skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America (and my own country the UK) really need to have a serious reckoning with a whole mess of things: Fake news, Populism, weak leadership, short termism, lack of compromise and partisanship, the rise of extremism, censorship and cancel-culture, demographics vs democracy issues, racism, over-zealous anti-racism, and win-at-all-cost politicians to name but a few.

But it isn't ready or willing to even start.

Until then, it's hard to really care about any of this. I don't like censorship or big companies deciding what's acceptable. But someone has to, and no one else is willing to oppose some of the worst people and events we've had in generations.
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there was some large donation by the WhatsApp cofounder who made millions of dollars from FB
> Aaron Swartz was a martyr, and I don't mean to disparage him or his legacy.

Who killed him? According to wikipedia it was suicide. Did he have a mental issue?
Trade wars aren’t about fairness, they’re about leverage.

Fairness would be no tariffs at all and no taxes that effectively act as tariffs because there’s no comparable domestic competition. Life isn’t fair though.
HN is a lot of people with a lot of different views. Unless you can point to specific individuals, I don’t think you can say “the community” supports anything.
> Host on your own infrastructure. Present a mobile-responsive web site. Take Bitcoin.

This is all fair. If your goal is to exist on the fringe of the acceptable and legal, you're going to have to DIY.
Fair. But if your labeling of that political party implies 100% Confederate sympathizers, then your labeling is dishonest.
No. Full stop.

I'm sorry, but there is no way you can construe what happened last Wednesday as people "standing up for their rights in the face out outright oppression".

These people are not being oppressed. They are literally the ones trying to oppress their political enemies. They are attempting to steal a legitimate democratic election with astonishingly absurd claims of widespread fraud. Do not weasel around this or try to rewrite history - what these people did was treason.

These people are domestic terrorists, white supremacists, racists and far-right extremist militia members. The time for dialog with these tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists is over. They committed an armed insurrection against the United States government.

This is not a time for forgiveness or debate. It's time for severe consequences for these terrorists.
Teamspeak and those tools currently have cross-channel communication which is very useful for large squad games. They are definitely a minority as most games are like 5 players per team.

So they have their niche uses (mumble too). guilded.gg is trying to fix that issue.

Having said all that, TS is definitely not a freemium business model. And they did well for themselves. But they are certainly stuck in their old ways.

Craigslist had many attempts to modernize. Turns out... people like the minimalistic nature of it. There are like a billion competitors, and they all failed.
Because there's nothing modern or experimental about Redox? At least not like what this is trying.
It's hard to quantify, but I can provide an example of a specific post that likely wouldn't have stayed up on twitter:

"Everyone said Pence sold out!!! Time to enter the capitol. Go patriots. Echo and enter the building dont let them vote. Put pressure. We are riding in!!! Echo big"

66 comments, 301 echoes (i.e. retweets), 375 upvotes (i.e. likes)

There's a torrent of Parler posts that is being analyzed, so there may be better conclusions published soon: https://parler-archive.deadops.de/parler_2020-01-06_posts-pa...

That said, I still don't support taking down a site because there's no moderation. These people won't go away; I wonder if decentralized/p2p technologies will see more adoption by the radical right for this reason.
"Battery life is not great. But you can't use it outside anyhow because it'll blow away."

"We want to make a laptop so thin you'll close it and never find it again."
Tesla also didn't start with the Model 3, but instead built a roadster for the rich enthusiasts first (who were more forgiving of the lack in range, charger network, and other issues). It's the old boiling the frog adage.

Perhaps the political issues were a better bang for the buck because they were easier to formulate and addressed the needs of the most fanatical base? Once they make any progress in that area (and a quick formulation of the demands is a sign of such progress), the momentum will continue to build.
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He's using hyperbole to make the argument an emotional one rather than using reason. I'm not sure if he even knows he's doing it or not, the tactic of hyperbole has become so prevalent in today's political discussions.
Union's very existence is a political statement.
To generalize, we are behind in X and we need American presence in a bunch of Xs. Relative to our prior leadership...

We fell down on basic R&D: most of the labs got wiped out by "cost accounting" and short term profit seeking.

We fell down on basic infrastructure: much of the country isn't gigabit, let alone DSL.

We fell down on basic STEM education. Other countries pay for everyone's education as an investment in the future.

We fell down retaining existing leadership areas, offshoring them for short term profit. Now we can't make some of these things and need to buy them back with import tariffs.

Who could have forseen this coming?
It seems unlikely that the aircraft parts part has anything to do with that, given this:

> They come as the tit-for-tat battle over aircraft subsidies continues to escalate. Both Boeing and Airbus are accused of taking government subsidies to support their businesses, and both Washington and Brussels have won cases at the World Trade Organization to levy tariffs in response.

