skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem here is that private companies are doing something that only democratically legitimized state authorities should be doing

Companies are obligated to make the most possible money for their shareholders. Otherwise their shareholders withdraw investments and invest elsewhere. Deplatforming is a legal money making strategy (it might succeed or it might fail but the goal is to make money).
To add more data, in Nov 2020 7 MM more “potential customers” voted for Biden compared to Trump. Additionally, the “potential customers” that voted for Biden were predominantly younger i.e. more time to purchase good and services from company X. It seems clear to me deplatforming is a medium-term and long-term financial numbers game.

> Otherwise we are always dependent on the good will of the companies without democratic control.

The way I see this is:

Historically we thought free market economics only applied to the monetary aspect of socio-economics. “deplatforming”/“cancel culture” seems to be the free market “solution” to social issues. It is basically the “popular vote” weighted by capital, forcing social change by ostracism/“excommunication” (specifically limiting their ability to scale their speech, without excommunicating them from society - “soft excommunication”?).

Historically social issues were dictated by the church through “hard excommunication” fast and effective, but not fair to minorities. Since then we’ve tried to use a version of “one person one vote” and required government regulation, and moved very slow (for many reasons, one of them being a disproportionate voting power to low population states). Perhaps we are now witnessing the efficiency of the free market to solve social issues?

Which is an interesting/ironic result, given historic Republican policy about free markets.

P.S. FWIW, I’d be happy with more regulation in this area, even though the free market “solution” is in my favor. I hope we can soon live in a world that uses “one person one vote” for all societal decisions, that strategy seems most fair to me. However, whatever your politics might be, please understand: A true “one person one vote” does also mean that both the Senate and the Electoral College need to be rectified.
I find that there is quite a bit of technology that isn't, but that also seems to be less interested in moral police.

GNOME is of the U.S.A. and well known for its livid codes of conduct; KDE is of German origins, and seems to be more lax in this.

Even with Linux, Linus, a Finn living in the U.S.A., has long resisted it and even referenced this difference between Finnish and U.S.A. culture, but eventually relented.
Yes, that as well, along with the fetishisation of violence. Even more horrifying is how this is being internalised as “how we should behave” in non-US countries.
> That usually means, especially if it's a younger person, that they are smart and probably lonely.

What a weird asssumption to make. Projecting?
Have you read the Post-Chaplinsky section of the article you cite? (Unless you meant to focus on the Canadian/Australian legal meanings). The US Supreme Court has been progressively narrowing what "fighting words" means over the years.

By the way, the "fighting words" decision(like the other oft-favored "fire in a crowded theater" quote) are great ironic examples of what kinds of speech you are looking to suppress - a Jehova's Witness swearing at police, and a protestor against the draft in WWI. You don't need to be imaginative to see how these "reasonable limits to free speech" will be used negatively, you only need to look at what they were created for.
People can be sexist or unwelcoming. An image is just an image, it's an inanimate object, it doesn't have opinions of its own. It's the meaning one attaches to it that can be sexist or not - so it's in the eye of the observer.
To me, women and men have the same dignity, conferred by being a human being, so I don't see a picture of a woman as sexist (in the same way that I don't see a picture of a man as sexist). Even nude art images are not sexist.
Of course there have been people seeing, even using, images in a sexist way. But this should lead us to condemn those behaviours and those perpetrators.
Otherwise it would be akin to saying that kitchen knives are evil because sometimes they have been used to kill people. No, kitchen knives don't have any moral connotation, it's behaviours and people that can be evil (and usually even then, the same person is not pure evil all the time).

EDIT: having said this, if an image is making some people uncomfortable, we can use a different one. But in my view this seems just avoidance, a quick way out, which is going to make the original problem worse in the long term, because sexist people will remain sexist, only less discernible, in "stealth mode".
I think a lot of people care about re-integrating those with right-leaning views to society. It is important for them to express their own concerns in their own words instead of just joining in various egomaniacs' power fantasies.

As much as they hate the far left, I believe that progressives such as Bernie and AOC are actually far better for them, and everyone they know, than the current GOP leadership.
Good to see that Apple included them as an alternative default search engine choice. Apparently it's quite popular in the USA and Germany according to Similarweb.
But we also have no right of public presentation on radio nor TV, it's fully up to the station owner. And it wasn't really a problem...or?
Let me say it differently: There is an apparent contradiction between your claim and my counter example, unless your claim is qualified with the condition that incitement happening outside of Twitter is not covered.

