skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I studied a method where a series of related movements done slowly with attention helps parts of the body to move together more flexibly and fluidly.

Here's an example, if you lie on your back, put your right palm on your forehead, fingers parallel to hairline or wrinkles in your forehead elbow in air...
In this position, you can use the arm and hand to roll the head going very slowly over several seconds, taking a long time for the nose to move to the left just one centimeter. Just as slowly use your arm and hand to move the head back to the middle.

By repeating it a few times while taking care to continue breathing smoothly in the background, it becomes possible for you to learn to use your arm muscles to roll the head gently and precisely, taking over the work usually done by the neck muscles.

For their part, the neck muscles are learning to let go of habitual tonus to accept passive movement.

Pause between movements. When you start again, go so gradually you can feel how soft intention to roll the head with the hand begins to manifest as movement.

You can also try moving the head 1cm to the right. The head rolls differently that way and if you do it slowly you can feel the details.

If you pay attention, you'll probably notice that when you roll the head like this, there are small supporting movements of the shoulder blade and sternum. You might feel a shift of weight to the left where you feel your upper ribs against the floor.

Then you have a rest and go through this process using the other arm.

You maybe think if you do more, you can force the stiff ribs to move, but it's the opposite: strong stretching movements, cause the ribs to protectively tighten themselves. (That's how I think about it, but of course it's actually muscles around the ribs that hold them in place.)

Instead by going near the limit of slow and small
movements, each movement generates more information, there is time and space for ribs, sternum, spine, shoulders, and head to let go and allow themselves to move together in a new way.

Hundreds of these movement lessons devised by Moshe Feldenkrais to improve human functions are called Awareness Though Movement. Hands-on work for this same purpose is called Functional Integration.
Perhaps it’s more nuanced than my understanding, but sites/companies are sheltered from liability for unprotected (illegal) speech posted by users — that is/was the whole point of the communications decency act section 230. Lawsuits may fly, but would be quickly dismissed.

Maybe if your business existed solely to host, or encouraged unprotected speech (threats, fraud, defamation) you’d find your company in trouble.
You're being sarcastic because you're implying it isn't going well. It's true, the situation is not going well at all, but the consensus seems to be that it's mainly -because- Facebook and Twitter never banned these voices for a long time as they should have (and ostensibly they didn't ban mainly because of bottom line)
We tend to remember things that catch our attention over things that we think are normal, which can bias us to believe there's a higher number of voices against us than there actually are.

That's not to say that perhaps there's not a majority, but I don't think we can assess that without some real numbers. Do you have those? If so, what was your methodology?
“It’s okay to ban speech I find offensive” becomes “ it’s OK to ban speech deemed offensive by this committee” when it becomes policy. Then the committee becomes a target for influence or corruption, because if you control the committee then you control speech. This is bad whether we are talking about governments or corporations, if those corporations have monopoly or oligarchy control over platforms of discourse.

That’s why it’s generally a good idea to only ban speech which is threatening direct violence, or inciting violence, or other very specific things. “Ban fascists” is too broad.
The CEO of CloudFlare famously said that the reason he decided to deplatform Daily Stormer (after previously saying he would not deplatform them) was because one morning he woke up in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the internet. Literally all it took was one CEO waking up on the wrong side of the bed one morning. It seems entirely inaccurate to say that Dorsey or Bezos couldn't make a decision unilaterally like that if they really wanted.

I'm not sure about Twitter, but Bezos is the majority shareholder at Amazon and if he really wanted to, could make the decision to ban anyone he wants and nobody would legally be able to stop him, will of the employees/shareholders/public be damned.
Try bringing "acceptable" Ben Shapiro on your campus, and left is going to have a fit and "peaceful" riots.
Hell yes.

The people being cut-off are literally outta their minds. Anyone thinking it's unfair is also outta their minds... or thinking it's about censorship. Nah, it's about not-supporting a coup of the USA and murderous assholes.

