skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sold my Hackintosh this year to upgrade. Since I didn't want to deal with setting up a Hackintosh again, I decided to go Linux for my development work after finding WSL2 unsatisfactory.

I shopped around for Linux distributions and finally settled on Pop!_OS. I loved it. No fiddling needed and the user experience is the closest to MacOS I have gotten.
- License.

same reason everyone choose anything open source.

Windows used BSD network stack because of license. Apple moved away from Bash because of license, etc.

Linux was the inexplicable exception that would allow us all to have true free software, but companies were quick to insert tainted mode so that cheap modem manufacturers dont' have to open source their lazy backdoors and google can ship android phones with not a single open sourced device driver.

Linux is practically the Bernie Sanders of open source.
... which are delegated authority by ICANN [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_root_zone#Management
And why would the natives be 'eaten away'? Confused.
Lots of people — especially Jews! — have spent enough time on this to figure out indications that someone might be a Nazi. These guys looked like Nazis, and guess what: they turned out to be Nazis.

It’s not “assuming guilt by association”, it’s pattern recognition.
Yeah, forgot about that (obviously I meant about how innovative they are in the current market or lack thereof).
I just got started using the ofxget command in the ofxtools package. It was a simple "pip install --user ofxtools". After that, I read some of the docs for ofxget and configured these with the settings from ofxhome.com and I've got automated ability to pull in my transactions for credit cards, checking accounts, and even long-term investment accounts. It's really cool to interact at this low level because there's so much control compared to QuickBooks/Quicken.
> They provided ~90 example out of millions of posts and comments

This argument is problematic. In any criminal endeavor, what most of the criminals do isn’t illegal or even unusual.

When HSBC was laundering cartel money, they also served regular customers. They processed credit cards, gave loans and so on. 99.9999% legal activities and yet they were fined billions of dollars for fascinating money laundering operation of few murderous warlords.
It's a non-profit, runs on donations. I use it, I like it, I pay for it, you could too.

Also, as far as I can tell, the whole system is free/libre software, so the scalability question doesn't really apply here. "Scalability" matters to corporations that want to keep everything centralized behind the walled garden. Here, one could technically just grab that whole server stack and run their own server. [This is somewhat of a generalization; if anyone has better insights in this regard, please share.]

Your question also has somewhat of an implicit statement "I won't pay for this, so who will?" There ain't no free lunch buddy. These guys are at the top of their game with e2e encryption technology. If you think that and your privacy/security is worth it, then feel free to chip in. The non-profit structure also prevents sellouts to corporations, so you also have that sort of guarantee.
Perhaps a bunch of people are selling their positions in order to pay legal costs?
And yet up $10 since Nov 2nd, up $7 since Sept 16th and up $15 since a year ago today.

People are trying too hard to make this a "thing." If you look at it in terms of a few days, sure, but you zoom out and the loss is insignificant. Oct 29th had a far bigger loss.

I'd argue if anything this entire episode has proven Twitter's public impact (good or bad, it is HIGH). I'd say "buy the dip" but per above the drop isn't significant enough to really get overly excited about either way.
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only if you believe that future open sourcing of your code base would bring greater benefit than the proprietary software itself, which seems very unlikely.
Would not an NFS solution have this kind of caching and durability built-in? Without doing actual “Jepsen tests” (they are almost a generic term at this point due to their name) how would this improve my life versus buying an NFS vendor solution, or rolling my own?
You're absolutely right. Contrarianism has taken off as a brand-building and clout-chasing tactics for writers and other public figures. They've figured out there's little downside to being wrong about some in the public discourse. You only need to get lucky once and you've struck gold.

It works even better today because algorithms will jolt you to the top because you're controversial. It's gotten to the point where contrarian YouTbers will even have dumb little turf wars. If you are simply seeking the truth, why should you care that someone else agrees with you... oh they're stealing eyeballs? Ah, I see!
Wasn't this sort of baked in after Biden won but it just was a matter of when (meaning before or sometime after the 20th)? He obviously brought in an incredibly large audience to Twitter as president for an array of reasons and it seems obvious that that audience was bound to recede in the span of the next month or so.
They do, which is why it is so surprising that the DoJ is being so aggressive with this one.
This is stupid, look at a trailing average in a quarter or two and this won't even be visible.
Also, you’re just factually wrong that nothing objectionable happened on Parler. Amazon is citing threats of murder.

https://twitter.com/b_fung/status/1349184237971402752?s=21
How long before all of bitcoin is lost, stolen, or forgotten wallets?
Definitely. I like the idea of open source quality Desktop OS, but not acknowledging issues with it is not helping.
Giant corporations have an even bigger advantage when they can skip the court system and just do what they want.
Thank you for making this post
I think React and Vue.js (or Nuxt) are still leading the frontend framework pack.

