skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
The NSDAP had plenty of rags they lied to the German people with
To his mind, the greatest possible evil is that someone, somewhere, might be held accountable for their actions.
Congrats on a major update!

Peertube is something I’ve been trying again and again from time to time. My main issue is finding instances to follow that are properly moderated. A lot of the suggested instances are filled with stolen content, porn, or just very wtf videos.

I’m hoping that once peertube provides ways for users to sponsor/subscribe-to creators’ peertube channels that more will either jump ship from youtube or at least publish in both platforms.
Taiwan (Republic of China) maintains a claim to territory currently occupied by the CCP (People’s republic of China). And vice versa for the CCP.
Not a lawyer, but if he literally instructed the crowd to "march into the capitol chambers" then it seems like there might be a case, but if he just said something like "march to the capitol" it doesn't sound like enough to prove responsibility. Similarly "fight" could be claimed as a metaphor (e.g. college fight songs) rather than a literal incitement to violence. Etc..
Yes, but higher density with the GOP and other nationalism-focused groups.

It's just a natural outcome of the different ideologies. One is bound by hate over decrease in privilege, the other is a broad coalition to make lives better for folks who then get frustrated and vent online (and sometimes in the streets).
Repealing 230 would affect the site's host and registrar because the host would be found liable for illegal content on their servers.

That means that you aren't going to pay $100 for a WordPress site, because allowing you to upload content without the protection of Section 230 is too much of a risk to bear for only $100.
Thanks! This is extremely impressive, and looks like far more effort haha
I don't care if contact@ gets spam. That's what it's for. If I reply, it'll come from a different address on that domain.
Not in my experience, no. I have a training YouTube video in my app and Apple rejected it because YouTube inserted their video recommendations after my training video was done, and one of those recommendations was a disturbing news footage.

You would have to reengineer your system along the lines of IRC where the app is divorced from the content.
You misunderstand the US One China Policy. From the link you posted:

"...the United States recognized the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China, acknowledging the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China."

The US _acknowledges_ the Chinese position, but it does not _recognize_ it. So the US official policy is explicitly _not_ "There's only One China and Taiwan belongs to China".
> When Trump called the national guard to deal with rioters during the summer it was globally criticized.

At least from what I recall, it was criticized because the President was ordering the national guard into a state, whereas I'm pretty sure it's the state's decision whether it wants to deploy its national guard or not, not the President's.

> The military do not have the training to deal with rioting citizens. They do not have the right equipment to deal with rioting citizens. They do not have the right organizational structure to deal with rioting citizens. The result of sending the military against your own citizen is always unnecessary violence and death.

I don't have a military or law-enforcement background so I don't know if they have the skills or equipment or not. You seem to speak with utmost certainty on this so I assume you may know more than me, but with the anonymity of the internet, I have no idea.

I don't know why the national guard seemed to be delayed, I don't know if that were because someone thought they weren't the right ones to do the job or if it would be too much of an escalation, or adversely, they thought they would do a really good job at protecting and not harming people. I have no idea.

What I was trying to say is that I don't know what the plans were, what the coordination was behind the scenes, and how few of us actually know the full scope of actions that were planned or intended and that just because a plan fails doesn't mean it didn't break the law in a serious way.
The rarely talked about section 3:

"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
> Who is calling for violent overthrow of the US government?

Does the crowd storming the Capitol chanting "hang Mike Pence" count? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW718KRYDtU
It's not terrifying at all. It's is breaking apart proto-terrorist cells, if the posts on /r/ParlerWatch can be believed. Which is something both the left and the right in the US support, at least until recently.
DNA analysis would fix that.

Incidentally, I hear that there are all these forks and clones of BTC, many of which have strictly limited supply. So, they are also valuable long term investments, I assume?
Coca-Cola is a trade secret. No one has figured out their recipe to date.
I like that your position offends both iPhone users and Android users equally. (I really do.)

Ultimately, is there anything that can be done? If you had to pick one specific world-changing action, what would it be, in detail? Your original premise was interesting, but perhaps difficult to codify.
That very same essay literally means the other hashtag so I'm confused:

"By abolishing policing and prisons, not only can we eliminate white supremacist establishments, but we can create space for budgets to be reinvested directly into communities to address mental health needs, homelessness and houselessness, access to education, and job creation as well as community-based methods of accountability. This is a future that centers the needs of the people, a future that will make us safer, healthier, and truly free."
By that logic, we need to immediately deplatform everyone though, right? Since any single person has that capability? Why wait until it happens, kick everyone off now!

