skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. We are in a time where language is changing with no questions asked.

(moronically but nonetheless - amen:a-woman? Hate speech? Removing gendered terms while insisting on identifying as a gender)

Look up New Speak from 1984. This is where we are, and where the Party wants us to be :-)
I think you underestimate the effect of politics in big tech. Lobbying happens for a reason and big tech does a very big portion of it.
Exactly, so Parler gets to decide how Parler is moderated.

AWS gets to decide if Parler is violating the law, and remove it for that reason.

If you want to introduce other reasons... well, I'd wager you haven't thought through the consequences of that.
If you had any idea how many service calls i've done to help people log in to services like facebook you'd realize what you've just said there.
> the free market created these platforms and gave them power.

I'm pretty sure our tax dollars fund DARPA. [+] A substantial portion of the technology we're talking about here was funded by Public money.

[++] So when making all these fine points about discretion of private companies regarding the use of their platforms, it must be remembered that none of FANGs would even exists without technology and both military contracted private and academic research that were funded by American taxpayers' money.
Really? I wasn't aware of that.
programming is a systems science - it is qualitative and constraint-based, not metric-based. It's an optimisation problem where you have to optimise for multiple concerns - maintainability, extensibility, scope, testability, and so on. Overengineering in a way that doesn't help any of these is falling at the first hurdle.
No one is going to Balkanize the internet over Parler. Just because Parler is near and dear to the readership on this site doesn't mean anyone else is going to make moves because of what's happening to it.
If you spread lies about me to my neighbors and encourage them to vandalize my house, I sure hope you'll be held partly responsible.
None of your examples are existential threats to the fabric of our democracy. Put simply, they don't matter.
Where was the heavy handed law enforcement response during BLM protests the last 6 months? I don’t recall any protestors being shot.
Sounds like centralized web to me since for every person there is a single app they are required to use made by their country of residence.
No, I mean this: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p505#en_US_2019_publink1000...

Unfortunately, most people don't even know about it.
Sounds like you conducted a thorough investigation!
> "The funny thing is that HN wants"

HN doesn't want anything. Or if it does, you—as a member of HN—want it, too. If you're going to grant an exception to yourself, grant it to others here, as well.

HN is a huge community of humans. Those that post things on what you perceive as arguing one position are probably not the same ones you're seeing arguing the opposite. And even if they are, humans are well known for inconsistency.
I suppose you used the same logic with arab spring, hong kong, belarus... They are literally doing/did an insurrection and even killed their leader in some cases (Gaddafi).
Disney doesn't own Snow White, it's a public domain story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White
Sure, but no one has actually tried to kill all men. They didn't do this latest action until after people were actually killed by the violence incited.
But we are considering the goals and motivations of Team Parler/Stop The Steal, and it's clear that they aren't the victim in all of this.
Well, I’ll never be donating again.

I’m more concerned about parler being banned or that “hang pence” was trending, but banning the president - who said LEAVE IN PEACE is what we should be doing.

I’m against all rioting (all year it feels like) and what happened Jan 6 was horrifying.

You know how to simmer tensions? You convince the leaders of said movement to calm followers.

banning / arresting / killing all the leaders and then banning their other platforms will make people scared and ready to fight.
Zero of all the Tesla owners I know bought it for any of those features.
The fact is that a company has the right to moderate their own content because that in and of itself is free speech. There is a difference between the government not allowing you to have a say vs. a company moderating their own platform that they own
Twitter is an American company. Americans don't care about what happens anywhere else. Don't complicate it.
You are right. There is no where to go. Its sad to see this disappear.
I don't see the value proposition here, and I certainly wouldn't use this even for my "professional" presence under my "real" name.

1. How is this different from https://about.me?

2. What advantages does this offer over a single-page website on one's own domain hand-coded in $EDITOR?
you should read the amazon letter. basically most of their reports of this violence inciting stuff were ignored and stuff wasn’t taken down.
Intermarriage between Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese is extremely high.

Among my Taiwanese friends, almost a third are married to Mainlanders (and even more have dated).

Even if this doesn't lead to reunification, at the very least it'll maintain the status quo.
Has anyone attempted to kill all men?
Missing the point here. My issue is silencing free speech/expression/liberty to do those things, not about any corporation in particular
the donald crowd has moved on to stuff like duckduckgo etc. This is the point the divide will grow with such tactics. and the donald is the first website in duckduckgo
Anyone looked at the three sample complaints?

7 upvotes, 2 upvotes, 5 upvotes.

