skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Less than one might hope, in general:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#UMBRAGE

Even HN has torn a few of the analyses apart, e.g. when the auditors looked at Bezos' phone and claimed that a file from MBS might be malicious, HN called them out on the claims that it couldn't be decrypted:

https://github.com/ddz/whatsapp-media-decrypt

Given that their entire analysis hinged on this one file being a malicious executable that couldn't be decrypted, well... suffice it to say I'm quite mistrustful of these things, especially when politics is involved.
I want to believe in dweb too, but I've been around since the truly distributed days of email/ftp/nntp/gopher and the birth of the web, and while I believe in open protocols, no distributed system has outcompeted a centralized one in terms of practical value to users. Even email, the most powerful protocol of them all, still requires hosting, people are never going to run their own email servers at scale. So inevitably you have centralized nodes, and at some point economies of scale kick in and there is a qualitative difference once consolidation achieves a certain critical mass. For instance, it's now very hard to run your own email server even if you want to, because if you get blacklisted by Gmail as a small operator you are unable to interact with a huge percentage of humans, with essentially no recourse.

Again, I truly want to be inspired here and will work to suppress my cynicism if you can just tell me why you think dweb will be different from Indie Web, Mastodon, or App.net.
You ever heard of Carbon based life? Guess where the carbon comes from. It's 100% converted into solid mass.
How do they know that all the contributors to your project consent to this usage? How do they know that the project you're hosting is actually your own and that it's only using code written by people who permit this. This seems like a legal disaster. Leave it to Microsoft to do something like this. No wonder they "love" open source.
How can an endpoint, no matter how large that endpoint is, be considered to be a common carrier?

Justice Thomas is hardly a reliable source for making it so.
We're running up towards "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." and it is appropriate.

It isn't wrong to replace a human with a machine, I'm not going after calculators, spreadsheets, or farm machinery.

What is to come though is a moral imperative that making machines mimic people is deeply wrong.

Our worldviews, values, and judgements are based on interacting with other humans and to have that set of long-tuned intelligence modeling of minds around us subverted by a computer model will bring out strong objections and eventually violence.

The science fiction writers had it wrong, the first conflict with machines isn't going to happen with an advanced artificial intelligence, it is going to be against naive misbehavior and trickery much like this, especially when the artifice comes into the real world (first iteration: self-driving cars). Semi-religious anti-machine fanatics will be the first wave with terrorist style attacks on machines ... that is if the sane moderates don't do enough to rein in the coming of the artificials first. Wait for a smoking gun event like a car driving itself into a gathering of schoolchildren to get things started.
But something like gofmt is valuable. If you're removing unused imports and similar with every time you write source to disk, you gain a ton of benefits (especially in VCS history).

Otherwise, totally, coding standards and so forth are just bike shedding.
Does the node need bulk write speeds? or does it need fast IO ops per second?
It is still cheaper to set up a server or pay someone to do it, than buy actual land to live on.
A planet killer won't hit the Earth without 3-5 near misses first. Plenty of opportunity to paint it.
"The bill would require the [Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy] to retain a California based nonprofit entity as a third-party administrator to manage the development, acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of the broadband network, and to submit annually a report to the budget committees of the Legislature on the broadband network, as specified"

(text from the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...)
People calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government is not a "protected class." Plotting an overthrow is not political ideology. Demagoguery pandering to the ignorant and uneducated should not be a protected class. All of this applies equally to Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Peace and Freedom, Green Party, etc. By the way, I personally am 100% independent, I think all political parties are pretty idiotic. Just saying.

But, to bring it full circle, I don't think that someone selling socks or underwear on Twilio is going to be banned. When that happens, ok.

Furthermore, I know people believe in freedom of expression, and more or less capitalism. I know the Republican Party members side pretty heavily with the cake maker that refused to make cakes for gay weddings, or Catholic hospitals that refuse to offer birth control pills or abortions. But for some reason, when a privately owned company like Twillio, or Facebook, or whomever wants to limit their customer base, it's always a different story, then. For me, yes. For you, no.
Google bug causes an editor to receive death threats
For those interested, I found this blog post explaining the tech stack and engineering of the app: https://pketh.org/how-kinopio-is-made.html
Show HN: A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation
You woefully undershoot the position of power that juries hold, and this is no surprise
The judicial system frowns on those who understand the concept of jury nullification.

The jury is the People's seat and primary check on the exercise of Governmental power. It's one more layer to the overall setup of checks and balances.
That's an interesting point. However, I wonder if there are extra costs to serve a request from Australia to the US (there are definitely extra costs but I wonder if either the user or server pay them). If these costs are exposed to either of the ends, then it might be cost effective to create something that serve requests from local caches.
I think that is a fair question to ask but I don't agree with your conclusions.

