skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They’ve not been silenced. They’ve been displaced.

Encrypted email is still a thing.

Decentralized internet is still a thing.

How many malls are going to let violent donkeys in?

Are they deep state for de-platforming a massacre?

Free speech is under attack when you would force workers to participate in speech they do not want to redistribute.

Freedom from pressure to serve everyone is exactly what the right wanted over gay wedding cakes.

DIY, exceptional people. Quit expecting everyone else to bend over backwards to satisfy your rustled jimmies.
The word you were looking for was coordinated.

It also wasn't in his post or his quote.

And you know why you added that, because you know quick can easily be disputed by simply looking back in time. Parler was on the services from 2018 to now. 2+ years is hardly "quick".
It's far less nuanced than that. It's the "old man shouts at cloud" meme, grumpy, lazy, old man wants to communicate to the word using methods he already knows.
> the "p" is right there, why are you skipping it

Wait, they're skipping it?! Now that you mentioned it I think you're quite right, I don't remember hearing that many "p"s in front of "seudo".
Except that .NET is a polyglot runtime, F# is also an option with the same low level programming capabilities as C# to do C like low level programming, and it has sum types.

I just gave one concrete example, among many possible ones.
> and thinking they signal intelligent commentary

Can you point out where in the writing their commentary is not intelligent?

You seem to be attacking the author of this article but make no commentary about the weakness of their arguments. This makes me more inclined to believe them over you. I'm not saying you're wrong, but as someone who doesn't know much about the market, I do not see the implicit/obvious points that would prove the article wrong. Furthermore, being wrong in the past does not preclude someone from being right about the future, and vice versa.
Considering that the US considers some legitimate organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas (groups which are democratically elected representatives of their constituents) to be terrorists, yeah I don't trust the US or AWS to determine for me who is and isn't a terrorist.
Because our last reaction to "terrorists" worked out so well.
I agree with you that the analysis is shallow. Moreover, even if we assumed Tesla is overvalued (including a future shift to green energy and whatever brilliant ideas Musk comes up with in the future), that wouldn’t mean the whole market is frothy - TSLA is just one company.

At any one moment, there will overvalued, undervalued, and fairly valued stocks. All that changes is the ratio between them.
I’m not saying there haven’t been serious consequences from climate change, I’m saying most westerners have not experienced them yet, and won’t experience them in the coming decade. There’s nothing controversial about that, it’s the view of mainstream climate science.

Alarmism is ultimately counterproductive, because the risk is that people will see the gap between their personal experience and the climate prognostications, and decide the whole thing is complete bullshit. So it’s important that we are precise in our communication, and honest about the state of our knowledge.

We face a monumental struggle to deflect the asteroid of climate change by the end of the century, and we need public buy in to do it. Anything that undermines that will magnify the challenge many times, and perhaps even render it impossible.
And the higher the inequality is (per Gini), the more immobility tends to occur:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gatsby_curve

* https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/business/wef-social-mobility-...
In what way? Gab was banned on most app stores as I understand it. Gab seems to be user financed which has historically paid out less than advertising. Mastodon basically blacklisted them everywhere it could (clients, instances, etc.) so they're not really part of the fediverse. Gab is for all intent and purposes not part of the Mastodon platform because Mastodon knew what would happen if it was.
That statement doesn't reflect the sad state of XMPP clients available nowadays.

I used to run my own XMPP server for years before moving on to Matrix and the reality was that the only good client was Conversations for Android. There wasn't a single one for Linux desktop that felt modern and up to speed with the latest XEPs.

And let's not even mention trying to get multiple clients supporting the same history with encryption enabled, that was super chaotic.

I'm really glad I abandoned my XMPP server in favor of Matrix. Matrix is modern and it just works and setting up a Synpase server is way easier than setting up a Prosody server.
If you use an SDK, you're not implementing the protocol or any XEP, and therefore it's not a testament to how easy that is to do.
I think when you set out to become ubiquitous, gobble up competitors in your space and advertise yourself in order to gain more followers to cement your network effects.

It’s like denying someone electricity. Sure we can do without. But society is now set up such that not allowing someone to use electricity is beyond the pale.

Social media has made themselves indispensable and as such they owe access to whomever they’ve extended access to, unless the users violate local laws.
Can anybody recommend affordable server hosting with ECC RAM?
I mean, if ever there were an exception to free speech absolutism, now is the time—the more we learn about the capitol insurrection, the more we realize just how close we came (literally seconds) to a massacre on the senate floor, egged on by the president, and planned openly on these platforms.