On a more serious note, if a single person can raise a mob, that mob must have already been angry and out for blood in the first place which points to deeper underlying problems than just "this one person has too much power". The real solution is to address the underlying cause for the unrest and anger felt by the mob. Any other "solution" is at best a temporary bandaid.
It figures out which rows to render using its own worker index
Wow that Sagan quote is prescient. Where is that from?

And yes it is deeply concerning that an infrastructure service like Cloudflare is becoming increasingly political. This is what happens when companies stop acting neutrally and allow themselves to be influenced by activist employees or outside social/political pressure. The precedent they set will probably extend to all the other infrastructure players.

And this is why it is more crucial now than ever for us to enforce antitrust laws and split up and/or regulate powerful companies. They are acting government agencies simply shielded from the same responsibilities because they are technically private.
I would agree. I don't think apple should be allowed to prevent side loading. And certainly not accessing things from email. But by all means, if you're running a curated store of apps, don't sell tickets to the white supremacist show
I have to say my new favorite is the senior citizen who brought styrofoam and gasoline and is looking at ten years, maximum.

When I was far too young to be told this, in modern terms, my father, who had won multiple free trips to Asia from the US gubmint explained the recipe for homemade napalm.

Imagine the maximum sentence for someone who wanted to napalm the US Capitol for reasons other than white rage.

This is the thing we choose to soft play.
Ah, let's talk about Parler specifically then.

https://fortune.com/2021/01/08/parler-violence-trump-2020-el...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/05/parler-...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/01/06/trump-riot-tw...

Based on these articles, it sure sounds to me like Parler users are openly calling for immediate violence.
Allow Verizon and ATT to turn off the rebels phones, and we need ISP level filtering to stop the insurrections from communicating.
Just for the record, I disagree with the first contention. And, boring is underrated.
> “Apple guarantees my privacy and security”

Citation needed.
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1347760352705052672
The 14th amendment is one of the ones passed in the aftermath of the Civil War. Section 3 of the 14th amendment states:

> No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Derrick Evans was a member of a State legislature when he participated in what Congressional leadership has labeled as an insurrection. So the 14th amendment prohibits him from being a state legislator or holding any other state or federal office ever again, unless Congress decides otherwise. This constitutionally-imposed restriction is separate from any statutory restriction that could be imposed through criminal prosecution, and removed by a presidential pardon.
I'm sure John Stuart Mill will be scraped from the internet soon but it's still worthy of protection:

> Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
> If you don't use racial slurs, call for hate or violence, there is no problem for anybody.

So there's no problem for Ayatollah Chamenei when he calls for "Death To America" at the annual Quds-Day gathering, as long as he doesn't do it on Twitter specifically?
Honesty I think the world as whole would be better off as a whole. A handful of small authors not receiving royalties after two decades is a small price to pay for a world of Mickey Mouse fan fiction.
In the few news videos that I've seen, there was a brief but very clear shot of someone carrying a wooden rifle.
Who knew revolution might have consequences???
Why are you so scared of people being allowed to express their political power? Words and rhetoric is how it’s always been. Are you for censoring all political speech? Given the highly partisan nature of the censorship, difficult to not see it being politically motivated.
In this video, Rob Braxman argues that most Matrix users use either Matrix.org or Element.io servers (may have gotten the names wrong). Matrix is a federation in theory but not in practice, so it's not good for privacy. What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke8pXQQPaIw&t=623
Show HN: Sender Supremacy
> visas cost structure.

I know. I don't care. This is Homo Economicus talking. 3% or 0.03%, it's another entity that gets into the relationship and changes the social dynamics of the relationship.

Shut up, Economicus!

> Then there’s bitcoins $10 fee or $100 if you factor in the socialized cost of block reward. (A better system doesn’t have to lie.)

Oh, did you see the part about Raiden, which uses layer-2 to bring near-zero-fee, instant transfers? Not to mention that if you are making transfers inside the hub, then the cost is actually zero?

P.S.: in case you want to argue Visa lets users get their money back. My response will involve Kleros [0] and how that can (will?) become a cheaper and more efficient system to settle disputes.

