skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was initially troubled by the booting of Parler, but I've come around to seeing AWS's position as similar to the payment processors who don't want to deal with porn sites. Doing business with some clients creates risks. Traditional players don't want to deal with risky clients, but there are specialized services who are willing to take them. However, they are more expensive for the same nominal service (because of the risks.) While the payment processors are dealing with frequent charge-backs, the risks I'd see in hosting Parler are more about liability and litigation.

There are clearly hosting providers (like Epik) who would be willing to take them on as clients from the start. If you read AWS's acceptable use policy, and then read the Parler's TOS, it is clear AWS was a terrible match as a hosting provider. By my read, AWS doesn't want to deal with anything that can be construed as "harmful" where Parler only forbade directly illegal behavior. (And it is apparent they barely felt a responsibility to moderate even to that level.) This was never going to work. Jan 6 brought things to a head, but as I see it, this business relationship was doomed from the start.

(I work for Amazon, these opinions are my own.)
Did you even read the Columba Stewart article you linked to? The author speaks about precious manuscripts in general held outside Europe, that is, not just Latin and Greek works transmitted exclusively in the Muslim world (which certainly exist, but are comparatively few) but the Muslim world’s own works. The article is therefore not relevant to the OP’s claim that started this subthread, and your boasting about the Muslim world’s erudition is off-topic here.

Even Columba Stewart would agree, like the rest of scholars engaged in matters of textual transmission, that the great majority of Latin and Greek writers that have come down to us today, came down through manuscript traditions in the Christian world, and the Muslim world has contributed only in a few cases.
What comparison are you trying to draw? I don't think you could honestly accuse PBS of being an organization that aids in the radicalization of insurrectionists no matter what the comments of Beller are.
As regards your second point: I have had a remarkably hard time finding definitive information on that, so for now I'll concede it.
You're reading of it doesn't line up. Not only is he sympathetic towards people who fell for Trump's bullshit he aligns with the thought that larger tech companies should be more scrutinized and regulated.
> Too bad it's not a single SFP+ 10G cage, that would be actually useful then. :/

You can plug an M.2 to PCIe adapter and a used eBay 10GbE PCIe cards into the ODROID-H2+. A quick search showed several folks talking about this. eg: https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=39174 . It'd be nicer to have a straight M.2 to SFP+ but oh well.
I wouldn’t say that all the Craigslist competitors failed. Dozens of successful startups represent the unbundling of a single category on Craigslist into a more feature rich experience.
That's fair. However, I guess I'm trying to get the poster to provide sources in general for all his claims in this thread.

There's a big difference between:
- modules not ported yet
- modules ported and being held behind a commercial license where they weren't before.

One is more nefarious than the other, but by omitting context, the initial poster is alluding to the more sinister option based on the dramatic context of their posts.
Basically nothing prevents them from declaring 6.2 LTS on day 0, only releasing sources for most modules to commercial customers and only under the LGPL up to a year later (under the KDE agreement)
But many of us have usecases for looking back at conversations from months ago, so just telling people "you don't need it" isn't likely to get you very far.
You as the consumer accepted the terms of service of the hosting site. So don't be surprised when things like this happen once you've violated the terms of service.
If you do bookkeeping with pen and paper, you can throw away the page and replace it with a new piece of paper.

The security mechanism is out of band - you keep the pages secure, and you also reconcile / audit your accounts with those of your bank, suppliers, customers, etc - it's never 100% within the medium of the accounts themselves.
Like you, I looked into the first 5 or so claims that were made, and found that there was nothing there. They are firmly in "boy who cried wolf" territory with me now.

If they had a smoking gun, I have confidence my various news sources would be telling me. I make sure to keep a healthy dose of conservatives and sane anti-establishment types in my media bubble, and I trust them to tell me the truth on that kind of thing.

The kind of sources I'm talking about here are Saagar from Rising, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald etc.
Yes of course. People are running Linux on toilets at this rate.
> There's a pretty strong and convincing argument that it would be better if Twitter hadn't blocked Trump...

There is? I haven't heard it.
Not Another Windows Interface
The question is what the history of unions in the USA has to do with the Alphabet Workers Union. In particular I just don't get what you're trying to say about the Coal Wars; Google employees are not at risk of being gunned down by their management.
I wish it were true. Its past that now. Folks believe things without evidence. Then they believe the court cases were thrown out, not for lack of evidence (which is ok with them) but because its fixed somehow.

There really is a threat of out-of-control baseless indignation, which won't be addressed by sober debate. That's not what happened this month, and I don't see a return to that any time soon.
Refuted claims are still repeated, and in many cases refuting evidence will not make people change their beliefs.
> Parler was a hate site, filled with conspiracy theories, radicalization and racism

Citation needed. Neither I nor my friends or acquaintances used it for any of these things. Hell, I've hired people off of Parler.
> > People who are cheering on the politicization of deeming half your own countrymen terrorists because disagreements

> The ones who brought bombs to capitol and RNC could be called terrorists?

