skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent several days watching the proceedings as they happened. Yes, formally there were two charges, but because the investigative report mentions other things those topics can be raised.

In attempting to resist impeachment, the Republicans want to call the report into question. That includes both it's direct evidence (attacking sources, resisting subpeonas, etc) and it's other claims. If you claim A and B and I debunk B, it sure feels like I weaken A (that's not logically correct, but people fall for this trick all the time).

RealClearPolitics, which is a Republican heavy source - so note here, they ARE biased - lays out the argument the Republicans used: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/28/democr...!

(and I'm not saying RCP is accurate as a whole, but I'm saying they are accurate as to the Republican argument against impeachment)
They are just appeasing the Democrats before they take control and break them up. Big Tech has had no issue offering services to third world dictatorships but when Americans drink the same koolaid, suddenly it's a pressing issue!

Just to be clear, I am not blaming them, I am just pointing out the hypocrisy.
Yes ex-military and special ops fight wars with zip ties.
Quarantine when you cross a border requires a meaningful border.
"Targeted" and "liability" are two different things. You can be targeted by left wing activists for literally anything. There are people who think yoga and veganism and SpongeBob SquarePants are racist. But Apple knows very well there's no "liability" in that and he doesn't have to jump each time a loudmouth on the internet gets vapors. When they do something, it's because they want to do it, not because some kind of "liability".
Identifying cover agents infiltrated into the mob, for example would be a not so positive one. Once this cat is out of the box, is out. Can't be entered again. All that you need is money to buy the product, and narcos have a lot of it.
Great outlook on working culture and hours:

> We work less, by keeping our needs small. We both cannot deal with working within rigid schedules, and we both know that we find our best selves when working close to nature.
The fact that he's being censored based on how some people interpreted what he said is troubling.

John Lennon was murdered because of how someone interpreted Catcher In the Rye. Do we need to lock up Salinger for inciting violence too?
The fact that SARS-CoV-2 transmission from humans to animals has been documented, but no animal has been found with the virus before its occurrence in humans is telling.

With no known animal vector, the simplest lab explanation for SARS-CoV-2 is that it was made in a lab. And the simplest explanation is the Wuhan Institute of Virology where Bat virus was being genetically engineered paid for by the US NIH.

This sort of research needs to stop. Clearly it is dangerous.
The United States is now Communist China.
Sad to see this with the Adam Swartz post both on the front page. We need more powerful people who will voice, not for the proliferation of conspiracies, but for the right to speak ones mind on the internet. Even here on HN any attempt at putting forth the wrong opinion on the election will result in a ban. This will embolden and validate the opinions of Trump supporters. This morning, Angela Merkel voiced her own fears that censorship is going too far
RNA Vaccines and Their Lipids
If you support radical action, you're radicalized.
I can imagine every single business in North Idaho that engages, markets, and even sells items online via Facebook and/or Twitter called them and said - (a) I don't believe that two-thirds of your customers called you asking to ban Twitter and Facebook (b) At no point would we have ever signed a contract with you if you had the right to eliminate our right to do business for no cause or fault of our own and (c) we would like to cancel our service.
Ah yes, the old “someone can’t have an opinion on what should happen unless they themselves draft legislation and take it into congress.”
Ehhh... I'd say that the left leaning people are basically all in the Boise area (Ada county) Sort of west center of Idaho. Beyond that, it's trump town pretty much everywhere else. Especially the pan handle where all the neo-nazis live.
Could you clarify you position here? I can read your comment a few ways:

1. The president did not incite violent insurrection.

2. None of the presidents actions meet the legal standard for incitement. Full Stop.

3. None of the presidents actions meet the commonly understood definition of incitement. Full Stop.

I think an argument could be made for 1. I’d struggle with 2 or 3. IANAL but let’s consider:

> So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’re going to the Capitol and we’re going to try and give… The Democrats are hopeless. They’re never voting for anything, not even one vote. But we’re going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.

> So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I want to thank you all. God bless you and God bless America. Thank you all for being here, this is incredible. Thank you very much. Thank you.
> Why are you using quotes around the word “canceled” for the Daily Stormer.

I was just trying to emphasize that I was using the term in the more loose colloquial sense and not trying to exactly describe the particular actions of the vendors.

> Do you think the issues people had with it were somehow contrived, false, or overblown?

Wow, seriously I am not sure how you could have managed to get this from my comment. Please do not put words into my mouth.