Occam's razor says we should go with the hypothesis that something that fits in perfectly with the ongoing actions both sides have been taking in a long running active dispute is probably part of that dispute.
There is always CopperSpice
If by 'generic PCIe slot' you mean an NVMe slot that I have to buy janky adapters for, and figure out mechanical mounting for, then yeah. But I'm not sure I'd like to depend on that.

And then I might as well do that with an Intel NUC, or just go for a normal mini-ITX motherboard.
Does anyone know how efficient / cheaply they can use their servers? I'm guessing the chat part of the service save for file / image hosting is probably pretty cheap, but the low latency voice chats might be pretty costly, even if they can efficiently host them on virtual servers.
The passive voice conceals many secrets.

"the brand is so damaged" as if it just happened for no reason

But in fact, Facebook destroyed its own brand.

Libra is a perfect example of it. After years of malfeasance, Facebook is going to print its own money! Why wouldn't we trust you?
It's genius. French wines are consumed by a tiny portion of Americans, so it basically only affects a small slice of people who don't care if it costs a bit more.
To be fair, breeder reactors are used to recycle nuclear waste. The secrecy around them is due to proliferation concerns.
I have NextDNS, enabled Handshake in settings, and still doesn't resolve.
Aaron was arrested January 6, 2011. That tweet is from July 2011. Anyone who was active on both HN and Reddit at that time quickly saw the community divided around the issue.

Then Reddit was still trying to figure out how to generate revenue years after a conde nast acquisition and you could tell that the "leadership" team very quickly wanted to distance themselves from any controversy.

Anyone active on Reddit or HN in the early days would have been surprised to here that Aaron was not considered a cofounder. It wasn't until after his legal trouble that the Reddit team tried to distance themselves from him and an his cause as fast as possible.
did they actually do QC this time? my 2020 X1 Yoga I got from work is atrocious. Since years the touchpad driver for these models bugs out from some sleep state - only remedy: shutting and reopening the lid in order to reinitialize. Besides, microphone sounds like you're talking inside an oil drum - perfect during the year of home office.
Nobody is trying to buy a Ford...
Others have mentioned it, but there is a multi-TB dump of parler posts and videos out there if you feel like digging. In addition to the widely recognized fact that hate speech and outright calls to political violence were tolerated on Parler we have evidence that what little moderation did exist on the platform was dedicated towards suppressing dissenting opinions and reinforcing the Trump viewpoint. As an absolute number Parler probably had fewer objectionable messages, but they were a much larger percentage of the whole and unlike on Twitter there was no moderation that was preventing them from being distributed.
The company doesnt have to go to zero, but your options account equity can easily do that. Even options on very safe things like, say, MSFT/GOOG/AMZN/SPY/BAC/VZ/etc can lead your account down to zero, and it mostly depends on how leveraged you are.

Suppose you sold puts on Verizon at 55. You are on the hook to buy Verizon at 55. If you have 5500 in equity, you're fine. You get the stock and hold it, perhaps wheel it.

But if all you do with $5500 in account equity is sell a single put contract, you wont make much money. So most people sell more than they have equity to support. So perhaps you sell three Verizon contracts. Your $5500 in account equity is now on the hook for 3*$5500. If Verizon stock goes down to 36, you are wiped out.

Oh, and all this while, you arent capturing any of the Verizon upside either! You only get the premium.
Does anyone else think building product is not that hard? You make or break on the Alpha release when the direction of the product is set. The hard work comes after you know you’ve got a good bet.
https://intelink.gov is a gateway to some of these.
Well, they were also so outrageous and out of control that there are pictures of them standing behind the velvet ropes as they moved through the building.

I've not seen any photos of them being armed either.
HTML is accessible by default, so nobody really has to work on accessiblity; they just have to refrain from working on breaking it. Unfortunately that seems too difficult for many web designers.
Histories of regimes and empires. The Prince and 48 Laws of Power try to serve as TLDRs.
Freedom of speech doesn't aim to protect speech that is 'nice'.
Can anyone provide a link to all of these reprehensible things that Parler refused to take down?

I know this may be difficult to do currently, with the site brought offline, but still.
Some comparisons should be provided. This one is 11.5mm, the Macbook pro 13 is 15.6mm, and the Pixelbook is 10mm.
Why is it silly to think about things that are man-made? You've clearly thought about it, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to write your comment.
Titanium dioxide, aka white paint.
Buy two domains? Host your own DNS server. Use Tor.

There's plenty of ways to get around supposed censorship, rightly or wrongly.

