skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tens of millions of people who are, and always have been, more concerned about fake voter fraud than actual voter suppression.
That didn't work out so well with ISIS did it?
Exactly ,,, you use a platform to call for murdering people in the name of second civil war .. well you get banned. That is the least a civilized society can do.
Ah, so that might be why they stubbornly refuse to support VP9 on iPhones.
Hey HN!

I've been hacking on Instadrop for a few weeks now. It's a platform to discover and share things you love - tech, media, apparel, etc.

It's an exploration into what product discovery might look like given that Amazon is plagued by fake reviews and we're constantly being bombarded by targeted advertising from FB, Google, etc.

I've always relied on trusted sources (e.g. Wirecutter) and word of mouth recommendations when it comes to discovering great things. This is an attempt to replicate that process on a larger scale.

Anyway, I would love to get your early feedback on the idea! It's very early days - the product database is definitely incomplete, and tons of features are missing. :)
Also, I don’t think it’s unreasonable—or even controversial—that we would hold the _president of the United States_ to a higher standard of conduct than the taliban. Especially with respect to the impact he has on the day to day operations of the US and the actions of tens of millions of Americans...
Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
https://twitter.com/Zabehulah_M33/status/1346373559812300800

This is the official spokesman of the Taliban posting a propaganda video of a militant bragging about waging jihad.

https://twitter.com/Zabehulah_M33/status/1343458261459218432

This is another video (and also see part2 of the tweet, which is posted as a reply to this one) where militants holding guns talk about their plan to kill the government leaders of Afghanistan.
For all the fear of the rise of fascism over the past 4 years coming from the Republican Party it appears we must also now worry about this coming from the Democratic Party. Mega-corporations acting on the behalf of the party coming into power, that will be most definitely be regulating those companies, is about as textbook fascist as you can get. However, no one who matters cares because they happen to agree with those in power. I hated all 4 years of Trump, that doesn't mean I want the elite class controlling the public.

edit: please downvote me more. I take pleasure in your cognitive dissonance.
The M1 only has 4 Firestorm cores and 15 watts TDP. It’s other four cores are Icestorm cores offering roughly 1/10th the performance and 1/3rd the power draw.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16192/the-iphone-12-review/2

The Ryzen 4900H is a 55 watt TDP part with eight performance cores. Despite that it’s far behind the M1 in GeekBench single core and multicore scores.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?q=4900H

Now as you shown it’s way ahead in Cinebench 23 Multicore benchmark. Let’s assume that’s more representative of real world use, and that being a process behind it will add 15% higher performance when AMD makes a 5 nm successor. That would increase its Cinebench Multicore to roughly 12,700, roughly 60% higher than the M1.

But all Apple has to do is come out with an M1X with eight Firestorm cores. That’s a multicore performance in the same range as the best possible 5 nm AMD CPU, and a TDP barely half of the AMD CPU. And far higher Cinebench single core, and GeekBench single/multicore ratings.

Obviously to swap Firestorm for IceStorm cores they need more transistors or something else has to go (on chip GPU?).

And Apple won’t be making 20 hour MacBook Airs out of this M1X, but they will be able to make 14 hour MacBook Pros with faster discrete GPUs.

And they are about 6 months from doing exactly that. Which is likely going to before AMD 5 nm, so top of line 4900H laptops get smoked on all Cinebench and GeekBench scores while using nearly double the power.
China couldn’t engineer a Crimea situation as with Ukraine. Taiwan is a stable mature multiparty democracy- unless that goes away in the future, it’s much less plausible to concoct a situation like in post-Maidan Ukraine where China can use a pretext to swoop in and “stabilize” things. Harder so when it’s against an island and not contiguous land.
> inciting and planning imminent violence

So have we decided that storming a building is violence or not? I actually don't care if we go yes or no on this one, I just want to know the answer.
I don't think you're refuting me by bringing up a domestic terrorist that accomplished no positive social change through their violent acts.

It's a far stretch to even imply the highly limited interactions between Ayers and Obama were in some way responsible for his rise to the presidency or that Ayers in any way influenced Obama to regard violence as the correct path for social change.

In fact, considering the ridiculous guilt-by-association he was subject to, it's more accurate to say Obama became president despite that limited connection, not because of it.

In short, the overblown Ayers-Obama link doesn't contradict my statement regarding peaceful protest.
I believe OCaml is the best language for fast development. It's got a super-fast compiler (faster than Go's), better type system than both Rust and Go (of course aside from lifetime analysis), and its performance is quite impressive (described as within xN of C where N can be counted with the fingers of one hand).
When did Trump encourage murder? This is hyperbole.
But then you have cases where people leak private group chats (either from bad opsec or insider jobs) and people face the ban hammer.
Right, dangerous hipster nerds, but they were on the fringes of the mainstream. If I remember correctly, Joe Rogan had Gavin McInnes on his show around that time. He was not by any means "center-right", but at least "acceptable" in the way that Ben Shapiro is today.

