skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How are they an arbiter of truth?

Because they ban politically inconvenient viewpoints.

> their platform being associated with a company that has no problem with users coordinating violent and deadly insurrections...

Does Twitter not host the leaders of terroristic regimes? Has Reddit not been implicated in murder of innocents? Does Facebook not routinely have calls to violence?

All major platforms have broken AWS TOS countless times, and much more often than Parler at that. It’s pretty clear that Parler is being singled out here, and that breaking the AWS TOS is a flimsy excuse at best.
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Sendgrid is a good example. We moved to mandrill because we don’t want any drama with our vendors. Sendgrid was ddosed over some drama with their evangelist and it affected our business. Last thing I want to do is having to explain to my exec team that our emails aren’t going out because of a vendor choice I made.
I rate them differently- I can use Facebook and supply minimal real personal information. WhatsApp by contrast demands full access to all my contacts whether they use WhatsApp or not
Bleagh, I misread the post.

Well in that case the answer is super simple: The same reason Google provides any other free service, whether it be Maps, Gmail, Photos, Search, Hangouts, Meet, Pay, whatever. The more Google services you use and the more time you spend using them, the more you can be monetized.
A good example to this is the founding of the US itself.
The question is what constitutes "refusal to moderate". As far as I can tell, simply calling the election fraudulent is grounds for banning on all the major platforms.

To be clear, I don't believe that position, but at least 30 million Americans do. So now any company that hosts user content without the will or resources to censor the opinions held by one fifth of the electorate, can find its infrastructure turned off at the drop of hat. As a CEO, that would seem like unacceptable TOS to me.
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If you want to operate a social network (and can spin up to arbitrary user loads thanks to the magic of containers and cloud services), then you need to consider the possibility that your site might get jacked by a set of very difficult users.

Unfair to smaller firms? Maybe, but the phrase 'don't bite off more than you can chew' comes to mind.
Twitter is toxic and that's still up. But they support the democrats, like Google. Big tech is becoming too powerful.
I’m speaking more broadly. I don’t feel inclined to solve ISIS’ problems either but they’re not going to go away unless we sit down with them.

Hardline stances seem nice until people get hurt and progress isn’t made.
Before people abused the term "social network" to include all manner of things, including forums such as Reddit and Hacker News, using Twitter was referred to as "micro blogging".
> do they get something out of it?

"robust conversations"
Edit: it seems an awful like parent can’t concede that fraud was not even alleged in the majority of Trump cases, and in nearly every case where it was originally alleged, the Trump team dropped the case.
It is outrageous in a very literal sense. The whole reason people are mad is because they know that Keurig is allowed to do it and have basically zero power to make them stop.
Ahh thanks. Looks like Parler missed it too.
I have few long term goals, primarily health/fitness (now at the sustainment phase of this) and financial (to be able to properly retire without needing supplemental income). Most of my goals are near-to-medium term. I base them off of things I want/need to do but cannot for some reason.

I cannot, presently, understand the systems at work to the extent I want to (astrodynamics, satellites and such; calc, linear, and physics are 15 years in my past). So I'm deliberately setting aside time to study and practice those topics to enable my understanding of astrodynamics and what we do at work. I don't intend to master it (that is, to the extent of the literal rocket scientists in the office), and I don't know that I'll need or use it after this current position. But I do want/need to know it now so I've established goals around it.

I want to make furniture, and have the ability to do decent work. I took some courses and enjoyed it, and demonstrated to myself I wasn't incompetent at it. But I have no equipment in my home to do it. So I'm setting aside money to buy some basic equipment, and planning to set aside time to spend on it once I do.

What, in your life, is currently blocked from you or are you not at your desired level? Create near-term goals to remove the blockers or achieve your desired capability/level. If you start to make a habit out of thinking this way and developing routines and systems to enable these goals, it may become easier to make long term ones. Or you may never really make long term goals, we don't all need them.
Really sad. Rest In Peace Aaron.
TBH harbor-based city states that are similar to old Ragusa (Singapore, Hong Kong) did quite well in Covid pandemics as well.

Big continental empires were always the ones to be most vulnerable.
> Since Twilio no longer authenticated emails, hackers were able to access admin accounts with ease.

I don't give a damn about Parler or USA politics.

The troubling thing here is how the security underpinnings of an entire platform like Parler can be screwed over by third-party SaaS provider.

The fact that the platform contained some "bad actors" is only a distraction. This is the real issue, or one of them.
I found a bunch of sticker packs here that were easy to install. There must be a way to import telegram sticker packs, because I see them referenced. https://signalstickers.com
I may be misreading things, but it sounds to me like they published the list of things to remove and Parler removed them after notification, but they're using the publication to try to make it look like they were notified before they actually were.

