I don't think I could have explained the key thing that's different about Twitter any better than it was done in this evening's court filing from Amazon:

Parler’s Complaint is replete with insinuations that AWS had equal grounds to suspend Twitter’s account and thus discriminated against Parler. . . But AWS does not host Twitter’s feed, so of course it could not have suspended access to Twitter’s content.
( CEH) Certified Ethical Hacker
I'd take that bet. Leaked conversations from Twitter and Google insiders show that the platform owners are well aware of the power their platforms give them. That's a power that can't be accurately measured in dollars, and speaking purely selfishly on their behalf, one that they'd be fools to give up.
> I think many people tuned out the moment he recommended injecting bleach - but there was still value in the briefings. It was something that I know a LOT of people actually paid attention to.

This is an interesting comment re:communications and the messaging that reaches people. Trump did not recommend injecting bleach. He went on a rambling mostly incoherent recollection of a conversation he had where he was trying to learn what was being done. He was trying to sound smart.
His comments were all questions to the med experts. "Is there a way we can do something like that?" "Are we going to check on that?"

Yet everyone jumped on it saying he "claims" or "recommended". And it became "truth" because news articles covering the press conference used phrases like "claims" and "recommended".

> "So I asked Bill a question some of you are thinking of if you're into that world, which I find to be pretty interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether its ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said, that hasn't been checked but you're gonna test it. And then I said, supposing it brought the light inside the body, which you can either do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're gonna test that too, sounds interesting. And I then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute, and is there a way you can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it (COVID19) gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it'd be interesting to check that. So you're going to have to use medical doctors, but it sounds interesting to me, so we'll see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it goes in one minute, that's pretty powerful."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=33QdTOyXz3w
Yeah, I think the laptop mostly smelled like bullshit, but still think there are legitimate concerns around Burisma and whether pay-for-access happened.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339A

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-slams-cap...

Perhaps tech companies simply see the writing on the wall
The story was will written and I do like the telewindow. Reminds me of the hacks with the Nintendo wiimotes (1). Definitely trivial but really cool!

(1) http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
Twitter tweets supporting Open Internet
Using a VPN by Big Tech is like buying fire insurance from an arsonist. What is even the point?

I trust way more my ISP at this point.

Maybe Mozilla needs some introspection and clarification between their 1998 values and their 2021 values.
http://archive.is/sfiEp
Well, what are you claiming is more obvious/correct/simple/clear? Certainly I'd hold that it's more so than any other major physics: relativity, Maxwell's equations, or even Newtonian mechanics are less clear IMO.
State of JavaScript 2020
> Those abstractions are by nature leaky

Do you have any examples?
Russia behaved exactly the same after the DNC hack. They made up a story about some Romanian hacker called Guccifer but their cover up was debunked by Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wnxgwq/guccifer-20-is-likely...
You can have an okay economy without tech heavy hitters, but the point is that being dependent on US internet tech or Russian natural gas or whatever can be a significant vulnerability.
Does it pass the generic xfstests?
That doesn't seem like it would matter much on its own. You can pretty easily guess HN item IDs, too. e.g.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244871 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244873
The Mercers have billions they could spend on this:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-backed-by-mercer-family-...
Depending on where you live local markets might do. A guy I talked to in Perry Utah mentioned 22 peach varieties.
Likewise data quality from trustees in the financial sector can be pretty variable.

I suspect that areas where data crosses from one company to another (or even department to department) without some strongly enforced standard will have these sorts of issues fairly often and benefit from tools like this.
Do you have a source handy for the missed email thing? I'd love to read a firsthand account.
In the case of Handshake, the root is centralized in something that's decentralized - the blockchain.
Attempting (and Failing) to Escape Google (2020)
> properly accounting is a great way to save on money

The submitted page links back to a previous discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12119050

Funny enough the top comment on that discussion concludes:

> I now focus my efforts on income expansion rather than cost control. Some of you may say, recording costs is not controlling it. In that case, I find accounting, even less useful (once I have arrived at approximate cash outflow). Income expansion, puts me in a different frame, which I find strangely empowering. Even more so than the satisfaction that comes from having controlled costs.
Our giants came before us, swallowed the enormous complexity and presented us with simpler abstraction to build on.

When you move your work across environmental abstraction, these beneficial abstracts tend to show their cracks.

