skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why people complain about Baofengs so much. I have a bunch of baofengs that I bought to pass out as emergency radios at burning man. They have saved at least one person's life, because it meant we were able to call the emergency services when somebody had a heart attack and collapsed. I'm sure that guy is glad that that crappy $20 radio was there and a ham operator had configured it for the 911 service it was used for.

That alone cemented baofengs into my "good to have" category for life. They're cheap, and that's why I have been able to use them in the places I have.
Not an external remedy, but one thing I wish Facebook would do is offer the equivalent of rel="nofollow" for engagements. I know there's a separate workflow for "show me less like this" or "mute this user for 30 days" but that feels more like me creating my own little banlist. Instead, I want a box I can tick which means "I'm posting here to fact-check this or attempt to correct the record; please don't treat this as an engagement for the purposes of recommending this link/story/comment to others, or for finding more things like it for me to look at."

I know it's still counter to their business because ultimately outrage -> engagements -> ad impressions. But I can't help thinking it might be a start.
I was trained in North Carolina and our trainers explained that don't-attach was a traditional method that is now widely disproven. Encouraging attachment is now strongly recommended even though reunification is still Plan A.
The Weimer Republic had extensive hate speech laws on the books, which they even used to prosecute the Nazis in several cases. Not only were those laws ineffective, but the Nazis coopted them to silence opposition.

In contrast the US and the UK, with their free speech absolutism (British hate speech laws weren't put into place until recently), were one of the few major democracies without fascist parties winning any major elections.
Facebook is much bigger so the amount of upset users will be greater as well if it is removed. Plus all the big tech CEOs have their own little club so I doubt apple would mess with Facebook like that.
Who is able to make a whistleblower platform for Epstein/Maxwell whistleblowers?
Who is able to make a whistleblower platform without fear of personal risk, for Epstein / Maxwell whistlblowers, for both those who knew things (associates, workers on properties, operations, etc, and for victims and survivors? A group of close supporters of some of the prominent survivors are looking for someone looking for a pro-bono project to get their teeth into, which can signbifically effect to help the cause of truth, anti-abuse and exposure of highest level systemic corruption. We would like to have it underway soon, to be able to put out open calls before Ghislaine Maxwell's trial in April.
If they could get it to $600-800 and have an option for Windows, decent trackpad/keyboard, you could sell them to students just as well. Shoot, if the DE for Amazon Linux was user friendly enough they wouldn’t even need windows, since half of schools are on GSuite these days.
Your argument is basically: it wasn't a coup because it wasn't as sophisticated as many coups, or it didn't resemble many coups in the past.

On the other hand, intent is usually a factor in determining a crime. If someone attempts to murder another person, they still commit the crime of attempted murder, regardless whether the murder was actually successful. So I'm not really convinced by the argument: "it wasn't a coup because it wasn't successful/sophisticated."

Wikipedia defines a coup as

> [The] removal of an existing government from power, usually through violent means. Typically, it is an illegal, unconstitutional seizure of power by a political faction, the military, or a dictator. Many scholars consider a coup d'état successful when the usurpers seize and hold power for at least seven days.[1] A coup attempt may refer to a coup in the works or an unsuccessful coup.[1]."

The storm on the capitol fits Wikipedia's definition of an attempted coup:

1. It was an (admittedly incompetent) attempt at removing the existing government from power. (Capitol stormers wanted to force Pence to "declare" Trump as president, as well as capture or kill senators and representatives.)

2. The capitol storm was violent. Five people died, including a police officer.

3. The capitol storm was illegal and unconstitutional. Many stormers have been charged with crimes by the federal government.

4. The stormers wanted to seize power on behalf of the far-right/MAGA political faction.

It's also worth noting that Wikipedia's definition has not changed since the Jan. 6th events [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
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Yea the difference in my mind is that the phone company does not moderate content or exercise editorial control over what gets sent over its lines, but Facebook does. So if Facebook decided that this kind of user generated content was acceptable to publish, they should be liable for the resulting problems.
Couldn't the same thing have been said for the problematic youtube-dl test case?
> A lot is made of the way Amazon is "taking advantage" of the license, but they aren't. They're doing exactly what is allowed, what anyone is allowed.

Elastic is also not "taking advantage" of the license. Apache License 2.0 can be combined for example with GPLv3 or as in this case Server Side Public License. This is the freedom that Apache License 2.0 provides. Both companies do what they are allowed to do under the license.