But this is a complaint, so I can't just assume that any of these things are actually true and that's why I want to reserve judgement until we hear how all the evidence plays out in court.
I use a mixed environment. My servers are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and about 5 different linux distros.

I can only get consistent screen output if I use Xterm.
rxvt, Alcrtty (sp?), Konsole, Gnome Terminal and all others that I have tried mungle ncurses, and/or other screen decorations (like using ASCII +------+, or TAB/Space, "decorations").

Even if I do get rxvt dialed in from one client, if I connect from a different workstation with a different client it's all a mess again.

I know xterm is the slowest of the bunch, but it always works with minimal putzing.
Perfect is the enemy of good.

Let's just start with the most powerful person on the planet first, which POTUS, on the most popular social networks, which are FB and Twitter.

We don't need to figure now what to do with, for example, a senate from Namibia.

My position is that, if we are gonna ban an elected leader, let's get a judge to issue a court order.

It's the same thing with search warrant or the arrest, and we can do that in a timely manner.

The problem that I see is that nobody is pushing for having a proper process at all.

Also, our tax law is like 100x more complex than this. So, yeah, it doesn't sound hard.
They are a non-profit, so they're funded by grants and donations.
There are a few but Cap'n Proto is probably the most mature at this point: https://capnproto.org
Still in the app store I see.
It depends on how you value freedom.
Flash memory comes in multiple flavor, named after the logic gates that the organization of their transistors resemble. So there is NAND Flash, NOR Flash, and Vertical NAND Flash memory.

I agree that referring to "NAND Flash Memory" as "NAND" is rather confusing. Similar to referring to "crypto-currency" as "crypto".
Someone the "right to free speech" becomes the right to censor.
> the left trying to shut down free speech

People really have no idea what the "left" even is anymore do they?

I was once down voted here for mentioning that the NYTimes is not an extreme left wing publication. The NYTimes is a centrist liberal publication that is widely reviled by anyone on the left.

It's amazing to me that the media (not just Fox-news and co) has constructed this bizarre bogey-man of the left as some control hungry liberals. Those people certainly exist, but they aren't, by anyone who is engage in leftist politics and theory, remotely left.

Believe it or not people on the left have been critical of the growing role that corporations have in setting public policy for decades. Sure, centrist liberals my be cheering, but nobody on the left wants to see corporations be the unchecked regulators of society.

However, equally surprising to me, is the number of pro-big tech company HN people who are suddenly deeply concerned about unchecked corporate power. People who two weeks ago would claim that companies should drive out employees who disagree with them, now wish these companies were subject to the will of the people. You can't spend a lifetime fighting to reduce the power of the federal government and then be surprised at all that large corporations are the ones deciding our public policy.

The entire fact that the will of the people has no direct power over corporate action is exactly why the left doesn't like the perpetual growth of corporate power and of its deregulation.

The unfortunate conclusion of all this confusion for me is that this is clearly not political in the slightest. Right-wingers (conservatives haven't existed for decades now) aren't political because they don't have a value system at all. It's just confused rage at a world they don't understand and they feel is crushing them.
you're missing Threema
Yeah, USB is seldom inside laptops, but you might be interested to know that it is becoming increasingly common to see HID over IC2 [0] used inside of laptops instead of PS/2.

[0] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh8...
Low energy comment here, but I haven't seen GAFA as an acronym yet (and it makes sense because Netflix no longer has the same power it used to).

funny acronym too, because of 'making a gaffe' can kinda be, making a GAFA.

I agree with you that there definitely will be a new relationship between gov and tech in the next 4 years.
If you're feeling lazy, it's also easier to find those posts on Facebook because that's where everyone is (network effect). Parlor was poised to capitalize on discontent with the social media companies that were banning Trump but the influx of users was just starting.
Most of what you're describing is habits and systems, not goals--and that's what I'm saying, too. James Clear's article here espouses what I'm talking about: https://jamesclear.com/goals-systems
> Please don't tell me what I have or have not seen myself.

Can you link to these posts?

I've been following the threads, but haven't seen people arguing that the concept of free speech itself is "outdated" and that societies that hold it are "doomed to collapse".

The only "censorship" I've seen people supporting is against speech that has never been protected by the 1st amendment, which isn't being "pro-censorship" or "censorship" at all, it's just the same laws we've had here in the US for centuries.

Again, happy to take a look at what you're seeing on HN if you can link to a few threads.
Seems bizarre to be running a controversial service and not have any disaster recovery planning in place. Did they really think that these companies wouldn't eventually get tired of the controversy and kick them?
Indeed. Anchor Steam Christmas Ale was fabulous this year.
No, no, no. I have been toying my own Matrix instance and I registered 2 users that I played with, exchanging pictures and messages. There were some glitches in the UI that insiste on flagging some sessions as insecure even though I verified every session.

