skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In February 2006, Linda Callahan was initially prevented from registering her name with Yahoo! as an e-mail address as it contained the substring Allah. Yahoo! later reversed the ban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Something i rarely see come up: misinformation is itself an assault on free speech. You are confusing the minds of people who have a right to the truth and therefore the freedom to express themselves. If someone believes a lie that was told to them, their thoughts aren't really their own. They were manufactured by a people whose goal was to gain something out of their ignorance. By contrast, if you were told the truth, you actually have the axiomatic foundations necessary to produce unique thought.

Your right to spread misinformation cannot be justified on the grounds of free speech.
See also another excellent article from this encyclopedia on the topic of porn and censorship, written by Caroline West: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pornography-censorship/
It is very easy for the buyer to get caught:

- Buy BTC from an exchange with KYC and then send it to the seller (police)

- Receive the product by post or collect it at a pick-up point where the seller (police) knows the address.

What strategies can the buyer follow to protect his privacy and trust the seller?
This lack of reliable handwriting is definitely an annoying point to me too. That being said, why do you think it won't get any better? Judging by their ads, Sony DPT-RP1 looked great in this respect. (I wonder if the actual experience matched the ad, though.) Furthermore, I wonder what you're referring to about interchangeability: are the current annotated PDFs somehow not interchangeable?
>True, but this just proves my point. It still doesn't take 6 months to fix this issue... if they wanted to fix it.

Just because it was reported as an issue doesn't mean it was thought as a bug (or an issue to fix) by Apple. That's what they wanted to do. People coded it explicitly.

>Deprioritizing it was a deliberate choice by Apple.

Of course. Why wouldn't it be?

>From my perspective, the explanation is simple: ContentFilterExclusionList wasn't a "bug", it was a deliberate "feature".

Again, of course. Some people complained this was a bug, Apple thought it wasn't, the issue remained on the back burner, until some time it was given more consideration and was decided to fix.

What I'm saying is "why this took 6 months" doesn't make much sense as a question. Why wouldn't it? Unless something is a show stopper or high impact bug, it would take time. Even to be accepted as an issue to fix in the first place will take time. Plus all the internal red tape.
Large reserves of shale oil and gas were found near Neuquen, Argentina (3rd largest reserves in the world of their type). Shortly after, the US installed an overseas base near that location.

Around the same time they put a base near the Guarani Aquifer, one of the largest freshwater reserves in the world.

The situation reminds me of the game Spore.
Yeah, such a filter would be a mbuttive problem due to all the mimanures.
Is there still no easy straightforward way in $current_year to put an absolute spend cap of say USD 0, USD 5, or USD 10 per month on Amazon.com web services or Google Cloud Platform?

I’d think I’d like to prepay a fixed dollar amount like USD 200 IF I anticipate some major event but really this is problematic for students. I just want to use the free tier. Why is this so hard?
Any similar books that are not written by either born US persons or people heavily influenced by US either via politics or education? Not saying the information in the books are not true, but would love an opinion and summation on the matter from someone not so deep into US politics.
Why would they lie and not just shut the hell up? It makes no sense.
> Are students at Stanford Business School really so far below the 95th percentile nationally?

In my previous big bank company we had some tests for our internal business school. Tests were mostly IQ type so the result was that, in the first few years, school was filled mostly with IT people. Later they changed tests (e.g. live case study test) so more business people did manage to go to the business school. So I guess, the answer would be yes :)
Yes. Yes, they do. It's terrifying.
The car equivalent would rather be something like entering
"null" as address in the car's GPS and this causing the entire
town's traffic light control to crash. Wouldn't be that funny,
would it?

Then there's just annoying stuff like the case where someone
paid to have "null" on their car's license plate, which suddenly
caused him to get all traffic tickets that could not be
correctly addressed.
The concern he references there is in the previous paragraph: “every cloud provider decided we were too objectionable to host”.

In other words, if "what if everyone refuses to deal with us on a mix of moral and legal grounds" is a realistic risk for your company, maybe you don't want to be there.
I hardly lived a "minimal" lifestyle, I just did what I wanted, including paying for my holiday with my girlfriend (who earned much less) and selling my house with a loss to move country (which also wasn't cheap in itself). I could have saved more if I wanted.

I also don't have a car – I don't even have a driving license – and that's indeed quite a large cost-saver. I also don't really have too expensive hobbies or need a new iPhone and macbook every year, so that helps as well.
> Stop accepting low salaries

Ok, now I'm unemployed, then what?

