skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A "back door" is any kind of mechanism that was added by the vendor to circumvent security mechanisms.

Back doors are typically not disclosed to the user, and can't be turned off. So for example an automatic software update mechanism isn't a back door, as the user is aware of it and can typically turn it off if they are concerned about security.

An undisclosed mechanism that allows Apple apps to circumvent firewalls does very much fit the description of a back door.

Intent doesn't matter with regards to back doors. Most back doors are not made with malicious intent, or at least the vendors usually claim that they only had good intentions for the back door. (Eg. see the recent reports where a router manufacturer had a secret password that they claimed was only used for software updates)

The danger about back doors is that malicious software can use the back doors to circumvent the security measures, just like Patrick Wardle demonstrated that it was possible to use Apple's content filter exclusion to circumvent firewalls.
> the fact that it should be illegal for a private business to censor someone

Putting the words "the fact that" in front of your opinion on a nuanced and controversial topic does not -- in fact -- make it a fact.
My broader view is that the society at large is woefully under-educated for dealing with the new complexities of life. Most educational systems I know of don't really teach critical thinking, evaluation of sources, dealing with biased accounts etc.

Censorship of the worst lies is justified as something like "we know better that these are lies, so we'll hide the content from those who don't", and in some sense this does send shivers down your spine. The long-term solution must be that an average person can do the evaluation for themselves.
IR35 has definitely slowed down the IT contractor route in the UK though.
The typical design is to have redundant system partitions that are only ever mounted read-only and exist in a separate wear-leveling domain (through GPP partitioning). Application data is on its own partition and raw logs aren't written to flash storage at all, they go to a tmpfs in memory.

Of course you will find few Linux distributions are set up like this, even if they would benefit tremendously (see Raspberry Pi SD card corruptions..). But your throwaway Android phone probably does it.
Why should it be illegal?
> That's what gl.inet is (weird name though).

Company is from Hong Kong.

What kind of modem do they have? Huawei?
The months of stress are worse than the lawyer fees.
FYI thepiratebay.org works too. They point to different IPs though. Are different people hosting the same synced software now? I haven't been following developments.
"So, let's just legalize them all and hope that people will use them responsibly."

Same logic as... "let us not legally force face masks on people, but trust in their responsibility. Let us not control social distancing, but trust that people, especially young people, will be responsible"

... booooom, over 9000 covid cases.

Democracy assumes rational people and people with responsibility. We see now how well it all works.

Same "responsibility" applies to the free internet. It is amazing, when people are responsible and are not pushing fake news to allow demagogues and populists to rise to power.

Was it Sokrates who once said that Democracy fails because of Unmündigkeit?

I cannot find the English translation of this word.
This is absurd. Twitter etc are private companies and can do what they want wrt their user's accounts. If they don't want their far-right politicians getting censored, then they can ban those platforms from the country completely. As the saying goes, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
4 years after Facebook allowed the general public to join, the engineers created a PHP transpiler called "HipHop" which in itself, I would suggest, shows competence, engineering talent and a good understanding of PHP - the language that Facebook was at that point written in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP
I don't think that's true, but I'll also admit that the history of the cold war is very muddled and I am no historian.

The US's version was written by the white house's journalist. It is not objective and lots has been refuted from calls leaked by the soviets after the fact, and a few of the advisors too.

TruTV/Adam Ruins Everything has a take on it [0] (not saying that's the objective history but they raise some eyebrows).

Some facts we do know though:

1. JFK rode on an anti-communist wave to beat his opponent into office

2. The US moved missiles first

3. The military was following orders from the top

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5wc9V7ggVg

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EDIT: on some reflection, I think I actually just proved your point. If that was just left to the military then cooler heads may not have prevailed
This is always a possibility so you take steps to protect yourself. If it’s a few static assets, put a CDN in front of it. You won’t be charged extra by S3 because the CDN would cache it.

If you’re hosting Mastodon, then I assume you’d take steps to ensure that only an authenticated user can access any data. And that user would also need to be authorised to access only specific data. And that authenticated and authorised user would be rate limited so they couldn’t scrape everything they have access to easily.

If you do all these things, you’ll be fine.
In what way do nationalistic drive have everything in common with how wars start?
There is simply far too much content being created all the time for current judicial systems to keep up with. Much of the law breaking content out there is never pursued.

If we agree that greater censorship on social media is necessary, and if private companies aren't taking on the role of censor here, I think that suggests governments must become more active in their roles as censor. What would that look like and how would it work?
TPB had a much greater threat to them. They were even threatened by domain registrars.

How could you say TPB didn't consider censorship? What is a DMCA takedown if not censorship?
Twitter CEO: Banning President Set Dangerous Precedent, Furthered Division
Really thanks, but Android Chromium has support "fetch" too late (2020). Well, I can wait.
I think the dump and pump argument is more theoretical than real in a case like this. Pump and dump only works on short time horizons.

