skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well let's look back at some recent history of interference by america. They interfered in the middle east so they could take out the Taliban they trained and armed during the 80's

You know there's a lot more context there, right? Also, if you start a fire for one reason (e.g. to cook a meal), it's not like you have to stand by that fire to the bitter end, and cannot put it out if it starts to burn down your house.

> Let's go back a little further to the gulf war where a complete and total fabrication led america to interfere in the middle east.

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

Was the Iraqi invasion and annexation of Kuwait also fabricated? Because that set things before well before that testimony. Have you looked at the dates?

From your link:

> The Nayirah testimony was a false testimony given before the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990...

Other parts of the article indicate similar allegations were circulating in September 1990.

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

> The US administration had at first been indecisive with an "undertone ... of resignation to the invasion and even adaptation to it as a fait accompli" until the UK's prime minister Margaret Thatcher played a powerful role, reminding the President that appeasement in the 1930s had led to war, that Saddam would have the whole Gulf at his mercy along with 65 percent of the world's oil supply, and famously urging President Bush "not to go wobbly".[30]

> Once persuaded, US officials insisted on a total Iraqi pullout from Kuwait, without any linkage to other Middle Eastern problems, accepting the British view that any concessions would strengthen Iraqi influence in the region for years to come.[82]

The citations for those last two paragraphs indicate that happen in August 1990.

> If america really cared about about dealing with morally bankrupt countries and governments, why do they ally themselves with Saudi Arabia and other countries well known for human rights abuses? Why do they arm and train terrorist groups?

Because, unfortunately, the world is not so simple and neat. It's complex and ugly. Why did the US ally with the Soviets to defeat the Nazis, when the Soviet system was probably only slightly less evil than the Nazi one? Do you think the US should instead have allied with the Nazis against the Soviets, or maybe just sat the whole thing out and let the Nazis keep Western Europe?
So, stop doing completely reasonable things then?
> They booted Parler off for violence issues.

It baffles me how often violence issues become conflated with speech issues. You are absolutely correct, this is a violence issue.

America has likely the most free speech protections in the world, but fighting words (violence) are not protected. There is a huge amount of precdent to support Amazon's actions here, dating back decades.

Furthermore, just because Facebook did nothing is no reason for Amazon to sit idly by doing nothing. Is the advocation for Amazon to become another bystander? Is the superior situation to have all platforms supporting and enabling insurrection and possible sedition? Get off it. Amazon can make the right choice irrespective of their peers making the worst choice.
I agree with this completely. You just send them further underground.

There is no 'but' as people would have you believe here. But they are Nazis. But I don't agree with them. But they cause riots and violence. There's always a 'but'.

Only a court order should have the power to shut these sites down and that's only if they present a clear and present danger.

This is clearly a cultural cleansing of sorts. I remember other such cultural revolutions. China comes to mind.
MIT has some amazing exhibits of this stuff in one of their main buildings; not sure if they still have that degree offered. I want to say US MMA or something like that might have a program.
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What age bracket do you find yourself in? DO you have children? There comes a time when spontaneity is unrealistic, and without planning all you will do is annoy your friend and their family by knocking on their door at 10 PM being spontaneous.
You just described a way to decrease the security of Bitcoin. Users already decided collectively that no amount of security should be exchanged for other features inside Bitcoin. Even taproot, which is a relatively small change takes years to get to a point that it's accepted.

It's like Kosher food: if a small percentage of people want food to be kosher, it's often easer to make all food Kosher.

As Michael Saylor says, Bitcoin is good enough to store hundreds of trillions of dollars. Just don't f*ck it up.
> (given the mandatory arbitration clause in the TOS somewhere).

This was the most surprising angle to me - that the case didn't fail prima facie on this clause alone. I guess at least it serves to really emphasize how bad of a case they brought.
Well, all memory operations must be translated by an MMU. So can the MMU be a distributed beast that lives in the CPU, the memory and the IO?
> Yes it's unfair that Twitter gets away with hosting way worse content

Nonsense. Parler was created to host content which Twitter blocked and users which Twitter banned. Not suggesting Twitter was in the clear here, but suggesting Twitter was worse is BS. Parler tolerated much worse content, and on average content on Parler was much more incendiary.
AWS wouldn't exist if the web had been P2P.

If YouTube was based on BitTorrent.

If Facebook was based on Diaspora, Mastodon, Scuttlebutt, etc.

If Messenger was based on Matrix.

Centralized platforms make ad revenue, form moats, and become big business. Hosting isn't their core competency, so they outsource. Thus AWS.
ALWAYS consider Pareto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
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You'll find that large corporations tend to average out to having fairly similar thresholds for "oh, these guys can fuck right off from our service".

