skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No-one. No-one would decide. It's not a decision that needs to be made.

Any history of sexual abuse -> be put on a register that prohibits ever working with children again.
This isn’t untrue but the distribution matters. Most of the conservative-leaning engineers I’ve known tended to be libertarian and/or rule of law types who wouldn’t work for a place like Parler. If you’re a devoted capitalist, you might favor larger companies with better pay. And, of course, if you’re not all of white, straight, Christian, and male you might reasonably have concerns which would not have stopped you from taking a job from, say, Mitt Romney.

Each degree you move to an extreme has a fair impact on your ability to hire the best in a very competitive market. Even if you’re a movement conservative a prudent question is how something on your resume might affect your future earning potential.
Terraform cloud costs directly from pull request to management
Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services Inc
You can ask the question of whether you think in general that marginalized voices should be allowed to exist. Obviously, you don't like these particular people (and neither do I) so you don't see any problem with eradicating their voice. If Amazon were just one provider and there were other options it might even then still be OK. But it's not just a choice of Amazon. Any provider hosting them will be subject to the cancel mob.

Picture instead private businesses who all refuse to do business with Jews. Anyone who does business with them are subject to reprisal and boycott by their vendors, friends, and neighbors. The Jews themselves of course are fired from their jobs if anyone finds out they're a Jew. In practice the Jews cannot do business and must live a marginalized existence or hide who they are. So it's not enough to say "well it's a private business they can do what they want" when you would not consider this valid in other contexts.

And of course all this is ignoring the question of whether any of this is likely to be successful in the end or if it will further justify reprisals and enrage anyone subject to this mob justice. Certainly all the tech companies banding together to silence politics they don't like plays exactly into the narrative the far right is pushing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence
Does your choice of words cause you to pause and think about where we are as a society?

The "wrong kind of association" for creating a social media account?
> Of course, nothing comparable to banking systems and general-purpose marketplaces

Rumor is, some MMO games have markets exceeding GDPs of plenty of first-world countries, and ingame items are used by gangs to move funds across borders. Both Cory Doctorow and Neil Stephenson wrote books featuring this phenomenon, and I'm pretty sure they both usually take their ideas from reality.

Since Steam is a Big Guy, and its market is dedicated to this very activity and sits on top of many games at once, I'd guess it to have a sizeable slice.
Cannot have a solid democracy without heavily educating. It's has be said before, and I will say it again. Examples: Scandinavian countries, Germany.
I believe all people calling for any sort of violence on social media should be deplatformed.
Literally any company can drop any user. It’s in their terms of service. Of course there is a lot of calculation around dropping a high profile user, or a large class of users. It could result in social upheaval and backlash if they do or do not drop someone.
Does the Mac version of Steam install through the Mac App store (or is it offered there), and does that store also have the webview restrictions? If that's the case, I'm wondering if that's triggering them to use web login methods, and while I haven't logged into steam on the desktop again since I installed it on this new one ~6 months ago, I have to log into the website and get a code almost every time I want to do something there, so I wonder if the Mac version of Steam is somehow under the web based login restrictions.
I am not going to go through and find some examples but there have been calls for violence there. I remember the entire Sandman period of time with many people saying he "what a punchable face"....

Edit to add: Also what happens behind doors on invite only subreddits?

Edit to add further: https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitPoliticsSays/comments/bmtdqb/ch...

CHapoTrapHouse got banned but....CTH is invite only.
>Common things that existed 20, 30, or even 40 years [...] often lasted 10 or 20 years in some cases

It's worth mentioning that the common problem with these anecdotes is that it doesn't account for survivorship bias. That 30 year old refrigerator at your parent's house might lead you to conclude all refrigerators back in the day lasted 30 years, but in reality you're only seeing the refrigerators that lasted 30 years, not the ones that broke down and were replaced.
Yes, the diode behavior is (I believe) a fundamental property of the cells.
China previously required Alibaba and other companies to accept government officials within their companies.

https://www.ft.com/content/055a1864-ddd3-11e9-b112-9624ec9ed...

Fraser Howie, author of "Red Capitalism", says that all Chinese corporations are either state owned enterprises or state overseen enterprises. It appears China may want to transition Alibaba from the latter to the former.
The debugging symbols and most of the source is out there, this really isn’t a particularly difficult task.

If you can’t do this, then you certainly aren’t qualified to claim that such a backdoor exists.
I really wish there was more granularity to the permissions. For the vast majority of apps, I don't want them to be able to use the internet. Seems pretty basic (other than the fact that is threatens the whole Ad ecosystem...)

