skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree - I think we've pushed the website metaphor a bit too far anyway. Let's compare it to a more similar application, the apt package manager. It's a reasonable to debate, but I think a legitimate position for Ubuntu or Debian to not include Gab in their main repository, but allow you to add it as a PPA if you want.
If Trump was re-elected tomorrow, do you want him to have these same powers? Do you trust your political opponents to use these same powers wisely?

Humans are terrible arbiters of truth. The Hunter Biden laptop story was censored and now it's been confirmed. Was that "good" censorship?

No man is fit to play the censor, regardless political party. Even Biden was anti-gay until the Obama administration and that was well past when many of us were arguing for LGBT acceptance and equality.
The vaccine manufacturers may be immune to lawsuits, but Adobe isn't.
The "ready to use" one with the 5 pin DIN connector/adapter was probably expensive.[1] Otherwise, he would have had to find an adapter or fiddle making one himself. And even that would require a cassette player with all the right jacks (mono in, mono out, remote). They didn't all have those.

[1] This thing: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hard...

Edit: An old ad...$59.95 Or $142 if inflation adjusted to 2021 from 1987.

http://www.trs-80.com/images/desc/desc-cat-rs-26-1208.jpg
is Probabilistic Programming the same thing as doing MCMC (Markov chain Monte Carlo)? How do these two ideas relate? Or is one a subset of the other?
Second part of your nickname is certainly true
Still a bit clunky but I self-host tubesync and it works pretty well:

https://github.com/meeb/tubesync
Why would it mean that? Slight differences in one thing can result in dramatic changes elsewhere.

How could you use "hygiene" to justify the unnecessary torture of animals with outdated butchery techniques? 2000 years ago there probably were great health reasons for doing so. We're in 2021, there's simply no excuse.
What lawsuits?
This exists currently. Many web browsers block third-party cookies. I say, let the developers develop as they must, let the users use as they must, and let us all be free to choose.

Personally, I find it very annoying that clients block these alt-right instances. It feels like a layering violation.
F-Droid doesn't need to be consistent or explain their desire to dissociate in any way (legally speaking).

So let's speculate: perhaps they agree with you that Facebook has abhorrent discourse but also felt that FB had some beneficial content as well so decided to not ban it not to mention it's popularity. Association with Gab clearly provided no such benefits.
> Which is clearly not true.

Huh? Pounding your fists on the table is not, you know, an argument. That not everything is deleted after 50 years is not proof that something can last permanently.

> In any case, toward the more general claim that this post is making, which I will summarize as "Authoritarian societies

That's a complete misunderstanding of the post, which contrasts traditional societies with liberal societies, by changing the subject to authoritarian societies. As if this was the only choice.

Authoritarian societies are not the opposite of liberal societies. In fact authoritarian societies -- e.g. communist and nazi societies or other societies in which individuals are micromanaged -- only came into existence in the 20th Century when the technology for mass micromanagement became possible. And whatever words you use to descibe authoritarian societies, "preserving tradition" is not one of them. These are big book burning, history-rewriting societies because they try to address the issue of social reproduction by the fist of centralized top-down control that monitors and micro-manages every aspect of life. Human beings are not compatible with that type of control, which is why authoritarian societies don't last very long -- the Russian czars lasted a thousand years whereas communism lasted only 70. And people were much more free under the czars than under communism, because the czars never tried to control every aspect of social life, and never needed to setup networks of gulags, or a vast secret police force, or party functionaries throwing people in prison for skipping work without a doctor's note.

There is the old saying "the right talks about authority, the left talks about control". For a society to be able to preserve knowledge, it must develop long lasting institutions and a culture that reveres the past and seeks to preserve it. Therefore while you need a cultural respect for authority, you cannot actually have a centralized system of social control. So you need basics like "honor your father and your mother" to be taught in churches and other civil institutions, but you cannot have a world in which political meetings decide which author is going to be erased from history today or whether so-and-so is allowed to attend university because their parents were class enemies.
& "(can you) describe (how) ..." is supposedly helpful too
I don’t get your argument? Other people fund evil so workers might as well do the same?
Technical founders who have decided to take on bizdev stuff in this role but know what they're talking about when it comes to the tech stack are an incredible asset. Nothing better than an ex-engineer as a COO/CEO/etc
Ask HN: How to preserve privacy while using smartphones?
I currently use an Apple phone, with a special camera covering case. That's pretty much my setup, plus opting out of anything that can be opted out. It's long bugged me that there is no way to manually disconnect the microphones. Looking into it there only appears to be the Linux based PinePhone that offers switches for disabling camera and microphones. While that's great, the rest of the phone isn't so much.

