skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you asserting that Republicans controlled the cities and police forces in which "blacks are disproportionately targeted and harmed by police without consequence"?

No, not all cities, but certainly _some_ cities. Wether that is by design or by pure luck is incidental to the point that the Young Turks can blame the BLM protests on Republicans with at least some shred of plausibility and evidence. Sure, maybe it’s a cheap generalization that lets Democrats off the hook, but in some areas of the country the blatant segregationist racism of the 60s never died, and in some of those areas Republicans (and Democrats) have made direct or indirect attempts to continue that suppression:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-civil-rights-ex...

So wether you agree or not, there’s a logical path that can be drawn from oppressor to oppressed.

But claiming the 2020 election was rigged or stolen or had massive fraud to a degree that would have changed the election outcome was never demonstrated in any plausible way in any public venue. There are no dots connecting the oppressor and the oppressed. The “kraken” was never released. It’s simply a lie started by Trump that’s led to violent consequences and unnecessary death.

If the Young Turks don’t blame BLM on the Republicans, the riots still happen. If Trump conceded he lost a fair election, no one dies. That’s the difference.
> The disgusting content was literally its reason for existing, despite all of the bland "we're just a free speech site" stuff.

I disagree with this. My experience with Parler was very limited, but from a quick glance, I was not able to find any call for violence. I'm sure it exists, but the sense I got is that the vast majority of content and accounts are simply posting conservative content. Do you have evidence that "disgusting content" (whatever that means) is its "reason for existing"? That seems like a self-serving editorial conclusion rather than something borne out by hard evidence.
> Whose fault was Epstein’s suicide?

You all know what I'm going to say here.

As for the rest, it's a fine line. There are obviously individual variances in how much it would take to push someone over the edge, I can certainly see how nine felonies would be enough in the case of Aaron's example.
How does that one authenticate itself then?

(NOTE: I didn't even know the PC gaming service steam had a mobile app ;))
Took me less than 30 seconds to type in a racial slur into Twitter's search bar and find it.

And I don't even have a twitter account.
No he is refusing to make a cake for a gay couple

If he refused to provide groom&groom wedding toppers I'd fully support him but this is food not speech

Likewise I wouldn't expect him to write messages or make decorations he disagreed with

But in this case it's a simple case of discrimination
Parler are free to host their own infrastructure. Stop being whiny babies.
I had the realization the other day that what I want is a self-driving truck bed.

Just a truck bed. Maybe one with a cab on it to stop the weather, but 8-10ft would be enough. I could send it to get my groceries, have it follow me places if I need to take something with me, and send it to my family if they need to give me something.

Rental truck beds would be even better. I could order one, have it go pick up my curbside order from Home Depot and the Grocery Store, and then drop it off at my house. Then I could send it back to the rental facility. Likewise, companies could buy them to deliver for the last mile.

Is anyone working on this?
Quite hard to believe. Does someone have a source for this report?
Wow, that sounds like an interesting read. I'll see if I can track one of those books down, thanks!
How often do you log in?

My experience is that a lot of this stuff works really well if you're using Steam regularly, and completely falls apart if you use it once a month.
Has the record of arrest (and charge, if you were initially charged with possession before it was reduced) affected you at all, to your knowledge?
Maybe list of downvoters and upvoters should be public
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I am most surprised about how surprised everyone is about these events. Did Jack Ma think he was going to tell the CCP how it is? China is executing an executive for bribery and corruption [1] (a lot of bribery and corruption though!).

Perhaps it's simply the Overton Window [2] delta between the US and China.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/china-sentences-ex-banker-to-death-for...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

(nothing in this comment should be construed as approval, support, etc for the actions of the CCP; this is only intended as an observation)
The source of the "leak" is claiming its ONLY publicly [1] available content. The fact it is being called a leak rather than an archive is just misleading.

[1] https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348666166978424832
They chanted 'hang mike pence', so yeah, also republican leaders.
Yes, I am moving companies to their next data pipeline, that is my specialty. I have added my email to my profile, you can reach out to me.
No, but it may be a good way to identify extremists and/or easily-manipulated persons amongst your populace.

I'm not saying it's likely, but certainly possible.
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I'm not really sure I understand. Most modern laptops are much more power efficient than older models.

If you're really looking to save watts, and ARM chromebook is pretty hard to beat.
Decriminalization works when you have many organizations provide high quality rehabilitation programs, and are non-profit. See [1].

However, IMO the U.S. healthcare infrastructure and general profiteering culture will not allow any reasonable programs at high enough scale to operate.

Ideally, instead of jailing drug offenders, we reintegrate them into society. This is expensive. Somebody needs to pay for it, and nobody wants to. Especially when you have the for-profit prison industry lobbying against it.