By keeping the production and the development environments similar, my team avoids deployment surprises and disasters. More importantly, we avoid the escalation calls that take you away from the family dinner table.

If you are gonna delpoy in a docker container, maybe develop in the docker container.
Parler v. AWS – Defendant Response (Opposing Temporary Restraining Order) [pdf]
"Disruptive".
But since both of these were targeting MS-DOS/Windows only It wasn't until 2011 and two owners later that C++Builder was really a cross-platform compiler.
The turnaround when I got a test just before Christmas in Melbourne was under 6 hours, only had to wait in line 5 minutes for the test too.
In college we had preachers that would come on campus and scream about homosexualality. They were some times directed in their criticism.

These preachers set a great example of batshit old guy. Some times an amateur philosopher would debate them. Usually everyone in the audience came away convinced if the horrors of homosexual bigotry.

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?
>This virus is significantly worse than the 1957 or 1968 flu

Evidence please? The person you're replying to actually posted a CDC link.
>Furthermore it is simply not true that Parler refused to work with Amazon. Parler's policy forbids hate speech and incitement.

Defenders of Parler keep repeating various versions of this, but it doesn't reflect reality. So either you're being lied to by their founder and taking him at his word and just repeating it without verifying, or you're intentionally misrepresenting what was actually on the site.

Amazon cited 98 examples of hate speech/calls for violence with included images that they had reported over weeks, long before "the mob" you speak of witnessed an attack on the Capitol and decided enough is enough. Odd choice of words too, "the mob" you speak of are freedom loving Americans who support the peaceful transition of power, even when it doesn't go their way.

> Over the past several weeks, we’ve reported 98 examples to Parler of posts that clearly encourage and incite violence. Here are a few examples below from the ones we’ve sent previously: [See images above.]

>It’s clear that Parler does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service. It also seems that Parler is still trying to determine its position on content moderation.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...
How are you sure it exists at all?

More seriously, I generally don’t put too much stock in questions of metaphysics...we have trouble enough explaining things _inside_ the universe, I’m reluctant to tear it all down and start from an even more fundamental place.

(I don’t mean to reject the question, it’s just my own preference to focus on questions closer to my reality; I think this question quickly moves towards ‘objective’ reality, and that’s a lot to handle!)
The interviewer: “In Rust We Trust, of course... But, O Say, Can You C?”
> Nevertheless, the measurement problem hasn't actually been solved. The Born probabilities haven't truly been derived, except under some truly restrictive assumptions.

True enough, but what else could you expect the experience of being in the Everettian universe to look like? I think it's fair to say that experimental results are at least compatible with reality following the Schroedinger equation without needing a collapse postulate.
They may not be more "advanced" in a moral sense but there is certainly an evolutionary ordering here, in the sense that every known alphabet ultimately originated in some pictographic writing system, but pictographic writing systems don't originate from alphabets.
Less than a 1000 people stormed the Bastille to kick off the French Revolution. Many bloody revolutions start with small and symbolic conflicts. I would not be at all surprised if many the people who attacked the Capitol believed this to be an opening salvo.
>When does an insurrectionist turn into a revolutionary?

They don't. The terms are synonymous.

>Obvious disclaimer: I don’t hold a candle to this fight in either direction but can empathize with both sides

Why is that obvious?

And as to the idea that you can "empathize with both sides," Who do you think those "sides" are?

They are most certainly not those of the two major political parties in the US.

They are not even those who consider themselves "conservative" or "liberal."

In reality, one side supports our constitutional form of government and the rule of law. The other side despises the rule of law and seeks to use violence, intimidation and lies to destabilize my home in an attempt to seize power.

The former are 98%+ of my countrymen (many of us disagree about a great many things, but not about our constitutional republic and the rule of law), and the latter are a tiny minority who wishes to impose their will on everyone else.

If you see things differently, I'd love to hear your arguments.
I was surprised by Svelte's increase in usage. Most other results matched my expectations. I need to work with Svelte more!
I'm guessing this was submitted because of Twitter's ban of Trump's account, so I'm responding accordingly.

I don't think anyone thinks open internet is a bad thing, or that censorship is a good thing.

I DO think it's up to each of us to figure out which is the lesser evil. Counting this link, the evils up for ranking are:

1. Twitter banning Trump's account.

2. Trump using his account to incite hate.

3. Internet service providers being ordered to block social media and messaging apps.

If I had to rank them from most -> least evil, I'd say 3, 2, 1.