> Why would you even bring that site up tbh?

It is a broadly known example of a website that was dropped by pretty much all major online services (including even CloudFlare). What happened to Daily Stormer generated some interesting discussion around online service provides denying services (see the CloudFlare blogpost on why it terminated Daily Stormer: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/).
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From a very, very casual gamer's perspective, how did expectations get so high? Consumers are demanding more, companies are promising more, developers are worked to the bone and everyone still ends up unhappy.

Does pricing, pre-orders, or online play have anything to do with this? It feels weird that a sports game can change a few names and ship a $60 title, but a company like CDPR goes through absolute hell and still ships a dud -- what's the incentive for that?
the Frankfurt school and critical theorists probably.
It's more likely Trump will only pardon the domestic terrorists. He likes to sow division, remember?
Most of them aren’t in it for ideology but the shared victimhood. They go along with the ideology because most of the donor funding wants the ideology to be Conservative. These people were New Deal Democrats before the civil rights movement.
> What happened was unprecedented political violence...

Well, there were the little matters of the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War. And a few others of varying scope in this incomplete list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rebellions_in_the_Unit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newburgh_Conspiracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%E2%80%93Baxter_War

(This isn't to disagree with you; or to downplay the seriousness or support the events of the sixth.)

Edit: List formatting
Kilowatts? wtf

So much for that hobby.

Where were those links supposed to go anyhow?
Can you cite an example of Donald Trump or any of those news sources calling BLM a terrorist organization, or an organization that has some terrorists in it? I haven't seen that word used. "Criminal", "thug", "looter", "rioter", yes, but not "terrorist".
Sure, they can try to claim that now. It's pretty clear that they blocked it for everyone and people have email them to be whitelisted.

"So we have a solution if you or your family would still like to be able to connect to Facebook or Twitter please let us know and we can add you to the allowed list to be able to not be blocked [...]"
It may not just be political will. If you're facing armed protestors that heavily outnumber you, the better part of wisdom might be to not push the point. (On the other hand, if you're the armed crowd, the better part of wisdom might be to not push the point by trying to actually kill government officials. And that's great, but the better part of wisdom has been in short supply lately...)
This is ridiculous. The EU doesn’t have jurisdiction of the world.
They're already radicalized. We listened to this claim for 2 months, the claim has been aired in court many, many times. We don't need to listen to it any more.
Scopes monkey trial, part 2.
>complex conjugates

I wonder if there would be less objection by the author if he was exposed to geometric algebra, to help with difficulties encountered by sqrt(-1) philosophical issues.
That doesn't seem to be what the quote is focused on though, where most efforts around "protected classes" come from. I think it does a rather good job highlighting it's point about conservative central hyperfocus on the supremacy of an in-group. Seems to be a pretty strong candidate for an underlying proposition at least, given some of the imagery we've seen over the past days.
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What LG showed us in the first day at CES 2021
Will be a godsend for most of idaho, but it's not quite here yet for the general public.
I'm confident safety measures can be developed. I worked in the nuclear field where the concept of "fail safe" is very important. I'm much more concerned about a corrupt human dictator utilizing nearly-super-intelligence to enslave people, which seems the far more likely case.
There's a *minuscule* amount of grey area if the protest is specifically about gun rights, but otherwise you are absolutely correct. Using a gun to show how serious you are is just a different way of saying it's for intimidation.
Can the domain registrar also do this?
Compared to physicists, engineers are humble.

Well. Anecdotally, when there's open house at the physics department, the guys that will tell you how quantum mechanics and/or relativity are wrong tend to have a background in engineering.

Also note that not everyone subscribes to what the article calls the 'Gospel of Physics': Quite a few of us are well-aware that the map is not the territory...
So that’s a no?
Morality and outrage aside, we know where they are, and the format they are using, and they are in a fixed site. The real question is:

How can we:

1> receive and regenerate the source bit stream

2> use that to exactly recreate the transmitted signal

3> synchronized with that signal, and

4> then use it to cancel out the interference?
When hospitalization rates are above capacity, it's pretty hard to argue doing less would have gotten better results.
Porn type content also tends to have trouble with many services like payment processors. A simple example is paypal doesn't support most porn related content. I also recall a video game company that makes weirder porn (stuff like hypnosis hentai) saying hypnosis is a trigger for some payment processors so they've had to avoid that terminology.
More importantly, what would the regulators do - your not in their country, have no company in their jurisdiction to fine, and you don't really care if they fire-wall you out of country (you're us only, right?), your dns registration and infrastructure are all presumably US based..

