skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mass media needs the fairness doctrine back to take the carnival show out of the news. Social media is no exception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine ("The fairness doctrine had two basic elements: It required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest, and to air contrasting views regarding those matters. Stations were given wide latitude as to how to provide contrasting views: It could be done through news segments, public affairs shows, or editorials. The doctrine did not require equal time for opposing views but required that contrasting viewpoints be presented.").

I would love to see MSNBC airing opposing viewpoints on controversial issues. They could have someone on to explain that Obama was putting undocumented immigrant children in cages, defend Hobby Lobby, etc.
> Most Americans agree that viewing everything from an identity lens is wrong

Interestingly, it seems especially clear that Black and Indingeous leaders are especially skeptical of identity politics.

(at least this is my experience; I'm white.)

Get involved in mutual aid or mobilization for your local BLM / defund the police actions. I'll be surprised if this doesn't comport with your experience.

And yet...
No, the "half" aspect of the measure is the fact they didn't even try to protect small landlords. These laws were not passed by socialists, so the argument that "landlording shouldn't exist anyway" doesn't apply. It never made sense from day 1.
What Ever Happened to Daniel Dale? CNN Fact-Checker Has Disappeared From Air Post-Trump

https://www.mediaite.com/news/what-ever-happened-to-daniel-d...

Since joining CNN in June of 2019, Dale has appeared or been mentioned on the network more than once every other day on average, according to the Internet Archive.

That exposure dropped sharply after November 4, and according to the TV Eyes media monitoring database, since President Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, Dale has only appeared on the network once. And that appearance, last Friday, was to fact-check Donald Trump’s lawyers.
You missed my point. I said nothing about avoiding these chemicals. My comment was around claiming a connection with no supported data.

No, I don’t put much weight on anecdotal and circumstantial evidence. If we’re going to “follow the science” then it needs to be well supported science, no some person’s claim how they feel better after avoiding some perceived toxin.
> So much of the official government response has been to support entrenched wealth.

There is a word that describes this kind of merger of corporate and government power, I just don't seem to remember it.
> makes this mostly irrelevant

Solving a problem isn't irrelevant just because there are other problems; there's definitely more to do, but this still has value.
Strongly agree. In the last three years I've rebuilt my macOS laptop from scratch twice (dead hard drive, and a dev tool run amok), and once swapped it for a different size because I really wanted the larger battery.

My co-workers were appalled, but I had less than a day of downtime each time. With continuous backup to an external drive (always on while I'm working), a password manager I can also store certs in, and keeping everything important in a cloud-backed git repo, there isn't a single thing on my work computer that's hard to replace. It's been fantastic.
If that happens you're worried about Bitcoin? lol

Besides, the algorithm in question here is Shor's algorithm, it WILL be used to break some basic encryption. If Satoshi is dead, his coins will be hacked (they are old P2PK outputs). But there is no algorithm for breaking P2SH outputs (eg Native Segwit wallets). There could be, but Bitcoin has the ability to adapt if necessary. Bitcoin is not a static thing.

See also : https://www2.deloitte.com/nl/nl/pages/innovatie/artikelen/qu...

More importantly, quantum computers actually allow for something better than encryption. If you are having a secret conversation over the quantum internet, not only can no one listen in, BUT you will KNOW if they are listening. I read about this in David Deutsch's "Fabric of Reality," which I HIGHLY recommend and is freely available on archive.org
https://archive.org/details/TheFabricOfReality/page/n1/mode/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography#Mistrustf...
It seems the core issue of your anecdotal case is that the people you see as being victims here are seen as harassers / antagonists by others. So the direction then goes from "don't harass" to "don't engage with people targeting you".

I'm disappointed but unsurprised that this becomes the focus of the conversation rather than the core purpose, which is to prevent harassment generally. Unless you're coming with stats (not anecdotes that are potentially actually about harassers) that show that the claims in the article about who is most targeted for abuse, you're both creating division and distracting from those who are in need of more help, for what?
I would characterize the biggest difference is that Chinese people are actually aware they are being massively censored, while Americans think they have no censorship.
No, just vibes.

But I know it's something many others have observed too - it's not like I'm inventing this out of nothing.
The moral basis is the tenancy contract signed by the tenant and landlord-unless you believe contracts should not be enforceable.
They all have very few legitimate users, and are frequently used by email spammers (typically because registrars have offered the domains at a steep discount or entirely free for the first year).
Buyers don't purchase properties that have been taken over by squatters that can't be removed.

At least not at market prices.
I don’t see what a political perspective provides here. It’s not like you don’t have a choice in consumer tech, unless there are strong networking affects play.
Fossil: Rebase Considered Harmful
"On September 4, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a national eviction moratorium that is currently set to expire at the end of March."