There's an adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, and that's obviously been missing in the long winter of the past few years.
Not to mention China's continued campaign of genocide against the Uighur people in Xinjiang. (And yes, when the CCP employs mass sterilization to prevent Uighurs from having children and interns millions in concentration camps without due process, it is genocide). Amazing that the world can basically ignore an ongoing modern-day Holocaust. If the US, Europe, and their allies purport to believe in universal human rights, they must put economic pressure on the PRC until the CCP ends these horrific actions.
I don't have a problem with Amazon kicking this service out, but I do wonder how far it could go. What if the power company tell the individuals, "we do not wish to supply electricity to you". Or their phone company.

It would be a bit like China's social score and the banishment of people deemed bad by the system, but with an interesting corporate twist. Will there be a Trump-loving phone company to service these people, powered by Trump-loving electricity supplier? It'd be the libertarian wet dream.

And what if it starts hitting people I'm sympathetic with? PayPal froze WikiLeaks' account and I found that to be a cowardly action by them.
Slippery slope is accelerating. Soon any wrongthink will get you banned by the tech cabal.
Sentiment analysis tech, GPT-3 level AI, and some human moderators in the mix... Maybe it could scale?
Un-American, Cultural Revolution-tier garbage.
> This is a company deciding what should and shouldn't be censored.

are you saying that platforms cannot choose what to moderate because of a right to free speech? that's nonsense. you want free speech, go outside with a bullhorn, no one will arrest you - that's all that means.
> would it be too much to ask if I requested that you learn the most basic concepts about free speech

If you think I'm missing something, tell me.

> figure out that actions by Twitter have no relevance whatsoever to the freedom of expression as defined in the First Amendment?

So? What's the first amendment got to do in this situation?
> Political ideology that is unethical deserves no platform

I like the implication that ~half the country is just blanket "unethical" and doesn't deserve to speak.
> what is hate?

I also find this line disingenuous.

You know what we all mean by it. Don’t make this a silly word game.

Nobody needs to (risk seeing) see calls for hate, violence and racials slurs.

If you don’t want that shit on your platform, ban it. That’s not censorship.

Fine if you build your own gab/4chan/parler. But nobody is required to host you.

Nobody is required to give you a soap box.

Discussions about gender stuff is fine. I disagree strongly but that is not hate. However calling your own position common sense in a debate is also disingenuous and it makes me question your motives.
> I'm sure there is, but there is also violent content on reddit, tik tok, twitter, facebook, and every other social media site that has ever existed.

Amazon says this in the article:

> This is further demonstrated by the fact that you still have not taken down much of the content that we’ve sent you.

I suspect the other sites you cite tend to take down violent/illegal content when flagged by their providers, not leave it up.
I don't know what makes you think that a) countries don't actively respond to attacks to their own institutions by blocking websites/content/providers or, b) that there's always going to be politics into play.

Social media platforms are not different from traditional news media in that their power to moderate and amplify carry real-world consequences and the value system used to take such choices is bound to the politics of the time. There are truly no neutral choices here.
So Signal and Telegram should be banned as well from all IaaS, app stores etc. as well since Islamic terrorists have been shown to use them?
I like both games a lot.
See this is where the sides are not seeing eye to eye. "It can coopt decent people into enabling the suppression of their fellow man" - this is exactly what the right side thinks is happening to them. Each side thinks its the other.

mlyle: I think we need to be a bit fair here. Its not the entire voting base its the fringe. There were many who wanted election answers but did not advocate overthrowing the govt or storming the capital. Just like the fringe leftists caused riots for an entire summer, looting businesses and setting fires. We have an extremist issue on either side while moderates are throwing their hands up.
I already got 5 upvotes now. Looks like a real headache for many embedded developers ;-(
You’re a lot smarter than this, so my reaction to this is wondering why you would say this.
you may think they should but they haven't. if there's not a huge wave of bans of the next few weeks then the hypocrisy will be impossible to ignore.
That is true, and it was remiss of me (and a good example of recency bias) to at all imply this is a Trump-specific problem.
Twitter has a professional moderation staff dealing with many orders of magnitude more content and, while they do not do a perfect job there is clearly at least some good faith effort going on there. They should still do a better job.

Contrast this with Parler, who just doesn't give a damn. Complete abrogation of responsibility, except to kick off accounts that make fun of their "influencers" (shout outs to Devin Nunes's Cow!).

Do you see the difference here? Do you see why there might be some, shall we say, recalcitrance to do business with the latter?
Say it is a barrier to innovation. Is that a problem? Is the innovation that would occur, absent moderation, so valuable that we should allow the facilitation of anti-democratic coups in order to preserve it?

