skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can extend your point. A website used by kids may not want swear words, a website may not want sexists, racists, and another hate speech. In certain situations, disallowing content is the site owner's way of expressing their point of the view. This law bans this site owner from doing so. It limits site owner's ability to express their views on what their own property should be. By the way, we should also keep in mind that a site is the private property of an entity, just like an object or a piece of land. If this law is enacted, when a site owner sees speech on their own site that goes against their values, they can only condemn them with words, but the actual act will still happen on their property.
She might have been a protestor earlier that day but at the time it happened she had become an intruder. This does not mean that she actually deserved to be shot but only that it should not come as a surprise that she was.
> Initially, the company said too many customers had requested the sites be blocked, so it would block them for all customers except for those who called the company and requested access. However, the company backtracked on Monday and said those who didn't request the sites be blocked would still have access.

Cool.
Why does it need the "extreme" adjective?

From the Googles:

> the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

Is there any question that's what happened here? It's too bad that we have to worry about "turning off" some sensitive people whose feelings will be hurt if we call a spade a spade, but it sure doesn't feel like appeasing them has done much good, either.

Again, is there any question, whatsoever, that violence and intimidation were used here, in the pursuit of political aims? They 100% want to put the fear of violence into legislators in order to get their way.
Interesting. I find the primary sources on wildfires, pandemics etc to be so easily accessed that I don't need the interpretations of local newspapers on those topics. What can they tell me that I can't find out by viewing up-to-the-minute satellite and air quality data? Nothing. And in particular I don't need editorial takes like the ones of the L.A. Times earlier this year, crowing about how sprawl protects them from the pandemic. How does that take seem this week? Better to just get stats from health officials' web sites.

On the other hand there's no ready alternative source for restaurant openings and closings. That's just about my favorite topic on Berkeleyside.
Im sorry, but this is a part of the problem. You cannot distill an entire group of people down into a 180 character post on twitter. THAT is what got us into this mess.

Go meet some conservatives in real life. They aren't the monsters those 180 characters describe.

edit: Ahh I see. So white people are all just a bunch of self important demons. I can assure you that "$foo racial group are all illegitimate and if we can reeducate them or get rid of them it will all get better" is not a path that has historically led to peace.
I was looking at your service recently while surveying the landscape of currently active P2P projects.

Am I right in seeing that a monthly subscription is the only option to get a client and start using Aether?
Lmao, Russia election hoax for 4 years. Look through prominent Dem twitter accounts for stealing and hacked election. Example:

https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/864522009048494080

Trump is even worse than this but both parties are garbage, left way more hypocritical though
Does make you wander when the head of a state with all the limitations you have enumerated says you have gone too far?
> one benefits the CEO financially

Mozilla’s very existence is based on its financial ties with Google, those utm parameters are there because of that relationship.

There are also other issues stemming from that problematic relationship e.g. Firefox privacy settings by default are more lenient towards Google than Facebook (you get a prompt inviting you to install the official Fb container, by contrast the unofficial Google container did not even get the “trusted” status, hence making it less visible to new users, even though it’s based on the same code).

Firefox is a good browser but there are issues.
Same experience here but i feel like Element is slowly getting worse. It is starting to use popups for everything and its becoming so annoying my friends are slowly leaving.

Verify this, is this you that.

I think partly its because i am not always on latest version of Synapse so the self-updating clients expect slightly different backends but uff.

It feels like Moxie is right with his anti federation argument. Call me stupid but i am really trying to keep it together but i still cant tell why some of the popups show up or why some sessions of my friends wont decrypt and they show gibberish.
Among other things, you're omitting that they beat a police officer to death. I would also be surprised if the only people who felt disturbed by this whole event were "some politicians".
The standalone Ubiquiti access points are still great IMHO. It's just their recent prosumer gateway/router product line that's really struggling. I've had a great experience with the older UAP-HD-PRO. Their newish $100 Wifi 6 U6-Lite AP is tempting but haven't tried it.

If you just need one AP you can set it up in standalone mode and forget about it. If you want more monitoring and control you'll need to have a Ubiquiti controller running to manage things. (can run one in docker, on a rasp pi, or just buy their "Cloud Key" product.)
Hi there. Our thesis is that all news has bias (heck even Matt Taibbi admits he does) and that's ok. What is most useful to the public is (1) reporters that strive to be objective and offer as much context as possible (2) a few different viewpoints across the political spectrum so that you see the same story framed different ways.

By curating the above on each topic our readers tell us they get closer to the unbiased story.
"Hang Mike Pence" was trending on Twitter.
Exactly. And the most impactful solution is also one incompatible with growth-based consumer economy: buy less stuff.