Would be cool too if there was a shared file space for apps... And apps had to stay within that pen. Giving them access to all your phone's files is just wreckless. But I don't have the choice.
> On the one hand, it's such a "no brainer" to take such a light sentence for what is legally such a "serious crime".

This here is really the insidious nature of what the plea bargain system has evolved into.
I've reported plenty of people saying awful things about killing black people & jews on Twitter. It's definitely there.
Unix was originally green threads, at least in kernel mode: it was a non-preemptable kernel running on a uniprocessor. This means that kernel code ran until hitting a voluntary context switch. User space was preemptible.

(User space being preemptible doesn't really make a semantic difference to the shell & and wait examples, unless some of the commands contain lengthy CPU-bound loops.)
your aside about "defense proper" is kind of the point, but extended to another branch of the justice system (ie policing) . I think we've seen a similar sentiment in 2020 over how many people are unhappy about how the police are going about their jobs.
Process beats goals.

Don't set a goal of running a marathon or losing x pounds/Kgs but rather run every day x distance and eat / don't eat every day x healthy food / y unhealthy food.

Once a process or habit is in place, you can look at goals and more ambitious processes. Small goals are good to start with and having huge life goals is fine (having a "purpose").
Okay. Do you have anything that might distinguish that from bribery?
I kind of wonder if we're looking at solving this the wrong way. Instead of mandating that manufacturers take specific steps to fix the waste problem, maybe it would be better to tag items at manufacture and charge device makers a percentage based on how long before it enters the waste stream.

Manufacturers could solve this by either:

- Making their things easy to repair

- Creating in house recycling programs

- Making equipment more durable and longer lasting

Any combination of the above. By picking one specific way of reducing waste, we are ignoring other factors. Few people care to repair Android phones because you can't upgrade the OS after 2 years regardless. It doesn't matter if the hardware is repairable, the device is greatly devalued at that point. Like wise, if it's super expensive to repair an iPhone, people aren't going to bother and will just replace it.

By focusing on the end result -> Devices entering the waste stream <- the manufacturers are responsible for ensuring hardware gets responsibly recycled, repaired, or just doesn't break. Obviously, to make this work the cost per device entering the stream would have to be significant compared to the cost of the device.

Also, the cost should be the responsibility of the maker. Currently in some place in the US, consumers pay the cost to dispose of/ recycle televisions. The result is we end up with TVs on the side of the road. Often on the way away from the dump where people refuse to pay the disposal fee then toss the TV out the door on the way home.
Twitter is also dependent on AWS, as of December. Are they vulnerable too?

https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...
The use of the term “censorship” is itself a negative signal, as it preempts useful discussion by imposing a false dichotomy.

There’s no feasible zero-censorship scenario (see “yelling fire in a crowded theater”, etc.) so pretty much everyone is “pro-censorship” to some degree. But pretty much no one wants preapproval of every utterance either, so everyone is also “anti-censorship”.

If you see someone talking about “damping positive disinformation feedback loops” or something like that, rather than “censorship”, that’s one signal there’s a substantive discussion taking place.

(Zero censorship is kind of like absolute anarchy: an interesting thought experiment that may be useful to inform a practical debate.)
A long read on vulnerability, an honest account of 2020 and ask for help
The solution is to #abolishcopyright. If you don't allow people to exchange ideas freely, and you allow entities to control monopolies on distributing information, you are going to have a vastly suboptimal flow of information.
It wasn't because of a copyright violation. It was because after he was booted off MIT's network for violating their TOS, he went out of his way to find another way to get back on their network by unauthorized means and resume the same activity he got kicked off for.
Yeah, I think that comparison is a little bit of a trap in that they seem more similar than they are.

They both offer a fundamentally similar mechanic (and I think I agree that Katamari's expression is more viscerally satisfying), but Katamari is about momentum and control and twitch judgement and pathfinding; Donut County is (mostly) about solving chill puzzles (easy but clever) and following the story.

Both have in common elaboration of their crazy worlds, clever dialog (though I think DC has an edge there), and great music (where I think Katamari has an edge).

I do think Katamari is quite a bit more replayable. Watching someone new play Donut County is a joy, but revisiting it myself for the Nth time is... not.
It is funny that a social media company seeking to escape from the big tech stranglehold would decide to host their platform using a big tech cloud provider.
edited my comment after yours, and removed the YT link. thank you.
There are literally antitrust suits against Facebook and Google currently, so at least some part of the Justice department believes these tech companies are monopolies, as does a sizeable, bipartisan part of Congress.
I read that photos of drivers licenses and other "official" cards were leaked. I believe these were used for proving who you were on the app. I'm not sure if these were publicly shared, or shared with admins who then verified the user.
> If Amazon is saying Parler hosted "illegal content" then they are saying they broke the law. How can it be any other way?