Its possible to have a discussion about the power of big tech, about their anti-competitive behavior, and lack of democratic oversight, but perhaps those issues should be discussed separately from banning Trump and kicking Parler—which seem like good choices on the part of the companies, even though it was done far too late.
Icelander here.

Germany and the Netherlands are in northern europe but are not part of the nordics.

Nordic countries are (in no particular order); Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland.

And since I am at it, only Sweden, Norway and Denmark are in Scandinavia.
Don't judge Parler with what you hear from the mainstream media. I'm on Parler and there a lot of intelligent conversations there that give you the other side, which is so hard to get otherwise (which is why I joined). Yes, I'm sure there are some crazies there, but there are many, many more by numbers on Twitter. Please join Parler and judge for yourself, don't trust the media narrative.
Gab (the basically Nazi version of Twitter) is the biggest Mastodon instance, for example.
I thought that the line of thinking was that it was that hot because they didn't expect people to drink it immediately. No one is getting free refills from a drive through.
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Ask HN: Preparations for welcoming a child in few months
We are expecting a first child within few months. Doing all the standard preparations, but maybe HN wisdom would add something else less obvious that would make out lives easier and better? Thanks!
It'd be better to start off project with a depreciation schedule on software. Such as discussing plans for ROI after 5 years etc. Past that point, maintenance needs to be considered new work, and billed as a new project.

We've got to stop thinking about software in agile sprints once a product exists. I'm not saying don't use agile for the build. But we've got to learn as software professionals to think like professions that maintain other expensive assets, such as aircraft, ships, or public works. There's a recognition, that a 50 year dam, needs a tear down and replacement in 50 years.
Matrix is making p2p a first-class feature, and how they’re doing it is pretty simple. They’re just embedding a “homeserver” right onto the user device alongside the client.

With the new fast homeserver efforts, like Dendrite and Conduit, this suddenly becomes feasible.
This is amazing. Thanks a lot for writing this post. Going to follow your advice. I have some curiosity

When you say

> this provides "legalities" to protect yourself and the customers

1. How seriously these documents are taken by the laws? As I can see that the user can always say that they didn't find the document while using the website or on the opposite side website owner can say that they had those documents available on demand.

2. Are there any guidelines/regulations by any law that makes it mandatory to list these documents or was it just a standard that got created by website owners following a practice done by others
Population reduction is the single most effective measure to reduce the root causes of global warming.
> Give the students as many perspectives and hope that they will do something sensible as they process the information

I don’t know if you’ve gone to college recently but that was not my impression. It’s a woke monoculture. Discourse is gone.
That seems like it would just silence minority voices.
I think this is part of the problem, yes, but the root is more fundamental in my opinion.

Even if you had a lot of financial support, how would you go about implementing the standards and transformations described in the article? Who would adopt it?

Maybe in the context of a company this could reap benefits and become a case study. Or in a partnership between many companies there could arise such applications. But they would still be locked to a niche. That is why I think even with financial support, the problem is maturity, or lack thereof.

You could argue that once a large enough group adopted practices that proved to be effective in reducing maintenance time and complexity, that others would follow, but that stops being a matter of pure financial support and starts being a matter of adoption and convergence, pointing once again to maturity of the ecosystem.

And another aspect of maturity, standardization and sanitization is that it comes at a cost to diversity, which in turn has benefits of its own, like new ideas and technology. This is kind of the balance between exploration and exploitation we see in training neural networks. I think software is in the transitioning phase from exploration to exploitation and we are living it.
The best thing to do is to send them by snail mail a printed copy of their ToS with the changes highlighted that you'd like to suggest, accompanied by a friendly letter stating that they are free to send you back their suggestions for further negotiation and that no further action on their behalf is needed if they accept the suggested changes.
I agree with you, but that was my point, in order to get people to react it's probably more effective to identify more "local" (for a large definition of local) threats. This particular coast is going to be flooded, this particular mountain won't have snow anymore, these particular crops won't be viable anymore, this particular mode of living won't work.

But given the chaotic nature of the climate and complex feedback loops these local predictions seem to be hard to make. You can say that some catastrophic events are going to become more common, but you can't say "the 12th of November 2038 a huge storm is going to ravage this country and cause countless deaths and billions of $ in damages, so let's invest this money now to prevent it from happening".
What does the "Health Secretary" have to do with tech regulation? [edit: I would think the UK Health Secretary should be pretty specifically focused on the growing health crisis at home rather than interviewing on topics outside his current role.]

In any case, regardless of who you are, if you violate the terms of service of platform, you can be terminated on that platform.

