skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As opposed to what? Twitter? All social media platforms are ideologically moderated.
Again, the issue is that once you did share (= sent to) the data once with anyone, you don't have any technical control over what might happen to it (see the pirate bay as an example).

Quantum anti-tampering isn't going to help here, where it's your interlocutor that is the one that can't be trusted.
I think what you're looking for individuals that think "I believe" without any proof at all is a valid "reason" for doing whatever they like as long as they "believe" it. It is proof against any science or logical reasoning because "I believe" is the only level of verification they need to follow a group/tyrant/whatever.
Download the mobile app, they have an option to enable OTP pushes, when I login my phone gets the code directly in notifications.

I also was annoyed by email code thingy until I found this recently.
For approximately the same reason it's more dangerous to climb on the roof of a hundred-story building than a one-story building: there's much farther to fall.

I also think its price has become thoroughly decoupled from actual use value. Back in the day one could plausibly (if optimistically) argue that it was going to become the new cash, the new credit/debit transaction. But it has obviously failed at being the digital cash it set out to be. (With the exception of the untraceable envelope/briefcase of cash popular with criminals of various sorts.) There's also now a much richer market manipulation apparatus. That increases risk directly, but also indirectly via increased regulatory interest. Tether, for example, is under heavy investigation.
In this case Amazon would likely apply pressure to the utility company's regulator, if such discretion was allowed to the monopoly provider under their current arrangements.

That pressure would likely be successful.

But even if a datacenter is removed from one jurisdiction, Amazon is perfectly able to handle that loss immediately.
Except that it's easy (indeed, required for security) to change the nonce for each login request, so you can't just replay the hash.
> This is a specious argument on its face. The First Amendment does not say that private companies are obligated to spend money broadcasting someone else's speech. Hosting and serving isn't free and any private company has the freedom to decide what not to host.

I'm in the UK, but the difference is that right now, these private companies control communication.

I'm not allowed outside my house and I live alone. I'm not even allowed outside to go and talk to friends - people are getting fined and arrested for just sitting on a park bench because of the latest lockdown. All my communication with everyone I know is done via private companies. If they lock me out, I'm totally screwed. What is free speech if I can't talk to anyone? Are the phone companies allowed to lock me out if they don't like what I'm saying?

So one could argue, that actually if we want free speech in the 21st century, and want to honour the intent of what it means to have free speech, there does need to be some protection here.

The protections around freedom of speech were put in at a time where it was inconceivable that a huge majority of worldwide speech could be mass-monitored and auto-censored by a few giant private companies that self-police what can and can't be said - and I think the legislators would have been horrified!
No. How does one vote?
"they" being the CCP, or high-net-worth Chinese nationals attempting to get their money out of China?

Because if the latter, then the CCP is not going to give a monkey's what happens to that property. The CCP has been trying to stop rich Chinese from investing outside China for years now.
I’m shadowbanned for posting a video of the BLM founder calling herself a trained Marxist.

HN is itself deeply biased towards certain ideological positions.
You banned the account I replied to right? I was pointing out the conspiracy post...

EDIT - because of rate limiting:

I've posted in both technical articles and political articles.

There have been a lot of political articles recently with the tech bans. I cannot help that.

Most of my comments are about freedom of speech, not really a political ideology.

I did not create an account to feed hellfire, I created an account to voice my opinion and debate from the other side because I see such one-sided arguments.

This is why you have an echo-chamber.
I think Gab [1] is a relevant example. They were dropped by their GoDaddy, Stripe, PayPal, etc. after the tree of life shooter posted their manifesto on the site. Another example would be Cloudflare dropping 8chan [2] after the El Paso shooter, Christchurch shooter, and Poway synagogue shooter used the site to post their manifestos. Cloudflare also dropped support for the neo-nazi website The Daily Stormer [3] although my impression is that the reason for termination was deeply related to people on the website claiming their continued business relationship signaled ideological sympathy on the part of Cloudflare [4 -- about halfway down]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/28/far-right-social-network-g...

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/

[3]https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

[4] https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-cloudflare/
Technically its 3 companies. Facebook owns instagram.
You can't find a Macbook in any second hand store around Prague. It used to be full of them.
Count Two goes into more detail. They claim that AWS is calling this a service suspension as they're retaining the data and are helping to facilitate the transfer out of AWS. Parler disputes this and calls it a termination of the contract.

