skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Censorship a weapon that must be taken out of Big Tech’s hands
> Anyway I feel like this is a blessing in disguise, stuff like this can cause Tech giants to lose huge market share in the long term future.

It is already happening in India. So many of my friends uninstalled WhatsApp and moved to Signal. This is a real positive. The lesser the reliance on Big Tech the better for all of us!
There's [insert conspiracy], (usually) even the President doesn't know, but I've figured it out!
The author unfairly attributes adequacy (or at least consistency) to the Microsoft desktop environment.

Start Microsoft Windows, open up File Explorer, remove the ever-present 'Type' column (because if you're old school you'll have suffixes enabled), then go to Options and say 'Save this view format for ALL Explorer instances'.

Within an hour you'll have a Type column back in some new Explorer window, to inform you that your file.pdf is a PDF file type.

Any and every version of Microsoft Windows file explorer has done, and continues to do, this. It's hugely frustrating.

If you're using Gnome then it's a relatively easy (free, ethically sound, painless, etc) process to switch to, say, KDE, and enjoy pleasant file explorer/pickers.

If you're forced to use Microsoft Windows (say for work) then you are stuck with this particular broken toilet.
I'd define fascism as a method of government which enforces some specific morality/actions/market through force. By this definition it's entirely possible for two different brands of fascism to have two opposing goals, and for one to use fascist methods on another fascist.

If your definition of fascism is specifically centered around nationalism or racism then this doesn't really work, but I don't think the word fascism implies this, only that fascism is usually associated with regimes using fascist authoritarianism to enforce racist and nationalist ideologies.
That claim has very little evidence. And the imcoming administration has been very clear om China being the #1 adversary already.
I strongly encourage you to go out and find such a job then! You certainly don't have to move to SV to find one, and we spend too much of our lives at work to forego the opportunity of having work we're passionate about.
I think the issue is more that Trump, who is a highly divisive character, has become the face of the Republican party.

So people end up conflating the ostracism of Trump and those in his periphery with an attack on the Republican party.
I agree lies are bad.

But lying is enough to get you banned?

All the discussion up to now was "there's no slippery slope, only calls for violence" will get you banned.

And now it's slipped to lying will get you banned?
On the other hand, avoiding conflict in the short-term will only embolden those who create and thrive on conflict. For these types of people, their next move is usually to escalate. You see this with bullies, abusive relationships, rapists, serial killers, terrorists, etc. They learn what they can get away with, they like the power it gives them, and they try something more.

Therefore, we can't make decisions based on the fear of their response, even if we have a personal aversion to conflict. That's falling into the trap of the abused. We have to make decisions based on defending our principles and standing up for what we believe is right.

No matter what, some people are going to be pissed off at any sufficiently meaningful decision (or indecision). If the people pissed off are violent types, well, then perhaps that's a sign the right decision was made.

I understand that there's a hell of a lot of nuance to this - sometimes you don't poke the sleeping bear. I think Wednesday showed the bear is absolutely not asleep.
Solution: replace mice with cardboard photos thereof.

Rationale: 2D is easier to detect and they don't move.
Absolutely. It feels like they're getting there (VDG is working on it and shown some results), but they're just a few years away.

... it has been feeling like that for the few years I've been following it.
Opinions stated as facts are no longer “just an opinion”
I think it's instructive to see some of the rules (such as this) as descriptive rather than prescriptive---after all, one cannot by force of will still the murmuring in the heart, but someone who is genuinely completely committed to service will have few causes to hesitate.

Many spiritual texts stress obedience to the master/abbot/what-have-you both because of the presumption that the senior knows more than the junior, but also because it reinforces that the service is offered to something greater and not for the (material) benefit of the one doing the service.

I haven't had time to go over everything but I would be surprised if it's truly unquestioning rather than just unhesitating. Something whose purpose is not understood should probably lead to contemplation and then discussion with the abbot to confirm the understanding.
GIMP is still Gtk 2 unless you're using a preview build.
To be fair, that's rather a problem of the applications not supporting Wayland. You can share within Xworld and Waylandworld, but not between them. I assume that's a non trivial problem and inherent to Wayland's design.
If you are already familiar with Python I could recommend start with this tutorial: https://github.com/RobertBaruch/nmigen-tutorial
> These are opinions though

Help me out here, Hacker News. This guy thinks: "Democrats attacked the capital", is an opinion.

How do we even talk to this person?
No official ministry, but the private parties appear to be acting with a great deal of coordination.
Their sacks of money are so heavy they cause all content and services to fall into their gravity well, which is where it gets scrubbed. Decentralization is stalling in the face of the economy of scale.
"I don’t know if you were paying attention last week, but the mob literally came for the members of Congress."

