skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://twitter.com/donk_enby claims to have downloaded all of Parler and has been posting screenshots as she goes.

"the lack of moderation on Parler is not the issue. they actually have very robust moderation tools and all new users start out shadowbanned until enough of their post get approved for rightthink by their user moderators"

She also claims that influencers were being paid to post material without disclosing the payments. The FTC frowns on this. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/how-parler-app-plans-to-make... talks about this.

Basically, the idea was to get attention and make sure that it was a safe space for people who believed certain things, making sure that different viewpoints wouldn't be heard.

That might not be their messaging but that's what they were doing. Assuming this is true, of course.
Can you copy files from the IronKey without decrypting them?
> Most of the modern, big conspiracies have been thoroughly debunked

I'd argue this is purely selection bias. I think the biggest modern conspiracies are not yet called conspiracies by the public zeitgeist.

Ex. Remember Jeff Epstein? I'm sure there are dozens of powerful people who hope you don't.
We pay for things with money and time. They absolutely "paid" for the money if you consider the amount of time they probably put into it.
This is a neat hack—not just because it’s clever, but also because it removes barriers to accessing tech.

Sure, I can do something similar today with my secondary monitor, but it’s exciting to level the playing field without requiring costly additional hardware.
Yeah, it's not in the settings. I got to it first by clicking the "HTML Basic view" link at the bottom while Gmail is still loading (you have to be quick). Then I noticed that the only difference in the URL is the extra /h in the end.
The "viking guy" who has been talked about probably moreso than any other single rioter is and was active on Parler.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210106213432/https://parler.co...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/...

So this claim is trivially falsifiable with even the most minimal journalistic effort.
I love the Beaker Browser and all it's features. Very happy to see it's continued work. I wish this was more of an extension + daemon instead of it's own separate browser. I have it installed but I always forget to use it because there isn't much content to see yet.
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it's definitely not. I would still recommend the UDM, it is a very solid wifi 5 Gig device with good hackability.
Usernames are coming in 2021. As of now, it's not necessary to use your actual mobile number to signup though. It's well possible to use a virtual number like Google Voice, and even landline numbers work! By "other non-phone devices", were you referring to Signal on front-end-less platforms like Raspberry Pi CLI?
> Maybe we have some difference in configuration, but I don't have any perceivable difference between the two - still on urxvt since way back.

I think the entirety of my ~/.xresources xterm config is

#include ".Xresources.colors"

!! xterm
! https://invisible-island.net/xterm/
! https://linux.die.net/man/1/xterm
!XTerm.vt100.faceName: Monaco:pixelsize=11
XTerm.scrollTtyKeypress: true
XTerm.scrollTtyOutput: false
XTerm.utf8: true

XTerm.vt100.boldMode: false
XTerm.vt100.locale: false
XTerm.vt100.scrollbar.width: 8
XTerm.vt100.scrollBar: true
XTerm.vt100.utf8: true

I'll try to take a video of the difference at some point — I use xorg 1.20.8 on macOS 11.1 and it definitely feels noticeable when I type quickly with vsync disabled (through Quartz Debug.app).

> Background transparency is the one feature keeping me from considering xterm.

That's fair. The macOS xorg server has never supported the COMPOSITE extension/xcompmgr/compiz, so transparency/compositing have always been out of the question for me.

> I like the URL handling hack in OP, but I'm also a bit married to some urxvt plugins (URL handler, trimming whitespace when copying)

I sympathize with this — I used urxvt for years and grew to like how it could easily extend itself using perl. Thankfully, I have been able to mirror all of my urxvt functionality in xterm since I switched back. It also helped me simplify my ~/.xresources, which shrank from ~300 lines 10 years ago to 50 (for both my xterm and urxvt configs excluding color definitions, which live in ~/.Xresources.colors).
"the" alphabet being a western construct. Alphabets sui generis, were invented in lots of places to fill a need. I don't think the precolombian American or Asiatic cultures were waiting for ISO-LATIN1 to come down the pipe.

There is a very odd theory about speech and writing and intelligence which I can't quite capture, but its something around the idea that pre-literate people cannot be proven to have had any abstract concept of communication.

It gets shot down in flames pretty rapidly by burial remains which clearly indicate an organising principle (to bury) and belief in the afterlife: belief pre-supposes communication to shared belief. Neanderthal buried people with significant artifacts. Even the artifacts presuppose communication, you'd have to be able to communicate a desire for pretty-necklace-of-teeth-on-hair to somebody, for it to become widespread.

