skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Twitter is a private company enforcing their terms of service.

Being a private company has never meant you're allowed to rule as you wish on your turf. I believe the history of company towns in the US provides plenty of reasons for that.

While platforms can't really be compared to company towns, social networks now constitute an essential part of where public discourse happens, and I don't believe it would be too hard for Europe to make a case that public interest requires regulation and oversight.
Parler breached it first by allowing hate speech and violence on their platform
This is actually about half of the business plan for companies like Slack. They want you to start using it on the basis it is ephemeral and then end up forced into paying for it because its just impossible for people to self-enforce that behaviour and not put information in there that needs to be retained.
This is a fair question.

Any test has a certain percentage of false positives and false negatives -- in fact, you can likely tune your ratio of false positives to false negatives depending on what your priority is. On a community level, the statistics from testing are essential for monitoring the spread of a disease, but on an individual level a test can still give an incorrect result, so shouldn't be the only factor when making decisions.

For an individual, if they have a negative test AND no symptoms AND no contacts with known COVID-positive individuals, then they can proceed as-if they don't have COVID and take standard precautions. However, if they do have symptoms, then that might mean further testing is required.

For anyone interested about testing, this graphic is essential:

https://media.nature.com/lw800/magazine-assets/d41586-020-02...

It shows the difference in test efficacy for different tests (rapid antigen, PCR, antibody tests) as a function of time from symptom onset.

Rapid antigen tests only have a narrow window of efficacy. If they come back positive, you likely have COVID, but if they come back negative you could still have COVID and could still be contagious.

This is also why many countries are requiring PCR tests prior to entry, because they are more effective than rapid antigen tests, although can also give false negatives, especially early after exposure.
> will only take you so far

Sure, and that distance is far enough for 95% of developers these days. If they feel the need to go even further, they could learn C at a later time. No need to scare possible developers away right off the bat.
I think a better analogy is the human analog of what this is - spying.

Not noticing a spy in your company, university, army headquarters for 15 months is hardly an indictment of one's counter-espionage - especially if as it seems they did very very little till Feb, and did it very carefully.
The "obvious" answer for me is EXWM; since I'm an Emacs user anyway. The things keeping me from EXWM (besides just finding time to make the switch) are that:

1) I'm concerned about Emacs being single-threaded; on the boxes that I use Wanderlust (an Emacs mail client) on on large folders (such as the git devel mailing list, which receives thousands of emails every month), Emacs can stall for 10s of seconds. Packing on even more of the system to that single-threaded event loop worries me (especially if I can't even switch to another program during that stall).

2) I'd like to try Wayland at some point, so it seems like if I'm going to go through the trouble of switching, it should be something that is future-compatible.
Not all acquisitions get structured as reverse triangular mergers. Not all acquisitions involve purchase of capital stock.

Lawyers refer to the field as "mergers and acquisitions" or "M&A" for short. A good bit of what good M&A lawyers do is navigate the various operational, strategic, tax, and other factors to find an optimal structure. Often, buyer and seller won't agree, as because stock and asset purchase carry different tax implications, and have to negotiate structure as part of a broader deal with potentially offsetting concessions.

Usage of "acquisition" and "merger" varies between lawyers, managers, and finance people. But it also varies among lawyers, and between states' laws. I'd recommend you just say "M&A". And try to stay out of the Delaware Court of Chancery.
I'm sure on the part of "License to Steal".
I'm not sure on the part of "Technical Pros".
Imminent lawless action requires imminence.

Also, plenty of people complained about Pornhub being forced to take down content. You were either in a bubble, it's not paying attention. Specifically, that it appears that if you want to avoid getting bullied by online activists through your providers, you also seem to need to have your own bank.
When I worked there, about a decade ago, they were aiming for 40-50% year over year growth metrics. Anything that threatened that was drug out and shot.

If you were a dev who was like, "Hey, we need to test our stuff... do proper code reviews... not outsource quite so much..." you were not treated kindly. QA cycles were definitely rushed to hit launch dates; if Dev was delayed, rather than push the launch the QA window just got shorter. And the QA team was outsourced -- which further reduced their ability to give any push back.

I just remember it was the sort of place where -- again not uncommon -- but every password was like "$olarwinds" (making that up, but password reuse was rampant) and passwords were shared in plain text / written on whiteboards, etc. Also a lot of tool / account re-use, and a lot shared passwords there too -- everyone using the same Google Analytics account sort of thing, and huge walls up around getting more licenses for tools you needed so you'd have to share sign ins with other people. I remember a ticket to "sync passwords" across a bunch of test environments with production... just intentional bad practices left and right; convenience > security at every turn.

