skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the EU and I've avoided carrier locked phone for my entire life.

I know many who can't do math and paid twice the value of the phone for a locked device and some plan they never really used fully.
I was referring to the comment where you say HN is “bizarrely” more “pro-censorship”.

Where you see “pro-censorship”, many see speech that historically has never been protected in the US like calls to violence, or speech that insights others to violence.

Companies gave Trump et. al. the benefit of the doubt on the “inciting violence” part, until the violence actually materialized and the FBI warned of groups organizing online to coordinate future violent attacks.
So maybe they just made the same mistake I did?
Don't let this distract you from grandpa posting mean stuff on Parler
I'm pointing out the double standard that the platforms have.

Additionally, the post itself directly mentions Twitter.
Cynical take? I think Twitter and others are acting on advice of counsel, scared they'll be considered an accessory to insurrection.

But... horses, barn, door
Your hubris prevents them from seeing how abuses of power and petty acts of tyranny can backfire.
I would support treating ex-cons as a protected class where you can reject candidates for specific roles for specific reasons but can't just discriminate against anyone with any history. History of theft? Okay, let's not leave you alone with people's valuables. History of assault? Okay, let's not leave you alone with vulnerable people. But beyond that, if we're not willing to say that your sentence is finished when your sentence is finished, we're admitting a major flaw in our criminal justice system. And maybe that flaw is there, but then we should fix it. "Guilty for the rest of your life for ANY conviction" is just as bad as "guilty until proven innocent" in my opinion. I don't know what you were convicted of, but there aren't many things that would block me from trusting you to sit at a computer in an office and contribute to a software project as part of a team.

Side note: are there really NO companies that let you in the door? I've had some larger corporate places ask me about any criminal history and have even run a background check. But I don't think it's come up at small and medium-size companies, where I'd also expect there's a bit more understanding and flexibility anyway. Maybe the ageism is more of an obstacle there? But then maybe I just don't notice because I don't have a conviction to tell them about. I certainly don't mean to minimize your problem, just wondering if it's really a complete deal breaker everywhere.
Isn't that "trackback"? As popular in the first wave of '00s blogging.
This thread is talking about an example of doxxing on a much larger scale than anything that has ever happened on 4chan. What's your point?
It should be noted however that the Axis could never compete with the Allies in terms of quantity - America alone had over 5 times the industrial capacity of the entire Axis in 1944, and Germany was critically limited in resources like oil. Germany needed weapons that could get 10+:1 kill ratios. Further most of the late war German equipment was designed during the early war when they were doing well: it looked like their industrial base was expanding and they mostly needed equipment for well supported offensive actions. If germany had spammed tanks like the Russians did, they'ed just run out of fuel sooner. It was a gamble to go for over-engineered equipment, but it was rational even if it ultimately didn't pan out.
"Beyond hate speech" lol. That's kinda the problem, isn't it? Who gets to define "hate"? And why ban speech that is actually legal (even if highly offensive) anyway? And if it's worthy of banning on a major platform, why not just make it explicitly illegal? These are serious and important questions (among others) that seem to get conveniently glossed over.
I believe GP is referring to government legal action against Parler for "helping" organize lynch mobs. Extralegal retribution from oligopolistic service providers is of course also allowed by law, that just doesn't make it fine.
Be more specific. There were many lawsuits dismissed for a variety of reasons. Pick one, and let's talk about that one.
> getting into a Python code base was the most difficult one, because of the lack of typed method parameters

One place I worked used to be a Python shop, but had migrated most of its services to Java. Chatting with one of the engineering leads for a large Python system that had a lot of business logic, he said where Python actually fails to scale is lines of code and developers because lack of types makes it harder to reason about and harder to make changes safely. This obviously changed now that type annotations are a thing.
Five minutes difference and they could have captured or killed half of congress.

Then it becomes martial law time, with Trump retaining power.

How close is that?
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Always reading, always learning. To the point when asked what reward can I give you, it's more learning and reading. Beautiful.
Now that the Parler dataset has been harvested - we may actually get to see how many of those voices were rational.
Re: point 1. The bittorrent protocol somehow manages to get around this problem. I wonder if that mechanism could be used here.
Ah yes, the system that until very recently ran eval() on every incoming text message. Super trustworthy.
The legislation around bike lanes has changed considerably in Germany 20 years ago but the removal of existing cycling lanes which don't conform to the current law is taking a lot of time.

In a nutshell: To construct a separate bike lane which cyclists are then obligated by law to use, is only permissible in rare circumstances where the road would be exceptionally dangerous for cyclists to use. In 2009 improved standards for the construction of separated bike lanes were codified.