If that is inaccurate, what precisely do you suggest?
Exactly! We all have accents, we don't even pronounce English words the same way as each other.
It's more concrete than that there's an input, from a computer, with some sort of physical storage, and an output, again with some storage, that ultimately is for viewing. The goal is to do stuff with those numbers outside of the computer, ie create light patterns on a viewing medium.
Most approaches to losing weight require too much willpower. I have not got a lot of willpower. I wrote about my approach back in 2011:

https://successfulsoftware.net/2011/10/30/losing-weight-with...

And how to build a garden gym:

https://successfulsoftware.net/2015/12/17/how-to-build-a-gym...

I have been finding it hard recently with pandemic/xmas/birthday. But I do still manage to get into 31 inch waist jeans in mid-fifties.
A credible immediate threat of violence seems to cross the threshold of free speech, but is no-platforming the remedy? Because it is a pre-emptive meassure, should private companies needs to have power to do so?

I think prohibited speech should be addressed through post-fact punitive measures, not through blanket premptive actions.

Even if someone does say prohibited things, it does not necessarily follow that all that say ought to be prohibited. So no-platforming is morally and ethically problematic.
containerd development with multipass
European social mobility is quite low in general. European countries are optimized for welfare, not social mobility. These are wildly different things.
So all this racket for nothing. Duh.
JPEG2000 is used in some industries, but was too patent-encumbered to succeed in general. AVIF and WebP should be better for most things, and AVIF is freely licensed.
Looking at the list of instances available, it seems that PeerTube is particularly popular among French-speaking people compared to relative relative popularity of the language itself.

Is there any reason cultural-wise to suggest why that may be?
Can you put an AVIF animation in an img tag? That would be a pretty killer feature that would give you pretty instant adoption. There are still loads of places that force you to use GIF.
Usually when you build a clone, you base it on fixing the problems of the original? What problems in wikipedia could a clone possibly fix since the main issues with wikipedia is getting people to agree on what should be included and I don't see how that could be solved.
Is “sentience” an objective state? Its definition is just as fuzzy as definitions of “life” or “consciousness”. For example, there are people in this thread who say a mosquito or even a plant might be sentient. Would you agree with that?
Ecosia starts their privacy policy with, "We protect your privacy."

...but when you dig in, they:

1. Use Facebook for "conversion tracking".

2. May collect messages, photos, calendar information if you're using the app.

3. Hold on to personally identifiable information for upto 7 days post which they (pseudo)anonymize it to store it indefinitely. Now, without more information on how they do so, I'm not sure I'd trust the effectiveness of their anonymization, given they may store logs (and other metrics) "as long as necessary".

4. Integrate with advertisement platform run by Bing on the search pages (and so they 'don't control the data Bing collects').

Who reads privacy policies, right? Everyone just reads the headlines and FAQs.

"Ecosia is a “privacy friendly” search engine. We take user privacy very seriously." Right. I wish they were upfront and admitted to collecting data instead of trying hard to convince they don't do so for nefarious purposes (in their own eyes, that is).

https://info.ecosia.org/privacy
I read it as an emotional outburst by the author, and I don't think it actually contains any information relevant to the rest of the article.

If we wanted to treat it as an argument, we'd have to nail down the parameters for what "taking the world by storm" means objectively, or the author would have to clarify what they meant subjectively.
A directory of search "engines":

https://twitter.com/SearchEngineMap/lists

Who uses what:

https://www.searchenginemap.com/
> Not sure I agree with that analogy... pen and paper doesn't scale!

Most of what the Stasi used didn't scale. They used it anyway.
I don't think it's smart enough. But I also personally don't really care what the Twitter algorithm boost or not.

Twitter trending topics are a terrible feature IMHO, you never know what the context is behind a keyword trending, and the majority of people using it are asking why it is trending.
Well, wait and see. The free market doesn't move in 24 hours. There is moderation that is clearly a good idea, moderation that is sketchy and moderation that is overdone. I may be behind the times, but I really don't think an app in the app store is that important. They still have a web site. The AWS ban is more concerning but if they have to they can move to foreign hosting - maybe this will be the push to finally get the Europeans to build up some tech companies.

Big tech have basically declared that 30% of America is unwelcome on their platform. That is overbearing moderation that is likely to provoke a market response. I'd give it 6-12 months to see if they can hold on to a monopoly even leaving that massive slice of the market in play.
You could say that analytical thinking undo gullibility. Idealism and principles though, may better be understood, applied and defended, with well-rounded education.
> Private companies' interest should have little, if any, control over the ability of the public to speak

This ignores that private companies are made up of people, and those people have opinions and moral compasses.

If some large number of your employees don't want to be working on a product that provides a platform for speech they believe is reprehensible, what do you do?

