skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I see is mostly positive actions being done to counter the negatives. If someone makes hate speech then there are people who counter it by saying it is wrong and so on.

The bigger issue I see is if when these communities become echo chambers which I think is far more toxic. Now if Gab was removing speech that was against hate speech then I think that is a major issue. I see this issue happening more on Reddit where you have community that basically have rules like "if you don't agree with xyz then you will be banned immediately." So the whole thing is an echo chamber in itself.

Also the truth is, these hate speech people aren't going to just disappear. They will persist and continue. The only solution is to counter those people, in dialogue, and keep on them about why they're wrong etc.
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why is serverless confusing? FAAS sounds like some api you can call to get functions. Maybe Function Execution as Service sounds better.
I feel almost too defeated to share this. I'm somewhat ignorant on the issue, which might come across as having a politicial leaning. I don't.

This is a proxy battle for "Big Tech is Liberal and Liberals are trying to shut down Conservative speech", is it? Or am I wrong? If it is, why don't Conservatives just create their own tech stuff? Like what is fundamentally stopping people from being heard if the government isn't the one stopping them? Is it currently too hard to create another registrar so we're stuck with the ones we have?
We run OKD (formerly Origin, the project was rebranded) as well and have for two years in just a couple weeks. It's been a pivotal part of our application stack since we adopted it, the developers on my team love being able to paste in a git URL and have an application live in a few minutes.
Yes - the alt-right and the nazis love to bash “safe spaces” - defined as being locations we’re you’re not aloud to be a bigot to people - but they freak out any time someone says something that might imply the non white people, lgbt people, women, etc should have rights. Hence they need a safe space where they can be surrounded by other white supremecests, nazis, and america hating shitheads.
That was a 20 minute video, taken from a far longer conference, plus at least one book on the issue. You wouldn't dismiss the whole Das Kapital reading one chapter.
Because the sorts of people posting on Gab are gonna be all over a service literally run by the NSA
That might argue for changing sheets between guests, not changing sheets for the same guest every night.
Same. I have never experienced this pain, but I helped my mother manage it. Years of surgeries, shots, and other failed efforts. She gave this book a shot and it has been nothing short of amazing. I think it works in many of these cases where there isn’t a good medical explanation. I still kind of don’t believe it, but.... she swears by it and we completely exhausted many other avenues.
Gab encourages extremism and racism. It was literally founded in response to other sites saying “no” to hosting such bile.
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I haven't used Windows in quite some time, but I believe they are quite different. WSL is more like a very basic version of Wine in that it implements Linux system calls and can execute ELF binaries, and as such requires you to install a host OS for libc and any other libraries you want. Cygwin is more like Winelib in that it provides a custom libc implementation and toolchain that are natively compiled, and as such requires you to rebuild your applications.
Gab was explicitly started as a place for hosting things that the major platforms were, however, imperfectly, trying to get rid of. So yes, it's the case.

I get the drive. Circa 1994-2000, I was involved in bianca.com, the first web-based chat site and run with a strident free-speech ethos. Especially early on, the web was a pretty staid academic place, so a site where you could talk about anything was hugely novel.

It turns out that if you let people talk about anything but most other sites have certain restrictions, then your site will become known for what other sites don't accept. In 1994, that was porn. The founders didn't really set out to have site about sex, but by 1997, that's the category we won our Webby in. None of us were really exciting about running a sex site, so eventually we turned our attentions elsewhere.

These days the problem isn't porn; there's plenty of room for that on the internet. For places like Gab and 4chan, what they get is the world's worst people, the ones kicked off Twitter and Facebook. According to a study this year, Gab has much more hate speech than Twitter (although less than 4chan). [1] Given its history [2] it is not shocking at all that one of their ardent racists went out and killed a bunch of people. After the way Elliot Rodger was radicalized online, [3] nobody should be surprised that online hate turns into real-world violence.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05287

[2] https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/ywxb95/gab-is-the-alt-rig...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings#Manif...
I really like this. Awesome work. Will have a play with it when I get a chance for sure.
Execution is implied. What does "call to get functions" even mean?

Would you think that PaaS means an API to get platforms?
So imagine you run a Mastodon instance. You try to keep it a chill place. You start getting lots of reports for not just one, but multiple users on boner.lol. There's just a lot of people there who like pissing people off, it seems.

You look up who boner.lol's admin is and they are posting the exact same kind of stuff people are reporting their users for, and rabidly defending users who're being called out on other instances for doing this. So you shrug, and silence the whole instance. Now nobody on boner.lol can talk to anyone on your instance.

