skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a few family-related whatsapp groups and I've been thinking about asking/moving those groups to signal, but I really can't imagine my parents/sister/friends to understand, nor care about the facebook data issue. After all, they're all on Facebook and all use it.

I don't think I'll ever get to request it, because I'm pretty sure it's going to fail, especially with my parents and other from this age group - having them download another app, signup, etc. will be too complicated.

My family group is all iphone users, so I thought about moving this to iMessage, which feels more possible, but again, I'm not even sure my parents understand the difference between whatsapp and iMessage, as they send me messages on both platform without much logic.

Like everything else "bad" that happens to Facebook, this event won't change much and impact on whatsapp will, unfortunately, not change anything.

Remember when corporates stopped advertising on Facebook? They're all back.
The state of NLG as of June 2020. A long time ago.

Apparently it was published just one day before GPT-3.
This almost sounds like someone whose nightclub has had to go DL to ignore covid restrictions.
> But I do think that physical violence resulting in part from the amplification of voices by algorithm would have been hard to foresee. I too would be curious if his thinking would have evolved. Sadly, we'll never know.

Something that always seems to be accepted without question in these conversations is that censoring violent language will reduce violent behaviour.

Are we sure this is the case? For example, if you believed the election was stolen and all the platforms which would allow you discuss this civilly have banned you and those who think like you - what do you do?

Sometimes I wonder if restricting peoples ability to express themselves freely (and also talking about them like they are scum for holding certain view points) might actually motative some number of people to make their voices heard through acts of violence.

I also dislike how I've been pushed on to what I'd consider extremist platforms in recent months because a few people I follow have been banned from platforms like Twitter and YouTube. I think I'm strong minded enough to resist the constant bombardment of anti-semitic and racist content I am now exposed to, but I suspect some people are likely to be radicalised by this.

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To your point though, I often wonder how Aaron would have felt about the internet today. I've seen many people's opinions on free speech change over the years (including my own). Tech platforms when they were the underdogs were overwhelming in favour of free speech - I know early on Reddit and Twitter explicitely expressed their support of freespeech. But in recent years they have become far more powerful and it would seem their opinion on what they will allow us to say has now changed. Ironically they've moved so far on this that if Twitter, Facebook or YouTube were started today they would probably be shut down because of how much extremist content they platform - I remember there was a time when Reddit was full of child porn and even allowed a subreddit dedicated to it to operate.

I guess we'll never know how Aaron would have felt about all of this, but I know if there was anyone would could have proposed a workable solution it would have been him. It's a great shame he's no longer around to contribute to the future of the internet in the same way he did the internet of the past.
How would one ensure that it wouldnt happen again?
Stay tuned - it seems KDE's home menu will get a major overhaul.

"This week Plasma also saw a new Kickoff menu that is a complete rewrite, which is also coming with Plasma 5.21. There have also been many bug fixes, performance improvements, and other ongoing UI refinements."

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-KWin...
Except blogs as a social space are pretty well moribund. Comments are overrun by spam, and additional social features like pingbacks are practically unknown.
Can we now see how many users there actually were, and how many were in the US? Because there's no shortage of troll farm companies that exist solely to get people riled up.
It's worth noting that the "Hang Mike Pence" tweets were a reference to what the rioters were chanting when they stormed the Capitol.
Is there something in reddit "bylaws" that says any post has to be accepted in a group that meant specifically for a certain group "/r/..." ? I thought moderators could allow/disallow whatever they wanted as long as it doesn't violate TOS or is illegal? I have seen the same thing in more left leaning, women's rights, or whatever. Am I missing something in your complaint? That said all that the_donald/conservative/etc is a dumpster fire.
Here's my experience with recovering a Steam account. Some time before I lost access to my Steam account, I bought Portal 2 for the PS3 which included an activation code to get the PC version on steam for free. When I asked Steam support to help me regain access, they asked me to write a specific thing on the flyer with the activation code, scan it and send that in to verify It's my account. After that they helped me recover the account.
Most were probably referring to the videos of MAGA terrorists chanting "Hang Mike Pence"
I guess they should be prepared for reciprocal actions. They bought up a lot of strategic real estate sound the world including in Europe
Not transmitting the password is good practice for the same reason it's good practice to not store passwords cleartext: systems can be compromised.

I trust we all agree that storing cleartext passwords in a database and doing a simple string compare is a problem so I won't rehash that bit.

If a login server is compromised then attackers can harvest cleartext passwords. It's the same class of problem with a reduced attack surface.

