skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Things were this way because of Richard Stallman – but I view his influence on these things as negative rather than positive. He was a cause that forced these outcomes, rather than being supportive of the desires and needs of others. Rather than indulge in gossip or stories, I would like to jump to the idea that he was supposed to have been deplatformed in October 2019."

"In resigning from his position as president of the FSF, he certainly lost some of his ability to reach audiences. However, Richard still gives talks. The FSF continues to use his image and rhetoric in their own messaging and materials. They gave him time to speak at their annual conference in 2020. He maintains leadership in the GNU project and otherwise within the FSF sphere. The people who empowered him for so many years are still in charge."

"Richard, and the continued respect and space he is given, is not the only problem. It represents a bigger problem. Sexism and racism (among others) run rampant in the community. This happens because of bad actors and, more significantly, by the complacency of organizations, projects, and individuals afraid of losing contributors, respect, or funding."

"In a sector that has so much money and so many resources, women are still being paid less than men; we deny people opportunities to learn and grow in the name of immediate results; people who aren’t men, who aren’t white, are abused and harassed; people are mentally and emotionally taken advantage of, and we are coerced into burn out and giving up our lives for these companies and projects and we are paid for tolerating all of this by being told we’re doing a good job or making a difference."
> level of paranoia that is unique to this particular virus

This particular virus is >5x deadlier than seasonal flu, is significantly more contagious, and nobody has any pre-existing immunity.

Despite strong countermeasures, almost half a million people in the USA have died from the pandemic so far, and by the time we are through that number could potentially double.

It is the worst infectious disease threat since the 1918 flu (thankfully not quite as deadly as that one, given modern medical care).
If the option is deep ITM it's basically the same as the underlying, it doesn't have the curvature to make everything interesting, and it is unlikely to expire OTM?
Twitter is a private company enforcing their terms of service. They are not required to give you a platform to express your speech.
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I this post is still relevant!

>The best we can do is find people who we think are smart because they're a bit like us.

This shows up in every interview. Everyone wants to hire a clone of themselves - though they know they are not perfect!
> If you agree with tenant eviction protections, then you should probably support similar eviction protections for cloud computing

I can't say I agree or that I find this analogy valid. Tenant eviction protection is, in part, to protect human life acknowledging the necessity of shelter. The same just doesn't apply to cloud computing.
The heck is the point of a test if not to confirm or rule out covid? He took two tests, came back negative and assumed his "cold or covid" symptoms were cold until he had reason to believe they were covid. Other than the tests sucking everything in the fact pattern is perfectly reasonable.
Thanks. So it's not in fact the word for a thin sandwich of water-bears in epoxy.
Transfers between registrars do not usually reset the "Creation Date". Actually the creation date field is not correct anymore for most domain names. Some registrars just show a fixed date such as 1985-01-01.
Feels like Facebook said the same thing about Hacker News. I rarely see posts by current employees, which is really disappointing as I would love to hear about the tech issues they encounter.
129 million people have access to only 1 broadband provider. That's 40% of the country [1]. With wireless carriers maybe that increases to a little bit more, but they're prohibitively expensive usually to run as your main home internet connection.

For social media you have: Facebook (Instagram, Whatsapp), Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, YouTube, WeChat, TikTok. And these are just the ones with > 100 million users. You can find way more with users in the tens of millions or less.

1. https://ilsr.org/repealing-net-neutrality-puts-177-million-a...
Of course a landlord can throw you out on a moment's notice if your use of the property is illegal and presents a clear and present mortal danger to public safety.
Yes but this is true for any side, no? It would be a bit haughty to claim "the lies of others vs our truths".

Lies will always exist because they work. But at the end of the day, either there is the possibility for earnest discussion as well, or there isn't. You cannot fix what you cannot talk about.
I agree with everything you said.

But it still wouldn't hurt to remove the vector of incoming travelers.
>Don't search any further why Desktop Linux distribution are still less used by common people than Windows or Mac.

I choose the tool i like most and that is FreeBSD. And i really give a crap about common users. Who btw use iOS or Android and NOT Windows or Mac, different tools for different jobs.

BTW you know what Metal and DirectX is? And VisualStudio is NOT another Photoshop.
I tried to come up with my own alphabet once. If you stick with the simplest possibilities you end up with an alphabet very similar to runes or the number system used by certain monasteries. A line with a cross line in various iterations etc.
It's not that hard to do this kind of thing without leaving any solid trace at all.

A way to do it for example would be to use a stolen credit card to subscribe to a few VPN with hops on Tor in between and use that to set up a VPS that puts this up after a few weeks

The devil is in the details, but if you're careful you can leave absolutely no trace.
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Seriously? Debilitating? Curious why?

