skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A person is either safe enough to be in society, or not. There should NEVER be an in between state.

I worked with my Dad growing up and going to school, and I’m fortunate enough to have worked along side people that had felony records.

Some of them for some scary sounding crimes.

I’ve learned just how much nuance is lost in our current “scarlet letter” system (as well as how a crime is judged changes significantly over time).

I can see the notion that somebody should have some kind of re-integration or probationary period, but until we can have an objective and perfect means of conveying the nuance behind every crime, sentence, and rehabilitation (which I say facetiously, because I don’t believe that’s possible) then we should err on the side of not having any scarlet letters.
How dare he have a Russian wife or travel.

This is a perfect example of the conspiracies of the left.

edit: downvote/flag all you want, the article he linked to is terribly written and makes giant leaps in logic.

edit: dang shadowbanned me and not the conspiracy post above me. dang you are a 50cent super solider aren't you.

how are we supposed to not talk about politics in a political post?

half of the frontpage are political articles. 99% of the comments are political, what's wrong with mine?

DONT ALLOW POLITICAL ARTICLES IF YOU DON'T WANT POLITICAL DISCUSSION
http://archive.is/Aa2cg
Most forms of harassment includes actions and words that in isolation would mean nothing.

I had someone send me some very abusive and threatening emails, and among the images they sent, was a screenshot of a flight quote and a photo of my house from Google Maps.
Usually, there are lock up periods for those, plus the uncertainty between when the operation starts being discussed, an agreement is made and shareholders approve. What will Tesla be worth in a year?
I had the same feelings as the parent - this article did not make good arguments for using Haskell specifically in building production systems, it instead argues that Haskell is a good programming language yet many of the benefits listed can be found in other languages.

Even if Haskell was objectively the 'best' language, it'd likely be a poor choice for most teams simply due to familiarity and developer speed.

I'd be extremely hesitant to hire the services of this company entirely because they use Haskell and it'd be a nightmare to maintain after their contract.
Start-Up (Korean Drama): cheezy but well-researched
Ruth Wilson Gilmore [1,2], Angela Davis [3.4] and many, many others have been making the case for decades that the entirety of the prison system needs to be abolished.

Among the more profound cases that Gilmore makes is that the it is not just for-profit prisons and policing. Racialized exclusion of Black people from the economy has essentially created a captive class -- a pool of bodies for exploitation. Essentially the industry of incarceration at the state (that is both State and Federal level) create sources of income -- for the States, the companies that supply resources to prisons, as well as the private prisons.

Further, Gilmore [2] makes the argument that we need to do away with the presumption that there are people who are "deserving" of prison. Is the very notion of prison consistent with a civilized society?

Just a further note that the incarceration rate of Black men in the U.S. [5] is comparable to that of Uyghur population in Xianjiang [6] -- that rate was estimated to be 5% for Black men across the U.S. in 2009, 5% for Uyghurs in non-Muslim majority districts, roughly 10% in majority-Muslim districts. It would be interesting to understand how the adoption of capitalist economic practices in China correlates with the rise of the carceral.

[1] Golden gulag: Prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag

[2] Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence. In Futures of Black Radicalism, G. T.. Johnson and A. Loubin (Eds.). New York: Verso, 225–240.

[3] Are Prisons Obsolete? https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213837/are-prisons-...

[4] If They Come in the Morning … Voices of Resistance, Edited by Angela Y. Davis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_They_Come_in_the_Morning

[5] https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/color-of-just...

[6] https://qz.com/1599393/how-researchers-estimate-1-million-uy...
What makes you think employees had anything to do with this? Employees at Amazon don't seem to be that well organized. I would think this decision was made by execs trying to do what is best for themselves and shareholders.

I get employees called for it, but I really doubt Parler was pulled primarily because of their complaints.
True, but where there’s less of a spectrum is in the stigma that follows you after the punishment. For many companies and landlords, anyone without a squeaky clean record is lumped together. Even for crimes that a significant portion of the population has probably committed at some point and were just never caught.
I have zero experience with this issue, but someone I met fundraising a few projects ago launched this, which is aimed at solving your particular issue:

[70 Million Staffing](https://www.70millionstaffing.com/) - focused on hiring people with criminal records and its counterpart: [Commissary Club](https://app.commissary.club/) - a social network for ex-cons.