Salaries are determined by how much they'd need to pay someone else to replace you. It's an auction, not something you can set yourself by being stubborn.
on one hand you have multiple fighter pilots (who have seen the object with own eyes, not just instrumentation), military FLIR technicians, radar operators, CIC personnel, a navy admiral all claiming to have witnessed something unusual - on the other hand you got some rando youtube guy claiming it was a bird... interesting
Maybe the data compresses well and/or a lot of it is redundant (so instead of storing it raw you store it in a database and use relationships to link related pieces of data)?
How precise is a sundial? How high is the resolution of the camera? I'd imagine that on a bright sunny day with a high resolution camera showing clean sharp shadows, it'd be possible to get a precision much better than +/-1h.
> and their “predictive failure” notification is BS afaict. Maybe it’s new, but I’ve not yet seen it when my MCU starts acting up.

If they are using eMMC, it should be trivial to just query the controller about the flash health which should be a pretty accurate indication of when it's going to fail.
Given the speed I’m guessing it was towards S3 so there’s plenty of terabytes.
Something that I find interesting is that in the Netherlands no one talks about “freedom of speech”, rather, what is spoken of is “freedom to express opinions” — this different phrasing putting the focus not on the broad “speech” but the more narrow “opinion” seems to color the discourse differently.

For instance, the fire in a crowded theatre-argument has no meaning in that reference, for it is not an opinion; whether there be fire is a fact.

Pornography could also not be made legal by it, as it expresses no opinion.

In reality however, the Dutch constitution does not guarantee freedom to expression opinions unknown to much of the population, it merely prohibits the government from enacting præventive censorship with the exception of commercial advertisements and broadcasts aimed at minors — it is allowed to censor post factum.
I wish we would revisit these rulings in light of the destructive potential of software.

We accept that a person can’t cry out “fire” in a theatre to induce a panic. Why can’t we accept that coordinating messages for propaganda/special interests through misleading ads or fake accounts to also be damaging?

Why can a country like Saudi Arabia or Israel both whitewash its crimes on Twitter/Facebook and suppress its enemies? Why can corporations and rich political campaigns specialize ads to prey on fears in an individualized manner to advance its agenda?

Such opinions will trigger endless debates when the damage on the ground is real and ongoing. Post-reality is truly the terrible state of this world.
Yes, those aren't cached globally any more.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/firefox-v85-will-imp...

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/10/http-cache...
I suppose there's even environmental benefits to smoking/drinking yourself into an early grave. Think of all the resources you won't consume and CO2 you won't emit by not living those extra years
Sun Tzu: "If ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, defend against them; if weaker, be able to avoid them."
And yet Scandinavian countries have had great success by raising the price and limiting the availability of store-bought alcohol.

I think this is similar to some UX patterns we see in software: most people will go with the default option because it is easier. Raising the amount of effort needed for something means fewer people will end up doing it.
>Compulsory nit-pick that not all UK nations charge tuition fees to their residents btw :-)

True that, Welsh government can also cover 2/3 of tuition for students from poor families.
And who is the grand judge on what is misinformation?

Yeah, that is the whole point...
LeMay wanted to bomb Cuba immediately...

One thing that I cannot find a second citation for but really intrigued me is that there is apparently some kind of parallel-narrative around the double agent Oleg Penkovsky - at first glance he gave information to the west about the situation in Cuba, but on closer inspection some of his antics may be too good to be true (he apparently made it in and out of the Soviet Union alive despite being rumbled). Peter Wright in Spycatcher says that Penkovsky's assessments data of Soviet ICBM accuracy often didn't line up with satellite imagery of their missile testing ranges.

Ultimately we'll never know but its fascinating just how much we don't know about the cold war.
Wasn't this an ArchiveTeam Warrior project?

https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior

If so it's distributed among many volunteers.

But the data still has to end up somewhere... Archive.org?
I disagree, incompetance is rampant. I worked for a healthcare company who kept it's data at a Dell security center. One of their people ran a SQL script that deleted millions of billing records. They informed us later that they could not recover the data because every 24 hours they were writing over the one backup they kept. We had missed the window by a few hours.
> which not only permits tech companies to censor constitutionally protected speech but immunizes them from liability if they do so

Without that, they are not immune from liability for what someone else wrote. That means, they would censor more, because they would be liable full stop.

Private companies are allowed to censor on their servers by default, section 230 does not allow them to censor more then before.
I’m from southern Poland, flats are dirty cheap here. I bought one for 35k euro 4 years ago.

However, we are about to become expats in one month so I kind of think of selling now (few reasons, government taxes, house prices went up). I think that renting is way better in a long run (unless you plan to live in one city for more than 10+ years). As for buying, maybe some small house in my 50s in some less populated area like mountains or forest :)
Sure, but the question wasn't "does the NSA have access to data", it was "how do we know that information isn't stored."

The answer is that signal includes an industry-leading attestation process using CPU security features.

