skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats a sweet sob story and all but are we sure we're talking about the same people?

The Trump supporters who I am talking about have spent the last 4 years alienating their friends and family, bragging about their success, and making fun of those who are less fortunate than themselves. The Trump supporters who I am talking about have spent the last 4 years running people over with their cars, pointing guns(and shooting) at people that disagree with them, and now attempted to overthrow a democratic election.

Whatever filter bubble you think I am in is not as tiny as you might think. I have lived all over the country. I am from rural Michigan. I personally know conservatives and have close family that I deeply care about that are fully absorbed into the Trump cult. These are people who were upper middle class by the time the Bush and Obama administrations had come to pass; these are people that have destroyed lifelong relationships to maintain their allegiance with Trump.

I know the hardship is out there, and that I can agree with you on. However, the Trump supporters I know have more property and wealth than I could dream of.
Indeed, I've got a Blackbird board in a micro-ATX tower as my main bedroom computer. Got it a couple years back to replace the bulky secondhand rackmounts I'd been using as build hosts/hypervisors/fileservers etc.

I appreciate the open platform and documentation behind it -- the OpenPOWER people publish a lot of detailed technical docs, and all the source code is available, with everything down to the FPGAs controlling power-up easily modifiable, without having to reverse-engineer all the bits like cough other platforms.

It's just a shame it started off expensive and has gotten even more so the past couple of years. I suppose it's just what happens when you're producing such complex boards at such a tiny scale, and for such a niche audience.
Yes. Self-host like how 4chan and Gab are doing it.

Although its easier said than done, but when they're constantly de-platformed from the face of the internet; they're left with no other choice but to self-host.
Xiaomi's phones are locked like this, requiring a mi account to unlock the device to allow flashing thé device...
> the way the media is hellbent on trying to inextricably link Trump support with terrorism.

Trump has moved himself outside of the system of American democracy and to this day refuses to acknowledge a democratic election result[1]. So yes, actively supporting him at this point is supporting an end to American democracy, pretty objectively. Linking the overthrow of the democratic order with terrorism, just after a mob entered the capitol and successfully interrupted the democratic order for multiple hours, doesn't feel a huge leap.

Being conservative isn't linked with terrorism. Being libertarian isn't linked with terrorism. Supporting somebody who rejects democracy is linked with terrorism. It's seems pretty clear cut to me.

[1] He said that a new administration will enter office but never that it does so rightfully based on a legitimate election.
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No, just worth less.
I just said they probably were on private Facebook groups, once you meet there you can branch out to Signal and WeChat, etc. My point is that you don't see calls to ban those apps, but everyone is celebrating Parler's death. I think everyone should be careful what they wish for.
So what exactly would they have to add to HTML?
What kind of world are you trying to advocate with comments like these? Just because you soiled the bed in the past you should just keep doing it?
I'm not sure about Openstreetmap, but Wikipedia has a huge budget. It does get paid for, and the people paying for it definitely consider what it is they are supporting.
The US government asked Twitter and other social media sites not to ban certain groups of ISIS twitter accounts until they were able to gain enough information... afterwards Twitter had no problem deleting hundreds of thousands of ISIS/other extremist accounts en mass.
The rise of the Authoritarian left is upon. Brace for patriot act 2.0. Being banned from banking, flights, job opportunities, and society based on political association.
Watch the crackdown as Biden is a deeply problematic and corrupt individual, that won an election that increasingly
people will question as taxes are raised on the productive, and covid rules are used to justify taking away rights.
Would he have gotten so far in politics without Twitter? Trump’s style of direct communication is very powerful for maintaining the attention of a passionate base which is the source of his political power.
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I fall on the side of 'curation and modification of feeds represents creative work and therefore makes the platform responsible' for this very reason.
Fighting Ice with Ice?
Incidentally does anyone have resources for SMALL data? EG a few MB of a time, but requires the same ETL, scheduling, traceability. I'd love some lite versions of big-data tools but needs to be simple, small and cheap.
I had this problem when being onboarded into a TypeScript codebase recently. Unfortunately I don't think there's a technical solution to it: the type system simply won't stop you from making types that are way too complicated (unless you use a language like Go where the type system is intentionally lobotomized, which obviously comes with its own problems).

