skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am surprised that the EICAR test string is not here:

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file
I tried to block some of the ip-s Mac was connecting to and then apps had stopped working. Back then I thought I did something wrong and didn’t have time to test it further but in light of recent events It could be I have stumbled on the issue with getting permissions for each app that made a lot of ‘good publicity’ for apple...
That doesn’t cost $200k for each working year of your life.
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I have no problem with losing a book deal when you say something that endangers your ability to sell books. Regarding social media, I was referring to him being banned from Facebook for unspecific reasons[1]

Regarding Laura Loomer, her twitter ban doesn't appear to constitute harassment by any reasonable definition[2]. Even if we grant she harassed Omar on twitter, that doesn't justify being banned from payment processors, uber, and food delivery services[3].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/tech/facebook-ban-louis-farra...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/laura-loomer-banned-tw...

[3] https://www.newsweek.com/paypal-bans-pro-trump-anti-muslim-f...
It sounds like "talking to people" is the key point. How about just going out to social events and meeting people? There's also groups that focus on presentation skills as well if you wanted to improve on that aspect.

For me, as a software engineer, talking to people is actually a much needed skill. Part of that is because I work at a startup if that helps. Maybe you just need a work or culture shift but you can still do it with the same job.
Bravo Sir!!! You have put it brilliantly!!
> If someone is advocating assassination of the President on social media, they should be reported to the FBI. Simply deleting their posting accomplishes nothing.

Limiting the reach of incitement to violent crime is not “nothing”.

Obviously, it should also be reported to appropriate authorities.
You don't have to route 0/0 through the VPN...
I suspect such a system would be popular among the tech crowd, but you're greatly overestimating the general public's desire to deal with any of this complexity.

The average customer from the general public understands that they're not going to become the subject of an FBI investigation and they'd gladly take simplified UX and account recovery as a tradeoff.
Sometimes we say the most when we say the least
I don't think it is okay to make comments like that about anyone. But I am talking about a threat and then wishing someone ill being different in nature. One carries the idea of direct action by the speaker.
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He also claimed the day before they were shut down (I read it right off his blog) that they had planned for this eventuality and it would only take 12 hours to be back up and running after Amazon shut them down.

Of course I knew that was bullshit right away. It also seems his company made several false claims in their lawsuit against Amazon. So I'm just saying don't take anything the Parler CEO says at face value. But he may be telling the truth this time, who knows.
>... but why is it preferred over portable C,...

C normally involves compiling the entire program at once. Even if you use a interpreted C of some sort, C is a lot more verbose and involves more typing.

This is important when testing and evaluating new hardware. All you need is a serial port or equivalent connection to a forth to allow you to exercise the hardware in a very interactive way. In some cases you might end up writing the final program by accident.
Garmin is your friend here. Ticks all those boxes + 10 day battery life with regular use.
Yes, me eyes were rolling when I was reading that. I understand the issue when inappropriate Ads are shown for the specific context. This can happen not just with "military" / tacticool gear but anything else, I have seen this happen many times. But pointing our that this is military gear and it's some sort of intentional case (because it's military gear) is a ridiculous reporter hyperbole.
I think the distinction between public and ivy here may be data noise. If you scroll down to the chart that compares ivies and public by subject, you'll see that in political science courses, Leviathan is the most assigned book in both public and elite colleges, but there are ~250 instances for ivy and < 100 for public. So for some reason there are lots more political science syllabi in the Ivy data set than the public one, which would skew the overall results.

TBH, though, I can't really make any sense of this data. The overall result says that Leviathan appears just over 200 times overall at Ivies (i.e. fewer times than in Ivy poli sci syllabi). And for most assigned business books, "Asking the Right Questions" appears 450 times, which should put it at the top overall, but it doesn't appear in the top 10.
You're right -- it's only the free "X-pack Basic" code that will now be available under SSPL. But that does mean that all Elasticsearch distributions will now include the former "X-pack Basic" features.
It's a vocal minority that slings the hate. There are tons of people that appreciate open source with exceptions to prevent managed offerings by cloud providers as long as self-hosting to support your own stuff is allowed (including ability to customize/extend/patch).

I for one will (with a few exceptions) only pay for a product that is open source (at least enough so that I can self-host for my own product if I want should things change). Vendor lock-in is a serious problem and concern for many, and open source is how you address that concern. The best example is GitLab, which gets a ton of money from me that would otherwise go to GitHub (which I like better) if GH were open source.

By going proprietary you avoid the vocal minority on the internet, but you also (silently) shrink your potential customer pool. Especially with the AWS/Parler stuff, there are even more people that want the option to self-host in case they get de-platformed if the Overton Window continues to shift.