Recycling won't be an answer even if, through some miracle, everything would became fully recyclable in practice. The reason is that most materials cannot be recycled indefinitely - they degrade. On top of that, turning trash into input material usually consumes some non-recoverable matter (e.g. chemicals to clean and process it). Then there's production waste that isn't recoverable too. All of this adds up into continuous churn.

So with recycling, instead of a Mine->Manufacture->Use->Trash pipeline, you have... Mine->Manufacture->Use->Trash pipeline where a fraction of matter makes a cycle from Trash to Manufacture. Two perhaps not immediately obvious facts: one, that fraction of matter that gets recycled becomes a fraction of a fraction on its next cycle - which is a series that converges to 0. Two, none of this matters as long the pipeline itself is going through exponential growth. You may slow it a little, but it's still exponential.
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At the end, wasn't the comment that he believed he _could_ see five lights?

It's possible this is a deliberate grammatical ambiguity, but I think it could also be read as "I was not just willing to say it, my reality was being destroyed".
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I created a site called Similar Books to help people find books to read. I've never been a huge reader but would like to read more. I find I have no idea what book to read and I didn't want to waste to reading a book I won't enjoy.

The site works by users entering a tv show, movie or game they like and we'll recommends some books. Books have links to Amazon where if a book is purchased we'll take a commission.

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The article touches upon something that I think most people that learn about physics don't realize. The models physicists use to describe nature do NOT exist in reality. They are mere concepts that work well to describe natural phenomena.

My favourite example for this is the electron. Does an electron how we describe it in quantum mechanics exist in nature? The answer is no. The electron is a model construct we have made up that describes natural phenomena. Nothing more.

This is where non-experts that didn't study physics get confused when they read that an electron is a wave but also a particle. All of these concepts are just physical models that again do not exist in nature. But they describe different aspects of nature pretty well. And so we assign them a meaning beyond what the mathematical or physical model contains, a part of reality.
Is it not ironic that the ISP is censoring Facebook and Twitter because of claims that Facebook and Twitter are censoring...?
You neglect to mention the people that tried to raid the corridors where high level politicians were. One of those people was shot and killed instantly, point blank, after ignoring repeated warnings from officers. Not exactly peaceful
What's your plan, then? It is clear that some people are so far gone that logic and reason are no longer effective methods of reaching them.

There is now a claim that under sworn affidavit an Italian national has admitted to changing votes via a military satellite (what?!). Never mind that all the sources link back to each other, never mind that any self respecting shadow deepstate would simply disappear someone like that. It doesn't make any sense, and yet.. it's getting traction. Most of the claims that have people whipped up into a frenzy about a stolen election are equally as baseless in the face of literally zero evidence.

And yet, here we are.
So what would you suggest? Insurrection cannot be left with no response. Their "movement" is entirely based on lies. I understand that you're trying to get people to "think like them" but it's also paving over the vast gap between reality and delusion that these people have. They have been emboldened to do very stupid things in very public places and that can't be allowed to stand, or society will collapse under their stupidity. Just imagine being on an airplane with a bunch of ravenous Trumpers and they get into some argument with some liberal. Violence is contagious in a big group (as has been proven time and time again. The Capitol riot is a great example, the violence was started by a relatively small few) and people will do despicable things if their social surroundings deem it ok. Society, as a whole, needs to excise this despicable behavior or it will be consumed by it.
I don't disagree, but those weren't through direct engagement, and afaik no one fired a shot outside of police. I've edited my post to clarify my point that these real threats are people that are smart enough to not directly engage (such as bombers.)
Silly and retributory, and per the article a pretty clear violation of Washington State's net neutrality laws. But in context, probably not a bad thing for society.
I find the "overnight" more shocking than terminating a contract. That they would be so callous toward a customer should make anyone think twice before signing up.
Would you prefer a system where an unelected justice system has the right to remove the president?
Everyone should use the most accurate description possible, and in fact many people have referred to the attack on the capitol building as an insurrection, which I think is a fair way to describe it.

