skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You realize the account in question for Bannon had also gotten away with temporary suspension in the past right?

It's almost like you didn't realize suspensions default to being temporary... it's newsworthy to be permanently suspended, and it only happens with a heavy pattern of rule breaking, once or twice didn't do it...

You don't even know what a Twitter suspension is and yet you're going after this.

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Also I skipped the part about Isis because:

a) Twitter literally spent years fighting Daesh on their platform and you're cluelessly trying to paint them as being in bed with them or something...

b) If I had followed every lazy diversion you dropped in that diatribe I'd need to start billing you here.
>PS: I am referring to none political cases (especially with app stores) that have been happening the last years.

It's just plain reliability to worry about your single points of failure. You can be the most unobjectionable, vanilla and milquetoast organization. It's still desirable to avoid the situation where a single irreplaceable vendor can bottleneck you.

I think there has been a bit of hesitation to acknowledge it when there's so little friction to getting on desirable platforms. The risk doesn't feel as real.
There is a relevant quote apparently from the 1920s.

"Taxi drivers told you what to buy. The shoeshine boy could give you a summary of the day's financial news as he worked with rag and polish. An old beggar who regularly patrolled the street in front of my office now gave me tips and, I suppose, spent the money I and others gave him in the market. My cook had a brokerage account and followed the ticker closely. Her paper profits were quickly blown away in the gale of 1929."

https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archiv...
If you were going for quality discussion you’d say “it isn’t in China”
Maybe these are monopolies, and if they are we shouldn't be granting them special status to entrench them further. We should be looking to open them up and break them apart.
France and Germany are making this point quite loudly now.
This is hyperbolic in the extreme, and to blame "woke employees" with everything going on right now is just plain silly.

When deciding whether to choose to host your services with AWS you can answer a simple question: are you planning on violating their terms of service? If the answer is yes, do not use AWS.
For each iOS device sold Apple can profit from selling services (iCloud sub, App Store, Music, TV+ etc) so allowing something like that would only result in loosing customers.

The customers Apple can win are those willing to buy a brand new $1K+ iPhone, switch OS and void (at least part of) the warranty. If they are not supporting a Bootcamp for Android probably is because they did the math and it was not worth it.
And now there are folks right here in this thread who will assume the absolute worst about you and try to ruin your life. I wish you the best of luck in surviving this. This is why it's not reasonable to paint every account there as that of a terrorist.
It'd be interesting, in any case. I recall tales of former colleagues who used to work for a dodgy online casino; fancy office or mansion on an island, extravagant parties, etc.

And online I think I read something about porn sites, who were working on large scale video streaming well before Youtube and Netflix (as streaming service) were a thing.
Yahoo! Mail also does (maybe "did", I looked at it a decade ago) something similar. When the user opens the login page, s/he gets a random string in one of the hidden form fields, IIRC it hashes the user-entered password, and then adds the random string and hashes it again, and sends this result to the backend.

On the backend, it knows the random string it sent to the user, and it has the hashed password in its DB, so it can do the same algorithm and compare the results.
Probably because people avoided public transport (busses and trams) you need to see this data as well.
> You'd write code pretending it's pure while it really isn't.

in a way, it's the opposite! the point is you can't pretend, you have to make impurity painfully explicit:

getTradeTax :: CountryId -> CountryId -> IO Float
-- ^ sirens blaring, side-effect alert
getTradeTax ca cb = do
aInEu <- lookupEUMemberDB ca
bInEu <- lookupEUMemberDB cb
if (aInEu && bInEu)
then (pure 15.00) -- made up value
else getNonEUTradeTax ca cb -- another impure operation

there's the "IO" in the signature, and all the do-notation `<-`, ie syntactic sugar for `>>=`, piping the result into a callback. to use the Promise analogy again, `x <- foo` is kinda like `x = await foo` (but more general, bc Monads are cool)

> I can see part of the appeal, but I can do that in my current language.

true, and i've seen IO-monad-alikes for Python and JS, but most of the benefits come when every library you use has to be explicit about impurity and there's a typechecker enforcing it.
> It's pure speculation asset.

> The value has very weak link anchored to anything in real economy

So like dollars but without the big-ass nukes backing it?

BTW kids, dont invest on bitcoin, or for that matter on any crypto-anything.
The public posts are probably allowed to be accessed (like a postcard).

The issue comes with the posts that were deleted: they arguably have an expectation of privacy.

