skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it is an extremist thought it is better to know who is saying what than cutting off communication completely and hoping the problem goes away. But this has to go along with society coming together and addressing the problem firsthand. Is the extremist thought because of a mental illness? Is it some monetary issue driving such thoughts? Is it social issues that is driving such thoughts? Is it religion? The thoughts by themselves are immaterial unless the individual is a psychopath. Many turn extremist because of an underlying cause which I call the "root cause". Attack the root cause. That'll fix the person. For how long will society keep ignoring this aspect of human beings? Unless you dedicate funding towards tackling such issues you'll get to no where. By shutting off communications you haven't shut off these thoughts that crop up in an extremists mind. Al Qaeda existed before internet was even a thing. We have had genocides when technology did not exist. All throughout human history. It always has been bloody. On the contrary, I can argue that we are at a much better place than we were in the past many thousand years. So to only blame technology for spread of misinformation is disingenuous. Before technology existed misinformation spread rapidly through word of mouth but there was no way to cross check it. Today you have that ability to cross verify. You just need to give time to people to get used to this.

But once you introduce Censorship there is no turning back. Once authority tastes power they'll want to keep using it more and more. Just like Surveillance, Censorship will become a powerful tool in the hands of the powerful. It always starts with a valid justification.
You have opinions. I have opinions. It's easy to jump to conclusions.

We should have trials to get to the truth instead of smearing people for having money and being successful. If we assume the worst about people because they were born into a wealthy family where does that leave us?

You don't believe the swamp could be that corrupt. I do. Is it ok for me to hold that opinion? Is it ok for me to speak it, or will I be silenced for wrong think?
You're perfectly free to drill your own oil, even if nobody in the oil industry will supply you.

At a certain point this kind of argument is farcical. If you can't at a minimum get racks in a datacenter, the bandwidth and power costs of running a site that large will destroy you.

Oh and DNS registrars are known for being picky about their customers too.
I think this is generally right. We tend to focus on the one side of the slippery slope which is "descent into an Orwellian dystopia", but the other side of the logical extreme is what, that no matter what private companies aren't allowed to remove and censor certain things on their forums?

Like you said, if there were an app where 90% of the conversation was about child pornography, no one would cry "1984" if it's removed by Apple. So we're just having a conversation about where the line should be and if hate speech and planning insurrection should meet that standard, not beginning a rapid descent into thought control.
I think Mumble tries to be what you're describing: https://www.mumble.info/

I've used it and it does indeed work well, but I think it struggles with adoption in part because—it turns out—all those frilly features do in fact drive engagement, help suck users into the ecosystem, etc. Basically it's a repeat of IRC->Slack; people tend to migrate away from things that are easy to migrate away from toward things that are hard to migrate away from.
Can you link a court case to support this argument? I was once in an association (ry) and we tried finding out if we could have a donation link on our website and we were told it is not allowed. Even just having a bank account number was not allowed. The only way to receive a donation would have been for a person to ask us proactively and then we could tell _that person only_ our bank account number.

I run a free web service where some users have asked me to set up a donation system but AFAIK it is illegal so I haven't done it. Instead I set up a company and will sell premium accounts with some borderline useless but actual feature that normal accounts don't have, so that it's no longer a donation.
I've heard good things about dragula[0]. It's 9.8kb minified[1], no dependencies and browser support goes all the way back to IE7. There are also bridges for all the major frameworks.

[0] https://bevacqua.github.io/dragula/

[1] https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=dragula@3.7.3
You are right, the legislation on that part is counterproductive, but there are many ways around, especially for tech workers.

And tbh we alway used english at work considering some of our team mates didn't speak french.
Isn't the Berne Convention about copyright? FOSS isn't necessarily at odds with it?

The 1886 Berne Convention did introduce the concept of public domain and fair use, however; and that, in spirit, counts towards inspiring FOSS, I guess?
That's because the company started dying longer ago.

Their stock price today is around 30$. In the early 2000s it was around 90$.

Also, like the other comment mentioned, HD has been playing a lot of financial tricks over the last 20 years to prevent the stock price from declining (e.g. buy backs to artificially inflate stock price, take a look at the number of outstanding shares: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/HOG/harley-davidso... , a reduction from 280 million to 150 million in the 2005-2019 time period).

EDIT: I recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOwxxsPaogY for a summary.
What do you mean subject to a 1 year delay?