Sometimes it got resolved all on its own, sometimes it stayed like that. No biggie in the end but you can find some bug reports like that on github. Most probably it's getting worked out or was but it definitely happened.
Fair, but in this case we're talking about a US company hosting another US company's data, so I think talking about free speech in the context of the First Amendment is reasonable.
Considering that these people genuinely thought the election was rigged, I am surprised the protest didn't degenerate into something worse, given the level of violence in protests seen last year for other concerns.

With no court hearing the evidence, and then a mass culling of their voices on social media, and given all the 'evidence' they saw in the hearings, the pressure can only build, I remember seeing a Reuters poll saying that 40% of the voting population thought the election was rigged, IIRC this was double last time.

I think the votes need to be checked, just in case the election was rigged. The risk that there was no rigging is that we can prove Trumpers completely wrong. The risk that there was rigging is that the republic might be dead. At the very least it will act as a safety valve.
I mean let's call it what it is, a hack and dox.

That being said, doing to lords work. Expose this cancer so it can be removed.
What about Element / Matrix ? It's ahead of Signal in usability, and much more future-proof.
Several tweets like this one from Khamenei are still up: https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1263551872872386562

Is "The only remedy until the removal of the Zionist regime is firm, armed resistance." not a call to violence?

If Trump had posted the same Tweet do you think Twitter would have removed it?
The first two of those are non-violent opinions you clearly disagree with.

The second two are pro gun ownership - which would be perceived as appeals to violence in most of the world, but in the US is a perfectly common political position.

So this fails to support your false equivalence re: Parler and Twitter.

There's actually plenty of extremist hate filled bile on twitter, but these are terrible examples. Search "#killallmen" for some readily accessible examples.

Still, kind of absurd to suggest it represents the mainstay of content on the platform.
You mean since the deluge of posts last week wondering where he was?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25640501

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627043

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25647297

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25646814

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25657809

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25654920

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641321

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25636113

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25636045

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627398

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25629774

....
That's definitely possible. I have no direct knowledge of the agreement, but it's one of those things that will get sussed out later--I suspect that the precise nature of the agreement will be gone over in detail.
>I would also probably buy said malicious actors a beer if I met them, accompanied by a high five.

You would, would you? Thousands of individuals who by and large wanted to try out a competitor to Facebook ended up getting their personal details downloaded and leaked (and we're talking about very sensitive details here), and you're going to buy a beer for the criminals who did this? I assume before you turn them into the authorities for their 10-20 year sentences?
You guys are forgetting another part of the chain, which can make decisions - consumers. If cost of throwing something away increases - may be that will make consumers choose something more reliable and serviceable. As if right now residential trash pickup service probably covers just the labor and machinery to get trash to the landfill
Replying to the one top-level comment with genuine empathy. Thank you.

Here's how I read the poll: If I were a datacenter owner, and I leased out a serious portion of my datacenter as a public cloud, would I have terms of service? Yes; I don't want to attract trouble or criminality. Would those terms of service ban abuse, like cryptocurrency miners on free trial accounts? Yes; I can't afford to run a datacenter at a loss for long periods of time. Would those terms of service ban planning or executing crimes? Yes; I can't afford to give service to criminals, as they drive off customers who are less likely to violate other terms of service.

It's that simple. There's no additional caveats. If I saw the sort of evidence that AWS, Apple, and Google have been shown, then I would have cut off Parler as well.

While it's not a caveat, I would certainly enjoy a regulatory approach to moderating the immense power that comes with owning many datacenters. However, given the "free speech" angle, I think that Parler users and owners should suck it up and save up their pennies and dimes for on-premise deployments. If you want to host fascists, then you shouldn't be surprised when the rest of society has an allergic reaction and forces you to go fund yourself.
I think you're right, both things are certainly true.

I might have gotten a little lost in my angry rant, but what I'm trying to say is many of these articles are not presenting the subject in a fair manner.

If the pesticides harm the beekeepers bees, they are certainly hurting wild bees too. Collateral damage from farms is real, but the percentage of wild honey bees that come in contact with these farms has to be a small percentage. The fact that these farms destroyed the bee's (and every other animal's) natural habitat in the first place is never mentioned. It's as if they want these farms to continue to operate, but without any chemicals, which in reality is impossible.

It would be best if we got all our food from small, diverse, organic farms but that's unfortunately not the system we have. I wish it was.

