skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree that Trump incited insurrection. If you can't link me to a direct quote of his, then your premise in that first link is flawed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/business/media/ronan-farr...
You can certainly see how we rate all articles here: thefactual.com/news. No email required.

On our main homepage (landing page) we've found it better to ask for email because our daily newsletter is even more polished than our site as it adds an editorial layer atop the ratings/curation so as to deliver a world-class product. (And, in a bit of marketing it seems like preserving some intrigue is better... though I haven't A/B tested this).
Likely the downvotes were from people who either open carry themselves or know many other level-headed and law-abiding people who also legally open carry.

As a community, I would argue that those who regularly open carry are much less likely to incite or join a violent protest than those who do not open carry. But perhaps I've spent too much time in the Bible belt.
Works the same as fighting fascism with even more fascism.
Wy not block google's servers too? They should try that and see what their users say. These enablers of authoritarianism are entrenched in every facet of society. Its sad that we are living in times where lies are so strongly believed.
Is the ISP in question run by a state organization or is it private?
I had the same experience. Open world games should have emergent gameplay or fun side content. 2077 doesn't really have either. You can't lead the law on a merry car chase, like GTA. You can't steal into people's homes to find goodies or start a battle with the town folk like Skyrim. You can't play a chill game of Gwent with a nearby NPC. You can't build a neat base like in Fallout 4. You can't go fishing or pelt hunting like in RDR2.

There's just...nothing to do that isn't on a yellow quest marker dot. Nothing to explore and no AI to create rich, memorable experiences with. Just a gorgeous, puddle-deep map. An aquarium swimming with schools of brain-dead, filler NPCs.

It makes me wonder why CDPR even made 2077 an open world at all. You don't need one for a smattering of (superb) siloed missions/levels and cut scenes. That's a lot of extra work so players can...drive around the mostly empty world, I guess?

Who knows, maybe CDPR had a lot of features in mind and will deliver them to us through updates & DLCs. But as it stands, 2077 is billed as an open world and delivers a dead/static map.
> The NYTimes is a centrist liberal publication that is widely reviled by anyone on the left.

This is a very different characterization than what most people would offer.

The New York Times is a staunchly left publication, and the past few years have seen the few centrist people at the company driven out (e.g. Bari Weiss). It is definitely not "reviled by anyone on the left", it's by far one of the most widely read publications among liberals.

I say this as a lifelong Democrat and liberal. This seems like one of those statements that only olds true when one draws the line between the left and right such that the overwhelming majority (easily >90%) are categorized on the right.

> People who two weeks ago would claim that companies should drive out employees who disagree with them, now wish these companies were subject to the will of the people.

Can you elaborate on what this is referring to? If you're talking about Coinbase, the company was asking employees to check their activism - of any political leaning - at the door. Not that people should be driven out. In fact, a big part of why this was well received is because often times activism in the company leads to employees trying to drive each other out.
misdemeanors :)
The king is stopped through a nationwide election, independently conducted by each state, contested in 64 accounts of court and dismissed by the supreme court. So that makes the democratic process - the KING. Right?
"Due to censorship, we're going to censor"
What next, I get my power cut off if I donate to the wrong political party?

Not any crazier than losing your sponsorship because of something your father said before you were even born.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nascar-auto-racing/...
They were front page and above the fold, well advertised, and main topics across radio, TV, and news papers. Across wildly different publications. If you missed it, you had to be ignoring it intentionally.
I think it is because all the big tech companies are eliminating popular dissent concerning the government, which makes many question if the government is in cahoots and using private companies to further public goals of censorship, which would be more difficult to do directly as government. It smells fishy at the very least.
Downvoted Really!? What the fuck for??

Parler's app was the number one download on the app store & play store after Trump was kicked off Twitter.

Then apple and google decided that Parler was not going to be a platform Trump could use, so they kicked the app off.

Then amazon decided that Parler had no place on their computing resources.

Those 2 tweets were interpreted as they were, to suit the political leanings of those tech companies and their political allies. And a legitimate competitor was destroyed into the bargain. This is not reasonable and it is antithetical to the freedoms on which your great nation was founded.

If you, dear HN reader, can't see the threat to your freedom in this then you are blind.

The US democracy may be under stress, so to speak, but it does seem to be working. The democrats will have their man in the white house. Trump will leave.

