skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one is forcing the talented engineers working at Google to work there. Especially when a do-not-evil-motto company is monitoring (AKA reading) their emails.
To be fair, point 1 wasn't really Usenet and 3 was a pain sometimes.

The author might want to think about DNS a bit. Google and Cloudflare could wreck havoc on any new social network by filtering their DNS and with web browsers bypassing the local system settings, that could take out a lot of nodes in your network. I actually think some rights organization might want to start looking at domain names that are not returning their proper results from the giants.
I'm sure others are struggling with the question of, what would an insightful view of this topic look like?

Any meta-understanding that undermines anyone's existing beliefs triggers a political immune response of predictable talking points, and opinions that are all generally the same shape. The observations are indistinguishable from projections, and the anecdotes use received language that originates from sources designed to create sensation and outrage.

Political discussions are not held to a standard of reason, they are only about activating allies or neutralizing opposition. What would a genuinely new and honestly valuable perspective on this topic look like?
How do China's ambitions stack up with their upcoming demographic changes? This is often framed as "Will China growth rich before it grows old?":

* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-18091107

* https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2095326/opini...

* https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/china-is-very-li...
You ask questions like you don't know the answer you're already looking for.

Hate speech is not protected.

Take your fascist apologies somewhere else.
I was just curious about the chips inside one of these tuner modules, so I searched up their label and went to images. The two things are TDA5737 and TSA5522, which seems to be mixer and synthesizer.
I ended up mounting two ~39x70in panels on top of the davits and one on each side of the stern, mounted to the stanchions like 'wings' that can be propped up while at anchor. Strangely enough, I found I was getting so much power from the panels that I don't bother propping them up. Because of the way the panels are mounted (basically at least 1 panel facing the sun at all times), I'm able to get roughly 500w from 8:30am until just after 5pm. I was pleasantly surprised.
Apple Shipped 16% More PCs in 2020, but Still Lags Behind Dell, HP, and Lenovo
1- This is from the story title "..pause funding to Republicans who objected to Electoral College" So I didn't invent something new.
2- CNN story has exactly the same title that I chose here.
3- the story itself about Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley.

Yet, you see it differently, because there's "all". And blame me for the poor choice. Well, I didn't see that coming.
432 years ago we didn't have nearly the scientific medical knowledge we do today; one might expect all outbreaks of disease to have vastly improved outcomes today than 430 years ago. Does that make further mitigation efforts worthless?
Except that without SSL, some JavaScript could be injected to grab the password completely outside of the RSA encryption. So assuming there is already a MITM who wants the password, all you'd be doing is making his attack slightly more complicated.
Exactly, it's a 1st amendment issue because it's a monopoly (or mutual anti-competitive practices) issue. So you're entirely correct. If the big tech companies weren't engaging in anti-competitive practices, then the censoring would not be a big deal. But because there really is only one Facebook and little to no competition, and they're colluding in the same prejudice, then yes, it's a lack of freedom of speech.

I'm all for the "they're a private company, they should do what they want" argument, if they (Twitter and Facebook) weren't the only nationally agreed upon means of communication and socializing during a nationwide lock-down.
TSLA traded $62b worth of shares, more than the 10 most active stocks combined
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There was a simple system for this with bottles: There is a premium which you pay, that is returned when you correctly dispose of the bottle. Perhaps a similar mechanism could be applied. The “cost” of disposing is then the time to get the money back, not the premium itself.
No, being a fascist by definition requires you to be on the right of the political spectrum. Where did you get those definitions from? Parler?
Twitter's stock price tumbled as much as 12% followed suspension of Trump
Here's the recipe for risotto:

https://thetab.com/us/bucknell/2016/10/18/john-podestas-crea...
I remember very well as a middle eastern how ISIS was freely allowed to use Twitter, Facebook and Youtube for recruitment and propaganda in 2015 and none of those platforms did anything about it. Also just today this story was on the front page in HN: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo...

So spare us all the "No hate and violence on our platform" BS. Either you go after all hate and violence or you are just a hypocrite.
I'm just surprised at how close the US came to stop being a democracy. A bit more planning about what to do when they breach the capitol, a few more Qanon captains across the river at Ft Myer, or a few 100ks more Trump supporters here and there in the polls, and things would look very different now.

And of course, this is just the beginning. Right-wing extremists now this; the sooner we realize that we are against an enemy that wants to overthrow democracy, the sooner we put a better fight against it.
1000% yes. Local logging of activities from lots of applications and devices. Everything gets added to a full-text search index, and the data only lives locally unless otherwise specified.
Really? They overwhelmed police and entered the building. The Vice President was moved to a "secure location." If they had arrived 5 minutes earlier, they'd have entered the House full of representatives, who could have been killed or taken hostage. We were a hair's width away from losing democracy and you can't take it seriously.