For context, the post (I'm guessing he is a co-founder or some senior person at Parler) John Matze has 34,000 upvotes. These posts seem like bad or manufactured examples.

What prevents a competitor from sending a few people to post these things to eliminate competition?

Or worse. Who remembers Knew Knowledge faking Russian bots to smear a candidate as being backed by Russia? [1]

I write this as a muslim American. In my youth having a seasonal job in a well-known resort. I had a local guy come to me, called me a "camel jockey", "towel head" and told me if he sees me in the parking lot he'll take out his 357 and put one in my head. So I have faced some nasty racism. That said, I don't agree with Amazon removing Parler on the basis of these flimsy evidence.

[1] https://siliconangle.com/2018/12/26/reid-hoffman-apologizes-...
AOMedia claims that's not valid, and will defend you against potential claims: http://aomedia.org/press%20releases/the-alliance-for-open-me...
I don't think anyone is saying otherwise. But that doesn't mean people can't come up with a free, better version.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle, or at least getting uncomfortably close to it. That's not allowed here—it destroys the curious conversation that this site is supposed to exist for. When accounts cross that line (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for more explanation), that's when we start banning them, regardless of which politics or ideology they're banning for.

I'm not going to ban you right now because as of a few months ago (say, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23644508 and further back) your account mostly wasn't abusing HN this badly though you were still doing it (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23609087 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23495773). Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and go back to using the site for its intended purpose, and please don't post any more flamebait.
What we call carriers or other monopoly service providers (think power and water, possibly ISP).

Are you going to take the next step and consider AWS, Twitter, and Facebook monopoly carriers or service providers? Under their current definitions they are not and can cut ties with you for what ever reason they want (barring protected class issues I assume).
Scotland says he can’t: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/world/europe/trump-scotla...
As a free market fundamentalist that usually gets massive pushback, I'm having trouble believing that most people making this argument normally promote free markets.

It certainly seems politically slanted in a single direction. Either way, I hope more people join the Fediverse and get away from these walled-gardens.
That reading of the law is frankly stupid. They are organising a protest and AWS isn't able to take on the responsibility of being the moderation team for an entire internet. And not every nasty comment on the internet represents a threat requiring a police response.

There isn't any rebellion or insurrection going on, these are protests. We all know what a US political protest looks like, we've been watching them for years. There isn't anything especially new here.
So you're just splitting hairs over the difference between "approve" and "find reasonable" until someone gives up and agrees with you?
In a nutshell, one of the bedrock ideas of liberal society is that government officials and governments are not the same thing. We permit the government to do some things that individuals are not permitted to do, out of necessity, because we have yet to construct a society that eliminates the need for certain ostensibly necessary evils. We find that delegating those responsibilities to a corporate body that is largely (if imperfectly) answerable to the population as a whole for its actions tends to result in better outcomes than any other alternative that's been tried. The actual execution of those responsibilities then gets sub-delegated out to individuals, but they are supposed to only be permitted to do so when lawfully acting on behalf of the government. Again, out of necessity. While it's not awesome, anything else anyone has tried so far has ended up working out even worse.

As individuals acting on their own behalf, though, nobody should be considered above the norms of civil society. By definition - if it didn't work that way, society would not be civil.

(I'd highly recommend reading both A Theory of Justice by John Rawls and Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick for two different but equally thoughtful treatments of this sort of thing.)
Don’t blm and antifa use AWS to plan their riots using facebook and twitter?
The tech megacorps don't want another attempted coup d'etat to be promoted on their services in the next 10 days. A republic without strong institutions, responsible leaders, and a citizenry who truly believe in democratic values is just words on paper. Many republics just end when one person or tribe amasses too much power and then exploits an opportunity to seize absolute control.
Just ban people who spout violence towards people for what amounts to the crime of existing, who spout conspiracies that are divorced from reality.

You don’t choose who is extremist, you ban the abusive content. Extremists the mostly post that are functionally banned - that’s what Twitter does. You don’t get to report “this person is abusive” just tweets that have to be abusive on their own.
Sisvel isn't directly named in this statement but it's clearly targeted at them: http://aomedia.org/press%20releases/the-alliance-for-open-me...

I trust the AOM will handle this the moment Sisvel actually attempts to file suit. If their patents are as solid as they're claiming, they probably would have sued someone like Netflix for using AV1 already. IIRC, Sisvel did this for both VP8 and VP9 and it didn't end up going anywhere.
> unarmed morons

Apparently guns, knives, molotov cocktails and pipe bombs equal unarmed. Hmm ...
Not if they are a cost center for the propaganda machine. In Soviet Union no one cared how much Pravda earned from the subscriptions, since it was not their purpose.
The purpose here is to set a fire that the Biden administration has to deal with. That’s why it’s getting done on the way out the door and not when the President took office 4 years ago, or Pompeo was confirmed 2.5 years ago.