For DBs I don't see relational DBs not being the default choice for most folks.

CI/CD I'm curious about too. People seem to be migrating from Travis to Github actions.

Slack is still popular for messaging I think, but it is quite expensive. Discord is popular for people who want a cheaper option or want video chat.
I used to dislike the American format then I realized it's ordered in max(m) < max(d) < max(y) which made me like it more
Stupid title. Twitter didn't "lose $5 billion".
So, basically a test step in your ingest pipeline? I was under the impression that it is the bare minimum if we are talking about production. Why is a separate tool necessary? To normalize the pipeline tests? If that's the case maybe there's another issue with engineering principles and basics that is not adressed but I don't know.

I don't want to just be sceptical and dismiss anyone's effort for a free and open source tool but since I can express what I think I believe it will yield more overhead than anything, at least for my use cases so far since testing the data require way more steps than analyzing a single dump for coherence.
While I can see the advantage of such a tool with exchanging interface definitions with data providers or other people, I consider it yet another thing to add to the whole infrastructure which obviously comes at a cost that is not 0 that can ultimately be solved with documentation enforced through sane devops methods.
It's not there yet. My understanding is they're a combination of GCP and on-prem today.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/15/twitter-taps-aws-for-its-l...
You guessed wrong. I wonder if reading the Tweet before commenting rather than guessing would have saved you from all that rant?

Not that I disagree with your comment, just think tweets are pretty short and far too many comment without reading anything other than the title.
Arguments Freedom of speech:

1) You could be wrong. Numerous examples exist throughout history regarding the wrong opinion turning out to the be the truth.

2) Knowing wrong opinions makes you have greater understanding of the correct ones.

3) Roughly the expression argument you mention.
I agree. A much nicer solution, in my opinion, is to use a portable tripod.
There were only a handful of websites in 1992, all using CERNLIB [0] and was easy to setup. AWS is 10000x more complicated to understand and setup.

[0] https://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/
The format OP used is how we naturally pronounce dates - “September 4th, 2019”. Nobody says “2019 September 4th”.
President Trump Approves District of Columbia Emergency Declaration
It would be interesting to see how that pans out for social media, since they tried with Google News and that, if I was correctly informed, hurt local publishers rather than helped.
Do you track them at all using some other tool?
the 'elaichi' banana is popular in india. https://food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/ever-heard-of-elaichi-bana...
Out of curiosity which tech heavy hitters would Europe be vulnerable to losing? I assume they could live without Facebook for a few days.
It's shorthand for $5 billion of market cap.

From the third sentence of the article:

> "The decline erased $5 billion from Twitter’s market capitalization"
Well I did read the Twitter thread but now I’m curious what I missed.
Posted stories get so much more love if you don't mind misleading people in the title
Oct 29th dip was due to them reporting slowing user growth - https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/tech/twitter-earnings/index.h...

If twitters public impact is high, why would foreign governments allow them to operate in their country? It’s banned in China, and Uganda also banned social media prior to the election.

This is not good for user growth, which is what twitter relies on to make money (eye balls for advertisers)
This wasn't one of the ways Parlor was being used, was the ONLY way it was being used, there were not thousands of scientists, mathematicians or people from all the politican spectrum like Twitter there, so any comparison with big social networks is misguided to put it mildly.
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Kunil Shah says Big Tech has India all wrong
It would have significant implications for our long term future (or lack thereof).
I sometimes think the earth passed through a wormhole and we now exist in some alternate dimension. What does the Simpsons have to say about this?
Ahead of the Ugandan election, we're hearing reports that Internet service providers are being ordered to block social media and messaging apps.

We strongly condemn internet shutdowns – they are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights and the principles of the #OpenInternet.
Glad I got a battleship laptop from my work right before COVID hit. Essentially my desktop now, teleworking from my semi-finished garage.
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>What, exactly, am I wrong about?

You said:

>Section 230 of the CDA is the government getting in the way of business; granting these businesses privileged immunity such that they can have all the advantages of operating as a common carrier, while actually operating as a publisher.

Section 230 doesn't "grant these businesses privileged immunity." Section 230 applies to all persons and all devices connected to the Internet in the United States.

It provides that you cannot be sued for something another person says. That's it.

And it applies to you and me and Hacker News and fuckfacebook.pro and Twitter and your github repo, your favorite twitch channel and any other internet user or resource when more than one person can share bits.

If there was no section 230, it would destroy free speech on the Internet.

Let's take HackerNews as an example. Without Section 230, if the owners of HackerNews continued to allow up/downvotes/flags, they would be liable to be sued for any content they did not delete that anyone chose to sue over.

