skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That has not been true in forever on either iOS or Android, if it ever was.

It is possible to reply to numbers bot listed in your contacts; and apparently it is possible to initiate chats with numbers by using a web api which triggers a platform specific app action.

But you’d be left with phone numbers as identifiers, and at most the user’s self description which is sometimes they name and sometimes just something like “xxx”
I predict that you will see him next on the side of a Milk Carton -- and sadly I am not kidding about that.
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Much trash is already processed before it's buried to remove recyclables regardless.

I would suggest requiring some kind of RFID chip or other scannable code which can be checked in the refuse stream.
I think you're missing the point. /r/conservative censoring views or users is just fine. They can define the norms of their own community and enforce them.

Just don't hypocritically declare that other people can't also do the same. That's the point here. The hypocrisy.
> This is a weird case of private companies getting together and voluntarily enforcing the supremecy of the state.

It's maybe weirder than that, because of the involvement of the president. Even if you believe the president was entirely uninvolved and unaware, the purpose of the insurrection was to keep a leader in power, not remove one. The actions of tech companies are both a challenge to the supremacy of the (current administration of the) state and a way of enforcing the supremacy of the state.
There is bad blood between F-Droid and the Signal devs. I don’t expect the app to ever appear on F-Droid. Signal’s developers are on record as preferring the Google Play store as the official distribution method, and even downloading the APK directly from the Signal website is something they tolerate only grudgingly.

Plus, some are predicting that forthcoming changes to Android – Google possibly mainstreaming its “advanced protection” model so that phone owners cannot install the F-Droid APK except through enabling ADB and pushing it to the phone from a computer over the command line – will further marginalize F-Droid.
Why, when I got laid off due to funding, that I’m constantly reminded by my dream to set sail and work remotely. Dang it. This is my dream right here. Live off grid, conscious of my impact, and make a living doing what I love, being in the ocean.

I bookmarked this under “Retirement goals”.

Whether it’s an RV, a sailboat, a troller, doesn’t matter. Housing is ridiculous and I’d rather spend my time doing something adventurous than sitting around waiting for the grim reaper.
"He [her speaker] added that governments, not private companies, should decide on any limitations to freedom of speech." So it's more a critic of the US government than of Twitter. And if the government doesn't act, it's up to someone else, in this case social media companies to do something, isn't it?
If Trump wasn't the president, he would have been banned way before and with good reason. Germany knows there is a difference between "freedom of speech" and letting everyone say whatever they want no matter what damage it heralds.
This looks great so far. I'm gonna play with this soon.

I ask this about every voice assistant project: Is the wakeword changeable, or can I set it to multiple?
The claim is that AWS and Twitter are strategic partners, and Twitter is a direct competitor of Parler -

> 4. AWS’s decision to effectively terminate Parler’s account is apparently
motivated by political animus. It is also apparently designed to reduce competition
in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter. 5. Thus, AWS is violating Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act in
combination with Defendant Twitter

> 15. Less than a month ago, AWS announced with a press release a new
multi-year deal with Twitter. AWS will “provide global cloud infrastructure to
deliver Twitter timelines.” Twitter Selects AWS as Strategic Provider to Serve
Timelines, Press Center, Amazon, (Dec. 15, 2020),
https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det....
"legal" in a democracy is something that only a court can decide.

I don't know what was Parler's size, but in any website with millions of visitors a handful will post aweful things each day. Were those 98 posts posted by the same user? Did anyone report them and Parler refused to take them down? Were they popular or downvoted with few views?
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That math, combined with the drop in stock price, does not add up.
Reports of the government being overthrown have been greatly exaggerated.
If you had expressed it the way you just did here, that would have been fine. But when you frame it with words like "imperialism", "revolting", and "bullshit", that becomes flamewar.

As for your general point, HN users are about 50% in the US, and of course some of those are immigrants/expats. So HN is a highly international site. It certainly has a US orientation, but I think that's far from "conformity to American culture" and certainly we have zero intention of forcing that. We want people to be themselves and have curious conversation across their differences.

In a way I think a bigger problem here is the opposite to what you're saying. Because so many of the non-American users here have such incredibly good English, it seems on the surface that the site is much more uniform than it is. People have no idea how diverse the community here is, and it makes for a lot of misunderstandings, often bitter ones.
Yeah. Less so the rarity of the great person, but the rarity of the opportunity. But both are required for teh magicks
No, just extrapolating from here. It could be used against the next Bernie too. Any populist candidate, whether from the left or right.
So, can we now all see the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop as well?
> It's believed that the only way is to "distrust and verify" and not kowtow to their ways like what the West had been doing for the previous decades

The only way that will work will be dropping few tank divisions on direction to Beijing.