P.P.S: Do understand that you are trying to make an argument using quantitative issues when the whole reason you have so many people working on crypto is due to "qualitative" characteristics in the status quo that we want to change. You are arguing over the sound quality of the PSTN network while others are figuring out solutions to the problems that will lead them to building the Internet. Yeah, we know making a digital phone call over 9600 baud is kind of stupid when you are already have an AT&T line. The point is that we want to get rid of AT&T altogether.

The examples I gave "could've been solved by some Visa offering"? They could, but we want to get rid of Visa - or at least to have an alternative to it. Much like we want to have an alternative to governments that grow ever-larger and ever-less-successful in working for its people. Are the first implementations going to be objectively better than the status quo? No, of course not. Can they be objectively better? I don't see why not, so why not work on it?

[0]: https://kleros.io/
Arbitrage as a shortest path problem
>in 17XX, the mountain top in Colorado (a) wasn't even a part of the country

Which is relevant, since Parlor and other small sites may not have servers on the country due to the big corporation squashing them.

>even if it was, remained several thousand miles of arduous cross-country travel from the entire population of the newly emerging state.

Exactly like how there's no promises now that small blogs will be indexed, will be cancelled with AMP, may outright be banned by ISPs and CDNs, etc.

>People would almost certainly die en route to hear your pontifications.

Packets would almost certainly "die" en route as well due to what's laid out above.

>There's zero comparison with a browser address bar.

Wrong, it's really apt. Thanks for fleshing it out actually.

So bring it forward now like I originally stated: BLM and other leftists can protest in areas that are not high traffic roads, freeways, main streets, federal courthouses, etc. They can protest in the Mojave desert, they won't be censored there. The can all drive there easily, by no means dangerous. Probably safer than the "town square" in many of the Democrat ran cities.

>And btw, "kicked your teeth in" as a description of that thread exchange seems like a great reason to avoid further interaction with you.

You admit defeat and don't have a response, that's fine.

>spoonjim's comment was downvoted

Can't have any wrongthink now can we.

>and incidentally wrong

No it wasn't, it was 100% right, and you didn't have a response.
They think Law Enforcement and the military are on their side and that this protects them from consequences.
https://developer.nvidia.com/MAXINE
It is very hard for me to see the President of the United States as an unfairly persecuted, powerless individual without the ability to get his message out.
That's fine. As I mentioned, the use case you are talking about makes this pointless.

Someone that needs a special set of phones to be able to communicate securely and not be reliant on a publicly run server? Here's a non pointless use case.

I'll let imagine who might run something like that.
I think these platforms also saw the potential for things to get orders of magnitude worse, very quickly, as we approach innauguration. Hints of it are already there in the less dominant and more permissive platforms. Maybe they figure it's better to err on the side of caution for 2 weeks and then reassess the situation.
Eric Munchel: https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1347783405677776897

And, yes, that photo is chilling. The zip-ties, together with the functional gallows they previously erected outside, puts the lie to all claims of peacefulness.
That's not quite fair.

Parler is listed at 2.8 million total users back in July.[0] Assuming that's doubled and all lean towards Trump, that still represents a fair minority of voters.

The website remains there for those users that want to use the platform, but curated app stores that aim to promote certain values (and are fairly clear about those values) don't seem to be the right place for these platforms that devolve into highly controversial places.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#Usage
If you're asking how antifa gets organized, you've got some fundamental misunderstandings about antifa.
Ok fine, let's go with your analogy.

If build quality is my main factor, than Ford is not a substitute for Toyota. If having a Hybrid SUV as big as the Highlander, Ford is not a substitute.

There are lots of reasons people want a Toyota, and Ford doesn't have all those things.
None of the above. It's dissonance as a language - traditional expectations of how the harmony develops being stretched, subverted, warped, and so on. For emotional effect.

There isn't really a modern equivalent, which is more or less the point. Not even jazz, which is distantly related.

But you can get a remote sense from something like Damien Hirst's Verity Statue, which starts from some familiar expectations of public sculpture and subverts and undermines them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jrvX2ZrDvk

The difference is Hirst evokes horror and a Capitalist Gothic aesthetic.

Schubert is superficially more reassuring now. But at the time he was influenced by what used to be called the Sublime - which doesn't just mean excellent as it does today, but used to mean a complex state of emotion and experience that was so intense and rich it was overwhelming.