There is no good reason to transmit a persistent authentication secret as part of authentication. Just don't do it.
Is there a legal reason to have defamation up there? It seems like a pretty funny one to have for a free speech platform - the others are more understandable.
Set "show dead" to "yes" in your profile.
Run your own metal.
In response to the question "What is the ethical justification for 52 years of stacked federal charges?", is this your final answer?
Every one and their mother can run a background check or google your name to find your history. It's very accessible compared to even 10 years ago.
Facebook ‘pausing’ political donations in wake of Capitol rampage
Parlor was created in response to hate moderation on other platforms.

It's not too far off to say "Parlor was created as a space for hate". Only used for hate is obviously wrong, but that doesn't change much.
There seem to be a few examples of gcp turning off service with little to no notice and no follow-up.
Cyberpunk 2077 but It's for PS1
yes but is the algorithms include : spread only bad content ?

I doubt so, the algorithms may be : spread content that increase engagement, without making explicit judgement whether the content is 'good' or 'bad'.
See also Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html
I haven't told my employer anything. Well, if you work in your free time, you don't have to say anything :)

Yes, I have, and right now I have few customers while still working on full time job.

Btw, if you're afraid about supporting users, it will take much time only if you get quite a lot of them (depends on the project though)
Don't think that flies. They quote a generic section on Termination for Convenience but completely leave out the relevant section on Suspension + Termination for Cause:

From section 6.1 on Suspension:

We may suspend your or any End User’s right to access or use any portion or all of the Service Offerings immediately upon notice to you if we determine ... (a) your or an End User’s use of the Service Offerings (i) poses a security risk to the Service Offerings or any third party

Then they go on to complain about how AWS has completely terminated them, but that section also doesn't appear favorable.

From section 7.2 on Termination:

We may also terminate this Agreement immediately upon notice to you (A) for cause if we have the right to suspend under Section 6

Parler has copious amounts of this violent content going back for months, so it seems like this is a sure case of a "willful and continuing failure" to apply the required moderation in the agreement. IMO this shows an ongoing breach of contract so the "for Cause" clauses would apply.

The Anti-Trust argument seems like the strongest here but that's pretty notoriously difficult to succeed with. I guess not too far from the App Store cases going on right now.

The AWS agreement is here: https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/

TLDR: Content promoting violence - clearly more than mere threats given the actions of several users on Jan. 6 - is against the AWS agreement and services can be terminated immediately upon notice.
It’s not that what you said is untrue, but those posts are just screenshots of moderation and reward tools, not necessarily ideological conformity tools. It reminds me of quora [1] and some other sites that used to pay too posters as a way of driving site-wide engagement (sort of a way to buy users to get network effects going, like Uber eats offering free deliveries during Covid to get more users)

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18742484
I imagine CCP support of WeChat and similar digital currency systems is to suss out this activity.
According to NYT, many of the tweets were discussing the fact that demonstrators were shouting the phrase. The tweets themselves allegedly were not directly inciting violence.

> Mr. Matze pointed to the fact that Twitter had recently promoted the phrase “Hang Mike Pence” as a trending topic. (The majority of the discussion on Twitter was about rioters chanting the phrase about the vice president on Wednesday.) “I have seen no evidence Apple is going after them,” Mr. Matze said. “This would appear to be an unfair double standard as every other social media site has the same issues, arguably on a worse scale.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/technology/apple-google-p...
Took down Nazi Germany, but last week is a great example of something that we can't handle? Really?
If you’re a business, do you really want to be on a provider that can pull your card with little to no notice? That’s a lot of power. The boot is coming down hard right now. The cloud is looking like a risky bet.
Yes. The smaller the population the more resources per person.
Scape-NBC Hood
"Perhaps it is the stoicism on the faces of the models or the soothing voice of the narrator but I feel safer after watching this whole video!"
Note that a person who is likely to feel that way is also likely to be less well-equipped to predict your specific preferences for how to express that.
Which demographic shifts specifically?
I feel like we need to go back to print media. The hyper cycle of constant news on all the time is draining, polarizing, misinforming, and unhealthy.

Only reason I, and I assume most other people ever get on twitter was to read DJT's dumbass tweets and have a laugh.

Twitter knew DJT was the main driver of users on their platform and enjoyed reaping the benefits of his idiocracy for years, until they wanted to take the higher moral ground like other social media sites.

I wish twitter and all social media would just burn to the ground. It's a cancer on our society. It fucks up our brains and psychology.

Even LinkedIn turned into a facebook feed with crazy uncles commenting racist things.

