skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm conflicted when it come to this idea, on one hand it does seem pointless to punish addicts but on the other, very few of the addicts that are incarcerated were not aware of the laws before they got caught. In many cases they traffic in "Minor" amounts to support their own addictions which just creates more addicts and spreads the sickness to other victims.

In a perfect world, all drugs would be legal and more importantly free for anyone who wanted them. This could be possible while still requiring addicts to visit medical providers for their fix. This would quickly remove the profits from the illegal drug trade and keep the addicted from being exploited in order to feed their addictions.

I have seen first hand the destruction caused by so called non violent drug offenders and can attest it is just as bad if not worse on the lives of those around them. In my case it started with small things disappearing from our household, like heirlooms and collectables but ended with a selfish addict telling lies and extorting money from myself and others. My particular situation finally ended with the addict overdosing and all the misery that came from that, being thrust upon those who still loved and depended on them.

I bounce back and forth between being angry at myself, then the addict and sometimes the people working in law enforcement and the justice system(Who have managed to build nice little lives for themselves through policing and punishing the addicted under the guise of making the world a better place.)

So IDK if freeing a bunch of drug users who were aware what they were doing at the time was criminal, is going to solve the root problems caused by drugs any better than the current system of keeping them locked away from the rest of us until they figure out how to toe the line.
I doubt most of the people who stormed the Capitol were out of work coal miners and factory workers. Which is not to say they didn’t have things going badly in their lives, that describes a lot of people.
Many argue that the experts ultimately got it right (and are thus redeemed). I strongly disagree. Even when the public health types corrected course, their behavior left a bad taste in my mouth. There was no acknowledgement of having been wrong, no introspection on how their errors came to be, no discussion how they could be avoided in the future. Just aggressive enforcement of the new party line couched in appeals to authority. The whole enterprise reeks of blind dogmatism.
> The market tends to give consumers what they want.

The market tends to give consumers what they buy. This is distinct from what they ask for, which too is distinct from what they want, which too is distinct from what they like (and, while we're at it, from what they approve of).
Played around with bitmessage for a bit and worked on an alternative for a bit. Here's some thoughts:

1. Like most gossip networks, it uses tcp. Since most consumer devices won't allow for incoming tcp connections, the end result is that most traffic gets routed through the small fraction of nodes on cloud servers. While this is true for most gossip networks, it is particularly problematic when you're using it bandwidth intensive applications (a twitter/parler alternative).

2. Using PoW for spam prevention is better than nothing, but the PoW algorithm is a simple sha256 hash. Sha256 ASICs will keep spam cost effective. Not sure if there's any solution. I think using some kind of crypto based incentive would be better economics, though of course have an increased user burden of acquiring crypto.

3. Bitmessage IMHO tries to be too many things with a message storage/rebroadcast protocol on top of a gossip network. All of these suffer from less than great documentation.
> We need a provider that is willing to host content that abides by the laws of the host country.

If the host country is China, and it blocks content critical of the government? What if the host country is Nigeria, and posting gay content gets you shipped to the gulag?

I suspect your opinion is going to change in these cases. And if it doesn't, sorry, but I trust myself to figure out what content I want to read more than any nanny state.
> This is precisely my point! Who gets to decide what's reasonable discourse?

If it escalates to violence it's not reasonable, that's it. It gets muddy around state sponsored violence but the assumption is that we already have controls around that. I think that's a reasonable line to draw. If I go on Twitter and make specific threats to other users I believe that Twitter is within reason to prevent me from using their platform.

> I hate these idiots. Most reasonable people do. They're dangerous (not as dangerous as the US military, but I still wouldn't cross them). My objection is to the structural/cultural development of a tiny handful of companies amassing for themselves a huge cultural and epistemological power. They're increasingly able to shape reality in ways 20th century culture industry couldn't even dream of.

I agree with most of what you're saying. We as a society have handed over what I believe to be the vast majority of our day to day communication to a handful of companies that have no motive in mind other than profit. Social media has been shaping our society for the worse in way less overt ways for the last 15 years by driving eyeballs to controversial posts/topics to keep up engagement.

I'm not pretending to have the answers, what I'm trying to point out is the phenomenon of big companies avoiding hosting questionable content is not new. What is new is the ubiquity of social media in our lives and politics.

I think we're better without it personally.
Trusting machines versus humans. We must understand the difference
I wouldn't call it an impossibility, Steam accounts often carry a real, huge amount of value to their owners, going into the thousands of dollars of either games or trade items.

Even if it wasn't the main reason, it probably played a role. Some small time admins in education facilities would probably have an easy time with this stuff and wouldn't get caught doing it.
> Govs are in the business of broadly benefiting the public now?

