skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm basing my statement on the fact that I see images and videos of the capitol building looted and vandalized by a group of like-minded people that appear to be outraged by the same thing. Does this activity not meet the threshold for ransacking? The source isn't some random headline, I watched in real time (as many others did) as people self-reported the vandalization as it happened on social media. So no, your notion that I am puppeting some kind of perspective fed to me by media is false.

> There is so much more to this story, so many obvious (to me) questions

OK, again, I'll ask: what's your alternate perspective that is so obvious to you? Can you answer this without deflecting in your response?
Dang, and the other two moderators whose nicknames I don't know : My condolences for the last days, and thank you !
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Congrats, you discovered communism.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The very notion of a "career criminal" is driven by the lack of a social safety net and inability to secure a job on release. I can imagine if you're homeless and targeted by the police it would be very easy to rack up 50 arrests in a year.

If it was possible for everyone to make a living wage the vast majority of "career criminals" would choose a less dangerous way to make a living.
> Did Jack Ma think he was going to tell the CCP how it is?

Yes, I did actually. There's every reason to believe that the people installed to run Alibaba / Ant after Jack gets sent off to "re-education camp" will be unable to propel it to further heights. Stagnation is likely as good as it'll get and there's every reason to believe it'll be run into the ground eventually.

I see Jack Ma as a sort of Chinese Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos. Shooting yourself in the foot like this seems to be incredibly stupid. American government officials would never consider even hobbling someone like Jeff Bezos... that could be partially out of fear (he could literally just liquidate a portion of his wealth and have someone else elected in your place through campaign contribution), but its more because of the incredible value someone like a Bezos, Musk, or Ma brings to your economy.
I don’t know about “communities”, but there were definitely many people calling for violence at BLM protests and marches in 2020.
You should switch to the official OS then - it just got an update. As it also did 3, 6 and 12 months ago.
>>Once at the top, suddenly the arbiter of honesty and righteousness.

I'd say more like "covering their asses and protecting their profits"...But since when is that anything new? Companies only care about money. If we have issues with that, we should probably start by not letting them contribute to political campaigns.
> Is the flickering display an Apple Thunderbolt Display by any chance?

No, OWC Thunderbold 3 dock and Dell P2715Q.

I also have older, 2015 Macbook Pro, with Thunderbolt 2 and Apple TB2->TB3 adapter, connected to the same setup. This laptop does not flicker.
> Would you trust your personal banking to an institution with history of leaking/mishandling/selling everything about you, or losing records of your balance?

> Would you trust your health information to a doctor with previous history of kickbacks, malpractice, lax HIPAA compliance?

Were the proper precautions taken so that this won't happen again? Then sure!
Free speech doesn't apply to non-government resources. A company can ban any speech they want. Plus there is speech that isn't protected, like certain violent threats, which is the biggest problem with Parler.
There's three levels of moderation.

The platform needs to insulate itself from attacks: DDOS, illegal content, reputation attacks.

The groups/fora/subreddits need local moderation that keep it on-topic and restrict trolls, flamers, spammers and other bad actors that destroy the utility of the group. (There are occasional groups that exist to be an outlet for off-topic discussion from others, or to out-troll each other, or rant.)

Third is individual content control. Everybody needs to have easy access to a killfile: I don't want to see that idiot; I don't want to see any thread that idiot started; I don't want to see any thread that idiot contributed to; I don't want to see an article or thread with these keywords.
Yea, there's no reason 70TB of downloaded data and millions of user accts (with each requiring an additional attack iteration) were needed to prove a security weakness.

Let alone the creation of a coordinated, decentralized network of machines to exploit the attack and maximize data extraction.

"Security Researchers"

The doublespeak is getting maddening.
Nvidia's VXGI zip file most likely has a virus in it
LOL....these clowns obviously don't really understand how the real world works do they.....
Paragraph 5 seems pretty damaging if AWS really did violate their contract as claimed.
It's been known that Parler wasn't a "platform for free speech" though. The CEO stated he would ban antifa and stuff, and they banned parody accounts and such. It was clearly never for true free speech, and was always just a right-wing echo chamber.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200630/23525844821/parle...

The shadowban info is new though (I think?) and interesting.
Show HN: Porting traditional interactive fiction to mobile (Counterfeit Monkey)
Agreed, France at least (which I know best, being french) is far from being a model of virtue on free speech. There are numerous laws and ever expanding restrictions against free speech.
> He's a sitting world leader, but Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Bezos, Cook and Pichai snap their fingers and he is effectively erased from the internet almost overnight.