Because I'm not clear on the specific exemptions for section 230. I can't say one way or another whether Parler itself broke the law.

> That's kind of the point here. Society's rules are clear on child porn. They are less clear on what constitutes incitement. That should be evident if you're following these events.

Did people openly plan an armed attack on the capitol building? Yes.

Did people follow through on aforementioned plans? Yes. Violence was incited. Having read quite a few relevant posts on Parler, I'm reasonably sure that their users broke the law.

There is a lot of gray area between voicing frustration and incitement, but this is not one of those cases.
Yes it’s a very difficult problem and one with bad solutions (see fictitious chatter below):

I like Indian curry.

Yes, Indian curry is the best curry.

Yes, Indian curry in Japan is not the same. They don’t know how to make it.

Yes, Indians are better at making curry. After all it was invented in India and we have the local spices.

Definitely, I would not buy curry inJapan unless it’s made by an Indian who knows how to make it.

I mean you can see this potentially going in an unwanted direction. But is it hate?

To me hate is when you have immediate violent outcomes in mind.
Ask Signal.
>You had to go back 15 years to find an example of the mainstream media misleading people on this scale.

Have you forgotten 3 years of the MSN saying Trump's presidency was illegitament because he stole the election by coluding with the Russians?
IMO Experts are more wise to the problems of their domain than intelligent. Intelligence relates to the execution of mental tasks and the recall of specific facts. Wisdom relates to the planning of the approach to solve a given task.

It is whether or not the nature of the problem lends itself to expertise that defines if experts are particularly relevant for a given domain.
It's common for American media to minimize any genocide caused by the United States or it's corporations. Holocaust gets a pass because it has a convenient scapegoat.
He won’t. They’ll just censor him
Looks like the GPD WIN3 is on its way, but it looks more like a Nintendo Switch with a slide-out keyboard.

https://www.gpd.hk/gpdwin3

For those of you subscribed to LTT on Floatplane:

https://www.floatplane.com/post/fcT3T5PuVr
If you go through the lineageos device list there's literally no samsung tablets from 2013 that's currently supported. If you count the devices that had builds but aren't currently supported you get more devices, but I suspect your odds are still not good considering there's several unsupported models for every supported model.
What? Could you please explain your point of view?
Except for the title, I don't think this article substantiate what it addresses as nationalization.
Created an account to reply: "Exactly".

When I read other comments expounding on how close we came to a coup, I can't help but roll my eyes as memories of being stuck in Egypt at the beginning of 2011 surface again. It's tough to not go on a rant about the order of magnitude of violence, uncertainty, fear, etc. between what happened with the violent nuts at the capital and a coup.

Not to say that the safety and/or lives of some political leaders weren't at risk, but once you've huddled in a dark apartment while a true overthrow is in play, you'll have no problem distinguishing between the two.
I'm struggling to try to understand what this means for the risks of running a business in the cloud going forward. It was not just AWS dropping them, but many of their other vendors dropped them too, essentially killing their business overnight.

Granted, for this first case the bar was extremely high. You needed literal storming of the Capitol and a platform seemingly specifically targeted at those people for this to happen. However, now that the precedent is set, I would expect the bar to be lowered going forward. That creates risks that need to somehow be mitigated (and reflected in valuations).

Even for businesses that are not in such politically charged areas, I can easily imagine getting inadvertently tangled up in some popular issue and having vendors become targets of online activist (whether it's your own vendors, or whether you are a vendor to a target).

What are the best mitigations here, both technical and social? Vocally side with the popular issues, or try to stay completely out of them, to try to avoid becoming a target (e.g., social media presence)? Try to reduce dependence on cloud providers and vendors by building more in-house? How far would you have to go, since a colo or an ISP can drop you just as AWS can?
USB-C cables either have all 4 superspeed lanes wired up, or none of them. Which is why USB-C docks with video worked (2 lanes for USB, 2 lanes for DisplayPort) and why 2x2 isn't supposed to require new cables.

Thunderbolt still works at 20gbps over "normal" superspeed USB-C cables; the markup you're paying is generally for cables rated for 40gbps.
His cakes are food

This seems like a giant loophole to negate anti-discrimination laws.

Are subway "sandwich artists" able to discriminate in their art?
It's easy to play down stuff like this without considering the later consequences of having a record..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At3PyQH8Mx8
At last. Now if only designers could jettison that useless "Clear" button from forms...