You are essentially asking why bother investigating and forming opinions and value judgements on the the use of new technology. Humans use opinions and values to decide how they want to interact with the outside world. Even if the technology exists and no living are harmed, people can find it distasteful. people can decide not to support what they find distasteful. They can decide to voice support actors unions if the issue ever comes up. They can tell their friends and family how they would like their likeness used as these technologies become more prevalent.
I'm just done with Amazon. Haven't bought anything from them in at least a year. Between the counterfeits and their unwillingness to address that problem or the fake reviews, they are just not trustworthy.

Had they moved quickly and decisively I probably would have given them another chance.
> Without its more annoying bits, Full Throttle would offer little more than two hours of entertainment.

I think I spent weeks trying to finish Full Throttle. Two hours?! How do these people play through these games so rapidly?
There were three people involved in that exchange, not two, assuming nobody's using multiple aliases...

crdrost described their vision problems, jbluepolarbear said "you have astigmatism", techrat popped in and said "[I have] no astigmatism" and jbluepolarbear made a more general statement that most people do.

I'd assume techrat doesn't know anything about crdrost's vision either.
This policy does not apply to private files. I just want to point out based on your comment that none of what you mentioned matters unless you share the document publicly.
What do you mean by bottom turtle?
Chubby itself needs something like Paxos for state replication.
Ok Youtube for example has had a longstanding policy of removing videos using music clips without the rights (I assume proactively, not just in response to DMA notices). This is essentially an automatic mechanism, possibly overly aggressive, to stay within the law- find unlicensed music and silence the video. But like stopping me from infringing on a Metallica song is clearly categorically different from actually censoring a video about Coronavirus that doesn’t comform to some standard or is accused of spreading misinformation.
Impressive tech given you only started recently!
Check out the whole-food, plant based diet:
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzheimers-and-atherosclero...

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-alzheimers-gene-control...

Credentials of research scientist behind the whole-food, plant based diet: https://wfpb-wolf.netlify.app/maturity.html
The best, safest, fastest way to use the blockchain is to not.
If anyone was curious about GPT-3, which draws on zero of this work but is remarkably intelligent nevertheless, Mitchell has access and has found that (when used correctly https://twitter.com/MelMitchell1/status/1285270704313610241) that it solves a surprising number of Copycat analogies: https://medium.com/@melaniemitchell.me/can-gpt-3-make-analog...

More amusing is a comparison with a 5yo human child: https://twitter.com/lacker/status/1294341796831477761

A pity that she didn't mention any of that, it's pretty interesting.
Why can't I expect from a company that they give me the tools I want, if I give them money?

"Designing the desktop" is also just aranging icons. That works since decades.
Ethereum will be irrelevant by 2030

BitCoin already solved these
I think more than one person has confused you with the person a couple levels up thread, i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27859324
Is the codec and container available in MrMC or Infuse?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/infuse-7/id1136220934

Video: 3GP AVI ASF BDMV DIVX DVDMEDIA DVR-MS FLV ISO/IMG M2TS M4V MKV MOV MP4 MPEG MTS MXF OGM OGV TS VIDEO_TS WEBM WMV WTV

I’d be curious what it is, if not. VLC is missing codecs on Windows store too:

https://itigic.com/normal-vlc-vs-microsoft-store-vlc-differe...
The referenced FAQ doesn’t say that google workspace paid accounts are exempt from this policy…
> is passing laws on the state level right now to forbid teachers from teaching history that doesn’t conform to it’s world view

That’s one version of the story. The other version is that teachers under direction from their union (NEA) are teaching unfactual revisionist history (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-proje...), mixed with a near-religious activist ideology (https://areomagazine.com/2019/01/25/the-theory-of-white-frag...), and corrupting education by converting schools into political indoctrination centers.

The easiest answer for all these problems is decentralization and choice. Google and other tech companies are effectively governments. They hold power and influence over billions, are insulated from competition by network effects, and also regularly act in monopolistic ways. They need to be broken up and regulated.
I think it evens out though because of a lot of early people with lots of bitcoin just lost interest and lost the wallet. This was sadly the case for me as well as a few other people i know.

