skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government was in no danger of being overthrown.
HOw does this compare with Jami - https://jami.net/ ?
Interesting. I definitely log in daily, I have Steam set to auto-launch because of Remote Play.
> Amazon has too much market power if it can shut down another company at the push of a button for something that isn't illegal

Amazon is leading Cloud yes, but it stands at 40% market share at best. Azure/GCP are pretty competent alternatives, though I am not sure if they would not do the same as AWS (probably yes)

The wider impaction to me, is that AWS is setting some precedent, and many people are not fully comfortable with it, and I think it will haunt AWS for a long time to come.
Mental health apps are common, but not widely used. Many of the apps available don't use evidence based approaches. This article looks at the features that are present in apps that are actually used.
I'm pretty sure violent rhetoric is an entire ocean apart from mailing literal bombs..

Or are we still on that "words are violence" thing? I can't keep up.
Hey guys! Glad (and a little panicked) to see this get some more attention. I've shut down signups/logins because I don't have time to moderate, and right now you really have to moderate. :|

So long and thanks for all the barfs. :)
Was Parler blocked because Amazon did not like it, or because Democrats do not like it, and they have full control of government, and can pass arbitrary laws e.g. to break up Amazon?

Edit: an unfairly flagged comment in reply to this says
> Why would democrats break up Amazon, when it helps them in banning the republicans? That will not happen.

That's exactly my point, this is a form of lobbying to stay on good side of the government.
I would rather not post what I think, because I don't like being the bringer of bad news.
I'll just say that a lot of effort went into the sales pitch.
> Not only is this scenario 1000x worse for freedom than the very very worst that Amazon could do, it's also far more likely at the moment.

Politically motivated refusal of service by Amazon or other Silicon Valley firms is at least an order of magnitude more likely than any coup by the US military, much less a Trumpist one.
>To cycle back to your point, I don't think the failure of this slogan actually points to any weakness in Haskell.

Yeah agreed, it's just a style of programming within the functional paradigm. Not necessarily bad or good.
I find the question a little unclear.

I think it's bad for the companies that did this, so I don't agree they made the right decision.

But hurting these companies is a good thing, so I'm glad they did it.
At scale this ends up being a public health issue because if you disincentivize getting rid of rotting food people get sick.
I switched to kitty because it supports a killer feature I became accustomed to in iTerm- a keybind for "Open a new terminal in the same directory as the current terminal."
There's a difference between the death rates in those plagues and this pandemic, too. There's a difference in the amount of information we have compared to Ragusa. There's a difference between how globally connected the world was then. There's a difference in the technology we have now that allows us to continue to facilitate some sort of economy from our homes.
The contacts bit is a disaster right now, there is a whole support page devoted to it and it still does not tell the whole story. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007319011-Ma...

I had a contact show up with a super old name that I wanted to update but it was right in all my other apps. Turns out I still had the old name in one of the read only merged contacts from WhatsApp (contact showed up fine in WhatsApp). I had to remove my WhatsApp account clear the app data for signal and resync everything.
Personally, for sinister reasons I like what FB/Twitter and other high profile companies are doing right now. All this meddling with politics, openly taking sides and censoring based on arbitrary rules like a cesar pointing thumb up and down - I'm pretty convinced (and I hope!) that especially for "social media" giants this will sooner or later backfire and will be one of reasons of their demise, improvement or at least significant reduction of influence.

All of this serves as reminder that not necessarily full and true picture could be visible when looking through social media lens, at the same time it's sad because it increases doubts,distrust and divides society even more - certain and looking at votes count - pretty big one - part of society could feel that there is no common ground for discussion,they are not welcome, have to find or create their own platform (bubble).

I think that one of reasons why social media is that messy is the reach, it appears that it's the curse and the blessing at same time - it makes local issues global ones, it allows to form a mob, mass where individual voices and meaningful discussion is impossible. This is visible even here on HN, sometimes there are massive threads with thousands of comments and while plenty are insightful and valuable I have feeling that some threshold is crossed and it no longer make sense to read and comment there.
>98 examples of Parler posts that "encourage and incite violence."

Just imagine how much that would be in Facebook numbers? I think we can block Facebook too, no?
I have to be that guy for the family chat list as well. So I already have practice.
Kind of off-topic, I've seen a whole lot of solo devs tackle this problem over the last 1-2 years, seems as if the market can support a lot of competition. How did you find going into a crowded space and how did you differentiate? As you mention, I'm guessing it makes the validation part a lot simpler.

Landing page looks great btw.
Thanks matt, I found the problem, fixing it now. Here's how it should look. https://ibb.co/Kqr2zfZ
I'd count burning down a police station as domestic terrorism.
> But Linus is talking about power-budget.

