skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about extremists as any other organization wanting to advertise. Is it easier on a centralized platform or across thousands of federated instances, each with their own moderator?

You can also think of it like a terrorist wanting to bomb people, would you have more success in a dense area or if everyone is spread out?

With more small sites, instead of a few large sites it spreads out communities and insulates them. With centralized networks, it create a "mother vein" where it's easier to plug into a large stream of users with little effort. No doubt capitalist extremists want centralized services too because they can convert everyone to their ideology, consumerism.
Or just use a gear reduction? You really need to be dealing with high force systems to justify the cost and added complexity of using servos. I've built a mill from scratch that can handle decent sized steel milling using NEMA23 sized steppers and some decent 10:1 gear reducers and a nice spindle. IMO a better spindle and structure is where you should be spending your money, and if you really are afraid of losing steps, you should use encoders that are DECOUPLED from the motors, not integrated into them...

Servos are great if you're working with huge forces, need a lot of speed, need ridiculously high accuracy, and have a team of engineers to actually build and tune the thing. Ridiculously expensive and complex unless you're looking to go into busines manufacturing CNC systems.
Ask HN: Good Paper(less) document management system
I’m looking for a good, preferably open source document management system. Right now I ocr loads of PDFs that come in from my scanner up to a samba share with a custom script. Is there anything more powerful than that, perhaps with full text search, or even something fancier like cover sheets with barcodes?
My reading of the original post is you go to jail, not you loose your license.
I’ve found that Kotlin has changed that, at least for me. I enjoy playing with it even for small projects, something I’ve really never done with Java.
You know, I'm totally down with kerbalspaceprogram.com becoming a de-facto scientific journal for space exploration papers.
Webring, an attempt to inspire artists and developers
Seeing the people storm the capital and decide that Trump actually won, trying to force him to retain his office sealed the deal for me. I'm now against the second amendment. Not the school shootings, not the movie theaters; I've shot and handled many guns, but seeing this total disconnect from reality shows me that Americans cannot responsibly handle the option to elect somebody, accept the results either way, let alone carry a firearm.

The whole notion of it takes just one good gun owner is total garbage. This is the law and order crowd, this is the crowd of "Just one good guy with a gun". Total garbage.

Trump lost. Get over it.
The author can write a story than a lot of writers.
This reminds me of the recent attempt to blame TeamCity for the Solarwinds hack, because TeamCity’s CEO is Russian [0]. A disturbing trend in journalism, IMO.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/p...
Yet those small towns continue to exist, until some very poor last remnants eventually stop having children and the town dies off in a literal sense.

A market based solution isn't going to repair a fault like a place doesn't want to economically exist on the map. That's a spot for market regulation to exist and limit suffering.
I don't think that makes any sense, unless we now live in a truly post-truth world I think those things are basically independent of eachother.
The more coarsely you filter the data (reducing resolution is essentially a low-pass filter on the image data), the more you reduce the bandwidth for a watermarking signal, but using spread spectrum and forward error correction techniques, the ratio of watermark to data can be brought arbitrarily low. There's no amount of obfuscation that will defeat watermarking if they algorithm/key is unknown and a huge amount of data needs to be released.

That is, maybe you can use video and audio filtering/manipulation to push the watermark bandwidth down to one bit of watermark per 1 GB of data, but with 100 participants and 7 GB of data, 7 bits is enough to identify the leaker.
Upgrade the controller. For a hobbyist machine, the ESP32 CNC controller sold on Tindie is well suited to deal with that, and costs ~$35.
Not exactly. Whonix makes it easy — or at least as easy as possible. If you’re in need of such services, I encourage you to visit their wiki.
Ignorance of the law is a valid excuse ... for the kinds of laws that Congress can see themselves breaking.

All kinds of laws have a "willfulness" requirement, which means that you had to do something on purpose. For things like vehicular manslaughter or public indecency, this means that you had to purposefully do something bad with your vehicle or expose yourself. Tragic vehicular and wardrobe malfunctions do not meet the willfulness requirement.

But the issue happens when you apply this standard to white collar crimes, because this makes knowledge of the law a legal requirement to being convicted of it. For example, let's consider the IRS own handbook[0] on tax crimes. This book explicitly includes wilfulness as an element for tax evasion on page 15. It defines wilfullness on page 17 as:

> Willfulness is defined as the "voluntary, intentional violation of a known legal duty."