At times it felt a bit like a frat house. The sales guys had a big gong they'd ring, the CEO was a cheerleader who would run down the halls yelling at the top of his lungs, "Woo! Woo! Another sale!" type stuff. There was no security training in place... for anyone. No password managers. No security audits as far as I could tell. No 2FA as far as I could tell. Generally speaking any badge worked to open any door. And you'd be met by anger if you ever tried to flag anything like, "Hey, I think the QA team just closed all my tickets without actually testing them..."

Been a while, and like I said, not unique... but they were just sloppy. But back to the question: what can you do? There's not like one magic bullet here. But they need to make security a priority. Do whatever it takes to make it so everyone in the company stops and thinks for 30 seconds about if what they're doing is a good idea from a security standpoint or not.

Here's a good starter pack for you to help your company get their foot in the door for security best practices.

https://sudo.pagerduty.com/for_everyone/
That is not a realistic scenario. Firstly, there's no waking up to find your server is unresponsive. It's part of the deal when you sign up. Secondly, public IPs are always an option. Thirdly, the ISPs I have used have always had relevant FAQ/help articles.

If any of those points do not apply to your ISP, that's not because of CGNAT, it's just a shit company. I've used four different ISPs in the past four years and getting rid of CGNAT has not been a problem once. IIRC only one of them used public addresses by default, two offered free dynamic IPs upon request and my current ISP offers paid static IPs for $3.

Tons of my friends and family have had CGNAT and never known. It's just not a big deal for most content consumers.
A lot of these banks never had any APIs. Plaid made its name basically scrapping the html of account pages. Companies used it because there were no alternatives (no apis)
With public market valuations of B2B companies today, I could see Plaid being worth considerably more than the $5 billion that Visa agreed to. I think it's less likely buyer's remorse than just overwhelming evidence of anticompetitive behavior. The original DOJ complaint [1] has a lot of direct quotes from top level Visa execs. See paragraphs 9 and 10.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1334726/downl...
A plausible location for a pre-Sumerian agricultural civilization, perhaps the only one, is in what is now the Black Sea.

It would of course be easy to have no evidence of this, just like we have very few artifacts of the Doggerlanders.

It would also provide a tidy explanation for the widespread myths of catastrophic floods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
The 8th document [1] made it clear to me that alien life exists and a coverup took place as records make it appear that Dr. Davidson had a different stance.

We are not alone.

[1] https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/ufos/C055...
"you shouldn't be able to add code on the fly".

Unless you call them plug-ins. :)
Logically I agree with you, but we’re living in a world where “corporations are people”, so...
> Can Ethereum Help?

Of course not. No amount of blockchain magic can obviate the need for physical infrastructure to host a large web service.

(No, "it'll be distributed" or "it'll be on the blockchain" aren't viable solutions.)
The only way out of this mess I see is throwing everything away and starting from scratch, using provably (machine verifiable proofs) correct software.

I'm thinking of properties like "for any api input the reply is independent of $SECRET".
Different versions have in fact leaked, most recently of Windows XP/server 2003.
> It's perfectly reasonable to believe Randall Munroe supports [something that he calls "free speech"] and at the same time believes someone spewing hateful vitriol can be kicked out of whatever private venue by the owners/administrators of said venue. In order for you to believe this, you simply must accept that Randall is using a different, possibly more legalistic [definition] of "free speech" than you.

Sure, and it's perfectly reasonable to believe someone supports, say, not destroying [something that they call "forests"] and at the same time believes rainforests can be cut down to make more room for farmland. In order for you to believe this, you simply must accept that they are using a definition of "forests" that does not include rainforests.

Nonetheless, that person is against not destroying forests-the-actual-thing, regardless of what definition they use for "forests"-the-english-word.

> The whole "this is because Randall Munroe is a leftie and, like all lefties, is against free speech" only serves to turn the debate into an absurd flamewar. Anyone going for this "like all lefties" is not interested in honest debate at all.

Who are you responding to? Because if I had said something like that, it would have been "Randall Munroe is either a leftie or a rightie and, like all lefties and righties, is against free speech".
That's talking about selection for production, not about development. How is development not part of three scope at all? Are they only selecting amongst a pre-developed library? Do they have a reusable process that goes from strain to vaccine and "just works"? The latter would be very similar to a liberal approach like "we got delivery mechanism for mRNA blueprint of spike protein X approved, we can use the same approval for spike protein Y".
One of the most challenging things Microsoft has faced when open-sourcing projects is the auditing stage. Windows is huge. Lots of code in Windows are not written by Microsoft or even by third-parties contracted by Microsoft. Some parts of Win32 code (that is backwards-compatible sensitive) are owned by third parties that are already long gone or absorbed by other third parties. This is the reason Microsoft cannot even release a binary version of Space Cadet Pinball even when they want to because it is now owned by EA (Surprise! Also see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181221-00/?p=10...) and the same reason why they have removed the pre-2007 equation editor on their Office suite (https://support.microsoft.com/office/equation-editor-6eac7d7...). At one of its previous audits (for IE 7), they have to check if it was Spyglass code and replace the offending code which allows them to terminate their contract with (at the time) AOL.

