skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now the NLP researchers can study how influence through language works in the far right groups. This will give a good enough strategy for other social media and knowledge to us as a society to not fall prey to such traps in the future.
I disagree with you to some extent, in that the world is shades of gray, and indeed, it is naive to think that either "someone is so dangerous we should deprive them of all liberty" or "despite past activities, we are so confident in their rehabilitation that no caution should be taken in their release to society".

You do make an interesting suggestion that, if we do put a scarlet letter on someone for a past crime for which they are deemed "safe" enough to be in the public, that they should be compensated for that in some way. Shit, look at the movie "Heat" for one of many examples. If someone is trying to get their life together but can't find decent work on parole, or is abused and looked at as a criminal despite paying their debt, what motive might someone have to stay out of a past life?
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That is a mistake of getting a very ad-hoc contract and then doing something that creates a lot of risk of negative consequences (i.e. supporting the overthrow of a democracy).

Honestly, this feels to me like just the best sort of stuff that private companies, and a world that relies on them does: Everyone likes but doesn't need those services. There's a lot of companies competing and the offering is great. If someone is such a pain in the butt that no one wants to do business with them, they have a hard time but still can if they want to go it alone and build it all themselves.

These are light "highlights how well it works" stories to me.
There needs to be massive revision across society if this were to happen, jobs, housing, life...it is all burdened for the felon greater than the time in prison was. Many have trouble just adjusting to things like the choices in the supermarket...let alone navigating the troubles of finding housing.

In the town I live in, (Inland NW, US), the majority of "affordable" rentals are all rented by a small number of property management companies which do not seem to be local and have 1-800 numbers. This covers a very sizable portion of the apartment buildings...guess what...they DO NOT rent to people with drug felonies...burglar...sure. But if you sold marlijuana 20 years ago you cannot rent from them...period.
So...combine that with an area which the average rent has tripled in the last 20 years...with a massive shortage of for sale properties and what are these people to do?

Work and other things are tricky as well...it isn't that a felon cannot get a job...but they are very likely to be manipulated by their employer. They will typically be paid less and be treated differently than their coworkers.

Couple all that with the ineligibility for SBA loans if you have felony convictions...now what?

You are likely to be able to get a passport and such...but most will never truly see these things go off their record permanently...unless you get a withheld judgement you are still required to say "yes" to the have you ever been convicted question. Employers being required to ask "in the last x years have you been convicted?" solves that issue...allows for the punishment to be served and forgiven. "have you ever been convicted?" assumes there is no retribution possible ever.
Yesterday I got pissed when I tried to download a podcast episode. It is available on Apple, Google and Spotify, but these platforms won't let you download a simple mp3.

Ended up having to pay for the network traffic.

Freedom is the better technology, and Solid claims to offer freedom but if you look closely it doesn't.

In what world does a specification designed by comity, describing functionality that existed for at least 15 years, and that furiously lobbies the government for its forced adoption, have anything to do with freedom?

How does ActivePub help me compete with facebook, How? Why can TikTok get popular without it, Why?

Maybe, companies should be forced to offer me a RSS feed of mp3s. Maybe not mp3 but some open format, and we should force chip makers to add special instructions to their chips for optimal playing speed.
That's your opinion, mine is that yours is extremely uneducated.

Besides teaching how to be organized and meticulous and it involving manipulative materials (which happens to be something you should do in education), it being an aide to study any kind of material, and providing you with the essential skills to do Maths by yourself using a pen in the future, either you develop fine motor skills at that age or you won't. It's as simple as that.
Another problem is with the cheap Android devices that come with a preinstalled rootkit disguised as the firmware update app. (fota.apk)

It uses LUA scripts to install apps remotely and can grant any app any permission and run as system level through reflection.

The government funded LifeLine phones that are given to the poor, disabled and veterans are all infected with this malware.

Here is an excellent technical analysis of the rootkit:

https://wuffs.org/blog/digitime-tech-fota-backdoors
Would it make sense as a good way for a foreign government entity to get access to this information?
I mostly agree with this, that we should do more about hate and violence. And do it more consistently and transparently.

To the best of my knowledge, YouTube tries hard to do this. And Twitter has been trying to do a better job at this. And Facebook hasn't been particularly good about doing this at all. If I am completely wrong about this, someone should set the record straight.

Perhaps their position is evolving. I'd be curious to revisit the evolution of this problem 365 days from now and take another checkpoint.
So your argument is that depressed people should be able to avoid trial altogether? He wasn’t even in custody when he took his own life.
From Stargazers to Starships
For a bank, increasing national market share by nearly 10% in just a few years is a pretty incredible feat. People don't generally shop around banks for checking/savings accounts, and the switching cost is very high and a pretty manual process (at least in the US, may be less onerous in NL).
>I haven't seen amazon claim that Parler broke the law. They have a TOS policy that forbids the hosting of illegal content.