We are, literally, being attacked by fascists, anarchists, and neo-Nazis.

As I said, it's hard to see these things until it's too late. What happened on Wednesday was nearly the end. If you still don't see it, you're wearing blinders.
Well, there's this from Glenn Greenwald:

> 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.

[0] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348619731734028293?s=...

edit: bad formatting
I think the point is that you don't need to make "negative posts" about those topics, rather discussing them from any angle that isn't the accepted progressive orthodoxy results in the ban hammer.
This could have led to the public execution of the Vice President and speaker of the house. This came close to being a dramatically worse event.
You’re replying to someone else.

I still think these are not legit death threats by the content of it. Saying things like “a good commie is a dead a commie” might be tasteless but it’s far from being a serious thing. No one is killing communists in the US.
True, now what happens when prosecution systemically throws the book for the purpose of securing better plea bargains? Maybe you didn't pistol whip that guy, maybe you just smacked him upside the head but you were packing when you did it so the prosecutor throws all the possible charges on the list.

Both sides of the problem relate to each other. People plead from "real crimes" down to "petty crimes" but prosecutors know this so they charge people with "real crimes" that won't stick just to get better plea deals on petty crimes and pad their stats.
Error correction is inherent in processing the QR code itself. That is, QR codes are generated with varying levels of redundancy, and any reader must be able to interpret the Reed-Solomon code.
I doubt that is true. I'm sure some will take Parler's business. They just can't do it immediately because it's hard to switch from one platform to another.
OK, call them hackers then. I'm sure they'll be okay with that appellation, and won't really care about your dithering over the distinction.
> no legal basis

I agree. Those are the facts, for sure.

> money cares more about itself than anyone’s feelings.

No argument.

> terrorizing a legislature is harmful to these corporations’ profitable predictability

Strongly agree. This explains AWS's economic motivation. It's not that they just care so much about democracy and rule of law, though a liberal (read: Democrat loyal) employee culture there is probably also a source of pressure pushing them toward the move. In this case the stars align: liberal employees want it, and they can have it because it aligns perfectly with AWS's economic incentives.

I think where we part ways is in thinking this is good for society. My problem with it is not that it violates any laws, but that it amounts to an incredible concentration of power in the realm of cultural production.
I bought some millibitcoins in 2018, at almost the worst time

Last week it has become my best investment so far

Although now I wonder if I should sell them
Isn't that a pretty well known piece of equipment ?
Feel free to doxx all the antifa message boards where we one-up each other with fun new ways to execute our foes.
Should any non-violent criminal be jailed? Seems like there are better alternatives like house arrest, probation, etc.
Uber didnt exist in early 2010.
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Great points. It depends on where the business is at, the scale of their data, how processed their data is, and the timeliness/accuracy requirements of that data.
Parler is obviously a cesspit. However its a minor sideshow. Most of the sickness of the last four years has been spread on Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Fox News. These however are much better connected so are still running today.
And the root cause of the problem is as long as for-profit prisons exists, there is no incentive to free those non-violent criminals.
If you use a service-mesh (such as Istio), you can have all inter-microservice communications be over mutual TLS. Assuming you only expose an API gateway to the outside world, have the gateway handle authentication, then each service can handle any feature-level authorization with that user info.

Bonus: When using a mesh service like this, you can also ban/rate-limit/load-balance/canary calls between any two microservices if necessary.
Does anyone else think it's suspicious that they built everything on AWS? I mean, if you know you're going to take heat for your content being less moderated, wouldn't you diversify your infrastructure? I wonder if someone wanted this to happen, in order to increase support for certain legislative action?
"a. pays popular users"

Source?
> The problem after that is the stigma that follows you around forever.

Tell me about it. Between my prison "stigma" and the discriminatory ageism that is very prevalent in the industry, and even though I have 30 years professional programming experience, I am currently finding it impossible to find any work.

Can someone please tell me...what am I supposed to do at age 55? Find a new "career"...doing what?

I know plenty of you reading this with your secure jobs and paychecks have done illegal things and not been caught...well what if you were?

I mean I hear all day all the "protections" that this group and that group are getting recognized for, and meanwhile all I want is an opportunity to work my ass off in the field that I have loved since I was a 13yo kid riding my bike to the local Radio Shack on weekends so I could literally sit-in the window display and program on the TRS-80 and save my "work" to a cassette drive.

