skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How ironic.
On the serious side, in my opinion fighting censorship with even more censorship is a really terrible idea.

BTW, is anyone else getting "You don't have permission to access <URL> on this server" on that page too?
Aruba is a few notches up. But any of the cheaper companies use merchant silicon, open source services, etc.

Honestly, unifi is great for what it is. What kind of IPS do you expect for $100?

If you want less risk, you need to move up the $ ladder.
Yes, all protest at some level is about anger over government action/inaction, a direct voice of the people when they feel unheard. But the first "capitol defender" u/lettergram was suggesting that Trump should have his Twitter back to abuse reality, so his loyalists will feel heard. The person you responded to was making the point that these people can be heard, and have been heard. Their point is invalid.

I don't think we disagree as much as it seems.

Postscript: Check that first link to see why I got rebuttal-happy when you compared it to BLM. A lot of bad-faith or otherwise ignorant actors are trying to draw false equivalence to the movements/actions, and the narrative needs to be challenged.
Physics isn't special in this regard, though. All conscious thought is about models, abstractions and filing things away in boxes. I might think this post of mine starts with the letter P, but if I made the http request by hand, starting it by sending the utf8 encoding of P to the network card won't work, because I need headers. On the other hand if my child tried to render the opening P I'd ask her to not draw on my phone screen please.
Okay. A non-friend was able to view it a few seconds ago, so it's definitely not totally invisible. But I only have about 600 friends (haha) so I guess they don't care about small fry.

If they have 1.73 billion daily users, that's a lot of data to scan. I'm guessing they'll only go after the big fish.
Amusing to me, really. Nobody stands up to Big Tech, so it’s nice to see them get theirs.
Even (most) free market conservatives don't believe in the free market when there are too few competitors. This is why you have utility commissions setting electricity rates rather than allowing the free market to do it.

We have too few competitors to Facebook for the market to work right.
Yup on some
A sloppy riot does not predict people having IEDs on hand, or the zip tie hand cuffs.

You don't bring handcuffs to a peaceful protest, nor explosives.

You'd instead expect them to have gas masks and umbrellas
> Rogan specifically is a pretty polarizing

I'd flip this; Rogan isn't polarizing, so much as a section of society is intolerant of "the marketplace of ideas".

It's not Rogan who has to change, it's his critics.

Put simply, they don't trust fellow Americans to form their own opinions, so feel entitled to control their influences.

Ok, there are also some guests that might make false claims, or misrepresentations. Exposure and open discussion is the prescribed cure for this too.
> A building does not a government make.

That sounds like something someone in an abusive relationship might say. "Yeah, he burned my wardrobe but I didn't like those clothes anyway". Please seek help.
Sovereignty exists.

In most cases, it's good. In some, it's not. Obviously depends on your POV which is which. Either way, it exists and is to be respected unless someone is willing to go to war for whatever issue is at hand.

Americans (and their mouthpieces) do not get to be the world's defacto authority.

> YouTube, a Google subsidiary, has a corporate responsibility to uphold freedom of expression as guided by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, a global standard of “expected conduct for all business enterprises wherever they operate.”

The UN, its delegates and its employees do not get to be the decider of everything.

Every site should be in compliance with the local rules of whatever market they're taking/making money in.

The new found 'anything goes' is an inherent limit of these SV companies and their desire to scale the planet at a fraction of the required cost. To this end, they ignored fully moderating as it costs money.
Then they realised they would never make money if they had to fully and completely moderate everything. So they make a "best effort" attempt.

They chose to ignore the fundamental requirements as it got in the way of their scaling.

You want to be the world's omni-present town square? Better be sure you have the necessary resources in place and functioning well.

The cost is theirs and theirs alone to bear. Boo-hoo if you can't become a billionaire off it.
Can you imagine what an incredible thing it would be if Trump's final act was a speech that basically said:

"Everybody charged with a crime related to rioting during the BLM protests over the summer is pardoned. Additionally, everybody charged with a crime during the Capitol riots is also pardoned. It is a time for our nation to heal, and I hope that this can be a small step in that direction".
There is this study back from 2013 (claimed by OP early days of da internetz) which says that out of 1M top sites, 74.5% of those that support SSL/TLS also supported DH/DHE (supported the perfect forward secrecy).

It was a substantial rise comparing to 2006 survey that got 57.5%.