No conspiracy is needed. Same thing happens in neighborhoods - assholes tend to get a reputation as "the asshole neighbor" pretty rapidly. There doesn't have to be a neighborhood meeting to decide this; it just happens.
Politics is the the practice of how to organize society. There's no such thing as an apolitical entity. At the most basic level, just the fact that corporations exist is itself a political decision.
Excellent article. I used to periodically volunteer at a food bank regularly where we'd measure out quantities of dry products like beans or rice into individual bags. I was fine doing the work, but didn't feel like it provided much value.

I started thinking about ways of using my skills (IT, tinkering, etc) and wound up regularly volunteering for an organization called Repair Cafe, where I was able to repair various things that kept said items out of landfill. Three wins: I helped people. I helped the environment by keeping electronics out of landfills and enjoyed fixeing things that other couldn't. I'll be volunteering there as long as they exist.
I think the weird part for me isn't the shared calendar event, but the recurring thing. I'd have no issue if friends started sending me invites for things I agreed to, or with the expectation I might say yes or no..but a recurring thing makes it really awkward when you decide you don't feel like it that month, or want to end it altogether.
The author seems to keep making the same mistakes - the latest being on iPhones and BTC.

Do I care that Android devices have larger market share? Not at all. Apple is on the high end, profitable part.

Should you care that the crypto ecosystem has a few bad actors, and may not be for 90% of the population? Not at all, and for the same reason.

Some customers are said to be the "harbinger of failure" [1]. Considering the author employment history, I might say the same: some employees may be harbingers of doom for the company that hires them.

If he had been working at Apple (=>iPhone) instead of Sun then Google, he might have had more of a point... but still, past performance not being indicative of future performance, I'm extremely cautious about old hackers who think they know it all and extrapolate WAY outside their area of competence.

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2015/harbinger-failure-consumers-unpopu...
You're completely ignoring the catalyst for this was that a governement insurrection where 5 people, including some cops, were murdered was planned very heavily and also broadcasted on this service.
P/Invoke, it never went away.
I think it's more correct to say that a single core has two "sets of registers" (and I guess instruction decoders/dispatchers perhaps)... so it's a single core with 2 "execution entry points"?
Funny you mention AWS as they're one of the corporate sponsors of LE.

So long as they don't have a viable independent revenue stream they're arguably less independent than commercial CAs.
If what users on, say Twitter say constitute it “saying something” then perhaps it should remove the standard disclaimer of how the opinions expressed thereon are that of their users, and not their own, and be held personally liable for what is posted on there.

When it suit these platforms, they claim that the opinions are of their users and not their own, yet when it otherwise suit them, they claim ownership.
It sounds good in theory, but it just isn't true. Mozilla is null factor these days, and most of their income has actually been from Google.

Google is most likely keeping them afloat just to ward off a stray monopoly charge at this point.
Also I think dogpiling is often confused, intentionally or not, as conspiracy. It seems like a lot of people really really wanted to drop them but weren't brave enough to make the first move.
Does anyone know how the AUP of Amazon and other services interacts with E2E encryption? For example, Signal uses AWS to host many of there servers, if Amazon discovers that people are using Signal to share unsightly content, can the demand that Signal kick those users off the platform? If Signal's processes and technology aren't capable of doing so, can AWS demand they change that?
Could it be a Safari issue, though? I'm using Fastmail with Firefox and it's quite snappy. No CPU issues.
It may not always trumps a 10x shorter battery lifespan, though.
If that's true then pretty much every social media platform today should be banned from AWS.
> The left now has the Senate and the Presidency.

The key term is "now". After getting about 40m more votes. Be honest. Is that balanced?
Spontaneity isn’t realistic outside your early 20s, when people start to get married and have children. You can't expect your friend to be be spontaneous if they're got to pick up their children from school.
I have watched significant centrist websites go closed or semi-closed over the past two weeks, deleting or closing historical data, removing seo, disallowing public indexing, etc.

So yes -- this is probably how it will go, it's already started.
Does anyone know how well IPFS protects the privacy of individual users, given that any sort of P2P protocol is going to shift copyright liability for what they read or watch onto them?
Actually, that shouldn't be the case since 5.7: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-system-variab... (and related: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-system-variab...)

And on 8 MyISAM is mostly gone, not even the 'mysql' schema uses it.

Edit: Originally linked only to default_tmp_storage_engine).
There is a thing called 'credit report grooming', where crooked people create a good credit report, get a few cards, run them to the max and then never pay. These are often skimmed identities that they are grooming, so the card companies have become wary, so they have evolved documentary processes to screen them, like getting a few past residencies and employers to be sure they are not suckered.
We choose to use centralize platforms out of convenience, but if Facebook magically disappeared, people would immediately move to one of the many alternatives.
I think they probably know they have no case but are trying to fan the flames of the culture war to generate support and keep their name in the media until they find other hosting services.
The issue is that repeating the same thing over and over is not cool. If the account hadn't posted it three times in a row I wouldn't have replied.