The platform makes the rules, within the context of the legal systems with which it is governed by. When it comes to "free speech", that is a very tricky subject. More significantly, if even the local population cannot agree on whether certain speech should be allowed or not, then the government has no hope of regulating it either.
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Growing up in New Hampshire, you had to pray for 18-24" of snow overnight to get off school...

Desperately listening to the radio as they read off the list of school closures was the local sport :-P
We can ostracize but it remains to be seen whether we can halt the spread. Ostracism can lead to more alienation and confirmation bias for conspiracy theories.

I think it’s too late to turn the ship around at this point though. We’ve done nothing at all to address working class and rural alienation. Now we’ve got to somehow weather the storm.
The people got too much of a voice and the powers that be are now reigning that back.

Decentralization, encryption and anonymity is the only way to deal with this.

Aether is a good first draft: multi part app with a back end that can live on a single board computer in your closet and costs $4 to run for a year and a front end that you can use on your phone.
What is the best resource to learn about USB protocols?
What happens when ISPs decide to deplatform you? Domain registrars, certificate authorities? What about banks?

At some point you're dependent on another entity if you want to exist on the internet. I think a noble goal would be to change that, but we're far away from it.
The EU is a pretty cool thing.
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If popular rooms still can't be joined without consuming gigabytes of RAM then, I will probably give up on Matrix altogether.

Also Dendrite is Go, not Rust.
Allowing people to express themselves freely is laudable until they abuse that freedom to incite violence. Defending someone else's access to incite violence makes one morally complicit.

I really hope that is not what you are doing.
The problem with side revenue is that is usually only available to people with already a good position in the society.

Others mostly need to match their hobbies with a side job.
I'm impressed people keep making the "option not to use it" argument. Our lines of communication are monopolized. "Just don't use Facebook/Twitter/Amazon" is an irrelevant argument since there are no alternatives.
If you're not a fascist then simply be quiet, because the Non-Fascists in control who agree with all truly decent people are going to limit themselves to censoring fascists and you have nothing to worry about.
Slight correction - temperatures are not higher than ever before. The eocene (60 million years ago) was 10-14 degrees hotter than now. That level of warming would be bad to say the least, but it has easily been this hot before.

Also relevant, a few times in the Pleistocene, 20,000 years ago, temperatures peaked a couple degrees hotter than they are now.
If it's sooooo important to get the word out, then why is this behind a firewall ? Why don't they publish that openly ?
So that should be a blanket reason not to fight terrorists?
And a big portion of this site readership, willingly or not, are the neo-apparatchik. Plus ça change...
How does this argument go? Pravda was not "the ministry of truth" because soviet citizens had the option to not write in it (or read it)? I really do not understand what you want to say.
> Parler has become a hotbed of radical and violent extremists calling for murder of politicians and people in the media.

Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook all have the same problem. The only way you can argue Parler being kicked out of AWS is right and Parler shouldn't be able to operate is if you think those sites should be shut down too.

With some of the comments I've seen here, honestly, this site gets close sometimes too.

Anybody want to talk about BDS? Because that's certainly advocating for violence and the death of lots of Jews and it's very popular among the Justice Democrats and their followers, just as an example. They consider it justified violence, just like the article "In Defense of Looting" did, but proponents of political violence always consider themselves justified. That was published by NPR, so I guess they should be shut down too, right?

Or is this actually about silencing a specific kind of political speech and not really about violence at all? That seems more likely to be.

The violence at the Capitol is just an excuse to silence political opponents.
I suspect it's also about being visibly popular compared to other people on the platform. What good are "ratings" if you are the only person on a given rating system.
We all do, collectively. That’s how society works. If you try to take “who among us can say what is right?” to the logical extreme, you get into situations like “should we not teach in schools that democracy is preferable to fascism?”
> We've witnessed more than exponential growth in the volume and breadth of that data. In fact, by our estimate, we've seen an increase by a factor of about 1x10^12 over the past decade.

If 10 years ago we had X data collected, now it is 1,000,000,000,000 * X data??? I find this highly surprising and wonder if it is a typo, and if so, what the real numbers are.
Honestly, this is about the most consistent of the batch in my experience. Many of them vary, but I've never heard anyone beyond the cd/ls level of tutorial Linux say "e t c".
Fascinating! So the old saying, "Use it or lose it" remains relevant in the computer age. Most things are invented with profit in mind, that's fine as long as the way the product is used benefits mankind. Oh wait, some of mankind are dishonest and borderline evil! We didn't see that coming! (Wow, I'm still making a profit!)
Right. How would anyone argue for the repeal of popular, unjust laws? Having free speech tied to current moral fashions seems disastrous.
It's equally ironic that we're celebrating as a similar Firewall is imposed on us, while criticizing theirs.