So, I've always wondered what they would do? yell at you harshly ?
Really sounds like your being a bit of an apologist. The game is such a mess, both in terms of bugs and the mismanagement of perception. CDPR should have never released the game if they had consumer's interests in mind. Another year or so and the game might have been ready.
> Whether the number is 150 or 75 million, it’s slightly less than 1/2 of the voting public.

No, its not. Its not even the 21% of voters who actively support the storming of the Capitol [0]. Its just the even smaller group actively advocating new and further political violence.

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
1. Since when Twitter started complying to Trump?

2. Tweet stayed up until French government got involved. Mahatir is still free to post do it again.

What about China and Iran? Last I checked Trump don't like them so why are they up?
I've bought from standalone independent web stores within the last couple weeks for RC and bike stuff. Aside from that the services you mention (exception of Amazon) are aggregations of independent stores (some actual and some as individuals) and Amazon has an amazing variety of sellers within it. It is very rational for indy stores to behave as a virtual collective within those services, very similar to a shopping district of similar products or storefronts in a mall. It is also very rational for large retailers like Amazon and WalMart to include them since they act as a long tail that can carry NOS or custom goods or final stock at higher prices.

Additionally I would challenge the concept of the "truly independent store" in that all organizations represent a particular collection of services and dependencies. It's turtles all the way down.

The point about sales tax is that many said the sky would fall down if sales taxes were imposed on Internet sales. Things did change, but not for the worse on the whole. As you note, it is hard to tell if seller web front consolidation had to do with tax treatment change or other reasons. In the larger picture, the change increased fairness in tax treatment, something that especially hurt local independent stores, and missing revenue from states.

The protections of Section 230 don't protect you, your site or your users. They protect large companies who are free to silence you to support their agendas and cannot be sued for the disagreeable content they don't silence. Section 230 is as much a farce now as sales tax was then. Post-Sect 230, will those same large companies and organizations silence indy outlets they disagree with? Yes, and they already do even with Sect 230. Even in the absence of Section 230 any plaintiff will have a hard row to how against the their unlimited pockets but there will at least be a sporting chance to advance the most important issues of the day.
While we're at it, let's remove internet access from everyone with mental disorders. Clearly they can't handle the responsibilities of internet access. /s
The ISP backtracked after saying they'd block it for everyone, which is what the article actually says.

I guess "reading the entire article" isn't as catchy as trying to get a quip in the the HN comments.
I'm pretty sure you're confusing two people with the same name. Francis Wilhoit the author/political scientist died in 2010:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit

The quote you're referring to is from a comment on a web page left in 2018:

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre...

The name in the comment links to his site:

https://www.broadheath.com/

He's a music composer.
The email says users didn't want it in their internet "feed," so... this is a load of nonsense. I'm highly skeptical that anyone contacted them about blocking facebook in the first place.
Yet she wasn't purged from all social media?
What will you do now that CentOS support is going away?
Thank you for the kind reply. I do understand that a skinned animal may not appear gory to many people, but it’s definitely gory to me!
Their business is already shut down - guilty until proven innocent, which is great because it really streamlines the whole justice process.

In fact this new form of justice is so efficient we can even shut down a company before the court proceedings have even started. By we I mean our corporate overlords, but they wouldn’t ever turn on us.
i mean, it really isn't hard to scroll down, but hey, here ya go:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18184#issuecomment...

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18184#issuecomment...

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18184#issuecomment...

edit: this was in reply to the _original_ parent comment, before it was edited, where they asked for a link to the comments stating RDRAND looked fine.
Good question. I guess things like a comment/like/reply mechanic. And, RSS feeds don't really have a topological linking mechanic as far as I know. I mean, this stuff doesn't seem that hard. It's just that users prefer the walled garden approach, which is too bad. Email came around early enough to avoid that. If email were invented today, it would work like Snapchat or Slack or whatnot. Email is a much better system IMO.
Some have been calling out the lies and that has helped mitigate the damage. Taking away platforms can mean many different things, but on a personal level it means refusing to interact with clickbait. No solution will fix every issue or create a utopia where everybody believes the truth, I see no evidence that that world is even possible with all we know about human nature.
>democracy-threatening activity.