Given that they almost certainly can't afford that sort of liability, they would have three choices:

1. Do not allow any third-party content (user submissions, user comments), which would pretty much defeat the whole purpose of the site except as a place to drop PR pieces for YC companies;

2. Do not perform any moderation at all. Which would include spam, porn and all other manner of ridiculous, offensive and/or irrelevant material, or;

3. Shut down the site.

And that would be true for all sites (including github repos, mailing lists, mastodon instances, most web sites, etc., etc., etc) except those with deep enough pockets to be able to fight the innumerable lawsuits.

Who would that be? Facebook, Twitter and Google. The very people you decry would be the only ones who could afford the liability in a world without Section 230.

That is, exactly, what you're wrong about.
Sure, just as US is dependent on Chinese manufacturing.

That’s why the respective actors are taking actions to fix it.

Another argument is that not having heavy hitters but more evenly spread diverse businesses is a better thing.

US’s economy is tied to extremely large consumerism. An argument is that as humanity we should reduce consumption anyway.

That’s why I would stick with quality of life indicators instead of top list and charts of the economic indicators.
People have been speaking so authoritatively about the need to "regulate" Big Tech. And the obvious point to make is what became of all the self-confident proclamations about MySpace, AOL, etc. These enterprises fall as quickly as they rise.

And funny enough, it seems like just as section 230 is on everyone's lips as so vital and exigent, something happens that may very well signal the end of the giants most suppose would endure forever - a max exodus spurred by market demands and the actions of the very platforms thought to be static and undefeatable.
> Amazon cited 98 examples of hate speech/calls for violence with included images that they had reported over weeks

This is meaningless without comparing it to how many instances of hate speech or calls for violence exist on competing sites like Twitter. What would you bet that it's not more than 98?

It's evidence that moderation is a hard problem, not that no effort to moderate is made.
My question was with respect to host signal's massive server infrastructure.
Greenwald said of those arrested so far none are known to use parler. That tweet is about people who were at the protest using parlor. How is Greenwald lying?
Advertisers don't want to buy ads next to some content (death threats, racism, conspiracy theories). If it grows a userbase that is advertising compatible, that is likely better for their bottom-line rather than appealing to a demographic nobody wants anything to do with.
The psychological bias works both ways though, if you operate on a fixed monthly budget you might be tempted to spend more on stuff you wouldn't otherwise spend on if you notice you're under budget for the month.

Also a mental bias against spending is not necessarily a good thing. Spending is like eating, unless you have a problem where you're doing it too much of it, doing less of it is not inherently desirable. I spent way less last year than 2019 because of Covid and my life certainly wasn't any better for it.
> in the context of the comic it’s clearly meant to be interpreted that way.

That's just not true. The claim is that if you're censored and your only defense of your position is that you should be allowed to say it, you position is flimsy. Nobody would agree with the claim that "_in general_ if you're censored your speech is abhorrent", that's laughable.

Now, yeah, agreed, it's debatable whether this actually happens. But it sure feels like it happens.
Rust’s cargo check appears to be quite fast, and afaik offers no less safety checks than a complete build. Of course, I’ve never verified, but there’s a clear and substantial allocation of time spent compiling rust, after all the safety checks.
Ban reddit then.

There were guillotine memes with 50k upvotes on reddit right before the "insurrection" happened!
According to https://www.srcbeat.com/2021/01/solarleaks/ their email sent to solarleaks@protonmail.com bounced back with "Address does not exist" error.
That demographics definitely has non-zero purchasing power, and thus is worth advertising products to. Marginalizing it will only further increase social tensions.
Ah okay, let me try again with a different top-level comment.
Sorry my bad, I interpreted your comment to mean Twitter "Tweeted" in regards to Trump. I now see that You may have meant, You guessed it was linked to HN because of Trump whuch is entirely plausible. Sorry for the Snark.
OP was talking about the “quality of death” being subjectively worse IMO.
> If you are simply seeking the truth, why should you care that someone else agrees with you... oh they're stealing eyeballs? Ah, I see!

I can imagine objecting to the most eyeballs going to the wrong conclusion.
On the one hand, it seems MH was dealing with challenges you might call mental illness—interpersonal problems, impulsive and erratic behavior, irrational decision making.

On the other hand, I think part of what is so captivating and compelling about his story is the way so many people can project parts of ourselves onto him: alienation, disillusionment, the disconnect between tech and the physical, visceral world.

I see part of myself in him, the juxtaposition of feeling “catatonic” in the face of fast paced society, against the desire to achieve some cleansing / purity by disappearing into anonymity in the harsh dirty outside.

It’s a romanticized way to look at things, but (imo) it highlights the tension between digital idealism and still being stuck in a squishy warm body.
Hawaii has already required passengers of all incoming flights to get tested for a while now.
Submission title taken from the page's og:title meta tag that Twitter displays, since it's more informative than the actual article title.

