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> How can 'Big Tech' and 5 billion Internet users align our interests for the long term?

This is a fascinating question, I want to see this discussed more. I'll throw some thoughts to get a conversation started:

I would happily pay for big tech company services - if I'm worth $30 a month in advertising revenues, I'm willing to pay $30 to subscribe to the same services in exchange for privacy. I'm convinced that I'm not the only person who thinks like this. I am waiting for a product to come around and service this market.

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When potty training, it's also best to teach your child to wipe his buttocks by himself, like a grown-up. But how do you do it? Tatiana Valderrama, a nursery nurse and child specialist tells us everything.
AMSAT articles about this always kind of bug me. They make it sound like this is really difficult, but has the cool payoff that you can listen to/ talk to astronauts! Unfortunately both of these assumptions are far from reality.

For anyone who wants to do this with their kids, I would highly caution you to temper any expectations that they will be able to hear or talk to the crew: while entirely possible and also pretty easy, it's a very rare treat to make a contact. The crew keeps very busy and most do not carry amateur radio licenses.

The ISS is a trivial satellite target. I cannot overstate the ease of receiving it compared to other satellites. A $20 radio like a Baofeng UV5R or an RTLSDR dongle is all you need. A fancy directional antenna, worrying about doppler shift, tracking its position, etc. are not necessary with ISS to listen to the FM 145.800MHz voice or 145.825 (1200 baud AFSK ax.25) packet radio downlinks. Voice activity is incredibly rare as I mentioned, but packet activity is nearly constant as it consists of ground stations relaying through the ISS digipeater. If you want to be sure your setup is working, listen for packet data. You should also check online to make sure the digipeater is currently operational. For various reasons, it is sometimes offline.

Most of the ISS packet traffic is APRS and include position data which you can decode with a cell phone or a computer (or a radio that supports APRS or packet). It's fun to watch a visible pass while monitoring the traffic to see where it's all coming from. My kids who are typically not terribly interested in my nerd hobbies enjoy this particular one quite a lot.
> But you can also use a direct ip address.

And then the RIR cuts off your AS.

Or your SSL issuer revokes your cert.

They can't win on the conventional Internet, even by playing a shell-game. So these 'deplatformed' services will move to store-and-forward mesh networking using opportunistic connectivity over ad hoc WiFi or Bluetooth or whatever. And that's going to be nearly impossible to monitor and police. How will we know what they're discussing if we don't even know that they're communicating?

The more you tighten your grip...
> Offloads rendering to the GPU

I don't understand this - isn't all rendering on a typical macOS or Linux desktop done via the GPU?
The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists
Seriously, what is going on with USB? I bought a charging cable for my phone once that supports fast charging. The connectors all fit but no fast charging? Shipped it back and bought another one - what a waste of resources.

They really need to use semantic versioning and be forced to clearly display that version number on the cable or connector in a legally defined, readable size. In fact every cable type should have that. I recently bought a 2K 144Hz screen and could get the display manager to set 144Hz. Then I looked up the standard and found out HDMI 1 doesn't support 144Hz but HDMI 2 does. Not a single cable in my house has the version number written anywhere and I had to try them out until I got the right one.

What I would really appreciate is:

Cable X not compatible with Cable Y --> different major versions and completely improved specs, power requirements, AND different shape

Cable X.X is compatible with Cable X.Y but has different functionalities --> same major version, different minor version, same shape. Easily understandable by users "First thing I see is a big X, it fits with whatever I'm trying to connect with, it should work". If it doesn't then they can look closer and go "ooh.. the small Y is different. I should get Y or Y+n".

That's it.
"Firefox BAT extension might not work in the future" is still better than no Firefox BAT extension. I like the idea of Brave but my preference for Firefox is greater.
Britain Will Thrive If We Side with Innovators
Yep, it's one of the best subreddits around, commenters just need to keep in mind their rules of civil discourse.
Yeah - I vaguely remember that. And this economy is not the time to take unnecessary risks with your livelihood.
Does Vitamin D combat Covid?
that concludes the story of the 40s thieves in the Alibaba case
>This insane drive to change the meanings of words (eg. every traditionally conservative leaning person is now a Nazi, and everyone proud of their unique cultural heritage is now a Racist, so long as they are also white) is no problem!

This is a strawman, and is generally unhelpful to a good-faith discussion of politics, speech, and moderation.
> protect their community from infiltrators and subversives

They see anybody who doesn't toe the Trump line as a brigader from r/politics. Everything is a conspiracy. But there are a number of very moderate conservatives that (for whatever reason) continue to call r/conservative their home, and they respond positively when something sane gets posted. I've had a couple great conversations over there with those folks. I just avoid the endless meme threads and other trashy pointless tribal gunk.
You platform is indeed hypothetical because what you're asking for is essentially impossible. Low moderation just doesn't work at large scale without a substantial number of people suffering from its effects, including harrassment, threats of violence, spamming, and child pornography.