A bigger worry for me is stagnation. Suppose Google Docs gets 'good enough' and prices out all the competition, but then Google loses interest because it's not exciting anymore.

This happened with Internet Explorer. We lost years of advancement in browser technology because they dominated, wiped out the competition but then lost interest. Yes competitors came along again after a few years, but there was a significant opportunity cost to all of us.
Not having looked at it at all, I think so too. But the trajectory of them overtaking Qcom is interesting either way.
I think the tendency to see everything as discrete units is a very human thing.

Would love to see how alien species with fundamentally different perceptions approach these concepts.
Ironic that this news from Poland comes a day after activists go on trial for replacing halos with rainbows in a picture in Poland: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9142821/Poland-tria...
Yeah but how do you explain a dozen+ kids all together, susceptible to group hallucinations to the extent of a being walking within arms length? That's a lot different than a dot in the corner of your eye or a group of witnesses mistaking something. Add in video interviews of the children by a Harvard psychologist, you get an incredibly compelling story that is very hard to come up with some simple answer
wow, no other proof is needed to user jQuery :)
Good. Social media sites have for far too long avoided liability for the content on their site by saying they're just platforms, whilst selectively censoring like a publisher. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
https://zim-wiki.org/ is what i use, and it is a fantastic cross platform solution
Anyone know more about Jack’s Bluesky initiative to make decentralised social media that he mentions?

He announced it a year ago. Who has moved to work there?

Strategically how could this work for Twitter?
I see what you mean. I did not mean to say that censorship is not controversial. I was refering to the comment, that was commenting the article.

What I tried to say was that the controversy about private entities censoring other private entities should be relatively small.

That does indeed not diminish the fact that the state censoring someone is more complicated, I agree.
Polish people were also murdered in huge numbers by the Russians, but people often forget that.
if it was the soldiers making the decisions, it'd still be a group of people in comfortable offices looking at a map, they'd just be wearing uniforms while doing so. And I think (going back to Clausewitz), that military goals should be subordinated to the political goals of why there is a military action in the first place. And if it's the military that decides the political goals, they're in power and it's a junta.
I found that the times in my career where I learned the most was when I hung around to face the consequences of my actions. That normally means staying longer than two years.
"trainable_params 12,810"

laughs

(for comparison, GPT3: 175,000,000,000 parameters)

Can Apple's M1 help you train tiny toy examples with no real-world relevance? You bet it can!

Plus it looks like they are comparing Apples to Oranges ;) This seems to be 16 bit precision on the M1 and 32 bit on the V100. So the M1-trained model will most likely yield worse or unusable results, due to lack of precision.

And lastly, they are plainly testing against the wrong target. The V100 is great, but it is far from NVIDIA's flagship for training small low-precision models. At the FP16 that the M1 is using, the correct target would have been an RTX 3090 or the like, which has 35 TFLOPS. The V100 only gets 14 TFLOPS because it lacks the dedicated TensorRT accelerator hardware.

So they compare the M1 against an NVIDIA model from 2017 that lacks the relevant hardware acceleration and, thus, is a whopping 60% slower than what people actually use for such training workloads.

I'm sure my bicycle will also compare very favorably against a car that is lacking two wheels :p
I love your willingness to make that leap. You sound like the perfect candidate for a technical sales position. Learning sales firsthand gives you a superpower the vast majority of your nerd friends will lack. It will help you enormously and will do so long after you get tired of learning the web stack of the week.

Good luck on your journey! Respect to you for your bravery.
This is really a relief. I knew the two communities existed on a similar kind of plane, and was worried that cat-v and by extension 9front were just as bad as suckless. But I did not know how to interpret the connection between cat-v and 9front after finding out they were safe with that crossed-out swastika ... glad to hear that the harmful section of the website is effectively just dated.
Bret Devereaux of acoup.blog defends the idea of civilian control of the military here, with better references and more eloquently than I can. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1336392888629010437.html

In particular, he argues that the way you avoid things like World War II is in part precisely by making sure the military does not make decisions of war and peace.
We aren't using email for this, because we wanted a chat room. We aren't using Teamspeak because we don't want video conferencing.

I've been running my own email server for going on 20 years now.

[edit] To add to the above, I use the same Matrix server to chat in various Matrix, IRC and Gitter rooms, and also to host a couple of self-written bots which I use to control a few aspects of my life. Email isn't really a replacement for the things I use Matrix for.
Parents should stop blaming themselves for how their kids turn out
Yepp, I second WHM. I'm not sure it's the largest, but it seems the most well run. Notably they only accept Monero; I wonder if that will help them stay safe from the police.
Aka ChromeOS has won the Web.
Isn't this a relatively censorship-free time compared to, say, the 60s? If I wanted to spread some nonsense, I had to get approval from a publisher or editor or radio or TV station that would allow me to put it out there.