Qt 6 is available right now.
I would've liked to use this but it doesn't look like there is a release, so you would have to know how to build it yourself to even be able to try it.
I absolutely agree that those who advocated for violent acts should be investigated and punished. Go after those authors on Parler. But shutting down an entire platform, which is used by lots of other people who are NOT violent, on the basis of some violent posts? You can find far worse content on Facebook, are you going to advocate shutting down the whole platform?
The US is being destroyed by the Paradox of Tolerance and Putin/Xi could not be happier. What better possible outcome, short of an actual Civil War, could there be to prove to their people that Democracy is a flawed ideology?
Because that's a commie move.

It looks much better when you just keep investing in it. Plus shareholders get to make money off the taxpayers in the process.
This is just a good ole' fashioned reactionary claw back. It's not a show of force. I feel bad for Parler, they got the short end of the stick. But can't have your cake and eat it too.
The world is better without Parler, and it will be better if the most vicious from that platform have trouble finding megaphones for their atrocious speech.

Buuuuuut I hope the larger community takes this as a cautionary tale about being completely beholden to single entities - whether that's AWS, or Facebook, or even larger entities such as "Silicon Valley" that are grouped by ideology - that you may agree with today, but not tomorrow.
How do you arrive to this conclusion by reading this quoted text?
> This is a question in good faith. Can you provide any evidence at all that Parler had more “hate” than Twitter, etc.?

The problem isn't just that they had more, though logic would suggest they did; after all, their user base are refugees from other platforms that pushed them out for extremist language, advocating for violence, conspiracy theories, etc.

It's that Parler refused to remove it.

So even if the rate of introduction of this content was the same on Parler (which I don't buy for a second, see argument above), the total concentration and visibility of it is higher because it's not taken down.
I generally only care how much my net worth has increased. I've found that I taking the time to enter every single receipt and expense outside of my personal business accounting is largely a waste of time.

For me, the most meaningful info is a markdown doc where I quarterly asses all of my investment accounts / assets and come to a "current net worth total".

I've found a personal correlation between trying to minimize and track minuscule expenses and a decline in my mental health or happiness at work. I'm frugal by nature and trust myself enough to not worry too much about day to day spending.
I don't doubt gardening clubs can and will pressure politicians concerning relevant issues such as local politics about community gardening. A small group of 12-15 people can have large swings on public space usages or lobby a low-paid public official that manages approving public or private gardening law in that county/town.
The Democrats are on Big Media's side even more so than the Republicans. Hoping that they're going to switch sides and "punish" big copyright and Media owners for their IP trolling and abuse is just wishful thinking.
Nothing fancy (there are whole window managers scripted in AHK).

Mostly this: https://www.thomas-huehn.de/2018/08/autohotkey/

CapsLock as Ctrl, AlwaysOnTop and the Unicode character input by code point are nice.

Most used are typographical quotation marks, En dash and ellipsis.
Death on the Central Mediterranean: 2013-2020
The parent board has a generic PCIe slot. You can add whatever card you'd like with appropriate adapters, including a 10G SFP+ card.
That was symbolic, I think for something Trump did. It probably didn't even had a real impact on Harley Davidson sales in Europe.

It was chosen because many know the brand, escalating a trade war would be stupid for both sides.
SpaceX has been asking for permission in every country so far, and has geo-locked the service to that address given by the subscriber.

Musk’s other main business has plenty to lose in China, I don’t see why he would upset the CCP.
AWS and Twitter are not infrastructure. Electricity and telecoms are infrastructure.
lenovo says it is covered in “titanium material”. what exactly does that mean?
Trump is in a position in society that Kathy Griffin is not. So Trump could tweet outside the rules and not have them removed, but Kathy Griffin should not be able to. That's what I think you meant when you said

> It's the only reason Trump was allowed to stay on Twitter as long as he was

But here we have the data point of Kathy Griffin's tweet staying up while Trump's tweets are taken down and blocked. So I'm saying that datapoint, that tweet by Kathy Griffin staying up, does not fit your "Twitter lets leaders get away with more" explanation. That tweet from Kathy Griffin should have been removed faster than Trump's tweets, but it's still there.
What did the OP do with acid to get an image of what was in the ICFJ chip?
Bah, this reads like a screed. The author wants Canada to be like the US, but they are fundamentally different countries with fundamentally different ethos.

The motto of the US govt. is “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Contrast that to the Canadian motto of “Peace, order and good government.” The rest flows from this difference in perspectives.

As for Montreal being a tech hub? Blech. The city is covertly racist to anyone who is not French Canadian. Death by a thousand cuts.
I find both the existence and destruction of Parler disturbing as separate incidents.

However, I am going to worry more that it existed in the first place than it being destroyed.
Yeah, they got a small slap on the wrist for that one. My point is the presence of snacks and perks does not preclude the exploitation of labor.
Why shouldn't it be legal? What right do you have to say to AWS "you have to host my website?"