In the USA, of all places, we don't have to do shit we don't want to do (except pay taxes). No one wants to share anything with fucking Nazis. These insurrectionists are fighting against the very fabric that gives them the things they want.

They have completely disconnected from reality if they expect the benefits of a diverse intellectually rich society, but want that society eradicated, locked up, and enslaved. Do you really think we'd have the fucking internet if the nazis had won? ROFLCOPTR. Fucking ROFLCOPTRs. They're attempting to overthrow the USA's election results-- they're traitors.

I'd even be against using the word "traitor" if they weren't nazi-white-supremacist fuckheads. I'm using it because they're traitors, not just to democracy, but to humanity. They seek the destruction and enslavement of others. This is not a fucking joke. FACT: Hitler was laughed at AND staged a failed coup; which went unpunished (he was having guests and was free to roam the prison) before the camps and WWII. I can't even make this shit up. It's honestly like Trump is reading Hitler's bio for tips on how to get ahead... but back to the point.

If someone wants to murder me, enslave me, deeply believes I am inherently unequal, and that I am not even human; no, I will not help them. Is that strange? I have a pretty strong feeling it's not.

So then no one, fucking no one, should be surprised that the PEOPLE who built AWS, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, reddit et. al do not want to empower those that want to destroy, enslave, and torture them.

To be clear, this could not be less about censorship. If anything, it's a testament to free speech this shit went on for as long as it did. I'd even be more pissed about it going on for as long as it did, but better late than never, if we all weren't balls deep triaging an attempted coup of the USA.
> The US does not have any net neutrality laws that would make the posed scenario illegal.

It effectively does, since revocation of Obama-era net neutrality rules is still being litigated in courts and all providers are still following them while they wait for a decision. Now that the Democrats control the Senate, the House's net neutrality bill which passed in 2019 and was blocked in the senate by Republicans will likely become law.

> would/should such laws not also apply to major internet infrastructure providers such as AWS

Net neutrality applies in the other direction. Comcast can absolutely ban you, the consumer, from using its service if you run afoul of their terms of service, as can AWS.
This feels like when all those doctors signed a letter saying that they supported mass pretests in the middle of a rampant pandemic.
Q: Bottom line: Should I be worried about patent issues if I use FFmpeg?

A: Are you a private user working with FFmpeg for your own personal purposes? If so, there is remarkably little reason to be concerned. Are you using FFmpeg in a commercial software product? Read on to the next question...

Q: Is it perfectly alright to incorporate the whole FFmpeg core into my own commercial product?

A: You might have a problem here. There have been cases where companies have used FFmpeg in their products. These companies found out that once you start trying to make money from patented technologies, the owners of the patents will come after their licensing fees. Notably, MPEG LA is vigilant and diligent about collecting for MPEG-related technologies.

From https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html
The comparison still holds. Should Verizon be warned and held accountable for phone conversations?
You make it seem like Parler only had violent posts. I hope you don't club every member of Parler with violent extremists. And I'm talking about conservative/right wing ideology. Not Parler specifically.

Because if Big Tech is taking a moral high ground I hope it can apply the same policies to itself.

Let's start with Twitter shall we?

How about this 2018 post:

https://twitter.com/MadamePete/status/1017462143279681541?s=...

What has Twitter done to take it down?

2019 post:
https://twitter.com/jcmithnoy/status/1085855272793366529?s=1...

2016 post: https://twitter.com/lil_cmb/status/765737247781949444?s=19

2018 post: https://twitter.com/DutchessOfDork/status/100553860903276953...

Can I say that just because you are on Twitter you represent a political ideology aligned with the lunatics above? Looking at the tweets above can I say "I hope Twitter doesn't represent half of the country's ideology. I hope not".