What are Bezos, Cook, and Pichai doing in that list? None of them have done anything that hampers Trump's ability to reach his internet audience. Trump reached his internet audience via Twitter, Facebook, and the websites of Fox, Newsmax, and OANN. He either did not post on or only rarely posted on Parler.
I’ll address your second point:

We do need to think about the precedents we are setting with respect to free speech. It’s possible that action might be needed in the short term to moderate these channels. But we must also consider the longer term in a world that is rapidly evolving.

I’m less concerned about specific, currently existing platforms like Parler, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. These “social media” platforms are mere trinkets and could go away and society would carry on. In moderating or completely dissolving them we lose little.

I am more concerned about the nature of communication when the channels of communication are centrally controlled and/or controlled by private entities. We have no idea how digital communications will evolve or how important they could become.

Our lives are increasingly become digital… Imagine a world 50 or 100 or X years from now when people never leave their homes (except perhaps through VR?) and nearly all human interaction is via digital means. There’s a good chance those digital means will be run by private entities. So if we want to preserve the liberties we have today we need to think about how those would be protected in the future, and that means being careful about what precedent we set today.

Are we really willing to have all of our communication moderated or potentially terminated in a such a future?

It’s true that we might need to take action in the present, but let’s not forget that we are simultaneously shaping our futures.
Shitty reporting is not always the CCPs fault.
I really doubt Apple is able to police the supply chain that leads to the check out counter of a convenience or even grocery store. There's no way to know that the MFI logo on the box is legit or not.
Yes, the authors published their article in the Journal of Bioethics, which is exactly where this type of article/argument is supposed to be published.

What is your complaint exactly?
I used to be a Copyleft zealot. But eventually I realized that an absolutist insistence on “Free as in Freedom” has become outdated: when the GNU project was started, it was not easy to distribute copies of large programs. That is no longer the case (you can now serve complete photo editors, IDEs, etc. over the web). The FSF thinks it’s OK to “sell” your program, but if it’s under a “true” FOSS license, how do you get compensated for the value your program provides to those who get their copies from the person/company who initially paid you? And what’s to prevent a group of people/companies from pooling their money and pretending there’s only one customer willing to pay for your product?

Zealotry makes it impossible to have a middle ground between “Four Freedoms” and “all rights reserved”, and insisting there’s only one true way to do FOSS will lead to 100% proprietary software dominating end-users (which is who the Four Freedoms were about in the first place).

I think an approach that preserves some of the Four Freedoms, while restricting distribution of the core program, would still be in agreement with the spirit of FOSS. For example, what’s wrong with a license that lets anyone study the program, modify it, etc. but empowers the Copyright owner to collect money from those who run it in production? If selling your program is OK, but modern technology makes it impossible to be compensated fairly by users of your software (and even worse, competitors with deep pockets can out-scale you and put you out of business), this seems like a reasonable middle ground.
>> Parler wasn't some innocent social media site that happened to have some disgusting content on it. The disgusting content was literally its reason for existing, despite all of the bland "we're just a free speech site" stuff.

I don't know if that's true. I downloaded the app a few months ago to check it out. I followed some of the same folks I followed on Twitter (I guess you'd call them center-right?) and it was basically civil discourse about politics.

I didn't see anything "disgusting" and I didn't work hard to avoid it. Granted I didn't spent a ton of time in the app and didn't explore deeply, but the claim that it was just filled to the gills with something terrible doesn't ring true to me.

Unless the definition of disgusting is "someone who may not have voted for Biden" - but I don't share that definition and I don't think most sane people do.
Hi HN! After my Thanksgiving break project to make a tiny mobile-friendly IF game[0], I was inspired to see how well this “listed action” interface would work for a traditional parser-based IF game.

Please try out this demo of the first few puzzles of my favorite IF game, Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short, and let me know what you think!

I shared more details about this project and what I’ve learned so far here[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25262631

[1] https://memalign.github.io/p/counterfeit-monkey.html
This is why I have a hard time calling web developers "software engineers".