I'm a casual smartphone user. I don't want to put months into jailbreaking, tweaking, monitoring connections etc. I know though that both iOS and Android call home to transmit a bunch of private data. And now Apple is going to scan our data as well, ffs!

Basically I'm looking for a setup that would give me the best privacy with a quality phone (something similar to a modern iphone) and ease of use. Of course that's contradictory, but what would be the best compromise in your view? What is your own setup? I'm open to any suggestions and am even considering extreme solutions like getting rid of the smartphone altogether.
> What does gab have to do with "truth social"? From a skim of the article it doesn't look like they're related, aside from them both being right wing social media apps.

It's a proto-fascist/full-blown fascist political movement that advocates the subversion of free and democratic elections to install a dictatorship, not to mention the prevalence of racism in their views and policies.

Also, I feel that labeling this particular political movement as merely "right-wing" is a blatant attempt to white-wash extremist views and push for a "us-vs-them" mentality. What this particular political group advocates has absolutely nothing to do with the typical right-wing political tropes of fiscal conservatism, small government, individual freedom. In fact, some of the policies they advocate goes completely against some of these core right-wing values.
Yeah, I guess you have a point there. My R-Pi can't do video in the browser in even a remotely usable quality and that cost more than the Roku box I have.
Another former Facebook employee has filed a whistleblower complaint
> all political positions must be granted the same affordances regardless of their character

Sneaking in? That's my point, plain and simple. If anything, you're sneaking in the implication that it's a shameful thing to claim, so I have to "sneak it in".

There's this idea that we should respect the opinions of others, and even defend their right to express them, no matter if we disagree ourselves. In my mind, it's a matter of intellectual honesty. It does seem telling that you might disagree.
For "ownership" vinyl does not win over CDs - a format doesn't need special storage, doesn't wear each time you play it, doesn't need maintenance...and has far better SNR and can be easily (and perfectly) ripped to portable data formats.

I found my big CD wallet in my attic full of all my old CDs. It was all dusty and a bit moldy. Decided to re-rip a bunch of the CDs to AAC as I'd originally done so to mp3 at 160kbit way back in the 2000's.

No issues reading any of them.

Vinyl only wins if you're filthy rich because you make money just by having money (yay capital gains cuts!) and you need something to pump money into to impress yourself or your friends.

I imagine it is a lot easier to jack off while looking at a $10,000, thirty pound marble platter turntable hooked up to a $5,000 tube amplifier, than it is the high-end twenty year old CD player you bought off craigslist for $40
"If Microsoft can't do it, nobody can" is not an argument that holds a lot of water for me, especially if we're talking about web browsers. Microsoft has a track record of braindead decision making when it comes to their browsers. Couple that with their stubborn refusal to deprecate anything if it's a BC break and you've got an environment where not much can get done.

Case in point: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/ie11-depl...

That article about IE 11 mentions about an IE 5 compatibility mode that can be activated. IE11 is essentially the sum of IE5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. So yeah: Microsoft couldn't maintain 7 browsers bundled into one, but who could? Moreover, who would? That's a terrible decision made completely from a place of fear ("what if that one customer that depends on IE5 compatibility mode gets really, really mad and drops their windows support contract!??!?!").

It'd be an absolutely massive undertaking, but it's not impossible. In fact, I'd go further and say that it's necessary.
This game was far too ultra violent and made me sick to my stomach, as an adult playing through it. Massive wtf moments.
> Why would we want to archive all the APKs?

It is hard to know what APKs (or anything really) will be interesting to people 30 years out. Archiving all of them gives our future selves a chance at finding what they want to see.

Here is an example pulled from a discussion I once had. Someone was looking for a really obscure feature phone game from the late 90's. I had played the original game on original hardware and commented about how bad that game was and that they weren't missing anything by not finding it. Their reply was essentially "I don't care if the game is any good, I really just want to experience what was like," which made sense to me after I heard it.

Anyway, the game was so bad at the time it was released that I doubt anyone felt like it would be worth revisiting in the future. And yet, 25-ish years later, they would be wrong.
Isn't the context that the AI altered Ellen's brain to make her particularly sex-crazed as a punishment? Since previously, she had been rather prudish? Not really fair to leave that out.
Maintainer already released clean versions "on top of" the compromised ones, and NPM acted on reports and removed the compromised versions as well.

Compromised (and no longer downloadable from NPM):

- 0.7.29

- 0.8.0

- 1.0.0

Clean:

- 0.7.28 (last version before the hijack)

- 0.7.30

- 0.8.1

- 1.0.1

Compromised versions apparently contained a cryptomining tool capable of running on Linux, and a trojan that extracts sensitive data (saved passwords, cookies) from browsers on Windows. Both are blocked by up-to-date Windows Defender and presumably other AV software.
No. AGPL requires to provide source code only to users of the server [1]:

It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server.