The CDC issued a moratorium?

"Won says her tenant owes her more than $80,000 in back rent. ... But we did find that the father in the family is currently employed in the construction industry, and that the tenants are renting a second apartment in a house in Queens Village, where they've also stopped paying rent and owe $12,000 to the couple that owns the house, who are also Chinese immigrants."

So they're renting two apartments and not paying for either?

It's weird that Reason didn't manage to contact any of the renters. I wonder how much effort they put in? Or I wonder if it is a hit-piece?
4 trailers on one truck sounds insane[1]. I wouldn't get close to the triples in Oregon, and it's not dusty.

[1] But must make a lot of economic sense.
No amount of "working at it" is going to make you $80k as any restaurant employee.
The efficiency of a heat pump heating a home depends on the temperature outside of the home. I imagine a gas furnace is far more reliable and efficient during times when the outside temperatures are near or below freezing.
> Prepaid cards are for making one-time payments. They are not suitable for setting up ongoing subscriptions

Why? Because from the point of the view of the customer, they are the best fit for that purpose.
Capacity as relates to e.g. lung capacity - many people can grow their lung capacity and run or bike long distances, but many can't and don't.

So yeah, people can lack mental capacity without being stupid. They are nevertheless extremely uninteresting people who can't fathom, much like cattle, how they are being harvested.
See this effort: https://linuxfoundation.org/en/press-release/darpa-and-the-l...
That’s also one of my favorite examples, but for sentimental reasons: it was the first time I met Shan Carter, who came to my talk on D3’s force layout. This eventually led to me working for The New York Times, and then some years later, Shan joining me at Observable.
Because that is how capitalism
works in practice, and that’s where the true wealth comes from on the internet: sociopathic detachment.
Huh? Gamestop doesn't have a "new found war chest", because it didn't take advantage of the speculative mania surrounding its stock.
Well if its meant to be used as p2p cash but can not be used in this manner since many years that ticks all the boxes for me to call it failed. but you are entitled to your own opinion on this.

BCH solves nothing, the larger block size may allows some more Tx but you still have 10min block times and then wait for however many confirmation blocks you want. Not exactly how I imagine p2p cash is supposed to work.
and if the throughput would reach the new max with the new block size it would suffer exploding fees just like the "main" bitcoin. It does not scale better it just has a higher limit not one that would allow any meaningful throughput to use it as a global p2p cash system. no one has it to use it as p2p cash. Everyone has it to sell it for profit later on.
There is a difference between advertisement and mandated government legislation that forces businesses to pay for links. Google still uses organic search, it simply places clearly marked ads in obvious places. If they embedded search results with hidden ads, that would be another story,
You can still install 3rd party apps on Android without unlocking the phone - this should be enough for general public open computing, this gives you access to KODI, ZeroNet, I2P etc.., all the stuff that the article talks about.
Most buyers factor in Rent Control when buying the building, and so many end up using the Ellis Act (in CA) to get rid of the tenants.

We are not talking about naive buyers anymore who are blindsided by rent control.

Rent Control might be the only reason some middle class investors can afford to become landlords? Most rich guys don’t want the hassle of an Ellis Act eviction.

They just build luxury condos that only rich people can afford. (My world is San Francisco. In a more fair world, no one should tell a man what he can do with his property, but the world is not fair. Poor people don’t get many breaks.)

While I’m on my box—Sausalito is feverishly trying trying to rid Richardson Bay of Anchor-outs using underhanded tactics. They are targeting the poor people as usual. The only bright side is the victims moved to Dunphy Park because they didn’t know where to go. Sausalito tried to remove them, but someone filed a temporary restraining order with the courts.)
"Tone policing" was the rationale behind Linux Foundation kicking out of Charles Max Wood from their conference.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484347
Has this article been discussed here before? I could have sworn I recall seeing this article maybe a week or two ago on the front page but I can’t find a past thread with any activity.
Go Proposal: Optional SIV
How does this work? Do you consume your Twitter feed through Twitter or through blockparty?
> Wait, so because you are running proprietary software (games) and it puts restrictions, you refuse the whole platform? This makes no sense.

It doesn't make sense indeed because I am not saying that. I am saying that most software running on these platforms is proprietary and at least a part of it is malicious. I think we were discussing the merits of the various platforms plus what most usual folk uses them for. If not, then my mistake.

We're quite free to assemble any PC we like and install Linux on it. At least we have that still.
In general a new feature should have its home in one service and make calls to the existing network APIs of other services. If you’re regularly having to change the innards of those services to support new use cases, you have serious architecture debt.
If the landlord is literally just collecting rent and doing nothing to maintain the property and not taking on associated risks and responsibilities (liability for injury and catastrophic failures like electrical fires; having to pay, primarily, state and local taxes on the property), then sure, there's absolutely nothing good about rent.

