skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears there is a business opportunity to (re)create infrastructure for use by companies/individuals that have been banned from the mainstream platforms.

I'm sure such a platform would be despised by many in the mainstream, and most mainstream companies would not consider using them because customers would boycott them if they did. But for companies whose customers are primarily on the right, the cost/benefit could be favorable. If there are enough such companies, someone could build a business that caters to them.

I don't know anything about how complex it would be to set up companies to replace AWS, Stripe, etc., but I imagine that at least some of these services will be offered (probably at higher cost, due to lower scale/efficiencies) within the next year or two.

Even my liberal friends think that the de-platforming has gone too far — and the Trump presidency hasn't even officially ended yet. Most thought that the companies would wait until after Trump was no longer President and then ban him on the grounds that his behavior was only previously allowed because he was a political figure.
Here is how I rate them now:

1. Worst Offender : Facebook Messenger --> spyware for tracking all your activities even in background

2. WhatsApp : Lost trust in it since Facebook bought it, more so with the new terms and conditions. Data is not safe anymore.

3. Telegram : Trust it's privacy but it's proposed business model is also advertisement based so avoiding it.

4. Signal : Best option, there are some sacrifices to be made with lack of contacts and some features but slowly and surely we can turn the tide. Also it's open source funded by a Non-Profit so that gets it bonus points.

Reference: https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/04/app-privacy-labels-messaging-...
Similarly, remember the conventional wisdom in the 90's of "To stay safe, don't use your real name online"? But today real-name policies are in place apparently to "keep us safe online".
You're 100 percent right.. i just think it's turned into a buzzword for "foreigners fighting amongst themselves" since the War on Terror began.
Should Verizon be able to hang up your calls if they don’t like who you’re talking to?

Clearly, rights and needs extend beyond the basics of food, water, and shelter. Preventing corporations from dictating what information you’re allowed to access and who you’re allowed to talk to is as essential to a free world as anything else.

For better or worse, these “for profit companies” have become the de facto replacement of the town square, and if we cannot have free speech on these platforms then we cannot have free speech at all, practically speaking.
I get that it feels that way [1], but no, that's not it. You can correct misinformation without breaking the site guidelines. Plenty of HN users do that respectfully and patiently, without attacking anybody. Moreover your corrections will be more effective that way, so it's in your interest to do so.

What you can't do is destroy this community by tossing bombs of snark, flamebait, name-calling, etc., at the side you consider wrong and bad. That is something completely different, and is what we warn or ban accounts for doing.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Here's a few other useful binds related to zooming out, in and resetting zoom:

Ctrl <Key> minus: smaller-vt-font() \n\
Ctrl <Key> plus: larger-vt-font() \n\
Ctrl <Key> 0: set-vt-font(d) \n\

And 2 other config options to help reduce trailing spaces when selecting text:

xterm*highlightSelection: true
xterm*trimSelection: true
What is the business model of Signal? How are they paying their bills?
I've managed to do the same as well - the pushback has been minimal at best. I'm more surprised at how many "X is on Signal!" messages I've received from completely non-technical friends.
My reading of the news in the last year or so and connecting the dots. I‘m not the only
one saying it of course.
Give user agent two tokens: one for A and one for B (let's call it UB). Pass UA and UB to A. A passes its own token to B plus the UB token. B uses user info from UB and roles from both UB and A's token.

UB has a list of allowed intermediates (in this case, A) so user agent doesn't send it to every service.

In my implementation there were various kinds of tokens, so UB couldn't be used by itself to invoke B directly.

For our situation all this complexity turned out to be not worth it. :-/
Even not using the proprietary AWS services, migrating from one to another cloud hosting provider - and which one will take their business now? - isn't easy. Not only for the size of the data store (50-70 TB?) but many development, testing, deployment and operating processes need to be retrofitted to a new infrastructure provider. I guess they didn't pro-actively plan for this.

They can consider themselves very lucky and capable if it can be done within a week, but I think it'll take longer.
I believe they had a quarantine island in Marseilles. In one instance lack of observation of this by a trading ship led to an outbreak of the plague in southern France.
Oh man, Wave brings back memories. I’m still a little sad it wasn’t given more of a shot —- the idea of an open ecosystem of widgets sharing state using an OT (or similar?) backend is still something we haven’t seen done well, but in theory it could allow some pretty neat things.

It just didn’t scale well, at the time. I wonder how it would do on a modern browser —- or whether the backend was the bottleneck.
Why is it better than opengraph ? (excluding platforms that don't use opengraph tag)
You obviously don't know what Fascists are, and you obviously have no idea what was said and such.