You may not like the freedoms that Apache 2.0 provides, but then you should not contribute to projects under that license. GPLv3 does not grant you the freedom to easily change license terms, so probably you should contribute to projects with that license or similar.

> If their hosted service suffers, their new license ensures that no one else can compete.

How does it ensure that no one can compete? If you release the infrastructure code you can compete.
Wow, interesting. I used to work as a civilian for the Navy and if you needed to get to another Navy base you could usually hop on whatever plane was headed that way next. Kind of a fun experience and I thought they tended to take off more aggressively than commercial flights, but nothing like that!
Great example of other unwanted content that is more or less impossible to find on mainstream platforms, or even most seedy porn sites, or even the underbelly of the internet that was Parler.
Please excuse too many typos here!
> no man wants...many do feel

Are you appealing to the desires of the crowd (bandwagon fallacy), or to a moral principle? I'm talking about moral principles, which the laws and the government ought to uphold.

If they don't, the law and/or government is in the wrong. The right to speak your mind is a moral right; arguably, the right to defend yourself with an attourney is a subset of this. The law is not the arbiter of what is right, or what rights humans possess "inalienably". The law only enforces and protects those rights (since it's inefficient for each person to defend their own rights against everyone else: "I will have my attourney at my trial, I challenge you to duel if you disagree").

If freedom of speech is impinged, then a human right has been trampled upon. If a private individual forces someone else to be silent, they are morally in the wrong, even though there's no law against it. If the US government did it, then the US acted against its constitution and broke a moral principle, if not the laws on the books.
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The industry is working on that.

We're still getting people used to the idea of "phones" in beautiful and "safe" walled gardens. (We all know that "phones" aren't actually personal computers so it's not like we're giving anything up!)

It's easier to control infringing uses of technology in the walled garden, where the imprimatur of the "gardener" reigns supreme and software can be sent down the memory hole if it angers the establishment.

If this goes according to plan nobody (at least, nobody who isn't part of an aged and miniscule market segment) will notice when the personal computers are brought into the "safety" of the garden too.
Why would the CBP seize radios that are perfectly legal to sell? That wouldn't be "flexing", that would be "over-reach".
This has been an issue, and has been lobbied for, for at least two decades. The law may do us favors one day but that day is far into the future.
> The point is not that they couldn't do this, but that it's a dick move which betrays the trust of their community, and is ultimately harmful to the goals of open source.

I understand that a re-licensing to proprietary from upstream it self is really annoying and hurtful to the open-source project itself. However the only distinction of upstream doing this with a CLA and somebody else is that upstream can reuse use the project name, infrastructure, etc.

Or are there any other consequences of upstream doing this vs. someone else?

It could also be the beginning of something new: See OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice.
New Charges Derail Covid Release for Hacker Who Aided Isis
Next is mpv I'm guessing
As much as I try to distance myself from Google as a corporation I really appreciate project zero and their write ups. Always learning something new from them.
Ha! This is a really interesting perspective—I think you're saying, "it's all plain text, so there's no advantage to using Markdown instead of docx".

I think others have an opposite view, but on the same grounds. The argument seems to be: it's all plain text, so docx is overkill, so markdown is more technically efficient!

There's some benefit to using the tool I know best (emacs, for me), so it's nice to use a "native" format that also gives me my usual keybindings, macros, etc.

But there's no doubt it just offloads the inefficiency to a different step of the process. I'm more comfortable with inputting text, but it requires post-hoc reformatting, and I'd have to use a different word processor for post-editor changes...

The "markdown is a more efficient solution from a technical perspective" argument doesn't hold a lot of weight with me...the practical overhead of docx is minimal, so unless you prize technical purity over all else, I don't think there _is_ a benefit.
There is an actual wafer shortage and arrogant automotive suppliers thought they could order on short notice.

Turns out silicon valley customers like Apple and Nvidia order a year or more ahead and prepay for capacity instead of phoning at the last minute and demanding "standard" 120-day terms for the privilege of having their business. I know who I'd sell my capacity to.
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In which case it should be easy to show the non-infringing uses. Many linux distributions have torrent downloads just as one example.
yeah, I think telegram has taken the place of torrents for this purpose.
Sure, a constitution is just a formalization of those tradeoffs. But the US Constitution has nothing to do with this article or the parallel current events.
Python does not contain preconfiguration that allows you to download particular files. The DMCA mentions configs with data samples.
Some context ...Coughlin was initially a powerful asset and supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, but then became a political opponent, accusing him of being too friendly to bankers. In 1934, he and others established a political organization called the National Union for Social Justice, supported by many German and Scandinavian immigrant Americans. membership was in the millions behind an agenda of monetary reform, nationalization of major industries and railroads, protection of labor rights and like the national socialists in Germany very anti communist.