AFAIK the contemporary browser versions preferred DH/EDH as soon as they got them.

https://blkcipher.pl/assets/pdfs/ecc-pfs.pdf
I'll tell you a secret. Poles are exceptionally adept at duplicity and censoring their history. Chopin, Konopnicka were likely gay? LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU! Józef Bem converted to Islam and still acted like a Polish patriot? Let's talk about something else. Such and such poets or composers etc were jewish? You're either a Jew or a Polish Catholic, obviously. Poland never attacked any countries. Poland didn't initially try an alliance with Hitler and annex a part of Czechoslovakia. The word "pogrom" doesn't come from Polish, no no. And before "pogrom", "tumult" wasn't used as an euphemism. Aggression towards immigrants doesn't contradict Christianity. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was perfect and it collapsed only because it was attacked by neighbors. All countries bordering with Poland love Poland. Poland is the fountain of innovation, it's only a coincidence the most famous Polish people lived outside Poland.

There's literally a common phrase "Poland is the Christ of nations." - Mickiewicz, the chief poet. You can only be the Christ if you're without fault.

edit: this post is getting downvoted :D. I was never good at Polish doublethink, cared too much about facts.
An ISP is a dumb pipe, that’s the other side of their having access to utility poles and use of people land for their cables.

Also the suspension/bans of individual people and groups for violating well established ToS by a private company, vs banning entire sites out of petulance with no actual grounds.

The obvious follow up is for FB, et al to block the ISP so everyone switches to a different ISP.
Republicans need to come around on topics like admitting who won the election, ceasing to lie to their voters about it, and asking themselves why such a large part of their voting base and media ecosystem is based around spreading or believing in obvious bullshit like QAnon.
They're a newish company but not brand new. In my visit to china in 2019 I occasionally saw their SUV's in major cities and even visited a dealership. They've had several models in production prior to this car that have been well received and to me were quite impressive.
The Republican party (vs "conservatism") is in a slow and gradual decline. It's not an overnight "all republicans are radicals" but the victimization mentality that's been going on for decades in certain sectors, and the "we're in a war for our soul" punditry right-wing echo chamber.

"The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind" is one of my go-to references here, that book describes very well what I've seen in my friends and family.

> I can assure you that "$foo racial group are all illegitimate and if we can reeducate them or get rid of them it will all get better" is not a path that has historically led to peace.

For instance, if one were to point out that this was the policy of the US itself for westward expansion, Republicans would likely complain about un-patriotic America-hating because so many people have lost the ability to hold a more nuanced position beyond "AMERICA GOOD."
Until there is a breakthrough. World genius were able to advanced humanity because they were open to possibilities. Lesser scientists were dogmatic that "this can't be because so and so"
You did not point out any hypocrisy, and in fact are trying to spread partisan falsehoods. Which is in itself hypocritical.
> That would violate the first amendment.

No it would not, since they are not doing it by means of the law. They do not need to force them by law, because key figures in Twitter and prominent leftist politicians belong to the same party and work for the same common goal - elimination of any possibility of dissenting from the partisan platform in any public space, and strict uni-party control of all speech on the internet (at least within the United States).

> Why haven't these "censored" politicians won any lawsuits to get un-censored, then

Because Twitter is a private company not covered by First Amendment, duh...
An alternate, alternate explanation was that there were never news outlets. They were always editorial; whether consciously or unconsciously, the stories that were run were selected (thus edited) by the producers, writers, reporters, and eventually their sponsors.
The FBI has been tracking white supremacist domestic terrorism for a long while. This is just the latest iteration in a decades-long issue. It is not a kneejerk reaction, nor an assumption -- they have good intel and the fact that they are publicly announcing it a week before they expect anything to happen is staggeringly serious.
How many Americans are members of D or R party organizations?

By membership I do -not- mean registration to vote for a party; meaningful participation in the political organization, from local office, all the way to national committee level, and of course actual elected and political appointments.

I don't have the numbers but wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be an even smaller fraction of total population than the Chinese single party.

Roughly take US as 1/3 of population of China, and then test expectation that 91/3 => ~30,000,000 politically active members of political organizations in US. Again, I don't have the numbers, but I would be shocked if actual party members in US even reached the 1 million mark, much less 30 million people. For fairness, let's throw in 18 million Americans that belong to unions. Let's make it 20 millions in total. That's still less than the required 30 million politically organized Americans to be at par with CCP.

[but p.s. /g! If we throw in the 18 million American millionaires, then we have a system that is a bit more representative than the CCP]
Considering the location, it seems likely that ideology trumps irony.
> This is how it works every election cycle. The candidate with fewer voters loses, and those voters are sad.

Except in 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016.
Do you have any sources for Twitter not taking actions against users that sent death threats to JK Rowling?
A few notes (you'll see that I also had a response below):

1. We whitelist scripts to load, so as to enable Facebook and Twitter posts to be embedded into other sites. But, we don't whitelist/enable the tracking aspect of these scripts. We block them from accessing cookies and other local storage. You can modify this behavior in brave://settings/socialBlocking

2. Brave has never replaced ads on pages. We block harmful, third-party ads and trackers. And, separately, we offer a privacy-respecting digital advertising model. As you point out, our model of showing ad notifications is opt-in.