May I ask what your product is? Just curious :-)
Hi HN, I built yagss because I wanted to build a couple simple websites that are mostly just markdown, html, and css. I thought there would be a tool I could use that would make this easy but I couldn't find one that checked off everything I was looking for, so I threw together yagss over the last couple weeks.

I know, I know—there are so many static site generators. Still, I just wasn't satisfied with the available options. None seemed to support cache-busting and minification without a lot of setup; and many seemed to have significant requirements for building themes, many of which didn't make sense for my use-cases.

Yagss uses Jinja style templating, has a built-in cache-busting mechanism, minifies output by default, and has a few other features that aim to make it easy to throw together a simple website without having to figure out too much config.

I hope that yagss might be useful to a couple other people out there with similar requirements for their projects.
Parler had deleted several of Wood's posts, and a number of users had used the "report" function to raise the flag to Parler management. I think he was close to being banned.
Who is being supported?
No more than any social website. If anything, it’s more moderate than pseudo anonymous social sites like forums, chat rooms, blogs, etc.

My crazy uncles rants on Facebook are tame compared to the ones he makes on FreeRepublic.com—the web1.0 version of parlar. He’s not preaching the choir and he’s knows normal people will see it.
>Anyway, what’s truly “provably” burned?

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1851/how-to-gene...
> 9Front And Surprise Auschwitz

What the actual fuck. At first I thought this was some joke in poor taste by the blog post, but in fact he is referring to the use of Nazi death camp imagery in the documentation. That's not cool.
I like and read bellingcat, but, if we're being honest, it is not a neutral source of information.
It's unfortunate that their logo contains a capital Q. Hopefully they change that to avoid confusion with currently popular conspiracy theories.
At my company it is 100%. And we are not a FAANG company. I have a sister in law that works as a developer in another non-FAANG company that makes about $100k more than me. I don’t think it is as rare as you think for developers to have good benefits and high salaries.
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The most baffling thing to me is the fact that body armor, and military grade weapons, are sold in USA...

Like, we're discussing ad delivery, not the fact that a country allows companies to sell all kinds of weapons, and equipment to the general public... so I think that accurate ad targeting is the least of the problems.
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Increasing profits has become a race to optimize user engagement. Extreme or polarizing statements attract attention. Milktoast moderate viewpoints do not. That’s a tough sell.
People in Japan sometime rent out actors to act as parents, lovers, relatives, etc at weddings, marriage interview, and other occasions. This is nothing new.
Proton is Valve's Wine integrated into Steam, it's essentially vanilla Wine plus some extra patches (that will eventually work their way upstream) and libraries to make your life easier. You enable windows compatibility for a non-native game and it will run in its own prefix. If you are using Steam for games there is no real reason to use a different build of Wine although you can definitely do so. In fact different custom builds are out in the wild that can plug into Steam and be used alongside the official Valve builds.

I can't see why a third-party program cannot be used with Proton. You can just add it as an external program and enable windows compatibility as you would with a steam game.
I, interestingly enough, have that skill set (mostly) and probably a broader set of technical skills than you're imagining. I use it to hire a team of specialists under me and interact with other specialized teams (ie: I speak their language) since I lack depth in too many areas. I wouldn't ever imagine hiring a clone of myself except in cases where I can't build out a larger team for a long period of time.
No Qubes OS in the list.
There's no positive value to society in giving a commercial platform for communication of the type and to the people most frequently found on Parler. There are plenty of platforms for right-leaning conversation already, including Twitter and Facebook, for people who can communicate without resorting to racism, hate, sedition, and calls to violence.

There's demand for spare organs for cash; there's demand for murder-for-hire; there's demand for child pornography. Just because there is demand for something doesn't mean it should be fulfilled.
There's room for everyone on the BEAM.
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To start with, I don't think this article is even correct—people have been banned for tweets interpreted as calls for violence against Trump before. At least on a temporary basis.

But in general, threats and calls for violence on Twitter are a problem. One that Twitter has been loathe to face for a while. Now they're starting to face it. Maybe they'll take it seriously, and handle it well, and maybe they won't—but when someone starts caring about a thing, saying "well look at these times you used to not care" doesn't really mean much. You're right, they used to not care, but now they're starting to. Let's see where it goes.
No, not the government, local laws. Libel in the US is different from libel in the U.K., for example.

They should federate the service and have moderators for every market who know local laws and mores.

One issue is everyone is in the global user bucket, rather than having jurisdictional buckets (the way Wikipedia does).
> What type of societal structure would be likely to merge the words for "human" and "male" while leaving the word for "female" separate?