I am willing to bet that you support Antifa, BLM, and other hate groups, simply because they vote the "right" way, and don't call them fascists.

Fascism has a meaning and it isn't "doodoo head" which is what pretty much most folks do. They call that which they dislike fascism.
Up one section:

> 6.1 Generally. We may suspend your or any End User’s right to access or use any portion or all of the Service Offerings immediately upon notice to you if we determine:

> (a) your or an End User’s use of the Service Offerings (i) poses a security risk to the Service Offerings or any third party, (ii) could adversely impact our systems, the Service Offerings or the systems or Content of any other AWS customer, (iii) could subject us, our affiliates, or any third party to liability, or (iv) could be fraudulent;
That doesn't actually allege there are deeper ties. It's a pretty standard corporate PR piece about $SUPPLIER providing $SERVICE to $BIG_CUSTOMER, that $SUPPLIER can turn around and shop to other $PROSPECTIVE_CUSTOMERs as evidence of their ability to handle their needs. The company I work for puts this kind of PR out all the time, and no one thinks that it's a conspiracy to shut out all other competitors to $BIG_CUSTOMER.
I may be paranoid, and thus don't get why the downvotes?

1. The person specified he has a wife that chats with members of Congress out of usual channels of communications.
2. The person specified place where it happens in the open.

How hard for some non-friendly party to get there directly given the instructions above, or start tracking his wife through other means and get there through her?
Most people's whole family is already using WhatsApp to communicate amongst themselves, especially outside the US. It's not that signal is any harder to use, it's that you now need everyone to unlearn their "Use WhatsApp" behavior, and the only justifications you can give them is "Facebook/Privacy!".

This might work with younger groups who really care about that stuff, but as you move up the age groups you'll start to find people who think "Well I already use Facebook daily, how is this different? Why should I care?", and eventually hit the age group that doesn't know the difference between SMS and WhatsApp, they're all just "messages".

Obviously I'm over-generalizing a bit here, but even if I got my parents using Signal, they'd still use WhatsApp to talk to their friends. My parents' parents are even more locked in. Short of charging a monthly fee, I don't think there's anything WhatsApp could do that will get a majority of folks to actually uninstall it.
i think its good to see it so people understand that there are literally millions of other americans that actively want them dead
If I could find 98 examples of users calling for violence on Twitter would you advocate for Twitter being de-platformed? Why or why not?
No victimless crime should ever be a felony. A felony conviction has so many knock on effects for the rest of your life.

I could be talked into saying no non-violent crimes should ever be felonies.

Looking at the categories of felonies on Wikipedia it is pretty obvious that some are not like the others. Murder is much different from copyright infringement.
I can't reply directly to hijile below, so I'll leave this here:

>>Democrats seem to assume that those 75M people will suddenly change their beliefs

as long as 78M people continue to hold their beliefs, I really don't think the democrats care. A minority vote is a minority vote - whether its 4.9 percent or 49 percent. Personally, I think the dems will work more towards eliminating the EC and gerrymandering thats gone against them.

edit: change second '4.9' to '49'. I really need more coffee..
a) I didn’t really lean on Parler’s immorality per se so much as pointing out a business model widely perceived as immoral is a very risky thing to be hosting on AWS. My other two points had nothing to do with immorality.

b) A person who sneers at the idea of a moral argument as being not “objective” is maybe a teenager, but more likely a profoundly creepy adult. Either way it’s difficult to take the criticism seriously.
One of the founders (with big money) was Rebekah Mercer, owner of the Breitbart News.
> As such, I do welcome campaign like the poverty elimination [1].

Which is inits entirety a propaganda campaign. I have peers from all across China, poorest parts included. All what 6 people saw were a photoshoot, and a potemkin village.
Short answer --- for the same reason tulip bulbs had a lot of value back in the 1600's.
> If the allegations about hunters laptop were transparently fraudulent, why do the gmail originated messages pass DKIM validation?

The refusal to release the full messages with complete headers was a point of contention in the original reporting of this story. If enough information was released, to let the public inspect the messages and verify the DKIM signatures themselves, this is a new development that goes beyond what was originally reported and alleged.

Have the full messages been released to the public so this can be verified?
After being in the business world for 30 years, one truism is that business relationships can only be sustained for the long term if the interests of the parties are aligned. All parties need to contribute and all parties need to benefit, and the contributions and benefits need to be commensurate all around.

Social media and their users are struggling because their (our) interests have not been aligned all along. Initially, the services grew by providing great value. They developed equity through size and usage. Interests were not aligned for the long term because they lost money quarter after quarter. Then came the day they needed to convert the equity into revenue.