Oh, and to call that invasion of the capitol an attempted coup is a real stretch. What were they ever going to do other than get arrested??
Yeah, I'm finishing up round 2 of the game and loving it with a few annoying bugs, but nothing that killed my joy. I'm finding it an excellent experience that's sucked me in way harder than any game in a long long time. I really left heart with the Aldecados.
“no, don’t make your house out of bricks, make it out of wood, then fireproof it with asbestos”
If you read Wigner's famous essay, you can make an argument that if not the mathematics itself, there is some kind of structure which is mathematical if not symbolic.
I am super confused. If a user wants to "block" the site, can they not just visit the site ?
If I'm reading the source right, it actually falls back to a blocking `getrandom` followed by /dev/urandom; so actually instead of spamming the logs about "entropy pool hasn't been seeded", it will block until it is seeded.
One of the slick things you can do is add machine learning to it and have motion alerts based on what is detected in the video (person, car, bear, those are some of the built-in options). That looks pretty slick.
And very near to the Idaho border.
>What are the best mitigations here, both technical and social?

Don't violate the terms of service of other businesses you depend on?

For all the hard-core libertarian/corporate/free market cheerleaders, isn't this the libertarian way to handle it? CorpA and CorpB have a service agreement/contract, CorpA feels like CorpB violated it, kicks them off, courts handle the aftermath?
Exactly, they can plan their attacks in a restaurant. But if restaurant owner knows that a group is planning an attack, then owner is held liable.
What really got me when I saw the pictures of the insurrectionists of Capitol Hill was the fact that many of them had guns on them.

many were not only carrying arms, but where also wearing armours, like soldiers on a mission.

and with those guns and armours they were trying to seize control of the Parliament.

and to add insult to injury,
5 people died!

where I come from it is unconceivable.

The last time someone died during a protest was 20 years ago, it was a boy protesting the G8 in Genova, killed by a stray bullet shot by a young police officer, too young to have the necessary experience to be there that day.

we still talk about it as a national tragedy and a complete failure of the police forces and as a reminder of the dangers of far right politicians taking control of the forces - that day the ministry in charge was a former member of a fascist party, promoted by Berlusconi.

Luckily few years later he disappeared from the political stage, unfortunately not for reasons related to what he did that day, but for lying about the property of a house in Monte Carlo.

the idea of someone attacking the Parliament guns in hands is terrifying; you would see the army patrolling the streets and people protesting from North to South here.

even more terrifying is the idea that those people are simply "angry citizen" or more accurately "professionals chaos makers" but acted and were equipped like military troops.

I think USA has a violence problem, before the political problem.

that's what makes everything scarier from the point of view of a person living in an allied country of the USA, filled with US military bases, but on the other side of the ocean: the idea that everything could happen and there is nothing anybody can do to stop it.

EDIT:
I don't understand if the downvotes are because some people disagree that 5 people dead during an armed attack to a democratic Parliament is an inconceivable display of violence, especially in the greatest democracy in the World or because some people think that an armed attack to a democratic Parliament, in a country that holds atomic missiles, is something we shouldn't worry about...

must be hard for them to realise that in USA it is quite easy to plan and execute something that not even in Iraq or Lybya has ever happened (also because USA bombed them)
I love how he(?) wears the "I'm not a datascientist" statement proudly like a badge of honour. Hah!

Nice article. My only comment would be that performing anomaly detection on the same data that you use to "train" your detector in the first place, is a classic example of a "data-leak" in data science, and very likely to lead to errors in itself.
"Taibbi's claim is there a unified underlying incentive structure that has manifested in emergent behavior across all of the media."

There are really two underlying incentive structures.

1) The media as a whole is incentivized by news which provokes an emotional reaction.

2) Fox "News" and other right-wing news and opinion sources operate as a disinformation/propaganda arm, formerly for the Republican Party, and now on behalf of Trump.

In the first case, people are given news which is generally true, but tending toward the inflammatory and not necessarily newsworthy.

In the second case, there is a campaign of falsehoods and attempts to discredit perceived enemies.

These things are not the same.
As stated elsewhere, by asking the question you’re assuming the point is to have a rational argument on consistent beliefs - but it isn’t. It’s to gaslight and misdirect for political gain.
Hm... It's the US, nothing makes sense anymore.
“Armed protests” is a funny phrase. The reason for bringing weapons is to scare people or fight.
Pornhub dropped a bunch of content at the behest of MasterCard, so they don't mind their porn being curated.

"Recent studies have found that state-level religious and political conservatism is positively associated with various aggregate indicators of interest in pornography. "

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23780231209084...
I'm curious as to UK end of the link now. I would guess somewhere on the hills around London to get line of sight for a microwave link down to the city.

Having just checked the Ofcom Spectrum Information System [0], it does not appear that they could have a transmitter for the opposite direction due to the frequency allocation to MoD and Amateur. Maybe they have a contract with the shortwave broadcasters to embed trading data into their broadcasts.