Yes, like handing the keys to public discourse over to a private corporation and then defending their right to censor it as they please.

>You cannot yell "fire" in a movie theatre.

Actually, you can. This is protected by Brandenberg as I understand it.

>You cannot publish falsehoods that harm a person's reputation.

Sure, thats defamation. I agree that should be illegal.

>You cannot reveal classified information.

You can also sign an NDA!

>Why is "you cannot incite violent terrorism" suddenly controversial?

Because without the freedom to "incite violent terrorism" we are essentially captive to the whims of the government.

To quote Thomas Jefferson. "What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure."[1]

The whole letter I take this quote from is worth a read.

[1]https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/tre...

edit: formatting
Doesn't matter who it's run by, ISP's should be treated like utilities, with net neutrality applying.
Isn’t a free market the lack of any government regulation and leaving it up to the “Invisible Hand”? With that definition, monopolies are still “free market”. I guess it depends on your definition of “free market”?
Good HF antennas are large. Wouldn't at all be surprised to find them on some farm a few miles out of town.
Thanks a lot for the tip but my point still stands.

I was never into Apple and after this my wife decided to move away too so we don't care anymore.
That is not true. Casimir force is due to EM interaction between the objects (retarded London forces). EM field is not "nothing", it is a thing that is everywhere and has properties.
If you can run RouterOS (you can) you can do all that stuff - switchOS is much more like a bare-bones packet switcher; RouterOS is a full-fledged network OS.

Check https://mikrotik.com/software for some demos and stuff.
Is not the 'free market' when google/facebook have been propped up by US institutions like the CIA, NSA, and Stanford. Google and Facebook are as established as institutions as the US Army or Dept of Homeland Security and should be scrutinized as such.

"Free market" is theory, not reality. There are no 100% free markets, nor are there 100% controlled markets. The free market is an ideal that you strive towards in a capitalistic society.

Also, the question of "why are they allowed to be upset?" is pretty wild. Who are you to disallow someone getting upset about something?
We're crawling and processing TBs of web data, we just use some python workers, Airflow, SQS and trigger a few scheduled EMR jobs easy peasy. Restarts and what not are handled by kubernetes at the container level and by Airflow at the code level. Airflow bakes in permissions and managing jobs. Glue left us a lot to be desired in that area, and $400-600 per ingest can't beat $30 bucks for the time the EMR cluster is up and since we use Kube for everything already it wasn't much a hassle to continue using it here. I'm sure in your case it makes sense, and in ours it didn't and this is why technology is crazy :P
Physics is slightly special in that it tries to optimise for mathematical simplicity rather than ease-of-conscious-thought. If we find a simpler or more predictive model for the electron, physicists will happily abandon the model we currently have, while nothing will destroy our brain's model of 'what I type is what is sent'. Conscious thought isn't even required for the process of physics, we only use it because it is the only thing we have to approximate the mathematical reasoning that physics does require.
It's not Twitter's fault that a lot more extreme right people with violent or racist views have suddenly spoke out. That doesn't make Twitter biased.
Ah, a Schneck apologist. Such a bore.

By the way, lets look at some other circumstances:

Suspension of habeas corpus. Abraham Lincoln, Civil War. Half of country wants to clock the other half. Total existential threat.

WWI. Schneck v. United States. Cornerstone and terrible case for limiting free speech in order to silence opposition to the bloody draft.

WWII:Japanese internment camps. Labor cracked down on for striking and shutting down most of the wartime manufacturing supply chain. Existential threat.

2001: 3 buildings hit with aircraft. All liberties around airtravel basically cancelled. Heavy intensification of SIGINT intensifies, birth of widespread dragnet surveillance programs.

2020: A bunch of people waltz into the Capitol pissed as all hell because their concerns were not taken seriously. Rest of country is just fine. Suggestions to yeet civil liberties because think of the Congresspeople who had to continue their meeting elsewhere!

One of these is not like the others. Further, Congress is getting what it deserved. With the way they've spent years delegating increasing chunks of lawmaking to the Executive branch, ain't it grand the way they get reminded of why checks and balances were there in the first place?
Well, I don't disagree with you. We're becoming more like China every day. Social scoring, speech codes, nonpersons, government-inspired mob violence.
This is the paradox of tolerance, unlimited tolerance leads to the disappearance of tolerance. A tolerant society must draw lines or end up overrun. Taleb has an interesting perspective on it as well: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...