There are definitely some exceptions, but most web devs I have met are glorified technicians stringing together apis while reading medium posts.
every company on AWS is vulnerable.
Is this good? We're celebrating this?
imo the risk of convicted child molesters having a hard time finding jobs involving children despite being deemed rehabilitated by some beurocratic organization is preferrable to the risk of giving them ample oppertunity to molest more children, unless it could be scientifically demonstrated with great certainty that the rehabilitation program was completely effective in like at least 99.99% of cases (how would you even falsify this hypothesis given how many victims choose not to speak out?).
Similarly i would not want people such as bankers or politicians convited of corruption/fraud or similar things being in positions where they have significant influence over the economic conditions of millions of people without proper supervision (which clearly is there is not)
The strategies for dealing with criminals should really vary depending on the type of crime thats been commited i think, as others have pointed out i think your views on this are too black and white
I am from Bangladesh. I know this for a fact that FB has been used (and still being used) to incite religious extremism and hatred against religious minorities in my country. Social media has been one of the biggest cause behind the rise of religious extremism in South Asia in general. For more reference please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Ramu_violence.
I think Bribery in China is like the book/film the firm with regard to “having the goods” for blackmail or in this case Control of party officials via corruption.

They look bribery the other way the great majority of the time. Everyone does it, but when they want you, they have air tight, iron clad evidence against you and everyone they need to take down.
I suspect not. Twitter only hosts calls-to-violence by the correct people.

I also suspect that Unionizing activity on any FANG will encounter something akin to a shadowban.
> Local authorities should be able to collect up all Mcdonalds packaging and hand it back to them.

Absolutely!

It is far too easy to create disposable crap that ends up dumped all over the planet. I get so frustrated seeing garbage all over the place in natural places.

I do think its a lot easier to focus on the higher ticket items first.
Networked services intrinsically reward monopolization/centralization, due to Metcalfe's Law [0]: users are more concerned with going where other users are, than the merits of the service itself. (A curious exception: Uber and Lyft, presumably because drivers can easily use both simultaneously.)

Facebook, for example, does not represent a monopoly, defined as a social media company generally; but they arguably have ~99% market share within their social niche (with some FOSS clones as a rounding error, and Twitter/Instagram/etc occupying different niches). Contrast with Netflix, which is more disruptable without social network effects, as we've seen with the proliferation of streaming services in the last 5 years.

I don't know what the threshold should be to regulate social media as utilities (mandating transparency, interoperability, and due process), but as such platforms become our de-facto political and conversational commons, I don't think we should allow those spaces to be entirely controlled by private capital, let alone manipulated by Blind Idiot God algorithms, which happily hijack our limbic systems for a quick CPM buck.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
RSS and Webmentions[1] do this pretty well on otherwise ordinary websites. The protocols exist, we just need to make them easier to use for non-engineers.

[1]: https://indieweb.org/Webmention
I wasn’t necessarily advocating for that but more to illustrate a hierarchy. I understand it came across differently though.
The install is "difficult" in the sense that there is no wizard-style installer like many other distros have. You can install e.g. Ubuntu or Mint without knowing what a disk partition is. You need to have at least some vague idea of what a disk partition is to install NixOS.

It's much easier than most manually-configured installs (e.g. gentoo) though, because pretty much everything other than partitioning the disks has a default, so you need to make fewer decisions at install time.
I've used all of these so I might be able to offer some perspective here

In an ELT/ETL pipeline:

Airflow is similar to the "extract" portion of the pipeline and is great for scheduling tasks and provides the high-level view for understanding state changes and status of a given system. I'll typically use airflow to schedule a job that will get raw data from xyz source(s), do something else with it, then drop it into S3. This can then trigger other tasks/workflows/slack notifications as necessary.

You can think of dbt as the "transform" part. It really shines with how it enables data teams to write modular, testable, and version controlled SQL - similar to how a more traditional type developer writes code. For example, when modeling a schema in a data warehouse all of the various source tables, transformation and aggregation logic, as well as materialization methods are able to to live in the their own files and be referenced elsewhere through templating. All of the table/view dependencies are handled under the hood by dbt. For my organization, it helped untangle the web of views building views building views and made it simpler to grok exactly what and where might be changing and how something may affect something else downstream. Airflow could do this too in theory, but given you write SQL to interface with dbt, it makes it far more accessible for a wider audience to contribute.

Fivetran/Stitch/Singer can serve as both the "extract" and "load" parts of the equation. Fivetran "does it for you" more or less with their range of connectors for various sources and destinations. Singer simply defines a spec for sources (taps) and destinations (targets) to be used as a standard when writing a pipeline. I think the way Singer drew a line in the sand and approached defining a way of doing things is pretty cool - however active development on it really took a hit when the company was acquired. Stitch came up with the singer spec and their offered service is through managing the and scheduling various taps and targets for you.
Well, since it was years ago, it's possible that they have reversed course since then. They disappointed me a lot, and I didn't keep up with them after that...
> You don't have to get many km out from major cities before a lot of buildings are missing, and the numbering of buildings is often either missing or wrong.