If Amazon is saying Parler hosted "illegal content" then they are saying they broke the law. How can it be any other way?

>If a AWS customer is hosting child porn, does AWS take it down as soon as they're aware of the content, or do they wait for a court ruling?

Child porn is illegal, hate speech (and in lots of places, "incitement") is not. In fact, in many jurisdictions the latter are protected speech. There is no moral equivalence here. Society's rules are clear on child porn. They are less clear on what constitutes incitement. That should be evident if you're following these events.

>It's not power.

"ALCU Counsel Warns of Unchecked Power of Twitter, Facebook After Trump Suspension"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/aclu-counsel-warns-o...
>No math. While the language of quantum mechanics is written using fairly advanced math, I don’t believe one has to read Japanese before you can appreciate Japanese art. Our journey will focus on the beauty of the quantum world.

If only Quantum Mechanics was like visual art. One will have to learn Japanese if they really want to understand the literature, say Japanese poetry. Sure, one can understand the dumbed down versions of the core concepts, but one cannot truely grasp the beauty or intricacy of QM without understanding the mathematical language. This is true for many other topics of physics as well.
The unknowns of ageing wind power are becoming visible here in Germany. There are stacks of wind turbine blades in some regions, waiting on a field for years to maybe be properly disposed of some day.

Replacing old wind turbines is also a financial problem, without the higher-than-now subsidies of the past many aren't viable. So wind turbine parks are actually shrinking.
One may see this as a positive, because it weeds out subsidy-driven inefficiency.
Twitter gladly offers a platform to the former Malaysian prime minister who said that "Muslims have a right to be angry" and "kill millions of French people". [1]

He was not suspended for the post. Twitter is a platform for extremists, as long as the extremists don't go against their ideological slant.

If that's not incitement, I don't know what is.

[1] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-malaysian-pri...
> Twitter has zero liability except their profits and an anti-trust investigation which I’m sure the new president will be a lot less likely to pursue at this point.

I'm not sure I agree

> And did you just call out 6 deaths which include a guy who tased himself, a cop who died of a random stroke and a woman shot in the throat for being there? Come on.

I also left out the 25 injured officers

> And yes, the 1st amendment restricts the govt but it’s hypocritical as hell for a company to espouse it’s commitment to free speech all the while censoring undesirable opinions.

The opinions were 100% fine until the platform was used as a way to rally supporters to violence. Twitter has gone out if it's way to carve out harassment exemptions for the President who has used the platform for everything from outright lies to falsely accusing people of murder because they spoke out against him.

This was a case of someone using Twitter in a way that would lead to any of us being banned years ago. Nobody spoke up when someone I know got banned from Twitter for retweeting a joke about Antifa planning to launch an attack on small business owners.
This needs to happen. 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.
I signed up for Parler 6 weeks ago and what I have seen from the platform is frightening. It isn't dumb memes and gifs but hardcore alt-right propaganda and conspiracy theories.

Within hours of commenting on posts I was contacted about joining groups of "like minded patriots" (their actual words). This lead to Telegram and Discord servers dedicated to "their cause". These places are highly organised. Unique URLs with multiple 'decoy and delay' steps to find and remove people from sharing links with authorities for example.

They have detailed (probably some of the best tbh) guides on signing up for secure services like Protonmail for email, installing Tor and Tails to access Onion services (this leads to a whole other world of horrors), how to use Bitcoin to purchase what are essentially burner SIM cards and phones to sign up to other services, and advice on how to recruit your friends and family such as conversation topics and “gotcha” responses, manipulated media to share, psychological and emotional manipulation techniques, etc.

The techniques used are no different to what we have seen from groups like ISIS/ISIL over the past decade.

I support free speech but this goes beyond that IMHO. This isn't strongly disagreeing with government policies but clearly talking about murdering those they believe are wrong. I have seen people seriously talking about kidnapping and murdering politicians. Posting photos of their weapons. Sharing detailed instructions on homemade chemical weapons and IEDs from people who clearly have military knowledge of such things.

When ISIS was releasing daily videos of horrific murders everyone called for such recruitment platforms to be shut down. It wasn't a matter of free speech then and it isn't now. The only difference is that these are (mostly) white American and European people not brown people from the middle east. The message and methodologies used are the same though.

Parler is without question a platform for radicalisation and recruitment for "western jihad" as I have seen people un-ironically use. It needs to go and I fully support Amazon, Apple, Google and whoever else in shutting them down.