I now have the same for covid, lol - but I'm overweight and 41, high risk as a result, and have two kids under 4 I'd like to see make it to graduation.

I have a constant nasal drip, that I don't think is flu related, I get the vaccine every year, but I do get bronchitis like every other year and it wipes me out for at least 2-4 weeks.
Not sure about now, but Scott held quite a few shares of Twitter [1] Quite ironic if he still does.

But I still agree: splitting up what should not have been acquired is a good start. And a good way to piss off Zuck et al., way better than fines that will be a "cost of doing business". For starters, I think Instagram can survive alone, keep in mind these guys had a surprisingly small team just before the acquisition.

[1] https://www.profgalloway.com/twtr-enough-already
The straw man, of course!

I mean sure, I happen to agree with what I believe to be whatever1's attitude to the Person Not Named, but what whatever1 wrote has nothing to do with the topic under discussion.
This is a very contemporary American view.

Look at the situation globally, over the 20th century and it doesn't look quite like that.

China, Soviets, Cuba, Venezuela, Poland, Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong etc. etc. there's a long list of various kinds of 'authorities' of every kind.
Yes, as a man I really wish they look at pay inequality at Google.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/google-gender-...
You should still renew your SSL certificate every year (397 days to be exact).
This doesn't follow at all because you are comparing the current state of laxing COVID precautions to the previous state of near zero cold precautions. For example, tens of millions of people are currently working from home and the workplace is one of the primary places colds spread. If we treated COVID like the cold we would already be on the other side of the pandemic because it would have already ripped through the population and millions would be dead.
A bit pedantic but alphabets aren't the only kind of "advanced" writing system.
There's a big problem of Vietnamese who are stranded and jobless in Japan -- they lost their (mostly travel-related) jobs, cannot pay tuition, and cannot return home:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210103/p2a/00m/0na/00...
It is all over the internet lol. Windows source has always been frequently traded.
At least python and go packages don't execute arbitrary code on developer's workstations at install time. If you pin dependencies to a known safe version, then you're relatively safe.

With NPM, just typing `npm update` can pwn your workstation.
Chaz was in Seattle, not Portland.
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Lol, didn't expected to be on HN. Thanks @didizaja
I have family and friends in the US. A lot of friends. I've visited on average 2 or 3 times a year over the last 20 years or so. (Almost all "tourist" travel, maybe 10 or so "business trips" for conferences or vendor meetings, all of which had ect4ended time as a tourist visit included).

I have accepted the fact that I'm unlikely to see my family or friends there for probably at least 3 maybe 5 years.

They will very unlikely be allowed to visit here (Australia), and if they are will probably need to spend 14 days in quarantine upon arrival. Right now I am not allowed to leave the country (without a special exemption, which sure as hell does not get granted "to visit my little sister and her family!")

Even if I got that exemption, I'd need to join the huge queue of people attempting to return to Australia with severely limited inbound international travel capacity (we were only allowing 4,000 returning citizens per week, with the current concern overt he UK strain that's been cut to 2,000 per week). There are news reports of people who've been trying and failing to get back to Australia for 6 months or more, with flights being cancelled - and confirmed tickets of flights being cancelled (reportedly for people with higher priced tickets to fly instead...)

I hope the vaccines work out. I fear that they may not - either being less effective that advertised, being less effective against mutated strains, or being thwarted by anti vaxxers.
Hey, don’t take the shine off StratusBen’s Show HN :)

This is good to know, but I’m really curious how you found out about the OSS project? You are a contributor? Found out on Twitter?
When I first read of the messenger RNA based vaccines I was thinking that perhaps the one good thing coming from this horrific pandemic is providing mRNA treatments the funding they needed.

I think originally BioNTech worked on cancer treatments.
The EU would be the first to ban all discussion by its critics.

I'm paying taxes so that they can daily serve me Youtube and Twitter ads of how wonderful the EU is. I can't imagine such propaganda in the USA.
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Also many sites claim I'm blocking their ads, and sometimes they attempt to prevent me from continue using the site.
That's not true, ESTAs are being approved as usual.
But what is practised is often “the best that's not slow enough to affect development cycle”, so it is something of a recursive definition.
Oh man, this is amazing news. I am surprised at how much promise mRNA has! Let’s hope it will not be too long before awful conditions like MS are consigned to history.
What you describe is very possible with a group of like minded developers; I think everyone, including those who are perceived as rude on the Internet, prefers that atmosphere.

In practice, however, many open source projects have socially dominant developers who incessantly rewrite everything and introduce bugs until some introvert correctness advocate explodes.

There is no way of dealing nicely with passive aggressive socially dominant people. They just continue their game until someone calls them out directly.