I would say that this hasn't been possible for at least the last 15 years.
Show HN: Band Mule - Band Calendar App
Band Mule is a band organiser app that has chat built in to it. As well as a calendar, scheduler, set list manager and audio player.
There is a risk of radicalization of masses. And banning people will not help with reversing it. They will find another way to communicate and the tech giants will no longer be able to challenge the flawed message. And the ideas should be challenged, especially the bad ones. Why the tech giants act this way and decrease their reach/base? It would be naive to think it is out of a good will. I suspect they want to show the new government that there is no need to regulate them, because they can do it themselves.
I don't want to come across as being too down on dynamic typing - I'm currently in the process of trying to get my company over to Python by any means necessary.

Curious, from what and why? ML?
Oh come on, this is a not very old debate, and within living memory of many of us we actually had to fight against the Nazis and then determine how best to prevent fascism from taking hold. This is the basic debate about government. This is why any technologist who hopes to influence the world should read deeply of history and the prior debates along these same lines.

The clearest guideline that I have seen is the Paradox of Tolerance, where we must stop some speech in order to make room for as many as possible. Fascists hate this, because fascists are the ones who demand total and perfect freedom to act and speak as the wish, up to the point of being allowed to perform violence on those whose speech they don't like. Which is why the fascists were chanting "Hang Pence" as they stormed the capitol.

Don't you dare try to accuse me of being arrogant for judging fascists, and don't you dare accuse me of trying to be the ultimate arbiter of good and evil. I can name fascists as unacceptable to society without being an ultimate arbiter.

We are in dangerous waters in the US, and all our words mean something right now. Will we fall for the lies of the fascists who say "let us violate all social norms with our speech, and we promise we woke take over with violence than force you to follow our norms with violence," or will we stand up to them and enable as open a society as we can?
> Do they literally have to buy physical servers and host them on their own property somewhere?

That's exactly what companies did not too long ago for this very reason. They wanted full control over the entire stack and yes had physical servers in physical offices.

Over time, folks laid off their IT staff and traded away their control for convenience. That's the tradeoff: their house -> their rules, your house -> your rules.

> But then how do they get connected to the internet without going through some privately owned ISP that might cut them off?

Now that is an insurmountable obstacle and a real problem. For that matter, what if Comcast cut off all of AWS until they banned Parler? It would take years to build a physical cable network. The highways are much more important than the parking lots.
> Protesting electoral fraud is also absolutely required

Sure, if it were real.
My favorite "snarky summary" of this every time it gets posted to reddit aviation is:

Cessna: How fast

Tower: 6

Beechcraft: How fast

Tower: 8

Hornet: Yo how fast bro

Tower: Eh, 30

Sled: >mfw

Sled: How fast sir

Tower: Like 9000

Sled: More like 9001 amirite

Tower: ayyyyy

Sled: ayyyyy
As a former Soviet Union citizen I could say putting any organization on the same level as Radio Free Europe, or Voice of America, is the greatest shame for any news source. Those government funded mouthpieces serve one function, and one function only - to discredit ruling party, and sow dissent and discord. Gloves are off.
10 years ago, nobody would've believed me if I were to say China will slide back into mass nationalisation, let alone nationalising something like an Internet company.

The real hardcore bolshevik style communists have clawed their way back into power.

They are back. I'm very well convinced now that Chinese nouveaux riche class, and foreign capital in China are living on a leased time.

The country is on its way back to seventies, irreversably now.
There's several posts in this thread below mine with links to activities being planned on Parler, including a man who was arrested with weapons in DC
it's clear that selective enforcement occurs, especially on Twitter. while i'm sure there are examples of violence being incited on Parler, I can find just as many examples (if not more) on Twitter.
maybe the devs are doing free speech activites and not watching the dashboard. I know I am being distracted from work by the activity here
So is everyone OK with this big migration to another centralized service that doesn't interoperate?

Imagine if e-mail had been like this. You can't talk to your friends if they have a different provider, and you're not allowed to use your own client anymore.
My number was a bit higher for when I was planning to sell a substantial portion, and yes that is part of the reason I am annoyed.

I was hoping it would reach that point 2-3 years ago, so even though I do think it's more natural we see corrections such as this, I just can't help but feel a little impatient, I'm human.

I know there's no guarantee it would even get up as high as it is now, and I'm actually surprised it shot up so much this year after being at $3,500 a bit more than a year ago, but oh well.