This is the biggest irony of it all. Twitter openly bans right wing accounts while not doing anything to these violent posts by left wingers. you have toxicity in both Parler and Twitter. The only difference is that the right wing toxicity that existed in Twitter shifted to Parler while the left wing toxicity remained behind in Twitter itself. This is balkanization. This isn't solving the problem in any way, shape or form.
Israel to enter 3rd national lockdown despite successful Covid vaccination
Gay wedding cakes don't kill cops.
The engineers at Parler are going to feel the pain trying to get off of all those AWS services.
This is one of those surprisingly useful and obvious things that I'm surprised not to have seen before.

Knowledge of (including pronunciation) jargon is a classic gatekeeper

In my experience, I'm in the minority in pronouncing sudo as soodoo, the majority seem to say pseudo. OTOH I've never heard anyone say fsck as anything other than f-suck

From personal experience at Microsoft the backslash was frequently pronounced "whack" (hence whack whack for unc paths), and the ubiquitous error codes like 0xC0000005 were "c-bazillion-5"
The point is that half of all carriers and many of the superspreaders are "asymptomatic" as far as they are concerned so how would you know if you were sick to protect others or yourself. That article sounded fairly idiotic then and still does now. Would you want your surgeon operating on you without a mask? Why not? Should they wash their hands, if they think they're clean?

This is a recent paper on masks...
https://www.cell.com/med/fulltext/S2666-6340(20)30072-6
Thats not whats happening here though is it?

Parler is violating the terms of service, AWS is asking for minimal level of moderation to avoid violating those terms, and they are refusing.

And the CEO of parler does tell people what they are allowed to write on Parler they remove so-called "leftist" content all the time.

If im running a website or service, why shouldnt I be allowed to remove content from it? Wouldnt a law thats preventing me from removing that content actually be a violation of my right to free speech?
I think that maybe, if you ban really early, you can interrupt some of the badness--- but this is also the time it's hardest to justify quelling speech.

But by the point they have a large community together, they'll go somewhere else and be worse. Better would be to constantly prune off the worst bits of the community that are most over the line rather than purging all at once (which guarantees a migration).

It's hard to disentangle what the exact causes are, but it sure seems like the discourse has gotten even worse over the past couple of years even as these types of deplatforming choices have been made.

e.g. thedonald.win is infinitely worse than /r/TheDonald was.

I do also worry a bit about a few powerful parties becoming intermediaries to communication (Twitter, Facebook) and imposing their own standards, too. Right now the choices being made are relatively benign, but will they always be?

Once you have an isolated pile of mostly violent extremists with no content control-- go ahead and censor away, though.
Yes, and all this de-platforming is only going to deepen divisions, I fear. Is there any real reason for doing so, since there is always provisions to deal with people who break laws.

Are these companies acting preemptively from fear of being later assigned culpability?
I'm distressed and saddened at how many of the free speech proponents on HN are treating the events of January 6 as if it was just another protest and not an existential threat to the republic.

The president's followers said for weeks that "the storm" was coming Jan 6. Nobody took them seriously. Look what happened. The president and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and other followers incited it. Yes the execution of the insurrection was ham-fisted, and it failed to prevent the electoral count from completing, but that's irrelevant. If the mob had managed to find and destroy the electoral certificates, or if the flex-cuffs guys had captured members of congress, we would be talking about something very different now.

The president has a history of responding to setbacks by doubling down. His followers have now begun talking about returning with arms. Only fools would assume that these threats are idle talk or jokes.

The western liberal value of free speech has never extended to incitement of violence. My assumption is that the leaders of Apple, Google, and Amazon don't want to provide a platform for sedition.
In the context of running a business? Yes. If your body odor is so bad that you interfere with my ability to provide services, it doesn't seem to be a particular stretch for me to deny you access.
It's also right after Trump sent a mob to attack Congress.
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That's an exceptionally liberal reading of what he actually wrote.
What do you mean? The Supreme Court sided with the baker.[0] So why shouldn’t AWS be allowed not to host Parler if the baker can choose not to make a gay wedding cake?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/supreme-court...
I always thought it was a portmanteau of "failed" and "socialism."
I’ve never heard anyone say “F stab” for fstab.
I highly suspect that a dispute would end up in arbitration rather than courts, too. It's not like AWS failed to think ahead about getting sued.
It's most likely the last option.