The 30's were an extraordinary time - Hitler was Time magazine man of the year in 1938 - and there was strong resistance to the USA entering an 'old country' war at the end of the decade. A rough equivalent to 'occupy wall street' in the mid 30's was obviously very anti banker and this was a large part of Coughlin's Catholic German appeal. (Many Irish catholics were heavily involved as well as Italian Americans who had Mussolini supposedly making the trains run on time while pushing back on some bankers).

The William Kovarik (Professor of Communication, Radford University) article was originally titled

'That time private US media companies stepped in to silence the falsehoods and incitements of a major public figure … in 1938'
in 'the Conversation' - the Smithsonian chose to re headline it.

1938 was a major turning point in US politics and as is the case today there was a major clamp down on free speech. This arguably subsequently partially resulted in the US entering WWII...

https://theconversation.com/that-time-private-us-media-compa...
While you are right that due to their design CPUs like Apple M1 can reach the same single-thread performance as Intel/AMD at a much lower clock frequency and such a clock frequency could be reached much earlier, e.g. already Intel Nehalem in 2009 reached 3.3 GHz as turbo, while Sandy Bridge in 2011 had 3.4 GHz as base clock frequency, it would have been impossible to make a CPU like Apple M1 in any earlier technology, not even in Intel's 14 nm.

To achieve its very high IPC, M1 multiplies a lot of internal resources and also uses very large caches. All those require a huge number of transistors.

Implementing an M1-like design in an earlier technology would have required a very large area, resulting in a price so large and also in a power consumption so large that such a design would have been infeasible.

However, you are partially right in the sense that Intel clearly was overconfident due to their clock frequency advantage and they have decided on a roadmap to increase the IPC of their CPUs in the series Skylake => Ice Lake => Alder Lake that was much less ambitious than it should have been.

While Tiger Lake and Ice Lake have about the same IPC, Alder Lake is expected to bring a similar increase like from Skylake to Ice Lake.

Maybe that will be competitive with Zen 4, but it is certain that the IPC of Alder Lake will still be lower than the IPC of Apple M1, so Intel will continue to be able to match the Apple performance only at higher clock frequencies, which cause a higher power consumption.
Not really. Imagine you want to leak a one page printed document.

If the covert signal (the employee ID of the leaker) is encoded with tiny dots then it could be filtered in or out with a band pass filter. Filtering out the data can be done with a fax machine if you can find one.

But if the covert data is embedded in the original signal at frequencies close to the signal “frequency” then you don’t stand a chance. The information band of written English provides a huge number of options for hiding other signals: spelling, choice of words, spacing, key phrases, capitalisation, the ordering of items in a list.

The government agency from where you are leaking — your adversary — has the original signal from which they adapted your slightly different copy that you leaked. All they have to do is hide 6 to 16 bits of data in 2kb of English language. This is trivial because they have the original plaintext with which to encode and later extract the signal.

How do you effectively tackle this, as a leaker? A journalist is the one type of filter capable of obscuring covert traffic at these frequencies. They read the document, summarise the implications, and then write that up. I probably wouldn’t let them keep the original text though.
A full war needs to be waged, at the tactical and strategic level, for (digital) freedom.
It sounds like what you’re describing is an addiction to news. This leads to a terrible burn-out cycle: news addiction leads to reading more news (which routinely manipulates your emotions) -> less time spent actually working/reading books/going outside -> more time reading the news.
It still has to be supported with logic and precedent. You could compare the action to the action of others like Facebook using metrics. If something is entirely subjective, then you would violate equal protection when one person is guilty and another is not, just based on the judge who heard it.
The title is misleading. This isn't some generic torrent tracker. The repo in question is the source of a specific site - nyaa.si [0] which according to the complaint is preconfigured to share copyrighted material:

> The identified files and code are preconfigured to find and provide infringing copies of our Members’ film and tv content to Nyaa.si users in violation of copyright law.

This is probably what makes this complaint possible.

[0]: https://nyaa.si/
Good to know that AWS is so fast to detect this.

If good uses were common—and I'm struggling to come up with them—AWS could suppress the alert for IAM users that were already sufficiently locked down. But since that would become dangerous if the permissions were loosened later, AWS would wind up creating two classes of keys, public and non-public, in order to know whether to warn about loosening restrictions. Simpler just to forbid making keys public.