It's not much of an improvement if we just have a privately owned Firewall.
> He had to resort to extreme measures, like a bombing campaign to blackmail newspapers into printing his manifesto.

I remember this. The things people will believe :) The idea that the two premiere newspapers carried in full, with great fanfare, the manifesto because of a few letter bombs is laughable.

("We don't negotiate with terrorists" was oddly a running theme back then, but no one ever accused the American public of being incapable of tolerationg gross cognitive dissonance. We're exceptionally good at it.)

The manifesto articulates a principalist position against technology that ultimately suggests complete deindustrialization as "solution" to unchecked integration of technology in human societies. This absurd non-solution, delivered via a "madman", is the precise reason it was broadcast to a bewildered world.
To be fair, I don't agree with this point of view at all.

Things in the physical world break down beacuse they are made of matter, and the entire concept of "working" is a very simplified modeling of their behaviour that doesn't include second-order effects like tear,consumption of materials etc.

Code, on the other hand, is a social constrution but entirely confined in an abstract and mathematical world. The _only_ reason we still don't have a reliable and solid code infrastructure (in the sense explained by the article) is our inability as a community to once and for all define a solid foundation for the principles of computing. Hence all the hacked together languages, tools and frameworks that people have piled on each other over the decades.

If one century of efforts hasn't been enough, fine. But we absolutely can work towards that goal.
> You can't cryptographically verify that the system you are using doesn't have backdoors

Yes you can, there are many methods including but not limited to SGX among other things.
"...make society and the world better as a whole." How exactly do 'we' (whoever 'we' is) achieve this without control? The verb 'make' assumes control, one does not make anything without having control over the ingredients, and in this case the ingredients are us.
Yes, while technically true, it's only due to the way that they arrived vs the way the rest of the Mastodon federation grew.
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I did not argue the subject matter, simply that progress is positive contrasted with the negative regress. Call it forwards and backwards if you like, same thing.
our constitution specifically protects the ability to discuss its own overthrow (although of course we also have by far the largest military and intelligence operation in the world to suppress any real threats, which last week very much was not). the framers realized that this was a key and fundamental aspect of free speech, and exactly the method by which we can foster discussions of change rather than via violence.

that is, your terror and mistrust are misplaced. let people talk, even disgustingly. let the world change (progress) in response. that's much better than bottled-up anger that explodes unpredictably and fractally.
Are states the only relevant conceptual actors in world politics?
This looks great, thank you.
I think we need to clear this misconception that democracy is good.
It may be the least evil form of managing societies we attempted until now, but it's in no way good.

Democracy is violently (under threat or by direct action) imposing the will of majority on a minority.
Latency and the organization of turn-taking in video-mediated interaction
So maybe don’t buy speculative zero-sum option contracts on margin then?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
No; it’s one laser source turned into a frequency comb by the magic of saturable absorbers and Fabry-Perot resonators.

Edit: sorry, looks like micro-ring resonators in this paper. These are amazing structures.
I think he is right to mention the unprecendent gap between the economic fundamentals and their financial representations.

Plus
> The single most dependable feature of the late stages of the great bubbles of history has been really crazy investor behavior, especially on the part of individuals.

That trend is even "truer" today, fostered by Robinhood and Co (eToro, Revolut, etc.). The access to markets was not as easy in 2008, limiting the role individuals could play in a bubble.
But banning domestic users for their free speech is ok?
ah yes, hackclub, the club where I offered to provide personal mentorship in Harvard CS50 and they rejected it.
That would probably help but imho isn’t enterprise grade software far more complicated than a small repo!
It’s like putting different kernel commands all together and shipping a shell file to someone who doesn’t even know about terminal
Any idea if I could use this as e.g. a 2d or 3d nurbs backend?
I haven’t ever seen any rationalization _in numbers_ for why TSLA has the market cap it does. All justifications use abstract phrasing like “they’re in the green market” and “Tesla has core differences”. That doesn’t explain anything, in fact, it makes me more pessimistic than before. What are Tesla’s actual advantages that make it worth more than all of the other car manufacturers combined?
After being force by the government to use the lowest bidder: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jan/09/why-competition...
If you're doing matrix multiplication or other math operations on fixed size sequences, you shouldn't.

If, however, you need the dynamic nature of the built-in list or functional methods with a touch of numpyness, you should give Array a spin.
It is only politicized because you and others have allowed yourselves to be manipulated to a point of confusion. The tool has indeed worked you over well and good.

Here is what we know: Anthropogenic climate change is a fact[1]

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...