It also helpfully notes (also on page 17)

> Willfulness is subjectively measured. A defendant's good faith belief that he is not violating the tax laws, no matter how objectively unreasonable that belief may be, is a defense in a tax prosecution.

So yes, if you're avoiding paying your taxes, ignorance of the law is a valid defense, and in fact the IRS agrees. This also applies to bank fraud, election rule fraud, etc. etc.

0 - https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/tax_crimes_handbook.pdf
https://i.imgur.com/vGyQJfd.png
Recruiting in backyard mosques and on fringe internet sites where isolated vulnerable people hang out is exactly how terrorists recruit. Extremists don't advertise like normal people, extremists advertise in echo chambers. If a terrorist tries to create converts in Walmart it takes 10 minutes until the police shows up.

When extremists plan attacks they go to the central spots, when extremists recruit and build up followers they go to the places that aren't under surveillance. The latter is relevant for social media.

A decentralised internet would be a dream for extremist recruitment. It's equivalent to having an ungovernable community of millions sitting in your country.
Why the Lies of ‘Trumbo’ Matter
I'll believe you if you can find BLM people running around the centre of American Democracy looking for scalps.

> This is a collaboration against conservatives and the greatest form of censorship America has ever experienced. This is how democracy dies.

The US Electoral system is measurably biased towards conservatives, get some perspective.
Orwellian comment of the day.
Starlink satellites are MUCH larger than cubesats, which are usually 1.4kg per U and usually about 3U. A Starlink satellite is about 150kg and nowhere close to the cubesat form factor.
Yes, read the transcript. Don't watch the video which clearly shows the true anger and sentiment behind the speech.

It's not what you say, it's how you say it.

"Hey guys, there's a fire", said in a dull sarcastic tone is not the same as screaming it at the top of your lungs with a frightened look on your face.

But yes, encourage people to read the transcript and not watch the video with their own eyes.
Centralisation is completely compatible with Democracy. There is no plausible mechanism by which federation would prevent the kinds of issues we’ve seen when giving everyone in the world the ability to publish whatever they like at no cost.

There are many reasons to want a diffusion of power, but defending democracy is not one of them.
Thousands of people everyday post "anonymously" via pseudo accounts/names, more so on the heavily surveiled big social sites. Does this mean that the contents of their posts are unwanted? No. The algorithms are designed to give prominence to the most relevant posts, whether you as an individual agree with them or not. It is up to how many likes/shares these posts get.

I think we should stop running away from the fact that we are human. And we all have
some quirky deep-rooted tendencies & desires that may not be socially viewed as moral.

Most of the times, these pseudo accounts provide amplification to that whispering inner voice harboring inside. Am certain we've all had experience with a peculiar post and go - "If it weren't for my boss following me back on my feeds I would have shared controversial view X, but hey am glad someone else said it."

Then proceed to share the screenshot of said view in a more private setting such as group channels/chats etc.
Someone changed this HN post title now to "Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm" which is both true and what the Reuters headline originally was.
You're reading of my comment is not charitable at all. I'm making the distinction specifically because of the DMCA's anti-circumvention measures, which specifically apply to circumventing digital copyright. Obviously any analogy to a sailboat is unrelated to the DMCA and unrelated to my comment.

I do agree that specific sentence of mine is poorly worded, but the point that it still requires that circumvention stands regardless of the poor wording.

I linked to the bit of the snap that I believe may constitute circumvention under the DMCA. I welcome you to actually respond to what I meant in my comment, and not with some strawman of an intentionally poor interpretation of it.
> How much of a risk, compared to all the other risks we all undergo every day?

For a single didactic example-- someone with diabetes walking in to pick up a take-out salad from a bar filled with unmasked people is normally a very low risk activity.

That same activity in a pandemic where percentage positive is approaching uncontrolled spread is prohibitively risky.

Am I missing a hidden premise here that's causing you to dig in your heels? It feels legitimately odd to need to explicitly defend the idea that there exist inescapable negative consequences for the wider community when a critical mass of people actively shirk their responsibility to be safe during a pandemic.

Edit: clarification
I so misinterpreted Apple’s event. My impression was that with M1 hardware all iOS/iPadOS apps that can work on desktop OS will be available in desktop OS, blurring device borders.