Possibly others here will have a different ranking. But for gods sake lets argue about the ranking and not about whether censorship is bad or not, since that dead horse has been brought to life and beaten to death again.
As someone who moved to the US in their teens, American life reminds me football teams. These similar "fan like" group attachments branch out into so many aspects of American life.

It's one side vs. the other. We're better they're worse. One side must be good, one side must be bad. Like interviewing an Arsenal fan and a Chelsea fan about each other.

I honestly don't even know if these groups could possibly put aside their differences to see themselves as all Americans. It seems like everyone is in the mindset of "I'm Team A", "I'm Team B", etc. rather than all part of the same whole.
Or sit at my lunch counter and order a smoothie, or force me to bake a cake for you?
This is probably my third time reading this... but how does one actually become a Done and Gets Things Smart person?
Checkout http://cryptopanic.com/news - it's like a prepopulated RSS reader, but also allows its users to vote and comment. Good luck.
Presumably this would be useful if you have apps that currently expect a posix fs since not all (maybe a majority even) of apps don’t run on the cloud. I imagine it’s a drop in replacement for NFS.

Cloud storage access control and data lifecycle control is much more advanced which is something you would probably have to give up with this. Eg IAM restrictions per bucket/object, lifecycle policies etc.

If you’re writing new apps, I don’t see why you would want to add another abstraction layer rather than access cloud storage directly except for very specific use cases.
So tech companies are editorial institutions? I thought they were platforms.

And it's not as if you can just go to the social media network down the street. Sites like Parler are trying to be those alternatives, and it's a tough business to even be #2 in.

Higher quality people might not like the seedy pawn shop in that strip mall with all the WW2 memorabilia, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to try to do business.
This is completely rose tinted glasses.

There have always been lots of techniques that people claimed as magic bullets for security. They were there in the 1960s-80s, and there still are.

And yet Modern OS's, routers, basic apps are much more secure than the equivalents then.

I mean in the 1970s, there was the Ken Thompson backdoor and no one knew about it until he disclosed it in his ACM Awards acceptance speech[1].

Nowdays there are provably secure kernels[2] in real world deployments, and high assurance kernels[3] in billions more.

[1] https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html

[2] https://ts.data61.csiro.au/projects/seL4/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#Commerci...
In addition to being a lot simpler, this is also a godsend when accessing gmail from countries with strict firewalls over eg ssh tunnels...fewer resources, less overhead, more reliable
I feel like I'm in the minority here, but I'd like to start a discussion about this! Could you elaborate some? Judging just from your one liner, this sounds like it is ripe for misuse.

Dumb examples off the top of my head:

- Lets pretend my spouse died in an accident. Everyone is understanding and I'm afforded whatever time-off I need. While I'm out, someone quits and my boss asks (they don't assume I will say yes) me if I can be in the office a couple hours on Friday to help with an important deployment. I say yes, but an hour in I spontaneously start crying at my desk. This makes it difficult for my neighbor to get their work done. Would I be breaking the no drama policy?

- What if instead of spouse's death, war erupts in my country-of-origin and I may never be able to return there. A coworker asks what's up and instead of saying "nada," I tell them and it makes them uncomfortable.

- What if I was at a rally for $opposite_political_thing and a coworker sees me on the news and asks me about it. I tell them, and contrary to what I think I know about them, they don't react well to my response and feel really uncomfortable?

Clearly we've got more and less borderline cases, but from the right purview all of the examples could be considered drama. "No drama" feels like the HR equivalent to "your taillight is out."

How does your office decide what is drama? What if you don't think it is drama? Is there some type of arbitration? What happens if you win your arbitration case, but that spoils the office?

Sorry for all the questions, I'm genuinely interested.
> Cute contrarian takes and “repugnant ideas” can be Freakonomically fun, but they don’t always have much to do with reality.

This has been on my mind a lot. Everyone wants to be the contrarian who ends up being right and hailed as a genius. It’s the intellectual equivalent of nailing the game winning 3 pointer.