[0] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/information/spectrum-infor...
From the OP

> the login page also sources jQuery version 1.8.3 which was released in November 2012

Wow, that's a prime example of "if it works, don't change it"
Sure are, Other Barry.
I remember working on 5 different apps on the LinkedIn homepage, was great working with you Paul!
"calmly wandering the hallways"

...and also beating people to death with a fire extinguisher.
This will end well for this ISP
The government shouldn’t want to be the thought police. These people are going to keep believing crazy conspiracies and nothing we say is going to change their mind. What we can do is call out lying, take away large platforms for spreading lies, and prevent radicalization by giving everyone the freedom to say what they think and to have a place to do it. Banning these people from Twitter is just going to reinforce their victimhood mentality that the deep state controls the world.

On the whole people these days need to spend less time trying to change other people’s minds and more time trying to understand them, even if what they believe is wrong.
Bacteria Can Tell the Time
Hi,

Could you elaborate a bit more about your previous network setup? This sounds awful.
I guess this way maybe someone in california will realize it's not a great idea to censor people for their political views ?
I didn’t think of it as ‘hounding’. This is a matter of interest to me because I am a classically trained chef. And I have worked and staged in restaurants including those that dabble in molecular gastronomy. There are many ways to cook meat but there is a reason we have some standard methods.

So..I also understand why it’s not always necessary to sear meat. I have cooked meat several ways including sous vide as well as slow braises. A pre cooking sear has many uses and one of them is certainly to create a barrier to ‘keep the juices in’(said colloquially) and to retain shape.

Further, food safety issues require meat to be handled in a certain way and searing ensures that the food is fit for consumption with minimal risk of contamination or undercooking it. There is a reason why we prep even before we prep food to cook it. (Ditto with fish. Most ‘fresh fish’ is frozen and then thawed. Especially if it’s from the sea. They come riddled with worms. It is a right of passage in the kitchen to be handed tweezers to pick worms. Hands down, one of the most unpleasant jobs ever)

I am not trying to nit pick, but these kind of details were important to what I did for a living some years ago and part of my job was also to train others like I have been trained. I can assure you that if we used a cold pan to start meat, we’d get a fail grade with the health inspectors in a restaurant.
Not bias; it's fairly solid writing. Hardly a landmark or anything, but the characters actually have character, the plotline has sufficient depth to actually pay attention to (though by no means amazing), and perhaps most importantly of all, it doesn't try to stop you from playing the fucking game because it has a narrative to tell -- a feat accomplished very rarely in non-sandbox games..

TBC, it physically stops you from playing, but it's told in small enough bursts with sufficiently fast text rendering/animations that it doesn't feel like a real interruption; where most games will happily sit you through unskippable cutscenes and long monologues because gameplay is largely the means to reach the next narrative checkpoint
There were loads of reports of thrown explosives in Seattle. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/25/us/seattle-protest-riot/index...
And operates in WA, so needs to follow their laws too.
Will it be a bad thing for society when they come for your favorite causes next?
Saving one microsecond is rewarded the same as saving one millisecond, as long as you beat out the next best guy. There are vast diminishing returns to society but the winner is still rewarded the same so incentivized to make it faster and faster, ultimately burning away energy and misallocating capital until the reward is exhausted, and then repeating each time a new generation of hardware is out.
The cases had no merit, is the many times over proven fact. Having a voice doesn't mean anything you say is cemented truth. Having a voice means you can file a suit. It is either heard or thrown out based on merit. His own appointed judges weren't part of the "deep state" when they threw the cases out.
The Triangular Book of St. Germain
Have you been through the misery of wanting to buy a nice dress but you can't because it doesn't fit? Think about losing weight, but you don't know where to start and what to do? Losing weight is not as difficult as all people think. Losing weight is easy with these weight loss fads on the market. But maintaining an ideal weight is another story.

Most people would follow a fashion diet or take diet pills if they wanted to lose weight.
FYI if you read on in the twitter thread cited by the story, this has been walked back as bad communication by the company. They say they intended to allow any customer who wants FB and Twitter to be blocked by the ISP to reply to that email and that's what would happen. Not that it would be universally blocked for all customers.

Owner does not seem to be the best communicator, he admits this and says in his defense it has been three days of nonstop emails and calls that he answers even in the middle of the night. So maybe he's not thinking clearly.

Still, pretty ridiculous.
Errrhm, all the "protected classes" tend to come from the left wing ideologies. Sure, the right isn't what it used to be with Jeffersonian liberalism and free speech, but that quote could easily be interpreted to be about modern left by simply replacing "Conservatism" with "Liberalism'.
England has been pretty notoriously abridging the "right to offend" for years now. And as you point out, there's Germany.