Note: I posted this yesterday in the mega thread so my apologies for repeating myself but I feel quite strongly about this and the mega thread was indeed mega so my post was most likely lost in the huge number of comments.
This is going to be unpopular, but I say legalize it.

Watch "My 600 Pound Life." People can destroy their lives with food, they can destroy their lives with alcohol. One is merely legal, one is a necessity. People make terrible life choices constantly and selecting heroin -- once prescribed for asthma -- as a no-go is just hating the newcomer versus giving traditional old alcohol, a civilizational favorite, a pass.

We should spend the money from the war on drugs on instead trying to prevent the root causes of these kinds of disastrous decisions. We don't even have a great grasp on why people make some of these choices yet. I'm not saying we just set up a Needle Park or anything, but frankly we've lost the war on drugs. It's time to re-evaluate our priorities.
Yes. In many cases, the only "winning" move is to say what you have to say and then step back.

You can't usually "win" the argument, just your own time.
Why does it need to be just programming? I don't understand this attitude, whether in schools or jail, program, program, program.

I program too, its my job so I get it provides a living but my God do we get myopic at times. Other careers, good ones too are out there.
As I understand it, hosts tend to have AUPs that restrict speech more than the first amendment does, but peering arrangements don't do the same-- correct me if I'm wrong, though!

There are data centers that are popular with hax0rs because they don't validate source IP on outbound packets, thereby allowing people to run reflection DDoS attacks. You can visit hacker forums and get a list of these. There are still a ton of AS's in the world doing this, and no one is unpeering them even though they do huge damage to core infrastructure. On the other hand, if you try that on a well-policed data center like AWS, you'll be either blocked by automated tools or dropped as a customer (or both). That illustrates the difference between how customers are treated and how peers are.

Spam is a bit different because email providers just block IPs and AS's that are major spammers. This is done with a simple firewall policy and has nothing to do with peering.
Traditionally, the DOJ and FBI handle serious threats quite effectively. The concern is a tech oligarchy using a ham-fisted approach acting to take out its competition.
Any numbers that prove that Tesla actually put more money then governments ? In fact Tesla benefited from the government programs so the prove would make no sense, it must be other companies that put more more then governments in the green energy sector.
There's also a problem with component availability. If you just want a fixie or a frankenbike it's okay but for anything else be prepared to wait and compromise. I just managed to order the last components I need for the bike I'm building this year. I had to compromise a bit, mix hubs drivetrain components
from several Shimano lineups, past and current. The frame was preordered and paid in full in June, it should have arrived in August, finally got it in October.
In the early noughties I really believed that free speech online would work with just a very light moderation. We tried that approach with a rather small online community for an Italian political party where already all participants had pretty similar ideas.

What I learned the hard way (as hard as having light PSTD) in the course of 3 years is that just doesn't work. You only need a handful of motivated people who won't stop at anything to push their agenda and narrative to create an extremely toxic environment which only favors the best liars and the most unprincipled people.
> During plea talks held in the months before his death, federal prosecutors told Aaron Swartz and his attorney that the computer prodigy must spend six months behind bars and plead guilty to 13 federal crimes in order to resolve the criminal case short of a trial.

> Swartz’s lead defense attorney, Elliot Peters, said today that both he and Swartz rejected the plea deal offered by the office of US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, and instead were pushing for a trial where federal prosecutors would have been forced to publicly justify their pursuit of Swartz.

First result on Google.
We are in 100% agreement. I apologize for misunderstanding your comment.
Israel is a country, the Jews are a race. The poster claimed it called for the eradication of a race, not a nation.

And it can be argued that if the Israeli nation wasn’t a socialist theocracy, things would be much better there, just as we can say the same for Iran.
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> so the non-asshole thing to do is to just use their preferred pronoun.

I agree. I completely agree. I myself call the transgender people in my life by their preferred pronoun.

I also find compelling someone's speech by threat of banning them to be disgusting. Especially when there's a block button available. If you don't like what someone's saying, you can literally ignore everything they say.

Herein lies the conundrum for me - for, what seems to be, an increasingly large group of people, its not enough to simply stop interaction with people they don't like, those people have to be removed from the landscape altogether. I just do not see this ending in any positive way.
Indeed lost a child.

The thing which shocked me equally was Reddit removing him from the official "about us"[1] as a co founder. As if he never existed in Reddit's history.

