skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying "wait, wait, .." is entirely legitimate hosting.

Talking about "fields" however only covers academics/experts. in politics, I wouldn't give peer-support so much gravity, especially since GOP and Dems appear to maintain different sets of "facts".
Russians are not the only ones manufacturing the substance known as Novichok. The UK and US also manufacture it.
yeah close that stable company, that offers a good selfhosted solution for a fair price and jump ship to a VC funded startup that is backed by Tencent. \s
The hack of Parler after Twilio and Okta cut them off is way more interesting. Surprised that I haven't seen a thread on HN frontpage about that.

tl;dr failure of their user authentication system allowed anyone to make an account, including an admin account. they then privilege escalated and imaged the entire service and made a docker container that anyone can use. So whoever did the first thing maybe has liability under CFAA and other means, but everyone else doesn't and they are leaking everything.

User uploaded pictures still have metadata attached, including GPS coordinates. It is hilarious and also alarming.
> Never before in history has a small cabal of companies welded such power over

there was a monopoly on phone service in the 70s that exceeds the monopoly on cloud hosting today. and it wasn't a cabal; it was a single company.

> Could you imagine the telephone company shutting off someone's phone service over
> something they said or who they associated with? Unthinkable. And yet here we are
> with the modern equivalent.

they aren't shutting off the phone service. they still have internet, and can publish anthing they want anywhere else.

what they shut off is their television show / public feed of people calling for violence. it's completely justified.
This is probably a case where the amount charged didn’t represent the true cost to Amazon, however.

There may not be an obvious monetary cost to the negative publicity, legal and other costs Parler was and would incur for Amazon, but they're costs nonetheless. It's much simpler to just not do business with them than it is to try and develop a pricing model that accounts for those things.
What does "change in the size of the economy" actually mean? In real terms?

As almost everyone knows, GDP doesn't correlate particularly well with productive activity.
These cases apply to what governments can do. AWS is a privately held subsidiary of a publicly traded company.

The 1st Amendment does not protect all free speech. It simply bans the US government from passing laws that limit free speech.

for AWS, it will come down to whether they’ve defined situations where they can end their agreement / contract (MSA/EULA) with Parler. Btw, that’s the argument Parler is making that they had an agreement with AWS and not they’re in breech. The feee speech comment is weaker than arguing a binding contract exists.

Of course, it sounds like they have the default MSA with AWS. So, likely has terms very much in AWS’s favor. Also, I’d say they probably have some type of clause related to activities that could hurt AWS’s brand equity as be grounds for early termination.

Bottom line: as the cases referenced show, the government cannot limit free speech with laws - 1st Amendment (read full text). Private/public companies can do whatever is in their contracts that customers agree with at sign up.
Did you read the article or the lawsuit? They make zero free speech claims in the lawsuit. They are making a Sherman anti-trust argument that Twitter and Amazon are colluding because Twitter is scared of competition from Parler. This lawsuit won’t go anywhere.
Amazon could probably argue that reputation damage offset their bills.
Whataboutism.

The facts are, the most recent US presidential election was not stolen, as confirmed by judges, experts, people in the administration, bipartisan states. It's ridiculous to claim that it was "stolen".

That has absolutely nothing to do with elections where there is actual doubt and irregularities, and where people can rightly say elections were "stolen" or influenced or cheated.
It looks like they have their own infrastructure:

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...
links for the lazy:

- http://kevinaboos.web.rice.edu/publications.html

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWGPLVYXZlU
90 mln people following Trump and watching twitter adds were paying for his free speech.

Parler paying to aws was paying for its users free speech.

The question is not about paying costs, but about people trying to use business as a weapon in their ideological war.
> Basically, "high calibration" is the opposite of Dunning-Kruger in my mind

Dunning-Kruger is perfect “relative calibration” somewhere near the 70th percentile, as the finding of the study for which the effect is named is essentially that people above and below that point assess their relative performance closer to it than it actually is.

It's doesn't seem to address calibration in the absolute sense at all.
Show HN: Browser Based Email Parser
You're right, I should have been clearer. I meant the Google Apps bundle of essential apps (especially the Web Browser).
I feel like if we had the abstract layer that people leverage with the worst case fallback being any random vps provider, we should be ok. The worst case fallback won’t give you the as-needed pay as you go infrastructure, but your code won’t need to change.

Do frameworks like this not exist at all?

Look, if 4chan can be hosted somewhere, your site can be hosted somewhere lol. No need to cry and sue Amazon, this should be solved at the tech level.

4chan dealt with every scenario under the sun, and they made the adjustments and is still here, and no one is able to take it down. We cannot sit here and act like it can’t be done because the Titans are preventing it. It’s just not true, we have to simply get better about this. No excuses.
And now you want to turn the topic onto Charlottesville, where he explicitly condemned the violence and extremists.