I've dealt a lot with people like Xi, and Putin in my life, during my childhood, and youth in worse parts of Russia. I've tried everything, nothing stops them, they will keep pushing with brazen arrogance.

I had once such guy taken away by police, he came out on bail, and came back to bully me the next day.

They are pretty much like cartoon zombies, keep coming back until they cannot.
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Yes. Backups without easy access are mostly worthless. If I make backups, I have to think about how they're stored, where they're stored, how they're preserved, how I access them, and how I query them.

Do I have a backup per contact? Per app? Are they stored in my Google Drive? In flat files on my local PC? What happens if my PC's hard drive crashes? How do I automatically keep the backups up to date? How do I keep them in sync? How do I access and query them remotely if I'm not at my PC?

Now multiply that across every different service you use, and that's a lot of mental effort that I don't want to go through if I don't have to. Most users don't want to either.
I'm not familiar enough with Twitter's UI to navigate it properly. Could you link the refutation?
We are certainly moving in that direction, unfortunately.
> The risk of hurting someone in an accident due to a mistake is very different to ...

Source? I really doubt this is true, due to selection effects.

In any case, my original proposal was to specifically allocate road usage to different license classes at different times, which would help address your concern.

> If you increase everyone else's risk by racing, you are being a selfish prick.

Replace "racing" with "driving" and the statement doesn't meaningfully change.

> You are talking about risking other people's lives for a thrill, that you could easily get differently

Every single thing you can possibly do imposes a negative externality on someone else.

"Don't do anything ever" is an idiotic approach to address this. A much more reasonable approach is to manage risk, e.g. by sectioning off road access sometimes like I proposed.
So they specifically tried and succeeded to turn multiple virus' that didn't effect humans into ones that did? What is the purpose of doing that to begin with?
We still use email, blogs and the telephone network (including sms/mms). And newer decentralized systems like Mastodon.
These kind of have moderation but it's decentralized and island specific (also regulated in case of the telephone network).
The difference is that the community observed your opinion and decided it provided no value. That could be a pro or con, based on many factors.
He had an outstanding warrant in DC. They picked up him when he arrived.
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Citation for what? What is it you want someone else to tell you to believe instead of using your own mental faculties and logic? Do you want a citation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? I am sure you can find that on your own, my friend.
There's two different sorts of "you" here. There's the big platform of "you" that AWS shut down, that was shut down for the not-allowed-in-public-sphere speech.

Then there are the "you"s that are posting on individual platforms that get to choose their own standards of conduct. AWS stopped business with a platform that would not be allowed in the public square.

An individual that got banned for dead naming can just start another account anonymously, as far as I know.
Have you or anyone you know made contact with Facebook about it?
I’m not suggesting you should, I’m just wondering if anyone did and if there was ever any Facebook response that wasn’t per-canned lawyer crap.
Look, any truly decentralized network will need to involve users hosting their own instances, along with using an entire suite of encryption and anonymity tools.

No way the average person will be doing that.

That means most/all of the people you'll be talking to on these networks would be hardcore techno-libertarians. A plus for some, a very strong negative for others.

Semi-relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/191/
I have recently started using Notion. None of these tools are perfect, but I find that in Notion I can invest a little bit of creativity and adaptation into the structure of routine, and therefore it is more engaging. Good luck.
Laws like this are basically doomed at the start because consumers have very little choice in the amount of garbage they produce. It just ends up being an extra cost on consumers while the companies actually producing the trash go unpunished. There are some discretionary purchases like cards, wrapping paper, gift bags, single-use plastic bags that might move the needle a little but the bulk of my trash is packaging for stuff I have no choice but to take on. I can't give it back, I can't bring reusable containers, recycling won't take it.
What content is found in the mental health apps that people are using?
A true patriot.
+1, all of the stories are amazing. Here is a link to another story, which talks about the slowest Shul ever flew the SR-71.

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/speed-is-life/
They needed 300-500 servers according to the CEO. There isn't much choice in the market when it comes to that kind of need, specially when you need to be hosted in the US because you're a political website. Imagine if they were hosted in Russia instead, they would have lost all their credibility.
There's a huge difference. The freedom to disagree is a fundamental part of free speech. The very fact that you get a big response from the community means you are definitely being heard. They just don't agree with you. When moderators do it, nobody even sees what you are saying.
It does work on tablets, but its a side load apk, and unlike laptop/desktop it cannot be used as an "adjunct" to your phone: it becomes an independent entity or takes over the entire state.
Everything that was "hacked" is just publicly-available information on Parler that was archived: https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348666166978424832
Will the Ant design framework for React be compromised because of this? Would you still use it?
To put it plainly:

The people who hate Turks do so under the illusion that Turks shouldn't exist because they're illegitimate invaders living on land that doesn't belong to them. Therefore, if that's the case, then what the fuck are Turks doing allowing people to excavate archeological sites that help prove their case? Surely the Turks aren't that stupid!