I would argue that they are not. Rather I'd like to see Governments close the broken incentives that lead companies to not broadly benefit the public. The key is that, IMO, government should not in any way be in business or making business decisions (eg solar over another technology), but rather making societal standards (0.x grams of CO2 per GW Hr, or whatever a reasonable metric would be)

Then let people exercise their freedom to choose which upstanding business they support.
PSU is a flyback design.

I think the main freewheeling diode went (it's open now), and the resulting switching spikes from the transformer caused the switching converter[1] to fail.

So far those are the only two parts that appear broken.

As for the sub, I'd love to know!

[1]: integrated switch, I misspoke earlier
> Parler should sue them for billions

Parler should sue AWS for billions when AWS asked Parler to build a process that reduced violent content and Parler refused?
Do you think, perhaps, if he switched to some modern novel writing software, with character and plot tracking, that he might actually finish the "Song of Ice and Fire" series in this lifetime?
Yeah, I don't think Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. get a free pass on this just because they automated the process and took humans out of the equation. They can't claim to not be responsible for their algorithms.
A Repair café[1][2] if you have one nearby.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repair_caf%C3%A9

[2] https://www.repaircafe.org/en/visit/
Relevant: https://www.kasiababis.com/comics/ghqk79ww9r3ttpw6u2pzntpqow...
He didn't suicided. He was murdered by the overzealous prosecutor with her own personal agenda.

RIP Aaron. You will be missed forever and it is a loss for humanity.
There's nothing wrong with setting goals. But you usually have to create a system to go along with the goals in order to achieve them. Having goals, though, can direct the systems you want to create for yourself.

Goals (for me) over the past few years:

1. Be able to play 140 minutes of soccer in one go without wanting to die (or feeling like I would).

2. Be able to stop taking a statin.

3. Get my blood pressure down from 130 over 90 to a healthy level (not critically high, but worrisome high)

4. Become a better GM for my bi-weekly RPG games

5. Become a better whole-system software developer/designer

Those are all goals I achieved, but in order to achieve them I established systems that enabled them. 1, 2, and 3 were created by a focus on always exercising MTWR, occasionally F (but that was left open for social events) and of specifically going to the grocery and shopping in specific sections (stay on the perimeter, ignore most aisles) and cooking at home. 4 was achieved by creating a habit of increasing fiction/RPG book reading and setting aside time to draw up/write down material for sessions so it was less improvised, but the fiction reading also gave inspiration for better improvisation. I also explicitly asked for feedback about sessions rather than letting players stew and be pissed at me because I made something too hard or seemed to be targeting a specific player. 5 was achieved by a similar approach, though around creating personal projects and reading technical content and carving out the time to do it. Creating various short term objectives (like being back in school) that would exercise specific areas I felt I was weak in, along with soliciting feedback from others (peers and managers).
more like a judicium Dei[0] verification specialist..

[0] trial by ordeal
A lot of this is true, but I believe. I'm guessing you aren't from the USA, but here, "disgusting content" is completely covered under the concept of freedom of speech. Our Supreme Court has already ruled that there's no Constitutional idea of "hate speech". The concept of freedom of speech is here to protect things that other people think are despicable.

This whole deplatforming thing will have vast unintended consequences. It will hit people like you, because these movements always eat there own.
>Someone who uses the platform for anything other than political speech has little reason to jump platforms to something that has significantly fewer people and an underdeveloped interface.

I just want to keep up with my real life friends without everything having to be snooped and datamined by Zuckerburg, Dorsey, Bezos, et al. The fact that they're now trying to control how people think is just an extra reason.
Put this in a frame and hang it. It describes war.

If that is what you seek, so be it. Everyone argues their war is just. But war is always the same, no matter how just it is.

If that is not what you seek, consider how to move towards peace.

The worst thing to do is to cause a war when you wanted peace, because you didn't understand what was happening.
You are right in the sense that if you look at average SWE salaries and data engineering salaries, the average salary is higher for data engineers. Because the starting salaries for data engineers tend to be higher because of all the skills that are needed and there's plenty of SWE positions that require more than just a degree in CS. But if you start comparing salaries at maybe a senior level (4-5 yoe+), the salaries for SWEs start becoming a lot more than DEs. And again, I've worked in different companies, big and small, this holds true for all companies that have "Data Engineer" titles. There's of course companies like Netflix where you are a data engineer but still get a SWE title and get paid the same.
Among all the many other things he did, he had a fantastic analysis of the end of Infinite Jest:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ijend

Such a sad loss.
I'm using devcontainers in vscode for about a year now.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers

Personally I would never go back but it does take some setting up.
> You're intentionally conflating reasonable discourse vs facilitating a violent mob

I know you think "facilitating a violent mob" applies more to Parler than the New York Times piece...but I'm going to disagree. Parler was anything but 'reasonable', but The New York Times (or individuals thereof) creating propaganda to lead a nation to war...can be described as facilitating a violent mob.
Repealing Section 230 would have no impact on this. In fact, if Section 230 was repealed than Parler would be exposed to liability for the violent coup content users posted on it and be sued.
Wouldn't it make more sense to control it by software?