If you ignore them, some of them -- perhaps high value employees -- quit. Others, who maybe don't have great job mobility, stick around, but feel miserable, because their job makes them do unethical things. Not a great outcome.

Is free speech for all more important than refusing to sell to people you believe are doing something unethical with your product?

I honestly don't know the answer to that question. My gut reaction is to celebrate Parler effectively getting kicked off the internet, but I do worry that the long-term consequences of doing things like this will haunt us as a society.
It doesn't allow you to know when people @-mention you, or when new people follow you.

Twitter is a social network.
The actual behavior of the protesters seems to match your third paragraph much more than your second paragraph. They got into the capitol building and then... just kind of wandered around. Took some selfies. Stole some memorabilia. Nothing about their behavior suggests that there was an organized plan to actually take over the USG, or that they protesters themselves had any idea what to do after they broke in.
Try to write a GUI application or a game engine, and enjoy how pretty straightforward the whole experience is all about.
WEF is using strange definitions of “social mobility”, to say the least. How many newly made millionaires from originally poor families are there each year? Now _that’s_ social mobility, and nobody can beat America in that regard.

Speaking as a European.
This completely killed my Tegra K1-based chromebook. What good is a Google laptop with a full HD display, if it can't play Youtube videos in any resolution higher than 480p?
The <k> in “knee” is silent; it is pronounced /n i/, not /k n i/.

The reason this cluster is so difficult for Anglo-Saxon is exactly because English lacks it; it historically had it, which explains the many words that are written as such, for etymological reasons.

Even the actual word “gnu" is pronounced /n u/, not /g n u/, but the “GNU operating system” is typically pronounced /g @ 'n u/, in two syllables, with stress on the second.
No, if a group of Republicans decided to go on a lynch (maybe while dressed in white cloths) I would consider them a terrorist organization, even if they only targeted the race of people who attacked their race
Maybe it's a cultural thing - but as a British person I'd be fine with the NHS.

I'd be happy if they stopped the salaries being like 2-3x smaller than the USA though - I get it, the CoL is lower, but it's not that much lower.
You may want to consider adding Mojeek since it does its own crawling (as opposed to the numerous metas using Bing data as per searchenginemap.com)

Disclosure, I work there
Chiang Rai has train, air and road access, and the roads in Northern Thailand out from it as a hub are excellent too. I’ve seen enough logistics vans here navigating the small number of dirt roads, and I’ve had frozen food delivered to islands without road access from Bangkok in a refrigerated vehicle the whole way too. On the whole, logistics here seem on a par with the UK which also has a few hard-to-reach areas.
Indonesia has really high import tariff for clothing/garments to protect local industries. The import tax should be <20% for typical consumer goods, and free for books since 2020 (actually I never got taxed buying books from international sellers in the past few years). If your experience is recent, maybe you're actually dealing with corrupt officials/employees trying to make quick buck?
Why is this totally irrelevant article on hackernews?
What can I say, we're a var-ied bunch
aledbf kubernetes/ingress-nginx maintainer steps down
The news told these people they need to go fight in the middle east and ‘Defend Freedom’ because Saddam has nukes. That ship has unfortunately sailed.
Do you also pronounce char as in character or as in charcoal?
And this generally describes what Alibaba does to itself too.

Human turnover there is very high, and the company subscribes to idea "beatings will continue until revenue improves"
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20603567
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As a mobile dev, I don't see much effort in Haskell community working on Haskell toolchain for mobile apps.

They seem to more interested in web frameworks. Hmm...
The scope lines could be implemented as an extension for pretty much any IDE.
TLDR:

> According to a study published in 2015, the length of the elephant’s trunk is proportional to the amount of food it can cram in its mouth, and most likely evolved in response to the declining nutritional content of the leaves on which it feeds.

So St Ambrose was right:

> ‘Since it is taller than every other animal’, he explained in the Hexameron, ‘it cannot bend down to feed. Therefore, it makes use of its trunk both to gather its food and to pour copious draughts of water down its throat.’
> If Mastodon/federated social networking became popular I imagine there could be "Eternal September" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September) dynamics though.

In a way that already happened. The biggest Mastodon instance is now the infamous 'alt-right' 'chan'-like community Gab.

That you haven't even noticed it shows that Mastodon might be immune to "Eternal September" issues.
> The sad thing is precisely that no-one cares about "re-integrating" proponents of right-leaning views "to society".

Are you arguing violent extremism and trying to overthrow the government is synonymous with "right-leaning views"?

No one is deplatforming Mitch McConnell, Mike Lee, Ben Sasse, John Thune and many others all of whom with "right leaning views", even further to the right the president.

