skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s another factor here, that I learned when I did a six month contract at Apple Retail Software Engineering.

In short, Apple has a number of 10x engineers that they move around to whatever project needs the most help, whether that is hardware, or application software, or operating system software, or services infrastructure, or whatever.

If some project starts getting enough negative “above the fold” coverage, then they will be temporarily gifted one or more of these special engineers.

Do that enough times, and those 10x engineers will gain enough experience in enough different areas that they will be able to reason well about the other end of whatever pipeline they’re on, and will know other 10x engineers that they can work with on that other end of the pipeline, because they had previously worked with them on some other project in the past months or years.

And those 10x engineers really will make a huge difference in what that project is capable of delivering.

The key failure of this operating mode is that most of the 10x engineers never get enough time to transfer much knowledge or skills to the others on the temporary team they are currently working with, and so things will start slowly deteriorating when they are necessarily moved on to the next project.

Rinse and repeat.
well... there's a #killallcops. I'm sure a quick googling could find you plenty more.. : https://twitter.com/hashtag/killallcops?lang=en
Oh puhleez. Now it's Reddit's fault? The rest of us are supposed to spend our time keeping these wingnuts from radicalizing themselves?
> Increasingly, you step out of line once with the Left-leaning mindset, you are muted or banned.

This isn't ideology-based. There is good moderation and bad moderation. the /r/conservative and former /r/T_D subreddits swing the ban hammers more liberally than any other subreddits I've seen.
Correct, but so will the users until one of the sides gives up.
But they were mostly peaceful too
Your claims and position on these issues are not universally held. You may very well hold them honestly and sincerely, but they are not incontovertible facts, but rather your assessment of things.

In particular, your beliefs and understandings are not held by some of the people who hold the kind of power being discussed in this comment thread.
By that standard a civil rights era sit in or march was sedition. That doesn’t seem just, but I guess there is much more work to do.
I'm pretty not okay with silencing everybody that anybody can call "racism", provided that pretty much anything nowdays can be called racist - from Abraham Lincoln (https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/uw-m...) to yoga (https://www.foxnews.com/us/americans-who-practice-yoga-contr...). Sorry, can't find a "z" one, but I'm sure somebody somewhere called it racist too. So no, I'm not OK with banning everything from Abraham Lincoln to yoga.
So one guy is now many?
Twitter, Facebook, &c absolutely make a reasonable attempt - stuff this blatant does not tend to survive long on their platforms.

That short-lived content still has effects, but they're not in the Parler bucket of refusing on principle to moderate.
Technically, Parlor the company didn't do anything you mentioned? They failed to moderate - but I mean, so has Facebook? So has the comment section of my old blog from 2001?

If a user posts a call to violence - well to hell with them and who cares if they get booted off - but this more like if Google was shut down because it had a search-result for a call to violence. Unless there is some statement from the Parlor company itself that calls for violence that I've missed.

Taken one step further, what is the difference between Parlor and AWS in this case - technically speaking, the calls for violence were on AWS's platform after all...
> We rely on AWS, and now I'm thinking this is a giant mistake - what if they unilaterally decide one day that our business is politically unacceptable because a bad person says nice things about us?

You're making the argument for why this choice is not "free" for AWS. Not only do they lose a paying customer, but they cause some of their customers to debate the risks of doing business with AWS. It's precisely this balance of capital (including goodwill) that gives private companies the freedom to choose with whom they do business. Customers are the lifeblood of a business, but every one of them is also a potential liability. Every severance of a relationship with a customer carries more cost than merely the lost revenue.

So no, AWS _alone_ is not the arbiter of what actions are supposedly harmful to the fabric of democratic society -- the market for serving infrastructure is vibrant and competitive. If nobody in the market will do business with a given customer, well, that's capitalism for you.

(and just in case it wasn't clear, I applaud AWS making this choice, and hope the market at large will do the same)
I had that question before too, still not sure why they picked HEIF for AVIF, instead of using some more obviously free container. They could easily avoid all the above.
If we look at how communist countries have evolved historically the most likely thing to happen is that someone who talks the talk gets into the highest position and then purges both the right and the left, retaining only yes-men willing to go along with anything. Then it collapses into dysfunction as important information doesn't reach leadership, because no one dares to suggest they are wrong. Finally it evolves into a more typical loose dictatorship, where contrary information is allowed "within reason" as long as you don't commit Lèse-majesté.
So what do you define fascism as?
Delivery in Thailand is excellent
Interesting. Is anyone with a shred of credibility confirming that?
No, you should attack the strongest interpretation of my argument, which is that banning communities only lead to them regrouping and becoming even more polarised and radical.