In fact, this is opt-in at developer’s discretion. Distributing desktop version as a separate paid app can nearly double app revenue, so one would arguably be reckless to flag an iOS app as Mac-ready (unless it works via a paid subscription).

On one hand, this shows how much Apple cares about devs; on the other hand, hardly any useful iOS app is available on macOS right now except for Among Us that got advertised on the event.
With all the negative pushback this is getting, it’s making me think he was onto something. The exact same criticisms would apply to Airbnb, for example. “They have not the slightest idea how the hotel industry works. This is a very professional industry with a lot of legal hurdles...”
Interesting though from a friend of mine who teaches US Constitution: if number two and three (Pence and Pelosi) were killed, the full and complete power lays in number one - the President. By the time consitutional lawyers and politicans were to be done arguying it otherwise thru regular channles - we would have a full blown Monarchy installed in this country, and completely lawfully should I add. I think majority of people have absolutely no idea how close we got to overturning US political system. And I dont believe Trump or his family were not on it, but it will take years to get to the bottom of it.
>ExoMG™ is the first ever Hall-effect thruster operating on a sub-100kg spacecraft.

Small size definitely seems to be the main claim in this.
Isn't diffusion of power more-or-less the point of democracy?
This argument keeps coming up in similar discussions and I don’t really understand it.

Can you not imagine a scenario where we didn’t leave everything in the hands of a completely unregulated market?
We use arrow to do the validation 'for free': it has a typed columnar schema, so by passing the schema, we get the recordset validation without inspecting values.

we still need to do semantic validation, but w/ arrow, now we do that in bulk and on gpus :)
A homescreen mode for every mood in VS Code
That isn't my area of expertise, but I recognize that I would like those who are experts to examine the situation and make such proposals.

I did mention one basic thing that I think would help. Better critical thinking education. Help people understand common logical fallacies. Help people consider critically that others might be lying out of self benefit and to focus added skepticism against any claims that might align with such incentives. Focus on emotion as a tool for knowing where to focus more of that light of logic on the situation and examine why those feelings arose. To not blindly believe but to seek the truth of a situation.
Would someone define privacy, please? I have searched far and wide and can only find scholarly articles on the various approaches to privacy but there is no commonly accepted definition. What I’ve found, however, is that people often implicitly define privacy as the right to lie. Nobody should know how much money I have and should be relying on my statement alone. True, not all governments or other institutions are worthy of the full truth. But it is also true, that any cooperation involves a level of trust hard to reach when one side reserves the right to lie without consequence.
I suspect you mean:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_controversies_dur...

...which is a list of all deaths surrounding the events. There are only a few that actually fall within the bounds of the question:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/white-supremac...
In cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression, you will be asked to observe and take notes on both positive and negative emotions. One reason is to become aware of the thoughts and behaviors that trigger them. This has a surface-level application: dismantle negative triggers, build positive triggers, feel good more often.

But another mechanism is meta. One of the worst elements of depression is the belief, "I feel terrible all the time for no reason (or for big intractable reasons), and I always will." This probably isn't true. You feel terrible sometimes, for specific reasons you can identify and work on. You also feel okay sometimes. The trick is to notice this. CBT putting it in your face on a regular basis can force an update to your model of feeling. Then when a negative emotion comes, it doesn't have a big powerful story about helplessness and permanence to interact with. The story was responsible for most of the suffering. Without it, the emotion passes in less time and with less intensity.

The waves roll in and then collapse. Tides change, moon phase changes, weather changes, seasons change. You don't have to believe the whole thing is going to stop to appreciate that conditions will be favorable again.
Improve the news org: Find news from the other side and reduce polarization
The German article on document management systems lists a few free and proprietary DMSs. It might offer something that fits?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokumentenmanagement#Dokumente...
It looks like you've been using this site primarily for political battle. That's not what HN is for, and it destroys what it is for, so we ban accounts that do it (regardless of their politics). Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop doing this.
Better healthcare outcomes are of interest to health insurance companies and employers, not the healthcare providers. A reduction in overall claims over a patient's lifetime and better employee health are quantifiable financial results.
> How much time does that take of the person who is helping?