But no...hiring me (or anyone else in my situation) would apparently pose such an existential threat to companies so in need of people with my exact talent stack that I can't even be considered once it's discovered I went to prison some 20 years ago.

I know this subject has been discussed ad nauseum here on HN, so I don't expect any new answers to my questions, but maybe a few of you with open ears and the ability to think outside the box when it comes to hiring could be a bit more understanding if a qualified candidate with past legal issues come thru your interview process.
Well, I don’t know why but this submission has attracted particularly misinformed, blatant wrong or hyper emotive responses. Maybe Haskell killed people’s pets or something.
What I would prefer is a set of protocols that are interact in a well defined way with each others, like the Email or Usenet protocols, then you can write different clients for these and decentralisation is just a matter of running different servers clients that don't necessarily interact with each other. Something like the CapeProto RPC framework makes it relatively easy to declare the interface of a service.
No, not really. It comes down to how you define "safe haven" - if violent groups are actively moderated and banned, then I don't think it can be called a safe haven. How does the rest of the internet equate to Parler in this respect?
>If there was a law preventing businesses from refusing service to a group of people

This isn't about refusing to do business with someone. The issue in my eyes is agreeing to do business with someone and then arbitrarily[1] deciding to not do business with someone, with no recourse to the customer because the provider is a massive conglomerate with unlimited resources.

AWS didn't refuse to do business with Parler, they did business with them for years. Then one day, based on ambiguous and discriminantly applied rules that may or may not apply to Parler's competitors on the same hosting platform, decided to not do business with them. I don't think that's right.

Look at Apple's letter to the Parler CEO regarding being pulled from the App Store: Apple says Parler is responsible for all the content on their site. And yet, Apple doesn't live by the same rules, in fact they actively lobby against them.

[1] Arbitrary because AWS, as far as I've seen, doesn't say "here are the rules you agreed to, here's where you broke them. Goodbye". There's a lot of ambiguity. Was Parler filled with hate and bullshit? From what I've seen, absolutely. But so is Twitter, and they're incoming, not outgoing.
On a related note, while some may think that this is a consequence of China's one-child policy, a reasonable argument can be made that the policy was actually completely unnecessary: the fertility rates had already started plummeting for the 15 years prior to it being announced due to urbanization and other factors:

* https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/october/china...

* http://blogs.reuters.com/data-dive/2013/11/18/chinas-one-chi...
It's not that none of the other options want their business (though I have no doubt that Google and probably Microsoft would also exclude them). It's that you can't just switch platforms within days, while you could go order another cake since there's almost no time commitment to requesting a cake.
When a private company acts in union with, on behalf of, and/or in support of the regime and its political objectives, it is part of the authoritarian system. I think you'd say the same of Twitter were it aligned with the right instead of the left.
Those Congresspeople were responding to, and enabling, the same terrorists. These are not two separate discussions.
Prediction: in 10 years no "expert" will not be putting their work in Git. Git provides a zero cost (in time and money) way to share your full work with audibility; where fixing mistakes continuously is expected and not something to be embarrassed about; where people can instantly clone to reproduce and test better ideas upon your work; where collaborating with proper attribution is done automatically, et cetera.

Look in any field—epidemiology, computer science, physics, chemistry, medicine, et cetera. If the leading experts aren't using git yet, look for the ones that are. They will be the leading experts of tomorrow.
You're the only one who's confused. BLM is both a sentiment and a real political organization. The sentiment is overwhelmingly popular whereas the actual political movement is not. You're attempting to lump them together in a way that most people don't

It's really hard to argue that conservative voices are completely silenced when the have the largest network news television station in the country. Take a look at the New York Times best seller list sometime and look at how many conservative authors make the list.

Yes, you can't spread fake bullshit on Twitter anymore about how the election was stolen but even that would've been ok until 5 people died trying to overthrow the capital.

Actions have consequences, and unfortunately for conservatives those consequences are a purge from social media as big business seeks to distance itself from radical right-wing politics.

Democracy won here, sorry.
The key term with this is bypass diodes. Not all panels will be equipped with them (which puzzles me, given the substantial benefit and what I imagine to be near-trivial BOM cost).
An armed mob very nearly did succeed in overthrowing the government. And I suspect we haven't seen the last of them.

We have the closest thing to a democracy that any country has. I'm not going to split hairs about what a "real" democracy is. The fact is, our democracy is good enough that we, the people, (barely) stopped a fascist leader from maintaining power for the indefinite future, despite his very sincere desire to hold on to that power.
If it goes to the courts, Trumps part in the fundraising campaigns that mention armed rebellion, and was funding travel of known violent community members will also enter in to it.