I am working on a project where I have noticed the same problem with several providers. What provider do you recommend for geocoding when this stuff needs to be right most of the time? Bing API seems somewhat OK. Google Maps API seems like the best, but comes with insane terms and conditions.
I think a free, and accessible counselling system should be funded with the money saved from not having so many prisons, and sexual predators should be required to go to mandatory meetings with their counsellors. But that's the extent of the "consequences" they need once they're in society. And the counselling shouldn't be seen as a punishment, rather a public service for them and the community they reside in.
> Might be time for a bit more nuanced view

That's a valid view for you to hold. I was just pointing out that the ACLU does not hold the same view. Their arguments in this case feel consistent with their own previous views, even while it's at odds with your views.
Other people/organizations besides government intelligency agencies could use that data for their own gain.

One example would be cambridge analytica...
How do you manage(d) working with npm modules?
Out of curiosity how much time for remediation is generally allowed before service is pulled? Surely the precedent is not "you do something bad and we ban you immediately"?

In FTA it says AWS generally gives 30 days per their contract with Parler, but I mean in general, if there is a general precedent. Even if Parler wanted to do the right thing here, they were pretty much banned everywhere immediately.
Because many people will remain WFH even after the vaccine rollout. Video conferencing will be essential to connect those that go into the office with those who don't, especially during mixed in person/remote meetings.
The key to this kind of insurrection is that it is a privilege escalation. If they sufficiently upset normal process, enough emergency control goes to Trump, he will protect them (why stop pardoning now) and make sure all future elections are too risky and anyone who objects and sides with the principals of the republic is fired.

Turkey and Russia are good examples of how this attack works. It relies on a large number of people, possibly even a majority, to overthrow the republic with a populist government with no rules the leader can't change or selectively enforce. The leader shuts down one threat to himself at a time, making his control permanent.

IMO the military is obligated to arrest Trump for treason, which was the turkish backstop, and after a few rounds Turkey finally missed the last time. So once it is used, you have to patch your system to drop privileges from the Presidents office for the next round.
No they are on the heroes
I don’t think you should try to convince them to get vaccinated or to take this vaccine. They’re 12 and likely not legally of age to make their own medical decisions.

You should educate them on the history of diseases and vaccinations and why this one is safe (no live virus). There are lots of resources. Just give them facts. You can’t stop all anti-vaccers
Two party system the closest thing to a democracy... Perhaps you should re-evaluate and study other democracies.
"Friday night one of the top trending tweets on Twitter was 'Hang Mike Pence.' But AWS has no plans nor has it made any threats to suspend Twitter’s account."

Is this true?
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Article title on cnbc.com:

Germany’s Merkel hits out at Twitter over ‘problematic’ Trump ban

HN guideline:

> ... please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Many movies, music, and other forms of art are chock full of 'disgusting content'. Should we take those of the Internet? There are lunatics out there that will believe anything they read whether it is couched as fiction or not.

Our right to say and read what we want cannot be determined by the lowest common denominator of what is 'acceptable'. That is how you arrive at an authoritarian monoculture, fast.

The only correct response to disgusting speech is good speech used to tear it down. Both sides here, (I am not a part of either) have dug in so deep that they essentially live in two different realities or dimensions. When perception and the interpretation of the world differs so much between two groups there eventually becomes a point where they cannot coexist. This is where we are headed if we don't start trying to find common ground instead of the current environment of complete, unquestioned intolerance of the other.

Self examination is what the world needs right now.
> someone eloquent, competent, and thoroughly able to move effectively in the political sphere

How will they be able to deplatform that? Are you endorsing deplatforming anyone to the right of Joe Biden?
At last? Backspace not working is frustrating, not the other way around. How am I supposed to navigate on a laptop?
This twitter thread[1] suggests that it's possible. But probably best to take it with a grain of salt.

[1] https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1327253991936454663
Thanks! Will check out your projects, thanks for sharing them. Would be great to chat some time, that aren't many of out there!
Also it very much depends on the full-time job itself. I mean, some people work strict hours, like they cannot afford work less.

My conditions are quite mild, meaning that the most important is the result, not hours.

The only problem I have ALL the time is finding right place to work. I don't work on my side project while sitting in office, of course.

Cafes might be noisy, expensive etc :)
The worst thing about Parler is the bots. I browsed it a bit out of curiosity, a huge portion of the content is obvious bot. I looked into this further, and apparently Parler doesn’t bother blocking or banning bots unless the FBI or police contact them.

Parler really is just a haven for nonsense and conspiracy theories. My finger in the wind guess is 40-60% bots.