skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, a link to the lawsuit and a tired recap of preceding events.

Here is a link to the lawsuit

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/1/parler-llc-v...
you know LuLu and Little Snitch are made by the same company (obj-see ... obj-c ???)
Ask HN: Criminal prosecution of Facebook, Twitter employees underway or likely
Not having seen this particular topic covered, I ask whether social media network employees have to face criminal investigation for complicit behavior in Capitol events under any anti-terrorism legislation or even for acts of treason.
I don't have strong feelings towards anything you've said (in fact, I read Lakatos' paper just last weekend). You could say that I agree in general.

Much of what you point out is also what Quine identified in his paper "The two Dogmas of Empiricism" which is trivially the question "Is logic/mathematics empirical?". In my world-view inductive types (computations) are empirical.

But since you seem to be optimising for "pinning things precisely", general consensus/agreement may not be of any empirical value ;)
Thanks for the tip anyway. I'll have a place to start investigating the problem.
In theory probably something but combine the fact that Europeans are incredibly supercilious about this stuff and Americans are incredibly defensive about this and I don't think Seattle is going to change that much.
I use st as well. Honestly, the main reason is that I can configure it to use ligatures, whereas the few that offer ligature support aren't terminals that I prefer, and the terminals I like better don't offer ligature support. So, st it is. Otherwise, it's not the best with regard to overall capabilities (though that is because of my limited ability to write my own original patches for it, I suppose), but it's not the worst either.

I don't especially recommend it either, but I like it a lot for my own use. People who don't know how to patch C on Linux are probably not really going to want to use it with the default config.
Kenosha got violent when Kyle Rittenhouse shot it up
This is incorrect. Cost of housing comprises more than 40% of the CPI basket[1], mainly through direct or owner-equivalent rent[2]. There are good practical and technical reasons why home prices are not included directly, but the costs of the main utility of a home (shelter) is one of the largest parts of the CPI calculation.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2019.txt

[2] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...
Loss of Twitter use isn’t loss of freedom. No laws have been changed. He’s just lost access to a private company’s services. It is not the same as any of the things you list
On the bright side, I suppose, without that animal reservoir available, this virus looks like it kills off its host fast enough that it won't spread that much: everyone with it will just die too quickly.
That would require everyone in the world committing themselves to living without computers for the rest of time.
> A hard thing to wrap your head around in economics is the idea that two opposite things can be true at once.

> Consumers are in the best shape they’ve been in, ever.

> A huge portion of consumers think that’s bogus because they’re in the worst shape they’ve been in, ever.

> Both are true.

They're not. Workers, whether they've materially done well through the pandemic, or not, are sufficiently lucid to see that this all has to be paid for. And they're the ones who will pay for it.

Unlike the author, who is blindsighted by, and even marvels at, the "huge" numbers, unable to see more than a few months down the line.

A worker may be in a house that's booming in value with a tech salary and buying lots of nice things from Amazon and deliveroo but he can see the world outside.

Workers aren't atoms spread apart in a vacuum. They know people friends and family who aren't doing as well as themselves, or vice versa.

So there is no contradiction in terms. Things are bad full stop.
The most important thing he could have done is to communicate clearly about the seriousness of the pandemic.
> the next four years is going to be very bad for the rest of the world

As someone from the ROTW I can tell you we're thrilled that Trump is leaving. It's been 4 years of uncertainty, foul rhetoric, blatant lying and cronyism. Trump sought the line and the line was drawn. Would it be better if it hadn't come to it? Yeah I think so. But we're waaaaay past that.
>I certainly don't want anyone's right to political activity to be taken away.

How else can forcing people to provide support (whether that support is compensated or not) for a political entity be interpreted?

Doing so would reduce the political rights of those affected.

And reducing those rights for to one group means they can do that to you or to me. You can't eat your cake and have it too.
If you see something objectionable on Twitter, report it. It will be addressed. The problem that Amazon has with Parler is that they repeatedly informed them about specific posts with violent content and Parler didn't remove them.
AFAIK he's not criticizing the issue with Parler, as you would have seen if you actually had read my link. I have just widened the net in the hope of catching some dissidents to the "party line".
Try using Mosh instead.
I think the hardcore libertarian is complaining that oligopolies embedded with the inbound political administration are collaborating to shut out oppositional voices. Not seeing any contradiction with first principles of free markets and liberty there.
The fact that the mike defaults to on after power on is completely understandable from a user interface perspective, but from a security perspective it makes the mute switch useless. Why? Because any attacker that has penetrated far enough to be able to control the SOC in order to snoop can also trigger a SOC reset in order to make sure that the mike is enabled before they start snooping.