Also, AGPL does not define a method for providing source code, be it publishing on a web server, sending by email, delivering on a floppy disk via messenger dogs or printing it on a papyrus and sending it with pigeon mail.

And lastly, you claim the service was 'officially released'. According to Trump's official statement, the official launch of a service will be in January.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
Benjamin Franklin's endowments to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia are still being maintained as trusts to this day.
JumpCloud Closes Out $225M Series F
They're absolutely related. In fact, a lot of discussions around the Right to Repair specifically center on the issue of e-waste. For example, you'll find that all over Framework's website. From https://frame.work/ca/en/about :

> Consumer electronics is broken. We’ve all had the experience of a busted screen, button, or connector that can’t be fixed, battery life degrading without a path for replacement, or being unable to add more storage when full. Individually, this is irritating and requires us to make unnecessary and expensive purchases of new products to get around what should be easy problems to solve. Globally though, it’s much worse. We create over fifty million tons of e-waste each year. That’s 6 kg or 13 lb per person on earth per year, made up of our former devices. We need to improve recyclability, but the biggest impact we can make is generating less waste to begin with by making our products last longer.

Certainly, for myself, the right to repair is very much about ending the cycle of disposable products so we can create a more sustainable future.
I agree. Electronic waste is only getting worse over the last decade, with everyone getting a new phone every year, new laptop etc. Even if everyone optimally buys/sells used, the devices still end up in landfills because the hardware is no longer supported. Not acceptable anymore.
MAGA hats were pretty famously made in China. That doesn't mean they were made by immigrants (though, I don't know anything about immigration in China)
> parts of the US Government (and a specific political party) are openly corrupt

The Democratic Party has engineered an ethno-Marxist coup.

They will have diminished power after the 2022 mid-term election, but that could be temporary.

At this time, most US institutions (W H, House, Senate, DoJ, academia) have been infiltrated by Marxists. The exceptions are the Supreme Court and local police, which are under active attack. (There is talk of federalizing local and state police to "solve" that problem.)

Biden's dementia means he's not in charge. It's thought that Obama is the acting President, but he denounced the Open Border policy recently, so there are likely others inserted between the White House and Obama.
Write something profound enough, and people will keep it around for 500 years to come. They'll keep posting it, reprinting it, rehosting it, archiving it, and sometimes even memorizing it by heart.
>Additionally, systems like arbitration, or the arbitration framework contract negotiation, is predicated on the idea that both interested parties represent their position adequately, in good faith, and without conflict of interests...

IT sounds like you are more familiar with the termination arbitration process, and I cede that there are likely processes that the non-union parties could implement to make the process more effective. I do wonder the degree to which these processes are also battlegrounds for conflict and negotiation. You bring up the interesting topic of equal footing adversarial systems, particularly around the adequacy of representation. The point I find interesting is defining what constitutes adequate representation, and the impact of the base rules of adversarial systems. System design can be uneven and determines the relative power of each party to impose costs, implications of loss, and 'skin in the game'. Such differences go beyond the competence of counsel, or even resources available.

A good example of system influence is negotiation between a prosecutor vs criminal defendant. For example, the law provides the prosecution huge systematic leverage in plea bargain negotiations. The defendant carries nearly all of the risk if negotiations fail, while the prosecution has relative risk and little at stake. I think there are analogs labor law, where there are a vast number of systemic factors involved in negotiations beyond union terms and the business cost to provide those terms (e.g. legal liability if an impasse is reached, restrictions on ability to source alternative labor, ect)

>With this in mind, I guess I should've rephrased my initial question. I should've said "can you provide some insight into how police unions work poorly for police officers generally (i.e. their members)?" Obviously there are cases where police unions (and other unions) work poorly for individuals, but I meant where they work poorly for their members overall. This is why I think your reply fails to fit my intended framing and was rejecting the premise from that perspective.

I think the simplest generally applicable failing is the retention of low performing or loose cannon officers. My understanding is that there are low performing individuals who are retained and make the job more difficult and less efficient for the rest of workers. There is a tradeoff between the ability of job security for all, and the ability to weed out such individuals that unions and their counterparties have been able to resolve. This does not preclude that the status quo may still present net benefit overall to general union members, or that the status quo is worse than the alternatives.