Also, not once ever have I seen the history of honey bees explained. Everyone wants to cry over the 'wild' honey bees dying, meanwhile nobody mentions that they are not native to America. They were brought over by European settlers. So any 'wild' populations we have in America were artificially introduced, but they want everyone to think that it's natural and they have always been here. And they want you to think that all farms, no matter the size or type rely on 'wild' honey bees to pollinate their fields.

It's unfortunate, but it's just not how out system works in the United States. So I'm trying to say I'm frustrated explaining this over and over to people that have been mislead by certain groups who only care about pushing their own agenda. If we want have a real conversation about bees, then you can't leave out the history of how they came here, and you can't leave out the large role commercial beekeepers play in our agricultural system.
What do you know that makes him trustworthy? This is just a rumor spread by a single person at the point. Not very substantial at all.

About as believable as when Sally at work says there's layoffs coming - but she's the receptionist.
But the prospect of a few powerful tech companies putting their competitors out of business should concern everyone. And there's no reason for such harsh measures.
Kathy Griffin was suspended from Twitter for that, please find a better example.
And there has never been the incentive. People complain about walled gardens, but unless you dedicated to FOSS, any commercial venture (with a few exceptions) produces apps and tools that feed the master and excludes other parties.

It might even be profitable to start a venture that allows complete easy self hosting of content.

Wasn’t Berners-Lee working on something like this with his pods?
For me, when I download Steam Authenticator it's tied to my phone number so the first time I login it will send me a text message code, and then from there it generates the authenticator codes in app
Their lawsuit alleges differently though...

https://imgur.com/uu2dRPf
Yup, I think it's a good idea and probably worth trying.
Font Banner Image from Python
Python library for font previews:
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This is for opengraph. It gives you a nice image you can link to in the open graph meta tags.
This is like "first they came for the socialists, then they came for the socialists, then they came for the socialists, and then they came for the socialists".
Note that in NL, ING is not a discount bank.
RFA is still doing the same thing today. Technology has changed but their mission has not.
> Fauci is one of the most qualified and well respected scientist in the field - who had worked for democrat and republican presidents alike.

Right, and he politicized the response to COVID-19 and we don't care if he used to be awesome, we want someone who will put evidence over politics.

> Which scientist who is both "more scientific" and "less political" would qualify in your view?

Probably someone who would be more evidence oriented. I don't have a short list.

> How would you assess this?

By comparing their public statements and actions with those of other physicians, immunologists, and the evidence.
Don't you consider Keybase to be an option as well?

https://keybase.io
Wasn't the_donald subreddit doing a lot of brigading and censoring not just the trolls but anyone with a differing opinion?
You're not going to get to Facebook/Twitter scale without good content in the beginning.
We really need a better vocabulary for talking about this sort of thing than the 20th century terms of fascism, communism, and liberalism. I don't have the words yet, but we need to start inventing them.

We are in a new era, and our disasters won't look like theirs. People who shrug away this kind of censorship with the magic words "private company" are in a dangerous form of denial.
I'd rather it be an "open letter" in this case. No action was taken to un-silence abusively flagged threads, as far as I can see. This is as close to HN moderation "transparency" as we get.
Amazon leaked the email to BuzzFeed 1 hour before Parler received the email. Shocking detail if true. What was Amazon trying to do?

Quoting from the case pdf file:

"Strangely, the article with the letter was posted before Parler itself received the
letter in an email, received at 7:19 pm PST, over an hour after the BuzzFeed article
went online, meaning AWS leaked the letter to BuzzFeed before sending it to
Parler. See Exhibit A."
Choose any person who is placed in position where they speak on behalf of the Democrat side of the aisle.

It is exceedingly difficult to understand your position that this represent a 'bad faith argument'.

The comparison is one comparing the role played. It not a comparison of one's opinion of the person playing the role.
By their own admission Parler does not have the moderation tools that Twitter have. The fact the content ever existed isn't what is at dispute.
It happens all the time in the banking arena. Banks are frequently used to deny market access to businesses that are undesirable to the federal government but are otherwise legal businesses.
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I've recently taken up alacritty (+ tmux), which is fast; nice, and scales on displays sensibly.

I'd been using urxvt w/ a plugin for tabs for eons previously. I'be been mutating my tmux config to match the urxvt + screen binding I've been used to.
Do you believe in their right to incite violence like beheadings from Steve Bannon and ransacking the Capitol by Giuliani? Because that's what they've been doing. Maybe these were all "symbolic" pronouncements by them, but I sort of doubt it, I think they just didn't have the cajones for it and preferred to see some poor dupes go execute on it so they could disavow them later.
Using headless Firefox with a cloned profile allows you to easily screenshot services you're logged into.
I will post the steps someday when I have my space on the net.