skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is quite easy — invest in the most limiting factor, for example:

* OnePlus 3, released in June 2016, 6 GB RAM.

vs

* iPhone 7, released in September 2016, 2 GB RAM.

* iPhone 12 Pro Max, released in October 2020, 6 GB RAM.

From my perspective smartphones have not changed much.
I was thinking about this the other day. MIT is dead to me. Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann should be ashamed for the rest of their lives.
That presumed that the whole trial wasn’t the cause of the mental issues. I’m sure that facing an immoral DOJ out for blood caused him a lot of stress and depression (or triggered any latent issues).
Whataboutism! Whataboutism!

The fact that a platform didn’t do the right thing before, doesn’t mean it can’t do it now.

What, you came out of the womb with perfect understanding of right from wrong?
> What someone did in the past shouldn't matter to anyone if that person has been rehabilitated.

That's just it though. The US prison systems, as a general rule, don't rehabilitate; they punish. There is no reason to trust that a person who spent time in prison is more safe after than they were before. In many cases, it's common for people to become more dangerous because of stay in prison.

We need to work towards the prisons rehabilitating before we can trust the people coming out of them are "safe" (understand that a lot of people that get sent to prison _are_ safe... the term has a vague meaning the way I'm using it).
Please send me twitter links of people conspiring to commit violence so I can report them.
Isn’t trump’s deplatforming contradicting your statement?
Agreed, the irony of /r/conservative complaining about censorship or their rights to free speech being restricted while making submitting posts and commenting "flaired users only" (AKA only the users who agree with us and think the same way) is completely lost on them...
The post isn't about Twitter.
I'd like to see a social network that tries to minimize the impact of "whale" nodes. I can go to twitter if I want to see what's on the mind of the world's top influencers. I can go to facebook if I want to see people mass-sharing news articles with 10,000 toxic comments about the latest political events. Where's the social network built around connecting you to your network and only your network?

This would likely alleviate the moderation issue too. You aren't going to see filth and extremism unless it's posted by your social network, which decreases the incentive for bad actors to post it in the first place.
The whole concept of plea deals is insane (but then again, so is the concept of "justice" in the US) and it's sad to see it being defended here.

Sidestepping the issue of the severity of his crime, the concept of "plead guilty to X and waive your rights to a fair trial" or go to a trial which is made unfair by trumped up charges (thus increasing the corresponding sentence by orders of magnitude) almost as revenge for exercising your right to a trial doesn't sound like justice to me. Either someone is guilty and the state can prove it (and is willing to expend resources to do so) or he isn't - nobody should be forced to make such a choice.
Single datapoint: The last time I posted a job ad (I was the hiring manager) I got ~40 good applicants within a week. I expected much less and got pretty overwhelmed.
> What do you think should be the government's role in protecting the gullible and easily seduced?

it could start by being a trustworthy source of information.

> Most of these drug laws are about this in essence: We are fast approaching a world where low level labor becomes more and more superflous. This is going to mean that there will be a growing portion of humanity on welfare in essence. How do you see that working out for humanity in a world with fully legal free access drugs?

this strikes me as a particularly odd argument. if they weren't doing anything productive to begin with, why care if they get high?
FWIW I've found that true on the left as well
"Programming" in this context refers to having rehabilitation programs in place for prisoners, not computer programming.
It's very hard to know what people, including yourself, really want.

So best we can do is observing "revealed preferences", which is what Economists call "what people actually choose".
While we're at it, I forgot the 2 SBU pins too, so that's 2 extra wires for TypeC-TypeC cables... neither USB nor TB uses them; native DisplayPort does (not including DP over TB)

So, 15 wires in a full-feature C-C cable...
>very nearly did succeed in overthrowing the government

Is there any historical precedent for such a weakly armed group of people[1] overthrowing a heavily armed government?

Seems like hyperbole suggest they almost succeeded in overthrowing the most heavily armed government in the world.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706437
Among the general public? Definitely.

Social and networking skills also matter within your professional community but they are not a substitute for publishing in top journals/conferences.
That phrase "rammed down your throat" is itself an example of this. They lost a vote. Democrats had been desperate to get any Republican on board (cf the numerous efforts to get Chuck Grassley, as described in this 2009 article https://www.cbsnews.com/news/health-care-concessions-irking-...).