It’s not likely to work; line staff will ignore this and wait to see what Blinken says. But now Republicans can try to portray a policy consistency as kowtowing to China.
The actual solution is to not allow the existence of enormously powerful mega-corporations. The problem is that we have these companies, each able to influence hundreds of millions to billions of people with virtually no accountability. Facebook and its subsidiaries comprise the most far-reaching media apparatus in history, and the whole thing is under the control of a guy. The same is largely true of Amazon. We shouldn't have let this happen.
How is it going to be a profitable opportunity? No brand wants to be associated with the content that is being blocked, so there is no advertiser demand for alternative platforms.
Do you really think Facebook should be the arbiter of truth? If not, which authority should be choosing which information is not ok?
>>> They are also presently discussing their next day-out for rednecks in the form of another insurrection and coup attempt on the 17th of January.

> But if you play out the actual implications then you can use hyperbole and call it a coup. That's valuable language and you don't want to let a crisis go to waste.

The GGP labeled this with an both the correct term and an incorrect term.

1/6 was an insurrection, not a coup. An insurrection is a rebellion against civil authority, which this clearly was, even if it was incompetently executed. I think a coup is typically used for when power is illegally taken by military or police authorities, which this was not.
Go back and reread, I have started this thread with a proof I personally witnessed. Prove it doesn’t happen.
> Scala has its own drawbacks wrt. Haskell: lack of typed effects is a big one for me.

There are libraries like ZIO, Cats Effect or Monix. Give them a try! Some people might even say that for example ZIO is even better than Haskell's IO.
The person I responded to was clearly not speaking about what corporations allow. Reread the second paragraph.
This is pretty neat. I appreciate the exploration aspect and the search is well featured.

I would also wrap all the product links with the 2FB API to expand the social aspects.
https://github.com/egfx/ShareableTweets
This seems really cool! One thing to note though, is that most (if not everyone) who wants a website already has one. So, you might want to consider focusing on tools for migrating from WordPress and other services.
Amazon is cutting off Parler's servers
I would suggest in this specific incidence they are enforcing it very consistently in that they aren't punishing anyone for inciting that particular type of violence.
question: the whole thing is a blur. i think the last tweet by the POTUS was that he wont be attending the inauguration. was the decision at twitter made by jack & co before the last tweet or after it?

jack was vacationing on an island in the french polynesia while he and his executives made the decision. maybe it's a time zone thing? because the timeline doesnt make sense to me. after the temporary ban, what happened that it became a permanent ban? what did the potus say that violence was glorified?
Google also runs an ISP. Do you want them to police which IP addresses "don't promote insurrection"? Seems like something a judge and jury should perform.. Democracy and all that..

Calling it now. The horseshoe theory is about to manifest in the most real way possible. Silicon Valley is going to clamp down on first amendment rights and vindicate the garbage insurrection we're seeing now. You'd think Americans would've learned something about blowback.

The social media platforms we use influence our democracy in a big way. The fact they can share ownership with hostile and non-democratic regimes is curious.
Likewise, I sourced old old knee and shoulder problems with squats and deadlifts. When I stop, the pain free days stop as well.

Pull ups help me a lot too. I think I do push ups wrong, they seem to cause trouble.
That’s about 50/50 from better aerodynamics and fewer insects.
Just like how you didnt readily accept my link and presented me with an article debunking the vide, let me go deeper into the evidence presented by the debuking article with my analysis that should be easy for you to verify.

Link of the tweet the debunks the video #3.

https://twitter.com/OKelections/status/1325910154907439104

One of the images does show both yes and no filled, but that is the only one of the batch that is both filled.

But for the rest of the batch, some dont seem to have multiple markings, that is they seem to be fully valid. Some torn ballots also have both checkmarks and rectangles filled. It seem highly unusual that someone would fill the rectangle for all the categories and then come back and put checkmarks?

If someone accidentally put checkmarks instead of filling the rectangles. Then why would they come chose a different answer next time? As seen in the video where for many torn ballots one box is filled while other is checkmarked. [Sorry a picture would be helpful but you'll have to go therough the video manually]

My asserion is this: the provision for discarding a spoiled ballots was exploited and valid ballots were marked with checkmarks in order for them to be discarded.

