skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickpsecurity was still around here to throw his weight in this thread. He'd often geek out in those kinds of discussions, talking how in the '70s people were actually doing security in computing, vs. the current security theatre, and how many things are totally possible to do, just no big company wants to do this now (even though loudly claiming otherwise), because it is expensive, and it's more profitable to focus on profits than security. For some technical references from Nick, see e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20946537

For example, quoting verbatim from the link above:

> [...] Modern OS's, routers, basic apps, etc aren't as secure as software designed in 1960's-1980's. People are defining secure as mitigates some specific things hackers are doing (they'll do something else) instead of properties the systems must maintain in all executions on all inputs. We have tools and development methods to do this but they're just not applied in general. Some still do, like INTEGRITY-178B and Muen Separation Kernel. [...]
Great call on CleanShot -- I love it and use it multiple times daily.

I just started a trial on Noteplan 3 and so far am a fan -- it's got an aggregated view of tasks I take in random meetings, with link back to those meeting notes, and supports markdown. A delighter is also that it pulls in my Calendar events. This might replace Apple Notes for me.

My favorite productivity tool is unfortunately not reciprocated by my work colleagues, and that's using a reliable pair of headphones and a mic during Zoom calls. I can't believe how many people are just fine with using their Macbook speaker and microphone, which is about on par with a 1980s speakerphone.
Greenwald a fan of Russia is one of the funniest jokes I have heard lately.
The Drawball Wars [YouTube 8:13]
The Constitution will never again be amended, because you will never get 2/3 of States to ever agree on anything, ever.

As it stands, such an amendment would require rural citizens to effectively eliminate themselves from the electoral system. They will never consent to this and why would they? Since State legislatures are also not pure popular-votes, this assures that nothing remotely resembling this will ever happen. No rural voting district will consent to being washed out by a large metro.
But that can be said of any platform. Plus of murder, as in your example, have happened in Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms.
Both "lifetime", and annual subsciption ring a bell -- I think it may have been platform or location dependent.
Many authors have speculated on how modern society would work if rather than 1 legal system you would have large companies that each have their own laws and enforcement. Usually the world is made into a dystopia.

I think a 1 government is in general more friendly to fringe or extremist people. Not that the laws are better, but government legal system must in its core treat everyone similar where same act done by two people are punished similarly. This aspect of law make people feel safe against arbitrary enforcement and that benefits both people of fringe as well as non-fringe views.
This is complicated, yes. This is why I didn't manage to achieve the perfect result with AppArmor - many of the apps I used on Linux are non-native so it seemed I could only allow/block the entire Python or a JVM (or curl, but I rarely use it so not a problem for me). Perhaps there was a way to analyse the parent process and/or the command line, perhaps whatever, AppArmor (let alone SELinux) felt too complicated (and cumbersome to operate) to waste time.

On Windows and Mac I don't really mind enabling/disabling whole Python/Java/whatever because I can do so in a couple of clicks (and I use more native apps there anyway, many untrusted native apps in particular).

By the way there are many processes on Linux which I would like to silence and theoretically could silence by just removing them as I never need them: I mean Avahi, Samba etc. However, today distros have all sorts of essential packages depending on these and won't let you uninstall them without destroying everything.
Not every place in the world is going to have PCR tests with results in a 72 hour window. There are going to be lots of Canadians falling through the cracks.
The red states feed the blue states, so better keep them happy - electoral college is one of the checks that performs that function.

You’d think the giant bribes—oops, I mean, farm subsidies would help with that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/politics/trump-farmers...
> I think most likely poor management/decisions were the greatest contributing factor to their current predicament

Like, having a panel of 5 human moderators "vote" on every piece of flagged content? As if that could even scale. It was never their intent to moderate in the first place, but rather to pull large segments of our political system into the very position we're now seeing -- namely, open conflict.
I've been using ledger for the last 5 years. I started playing around with it when I got tired of Mint failing to connect to 1 of my accounts and it lacked support for several others. My primary drive to use Mint was to have 1 place to view all of my accounts. The analytics to show spending on groceries vs restaurants was a nice-to-have. I'd never been fully comfortable with the security model but I didn't have much money at the time.

If I had to summarize my favorite features I'd say:

1) Strong support for multiple currencies/commodities including cost-basis,historical-market,current-market price conversions.

2) Advanced reporting options to support various filters, mutations, conversions, outputs. One of my favorite reports is total net worth in CAD converted using latest market prices

ledger bal Assets -V -X CAD

Another might be top expense accounts in decreasing cost:

ledger bal Expenses -H -X CAD --flat -S -T

3) Error detection: by enforcing double-entry accounting it has helped me identify hidden fees. It also helps when I make a mistake balancing a transaction.