Android already allows you to only use an USB connection for charging. Setting this as the default when you are in an unknown place sounds reasonable.
Funny you should say that, I'm looking at my ios codebase from 2010 for an eastern-"ish" european bank that hired us to build their first banking app. They wanted a completely custom encryption layer in their app for all communication. I don't know if it was a case of not trusting the current tech standards, or a case of believing their engineers were better then everyone else. They were in charge of the SecurityCenter framework, we did everything else.
Israel is a country, Jews are a race. You can be for the replacement of Israel with a more inclusive nation-state without calling for a Jewish genocide.

Now you and I both know the Ayatollah believes in a Jewish genocide, but this particular tweet isn’t proof or evidence of it.
Twitter Analysis: Identifying a Pro-BJP Copypasta Influence Operation in India
I saw multiple posts & comments at the end of December with people literally calling for the murder of members of Congress on Jan 6th. I reported them when I noticed. I checked back after the Capitol Riots and the posts were still there. If they had any moderation it was not at all effective even for the most obviously unacceptable content.
Illegal. Some of the content on Parler was illegal. Not extralegal. Illegal. And they refused to moderate it when asked.

Some if it has the risk of ending up judged treasonous as well, and that's all that matters to a risk averse company.
Personal security checklist, from protecting passwords to protecting your DNA
Corporations withhold donations to Republicans over Capitol incursion
General mobility in Berlin 2020 compared to 2019 [0] according to Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in:

Sep -5 % to -13 %
Dec -20 % to -41 % [incomplete data]

[0] https://www.covid-19-mobility.org/current-mobility/
> 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?

This is the rathole we're in. If someone does plan over gmail, does all of gmail get shut down? What about the ISP that served it? If someone plans a violent attack over the phone, does a company's phone network get shutdown?

How far are we willing to go for our rights and privacy?
I believe the person who started it was a former AWS engineer. Use what you know.
I'm pretty mindblown that after seeing what happened to 4chan/8chan, they didn't forsee this day coming. My theory is that Parler _wanted_ this to happen, so they could raise a stink / file a court case. The founder is a major ideologue and this whole thing might be better for business than if AWS had left them alone.
This doesn't seem to work well. At least I only see 1 video with this search param from the last year.
Wow, fascinating! Thank you for the reply. :)
Wouldn't they be surprised if solar panels were 10x efficient and 20x cheaper, and none of the colonists ate meat?
A propaganda weapon whose founder was just back from a trip to Russia with his Russian wife and whose parent company was incorporated by Giuliani's firm while he was traveling in Russia... https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1327253991936454663.html
From reading their research, it seems the range was artificially limited to the size of the gym because the team didn't have access to a larger test area.
Good. We need to come together as a country, identify Trumpists and give them a chance to publicly repent or not else suffer the consequences of their wrong thoughts. Ideas are not free.
If a spammer tries to use this law to say they're providing valuable information to the public and they're being censored, what's the result?
Go in other spoken languages (transcript)
Please don't use the passive voice [0] to intentionally obscure a crime's perpetrator.

Antonio Mays Jr. was not killed near a protest by a random passerby. He was murdered by armed "anti-fascist" protestors. They shot him in the face with a rifle. It's on camera. The killers audibly confessed to the murder. See this link [1] for the clips, if you must. The footage is disturbing.

[0] https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/george-floyd-pro...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0tXOBPMHA&t=1m25s
What Founders Should Know Before Hiring a CTO or Dev Agency [Expert Interview]
Aaron’s story is good example of why blaming the suicide of someone with severe depression on whatever proximate cause triggered the act is the wrong way to understand why someone takes their own life. Many suicides are prompted by trivial or very temporary situations that are not at fault.
It was announced this morning that the letter Q would be removed from Sesame Street.
It should be noted that social distancing is an ancient practice even before 1500. For example before 1400 years back, the Persian Islamic scholar Muhammad al-Bukhari recorded the following 7th-century hadith : “If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; but if the plague breaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place.”
Of course not. Where do I say that? Please don't attempt to slide me into a position I didn't take. That's bad faith.

For the record, if Trump called up Maggie Haberman and gave an on-the-record interview, I'm sure that would get covered too!
JavaScript will be the modern COBOL, with lots of critical legacy software needing support. Meanwhile, contemporary code won’t be so different from, say, Rust.

Languages will be cross-compatible (perhaps over something like WASM), and the amount of software dependencies will grow exponentially.

