skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mark Zuckerberg was asked whether the companies are synchronizing who they are banning with a special platform that was created for it, and Mark didn’t answer.

Everybody can see that in the last few years banning got centralized, there’s no real competition between the big companies anymore on free speech. Like others have written it, it’s a cartel at this poimt.
This angle makes sense if they wanted regulators to more closely examine the acquisition target.
Extremists move to secret online channels to plan for Inauguration Day in D.C
You're on Hacker News at ycombinator.com and you have no idea why folks here associate hackers and startups?
Combine several pictures from a third party, but only show it to the user, and hide from scripts.

Something like a captcha or a security code maybe?
Of course, SDLC security and binary verification is also part of zero-trust systems.

But you have to keep in mind - the whole point of zero-trust systems is that even if a malicious third-party blob is present on some nodes, it's blast radius is limited by the whitelist of clients that it can communicate with, which makes exfiltrating information particularly difficult unless you have additional exploits that let you move laterally.
> Which country do you live in that it takes a week for the PCR test to come back?

I'd guess a country with a totally dysfunctional, practically 3rd world medical system, with deeply entrenched profiteering and usury.

So most likely the USA?
Biggest use case for using chat rooms for technical discussions: I can search through archives a year later and find valuable nuggets of information.
Yeah. We all played that scenario on Plague!
That's fair. I guess I meant more that "network" of related sites and interests, of which I just kind of mentally group together as "cat-v", for better or worse.
Even in expensive hospital systems in the SF Bay Area, it's not every patient getting a test, much to the chagrin of some of my friends working at the ones that aren't doing universal testing.
Wouldn’t a WISP (wireless ISP) be better than a fiber ISP? Or are WISP not ideal for places with colder weather like Michigan as this article?
Big Pharma is likely very pro covid vaccine boon, 1) because some got a free loan to fund improvements of their own MRNA tech to catch up to Moderna's 10 year head start and 2) as an excuse to now field their MRNA tech with new vaccines and therapies when in prior years there would have been insurmountable barriers due to the FDA and lack of existing pharmacological precedent.
The same person has also given a talk on their conference with the title "OpenBSD supremacy", which seems like an oddly specific choice of words (though it could also be the result of English as a second language).
It's more than just that: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nascar-auto-racing/...
WebRTC is a good start! I played around with it at the start of the pandemic. It's pretty quick to get to a working demo, and you don't have to worry about any of the gory details with regard to video.
Of course that is illegal in Germany, but it's also illegal to make certain true claims that are contrary to the official narrative imposed on Germany after their defeat.
Looks like they can refuse to issue you a certificate:

>"ISRG may, in its sole discretion, refuse to grant Your request for a Let’s Encrypt Certificate, including for any lawful reason stated or not stated in this Agreement."

From:

https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.2-November-15-201... (Section 3.3)

Reading the rest now to see if they can revoke.

Edit. Aaaand there it is:

>"You also acknowledge and accept that ISRG may, without advance notice, immediately revoke Your Certificate if ISRG determines, in its sole discretion, that [...]

(v) You have violated any applicable law, agreement (including this Agreement), or other obligation;

(vi) Your Certificate is being used, or has been used, to enable any criminal activity (such as phishing attacks, fraud or the distribution of malware);

(ix) ISRG is legally required to revoke Your Certificate pursuant to a valid court order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction;

(x) this Agreement has terminated; or

(xi) there are other reasonable and lawful grounds for revocation
"
I think you're pointing out procedural issues, but ultimately the proof is in the pudding. If what they're doing works for them, then its pretty hard to convince them otherwise. It would be easier to make your case if you could point out specifics.
Enforcing disease restrictions at borders is basically pointless in a country with massive uncontrolled spread inside its 300M+ population.

They should do this for every bar, restaurant, uber, taxi, train station, and airport inside the US; that would solve the issue right quick.

This is just xenophobia, nothing more. There's more covid danger inside the US than there is from people coming from outside of it.
I am actually comforted by the fact that people are allowed to espouse views and ideas that I personally find reprehensible.
However, I do not find psy-ops to undermine our democracy by Russia and other parties to be freedom of expression, any more than they have a right to use platforms to rob a bank (something I'm grudgingly somewhat sympathetic toward).
This is one of the best links I have ever been gifted in a comment section, thank you!
I'm waiting for the not so distant possibility of power companies deciding to cut service to companies who host services they don't approve of. This is not a joke.
I think the basic idea is "nobody thought to try that with classical consensus systems such as Paxos".
Could be attempting a balance of convincing shareholders and not come out as just eating the upstart.
Nazis wear trousers. My boss wears trousers. So my boss must be a Nazi.