Or the Venus of Wuttenburg. It presupposes communication.
In a way, the standard view has a lot more functionality. But the UX is horrible IMO. I'd rather have the old simple UX with the additional functionality.
Nazis committed genocide, but that's not what Nazism was. The Nazis existed and were active for years before they had the opportunity to carry out genocide, and even then many details were kept secret from the vast majority of Nazis because the leaders recognized they would lose popular support. To say the civilians rioting in the street, ransacking and assaulting as the authorities did nothing, during Kristallnacht weren't Nazis just because there were no death camps at that time is beyond absurd.

Nazism is a political ideology which combines the ultranationalism and authoritarianism of fascism with fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, and racism. To the extent that any ideology can be summed up in three words, race-based fascism is a pretty good definition. If you see someone espousing both fascism and racism, labelling them a Nazi or neo-nazi is generally appropriate. To act like nazism is some impossible level of evil that no living person could ever reach is to deny both the reality that millions of people did in fact adhere to these views in the past, and that even today a small but vocal minority see this ideology as legitimate.
Now that we see what ad based, centralized social media / surveillance companies lead to, more and more people have reasons to take their business elsewhere.
> It's not real worth it to have an excess of equipment that really only sees a few days of use a year (or decade!)

That’s just silly. Almost every garbage truck in Chicago has the equipment to allow a plow to be attached to it. They can nearly double their fleet of plows for big storms, which are pretty rare.

There was a unexpected blizzard in 1979 right before the mayoral election and the mayor lost because the city didn’t plow the streets fast enough. Ever since then, Chicago has always had more snow plows than needed. Even political cronies go out and shovel sidewalks because they are so afraid of losing due to snow.
An option is the government makes their own social network to compete with the private networks. Then the government can make their own rules.
For what it's worth, the terms of use of AWS require you to moderate content:

> You are responsible for End Users’ use of Your Content and the Service Offerings. You will ensure that all End Users comply with your obligations under this Agreement and that the terms of your agreement with each End User are consistent with this Agreement. If you become aware of any violation of your obligations under this Agreement caused by an End User, you will immediately suspend access to Your Content and the Service Offerings by such End User.

(https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/, §4.5).

According to AWS's reply brief in the lawsuit with Parler (https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664...):

> During one of the calls, Parler’s CEO reported that Parler had a backlog of 26,000 reports of content that violated its community standards and remained on its service.

This isn't something that popped up out of the blue; this was something that AWS was concerned about for a while (several months), and communicated with Parler about for a while. Given an existing backlog of unhandled reports, and the prospect of a rapid growth in new content that would presumably generate even more complaints, AWS did not believe that Parler could fulfill its contractual obligation to moderate with volunteers and terminated its service.
> I thought the typical goal of hackers and startups was to "change the world" and "make a difference". How does selling to Visa accomplish those things?

If your aim is that everyone should have access to these tools then getting Visa to integrate them is a pretty good way to accomplish that - Visa is big enough that if they adopt something then pretty much every credit card will have to match it.
And literally the Supreme Court decisions stated that he objected to making cakes for gay couples on two separate grounds. To the extent that he may have offered them to make other items, it wasn't part of the basis for the decision, which was entirely about religious animus shown by the Colorado State commission that enforced the law in his case, and not at all about him not actually discriminating because he was willing to do business with gay couples, just not to make the specific cake they wanted.

The fact that something is mentioned in a news article about a court case doesn't mean that (even if it is true) it is part of the basis for the decision. If you want to understand the basis for a court decision, it's best to read the decision itself.
Or, perhaps even easier, check out one of these online Smalltalks in Smalltalk Zoo.
> ... since 9/4/19 before being detected on 12/12/20.

Somewhat tangentially, I can highly recommend ISO 8601 to make life easier for all us non-Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
I can live with the known bugs. I can not live with the new bugs in previously functioning features, just because something somewhere else is changed. Since I believe in FOSS, I’m paying customer since 3 year and going to stick with it. But many many a times our team needs to resort to spreadsheets.

ERP is hard and heroic efforts on you and your team’s part to make it reality. Keep pumping.
The asteroid that caused the KT extinction burned every exposed life form, including all the land plants. The atmosphere became incandescent. Anything that survived the inferno would have then had to deal with the clouds of ash blocking out the sun for years.

It’s possible some small groups of humans could survive that, if they were survivalist types with bunkers and years of food, but it would be dicey.
a is from the letter aleph (-> greek alpha) which represents a glottal stop

o is from the letter `ayn which represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative (and also `ayn is the word for "eye" in Semitic languages, hence the shape of the letter o)

e is from he, representing the sound h as in house (the letter h comes from the letter Ḥet, which spells an unvoiced pharyngeal fricative)

i is from yod (-> greek iota), the consonant sound of y

u is from waw, the consonant sound of w

y is also descended from waw, via Semitic -> Greek -> Latin

Basically, the Greeks and Romans wrote vowels using the letters that spelled consonants that were useless in their native language (not a lot of pharyngeal fricatives in Europe)
That's the thing that's pretty dumb here. Regardless of what anyone thinks about what happened, the Parler owners should have expected something like this to happen and planned for it.
I was surprised too!