Previously separate cycling lanes were constructed mostly to help cars move faster. Their quality (width, separation from foot traffic or parked cars, surface quality, etc.) was often horrendously bad and it is in no way enjoyable or expedient to use them.

Additionally if separated from the road by a row of parked cars or a hedge drivers turning right at intersections have a hard time to spot cyclists. As a cyclist you always have to be on the lookout even if you would have the right of way because a driver just might not have seen you.
Almost all of those come with an arrest record which can stop you from getting a decent job.

Just because you can get 3 months for a felony charge, doesn't mean you'll ever be able to work again. We need a system to get rid of most criminal records after a certain amount of time
It makes a world of difference when you consider it in the context of American history.

Race and the other legally protected classes have been the biggest factors in discrimination in this country - the biggest ways in which US society has violated its creed "We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal".

Political party has not, nor has "users of a computer application", nor the intersection of those manifested in Parler.

But sure, if you algebraically treat race and political party as equivalents without any historical context, the comparison is "in principle" the same, but that is deeply flawed as it requires the conscious exclusion of historical context.
Can't reply to davewritescode but... BLM as a political movement believes that American law enforcement disproportionately targets black citizens with violence disproportionate to the alleged crimes or situations in which the violence occurs. This is not a far left view in my opinion, as someone who hold "far-left"/left-libertarian views on a variety of subjects. "Defund the police" has been proposed by some people who share this core beliefs proposed by the BLM movement as a way to reduce the disproportionate violence against black citizens in the US. Unfortunately, I think it is a vaguely and poorly phrased slogan because I have seen that for some it means abolishment of law enforcement and for many others it means restructuring the funding of law enforcement to provide alternative public services to people who are having a mental health crisis, for example. The idea of reducing law enforcement budgets or redirecting some of the resources currently budgeted for law enforcement to alternative public services doesn't seem to me to necessarily consist of a "far-left" policy either, though that is because I think the notion of reducing law enforcement violence when unwarranted should and is a concern of people of most citizens other than a distinct minority. Of course we are all awash in the propaganda and media messaging of disparate groups with various agendas so understanding all of this in a shared and cohesive manner as a society is messy and somewhat difficult, but well-worth trying.
Thats happening a lot, switching your bank wont help at least not for long. I guess "[x] force smartphone users to use the app" is part of some security checklist now.

I got a workaround by switching to desktop mode, when that didnt work anymore by using Fennec (FF mobile fork with relaxed addon support) + useragent switcher
Some details about Parler origins and funding

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1327253991936454663

and

https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1302815780782764033

For context
With a double lawyer of tinfoil you can ask "maybe the site is just a honeypot for a foreign government?"
You seem to be taking the stance that they're a left leaning organization, but criticizing them for framing their point of view in politically neutral terms.

What if the apparent political leanings of their thinking is a second order effect of the EFF's goal and not the root cause?
It has always been the case that providers can shut you down for any or no reason. Look at gcp for a plethora of examples.
I would love a screencap of people organizing to specifically loot or damage one store specifically weeks or days in advance. I haven't seen any.

If people just went to a protest expecting some possible light violence, I don't see how that's comparable. Would you make OWS or G7 protests illegal because people going there rightly expect tear gas and batons?
> This is the absolute CORE of the problem with open-source software. Someone becomes the "maintainer" of a project, often through no skill of their own

That’s a bit unnuanced, isn’t it?

Nobody randomly becomes the maintainer of a big/popular project without having a history of contributing. They were the ones willing to pick up the task of doing free labour for everyone after the last guy didn’t want the job anymore.

As maintainer of a project, their job is to try to respond to bugs, maintain it, improve it and keep it working. All for free.

If somebody submits a low quality or low effort patch which goes against the projects conventions or general strategies or patterns which will over time increase the maintainer’s burden, he is under no obligation to accept that patch.

On the contrary, whoever submits the patch is the one who wants to benefit from all that time invested into the project so far, for his own good. I think it’s absolutely fair to expect/demand that they are also willing to put up some effort when they send in patches and receive feedback.
My observation is just a single observation, but after all the hubbub I created a Parler account and I saw a more milquetoast Twitter. It honestly reminded me of a country club in that it was mostly an older people version of Twitter.
If there was a way to indict executive overreach on issues like surveillance and propaganda for example, things that are actually important compared to utterances of certain persons, the numbers would look quite different.

Trump is as guilty of executive overreach, no questions asked, but the criticism is very selective.
What the hell does he even mean by Tech Monopolies?

People today are just making up words.
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Did they change their comment? "I want fewer addictive industries, not more" doesn't sound like what you describe..
I’ve seen a lot more racism fueled violence on BLM protests than with Trump supporters.
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You started off with the idea that research papers "can't tell you what should be done", which it seems like you disagree with now?