These days, of course, the introvert is canceled and they can carry on.
I use Glasswire. It's a good Windows firewall manager and network logger with a beatiful GUI.

Some features are paid.

https://www.glasswire.com/
Here is my math.

200TB = 200,000,000,000,000 B * 8 bits / B = 1,600,000,000,000,000 bits.

1,600,000,000,000,000 / 599,184,000 = 2,670,298 bits/s = 2.67 Mbps which I think is in the normal range, though maybe a little low. I think I originally computed from 20 MB/min which I just found by searching on the internet randomly.

Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a consistent number on the amount of data held by the Library of Congress, so how about Wikipedia instead? Wikipedia says Wikipedia is 18.9 GB compressed [1], so 200 TB / 18.9 GB = 10582 Wikipedias. Wikipedia says a Wikipedia would be ~2821 Encyclopedia Britannica volumes which are ~1000 pages each, so this would in total constitute ~30,000,000 volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica exfiltrated before discovery. Hardly a sizeable amount of data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
Booted people from its DDoS-protection services.
Absence of evidence isn't evidence though. It could be that the CEO was also trained not to respond to questions that could be twisted around in an anti-trust allegation.
Similar attacks are going on right now, you just won't read about it until the year 202x, if ever. What are you doing about it?
While trying to read the article, a graphic video of a lady having earwax extracted started autoplaying. I don't think I've ever been so put off from an article so quickly.
Thank you for clarifying the nuances at play. You've given me food for thought.

I think it's easy to say the rules are vague, a statement I agree with. In my understanding of how the big social media players have finally applied their rules against Trump it was for inciting violence and spreading disinformation. I'd suggest the latter is pretty clear-cut, with the former being somewhat more challenging. Trump's tactic of inciting violence while calling for peace is the pinnacle of examples. Even in this case, however, the fact he calls for peace doesn't nullify his call to arms.

In your example however, Harris surely has other wide-ranging channels to spread her message. She would also likely be able to bring a legal case that her alleged breaking of the terms was not the case - but I'm sure this would be decided on much to far down the path to be relevant. The damage would already be done.

Witter would likely already be known to have an axe to grind against Harris or her politics - would she even deign to engage on the platform at all?

Perhaps I'm splitting hairs and/or cherrypicking. It's not my intention to discuss this in bad faith. Just the thought of an organisation not being allowed to apply its rules really does shock me.
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If 10% of people think Facebook is the root of all that's evil, you are likely to have some awkward conversations regardless of what 70% of people think. It doesn't take a majority of people to make things awkward/ ugly, just a vocal minority.

Also, I suspect developers and knowledge workers are more likely to dislike Facebook. It doesn't matter what the cashier at Safeway thinks. If your friends and acquaintances hate Facebook, it's going to feel a lot worse. And if you are a developer or designer, it's likely you have a fair number of friends who are developers.
> Or did Facebook think that all of these 70+ million people would just sit back quietly and accept that their politician was blocked (or perceived of being censored)?

Evidently, they think a lot of those people are violent extremists. And they're not wrong. Hence the OP.
Is it me or have we come full circle on this? I remember a not long ago when internet companies were told they were publishers and liable for their content and then Zuckerberg asking for more regulation. I can’t keep up.
This is like all the grocery stores choosing not to carry brand of product in their grocery stores. You didn't lose access to the grocery store. That brand can start their own grocery store and host their own product if they want to.

Tons of companies host their own infrastructure.
Everyone works hard, and yes some work harder than others. And no one is saying that tech workers randomly won the lottery and should shut up and just be grateful.

But to imagine that suddenly having the fruits of your labor yield 10-100x the wealth that others in life can ever hope to produce, and think that it's just your hard work and not a function of having been blessed both with good talents and an environment in which your value can be exploited -- is sheer arrogance not to acknowledge that. Or be offended that someone points it out. What does being on HN have to do with keeping a sense of reality? We need to create a protective bubble of thought that doesn't offend millionaires?

As Warren Buffett has said, "I was born with a talent for capital allocation. If I had been born in rural Africa, my talents might never have given me the wealth I have today. I would not be so different from my secretary. Our positions might even be reversed. I thank America for that difference."

Maybe the word windfall triggers you in a way that suggests it should be taken away and you didn't "deserve it". No one said that. Yet also, everyone in such a fortunate position tends to grow to think they deserve it fully as a result of their talents and work. When in fact an objective person should see how much the factors have aligned to give you this gift.

Just because you read HN doesn't mean you are exempted from realizing how lucky you are. We're not that much of a bubble I hope.
> It is the worst infectious disease threat since the 1918 flu.

Well, no, actually. This virus is roughly on par with the 1957 pandemic in terms of IFR and per-capita fatality rate:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1957-1958-pandemi...