Google took me here[1], which says India is down to 210k active covid cases at the moment. For a country with a population of 1.366 billion, thats only 0.016% of the population currently infected.

Its possible India's covid testing isn't telling the whole story - but they've apparently done 178 million tests to date.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/
I dunno, as far as streaming games goes, nVidia is probably one of the better if not the best on the market. Their problem is that literally nobody knows about what it's capable of. Being able to buy a game on steam, and then play it on your TV is AMAZING.

Of course, game publishers are playing hardball because everyone knows you should have to buy a copy of the game for every place you want to play it.
I appreciate the effort to make JuiceFS Posix-compliant first and then compatible with things like Kubernetes down the road.
Are benchmarks posted publicly anywhere, like Rust does with their compiler?
Looks cool. Is it possible to upload one's own music?
Maybe parts of it can be borrowed to implement Dynamic Relational (DR), but it looks too different from RDBMS such that there's a big learning curve. A goal of DR is to only deviate from RDBMS conventions JUST enough to get sufficient dynamism. It doesn't try to be a new database paradigm.
Is it really? Getting a big payday seems to validate the exploitation of the data. Those two sentiments seem mutually exclusive to me.
this is really cool! using a fast redis for metadata means that suddenly s3 style blob stores become feasible as real networked filesystems.

nice!
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664... has some damning things to say about Parler's moderation approach.
Frank Wilczek - A Prodigy Who Cracked Open the Cosmos
No, you are confusing the metaphor. In this case the pizza is the harming algo, the cyanide the halting problem and the poisonous quality the fact they are undecidable or not. You are not reasoning about a set of pizzas , just one pizza in particular.
What are the costs / tradeoffs of this (vs the normal application-layer object storage paradigm)?
Show HN: Archimedes: Markdown and LaTeX Editor for macOS
In mice, but I'm not a bionerd. Is the MS mouse model closer to the actual human disease than the ALZ mouse model is?
It’s against US law to provide communication services and/or equipment to terrorists

Legislators and LEO are beginning to call this domestic terrorism

The writing is on the wall then; tech companies are not going to provide communication services
Honest question(s):

Is it possible to build a platform with user generated content that is agnostic regarding the content in the same way that a traditional telco is agnostic about the content of phone calls (or SMS)? Is the difference that the messages are private rather than public?

We don't expect telco's to create filters or to independently moderate or to block the content of phone calls or SMS messages and basically legal mechanisms must be used to trigger any action against a subscriber. I realize that this is largely due to the legal framework of a "common carrier".

What I'm asking is, what would a "common carrier" look like for platform that had user generated content? Perhaps it isn't possible?
This is interesting - I worked on a similar use case by parsing and tokenizing ZooKeeper logs, then converting logs to integer sequences and trying to determine whether or not services were going to experience a fault by training on said sequences, and thus determining what the cause of the fault was/would be. Wasn't too successful but definitely showed me how difficult it can be to work backwards from logs to root cause, esp. with limited data.
I used ledger for a year. I was able to script conversion of my transactions to ledger format. It was good to see where my money goes. But like you said, I don't care much about budgeting or tracking my personal expenses. As SWE (not to brag) I make enough money to not think about these things. I'm also pretty frugal person, so majority of my expenses are just food.

Now, I also have a small LLC. And I used to track my business income/expenses. It's useful, but also, I don't have that much volume to really care about ledger it's just too much work right now. Last year I did taxes with ledger, it was PITA to import everything. This year I just dumped my transactions into google sheets and setup pivot table, which accomplished exactly what I needed for tax return.
You speak idealistically, but the reality is that many of these banks did not having open banking standards nor APIs before. The scraping led to this movement and FSAs all over the world are starting to push for no scraping while financial institutions create APIs and contracts with these platforms.
It was mostly a thought exercise - I'm just kind of weird in that I like setting up and configuring servers so I'd like to take a stab at it depending on what HN says - just to keep myself sharp.

Auth0 is new, thanks! I'm checking it out now. I was only familiar with the AWS IAM.
Just a guess but: because it's a horribly difficult market to get into, and Samsung (in my experience) is pretty bad at writing software. Plus they'd be making Google angry (competing with Stadia).

If Sega couldn't manage, I don't know how Samsung would - they've obviously got a lot more money to throw at the problem but I'm not entirely sure there's enough market for a 4th player. Nintendo has the "cheap and fun" market cornered, and Sony and Microsoft own the high end. What development house could Samsung even acquire at this point to get exclusive titles?
Has anybody here actually READ the first amendment? Nobody is blocking anyone's free speech.