At that point, the pendulum swung back the other way. The users had given up privacy and publicized their lives to the world and developed habitual (addictive?) use. The user experience deteriorated, '3rd parties' paid for access and insinuated their banners into our feeds. We've become invested in these platforms, in some cases literally by developing primary income from YouTube, Locals, OnlyFans, ...

Clearly, we still don't have aligned business interests.

How can 'Big Tech' and 5 billion Internet users align our interests for the long term?
If I get banned from HN for violating it's ToS (By, say, personally attacking people, or posting links to pornography, or just engaging in insane off-topic ramblings), can I also describe that as being silenced for my beliefs? Despite retaining access to hundreds of unmoderated channels by which I can communicate?
One of the aspects that really exacerbated the situation for road bikes was that Shimano (by far the biggest component manufacturer) was expected to release their new top of the line group-set this year.

Because they typically introduce new technology which is somewhat incompatible with previous generations (they were expected to go to 2x12 speed like the two other manufacturers), everyone was holding off on orders and the end of 2018 and beginning of 2019.

The manufacturers also expected a low volume year, hence they did not order that many components and frames either, so everyone was caught off-guard when the pandemic hit.
Clearview AI facial id usage spiked as police seeks to identify Capitol mob
My hot take? I think they are, yes. Information is literally everything.
Yes, bait-money exists in europe too. Because of which some people are constantly moving around their accounts, or just have multiple accounts for different purposes.

Until 2018(?) this was really simple, because there where good APIs for online-banking available. All you did was adding a new account to your software and call it a day. But new security-rules for EU kinda killed them off, and banks are putting up more barriers against bank-hoppers. So at the moment it's a bit in transition.
I give it a couple of weeks before screen shot of "violent" groups on Signal go viral, and the ban hammer will come unless they build a backdoor or remove the end-to-end encryption feature entirely.
Scraped Parler data is a metadata gold mine
TBH physical security of vital structures like Capitol should not rely on someone's ability to moderate some platform.

There are many other possible attackers who won't be coordinating themselves on social networks in the open.

Capitol et al. should have robust enough security to keep most threats out, because some threats just won't be easily predictable in advance.
In a different time with a hardline conservative government we would see moves being drawn in the sand to prevent this kind of power domination by China. But neither Biden nor Trump have any incentive in drawing boundaries on CCP.

I never thought I’d wish for bigger hawks in the white house.
This is a weird case of private companies getting together and voluntarily enforcing the supremecy of the state. I'm sure it's happened before, but probably not in situations we'd like to emulate.

Insurrection is bad, but the possibility of insurrection is good. When any possibility of insurrection is crushed, for everyone now and in the future (not just insurrectionists), that sounds like it won't end well for the people.
There were a lot of features that I did not build because it would take more than a week. I think automation will be important once I get a steady amount of users.
https://community.signalusers.org/c/feature-requests
The term is also being used in Wikipedia's reference to this event.
>(he could literally just liquidate a portion of his wealth and have someone else elected in your place through campaign contribution)

That's a HUGE over exaggeration. Yes money matters, but only so much and it very much matters where that funding comes from. That's why McConnell still has a job despite his opponent spending three times as much. People knew that money was coming from outsiders trying to unseat him. Bezos or some other billionaire trying to pour an ungodly amount of money into a political campaign is more likely to backfire than help.
Sounds like a job for Louis Rossman:

https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup/videos
Make that: "systemd and RDRAND on Ryzen 9 is flakey"
Proof that they planned... to be in DC.
Unreservedly no. It could become a nice reservation for haters. Now hate is gonna spread elsewhere.

The fear that haters will unite and do some damage is understandable. But silencing them completely is the wrong way.

The only right way to fight lies and madmans is spreading the enlightenment. Speaking the truth, making honest deeds, etc. Making a nicer counter-play. This is the way. Shutting your opponent off is a primitive way that will solve nothing.
One thing I wish signal had is key transparency. How come I can't see my own key hash and my contacts keys? I know they'r trying to keep it simple, but power users should be able to do this.
"companies should have a right to have a terms of service"

They do and that's clearly not the issue. This is coordinated.
Agreed. As someone who has shipped games with networking I can attest that false positives are fairly common and a big hassle to deal with. The article should investigate further or at the very least discuss the chance of a false positive.
You're silenced by moderators or you're silenced by users. I don't see much difference in the end.
Here’s a non-Medium version[1], since Medium is similarly but completely unrelatedly, a disaster.

[1]http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...
Glue is both more of a pain in the butt than regular old spark with pyspark and way more expensive, from my experience I would seriously question someone suggesting to use it.