Windows has many of these components, and they are even attributed when you know where to look. For example, the code for parts of the disk management utility, the spinning-disk defragmenter, and NTFS quota management were based from code provided by VERITAS Systems (which I am not even sure if the company still exists). The MP3 codec is provided by Fraunhofer (which still exists, but I'm sure that they will not agree to open-sourcing that codec). On the other hand, some of them are under permissive licenses or even the same code as other counterparts (while the BSD TCP/IP stack story ranges from code removed by Windows 2000 to simply an apocryphal tale) for example, the code by IJG for JPEG support is used extensively in Windows. The only built-in (L)GPL code used ever was the BRLTTY system (https://mielke.cc/brltty/index.html) and LibLouis (http://liblouis.org/), which was used for Braille accessibility (WSL2 used the Linux kernel, but they are arguably a different application with separate instances).

Edit: Microsoft's third-party disclosures: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/products/notices/win
You're right, you or some peer needs to keep it online. That could be a service, or using the hyp cli tool, or beaker itself, or etc. There's gotta be one peer somewhere.

EDIT: don't talk about up/down votes, my bad
I've had 2 nasal swab tests. The first one seemed to have taken a core sample of my eyeball or brain; the second one was not as bad. I have no idea if these were rapid tests or googles PCR tests. Messaging is poor for sure.
I just added four video chat / call projects :)
Did Apple invent dock notification badges (and web/FB uptook) or was it the other way around? IIRC Apple did this as early as OSX Tiger (2005).

Also I believe infinite scrolling existed before FB, probably on RSS readers and other places on the web. NNTP clients did this long long ago.

If you're saying FB popularized them because they were so popular - well ok maybe.
That's what OFX was supposed to provide, but realistic support never arrived. Even banks which allow you to download OFX format searches fail at complying with basics of the standard. (https://www.ofx.net/)
Who is "they" lmao ironically enough you are talking more like a fascist than them.
If they are so open about their fascism why is the elft unable to prove to us that they are facist?
After a good look at what the so called antifascists and blm did in latino commonuties during the riots. I disagree. They have acted the way that the fascists are supposed to act.
None of these things is a viewpoint. The objection is that tech companies shouldn't get to decide what viewpoints are allowed.
What happens if your definition of a top-level domain disagrees with ICAN's? I mean, what happens if you sell .xyzzy to Bob, and then ICAN, without caring about your project, sells .xyzzy to Alice? How should the conflict be resolved?
That's an absurd jump to take. The subject is about a platform that is specifically moderated. This has nothing to do with non-moderated communication
This appears to only be required for inbound passengers. I wish it was also required for outbound. I not only want to prevent more COVID from coming into the country, but also want to increase the chances of my outbound flight being COVID free.
I'm not sure who would be to blame; but in my case, my former employer is still digging themselves out. 2 years ago, I was shown their Solarwinds console, and I thought it had neat pretty graphs. They asked me to set it up for an additional production database, and I told them how risky this was. As usual; I'm deemed the paranoid one, and they said to do it anyway, and being the good worker I am, and NOT a security specialist, I did it. I left there 2 months later for a different job, and TBH - this was one of the many reasons I didn't want to work there anymore, and I stated as such in my exit interview.

Now at the end of the day, the IT director signed-off on our HIPAA certification. I'm not exactly sure which of the 800+ security controls Solar Winds violates off the top of my head. But for him to sign a document that says; "we comply with all of these controls" - when it wasn't true, makes him LEGALLY culpable. And believe it or not - penalties for negligence under HIPAA are fucking hardcore. I doubt they'll be charged though.
> If people wanted these inmates free - and by wanted I mean wanted in the revealed preference sense, not the virtue signal on the internet sense - capitalism would have them free tomorrow.

That’s not how the world or capitalism works at all. Plenty of people want things and don’t get them.

If you are referring to “a majority of people” then it’s still not how it works - for example the structure of the existing system affects it (see no president Clinton). There is much more to decisions and change.