4) Better than 2 decimal precision. This helps with crypto where your crypto balances can look something like 1.23456789 BTC
Horrible idea.
Maybe, although I could see it happening assuming more than 2/3rd agreed on something at once.
How to Win the War Against Clutter
Sure, in the same way that death penalty is meant to scare murderers.

You are comparing the exercise of freedom of speech to committing murder. Not quite the same thing in my opinion.

An example is pirate sites or underground drug sites. Those are largely blacklisted -- and fit into a (far) left-leaning philosophy around a class of freedom.

Those sites are offering illegal goods and services. That is why they are offline. Companies are generally ordered by law enforcement to take them down. Again...hardly comparable.
> if you don't trust Apple not to surreptitiously access your data, you can't rely on Apple-managed security mechanisms to enforce it

Except this is exactly how sandboxing works, if you don't attribute malice to developers that enable it for their apps.
The 27W is the number Anandtech estimates after accounting for those. Total power draw was 31W.
I can sort of understand the idea of people starting a new parallel naming system as a piece of Internet infrastructure, sort of the same way DNS happened.

Where you lose me, like, all the way across the horizon is where the people who start that infrastructure do it with a traded coin that they've premined, allocated huge chunks of to themselves, and then "airdropped" to a set of developers they collected in 2018.

Why would anybody sign up for this? I genuinely have a hard time understanding why anybody would take this seriously. It's a plan to replace the DNS roots with... some company? That just decided they should be the ones to own it?
In the case of bananas, efficiency is precisely the problem. The Cavendish is so popular that the entire production pipeline has been hyper-optimized for it.
Well he’s saying Site is being demonetized. It’s posting this interesting comment in the articles(that seems to contradict some of the posts on this thread):

Both NOAA and NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with NOAA saying we’re entering a ‘full-blown’ Grand Solar Minimum in the late-2020s, and NASA seeing this upcoming solar cycle (25) as “the weakest of the past 200 years”, with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.
> The mobs are not always in the right, no matter how large a majority they have.

Sometimes those are the only in the right (or should I say left) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks
If your goal is a United States, then purely populous isn't ideal.

Electoral college essentially requires cross-regional appeal in order to win.

We also have to remember that there are some really key states to the US that don't have population. Ex: Alaska and Hawaii.

It's not good to lose states (or regions) from the union based purely on votes cast from more populated regions.

But it does need to be damn close to # of votes. The electoral college is not perfect but it's pretty masterful.
Even with anti-trust, I think the EU comission is probably correct that social media platforms may need more direct lines of contact with platform regulators in exchange for being larger players, just because of the intrinsic network effects that exist in the space.
At the same time, there is no need to amend it, when you can get 5 robed people to find penumbras emanating from it as necessary.
I am confused by your comment. How do they access the role they create if not through keys?
So because you suffered an inconvenience in the comfort of your own home it makes it ok to strand Canadians overseas?

That's mature.
That is a disappointing development. I'm involved in a media development project atm, mainly focused on Somalia, but trying to engage centres of journalism education in other sub-Saharan Africa states/territories in collaborations.

Quite a bit of our online/remote educational resources rely on social media platforms :-(
WhatsApp vs. Telegram vs. Signal (Ownership, features, and privacy)
People who support this tend to be largely uneducated in our system of government and Constitutional history, and are typically located in urban areas where of course they would benefit from this.
In german "letter" (the symbol) is "Buchstabe" which is based on "Buche"(beech, a kind of tree/wood) and "Stab" (stick). So "Buchstabe" means "wooden stick(s)".
The facts are:

- the Dominion voting machine, used in 29 states, is not FEC compliant (owned by CCP, can connect to Internet, allows editing of votes.) The election was stolen.

- antifa was involved in the Capitol riot (the man breaking tehe Capitol window was not part of the crowd, and refused to stop after the crowd asked him), and antifa is associated with the DNC, as proven by Pelosi's 2 month delay in denouncing the burning of downtowns.

'Agent Provocateur' Tactics Seen at Jan 6 US Capitol Protest—Interview With Michael Yon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bIeKj7fZ8U

If you've studied history, antifa looks the same as Nazi brown shirts or Italy's Fascists in WW2, and were used by parties not in power, just like the DNC.

- Trump didn't say anything to incite anybody on Jan. 6. However, when you have a crowd of 500,000 people, events can happen. Note the DNC never had crowds at that scale, yet somehow won an election with a senile candidate hiding in his basement.

So the election was stolen, and the DNC did create the riot, and the DNC is discredited to anybody paying attention.
Let's look at how great of a point Greenwald is making.

> they created a social media platform similar to Twitter but which promised far greater privacy protections.

Not stripping EXIF data, getting social security number from users, using the trial version of their IAM system, poorly coded allowing everyone to exfiltrate the data and god knows how many other exploits. So much for privacy...