This will likely be be the source of the debate. It's not directly said, but I would assume AWS is suspending service until it ultimately terminates the account. So it'll be contested if the time that it's suspended, but services still somewhat being rendered, constitutes a termination.
There is also a large disparity between drug crimes and financial crimes. The mandatory minimum for 1 pound of heroin or cocaine was 2x-5x my entire sentence for securities fraud that caused substantial financial swings by even the most lenient of accounting.
Please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait to Hacker News. We ban accounts that do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I got the idea by following the Rust tutorials and then making 'simple' programs, seeing the errors, going to Rust resources and getting the advice 'just cut and paste the expected type'. The expected types generally had 6-8 ':'s, and three to four deep nested type specifiers.
Twitter didn't actively moderate the President, who broke every single policy in their rulebook, until he lost power. An argument could easily be made that they selectively enforce from that alone, but I don't see Parler's lawyers using that argument lol
Grouping by user rather than by content has a major weakness. Grandma can be lovely 99% of the time and a horrible racist the other 1%.
> Free speech doesn't apply to non-government resources.

Where did the parent comment mention the government? They referenced the concept of free speech. That is not the same thing as the first amendment which is what you are referring to.
This article is the first time I've seen it used as a noun. It stopped me in my tracks (so I could duckduckgo it), then it made me consider that maybe the article wasn't written by a native English speaker, then (finally) I read the rest of the article.
At least they don't have exactly one company that has had some decent success with The Language in production, and were it not for the evangelism of The Language Community, you wouldn't know who the company was. And if you ask, "how does one do multithreading in The Language?", The Community will shout at you about how you don't really need multithreading and The Company has been super successful and never once needed multithreading and by the way multithreading will be a feature in The Language Very Soon. :)
According to your moral values. But your morals aren't shared by the entire world.
Did you watch the most recent Zuckerberg testimony in Congress? There, Senator Hawley grilled Zuckerberg about a communication platform, SENTRA, in which Twitter, Google, Facebook, absolutely are known to collaborate on who to ban and what to ban. He shows a screenshot in the hearing to Zuckerberg, and Mark is caught weaseling in his chair about it. That is collusion.

https://rumble.com/vbru89-republican-senator-grills-zuckerbe...
yeah - probably once a month(?) we hear about a new one on HN though that's in general and not google specific.

But plenty of people/business have been burned before, its not like this is some one-off.

edit: omg, my apologies to the english language! fix spelling/etc.
Honest question: Who decides? How do they decide?
Any idea why Parler took off rather than a right-wing instance of Mastodon? Is it about framing?
Regarding the rotation timestamps: My guess is that the rotation is implemented as a "generate a new key when needed" rather than a cron: When someone asks for a key to issue to a user trying to log in, try to fetch a cached one. If one is there and it's < 1 hour old, return it. Otherwise generate a new one and record its timestamp.
Are you using a HN client? Possibly it doesn't support polls. On the HN website you can vote in the poll.
How can you possibly argue that google and apple don’t monopolize app distribution on their respective platforms? Are you disingenuous enough to suggest that the entirety of parler’s userbase should be jailbreaking their iPhones and sideloading .apks?
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This just isn't true. We can argue whether or not Parler was not moderating correctly - but to imply they did not have a policy against violence is not true:

6. Threats of Violence, Advocacy of Imminent Lawless Action, Threats to Dox, Bribery or Criminal Solicitation

So-called “fighting words” are not a violation of our Guidelines.2

6.1 However, reported parleys, comments, or messages sent using our service will be deemed a violation of these Guidelines if they contain:

6.1.1 a “serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to aparticular individual or group of individuals,” with either the intent or reckless disregard as to whether the communication will “place the victim in fear of bodily harm or death.”

6.1.2 an explicit or implicit encouragement to use violence, or to commit a lawless action,such that: (a) the Parleyer intends his or her speech to result in the use of violence orlawless action, and (b) the imminent use of violence or lawless action is the likelyresult of the parley, comment, or message

6.1.3 a threat to dox anyone for any reason.

6.1.4 an offer to give or receive money, or other goods or services, in exchange for (a) afavor from any public official, or (b) the commission of any illegal action by anyone
This seems to be a fairly accurate satire of most common bugs people encounter in CP2077, actually.

Haven't played Cyberpunk yet, and I'll check their progress in six months, maybe then consider buying it.

Apparently much of the game storyline was scrapped/revamped when they announced Keanu Reeves starring.
See original author clarifying this wasnt a leak or a hack.
https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348666166978424832
I don't know if people trying to argue that twitter is just as bad as Parler are doing it out of ignorance of the issues or just bad faith.

Parler isn't being dropped by private companies because a user said something mean on their service. They're being dropped by AWS, Apple, Google etc because they allow, even encourages its users to conspire to commit violence and assassinate public officials.