The final shape of the ACA was largely along the lines described by the Heritage Institute and implemented by future GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney. It wasn't a liberal dream bill, which would have included at least a government option, or even a single-payer plan. It's a very market-based solution.

Instead, it was presented as "socialism", regardless of the contents. Effectively, the GOP wanted to "ram" the existing system "down the throats" of an overwhelming majority.

My intent here isn't to reopen discussion of the law or even to call them out for bad-faith in discussing it. But I wanted to point out the notion that "shoving down throats" is more about spin than a realistic description of the process. They made it clear, explicitly, that their goal of denying their opponents any kind of win was more important than changing a health care system that overwhelming numbers of people felt was inadequate.

It only takes one side to polarize. I don't believe that the current majority has the power to singlehandedly solve it, when the current minority is intent on singlehandedly continuing it. That's not to absolve Democrats of the need to try, but as long as Republican constituents continue to approve of the legislators who thwart it, it's important for all of us to not draw false equivalences or mis-remember history.
Did they ask for much to verify it was yours? Given what you said, I guess not?
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I am not on twitter, deactivate my FB accounts. Not a boycott, rather an attempt at quarantine. I want to remain friends with my friends at both ends of the political spectrum.

I feel that if we collectively understood social graph theory better we could propose tweaks to make these networks more "fair" and by fair I dont mean with a respect towards a point of view, but rather less likely to create emergent, undesirable social phenomena like ISIS, genocide, white nationalist rebellion.

But I have never seen any papers that explore these topics, on the other hand my interests have been elsewhere.
I was surprised the article and headline didn't use the world genocide. But it looks like it is consistent with other NY Times articles from the time.

This article was published (Nov. 6, 2018) after the UN official declared it a genocide. Yet, genocide doesn't appear in the article.

UN official convinced of Myanmar Rohingya ‘genocide’ - March 12, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/12/asia/myanmar-rohingya-un-viol...

Another NY Times article from August 2018 also is reluctant to call it a genocide.

>United Nations officials have raised the prospect that the violence could be considered genocide, and officials at the United States State Department have debated using the term, according to American diplomats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/world/asia/rohingya-myanm...
From my perspective the proper response to OP is to either

1. point out how the claims made about Parler are false.

2. point out that this is done by other large social media websites and thus Parler should not be singled out.

Keep in mind that by "this" in 2 I mean specifically that there are large social media sites that are designed specifically to enforce a certain political viewpoint. As I see it neither of these were done by you.

I think though that we will not agree on these points and I accept that. Thank you for the engagement. I will read and consider any response you have and leave the discussion at that.
feels like the US people is asking for ruler like CCP, is it all what you want? Parler is likely not innocent, but why it's Amazon to take them down? Is that mean all these big companies can shutdown any customers on their platforms for some reasons they believed are right, but what if they use it to shutdown competitions?
I would try to figure out what they care deeply about and link vaccination to that.
They were threatening him with 50 years in jail and a million in fines or accepting an immoral (to him, and as a more broadly held belief of many) punishment with no opportunity to defend himself and the prospect of a lifelong record of serious crimes.

How is that not an effort to ruin someone’s life?
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> maybe they should have been aware of his illness and appropriately (ie Justly) addressed the situation rather than making an example of him.

While I don't think Aaron Swartz should've been prosecuted (or at least not charged with everything they did), this statement in general is not the job of the prosecutors. If it were, then many charges would have to be dropped/reduced in the case of people with mental illness (where it's not considered part of the defense proper) or other medically compromised individuals. That's kind of an absurd position to take. If X suffers from clinical depression, but has committed (or is accused of committing) some serious crime, should the charges be reduced or the sentence reduced based on these circumstances? Or should they be charged and considered the same as anyone else would be for the same crimes?

This reeks of the same kind of abuse of prosecution as the affluenza case.
I've often spoken with my more left-leaning friends about the need to try and find middle ground with my more right-leaning friends, and quickly.