You don't need AWS.
Thank you for responding. Yeah, I think thats fair, though I didnt understand the other poster to be saying they were changing policy, more that speakers were charging for knowledge/acess, which is a different thing.
Shoot, they allow US citizens to post such content frequently, let alone other other countries.
Is it good that unelected people have this much power? No. Did they do the right thing here? Yes
seriously - Parler just slapped some SV branding on it all, and now they get to tap into the average HNer's contrarianism to garner their support.
Without that editorializing, I suspect it's of little iterest to HN. It's not a technical topic. It's not even current events. It's an ongoing genocide, which is receiving little attention because reasons.

The only reason to see it here at all is that it has a flimsy connection to a piece of fiction beloved of many people here. (The film, I mean, not the original source material.) That does violate the guidelines, though there seems to be some wiggle room when the rewritten headline clarifies the purpose of the submission.
> and push more developers to Electron

Qt has huge market share in embedded apps, where Electron is a non-starter.

I'd love to see more open-source alternatives to Qt in the embedded systems GUI space, but it's going to be a long time before anything reaches similar levels of maturity and optimization.
To me, the worldview where half the population of the country are mindless zombies that can be remotely controlled through their social media feed and need to be shepherded by Uncle Faang just to prevent them from killing people is even bleaker than GP's perspective.
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Not anymore, not in tech at least. Every single company is looking to hire, they don't have the luxury of cherry picking over languages.

The provincial government can be a pain in the ass sometimes, but they tend not to mess with startups or the tech sector.

My partner is running an interior design business, she is an immigrant, does not have her citizenship/PR yet, with a mediocre french and never really had problems with discrimination or legislation. All she had to do was to make sure every written signs had a french translation somewhere on them, which is common here
>So we're just having a conversation about where the line should be and if hate speech and planning insurrection should meet that standard, not beginning a rapid descent into thought control.

It obviously is. It started with child pornography which most everyone can agree on banning, now you are suggesting we apply the same ban to political discussion. That's the definition of a slippery slope in action.
Collateral damage was yesterday too when Godaddy abruptly terminated services for ar15.com, which is a firearm related forum.

No real reason was given (that we've seen so far) just "your services are being terminated."

Firearm hobbyists and owners expressed concern of this happening a while back and their fears became reality.

ar15.com is already back up on another host, but their base is at risk of becoming further radicalized over this.
Leave it to Glenn Greenwald to, in the face of violence, sedition, and misinformation, care more about some vacuous notion of "free speech" than the health of our Democracy.

This guy used to have a ton of my respect, but honestly he seems like a complete joke recently.
Sounds like a good union to bust.
Note that Effi no longer lists the mentioned donation details on their website[1] and their verbiage is much more limited now so I don't know how much they themselves count on the court case. I would like to see the actual court case transcripts but they were not linked in the articles, shame.

[1] https://effi.org/yhdistys/lahjoitukset/
try billions* :)
The trick is to move on before the inevitable consequences become clear.
Okay, sure, China is scary _but Parler was literally doing those things_. This was not some overreaction, this is not ostracizing mere disagreeing philosophies, this is not like Trump calling the media the enemy of the people. They literally were plotting kidnapping, murder, and sedition. This is an appropriate response.
HN users have read 1984 one too many times.

It is possible to think that SV has too much power AND that they still have the right to deem what is acceptable on their own services.

You can be entitled to free speech without being entitled to a platform or an audience. Despite how much HN loves to bash on SV big tech, this isn't 1984 and there are plenty of other ways to spread hate if that's what you really want to support.

I'm growing really weary from all the slippery-slope/everything-is-being-censored/what-aboutism alarmist arguments.

There is quite a large spectrum between "any and all speech is acceptable, on the platform of your choosing" and "total censorship". Let's stop pretending its a binary choice.
It's probably just a titanium alloy.

Based on other sites it seems to be a "titanium material", so ya just a alloy.
Recently I had to get a new laptop for work, and went Lenovo due to possibly unwarranted brand loyalty.

I found the T490(s) to have a very bad set of possible options. My T480s came with a 1440p Screen and 24 GB of RAM, but I couldn't configure that with the new series.

I was forced to go with the X1 Carbon Linux Edition. I have a mild feeling that the T line is being gutted for the X Line
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You don't need google to side-load apps.
Freedom of speech aims to protect speech from government suppression, not from societal norms or the consequences of that speech in the marketplace.
Define "average Joe"? I haven't been in academia since I finished university years ago, but I'll sometimes want to do some digging around on some topic and get a lot of mileage out of sci-hub then.
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Most of the time 10G routing isn’t for WAN but instead for the LAN.
That's fine when there are alternatives. The fact that Parler isn't back online shows that there is an oligopoly in place. The point of the first amendment in the first place was to stop those with overwhelming political power preventing those they didn't like from speaking.

