skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say you followed all of the leads down to connection points.

Randomized MAC connecting to a MacDonalds free WiFi, cameras capture a masked guy in a hoodie or black Cutlass with unreadable plates. Now what?
Lysander Spooner is dead. There's no need to rehash his arguments.
Of course you’re right — nothing matters on its own. It’s one possible factor in a defense in depth strategy —- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)
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Reminder what powerful Democrat Maxine Waters said:

>"Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere. We’ve got to get the children connected to their parents,” Waters said at the Wilshire Federal Building.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/politics/maxine-waters-trump-...
You can remove items from your Netflix watched history on their website. :)
Parler banned Parler. They refused to take down material that was obviously detrimental to society. We would not put up with television stations planning to kidnap senators either. You don’t get to yell fire in a theatre. They were warned. They didn’t do anything. They banned themselves.
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I fully believe the flip side of this is.

Had social networks not, over the last 10 years, been consistently banning anyone and everyone they could for everything ranging from simply slightly disagreeable speech all the way to flat out illegal speech, you would not have needed a massive analysis of data from one-off sites. The crowd sourcing and eyes on the information of regular people could have predicted it.

By creating even more and more internet bubbles, the 'regular people' do not even see what the 'irregular people' are up to anymore. They cannot talk them down from their ledge, there is no intercommunication now.

By isolating people who moderates consider extreme, on either side, creates divided communities of extremism. This should seem like an obvious outcome.

https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b...
Things like this can sink entire companies.

I'm at a livestreaming service / production company that uses Vimeo as our primary.

An outage like this when (as an example) "Procter & Gamble" is giving their yearly sales conference via a livestream due to COVID (instead of a large corporate event at a convention center) can cause a company to loose them as a client.
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I think this came from clang source code tar ball, not apple.
People in open source are horrendously bad to each other, this likely won't change for a long time.

Make someone pay for software and they always treat you far better.

I'm sure there's some cognitive reason/explanation for this.
Could be hacked together with some popsicle sticks and glue.
1. Actual local newspaper (paper)

2. About 50 international news sites...all the major channels across the globe...left, right and in-between

3. About 10-20 US aggregator/blogs. As broad a spectrum as I can stand. Weighted towards financial and engineering.

4. HN for random stuff for the youths of a certain subculture.

Remembering there is no such thing as the news or my news, only some news. Might move back to paper magazines like the Economist and the like...

Have zero need or wants for “updates”...I am not actively managing a campaign, a company, a country, or a large portfolio for someone else nor am I an aide to someone who is. I cannot imagine an engine being able to predict what news I will find relevant to be “pushed” to me. Can imagine attempts to manipulate using said updates. I remember complaints against the BBC pushing breaking updates on Royal births...

Twitter only for breaking natural disasters.
It's not just as simple as you make it sound. What this Censorship has done is conveyed to the World that American Government cannot be trusted. That America has 2 power centers not 1. The two power centers being American Government and Big Tech.

Any ban or removal should come from the elected Government. In this case it is the US Congress. This is what the World expects as this is how all Democratically elected Governments all over the World function. It is the Government which has a final say.

Now when Big Tech unilaterally decides to censor a sitting US President and bans a rival competitor this will cause every World leader and Government to sit up and take note. Everyone will ask themselves: are we now supposed to trust US Government for its word? What if tomorrow a private company decides to censor the US Government? If they can ban the US President's account they wield more power than even elected representatives. Why then should we liaison with US Government and why not directly talk to Big Tech as they seem to hold the power over even the US President.

Then it goes further than that: how do we trust that the incoming President won't be censored? Since all communications happen through a digital forum where one of the Big Tech companies is an intermediary in relaying such communications what is the guarantee that the communication is not tampered with? When Big Tech enjoys so much power in US, that it can censor the Government itself, then why can't this also be possible? If Big Tech can attach disclaimers to a sitting US President's content then why can't they tamper with the messaging too?

This sort of confusion existed for countries like Pakistan which has dual power centers: the elected Government and the military. You won't know whom to talk to as one can override the other. Which is why you have so many successful coups in Pakistan. What Big Tech has done is set a very dangerous precedent. Now no World leader will trust the word of the American Government at face value and will double/triple check every communication.
Let me clarify. I support net neutrality. Including DDOS protection in that is to ensure that you can't be taken offline even if every hosting provider in the world hates your guts and you have to self-host (as might be the case for a lot of the people and organizations being banned these days). And I'm not an expert on DDOS mitigation, so it might be that you don't have to require even them to serve everyone.