Decriminalization without a comprehensive plan to deal with drug addiction will most likely not achieve the expected results. We'll probably get something like the opioid epidemic on a larger scale.

The U.S. just does not do a good job of dealing with mental health.

[1] https://craftsmanship.net/portugals-path-to-breaking-drug-ad...
This is so elegant in its simplicity that I actually believe it could be true.
> Would love to have something similar right now, though I'm not sure what I'd use it for.

I am trying to work on a project at the moment, with a VHS case sized device, that is only used as a terminal to another (be that phone, computer, gibson, whatever...). Similar working princple to the Motorola Atrix Lapdock.

The idea is that, almost everyone is carrying around a suitable computing device - we just need a decent interface.

I think there is a market out there for such a device.

I haven't fully fleshed out what makes my device different from the others in this comment, I will say that it boots into an Open Firmware style Forth prompt.
I think we can confidently say that number is above zero and to even propose that it is zero throws enormous doubt on these opinions.

Was Parler the primary breeding ground for these seditious activities? Unclear. Did it play a role as did the Facebook groups? Almost certainly.
Just as a friendly heads up, @donk_enby used she/her pronouns.
I don't think anything I said was related to legality, but I apologize if I wasn't clear about that. Agreements between people are definitely enforced by legal means, but agreements between people are also a moral question about honesty -- will you do what you said you'd do?

But what I hear you saying is that society should not allow people to enter into agreements that would be conditional on what they use that service for, is that right?

If so, I strongly disagree.

I should be allowed to enter into agreements based on how I behave, and I expect people I enter into agreements with to abide by what they claimed they'd do, including if they agreed ahead of time that it was up to me to evaluate their behavior and judge for myself when to stop allowing them access to my service.

To deny me this right would be a violation of the concept of ownership, which I believe is a critical aspect of modern society.

This is a different discussion if you don't think people can own things (which is a fair argument, though I would have disagreements as well).
so much politization in a single comment... the news often opens with disturbung content, and the world has many people who says daily pure garbage and we do not want to shut down any of those. Free speech is a fundamental part of western civilization, it cost us way too much to achieve it to just give it up like that. Stop with all those fallacies, they still worked on 2019 but not on 2021, at least not on HN.
I think you’re over-focusing on the AVX512 argument. You even said yourself it was a product release that happened months after he made the comments. Was he supposed to understand what changes Intel made to AVX512 before they announced it? Also, he’s not even talking about clock downscaling. He’s saying that AVX512 is the wrong way to get significantly more performance vs the amount of space and power it consumes (definitely true for most applications and 100% true for kernel work) and that Intel would be better served focused on general perf (which isn’t wrong given how they’ve been trounced by AMD and Apple).

Consider also that Linus worked at Transmetta for a relatively long time trying to build a CPU company. I would trust his opinions on chip ISA design more than most software developers.

You’ve basically taken his post out of context, misinterpreted it to be saying something he isn’t, and claiming it’s wrong because some details have changed on the ground after he made it.

This is the problem with expert opinion. It’s so easy to misinterpret. It’s also possible to get some details wrong without invalidating the larger point. Figuring out when the expert is wrong is hard, but claiming that Linus doesn’t understand chip design just factually doesn’t understand the context of Linus’ perspective and his actual professional experience.
Something interesting here is that not only the Parler app was pulled... the _entire_ parlor.com domain and website registration is non-existent at the moment. It's like a black hole:

>dig @1.1.1.1 parler.com +short
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> the attack, with defenders just on the other side with guns drawn and prepared to fire, on the doors to at least one of the chambers also were ongoing before members had been evacuated from the floor by another exit,

Do you have a source for this? I understand you to be saying that the picture we all saw (of the guns being drawn at a door within one of the chambers) occurred while there were still elected representatives in that chamber?
I see it as a spectrum, where to be an "expert" you need to both skilled in the field and a good communicator/politician.

The problem is, in those areas where there's not a tight feedback loop as mentioned in the article, it's possible to build your way to the top by just being somewhat skilful in the field and knowing how to appear confident, and how to (over)sell your work, and knowing when something is technically right but you should not say it because politics. And on your way to the top you're going to out-compete those that are very skilful on the field, but don't have such good communication abilities.
Google Play Protect also warned on unknown sideloaded apps (and requested an upload for a scan) when I tried it ~half a year ago. Documentation[0] implies this is still the case

> It checks your device for potentially harmful apps from other sources. These harmful apps are sometimes called malware.

> If you choose to install apps from unknown sources outside of the Google Play Store, turning on the “Improve harmful app detection” setting will allow Google Play Protect to send unknown apps to Google to protect you from harmful apps.