It was essentially a rhetorical rebuttal to anti-Turkish racists; admittedly in bad sarcastic form, but judging by the flagged comment, it worked.

Anyway, I'm happy you haven't experienced racism in Germany, those of us in other countries haven't been so lucky xD
That's the salient point. When you re-frame social media as collaboration tools, the answer to the question, "collaboration on what?" comes to the fore.

What is the underlying project that requires collaboration? I have a few ideas, but I hope framing that way yields ideas for others.
I never tried to "optimize it down", because I essentially always had enough power (and on the very rare occasions that I did not, I just stopped working).

Laptop battery life is only accurate if you do typical consumer laptop-y things. If you develop native desktop software or edit video (maybe even audio) all day, those numbers are impressively optimistic.

I believe my mini-ITX system is rated 160W TPU. A full quad-core sustained compile would pull about 12A DC, or about 140W, but that included the monitor, voltage regulator and 40W audio amp. At idle, the same setup would pull about 2-4A, or 24-48W.
There was the case of PornHub/MindGeek and MC/Visa. PH was hosting a ton of videos which showed exposed minors (likely most of it was "revenge porn") and other unsavory content. It wasn't until Visa/MC decided to halt processing of all PH transactions that PH decided to haphazardly delete ALL non-partnered content on the platform.

This all happened in less than a week of Visa announcing it.

I think the outcome was "good" but the damage had already been done as these videos are likely residing on servers that are not owned or controlled by PH. Additionally, there's probably a shit ton of non-partnered content that was innocuous.

timeline:

* nyt publishes scathing article about PH and other sites on 2020-12-04 (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...)

* MC and Visa announce to cut ties with PH on 2020-12-11 (https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/mastercard-and-visa...)

* On 2020-12-14 (~3 days later), PH then purges all unverified content (https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all...)

In just a matter of 10 days, a billion dollar corporation deleted a significant amount of their content without even having to step into a court room.

To be honest, it's kind of scary. What if you are just on the wrong side of a person at XYZ company? Maybe a cloud executive wants Y company to succeed because he or she has significant capital investment in it, and X competing company is about to roll out their product to the masses. Executive then writes up a scathing internal report by X company to ban them from using their products, or even worse "leaks" false information about X company to get them tied up in a public opinion battle.
If Amazon has rules, why is Twitter still up?

The "PacNW Youth Liberation Front" Twitter account is still active. They frequently call for overthrow of the government and organize violent direct actions.

Rose City Antifa is still active. They do the same.

Salon's Tweet calling for more violence this summer and calling the violence that had already occurred against Federal properties by Leftist activists "justified" is still up, as is Salon's website.

Khamenei's Twitter is still active, calling for the elimination of all Jews and Israel.

I'm sure this will get downvoted. Probably flagged.

But since the government can't shut down companies due to the content their users post, because of Section 230, I guess a small, colluding cartel of corporations can step in to silence people when the government will bend knee to the Leftist mob instead.

It's only a matter of time before the people wielding this power find it turned against them, if they do not recognize what they are doing to discourse on the Internet.

Pandora's box is fucking open now.
Yes, with caveats

The reason for dropping them should be noted with some kind of auditable trail. If they are dropping them because of illegal activity being sanctioned on the service, that should be part of the record, maybe even along with evidence of their unwillingness to address the problem. All of those things point to a client willing to abuse the service, thus justifying Amazon/Apple/Google cutting them off. If however, the auditable trail shows that the service was making attempts to address the issue, that gives them some leeway. All of this is under the false assumption that there is some unforeseen perfectly objective arbiter of disputes like this.
They had 50+ concrete examples of calls for violence on parler that were reported to AWS.

> AWS has rules.

Also, "we're trying to have a f'ing society here"
It's an interesting idea. Can you give a TLDR of how it would work in practice? Cowboy justice?
Fair enough, although in writing such a post, the author does take up the mantle of having some kind of expertise in the first place that enables them to preach to others. As in, the advice presumably works for her to not feel overwhelmed.

My comment is widely off-topic either way though.
They've also scraped HackerNews posts. Since I posted blog links to HackerNews, does that mean they stole all of my blog posts? That represents three years of work and the chapters of 3 books that I intend to publish. They just took it and will start delivering it to their users to help them write more interesting content? Not okay.
Those links are super useful - might I recommend making them a bit more obvious? I didn't notice them until I came back to HN and read the comments
Social psychology has a replication crisis, because they had a culture of never questioning a published result. You can see that the vast majority of that article is devoted to problems within psychology. (Medicine also seems to have problems.)