We're used to avoiding complexity when it comes to logic, but maybe there's less awareness when it comes to types. Maybe what we need is to have a bigger conversation around that so people realize it's something that needs to be on their radar.
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Ohhhhh. Of course I changed it to focus follows mouse because that's the One True Way(tm) of managing window focus. So I'm guessing that when the popup loses focus, it disappears. Thanks for solving that mystery. I'll ponder whether it's worth it to make the disappearing have a lag, conditional on the window activation policy.
Electrical Utilities are tightly regulated, whereas big tech is not regulated at all. This comparison is really apples to oranges because of this. Electrical utilities can’t remove you for drawing more power than you are allowed to while allowing your neighbor to do the same. They also can not allow you to flout their rules for years with their knowledge (because you are a big customer as a result of drawing more power) and then come down hard on you. This is basically what big tech companies have done here.
Well, cigarettes used to be all "free market" right from marketing to technology for quite some time, and we all know how that particular industry ended up.

There are certain things that just seem to be a net-loss to society, no matter how much it may clash on an individual's right to destroy themselves. Cigarettes, hard drugs (and possibly even alcohol) seem to be among them.
Just so everyone is aware, Blerg was created about 10 years ago (4 days to go) https://bytex64.net/blog/e2302
Such a colossal loss!

If you haven't watched it, I'd recommend watching "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz". [1] It's a bit difficult to watch it more than once or twice. It'll leave you sad and angry.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy
Using Nazi tactics to defeat Nazis makes you consider the rest of their fascist ideology: total state control. 1984
The environmental cost to do solar at scale is often overlooked, perhaps as great a sin as obscuring the “true cost” of fossil fuels. The cost of production (strip mining, heavy manufacturing), emplacement (concrete, steel, shipping, land clearing), and short lifespan are easily overlooked when the ideal vision seems so juicy. It’s great to augment a house (assuming you own one) with panels, though without substantial subsidies or disposable income in more northern climes the math still doesn’t pencil out as a good return when compared to natural gas. If your only alternative is imported diesel/heating oil, maybe different story, but of course in such places the carbon cost of TCO goes up in tandem with the benefits.
Reminds me of Stackoverflow [0]:

1.3B page views per month, with I think 23 servers. Building a mostly (I guess?) view only site is different than something like twitter, but it's doable.

[0] https://stackexchange.com/performance
If you don't want them to know what it is, encrypt it. Even if they store it, it's not much use.

If you don't want them to keep it, find a way to invalidate it. (This would be for where the read key is time sensitive.. not sure how to make that work)
The vaccines show some improvement within one week, and get better for several months.

Still... you don't want to be the last person to die from a disease that we can cure. In the absence of isolation, even at their rate of vaccination, you'd expect the death rate (not just the toll) to increase for at least a month and a half after vaccinations begin.
Seems like scaring away people by asking for cell numbers and photo ids goes too far. The IP address would give the FBI/NSA everything they need to track down an individual's household. After that, it'd be a simple case of monitoring them to figure out who the extremist is.

To me, the more realistic (and scary!) explanation is this thing is just one huge identity theft machine.
> increasingly pro-censorship[1] lately

The US has always had limits on free speech.

> Freedom of speech and expression, therefore, may not be recognized as being absolute, and common limitations or boundaries to freedom of speech relate to libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, incitement, fighting words, classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, food labeling, non-disclosure agreements, the right to privacy, dignity, the right to be forgotten, public security, and perjury. Justifications for such include the harm principle, proposed by John Stuart Mill in On Liberty, which suggests that "the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

Incitement, sedition, public security and harm to others seem to be relevant to this discussion.
Eh, plenty of studies I've seen, from economics to environmental science, has some policy recommendations at the end. It's a problem but if you're going to discard this study you have to discard many others.
> The implications of Trump being disappeared from the modern internet

Trump has not been disappeared from the modern internet.

He controls, for instance, a very significant online presence here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/

He also controls a broader presence through a number of subordinates, see, e.g.:

https://www.usa.gov and the whole list at https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies

And, in his (unusual for a President) parallel life, he also controls a web presence through his private business (delegated to subordinates headed by immediate family members):

https://www.trump.com/
I am clearly not going to convince you of anything despite what evidence I provide. Also I did refer you to that photo a couple comments ago.
> your own first tier ISP

And if other ISP's refuse to peer with you?

Maybe we need another kind of law, above and beyond 230, requiring large ISP's and cloud providers to act as common carriers in exchange for certain protections.

I don't have a fixed concept on the details here, it's just an idea I had.

Think about this: Does Google have a legal or moral right (or responsibility) to delete emails calling for specific and actionable violence against someone? Or is email too private for that?
Although Aaron made enormous contributions to many different technologies, I often think of reddit when I think of Aaron.

