skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a technical question: no, if everyone you want to peer with wants to kick you off, you can't be on the "internet" in the regular sense.

Signal was funded by Radio Free Asia, which historically got past the general form of this problem by broadcasting radio stations from right outside the borders of a hostile country. St. Maximilian Kolbe did the same with amateur radio.

I think the more interesting question is some blend of technical and political: how do you get across an idea that people aren't exposed to? Radio Free Asia/Europe/etc. and Kolbe all faced this problem, as did the samizdat publishers, the organizers of the Underground Railroad, etc. You have to be creative, but it turns out that getting ideas across is not an unsolved technical problem, it just requires a bit of work. If the goal is to make people aware that an alternative to your authoritarian government exists or that an organized scheme to take you to freedom exists, you can communicate it, even without anyone else's infrastructure.

Neither the purpose nor the effect of Trump's ban is to prevent people from knowing that his ideas exist. They are well-known and popular. It denies him the use of mass media (and even so, newspapers and TV stations haven't banned him), and it disrupts the ability of people to coordinate. Regardless of the merits of the ban, I think it's pretty clear this is a different sort of problem, and yes, if you want to use wide-reaching, high-bandwidth, reliable infrastructure that other people built, you need to make them okay with you using the infrastructure.

An analogy can be made to spam. Obviously everyone knows that you can lose money by wiring it to some random dude with a foreign bank account; the "censorship" of 419 scams does not in any way restrict what people know about, and spammers get denied the use of infrastructure if they make the people who built the infrastructure unhappy.

In terms of technical means, I'm not sure how to permit an existing, major political party to have access to infrastructure however they want without also, by implication, permitting spammers to have access to that same infrastructure however they want. The only distinction between those is human judgment.
Coups in the 21st century may not look like coups of the 20th century. This article may interest you - https://themargins.substack.com/p/the-first-phygital-coup
Who's next? Telegram?
There's a really good reason for that. Journalistic standards are a defense in court against lawsuits. The truth is a defense against Libel.

But further, even just acting in good faith can be a defense against libel. It's only when you knowingly publish a false statement that you get in legal hot water.

This is why Fox news and the like have been doing 180s on voter fraud lies. It's not because they have the best interest of the public at heart, it's because they are trying mitigate liability.
I think this black and white view is how the constitution was written, and in boolean logic would be how it is designed. But reality has many shades of grey.

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?
The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling [pdf]
4k Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino Its Worst Week Ever (2015)
Proactive versus Reactive Teams
Capabilities systems are designed specifically for this purpose. In such a system, a capability specifically for the user's right to access A and B is exposed as handle / token, and services A and B can't access anything without first being given an exposed capability handle. Notably, capabilities can be constrained so that it's not keys to the kingdom.
Most orgs working with small data I've seen will just fall back to the tutorial version of some big data tools (often times just eating the unused infrastructure cost for something like Hadoop when they're generating biweekly reports). Most project managers have a dream of their project scaling up and want to be prepared should a dream become a reality. And if you "under-engineer" (by which I mean specifically engineer for the problem the company is facing), you'll get called out by every armchair developer for not going with the "obvious, best solution."

I'm not bitter; you're bitter. /s
Thank you for mentioning the insanity of perpetually and badly reinventing the wheel.

I’m in my 40s now, and I realized last year I’m utterly burned out. The passion for programming is just gone. I get home from work now and the last thing I want to do is look at code again. My garage is filled with Arduino projects I can’t bring myself to finish or throw out.

Unlike you, I haven’t found another career path, but I did find solace in making music. At least it is much more permanent than software and something I can share with my kids.

Art, in general, survives time, whereas it has become apparent that software does not.
Do they? When he spouted the nonsense about "disinfectants" they didn't switch away - they made it front page news for days.

Be consistent, either refuse the cover the lies, or cover all of them. Don't just cover the lies that make you look good. Or more accurately: Don't just cover the lies that get lots of outrage (AKA views), without getting "too much" outrage of course, because that gets people killed.
Free market. You don't have to bake gay wedding cakes and we don't have to host terrorist content
There was this "Facebook" riot in Bangalore in 2020, which resulted in death of 3 people in police gunfire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Bangalore_riots
When they came for the nazis, I said nothing for I was not a nazi. Then they came for the ku klux klan but I said nothing for I was not a member. And then they never came for me because I do not use violence to achieve my political goals aka the definition of terrorism.

A society of tolerance can only exist if it's intolerant to intolerance. It's really simple. Our grandparents would be ashamed of those of us who say we should make sure the nazis have a platform in the name of free speech. I know at least my nazi killing grandfather would be.
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1c...
> [US limits on free speech] seem to be relevant to this discussion.