My issue with Taibbi is it seems like he is stretching for a way to say that both sides are equally culpable. That's the context of him arguing over word choice. On the one hand, you have people who are lying about the election and whipping people into a frenzy of rage and craziness. On the other hand, these people over here are really using the wrong word to describe the attack on the capitol building. These things are not the same.
Fully agree. I think the best outcome of this situation would be Biden pardoning all involved and working to bring the country together. I supremely do not want this to turn into some sort of football game whereby the dems now have control of the ball and need to go on the offensive instead of just throwing the ball down and quitting the game. (to be clear, I'm a lifelong democrat, I just don't want 4 more years of the same infighting)
>If you took the beliefs of the people involved in the insurrection to be true, you probably would join an insurrection as well. They believe that an election was stolen and that democracy has been destroyed in the United States and replaced with some form of a deep state dictatorship

Oh the irony
I like that term "“bug” in capitalism". I have always felt the "bug" is basically incorrectly pricing externalities. We don't properly charge you for the carbon you put into the atmosphere or the mental health strain you put on workers and so on. If societal costs were also real costs the allocation of resources could be more optimized.
You need to start by proving that brains and all idealized computers we can build are inherently on different levels. Intuitively it seems like intuition is just a probabilistic analysis on incomplete data. For example that shadow is "probably" a predator that may eat me or that sound is probably a prey animal I can kill and eat.

Current AI which probably doesn't fit either of our definitions of intelligence can design novel untrained strategies. See for example AlphaGo Zero.

It's not even clear exactly how our brains work so its hard to imagine that they couldn't be implemented with a sufficiently powerful computer but more broadly a computer doesn't necessarily mean a silicon chip any more than it meant a vacuum tube. If silicon chips prove an insufficient mechanism there is no particular reason we couldn't somehow use a biological substrate or indeed even one we haven't thought of.

Perhaps you simply need to acknowledge our limited understanding of the brain AND expand your definition of the term computer.
Yeah, that might be the way to go long term? but I wanted to ship fast and get something that works out in the field.
A lot of people conflate "NPR" with "public radio" in general. So your local public radio station may air some things that are "clearly aligned with the Democrats" but as an actual news organization, NPR News is as good as any out there. They take fact checking seriously, they issue corrections when they get things wrong. They take time to put things into historical context and they don't bend over backwards to give "both sides" to debates that clearly don't have two reasonable sides.

If it's so clear, find me a single example of NPR news being aligned with the Democrats in a way that is divergent from objective reality.
The cover shot of the Nat Geo link is of a woman standing before the confederate flag that flies from her own front porch.
> It's more concrete than that there's an input, from a computer, with some sort of physical storage, and an output, again with some storage, that ultimately is for viewing.

None of which is novel, or even directly related to the subject of the patent. The patent isn't about the input mechanism, the computing hardware, the storage media, or the display tech. It's about the abstract math that is carried out mechanically by these existing computing elements.

Evaluating a mathematical formula and visualizing the results as a grid of colored squares—all by hand—should never be found to infringe on anyone's patent. (This appears to be relatively uncontroversial.)

Doing the same, only faster thanks to the aid of a computer, should be similarly exempt from all patent infringement claims. The patent doesn't cover the computer, which already existed. All that's left is the math.
It was coordinated behind locked doors with Google and Apple which are competitors.
Hm, I just posted "stop the steal" on my Facebook page (along with a disclaimer), and it's still there six minutes later. Maybe it takes 24 hours to get picked up? Or do they just cloak the posting?
Some questions that come to mind:

1. Why does systemd implement its own random number generation code?

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/27231dc14c925935b669...

2. systemd uses RDRAND to generate UUIDs only. Why isn’t the algorithm robust to collisions?

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18184#issuecomment...

3. Why do you have to pass systemd args on the kernel command line?

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18184#issuecomment...

4. This is not the first time this happens. Why weren’t they able to provide a solution in 2 years?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/18358...
Oh but this doesn't actually disable remote access on the UDM side, does it? It's just a flag that the cloud host can choose to respect?
It's a knee-jerk reaction because my comment said nothing about blame, and your response was entirely about who to blame.
Looks like she looked deep into the psyops and the psyops looked back.
Addressed numerous times in this post already, but (in summary) those were BAT grants given to Brave users from Brave itself, for the purpose of allowing those users to earmark tokens for certain creators. During a couple days in December, 2018, our UI/UX received a few major changes in response to tremendous user feedback. As a result, Brave tipping system is many times better today.

More details: https://brave.com/rewards-update/
Well, they already censor the CIA 'whistleblower's name, links to the Hunter leaks, the Podesta leaks, and the 'walk away' campaign (Dems who feel like the party changed in the wrong direction through identity-politics). So there's no surprise they'd start removing content of people questioning the "most secure election ever".
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Has anyone actually been charged with sedition, treason, or insurrection?
Why does there need to be a single definition? You can have a different definition of what hate is compared to me. For example, you can choose not to associate with someone because you think they're hateful, where as I find them just find and we're buddies.