EDIT: And direct messages, if they work like Twitter, DEFINITELY have an expectation of privacy. If Parler has a DM-like system, they are probably illegal to access.
Sovereign Hardware and Free Speech (Apple and Parler)
There is all of the Fediverse stuff https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
Twitter puts an active effort into removing those posts. You can definitely make the case they don’t go far enough, but Parler did the bare minimum. You would have to cherry pick the reasonable content off that site.
No, it is factually correct. They said 'since', not larger than. In the meantime, since 9/11 there have as far as I know it not been any larger attacks within the US on the United States itself. If you know of any then please correct me.
...these people are the authoritarians. They want to usher in some sort of bizarre "law and order" where they define what those things mean. They were literally beating police offers and saying "we're on your side" at the same time.
Multiprocessing and parallel programming is a different thing from async/await, which primarily has to do with with green threads and coroutines. You're right that the ideas go way back (hell, Knuth was writing about coroutines in TAoCP in the 70s!), but this does not qualify.
Yeah, just open the flood gates to bots. Twitter would be 100x as large now.

Wasn't it something like 99% of e-mail was spam? The downsides of an open / decentralized platform.
public platforms like twitter and facebook and whatever for the last X years?

conservatives have watched themselves banned piecemeal from these platforms, they know exactly what’s coming.

the ones you’re worried about have already got private comms.
Snowflake hits its limits with complex transformations I feel. Not just due to using SQL. It's "type system" is simpler than Spark's which makes certain operations annoying. There's a lack of UDFs for working with complex types (lists, structs, etc.). Having to write UDFs in Javascript is also not the greatest experience.
Yeah, I just don't buy this at all. This has been the case with any hosting provider, unless you have a signed SLA guaranteeing you otherwise. The free market is free both ways.
I have been helping friends and family replace their smartphone batteries to give them new life. I recommend all of you who are comfortable with tinkering to do the same, it can go a long way!
Depends how much spare money you have.
It's a fascinating theory because according to the official documentation, the YB-49 didn't fly until later in the same year. Between the XB-35 and YB-35 and YB-49, there weren't supposed to have been nine operational units that could simultaneously fly in formation. (Although this picture shows exactly nine aircraft bodies that are in various states of conversion [0].) So for this not-totally-outlandish theory to be true, the U.S. military would need to have been aggressively developing and flying these planes beyond the level that they've publicly reported, and they would have to keep those unreported operations secret for an additional 73 years. Which is quite a conspiracy, and maybe even a more interesting one than "aliens".

But if you're in the mood for conspiracy theories, Wikipedia's description of the end of the XB/YB series is pretty surprising as well: "Only two months later, all Flying Wing contracts were canceled abruptly without explanation by order of Stuart Symington, Secretary of the Air Force. Shortly thereafter, also without explanation, Symington turned down a request from the Smithsonian for the Air Force to donate one of these big wings to its collection of pioneering Northrop aircraft. All remaining Flying Wing bomber airframes, except for the sole YRB-49A reconnaissance version, were ordered chopped up by Symington, the materials smelted down using portable smelters brought to Northrop's facility, in plain sight of its employees."

(The motivation for this is supposed to have been contract favoritism, but it looks a lot more exciting if you accept the idea that there was of still-secret-to-this-day unreported flight testing happening in 1947 :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YB-49#/media/File:YB4...
One of the interesting things to come out in Dec 2020 is evidence that Wikileaks offered the State Department advance warning when the encryption keys for the Iraq War Logs were about to be published by their collaborators at the Guardian. Prior to that, publication of the Iraq War Logs had been piecemeal as they redacted PII.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/12/16/recording-proves-assange...
> The threat is in giving the fascist terrorist 1% a microphone

The problem with fascist terrorists is not their rhetoric, it's their violence. Allow them to speak their mind and you lower their need for violent action and everyone else gets to show that their ideas are horribly flawed.

It's amusing to think that people seriously believe there are huge swathes of people just ripe to become neo-nazis because someone gave a rousing speech or wrote some tweets - how do you manage not to succumb to these rhetorical titans?
> no one reasonable cares

I care. There's no need to make challenging technical texts more obtuse to read by reinventing all the terms.
A bit on scaling chess.com's database
Protected lanes set up cyclists to get t-boned by turning drivers. In the US these are effectively glorified sidewalks where every road and driveway crossing is a death trap.
Too late and nowhere nearly as much as they should've. Sure, they get credit for doing *something* but the free market proponents continuously operated against solar.

Praising them is like praising a reckless driver with a fat, greedy business dude in the passenger seat and people in the back staring at their phones, who decides to act normally seconds before an accident.
Walmart is interested in moving a lot of stuff at scale. Apparently they wanted to help build a massive superhighway from mexico to somewhere in the midwest.

It's a great idea.

Walmart should be taking much more initiative in all of this as one of the only entities that can feasibly take on Amazon.

I wish the President would make a national strategy over this 'Digital Pathways Act 2030' - i.e. make all major highways, railroads, and other 'rights of way' completely autonomous and electric by 2030.

Even for human passenger cargo - long-haul buses may actually compete with trains on price and comfort if they were fully autonomous - especially for shorter routes.