Donald Trump was an incompetent, by almost any measure you want to use. However, he shifted the Overton Window dramatically. When the Republican version of Barack Obama bursts onto the scene - someone eloquent, competent, and thoroughly able to move effectively in the political sphere, there could be a very real problem for Democrats.
We just had elections, see how that went.
Yes, this, exactly. It's sad that "free speech" currently feels like a dog whistle for the alt right, but it's disingenuous to ignore the reality that social media sites and forums that have sprung up in the last few years explicitly advertising this have very much been going after an explicitly far right audience. The explicit promise is "we won't suppress your speech like those other platforms do," but Twitter, Facebook, et. al., demonstrably suppress very little speech: there are high-profile cases of people who have been kicked off after repeated warnings, but that's not actually the same claim. The real promise of Parler and friends is "you'll be surrounded by people who agree with you, unlike those other platforms."

(There are lots of anecdotes of individual users who get temporary bans on Twitter for political speech, but I have heard those anecdotes across the political spectrum. I suspect conservatives grumpy at Twitter would be very surprised how much left-wing discourse there is about how Twitter protects TERFs, how they pay lip service to banning Nazis but don't really do it, how Jack Dorsey is probably a crypto-fascist, and so on. The parallel -- "I know of people who agree with me who have been moderated and people who disagree with me who have not, ergo Twitter is obviously biased in favor of The Other Side" -- is kind of fascinating.)
I am not sure where you got the idea that Rust error message suggestions lead to blindly copying 60+ character type specifications. They tend to be much more localized and understandable in my experience.
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The reason for the lack of guns is most likely that the attackers had come directly from a Trump rally where there was security at the entrance including metal detectors. Had that not been the case there would likely have been a lot more weapons.
True, except that in Steam's specific case, they are actually using SSL.
You're trying to have an argument with someone else who has a different opinion than me. I've never said that BLM protestors are well within their rights to burn down buildings or that we shouldn't have police protect the nation's capital.

Not only do I not have these opinions, I haven't seen those opinions expressed here.
> That kind of association is like going to a protest with your cellphone. Pretty easy to get the wrong kind of association attached to you.

"We're in! We're in! Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!"

https://www.businessinsider.com/derrick-evans-capitol-siege-...
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Best they can do is eventual consistency for billing, apparently.
The overwhelming majority don't have any epistemic basis for what they believe and are just saying what they think is socially-acceptable to say.
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I wouldn’t. Some malware can hide a lot deeper than a factory reset can erase.
I'd imagine the same mechanism that prevents thawing (poor thermal conductivity) would also inhibit freezing.
I think dual licensing is possibly the best way to go, if your product mitigates a risk. It's why we went that way with browserless.io

Truth be told selling a small library probably isn't enough to make significant money on your product since it isn't solving a big enough risk. The risk of forking is fairly low, especially for small to mid sized companies. Larger companies, maybe so since things like security become much more urgent.

It's hard to separate people from their money, but I feel it becomes a lot easier if it offsets a potential risk they're not willing to take. Just my 2 cents.
It is complicated. Templates do allow some form of structural typing and the new-in-C++17 structured bindings do allow for decomposing and inspecting types (although this being C++ it is kind of awkward). Structured bindings are expected to evolve into full pattern matching in the future.
I believe programming in this context means "scheduled (often educational) activities", not coding.
It was massive in scope and objectively false when he claimed Covid-19 was completely under control, compared favorably to the flu, was just misdiagnosed sniffles/flu, that it was going to miraculously disappear, etc
Lack of marketing/branding and UX that's harder for less technically inclined people to understand. The majority of people want to be able to install the app, enter their phone number then see which of their contacts are using the app. Telegram does this very well, Signal does this pretty well and Element does a pretty poor job.

In fact, I have joined a couple of IRC channels in the past and now there are literally hundreds of random people who I don't know in my contact list. Maybe there's a configuration option to fix this but who wants to spend time configuring their IM app.
Blocking does not scale if you interact with a lot of people (see many famous examples of celebrities quitting Twitter over harrassment), which is something Twitter would obviously want its users to do. To make it easier, it makes absolute sense to me for Twitter to enforce clearly defined civility rules.
> i.e. supporting the overthrow of a democracy

Do you have evidence that Parler was involved in the storming of the Capitol building? Glenn Greenwald says it was not involved.