Also, maybe now with the new emphasis on remote work, people with criminal records have a better chance at getting hired?
Ya think...

I can't understand those who think we are on a sustainable trajectory or (even worse in some ways) the "we'll keep trying lockdowns until we get it 'right'" camp. It's not working, adjust.
The new phone lock du jour is the manufacturer's anti theft mechanism.

I recently got two iphones from their owners, pulled out of the drawer to monetize them on classifieds. Both locked and unresettable without the previous owners help (one could be unlocked because I got her account password over the phone, huge nogo but she trusts me to not screw with her account). The other not, account was lost.

Apple also now tags and ties both battery and camera to the logicboard. Shame.
Well, a lot of the articles being posted push a political narrative along with subtle comments like yours that seem to suggest the opposing view.
what private data was leaked? From what I can see its just public content that was archived.
> Her speech was not compelled.

"Don't say this thing, or we'll ban you forever from the platform."

If I walk up to you and say, "Don't say this thing, or me and my 9 associates here will punch you in the face," that's compulsion. Period.
Mitt Romney talks the talk but his voting record aligns with Trump.
Can't reply to Kaze404's reply to this, but just wanted to say that I didn't intend to compare Parler to any left-wing social network or group I'm aware of. Just saying that from my experience with the left, there are condoned views and straying outside the lines isn't healthy for group inclusion. I'm also explicitly not equivocating the validity of the views themselves.
With lockdowns I've been wondering when this tipping point was going to hit, it's been really hard to judge the 'taxi driver' phenomenon not going out often or being able to overhear conversations.

Makes it a lot harder to time any bubbles, which I honestly think may be contributing a bit to how high this one got.
Parler was an echo chamber.

> which was unchallengable due to blasphemy laws

There's basically no support for this claim in any literature I can find. Care to cite a historian?
No. One presents a clear and present danger and the other doesn't.
> I hear a lot of people saying this is just another example of the left trying to shut down free speech

This is a specious argument on its face. The First Amendment does not say that private companies are obligated to spend money broadcasting someone else's speech. Hosting and serving isn't free and any private company has the freedom to decide what not to host.

If an author's content is so toxic that advertisers won't be associated with it and thus hosts can't or won't afford to host it, that's on the author.
> And I wouldn't include the BLM protests of the summer as anti-establishment

Why not? because they only wanted to defund the police?
You speak like if you were any kind of authority.

Nowadays anybody can be an Android developer, India is full of teenagers doing it.
Bitcoin is trustless. OK, “optimized to work in adversarial environment”. You have to trust their encryption, but that’s it (nobody managed to hack the encryption yet, despite immense gains to be obtained immediately).

Of course, you have to manage your keys properly, but that’s not about trust, that’s about skills and precautions.
There’s plenty of hate on Twitter. They won’t go after all hate and they don’t care that you think they are hypocrites.

Stop trying to convince these people of hypocrisy. They aren’t listening to critics and they lack the ability to see the world outside of the tight frame they were provided. We are all like this most of the time but I find that the moral panics have created situations where online communication is not possible along political lines.

Focus on you, not them. People who build ideas from self-reflection are less volatile and not as susceptible to moral panic than those who define themselves by politics.

If all people tried as hard to understand each other as they do framing their political opponents as evil, we wouldn’t be in this place. Interesting times.
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Was about to comment this myself - totally agree.

The single quickest way to make me suspicious of an empirical study is to give it a prescriptive title. I agree with this title wholeheartedly, but I want (1) studies that provide objective evidence and (2) position papers that recommend policies based on that evidence. Both are legitimate copes for researchers to publish within if they call it what it is. This is a position paper, not a study.
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> Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler? Zero. The planning was largely done on Facebook. This is all a bullshit pretext for silencing competitors on ideological grounds: just the start.

If this turns out to be true, I think it's a pretty big story. Virtually every conversation that has taken place on HN has asserted that the "insurrection was planned on Parler", and that claim went largely unchallenged.

So, can anyone find a counterexample?