/endrant
Apple Releases iOS 12.5.1 with Exposure Notifications Bug Fix for Older iPhones
It is. At work some of us got a reusable pod to reduce waste. We were closely following it. It was also much easier to explain why that's bad to my non-engineer coworkers than explaining why iOS's complete lockdown is bad or even get them to care.
P2P services like the article suggests are impractical in real life. It's of extreme importance that you should be able to view, and preferably interact with, something posted on a social media service with as little friction as possible — which means it has to have a web version, and that all content within must have permanent HTTP URLs. No one will be downloading a client and syncing it to the P2P network to view a post or to comment on one or to like one. This has never worked and never will, because it's inevitably a messy experience.

ActivityPub is basically as far as one could push the decentralization of social media without severe UX compromises.
They can try. If you go to the newest page, you can see spammers and other attempts to do nasty things.

>> The site doesn't value free speech at all

I don't agree, but they are free to say that.

>> so they will ban whole IP ranges without a second thought and they are small enough that the moderator actually looks through the logs to find spammers and troll second accounts and such. If you try to upvote your own comments, have voting rings, etc you'll get shadow banned right away. They're computer science guys so they have graph algorithms and such to find trolls.

A good description.

>> What you need to do is post regular top-level comments on rising posts (second page) and you'll get easy karma.

The comment must be good (or at least not bad). https://xkcd.com/810/

>> After that just lurk and downvote liberal SJW type nonsense.

And the automated and manual moderation will detect that and ban/shadowban/nastyban/whateveban the account.

>> If you comment on a post then your votes on it are nullified so either comment or vote, not both.

I guess it's true, but I think that only applies when you downvote, but I'm not sure. It's not an official feature. There are plenty unofficial features to avoid these types of attacks.
I haven't looked at standard AWS contract language but they ban people all the time for TOS violations, and I will be pretty shocked if their contracts don't have an allowance for sudden cut-offs, because that's something they routinely need to be able to do.
If they aren't actively moderating offensive* content: absolutely.

I think he's going to have a REAL tough time convincing a court that Twitter doesn't moderate content given that his justification for starting Parler was Twitter being too aggressive in moderating...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/06/27/parlers-f...

*Offensive probably is the wrong term - content that violates the AWS TOS like calls for violence.
> Yes, I did actually. There's every reason to believe that the people installed to run Alibaba / Ant after Jack gets sent off to "re-education camp" will be unable to propel it to further heights. Stagnation is likely as good as it'll get and there's every reason to believe it'll be run into the ground eventually.

Most likely but China is a communist country, this is how communism works. They consider that there are things that are above earnings / profits and one of the core tenets is that you should never fall out of line or disrespect the party.
Great, glad we will find a way to sanction China when the CCP's skepticism of massive private ownership hurts the interests of the ultra-wealthy in the US, but not when there are massive human rights issues now around how they treat minorities.
MIT is a big and complicated place, and you'd be throwing out some good, including people who are probably closer to Swartz in sentiment than our average dotcommer.
The term healthy is doing a lot of work for you. If you mean signal/noise ratio, then yes, and HN truly optimizes for that, so it makes sense that you're here. But HN doesn't optimize for total amount of signal, for example, buried underneath a lot of noise. Personally, I care about content a lot more than I care about "community."
> just like its against Parler's.

Amazon and others asked Parler to remove content, they didn't. So they were removed from the service. If you want to lie or make up a defense for Parler please at least try a narrative that isn't false.
If they refuse to moderate their content, as Amazon asked Parler, presumably yes. But Twitter does moderate it's content.
This is why porch piracy will increase. I suspect the intersection of people who are non-violent druggies and who are porch pirates is huge. I hate porch pirates.
Radio free Asia has deep ties to US agencies. It isn’t really a credible source.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25607809
I don't really care to try to "solve the problem" that white supremacists have.
Especially as those areas become more wealthy and new demands come online. The model of using coal and LNG to power air conditioning units is not one to replicate.
They already had plenty of enemies on the left. Now they got a ton more on the right. Elon Musk was just tweeting about the hatred headed their way. Time to check my investments.
It is weird to me that we people seem to be saying "These 4 companies need to be broken up". They are already 4 companies. It seems different than say, the Bell breakup, which was one company.
Justified or not, it will be very difficult to for Biden to cast himself as a unifier after this.
Also, notable, already linked, YouTube videos are made private all of the time.

So this big created a method for continued albeit silent and low res access to private but known videos of note.

I think videos after being made private can be edited by the owner. So it would be possible for new “private” data from a known video id to leak this way.
WeChat and Alipay are effectively the only two, and you're almost certainly right. I'm not opposed to that per se either.
They are, already. They use a type of rock "glue" to fuse together rubble — in some cases old broken up concrete. The GP comment is a pretty basic HN middle-brow response.
Exactly, they take over darkweb marketplaces silently all the time for this very reason.
This seems strictly better than what we have, though, where Twitter or Facebook decide the same. At least you can move instances, or start your own.