> As Silicon Valley censorship radically escalated over the past several months — banning pre-election reporting by The New York Post about the Biden family

Yeah, what happened to that? Looks like they suddenly stopped caring about that, and no one ever managed to corroborate the obviously fake news pushed by NYP. Let's not forget how Carlson went on a whole fake drama about "losing incriminating papers", but then when UPS found the papers, suddenly Carlson says he no longer wants to spill secrets about hunters private life... What?

This whole thing is BS. The Pirate Bay was deplatformed orders of magnitude harder than Parler ever did and they survived just fine. Parler was just created by a bunch of people who had no clue what they were doing, and they crumbled by their own inaptitude.
The National Popular Vote Compact still needs the approval of Congress.

> No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

US Constitution, Art. I §10 Cl. 3
I hadn't read that article, so I googled it, and assuming this[0] is the correct one, wow.

Some choice excerpts, which are even better in context so read the article:

> The narrative Glenn presents about his departure is teeming with distortions and inaccuracies — all of them designed to make him appear as a victim, rather than a grown person throwing a tantrum.

> it was he who was attempting to recycle the dubious claims of a political campaign — the Trump campaign — and launder them as journalism.

> We have the greatest respect for the journalist Glenn Greenwald used to be

> We have no doubt that Glenn will go on to launch a new media venture where he will face no collaboration with editors — such is the era of Substack and Patreon. In that context, it makes good business sense for Glenn to position himself as the last true guardian of investigative journalism and to smear his longtime colleagues and friends as partisan hacks.

[0] https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-...
Use Node.js with Docker and Docker Compose to Improve DX
Not everybody outside the country is on vacation. How about a little empathy for your fellow countrymen.
You should look at the git mailing list. They actually send patches via email using the git format-patch and git send-email commands and have complex discussions around some of the patches.
"Illegal messages" such as the planning of a coordinated attack on anyone with the intent of killing and altering law? You're goddamned right!
Many refactoring tools need the AST (and more) from a frontend to do type-aware refactoring, among other things.

If we have, for example,

struct a { int x; } sa;
struct b { float x; } sb;

and we want to rename sa.x into sa.y, then the refactoring tool needs to understand types in order to leave sb.x alone. And if

sa.x - sa.x

is not in the AST, it will not be changed into

sa.y - sa.y

which will yield errors.
Couldn't find any Arduino projects but i wanted to contribute. After a quick google search, I found this:

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub

Which seems to be a narrower mindset of the OP's vision. Should i link that page or pick a couple projects?
In my opinion, the rapid test's greatest value is using it to screen asymptomatic people in a regular (daily or weekly) process. For example, a school would test a random sample of students each day. This could help catch any stealthy clusters. It's not perfect, but it's better than just looking for symptoms.
I am going to make a suggestion that it most like not the generalization language which was used but the events which followed:

> "A coworker was quick to criticize the employee for using divisive rhetoric, igniting a firestorm of internal debate, with many jumping in to take sides. That same day, HR reprimanded the employee, who is Jewish, for using the word "Nazi" in the workplace."

The disruption in the workplace is probably enough to get HRs attention.

Now to answer your hypothetical question, I think the word Nazi has deeper connotations than the use of "gangster", but in either case I don't think the words should lead to termination. To quote a man I do not like at all, 'We have a snowflake generation', Dan Pena.
> Seems like effectively reducing rural voting power would just inflame tensions

I don’t know why that means we should be stuck with continuing to give small and predominantly rural states disproportionately higher representation.

This feels like the mindset of someone stuck in an abusive relationship.
It’s impressive that they have been so successful with their mostly-pull model. It seems like a good long term strategy
20 years later:

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/28...
In the first 6 months of 2020, Australian influenza deaths were down over 90%, attributed to Covid anti measures - mostly increased hand washing/sanitising, social distancing, and school closures.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-23/coronavirus-restricti...

If we assume that's representative of a 90% reduction in flu and cold cases (not guaranteed, but probably a reasonable estimate to reason about), then perhaps instead of "hundreds of millions" of cases, it might be down to "tens of millions of cases" of cold/flu. So maybe 9 million Covid cases means any cold/flu symptoms are somewhere between 50% and 10% likely to be Covid - a virus currently killing ~1% of the people it infects.

I am certain the prudent thing to do in 2021 is assume _any_ cold/flu symptoms are likely to be a virus that's quite capable of killing you (and/or the people around you) and act accordingly until you are 100% certain it's not. (Which probably means 2 negative PCR tests ~10 days apart.)
Having a reputation for being a neutral haven for electoral fraud and calls to violence isn't exactly a great thing to aspire to. (Falsely claiming an election is illegitimate, refusing to recognize its results, threatening election officials into awarding you a victory, and stopping its certification is, in fact, a form of electoral fraud.)