By time eth came out though everyone was much better about backing up wallets you thought would be worth nothing.
yup - he/she will be in custody by monday
It'll be scary the day Google develops an API for this and any where you go it follows you. You'll no longer be able to store documents that Google doesn't see fit, they'll simply get auto-censored. What if Apple developed a similar API and embedded into Mac OS, just like auto-complete that works on any input box, "auto-censor" makes sure you're not going out of line as you type sentences and paragraphs.
The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds
Man those ellipses are doing a lot of work in your quote.
Very unfortunate. They could easily have done something which I think would have been more touching like have his friends, family, or lovers read the text, instead. I haven't seen the documentary (not sure I will now), but I feel like that would have been more emotive.
> if either the user or server pay them

Most of the big operators have peering agreements in place, but that doesn't mean every participant has infinite bandwidth. Google Global Cache and Netflix Open Appliance go a long way to reducing costs by avoiding interconnect where possible.
I've found the businesses I work with are very happy when I say I can get it to them by Monday. I often say this even when I know it will only take me an hour and it's Tuesday. Haven't had any issues.
https://news.ycombinator.com/ask
Not everybody is looking for that resume padding type of job where they bounce from job to job trying not to look stale. In the past, it used to look bad having such short stints on a your resume as it meant you weren't the most stable employee. Now, it's the opposite and your resume has to look like it has ADHD with any stint lasting longer than 18 months being a negative. (maybe a bit hyperbolic).

On a less sarcastic vein, some people find a job that they really like and enjoy. The pay may not be as much as somewhere else, but a satisfying job that is stable and provides for ones needs seems to be a concept lost in the tech (silicon valley) world. It's all about rocketships to the moon type of salary wants. If I found a gig like that sending manmade thing to another planet/moon that ultimately advanced human understanding, I'd definitely be willing to retire in that role. In today's world, there are plenty of other side hustles to help offset income needs. I'm a survey of 1 though.
So happy we have companies like Google doing moral arbitration versus companies like Walmart/Newscorp doing this. Wait till round two of Idiocracy capitalism, we will miss these days.
People keep bringing this up, and the question you need to ask is why would anyone other than miners choose the non-fork chain? The fork will happen as long as one person is willing to mine it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
According USCIS website, it is still 500K[1].

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent...
> According to the Supreme Court, those companies have the same first amendment rights that you do.

No, those companies don't have first amendment rights. Commercial speech has always been more limited than personal speech. If the law worked like you claim, common carrier laws for railroads would be unconstitutional because they'd violate railroad company freedom of association. These laws are, in fact, constitutional, and so will be the laws that stop big tech censorship.

Besides: corporations? Rights? Total bullshit. This country ought to be run for the benefit of its citizens, not abstract entities like big tech companies. A corporation is an artificial construct that can exist only because society --- made up of humans --- determines that the corporation is in society's best interest. When a corporation is no longer in the best interest of the humans that make up the world, screw the corporation.
For a news source that does care and have the resources to implement GDPR compliance.
> They replaced it with iCloud.

iCloud storage is currently just a syncing service, not an incremental backup service like Time Machine. So why doesn't Apple let you point Time Machine at an iCloud drive? Nobody knows! It makes no sense.

If Apple let you point Time Machine at an iCloud drive for a small monthly fee, they would get millions of new signups overnight.
I did see your comment and I appreciate you leaving it. I didn't reply immediately because I had hoped to do something more meaningful with it than just say "Thank you" but that seems to not be gelling.

So this is me saying "Thank you."
You surely learned from the experience. It’s good to throw things away. Also it can’t all be bad? At the very least you understand the problem space better now and like any good researcher you now know a path that does not work . Code whatever it’s like a puzzle maz… you have infinite doors to choose from and you have to pick paths to put the puzzle together… now you know a path with some bricks that sucks in at least enough ways to have you deciding to seriously consider choosing a different door that no doubt will also have crappy trade offs…. All software is trash pile of one trade off vs another
>All our legal protections ultimately depend on a democratic foundation -- undo that with misinformation and you don't have anything anymore.

No, they don't. They have never depended on an entity deciding what information should be disseminated and what information should not be.

This move isn't any different than AT&T or the one guy with a Gutenberg Press in your region deciding what you can and cannot read.

Our legal protections depend on the citizens and the government adhering to them.
Hypermc is an open source minecraft mod manager! You click ONE button and the mod is installed! Check it out! Maybe even leave a star!
A linear circuit is one which obeys the superposition principle. Its easer to analyze under frequency domain for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_circuit
very common in Asian Countries.
How Kinopio Is Made
Circle – The C++ Automation Language
This seems to be projecting a human trait that is itself obsolete to us unto civilizations that share no common culture or genetics and are leagues ahead of us technologically speaking. Not to mention the age of exploration was driven by economics. Seems foolish to me.
BorgMaster had its own consensus protocol prior to paxos lib. It was switched to paxos in 2010? (Don't quote me on this)

Chubby uses paxos. Iirc, the history is that Chubby comes first, then it's paxos code got pulled out into paxos lib, which proliferate inside Google.