A physical switch would have been a better choice, if it was actually for security instead of security theatre.
Snoop Dog on Video Toaster on Amiga 2000
ISS to install solar panels that 'roll out like a tape measure'
In addition to the sibling comment, tmux has the per-pane option 'alternate-screen'. You can set its default with 'set-option -g alternate-screen off'
> The justice system just moves slowly. Many people spend upwards of years before going to trial. This is nothing unusual.

You can demand it goes faster. In the US this is specifically the "speedy trial" provision of the Sixth Amendment. The government is obliged to provide "speedy trial" if demanded - if it can't do that it isn't entitled to a trial at all.

However, your lawyers (and she can afford good ones) will almost invariably advise you not to do that unless things have gotten entirely out of hand - because speedy trial applies to both sides, and the prosecution will have the rough outline of their case before they even file charges, so unless you're in a hurry t go to prison...
He is proving his point by contradicting himself, a true mathematician.
This suggests that they'd pay for the opportunity to be the kind of person who buys kale.
Redox OS ???

https://www.redox-os.org/
Also, arguably, the Balkans.
It works for Disney. Kids love old Disney movies
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE. (Too bad it's not me.)
The main problem with projects like these is that I don't know (without manually checking myself) whether they are actually tracking the Signal source code effectively. Building Signal isn't exactly straightforward (just due to Android/iOS crud). We need something like build attestation from reproducible builds to be extendable to slightly different source codes.

Other than that, love it. Now to add iOS backups and cross platform imports... And strip out gifs (or at least make them disabled for me). And force by default unknown callers to go via a relay...

So many wishlist items which are probably wasted effort because they will bit rot without being accepted by Signal.
I would say it is worth to have a conversation about definitions of words. Having your definitions straight is a huge chunk of being able to think properly, and thus to act in the world in the way that we truly want.
This doesn't have anything to do with a traditional conspiracy, in the sense that it doesn't require secret coordination between actors.

It's just about how all these left-wing platforms are acting at the same time to silence those they disagree with.
Best date I've seen in a while on an HN post. ;-)
Except it wasn't really enforced. They kinda made you think you HAD to pay, but extends it to another year even if you didn't pay. So it was actually free.
And for 50% effective vaccine and R0 of 2.5, one has to vaccinate what, (1-1/2.5)/0.5=1.2 or 120% of population?

Please, correct your math. It is weirdly off.
> a Russian intelligence operative

Imagine if there was no "Russian Intelligence Operative" and it was right wing Americans all along. I'm sure Putin will be mighty pleased that he is being given so much credit for having destabilized a Superpower by doing literally nothing. Can you imagine the ego boost he would be getting out of it? If there is a way to self-destruct Americans have for sure found a way to do it. Irrational fears about Russians meddling in elections while saying in the same breath that mail-in ballots cannot be subject to fraud. Do you see how disconnected both arguments are? On one hand you say a foreign adversary can easily influence your election but in the same breath you say domestic actors cannot influence elections. Either your elections are so weak that they can be manipulated or they can't. Can't have it both ways. And yet Americans believe both stories coming from the same party and accept that it must be true.
How do I extract data from Google Maps in bulk?
> part of the problem.

You are right on all your words except that one part. Of course politicians know how string together two sentences with nice sounding words to convey any meaning they want. But Ron never said a homeless of one colour is more homeless than any other colour. A hungry of one colour more hungry of any other colour. But if you want to put your words into any other person, that's the start of a theocracy.

Many stuff about the climate change, are almost any other religion. And of covid too. Ron says many times hair raising stuff for the newly minted religion of the atheist left.

P.S. i personally eat the bark of the pine tree every day almost all day, specifically for climate change. If we make it economically viable to plant big trees in cities, because people will be benefiting from them as a food source, then climate may reverse in no time. But it may not be man made. And meat production is the worst for the climate, i am a vegan for years.
No, Little Snitch is made by Objective Development - https://obdev.at/
I am just watching this unfold from a few thousand miles away, but if you ask me, big tech is helping the democrats block all opposition.
Even before Trump was blocked, what I found really scary was blocking Unity 2020 (https://articlesofunity.org/). That movement was as far away from radicalism as any movement can be. Yet they got blocked because it could have hurt the Democrat victory. Now, by blocking Trump and other republicans, they are just sealing the deal and make clear that nothing goes without big tech approval.
>switch that is sticky when powered off

This is a long solved problem, a lever switch. Laptops (usually enterprise laptops) sometimes have them to turn on/off wireless communication.

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/34956/who-needs-an-ex...
>But on the other hand, why would COVID cause an increase in shootings/murder?