The main reasons its users went to Parler in the first place is because they weren't allowed to do that on twitter and reddit.
You’re always dependent on somebody
Amazon cited a long string of specific violent posts that they themselves reported to Parler and that Parler didn't remove.
Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon.
Yeah but these threats were actually carried out. Not the first time for Parler either, as I recall.
And the fact that there are unmoderated calls to violence and to overthrow our government had nothing to do with it?
> Where's the social network built around connecting you to your network and only your network?

That's exactly what I'm building (with ActivityPub). It's not yet production-ready though.
They're enforcing Civil right violations via lawsuit. It's no different then trying to rent from a racist landlord

Speaking of landlords who discriminate, Trump has never done anything to deserve a shred of respect. Long before day one. If anything they're saving gullible people from sending money to a conman
IANAL, but from what I understand, contract law is below criminal law priority-wise.

If you knowingly were to provide meeting rooms for people plotting a coup or violence, I think you'd still be on the hook for something much greater than breach of contract, which is a civil claim.
> Also, he’s not even talking about clock downscaling

Quote the post in question:

> not with some AVX512 power virus that takes away top frequency (because people ended up using it for memcpy!)

This is pretty obviously talking about the down-clocking issue.

> You’ve basically taken his post out of context, misinterpreted it to be saying something he isn’t, and claiming it’s wrong because some details have changed on the ground after he made it.

AVX on Sandy Bridge was worthless: it wasn't any faster than SSE because Sandy Bridge was still 128-bit (even on AVX code).

Anyone who has followed ISA-development for decades would recognize that the first implementation of an ISA is often sub-par and sub-optimal. It wasn't until Haswell before AVX was faster than SSE in practice.

AVX512 was first implemented on Xeon Phi. Then it was ported over to servers in Skylake-X. AVX512 from there on remained a "1st generation" product for a few years (much like AVX on Sandy Bridge, before Haswell). From the history of these ISA-extensions, we generally can expect downclocking issues or inefficiencies in the first few implementations.

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In fact, some portions of AVX still remain suboptimal. vgather for example, isn't really much faster than standard load/stores. Maybe they'll be suboptimal forever, or maybe some hypothetical future CPU could optimize it.

Either way, I know that I shouldn't make an argument based on the "stupidity of vgather" instruction. There's an "obvious" optimization that could happen if that instruction becomes popular enough to deserve the transistors. At best, if I were to argue about vgather instructions, I'd preface it with "current implementations of vgather on Skylake-X", or similar wording.

CPUs change over time, much like programming languages or compilers. I expect a degree of forward-looking ability from experts, not for someone to get lost in the details of current implementations.
Because Twitter and Facebook activist employees drive deplatforming in those organisations. AWS has similar activist employees.
There's a survivorship bias here. Of course you are going to meet the people who left the country.

On the flip side, as a native Scandinavian I have many colleagues from outside of Scandinavia that moved here because of many of the things unions have accomplished - 25 days of paid vacation, a culture of working your 8 hours a day and not more than that, and a child care system that allows you to spend more time with your kids.
Although the kind of training-documentation a la Tek is dead, Analog have some rather nice docs for the things they care about - for their SDR-on-chip chipsets they have long form (600page) books to read.

There's also the problem that a modern scope is just a maze of ASICs, FPGA blobs, etc.
yes, with caveats.

my opinion on these kinds of topics is always the same. do I object that amazon, apple, and google have kicked hateful content off of their own properties? no. do I object that getting blacklisted by a few large tech companies is effectively getting kicked off the entire internet? very much yes.
The article discusses a 2014 U.S. ban on virus gain-of-function experiments. Looking it up, I found this 2015 Nature article which also mentions the ban.

https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debat...

Here's a link to the 2017 Wuhan labs research paper that was quoted: "we constructed a group of infectious bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones with the backbone of WIV1 and variants of S genes from 8 different bat SARSr-CoVs" https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...
CCP. I’m talking shipping ports, infra investments etc
> "Doing so is the equivalent of pulling the plug on a hospital patient onlife support. It will kill Parler’s business—at the very time it is set to skyrocket."

I don't know if they can hold that true that people will be signing up per "skyrocket" metaphor. They can use past data, but cannot use unknown future data.
Are you sure about that? I almost sure I read somewhere that Parler has a policy that prohibits incitement of violence.
I have no particular comment about Parler specifically, but in the general case:

Suppose you're a single-person startup of an app called "Speak!". Speak! is pretty niche, but one day, a group of the X-People are ostracized on all the popular forums: Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Because Speak! is the only remaining bastion for the X-People all of them flock to Speak!. Let's say the X-People say things that aren't exactly popular among those who are not X-People.