As engineers, we should understand trade-offs. We have more values than just "innovation!"
> what if they unilaterally decide one day that our business is politically unacceptable because a bad person says nice things about us?

That's not a great analogy. It's more like a banquet hall agreeing to host a far-right rally, which in turn causes the hall's caterer to sever all ties to the hall.
If you are so dedicated to having a platform that hosts direct calls for violence and murder, then create your own hosting service too.
I'm not sure how you could come to that conclusion when Parler has been specifically used to plan more violence this week, after many of the people involved have been booted from Twitter.
America has become the nation of instant justice.

Allegations are not evidence are not proof.

We are witnessing a mass lynching.
Build2 is one that a coworker of mine likes. There are others.

What makes it hard is the problem is a lot deeper than most people realize, so most attempts are not powerful enough to be useful. They are clean until someone points out one of the many edge cases that were not thought of, and by the time you support even a few of them your clean design is a mess of uglyness.

Making it worse build systems are an afterthought to most develpers so you end up with a mess just because the programers are not taking care to write good clean code in the build system.
Did AWS pull the plug?

I think this is roughly equivalent to Visa telling you that it won't do business with you. Which they recently did with Pornhub.

There doesn't seem to be many good solutions. The Refragmentation (http://paulgraham.com/re.html) was the only pg essay I truly disliked, because I didn't want it to be true. Yet here we are.
The problem with the whole "free market" argument is that these companies don't abide by the same forces as traditional companies. If all my friends are on Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat, then I am forced to use those. Social media companies have quasi-monopolies and using alternatives is both difficult and impractical. Perhaps more decentralized communication networks will come about, but the government might use situations like this to shut them down or limit the legality of their use (as people cheer it on).
How about we look into censoring family environment? Why not to take kids away from the family and transfer them to the state or re-education camp so they are not exposed to the racist parents? Where's the end to it?

PS I came from Soviet Union and this is not a theoretical idea.
And then they’re given several screenshots of E2E encrypted chat rooms and they say they’re unable to take action on it because they don’t know the ID of those rooms, it’s just basic data in and out of their servers.

And then they are legislated against because ‘they could be terrorists planning things and Signal or whomever won’t do anything about it’
I don't think it's wise to impugn an app or service because we find their investors unsavory along political lines.

If that's the case let's not forget Facebook is also funded by a Trump supporter and people live stream their mass shootings on there. It seems like many are feigning outrage over a subset of parler's users' actions when in reality what they don't like is that their political opponents have found an app or service that was seemingly immune from the whims of big tech.
The pendulum will swing and it'll come back to bite those cheering this on. It always happens.
The more I study human history, the more I am convinced that the slippery slope is not a logical fallacy.

There are principles and once those get principles get trampled in the name of expediency, it becomes easier for the next person the trample them further.
Not US. Amazon is a private company. Their main goal is to make money (i.e. increase company value for their investors), they decided that this activity will eventually hurt making money. End of story.
where does it end though? do the critics then attack any org that colocates their servers, anyone that provides peering?

i find it quite shocking how quickly this is all coming, over a drummed up hysteria.
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I think "accompanied by actual physical acts of violence related to said speech" is a pretty decently high bar, that this incident clears.

Until you have an incident you actually, rather than hypothetically, object to, why do you assume Amazon is going to aggressively deplatform software platforms? They have a pretty clear financial incentive not to.
> There is everything wrong with enabling a platform which actively supports violence.

Socialism as an ideology actively and inherently supports violence, but it has plenty of platforms in the US.
I created SailNavSim, a real-time sailing navigation simulator using real-world weather/ocean data where you can also set up races and play with/against others online: https://8bitbyte.ca/sailnavsim/

Some months ago, I had also shared it as a Show HN post [0], and I am thankful for the feedback received then, but I will be the first to say it's still not really ready for "prime time" despite continuous improvements since. Mostly I've been focusing a lot on the simulation and back-end side of things, but I do think it could benefit from a more modern UI (maybe someday).

Nonetheless, we have a small community of virtual sailors who regularly participate in races, and I could not be more grateful for all their feedback and help with this project so far!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23661326
That was literally the purpose of Parler, to be a safe haven for those people.
You’re allowed to speak without being punished by the government.

But when you act like a ass in my house, you hit the road.
Exactly. By calling all the filth and calls for violence on Parler "conservative", you really aren't helping your metrics in trying to win elections in the future.
As someone who lives outside the US I can assure you that very few people in my country don’t have an opinion on Trump.
I doubt Playboy cares either, but given the choice between "Playboy could sue us but probably won't" and "just stop using that old porn photo already" I can see why journals legal counsel would push for the latter.
Deribit is a legitimate exchange.
Parler is a cesspool and I'm not sorry to see it banned. The Amazon cost-benefit calculation must have been trivial (minute AWS payments compared to talent and reputation costs of hosting Parler).