Facebook is influential yes, but they are still one private organization of many. Why do we need a consistent definition of hate speech between facebook, twitter, reddit etc?
Under that perspective I'm perhaps guilty of mentioning lichess unnecessarily, but I do think the site is an interesting phenomenon (i.e. providing cutting-edge technology, at no cost to users, without advertising or tracking).

Raising awareness of alternatives is good, but yep I think it's also fair to be critical of the way that awareness is generated.
No, not when they’re being this bafflingly hypocritical.

I have demonstrably stronger freedom of speech/opinion protections here versus Germany.
I share your interpretations on this and I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when talking to anyone who has become too attached to their beliefs and views.

I’m predicting that the paths that seem like the “correct” ones are the ones that actually do cause further division. The stoic intuition of slowdown and evaluate does not seem to be on the table anymore...
As far as I can tell, neither of these actions was based on any “loophole”. However, the nature of the rule of law is that it only works as long as everyone plays by the rules. When the government decides it does no longer has to play by the rules, there isn’t much that can be done to oppose them, as they still hold all the power, and are presumed to hold political authority.
Facebook has happily oppressed Palestinian protestors while turning a blind eye to 'calls by Israelis for the killing of Palestinians'.

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2...

It is obvious now that big tech companies are deep players in political games.
I'm fine with this if we can agree that this is the same thing Antifa-BLM has been doing in countless cities, most notably Portland and Seattle where they attack Federal buildings and civilian homes and business almost nightly "in the pursuit of political aims", is the same thing.
I wouldn’t argue with much of this on the face of it but I think people forget that this is a single-player RPG, not some game-as-a-service designed to support an endless grind. The fact that people are working through the content (of which 80+ hours is plenty, IMO) and then setting it aside to wait for DLC is perfectly in line with my expectations of how people engage with a game like this. Maybe they invited the comparison with grindy looter-shooters by having looter-shooter-style loot, but at its heart it really isn’t that kind of game.

Fact is that right now criticism of this game will get engagement, so people are doing it with criticisms that sound spicy regardless of relevance.
By this definition, many antifa and BLM rioters are also terrorists. It's interesting how hesitant the media was to describe them that way.
Seems to be a new account. Welcome to HN!

Anyway, why are you mixing up these two things?

- inciting violence at the Capitol

- claims of voter fraud.

He's been claiming voter fraud since before November 8th, and he didn't get banned then, so obviously that has nothing to do with it.
> But in context, probably not a bad thing for society.

Why do you say that?
"Stop The Steal" is nowadays very specifically referring to the conspiracy theories surrounding the US November 2020 presidential election that was started by Trump supporters.

Maybe in a few years (months if you're optimist), it will be forgotten (because of these kinds of measure?) and the phrase will be allowed again.
Just strategically this doesn’t make any sense as banning National Enquirer would draw 100 times more attention to the story. If Bezos wants revenge he’s surely smart enough to get it quietly.

Banning Parler also draws similar attention to it (I’ve never heard of it before today, for one), but it’s a calculated and coordinated (with Google, Apple) move to 1) take them down and 2) send a message to anyone watching. The point is the additional attention here is not unwanted and even desired.

Not to mention such a retaliation would have come at a time when Trump (highly critical of Bezos) was still very much in power and had enough support in congress to use it against him.
That's not a terribly strong argument. Should we ban making chocolate as well? Sports? Art?

After all, these people could surely be creating something more valuable.

If you want to make an argument based on opportunity cost, it generally should have specific alternatives and a viable cost metric. Without that, it's not an argument, just an opinion.
How does ISIS and other terrorist orgs host their propaganda? I see a pretty funny future where Trump supporters and ISIS work together to figure out where they can host their content.
Do you have examples of "violent statements on Twitter" by e.g. AOC? Not trying to doubt you at all, just broadening perspectives.
The problem is, Trump supporters obviously do have a voice, a very loud one in fact, but their dedicated media sphere constantly tells them they don't. And it will keep telling them that no matter what happens. Being the victim and fighting against the unjust, oppressive 'others' is what sustains the entire movement.
So is censoring good or bad? I'm confused.
Banning Ayatollah Khomeini from Twitter would probably cause an international incident. He might declare a fatwa[0] against Twitter, the US, or both. If none of these events happen, there's still a risk of Islamic terrorists attacking Twitter's offices. I'd probably leave his account in place too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatwa
> If it is raining outside, and there's someone who says "it's raining outside" and someone says "it's not raining outside", how is anyone's life improved by the idea that they should both be given air time?

b/c presumably both will be asked to support their respective assertions.