I often wonder how he would feel, not just about censorship there, but about the direction the entire Internet has taken in regards to censoring of content. I can't - and wouldn't - speak for him, but I would be supremely interested in his thoughts.
They are useless in that reading them is pointless since they can be modified and/or enforced arbitrarily. If you violate the ToS, the site might kick you off. If you do something the site doesn't like, they can change the ToS and kick you off anyway.
Ioannidis JPA (2005) Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Med 2(8): e124. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
To all the HN users defending Parler by drawing false equivalencies to BLM, the NYTimes, Saudi Arabia, and China, without acknowledging the events of The last few months: shame on you.

Parler and it’s moderator team , as well as Donald Trump, has supported COVID denial, the election fraud conspiracy, and Q conspiracy, for over a year. This was a concentrated effort to brain wash American conservatives to completely distrust and disassemble the institutions of American democracy. I don’t know if you are from other countries and do not realize the context and severity of these actions, or if you’re troll accounts wishing to sow the same discord on HN. It won’t work.

This isn’t a first amendment of free speech issue. This is a lifesaving step for the public commons.

You can still have conservative values. Nobody got banned for supporting lower taxes, states rights, or being anti-abortion. You can promote and discuss those on Twitter Facebook and AWS on any day of the week. What you cannot do is organize thousands of individuals to commit violent acts, or call for and attempt the murder of rightfully elected public officials not just on January 6 - but again on Inauguration Day. That is why this disgusting content, on the same level of snuff porn and child porn, had to be purged from the internet.
> that wouldn't be enough to qualify them as "literally nazis"

Yes but the whole wishing to extend the holocaust and kill more jews thing makes them nazis

> Did you feel much scared of the possibility of some dictatorship

Why are you pretending this about some abstract threat of some vague unspecified dictatorship? If Trump had succeeded in his attempts at gaining a second term, when he lost by a landslide in the democratic and fair election, that would make him a dictator. And it was their goal to try to make that happen.

Peacefully assembling outside the capital with signs would be a protest. Breaking into the capital armed with guns and pipe bombs and zipties looking to take members of congress hostage, killing police that stood in the way, bringing a working gallows and chanting to hang the VP who presides over the senate, during the vote in which they are certifying the election, is an insurrection attempt.
You're not wrong, but 'wild' honey bees in general aren't the ones being exposed to large commercial farms. Sure there is collateral damage, but that's not enough to endanger honey bees as a whole.

It's also important to note that 'wild' honey bees in America are not native. They were brought over by European settlers, and the ones who leave the hive or get left behind have formed the populations we now call 'wild'.

Maybe this article is doesn't apply since it pertains to the UK, and I'm not really familiar with the situation there. But my main point, is in regards to these articles you see all the time, that make it appear as if honey bees are on the verge of extinction.

In regards to the USA, if you write an article about honey been dying, and you purposefully don't mention the history of how they arrived here in the first place, and purposefully don't explain the massive role commercial beekeepers play, it is not very helpful. It is clear they are serving their own agenda.
Email is a decentralized system with no moderation, and it isn't particularly a platform for child pornography or hate speech. (At least, my email box isn't.)

Imagine a social network where you have an identity based on a key pair. The key pair can rotate every month or so. When you meet someone, and you want to "friend" them on your social network, you scan a copy of their public key straight off their phone via a QR code. Now you can author encrypted and signed messages - you know they're only visible to the people you're interested in talking to, because you have their public keys, and they know the messages came from you, because they're signed with your public key.

If your friend Alice introduces you to their from Bob, they might forward you a copy of this Bob's public key, in classic web-of-trust fashion. Alice signs Bob's key, and sends it to you. So long as you trust Alice to not indiscriminately sign keys, you can be pretty sure you're really talking to Bob. You'd easily be able the check the provenance of a key - I have this key that was signed by Alice who claims she got it directly from Bob's phone, and it also signed by Sue, who claims she got it from an email.

When I post a message on my "wall", really I'm posting something encrypted with the public keys of everyone I want to share it with. My phone can reach out directly to those phones to pass on the message. If it can't reach all of them, that's ok, because Alice's phone can forward a copy to Bob's phone on my behalf, or we could have some kind of "dead drop" server online where my phone uploads stuff, and your phone checks for it.

How does this not devolve into your typical Internet cesspool? Precisely because it's not on Facebook.

First, if Bob starts posting crazy ideas about how women should never have gotten the right to vote, I can delete Bob's public key from my phone, and I'll never see anything he ever says, ever again.