Enforcing their terms against one client and not another doesn't mean they are greenlighting the other client. It just means they haven't gotten around to it. It's a fallacy to assume otherwise.
It an an interesting thing to ponder, but I don’t think it’s analogous.
>The US military and civilian experts believe that if Taiwan declares independence, Beijing will use its military to take control of Taiwan

Taiwan considers its self to be China. What are they going to declare themselves independent from?
That’s only an argument against the death penalty if accompanied by another argument for why the death penalty is distinct from other forms of punishment, otherwise we would conclude that all legal penalties are bad for the same reasons.
Oh, I’m sorry. I meant to say explicitly my quarrel wasn’t with you. I was just expanding on it for anyone else reading through the thread.
China is looking like it may go in an alternative direction for EV technology. Rather than integrating battery packs as a structural component, automakers in the country are pushing for increased standardization of battery packs, [1] allowing for swapping and potentially lowering overall costs.

1 https://cntechpost.com/2020/08/18/chinas-first-battery-swap-...
> If it’s controversial, the writing will tend towards the careful middle.

No, it will tend towards the side of those who has the most admin rights and most time for reverts. They will have no interest in neutrality
Moral hazards coming due… nothing to see here… lol
So the baker can refuse to bake cakes for Democrats?
It's also entirely AWS' prerogative to decide when, on whom, and how to enforce their TOS. They reserve their rights ahead of time.
I'm tired of it being "[website] is censoring Y", when in reality it's "[website] is not giving free megaphone to Y". Posting on these websites is a service they provide, it's a platform allow you to use, and they have zero obligation to give it to you.
Yes of course it’s okay. Private companies can terminate services at will.

If AT&T terminates customers’ access to websites, customers
will go to Verizon etc.

If all providers blocked access, they must have a good reason.
I’m in Canada. I get paid quite well in my non-FAANG role, I have way more vacation than I’d get at any company that size. I’d probably make a little more at a FAANG role but the salaries here are not the insane salaries they are in the US, and I prefer the vacation. Also at any large company up here I’d have to give ownership of any code I write in my spare time to my employer, and at small companies it’s easier to negotiate that kind of thing and get opportunities to work on open source. Possibly if I was in Vancouver I’d make a lot more working for a FAANG company, but my cost of living would be insane, and they basically try to get you to move to the US. I have some friends at some of those companies, and they’ve tried to poach me, and I’ve consistently turned them down.
I'm a LOT more concerned about the rise in hateful, violent rhetoric being bandied about by self-described 'patriots' who seem hell-bent on bulldozing their way into political power as soon at it became obvious that they could not win by legal means.

These people stormed the legislature of the US to attempt to install their cult leader as dictator. If that doesn't concern you, I don't know what to tell you.

And Parler will find another web host. If the daily stormer can find one, these clowns will. They're not disappearing.
Hard disagree. If anything I'd say its value and reputation for current events and politics are higher than ever.

Please substantiate your unfair attack.

Also: there's a typo in your comment. First word should be "Its", and not "It's".
Companies have a right to refuse service to a customer for any reason (the reason doesn't have to be disclosed). Imagine as a startup, being forced to sign a contract (under duress) that you know is not aligned with your long term goals.
Agreed. And, if I don't want to make a cake for a gay wedding no one can compel me to do so.
Yes, this is how companies are supposed to work. There are plenty of examples of conservatives trying to “cancel” companies for some perceived transgression as well.
> They had a civil rights issue (slavery) the remainder of the states could not ignore.