But what about @niceguy@boner.lol? @niceguy has a lot of friends on your instance, and wasn't doing any of the stuff that got boner.lol silenced. They just thought 'boner.lol' sounded funny. They want to talk to their friends, so they make a new account elsewhere - maybe on your instance if registration is open, maybe elsewhere. Eventually they pretty much move operations to their new account because they just can't talk to anyone they want to with their boner.lol account.

This continues for a while. Maybe you toot something about how you silenced boner.lol and some of the other instance admins you're friendly with decide to preemptively silence boner.lol as well. Other admins silence it after their own direct experience with it. Maybe it gets added to one of the lists of Instances You Might Wanna Silence If You Want Things To Be Chill. Eventually the only other instances that don't silence boner.lol are ones that allow the same kind of behavior that got them silenced on your instance. And the admin of boner.lol now has a userbase consisting of nothing but the kind of people who enjoy pissing each other off. Which sure doesn't sound like a very rewarding thing to run, financially or emotionally.

There is at least one instance I could name which has run down this path, and is no more.
That's basically how Red Hat describes it:

Fedora - Community Innovation

RHEL - Commercial Production

CentOS - Community Adoption
> Anti-Semites are not a protected class.

Even if they were, would that matter?

Civil Rights Act of 1964:

> All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.

GoDaddy is not a restaurant, hotel, or any other "public accommodation" business as defined by law.

AFAIK, GoDaddy could also discriminate against Jewish customers (which is a protected class) all day long and not be in violation of federal U.S. law
Playing blitz/bullet can become a bit addictive. Probably a small dopamine hit every time you win.
GPFS is very much file oriented - there's iSCSI target support but I'd be surprised if anyone really used it.

Ceph can provide block (mostly used for VMs), object and file targets, in that order of maturity.

Gluster is sort of a metafilesystem, aggregating some number of underlying filesystems - file being the operative word.
There are no legal challenges and there is no hurry. You wouldn't be able to call the fork Fedora but other than that it's absolutely impossible for any shady backroom deal to affect your future ability of forking Fedora. The licensing of the collection as well as the individual components grants you that right and there is no way to take it back retroactively.

With the current state of things, forking Fedora seems unlikely to be a wise decision. RedHat is the major contributor, paying the salaries of many Fedora developers.
So far, nothing has changed here with that acquisition.
The "as-a-service" part already means 3rd-party management. Billing is completely orthogonal and as varied as the runtimes.
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Reddit (among other platforms) have knowingly enabled neo-nazis and racists for years. They, like Twitter, really only react when called out publicly by media outlets with large scale distribution.

Gab is only viewed special case because the founder stupidly marketed it as a "free speech absolutist" sort of place.
The story is a plug to buy the author's book (see last para).
> In those cases, your employer would own your contributions and thus you need permission from them to license their copyrighted work (your changes) under whatever the project license is.

How does your employer own what you do in your free time? AFAIK there is no job contract like that which is legally enforceable. At least in California.
If you're weighing societal interest in the message, you're not a proponent of free speech.
That was Voat.

Gab is the same but Twitter.

But for all their bitching, they are still active on both in large numbers. Both platforms really only engage in token bans.
Microsoft still runs ads on Google.
I kind of figured, but that terminology and specific phrasing in the tech world is obnoxious and pretentious. Just say "hey can we talk later?" No need to use to buzzword terms to ask for a simple conversation.

Honestly, I hardly acknowledge those ping requests anymore. I'm sure there is a packet loss pun, but it's late and I'm tired.
This isn't a battle between liberals and conservatives, this is big corporations being terrified of liability.

Gab and their ilk are giant targets for lawsuits for negligence and who knows whatever else, and no one wants to the deeper pockets further up the food chain

The risk/reward of associating with products like Gab has gotten very negative
The underlying problem is that the “conservative movement” has decided that when a site decides to ban nazis (and their racist, homophobe, etc friends) that is the same thing as banning “conservatives”.
GoDaddy is US based and in the US, you can discriminate against customers except for very specific things (race, sex, etc.)

The Colorado cake case is a weird and bad example, because it came down to people wanting him to commission art (most of that Supreme Court case was about whether or not the cake was an artistic expression, protected by the first 1st amendment). Interestingly that cake shop no longer does custom cakes, so technically they do have to sell to everyone now.

There is another Supreme Court case coming up which will address speech and platforms. This is going to be big. I wrote about this last year and I think it's really relevant today:

https://fightthefuture.org/article/the-new-era-of-corporate-...

You might not say anything now, because you might hate Gab and think it's hate speech, but just wait for them to come to a platform you don't think is wrong, but goes against the current mindset of what people think is right.