Linus covered a lot of ground in that message. He was correct on his history, whether that is history you'd like to remember or not. His transistor budget argument is very plausible, but without playing out an alternative history we can't know, and by we I mean you. At the time he wrote it he was correct on the power 'virus,' and I can't think of any good reason why he or anyone else owes Intel the benefit of the doubt that some future device would improve anything.

The AVX512 fanboi contingent will forever seethe about what Linus wrote. Meanwhile Apple and AMD are eating Intel's lunch with no 512 bit SIMD instruction units at all. Linus had it right and and he is looking more correct every day.
> Thinking a new social network platform is destined to fail because it's a copy of something,

TikTok would beg to differ.

You are correct about having a base, but once you grow out of that base, you can compete as a general purpose social network (ultimately an advertising/lead channel - even if only for the market of ideas).

It's all about execution and as you said, purpose. So what's FB's purpose anymore?
Where do the images come from on posts that don't have image content (eg http://paulgraham.com/genius.html has a ticket image)? What's the copyright situation there?
Here's Youtube Channel of Guo Wengui. Target audience is not mainly English speaker though.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO3pO3ykAUybrjv3RBbXEHw/vid...
"In mind" - what does this mean? Who exactly gets to define "in mind"? Like, you're now literally reading people's minds about their intentions? So I don't need to explicitly tell people to go do bad things, I can just say I'm upset about something and that's enough? I can make some bogus claim and that's enough? Because there aren't that many people spewing bullshit all day long on twitter? And let me take a wild guess on what your conclusion will be for people who say vague things on "your" side vs the "other" side...
How much of that was useful engagement though? One of the hot topics a week ago was ad fraud being so prevalent on Facebook and Google that it caused Uber to shift their whole strategy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623858
please do post what you think.
Why C and C++ are Awful Programming Languages
You can’t move WhatsApp message history between iOS and WhatsApp.
Private messages are public?

Also, it's hard to tell from the article, but it seems like there's phone.numbers and id involved as well.
Okay, but shouldn't it at least bother you that Amazon is lying about their reason? I don't think congratulating a company for exercising their rights is appropriate when they're actively lying to our faces.

Unless, of course, they actually stand by what they've said. In which case we come right back to my original post.
The fact that it's a "secure collaboration platform" means it doesn't fill the same niche. I don't need a secure collaboration platform to talk with my family or friends.

Also, no mention of free personal accounts here: https://wire.com/en/pricing/

And phone ID required is a plus. I don't need people to log in or search for contacts. Just install and boom, we're connected.
Scalable, Example-Based Refactorings with Refaster [pdf]
There’s a lot of reason why Jack Ma might not want to say anything interesting, esp with asymmetrical stakes where for Elon this is just fun banter and brand building, but missteps by Jack Ma could be severe.
Band Mule has chat built in to it. As well as a calendar, scheduler, set list manager and audio player.
Mastodon is the place to make this happen (IMHO):

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon
I read somewhere about the idea of a "fake commute" where you go for a ride of equivalent duration every day. I did that for a while, but have switched to taking a long walk every morning. I've gotten the winter bike out, but have barely used it this year.
It's totally fine to create a closed group to talk amongst like-minded people, just don't try to make a claim that it's superior or pro-free-speech.

To the credit of the moderators of r/conservative, they don't really claim that, though some of their users try to. They're very open about their intentions. They absolutely do not welcome non-tribe members.
Matrix feels akin to trying to tell my (non technical) friends that they should use HTTPS as their social media site. I think it's technically more capable but trying to explain what you can do, how to get started, or why it's better is a much higher bar than something like Signal.
Nit: Congressional elections are held every two years, so complete control may disappear in 2022.

If you’re implicitly depending on the presidential veto to block Republican attempts if they take control of congress, then yeah that’s fair.
I don't know who downvotes you, but it has to be a really blind, one sided person(-s)
oh yeah...

Maybe we should bring out the BOFH files too...

The world could probably use a good chuckle right now :-D

edit: submitted the BOFH archives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735221
https://errorprone.info/docs/refaster

src: https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/kv4cwj/bulk_refactori...
This is a serious misunderstanding of what the means and ways at CCP's disposal. Nationalization or taking controlling share of a company is a very Western view and would not happen to Baba. I wrote a few days ago about what would likely to happen to Baba: https://drz.today/2020/baba-is-not-the-next-khodorkovsky/. Only time would tell of course.
Thousands of companies host 300-500 servers on a couple of racks in some data center in the Midwest.

There is not reason at all to have your content hosted in the US if you felt its legislators or IT providers aren't up to par to your idea of what free speech represents. Credibility? Yeah, seems that the crediblity issues weren't exactly about the hosting provider.
M'y guess is Moxie would shut the company down before introducing a backdoor.