It is not true that the United States waged the war to end slavery. Though of course slavery is why the Southern states seceded, the North prosecuted the war to preserve the Union. After all, the institution of slavery remained legal in the US at the outset of the war in '61, with no end in sight--Lincoln had been selected by the Republicans specifically because he was not a radical abolitionist. Only after the North struggled to defeat the South in a timely manner (in large part due to the fact that slave labor allowed the South to field ~80% of able bodied free men) did Lincoln put out the Emancipation Proclamation in '63--expressly as a matter of military necessity. The document gave only a cursory nod to it being "believed to be an act of justice", and it only freed Southern slaves.[0]

Slavery remained legal in the United States until 1865.

[0] https://www.historynet.com/emancipation-proclamation-text
I don't see anything profound or deeply insightful about this. In order for the fish tank to be empty, it must try to remain empty of fish.

Replace tolerance with "free[dom]" and intolerance with "censorship" without losing its meaning and getting rid of the word play.

"In order for society to be free, it must censor censorship."

even simpler:

"In order for society to be free, it must be free from censorship."

Freedom and censorship are antonyms of each other (mutually exclusive). So obviously, its a paradox.
Ex Machina was an absolutely fascinating watch on this subject. I'm not convinced that a human believing a robot is sentient makes it sentient.
What? Are you proposing we ban Fox News? :)

First, election cycle is over; second, they are not banning one political party.
That sounds like a crime for the FBI, and local law enforcement to handle, not the Outrage Cancel Culture mob.

In fact, if you think about it, we'd want them discussing these things in an easy to find place so they could be lawfully surveilled, evidence gathered, and then handled through the legal process.

However, this is really not about that. It is really about a purge of politically unpopular people.
I completely disagree. It's a well-formed argument, and he's calling out someone for making a lazy argument.
Aren't the antitrust cases just getting going?
Never heard fsck spelled out. It’s always been /fisk/.

I guess that’s the sort of nonsense one should expect from a person who wrongly abhors the great and beautiful emacs.

ducks
More dangerous than forcing AWS to do host them? Easy no.
I just opened up google maps and zoomed in on a random town: Mt. Pleasant Iowa. If I search it on google, on the top of the page is a snippet from Wikipedia. The top result is a link to Wikipedia. The second is the actual town website.

This is what I find fascinating about the project. We’re more interested in reading a secondary source compiled by random people, than the actual primary source! I think it says a lot about the nice interface it has.
IMO it was perfectly reasonable. He was attacking the argument, not the user.
"We were too successful too fast." -Parler

"We’re going to win so much that you’re going to be sick and tired." -Trump
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/
Would generally agree but the previous generation of MacBook Pro were complete garbage, primarily due to the keyboard and rubbish thermal design. Have been using Mac since they went with Intel and never experienced such a poor quality product.

Phones though have tended to last many years with few defects apart from physical damage. YMMV though of course.
I'm not familiar with Parler. I tried to read some comments from different posts and wasn't able. Do you have to have an account to read comments?
Or not even radicalized, just massively misinformed.

It seems like people denying a problem exists is creating massive inertia against solutions to even the most apparent and emotionally salient problems (mass shootings, COVID, etc).
> chmod: as one syllable.. rhymes with 'nod'

This is easy to do for many?

In my experience, Anglo-Saxons can seldom pronounce “GNU” in one syllable, but they can this?
Parler is just for Nazis?
> It is not acceptable to have companies this large, and this influential, 100% unaccountable to democracy.

Perhaps I'm not understanding you, but as written, this is not true.

First, Congress can pass laws. Second, outside of legislation, there are democratic-capitalistic feedback mechanisms as well: people can 'vote with their feet'; decide what services to use, recommend, and criticize.

So I think you meant something else?

To be clear, I'm not defending these companies, and I do support intelligent (as opposed to reactionary), targeted (as opposed to blunt), principled (as opposed to arbitrary), and simple (as opposed to byzantine, inscrutable) regulations.
> But I'm fine with supporting this temporarily, at least through the inauguration

sounds like 'just a little bit of fascism, it won't even hurt'.