There are too few providers and they are way too big. If AWS, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Dreamhost, etc. all deny you a platform, where are you going to go? Are you now going to pay out the ass for platforms that cater to Adult Website hosting?

So few people even visit websites anymore either, unless they're linked via Facebook/Twitter, which are both deleting things they don't agree with enmass!

Furthermore, this just pushes people more into these outlying platforms, further polarizing them to deal exclusively with ostracised people and opinions. It literally gives them more validity by censoring them (versus ignoring them)!

If the shooter had posted on Facebook instead of Gab, we wouldn't demand Facebook go down would we?

I think there are really serious implications to all of this, and many of them are not good.
The only reason I can imagine their domain is registered with GoDaddy is so that they could gain attention from its inevitable suspension. Everyone knows GoDaddy does things like this.
Cloudflare usually puts out good info but this is really bad marketing material stretched way too far to make a point, because they have their Workers platform and want to ride the "serverless" hype train.

Everything mentioned in that diagram is completely arbitrary and varies for every single vendor.
Right, but don't you think that was named after radar/sonar pings too?
Seriously? TV has been totally disrupted by streaming services. Music too. Some industries simply morph into utilities and get stuck in that space forever. Telecom will land there eventually.
There is a case going to the supreme court right now, which may help determine if speech is an acceptable protected criteria (you can't refuse to server people based on race or sex if you own a business, except for very specific circumstances, but everything else is pretty much fair game).
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There is a fair amount of case law establishing online businesses as place of public accommodation.
> If it is, why don't Conservative just create their own tech stuff?

That's literally what Gab is.

> Is it currently too hard to create another registrar so we're stuck with the ones we have?

Sort of. In theory it's possible [1], but it's hard enough almost no one does it.

Not even Twitter has their own registrar (which it why they went down during the DynDNS attack).

[1] https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/accreditation-2012-02-...
> There are fees with bitcoin - the transactions that leave higher fees for the miners get processed quicker. If you don't include fees with your transaction it could take hours to be bundled into a verified block.

As I said, the fee issue is being worked on (scaling, layer 2 networks) but that's a potential of the technology.

> People, myself included, jump to the criminal aspects because those are the only real world applications that are currently creating value for Bitcoin "users"

I simply disagree, if you want me to enumerate all the use cases that aren't criminal I can, but google can help.

> The rest of the things you listed such as "highest density of wealth storage every invented" and "completely different threat model" are not use cases, and are not inherently good/bad, just different (and actually usually bad when optimizing for verification speed/efficiency and transaction clearance over chargebacks/fraud)

Yes, it is a different sort of tradeoff, that may be useful in some cases. It's novel.

> PS did you get hired into the crypto/blockchain world, or just more optimistic after doing research? I remember us being in agreement / you being skeptical about it before

I have posted a lot on cryptocurrency, I have been in the industry for a while, but I am not universally optimistic about all things crypto. But overall I am bullish.
Aside from the "this chills speech/does not" discussion, I just want to point out that hate speech laws or deplatforming don't actually accomplish any of their stated goals. Timothy McVeigh did not need any online echo chambers to perpetrate the Oklahoma City Bombing. In the Weimar Republic, there were hate speech laws (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/copenhagen-speech-v...). Relevant quote:

"Researching my book, I looked into what actually happened in the Weimar Republic. I found that, contrary to what most people think, Weimar Germany did have hate-speech laws, and they were applied quite frequently. The assertion that Nazi propaganda played a significant role in mobilizing anti-Jewish sentiment is, of course, irrefutable. But to claim that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only anti-Semitic speech and Nazi propaganda had been banned has little basis in reality. Leading Nazis such as Joseph Goebbels, Theodor Fritsch, and Julius Streicher were all prosecuted for anti-Semitic speech. Streicher served two prison sentences. Rather than deterring the Nazis and countering anti-Semitism, the many court cases served as effective public-relations machinery, affording Streicher the kind of attention he would never have found in a climate of a free and open debate. In the years from 1923 to 1933, Der Stürmer [Streicher's newspaper] was either confiscated or editors taken to court on no fewer than thirty-six occasions. The more charges Streicher faced, the greater became the admiration of his supporters. The courts became an important platform for Streicher's campaign against the Jews. In the words of a present-day civil-rights campaigner, pre-Hitler Germany had laws very much like the anti-hate laws of today, and they were enforced with some vigor. As history so painfully testifies, this type of legislation proved ineffectual on the one occasion when there was a real argument for it."

Hell, Hitler himself was convicted of high treason, but only got a slap on the wrist because the judge and jury were basically on his side.