The related lockdowns and such could play a role. I wasn't putting it forward as the sole factor but to me it seems more likely that this among other things like the police reporting differently because they're mad playing a bigger roll in a bloody 112% increase. That's a whole lot you realise that right?

Which brings me back to some of those questions left unanswered:

How do you tie a bit more than 1% decrease in budget to a 112% increase in shootings?

Do you have any reasonable argument for that?

Why do they spend such a ridiculously insane amount per employee, in total or however which way you want to calculate it?

Can you justify this given the results?
The difference is that Twitter and Facebook make a real effort to police violent or otherwise dangerous communications on their platforms. Parler was literally created as a safe haven for stuff that gets you banned on other platforms.
If you use a terminal emulator that supports pointer events, tmux can use those.

You generally just need to do:

set -g mouse on
The Kyle Rittenhouse incident was in August and the article I posted was from June, stop making things up.
This is a good point. Literally everything parler is accused of twitter has done, is doing, and is going to continue doing.

It's straight up partisan censorship now that the party that controls twitter/amazon/facebook/google also controls their regulating body.

It's a case of regulatory capture.
I think that BLUF is definitely the better way of writing most informational pieces, particularly articles such as this.

It's a similar concept to the 'Topic Sentence' which would be used to sum up the ideas of the following paragraph.

The only reason I could see for actively choosing not to use BLUF - would be to force users to read more of your article for the sake of it, which seems (to me) like a 'cheap' tactic.
You can get a fair bit of that with terminal multiplexers like tmux. It does not have the ability to style different tabs. But it has advantages too. For example, you can have multiple terms connected to a single tmux session, you can run tmux when ssh’d to a remote server, the tool is not tied to a particular vt.

Not to say your setup is deficient, but I think I understand where the parent is coming from.
> hash(static-pepper, username, password) * 250k

Though this is obviously better from a wire-interception PoV, it means that you can't enforce any password policies, or maintain a list of leaked/bad passwords (e.g HIBP)
Fauci is a government functionary who has admitted that he ignores everything (ie. economics, education, national security, food security) except corona stats, so is unsuited to be involved in public policy.

But that was easy to discern back in Spring 2019, though his face is still showing up almost a year later.

He could have used his influence pre-corona (SARS-1 was in 2002/2003) to ensure the CDC was better prepared like several Asian countries and Canada for a pandemic, but he didn't.

He's the kind of expert we should all fear - all talk, no action, no accountability, no leadership.
I2P is basically just an anonymous network layer. It doesn't store files, proxy to the internet, run a web server, etc. All it does is anonymously connect standard servers and clients.

Freenet on the other hand is an anonymous content distribution system. You can't use it to connect arbitrary network services together, it's only good for storing and retrieving files. Nodes on Freenet each store encrypted pieces of data but it's computationally hard to figure out what data a particular node is storing unless you have the key to access it. Files are prioritized based on popularity so old files that no one has accessed in a while and the original host is gone can just be lost forever. It's similar in some ways to bittorrent swarms. Over time as a torrent becomes less and less popular you're likely to run into issues finding a seeder that's still around.
> Was the parler content legal?

Yes, unless there is a court judgement I missed. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of the land.
Why don't we just extend SMTP for social networking stuff? Mailing lists are already social network lists, spam control exists, people understand email. It is also so distributed, that censorship (via refusal to federate) is very unlikely to occur
No need to ship a hard drive, just send it over the regular internet.

It would be an interesting exercise to design an encryption and compression protocol that has a high bandwidth/high latency link and a low bandwidth/low latency link working together.
Last time I tried to set up a ts server I couldn’t because they don’t provide arm binaries. Everybody is on discord now. Better close shop already, frankly.
Sorry, I don't see how anything you've said 'proves' that Trump's post-hoc statement condoned, much less incited the actions of the violent minority within the protest.

In regards to the separate topic of the BLM protests, you could've presented quotes such as this:

"All Americans were rightly sickened and revolted by the brutal death of George Floyd. My administration is fully committed that for George and his family, justice will be served. He will not have died in vain. But we cannot allow the righteous cries and peaceful protesters to be drowned out by an angry mob. The biggest victims of the rioting are peace-loving citizens in our poorest communities. And as their president, I will fight to keep them safe. I will fight to protect you. I am your president of law and order, and an ally of all peaceful protesters."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-trump-mobilize-fe...

Instead you cherry picked to present a narrative that fits your argument.
The Mandalorian is far from perfect, but it has some excellent episodes and is based in a robust understanding of Star Wars.

I have many qualms about The Mandalorian, but compared to the dumpster fire called the "sequel trilogy" it's very good content.
I have noted this with several high ranking posts on HN. I wonder whether it's a case of the author being unaware of BLUF, or simply that they want you to read their work before finding the conclusion?
> There's just the practice of science.

