skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would you trust your health information to a doctor with previous history of kickbacks, malpractice, lax HIPAA compliance?

It's entirely possible that you do.

An enlightening This American Life episode dives in to who gets to keep their medical license and how they may continue practicing after grievous ethical violations: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/719/trust-me-im-a-doctor
And that’s how things escalate.
You dismiss the critical importance of following the rule of law to the letter. That is perhaps the only lesson we can take is that the American system's greatest power is its rule of law and the constitution.

Many are worried that America's rule of law is also being slowly deteriorated. Once you go down the path of authoritarianism, there is no turning back.

Only in extremely rare cases like South Korea managed to go from authoritarian military junta that came to power, built up its economy by exploiting and oppressing labor movements, , to a democratic state with civil elections only really started in 1993.

Even now South Korea still has problems with following the rule of law. It used to be that the judicial committee is "independent" from the President but recently the Moon administration has completely destroyed this delicate mechanism that was built to prevent authoritarianism. UNHRC openly calls Moon a semi-dictator now and Moon is getting cozy with the CCP and turning its back on the US. Before, this setup allowed for the arrest of past two military dictators that came to power after Park Chung Hee's assassination by his own spy chief. Now it's gone.

What I'm trying to say is that democracy is truly a gift when it works, its noisy, people fight but thats exactly what is needed but it can easily be taken away.

This is what worries me most about Trump, with the recent military manuevers within the country (squad of apache helicopters, troop transports, Trump heading to a USMC command bunker) makes me suggest this is a man with nothing to lose and evrything to gain with the military and police behind him (police were seen removing the barricades in capitol hill rush).
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as has been noted many times

A big problem on social networks (including right here on HN) is that it's very easy for people to behave disingenuously and ask questions to which they already know the answer.It's a very effective wayt o either spread misinformation or steal the time of people who are concerned about misinformation, because it's much cheaper to repeat a BS allegation than it is to debunk it.

Another problem (more peculiar but not unique to HN) is that calling out such behavior is often regarded as uncivil. To my mind disingenuity is far more uncivil; I prefer a rude truth to a polite lie.
Consider Jami - https://jami.net/ too - you don't even need to share your phone number or email id to use it.

And it has support for nearly all desktop and mobile platforms (with all the features we expect from a messaging client, and more - it is also a SIP client). It is fully open source, and all data is stored on your device.

Signal may be run by a non-profit, but it a non-profit based in the United States. In the US, a non-profit can also be converted into a for-profit business.
Twitter hosts the KSA and leaders of other terroristic regimes. Should Twitter unreservedly be banned?

Reddit has been implicated in murdering an innocent thinking they were the Boston Bomber. Should Reddit be unreservedly banned?

Suicides and murders have been live-streamed on Facebook. Should Facebook be unreservedly banned?

Each of those platforms host countless instances of violence, are platforms on which abuse of all kinds can grow and thrive - should they all be unreservedly banned?

Sure, some of Parler’s users were violent in the protests. A vanishingly small minority of their user base, at that. But to single out Parler and not any of the other platforms is no different than singling out a political viewpoint that you find disagreeable, and for all that you wax poetic about neo-fascism, nothing is more fascist than saying that a viewpoint you don’t like shouldn’t be allowed to exist.
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Worked before in an ISP but did you ever slept in any hotel? Same principles..
You don't need to give permissions to contacts, you can add a contact manually in WhatsApp.
i think we are post-privacy.

we need compassion to restrain ourselves from harming others

but I dont think anyone can expect to hide from anyone else on this rock at this point.
Absolutely, we all know that Twitter and Facebook have been far greater vehicles for the political unrest that's been growing for the last four years. Parler is a convenient scapegoat.
Sure but first there have to be products to choose from.
Parler chose to use AWS for their hosting. When you build your company on someone else's platform, you're explicitly giving them that market power.
I love that Signal generally seems receptive to features that users ask for. It's far from perfect, as there are certain features I've seen repeatedly requested that are still yet to be implemented, but over the years that I've used it, Signal has come much closer to a full-featured WhatsApp alternative while taking the harder path of maintaining privacy for these additions.