But most rents are not executed in that manner. The owner of the property is still responsible for maintaining it, is responsible for repairs if the tenant breaks something and bails, is responsible to the government for the property taxes, is responsible to the bank (or other lender) for the mortgage, is responsible for the safety of the parties inside the house, and so on. It's not a "Hey, fuck you little guy you owe me $1000/month and I don't care that you have no running water and that the lights spark when you flip that switch." situation.
So cancel mortgages as well as rent, for landlords with below some threshold of total property value.

Too-big-to-fail banks eat some temporary losses, small landlords don't lose their shirts, and rent still gets effectively canceled.
I agree. I added a bit describing how whining about government censorship is pointless so long as we support centralized social media, which is the real problem here. It is hypocritical for HN to cheer on censorship by Twitter and Big Tech while upvoting this article.

The fundamental problem here, underlying both Chinese and American censorship/surveillance, is that we have willingly handed control of the public square over to an entity beholden to one that does not have our best interests in mind.

So long as we let the public square rest in the hands of these entities, democracy will slowly slip from our hands, one ban and censor at a time.

You can’t blame China or ByteDance or Twitter or the NSA for this sort of thing. The natural state of governments and corporations is vying for more power and wealth at all costs, democracy be damned. The blame rests on us, the people, for trusting corporations with our speech.
I'm always annoyed by articles like this which never include a link to the actual web/app that's being discussed. I see many Wired articles do the same thing.

Is there some publishing rule against providing a link to the website/app that's being discussed?
Lots of dead bodies in this camp going back years. I used to be one myself. At this point if the ny ag can’t outright bring this supposed scam down then you have to admit it’s not a scam and move on.
Thanks a lot for the feedback!

“trying to collect a dozen customers.”

That was plan for next few days/weeks :D. I have great vision with Automatio, and its not money driven (that will come alongway).

Yeah, we are building it for last ~4 years, and I know what you are saying. We are to long into development, which is 100% true. But due life happening, and push you and drag you here and there, then hit you and punch, here we are. And I decided to go hardway, even we could get some $$ pumped in. But I believed that we can make it without sharing the equity or real goals of Automatio.
well anything that takes untrusted input that might need to be validated with parsing is a massive security hole. Parsing generators don't fix this class of bug, they just change how it manifests.
If the founder created the product based on their own online experiences and they happen to be an Asian woman it makes complete sense she would talk about the product from that perspective...

Do you really find it surprising a lot of online harassment is targeted towards women and minorities? And is it abrasive to point that out?
Investing in real estate is like investing in anything else: you're taking a risk and you can, in fact, lose money. Sounds like some of these landlords were irresponsible and didn't understand that before staking all their capital
It's not exaggerating at all, but city councils typically aren't full of Marxists.
Haha, thanks man!
Early on, twitter seemed to be aiming for a much more open ecosystem with an eventual range of 3rd party clients and such. If twitter was an open protocol, instead of a company, it probably would have that.

I suspect that an as open protocol, it would be withstanding the current political problems of social media much better. Wikipedia, rss podcasts, the www, email... these are all pretty unscathed relative to twitter or fb. A lot of this comes down to user control.

Building on twitter or fb's platform isn't good enough. We badly need these networks to be displaced by open protocols. I suspect it's too late though. FB is already a too big to fail, economically. Ironic, considering their whole function could be filled bu a non-company or companies several order of magnitudes smaller.

Whether your problem is too much abuse or too much canceling, your problem is protocol squatters like fb and twitter. You have far fewer of these problems in your podcast feed, email, on wikipedia or whatever. It's not that culture problems don't exist. They exist everywhere, but the protocols don't amplify them like platforms do.
There are plenty of investments that are much more conservative than taking out a loan to buy real estate. Most of them don't even come with mortgage payments.
> What is the actual purpose of buying BTC?

$$$$$$$$
I was worried until I noticed the words "Hard Drive" in the title.
As a kid who grew up around the Great Lakes and lived for many adult years there, a later in life move out to the West gave me an opportunity to simply drive a couple of hours to San Francisco and explore this amazing city. My first stop was City Lights bookstore, and I was thrilled (and still am) to say I've set foot in the place. Think of it this way - this bookstore predates almost the entire computer industry that most of us here are a part of and take for granted. Amazing.
> Landlordism should not exist.

So, if I own an apartment / house / room, I can't go and have a contract with another person willing to take on that contract and live in my place by the agreed rules beforehand?
Under-the-hood of Web bundlers (e.g. Webpack)
Frugal? Interesting.

Let us closely examine the text.