Now, anyone can say anything for all to see, with the occasional purging of public forums. You can't argue that there's no censorship, but I certainly argue that there's much less.

Have we always been proclaiming that free speech is being eroded, or is this merely a product of our time?
Shouldn't that be 37%?

1-(1-0,24)*(1-0,093)*(1-0,0765)*(1-0,01) = 0,37
> “War…What is it good for?” the classic song asks. Many universities agree on the answer: “Absolutely nothing.”

War culls human populations, and carries out natural selection.

So it's "good" for something even if we don't want to admit it or to use the word "good" when bringing up those things.
With CP it's also that making distribution harder might disincentivise the creation of the material, so removing it everywhere could have the very real effect of saving actual children.

This might be a bit of a naive view on things, considering how some forms of content will always find ways of spreading, but it's still a very strong point to argue that it's different from content like 3D-printable pistol schematics.
Security isn't the same as privacy. Linux desktop security is poor but its privacy can be okay.
Most CDNs also charge for transfer.
> User -> RandomWifi -> VPN/SSH -> Slave -> SecondSlave/WifiHop -> VPN/SSH 2.0 -> Tor -> Market

One thing I would add to the RandomWifi at starbucks is to make sure not to bring your phone as they could detect you went there if they get to find your RandomWifi starbucks location. Also make sure to change starbucks/RandomWifi location every time and for extra-paranoid reasons, maybe wear some toupee and fake moustache in case they try to get camera recording from the starbucks. I would also do most of the work from home, just run all the db/code updates from home and then sync/push the update at RandomWifi so you just need to stay there a few seconds. You don't even need to get in, just stay outside walking and click the push button from your laptop quickly. Never do it on the same hours either.
Human brain. IP protocol is computable by humans. There is even RFC for transferring packets over pigeons.
It sort of did, which is why the first step towards war was trade decoupling.

I'd say we are in the beginning/mid stages of that now.
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Tried a web story and wanted to share it with the community
of course, you can always create your own social platform, and then if some hosting company decides to ban you, you can always create your own, and have own internet as well right?
As of RFC 1149 [1], I guess a pigeon?

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
If Microsoft sends an email to Valve telling them to delete certain unlawful posts on Steam, or else they'll use Windows Defender to block the Steam executable, would you defend that?

Why not? It's not like Valve owns the computers of their customers. They're in clear violation of the Windows terms of service. If you violate the ToS, then Microsoft has every right to remove you from their operating system and Valve is in turn free to migrate to a different OS.
Twitter can cease offering service in Poland if they don’t like it.

Poland has (wisely) decided social media is like telephones and you can’t stop providing service because of what customers say, as long as it is legal. Good for them.

Poland is a sovereign country — Twitter doesn’t get to tell them how to act. That’s “tail wags dog”.

Social media companies blatantly exerted themselves as political entities — and now they’re facing “common carrier” regulation from existing political entities who don’t like that.

Again, if Twitter is uncomfortable being a common carrier for Polish social media — they’re free to exit the market and offer their services elsewhere.
This is a naive argument: the "X is a private company and can do anything they want" is completely wrong when you can affect hundreds of millions of people with a few click through your platform.

Once a company can affect X million+ people they become a direct manipulator of societal/democratic opinion.
I was going to say the same thing. Everytime I format my hard drive I have to look up which mode is the one that doesn't break things...
But if I need to wrap around everything, I might was well just use jQuery.
> how can the European tech job market become more competitive?

As an European (working in "tech"), first and foremost:

The salaries of teachers in primary and secondary education must be at least doubled or tripled. The rest will likely trickle down from that.

Software engineers already make a very good living in Europe, no need to give more money to them. If anything, useless managerial jobs must be culled.
Europe doesn't have Amerikan Dream fallacy, that by moving to a country you become rich if you work hard enough, we also don't go bankrupt after breaking a leg twice in 5 years.

Worst student debt you can get is in the UK, its fees are capped at £9k for each academic year. I paid off my student debt in 4 years after graduation, while financially supporting my family and saving for a house in top5 biggest city, which I bought 5.5 years after graduation.

When I was made redundant I got paid 300% of my salary as a security deposit + what I earned that months and cash for unused holidays, it was close to 5 months salary in one pay. I was given fair review and 3 weeks notice before my last day, I didn't go bankrupt or homeless. In fact market is so good here that I had 2 job offers on next working day.