I am a free speech absolutist but that doesn't mean you have a right to force others to endorse, host, or amplify your speech. Just that you shouldn't go to jail for it.
I think this targets the case where the device itself is the switch/router/main-device/what-have-you not cases the device is hanging off a larger, faster, hardware switch. I see room for both use paradigms though, a 10G adapter would be nifty in addition.
That's what I'm curious about too (just an engineer with no medical degree). There are a lot of viruses that are simply undetectable by our immune system so it never triggers a response (similar to cancer). A good example is the herpes family. I was under the impression that you can't fully cure herpes because it hides in your nerve cells. I wonder if mRNA can force an immune response to cure this.
Last time I checked, the DNC hasn’t tried to overthrow any elections.
Jack Ma’s spat with China is part of a larger antitrust crackdown
I'm quite a fan of the abstract idea of unions: typical corporate power structures are derived from the principle of 1 share = 1 vote[0], whereas unions provide a competing power structure derived from the principle of 1 employee = 1 vote.

Many fear/detest unions for their past failures, but any organization can be poorly run or corrupt. If you believe in democracy then you should believe that a power structure derived from 1 person = 1 vote has the potential to be more fair and more just, for the represented individuals, than the alternative power structure derived from dollars.

I would love to see more innovation in this space: How can we design better charters for unions (or governments, really) so that the resulting power structure better represents the people?

Should there be some kind of justice system for large unions to ensure there is no corruption and that decisions are made fairly in the best interests of the constituents? Should we elect representatives based on say department as a re-creation of the principles of federalism, or should we be a direct democracy? At what level of scale do these decisions matter?

Many people study democracy, but I fear not enough people study the ongoing process of creating effective and resilient new democracies from scratch.

[0] Although, many modern tech companies have perverted this by creating separate ultra-powerful voting shares reserved for founders
> especially those of whom who hate and distrust "big tech"

Does anyone actually trust big tech at this stage? I thought it was just a case of how much you distrust them.
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Pardon me, but this is a non-sequitur. Even in a politically anarchic system not everyone does as they please.
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> To be frank current versions of PfSense have been nothing but disappointing since the recent parent acquisition of PfSense

Part of why I'm grateful for the unstoppable OPNsense
https://opnsense.org
The left has been censored and deleted enough times from social media and regular media, that this is a cause for concern. Any laws which restruc freedom of speech could come back to haunt us.
DNS is not decentralized in the sense that matters for censorship, which is the most important sense in this discussion. I don't know anyone who believes DNS is suitably decentralized to resist censorship.
In California property taxes are 1.x rate, and the assessed price is based essentially on when your ancestors bought it, with a 2% increase.

Which leads to comedy like this: https://twitter.com/nextdoorsv/status/1265719788875272192
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>>Not even an attempt to formulate any coherent principle, just acccusations of bad faith, hypocrisy and racism, without any evidence whatsoever.

The US Capitol got breached and looted by deranged insurrectionists on January 6th, 2021. There was a guy walking with a Confederate flag inside the building. And they were all supported and incited by many prominent conservative figures, including current politicians. Including the President himself.

What other evidence do you need that these people have been acting on bad faith, hypocrisy and racism?
I use to have an immense respect for Glen Greenwald and follow his writing regularly, but Greenwald's tone has changed drastically recently. I'm not sure why, but he seems to have a rather myopic view of the left. It's a sudden departure from the writing he was known for during the days of The Intercept and Salon.com. I am honestly even starting to question the honesty of his writing, even.

An example for this article:

> including a refusal to aggregate user data in order to monetize them to advertisers or algorithmically evaluate their interests in order to promote content or products to them.

He says this but fails to mention that the same people who were the founders of Cambridge Analytica also were the founder of Parler

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201116/01141545710/what-...

Furthermore there seems to be little, if any, mention of the fact that the Mercers who were major funders for the Trump organization were also using the data obtained from Cambridge Analytica to target political advertising.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/595338116/what-did-cambridge-...

I know this is beyond the scope of the article that Greenwald was writing but having read his writing for years I have to wonder why it wasn't mentioned? It's not something that would typical go without mention in writing from earlier in his career.

I am not one to typically hedge on the side of removing "free speech" from people, but Parler represented a clear and present threat to American democracy. The ties to the Trump organization and it's funders were innumerable. Why does Greenwald have an agenda to foment discord regarding this? His writing lately, the twitter screeds that he has gone on against the left, and his staunch denial of the Russian interference in the 2016 election makes me question if he hasn't been compromised in some way.
> Sounds more like a political pressure group than a union. No collective bargaining, no workplace issues

Collective bargaining for contracts (e.g. compensation) are only one possible role a union can play. It's the most common one in the US for legal and historical reasons, but it's not the only one permitted.