Facebook, Twitter, etc are PRIVATE property. They are legally ALLOWED to set terms of use on their property - whatever those terms may be. If anyone breaks those rules they can then be throw out!

Trump, and company can peddling their LIES wherever it is allowed, like on FAUX news :-). His free speech STILL exists over there.
Sure, but at the time they were creating the mess they were actively opposed to open-source software.
This is neat! I am quite a fan of all the go based file systems that are springing up. Question: what are the main compare and contrast points between juice and seaweed fs?

Here is a compendium for those interested:

https://github.com/gostor/awesome-go-storage
I appear to have angered the.... I actually don't know.
Not quite, but I do have grand plans for one. Both for my main home network along with several sub and separate networks for several projects along with simulated retro and other non-IP networks. Right now I'm sitting around with ISDN phones, switches, routers, old network protocol analyzers and terminals and even an old CMTS!
Someone has to pay for that shared hosting though, which is why free shared hosts always fail in the long run, a la GeoCities.

I don’t think there’s anything stopping someone from building a service that mirrors DAT content to a shared hosting service, but to me it wouldn’t make sense for it to be built in to the core platform.
That's not totally true... They've sold Chromebooks in US markets with Exynos (though I'm not sure how recently they refreshed that lineup). I'm not sure about the mobile market though.
Isn't it the exact opposite? They were given lots of time to fix this and didn't. Something very bad happened which was partly caused by their inaction.
This is the real answer. It was very clear they had no competence to make an app of this scale. It would have collapsed under its own weight before long.
Covid isn't remotely impactful enough to create de-facto internment camps.
Hunters and busybodies: Researchers use Wikipedia to measure types of curiosity
I've heard discussion about big/little core designs several years ago, and it's not totally unheard of even before M1 comes out--the Nintendo DS has a big and a little ARM core in it.

That said, a lot of the discussion I've heard about big/little core has tended to be on the order of "the computer architects love pitching the idea; the customers hate it."
He's not listed as part of the 13 people charged by the DoJ. It's possible that he was arrested later. But Glenn didn't lie here.

So the parler exec probably looked at this list, checked to see if any one of these people used his platform, and found none did. Then he told Glenn. However, more people have since been charged.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/thirteen-charged-federal-cour...
What, exactly, am I wrong about?
It's already available in Intel Lakefield processors. They definitely took inspiration from ARM's big.LITTLE architecture, but they've been at it since before the M1 was out.
Twitter, Youtube, Facebook all get hundreds of comments of similar nature every hour. They tend to be pretty good about removing them promptly.

If I start a new social media service, what are the objective measures I can use to ensure I'm moderating well and quickly enough? How should we allow this to interact with scale?

If a new startup goes from 10 to 10,000 users overnight, and 0.5% of users post offensive comments that first day, how long does that startup have to remove them all before they are designated as "bad"?

Also, how should we view overmoderation within this context? I think most people would find it injust and orwellian to ban a black sociology professor for posting an academic analysis of the use of the n-word through history, but I fear society is going to overcorrect.
I’m sure none of the composers had any idea their music would be played extraterrestrially...it’s especially funny to have the Star Wars theme—when was it first played in space??—and the lord of the dance could do some very fancy footwork...
Interesting, I’d guess list operations are significantly faster because of the cache, even a hash map like Redis? That can be a real slowdown in s3 with large quantities of files.
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Nice! Solving a long standing problem with IRC
They are exceptions yes. And people are advocating for additional exceptions to be made and they are giving justification for it.

So you cant just straight up dismiss the idea that we should consider requiring a few more businesses to fall under our existing and uncontroversial laws common carrier laws.
Aiding and abetting insurrectionists isn't a good look.
While I can understand why that 10% would make someone unwilling to work there, until now I doubt that 10% caused brand damage that caused their products to fail.

A good comparison would be Nestlé. For decades now, a vocal minority have been calling for boycotts over their unethical methods, like with formula or or labor practices. Yet most people still happily buy Kit Kats.
The per-core power consumption of an M1 and a (edit:)5990X is actually almost identical.
The left wants to deplatform the right to crush them and destroy them. You see people brag about this all the time. This was about harming and destroying right wing communities. What happened was they waited until a good opportunity where they could do maximum harm - when people were kicked from twitter and many many people tried to install Parler. It would have been amazing for Parler, propel Parler to a multi-billion dollar company. If Amazon had not maliciously caused huge monetary damages and irreparable harm.
But weirdly they aren’t nearly so thrilled about mandatory body cams for the police themselves.
Glenn is off his rocker and has been for a while. This is not some arbitrary action.