> 'Discussion' is normally an invitation to scientific discussion, not a political one

To think that those are so distinct is perhaps naive.

Thanks for the link, it does seem to be a call to action as you said, but backed by many studies across many disciplines. Which would make it both a scientific and political.
It does, but it’s actually the fourth amendment that would be in place here, and numerous child pornography cases as well as the Panama papers have shown that US courts will allow illegally obtained data, as long as it was obtained by private citizens who were not working with law enforcement and that the data can be established as reasonably untampered.
I was wondering what the effect of imposing a "minimum time to reply" would be. For instance, if I wanted to reply to your post - I would need to indicate my intent to reply, then after X minutes (at least 15, but ideally more) I would be able to respond.

The idea is to stop people posting the first thing that pops into their head: hopefully taking more time to formulate a response (or reconsidering if it was valuable to say anything at all).
don't you setup you're own network in both FB and Twitter? i choose who my friends are in FB (I'm not on twitter)
I completely agree about your thought about emotions and the Spock-like emotional detachment and the importance of emotions in decision making and every day life.

I disagree that this is related to the original posted article about a company that has chosen as their first language Haskell. I do wonder how your responses would differ if they had chosen Elm originally and perhaps it is both you and I that should evaluate our emotions are why we even commented...
> What you cannot do is organize thousands of individuals to commit violent acts, or call for and attempt the murder of rightfully elected public officials not just on January 6 - but again on Inauguration Day.

Democrats called for violence against Trump and Republicans for years and they encouraged the blm riots for months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUGKKHVt7pI&feature=emb_titl...
There isn't even enough time to construct nuclear plants within the timeframes needed to mitigate climate change.

Nuclear power is also just too expensive. I know the tech crowd is still angry about the safety debate, and that may even be justified. But it just doesn't matter any more.

Solar + battery is now cheaper than coal, of all things, for new construction, in fairly typical situations.

Solar panels are also fairly productive in winter, more than people realise. That's because we tend to believe their output is proportional to temperatures, which it is not. Solar irradiation varies far less throughout the year than temperatures. Length of daylight in higher latitudes is an issue, but correlates surprisingly well with stronger winds, at least in Europe.
> A person is either safe enough to be in society, or not. There should NEVER be an in between state.

Doesn't this contradict the whole idea of parole? My understanding is that people who are out on parole are deemed not safe to be fully left to their own in society, they often have not served their full sentence, but are given the chance to ease back into society earlier.

Wouldn't a more hard-line approach of either 100% safe or unsafe result in even more time spent in jail?
lets say the gun manufacturer sees a presentation given by executives at a social network. "we can create conditions that drive demand, because our social scientists have 1/4 the planet as guinea pigs." gun manufacturer takes out ads, and also gives money to "affiliates" like Ted Nugent to create viral content.

I am not saying that FB execs make such a presentation, nor that TN is directly funded by the NRA, but the relationships are all there - interested parties are aware that Facebook can create results.
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Is dark matter just made of “antimatter nuggets”?
> I havent heard any good ideas yet regarding how to somehow regulate social networks.

* Break them up, and keep them small enough so that no one site can do that much damage.

* Remove safe harbor provisions on algorithmic content feeds.

* Pass a transaction tax on ad auctions to discourage free-for-attention business models.
Energy requirements of various technologies is commonly measured with a simple ratio called ERoEI -- Energy Returned on Energy Invested.

Basically, any energy source can be thought of as an "energy multiplier" -- it takes some amount of energy to free the resource (manufacture it, mine it, etc.), then it produces some amount of energy output over its lifetime. So by looking at energy-out / energy-in, you get a sense of your bang for your buck.

Looking at the latest figures on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment#Ap... :

- Conventional oil wells are 18-43:1 (I've heard saudi oil wells -- the easiest to drill -- are in the range of 60:1)

- Shale is 1.5:1 (say you what you will about the shale revolution, but from an energy output point of view, it's literally scraping the bottom of the barrel)

- Oil sands are 5:1

- Wind is 20-30:1

- Solar is 9-34:1

As with any lifetime/embedded cost analysis, there's lots of variability dependent on your assumptions, manufacturing conditions, and operating conditions. There's nuances in energy types, like wind turbines produce electricity but require tons of diesel trucks and concrete to assemble.

But we can roughly say that in terms of energy requirements, solar is more efficient than shale or oil sands, but it tops out at the lower to mid range of conventional oil.
I always thought the 1st Amendment was about prohibiting "The Government" from curbing speech. I think a lot of us have gotten used to being able to say anything--things unbridled in scope and unlimited in quantity on (private company) Social Media, but such expectations are not guaranteed by Our Goverment's Constitution.
It would be more convenient. Given that this is supposedly a security feature - no. Nope. Not at all: what is the state of the data line(s), and how do you know that it matches whatever indicator the cable uses? (There's no way to tell, and you don't - if software is involved, securing stuff becomes HARD, and proving security even harder.)