As it has happened here.
but is perfect enforcement even possible?
If it isn't, does that mean companies shouldn't bother enforcing at all?

I agree, it's a very complicated issue, and there will be repercussions, but that shouldn't stop a company from taking down this sort of thing. No reasonable company wants to be associated with this. Especially if people on Parler are planning something worse in the future.
Way to deliberately mischaracterize the First Amendment.
Slippery Slope means just that, persistent and constant escalation of censorship which is exactly what is happening right now. Amazon jumped on the bandwagon behind Google Play and Apple store and Twitch and Facebook for internet SJW points and to not be left behind in the "I don't like what they say" Olympics.

I don't particularly agree with the messages of Parler or lean right at all, I am a staunch libertarian and believe that any and all opinions should be heard.

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." - not sure who to attribute it to since I don't know, but it is almost certain this censorship wave was started by a political party for political goals. The end result is the same.
Cherrypicking a few videos from a random YouTuber (Rossman has whatever credibility you choose to ascribe to him; at the end of the day he is just an independent repairman) also does nothing to tell the full story. Don't Genius Bars deal with thousands of cases every day? Simple probability shows that at least some of those cases should end with unhappy customers. It doesn't automatically mean that those customers would have had better experience elsewhere, and certainly doesn't mean that the customer support is bad.

> Apple customer support's only advantage is that it actually exists.

Sometimes showing up to the race is all you need to do to win.
>If Silicon Valley continues to drift into ideological activism, at some point a hugely profitable opportunity to set up a new advertising network develops.

YouTube started moderating it's content more because advertisers asked for it. No large advertiser wants to be shown next to a neo-nazi video.
Forums existed before iPhone or the App Store.
GrapheneOS anyone? Have not tried it myself. But it looks very promising.
What happened was an attempted political assassination: Q anon supporters stormed the capitol with guns, zip ties, and pipe bombs, chanting "hang mike pence." I imagine we make "I will kill you" exemptions for free speech.
Statement by John Matze
"Sunday (tomorrow) at midnight Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet. There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch. We prepared for events like this by never relying on amazons proprietary infrastructure and building bare metal products.

We will try our best to move to a new provider right now as we have many competing for our business, however Amazon, Google and Apple purposefully did this as a coordinated effort knowing our options would be limited and knowing this would inflict the most damage right as President Trump was banned from the tech companies.

This was a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the market place. We were too successful too fast. You can expect the war on competition and free speech to continue, but don’t count us out."

https://www.parler.com/profile/John/posts
I'm not aware of a truckload of molotov cocktails, or IEDs in CHOP.

In either case, that's whataboutism. If the same thing happened in CHOP, yes, it would also be bad. Are you seriously suggesting this is acceptable behavior?
> Increasingly, you step out of line once with the Left-leaning mindset, you are muted or banned.

Citation needed.
Most of that stuff eventually got taken down from YouTube. Parler isn't even trying.
Amazon said it would no longer pro­vide cloud-com­put­ing ser­vices to Par­ler
> So you'd be fine with platforms purging anything critical of them?

That is a completely absurd false equivalence. The decision to host content that could get their entire company shut down by the US government is not anything close to the same as the decision to host content that is critical of their company.

But yes, if they wanted to make that decision, it would be completely within their rights. It would be a dumb decision, as it would turn away a huge number of their customers, but it would be within their rights. (Comparatively, the decision to turn away violent hate speech will deter very few of their customers on a global scale)
Colin Kapaernic is probably the best known activist against police brutality towards black people in the USA.

He defines it as abolishing the police.

I have come across many activists who want to abolish the police.

I would assume that most vaguely left leaning people wouldn’t support that as a policy, but it is certainly not a ‘fringe’ definition from the point of view of the activist community with whom it is most associated.

There is absolutely nothing disingenuous about recognizing that mainstream activists do mean to abolish the police.

We have to accept that both definitions are in use.

What is disingenuous, is to dismiss or deny the idea that anyone other than opponents of it think it means abolish the police.

That is essentially a motte-and-bailey tactic, and all it does is stop honest discussion.
Is "to curate their site" the same as "to curate their content"?
There’s is no line. AWS is a business. And one that caters to enterprise customers. Large enterprise customers don’t want to be cohosted with sites that are controversial. AWS has a history of kicking off controversial sites.
What does this sound like to you? Are you reading "storm the Capitol" in those words?
> Postal Mail absolutely will not deliver to some parts in Thailand

Where do you believe Thai post won’t deliver to, exactly?
Dispite my disagreeing with you and feeling pretty shafted by the removal of Parler, don't take it personally - you're an open source contributer who has earned my respect.
I think partially, they were afraid of political retribution from a very vindictive Executive. That threat is no longer a long-term threat.
One could also measure their body weight after they step off the scales but it wouldn’t be a particularly meaningful number.
Amazon suspends Parler, after Google and Apple also take action
If politicians fail to pass gun reform and there’s a miss shooting, you could argue that both (1) the mass shooter and (2) politicians are at fault.