You can’t just hide behind “technically I didn’t say kill” as a mob boss telling a hit man you flew across the country to “take care” of someone.

Not just that, but trumps actions once it became known the demonstration had turned into an attack will also enter into he record and his part in police being underprepared.

There is a lot more to this than just the litteral words of his speach.
> No one will be judged for having an account, because a lot of people were signed up just to monitor and watch.

Just like certain subreddits weren't banning people just for having posted in certain other subreddits, even if those posts were opposition posts, right?

I think you need to read more Jonathan Haidt, because research shows you're flat out wrong about this.
> The article is, however, correct in its conclusion: a "Thunderbolt" cable will always work for all USB standards.

Aren't active (i.e. >50cm) Thunderbolt 3 cables incompatible with USB 3 speeds due to having some active amplifier incompatible with the USB line signals?
Facebook is not co-operating with the genocide investigation: https://thediplomat.com/2020/08/how-facebook-is-complicit-in...
Thanks for this reminder. Miss you Aaron.
It does rather depends what sort of data I bet a data engineer at CERN or JPL has quiet a different set of required skills to say Google or a company playing at data science because its the next big thing.

I should imagine at CERN etc knowing which end of soldering iron gets hot might still be required in some cases.

I recall back in the mumble extracting data from b&w film shot with a high speed camera, by projecting it on to graph paper taped to the wall and manualy marking the position of the "object"
I don't think data engineers are paid less than software engineers.
The company behind the most popular Ethereum client was unable to make that happen when they lost $100M.
The minimum length may work for good-faith actors, but how would you prevent trolls from pasting in 500 characters of lorem ipsum or other generated text and then adding their one-liner at the beginning or end?
Many of my colleagues and I voted for legalization of Marijuana, because law had vilified it to the point where actions against users did not justify the means at all. That, plus good outcome of drug decriminalization in Portugal.
A lot of this "what about their rights" bullshit is likely a covert misinformation campaign by botters and operatives.

Hate speech is not protected. Plotting and committing treason against the United States government is not protected.

Say unimaginably hateful shit, see how fast it takes to get punched in the mouth. Simple as that.
Who is the "rest of us"? Facebook, Twitter...?

It's obvious there should have been more moderation. However, Parler is a 30 employee start up. Their efforts would fall sort of the ideal either way...
yeah look at the recent dumps and insight into moderation and it's quite clear supporting "free speech" was smoke and mirrors. combined w/ the security lapses it's pretty jarring.
We have to distinguish between those who are untouchable because of circumstances beyond their control (lineage, birthplace, disabilities) and those who are pariahs because of their behavior (criminals, militant anarchists, that mean old guy who sits on his porch with a shotgun).

I have sympathy for the former, but not the latter. While it would be kind to reach out to the latter group and help them mesh with society, there's no requirement anyone has to nor a guarantee the pariahs would want to mesh.
That's interesting. I've heard differently here in NYC. I imagine the "stickiness" will vary based on things like local infrastructure.

Also it's the winter right now-- a historically low biking season. Your friends might pick it up again in the spring.
The most murderous content, yay!
> So tell me what law Parler broke?

I haven't seen amazon claim that Parler broke the law. They have a TOS policy that forbids the hosting of illegal content.

> Has it been proven in court?

If a AWS customer is hosting child porn, does AWS take it down as soon as they're aware of the content, or do they wait for a court ruling?

> Or did a private company decide that on their own? Why should they have that power?

It's not power. You have a responsibility to exercise your judgement, and avoid participating in criminal acts. If you knowingly participate and profit until there's a trial in court, then you're an accessory. Section 230 has some exemptions -- you aren't protected if you maintain illegal content.

What happened on 1/6 was an armed crowd breached the capitol building. A plain reading indicates that this is an act of war, and AWS has enough legal problems without opening themselves to charges of aiding an enemy of the state in an act of treason.

This isn't "power" it's a matter of legal responsibility.
> The idea "I could do some bike work on my own, so bike work can't be expensive" has to die, simple as that. People can pop open a beer at home just fine, nobody expects bars to sell beer at a similar price.

In the town I used to live in, Performance bought out the only decent bike shop in town so I got into the habit of buying online because I could wrench better than the Performance mechanics. When I moved up to Oregon there are 5 good bike shops here in town and they all charge reasonable rates so I use them whenever possible.

I do still buy online and install parts myself, not to save a buck, but because it's more convenient than taking my bike into the shop and leaving it there for a few days.
Just to be clear, "did the math" in this context would mean "made some guesses."