To publish such a key anyway without having to go to the trouble of unwinding an AWS auto-quarantine, breaking it up in code (like "part1" + "part2") might be enough to foil the AWS bot. Can anyone confirm?
Those directly downloaded copyrighted youtube videos. It would instead be just a torrent tracker connection check, no reason to even transfer a file, since the tracker just matches user with user and doesn't touch any files.
I would still stay away from Facebook even with this. That platform is a data miner. Nothing more, nothing less.
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There's some good lol's here.
I can't stomach Facebook friends posting conspiracy theories and them even getting likes on those.
I explode. I've written a ranting website just for that purpose, to not fecate over Facebook but on my on ranting service, which apparently only I seem to be using.
1 such idiot post and I snooze the person for 30 days. My mental health is more important than his freedom of expression.
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Serious question: the numbers are completely out of control as of right now (at least in the US). I'm not really seeing any benefits from any lockdowns so far (albeit we did do well in the summer). Most of the outdoor seating is just security theater. The outside areas are just cacooned indoor tents. There are indoor basketball games being run (here in NYC) and the rules are: 'wear a mask while you walk around the gym but youre allowed to sweat all over each other without one.' It all seems like a complete joke at this point.

I'm one hundred and ten percent on board with wearing masks and being cautious about what to do, but it's been a year of this already. It feels like renting a lakehouse for some much needed mental health recuperation is at the bottom of the barrel as far as risk factor goes. Considering California is seeing 30,000 a day Covid numbers, it feels like "stay home" when 50% of the country doesn't give a shit anymore is like throwing a cup of water on a house fire at this point.

Curious to hear at what point does your mental well being become more of a concern? 1 year? 2 years? 5 years of lockdown? while you have people in Florida going to nightclubs then flying elsewhere? I'm starting to feel like one of those people tying themselves to a tree with a "save the planet" t-shirt while other people walk by and laugh and continue to ignore the damage and live their lives. I'm not trying to sound defeatist, but I am seriously at a loss here.
The unequal treatment is the primary issue with the Parler deplatforming.

Facebook and Twitter and Google has hosted much more and much worse content, from all sides.

Yet, they are protected by the central authorities and mainstream popular media.

Facebook, Twitter and Google should all be deplatformed for equal treatment under mob rules.
Agree. Whether or not the boomers in congress and lobbyists in the MPAA/RIAA care, though, is another question
Could you please talk about alternative ways of learning about linear algebra?
Github = Microsoft.
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I was definitely feeling a burn-out by End of December, the main causes:

1. Kids at home including a 2yo who needed regular attention.

2. Working late nights to get un-disrupted time for work (see 1).

3. Fear of getting a bad performance review (it ended up being not so great anyways).

4. Lack of interactions with co-worker and working odd hours led me to waste quite a bit of time on re-inventing the wheel at work.

5. Seattle freeze/weather didn't help either and a big stretch without vacation.

I took a 2 week break at end of December which coincided with end of our perf review period. Though I didn't get the (perf) rewards I wanted, having it be over gave me a lot of clarity.

I felt we were lucky with flexible and stable jobs and good friends close-by. However, I always had a feeling/pressure that I should be able to do it all (exercise/work/manage kids), and it was hard to balance all the expectations I had of myself leading to stress and an eventual burn-out.
As a bean farmer, your ability to herd cats at the absolute highest level determines whether or not you stay in business.
Emacs also can display proportional fonts fine. But it's proficiency with fixed-width fonts seems most relevant for crosswords.
How is increasing consumer choice and offering a cheaper product detrimental to society? It's beneficial to everybody besides Elastic's shareholders.
Amazon's poor behavior doesn't excuse Elastic's poor behavior.

Amazon's violation of Elastic's trademark is an issue between two companies: Amazon & Elastic. Elastic has the courts available to them to pursue their case.

Elastric's change of license affects the larger open source and technical communities and it's understandable that contributors who supported the open source project are upset when Elastic changes the nature of the relationship.
There's difference between a) having a big corporate backer for an open-source project vs b) a company and business built around that open-source project.

The incentives and existential threats towards the project are completely different.
Thank you for making serverless easy and accessible! I really enjoy using Seed for some of my projects.
Parler explicitly advertises itself as a place of little or no moderation. Facebook has something like 15,000 professional content moderators whose job is so terrible that they literally get PTSD, but Facebook still fails to catch a lot of it. Being not great at moderation and actively advertising yourself as an unmoderated forum are fairly different lines.