Please explain why you think reddit has no fault in this, when their moderation decisions has directly led to the largest radical right-wing community on the internet.

Reddit could have contained TD. It chose to say “not my problem”?, and let them make an even more radical website.
Maybe. I used to be a lot more active than I was before and my primarily sedentary life doesn’t help. I’m the same height as you, but 30-40 pounds less. I’m not sure how worried I should be at this weight.

Too add, while many people in are rather thin (I mentioned my brother). My father is pretty well built nowadays. Although he was also thin in his younger days, he managed to get into the Marine Corp later, so I imagine that helped.
I'm waiting for the announcement tomorrow of "AMS: Amazon Moderation Service"
Damn! You're right.

Who should we reach out to and ask them to stop saying what they're saying?

Maybe you can point me to the leader of the atheists while you're at it.
Because they aren’t doing those things?
Good point. Someone has to pay for their disability benefits.
Contronyms: Words That Are Their Own Opposites
A simple browser client for the Nextcloud Passwords app
They can do it, it is not hard to replace, for instance RDS with equivalent databases, SQS with something else. The hard part is they will have to find a sane ISP or non far-left marxist company to host or come up with capital for physical hardware and set up colocation or a data center.
In the US, we split the difference and take the kids for a few hours five days a week, where we try our damnedest to break the cycle of racism as part of general education.
What you are doing here is a classic Gish Gallop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

You're presenting a large number of unsourced claims with weak or non existent evidence that take time and effort to track down and debunk. In these sorts of situations the burden of proof is on the accuser and you aren't even close to that standard.

Let's just pick "video showing dead people voting" from above. It ignores the fact that two different people can have the same name. And often this happens in the same family with people living at the same address. In an election with over 150M votes cast, there is every reason to believe there would be plenty of instances of daughters with the same names as their dead mothers casting votes. There's no evidence that this isn't what happened here.

It's also worth noting that Trump and his associates brought a lot of the so called "evidence" to court and were nearly laughed out of court almost every single time.
I didn’t write them off — quite the opposite! A crowd raiding the Capitol because they’re angry about nonexistent vote fraud and child pornography rings run by the Democrats has absolutely nothing to do with the legitimate concerns you’re talking about. It’s deliberate provocation spread using social media to distract from the actual issues.

If there were legitimate leadership that honestly wanted to address the issues you’re talking about, we’d be seeing debates in the Capitol, not a crowd trying to set it on fire. This is the result of years of party leadership that just wants to stir up emotion to get people locked into irrational loyalty, rather than actually doing anything to help people.

Trump deliberately amplified the nonsense and used it to build a cult of personality rather than doing real political work. He’s the one disrespecting the people who elected him in 2016, not me.
Right, they have a bare minimum policy, but the Android and iOS app stores have apparently higher standards for moderation that they require apps to abide by.

Which completely makes sense -- when you get an app from an app store, its content partially reflects on the store itself.
You can't really blame them, but I do wonder whether a private company ought to have so much power. Some speech (that presents a CLEAR and imminent danger) should absolutely be regulated--but as platforms grow the levers for enforcement shift increasingly from the government to corporations, and I'm convinced that that isn't a good thing.
The second hashtag in question says: 'reappropriatefundsfromthepolicetosocialservicesbetterabletohandlenonviolentissues'

which is about what Colin is literally saying in that quote.
I don’t understand what you’re saying regarding due process or screaming until someone wins? Who’s screaming?

A person was using a privately owned website to encourage people to go commit acts of violence against senators and congress representatives. That website did not want to be complicit in that violence so they removed access to those people.

Eg. If you go into a coffee shop and start smashing windows and beating people up and rallying for people to murder each other the coffee shop doesn’t need “due process” to kick you out and ban you.

There are laws that exist and twitter has a terms of service. There’s no due process needed. If anything Twitter should be criticized for not banning Trump sooner. They let him do so much damage and allowed it to get to this point for ad revenue and engagement. I’m glad they finally did something but frustrated they allowed it to get to this.
D. 956 if anyone is looking for the the quintet
A few days ago the head of the largest flight attendant union called for all protesters to be banned from flights home: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/live-update/pro-trump-mob-breac...

I don't like where this is heading.

