skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: Which of the lawsuits went into discovery and were heard to weigh those claims? I'd love to read the details as that could dispel rumors and bs.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25461760
Some part of me feels like a ban on social media during an election period is not all that bad. The US has proven to the entire world that people can't be trusted to act civilised and honestly discuss issues, and that lack of trust extends from the highest levels of government down to the average citizen.

That's not to say I am advocating the suppression of speech. All people should be free to speak about corruption and misinformation. But the last twelve months or so have, at least to me, shown that most people would rather burn the public square to the ground than speak of corruption and misinformation. And it does make me wonder what elections would be like in all countries if, at least for the campaign and election period, sites like Twitter were just outright banned.
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I'd assume the traditional route of using virus particles for the vaccine would be used. In fact, I think that's what the Chinese and Russians are using.
By domestic ISIS do you mean an organization that attempts to take over the capital to abduct and/or kill politicians and stop a democratic election?
>This is where you lose me. As I understand it, essential workers can continue working whether or not they're vaccinated (yes, some will get seriously sick, but it won't significantly impact the economy). Rather, we want to vaccinate them earlier than non-essential workers because they're more vulnerable by the riskier nature of their work. However, they're not more vulnerable than the elderly

The key point here is that essential workers have a much greater exposure to COVID and much less control over the degree to which they are exposed to COVID. Most elderly people don't work. Those that do (and don't qualify as essential workers) can work from home. It is much easier for these people to minimize exposure. None of this logic has anything to do with race or any other form of diversity. None of this logic is questioning the fact that COVID is more dangerous to the elderly if they contract it. It is simply recognizing that from an ethical perspective it is likely fairer to prioritize the vaccine for people who are least able to minimize their own risk of exposure.

>and yet the CDC recommends prioritizing them over the elderly because the elderly are disproportionately white while essential workers are disproportionately non-white. At least, this is how I understand the argument.

Diversity factored into 1 of 3 subcategories in 1 of 3 top level categories. It isn't fair to say the "CDC recommends prioritizing [essential workers] over the elderly because the elderly are disproportionately white" when it is just one piece of a much larger and more nuanced discussion.
When teaching new students Java, the first step is "type these exact lines character for character, you won't understand what they mean for the next year, but you need to type them at the start of every new program.", which can be a little rough.
I switched to dwm a couple of weeks ago after using Ratpoison for years and years, and I'm super happy with it. It solves the things that bugged me about Ratpoison. The one feature I was missing was very easy to add myself (the equivalent of "set padding" in monocle mode).
It would be poetic if tardigrades end up colonizing other worlds hundreds of years before we do.
It doesn't have to be a "stable" political position for people to have principled discussion. In fact I'd expect any community to drift as the norms of society change. Granted, Conservatives should resist such change because that's what it means to be conservative, but it doesn't mean you set a marker in the sand and never deviate. That would be reactionary.
It's just legalese. He wants to avoid potential issues.
True, but it is important to quantify that inadequacy. SolarWinds was actually attacked by an actual threat and their defenses were comically outmatched by that real threat who found real value in attacking them. We are not talking 10%-20% or even 100%, we are talking systems that need to improve by 1,000%-10,000% to provide credible defense against real foes. And this is not just SolarWinds, FireEye, a major cybersecurity company, needs to improve their security by a factor of 100x to protect their customers against people who actually wish to attack them. The security is not merely inadequate, it is inadequate to a degree that is almost mind-boggling. Systems are being deployed that are not even 1% of the necessary level of effectiveness. These organizations are completely incapable of developing and deploying adequate defenses.

This ignores the secondary problem which is that if the attacks being deployed are 100x stronger than the defenses, how hard is it to develop an attack that is merely 2x stronger than the defenses. If we lazily extrapolate this linearly, that would be 1/50th the resources to develop an attack that still outmatches the defenders. How many people do you think were on the SolarWinds attack? 10, 100, 1000? Even at 1000 that means you would only need 20 fulltime people for a year to develop a credible attack against nearly every Fortune 500 company in the world and most of the US government. That should be a terrifying concept. Obviously, this is lazy extrapolation, but it is not so off as to be non-illustrative of this problem.