So much was written about web form UX. Even if some advice is conflicting with each other, having the dinosaurs implement the least common denominator would come a long way to ease users' frustration.
So how does one advocate for their state to move towards decriminalization?
Well the 90s vision of a free and open internet are dead. We now have big tech censored speech where anything the right of bernie sanders is targeted for removal and any platforms that are created to combat this are systemically attacked at the infrastructure level. Do people not understand WHY people were at the capitol? It's because of this bullshit.
If the data was public, is it stealing?

(Not 100% sure if private data was released.)
That you're equating being removed from twitter with being physically threatened is telling. They aren't comparable. A physical I threat of violence is compelling, yes, in a way that being removed from a website isn't. She could post the same thing on HN, right now. So compelling!
Before I decided that 'game developer' was not in my future prospects, I discovered the concept of reckless entitlement, where people will do anything the system allows, and a persistent subset of those people will rationalize that if you didn't want me to do that, then you should have written the code differently.

This is tantamount to "Stop hitting yourself."

Like the old line about academia, "the fighting is so vicious because the stakes are so low," the stakes for gaming and socializing with internet strangers are both pretty low.

Additionally, computers make you an efficient asshole. You can make a pretty big mess before you have time to think about whether you really should be doing what you just did. To err is human. To really foul things up requires the aid of a computer.
How did you come up with marketing materials for your early business? (solo)
Just curious about the strategies or steps others took when marketing their app early on.

For example, did you hire someone, or did you read a bunch of books and hack it out? Or, did something totally unique that you wouldn't mind sharing?

Thanks
Are we supposed to pretend that the same people that pushed for this to happen don't actively fantasize about banning people like Steven Crowder and The Daily Wire/Ben Shapiro?
It's interesting how the natural inclination of the folks drawn to this kind of product leads to them being willing to provide a lot more personal information than they otherwise would to other similar platforms.
“Remember the password” barely ever works

This has been my experience too. I still check the box every time I log in.
What happened with CIGS? There was a privately funded CIGS company here in Austin TX that also didn't make it (even though the founders and investors were solid) and I've not gotten a straight answer as to why - esp. confusing because the first quals looked very good.
I personally call it "old school" vs "new school".

"Old school" is asically the programming languages that originated in the 70s-80-90s. An incorrect but an illustrative way to describe error messages for them is "The programmer needs to suffer". They are any combination of cryptic, terse, complex, exposing internal machinery of the compilers and linkers etc. There are many reasons for this: computers were not powerful enough to afford better code analysis, parsing, backtracking etc; the users of the tools also knew the tools and could tinker with them etc.

"New school" is from late 2000s on. I usually say it started with Elm. Clear messages pinpointing the exact problem, solutions to problems inside error messages, error clarity as one of the priorities in language/compiler/tool design.
Leica cameras are also some of the most expensive cameras in the world. Their reputation for the build quality is part of that. More like a fine watch than an iPhone so there will be discrepancy.
Twitter has a search feature.

Also this was the very reason Donald Trump's account was finally banned, despite YEARS of that rhetoric.
Personally I think or rather hope this is a defining moment for both Democrat and Republicans,

It will really come down to what the Democrats do with their current turn in power, The republican party is clearly fractured, if the Democrats attempt to ram through sweeping social and economic changes that appeal to their most authoritarian left base then it will fracture the Democrat party as well

This could be, for the first time since the Wig Party collapsed, that we see an opening for an actual 3rd party to emerge
no, just that policing needs to be made a good deal less scary. Also, at least as I understand it peripherally, it can be sufficiently punitive just to lay chargers and force the other person to prove their innocence. This includes lost time from legitimate activities (school/work), lost wealth (lawyers, opportunity cost), and the emotional trauma of fighting a near unlimited resource state versus your own very limited resources to prove they're the ones who are acting unjustly.
while that maybe true - it happens fairly often, usually with no warning at all. If anything, parler got preferential treatment by getting notice BEFORE getting terminated. Most just get "your account has been locked/terminated/etc" emails after the fact. There's bunches of horror stories on HN about it...
We currently have a registry for that sort of thing, and public urination can get you put on it.

So your answer appears to be that the state decides, since they decide what constitutes sexual abuse.
I really struggle with this. Most websites have block or mute buttons. So why is it we can't just use those?

You see something you don't like, don't click on it.

You see someone you don't like, just block or mute them.

Almost every platform lets you choose the level, of lack thereof, of discourse you want to have with people with whom you disagree.
Account created 12 days ago... Will they make it a full 14 before they get shadow banned? A new user who doesn't understand what "hacker news" is really about, or somebody who knows exactly what it is and made an alt account to post stuff like this while protecting their main one? Ah the joys of modern censorship.