OTOH, a USB Y-cable physically has no data lines connected on the extra USB-A male connector; it thus provides a far stronger guarantee that there is no data travelling across them. (Not foolproof, but safer than a software-controlled switch.)
NixOS seems interesting, but I keep hearing about the steep learning curve, and I also prefer to work on macOS, so I haven't delved into it yet. It does seem like it's worth checking out though. I wish there was a way to get some of that deterministic setup in macOS.
Ask HN: How to keep daily habit routine interesting?
I would say I’m a productive person who likes to stick to good habits. In the long run, I get demotivated when following the same routine. E.g., waking up every morning knowing that I’ve planned a 1-hour workout mentally bores me. Planning different day to day routines is a real time-kill.

How do you manage your daily routine keeping it exciting?
> tucked away in nooks and crannies of the tech community

It's everywhere. And it's a shame since BLM was nominally all about opposing police, but it's very clear that America as a whole loves police despite what they claim.

And when they don't love actual police, they love being police towards other people, whether it's about politics, class, culture, mannerisms, etc.
> designed specifically to enforce a certain political viewpoint

I'll try to break down my claim more simply. Saying something like "I don't really care about any political issues, but abortion is fundamentally wrong" is a political viewpoint. If IG took moderation action against people who were saying pro-abortion things, we would call that enforcing a certain political viewpoint.

Similarly, a statement like "all claims are fine except for those that tie Biden's crime bill to mass incarceration" is, again, a political viewpoint. It perhaps doesn't map cleanly onto left or right or pro-Trump vs. anti-Trump, but the set of claims that IG picks to dispute is political because the issues around Biden's crime bill (for instance) were political.

I'm neutral on whether Parler should be "singled out", my point was merely that the two conditions set up by OP are not sufficient to single out Parler, compared to the actions taken by other social media networks.

Likewise, thanks for engaging.
Sorry, but what's wrong (apart the low entropy of each shard) with:

Al Bob Car Dav

a: - x x x

b: x - x x

c: x x - x

d: x x x -

e: - x x x

f: x - x x

....etc?
I don't think social media networks can scale at all. During quarantine I'm a part of several Online Social circles, which are basically bi-weekly zoom calls to crack jokes on. The owner of the group still needs to ban people from time to time for saying racist or sexist things.

I honestly don't think it can scale much beyond 20 people, with 1 person determining if certain conduct is okay or not. And say you get kicked out for making a joke or whatever, then like in real life you have to find another Social circle
I'm bullish on Democrats due to demographic shifts, but they'll need to gain more senators from rural states if they want to pass major legislation.

GOP has to somehow consolidate Trumpists with Never Trumpers, may be tricky to do. How will independents respond to GOP after Trump is finished? Will they forgive and forget?

So, in my view, both parties need to adapt or they will not achieve that much. Imagine if Dems had 49 senators, how little would get done in Biden's term, indeed that may be the case after midterms.
>Parler is not a "social network" in the same way Twitter, Facebook or Reddit are. It is a radicalisation platform hiding behind a Silicon Valley style startup veneer.

Actually, that's exactly how I'd describe modern reddit, and I guess Twitter too.
IMO this is why federation is an important aspect of decentralized networks, and is commonly listed as a reason for use Mastodon / the fediverse. Each instance can set their own moderation policies and decide what other instances they want to federate with. Notably mastodon.social and the instances related to it haven't become cess pools of hate speech, because they do have strong moderation policies, but for users who want to post that stuff there are other instances they can find.
If you go down the path of blaming external factors for suicides it’s going to get messy pretty fast. How many suicides were because of Eminem songs? How many suicides were because of the lack of suicide nets on the Golden Gate Bridge? How many suicides are because of a break up?

Whose fault was Epstein’s suicide?

Robin William’s?

R. Budd Dwyer?
Can you name any left-leaning communities that promote "unmoderated" free-speech? As someone who's in many left-leaning communities, this would be news to me and I'm genuinely curious to how it works.
Group chats are all you need for that.
Doesn't the steam mobile app provide access codes?
It might just be editorializing. Perhaps the community is self-selecting enough that censorship isn't needed. Regardless, it's not "moderation-free"
For 2, the system is just broken. There's no balance between a message that's acceptable in terms of time to be able to send for a user (say, 10 minutes of proof of work), that would reduce spam. If someone sends me a message every 10 minutes the service is unusable, but making the proof of work more expensive means it's unusable as well. This is why the original proof of work for email was broken as well.
yep, and thank god. Because I sure as hell dont want to do that as a developer