I was pointing out the irony that net neutrality was repealed under this same administration.

I am yet to be convinced that "neutrality" or a requirement to provide service regardless of content should be enforced by any government regulation above the network layer.

Companies IRL have the right to discriminate against their customers based on their speech. If I walk into your bar and start insulting other patrons it's totally legal for you to kick me out. And in fact if you fail to do that, your other patrons might leave and never come back.

I don't see why that shouldn't extend online. Except at the network layer. Because if you don't have that, you can't have any speech online. Which is also unjust.

I think this is self-consistent. Feel free to tell me if there are any holes in it.
I maintain a very popular piece of FOSS software as my full time job (you've all heard of it, many of you use it).

Easily the worst part of the job is toxic users who hop on to issues demanding you implement them immediately and belittling your planning ability. Worse when you were planning on implementing it soon anyways, but now if you do it's "rewarding" their behaviour (in their eyes at least), and they become invigorated to go and spread their toxicity even further. Alternatively, you can hold off on implementing it until things cool down, but then all the nice users who have been patiently waiting get screwed.

I'm forever grateful that I actually get FAANG salary to do this -- I wouldn't keep it up if I was getting the little-to-noting many FOSS contributors get.
With hypnotism its trivial, maybe a guy who previously worked at a travelling circus lost his job and goes around and hypnotises people to believe they saw a UFO.
Damn, that's a serious bummer. I hope mine doesn't break anytime soon.
before you want to use it in your project, make sure to have a look at the code - their codebase is pretty much comment free, very little number of tests. Other than the marketing term "posix file system", there is not any proof on such claim.

I am also not sure how it is a "distributed" file system given its storage is entirely done by S3. Should I call my backup program that backups my data to S3 every night a "distributed system"? When running on top of Redis, it explicitly mentions that Redis cluster is not supported. I haven't used Redis for many years, did I miss something here? A "distributed" file system built on top of a single instance of Redis? Sounds not very "distributed" to me.
Starlink is so big and all-encompassing that it is totally advisable to establish their own net altogether. A customer should access the Internet only via separate gateways with responsibility waives and sanitizing protocols.
They said they use Django REST Framework (DRF), so presumably they use a frontend framework and communicate with the backend via API.
Yes.

https://my.plaid.com/help/360043065334-can-i-remove-app-acce...
Interesting to see that several companies like Airbnb, and Doordash just went public
Their link to delete data for CA residents: https://plaid.com/legal/data-protection-request-form/
While I'm not sure I'd call it "bad", the webcams on even the 2019 MBPs (last I've personally tried) were kind of overwhelmingly mediocre. The front and rear cameras on basically all the android phones I've used in 6 years are all much, much clearer than the mac's built in webcam.
This is pretty nice, but it's not really an "alternative" to the console, is it? It's a pretty nice complementary monitoring dashboard though. Pricing wise, I have to be honest, I don't see myself paying $50 a month for a monitoring dashboard, as a solo dev or a small company.

Out of curiosity, why do you hide YouTube player controls on home page?
Are you calling for violence against them???
Good question, we have not try xfstests yet, will put it on TODO list.
I'm not an American. So what sedition are you talking about? I won't comment on the rest of your stupid statement as you haven't even understood what I was saying. Maybe learn to read the entire comment before you give your 2 cents.

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> Not being an American perhaps you should be even more concerned about what you say. This just doesn't change the US Governments view what what you've been up to, your government also will be taking a very dim view.

Are you for real? I don't give a fuck as to what US Government thinks of me. I don't give a fuck to what my Government thinks of me. I have a clear view of what has transpired and I know the repercussions this will have on internet and our freedoms. No one can take that right of opinion away from me. Not you, not the American Government, not my Government. Neither have I been involved in any seditious activities nor will I ever be. It just goes to show how anti-free speech America has become these days. It shows in your replies to me that you can't even tolerate an opposing viewpoint without insinuations and veiled threats.
The thing about building cages and whips is they're inevitably used against the vulnerable.

It sounds good when you're building them..
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Yes.

This is why you don't actually post anything on pastebin yourself.

Rather, you SSH into a VPS (via multiple VPNs and Tor/I2P), then program the VPS to post your message to pastebin in a week.

And of course, you're not doing this from your home, you're doing this from the parking lot of a Starbucks in a car with tinted windows and fake plates, using a device with a spoofed MAC address.

There are many ways of pulling this off so that no one will ever be able to pin you down. You just need to pay attention to detail.

You're of course using some sort of obfuscated bridge too, so that packet sizes become meaningless.
Sure, and that would be true however a partner collected this data. It’s true whenever you apply for a credit card or a mortgage.