3. These are harmless tip-triggers shown near Tweets, GitHub comments, and more. Similar to what you would see with an extension like Pocket, where buttons are added near items so you can add them to a reading list, etc.

4. Tips made to unverified creators remain in the user's wallet. There's no threshold requirement here; if you tip 1 BAT to a verified creator, that tip will go out immediately. If you tip 1 BAT to an unverified creator, it will remain in your wallet for up to 90 days.

2.
Other comment seems to imply that only Unifi Protect really requires an account, not any of the networking functionality

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25737660
People are allowed to be upset for any reason or no reason at all.

Actually wait, being upset is not something you need permission for.
The Witch of Agnesi
The thread is several pages long, not 180 characters.
This obviously isn’t the answer. But this is the year that decentralized social media will become mainstream, as a direct consequence of the actions of Facebook, Twitter, and all of the big tech providers that are currently trying to destroy Parler.

Telling 150 million people to sit down and shut up because their party happened to lose an election is a really, really bad idea that has no possible good ending for those doing it.
I don’t tolerate this crap from the left, why should I tolerate it from the right?

We’ve got elections up the wazoo at every level of government including positions we just plain shouldn’t be electing at all; and most States have some form of ballot initiative. Both major parties and most of the minor ones are more or less a free for all as to who can join and vote for representatives and policies there.

In other words, everyone has a voice. Some are louder, some are quieter, but feeling like you’re not being heard? That’s the sort of namby-pamby crap you can expect from a college campus full of kids that haven’t figured out their life yet. If college kids stormed the Capitol, you think we should excuse their actions and shouldn’t charge them with insurrection because they’ve mistaken the Capitol for Boston Harbor and 2021 for 1773? Then why should we tolerate it from anyone else simply because they backed the losing candidate?

If you watched the process from October 2020 through January 5th 2021, you saw a fairly thorough stress test of our system of elections from voting, vote collections, ballot tracking, ballot verification, suits in courts of law, the counting process, the canvassing process, the re-canvassing and re-counting process in some cases, the certification of votes, the appointment of electors through Safe Harbor Day, the actual meeting of the electors to cast their votes and finally the final counting of the electors votes by Congress.

Whatever you think of our system, it is thorough, and even Trump appointed judges that gave his campaign their day in court weren’t buying this moat and bailey bullshit the President’s lawyers walked in with. Even during the process of the counting in Congress, objections were raised, and summarily shot down, a process entirely completed by elected representatives.

Now we will complete the transition of power. It may not be as peaceful as before, but the President’s powers have an expiration date. If Biden can’t be sworn in till midnight a week after normal for some unforeseen reason, Trump’s Presidency still expires at a fixed time and a fixed date, not when the next President is sworn in, but at Noon, EST, January 20th 2021.

Insurrectionists can fight for their liberty in a Court of Law. Hopefully they find one with more sympathy than I possess for them.
When the government created some protected classes that told private enterprise how to behave, people began implicitly believing that every person has a right to a protected status.
> "Our company does not believe a [snip] site has the authority to censor what you see [snip]. This is why [snip] we have made this decision to block these two websites from being accessed"

I can't tell if this announcement is parody.
I definitely don't have enough popcorn for the next two weeks.
NYS Penal Law 400, but of course you were being facetious.
Not an amusing glitch in Euro Truck Simulator 2
> No one had firearms at the capital,

Trivially fact checkable

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/alabama-man-charged-posse...

> and secured one black handgun, one M4 Carbine assault rifle along with rifle magazines loaded with ammunition, and components for the construction of eleven “Molotov Cocktails” in the form of mason jars filled with ignitable substances, rags, and lighters.

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-tr...

> hey found a compact Tavor X95 assault rifle, a 9mm Glock 19 handgun and about 100 rounds of ammunition, according to court filings.
I kept reading waiting for the author to address man in the middle attacks but no mention. This adds no additional security. You can easily provide your own keys or JavaScript and completely bypass this.

Like others have suggested, I get the impression this system is assuming TLS will work and perhaps isn’t trusting the server the password ends up on.
Tesla wants self driving cars and space shuttles that control themselves. Robot dogs are not that helpful to either. Maybe for Mars rovers, but I assume he thinks he can do better.
You don’t excise it by lumping all “Trumpers” together as a single group, thats part of the point being made. Censoring their thought leader is effectively a manifestation of this dichotomous thinking.

Divide and conquer. Steel man the arguments and destroy them in public. Don’t overgeneralize.

Here are 3 tools to use that don’t involve violence or censorship.
It's all relative and very nuanced. It depends on which team you're on and whose being censored!
What media? That's exactly how fox news, oan, newsmax and donald trump talk about BLM.
People are allowed to have any opinions they want, even ones that seem contradictory to you.