It's true that if the CPU manufacturer is compromised that would compromise anything running on it, including attestation. But that's not really to do with Signal's implementation, and it is out of scope of the question.
This appears to be a consulting group's website selling AWS cost reduction strategies and AWS analysis; they have a vested interest in saying that.

I clicked on the link expecting some sort of content on migration, but it's basically saying 'stick with the cloud unless you're a bad company'
The storage isn't that much of a deal, but I bet that was not on some cheap consumer Internet subscription as an ISP would have throttled her into oblivion after the first few TB.
To quote Blackadder: It was too difficult not to have a war.

I think any idea of the noble war between great nations died in the trenches of the first world war, although it was definitely preempted by the Army Napoleon assembled.
I like the fact that malware authors also seem to have trouble setting up a (secure) software development lifecycle. On the other hand if they were to threat model it, expoiting weaknesses in the agent does not cross a trust boundery so why bother. Imagine this would be different for their command and control infrastructure.
You mean translating jQuery to "native JS"? I suppose it's possible, but I don't know if anyone built anything for it.

All I know is that you can build a custom jQuery build with grunt, as described in their README, which is what I do. I mostly use JavaScript as if the last ten years didn't happen, so I'm hardly an expert on any of this :-)
Yes I think you're right. Very dishonest marketing.
> You are confusing the minds of people who have a right to the truth and therefore the freedom to express themselves.

That is a most silly argument.

One does not loose any freedom to express oneself if one believe in a falsehood, for if that were true, no man would enjoy any such freedom as all believe at least some falsehoods.
Only a very few developers in Europe have 35 hour week and many have to do unpaid overtime.
> or has any knowledge what Parler will do in the future.

We don't have to know that to analyse options they have. Which are pretty much: dodgy hosting which doesn't care what you do (and building part of infrastructure yourself); trying to self host and risk getting banned from colo; (not mentioned in the article) full tor migration and hiding what you host from the provider.
Reason. Reason is the judge
I would not consider an anecdote as a pertinent indicator to invest in the company but a warning to invest in a car.

Recalls are pretty common across cars manufacturers, even the ones seen as reliable, such as Mercedes or Volvo. As for as anecdotes go, I have rented an almost brand new Toyota that would turn the lights off on 90 degrees turn, that was frightening :)
When Elon Musk was talking about reality vs simulation, I couldn't help but think he's onto something

If you were going to play a simulation game, you would not be a normal participant. You would not play a normal person, you would play the successful guy at the top launching spaceships and making money.

So - the chances of Elon Musk being in a simulation are very high compared to normal people.
You seem to assume misinformation is perpetrated with cynical malicious intent. Misinformation may also be the result of people earnestly being misinformed or generally just ignorant.
Only if you simultaneously make sure that the truth does get heard.
>I'm also interested in the particular opsec failure for this iteration

The person running this site did not have anything near the technical skills required to operate a darknet market.

Instead of developing his own, he used a very clunky public script for his market https://github.com/5auth/eckmar-source

All of the early posts by /u/darkmarket on Dread were in /d/darknetmarketsAU. Very early on other users figured out his previous handle he used as a drug vendor.

DarkMarket was plagued by repeated IP leaks of its servers, and had its servers seized in the 2019 Cyberbunker raid.

https://twitter.com/SttyK/status/1349034993893265408

https://twitter.com/5auth/status/1349358474476613633

https://twitter.com/SttyK/status/1349261670477045760
It's not a strong point because you can make exactly the same argument for anything else you'd like to ban, including printable pistol schematics, anarchist cookbooks, terrorist propaganda, and so on. It's a cheap truism to say that if something is easily available this will make it more likely for people to become interested in it, will make certain people more inclined towards it, may create a market for it, and so on, than if the same thing was hard to find or not available at all. Yes, probably it will.
Because it's a lot clearer what gets run in what order.
You'll find out what 'unlimited' means in SaaS speak very, very much sooner than you expect if you tried really to utilize it.
Who is reason?
>is saving 10-15 lines worth it if you need an 86.1 Kb vendor dependency?

I don't actually use jQuery any more but obviously if you are using it, you are saving the 10-15 lines every time you use one of these methods, not 10-15 lines in your whole application. I have a hard time believing that the savings of code lines will not be close to the weight of the dependency in any medium sized company codebase.
I don't think those numbers are accurate.

Google and Facebook both have as many contractors as employees: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-wo...

> But the company’s increasing reliance on temps and contractors has some Google employees wondering if management is undermining its carefully crafted culture. As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times.

Accounting for those would reduce profit-per-employee to half. Furthermore, those contractors earn a lot less, further boosting the wages for the full-time employees.
Although I do find the popular copypasta quite funny it is slightly sad considering the frankly thankless lengths the GNU project has gone to.