> Do we actually need [FoS]?

It probably depends on how much you trust the government to be "self-regulated" in prioritizing the liberty of the people over time. Democracy is not the natural state of things by any means.
Consistency is an overrated value...
Who knows what's real anymore, so take this with a grain of salt, but this is what they're worried about: https://web.archive.org/web/20210106072816/https://pafa2021....
You need an actual free market which does not exist. Other than that I dont care facebook is moderating its own platform.
It might still have the desired effect if it stops this content from spreading. Sure, the people who post it get more pissed off, but a larger number who would’ve been exposed to it otherwise now won’t.

I don’t have any data to support any conclusion, just brainstorming.
Imagine a world where you could sue a business because they don't want you as a customer. It sounds crazy.
Yeah I went through the document. I'm asking on more of a mobile development perspective. The list makes it sound like when I open up Chrome and go to a site, Facebook knows right away.
That's what you took from that? They gave an example of using SQL to do anomaly detection that happened to use httpd logs as an example.

The strategies within could be applied to virtually any time-series data.
The responsibility of the vast majority of people who open carry does not change the fact that open carry laws complicate the task of policing the expected armed protests.

(This is not to argue whether open carry laws are, on balance, a good or bad thing for society, that’s a different issue.)
you can label these people as terrorists or looters, they don't represent the whole BLM movement. Same with republicans we don't label republican party as a terrorist party even if some members of the party are terrorists.
If the claim is the courts weren't willing to hear the evidence, then why not share this compelling evidence in the court of public opinion?

All I've heard is claims that there is evidence, none of which has been shared. Or when it has been shared is not compelling.
"Nothing" is a colloquial stand-in for "things that don't readily react to sensory machines that we have access to". There's a lot of something in that nothing, otherwise nothing would be happening.
I just wanted to be clear that the “far-left” parts of the Black Lives Matter movement I was referring to wasn’t demanding police treat of people of color equally, more about some of the economic justice and reparations policies advocated for by the Movement for Black Lives. I’m not saying I disagree with any of them, just acknowledging they’re further left than the most well known policies of the group. They’re also the reason a lot of right wing people denounce the movement as ‘Marxist’.

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

Demanding that people all be treated equally by law enforcement isn’t far left, I thought that was important to state that.
I wonder if the productivity of the people who requested the sites to be blocked went up significantly? :)
I don't understand the busy beaver stuff, but is this argument similar:

On a 32-bit computer, there are 2^32 bytes of memory or 256^(2^32)=2^34359738368 possible states. A program is something that takes you from one memory state to another and you want to figure out if the state transitions form a cycle?
Are we playing semantics here? You called it "free speech". I wish we all had the 1st Amendment in Europe, but unfortunately we don't. Every European country claims it has free speech, but at the same time puts limits on it, let that be anti-communism laws, hate speech laws, laws against offending religious people, or whatever really. That's just how things are in Europe, sorry. Whatever the Polish government might have done to that point, they have my applause for trying for once to actually expand the freedom of speech on the internet. And even Merkel seems to agree with them and I don't really like or trust her either.
Plants Communicate with Bees through Electric Fields
I stand by the actions of Facebook, Twitter etc, I'd agree this ISP has the same rights. Now where I could see it getting interesting is if consumers in the area don't have an alternative way to access content. I'd say if that is the case then this ISP here just opened up a door to a potential case to regulate them as utilities which means they wouldn't be able to do this. If the users do have a choice in the area then moot point.
Good point. Still, I'm curious if that's been tested in court.

My impression is that some commercial practices can be widespread, and still fail under eventual court challenge. I'm thinking of the U.S. case regarding the advertised-vs-visible diagonal sizes of CRT monitors back in the day.
This happens with many US-exclusive websites since GDPR[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17154971
Two weeks? Unfortunately this is now the new normal. All day. Every day.
Earth’s oddest mammal got to be so bizarre
Haha. Censor the censors. Classic stupidity.
Beyond existing censorship (i.e. ISPs already block stuff, sadly), there might be an implied contract along those lines e.g. statistically the vast majority of Twitter traffic is people arguing about nonsense not censorship.
Rednecks at their racist best
Parler is not a competitor to Amazon. They were a customer.
Yes I was trying to estimate while running errands. Thank you for working it out.
Why are you using quotes around the word “canceled” for the Daily Stormer.

It was literally a neo-nazi site.

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

Why would you even bring that site up tbh?

Lol so far the bar is don’t let people plan a violent insurrection on your app.