EDIT: also to note, email does kind of work this way with administrator applied spam lists. I would not want to use an email service that couldn't or wouldn't filter spam.
And here we see the problem with centralized social media. Did anyone think that handing control over to megacorps would end differently?

Today it’s Parler, tomorrow it’s whatever political ideology Big Tech finds inconvenient.
Were there actually a joint agreement not to compete for particular customers, there would be a case that it was a combination in restraint of trade.
It's harder to characterize voters. For example, Democratic leadership is full of corporatocrats. So, strictly speaking, Democratic voters support corporatocracy. But it's more accurate to say that most Democratic voters support corporatocracy unwittingly, or collaterally. That is what I would say about Republican voters and fascism, also.
EDIT: I see you changed your post from "Parler is refusing to moderate" to "Parler is refusing/failing to moderate". The post below is an answer to "Parler is refusing to moderate".

This is false. Parler has also been banning accounts explicitly calling for violence. I encourage you all to read the complaint:

> AWS knew its allegations contained in the letter it leaked to the press
that Parler was not able to find and remove content that encouraged violence was
false—because over the last few days Parler had removed everything AWS had
brought to its attention and more.

I know my word probably doesn't mean much to you, but I verified this personally - almost all of the "example" violent post I could find on the news were all deleted and the accounts were banned before Parler was taken down.
today people celebrate Aaron, at least when it comes to lip service. Back then though that "holier than thou" comment was at the top of HN response to Aaron asking for help

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529609

The HN as well as wider community's change toward Aaron was noted by others as well:
https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-asking-for-he...
This reminds me of mixmaster/mixminion[1] networks

[1] https://github.com/mixminion/mixminion
There's another dimension that nobody seems to talk about, and that's what happens with access to content is restricted. There is basically no censorship and no abuse from "those who can't get away with stuff on other networks" in the realm of SMS (or WhatsApp/WeChat/whatever your country uses). You can have a very healthy network if the authors are responsible for access control to their content. That's the idea behind my side-project of an easy-to-use, easy-to-selfhost private blog.[1]

When people want to use the platform to "become a thought leader" or "expand their network" then you're in the realm of public publishing which is where all the problems you cite become issues. The web makes privacy possible, and I don't understand why so few people are interested in that angle. For me I want to be able to share photos of my daughter with family and friends. I don't care if someone else wants to privately rant about the government to their friends--privacy enables both of these.

[1] https://github.com/mawise/simpleblog
I’m unreservedly no.

However I have sympathy for those that made this decision: The federal government is under control of one party now - they know that Clipper Chip 2.0 is a possibility.
>You seem to be lumping all side-effects together as equally bad?

Never implied anything was bad or good. Just saying that Haskell style programming does not push side effects to the edge.

>I don't think you can expect to push everything out to the edges, for example partiality.

Of course you can't push everything to the edge, but haskell style programming doesn't attempt to do this. It embraces the side effects and no one actually pushes anything to the edge. Partiality was just an example, the point is the bind operator will have a side effect on b so you can no longer treat the output of b as a pure black box. People who use haskell use the bind operator all the time indicating that their code is littered with side effects. Which again isn't necessarily bad, it just is what it is.

>However, I think what most Haskellers mean when they talk about pushing effects to the edge, is pushing IO and other less benign effects.

But my argument is this is not often done. I've seen tons of giant IO functions wrapped in do notation. Generally, no big attempt is made to segregate IO or side effects away from pure logic. Everyone just writes a monad and starts using do notation.

Again if you avoid using monads as much as possible in haskell you are pushing side effects to the edge. If you don't do this, which is basically what most haskell programmers end up doing, then you are not pushing side effects to the edge.
Programming in this context means activities that are available to better yourself. There are very little chances for education, skill training, drug therapy, etc. It varies wildly institution to institution.
The West thought once China is full of billionaires, the billionaires having all that wealth would then have the power to oppose and dissolve the CCP.
Didn't go as planned.
This could be great in combination with a blog plugin.

I'm not sure how useful it is for entries that already have a nice image, don't those posts already look great in most social networks? And if you are interested in traffic generation like that your entries probably have at least one image placed somewhere and the necessary HTML tags to use them set up.

When the article has no image it seems more useful, with the image insertion feature you have there :)

I took a moment to understand that the form changes the background of the generated image, because the first entry of mine I tried already had an image, so I did not get what `background` was referencing.

To just offer to download the image then might be not enough. Many authors won't know how to embed them as an image used by social networks. Not sure how to solve that without going the plugin route, a smaller step could be presenting the needed html, or showing a guide how to use the generated image with some popular blog engines?