The origin of the secondarily developed semantic meaning of “man” as a “male adult human" is simply because when a man be anything other than an adult male, speakers are statistically more likely to emphatically note it in some way.

Exactly what you did by asking “what of the women?” when it is quite clear from context to anyone what “man” means in this context. “woman” is an overtly marked phrase compared to “man" that arises from a need felt by some speakers to explicitly mark it when a person be female, but not when it be a male.

A similar situation is that white U.S.A. residents are often called “Americans” but for other colors overtly marked phrases such as “African-American” or “Asian-American” are common in parlance, which, due to this behavior, eventually gives further currency to the term “American" as developing a secondary meaning of “specifically white American”.
Awesome. Now we have established that Big Tech and social media are against free speech, we can all move on.
> Anyway, this and other comments here all point to how much the Hacker News community grossly misunderstands markets and economics.

And you think you're right that running a fractional reserve would not create any consequences if spotted?
Ask HN: Product Management Resources
I've recently been tapped to become a product manager for a mobile product in a specific industry.

I have been a SME on the product for the past 7 years or so and I am very comfortable using the product, showing it to clients, and supporting implementations.

Are there some good resources for product managers out there? Any advice?
at grafana labs, we are still pretty torn on what our go forward licensing regime should be.

bsl is interesting, but license proliferation and familiarity is a big factor to consider.

now that both elastic and mongo are both using sspl, it is more appealing. i think tsl from timescale is also a great and well thought out license.
note that it's not that they're in the military, it's that they're too close and invested. distance fosters dispassion, so the leader not being part of the military specifically, rather than simply being a civilian, is what makes decisions more rational (also, as others have noted, that dispassion can also foster war because the civilian leader has no real skin in the game).
Yeah I had never been talk that in school. Recently kasporov pointed it out in a pod cast I was listening too. It's so obvious but I'd never thought of it that way because of the narrative that we are taught.
What did they moderate though? I mean, was their standing orders to delete posts that advocate violence? Or were they just to ban people who criticize Donald Trump? My overall question is was there an actual effort to come into lines with Google/Apple/AWS TOS? Just because they had moderators doesn't mean they were making an effort to remove the sorts of posts that got them banned.
A provably burn address has an improbable chance of having a known private key.

Here are well-known burn addresses for bitcoin and ethereum:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/111111111111111111111...
https://etherscan.io/address/0x00000000000000000000000000000...

Just send crypto to these addresses and they will be forever lost.
I think you (and many others) are confusing a right to freedom of speech with a right to publication.

Publishers and editors have been deciding on people's behalf what should and should not be published for hundreds of years. You might write a letter to the New York Times, and they might publish it or they might not. They might decide based on their political leanings.
Anecdotally, my Bay Area friends are all excited about the prospect of decreasing pressure on their cities.

Plenty of people still want to be in the Bay Area. The previous situation was far too oversubscribed for the amount of space and housing available. Release some of that pressure and the city could become more attractive again. They will still need to solve the crime issues, though.
That can't really happen. While Elasticsearch was previously released under the Apache 2.0 license, it was still "owned" by Elastic.

Lucene on the other hand, is "owned" by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). While companies can build products based on Lucene, which they release under their own choice of License, they cannot change the Lucene license itself. Only the ASF can do that.

Another example of this is Kafka. It was developed at LinkedIn, who transferred control to the ASF. When the LinkedIn employees who originally created Kafka, left to form Confluent, they had no control over the licensing of Kafka. They could only decide on the License for the Kafka add-ons that they provide. Eventually (about a year ago) they forked Kafka to create "Confluent Server", which is released under their proprietary license. Kafka itself however remains open source under Apache 2.0 license, still controlled by the ASF.
Twitter allowed "Hang Mike Pence" to Trend for more than one day recently.

When will they be removed from the App Stores?
Oh interpretation. How I loathe thee. It was the bane of my English class experience.

You're absolutely right that moderators bias is part of the equation. I was trying to make a delineation between actionable and desirable. Afaik the FBI only looks into and responds to direct actionable threats. My personal stance is that these comments are ugly but I'd only remove them if they fell into that category in which the FBI would take notice.
Yup, ethically questionable yet likely effective ad placement happens in damn near every product category. The algos are too dumb to understand ethics but not too dumb that diet pills get more clicks when you put them beside videos about anorexia and "influences" who have photoshopped their bikini pics.
> You are no longer expected to achieve wealth and financial independence through hard work, and then do what YOU want.