> Everyone likes but doesn't need those services

Well the employees of the company sure need them if they want to pay their mortgages, buy food, etc.
And don't forget machine learning!

If your paper in ML doesn't provide code, I assume that it's not reproducible and the authors made a conscious decision to not release the code...
They've always been able to. Its amusing that only now is this a concern when nothing has changed. Gcp has done the same for much less or nothing to people. Azure, do, linode, &c have always had their tos state that they can discontinue service for any reason.

This isn't some new threat. This is literally the way things have always been.
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2101.1/01744.html .. just link to the email.
If you want fancy password-based authentication without transmitting it, have a look at PAKE (and OPAQUE): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18259393
I run a podcast, and built my own distribution to spotify, itunes, etc. Those platforms just consume an rss feed and the mp3s are hosted on my s3 bucket

Here's what the rss feeds look like

Https://codechefs.dev/rss.xml

If you do some google searches on "podcast name rss" I'm sure a public feed will pop up

But yeah I'm not sure why these platforms don't let you see the rss feeds though
I appreciate your perspective.

This is a memorial thread with a bias to grieving and celebrating Aaron. By making your points, others appear to assume you're criticizing him for taking his life (which is not your intent or how I perceive your stance).
It means that the processes failed, weren't enforced, either willfully or negligently.

If someone is able to report the wrong number of total votes, it means all the controls in the process weren't followed or simply doesn't work. The burden of proof is on the people holding the election to prove it's valid. So far, 'certifying' results is a rubber stamp, there's no actual certification being done.
Note that Parler is screwed because some "nodes" have reached a disproportionate importance.
Perhaps a second source?

Taiwan commenting on the wrongdoings of China seems a little...problematic
yes it seems like the same stochastic behavior that drives marketing conversions - as numbers increase, expected conversion is almost surely going to happen. but regulation and complaints about the service always focus on the micro, the anecdote, the qualitative.
TBH, all that's required for this label is that the final product is assembled at a plant in Germany. So what usually happens is "bulk ship from anywhere, have a plant for packaging the individual items in Germany."
Poll: Do you agree with Amazon, Apple and Google cutting off Parler?
I am very very curious about the exact breakdown of opinion on HN about this topic.

As evidenced by the recent article "Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25728504 the tech industry is going to have to figure out what to do about all the problems surrounding online advertising, identity and social media.

Many have long called for a federated approach to social media and online identity, along the lines of what happens with international telecommunication and the ITU. Also we should note that FOSS works because it piggy backs on international copyright legal frameworks. Perhaps we need a proliferation of bespoke social media licences? Though honestly, my imagination is not up to the task.

Anyway, please participate so that we can get a good picture of what people here think.
unreservedly yes
yes, with caveats
The free market has spoken and surprise, conservatives don't like it when it affects them.
no, with caveats
unreservedly no
He was an important mind in our community. RIP.
Equating private with public messaging is ridiculous. Not sure how laws are in the US, but when doing support here in germany we had to have private in-game messages reported by a participant before we were even allowed to look at them. The company obviously had a much easier time shaping the atmosphere in the public forum.

Also while ensuring those tools can never be used for "evil" is unreasonable, we should expect dominant players to do what they can or at least not do a lot worse than everyone else. Are you arguing Parler tried to moderate as much as others?
Her speech was not compelled. She was removed from twitter. She wasn't unpersoned. She isn't in a gulag. Stop hyperbolizing and your concerns get a lot less concerning.
> ...by definition, because they wanted to appear on TV or in the media

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.

For example there are people to accept interviews when they genuinely dislike the process, because they felt it was a duty that came along with their chair, etc. I doubt these are ever the most dynamic interviews, but they are common.

I agree this doesn't really extend to the level of the same old bobble heads pulled up on prime time news TV, but don't thing you can paint all of the media exposure with this brush.
Abundance of information narrows our collective attention span
So to actually use the massive information and connection we get through the Internet, moderation is key.

It's really a cultivation effort - otherwise your "idea garden" will be overrun with weeds and pests.