>Take Won, a Chinese immigrant landlord who asked that we only use her last name. She owns a two-family house in Queens and works as a home health aide caring for an elderly couple. Her husband is a waiter at a restaurant in Manhattan's Chinatown, though he's barely been able to work since the pandemic began. Won says her tenant owes her more than $80,000 in back rent. "I just want the government to open the court," she tells Reason.

She owns a house in New York City. To put it mildly, NYC real estate is not cheap. How did she do it? Cash transaction? Is it mortgaged? Those are two very different types of ownership... but Reason makes no distinction between the two. Why? If she was on the hook for a mortgage payment, surely they would have brought it up, since it would have made her case much better. But they didn't.

The tenants owe $80,000 over a year? $6,666 a month? How big is this house? When did Won buy it? How much did she pay?

It would be two very different stories if Won had bought the place in 1970 for ten grand, versus a $2 million straw buy for a PRC upper party member. Reason doesn't want to tell us which, because it is an explicitly ideological publication, funded to promote a specific view of the world. I don't blame Reason for wanting to be the NYT of Libertarianism, but you do need to apply a degree of critical thinking to what they say.

There is absolutely zero chance a home health aide bought a house in New York City by "being frugal" any time in the 21st century. Either she bought it many decades ago, or the money came from somewhere else.
>We have divided up the land

If you dig just a little deeper into precisely how this was done, it gets extremely ugly very fast.

The only real argument for not resetting an inequitable distribution of land ownership is that the owners of unearned privilege have a habit of defending that privilege with extreme violence.

The US invasion of Cuba subsequent to their land redistribution was one example of this.
The link is just a link to https://www.imore.com/m1-mac-users-report-alarming-hard-driv...
The article is nonsense, like any of the HN apologist arguments about Fukushima:

- There was actual radiation risk to Tokyo - some idiot decided to store irradiated materials from Fukushima above ground in the port near Tokyo

- millions of gallons of irradiated water were pumped into the ocean. Who knows where it went.

- the 250,000 evacuees had their lives disrupted, with many spending their last days in school gyms.

- the Japanese army was mobilized to work on the disaster. Who's paying for that?
> Because from the point of the view of the customer

From the point of view of a legitimate customer who intends to pay for a service, a prepaid card is a poor fit for an ongoing subscription, as it will stop working unpredictably when its funds are exhausted (causing it to start rejecting all charges).

Optimizing for customers who intend to ditch a service without paying for it is not a goal.
Yes, early adopters will be invited to private Slack channel and will have direct support of me and the team. I am there for chats and live calls, to help people with any issue they encounter.
Your reading of this article is dramatically different from my own.

- No "shadowy elites", these are big, well-known companies driving market trends is broad daylight.

- Is it controversial to suggest that only a small portion of people are worked up about digital freedom? That seems self-evident to me.

- Nowhere in the article does the author suggest anyone be forced to host anything (let alone butthole photos) -- if anything, he advocates the opposite: that users be empowered to host their own sites!
That attitude is catching on in America. The censorship and consent apparatus is more privatized and not officially backed by state power (but see threats from politicians to tech companies to remove “disinformation” “or else”) but most people just put their heads down and toe the “official” line. You might even put on a little show about how woke you are to prove your loyalty. Such acting is common in all regimes.

This happens in every society. There is an official ideology and whether through central direction or self-organizing systems, that ideology is enforced. Occasional periods of lighter repression (when the official ideology is something like classical or Rawlsian liberalism) end up just being openings for more assertive ideologies to take control. America recently exited such a period.
Very few large organisations, and zero distributed ones like a collection of multiple government departments, can turn around a massive collection of security fixes in 2 weeks.

I believe Google's Security team usually gives vendors 90 days before they go public.
It has: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192988

(You have a good memory!)
There is another non-trivial advantage of natural gas. Energy losses from sending it over pipes are smaller that electricity losses in transmission lines, https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=76881
Yeah I don't get it. I submitted it last week but it got no attention. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26190172 )

It's a really eye-opening article because everybody does Trust & Safety differently and in ByteDance's case there appears to be a huge divide between how US and Chinese users are treated.
So far, but how far... you should ask yourself. Businesses make decision in light of the current reality. So far Microsoft has had to deal with devs using open source stack on Mac due to things like Homebrew, forcing them to incorporate a whole Linux distro into their OS to keep devs there. So as long as you can keep open source going, you can hold the gates. But question is how long... indefinitely? As the market grows there is room but when the market shrinks and has maturity how much room will be left. And general network effects of the cloud are already felt all over the place, like a document produced on a pc hardly ever stays on the PC it ends up on Google Mail, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, etc. There is no privacy and basically at this point is a joke.