Sure. Absolutely call those people terrorists. But, as boredumb said, don't call half the country that just because they voted for Trump. They aren't. (In the exact same way as you don't call all BLM supporters terrorists or vandals because of the actions that happened at some of their protests.)

There's an extreme fringe. Don't identify the mainstream of the same movement with the fringe.
> Nothing was adjudicated in court

Parler agreed to AWS' TOS. You don't have to go to court.
They probably don't want to advertise that, because it might persuade people to wait instead of pay. Hopefully they'll release the patches quietly after a year instead of trying to lawyer out of it (which I'd expect to be unlikely, but who knows)
Unfortunately Europe pays for its inability to develop a strong tech echo system, so no matter what, Europe will always depend on US for any tech related product, there is no way out, but negotiate.
We have allowed our egos to be so affected by contemporary politicians’ rhetoric as to forget the core principles we all want to believed in.

Perhaps Trump was put in place (by somebody in a smokey room) to get the political left (who were previously notorious for promoting free-speech) to beg for censorship. Perhaps this viewpoint is cynical, but it certainly mirrors the end result we’re seeing.
Why is this a great analogy?

Specifically, how does banning people for their actions work well as an analogy for banning someone for who they are (and you must take that for granted, because that's the legal frameworks opinions on the matter)?

That's also an even worse example because the supreme court found in favor of the cake shop.
What Drove the Surprise Release of Tesla Model Y Standard Range
Bold claim to make when you don't know the starting specs nor upgrade prices. Remember the $999 MBA is only 8GB RAM & 256GB SSD. It's not exactly a good configuration, and Apple's upgrade pricing means it quickly becomes a $1400-$1600 MBA when you give it modern specs on those two aspects.

The X1 Titanium Yoga then offers a touch screen, a better aspect ratio, convertible usage, and significantly faster multi-core performance, at least in bursts. That can easily be worth another $400 depending on the use case & personal preferences. It's also fully possible the X1 Titanium Yoga will be overpriced, of course.
California Is Worse Than You Think
That’s assuming that all the planes manufactured in Alabama are not exported outside the USA. E.g. to airlines registered in Mexico, Canada, S America. I imagine that at least some are exported so moving manufacturing outside the USA would definitely hurt employment.
> are the laws of the United States

You have those already, facebook operates according to US laws. If not, it will be prosecuted. Of course, maybe government mandated ones will be better? Like public television in my country, where it is just a propaganda machine for currently ruling party? You think it will not be "moderated" by ruling party in US when operated as a public government owned utility?
lenovo as a brand defaults to garbage. they do this thing where product XZ5400i is excellent but XZ5400j is garbage.
I totally agree that thinner is not always better on a laptop where key travel and full-sized ports are important. But a Yoga is also meant to be used as a tablet. As a programmer I want my key travel and ports. As a musician I want to fold the thing backwards and put it on my music stand. I currently have a Yoga X390, a little too thin for a laptop, and a little too thick to put on my music stand. A compromise, clearly, but one that works for me
Its sometimes worth going the DIY route, especially in this case. Drag and drop could cause all sorts of compatibility issues if you try very hard to generalize, sure.

I wrote my own as well, not in 100-200 lines granted. Dependency free ~300-400sloc using basic mouse events and element calculations were enough to implement advanced behaviors such as snapping, collision detection, free movement, packing, swapping, containerization. I had lots of freedom on how it behaves and was able to tweak it to what I wanted, something probably impossible with general dnd libraries. It works the same in most modern browsers I've tested, since it's only using DOM apis for basic events and style modification.

Libraries are great if you need established algorithms and data structures. Building out custom UX interactions, presumably like interacting with DOM objects, DIY was easier since there's actually very little work to do.
No. I can't figure out how that is relevant though.

Or let me put it like this: What is the appropriate number of machines and amount of time? And why?

If you want to draw a line, support it please!
Study finds around one-third of Americans regularly get their news from Facebook
Much appreciate the answer, thank you.

Sadly I don't have enough free space currently so I have to bet on fanless tech (but I do enjoy it).

I meant normal Cat6 Ethernet 10Gbase-T cables, yep. If not, I can indeed buy a fanless Mikrotik switch with SFP+ cages and just buy 8-10 adapters from SFP+ to 10Gbase-T, I suppose.

Bookmarking your link, definitely will look into that switch when I have the proper closet space for server tech.
http://archive.is/eNz1s
Business Analyst vs. Technical Architect: how to find a common language
How to build effective and balanced collaboration between analysts and architects.
Utter joy. There are even 3:2 SKUs. 16:9 screens are an unbridled plague that deserve to be binned tout de suite, especially on 13" ultrabooks. It's like typing while looking at code through a keyhole.