GWU has a comprehensive list of those charged: https://extremism.gwu.edu/Capitol-Hill-Cases

The archives of Parler are coming: https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348213666257252353
Thank you, I'd missed that and will share it
This is how Scuttlebutt works. The problem is that when you download the client software, you have no content to read until you build up your network. This confuses most people that are looking to find new friends and augment their current social network with something global. The solution that I found was to go to hacker spaces and meetups and turn on the client and see who else was on the local network. Not everyone has that option.
Why live for years in the forest and write a book to be released afterwards when you can just show off how minimal you are in realtime? Thoreau would've just micro-blogged all of his thoughts on Twitter probably.
Spot on, a broken clock looks correct twice a day. I have zero confidence that they're actually correct this time.
You're welcome to start your own ideologically compatible service provider. There are literally thousands of VPS hosts/cPanel farms/colo facilities/etc that they can do business out of that won't care (I know because I end up blocking a lot of them due to malicious traffic).

You're not owed AWS's product and it's not required to build this kind of infrastructure. Sure it makes it easier, maybe try being less repugnant?
Actions speak for themselves. The right isn't a unified block.

There are traditonal conservatives: god, guns, limited government. Mitch McConnell, David French, Mitt Romney, Charlotte Lawson. I fundamentally have different values from these people, but their perspectives are useful, enlightening, and reading their viewpoints causes me to better defend my own, or even occasionally change. They are staunch defenders of individual rights and traditional liberty.

There are libertarians on the right. Rand Paul, Spike Cohen, Justin Amash. These people I share a surprising number of values with, but fundamentally disagree with on the conclusion. Due to an inherent argumentativeness, it's hard to get a good faith debate, but I acknowledge their opinions that the government uses its power poorly, that both political parties are primarily concerned with remaining in power, and so on.

And then there's the group who wear t-shirts with "Camp Auschwitz 2021", "6 million wasn't enough". Signs that say "Q Sent Me". Hats with "Make America Great Again". These people are absolutely racist neo-nazis. These people are pretending to believe that Italians stole the election. There's no true belief here, no fundamentally held tenant other than "my side is better". This is not a small group - a YouGov poll puts it at 18% of Republicans. And this is Parler's user base, self-selected. The reasonable ones are still on Twitter.
> Rewriting history is far more common with git

How do you mean? It's impossible. You git push something, and then you leave an immutable trail that someone somewhere may have cloned so even if you were to force push or delete you can't erase it. Assuming it was of any importance and someone was watching (but if not of any importance, then no big deal to force push/delete).
This is inaccurate

The baker discriminated against the couple but the supreme court punted on ruling on the laws and just said the goverment hadn't acted correctly in that case so threw it out. The law is still on record and baker has to abide by it and stop discriminating against gay couples unless the court someday rules otherwise
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To be fair, any social media platform built on the idea of protecting free speech will be the only platform on which "disgusting content" can be posted. That means it will inherently have a disproportionately large amount of "disgusting content".

And that's before considering the insane uphill battle any social media platform has to fight to become as popular as the likes of Twitter, Facebook, etc - assuming the presence of "disgusting content" does not limit its ability to ever scale that much to begin with.

Btw, I'm using the phrase "disgusting content" to quote the OP because I can't think of a more appropriate phrase, not to indicate sarcasm or cast doubt on the nature of the content. I've never been to Parler, but I trust that there was some pretty awful things being said there.
You’re not wrong, but “50 year maximum sentence” is off by at least an order of magnitude.
Yes. Legally probably no one did anything wrong. My claim is not that any party behaved inappropriately according to law or the ordinary norms of doing business. Amazon is "within its rights." No argument.

But if you look at this situation and don't see problems that are expanding beyond the ability of laissez faire contracts to account for (I'll be specific: it's the concentrated accumulation of communicative and cultural capital to a tiny number of minimally publicly accountable, opaque, private, exceedingly deep-pocketed firms), you're burying your head in the sand.
Bikes expensive enough to have a tracking device will largely be carbon fiber.
Good ol' Glenn Greenwald, always stepping up to defend fascists
Probably the same support had he for allowing companies to discriminate against gay couples. Its great until its used against him.
Translation: a minority made of vocal socialist fanatics assisted by manipulative politicians have managed to introduce a new tax on EU consumers.

Whereas before you could buy a device that would be smaller and cheaper to own because it was built with a minimal number of field-replaceable parts, soon you'll have no choice (whether you want to fix old junk or not) but to buy a bulkier, more expensive device for which suppliers have to stock and sell spare parts and provide support. All of which will reflect in the price of that product.