Second, and maybe more importantly, this social network we've just imagined has no motivation to "drive engagement". It doesn't promote controversial stories to try to get people to click on more ads. In fact, it can't. There's no "service provider" here to profit from it in the first place, and even if there was, it couldn't read the contents of any of these encrypted communications so it wouldn't know which ones are the controversial ones it should try to drive. Twitter and Facebook need moderation mostly because they spend so much time promoting content from fringe crazy people in the first place.
> The problem after that is the stigma that follows you around forever. I count myself blessed to have opportunities when I came home.

I'm so happy to hear that you had that.

A while back, a member of my community was not so lucky. He got caught with an ounce of pot, spent some time in prison. When he got out, he had no legitimate job prospects due to his criminal record. He did eventually a job, though, through networking. In this case, the network was some prison acquaintances - apparently the only people who would/could offer him an opportunity. A while later he got caught stealing cars for a chop shop. Rinse and repeat.

I don't think I really understood it until I saw it with my own eyes: the US criminal justice system, by being so retributive, isn't just (wantonly, excessively) harming people who get caught. It's also a significant cause of US crime in the first place.
Is irony the correct word?

--8<--

In May 1996 Madeleine Albright, who was then the U.S. ambassador to the UN, was asked by 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, in reference to years of U.S.-led economic sanctions against Iraq,

LS: “We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”

To which Ambassador Albright responded,

MA: “I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.”

--8<--

https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/170-s...

Madeleine Albright is on Twitter: https://twitter.com/madeleine

Depending on your morality and politics there are countless other examples. Perhaps hypocrisy is the more correct word?
From my understanding the Myanmar atrocities were mostly planned in private groups and chats by non notable figures, with private chain messages playing a big part.

It's one thing to ban a politician inciting violence.
Do you all want FB to monitor all your private messages for keywords, then block those messages?
I wonder what did they use between 2003 and 2012 ?
BLM has fantastic PR for an organization that has pretty far left views. That was exactly my point. People are generally positive towards to main stated goals of the organization, preventing police abuse against black people. It resonates with their own experience and the experience of black people they know.

You're trying to conflate the detailed political views of an organization with people who tend to agree that Black people need to be treated like human beings by police officers.

I also agree, 'Defund the Police' is a shit term for Police Reform.
ACLU on Parler
> "This year, we’ve come to better appreciate the fallibility and shortcomings of numerous well-established institutions (“masks don’t work”)… while simultaneously entrenching more heavily mechanisms that assume their correctness (“removing COVID misinformation”)."

I suspect in a cultural moment of mass-skepticism of even valid systems (e.g. masks/election/vaccines/wikipedia) it's very hard to touch on the fallibility of those systems without putting people on the defensive. It shouldn't be in an ideal world -- making these things more auditable and rigorous only makes them less prone to questioning in the long term, but I suppose many feel faith in the system is more important at this moment than incremental improvement.

[However this really doesn't answer the n=59 conundrum, which I think requires a different lens]
It's not listed anywhere on his site but by random guessing of URLs I found his RSS feed: https://owlspace.xyz/index.xml
That's totally contrary to my experience where Data Engineers are considered specialized SWE and paid more.

But I've never worked for FB.
I haven't taken a look at the protocol itself, but I just want to comment on the foul and bitter taste the word "trustless" leaves in my mouth.

It could be the case that this protocol is the bee's knees, but seeing this makes me want to immediately write it off as bullshit. "Trustless" is not a thing that exists in real life, or rather, it only exists in the minds of people who fundamentally misunderstand "trust".
I used the mobile app to sign up. However, I just signed up to lurk (Streisand effect), so I can't tell if the fake mail+phone allowed me to post/comment.
I think increasing the weight of a downvote would make the political discussions much more productive though. No one could hurl insults or make needlessly general claims.

If you move political posts to one day it is going to skew the political discussion to be what happened on that day, regardless of whether what happened on that day is important.
You're raising a strawman. Replacing government is not necessary, as Merkel proved by example.

Merkel's government was able to propose law changes and have them be voted on by the legislature. Replacing government was not needed.
Hence I reflect on this as murder by the state.

It happened before (like Gary Webb), and sadly I'm afraid it will happen again. They (govt) seems more interested in big corp's needs than people's needs. This democracy-thing is a big lie, a facade.

RIP Aaron.
Aaron already suffered from severe mental illness - law enforcement did not drive him to suicide. Prosecutors offered him a plea deal if he took a six month sentence in a low security facility, which he turned down before killing himself. 99.9% of people his age would not end up dead by their own hands in that situation.