I believe that Plaid doesn’t work with just anyone, and they do attempt to put some limited controls in place to block bad actors - just like any other platform in the world.

All that said, the parent were suggesting that Plaid itself bundled and resold data for marketing purposes which it does not do (though I believe some of its competitors might).

You should hold their feet to the fire for real issues (potential for misuse by companies that use Plaid to gather info, security concerns), not imaginary ones
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What twisted rationalization. People will self segregate based on ideologies if given the option unless they are forced together. If anything having all the crazies segregated into one platform makes it easier to spot trouble.
I don't see how Windows adds any value to a game console, as they're traditionally understood.

Maybe if you consider it as a Windows gaming PC, yes, but not otherwise.
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Phonetic alphabets tie the representation of information to human vocalization, which is only slightly more useful than tying it to human sight like pictographs.

Without launching into a diatribe on all the shortcomings of phonetic alphabets for representing spoken language (for example speakers of the same language can't even agree on the same set of phonemes to use, and they shift over time) there are plenty of examples I can think of, like musical notation, signal flow graphs, type system notation, circuit diagrams, etc, which notate extraordinarily complex and compounded information into terse representations without terrible ambiguity and plenty of flexibility just like alphabets. Without the shortcomings of human language itself. I'd suggest those systems, many of which have been iterated and improved, more "advanced" than the humble alphabets.
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Challenge: anyone want to dive in to refine and and distribute? There are millions of students with laptops and smartphones online hopefully only for this semester. You have 1-2 weeks. :)
Slavery as moral issue and slavery as the engine of economic competitiveness are both slavery. You can fight for one purpose, and the other is a bonus. Which one was the purpose?

Note there was never ever a war against racism.
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And yet that did not occur. You have all the crazies on 4chan too, did that enable law enforcement to stop the New Zealand Mosque shooter, who was a regular?
Agreed that social networks are not natural monopolies due to physical characteristics, but the network effects are still significant barriers to entry. Another angle is mandating interoperability of some kind, such as mandating that mobile carriers had to support porting of phone numbers. None of these ideas seem like a slam dunk, though.
> If you agree with tenant eviction protections, then you should probably support similar eviction protections for cloud computing.

Nope.

1. Kicking a company off of a cloud platform is not putting someone on the street without notice. Companies are not people, clouds are not beds.

2. It's the company's responsibility to manage risk, including the risk of getting kicked off of a platform. Most companies manage this risk by minimizing it - it's extremely easy, and well trodden territory. Things most companies will do is moderate content, it's pretty much dead simple. If your company won't do those things you'll have to mitigate risk in some other way.

3. You might argue "well companies aren't people, clouds aren't beds, but workers will lose their jobs". This is true, if the company has been poorly managed. But we already have nets for those situations. There's bankruptcy, unemployment, various tax benefits, notice to apply for a new job, etc.

I actually don't feel particularly compelled at all by your analogy.
Why a server-side proxy, rather than just putting S3 behind the same CDN (which will probably save you bandwidth charges at the same time)?
Perhaps the administration had good reasons for not making this a priority.
Usenet had killfiles, Wikipedia has IP bans for problem editors. Issue trackers need something similar.
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The file format is described in https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs#architecture

We will provide tools to dump the metadata as JSON, then you could recover your files using that.
I don't agree, nor do I think human beings have a great track record of such predictions (see introduced wildlife around the world). I wouldn't feel confident predicting how an extremophile like the tardigrade would fare (nor any theoretical microbes that they might eat for lunch) if given the opportunity to exist in some "stable island" ecosystem near or under the surface of the moon.
And charges you $100/year for that scan.
At least where I live, your home rental is far more protected than your business rental. It takes a lot to get you out of a house, definitely not a month’s notice under normal circumstances. It takes a normal breach of contract to lose your business rental.
So it didn't figure out the syllable counts and it mistakenly thought the haiku should rhyme. But it's amazing that we have come to a state where the critiques are so minor.
>be some kind of push back against identity politics

It's funny that this is expressed in a culture war kind of way: the identity politics crowd versus the "against identity politics" crowd.

Sometimes social phenomena don't dissipate because of push-back, but because they simply fizzle out, like a fire that consumed all of the underbrush. I think that's a more apt analogy for how we can expect the current era of identity politics to end, if it does. You can't shoot guns in the name of peace, and you can't "push back" against too much shoving.
No, you don't get to retrospectively pretend you could have predicted something after it happened. No amount of graphs can make up for the fact that he's cherry picked an event that actually happened then went on a fishing expedition.
You're right.