We could have been using it wrong, but porting our Glue scripts to standard EMR after our initial POC saved us over 10x the cost and it was substantially faster.
We built a really cool enterprise social network with this at Autodesk 10+ years ago.
The question of what to call citizens of Utah is a long and thorny one; currently the US Government Printing Office uses "Utahn." [0]

Apparently this was a big 'issue' in the 80's, when the US government usage was "Utahan" or "Utahian," while the local usage was "Utahn." Webster's currently lists "Utahan" as the correct usage, as far as I can tell (their website is trash - searching for "Utahan" and "Utahn" just redirects to the "Utah" entry.

[0] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2016/pdf...
Consider this - If the conservative farmers and distributers individually decided not serve the bay area anyone, they are well within their rights.

Political ideology is not protected, regardless of how important you perceive basic accommodations like shelter, food, or communication are.
There are plenty of extremists on Twitter and Facebook. Thats where the double standard is. People organized on twitter when they stormed the white house and the pres went into a bunker as an example. Facebook is accused of much worse in foreign countries currently.

The reason Parler was banned is because all these corporations are very aware they are under the anti-trust microscope. This was a favor to the new party in power in hopes of getting something back.
> Free speech doesn't apply to non-government resources

Of course it does! That’s like saying ethics don’t apply to corporations.

If you meant the first amendment you would be correct but free speech is a long standing liberal ideal and is absolutely not the same thing nor is it what is being discussed in this context.
> How in the hell do you get "someone more scientific" than Dr. Fauci

By putting politics over science.

> "an American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984"

His resume means no one in the professional world is more scientific? He couldn't have possibly put politics over science because he has degrees and a job?

> Seriously, do you even pay attention to what you regurgitate?

I'm not sure why you're so confident but its entirely possible for scientists to play politics.
Goal 1: Figure out what I want.

SMART Goal: Spend 30 mins on Sunday researching what new thing I will try that week. During that 30 minutes, identify the smallest reason why I find that thing interesting. Repeat for 8 weeks.

I'm currently in this stage. :D
Of course it would not be officially part of the CIA... that would be idiotic.
I think 'Social Networking' is really just a bad name for an internet identity and sharing model no different from the same problem in Operating Systems. The internet is the computer but it's missing identity and acls. With those things anybody could write an indexer that could build a feed for you.
If you think BigTech companies (providing email, messaging, etc) should get to censor at their whim, I do wonder if you'd afford them the same level of discrimination if they were right-leaning rather than leftist.
Indeed rich merchants lobbied for skipping the quarantine for a ship carrying stocks of cloth. When the plague broke out they ran away, something like 30% of people in Marseille died
According to this article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/06/where-is-...

Jack Ma has gone missing after criticizing Chinese banks and having his ANT IPO stopped by the Chinese government.
I mean, the UK is still has vestigial Monarchal components as opposed to the US constitution which was built from the ground up with severe limits and federation of power. We'd likely see that distopia in england long before the US justice system can adjust itself to allow it.
Parler sues Amazon, asks court to reinstate platform
Sure, but every Trump supporter I've talked to objects to what happened last Wednesday. Even if the Trump supporters I know are not representative of all Trump supporters, clearly not all of his supporters seek to commit or condone acts of violence. Just because the site was originally built for Trump supporters does not mean it was inherently built for "disgusting content".
I just search for something vaguely similar on Unsplash and call it a day.
No one said that the U.S. doesn't engage in propaganda. But RFA News isn't it.

Why is it so difficult for Americans to believe

Suggesting that "Americans" suffer from a lack of introspection reveals your own biases. 350 million people. 350 million different worldviews.
> As much as people in the West praise CCP's economic rise

Who is praising the CCP's economic rise? The American consensus as far as I can tell is that we need to shut them out and push them into decline.

The West should brain drain the best and brightest from China.
The problem that Signal has to solve, transfer of new messages to a new phone. Right now the iOS transfer is a whole lot better than the manual android process ( ive heard the former is not fool proof )

Being a house full of Pixel devices and sole IT person, I dont want to be responsible for lost messages when it comes time for a new phone.

Also if your phone is lost or bricked ( either platform ) say goodbye to messages

Moving from Android to iOS, bye messages.

I can move my savvier friends and family over, but the rest will remain on whatsapp where "its easier" compromise works.
They had announced capacity issues with SMS service due to onboarding a massive number of new users.
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I never claimed your post was inflammatory. It does, however, contain a link. What the link is to doesn't matter, but accounts that post links in their first comments are likely to be automatically tagged as spam, which I'm guessing is what happened to you. It doesn't happen to all HN accounts, as you can see by all the brand-new green accounts posting in political threads lately.