"To anyone who acted criminally in this weekend’s racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. Justice will be delivered. As I said on Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. It has no place in America."

"Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America."

"I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the United States Capitol. Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem."

"The demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defiled the seat of American democracy. To those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country. And to those who broke the law, you will pay."

You've no issue quoting the prepared statement asking Capitol Building protesters to go home. Yet you take issue with a prepared statement about George Floyd. I'll agree that consistency is important here.

This flavor of hyperpartisanship is part of the problem. There's very little you can change about Trump's supporters. Even less if you take an extreme partisan approach. This only contributes to the toxicity.

https://time.com/4899813/donald-trump-charlottes-ville-remar...

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-concedes-e...
> Never before in history has a small cabal of companies welded such power over what we can say

Not really.

Like many others I was born without Internet and never before in history so many people said so many things, multiple times a day, from anywhere they are, to a potentially global audience, paying nothing
>The "bargain" of an electric car costs at least 3x more than a gasoline or diesel version.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/274927/new-vehicle-avera...

Around 36k is spent on the average car in the USA.

The ID.3 is cheaper than that without subsidy (it is almost on parity with the regular Golf with subsidy) and if you were to 3x that average you would arrive in luxury car territory. You would get a Model X.

The ID.3 will also save you around $800 in maintenance and fuel (in Germany at least) per year.
If you're looking specific for video hosting, you should check out Streamable. $7.99/mo for 2TB of space, and a fair free tier.
It isn't harder to use than Whatsapp. It's actually simpler, because it has less useless bells and whistles.

All you need to do is convince them that it's for their good, if they can agree on that then the technicality isn't difficult.
I still get to see what's in my spam folder.
Not really. This is like a monopoly on paper. Sure, you can build your own press, but what are you going to use it for if you can't get paper to print on?

Maybe freedom of speech went up, vertically, meaning more people can publish than ever before, but it got extremely narrow at the same time. If you publish the wrong thought your life or business can be literally destroyed within a day. (or as long as it takes to fly to Africa)
Well new tests have to be developed, that don't trigger when people are vaccinated but non ill.
I find it soothly bizarre.

How do they attend school? they are driven to it?

I said this in another comment, but I find Anglo-Saxon culture to unduly assume that children are completely incompetent.

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/21/living/mom-arrested-left-...

At least there is a debate here. I was left alone to play unsupervised at ages around four or five to no ill effect.

What exactly do they believe could happen? Assume I somehow be hurt: I would cry; bystanders would be drawn near over the noise; they would ask me what was wrong; and I would receive medical attention if need be, and even if I would be driven to a hospital, I would easily be able to tell them my name and address and thus my parent would easily be contacted as to what had transpired — this all in the most unlikely event that I would hurt myself from playing on a playground designed for children.
Anyone who's always willing to take the gun in hand or instigate others to do it before any evidence is presented either way is dangerous for society and for democracy. And by evidence I mean more than pizza-gate type allegations on FB or Twitter.

This being said just "not agreeing" with someone is not a reason for censorship.
Theoretical question here: Do you want to be the one sacrificial lamb that dies, in order for the rest of us to live?

If you want to play Jesus here, then I’m sure the rest of society will support you.
Telling people to relax is pretty much an ad hominem. Just because I'm disappointed and voice my criticism doesn't mean I'm being hysterical. It's art, I have opinions: season 8 was absolutely dreadful and cyberpunk is not as good as CDPR promised. The hype is a red herring.
In the continuation of this. Open source gets a lot of credit, but it deserves even more - companies, governments, institutions need to acknowledge it. Open source is jet fuel for the IT/technology industries, the ultimate commoditization of portable software.
If you made death threats from your telephone to the point your neighbors threatened to discontinue their phone service because of the unwanted negative attention. The phone service would cut you off.

No company should be forced to lose money. That’s what we are asking Amazon to do. They were going to lose customers if they kept hosting Parler.
The problem with that, as always, and one of the main reasons why there are rarely details about bans like these, is fake/illicit/malicious accounts. If someone with a Facebook bot farm gets detailed reasons for the ban of his bots, he can improve them next time around based on the newly gathered information about banning and rules.
> Could you imagine the telephone company shutting off someone's phone service over something they said or who they associated with? Unthinkable.

Or imagine not being able to use the banking system because banks don't like you're dealing with legal weed ?

Or getting cut from payment processors as a sex worker ?

Unthinkable, right.
It's clear that the broader problem for Parler is that they can't go to those other hosting providers either, because nobody wants their stinky business ruining the corporate image.