Given this immense difference between real problems and available solutions, the only reasonable assumption for companies and people is to assume that they are completely defenseless against such actors and likely even largely defenseless against even poorly-resourced attacks as demonstrated time and time again. It is imperative that they act accordingly and only make systems accessible where the harm of guaranteed breach is less than the benefit of making those systems accessible.
why people trust Telegram more now? Is it safe from Russian government intervention?
This isn't a new threat? People literally do this all the time, you can probably find compilations of security footage of it on youtube.
I'm glad the OP made the correct decision in this case and hope they get well soon.

> the assumption I had a minor cold
> the loss of smell was total

Since there does seem to be a messaging problem about the reliability of testing, I think it's worth emphasizing: if someone has symptoms of COVID, they should proceed as-if they have COVID. CDC guidance[1] is to isolate if you have a positive test OR if you have symptoms.

To do otherwise is to gamble with the health and lives of the people they meet, and the people those people meet, and so on. It may prove almost impossible to show who caught COVID from whom, but that doesn't mean that ignoring guidance won't lead to deaths. A statistical death is still the death of a real person, even if we can't put a name to them.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/is...
The hieroglyphics started out as pictures, and later evolved into being both pictures and sounds. Same with the Mayan script.
Have you tried it?

I've not experienced any of those problems while using dwm for the past several years.

Where I wasn't able to find an existing diff supporting my desired customizations I found the code easy to understand and extend myself.

Find me some spaghetti code in the codebase and your point might be a little more convincing to me.
Seems like most people, US or not, should not trust DoD-signed stuff by default.
I don't understand the comparison with US highway infrastructure. That infrastructure cannot be use to spread "crime" at rapid scale, leading to extreme degradation of society. The whole ISIS movement took advantage of lax enforcement and created a monster that will haunt was for decades. What's the equivalent for highway infrastructure ? Are drug dealers using it to spread addiction at rapid scale ?
Well. Your username didn't help for a start!

EDIT - in hindsight would you like to change your username (leaving aside whether that's even possible or allowed)?

Genuinely curious.
Part of me wonders if they'd have been better with GitHub cloud CI/CD in Actions, with immutable build infra (e.g. Ubuntu base images).

But, with the wild npm dependency community, where a small app can have 5K transitive dependencies, I feel we're going to be even more susceptible to these attacks going forward.
Whats the easiest way to resolve handshake names locally without a 3rd party gateway? Is there a FF extension I can use, something that doesn't require a lot of configuration?
Twitter always said they had more lenient rules for world leaders, and that part makes sense, since anyone that is an elected public official needs to communicate with the public and sometimes talk about controversial topics.

But if that elected official is refusing to accept the same system that elected them in the first place, then that's a logical dead-end and no amount of reasoning will do any good, or even matter in that case. Without the framework of elections, there is no such thing as an elected official.
This is a dirty tactic, but I've seen it used... a lot.

It has slimy tax advantages too, for the company.

If you're getting profit sharing, you should be able to see the books, and have controlling shares, too... IMO.
Just like the Mac :-)
Let's say that the restaurant goes to KKK and Neo-Nazi rallies handing out fliers saying that the restaurant is where "anyone can feel welcome." But they never advertise to the general public or to groups of opposing views. Is that restaurant for the general public or is it for a specific type of people? They said it was for anyone, but I'm not sure people are going to believe that.
This sounds like it may be a people problem rather than a technology problem. If a problem is moving on without him on a messaging platform I don't know why his teammates wouldn't do the same on an email thread or a github issue. One-liners also don't have to be the norm and I myself have gotten plenty of page long responses when warranted. Channels and threads also work for me when it comes to skimming, and Slack has a solid search feature which manages to make locating things super easy
Ah, it turns out Github is the obnoxious one.
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Does anyone know if this approach would work for food allergies?
The danger is if there is already some life that we're not aware of, then our tardrigades screw up their environment, eventually killing them. We don't want our tiny bacteria killing their tiny bacteria.
You'd need to be extremely distracted not to notice the lines, the fence and the Capitol police being overwhelmed and assaulted. I wouldn't try that with a judge.
A product that does threaded conversations. Yammer did this pretty well, shame it never really took off for businesses
>> There is no similar human rights mandate for a Parler account

>Canada considers internet access a basic human right, and it's pretty clear the rest of the world will move in that direction shortly.

Having a Parler account and having access to the internet are two different things.

Funny that you mention Canada. Parler would likely have trouble existing as a Canadian entity due to Canada’s hate speech laws and the courts’ propensity to leave carriers exposed to liability for hosting content that violates those laws.