There will be vastly more software than can be effectively maintained. Dependency hell will be given a new meaning. As a result, the industry will suffer from severe security incidents that shake the public’s faith in software.

Meanwhile, global state actors will pollute the hardware supply chain with hardware that contains critical and hard-to-detect vulnerabilities. This will shake the public’s faith in hardware.

In response to these trends, there will be a push for programmer-hackers who can solve business problems using minimal dependencies and hardware. Low level code will be king in this new era, and, to remain competitive, developers will need deep integrated knowledge of hardware design and electrical engineering. Salaries will remain very high :)
remarkable stills of life elsewhere. goes to show how much cargo ships keep the pace of 'life as we know it' humming.
None because they never reached area 51. Just like they should have reached through the barriers at the capital.
OK, I've done that. It's pretty crazy that the app takes up 40MB just to add an icon to my apps menu.
Almost everything on Parler and similar sites that is not explicit calls to violence against specific targets and does not call describe black people using the n-word and does not talk about things like how the Nazis were right when it comes to Jews could be posted on Reddit in /r/conservative without violating any rules of the subreddit or of Reddit itself.

Most of it could also be posted on Twitter and Facebook, although there it might get labeled as misinformation.

It's actually fairly difficult for the overwhelming majority of people to get legitimately kicked off of most mainstream social media. By "legitimately" I mean by actually violating the site's published rules. At the scale of these sites there are occasional mistakes made where someone gets banned who shouldn't, and it can be difficult to get that reviewed, but nevertheless for most people those sites are "free speech social networks".

Because of this, when you start a site like Parler you get almost all of your initial membership from those people who got kicked off of Reddit, Twitter, etc., or who are having to work at not getting kicked off because they want to post calls to violence, etc.

That sets the tone for the site from then on. Hence, when a site is specifically selling itself as a "free speech social network" it almost always can correctly be interpreted as "a social network for <X> extremists who could not follow basic norms for civilized discourse" for some X.
The part in that youtube video where he's using uninsulated steel wrenches across the top bus bars to tighten down the terminals is extremely scary.
> This democracy-thing is a big lie

Do you think a majority of the US opposes copyright and would not want the State to enforce it? I'm in that group, but it seems to me the overwhelming majority of people here support copyright laws and prosecutions.
Interesting. More specifically, I live in the Netherlands. Perhaps we already had regulation about this, or I've just been lucky.
I'm sure they'll survive. This is probably part of a calculation they have to ingratiate themselves with a group that can give them an order of magnitude more GovCloud business than you can public cloud.
How about a timeline on peoples personal blog that follows other blogs (like the fb timeline)? This way, you write your own content on your own website, you read other peoples content on your own website in a consistent format. You tweet on your own website, and others who want to follow can follow from their own website.
The NYPost is the one pouring gas on the fire. With BS takes like this.
> It is literally the same as Twitter.

Pretty much.

What I find troubling is that despite containing the same cesspool of vile content, Twitter never got booted from Google and Apple App stores, and AWS.
4chan also does the same with a $20 (paid in bitcoin) 4chan pass. Without it, people have to go through an awful captcha each time they post.
Commoditize your complement. That's what Google is doing with Android itself - flooding the market with a gaggle of surveillance-ready web browsers. But Apple could push back at an even deeper level by supporting user-loaded OS's, taking the Free community's focus away from the Android ecosystem.

The limited hardware combinations alone would be a boon to the Free community. Right now, I see Android as the Freer option, even though I've gone significantly out of my way to get there (Samsung Exynos + microG + fdroid). If I could do a similar amount of work on mainstream Apple hardware and end up with an OS that had no Google remnants, I can see my perspective changing quite readily.

Perhaps we'll see such a development when there emerges a Free OS that's a viable/cult-popular daily driver.
Scuttlebutt protocol is a decentralized encrypted protocol where data-at-rest is encrypted by keys not on the chat server.

Chat server can be scaled to many via docker.

An average end-user can fire up such a chat server to cover his own group chat.

Manyverse (Sweden) is that mobile app.

I’ve toyed with it. Looks interesting.

Very much like Gnutella except there are no seed servers, Manyverse instead uses cipher-link hash tags as a joining mechanism which often requires a posting at external websites to get started.

Disclaimer: just a hobbyist, not a contributor to Manyverse nor Scuttlebutt.
It has been happening to a certain extent. People who are only making political comments and indulging in flame wars are getting the boot.
To be fair here, they didn't come anywhere near overthrowing anything. One woman protestor got shot by a CP officer. Three had medical emergencies (e.g. heart attacks). A CP officer died from a heart attack after getting hit in the head. A tragedy, yes, that never should have happened, but it wasn't organized enough to take over anything.
Any examples of services that only allow a 1 hour daily window?