In this case, a minority of profit seeking people with power use levers of control on decision makers and propaganda to create public policy.
1930 Teletype as Linux Terminal
Can? Sure. Motivated to do so? Not a given.
I can't think of anything more advanced than phonetic alphabets.

Icons are retarded, though :-) as they reset writing back 5000 years.
Google absolutely could show me whatever maximizes "engagement" instead of what I want to see too. I wouldn't use Facebook if there wasn't something I wanted to see there (and there almost isn't now, I just use it for some groups, and messenger - the feed is useless now, but it hasn't always been).
Surely Korean Hangul is a counterexample? And I'm not even a linguist, there are probably more.
> Surely there is a middle ground: let businesses operate how they please so long as they follow the law, and have the law require them to act in a way which is considered reasonable.

A lot of people would argue that is the situation we have now.

The government wasn't against twitter because they were looking like they were going to remove right wing stuff, they were angry because they were being fact checked.
> This happened one day while I was transferring a VM image in the hundreds of gigabytes from one server to another using netcat like so:
> ...
> my SSH connections had died yet again. And sshd had taken netcat down with it, killing the transfer midway.

As somebody who has experienced the described behaviour, I can empathise because it is super annoying. But this isn't a particular good point with which to illustrate it. If you're doing any sort of work on one or more remote servers that shouldn't be accidentally terminated like a large data transfer, you should be backgrounding it with screen or similar. Even for users without the idel connection dropping as described, the Internet can still fail.
Except in this specific case, where the right doesn't like it.

Show me an instance where anything remotely close to this happened - right leaning businesses banding together to take a left-leaning business entirely offline by cutting off all services to them. I’ll wait.

Civil War...

The Civil War occurred at a time when actual physical war was the predominant way that societal differences were settled. That is no longer the case, except perhaps in the minds of some of the idiots that stormed the Capitol.

But on an intellectual level, this event with Parler is akin to an act of modern civil war. When you endeavor to kill an organization, are you not in a sense declaring war on them? Further, was this action not designed to frighten others into getting in line with the ruling party, lest they suffer the same fate? While no guns were used, those seem very similar to the actions normally taken by those engaging in civil war.
> Not designed to be difficult to extend

I doubt any of the other compilers under comparison were designed to be difficult to extend. I think you instead mean “designed to be easy to extend.”
We're talking about a company whose LTE modems were demonstrably inferior - and then sold that division to Apple.

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/237984-iphone-7s-with-int...
This is such a fascinating take to me.

I feel like the problem here is the modern right has an untenable political coalition. And it needs to moderate in certain issues to regain majority support. One way would be by eschewing hard-line right wing economics. Tax cuts for corporations and wealthy elites arent going to make a dent in the left’s cultural hegemony. Why not tax the wealthy elite and pour that tax money into the hands of every day Americans through better infrastructure, schooling, and healthcare? Then use that as political leverage to stop things you don’t like.

It sounds a lot like one side is too attached to corporate hegemony.
You mean a bearsheet?
> 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.

I am not. There are, right now, 5-6 cold viruses in common circulation. There is one SARS-CoV2 virus.

Nothing we are doing would be expected to suppress other respiratory viruses, but not this one.
IMVU's plan to make VCOIN the most used blockchain-based currency
Facilitating terrorism is also a crime and a far more serious one
Last time I checked, Intel consumer wi-fi cards would not even let you do AP on 5GHz (the entire spectrum was marked No-IR in firmware regardless of regulatory domain with no way to override it). But this was a while ago, I'd be also curious to know if they came to their senses.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
Many cases did end up in the lower courts and Trump lost. Guliani even said in court that this is not a fraud case even though on TV he says its fraud.

Even Trump appointed Supreme court judges rejected the case because there is nothing there.
It sounds like a great way to have simple queries create tons of cpu cache misses.
Because we have articles 10 and 11 of the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union, and the EU does protect these rights.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:12...

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Article 10

Freedom of thought, conscience and religion

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right includes freedom to change religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or in private, to manifest religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.

2. The right to conscientious objection is recognised, in accordance with the national laws governing the exercise of this right.

Article 11

Freedom of expression and information

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.

2. The freedom and pluralism of the media shall be respected.
> to take Congress people hostage and stop the vote got distracted by posing for the cameras, taking selfies and casually enjoying themselves

There's no contradiction there, despite your efforts to portray one.

People often take glee in and celebrate violence even as they commit it against others.

The german language has even given us a word for it: schadenfreude.

Thanks to the lies from the politicians and media personalities they follow, primarily the president, many of these people also fantastically believed that they were overturning a fraudulent election, and were therefore celebrating what they thought was an imminent success in that objective.
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