Also, the Canadian government has a broad power to restrict speech in times of crisis through the War Measures Act. They could easily have switched a site like Parler off if a similar event occurred.
Forgive me, the focus you put on 'platforms v publishers' is reminiscent of the uninformed section 230 discussions happening everywhere right now, which are exhausting.

Afaict section 230 isn't a special provision granted by society, it is a legal clarification of existing rights of speech & assembly that has the effect of limiting certain types of frivolous lawsuits. Clarifications seem materially different than government granting a corporation a local monopoly. The latter should definitely have strings attached, but the former?

Now you could argue that the basis for the decision to grant utilities local monopolies is rooted in similar natural monopoly circumstances (economies of scale and resource limitations) as that of mainstream social networks (physical infra & space in former, network effects in latter), and I'd probably agree, but that would be an entirely different focus than section 230 reform.

You're also advocating for a very black & white solution (platform v publisher, based on a choice about moderation), but there's a lot of specifics lacking such that its hard to determine if that's even a good idea. My immediate reaction is: online communities are extremely varied in both operation and medium (design, algorithms, what 'speech' even is, etc), and anyone who has had the experience of building and operating communities would see 'all legal speech should be published' as frankly a laughable premise. It raises far more questions than it answers, and likely just kicks the hard work of how products are designed over to lawyers who will definitely get it wrong.

My hunch is we're barking up the wrong tree with 230, and the underlying issue is too much power concentrated in too few entities. They have too much control over too many people's experiences, and when they use that power people confuse it with censorship. If we focused on the issue of natural monopolies arising from network effects, we might come to very different solutions, like decentralization with standard protocols for social graph interoperability.
The counter argument is that if the life we inadvertently leave throughout the solar system thrives, that's an interesting result too. This only really becomes a problem if there was other life to begin with.
Does Greenwald not understand what sideloading an app is?
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They also railed against "cultural marxism" which is a dogwhistle phrase coined and used by -- wait for it -- the Nazis.

When you take together all the fashy things they do, it kind of establishes a pattern that maaaaybe they don't believe in brotherhood and equality.
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They did it in Germany, where Charlottesville was likely a 30 second news clip that everyone forgot about.

Stop with the cultural imperialism, race relations in the US are rather unique.
The pattern of evidence is consistent with Parler being part of Russia's disinfo/anti-democracy attack on the US, along with their asset Trump himself. I cant prove this 100% but is the wise way to bet, given the total context.
> Or is it interpreted differently depending on who the target is? Nazis, whacking them is just a game.

Did you read the full quote or not? The context matters not the targets (in this case a singular target changes the context). There is only one Joe Biden, so they way you are using it has a different context. If it was about whacking lib-trolls from your news group, that's different than specifying a person.

Maybe you aren't a native english speaker, but whack-a-mole is a common carnival game. That's the context in the quote YOU picked.
Which seems to be a matter of time now.
In addition to that, "Cultural Marxism" doesn't just refer to Marxism. It's an antisemitic canard used pretty much exclusively by the far right.
That sounds cool and promising, did you write it up anywhere?
In Germany this has a very clear Gschmäckle and is not a common activity. Unless you are a Nazi. Then it's all about Fackelmärsche, of course.

I want to add, for context, because I understand when Americans don't understand this: These types of "jokes" don't fly _culturally _in _Germany. If you glorify national socialism or the holocaust, even in humor, you are likely pretty close to that mindset anyway. It's really no joking matter here. And the suckless group _really plays with the local neonazi image... it's at most 90% joke.
Idk about the company you work at or projects you watch but most people know how to use mailing lists.
Oh nice, thanks for that!
This is one reason I built https://kontxt.io for enterprise. It instantly connects people to specific page-parts to have localized conversations directly on the source of internal and external websites and digital documents, so everything is where you need it, when you need it, and anyone that joins later has full context.
Ok, I've disassociated those comments from your account and given them a random username, so it's as if you'd used a throwaway account to post them.
> Also, you should judge their comments by the comments, not by the username.

Partly yes and partly no. I spotted what appeared to be a throwaway. That led me to believe the poster had less "skin in the game" and that influenced me to some degree. Was that unreasonable?
Then they shouldn't go on a flight. Simple as that.