Since you ask, though: a comment saying "wearing masks is going to help us get out of this" and not adding anything interesting would be a bad HN comment. A good comment would add some information or new insight. Simply repeating what we've all heard a million times does nothing for curiosity.
You can not seriously argue the EC doesn't matter when the republicans have won the popular vote once since 1988 yet have held the presidency for 3 terms.
This would be an issue, but I dispute point 1 because the leaders of the tech industry would very much like to wash their hands of politics and be seen as neutral platforms so they can save money on moderation. Most of these same platforms pretty much had an anything goes unless it's illegal attitude from the time they were started until a few years ago when they started getting a lot of political blowback and blame for "helping Trump" by not moderating more.
Even I had a copy of the Principia (translated to English) but when I opened the book and realized that Newton did everything with geometry and algebra, foregoing the calculus he and Leibnitz developed, I lost interest in the exercise.

So I believe the numbers of those who have the book and those who have read it are quite different.
LOL. Don't know, HN users are weird. I've ceased worrying about it.
Haha this whole exchange is such a good metaphor for classic academic gatekeeping. Satoshi gave birth to an idea that spawned an entire new type of financial system, with revolutionary implications for the world, and the GP is spending his time arguing that it didn't go through peer review and wasn't published by a real journal and therefore it's not real science :P
for me the downside is mostly when I am forced as user to everything the 'systemd --user' way. All I have are mpd, dbus, pulseaudio, mako which I can easily run from my sway/config (the script that starts sway or xinitrc whatever) and I do not need systemd and journalctl and all the tooling that I'm then also buying into. This is IMO an annoyance where I think systemd is creeping in too much.

From a developer pov I'm optimistic. systemd seems to be positioning itself as a isolation technology. It gives me a simple and effective way to ship security controls that the user themselves would not be able to do with this granularity (well normally) and it's part of the package / installer (e.g. by default hardened because why bother the user?). And the process for me as dev is really simple too (see below).

It gives me additional options rather than just hope everyone will use firejail and apparmor (even on a debian sid apparmor userspace is too permissive or not properly maintained - firejail is better but rare).

some simple things that can be dumped into a systemd.service file (source https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/mastering-systemd) to ensure hardening isolation/hardening is always shipped with the package.

RestrictNamespaces=true
RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_UNIX AF_INET AF_INET6 AF_NETLINK
ProtectClock=true
NoNewPrivileges=true
DevicePolicy=closed
PrivateTmp=true
ProtectControlGroups=true
ProtectHome=true
ProtectKernelLogs=true
ProtectKernelModules=true
ProtectSystem=strict
RestrictSUIDSGID=true
SystemCallArchitectures=native
SystemCallFilter=sendmsg recvfrom sendto getpid prctl brk socket read stat openat rt_sigaction fstat bind close connect getsockname setpriority capset getpriority lseek mmap mprotect munmap access execve getuid capget arch_prctl gettid
RestrictRealtime=true
LockPersonality=true
MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true

As an elitist user, sure firejail is great - but I would not install firejail on my 72 yro aunt Debian laptop (because many reasons :))
Is there a trusted broker that can be used to short Bitcoin? It's unclear to me if BTC will work in the long run, but it would be nice if all the people claiming it's going to crash would put their money where their mouth is. It's possible that the BTC market "can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent", but people have been saying this for the past decade and it's boring to see people make claims without updating their beliefs based on new evidence. At least the TSLA bears are investing money into short positions as a demonstration of their beliefs.
Bitcoin fell by 10% Retreating From Record Highs
>Should Verizon and T-Mobile have free speech rights too then?

Try reading the whole paragraph (emphasis added):

>particularly if they in some way are significantly making use of government power themselves (limited spectrum allocation for cellular carriers for example

Come on.

>Why should they allow literal Nazis to communicate over their infrastructure?

Because they're making use of a government granted monopoly on a physically limited common. They should in turn operate as common carriers.
Do they lean left, or is it that reality has a well known liberal bias?
That’s really not how we design modern jet fighters. Air combat involves a huge number of tradeoffs and ejecting is now the correct response to a wide range of issues. For example, the F-35 so engine so engine failure is likely to result in a lost aircraft.

It’s basically been decided that we are going to spend silly money keeping a small number of absolutely cutting edge aircraft flying rather than thousands if not tens of thousands of of likely more efficient but less capable possibly drone aircraft.

PS: To be clear it’s possible their making the correct choice. I personally doubt it, but I don’t have access to the kind of classified documents to justify things in one way or another. An effective labor weapon for example might render vastly cheaper drone fleets ineffective.
Crying "whataboutism" is just a meme-y way to shutdown claims of hypocrisy.