Torch walks are not exclusively associated with or invented by the far right. They were adopted by the far right from pre-existing traditions in the regional cultures.
I can't wait until we have smart contracts on a privacy coin that let me invest and grow my wealth anonymously.
Yes, because, in different parts of the world, laws are different. EU is saying these orgs are to powerful. How is that bad? They are planning on crafting laws to limit the abuse potential of these companies.

If a company rules are illegal in an area, then it should 100% be followed. Look at how the NYtimes for a while did not allow California residents who signed up online, cancel online. Ironically, also a media company.

How about ethics in general then? Facebook has been implicated in assisting genocide, the methodological execution of people in Myanmar - yet, people are focused on one recent event that, when you compare the effects of assisting a government in executing it's own people, to people using it as a platform to come together and raid the capitol - it seems to fall quite flat. Yes, humans lost their life in both examples, but how, why do we come together now that it is in our own backyard, vs happening in a distant part of the world? How do you quantify humanity value/loss of life or allow these social media orgs, that operate as an outlet, a communication platform, that bond "networks" together this unlimited power?
I'm not sure that free-speech-as-moral-principle applies to platforming speech vs. not platforming speech. Everyone is free to say and think and express themselves as they want to, and this seems totally separate from a right to reach millions via the work of others.
They are getting sued by TD Bank for this very reason:

> The bank said in the court filings that the interface "dupes" consumers into believing they are entering personal information into TD Bank's trusted platform.

> "In reality, however, consumers are unwittingly giving their login credentials to the defendant, who takes the information, stores it on its servers, and uses it to mine consumers' bank records for valuable data (e.g., transaction histories, loans, etc.), which the defendant monetizes by selling to third parties," TD claimed in the court records.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/td-bank-files-lawsuit-agains...

Also, giving your credentials to any third party, including Plaid, voids the warranty at many financial institutions. If your account gets hacked and your money stolen, you may find out that the zero liability policy no longer applies to you.
A half-assed google search wont do. Give me a tweet. These are dark times when I find myself defending Donald Trump against the sycophants of powerful tech barons,consciously willingly to abandon basic democratic ideas like free speech, surrendering them to private entities whose interests are totally misaligned with the public, especially the poor. All of this, "to own the right". The US is fucked beyond repair.
Probably the Simplest Way to Install Debian/Ubuntu in QEMU
It wasn't a mail server, "wolfsschanze" is/was the personal laptop that Laslo Hunhold sent the emails from.
They don't eat, they're dehydrated and passive without any metabolism until (if) they are rehydrated.
Realtek and Broadcom are both also in my "Don't even consider"-List for most uses because of the extremely bad driver situation with both of them. Intel Wifi joined this list for most use-cases.

I'm quite happy with my atheros chips (various QCA9XXX) and the mediatek chips (in the modes, where the driver doesn't crash hard)
No, Epik is current. They moved this week after GoDaddy set them to ClientHold (which doesn’t resolve)

Source: a thread on the forum
In this situation?
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I think the answer for that for Go is "yes"
It is odd. I've tried
(unsuccessfully) explaining it like, you have a right to free speech, but you don't have a right to use my phone to call people, or use my database to store your opinions.
Currently I have at least 5 different that I can choose from and probably quite a few more that I am not aware of.

I do not have anywhere near this level of choice in Social Media.

In my opinion the question of whether or not these companies should be regulated has nothing at all to do with whether they more resemble media companies or they more resemble utilities.
> If i3 is descended from wmii, that's news to me.

I meant as heavily inspired by it, not as based on the same code. From https://i3wm.org/:

> Based upon the experiences we made when wanting to hack/fix wmii, we agreed upon the following goals for i3...

Also, from the manpage i3(1):

> i3 was created because wmii, our favorite window manager at the time, didn’t provide some features we wanted (multi-monitor done right, for example), had some bugs, didn’t progress since quite some time and wasn’t easy to hack at all (source code comments/documentation completely lacking). Still, we think the wmii developers and contributors did a great job. Thank you for inspiring us to create i3.

> wmii moved to Google Code[1] before becoming abandonware before Google Code shut down.

Both wmi's and wmii's code can also still be obtained at https://dl.suckless.org/. Those are packages, though. It's great that the repo for wmii is still available. Thanks for those links.
Forcing the equation by talking about this from the perspective of ISPs is a lot easier in my head.

Other technologies that build upon the basic connectivity are much more subjective in their entitlements. I.e. you could run your own DNS name servers, so perhaps something like DNS or DDoS protection is viewed more as an open-market opportunity on top of the utility.

The barest of essentials for a self-operated cloud service would be IP connectivity, public TLS CA and domain registrar. Maybe we should look at these technology features in the same way we do frequency control, voltage and standardization in the electrical grid. DNS, compute, storage, DDoS protection, et. al., would be analogous to all of the various appliances you have connected to your electrical system at home or work.
Then you should go review major security events.