Sure. But author doesn't state that there is ideal science (STEM) and science muddled with politics (social sciences).

Author says that there are good social institutions (like American judicial systems) and bad ones (like Russian judicial system), and that STEM is the case of the former one (although it has quite a lot of problems as well), while social sciences are rather a case of bad corrupted institution.

I think that author's idea of feedback loop is really interesting and reminds me of how things are going in other social institutions as well.

When we have feedback loops which incentives corruption, we get corrupted badly functioning institutions and vice versa. I think ``Why nations fail'' approach this from the same angle.
Good point. I guess I'd prefer anti-competitive litigation in particular to be centered on arguments among those who compete. Parler wasn't exactly in direct or indirect competition with AWS. Might be better if another cloud provider were saying 'hey these guys shut us out of a deal to maintain their market position' rather than what happened in this case.
Beautiful job! I love that you used an action and that the code is so clean. Thank you!
This is not a flimsy case. First, the courts protect speech at all costs, no matter if it is a private or public platform. Second, the actions these companies have taken are monopolistic in nature. Parler should demand billions, and not settle. I would love to be the attorney on this gig.
Rhinoviruses make up ~75%, but the other 25% are made up of only a handful (4 iirc) of coronaviruses. Definitely seems like you could at least make a vaccine for those, and eliminating 25% of colds would be nothing to sneeze at. (Pun very much intended...)
> is now clear incitement of violence. It's knowledge we have after the fact.

Ehm, what is your logic behind that? That one event has happened before the other one? Since when is that enough of a "clear" statement? How do you go from that one correlation that you picked to somehow being sure of the causal (not only that, primary causal) connection between the two? Also how did you assign responsibility? Should marilyn manson's music be banned because a columbine shooter has listened to his music days before shooting up a school?
But you're also not having to pay to produce the back catalog, and the cost of the streaming infrastructure scales well. Every person who stays subscribed because their toddler wants to watch Moana for the 53rd time is free money.
> It's not "censorship" for you, me, or any other regular private entity to refuse to actively provide help for others' speech.

Section 230 was created when Twitter (and the likes) were much less important for public discourse.

I'm willing to bet that it's going to be amended, just like the EU version of it was.

Consider this precedent :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

> The Court rejected that contention, noting that ownership "does not always mean absolute dominion." The court pointed out that the more an owner opens his property up to the public in general, the more his rights are circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who are invited in.

> In its conclusion, the Court stated that it was essentially weighing the rights of property owners against the rights of citizens to enjoy freedom of press and religion. The Court noted that the rights of citizens under the Bill of Rights occupy a preferred position. Accordingly, the Court held that the property rights of a private entity are not sufficient to justify the restriction of a community of citizens' fundamental rights and liberties.
What would an average American care if we are proud of our infrastructure or not? I think it has a lot more to do with Americans not paying enough taxes to make this worth considering.
Doubtful. People, especially ones with kids, were subscribing to Disney+ before The Mandalorian. There's no baseline, either. Even the new, terrible live action films make obscene amounts of money. The only surprise was that "Solo: A Star Wars Story" didn't make boatloads of money. If people will pay cinema ticket money to see Disney films, people will pay for Disney+.
> This is just talk

If you can't construct a proper response don't denigrate mine, thanks.

> You can scroll up to the head of the thread

Again, if it's too much effort for you to construct proper responses then you shouldn't respond at all.

> see how the platform was designed to censor in order to maintain a certain ideology

That is not what the tweets show. They show that there are moderation tools. There is no proof that any view was censored, you, along with the tweeter, have inferred that. If you have a statement sent out to mods about what should be allowed, or you have something that shows certain types of speech were suppressed then you can make the claim. "Social network has moderation tools and mods" does not cut it.

Now, if you're going to reply again I'd ask that you try harder to maintain some civility and up the quality, probably through greater effort.
I'm pretty sure this guy is not using anything from AT&T though, as the chances seem really good he's in Denmark.
Unity 2020 was blocked for creating a follow & retweet ring as per a /r/unity2020 post's instructions. Then they tried to act like social media was silencing them, which I really didn't like and will remember if these people start a similar project in 2024.

I found a post that's still up with similar instructions[0]. "Follow everyone @Tweet4Unity follows" is not allowed and as someone who worked on Twitter disinformation analysis, I can say would immediately show up as a botnet.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/BretWeinstein/comments/igst14/looki...
Threatening with many many years in jail which you don't even believe they deserve in order to get someone to give up their rights in court is immoral.
Employees of knife manufacturers are also complicit of treason.