That said, I do think the vast majority of unions work well for most of their members. Living in California, I wholeheartedly wish that public union counterparties were more effective in negotiations, and more effective stewards of the public funds, and the work quality provided by the unions.
For one, if my name is Joe and you don't call me Joe, that's highly insulting. I doubt there's any culture in the world where it's not.
>Surely the animal feels something in all slaughter methods

So you really believe that every level of "feeling something" is the same?
we don't smile because we are banned a lot
You can also buy a $20 vinyl album on $80 turntable with $20 speakers but what do I know.
A lot of what I read about TSMC's current lead is that it's based on trust, including creating a complete ecosystem based on that. As you note Samsung is not so trustworthy a company for outside competitors, and I'd add reports it's not always honest about what it's accomplishing for its foundry customers, or would be ones.
At what pressure? I think I do like 15 minutes at 12 psi
Nice website! What's the difference between beew and easycron[1]?

1. https://www.easycron.com/
Yes - but I was replying to the claim that nobody accused them of malicious intent. Imo the author of the article tries to frame the actions of the Trump team as malicious.
I disagree. People will remember this and make irrational decisions based on these memories for years.

For comparison, the Great Financial Crisis still looms over us so much that people still anticipate another huge housing burst. And when companies like Ford announce that they aren't using FICO scores to determine if a person qualifies for a loan, people on websites start fearmongering about another sub prime lending crisis.
I agree with you 100% on the malware part. If Linux got a share of, say, 30% on the desktop, things would start looking quite different, I am sure.

Updates... well, there's updates and there's upgrades. On Debian and CentOS, I have never encountered any trouble with updates. You pay the price by using software that is usually rather dated, but in my experience, once it works, it keeps working.

On rolling-release systems, where there is no clear distinction between updates and upgrades, I have encountered plenty of trouble on Gentoo and openSUSE Tumbleweed. Arch Linux, I'm told, is rock-solid, but I guess once you manage to actually install it, nothing scares you anymore. ;-) (Just kidding, I know that Arch has an actual installer by now. But until fairly recently, installing Arch made the OpenBSD installer look almost decadent.) (Also, to be fair, I was on Gentoo's unstable branch, so in a way, I was kind of asking for trouble.)
My guess is employees who want a safe workspace.

I have no clue if this is colourable.
Hint: it was requested. Noncompliance means they lose license to the code they used.

Free software isn't freedom from obligations. They are modest, but they exist and must be complied with or you're setting yourself up for a lawsuit.
Dylan, Stones, Beatles and other evolved over time. Ronettes were primarily one-hit-wonder territory. I know they had multiple 'hits', but they were largely manufactured by Spector. The other examples were self-directed, self-contained and were able to evolve and improve themselves over time.

Had the Beatles never done anything after their first album, it would still be 'good' for its time, but it was their ability to improve each record that gave them such an edge over everyone else.
Hijacking this question with a related one:

How long could a website realistically stay up for?

How long before the certificate will need to be updated? How about the underlying software? Communication protocol? IP? Each of these have their own probable expiration dates.

Is the URL "https://www.google.com" going to be accessible in 100 years without changing address?
I assume that your lawsuit is that they couldn't have actually done that? Honestly sounds like a shitty judge. That's fucked up (even if you did something fucked up).
Ah ok - any citations for them demanding it?
Well, Amazon went from selling books on the Internet to running most of it, so maybe that wouldn't be that weird of a pivot.
You can use it any time you want (on Amazon Braket)
If growth continues linearly it will be less than 20tb. It is possible to fit that much data on a single physical drive even now, let alone in 500 years. 360gb is just not that much.
I find this part very concerning.

I held my nose and voted "against" Trump both times. I don't like the guy. But I really don't like IP trolls. Software patents. SCO. The RIAA. "You wouldn't download a car." The aggression with which people are picking up the pitchforks over this is shocking.

It was a test. It was a mistake. People weren't supposed to see it or use it, and it's not up anymore. What damage was even done?

It leaves a foul smell around AGPL-licensed projects and Mastodon. I'm deeply discouraged from ever hosting a Mastodon instance if any changes I make to the source are going to summon a lynch mob if I haven't made them public within hours, especially if it's only a test deployment.

Even if you think Trump and his fan base are total monsters, don't go forgetting what Nietzsche said about fighting monsters.
What is playing house?
Please can you illuminate me on what rule I actually broke, the OP was implying something about me that was unsubstantiated and in my view clearly nonsense?
"I could listen to it with a needle and paper sheet taped into a cone while spinning the record with my hands" has to be about the dumbest justification for buying vinyl I've ever heard.

The chances of society deteriorating to the point where an mp3 player running off a rechargeable AA battery isn't achievable are slim to none, and even if they do get to that point, I think you're going to be far more concerned about the basic business of staying alive.
Beyond their shameful business operations they bring deep engineering expertise, practices and processes and a founder who understands code and running a massive scaled technology firm.

That is not the case here.