Attackers have been able to compromise major environments regardless of OS type. Windows having a larger market share is clearly going to have more compromises, but other OS based environments are just as prone to compromise. There also have been major incidents with standalone applications that are OS agnostic.

Heartbleed is a great example of an OS agnostic flaw that was used for major attacks. As noted earlier while the OS does play an issue, its more than likely just correlation rather than causation due to Microsoft having a dominant position in the market.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed#Exploitation
The issue to me is that people view free-speech-as-moral-principle often as a binary choice. It's either "you allow all speech or it's immoral"

Here's the rub, I think most people also support limiting extreme speech. IDK that there are many (any?) defenders of someone shouting "fire" in a crowded theater.

That, to me, indicates that the morality of limiting speech is more than just a simple binary choice "any limits are bad, no limits are good".

That's what "Free-speech-as-legal-right" is really trying to get at. It is the law trying to make the moral arguments for what free speech is and isn't and when it can be morally curtailed.

To me, the law has struck a decent balance. I don't think it's hugely immoral for a social media company to moderate their own content however they choose. Are downvotes in HN immoral? I don't think so. Do people here in HN believe flagged content is immoral or content that goes against the community rules? I don't think so.

To me, the only way this would be an issue is if Parler had no method to get their platform running. That's not the case. They can self host if they so choose. It isn't unreasonable for them to do that (many companies do).

That being said, I DO have an issue with ISPs choosing what content their customers have access to. That is mainly because a lot of people DON'T have a choice of provider. There is often only 1 high speed choice in a region. For them to filter or block content is a major issue.
But, Turtles all the way down until you need global consensus, which is what this paper is about.
Amazon did not want Parler to moderate content pointed out by Amazon. Amazon wanted Parler to find that kind of content and moderate it itself.
GitHub reportedly fired a Jewish employee who called Capitol rioters “Nazis”
same! apparently i tricked myself into caring about my finances in this exact way
> Fortunately

I'd say unfortunately.
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Meaning != "sometimes called".

Ah the good old "the tool is not wrong, you are".

Don't search any further why Desktop Linux distribution are still less used by common people than Windows or Mac.
Yet Intuit was able to shut down Credit Karma's potential as a competitor with ease. Something fishy in the district of Washington.
After having gotten a Dell Alienware laptop with an OLED display (just turned four years old last month), I intend to get OLED displays on all future laptops.
Maybe that’s the entire point
> Where do you think American Neo-Nazis get their symbolism from?

Considering the KKK were using torches before nazis existed the relationship goes the other way if anything: https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/kkk_rallies.htm

The torch has been used for thousands of years in many contexts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch#Symbolism), quite often as a form of intimidation but not always.

Is the Statue of Liberty a nazi symbol because she holds a torch?
Well, Covid is what made the technologies breach the apply to humans threshold. Could have taken ages otherwise, because the testing procedures create quite a bit of conservative bias (and I don't blame them)
The worst that could happen is the box running PiHole could get owned, and used as a stepping-stone towards hacking other devices on the network it is connected to, possibly without any obvious outward signs.

It's the same with any service exposed to the web really, that's pretty the bottom line.
European Union analog for America:

State governors are not voted, but chosen by the state legislatures: EU countries' prime ministers

Replace senate with a meeting of state governors: European Council, Council of EU

Replace president with a commission of 50 presidents (EU: 27), one from each state, chosen by the state legislature, not by elections: EU Commission

State legislatures are voted as normal (but proportional voting, not FPTP). The US house of representatives is voted as normal (again proportional voting). But the house can't propose new legislation, only approve or decline proposals from the senate and the commission.
Currently building: www.bookmocks.com , a micro-SAAS app for authors to acquire stunning photorealistic mockups of their book for social media and promotional ads.

Looking for: Marketing and Sales expert.
What I bring to the table: Technical expertise.

Upside potential: This could challenge big tools like Placeit

Reach out to me at lifeinafolder@gmail.com if interested.
Also please note the overt act rule re: conspiracy isn't necessarily the law with respect to incitement or in all jurisdictions.
Anonymously is unlikely - how would the government get their taxes?
I’m self taught, but don’t generally recommend it. It’s really hard work, difficult to get right and I need to make more decisions, which is taxing. It also never stops. Still learning and planning to learn as long as I can.

There are upsides though: I learn at my own pace, I can dive more deeply into a topic for a while, I can choose topics pragmatically, and I choose how to learn and test.