"Europe is guaranteeing citizens the right".
I'm touched! Thank you, Brussels!
No, he was offered a bad deal. Copyright violations very rarely result in prison for first time offenders. He also did a mild case of hacking which together might have resulted in a short sentence. But if he had gone to court I doubt he would have got more than 4-6 months, which is the same thing as the plea deal.
Terms of use are not legally binding, they are simply a courtesy.

A service can today kick you off without your having ever violated the terms of use they publish.

To answer your question, our society presently restricts several types of businesses from either offering or not offering service to certain groups in various circumstances. This wouldn't really be any more of a stretch than preventing the electric company from denying you service.
Not op, but while you are not wrong, I would argue that the critique of the FPTP-voting system is very relevant here.
Southeast USA. On the whole a good place for solar. I’m trying to impress on people the many fiddly little obstructions that add up to significant reductions, and that despite prolonged good periods there are poor exposure times that fast burn thru stored energy and require substantial collectors to recharge in time for the next weather event.
As for the connection issues, we were all next to each other at a conference room table, not an issue of proximity. I was able to hear the person at first, then they cut off and didn’t come back, even after reloading the page it seemed but I only tried once and then gave up to be honest :p

FWIW the person I could no longer hear was located across the globe, so maybe that’s related.

I apologize for not having a more thorough write up of what happened, but it was certainly a real issue.
We both know this situation wasn't caused by a single direct order, but rather a concerted campaign by Trump and the people around him who have spent months instilling a sense of fear in the minds of those who attended that rally. Fear that "evil democrats" and "the left" are out to "destroy democracy" by subverting the election that he "won".

Then on the day Congress was supposed to confirm the result they organised a rally of the people they'd stirred up and spent hours telling that they needed to "fight". The closest thing to a direct order was Giuliani during that rally:

> “Over the next ten days, we get to see the machines that are crooked, the ballots that are fraudulent, and if we're wrong, we will be made fools of. But if we're right, a lot of them will go to jail.” Mr Giuliani then suddenly yelled: "Let's have trial by combat!" to lacklustre cheers from the crowd.[1]

Despite the apparently lacklustre response, Trump then went on to direct the mob towards the Capitol where we all know what happened.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio...
The issue is the "finely curated" statement. It's not a full code review, just "Wherever possible, applications in the repository are built from source, and that source code is checked for potential security or privacy issues. This checking is far from exhaustive though, and there are no guarantees."[1] After an app is added to F-Droid it gets built from source by the F-Droid build servers, but it does not generally get re-reviewed. It's perfectly possible to add the malware after the initial release. It's also possible (even easy) for malware to be missed by the limited code review. F-Droid is a little safer, but that doesn't mean it's particularly safe. It's no harder to get malware on F-droid than it is to get it into Arch or Debian or any other distro repository.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/about/
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Jaywalking doesn’t even need to be a crime at all. In a lot of parts of the world it isn’t and we do just fine.
Enforcing it and bringing someone to suicide is miles apart.

But on topic: copyright that works for decades has been lobbied into existence, it's not something average people "want". So, no, I dont think most Americans want to pay for several decades of copyright enforcement. Same for software patents, or extended-length patents in general. Something like 10 years is more than enough "head start". Yay for a rich commons!!
What's criminal about selling to Zerodium though? I guess a case could be made that selling on the darknet is 'not in good faith'. That is an important criteria for determining if you're aiding and abetting where I'm from.

But this problem is not there with all avenues for grey market transactions.
Looking forward to the day when gcc gains a C++ frontend written in Rust, to enable bootstraping gcc from a rust compiler :)
It is called misdemeanor and several classes of it exist. And no, fishing without a permit isn’t a felony anywhere in the US.
Many people use Aaron’s death as a political cudgel by essentially lying about the events leading to his suicide in order to paint him has a martyr who was murdered by cruel and vengeful prosecutors. He was in fact a severely mentally ill individual who’s death should be remembered as a tragedy resulting from severe depression, not politically motivated homicide.
> Aaron was offered an excellent deal,

That's a pretty extraordinary claim, as he had competent legal counsel (I think?) and they rejected it.
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Absolutely nothing wrong with that

That's how you enforce civil rights laws

It's no different then trying to rent an apartment from a racist to make a case
The claim I see over and over is that broad swaths of speech on Parler were illegal. It's not true. Repeating it doesn't make it so. "Insurrection" --- a call to overthrow the government --- is 100% legal speech in the US under the Brandenburg precedent. You don't get to call a company's refusal to go beyond the law in enforcing speech a form of treason.