But not to my comment, and not just because I'm not from the USA.

I'm not speaking in favor of parler if that's what you assumed (for some reason). Specially if it is, like the top comment said, just a propaganda machine trying to enforce a single viewpoint. That's antithesis to free speech.
But Linus is talking about power-budget. And Ice-lake / Rocket lake are proving that AVX512 is well within the power-budget of these chips.

M1 dedicates more chip-area to integer units, and also uses less power (thanks to the 5nm advantage). So what's going on with M1 isn't really a power-issue at all.

When Linus says things like:

> I want my power limits to be reached with regular integer code, not with some AVX512 power virus that takes away top frequency (because people ended up using it for memcpy!) and takes away cores (because those useless garbage units take up space).

Its clear that he was unable to be forward thinking. He was unable to see that a future chip, like Icelake or Rocket Lake, could fix the AVX512 power-throttling so dramatically. (without even going to an advanced node !!!).
It's still true of the cells in the panels. But it's typical these days to add a device between the panels and the DC circuit than can improve the situation (e.g. by cutting the panel out of the circuit if it isn't productively contributing the array's generating capacity at the moment).
Since it's HN, to clarify:
When you write "programming", do you mean "writing software", "rehabilition activities", or both?
interesting opinion from Glenn Greenwald:

"Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler?

Zero.

The planning was largely done on Facebook. This is all a bullshit pretext for silencing competitors on ideological grounds: just the start."

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348619731734028293
> Is running a server at home enough, assuming you can avoid DOS somehow?

If your content was lawful, and if the Trump Administration had not repealed net neutrality, it would be enough legally. It wouldn’t be enough technically if your ISP opposed you.

> Would you have to start your own ISP, and if so, could your ISP be kicked off the backbone?

As a technical and not a legal/contractual matter, yes, you could be kicked off by whoever you connected to directly.

You’ve claimed that you are asking a technical rather than political question, but virtually all of your specific examples seem framed as legal questions as obviously any connection to a third party can, as a technical matter, be abandoned by the third party.
It is an important part of delivering real world solutions. How often is it a part of being hired to deliver real world solutions?
I am for legalising drugs if the evidence suggests it works. I'm not for legalising drugs because of some free market ideology.
"The problem after that is the stigma that follows you around forever."

This is worse than it used to be, as companies of any size can now pull not just convictions, but arrests as well. And not just felonies, but misdemeanors too. Background checks used to be less accessible. They are now cheap, fast, and easily nationwide or worldwide.
Yeah man, obviously that is what we are trying to say. You got us, this is just a front for a giant eugenics conspiracy run by Big Tech.

Get help.
'Results' present the new knowledge gained in a short form. 'Discussion' is normally an invitation to scientific discussion, not a political one. But even if it has the latter, it's still not the result of a study, just a piece of opinion that authors saw appropriate to include.

The paper [1] really seems more like a call to action from ethicists published in a scientific journal as a study for whatever reason.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2020.1...
And I supposed Epstein killed himself as well? Much more often the mainstream media simply "memory holes" things it doesn't want you to know about. I mean they certainly tried to get us into war with Syria (anyone remember the "reporter" who sniffed nerve gas?) The lies are blatant and unending, but we all know what side the bread is buttered on for tech start ups, which is why this "news aggregator" is such a laughable joke for anything related to politics.
Wouldn't people just tweet at the companies offering you peering?

Or put another way - if this works, why haven't spammers done it?
Great questions to ask your interviewer in a software engineering interview
Where did he get his data from to assert that with confidence? Also, how many people had been arrested in total at the time of Glenn's tweet - I have a feeling the number is going to go way up, and with Parler data becoming public, it will be easy to disprove his assertion (which may be technically true, but has low information density)
Stop setting goals.
Parler Has Gone?
:

me:~>curl -I "https://www.parler.com/"
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: www.parler.com
This is an anecdote but I think it's worth mentioning.

Several years ago my washer dryer unit developed a crack in the wash basin. Instead of buying a new machine, I ordered a replacement basin from GE. When I received the part, it had developed a crack from shipping. I was told to throw the broken replacement part in the trash and they would send me another. This happened two more times. It took four shipments of new wash basins for me to actually repair the machine.