The only thing strong or soft speech policing contributes to is the further erosion of our civil liberties.
Cognitive Solutions is nominally their AI solutions but actually includes a lot of legacy enterprise stuff put in that basket to make the numbers look better. Wall Street analysts don't dig enough to publicize any of this fiddling.
Amusingly, they're damned both ways at this point, since many of the Windows 10 complaints have, in fact, been breaks in backward compatibility.
Seems like these results should be taken with a grain of salt, since this group appears to have an agenda they're pushing:

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

> The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is an American activist group that specializes in research and advocacy in the areas of agricultural subsidies, public lands, and corporate accountability....

> The accuracy of some claims made by EWG have been criticized by the scientific community and others.
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I'm not even touching that argument. I wouldn't work at a company that did business with Gab, is about as much as I'd care to say about that.

I'm just saying: make whatever argument about de-platforming you want, and I won't feel much need to interject. But claim Gab and Twitter are comparable and I have a problem, because that is (a) not true and (b) exactly what Gab wants normies to believe.
Wait, so your university owns copyright on all your work by default?! That's a bummer if true. Outrageous, actually.
Are these trainings worth the cost? Has anybody reading this done them / would be able to provide feedback?

Also seconding the need to understand clock domains and metastability, timing constraints, etc.
Like most things, I assume it's more about money than ideology

GoDaddy is a big corporation employing an army of lawyers who can't be happy about the potential liability of enabling risky services like Gab.

When Gab is inevitably sued for negligence or whatever else is coming, they'll just poof and be gone, and the big fish with deep pockets like GoDaddy don't want to be left holding the bag.
Algojammer: An experimental code editor for writing algorithms
Ignore everything that makes stories different from each other, only look at the beginning and the end states, and hey-presto, you can reduce every story to one of six types.
I've been using the internet since 1200bps modems and private companies have always dictated what gets shown on the internet.

I have never been free to put child pornography or guides on how to make bombs anywhere I liked.
A New Yorker article on this topic has also been on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321230. Both threads are good.
From taking the course I realized that I wanted to do deep learning rather than what I was going into otherwise (likely some other kind of data science or fintech). I quit my job to go harder on deep learning studying and apply to jobs, but I ended up getting excited about doing a startup.

Now I'm working on Stowbots (stowbots.com) and trying to bring the power of deep learning to everyone's internet browsing.
The comments seem to honestly reflect the state of the technology, its environmental impact, the annoyance factor of its extreme adherents, the total lack of a really compelling non-ideological or criminal use case after more than a decade, and a deflating bubble. The insane gulf between the promises made by the “every day brings a new breakthrough” crowd and the reality of ICO’s and Bitcoin is vast, and hard to ignore. Blockchain is a neat idea, but presently it is used in ways that are far from compelling, and I’m yet to hear of a non-hypothetical application that could change that (apart from buying drugs, or money laundering).

It’s also hard to forget the last few years of relentless evangelism, which was equal parts annoying and ethically challenged.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7599085
I think this is US specific.
I don't think it breaks the concept of pipes. I think it breaks the concept of _pipelines_.

When I think of pipes, I think of an operating system concept of synchronized DMA between unique address spaces. When I think of pipelines, I think of what you're talking about, a sequence of programs handling data between them.

I don't see why a pipeline should be unidirectional though.
Nice, I made a similar thing last year. It's a browser extension that counts the time you spend on distracting sites and shows how much money you could make if you were working instead:

https://qotoqot.com/sloth-worth/
Why stop with Gab? The CIA has a fucking verified account on Twitter. Why should a platform which not only tolerates but tacitly endorses organizations which perform extrajudicial torture and murder be allowed to keep their domain?
(looking at you, NYT)
Interesting.

So right or wrong, hate or not, illegal or not, there's ultimately a corporation somewhere deciding if you get a domain name to point at your content.

I guess there's also an ISP and all of that also involved.

I wonder how much this changes or should change if the Internet was to be considered a fundamental right. Mentally rambling now. Anyway, thanks for the link.
It's jurisdiction by jurisdiction. And even if it's not enforceable, it might still be very expensive to duke that issue out in the courts.

Worrying about these details is the last thing a project maintainer needs to be worrying about. Easier to just require everyone to have a belt, even the ones who say they own suspenders.
Pivotal is probably next in line for size for independent enterprise OSS but still a fraction the size of Red Hat, at under $1b in revenue. And some proprietary bits.
I thought about that recently, specifically the tight (at least, so it seemed) integration of the Obama transition with the Bush crisis management team when the sky was falling.

It truly was a remarkably bipartisan moment in time.