That's what's buried in Schubert's use of harmony and dissonance.
It doesn't matter if the majority thinks like me or not. That's the point of free speech, to let people think and speak freely. If you're against free speech, you have every right to be, but don't try to justify it by twisting words. Just say it: I do not support free speech.
So go tell the FBI. Don’t turn HN into a Reddit Boston Bomber fiasco.
They believe in overthrowing democracy to put their gun in power. That's a crime.
We May Be Surrounded by Older Alien Civilizations
This is an important point that I haven't really seen addressed anywhere. Notifications are a crucial engagement tool, and the web doesn't seem to have any API on mobile to allow for them, even for consenting users.
Sisvel AV1 patent pool: https://www.sisvel.com/licensing-programs/audio-and-video-co...
This fool has already resigned too: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/politics/derrick-evans-west-v...
Maybe because of sedition, threats and extortion:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/09/media/reliable-sources-ja...
Not sure if "Stop the steal" can be taken figuratively anymore
Huh? How are carscoops.com and insideevs.com "national news" in any sense of the word?

You act like it's "Breaking News" on CNN.
Having different sets of principles for different groups of people is what one calls partisanship; and partisanship is a very critical problem in the US right now.
People would complain at first, and then either ship their cars or build a new car company.

In fact, this is exactly what folks did to Tesla in the beginning. Of course the difference here was that Tesla owners were not seeking to overthrow democracy in the US.
Agreed, I just can't take Twitter seriously. I can see it's value for quick and cheap communication but it's always seemed like more of a quaint narcissistic toy...

I'm pretty darn cynical about social media in general though and I know my views are in the minority.
Agreed. It’s such a blatant and transparent act of willful pretense. Don't call the embassy an embassy even though it’s an embassy. Oh, don’t let them on the international stage but instead work with them via underlings and back channels in the open.

A real life farce. They should have set up an embassy first thing. Maybe Biden will have the guts, but he’ll chicken out like everyone else most likely and continue the public farce.
There are many "compute applications" only available on iPhone.
Hey free speech absolutists: Given the venue, I’m guessing some of you work with distributed systems, right? What’s happening now is called a “circuit breaker”. When you have an emergency in progress and your system is melting down, you pull the plug and let the fire go out while you figure out what the heck is happening.

We had nearly absolute free speech on the internet and we got a delusional psycho mob organizing to invade the Capitol to avenge nonexistent election-stealing. So we know that doesn’t work. Let’s put the Capitol and the government back together and figure out what does.
And this is for the FBI, why is Apple acting as the government’s proxy?
You can always use a web site so long as DNS is working and even then there are options. It's more surreal that the internet has devolved into a medium for proprietary apps designed to capture as much of people's identity as possible. Access via web empowers the end user to control what data they send and receive. You'd think these wannabe revolutionaries would get on board with it.
They setup gallows, had zip tie restraints and talked both on social media and in-person about executing government officials. Maps of the underground tunnels were also shared according to NPR. It really looks like a legitimate attempt at a coup.

https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tall...
My idea of "meaningful work" is work that doesn't enrich anybody but me and the people I cherish. I'm not convinced this is something your product can help me find. Instead, it reminds me of a lot of the touchy-feely engagement stuff management pushed at Deloitte when I used to work there, stuff like "business chemistry" and their "strengths inventory".

This isn't a bad product, but it's not for techies like me. I just want to do the job and get paid. Meaning and emotional fulfillment are too important to trust to my employer.
Hmmm. I need to go back and check but I'm fairly sure I've had better performance from Shadertoy shaders ported to native than I've even had running them via WebVR.
University antics operate in their own bubble.

A fraction want abolition, but they'd also plainly say so. "Defund" by definition doesn't mean abolish.
What trump did was incitement using carefully constructed language giving clear instructions while maintaining denialability.

There’s no way you believe he was doing anything else. You’re basically pushing for the denialability part by pretending to be innocently surprised.

No.
There is a very big distinction between some diversion of funding and responsibility away from police towards those issues and abolishing the police.

Anyone who says it doesn’t mean abolish the police is ignoring the fact that for many activists it does mean abolish the police.

The hashtag does not imply abolishing the police, but that is exactly what defund the police means to many people.