One of the problems with 'trains' in America is that the US is a little spread out, trains can't just go downtown to downtown - but autonomous buses could.

So this could be like quasi-public transport initiative from at very least New England down to DC - that entire corridor.

What we need is someone to 're-brand' bus travel and make it social acceptable for middle/upper class folks to ride instead of the agrarian/lower-class greyhound. Nothing against greyhound but it's just not the experience many people want.
I'd expect the only rational decision would be to ban the content mill domains from the crawler. Is there really that much value for the search customer in being directed to a generated page?
If the token having claims is a security issue, the entry point could swap the users token (containing just their unique id and an expiration) with an authorized token with claims, and keep that token within the local network. Then there’s a single token broker layer and claims are secure. I’m not sure why claims would be an issue to have in the original token though, could you provide some more info on that?
If you suspect that your product is being used in the commission of crimes, wouldn't it be your responsibility to cut off service immediately?
Then you should be worried because your employer and family may discover that you were a member of Parler. The "I was just curious" defence might not be as convincing as you think.
That doesn't mean what you think it does.
I think a better approach would be to force manufacturers to provide everything necessary for someone (the user or a third-party company) to develop alternative firmware. This means source code, datasheets of the hardware, and a way to bypass locked bootloaders or other code signature checks. Essentially, if you can't provide updates yourself, you should be giving away everything that's necessary for someone else to do it.
To offset liability, commercial AVs will be surrounded with cameras.

Idea: Self-driving goods transport

End Result: Exabytes of new public surveillance data gifted to LEO and other powerful interests
I feel like shared blocklists will become an emergent feature of this platform, as it inevitably will be used for planning violent/illegal activities and harassment, and I feel that pubs and individuals would want a way to combat such things to promote more focused membership (for topic forums for example). There will be ident wars where blocked individuals will then create new idents which have to be identified and blocked and so on, and there is little other than not inviting people to prevent this. The basic infrastructure of forum moderation seems possible, but I think automated/subscribable block lists would become a standardized feature of clients.
You know On Licenses ( Pubs/Bars) pay massive amounts of tax compared to Off Licences (Supermarkets / Bodgegas)
Inciting violence right here.
"These folks will not be silenced, the will react and it won't be pleasant."
We saw what Horny McRedneck and the other white trash did at the capitol and I am glad that even the president is disgusted (at least by their looks) by his followers as I am disgusted by you.
The difference is some sites (Twitter) have policy and infrastructure for moderating spam/abuse, and some (Parler) do not.
I was working on that idea a long time ago. Got away from it, but I still have an OSS project I work on here and there which is a "FB like" social network product, and another which is a "Reddit like". Neither currently has a lot of specific support for decentralization / federation, other than use of RSS and ActivityStrea.ms at the moment. But I would like to pick up some activity in this area again at some point and work on integrating with the "Fediverse" and maybe look at TBL's SOLID and see if there's anything there to incorporate.

Time is the biggest challenge, unfortunately.
Why would they? Because he did nothing? Or because he was 'present'? Accounts that monitor something are not going to run with the crowd in their act. See also: the historian who documented a lot of the mayhem on the 6th from inside the crowd.
Thanks for clarifying your position, but I still don't quite see how this applies to Parler in terms of their decision to host upon AWS. There are many thousands of other hosting companies worldwide, they didn't have to use one of the big three IaaS providers.

It seems more like poor planning on their part: over-reliance on specific services of a single provider, and no disaster recovery plan for if this is made unavailable. Particularly considering the business they're in - publishing controversial content that gets its users banned on more mainstream social media sites. They would have been wise to have a backup plan for hosting.

On the other hand, if you were also passing reference to the app store duopoly (as the report mentions this), I agree with you on that. At least on Android a banned app can be fairly easily side-loaded; iOS users are entirely subject to Apple's whims on what their device is permitted to run.
Please try the above examples with 12 or 24 words if you think that will make it easier. Example:

Secret: either "a b c d e f g h i j k l" or "a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x"

Participants: Alice, Bob, Carol, Dave

Quorum: 2

Which parts of the secret does each participant receive? Every combination of participant pairs must be able to recreate the full secret No single participant may have the full secret.

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HN won't let me reply to the below comment so I'll copy and paste here:

> It's actually trivially possible [...] for [...] very long (60 words+) passphrases.

It is not. It doesn't matter if your passphrases is 6000 words, you can't have 4 participants with a quorum of 2.

> https://iancoleman.io/slip39/

This uses the exact cryptography that I said you'd need. This isn't just "mnemonic phrase split between three person's", it's literally Shamir's Secret Sharing.
Pieshell: The expressiveness of shell pipelines and power of Python iterators
I very much disagree. There are use case such as weather reporting, electronic medical report summarisation, etc. That make more sense as a textual representation than bundles of graphs and tables. In fact textual summarisation has been shown to lead to better decision making[1].