Husband: Two glasses of white wine in one night honey? You need to cut back for your health's sake

Wife: But dear, you drink a handle of vodka every night and have refused any attempts at intervention.

Husband: A-ha, classic whataboutism

edit: I'd love to respond to the people below me, but HN has decided that one post an hour is too much (despite having a 10 year old account and 4000+ karma)
This is a ridiculous argument; blackmailers can and routinely do blackmail people over matters that are legal but embarrassing. This could have happened in any country. Similar things do occur in every country.
Not an attorney, but I've read all the briefs in the case (you can too at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/parler-llc-v-a...).

Count 1 (antitrust) fails because you need to actually allege a conspiracy, not just say "Twitter is also a customer of AWS!" I mean, I immediately realized it was deficient on their initial brief, because they didn't even back up enough evidence to satisfy their own citations, let alone explain how they can pass the big citation they conveniently omit (Twombly).

Counts 2 and 3 fail because the gravamen is that AWS violated its own contract by not giving 30 days' notice. Ignoring the very next paragraph that says AWS can terminate with no notice. Their own response to that point in the reply brief was pitiful.

Actually, their response was so pitiful they tried a second reply brief (that's the "supplemental authority" brief) where they instead changed their argument to "this is our reading of the contract, and you have to endorse it because it's a contract of adhesion." Which instead comes across as "we totally missed that part in the contract, and now we're trying to legal fu our way out of not reading a contract." Changing your argument on the fly doesn't tend to go very well in the courts.

The quality of their legal briefs is not impressive, and when you're going up a large corporation with deep pockets and competent legal attorneys to defend themselves, you're going to have a very rough time of it.
Electric motors don't need a transmission. Adding a stick shift is just adding complexity for no benefit. It's more stuff to maintain and more parts to break and is going to make the car slower due to parasitic losses and inefficiencies.

If you're shooting for 200kph+ speeds there might be a time where a simple high/low transmission may be helpful, but that's supercar territory.

Interestingly, Formula E cars have a 5 speed gearbox, but mostly because the rules says they have to.
ZeroTier is L2 while WireGuard is L3. That's a HUGE difference between the two. Unless TailScale is doing VXLAN over WireGuard or something fishy to move L2 around.
IANAL and I'm not saying I disagree with your conclusion, but I do think the case is more interesting than just AWS booting a malicious customer (with regards to their TOS).

> there's the fact that AWS doesn't host Twitter's feed

This is funny (as in, LOL funny) to point out because it makes parler seem completely inept, but it's only technically correct.

They just negotiated a fat contract to host twitter, and that's set to go live in the next few months. Can that really not be considered an endorsement of twitter's content with respect to AWS' ToS? It's not like twitter just signed up for an AWS account like the rest of us do. There was a bidding and negotiation process. Sales teams on both sides worked on that contract. I don't think it's so unreasonable to take the existence of that contract as evidence that AWS reviewed twitter's content and deemed it acceptable content.

Why does this matter? Legally, I don't think it does. I don't see any good reason why AWS shouldn't be allowed to selectively enforce their ToS.

But Parler sought to compete directly with twitter. At the time of account termination, they were growing at a rate of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of users per day, and in a way where it's not hard to imagine it being zero-sum (twitter users terminating their accounts and going to parler).

I don't think the case would succeed, but I do think that parler can make an interesting case about AWS picking a winner and damaging a loser.
Probably via a SPAC and promoted by WSB memes. $10T TAM identified
Spoiler: the post boils down to an anti-Bitcoin warning using the old motto “it’s not real money” because you can’t pay your taxes with it. I can’t pay my taxes in Yen but that doesn’t mean Yen isn’t real money.

This is an example of a tech person extrapolating their expertise outside tech. Bitcoin is an experiment in economics as much as it’s an experiment in technology. Just because the network is slow to process transactions doesn’t mean the entire system is worthless.

The first 90% of the article isn’t bad, but IMO author didn’t really backup his claims.
This week the European Parliament discussed EU Rail connectivity
Even better if you use their Web interface, you'll reply with the same email alias that received the email.
But what if your peak energy is later in the day?
"x more than y" means "y + x" - a sum. "x% more than y" means "y + x% = y + y×(x÷100)" and "x% less than y" means "y - x% = y - y×(x÷100)".

To me, "x times more than y" means the same as "x times as much as y" only "y×x" and "x times less than y" means "y÷x". I guess this might seem ambiguous if you bracket the expression like "x times (more than) y", but in practice it's bracketed like "x (times more than) y".

(Native American English speaker)
That kind of positions are usually filled by H1 B contractors - primarily from smaller consulting companies. Usually Intel and other companies pay ~100-125 per hour but then the middlemen keep the rest.