Yet, this also validates the choice of competing retail chains to not host on AWS. Sure we can excuse this use of power by Amazon, but it's not impossible to see Amazon abuse it - there's no transparent criteria offered by Amazon* and no way to appeal. Best not to give them the temptation to use this power for bad.

* E: Yea, they give out a criteria in the article, but for all we know there'll be another criteria for someone else when it suits them. I think one could make a balanced way which would achieve the same result (banning Parler), as quickly, without giving Amazon too much power.
He Who Must Not Be Named… the true cause of all of problems and evil… lol
Stupid question: Does the entire AVX state need to be saved and restored for a memcpy routine? It seems like it would be sufficient to save at most a couple of registers for a tight copy loop...
Paid platforms & the open internet is where this is going.
The question is not if Amazon made the right decision in this case but if they can be trusted to make it in general.
I appreciate listing some non-AGPL ActivityPub servers! Thanks.
Use saas, it's safe, they said...
> except at no point during that era did "reds" storm Congress

They didn't need to storm congress - they just convinced the dumb proles to vote them there.
> I have no interest in this app or those on it, but they are probably going to get much more upset and feel much more persecuted.

The nature of fascism (as outlined in Umberto Eco's essay in the matter) is that they will use both victimization as well as victory as means to further the narrative that they and only they should hold power.

In practice, there movements are much more cowardly than they appear, which is why the crushing of fascist movements has been either actively violent, ostracizing, and causing embarrassment to its followers.
No, but the people not calling for violence probably still have their twitter and facebook accounts so we arent talking about them.
The lies you're repeating have now gotten people killed.
This is a very, very biased source on the matter. The Wikipedia article on guide horses is much better in that regard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_horse

Note also that the wiki article is not entirely positive, as it includes this tidbit:

> In 2019, Janet Burleson pleaded guilty to 10 counts of animal cruelty after the carcasses of 22 horses were discovered on her farm, apparently starved to death. She was sentenced to 15 months in prison and 24 months of probation, and as a condition of her probation, cannot own animals.

Also note that dogs and miniature horses are the only animals recognized by the Americans with Disabilities Act as assistance animals.
I see. Hold your ground for free speech till... Ok, we were kidding we were just bluffing. Go ahead. We don't care. We support corporate censorship now full throat. It's for the best. We're looking out for your own good.

I mean really, so you know it was in the government's purview to hold Snowden, Manning and Assange accountable to what's within their rights too. Nice to see you sway with the wind there EFF.

Guess Biden can pick up the phone and tell them to let them hang out to dry because you know, the government has the right. Why, why bother contesting them, right?

I was the one thing. The one thing you had as a mission.
10 years from now: “I never thought a leopard would eat MY face!”
And I think the Nazis had a list of a lot of legitimate sounding grievances, too. So I guess we just can't judge.

I'm sorry: one side doesn't get to ignore due process of law and try and overrun Congress, and then continue in the next days to make violent threats. If that can't be controlled on a platform, it's not surprising others don't want to have business relationships with that platform.

People charged the Capitol screaming for Pence's head. Then the next day, we have Lin Wood (whom Trump has repeatedly amplified) on Parler saying "Get the firing squads ready. Pence goes FIRST." Is this maybe out of bounds? Do we not think there's any chance that this call for violence might be heeded?
Just don't plan to assassinate a country's legitimately elected representatives bro(?)
Is it still available today?

If it has since been removed, that's due to moderation!
Pandoc is fine, but it is literally the most popular OSS Haskell project, and it’s a super obscure document converter. The most popular OSS projects in Go are Docker and Kubernetes (maybe a strike against Go? Lol) and Rust has this thing called “Firefox”. Haskell has been around for twenty years and by any objective measure has made almost no direct impact on OSS. It’s a thing programmers do for fun on the weekend instead of Sudoku. It had some influence on Rust and Swift, but all of the software written in Haskell could disappear tomorrow and no one would notice.
Are you generalizing 10's of millions of people?
Take this garbage out of the way. There was no systemic fraud. You are peddling lies.
I think the biggest catch is being able to throw potentially thousands of different substances under the generic “natural flavorings.” Read the Coca Cola ingredients list and you certainly don’t see “coca leaf extract” on it.
SE Asia is diverse, but Thailand and Philippines experience the same issues, much worse than Singapore or Malayasia imo.
AWS has announced that they are cutting Parler off as of Sunday at midnight PST.

Article: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...

And HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25708142
French companies are not bound. This is why VLC and other video players are developed by french devs.