Whatever dream people may have, “wealth and financial independence” has not been a reasonably expected outcome of a lifetime of hard work for most Americans, ever.
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From my perspective, it's pretty disingenuous to argue that was the sole purpose of Parler.

Anecdata from HNers in this thread suggests otherwise, and unless you can show evidence that all 4 million users conspired to storm the Capitol building, there's not much of a leg to stand on there.
>It verifiably failed to actually prevent violent rhetoric

How do you suppose you prevent violent rhetoric? You can only react to it.

And if that's the baseline, Facebook and Twitter have far more objectionable content yet-to-be-removed.
Body armor, helmets and any sort of protective gear is legal in most parts of world, and I would bet any EU state (and in case of my EU country I can buy an AR-15 or any sort of semi-automatic weapon).
The CrossOver fork of Wine can.
Mainstream media likely won't give it a mention, except maybe to talk about all the benefits that surveillance tech like this will bring.

This whole COVID power-grab disgusts me.
This is 100% my experience as a data scientist. The engineering support we get is restricted to submitting a ticket for database access or moving data from one system to another. Wouldn't dream of involving an engineer in a data science project team, because I have no evidence that they have any experience or expertise in anything other than tickets to move data around.
Exactly so. It requires just one suitable black swan event to destabilize an entire continent.

Extreme events are really badly understood by many popular writers as demonstrated by Harari's 2016 book "Homo Deus" which stated pandemics are a thing of the past.
> I have seen countless comments from vegans that said meat eaters should be butchered instead of animals. The comments didn't get deleted. An no, I did't want to complain about them, venting is healthy and without victims on the internet.

That's the difference between merely saying something, and saying something with the likelihood of actually carrying it out.

Parler would still be around if there not been an mob attack on the capitol connected to it (and no legitimate fears of further mob attacks on inauguration day, etc.) If vegans actually started and organized butchering of meat eaters, I'm pretty sure the forums where they planned such things would get shut down quickly.
“Got tired of not understanding what my GCC linker file was doing”
How can I write a C++ class that iterates over its base classes?
I've been renting hundreds of people who do nothing for years. From Capgemini. Nothing Japanese about it!
And this is what is exactly wrong science. We have had a scientist in NL who claimed that people who eat red meat are more aggressive. Because she wanted it to be true.

And maybe the original researcher of Rat Park just wanted it to be true too.
So you ask them multiple times. You remind them via mail every n months. I repeat this is solvable. If people chose willingly ignore multiple warnings, then it's their fault.

Don't assume your users are immature just because they use a computer. This assumption is only with computers, I don't know why.
Thank you very much fir creating Elixir! It’s an absolute joy to program in and it’s something I foresee using for a very long time.
They said they worked in tech. They asked about industry generally.
This could be turned into a great, possibly awkward, movie.
Ask HN: How can we create shared workspaces in Linux?
I am looking for opportunities to realise the following scenario:

I have three screens on my desk, and one of them I want to be a shared workspace with my colleagues. This means, we can easily drag application windows into it and discuss it across the network of Linux users. One common workspace for everyone.

Everyone gets their own cursor in the common workspace and can interact with it without any barriers, as if it were a workspace on their own machine, i.e. kind of what the Douglas Engelbart folks had at SRI.

I am pretty sure that some HN users here have some bright ideas that may help leap towards that vision.
If you want full data security, you need additional technical knowledge and a different workflow. iCloud isn't for you.

As someone who very much doesn't use iCloud for exactly this reason, I'd have a lot more sympathy with that argument if Apple didn't push everyone towards iCloud and the accompanying insecurity while simultaneously making it much more difficult than it needs to be to move your data between, onto and off Apple devices in other, more secure ways.
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>and not having to ever plug my phone into anything.

works over wifi too. https://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/ios-tutorials/backu...
There is definitely a correlation between lazy thinking and believing in conspiracy theories. Mainly because conspiracy theories do not lend themselves to rigorous inquiry, almost by definition.

This is different than "intelligence." It's more about effort and rigor in thinking. It's the quality of the thought, and the willingness to question your own assumptions. And a willingness to recognize the limits of your own knowledge and understanding.
That particular post was still up when the site went down, I believe. I mean, sure, it's possible they would have gotten better. But this wasn't an abstract issue, we'd just had an attack on congress and there was (and remains) serious worry that something similar or worse would happen at the inauguration. Certainly the rhetoric on the site had not significantly moderated in the few days between the capitol riot and their ban.
AFAICT, Proton is a modified Wine together with Python scripts to run it, enabling hacks and features known to work well with certain games. So it's not identical from a usage standpoint to upstream Wine, but the underlying technology is the same.