Bitcoin would have to basically crater into the ground for me to actually get to the point where I lost money. I bought most of what I have several years ago, and only get little slivers of it now, small enough I don't notice it leaving my paycheck. I spend less on it every month than I spend on takeout in a week, and I don't get much takeout.
When you see a DoJ press release talking about someone potentially facing a very long sentence, they don't mean that the particular person being indicted is facing such a sentence.

They mean that if you take the maximum possible sentence that someone could get for each individual charge, and then added up all those individual maximums, you get their press release figure.

There are two big problems with that.

1. Various federal crimes are grouped for sentencing. Roughly, if one single act could be charged with N different crimes, and you are convicted for all N the sentence is not sum of the sentences for each, it is max of the sentences for each. An indictment, say, of 5 charges each with a 20 year max but that all fall in the same group would be listed as 100 years in the press release, but would really only be 20.

I find it appalling that the DoJ does not take into account grouping when writing press releases. Unlike point #2 below, grouping doesn't have much of a subjective component that won't be resolved until trial. DoJ has everything needed when they write the press release to figure out what charges group.

2. The maximum listed for each charge is what someone who committed the worst imaginable instance of that crime could get. Someone who had all the various factors that can affect sentence length go against them.

Unless you are doing your crime for a lot of money, as part of something like a drug cartel or the mob, people got physical hurt or there was a good chance they could have, you caused huge economic loses, and you have a serious prior criminal record, you ain't getting anywhere near the max.

First time offender, not for monetary gain, no one physically hurt, not doing it as part of some larger criminal enterprise? Somewhere near the low end, with a decent chance of just a few years parole instead of jail time.

Here are some articles. The first covers federal sentencing in general. The second two cover it in the context of the Swartz case and also look at each charge.

https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...

http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/

http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-agains...
Perhaps it would be as simple as making punishment scale with the number or recurrences? Maybe not even linearly.

Not necessarily in a "received 4 counts of xyz" situation, but maybe increasing punishment nonlinearly in situations like "received a 4th count of xyz in the past 10 years".
Chronologically/temporally separate incident #4 should carry more weight than #1, since the offender probably should've learned their lesson after #2.
While not a guarantee, the number of donations is proportional to the number of users. Since they can't extort their current users for more money, the only hope for Signal is to get more users.
It’s the same total energy per bock. Their design starts out with 2 rings of stone. To simplify assume both piles are equivalent. The first layer of stones is raised by the width of a single stone. The next layer is raised twice the height of a single stone. The n+1 set is raised 2n+1 layers.

Starting with more piles means a lower initial height. But, the only things that matters when stacking is initial and final heights, and transmission losses.
Lawfulness can most often be found in the U.S. where both sides have vigorous legal representation. There are still miscarriages of justice in those cases, but it is not the norm. Of course, big corporations always have vigorous legal representation, so lawfulness is basically a given when it comes to legal disagreements between them and the government.
why was he blocked?
Does XTerm support unicode?
Death threats from the right people that’s the difference. Twitter supports those people, so they can stay.

That’s why this whole Parker debacle is hypocritical.
It's interesting to look open Signal and see a steady influx of my contacts show up as new users.
I’ve got a reflexive “why did they implement this?” and look for the downside. That law does does appear good, but Poland is on a dark path with it’s politics and leadership.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/europe-and-central-asia...
I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I don't remember. Mostly we do that when a subthread goes too offtopic, especially when it makes the discussion more generic, which is a bad thing on HN [1]. But we might also do it as a pruning mechanism because the thread has become top-heavy and a subthread can stand on its own. We also do it when a comment is not really a reply to its parent, but was posted there for some other reason (usually because the parent was the top comment). I take your word for it that the latter was not the case here.

Most likely it was because the subthread was too generic relative to the OP. What makes articles intellectually interesting are the specifics, the curious bits, the diffs [2] between it and comparable things. In the present case that was certainly the Ugandan aspect, and the theme of American cultural domination vis-a-vis Europe is a change of subject relative to that.

Changes of subject can be fine if they're unpredictable and whimsical, but definitely not when they're a move towards the generic. Generic topics are like large planets with powerful gravitational fields—or even black holes—the default trend is for all threads to get sucked towards them, and that leads to a much less interesting place.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
So if someone posts a plot to kill lawmakers, take over the government all while using their website to organize the insurrection, you're saying that they can't be held to ToS terms banning illegal content until a court has ruled on whether or not their insurrection is illegal?

I haven't seen the examples that AWS provided to Parler, but I trust that AWS lawyers signed off on the plan so they show a lack of moderation on Parler's part.
It is not obvious that having someone publicly call for trial by combat at the capitol increases the probability of that happening, compared to no public proclamation? But what you're saying is that removing said content is going to somehow increase the violent behavior? By what means? Because you followed someone into to a cesspool? Then you were already drinking diluted pollution.