You can also see from the long tails of the checkmarks that the person doing it was doing it quickly.

Also if it was spoiled ballot why were there only mostly Trump ballots? If you think it was a a staged video, we can certainly contact the poster's instagram and ask him about his intentions.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CHY19zygjJw/

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Regarding the Georgia video, the only thing the article says it that it was not a "suitcase" but a ballot box. Which doesn't dispute the fact that the ballot-box or "the suitcase" was pulled from under the table and then the ballots were counted after the poll watches were told to leave.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avh-kOYfaOs

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Also how did you debunk the video showing that a dead person voted?
Right now the main use case is to share products you love by adding them to your collection.

In the future, when more users are on the platform, you can follow people you're interested in and get updates on products they add.

You can also use it to generally explore products by category, brand, etc and find the most highly recommended items.
Then you'd have to talk to your neighbors, who as we can see on Best of Nextdoor are not that fun to be on an internet forum with.
Amazing, just something I was looking for recently. Would love to see a little "Update requests" on developer plan though and maybe a few more requests per month as that'd allow building an end to to end product with some headroom for developer testing.

Agree with above comments about price point being high. $9/month is high given the 500 requests limit per month
>these people's careers are probably de-facto over.

You make a very bold assumption that none of the ~75 million Trump voters in the US are in tech hiring positions.
Chrome 89 will have AVIF support on Android: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/26...
> So why isn't Twitter being targeted?

Because Twitter moderates and removes content that breaks the law.
There is a large difference between the EFF (a) promoting privacy protections on social media versus (b) advocating for free speech on social media platforms.[1] I want to emphasize that (b) (free speech on social media) is not protected by the First Amendment.

The First Amendment begins with:

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The First Amendment is about what Congress cannot do. One has to look elsewhere to understand free speech protections (if any) in other contexts.

[1] I have not reviewed the EFF's complete history regarding free speech on social media. Of course, the EFF tends to opposes censorship, but I would also expect they have a history of taking more nuanced and calibrated stances on free speech outside the scope of the First Amendment.
Tiny interview with Lena herself and some history: https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of...
https://archive.is/4gC64
Profitable how?

If it is not moderated, it will just be filled with spam, porn, and insane rambling.

If it is moderated it can be attacked and/or controlled.

It's a lose/lose situation.
Eliezer Yudkowsky: https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/
The latest gen Intel, Nvidia, and AMD cards have AV1 decode. No general-purpose cards with encode, though.
Ask HN: System design interview (generic system vs. interviewer's domain)
I am wondering what the view points here and wanted to see if people feel the same as I am feeling. I went through few interviews recently where I was asked system design questions. I did well in interviews (based on whether I got an offer or not) where the system design interviews were about systems where both (myself and the interviewer) had the same level of familiarity with the system under design (I will elaborate on that a little later). And I did not do well in interviews (there were specific feedback given to me around how I did in system design interview along with rejection, general feeling after I finished the interview) where the interviewer had a better understanding of the system under design.

Lets take few examples:

[positive] interviewed with a fintech company and they asked me to design airbnb

[positive] interviewed with an enterprise SaS and they asked me to design multi-player chess game

[positive] interviewed with a collaboration software and they asked me to design instagram like website.

[negative] interviewed with a fintech company (app-only bank) and they asked me to design check clearing system

[negative] interviewed with a hedge fund / trading software company and they asked me to design APIs which can fetch the current stock price or the historical stock price for a security

My personal viewpoint is that when the system under design is familiar to the interviewer, which they have spent months and years to design (through trial and error, through discussions with teams etc), it immediately puts the interviewee at disadvantage since the interviewee probably knows about the domain very little compared to the interviewee.

However on the other side, may be I hold this opinion because I got rejected from such interviews (sour grapes).

So want to know the viewpoint of others and this community is probably better than chatting with my other friends who will probably confirm my bias.
You just proved The Great Firewall is the right choice.
> Its almost as if you just searched for the phrase execute all conservatives but didn't actually read any of them.

> Just a cursory glance on Twitter

You chose one specific instance to be the molehill to stand on, lacking substantive argument to fight for anything more than pedantry.
I'm working on a search engine in Rust which is unique because it can offer search in O(n), various sacrifices have been made in order to accommodate for this.

I also want to support metadata filtering etc. but having some trouble with storing and indexing JSON through rocksDB.
I've made some progress but not really there yet.
> A decentralized platform ensuring people can communicate with who they want

Once upon a time, we called that "The Internet." Good times. Good times.