A couple of hundred people attacked the capitol in a crowd of 500,000+. Do you remember the phrase 'mostly peaceful protesters'? We've been hearing it for 8+ months after violent riots in major cities which resulted in 30+deaths, hundreds of innocent people attacked, and 1 billion+ in property damage.

"There are wrong opinions, and then there is “six million Jews were not enough” and “hang the Vice President”, and a violent mob attacking the Capitol. No one is under any obligation to tolerate such actions in a civil society."

Antifa and BLM have taken over multiple state and federal buildings over the past 8 months. In June, for instance, multiple fires were set all over DC. A church was nearly burnt to the ground and the President had to go to an underground bunker as a result of the threats outside the white house.

Unlike the protests in January 6th (which was an unorganized mess of random people), BLM and Antifa are professional rioters/criminals. They wear masks to protect themselves and have corporate backing from large left-leaning organizations.

Instead of concern, local leaders painted BLM and named a major street after them.

I'm not sure why you only seem to care when it's Trump supporters. Political violence is wrong on both sides, but only one political not only supported it, but paid the bail of rioters and continue to deny that it even exists. The real criminals are about to get into office.

"If I advocate for your murder, am I just expressing an opinion that should be consequence free if someone kills you? Does that change if enough people agree with me that you should be killed?"

You do realize Trump never said any of this, right? Him and his entire campaign have denounced the violence repeatedly. If you listened to the speech before the capitol was attacked, it was not full of any sort of energy. He basically said that it was all in Pence's hands. Supporters were actually angry because he sounded so defeated. This doesn't sound like the actions of someone trying to storm the Capitol.

The media+tech companies+incoming administration are censoring and destroying their political opponents for things they themselves have been supporting and instigating for 4 years.

If it wasn't so scary, I would call it pathetic actions from limp-dick journalists.
Doesn't work in Firefox
the link in question is
http://www.signal.org/install
the preview shows a 404 (may have always been the case, not sure)
Do you honestly believe Trump was trying to overthrow the government? Had that been his real intent I'm fairly certain it would have had a more significant outcome beyond people stealing random envelops and podiums.

It was a protest that went too far. We've seen plenty of this occur from both sides in the past year.
None of these companies severing ties with Parler or other far-right presences are making political decisions. These are all business decisions, because they are businesses. I've explained this elsewhere, but what if a boycott were to start because the company refused to cut ties with Parler? They should just eat the loss? No, in any market, people vote with their dollars, and the vast majority of tech customers just happen to also be politically liberal. This is what we signed up for when we decided to operate in a free market system.
It won't be. These bans and policies have been going on for a really long time. It is just hitting the US now. It has been happening in India for far too long. Big Tech monopoly has gone unchecked all this while. At least I am happy to see my fellow Indians uninstalling WhatsApp and moving to Signal. The more such alternative services the better. This stronghold of Big Tech on what internet should be has to end and it will end.
It's just the new mode of imperialism. Control the economy, control the country.
> Senate report: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hunter+biden+laptop+senate+report&...

Top result for me https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/09/28/hunter-biden-senate-r...

Very loudly states The report presents no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden, and omits testimony that exculpates him
This is not a helpful take when there are actual nazi's - right over there - talking about (and doing) nazi shit.

And the thing about shit is it does splash damage.

When cesspools like twitter and facebook finally give up their add revenue from the flies circling said shit and the turds have to go live in a latrine maybe _just_maybe_ someone should be asking "Are we the baddies?".

Furthermore when someone does try to start cleaning up this shit, and it's always a terrible nasty thankless job, and you're inconvenienced because you're standing too close maybe the question shouldn't be "what about my rights?" But "why the hell am I here in the first place?"

Shit.
Millions (the estimate I saw was 15-26 million) of people were involved in the BLM protests, which lasted many months. 25 people are known to have been killed. I don’t think it’s reasonable to assign 3-4k deaths to it. By contrast, this was a single event with a few thousand people in which 5 people died. That’s what I mean by orders of magnitude.

I agree that there is a destroy-the-government black bloc present in some of the BLM protests. It’s a fair thing to point out, but I’ll say this: they’ve never had a chance or a credible threat. It’s really a false equivalence to compare a terrorist attack on the Capitol incited by the ruling party in an attempt to overturn a democratic election with seven months of mass protests against police violence.
I don't agree with this at all and I am tired of seeing "sensible" people here explain how it's important to reach out to fascists and make them feel loved. You're only advocating further normalisation of fascism, and depriving them of the consequences of their actions—consequences that have always been a part of civil society. What's more, that you seem to be more preoccupied with not upsetting these fascists rather than that just a few days ago these very same fascists either attempted a coup or supported a coup does indeed speak of your self-professed naivety (at best). These fascists are a cancer on the body politic and the solution is not to listen to many of the posters here who think that somehow magically the best course of action is simply to do nothing at all, lest we upset the poor lickle fascists.
There are many ways the file picker is broken, but, anecdotally, this is not one of them on my system.
> No one wants to ban any reasonable political views.