It's unfortunate that a major political movement in the US has aligned itself in support of those two things, but having done so, it forced Twitter's hand.
> The whole point of EC is that mostly urbanized states won't overwhelm the sparsely populated ones

This should pretty much stay as is. This could easily backfire. Case in point, India, where 2 states with highest populations are also states with the most poverty, illiteracy, and crime. But unfortunately these states decide the overall politics for the country and therefore work against any and every form of progress and instead move towards more socialist and populist policy making.
I was messaged by a Libra(now called Diem?) teams recruiter, went to the site[1] and thought in the back of my head, isn't this the facebook crypto-currency?

I looked through it and saw no mention of facebook or zuckerberg or even any facebook execs. I knew David Marcus is/was a facebook exec, but even he is listed as head of Novi[2]. That right there tells you how damaged that brand(facebook) is when their crytocurrency project doesn't list the company or the CEO(zuckerberg). Needless to say I said thanks, no thanks to that recruiter.

[1] - https://www.diem.com/en-us/

[2] - https://www.diem.com/en-us/association/#board_of_directors
I got a new NAS last week and only ever sshed to [hostname].local. Didn't have to configure my router at all. Come to think of it I don't even know (or care) whether I was SSHing via IPv4 or IPv6.
I don't think you are naive at all regarding this but generally people see famous people, name dropping and due diligence goes out the window.

There are people who take advantage of that and are very successful. Disgusting because it is just another form of deceiving people's trust.
System directories are sealed as of Big Sur; disabling SIP is not enough to be able to modify them.
For some uses of a set, yeah. For intersections / unions etc. nope. Then it's back to for loops, so many for loops in Go.
Can't talk about superiority of one compared to the other without viewing the landscape of the develop, it needs to run fast, be easy to debug, compile fast. There are trade offs for all. Most serious devs likey run several ide and build chains, ea h offering its own value. For example if you want clean template debugging clang lldb is pretty nice
Hate speech is actually protected speech under the 1st Amendment, meaning you have every right as a US citizen to speak and publish hate. True threats, on the other hand, do not have the benefit of 1st Amendment protection. Then again, Parler claims that such speech is removed via moderation. Do we have evidence that Parler has chosen not to moderate such speech?
I don't know, even then, the "herd resistance" (not immunity) applies to new arrivals and residents alike.

Best advantage I see is perhaps plane ventilation is bad, but that would purely benefit other passengers and air transportation workers, not the general public. I doubt such narrow beneficiaries is their goal.
Not everybody outside the country is on vacation. There are plenty of valid reasons to travel.
> If a refactoring tool wants to rename “x”, it does it to the source, not the AST, no?

A textual find and replace isn't sufficient because multiple variables might be named ‘x’ and you wouldn't want to rename all of them, just the one you're interested in. The only way to know which occurrences of ‘x’ are your ‘x’ is by parsing the source into an AST and then performing analysis on it. Once you know the file locations, then the source itself can be modified. So to summarize, yes you are correct that the source is modified, but an AST + analysis is needed to find the correct locations.
It only seems inconsistent because you are comparing apples and oranges, signal and telegram are in a different category entirely to parler and twitter.
This.

It's not the 90% of oblivious people who are the problem.

It's not even the 10% of "woke" digital people who are the problem. We probably need to talk about issues more in this country.

It's the <1% of those "woke" digital people who will gun you down at the local grocery store because you work at Facebook who are the problem. In the end, it's always the extremists that represent the threat, and therefore oblige the appropriate security posture.
It's probably about time this happened, but it is unlikely to occur as an amendment. The least populous states would instantly lose even the minimal power they have, and it would disadvantage the party of the rural, until such time as they can reconfigure themselves to appeal to city dwellers. Doesn't seem likely.

In any event, the simple fact that the electoral college allows a tie is reason enough to eliminate it, to me. What happened in 2020 is nothing compared to what we can expect in the event of an electoral college tie.
Facebook was a lot more pleasant to use before the feed went nuts. It was nice to log in and wonder what somebody was up to, then click the link to their profile to see what they had posted. It was a long time ago though
apparently it's harder for them to get back than they thought.
I guess they are now facing the equivalent of the Holywood blacklist. Dockerized setups will not help if you can't get an alternative host.

"Matze said that Parler had faced trouble in finding a new service provider, ... He also said that others had refused to work with Parler: "Every vendor, from text message services to email providers to our lawyers, all ditched us, too, on the same day."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#Attempts_to_return_onli...

It is probably easier to find an alternative hosting platform when you are booted from AWS because of porn. In the case of parler they also might need to migrate more data.
So the current system where some people's votes are worth thousands of other people's votes is better?
For awhile they could survive on a carnivorous diet by eating eachother, but they would eventually need a source of algae/plant matter to thrive.