Also, if the gov tries to ban it, its just open-soirce software, right? Haven't courts (in the US at least) ruled that code is speech, and therefore protected from government restrictions by the 1st Amendment?
LOL, that's true. I wasn't even thinking of what Steam does, and was just considering it's authentication mechanism. Doubly silly of me, since I'm definitely interested and following to some degree the Epic lawsuit.
Same. By any chance, are you using thoughtbot/parity to restore your dev environment from production?
It was still very much a thing. A symptom of many other even more problematic things.

The sitting president directly used its office, power, platform to try to stop a democratic process, and launch/command an attack against a different branch of the government (the legislature). Even if that attack was purely symbolic. (... though calling it symbolic while people died is not entirely right.)

A radicalized subgroup of the fanaticized Trump cult used force to thwart a democratic process they deemed fake/undemocratic. And they managed to successfully pause that process for considerable amount of time.

Especially the stark contrast between the interaction of police and Trump cultists compared to police and BLM protesters points to an other serious problem.

...

That powerless group of people includes the sitting president, a bunch of senators and representatives, and they had a very very real chance of winning the election.

That same powerless group, at least a part of it that choose to do so, managed to basically stroll into the Capitol, loot it, and go away unharmed. (They got tear gassed eventually.) And this group included an elected state representative, various police officers, veterans, lawyers, and other not exactly powerless members of society.

This is about status, which is about perception. Conservative ideology is about social order, the status quo. This 'powerless group' wants to maintain their power, despite the results of the democratic process - which is designed to measure exactly that peacefully.

This is very much a thing. It's a serious ongoing thing. It has been ongoing forever though. And it's going to go on for ... well, probably forever too, but that only means other will have to expend energy to actively push that status quo toward a more fair equilibrium (or set-point).
The CCP is caught in its own version of purgatory through paranoia. When the great famine happened under Mao, it was because Mao had surrounded himself by yes-men who were competing to be the most loyal. When the famine hit, the provinces all reported better yields than actual, collectivism happened based on reported and not actual yield, and millions of farmers starved.

His successor, Deng Xiaoping started a lot of really great reforms, including term limits on leadership and granting Shenzhen & some other cities special/experimental economic status, to basically run autonomously as capitalist.

Several decades later, paranoia is too strong. Xi Jinping removed term limits because he doesn't trust others to run the country better than him. The One China policy has killed a number of vibrant cultures including those of Tibet, Hong Kong, and the Uyghurs. A social credit system is being implemented. Now Alibaba is being nationalized.

These issues will likely only get worse, until another great famine event.
I believe that companies are largely on their own team, neither right nor left.
How long before labor begins to be de-platformed for unionization efforts in the big tech companies? I know that there are already allegations that Amazon is acting in an extremely anti-labor way. Will the current argument of "platforms have a right to choose what content they will allow on their service" (which is a common argument for what is going on, among others) also apply in the case that pro-unionization groups are removed? These organisms will do whatever is necessary to protect themselves from what they perceive as threats, both external (political) and internal (labor).
i am really sad that hate speech is allowed in the US. i think it is shameful and dangerous. I have no comment on you telling that other guy to be very fucking careful
nntp?
Nice, that looks good! Not the best source image, but that's my fault.
pattern-switch Guards
Shul telling the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyHH9G9et0 ("Major Brian Shul relays the true story of a ground speed check with Los Angeles Center, while piloting the SR-71 Blackbird over Southern California.")
Let's try instead to compare a social media account to a house that you rent, and you choose to violate the rental agreement when you plaster the walls with objectionable slogans, you can't really complain when you're evicted.
Its called voting. That's how you change who's in power, you vote. We have democracy so you don't have to have an insurrection to change power.
If the internet is to be viewed as a utility, anonymity is going to be a hard question to address. Today, a water bill is used for identification in getting a license. In the future, government agencies might just have their own tracking cookies.

It's a win-win: you'll get through the DMV line even quicker! /s
Show HN: TED for Developers
https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/hunter-dkim

It's not a very new development, but most or all mention of it was removed on many platforms including on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24942678
> don't attempt to overturn a fair democratic election and install an illegitimate government.

Erm, was Parler as a platform even doing that? Or you know, PEOPLE on the platform, which is not the exact same thing?
I think it’s interesting that not many people here bring up Discord. It’s by far the most challenging competitor for the average user, IMO. Full of features and very easy to use.
Part of the current dilemma is people think only other people's comments are removed [1]. The more people who discover how it works, the less people can take advantage of those who don't.

[1] https://www.reveddit.com
If a service provider detects illegal activity taking place on their services, I assume the correct action is to contact the relevant authorities and suspend the activity until it gets straightened out. Which seems to be what has happened here. I don't know exactly what efforts were made to work with Parler in advance but I do believe there have been some, and Parler has refused to take action on their own behalf.
Musk: A lot of people are going to be unhappy with tech as the arbiter of speech
Hehe as is if those are any better.
It seems, that many RedHat developers have rather unique world views.