Even though it's only a few hours ago, I'm not really sure exactly what point I was trying to make.

Which is kind of sad. I think I need some sleep.

If I can remember what the hell I was blathering on about after I wake up, I'll post again.

Thanks for calling me out.
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They are, in fact, not mutually intelligible, either phonetically or in writing.

That is what is so amazing about monolingual Mandarin speakers believing they should be.
Mass hysteria can make otherwise rational people behave very irrationally. And once claims are made--for many cultures--it's difficult to recant without losing face. There's also the risk of being left out of a group if close companions make a claim.

Growing up in a very charismatic flavor of Christianity I thought I 'experienced' a lot of phenomenon that I now look back on with contempt. People preach, seek out, and legit believe (despite no hard evidence) in supernatural healing, limbs regrowing, divine languages, divine laughter/joy, spontaneous creation of jewels, etc.

IME the claims that become most popular are the ones impossible to falsify. So testimony is usually all that's left.
Exactly - high population density areas would become the battlegrounds.

Nobody outside a city would matter.
Note to people working at Facebook: Stop ignoring your users. You claim you care, but you don't. Your company is known to repeatedly lie. Bail out now while you have the chance and don't keep digging your own grave.
Comparing to seaweedfs, JuiceFS is more feature complete rather than basic read/write functionalities.

The core of seaweedfs is to manage many small blobs, you can use SeaweedFS together with JuiceFS to have a full featured POSIX file system.
[1] was done as a practical matter by law enforcement, and [2] should not be a thing either.
the crowd sourcing and eyes of regular people could have predicted it anyhow, and many people did in fact do just that simply by reading Parler or 4chan and taking threats seriously. See for example Arieh Kovler, 21 December 2020:

"On January 6, armed Trumpist militias will be rallying in DC, at Trump's orders. It's highly likely that they'll try to storm the Capitol after it certifies Joe Biden's win. I don't think this has sunk in yet.[...]
To be clear here, I don't think the 3%ers, Proud Boys, Oathkeepers or boogaloo types are going to seize the Capitol. But some of them are going try. And people will die."

https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1341016471795843080?s...

Don't spin this into some borderline gas-lightning argument about letting more of these people run rampart on platforms, this is a result of not taking far-right extremism seriously. If these people faced the full force of the law and state like ISIS-propagandists do you would not see them try to storm (and succeed) to occupy a federal building.
Considering how many immigrants and children of immigrants live in the US, even if the people you saw seemed very diverse they could maybe have been primarily US citizens not foreign tourists?
that actually makes transmission more likely. more culling means less comptition for food so more reproduction, which leads to a larger number of juvenile bats. Additionally, bats eat insects including mosquitos that cause maleria and they also pollinate fruit.
I see you've never used Twitter.
Well, let's use the CDC estimates for comparison:

Estimated flu infections per season: ~25,000,000
Confirmed COVID cases last 12 months: ~22,000,000
Estimated COVID cases using 7x reporting ratio (CDC): ~154,000,000

If we compare CDC estimates for both diseases, COVID is 6 times more infectious than the flu. So, CFR doesn't tell the whole story, and it is disingenuous to pretend that it does. I think your original comment calculated an estimated CFR of 0.278% for COVID (253k deaths divided by 91M cases by end of November), while the estimated CFR for the flu is 0.16% (40k deaths divided by 25M cases per season). Using these numbers, the CFR of COVID is 1.7 times that of the flu. But, when multiplied by the infectiousness, it kills 10 times as many people. A comparison of the absolute death toll matches this result:

Estimated flu deaths per season: ~40,000
Confirmed COVID deaths last 12 months: 360,000

Note that the number of COVID deaths is under-representative because several months accounted for a period of low-spread, whereas flu is already endemic in the population. COVID was roughly considered widespread in April, so that's 9 months of full-on proliferation with 356,000 deaths. Extrapolating for the next three months projects ~475,000 deaths from April 2020 thru March 2021. This is probably an underestimate because if the next two months are like December (as projected), we'll hit just over 500,000 deaths. Now, we don't even know how many COVID deaths are unreported, but for the sake of argument we can just pretend that this is negligible.

So, even a modest estimate of projected deaths also confirms that COVID over 10 times deadlier than the flu in absolute terms.
> The very fact that Parler was banned by Big Tech and not by US Congress puts a very bad light on America.

That you think a private company being shunned by other private companies, is worse for free speech than a private company being banned by the government, shows you don't really understand the american definition of free speech.