Example:

https://twitter.com/restofworld/status/1349008401649590274
Ask HN: Why aren't Password Managers better?
I've been using a password manager I'm pretty happy with for years, but it still requires too much manual intervention. I still have to think about usernames and passwords, there's some copying and pasting with poorly-behaved sites, etc.

Is there / why isn't there a solution/API that a website to embed a specific request for authentication that the password manager can pick up, and automatically prompt me?
There is zero credible evidence about pay for access. Meanwhile the people spending their entire life digging through Burisma seem to not give a single shit about the hundreds of pay-for-access story surrounding Trump and his properties. Foreign countries literally booking dozens of his properties for months inhabited.

Trump's own children literally got jobs at the white house, ffs. The hypocrisy is deafening.
Like many here, first thought was “why can’t you clone the drive?”. Apparently, not just a regular drive, it’s a USB stick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronKey

Though if it’s $220M worth on there, I bet you could pay Kingston $100M to figure out a way to image it.
This tradition was upheld during SpaceX Crew Demo-2 - the astronauts were woken up to the tune of Planet Caravan by Black Sabbath.
Thank you! We aren't looking to add any UI/UX improvements to Heroku but are looking at facilitation of migrating (or replicating) Heroku accounts to one of the larger players like GCP/Azure/AWS.

So essentially we'd look at your current Heroku setup and look to replicate it on a public cloud provider of your choice.
The entire point was silly to begin with. Why start doing victory laps over the first 13 people? What's so special about them? Nothing.
It's quite different:

Canada it isn't an absolute right and has much more willingness from the country to amend "unacceptable expression". Which is different to the US quite substantially.

Germany you are right it has a similar framework to the US.

UK doesn't have this as a right outside of parliament (parliamentary speech is protected). So not sure why you raise this as a counter example.

France is a weird one to bring up... where they have banned certain kinds of expression in different settings (i.e no religious symbols). Extremely different from the US.

India similar to Canada has so many provisions (and willingness) in which to revoke this right, it's definitely not as strong as a constitutional right that the US gives.

Italy again its freedom of expression is tempered by a host of restrictions on that freedom.

I could go on... none of them are like the US having a constitutional right for freedom of expression that quite literally supersedes other laws.
https://parlerleak.com - point of download for a lot of the scraped data including posts from Jan 6th 2021.
I feel like you're trying to trick me into admitting I'd punch them, or something, which isn't necessary and is kinda weird. I would definitely want to punch someone who was saying nazi stuff around me. Who wouldn't? Of course, yeah, 'showing them the door' is the more dignified response, so that probably comes first. As does talking about it and trying to figure out why they persist in being awful.
I'm repeating myself here, but I look forward to when climate-change deniers are treated the same way as holocaust deniers (were, pre-Trump).
It's a shame to see some internet service providers acting this way. I'm so glad the net is neutral in the united states at least. It's interesting to see Twitter taking a more active stance in banning accounts here, and I wonder what the long-term repercussions of that will be. In the last few days we've seen companies act faster than government, which I think will generally be true. But hopefully when government acts it will be a bigger and longer lasting change.
Incorporate. Start contracting as an independent, but bill as your corporation. As you build up your reputation, look for opportunities to hire subs.
90 days notice to spammers botnets and other undesirables? Ridiculous.

Edit: utterly ridiculous. Imagine applying the same standards to other physical businesses. Image a bar not being able to evict an unruly patron without 90 days notice or a court order.

This is frankly completely unworkable. And I think once the EU gets off their high horse they’ll find they have to accept that too.
> But it is very dangerous to pursue being a contrarian on purpose

Dangerous for society, and not for the individual pursuing that path.
Heh, no problem! I have two top level comments now so I guess now I'm A/B testing them to see which is more popular.
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I was just wondering Who are hanging out here. very curious to know what kinds of people read HN. Is it mostly developers or are there founders and tech entrepreneurs here also? Is there any data on this? I created a poll. check it out!
I see an icon!
> with decentralized DNS, it is possible to replace certificate authorities by using DNSSEC

In what sense is DNSSEC decentralized? IMHO signing the root zone is about the most-centralizing thing that has ever happened to the Internet.
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Ahh interesting, thanks for the response. Surprisingly enough, Kaspersky also attributed it to a Russian APT, so I'm still not sure about the parent post's claim that it makes the US look stupid, if it's the global intelligence community saying so.
It's really cool, that goes without saying. That being said, why does this need to be its own browser? It would have so much more success as a user friendly server application.

People rarely have interests outside of alternative browsers other than for education, software politics, or buying drugs.
I thought it was more to do with Qualcomm's SOCs having integrated radios for the atypical US bands, something they'd have to add on otherwise?
None of those things seem to contradict the claim that Parler was great (a claim, which, by the way, is not made in your citation).
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"First Tardigrade on the Moon" might be my new band name.