My personal wishlist:

- Making the app available on F-Droid, either on the official repos or just hosting a third-party one

- Bringing the Android backup solution (encrypted blob) to iOS

- Bringing the iOS backup solution (direct device transfer over Wi-Fi) to Android

- Signup with usernames/emails as an option instead of only verified phone numbers

- A more reliable desktop client, because most of my contacts on Signal (myself included) have experienced syncing issues, message decryption issues, notification issues, etc. I do like that the desktop client is temporarily standalone in that the phone running the app does not need to be available, although I have had to re-connect the two every once in a while so I don't find it reassuring to depend on the desktop client alone.
For real though, if you haven't tried Japanese curry, try to find some. It's really tasty (sweeter and not spicy) and not at all like Indian curry.

(Indian curry is good too but most people have access to try it)
Well, they don't support any second amendment cases, so they do pick and choose a bit about which civil liberties they care about. But they are good about uniform support of the 1st.
what about 4chan then?
No. Protected bike lanes are safer, and with protected intersections, drivers can indeed see them coming. The US has even fewer protected intersections than lanes though, IIRC the first ones were only built in like 2014 or something.

The Netherlands does this with protected lanes, often with a little bit of extra separation from cars, and it works great. They also do mixing, but only in areas that can accommodate low speeds.
> I suspect this misses some nuance; there is a meaningful difference between people who appear on the media because they want exposure, and people who do it because they want their field of study to be well represented.

I don't think there is a meaningful difference. First, I don't believe people can make choices in any kind of isolation. If you believe you are making a choice without your ego involved, you have simply deceived yourself. Congrats, you have a high functioning ego. Second, even if they could, audiences are not capable of concluding with any reasonable certainty which is motivating someone appearing on television. I don't mean that derisively, like people are stupid, I mean it is essentially beyond humans to do this.

IMO, in the absence of actionable information, it is pointless to speculate. Basically, you cannot know it so it's not worth thinking about.
Sure, I tried https://mattgreer.dev/articles/mate-and-i3 I thought maybe it didn't work so well because the main image on that page is an svg? But this page has a png and had the same results, https://mattgreer.dev/articles/sega-saturn-and-transparency/

here are the results I got: https://i.imgur.com/yzmbc22.png

Also realizing the main png on that page is only 444x444, so maybe that's the issue. I do have larger images for twitter in meta tags, but I get using those defeats the purpose :)
I agree -- I meant it in contrast with smartphones, where it's seen as totally normal to have no escape hatch to run your own software.

Most "normal" people see that a coffeemaker putting "DRM" on your coffee is ridiculous, but that outrage never really extended to digital devices for some reason.
> The increase of control seems to be timed and in favor with the incoming administration. Government using business to do its bidding is very troubling

Is that really the case with Facebook, Twitter, et al.? Didn't Facebook and Twitter have favorable standing with Trump's administration (vis a vis keeping Trump on the platform despite his violating their ToS repeatedly)?
Just look at reddit / r / conservative. You have to be proven to be conservative before you can post, yet, they preach about first amendment, freedom of speech and your rights all the time.
He means you have to be "that guy" that people actually listen to and would switch apps for.
> And there has never been the incentive.

For FAANG. Instead of improving standards such as XMPP and RSS, they actively ditched them to create walled gardens..
Is it actually publically owned, or is it state owned? There is a major difference between these two outside of a democracy.
I'm saying you're being brittle, sensitive, and easily triggered, and that maybe you need to stop supporting white supremacists.

Also, you should probably read up on Kristallnacht before clumsily using it in metaphors. Maybe start here:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-he...
I would expect Amazon to be neutral and only make action if the government took legal action.

This action is a threat to democracy on the behalf of private companies.
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if the mass killings that right wing people want, come to pass, that for me would be a loss equal to "threat to democracy"
I voted for Biden, but I can easily find thousands of examples of "threats" on Twitter coming from far left leaning accounts. Some even from verified accounts. I still love the fact that Twitter banned Anna Kachiyan of the Red Scare podcast, assuming it wasn't a mistake?

Companies bowing to play nice with the state is troubling regardless of your politics.
That's a great story! There's a lot of rich experience for some great HN posts in that, too.

I didn't mean to imply that you were lacking in intellectual pursuits or depth or anything like that, and I'm sorry if it came across that way. It's just stock moderation language. All I have to go on are the things an account has posted, especially the recent things an account has posted.

Usually, when people are battling their political or ideological enemies in internet comments, they leave out all of the background and motivations and experiences that have led them to feel the way that they do. That's a shame, because if we included such things it would make it easier for us to relate to each other. It also means that our comments—especially flamewar comments—create a one-dimensional picture of us in the reader's mind. That of course is not an accurate picture of at all, but there's very little information transfer going on in these arguments.