I welcome a future where gamers are told to fuck off, and laptop manufacturers instead embrace professional looking laptops with tall displays with very high PPI, long battery life, non-gamery keycap fonts, and no RGB anywhere.
I sometimes wonder if the apparent endemic corruption of government in the US is due in part to a miss-perception of how much government employees should be paid. In Singapore and Japan government jobs were often viewed as jobs for the elite. In Massachusetts we pay many government employees less than they'd make doing literally anything else. A biology teacher's pay starts at ~600/week.

Is it that wrong that the people who ran one of the largest infrastructure programs in the US live in nice homes? The project was horrendously over budget and late, but it did do what proponents wanted it to do. Private firms taking over the commuter rail like Keolis don't seem to be achieving any quality or cost benefits.

We may be in a strange situation where fundamentally underpaid workers find ways to game the system to make about what they could in the private sector, would higher wages help eliminate the "wasteful" practices?
Instead of using this complicated custom thing, you could do something simpler.

Serve an initial website on a regular domain. The website only displays a standard hosts file. Copy and paste it into your local system's hosts file. Now browse to the site listed in the hosts file.

You can change the domains used in the hosts file at any time, and get real certs for those domains so you can use TLS. If the public browses to the IPs in the hosts file, they'll get nothing. But someone with the hosts file can see the actual site's content.

This avoids domain takedowns, and allows changing IPs and domain names.
It's a bit weird to blame capitalism when it was the state and not the actual IP holders that wanted to press charges.
If this [1] is the xkcd strip we're talking about, and don't see how Randall Munroe isn't advocating for free speech, nor how it is a left vs right issue. He's simply saying "free speech means the government cannot arrest you for what you say", nothing more, nothing less. He furthermore argues that the right to free speech doesn't mean everyone else can't criticize you, have your shows/books/whatever canceled, shout you down, etc. He says "[free speech] doesn't shield you from criticism or consequences".

Now, you may or may not agree with his position (I certainly don't agree with some key aspects of it) but Randall is explaining what free speech is, not arguing for censorship.

The alt text is pretty thought provoking, too.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1357/
Being an Amazon Seller in 2020 - Year in Review
I don’t understand the purpose of this article. It is a copy and paste from any mainstream newspaper and has zero new info or opinion.
I understand there may be a large number of people on HN that don't share my beliefs and the beliefs of many Trump supporters, but the reality is we have a huge swath of the population that claim to be Christians that are following Trump instead of Christ... almost literally following Trump. Chasing him to his rallies and even following him on social media and whatever social platform he goes to. I believe Trump is exposing, and will assist in separating, the chaff from the wheat. I'm praying for everyone.
Shunning is a perfectly valid means of social expression.
AWS is more interesting in that case, though, since it's usually transparent to end users. AWS not doing business with Parler is a little like a craft store not selling posterboard and markers to a klansman, or a gun store not selling rounds to the guy who keeps talking about insurrection.
1) So what? You can have a bit planning, as a treat?

2) Facebook is self hosted.
I'm assuming they had a stream of cheapskates in the shop who expected high levels of service without spending any money.
Suppressing their views doesn't change their beliefs either. It only increases their feeling of being oppressed.
But people generally want to believe in certain things. See confirmation bias. No amount of argument refutation works, because many beliefs are not rational. Many people hold on to existing beliefs until reality forces them to accept that they're wrong. Sure, they aren't intentionally lying to others. But in a way they are lying to themselves.

That doesn't mean I advocate suppression. But I definitely believe people need to be taught about cognitive biases in school.
But this is more of an issue of human rights than trade parity between nations. No tariff is the simplest ground case for discussing different parities.
Bitcoin is rediscovering history and recreating the traditional financial system
Back in the 90's, some machines shipped with X authentication disabled, open to the world (SGI IRIX 5.x was one of these.) Back then, few people used firewalls. X11 keyboard sniffing was very common in some circles.
So the 'Brussels effect' has a time-travel based component? If not, I don't see how a July 2020 ruling affected my charger experience in 2012.
When asked why going with a light on light colored web page rendering readability to almost nil, the Designer spoke at length eloquently stating obscure mission statements, having the site born at the intersection of arts, activism and the global community at large. Finally they lastly mentioned "because its the right thing to do". /s
An Absurdly Basic Bug Let Anyone Grab All of Parler's Data
This may be unfair as Aaron isn't there to give his side of the story, but the way I understand is that the YC put these 1+2 people (who were all talented) together to help build reddit, but Huffman and Ohanian were far more interested in building reddit as it was originally their project and they had been working on it for 6 months, and it seems like Aaron wasn't as interested in it.

So yes, while Graham did forcingly merge these two together, I don't think it necessarily makes Aaron a co-founder and contributor.

EDIT: Just to add, Aaron's project was "infogami" which seems to be a CMS system, and I'm not sure how much of that actually contributed to reddit. It seems like his project was mostly scratched and the project that Huffman & Ohanian were working on ended up being the real success.
World's Richest person Elon Musk to dedicate wealth to Mars colony
Stopped Taking Insulin
It's time to make political viewpoints a protected class in the US. Tyrants silence dissenters, not the other way around.