Good data-to-text NLG applications not only summarise data but they also can provides insight into causal relations of why events occurred by leveraging domain knowledge.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2656014/
C++ cannot have non-local type inference due to, you know, object-oriented part of it.

This means that you cannot say something like this:

auto sepulka;
auto bubuka = zagizuka(sepulka);

Because if zagizuka's parameter is a structure or a class, you have a selection of parents. On a contrary, you have a selection of descendants of the result type of zagizuka() for bubuka, each having their own copy or assignment constructor.

[1] http://lucacardelli.name/Talks/2007-08-02%20An%20Accidental%...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic_type_theory#Mar...

[1] shows how hard it is to make right type system with inheritance. I believe these slides mention 25 years of collaborative effort. Compare that to [2] where it took 8 years to design intuitionistic type theory (1971-1979) by mostly single person.
I agree, but a lot of the arguments made seem to hit the wrong target. The issue is not 'First Amendment' rights (this applies only to government, not private companies), but monopoly, which causes many problems - this being just one. (Although actually I think the specific decisions made here are the right ones.)

Now, in practice, it might be more accurate to call these markets oligopolies (certainly cloud infrastructure is more this), but this still leaves a few companies with dramatic power over important parts of society.

And monopoly is a problem for the government to solve; these companies aren't 'evil' (any more than most others at least, except in virtue of their size), and the lasting solution is not to try and shame them or call them out here or claim victimhood (as the right has done) - though exercising voice can work as a short term tactic sometimes.
> If I imagine myself maintaining a server and I learn it’s being used for death threats and coup plannings, I would tell them to stop doing that

They better nullify their very lucrative business relationship with US intelligence services post haste then.

> There’s no reason they should be forced to host it.

"Forced." Poor AWS. They didn't even consent to this!
Selling locked phones in the UK and EU is already illegal

UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54692179

EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfair_Commercial_Practices_Di...
2.5 Hour Mandelbrot Fractal Zoom to depth 10^1299 [4K]
> the same whackjob culture that flocked to Parler from Twitter

As long as people are primed to viscerally pre-hate any competitor, it won't work.
I've seen this sentiment before, and I can't figure out the logic.

I used to work for a company that didn't make 300K a quarter and we managed our own boxes. Yes our scale and problem domain was about an order of magnitude smaller, but it wasn't trivially small (optimization was still a relevant problem for us). What did people do 15 years ago before all of these could platforms did all the work for you? Do that. It's really not that hard!

The analogy above is ridiculous. The problem isn't that Rosa Parks couldn't start her own bus line (though at the time this was probably not feasible for more reasons than just money). The problem is that she was denied service because of her race. You cannot change your race by "doing it yourself".

If SpaceX denies me the opportunity to fly their shuttle do I have to build my own spacecraft to get to space? Yes... I do. I'm sure we could come up with all sorts of other fun examples!
I don't think the article warrants such a harsh reaction. Was it the word "our" in the title? They're just writing from their perspective.
I sort-of am. I'm playing-around/working-on a decentralized messaging network using WordPress sites as the nodes. The advantage here is that WordPress sites are easy and standardized to host.
Not even at the development stage yet, but I want an app version of the "X days since the last accident" sign to use for accountability. I want my phone to tell me "7 days since you last called your parents", "4 days since you last did the dishes", "3 hours since you just took a moment for yourself". These would be silent yet persistent notifications that I'd see anytime I check my phone. Easy to dismiss/reset to 0. I want to feel accountable before the task turns into something I'm ashamed of like "147 days since you called your grandma".

I imagine you'd set thresholds for each event, and the notifications would have a simple reset button. But other than that, you'd never really open the app. If you do something on your own, it'll feel good to dismiss the item like crossing it off the todo list.

I assume this would be real easy to make, but learning anything app related always feels like a monolithic task. I'd ironically love a "It's been 4 days since you looked up Android documentation" to help keep me on track with this project (:
>Given that the internet is a worldwide phenomenon, it seems incredibly unlikely that all server companies and internet service providers would refuse their business.

I can agree that getting up and running is, probably, always possible. But that is no consolation if you're a business that can arbitrarily be shut down on a whim, perhaps without even being given a warning. The financial circumstances might make restarting or moving around untenable.

>In particular, the 'bulletproof hosting' market is still going strong.

Yes, and if there's anything good to say about this mess, it's that this particular kind of service is likely to grow.
Not everything is “the democrats” or “the republicans” yet, sometimes it’s just “the lawyers” trying to cover the companies potentially very-exposed backside.
The problem with decentralized social networking is that there would also be no control; you NEED people with elevated access that can remove content, else it'll end up as a platform for hate speech and child pornography (I know, 'think of the children' is a tired argument, but if you cannot moderate, it will end up as a cesspool).