People do not get banned simply for being a member of a political party, people get banned for spreading hate and inciting violence. Maybe you should reconsider who you follow if the people you follow wallow in hate and bigotry?

Why doesn't the party of individual responsibility doesn't seem to understand you can just stop following the hate? Seek out and follow reasonable voices. But I'm afraid the whole appeal is more emotional resonance more than reason.

Tolerating hateful violent rhetoric will not de radicalize anyone.
Parl-fucking-LER!

At least take the time to note the name of the company, before weighing in with your opinions.

[None of this confusion would arise, if you Yanks spelled 'Parlour' properly]
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The supposed breach of contract seems bigger to me.

> AWS is also breaching it contract with Parler, which requires AWS to provide Parler with a thirty-day notice before terminating service, rather than the less than thirty-hour notice AWS actually provided.
Just 39% of Americans could pay for a $1k emergency expense
He could have created a service to retrive private videos and earned way more from subscriptions/ads.
FYI: Telegram checks all these boxes.
Is this not an absurd standard considering section 230 exists? Where the govt literally tells platforms to not moderate? From my understanding Parler has been taking down explicit calls for violence but the bar is just high.
It really isn't a straw man.

If clients or customers bring bad publicity to a company they can refuse them service. They can in fact refuse service for any reason that isn't discriminatory in many jurisdictions.

Censorship has nothing to do with this. Any person can host a website from home, pay for a dedicated line, build their own datacenter, find a colo, host on a decentralised network, etc.

Amazon is under no obligation to provide service to Parler. They are not censored by Amazon refusing them as customers.

It's also not relevant to antitrust, literally at all.

A far more dangerous precedent would be compelling companies to provide service to hate groups and terrorists.
As I pointed out above, this is really 20th century thinking. Social media allows for a kind of mob behavior that has shown itself antithetical to the kind of market liberalism most of our current assumptions are based on.

Or did you not notice that Parler and its hundreds of thousands of users had literally been systematically erased from the internet yesterday by hounding their service providers?

It's bizarre to see the liberal left I grew up with now defending a kind of insane market fundamentalism and corporate control of the commons of free speech without even blinking at the contradiction. I think that liberal left I grew up with is dead.

We need a name for what it has become, and where they are taking us.
The processors have changed significantly. I had a OnePlus 3T which I really liked, and recently pulled it out of a box because my daily driver phone broke. The 3T struggled to load modern, bloated apps like Google Maps. The device would chug at most tasks more intensive than scrolling a webpage (and sometimes even then... what a sad state the web is in these days)

By contrast the processor in my work phone (an Iphone) is faster than my laptop.
Thomas Flight on “The Wire”
> that wouldn't be enough to qualify them as "literally nazis"

How about SS tattoos?

"6MWE" - "6 Million Wasn't Enough"

"1488"

"Camp Auschwitz"

All things seen in the group.

But I get it, still not nazis, neonazi, or other. I guess unless they were card-carrying, dues-paying members of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei?
> EDIT: and I suspect Telegram is especially annoying because it's otherwise really good, so if it also solved the security question it'd be a no-brainer recommendation.

That would be quite hilarious and paradoxical: to attract so much negative reactions because the app is very good but it doesn't do everything as the tech-savvy crowd expects (in terms of cryptography). But I can see it being the true sentiment. Interesting perspective, thank you for it.
How far into the 30 min video?
And then people complain to be the product...
I strongly suggest you the Loop Habit Tracker [1][2]. Simple yet powerful app. You configure your habits and associate a frequency, and once done they disappear from the list. You can set up reminders/alarms as well.

The only "tip" I would suggest to you is to open the app once a day. For that, I created a daily habit of "checking my habits". A little bit meta, but it holds myself accountable.

Some of my tracked habits: calling mom/grandma, reading, use Anki, gratitude journal, exercice, drink 1.5L or water a day, meditate, breathing exercices, no screen time after 20:00, etc.

Of course, not meant to disencourage you from doing your own app, just to show how I scratch my very same itch. May the code be with you ;)

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha...

[2] It's an OpenSource project! https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits
Ctrl+f tells me that noone wrote about the xdg-desktop-portal. As far as I understand one could easily provide one's own filechooser implementation by replacing / compiling one's own desktop-portal.so
I think things are pretty clear cut, if you want to start a service to obviously harbor fascist user-driven content, then yes, prepare to be cut off from the mainstream vendors. DailyStormer and Parler are explicitly those types of services.

It is a bit disingenuous to suggest that because Parler is down, "mom and pop" websites with comment section attached now need to lawyer up.
The difference is that each instance is a completely separate entity. They live or die on their own. They have to secure their own hosting, figure out their own revenue stream, and deal with law enforcement on their own. It's reddit minus reddit.