When PulseAudio introduces random crackles and scratches in sound output, they claim, that I have a misbehaving sound card. It does not "misbehave", when I use the same applications with ALSA, but whatever.

When rdrand fails to produce high-quality entropy — again and again, over and over — Poettering complains about buggy CPUs.

I hope, that this particular group never ends up working on network hardware.
Here is the scene right after the CHOP shooting, with several BLM/antifa protestors again confessing to their involvement. One says, “We drew down and gave him service.” Another, “I ran out of bullets!” and then laughter. The reporter asks twice, “So the defense people shot this person?” and multiple protestors answer yes. They brag about “ex-military” security, and avoid saying whether the victims were armed (they were not). They repeat false rumors about an earlier drive-by, which turned out to be gunfire from other “defense people.”

If you can stomach it, watch the whole video. It is graphic:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0cUYLQkhGmU&t=2m

Another clip with the killer(s) and other protestors repeating, “I didn’t see sh*t!”, the mantra of those who don’t talk to police:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kDmNJ6tO2Lg

Unsurprisingly,
Seattle police have made no arrests in the case. Per official statement, the crime scene was destroyed and witnesses aren’t cooperating.

This happened in a residential neighborhood. An unarmed black kid died at the hands of political vigilantes. Rifle bullets entered people’s homes. It barely made national news. Joe Biden felt no need to tweet. Compare that to later coverage of Kyle Rittenhouse. To some, this disparity represents a double standard.

That double standard is the essence of my comparison between this summer’s violence and the storming of the capitol. Both are reckless, deadly, and reprehensible.
Both must be condemned. Perpetuating the double standard just perpetuates one group’s grievance, fueling more violence.
But if anyone you're talking to has it enabled, your messages are still gonna be on Apple's servers, right?
Everyone keeps bringing up Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission these last few days, but it seems very few people actually know what was decided in the case. The Supreme Court didn’t want to get its hands dirty with this issue so it was a very narrow reversal. Specifically, they said that the Civil Rights Commission was not neutral in it’s consideration, comparing the treatment of the baker (where the commissioner said that invoking freedom of religion is “one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people can use”) to other cases where non-discrimination exceptions were granted when bakers refused to make cakes with anti-same sex marriage messaging. The question is still legally open.

I personally think it’s ridiculous to argue that the baker’s right to free expression is involved in this. But then again we have people boycott service providers for their choices of customers all the time.
That strikes me as far more a function of being on reddit. There are no conservatives on reddit and from my own interactions with the people on r/conservative, I can assure you that they are not in fact what they say they are. You may as well go to Weibo looking to advocate against the repressive CCP regime, or you can try it a bit closer to home and advocate for free speech on reddit. Same outcome.
In case it's useful: one site to find local volunteer opp'ties, or for orgs to post them is https://justserve.org .

No fees, I believe.
> We have to distinguish between...

No, we dont have to distinguish that. Your weak premise would justify the discrimination of atheists, anarchists, monarchists, pentecostals,marxists, epicureans... among thousands of other groups.

I dont really understand why it is so complicated.

At individual and private level I can decide who will I spend my time with, who I will invite to my place, go to the beach etc, with no coercion and I expect everybody else to have that right too.

At public level I have the expectation to serve all the people the same (ceteris paribus) unless I am forced by current legislation to not do so (like selling alcohol to a minor).

I would not extend that prohibition to a person who can request my services legally , if the person is going to pay and if he is going to behave like any other customer.

If I manage a 7/11 I would not create an ideological purity test to figure out if I will sell you gas or a soda and I think society will be way better if everybody does that too.
Investigating MD5 Overheads
Microsoft's Hypocrisy on DACA (2019)
The original UNIXUX site is very clever, but if the guy who actually wrote it is linking to Medium instead, I’m not sure if we can overrule him.
At least for Telegram, there are sub-groups out there that port stickers from other services (e.g, LINE). Hard to imagine that won't crop up for Signal eventually, if not already.
I don't think the argument isn't that other platforms don't have things like "verified" and "shadowbanned". It's the connotations attached to them. On Twitter, just about anyone can get verified. Shadowbanning requires a serious fuck up (for example, Trump was only banned after inciting a riot).

Seems that Parler has taken a very different approach. Attaching political goals and ideology to the business model of a social network.

Pretty good write up here: https://www.wired.com/story/parler-app-free-speech-influence...
Parlor did not have a real, honest, effort at moderation.

It was done poorly, and seems to have been just a fig leaf to say they were doing it. Objectively it was not working. Way way way worse than anything on FB or Twitter.
How do you teach a child to wipe himself?