In economics 1/3 of 18 studies failed to replicate? A study that small, what are the odds that study itself would replicate? Note that this claim is restricted to experimental studies, which are usually testing human decision-making on economic questions. This is the field of economics closest to social psychology. It seems plausible to me that the model of "get a bunch of people in a room and ask them some questions" is not a reliable methodology.

Economics as a whole may have a problem with replication, but we can't tell from the information on that page. There are whole fields that aren't even mentioned -- no physics, no chemistry.
It isn't open source in the sense that it's in Haskell, meaning it's encrypted :-)

Otherwise it's totally open source: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server
If that is so, why would any company that has a critical business utilize these cloud services? For example, a 911 emergency software provider, a law enforcement agency, a hospital or other medical organization, political organizations, religious organization, or any other organization that either has critical services to deploy or may get caught in the crosshairs of a political movement.

I think given these events companies should reassess the risk of using these cloud services and the potential for disruption of their businesses going forward.
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That's a fair comment, but a non-profit that relies on donations (as opposed to selling services to somebody other than me) strikes me as very different than Facebook et al.
I think a good way to ensure repairability is to require manufacturers to honor a relatively long warranty. For example many large appliances have 1 year warranties. After that you have to pay to repair (which is often 25-50% of the cost of new and not guaranteed) or toss it and buy new. If there were required warranty service based on waste generated from an item, eg a refrigerator must be warranted for 20 years, then you would see much better reliability and repairability.

Smaller, cheaper, more tech heavy items might have shorter required warranties, but the point is that you need to align the incentives by forcing manufacturer to bear the cost of the repair.
I think it's useful to understand religious intolerance in a few tiers. The following tier-list is a sketch, but I think illustrates the idea:

Tier 1 (most intolerant): Suppress the out-group vigorously, including executions, torture, secret police, interrogations, etc.

Tier 2: Suppress the out-group violently (executions) any time they're noisy, but don't seek them out.

Tier 3: Disfavour the out-group, without permitting conversion.

Tier 4: Disfavour the out-group, permitting them to convert.

Tier 5: Disfavour the out-group socially and informally, but not in matters of enforced law.

Tier 6 (most tolerant): It's illegal to disfavour the out-group.

The reason I mention this is that modern notions of religious tolerance target maximum tolerance (Tier 6 or whatever), but there's a lot of variety through history. For example, I think that persecution of Jews under the Romans was, in some cases, only because the Jews were unwilling to also in-form-only obey the dictates of Roman religion (2nd Commandment makes that tricky). Contrast that with Nazi persecution of Jews, which was much more aggressive about seeking them out. It's worth it to identify that one of those is more tolerant than the other, even if we wish for our society to be more tolerant than either of those.

In that context, my understanding is that the Muslim law of the medieval period is pretty clear about tolerance, and that both Al-Andalus and Baghdad followed these rules. "People of the Book", i.e. non-Muslim monotheists, were granted a large set of very specific protections, while still being treated less well than Muslims. (Note that non-monotheists were not granted protections; I imagine that this did not result in much religious tolerance towards those people, but that's just a cynical guess.) These specific protections were strong enough that it made sense for non-conformist scholars (Christian or Jew, as long as they were monotheist) to migrate from Christendom to Dar al-Islam. Compared to modern west-coast notions of religious tolerance, this isn't great. But it's still remarkable and praiseworthy, especially in contrast with modern Sharia, and in contrast with then-contemporary Christian kingdoms.

In summary: it's not that medieval Muslim states were tolerant by modern humanist standards. It's that they were more tolerant than modern Sharia Muslim states, and more tolerant than medieval Christian states.
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The extension route isn't feasible. If you don't control the underlying APIs, you can't guarantee service moving forward. We saw this with the Manifest v3 alarms and how they threatened the existence of uBlock Origin and other fine extensions. There's a lot more that can be said about this topic, but I'll leave it at that for now :)
No, parlor wasn't even doing a "good enough job". It wasn't doing _anything_. It's financial backers supported everything with regards to its users going into a violent frenzy.

There really is nothing contentious here, unless you feel that if you know that a group is organizing in your platform with the intent of staging a coup then you're in your right to just let them go about it.
Government doesn't care about regulating them because these big tech companies help the government controlling people's lives.
Curious as to how you would define this as doxxing? The information contained in this "hack" is just an archival of all publicly-posted information on Parler, it is comparable to someone archiving my LinkedIn page and calling it doxxing.
How to give points for a good post?