Traveling to another country is not a right but a privilege, many of HN commenters always like to throw this line.
The thing is, the rules established at the start worked. Then they got loosened, things got worse, then they back pedalled to tighten up again. They already knew what would work back in March 2020. I always think of bill gates explaining how to prepare for a pandemic and how this advice should have been followed from the start. The rules imposed at the start worked and should have been only slightly modified with a tightening on borders and people movement. Planes should have been a no go unless for freight, likewise for tranpsort via ferry. But the uk just opened everything up over the summer, everything felt normal which obviously meant the virus would spread like normal. Then bam, it’s winter and we’ve killed 80000.
What are we supposed to make of people carrying the Confederate flag, as well? The Confederate States of America fought a civil war to preserve the enslavement of Black people (as specifically mentioned in most of the state constitutions of the CSA states)- what message are they trying to send by bringing that flag to the capitol building?
Perhaps they saw the take over of the Hart Senate building during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings? Or AOC leading a take over of Pelosi's office? There were some minor arrests, but not much more than slap on the hand stuff, as I recall.
"Hey, you guys are beating a cop to death with the American flag and breaking in to the Capitol, huh? After you get inside I'll follow you and mull around, you know, just while I'm here."
It looks like an analog part, yes, going to an ADC.

Sure, cutting both would be even better.

But-- as I posted earlier-- recovering a signal from a depowered MEMS device would be somewhat miraculous. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25743822
It's analyzed on the device, which is not outside your control. Besides, how do you know the same isn't true of the physical button?
It doesn't have to be a system where the government can pick and choose who they want to ban/keep, but rather a system where businesses must go through a legal government process to ban someone themselves. That platforms need to be held to the same freedom of speech standards the US government is held to.
This seems to be changing. Nacha (the organization that governs ACH) has been developing open APIs so that more organizations can get access to the ACH network without any dirty hacks. I would expect to see a rise in the number of personal finance applications over the next few years due to this fact.

https://www.nacha.org/content/available-apis
https://www.nacha.org/content/phixius
Most things I've seen require/enforce S/MIME.
And the EU tariffs are a part of the reason for that, though perhaps not the main reason.
You probably know this, but correcting for anyone reading. C is generally considered statically but *weakly* typed.
I remember being able to overwhelm my first "home router" with the "Browse for servers" tab in Counter Strike 1.6!
It would fetch a list of all servers from Steam, and then connect to them individually, eventually killing my router.
> I find this somewhat incomprehensible. Why the bias for seeing and archiving everything? The implicit model, which is right there in his title, is "talk", which is not naturally archived.

Somewhat harder to do now that we are all WFH.
From the article, the GPS data comes from photos or videos uploaded to Parler and released in the data dump. Twitter and other social media sites strip out that data, whereas Parler did not.
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I am in Europe, it was top news for many days.
This sounds like a survivorship bias. I'm willing to bet that if someone such as yourself (who is motivated to learn C) started with a weak/duck typed language, you would have maintained motivation, and later moved onto something like C, feeling grateful to be learning C. i.e. who you fundamentally are is not altered by the language you first start learning.

Now take the reverse. If someone who is not motivated to learn C started out in Python, they're more likely to stay motivated, perhaps never learning strong typing. If you start them on C, they lose interest and the field loses a valuable addition.

Not everybody has to learn C or static typing or pointers. It's okay for people to have a narrow programming/comp sci scope and still enjoy the field.
Telegram has no servers or offices in Russia and was blocked there from 2018 to 2020: https://t.me/durov/117
This is why most replies include quotes.

But yeah for groups you need a mailing list with an archive. It's still better than most IM apps IMO.
The town squares and public parks are still there.

The existence of Twitter, Facebook, etc. have accustomed people to the ability to air their opinions globally free of charge, however that is a very novel phenomenon. It's hard for me, having come of age in the 1980s/1990s, to see this as an inalienable right.
Absolutely agreed, it goes at least as far (if not further) as ancient Greece.

Just wanted to highlight that specific time period, since it was pointed out by the parent comment as a specific example of those efforts going nowhere.
Terrible and dishonest analogy. The very reason this went undetected for 15 months is because the bridge _didn't_ fall down. There were no signs of a "break in" and it's wholly improper to compare a virtual system to a physical entity like that in the first place.
From reading the paper, it seems like it would be difficult for a private hacking group to manage but completely doable for someone like the NSA. They could outfit an entire team to work somewhere else for an extended period of time, making behavior profiles unreliable.
I think sedation is typical. They would do it without if you ask, but are not typically going to suggest that.
I would still have some issues. I do find IRC archives much, much less valuable than more structured sources.

But I'm picking my battles at this point in time. And the lack of indexing is the most critical flaw and one I think is immensely damaging to technical communities on those platforms.