It doesn't appear to be hours, although they help, but rather consistency over large periods of the child's life. In happier cases this is provided by parents and close family friends; teachers come and go and the family might move, but the parents provide emotional stability in the child's life. In less happy circumstances the issue is that some teachers and some foster parents might be great at what they do, but they only exist inside the child's life for a very short period of time.

Again, I am far from an expert here.
"Hacker News":

https://alexbeals.com/projects/colorize/search.php?q=Hacker+...

Not bad!
Holding a protest on the National Mall is not the same thing as storming the Capitol, and it is foolish and facile to hold them up as equals.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25822824.
Best I've got was 7 / 44 - for the Racoon on Tractor
Wow came back to this and my grammar was horrible. Looks like I typed it out, edited, and failed to double check my edits...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/hamas-may-be-threat-to-8... ddos-guard is interesting
I can only post my opinion. Although I did join Parler and explored it this summer I haven't followed it closely or used it much. I did read their terms and conditions.

What I do know is that Facebook played a far larger role in the organization of the #stopthesteal demonstrations and the associated capitol security failures earlier this month but have received no sanctions.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/01/18/facebook-sher...
Creative Shadow-Casting
And still there adds are WORTHLESS!
I don't think so. Sure they'll be down a couple of weeks but most likely back up soon if I were betting money. It shows that "if you build your site to a specific platform" that you might be fucking yourself over. However if you stick to OSS core software you'll be okay. Yeah yeah I know some sites can't afford to be down for a couple weeks but I'm willing to bet vast majority of businesses would be ok. I'm sure parler will be back soon with all the hate and putridness that it always had.
The Linux version hasn’t been updated for several years now. V3 on Mac has some quite handy features and compatibility with the iPad version.
IIRC, Servos also can provide feedback, which also helps with precision and reliability.
Didn't notice. Very funny!
Hm, I don't correlate suffering with the feeling I have when pushing myself to increase my morning run from 4 miles to 5 miles.

I liked the original quote up top:

> That is, if the perceived benefits of enduring outweigh the pain.

Then again, I just looked up the actual definition for "suffering" and it's much less dramatic then what I associate with suffering. Simply "to submit to or be forced to endure" which, in that sense, I'd agree.
Because users have attendees leaking meetings and asking Zoom if there is any way to identify the leaker. This in turn informs Zoom that the ability to identify leakers is a desired feature for users. This might make the product seem more "secure" and "safe".
Remote propulsion by ablation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_broom
* Depends on how much space you have to spare.
No ... this had never been an absolute rule. It’s generally true. It it’s not some absolute or time honored principle of justice.

There are plenty of courts, including American ones, that treat extremely counterintuitive laws different.
I believe parent is referring to journalists having trouble keeping their sources anonymous (b/c watermarks), not themselves...
He had a problem, but then decided to solve a completely different problem. The process of an end user picking an OTC drug for a headache vs a doctor prescribing something are worlds apart. I'd personally love a site which compared all generic + branded medication available over the counter and ranked them based on some criteria. I'm sure there would be a ton of advertising and affiliate marketing potential for a successful one as well.
Nature’s Electromagnetic Symphony – Whistlers
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore
The system of checks and balances worked out. Go say something provocative in China and see how quickly you disappear. I'll take my chances with free speech, democracy, and capitalism.
Nice, is your drawing the green upside down long neck dinosaur?

I drew almost the same thing except I didn’t color mine only drew the outline and mine was facing the other way and also it was smaller, probably because I drew it on my phone. Guessing that you drew on a laptop or desktop, or that you zoomed out if zooming out is possible.

I got 97th place at the time of my submission, and now I am currently 108th place out of 388 total.
It's been mentioned a couple times on the thread but I'll third it: this post succinctly captures the problem statement of _The Mom Test_, which is a short book about how to structure your product/market fit work to cut the crap and lock in on a product that people will actually pay money for. It's good, more people should read it.
Nigerian Fashion Show (2019)
Please, QAnon is overhyped and promoted by centralized media. On presidential debates corruption was not even mentioned (biggest scandal since watergate), but some crazy fringe group gets 15 minutes.

It is 2016 election all over again, media chooses their favorite "evil" and promote it to death.

Decentralization stops radicalisation, because it allows free discussion.
This is a bad take. What if the "coup" was successful? You wouldn't want to have guns on your side? The second amendment works both ways.