Now this curriculum: I have a different approach. I like watching videos/lectures, but more as a supporting tool, when I’m tired. I much prefer books, papers and experimentation. Also I feel like the curriculum is all over the place. I agree with the math part mostly but the rest seems a bit like a hodgepodge.
If curious see also

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23182775

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13213809

Original Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12270762
Star Trek violated the Prime Directive in just about every episode. (They wouldn't have had any plots if they didn't.)
I don't get the joke in naming a laptop after a Nazi stronghold, could someone explain it for me?
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25752986
Sure, but we got that new strain from a foreign traveler. It still cuts off a vector of transmission.
I will answer myself with the latest resource I found: https://webaim.org/intro/
> two mobile OS options (Android and iOS) with a combined 99.8% market share

Not to mention the fact that if you're kicked out of only one of the two you're basically finished if you live on network effect. If Google decided to kick Whatsapp out of the Android store, even those who have iPhones would have no reason to use it any more.
Freedom of speech exists to provide freedom of expression, even if it is controversial. I don't consider planning crimes, especially ones that would end freedom of expression as a societal value, to be covered under freedom of speech.
Certainly each individual comment on Parler can't be considered to be planning a crime. That can't be said for the platform as a whole.
the school district in my parents town is one of the smallest in the area and they built one of the largest football stadiums in the area they passed a levey to pay for it, but while this was going on they had a roof that needed replaced on the highschool, they knew this it was leaking already but they figured they wouldn't get the stadium built if they had to do it second, they waited until the next year to demand money to fix the roof.
> I do not have anywhere near this level of choice in Social Media.

You don't have to use social media to be online. But if all 5 ISPs decide to cut you off, you can't even access your social media accounts.

Seriously, secure the lower parts of the stack first. This administration went and did the exact opposite of that by repealing net neutrality. I have no sympathy for them if their ISP cancels their accounts. It's called reaping what you sow.
Source of major leak/intrusion as a result of heartbleed? That was 2013 btw and I remember it clearly - since it was closed pretty quickly I don’t recall anything major coming out of it

Edit: i mean when it was 0day. Obviously if some idiot didn’t patch their servers it shouldn’t count
That was my first thought, but my brain loves reinventing wheels.
What about banning the actual social media site from the internet?
> In fact I'd expect any community to drift as the norms of society change.

But then, you've already conceded that progressivism is right (but perhaps moving too fast for your comfort) - so what is the point? If you know that whatever you're defending will be seen as beyond the pale of civilized discourse within a generation?

Imagine a moderate conservative forum dedicated to principled discussions created in 2000. Everyone there agrees that gay marriage is a bad idea. Now teleport that forum into 2021 - do contemporary moderate Republicans denounce it as a hotbed of homophobia and profusely apologize for their posts there 20 years ago? Or do they hold it up as an example of a community of moderate conservatives dedicated to principled discussions of the issues?
I just don't see this being as much of an issue as is stated here. I find that over the years its easier and easier to find info. Github issues, reddit, or stackexchange have huge wealths of info that are expanding rapidly.
> These people have to quarantine two weeks after returning anyway - I just don't see the logic behind this move.

Well, presumably a lot of the people taking foreign holidays are covid sceptics. So expecting 100% compliance with all quarantine rules would be pretty naive.
So next we would just have to fix the justice system (giant corporations have a bit of an advantage in the current one).
The problem with "Cultural Marxism" as a term is that it's extremely ambiguous. Some people use this term as essentially a shorthand for Marxist cultural analysis, which broadly describes any and all Marxist approaches to the cultural sphere. Others take it to refer to a purported conspiracy involving the Frankfurt School's supposed aim to take over Western culture and subvert it from within.

What makes this an especially thorny issue is that there has been a very real fascination with cultural subversion among Western left-wing radicals since the 1960s and 1970s, on the model of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ("Destroy the Four Olds, usher in the Four News!") and quite a few of those left-wing radical groups did indeed meld these Maoist ideas with those of the Frankfurt School (for example, "Marx, Mao, Marcuse!" was a common street slogan in the French protests of the late 1960s).

So one could retrospectively surmise that not all of the descriptions one sees in the more conspiratorial accounts of "Cultural Marxism" are entirely without merit. The difference is one of scale, time frame and perhaps motive: was this a purposeful conspiracy involving the Frankfurt School itself from the outset, or just something that arose later within Western radical politics, out of deeply misguided fascination with what was going on in places like China and perhaps Cambodia? It seems clear that the former description is quite wrong, and that those who cling to it are indeed doing so in bad faith. But I can see how some of this could be quite confusing!
It's still not clear if a previous infection stops you from being an asymptomatic carrier, and we don't want more asymptomatic carriers.
Until we explore and colonize space, we are one random asteroid away from human extinction. The odds in any given year or small, but it's nevertheless an unacceptable risk.

We should do everything we can to spread our eggs into other baskets.