Right to repair is a good thing in and of itself. We shouldn't need to couch pro consumer movements in terms of other good objectives like resource conservation or environmentalism. I understand that my experience is probably not typical, but one screw up like mine basically wiped out any gain conservationist gains for me and several other people. If we want to further conservation and environmental efforts we should do so explicitly rather than achieving half measures on the back of other causes.
I haven’t watched that one yet, thanks for the recommendation! I’ll give it a look tonight.
So much riskier, though.
Colorado lost the cake lawsuit. If anything that makes my claim stronger.
> I hope this gets regulated in the future so manufacturers are forced to remove any locks preventing the installation of 3rd party software (even make resources available for developers) the moment they stop providing "adequate" support.

I would personally prefer one step further and force to remove all locks if the customer asks it, it's their device, they are free to do whatever they want with it, it's both the right approach morally but also for environmental issues.
> in the large

At what point do you feel like this line is crossed? "In the large" can mean different things to different people.
You still cannot threaten physical violence. This imaginary prospect that 'free speech' includes threats is stupid. And of course any individual still can block you. It is literally the same as Twitter.
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Email is a protocol for using the internet to transmit messages. Part of what I find interesting/valuable/different about "social networks" is that the content is & remains online. Email does not have this capability. Email is an exchange.
"On September 12, 2012, federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment adding nine more felony counts, which increased Swartz's maximum criminal exposure to 50 years of imprisonment and $1 million in fines. During plea negotiations with Swartz's attorneys, the prosecutors offered to recommend a sentence of six months in a low-security prison, if Swartz would plead guilty to 13 federal crimes." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Arrest_and_prosec...
Be aware that using mmap instead of read/write might mess up Go’s scheduling. The runtime has special handling of other blocking system calls which tried to minimize the impact of those on other running goroutines. With directly accessing memory locations mapped via mmap you won’t get this benefit.
If that's a third party cable, you did take some risk on your iPhone. Third party cables and chargers (made with cheap components and poor design) may not function as expected or can be harmful to the device and to you (or people around you), at worst.
All new networks bootstrap off of a niche, by definition. This is a particularly volatile niche, for the reasons you mention, but I've often felt given the wider trajectories it was inevitable that politically suppressed speech would bootstrap the communication analog to bitcoin, must like illicit transactions did the same for that decentralized system.
Title is misleading. Authors of a study said that. A study can't express an opinion; that's a category error.
Then why does it feel like authoritarianism when Twitter and Facebook remove all content from and lock out the President of the United States and any of his supporters?
One place I enjoy is the DevChat slack. It's not in the format of HN, but the people are friendly like HN. https://join.slack.com/t/devolio-devchat/shared_invite/zt-bx...
http://onemodel.org A text-mode personal organizer with internal structure and plans to capture/manage/share/integrate arbitrary knowledge for & by humankind, something like AGPL + wikipedia or evernote + local control + structured/effective/efficient sharing + computability more than with just piles of words as the fundamental layer. Currently in scala+postgresql, aiming for rust and maybe sqlite.

Self-explanatory site I hope; I use it daily and am making very slow progress (health limits currently). But maybe it is just for my own benefit. Hard to say :)
Given that the author owns more than one Mac, there is really no excuse except for some very obvious ignorance of how you get basic admin tasks done on the other side of the fence.

As a bonus, a complete factory reset using Configurator is faster than the Windows 10 "reset this PC" process that he holds up as some sort of gold standard that Macs don't meet.
> The value has a very weak link anchored to anything in the real economy

I think it has a pretty strong link to the degree of fear in the real economy (just like gold at the margin) and more fundamentally the degree of loss of confidence in governing institutions.

In that way it's useful as a hedge, but within limits. If the economy and governing institutions totally collapse, Bitcoin won't be very useful because most of our modern large scale and complex society, including security, shared infrastructure, and the goods and services we consume are built on the foundation provided by those institutions.

Bitcoin has no answer for the needs provided by those (admittedly imperfect) institutions, and it seems to have the historical goal of deconstructing them. Indeed, it can only exist if those institutions exist.
The problem with ActivityPub is that federation is a poor substitute for real decentralization. I suspect anything based on ActivityPub will end with a small number of servers dominating the landscape, who will eventually turn off ActivityPub to try to convert to a walled garden, similar to how Slack killed off IRC/XMPP support.
This twitter thread puts this in a bit different light, I think. https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1327253991936454663?lang...
From personal experience, Prozac can act as a suicide deterrent given the right conditions. It’s not true for everyone, and perhaps not even for most people, but there is so much stigma against it.

Please, if you’re feeling anything along those lines, at least try some antidepressants. What have you got to lose? You have your whole life to gain.

I miss Aaron. I ended up using some code by him a couple months ago, which made me smile. It’s still the best library for the job, nearly a decade later.
Yes, see discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726453
Show me a "Vague 'incitement of riot'" charge being brought against anyone.