BigCo claims that Speak! is not properly moderated. You say that you're only a single person and a certain level of moderation cannot be expected given N number of employees.

If BigCo bans Speak! on the grounds that Speak! is not sufficiently moderated, would that mean that any small person operation who operates a surprisingly large userbase cannot operate?

I think there should be objective quantitative measures that any company can use that's applied evenly across companies. Should a company with 10,000 moderators be held to the same standard of moderation as an extremely popular forum with only a single moderator? You decide.
The same people who decide my opinion
Won't the fencepost move to the service provider blocking the box somebody owns? Does the net neutrality repeal apply here?
As a business we only do business with vendors that don’t host controversial sites due to risk from boycotts and negative press. I picked AWS because it was a safe choice because of actions like kicking off Parler.
It is certainly possible that they all acted independently, but given how many cases of anti-competitive behavior on their part have been documented in the linked report of the Congress - these companies are not completely honest.

Mikhail Gorbachev used to say "Trust, but verify." I would like to see some verification in this case.
I assume AWS is smart enough to include "emergency" language where there is a reasonable threat to life.
It could still address bubbles in a small way, by making them more accessible: if you can switch the overlay easily, you can get a peek at what other people see and understand their point of view a little better. You can also see what your favorite overlay is censoring and decide whether you're okay with that.

Also, one avenue to radicalization is a feeling that your views are being censored. If you get to choose your bubble, that argument is undermined, so extreme bubbles might have a harder time growing.
Do you have any recommendations for charity groups working to lessen the plight of these people?
Twitter doesn't do hosting, so it wouldn't 'compete' with AWS for customers? and AWS isn't a social media site?
This looks awesome, any thoughts on making this automated?

Here’s a similar product I ran into here a while ago that uses the info in the other meta tags (title, description) to automate the creation of these images: https://www.mugshotbot.com/

I also built something similar called Thumblink, which takes a screenshot of the page to create these images: https://thumblink.com
Should it? Society has always judged or kept an eye on people based on who they choose to associate with. If you were active on VK or WeChat I'm sure the government would have a few questions to ask you if you applied for a position requiring clearance.

Beyond that, if a platform is known for encouraging behaviour that you and your peers disapprove of. It might make sense for you to avoid registering there in case your peers get the wrong impression of you should the information leak. While not exactly social media, you only need to look at the fallout from Ashley Madison for why you might not want to sign up somewhere because of "the wrong kind of association".

Why social media would be the only forum exempt from this line of thinking I can't imagine.
A substantial number of people commit suicide following loss of one's job. Would you feel it's fair to say that their bosses drove them to suicide?

I'd say no. Most of such cases, like Swartz, had existing mental conditions that are primarily responsible for their decision to commit suicide. Loss of a job may have been the event that ultimately prompted the act, but the driving factors were mental conditions. Saying that these people were driven to suicide conflates these cases with like this where someone is actively driving someone else to suicide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Conrad_Roy
Ok, sorry for being pedantic.
The passive collection case is presumably enough to justify it. Like, after those folks who were sniffing Facebook and MySpace cookies on unsecured WiFi routers were caught, I can imagine pushing for something like this, "just to force them to single us out and perform an active attack on us, which most passive WiFi sniffers are likely not willing to do," or so.

Another separate derivation would be: “we log every single call. period. I will take on whatever cost to have that oversight of my system.” Well that's problematic, dr. boss, because several calls have PII in them and we want to be careful with how we store that. "OK, we encrypt the PII in-transit so that our logging doesn't have access to it." Well OK but our “log everything” philosophy is now also logging the keys that it was encrypted with, which the client has to fetch. Every call, right? So we are still storing the PII for any hacker to decrypt. "Well, let’s use asymmetric encryption so that this information is not sufficient to decrypt.” OK, but I can still connect information about how you were playing this game at this time, to how you were playing that game at that time. The logs contain that second-order PII that exists in correlations because you use a deterministic process to encrypt. (And at this point the obvious thing to do is a nondeterministic encryption process but you can also just rotate the keys periodically to make this sort of correlation only work over very short timescales.)

Just saying, HTTPS assumes that the problem is insecure channels between secure endpoints when the problem can also be at one or the other endpoint. Like another person said, you might also decrypt right before a load balancer and then route the sensitive data to some other data center because it has lower overall load, etc. etc.
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