I think we will see the pendulum swing away from open source software - the GPL has been a victim of it's own success, and has now been largely taken over by permissive licences.
Does your argument lead to the conclusion that only verifiably correct and true speech should be allowed?
The goal is longer survial or more disability-adjusted life years. The sources as far as I see do not really tell us much better we do with a colonoscopy every 10 years for a total of 3 times in your life than without.
Irrelevant. Misinformation is information that is known to be false by the spreader. They can not make the argument that they honestly thought it to be true.
How does group therapy promote health?
Group therapy helps a lot in dealing with health issues. When you have some disease, dealing with addiction of any kind, the stories of other people, listening to their issues, talking about how you feel kind of helps a lot. Group therapies are a wonderful way to interact with people and increasing communication of the patient.
https://landmarkrecovery.com/services/individual-group-therapy/
It must be specific to Windows. I can't reproduce it on Linux.
Parler CEO says social media app may not return
I know its kind of informal but do you have any current remote internship opportunities?
Use monero. There’s a reason why the second largest (now the largest, I guess) market only takes monero now.
This one from link 3 caught my eye:

"".__class__.__mro__[2].__subclasses__()[40]("/etc/passwd").read()

Looks to be a Python 2 specific way of trying to read a file in a sneaky way. I say Python 2 specific because Python 3 strings only have 2 supertypes now, so __mro__[2] is out of range, but __mro__[1] is 'object', and I'm guessing they were going for a file like class, but right now object.__subclasses__()[40] points at "mappingproxy".

And the only subclasses of object I can find with a read classmethod are these:

109 <class 'codecs.StreamReaderWriter'>
110 <class 'codecs.StreamRecoder'>

Found with:

for i, x in enumerate("".__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()):
if "read" in dir(x):
print(str(i) + " " + str(x))
Ask HN: What did you eat during the lockdown?
Yes probably. Wherever it is, that provider is in an interesting legal position by holding this data.

Also, I assume there is content from EU citizens in there, and so GDPR violations galore.
I dig her style, but don't subscribe to all her views either.

I linked this part in the video because it points out that it's quite common to try to categorize things in one box or another while it should really be given a new box even if that box contains one item only.
If you only believed lies, your thoughts can never truly be free. However if you believe some truths, your thoughts as expressed and built on top of those truths are free, whereas those built on top of lies are not. Freedom here means freedom of expression. You can still tell lies, but you will never truly be free to produce confident thought because your mind is trapped in a prison of delusion.
Ah but a modern welfare state combined with the power of all the social networks, and much of the internet infrastructure, that combo can exert much more power than the soviet communists ever could.
Ah. In Russia there is a `fake news' law. They just put label `fake news' on anything they don't like, and censor it. Glad to know that Russia has free speech.

As other comment rightly pointed out, your implication requires censor.

Also it implies that misinformation is decidable, i.e. there is a strictly objective rigid method of telling what it The Truth™ everybody agreed upon. Could you show me such a decision procedure?
> I've not yet run into a bug caused by something like "my local postgres was a different version than the server was."

Ran into that at a recent place - the code was doing "= NULL" in a bunch of places (before my time) and PG12 treated that differently than PG11 did which broke a bunch of tests.
Teledyne to acquire FLIR in $8B cash and stock deal
It's not a person, it's philosophy, logic, science, etc.
I don't think you have to prove that the anticompetitive action is directly beneficial to the actors. Regardless, at least two of the three firms have a direct contractual, financial relationship with Twitter.

Twitter is a Google customer since at least 2018:

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

Twitter cut a multi-year AWS deal last month:

https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...

Coordinated backlash against Twitter (such as a boycott or other mass exodus) could have spillover effects to Facebook, not the least of which would be a movement to repeal S230.
> The New York Attorney General proved in court they had at least 95% in cash deposit backing.

I think that's a deceptive mischaracterisation of what the NYAG has done, unless you have more information than what I found.

The NYAG has accused [0] Bitfinex/Tether of misappropriating up to $900M (which I'm guessing where your missing 5% comes from) of Tether's reserves to cover up some other dodgy stuff they were doing.

But absence of lawsuits covering the other 95% doesn't mean that the NYAG has "proven" that the rest of the money is there.

> Please put your money where your mouth is, no one seems willing to do so these days and I truly wonder why.

> Shorting bitcoin tether is literally a few clicks away for everyone on the planet, why not go bet everything you have on it.

Speech isn't pay-to-win. Nobody has to bet their life savings shorting Bitcoin futures in order to participate in a discussion.

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/crypto-ex...
The seized darknet website had a ToS prohibiting date rape drugs such as GBH. Is this common among darknet marketplaces, or just to this one?

Source:
https://twitter.com/DarkDotFail/status/1299444442584158208/p...
> Misinformation is information that is known to be false by the spreader.

That's wrong. Misinformation is often spread unwittingly.
This obviously.