Arguably that's the real boycott, not just being tossed off Amazon, but the fact that a very small number of companies have comparable infrastructure, and they're all saying no.

But how do you litigate against being sent to Coventry?
6 shots is not that bad. Many people get a shot every year, so as long as it protects you for 6+ years, it's better than the alternative.
The procedure should be: Parlaments make law, public/private agents file a complaint, judges decide if that applies, then the legal system shuts down content. NEVER EVER private parties, nor goverments, should be allowed to silence the free speech on their own criteria. As far as I know, that's how things work in Germany.
A symmetrical drawing app for iOS that I like is Silk. It might not be perfect for precision drawing, but it’s fun. Many symmetry choices. (No affiliation but I own a copy.)
Can you provide evidence of this moderation ?

From all accounts Parler was self-moderated by the community and links such as the following are still present:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErTzgBxXcAAuTkC?format=jpg&name=...
I keep thinking that either YouTube needs to continue to exist, or one day we'll have the potential to lose so much content at once. Entire companies predicate themselves on the fact that they can upload to or stream on the large services. It's a hard dependency not many think about consciously.

The sheer amount of technological progress that gets consolidated in the largest companies creates a lot of societal dependencies that would be catastrophic to undo. It reminds me of the work done to lift families in developing nations out of poverty through new jobs, then being unable to move those jobs domestically without it looking like there is now a tangible entity to blame for plunging those families into poverty again.
Twitter is a public company. So is Facebook. Shareholders etc.
According to the law subreddit, Parler’s current legal representation for this suit consists of a single lawyer running a sole proprietorship. They are going to get buried in this case.
> except for the timing (immediately post-Georgia runoff)

Seems to me that the timing was after a seditious mob tried to mount an insurrection against the elected government while they were trying to fulfill their constitutional duties. Like it or not, that's not something any major corporation wants to be associated with.
From a point of view outside US, it seems to me that this is the consequence of the extreme polarization of the political situation in the US that happened in the last 8-6 years and brought what looks like a moral witch-hunt from both sides.

Now, if the consequence is to strike a point against the enemy party, it seems both formations unconsciously agree to sacrifice some piece of democracy or freedom. In the end everybody lose and society decays.
I know it's not 2002 anymore, but I'm pretty sure no website on this planet would even come close to 1000 open connections, unless it actively tries to achieve just that, but even then I think browsers still have a limit on number of concurrent open connections, per tab and maybe total.
I couldn’t find anything to support your claim.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/capitol-hill-riots-seattle-police...

According to the article, someone identifying with the BLM movement was present in the mob that attacked capitol hill. There doesn’t seem to be any reason to believe that this person is some kind of agent provocateur. I did not find any report that he claimed to be a journalist, independent or otherwise.

In any significant protest, mob, or riot there is going to be a mix of different people with different agendas. The idea that somehow the capitol hill mob was caused by agent provocateurs is… well, entirely possible but it doesn’t absolve anyone who participated of responsibility for their actions.
Would you mind sharing your experience afterwards? The alternatives to SELinux in terms of network filtering seem to be so rare.
Pi-hole has its advantages. But this is also an application firewall. It's a little more convenient to block a whole app then try and figure out which ip it is trying to connect and block that.
Twitter Bans over 70k QAnon Accounts in Conspiracy Crackdown
z/OS is a full blown, certified UNIX. WSL1 makes NT a unix kernel if they wanted to get the certification.

And redox goes beyond them in that the only user mode env it supports is posix with some extensions.

But how is this line germane to the original point again? That somehow being a microkernel means that it can't be a unix like design OS?
iptables?
I am not saying there aren't significant issues in the US. It's still hard to get yourself out of the pit and I think that the US certainly would benefit from stronger social safety measures, as well as healthcare reform.

But your chance of success is basically none in half of the EU. Even homeless people in the US have a much better chance, because they have access to the US market.
With Alexa and it's ilk being integrated in ever more home electronic devices, not buying one is becoming increasingly impossible.
Because the CEO went on TV and said so.
Parler does ban hate speech within the rule banning "Any direct and very personal insult with the intention of stirring and upsetting the recipient".

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200625/16303844790/just-...
Game-changing SMS campaigns from FMGC brands
Not just that but a big cheap PR stunt.

How much does this really cost them? I doubt Parler has that much money to put up a big legal fight.

This is a cheap a PR win for Amazon.
Little Snitch is more powerful though.
Sorry for the jump straight to the abbreviation. "PE" stands for "Principal Engineer".