I'm not sure I understood your last suggestion there but we don't consider upvotes when banning accounts. We also don't ban established accounts for just one thing they posted—we'd warn them instead. Bans are for when an account has built up a pattern of breaking the site guidelines. There are some exceptions to that, but they're probably not relevant here.

Thanks for writing such a humane response. I appreciate it.
Keybase is effectively in maintenance mode after being acquihired by Zoom.

If anything, Signal should adopt some of the crypto identity primitives Keybase was known for [1] for persona management that builds on (but still supports) phone DID identifiers. Would Zoom sell or donate Keybase infra to Signal Foundation? That'd be swank.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keybase
Really interesting. These ideas are great, but need some work.

E.g., "stick your head in the sand" moderation -- where I can decide what I don't see, but the content is still out there for anyone else to choose to see -- utterly fails at half the purpose of moderation.

How is content moderated that is harmful to one set of people if available to another set of people?

Child pornography, revenge pornography, doxxing, coordination of violent insurrections.
If you read the article I posted, you'll see that is not a positive report on the campaign. You shall understand that the CCP model is bound to such lipstick cover-up.

But I firmly support the whole idea of eliminating poverty with the accumulated wealth. Essentially a form of compensation by transferring some wealth.
Because ISIS leaders and the organization have been convicted by courts all over the world. Parler and the other conservatives who got banned were not convicted by any court within or even outside the United States. People are mad because big tech is shutting things down without any due process simply to appease the new emperor in power.

Big tech made a decision that the hell with the judicial system, Democrats now have the executive and the senate, we have to bend the knee and kiss the ring to keep our section 230 and don't get taxed into oblivion.
“Definitely not in a re-education camp”
Gary Webb's suicide involved two shots to the head -- quite a feat. I find it difficult to believe that he killed himself.

Personally, I also find it difficult to believe that Aaron Swartz killed himself.
I think it has more going for it-it is fungible, they can't print more of it, it is secure, and a critical mass of people agree that it has value.
The article is also available as a podcast: https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=5444
Glenn is hiding behind the "were arrested" phrasing, so despite the fact that baked alaska has a parler account and was literally livestreaming from the capital he doesn't count in Glenn's opinion as he hasn't been arrested yet.

What Glenn is saying is technically true, but also complete garbage. It's meant to fool people who can't do the minimum levels of research.

https://www.insider.com/washington-dc-protest-livestream-bak...
Bubbles by themselves aren’t necessarily the problem. I could live in art related bubble with fellow artists, and there is no problem there.

Insulated bubbles are the problem I think, these echo chambers are a problem, especially unmoderated or those thriving by hate, aggrevation and/or exclusion.
I've just been doing lots of running instead as exercise. I don't actually enjoy a lot of the biking in the city that much. It's too often too crowded and/or feels just a little bit unsafe because of driver misbehavior. I've done the whole 100 km ride up to Nyack and back on 9W thing and ... those cars man.
sql, python, terraform, maybe some basic java. Airflow is pretty common. Whatever the company is migrating away from. As long as you`re good at one of those and can pick up the rest on the fly you should be fine to start out.

edit: Guess this was pretty much in the post.
I tried signal, matrix, Riot, Slack, Discord, Messenger, Hangouts, and Keybase is by far the best option.

It is in an uncertain place though since Zoom bought them and moved its developers to work on Zoom. There has only been one small update to Keybase since zoom purchased them.
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> We should separate an issue of moderation and actual motives of the platform itself

Why though? On some level in seems impossible to make a distinction "from the outside," and I'm not sure it should matter that a decision was made by a person (probably following an Excel spreadsheet) or software.
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The planning was largely done on Facebook https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348619731734028293
This kind of attitude is amazing to me.

American bike infra design and culture has been a failure on nearly every level, and yet you're rejecting the lessons from the world leader.

Do you really think American drivers wouldn't eventually adapt to better infrastructure? Even the Dutch had to learn at some point.
Those "more libertarian subreddits" seem to have similar behaviors...
ISIS used to publish videos of them beheading people as propaganda to recruit young people for the jihad. They'd also claim terrorists attacks and encourage their supporters to do the same. So, what is your point?
You're wasting your time there, matey. The concept of checking whether something has already been posted a zillion times seems to be beyond a sizeable number of HN members.
Exceptional claims require exceptional proof. Being able to file one fake account vs 10,000 (and not get caught) to throw an election is about the level of proof you'll need and no one has ever come up with that level of proof. Until then people claiming mail fraud are just shouting into the hurricane of the rights of individuals to not be disenfranchised.
What about Doctors who were silenced because they said Hydroxychloroquine is effective against COVID?
That is not equatable with breaking into a national building with the intent to kidnap or kill.