Your argument is a strawman. It's like when twitter bans jihadist leaders, going out and saying "why are muslims being deplatformed?". Which is not true.
I’ll give you a concrete example. I used to enjoy a popular anti-Obesity subreddit. People in it were impolite, but it was never worse than old-fashioned “your momma is so fat” type of humor.

It was banned from Reddit for being “hate speech” and in fact you can no longer suggest that obesity is something to be ashamed of —- on nearly any platform! Including GitHub. (but you are allowed to mock mock cigarette smokers or meth tweakers).
Yes, progress is positive, it is otherwise called regress.
Wikipedia has a bunch of power user tools that are not very clear to the average user. Power users also have the ability to lock hot topic pages so only other power users can touch them.
TIL: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/17509

> English words like ‘technology’ stem from a Greek root beginning with the letters τεχ...; and this same Greek word means art as well as technology. Hence the name TeX, which is an uppercase form of τεχ.

> Insiders pronounce the χ of TeX as a Greek chi, not as an ‘x’, so that TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh. It’s the ‘ch’ sound in Scottish words like loch or German words like ach; it’s a Spanish ‘j’ and a Russian ‘kh’. When you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist.
Books are an acceptable reference, I assume offline magazines or newspapers too.
Obnoxius ID wall on the article, not even a summary is readable.
Planting trees has became such a marketing gimmick. Preserving old growth forests and restoring wetlands has bigger impact on CO2 and climate.
I get what you're trying to do here, but I don't think it really worked. The examples you provided are obviously not incitements to violence. If someone wants to twist those words to get us to believe they are, we can look at the facts on the ground: no one became violent because of those words. (Of course that's not possible when you're judging speech immediately after it's said and don't have hindsight.)

On the flip side, quite a bit of violence did occur on the 6th; the speech that got us there was pretty clearly intended to get us there.
I agree that weight is not a good a metric of fitness. Since the pandemic started I have had to stop my 1-on-1 kickboxing sessions. My weight hasn't changed much, but I have definitely lost muscle and gained fat. This became very clear when I tried on my swimming wetsuit. It went from tight around the shoulders and arms to tight around the waist!
Laudable concept. But unfortunately (at least when I tried switching to it early last year) the search results were just not very good.

You might almost say that, reading them, I couldn't see the wood, for the trees.
of their quarrels with the rest of the world. to the chinese. i think taiwan is the least negotiable. they're not done yet, their revolutionary war.

we can of course disagree with china. but ignoring what they want is...i don't know...naive?
Huh, must depend what type of colour-blindness, and/or how severe, as I can't tell any difference in colour whatsoever.
Ok, added.

I show a short info about each engine. What would be a good info line for Mojeek? What makes it unique?
The example of the EIC was used as an argument against the British Crown by proponents of American independence. Source: Dalrymple's The Anarchy.
It's all the way up to the banks though, Visa and Mastercard are deplatforming people too.
What lies?
The research is probably not looking for adverse effects on mental health.
Elon Musk ‘use Signal’ led to 1100% surge in unrelated stock with similar name
Someone on hacker news commented about how they started watching the news 2 weeks after it was broadcast and mentioned how a massive amount of the breaking news ended up being false when viewed later with the full set of information. It would probably be beneficial if wikipedia simply didn't allow brand new news that couldn't be solidly confirmed.
doing both has an even bigger positive impact
If you want to understand suicide in the UK you need to know, at a minimum, about ONS, NCISH, Fingertips, and then coroners for England and Wales and whatever the equivalent is for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Here's a list of links:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile-group/mental-health/pr...

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/guidance...

The best way to find out about these is to speak to someone who works in suicide prevention, so that would be people working for local authority suicide prevention partnership boards (they can have different names in different areas), or people working for NCISH or MASH or ONS, or people on Twitter. But if you can't do that you can sort of get some of the information from Wikipedia. It's a struggle though because the page is a poorly laid out mishmash of information, mostly written by people who don't understand the subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_Kingdom
RSS is a format, not a service, not a website, not an app, nor a kind of network. He would not use RSS. He would use a software that might also output a kind of newsfeed. This software would need to run on or feed to a server, which would need an IP and a domain. This would need to be secured against malicious and legal attacks. Meaning there needs to be someone hardening and maintaining the setup.

And in the first place RSS has no feedback-option, to get the whole twitter-experience and build up his echo chamber.
This sounds substantially overengineered way to justify his actions and relieve his conscience. In an organization of 17 people a person in his position would know exactly which people would work together to build a great team and which would not. In such a small team it's as much about the roles as it is about the people themselves, his method apparently completely dismisses that element of the decision.
UK also. I've always heard it called "etch" or "etcetera" but never etsy.