It's not a free market when a handful of companies can collude to shut out a competitor as they've done to Parler.
The problem with the latter two options is that it allows manufacturers to continue with proprietary DRM and anti-consumer dickery.

The waste issue is important, but so is not invalidating physical things because of planned obsolescence, or that the manufacturer decided to stop reporting it.
The opposite of a contradiction is another contradiction.

Why are people that believe in regulation of the world's largest corporations suddenly laissez-faire libertarians?

If you have opposed the Citizen's United ruling for a decade, don't suddenly act like you care about a corporation's civil liberties, including freedom of association and freedom of expression.

The answer is obvious: both sides want power more than they want to stick to their expressed ideals.
"Stop censoring the steal".

Note well: I do not believe that there was in fact a steal. But if Facebook wants to do this, they're going to find out that there are several ways to modify or paraphrase this, and they're going to have to block significantly more than one phrase.
Radicalization refers to effects on opinions and worldview. Actions are subsequent to this.
> If you want to familiarize yourself with their thinking, I would recommend reading The Gulag Archipeligo.

Give me a break. These people probably think Solzhenitsyn was a power forward for the Red Wings in the 90’s.

> 1) The president of the united states effectively silenced.

By “silenced” I assume you mean “could step in front of a microphone and have his words broadcast live on every network”?

> 2) Calls for the imprisonment of you and your family for thoughtcrime.

Who is calling for this? People are calling for the rioters to be charged, sure. For crime crime, not thoughtcrime.
Something like this. https://github.com/tessalt/echo-chamber-js
Only if your definition of "credible" doesn't coincide with the side you happen to agree with.
I guess there is not really a definition. Some would say PoS chains is the second generation but its arguably worse than FBA (Federated Byzantine Agreement) and its first implementation in public blockchain came way after the XRPL (FBA) already existed.

There is Stellar which is kinda a re-implementation of the XRPL with many smaller changes but its also using a FBA.

There is Flare (only test net exists at time of writing) its the first Turing-complete Federated Byzantine Agreement blockchain. Kinda the ETH 3.0. but it a new project that just used the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) for code compatibility reasons.

Then there are DAG based "blockchains" but these are more experimental, as in no one really know if they "work" from a mathematical point of view. I would consider them to be the third generation if someone manages to fully implement it and run a public blockchain.
Yes, I agree - the ISP block is censorship also. When China blocks sites with The Great Firewall, we all agree that's censorship. This is the same thing.
See also https://brave.com/p3a. The implementation details of P3A are really neat
New Zealand lifts all Covid restrictions, declaring the nation virus-free
If we took “progressive” politics out of it but retained that we need to remove “violence” from discourse, yes they would have to be banned from Twitter.

Progressive politics will say we have to consider the background of the singer and the audience as mitigating circumstance so they might let it slide.

Objectively it would have to be banned if we use Twitter’s new rubric.
In this hypothetical, why are people that want trump to be president killing trump so that Nancy Pelosi can be president?

What's their motivation here?
the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between chocolate & HFT. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
They didn’t in Seattle after Razz gave out guns and two persons of color were shot.
Protectli seems to be a US company rebadging these Chinese devices. But apparently also putting coreboot on them now, which is nice. I wonder if their coreboot board configs are open source.
That is a good price for the hardware, but what about the firmware? Do Aruba and Ruckus give free firmware updates?

Have you looked at the power consumption of the switch? I've run some enterprise gear at home in the past (my favorite was the E-450 Sun server which an ex-employer gave me for free), but when I started paying for my own power, I found that even if the hardware is free, the power consumption makes it expensive.
There is a lot of people around the world living in countries where a single wrong word can cost you and your family a lot. All those oppressed masses would immigrate to the USA in a heartbeat if they could and you think they care about terrorist getting tortured?
yes, of course explosives are more terrorizing than property damage. wtf
It really hasn’t been - Twitter, fb, etc have explicit tos disallowing calls for violence, harassment, etc and have just stopped letting prominent people get away with violating those rules.
"calm and taking selfies". Cute. What a warped framing of reality...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVZvp-Dv0gg
We already have a mechanism for harm from lies - libel and slander laws. Just expand these laws to make lying to the public about something that if they believe it could cause them harm a tort.
Usually, state net neutrality laws are there to prohibit the state from purchasing from entities that violet net neutrality.

They don’t regulate transmission because that is federal territory.

Now the article is slightly misleading because they didn’t block Twitter and Facebook globally. They only blocked traffic for those users that asked them to do so.
Yup. We don't know the full details, and I don't want to speculate any more than I have to, but it needs to be pointed out that subdural/epidural hematomas caused by head injury can take some time to kill you. Remember Natasha Richardson?

In any case, RIP Officer Sicknick.
Initial impression of The Factual from new visitor. There should be some examples above the fold, right there without entering an email.