I would not change this program for American version. I don't think my salary is that low that needs increase by a significant %. We get a lot of other benefits, higher living standard, higher job security, paid holidays (20+ days in the UK + a few bank holidays - depends on country), maternity and paternity leave (weeks or months depending on country).
Is your web app secure enough? – build and insecure app using AWS serverless
Pity that so many of such "Linux developers" rather live in macOS and cross develop to GNU/Linux, instead of sponsoring Linux hardware OEMs.
> In all that humdrum, one thing was clear to me: as humans we are natural editors than writers.

it feels like there's a word missing somewhere in that sentence.
Ok! I understand. Yes, so how it works is that it is your database schema that defines what can be searched on and not. The demos on the website are created from very simple schemas, which means it might not understand what you are looking for in many cases. By reading the suggestions (the words appearing beneath the search field) one can get an idea about what it understands. But it seems that it could be improved!

Thanks for the feedback!
Show HN:Konad. Kotlin monads composition API that just works. For OOP developers
Ideal to compose Kotlin nullables in an easy way, or to create compile-time safe type systems.
The problem is that, if the allegations are correct, Tether was used to inflate Bitcoin's price just in time for the miners to stay profitable after the 'halving' of the mining reward.

Should Tether be revealed as a fraud and the price collapse below that level again as a result, I'm not sure if there'd still be enough miners to keep the show going.
The modern DOM equivalent would look almost the same as the jQuery version:

document.querySelector(".class").remove();
document.querySelector(".class").after(...);
I agree, it's basically risk-free here with paid education and the social safety net.

I’m also from Germany. There is significant wealth inequality, but making €40-60k pre-tax a year is very attainable for most developers here. In Switzerland, it’s even higher (€60-70k+) and they have to pay fewer taxes (with a higher cost of living).

But the „average life“ in Germany for a developer is very good. About 4-5 weeks of vacation every year, no expectations of working more than 9-5 (at the average employer), and after 1 year working at a job you’re eligible for unemployment insurance which means you get 60% of your net salary for 1 year if you’re unemployed.

With regards to attaining riches:

You can live comfortably with €2000/month net as a single (and easily with €3-4k with two incomes and two small kids in a smaller city), so for most people, it’s possible to save 500+€/month (most don’t because of lifestyle inflation, but that’s a different matter). With side hustles (small freelance work) you can easily save €500-1000/month which means that after 5-7 years you are able to save €80,000. Continuously investing in stocks, pension plans and ETFs (what most Germans also don’t do) means that you can accumulate half a million euros by the age of 45-50.

And this is the average developer, no 10x rockstar. Having a net worth of €700k to one million euros when you’re 67 years old with a very good work-life-balance is nothing to be ashamed of. With more ambition, you can freelance for €75/h which translates to a six-figure income. With that, it’s possible to build a net worth of 2-3 million over 20-30 years.

For people who want to be a millionaire in 10-15 years, this is not very attractive. But when you consider the work-life-balance and the labor rights, it's easy to see how people would choose that. For high-achievers, I would also recommend working in the US or Switzerland. But for average developers, it's not that bad of a deal.
> I chose MobileNetV2 to make iteration faster. When I tried ResNet50 or other larger models the gap between the M1 and Nvidia grew wider.

(and that's on CIFAR-10). But why not report these results and also test on a more realistic datasets? The internet is full of M1 TF brenchmarks on CIFAR or MNIST, has anyone seen something different?
thanks for the thorough comment. the article is, unfortunately, just clickbait.
> they can ban those platforms from the country completely.

Can they do that without leaving the EU?
The LGBTI issue is heavily polarized in NL too : if you don't buy 100% into it, you are assumed to be a fascist.
AWS Single Sign-on for DevOps: is CLI v2 the best option?
Poland is a country. They aren't responsible for upholding US law. They can do what they want to companies that decide to operate in Poland. Not only can they have their cake and eat it too, they will - unless said companies stop operating there.
Pardon my colorful language and preaching.

> the U.S. Navy has guaranteed free navigation

The sea has never belonged to anyone but this statement implies that the US has ownership rights with regards to ocean usage that they now let others use at their whim.

The only word I can use to describe that is hubris
All I see lately is people conflating the right to free speech with the right to be heard.

Free speech means that you can't be put in jail for something you say. That's it.

But nobody has an entitlement to be amplified. That's not a right. Nobody has the right to unfettered access to someone else's platform. That's never, ever been the case. You never had the right to edit the front page of a newspaper that you don't own, you don't have the right to set up a platform in the middle of some company's office to talk about your crazy ass theory, and you don't have the right to spew malicious, bad-faith shit into a twitter thread.

/rant
Parent message talks about effective tax rate, you talk about marginal tax rate. You are talking about 2 different things.
Alcohol is a big problem in Germany: 3 million people with alcohol issues and 74,000 yearly deaths.²

Weed is considered less of a problem by the scientific community.

The logical conclusion: Increase taxes on alcohol and legalize weed.

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² https://www.dhs.de/suechte/alkohol/zahlen-daten-fakten