1: https://www.redditinc.com/#section-4
So the problem should be corrected at the panel level, but still exists at the cell level?
I would love to install Linux on my old (unsupported)iPad 2
Parent mentioned it was "esr" or Eric S. Raymond.
As an iPhone user and an Android developer my lessons learnt, over the time, are:

1. Do not trust Google to vet the apps in the play store. They won't; they don't even try.

2. Those shiny Play Protect and whatnot postured around by Google are practically utter useless bs/bloat

3. Stick to famous, really famous apps from the Play Store - as in well known - e.g. Facebook, Netflix, Evernote etc (you will be tracked of course, you won't be hacked - you pay this price by using Googled Android anyway)

4. If you couldn't find a well known app on Play Store - head to https://www.f-droid.org

5. Do not, just do not download any other app on your phone (treat it as a no exception rule) unless you know what you are doing and possibly can look at the code - find something decent as an APK from GitHub et al.

6. Be very miserly when it comes to doling out permissions to apps. Your default should be "no".

7. Privacy (not really) and safety are just superficial polish by Google on Android OS - their core and only focus developing the OS is: making it as much of an ad platform as they can and on top of that how to get a bigger and bigger cut of the overall ad revenue with every release.
Coincidentally, that is exactly what MS-CHAPv2 does if memory serves me right.
You mean like the laws in this (US) country?
> Society needs to have something between jaywalking and attempted murder.

there is already a lot of gradation in the spectrum of consequences: fines, probation, house arrest, weekend sentence (free to work during the week, but need check into jail each weekend), different security levels for different offenses. not much "rehabilitation" occurs anywhere along the spectrum, but it's not like you go straight from a small fine to 25 years in supermax.
Not just Pixel, but most Android devices (both my previous Xiaomi and my current Samsung devices does this). I think it is probably part of Android CTS.

It just shows that this is possible, but we are talking about Apple here.
> In fact, if Section 230 was repealed than Parler would be exposed to liability for the violent coup content users posted on it and be sued.

Parler may still be liable for the violent coup content; liability for that isn’t exclusively, or even mostly, the kind of “civil liability dependent on status as a publisher” that Section 230 provides immunity from.
Arrests? That surely is a clear violation of the principle of innocent until proven guilty?
hope the UK joins some day..
tl;dr: Solid is exposing a database of data with a filesystem API. This will not end well.
This hit me harder when it happened than now, but I was also in a weird relationship place back then, so some of those feelings got combined.

I didn't know it then, but didn't have as big of a role in founding reddit as people usually think, and his activism was so obviously illegal.
What I really hate about Miele is their stupid will to push their stupid branding on the retailers (online), it always feels broken and its absolutely a pain to try to navigate any sites that integrates with them.

Their tight grip on retailers also makes it hard to buy their products outside EU because nobody is willing to go through the pain. Add higher than average price and most smaller retailers just sell samsungs, lg and random chinese brands.

The biggest problem remains, manufacturers are not required to sell repairable devices and parts everywhere, requirement is only applicable to EU, so they will continue to manufacture trash and will never have their parts available outside EU. And no, those EUR parts will definitely won't fit 99% of their products outside EU.
Any resources/guides you'd recommend?
> Supporting somebody who rejects democracy is linked with terrorism

No. "Rejecting democracy," a position held by myriad political currents, each of which probably means something different by the term, is basically a run-of-the-mill ideological position. (It's not one that I hold personally, in case anyone is thinking about downvoting for "extremism.")

You know what's linked with terrorism?

Terrorist acts. That is: sporadic acts of intense, spectacular violence and devastation designed to rock and destabilize some existing political order. Usually but not always from "below" (sometimes it's literally from above, like from a B-52).

I'm concerned pretty deeply, but very, very far from being terrorized by the pathetic spectacle at the Capitol. One reason for that is I don't take the extremely hyperbolic US press as literally as so many seem to.
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> Many argue that the experts ultimately got it right (and are thus redeemed).

Perhaps their opinion on that one matter they corrected was redeemed, but their general lack of understanding about the limits of their own knowledge was exposed, which is more damning for someone called an "expert."
Locked In by John Pfaff does a great job of discussing prison reform, and the fallbacks of common mantras (such as this one). He observes that "setting every drug offender free would cut our prison population by only about 16 percent...still more than 200,000 people -- and that's a huge number by any measure."

Because many offenses/crimes were dropped as part of plea bargaining, it's also hard to indicate how many would actually be characterized as "non-violent criminals jailed on minor drug offence". Pfaff tries to estimate this using Bureau of Justice Statistics surveying that asks inmates questions that go beyond their official convictions. According to this "about 1 percent of all prisoners...met that description".

So yes, I think a lot of people would agree with the headline here, but it's not a panacea for the incarceration rate of the US.
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True, but opt-in seems to do what users expect most of the time. Enough device expose their full power without negotiation that there are workarounds like sleeping a USB port instead of relying on power negotiation.

Devices are going to misbehave anyway, it's probably more important to default to a reasonable level of mostly works.