And yes, Google had no other choice than Paxos at its days.
WOW~!
> If we agree that an adult should be able to easily make more than that, why would you allow businesses to pay less?

Why do you imagine it is up to us to allow or disallow what agreements two adults make between themselves? I expect people to know better than I do what level of income they require to live in a lifestyle they prefer and to figure out how to get that income for themselves. It is not for me to dictate that to them, nor is it for you.

> Your position is incoherent. Raising the minimum wage would hurt workers by taking away jobs, while at the same time nobody is paid the minimum wage because labor is demanding better pay. Which is it?

Yes, it is incoherent if you so thoroughly misunderstand it. I never said nobody is paid minimum wage. I said that we could make it so nobody was paid minimum wage, if we focused on creating jobs that do more valuable work, instead of agitating to force employers to overpay for less valuable work.
THe basis of this is that future computing will outclass general purpose computers such that they aren't useful.

Moore's law is reaching the end. We are already at the point that most computers from 10 years ago are perfectly adequate.

If this were the situation in 1998 before the Gigahertz wars, then we'd be in trouble.
Meanwhile, reading this on planet earth every few paragraphs is interrupted by an ad for a groin / body hair trimmer.

Honestly, it puts things into perspective when considering the terror of the 'dark forest' hypothesis. If intelligent life is anything like us, they are just as stuck on the prosaic (arguing amongst themselves about invasive ads) as they are on the profound (ending other civs).
Ceramics and metals can "cross over" so to speak. Structurally distinct, but in the margins can share properties. They have a relationship. So it might pay not to fixate on the words implications. Chobham armour is a composite, and exploits the properties of different materials.
> Why can't I expect from a company that they give me the tools I want, if I give them money?

Well you could expect it but you probably wouldn’t like the price they quoted you.

To make the price realistic they have to design something which works reasonably well for millions of people, not perfectly for one person.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fakespot-fake...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fakespot-fake-amaz...
"The Tower Magazine is a monthly, pro-Israel magazine devoted to long-form journalism about the Middle East"
You think it's a bad idea just because of logistics? Compared to other things the FBI does I don't understand why you think this would be unreasonable from a logistics standpoint
The same Whitehouse that is pushing tech companies to do this also said today that if you’re banned from one social media platform (for posting verboten material), then you should immediately be banned from all platforms.

This is third world authoritarianism, except they outsource the dirty work to the tech companies.

I know everybody hates playing the “If Trump did...” game, but come on! You all know exactly what the response would be to something like this and it’s the correct response.
His twitter is completely unhinged trying to attribute any change in a covid cases/deaths chart somehow to starting/stopping interest in IVM. No thanks!
> What happened to having specialized agencies regulate and inspect industries?

The whole point of free speech was not to have a government agency regulating and inspecting what you are allowed to say.
Website exposes L.A. County Fire employees’ Covid-19 vaccination details
EDIT:
i just read up on this. only the first time the static build is slow. later rebuilds are fast. just like every c/c++ program. the first time it has to build everything, all following times it only needs to rebuild the parts that changed.

this has already been explained, and i am only repeating it here for the casual HN reader, so they can follow along.

old comment, that makes no sense because getting a fast static build isn't even a problem. left here because that is what was responded to:

why do you need a static build after every change? isn't a dynamic one sufficient for testing?
The soundtrack to Full Throttle rules. At one point in the game, the radio plays a hilarious country song about a guy who loves living in the post-apocalypse.

The population is greatly decreased.
And now the odds are greatly increased,
that I may someday get a chance
to kiss your lips.
I thank the lo-o-ord each day
for the apocalypse.

Folks are mostly disfigured or dead,
but sugar, I wont let it go to my head.
My mama's face has dripped down into the dirt.

But I'm still chasin' chitlins, whiskey and skirt.

Here's the song on youtube: https://youtu.be/lnD82Xh3cts

During the pandemic lockdown, David Bowie's son Duncan Jones wrote a screenplay adaptation of Full Throttle:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ojb9zaplszjcp63/FULL THROTTLE -for all.pdf
What book is that? The account I'd seen is basically the same as what's quoted in the Wikipedia article, about concurrent creation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens#Development
All they do is pump inflation of the asset they're stable'd to.
That first story you linked to of insane.
White House: social media bans for misinformation should extend to all platforms