Incidentally, the structure of the AWU is actually much more similar to how unions operate in Europe, where unions are not required or expected to have exclusive representation over a bargaining unit, and therefore quite commonly focus on a range of issues, rather than centering mostly on collective bargaining for contracts.

The perception that "it's not a union if it only represents a small number of people" or "it's not a union if it doesn't engage in collective bargaining" is a very American perspective (and even then, a perception which is inconsistent with the actual rights granted under the NLRA to minority unions in the US).
These were your words: "a snail’s shell expresses it (the golden ratio)"

You connected the dots between the two...
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...and I don't care! This is so stupid. Give me runtime! Motorola Moto Gx Power models are on the right track on the smartphone side. Awesome battery life, just a little beefier.
It is retaliation against GDPR and tax lawsuits
I haven't seen so much barely visible grey text since the last Hacker News thread discussing current affairs.
I don't know why the term is so valuable. Musk went so far as to buy the title for Tesla.
The link didn't work for me, which gives me pause about the availability of this technology. For most, simply going to Wikipedia's Sci-Hub page to get the current domain is easy and good enough, as the domain rarely changes.
I am sorry, but you appear to lack any training in the field of Greek and Latin manuscript studies, and your posts here abound in oversimplification and urban myths about the Medieval era and the Renaissance. Again, instead of linking to pop-sci articles, and a JSTOR publication which does not actually bear on the present discussion, please consult an actual university library and go through the manuscript sources of editions of Greek and Latin writers to see how little a role the Muslim world has played in transmission of classical authors.

While you might be very proud that the Muslim world preserved (a very few) Greek and Latin sources that were also held by the Christian world, that is irrelevant to the discussion launched by the OP.
IPv6 to the rescue?
Which people would be doing that? Since you quoted my "clearest guideline" text, are you misinterpreting that as "an immutable law of physics"?

It seems that if you can't deal with what was stated and have to fabricate positions in order to argue against, that you are not posting in good faith.
No, it doesn't. Not in a country where constitutionally such power by default is devolved to the states to regulate or not. One could make the argument it starts at the state level, but most states have left such matters to the municipalities in turn.

So, these municipalities, acting independently and without coordination, and have arrived at the same state. Because they are all currently incentivized to.
With the Chinese economy growing more important by the day you would think that the US would try to keep trade with Europe (i.e. inter-dependency) as high as possible instead of basically encouraging them to strengthen their relation with China... And as it happens the EU and China have just signed an investment treaty, which goes in that direction.
I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but I had a similar need and wrote this extension for my personal use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sihn/

It adds "parent" and "root" buttons under every comment. You can use the collapse button next to a post to get to its next sibling. (They are also made easier to hit on mobile.)

Firefox only though.
Just remember to not complain if eventually the tables are turned and your preferred political team is getting this treatment.
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Telegram has surpassed 500M active users
IMHO, This was the correct choice.

No one I know would trust a software mute.
"Adobe Flash is dead after nearly 30 years of dominating media content on the web"

Nah, it dominated for maybe 10 years but it's been irrelevant for a long time already.

Even then "dominated" is pretty strong, besides video streaming, games and poorly designed marketing sites most of the web was still HTML+JS.
I'm using Firefox on a Windows 7 machine.
I disabled a privacy plugin called disconnect (https://disconnect.me/) and it worked!
Thanks for following up
Good. I have no tolerance for the "Gravy Seals" planning attacks using platforms like Parler.
I tried to switch to Signal the other day. In the US on Android, most people use the default messaging app and that means a lot of MMS/RCS messages. All the messages between myself and my wife are RCS, for example. Signal failed to import these - it only did SMS. I'd love to see someone tackle this problem much like this WhatsApp migration. It's essentially a deal breaker for people in this situation.
This is terrifying. You aren't actually killing your political opponents but just cutting them off from being able to do anything in the modern world.
Take the free stuff?
You do need a better argument, because you're changing the entire point of the platform.

One is speech - maybe hate, maybe political, maybe both - and one is distribution of illegal products of child abuse. They're not the same thing. They're not "equally odious" and honestly it's pretty gross you'd even pretend they are.
> Buuuuuut I hope the larger community takes this as a cautionary tale about being completely beholden to single entities

Great, now what's that technology that lets my domain be split between two entities again so I can't get deplatformed?
Agreed wholeheartedly. I hear "thin", and think "so it's fragile and has poor thermals, battery life, port selection, and overall compromised performance".

I really hope this ultrabook meme ends.
they can come up with whatever "rules" they want. So its superfluous to say "if they break rules" .
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