What this entire episode has shown is that capitalism's ability to offer alternatives is being stymied by network effects. In the USA that used to bring out the Anti-Trust big stick.

Parler can be shut down when it has been shown to have breached legislation passed by the country and has been found guilty of that in a court of law after due process.

It's not just free speech that is at issue here. It is innocent until proven guilty and due process. All of which are Human Rights issues. Or at least used to be.
Ask HN: Anyone researching a peaceful abolition of copyrights and patents?
Nearly twenty years ago I started reading things from people who were saying we need to abolish copyright and patent systems or society could get a lot worse.

The bad news is I think a lot of the predictions from two decades ago have come true.

The good news is I think there is a lot more data and a small but growing number of people to start taking up this cause in a serious way.

I haven't read too much on how the USA could go about peacefully abolishing copyrights and patents and transitioning to a world where every child has access to the world's best information, regardless of where they were born.

As much as the vengeful side of me would like to see people like the RIAA punished, I really could care less if we came to some type of last payoff to the #ImaginaryPropertyRegime, because I think when we get rid of #ImaginaryProperty we will see an economic miracle perhaps unlike any other, so giving people in that industry some type of small parachute I'd be fine with.

I'm looking to fund/support serious researchers in the policy world who are studying this.

Anyone know of any?

I'm looking to give out unrestricted grants between $1,000 and $25,000, though I will ask for an email in writing that the researcher will make their outputs available on GitHub or GitLab in the public domain.

Email is in profile if you are interested or know of someone who would be.
I absolutely will complain. As parler's members are doing now.

Nobody is saying they have no right to speech. AWS is just saying they don't have the right to speech on their turf.
And Twitter while we're at it /s
That was due to the export controls. Basically, you could (as a US-based software provider) have a US edition that offered stronger encryption, but for anything leaving the US were limited to weaker encryption (principally measured in key size, not necessarily encryption method). If a user could verify they were in the US, then, you could offer maybe a 128-bit encryption package, but outside only 56-bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Suppose you get together with someone to found a company as cofounders, but then your cofounder nearly immediately leaves the company to pursue other projects.

Why is it wrong to annul the designation?

Swartz contributed technology (web.py) that Reddit used briefly, and deserves as much credit as other technology contributors of the same scale.
This is about morality, not legality (which is often perverted anyway).

Hate speech translates into hateful actions, case in point was on display in the US Capitol last week.

This is challenging territory but to frame this as a free speech issue without acknowledging that there are limits to such is not being entirely honest about the matter.
Works like a charm, thank you.
True enough, I should have phrased it better, and just not said anything at all (bad form on hn to talk about downvotes), but on a topic about someone I respect immensely I got frustrated to see downvotes used in leui of discussion. I do think downvotes on the topic are highly probable to be from people who support Biden, which I didn't, (not a Trump supporter either, and I hate that I need to quantify like that), but it doesnt really matter. Hn is about elevating the convo, not devolving it. Sorry, my bad.
Easy, at the top of every source file I worked on, I write TODO comments for the next day before closing everything and leaving. Also if I know it's likely that I won't return to a file on that day I do the same for that file.
They announced 'about', and idk if it will be their 1st version of status. IMO it is about the first steps to become a social network.
Another popular low-cost option is to run pfSense on an old thin client. The ideal hardware is something like the HP T610+ or T620+, which even have a PCIe slot for you to add a secondary ethernet interface if you don't want to get a VLAN switch and have to do a router-on-a-stick configuration. The form factor is nice because it's quiet, a lot smaller than a full PC, it's set up for wall/VESA mounting, and you don't need to muck about with buying specialty cases as you do for MiniITX motherboards or other SBCs.

Anyway, predictably these things are being constantly cycled out and can typically be had on ebay for $100-200.
what? article says it gets up to 15 hours runtime, which i presume includes CPU heavy applications like commenting on hacker news.
DoH is gonna throw a huge wrench into that plan.
I can recommend Refined Hacker News by plibither8 (https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news). I added a "collapse root comment" module which does just that. The addon itself has tons of other useful features, and is still pretty lightweight
The M1 peaks at about 27W at max compute load. Apple TDPs are like Intel TDPs - they’re a benchmarking number pulled out of the air for marketing reasons that have at best a tenuous relationship with reality.

(This is not to undermine the fact that the M1 is a /great/ chip, but the 10W figure is a marketing number.)
We should all just go back to IRC.

Failing that, certainly Matrix is the best option?
Probably the rep of Greenwald, a notably "former journalist". (it's unflagged right now)
I've seen it before and it looks really good but the CPU was released in 2014

So I'm a bit worried about future software support.

Reading this:

https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/apu2-1-gigabit-through...

It looks like 1gbps is possible with tweaks. My hope is whether there's a more plug and play solution.