No one (including the US Supreme Court) has a definition for "reasonable."

That's what has some of us alarmed.

For Trump and his cronies? Sure, there are more than enough actual laws they've broken. But let's justify action against them on actual laws, as opposed to because-SV-doesn't-like-them and has public support at the moment. Or even use the moment to pass new laws, covering the type of behavior we want to make illegal.

Instead, this feels a lot like 9/12, in that people are post-hoc justifying popular actions on a moral basis, to the detriment of legal foundations.

And as we found then, as soon as you decide "terrorists can't be reasoned with and don't deserve rights," then being able to label someone a terrorist becomes a powerful tool...
tldr: the amount of foreign capital allowed into US assets and of CCP companies on the US stock exchanges is problematic. I've placed my bet on the CCP.

This is a massive problem. SoftBank is CCP money.

HR2513

Illicit Cash Act

Equitable Act

All 3 of these facilitate sketchy securities investments from offshore entities.

My operating investment thesis:

I bought and HODL'd TSLA at $362 with as much margin as was allowed with this thesis.

Musk is an intellectually dishonest figure, but it doesn't matter, money matters.

Every time the CCP pumps the US asset class, it forces other central banks to print more via pump and dump cycles.

Each cycle is worth a lot in terms of transferring wealth to the CCP.

This number can be trillions at some point.

TSLA has onshore assets in China.

I'll be closely monitoring digitization of RMB/Yuan as well as China's trade surplus, if the trade surplus drops by a lot, then the CCP's thirst for USD will go up.

From a security standpoint, I've been told that the maritime industry is rife with gaping security holes. Still reading into it though.
It absolutely is valid criticism. It was more the snarky "and therefore commercial software is better than free software" stuff that rubbed me the wrong way.
It's fixed now. Thanks again!
> There is no "opportunity" to be had here and thinking that way wastes resources that are better spent elsewhere. The "left" doesn't act on "policy" and never change their votes.

The left does act on policy and actually does punish their representatives--FAR more so than the right. We have the studies on this. They were even posted in here.

So, I have to ask, why didn't you quote those studies when changing my words to make an erroneous statement contradicted with evidence?

Congratulations: people like you are exactly the reason why this isn't an opportunity. People like you are more interested in whataboutism, false equivalence, and spreading false information rather than in working on positive policy changes.
Common sense and arbitrary decisions. If you’re making this point you’re a bad faith actor.
Can you check again? I think issue is fixed :)
Not dang but probably

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.
The American dedication to free speech only functions when people -- especially those in power -- are acting in good faith.

Trump took the pseudonymous troll culture of the internet to the highest office of government, and this is the result. Trolls and Trump play by different rules, truth and facts are inconsequential -- all that matters is the reaction of their victims.

I have sympathy with Trump supporters that are not in on the "joke". It's not stupid to believe the president of the United States will be honest with them (at least on issues of national importance like "massive" election fraud), but he won't. If you were attracted by his other views (however distasteful), it is a bitter pill to swallow to admit he is a lier.

Americans are lucky their constitution was strong enough to ensure (at least) Trumps tactics to overturn a democratic vote failed.
Not the other way around? My experience is that the US uses 1-based indexing for floors in buildings and that Western Europe uses 0-based indexing for floors in buildings.
Several tech vendors cutting ties with Parler
OEM bundling and Microsoft’s anti-competitive behavior explains part of it, but not all of it. There are plenty of factors.

OS/2 was a mess for a ton of technical reasons, like the decision to support the 286, market reasons, like its price tag, and strategic mistakes like the decision to try and make money from development tools.

BeOS? Sure, blame Microsoft.

I don’t think I can be in a room with five people without getting five different explanations for why Amiga failed—it appeared after the Mac, competed directly with both the Mac and Atari ST, and was mismanaged by Commodore. It didn’t have much of a software library, compared to its competitors. In some ways it was seen as more of a “toy” than its competitors.

DEC’s business strategy was unsuited for the 80s and 90s. Making good processors isn’t enough, it turns out.

Solaris got eaten by Linux, if anything, not Windows.

> This was quite plainly the reason why Microsoft became dominant on the desktop.

To be clear, I’m not saying that that isn’t the main reason—just that there are lots of reasons to go around. Microsoft did a ton of things right. They made new operating systems that consumers wanted to buy. They kept backwards compatibility with a large library of legacy software. They ran on cheap hardware with tons of suppliers. They tried to make it as easy as possible for developers.

Like, hindsight is 20/20 and all that but Microsoft sure seemed to understand the market in the 1980s and 1990s.
The issue with Facebook doing this is the fact that they're a huge company that is buying these ads where the smaller company cannot.