Regardless, as I said before, demanding that some kind of study be provided to prove that asymptomatic infection is prevented by natural immunity is so far beyond what we know about any other virus that it borders on the hysterical.
Yes, but that is Apple's choice rather than a licensing requirement. Apple upstreams a ton of stuff, AArch64, GlobalISel, .... But they do this by choice.
was it RMS who warned us about "cloud" anything? right again.
Didn't Twitter block that from trending [1]? Considering that it was moderated, how is this a counter argument to a claim that Twitter moderates content posted to its site?

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-stops-hang-mike-pence-trend...
I find that it's more efficient to watch two or more videos at the same time. I also end up working on multiple assignments simultaneously.
It's dirty when you couple it with the usual startup BS about changing the world, where the startup was created from day one with an exit in sight.
Sometimes I miss java stream API in Go, maybe this can be a first step to implementing a similar lazy functional programming interface.
I think the EU understands the precedent this sets.

The tech giants have established that if they disagree with something (using their preferred value system), they feel they have the right to take action.

Let’s say the an EU minister proposes something that’s antithetical to US principles but is lawful in the EU, now tech giants feel emboldened with the right to take action _unilaterally_ without the right to an appeal.

I believe this is what the EU fears and wants to avoid.
I've not had an immediate [flagged] [dead] thing for a while, but am expecting it now.

Full disclosure: When I was at Al Jazeera, Steve Bell allowed us to reproduce a Guardian cartoon about two of our bureaux that were bombed by the US. His emails were charming, and I admire his work.
Thanks. So they only test for lack of side effects, not for effectivity (outside of leech dish experiments), because with just 300 it would take decades to see a meaningful delta? (unless they do challenge tests?)
It is relevant to why Apple made the clang switch back when that happened, though (at least, inasmuch as there were any reasons other than "GCC is GPL and doesn't work well as a library and we want to integrate it more closely with Xcode").
I've seen people here unironically compare it to the Night of Long Knives. There are no depths they won't sink to.
See the Rust project (the programming language, not the game) for one example of a community which manages to retain a huge focus on software quality while staying professional and inclusive, and not being rude to outsiders. We might even see a development where people will choose to "rewrite their software in Rust" purely as a ploy to attract nice and professional contributors!
what if tax is part of the smart contract?
So there is no knowledge hub inside these companies or what ?
My apologies to all three.
A little late?
You’ve got that wrong. Europe want to push for takedowns to be enshrined in legislation. It’s not the free speech panacea push you’re looking for.
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> Another thing, the sap from the Banana tree can really mess up any clothing you have, especially white ones.

Seriously. The first time I wielded a machete and went cutting plantain on my friend's plantation in Cameroon, the outing cost me a set of clothes. See the black spot on a ripe banana ? They are oxidized sap, which is effectively indelible on fabric.
Seems like a great starting point to get a GPU driver in the kernel and be off to the races with an ARM laptop for Linux. Maybe vendors like System76 are watching and waiting for opportunities to test the market with a product like this.
> These don't sound like things that the Russian government or any nation state would be saying.

Why not? Sharing stolen source costs them nothing, and nation state hackers have budgets just like the rest of us.

They probably wouldn’t even get in big trouble for selling this stuff and using the money to buy themselves lambos, a nice bonus on top of the government hacker salary.
If you're interested in Beaker, check out the website for the tech behind it [1]. I also do a lot of videos on YouTube about this [2], in fact I heard this was on the FP while doing my last livestream.

1. https://hypercore-protocol.org

2. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSkcL4my2wgDRFvjQOJzrlg
I am sure I will be called naive, but this is shocking to me. I assumed that Plaid was integrating with the banks and not doing this sort of thing because of the people associated with Plaid. Their seed round included Spark Capital and Google Ventures. Their most recent round included Mary Meeker and Andreessen Horowitz. [1]

These investors have reputations to protect. This type of thing would certainly come out in diligence:

"How do you gain access to the customer's account data with their bank?"

"We impersonate their bank."

"Do you tell them you do this?"

"No."

"Ok, that's probably fine."

How in the hell does this conversation pass muster?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaid_(company)#Funding
I'm not seeing the contradiction here. Are you suggesting that Greenwald denied that Parler was used for planning/coordination? Perhaps you missed this paragraph?

> It is true that one can find postings on Parler that explicitly advocate violence or are otherwise grotesque. But that is even more true of Facebook, Google-owned YouTube, and Twitter. And contrary to what many have been led to believe, Parler’s Terms of Service includes a ban on explicit advocacy of violence, and they employ a team of paid, trained moderators who delete such postings. Those deletions do not happen perfectly or instantaneously — which is why one can find postings that violate those rules — but the same is true of every major Silicon Valley platform.