And I wouldn't include the BLM protests of the summer as anti-establishment in the same vein as the Qanon/1776er crowd that wanted to overthrow the government.
The technology you're asking about is called a blog, and there are myriad ways to host one.

The thing that's harder to do if big tech is gunning for you is to maintain an audience of millions, and get paid for that traffic. But you can put your manifesto up anywhere you want.
Now you know why Google wanted to kill off Reader.
I'm not sure if you saw my reply on a separate part of this thread:

https://imgur.com/gallery/nHb2lO8

Those are legit death threats. Including from a lawyer associated with the President.
I'm not sure why anybody falls for the frankly absurd idea that social media sites are platforms and not publishers. They choose what to show you, just like the NYT or any other traditional publisher. The only difference is who does the choosing---algorithms or humans. But that, to me, is just a logistical detail and shouldn't have an effect on the distinction between publisher and platform. To think that Facebook and other companies act as merely connectors between viewpoints and are really just platforms for free speech is ridiculous.

From the article, no, Facebook did not "fail to prevent its platform from being used to foment division and incite offline violence;" they published content which foments division and incites offline violence. The distinction is important.
Regardless of the quality of knowledge, people with better social and networking skills will become better known than those without.
i would like to hear about that list. I have a one year old daughter, and i want her to know the good people.
It's almost like people don't understand that private companies don't have to guarantee free political speech, especially to nazis.
This only proves that the Big Tech companies need to be regulated and that Section 230 should be repealed. Break their power! Parler should sue them for billions. The federal gov't should also sue them for antitrust violations.
seriously. millions of conservatives are still on twitter/fb with no censorship. some of the biggest conservative "celebs" built their audiences on twitter and benefit from the outrage machine. it's so hilariously out of touch and ironic to me that they are criticizing these actions uncensored and then trying to make slippery slope arguments or play the persecuted minority. what happened to parler is the exception, not the rule.
I think this discounts the power of Fox News and Sinclair Broadcasting. I agree it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, though.
Especially since it's a bare plurality: 40% think he shouldn't. And 87% of his party.

Those are the kinds of numbers you get even without a combination economic disaster and pandemic. Your opponents hate you and your partisans like you. Maybe his opponents are a little more insistent since he's presiding over a crisis that other countries are handling a bit better. And it's probably made worse by the off-kilter FPTP thing they've got going on, where his party got a majority in the legislature with only 43% of the vote.

But the headline here is very wrong. It's definitely not a majority. And while it's probably worse than usual, it's nowhere near the kinds of numbers that actually make somebody take this seriously.
> You can't state that as fact. The platform itself was not inherently about spreading objectionable material. It was about being more free than Twitter.

No man, it wasn't. They are just lying to you. Try to be more credulous.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200627/23551144803/as-pr...
Guess what? People can still be Flat Earthers if they want to be. They're absolutely wrong, and stupid, but they're welcome to be so.

What they're not welcome to do is inflame the public against the legitimately elected government with easily-disproven lies about the legitimacy of that election.

Inflame with differing political opinion? Sure.
Inflame with genuine possible electoral tampering? Fine.
Believe easily-disproven lies in the privacy of their own heads? Go for it.

But once they're trying to spread lies like that—and especially when they use those lies to incite a literal violent insurrection against our government—they've crossed a line.
Respectfully, I think you missed the point. There are many voices on parler not out to overthrow anything. You may disagree with them, but they are within the mainstream of political debate. The power of a tech oligarchy to take out its competitor is a serious violation of anti-trust law. There are less ham-fisted approaches to dealing with illegal activity. The DOJ and FBI have effective means to do it.
+ his blog: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/
Typescript needs some work on displaying type error messages, often the last line is all that needs to be read.
In this world, service providers should create TOS that are as complicated as possible so that practically every company is violating them. The terms can then be applied "as needed".
Everywhere I go, I feel like I have free speech by default. I suppose it's my privilege that I feel like that, but I digress. When free speech is explicitly advertised, it smells.
Non-US-citizen here: Isn't the first amendment protecting private people and entities (e.g. newspapers) from government influence into free speech?

Private companies deciding not to service the head of the executive seems to be nearly the opposite of that, unless I understood this wrongly (which is entirely possible). Think of a newspaper (=private entity) decides to boycott a president and not write anything about him. Wouldn't it be the polar opposite of free speech if the president then had the power to force them to write about him?

I get that a payment service is not the same as a newspaper, but it is still a private entity.
Lauren Boebert was livetweeting the location of Pence and Pelosi so that the mob could "get her".