Amazon's Software Engineer level progression is:

SDE1->SDE2->SDE3->PE->SPE (Senior Principal, Director Level)->DE (Distinguished Engineer, VP Level).
Is this the foundation of a Kafka clone?
They're still not going to able to prove anti-trust. If we start from the idea that the internet is a vital service, the problem very much becomes at what point is somebody compelled to host you on their infrastructure?

Providers will quite rightly claim a right to compensation for reputational damage. If I have to provide service to Parler, I want it known that this is not my choice, for example.

The most case I could see them actually having would be if IANA refused to allow them to be listed in the root zone DNS servers, and if basic connectivity were being denied - because that's the very basics of internet connectivity. Everything else is just making things easier, but it's all being done because someone else wants to do it.

Freedom of association then becomes a significant issue because hate speech is not a protected class.
Java for the back end, TypeScript for the very lightweight front end.
The article talks about 'quantum particle' not 'particle' as in the title. As I understand, a 'quantum particle' is not a real particle, but a kind of 'virtual' particle that can be used to describe certain behavior. It is thus not the discovery of a new particle outside of the standard model as the title might suggest.
> In other words, real estate is a great way to preserve wealth.

Not compared to a low cost broad market index fund, for people outside of hot urban markets or popular outdoor recreational areas.

There are vast swaths of land in the US that are depreciating in real terms, especially with foreseeable increases in property tax.
The antitrust argument is that Amazon shut them down to help Twitter, which is laughable.
> Tell me what I get from YouTube today, that I should care about, that I didn't get five years ago.

Five years of progress in the spam filtering arms race?
If living costs does equal quality code, most quality logically must be from Scandinavia. If that is fact or not I won't try to judge.
This is demonstrably false. Freedom of movement combined with education combined with a semi-standard language (English, no matter how ragged) means that anyone with an in-demand blue collar skill - plumbing, building work, etc - can move to a different country and set up as a small trader.

This has happened many times and continues to happen. I know a number of people who have done exactly this, and a few of them now own multiple properties. They also send money back to their families in their home countries.

Good luck trying to do the same in the US. If the rents in white collar areas don't kill you, the healthcare costs will.
LineageOS regularly ends support for old devices. Its builds are made by a handful of volunteers in their spare time, and any of those volunteers may lose interest and walk away. Because Android building is so byzantine, it is not trivial for someone else to come along and restore support for an abandoned phone.

The LineageOS team has repeatedly emphasized that they do not owe anyone long-term support, so please stop recommending it as such. This is one of the reasons for interest in the PinePhone: it is now supported by the mainline kernel and much easier to build for in perpetuity than an Android device.
Sell your pre-owned tech subscriptions
> Could you imagine the telephone company shutting off someone's phone service over something they said or who they associated with?

This isn't why they're being dropped though is it? I was under the impression they were being denied service because further terrorist attacks were being openly planned on their platform with no attempts at moderation happening.
> Absolutely agree with his gripes in the first article about the traditional historically-oriented introduction to QM confusing students.

Off-topic but that's also my problem with any introduction to philosophy I've seen. This old Greek said something. This other old Greek thought something else. Some German philosopher said still something else.

Maybe that's what philosophy is all about, in which case I'm perfectly happy not to learn anything about it. But I have the feeling there really is something interesting to be found, if only the books would talk about that instead of painstakingly reconstructing the whole history of the field.
I've tried it with both a $20 off-brand shotgun mic as well as a Blue Yeti. Not much luck with either. RNNoise did vastly better and the work getting it set up in my audio pipeline certainly wasn't worth $5/mo to avoid.

And honestly I could've even lived with that except for the severe degradation in audio quality.
Your statement really isn't any different than saying "Amazon says the mute button is real".

Which we already knew.

The problem is that many people don't trust the good faith of the company you work for, and by extension they won't trust you either.
If the backup restore is a merge rather than a nuke and pave it might make sense to do whatever Molly[1][2] does to allow it to be installed alongside Signal, so it's install this, import from WhatsApp, then backup/restore without having to do the uninstall/reinstall dance.

[1] https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25743852
I don't think that's how your situation would play out. The neighbors would complain, and police would get involved. Then you would get prosecuted for making violent threats.
> what they shut off is their television show / public feed of people calling for violence. it's completely justified.

Right, this is more akin to Fox/CNN/MSNBC deciding they're not going to allow you a platform.
It works initially - but after they have watched all that which they want to watch new content is required.
That's definitely not whataboutism.

And you did nothing to address his point. Iirc, the judges and authorities and experts in Venezuela supported Maduro. Guaido nonetheless had a case and it would be wrong for a random tech company to decide if he should be deplatformed.

>actual doubt and irregularities

Again, who says what is ACTUAL doubt and irregularities? Cause I kind of don't want it to be the crowd or twitter/facebook.