But it is very dangerous to pursue being a contrarian on purpose. Being contrary to popular opinion is an awful heuristic for correctness, and quite often it leads towards you just being a crank and not being correct.
Oh, in Canada we have snow and flooding:

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/opg-flood-review-1.537...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_of_the_North#Floods

The Maritimes especially gets all sort of weather.
I wonder if this apparent difference in standards is just standard globalism. Export dirty work to other countries so the homeland seems cleaner. Extract the best and brightest from elsewhere to maintain intellectual advantages. Arab Spring for thee but not for me.
You can also use something janky like matterbridge to link with other things (poorly). Depends on your use case for federation.

https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge
Sure, but you're selling something other than a platform for open interaction and discussion at that point, right?
It has plenty to do with it. Watching TV, is not staying informed.
Long overdue! Really sad why this wasn't done earlier. Regardless of false negatives, this will certainly dent imported case numbers, though it would have had much more impact earlier on in the pandemic.
Why would they be against them? By now isn’t it widely recognized that body cams help police more than they restrict their behavior?
It should be noted that Twitter is a pretty volatile stock and has had plenty of single-day 10% swings before, this just being yet another one of them (I do think this was causal though, so at least the headline is half-accurate, the other half being their market cap decreased by $5B, they did not 'lose' it).
Notable:

> Parler’s Complaint is replete with insinuations that AWS had equal grounds to suspend Twitter’s account and thus discriminated against Parler. For example, Parler cites the hashtag “#hangmikepence,” which briefly trended on Twitter.

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

I'm curious to understand what they actually mean by this. Portions of twitter are not on AWS? Certainly runs counter to this press release from amazon: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...

I guess they're saying they don't host Twitter yet.
This is a follow up to the 2009 post here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170524023553/http://freakonomi...

which cites a BBC article stating:

> For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

> Professor Easterbrook says: “The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling.”

Needless to say, the 2009-2039 "cooling cycle" isn't off to a great start.
Then how were you able to come to the conclusion that they knew a big % of their content would be hate speech and plotting violence?

Or, even that a big % of their content was hate speech and plotting violence regardless of what Parler knew or thought.
interesting how top heavy a 'social' network is if one single person moves the value that much. Gives an indication of how celebrity focused twitter is. Would be interesting to know how few people generate say, 80% of the value.

Also wonder what would happen if you just capped the number of max followers one can have or charged for shares, introducing some scarcity or locality. I once thought about making one where posts have to be paid for in some virtual currency that's limited per month but given how much it violates every expectation people have of social interaction now it'd probably go down like a lead balloon.
> Yeah, but if you're blindly installing a third party's binary blob, it's hard to call that "zero trust".

No, "zero trust" means you install it (or anything) but assume that is is malicious so take proactive steps to limit its access within your network.

"Zero Trust" means assuming everything (including your compiler) might be compromised, so try to limit the damage any one incident can cause.
> These don't sound like things that the Russian government or any nation state would be saying.

I mean this could just be an attempt to make it _seem_ like it's not a nation state.

One way to essentially guarntee that it _was_ a nation state is for the stolen data to never turn up for sale to the public/back to the owners as we would naturally assume whoever the actor was was happy just keeping everything to themselves, something only a nation state would ever really do. a non-nation state's only real motivation would be financial and so if no evidence of that ever came about, the only real alternative would be to assume it was a nation state.
And you can still go to dark corners of the internet and view all sorts of hate speech.
I advocate for using Route 53 as a database and even I think this is terrifying.
LLVM does indeed use known suboptimal algorithms for increased speed. Its register allocator is an example: a "perfect" register allocator is NP complete, and LLVM uses a relatively simple greedy algorithm instead.
> Allowing anyone to edit anyone’s post seemed insecure.

Insecure in what manner?

To me it's no more insecure than a VCS - sure, anyone could edit anyone else's code, but version history was always there.
Looks like facebook has falling ~6%.

Shopify has risen, not sure why.

Fiskars stock has gone UP which is surprising because their sales of Pitchforks must have surely plummeted after the bans.
No freedom is absolute. As a society, we choose where to draw the line for the common good. We can choose to make whatever laws we want to regulate business and technology. Indeed, we already have made many, many of them.

Tech benefited enormously from moving fast and being mostly unregulated as a result. Looking at the finance industry though, every new law was written in blood or tears over the course of centuries. Now blood has been spilled by social media in the US Capitol and the world has taken notice.

It's not going to be easy or fast, but good policy can help keep Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg from controlling the political outcomes of every democracy in the world.