MAGA bludgeoned a Capitol Police Officer to death. Last summer doesn’t compare.
All well and good. But say for instance you lived in nazi Germany, would you have the right to protest? Would you have the right to say things that are outside of the overton window? You would not have the right, and your opinions would be spat upon. And yet they would be true and right for you. In your mind you would have every right to express yourself and undermine the government outside of democratic means.

The point is we can never know how far outside of what is "good" we currently circle. It is right that people with a belief strong enough to force them to action are forced to action. It is right that a state that believes itself true defends itself. It is all part of the process, all of it. Who the hell are you to know with certainty that you, specifically you, have the the eagle eyed vision to discern right from wrong? To somehow miraculously step outside of the tiny little context in which you live and know with 100% certainty that you are right.

You are the product of your surroundings, a container for thoughts passing through, a ghost in the machine. Don't be so God damned arrogant. You cannot know truth, you cannot know right. The world is unfolding as it should.
Fun fact: I spoke with two of my good buddies one up high Amazon another at Twitter. The fellow from twitter told me they will never suspend Trump because despite what he says, Twitter makes few million dollars daily (!!) off of his feed. The reason you see him being booted out is because my buddy from Amazon told me they may be ready to drop Twitter as a client altogether (mostly because of Trump) and the way their contract is designed is that Twitter would still be up for tens of millions of (now unfulfilled) hosting contract fees. And that something they won’t digest. So really the decision to boot Trump had nothing to do with freedom of speech - its AWS who thretened to withdraw, and Twitter folks did some simple math and realized the loss from AWS contract would cost more than gains from RealDonaldTrump feed.
Isn’t that an even bigger problem, though, if Linux’ entropy pool gets polluted by an inentropic source that still increments its entropy counter?

I recall discussions to maybe rely on something like jitter entropy when the pool is empty and getentropy() is called.
Could you provide a couple examples of the types of groups you're referring to?
>> 'No person or group should have the power to decide on their own what is "true"'

And yet, the vast majority of adult human beings do this everyday, multiple times per day, without any regard for whether others think they should or not.
Keybase showed a lot of promise, but ever since they were bought by Zoom I’ve been hesitant to depend on it. There’s a good chance it’ll be neglected or cannibalized in the future, not to mention the real or imagined CCP influence. Perhaps failure is a self fulfilling prophecy.
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I’d argue not to use law to dismantle big tech companies even if I disagree with their banning.

Twitter, Facebook and Google’s social services (gmail and YouTube) are at their heights or just behind them. The cycle for when tech companies are devoured is coming to them. I’d wager something like PeerTube will take a big part of the void YT will leave behind, as the market for censorship-resistant video will grow along the growth of forbidden opinions. Centrally planned government interventions without fail do fail.
Signal is quite good and I use it for person to person. Hopefully with an influx of new users and with that, funding, it can reach feature parity with WhatsApp which is currently much better for groups. WhatsApp and Uber and Lyft etc, are very well crafted applications on iOS. They feel magical. Signal can get there as well, but it will take funding+effort.
> not everything is a slippery slope

From a risk management perspective, this does not seem like a safe assumption to make. The DailyStormer got "canceled" by vendors for not even trying to moderate content that actively promoted violence (among other horrible things). Now Parlor gets "canceled" by vendors for not doing a good enough job trying to moderate content promoting violence. The bar for getting "canceled" is already moving down and honestly any company that is hosting user-driven content needs to have a plan for how to make sure they stay below that bar. Part of that plan should be projected scenarios about how low the bar will go....

Part of what is really dicey here too is that the result of getting this calculation wrong is basically annihilation for your service (unless you think you can operate without "every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers"). The stakes are really high!

(Edited to fix my 'raise-the-bar' analogy)
So the latest fake news is that everyone is being told to shut off operating system updates permanently on their devices to "block apple and google".

Good job Big Tech. Now we have a million unpatchable devices.
I made an account on Parler last week, just to see. It is a cesspool of hate and delusion. I ran into some potentially illegal materials I wish to unsee, but cannot, encountered as I perused the streams chosen for me. The amount of crazy I saw made me fear posting anything, much less leaving replies that included reality, but failed to conform to their indoctrination.