China has blocked millions of “discredited” travellers from buying plane or train tickets as part of the country’s controversial “social credit” system aimed at improving the behaviour of citizens. - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/01/china-bans-23m...
Then they switch to microwave links and/or satellite. As those are not really possible to stop, that's the moment this war goes hot.
I read somewhere yesterday that "political orientation" should be added as a protected class. I think there is a lot of merit to that idea.
The audiences won’t be the same size. The harder it gets to keep following the conversation to new platforms, the more it will only be the most hardcore people at the eventual destination.

This is not a bad thing. The people who are really dedicated will still have a place to gather and communicate, but pedestrians and kids will have a lower chance of getting tricked into giving their time, money, and maybe even their lives to amoral scammers.
If you are fully remote, you may want to change the location part of your Careers page. There are some options that feel like they are based out of a location.
Yeah I need to figure this out. My appetite is pretty small and I’m very convinced I have some undiagnosed IBD (due to some rather specific symptoms). It doesn’t take much to make me feel close to vomiting if I eat too much.
Yeah, I fully think that a social network that doesn't censor the calls to burn police stations should be banned. I don't care what side it's from, enticing violence on a large scale isn't okay.
I have reported posts like that to Twitter and its been removed. Parler's CEO said they arent removing posts from anyone because Parler is "leading the protection of free speech online".

Just because someone posts something like that on Twitter does not make both equal. I've yet to see these terror planning posts get taken down on Parler
Don’t do this - it will trash your sleep and consequently recovery as well motivation to get out of bed the next morning.
Though we need to carve out some exceptions, like people discussing UFC
Something I don't think I've heard very many people ask:

Are the Apple/Google evictions as well as the AWS eviction a consequence of the attack on the Capitol, or are they a consequence of something else?

Such as FOSTA/SESTA?

Parler got booted for not moderating anything, but if I understand correctly, not moderating anything puts Parler at acute risk of FOSTA/SESTA exposure, and that exposure runs both uphill (Apple/Google stores) and downhill (AWS) if none of them act on it.
WhatsApp European users do not have to share data with Facebook
Would you prefer people qualify if with “use SaaS, it’s safe, so long as you don’t provide a platform to promote violence”?
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.
As someone who has lived in both fascist regimes (South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s) and Communist ones (off and on in China during that past two decades), I have witnessed close at hand supposedly private businesses eager to curry favor with the government by silencing their political opponents. Could it just be that the tech titans sense a means of fending off imminent antitrust action by the DoJ, through tacitly coordinated purges of conservative platforms? Surely not!

On a related note, as a longtime defender of free speech, I am nauseated at the visage of tech mavens here rhetorically frothing at the mouth to silence those with whom they disagree. This has been a slippery slope indeed, starting with Alex Jones and now extending to platforms used by 10s of millions of people, whose views are now deemed heretical.
You definitely need proper diet to put on weight, and lift heavy weights. I was always skinny pretty much all my life, and I was able to gain 5-10 pounds of lean mass during last year (mostly summer).
Because of Covid, I had to move outdoors, and discovered calisthenics. That changed everything. I feel so much more motivated to work out now. During the summer I used to go to Stanley Park (Vancouver) and stayed there working out for hours listening music/podcast. And here is the thing: you need to find some sort of exercise that you like to do, or you will stop doing it. Regarding gaining lean muscle, the general advice is to reach muscle exhaustion when doing the reps. I found that to be the key, not so much rep count (even though I follow the traditional 6-12 rep count). Anyway, you should find a lot of advice on the web.

And of course, the diet, which has been the most challenging for me. I have a hard time eating a lot of healthy calories. It's just too much food :P! I read some recommendations on drinking a lot of milk, but I guess we all have have a limit of lactose we can handle [citation needed], and it did not go well.

Anyway, I am trying to make it into a habit/hobby, studying my body and my mind, trying to find what works for me. Hope it helps.
It's kinda a weird question. If I only had $100, none of it would go into BTC.

Personally I am not invested in BTC at all because I have a pretty thorough "short thesis" on it (you can see a bit of it in my comments in this thread.)

I wouldn't be opposed to betting some play amounts on it (I'd bet short, however) - same as money that I had "invested" in prediction markets - not investments in the "I am building my wealth this way" kind of sense.
Indeed, those people had 4 years of evidence to see what exactly they were voting for. Those 75 million people get no pass from me. Maybe the first time, but not the second.
Will Cloudflare and godaddy block HTTPS://www.donaldjtrump.com/?
If twitter and facebook can block account , what about the website and its contents, where does those fit in?

I did a who is and saw cloudflare and go daddy behind https://www.donaldjtrump.com/
If you aren't referring to Parler or deplatforming then you have either posted in the wrong thread on accident or are throwing out some really low-effort bait.
Yeah, but the web has less reach than the web + native apps.

A judge isn’t going to (seriously) consider PWAs if Microsoft sued Apple for not allowing xCloud on iOS.