It is illegal and anticompetitive to be a huge company using enormous resources to squash competition for smaller firms. There are many ways in which this is done. Not all of them are illegal, depending on how you look at it.

My opinion: Buying marketshare is usually bad for the user.
It would have to be something preloaded, and with unusual privileges. Otherwise, it isn't installing anything silently on Android. I don't think this would happen at all on iOS.
This is a difference in semantic understanding I think. When I hear "you don't need a special oil" I understand that to mean "any oil will do", which isn't really the case.
The irony is that this is actually a good reason to drag the car manufacturers to the table and compel them to fix it from their end.

But pragmatically, they likely don't answer the phone. Or email.

So, it is still easier to fix the road. And hope the issue doesn't resurface elsewhere and inadvertantly injure or kill too many people.
He was trying to overthrow the election, yes. The same thing he's been trying to do since November 4th. The fact that it was an incompetent attempt (like all of his attempts) makes no difference.
Choosing which language/framework to learn is tough. I'm going to change that
Fanhouse is OnlyFans without the porn. Can it succeed?
> I feel like at this point they are banning everyone against the status quo.

Deciding that reality is whatever you "feel like" is how we got into this mess in the first place.
It’s an interesting hypothesis. I wonder if we can verify if. Are there really awful services out there? I’m think 4chan - do they have an app?

And more to the point - would AWS and Stripe deplatform them?
Thanks @tzs, I'll remember this!
Animals are pretty clever, usually exactly when you need them not to be.
(in the context of consumer computing)

The unfortunate reality is that because Windows was so dominant for so long you either have to

a) conform to their interaction paradigms to not frustrate users

or

b) create something incredibly polished and simple that it 'Just Works' how users expect it to (ie Apple).

Once you have people on-boarding to your platform you can distinguish yourself and build out your own paradigms, but it takes a long time, and users are unforgiving.

GNU/Linux is fantastic for power users, but the moment a 'normal' user has to edit a text config file, or open a terminal, we've lost them. When they try to do something that they're use to doing (see thumbnails of their files when choosing them) and it's not possible, GNU/Linux stops being a valid alternative.

> I'm not personally moved by a chan board user's gripes about being unable to quickly find their favourite anime memes to post since all their images are `[1-9][0-9]*.png`

You're uncharitably trivialising the author's point. A common user task is selecting an image file from your device (to upload/edit/share). A user will often have many images in a folder and they want to quickly select the one they're thinking of.

There is an almost universally accepted solution (or 'best practice') to this problem, which is rendering each image visually so that the user can select the correct one at a glance (either as a thumbnail view in a file picker, or a literal grid of images as in iOS). GNOME and Gtk have not implemented this widely accepted (in fact, expected) behaviour, despite it being raised as an issue nearly 17 years ago.

Instead you (and others) argue points like "well they should rename and manage their files", "it's just an extra click", "it's not that important or else it would exist already", "its just one inconvenient thing, get over it". And there are conversations to have around those points, but at the end of the day people are going to have a negative experience with the product because "it can't even render thumbnails".

And the point is that this _isn't_ an isolated issue. Every project has something like this (Apple and Microsoft still have these issues), but we're particularly bad at addressing the issue, or even admitting it exists.
They didn't even say that. They said nothing changed for private messages based on the change of ToS.
Overspecific denial.
When a hurricane hits the coast, you'll find that a lot of people happen to board up their windows as well. A common set of pressures can provoke the same response from different people working independently. No coordination needed.
Wow, what an interesting looking and smart cow.
Banned from r/ecommerce for leaving 1 comment with 7 upvotes
Mods banned me for "spam" for leaving a comment with a link to my free database of business strategies case studies (https://growthhunt.carrd.co/), which got 7 upvotes and 200+ upvotes in r/entrepreneur.
What's your proposal for how Fox News should be handled, given they "lie every single day"?

Should Fox News have their licenses removed, and be taken off the air & internet?
Understood completely, and appreciate the feedback. This is definitely a fraught topic. Thanks @dredmorbius, really appreciate the follow up.
Funny how the reliable services are regulated utilities and the unreliable ones are byproducts of advertising companies.
They could at least shortlist quality content and make only that content eligible for algorithmic recommendations, rather than seemingly all sorts of scraps like now.
Lol, how do you decide the reality then? Is this a joke?
WSJ has an article on this too: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-ban-on-chinese-stocks-ro...

> "The order, which takes effect Monday, bans Americans from trading the securities of dozens of Chinese companies... The order initially applied to 31 companies and has since grown to 35. Many are private firms with little connection to Wall Street, but a few have American depositary receipts listed on the NYSE. These include three large Chinese telecom carriers, as well as oil-and-gas driller Cnooc Ltd. , which was added to the blacklist in December."