[0] https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2812853?hl=en
I am a parent and I would have a problem with a sexual predator being anywhere near my kids.
It's not that the is-ought gap is unpopular: it's that the gap doesn't even make it into the debate. We're dealing with an epistemic regime in which it's acceptable to engineer desired "ought" outcomes by controlling who gets to make statements about what "is". That is, is no "is" independent from power dynamics, oppressor and oppressed. "Is", in this model, is just another form of narrative that serves the powerful.

In this world, you should expect downvotes for arguing that science informs us about objective reality, because people of a certain mindset see scientific results that contradict their worldview as just another form of oppressive discourse intended to subjugate the powerless. To them, science is just one of many equal and arbitrary forms of rhetoric and power gaming.
The key feature you want in a network: all your friends and/or people you want to follow should be on it.

So in addition to privacy (the author addresses this) you want ease of use and a funding model, as well as some momentum.
The actual Left has been a target of private censorship and public suppression even when the Right got a free pass for so long that, as someone on the Left, I’m not at all scared that some private censorship is happening to violent extremists on the Right (mildly surprised, but not scared.)

Though “you should be scared because what has been happening to the Left longer, and much more severely, than to the Right might happen to you” is a pretty common propaganda theme directed at the Left by the Right recently.

Unlike the Right, which has had an existence of extreme privilege where even the KKK got a pass on government scrutiny because it was valued loyal organization around the same time that the second big round of government institutionalized anti-Communist hysteria, the Left has been built around organizations to route around establishment suppression for over a century.

And most people to the left of center-right neoliberal Democrats are quite aware of that.
The 1st Amendment does not guarantee the right to say anything we want, anywhere we want. POTUS still has the absolute right to walk around the sidewalks of DC and spout whatever non-sense he so chooses.

If I go to Walmart and choose to shop in my underwear, they have the authority to make me leave and escalate to authorities if I deny their order. To me, our current laws put us in the same position with speech on Twitter. Our current laws allow private business to make up whatever rules, restrict whatever they want. It's their platform their rules.

I'm suggesting we need a company who makes it their business to allow content and protect their users using the actual law. US law shields content companies from liability because of what their users publish and upload. If someone uploads CP to Reddit then it's not Reddit that's punished (assuming they made good-faith attempts to remove the illegal material).

AFAIK, the users on Parler did not write anything illegal. Maybe they did - idk for sure. The messages on Parler were purely grotesquesand someone didn't like it.

Social media has given humans the once-unthinkable capacity to influence behavior and discourse across the world in real time. Our laws in the US have not yet caught up with this still relatively newfound tool.
Germany’s renewables power factor is ~20%. There’s a significant gap in supply made up by coal. In shutting down a sizable portion of their nuclear capacity, I believe 2020 hit record levels of fossil fuel consumption.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/germanys-energie...
Thanks for the clarification. I agree, that's a phenomenon I see often as well, and while I think that there are some indefensible positions even on the left, I think some of the communities I'm part of would benefit from giving the benefit of the doubt more often.
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Given 70TB of parler data was leaked, I'm sure people can find out one way or another if they are so inclined.
Not by themselves. In coordinating with politicians who absolutely were trying to overthrow the government, yes. They were all part of the same movement.
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Horrible clickbait article. This is about internal discussion boards (Google Groups), not individual email accounts. And it's about community moderation, not union busting.
This one is a pretty obvious trade off, does anyone know of good data on the impact of Apples policy on iphone theft rates and/or sales rate of stolen phones?
> Among the thousands of open source projects, the ones championed as successful open source business make up a tiny proportion i.e. the exception not the norm.

I think that open source projects tend to be smaller. However, is size the correct proxy for success? I would argue it isn't for companies, and rather the opposite in fact.

A small company that does well what it set out to do is successful in my view, even if you can count the employees on one hand. Likewise for software projects. Also, maintenance mode is a thing, and it's all right, so the number of commits isn't a good proxy either, IMO.
Okay, but I am sure the suits are not against web infra parts of those businesses, right?

Because in this context he is taking about web infrastructure, and specially AWS.
Wall St. Banks Halt Political Donations After Capitol Riot: Live Updates
What is happening to our country? Bans from social media, app stores, hosting platforms...now financial orgs. Is this what we want, extermination of the side we don't agree with? Punish without a trial or hearing the other side? One of the comments captures the intent/sentiment of the left: "Corporate America, hit the Republicans where it hurts!!!" Hope we wake up before we destroy each other.
> Many suicides are prompted by trivial or very temporary situations that are not at fault.

I am part of a support group that is dominated by people who've attempted suicide.

The words trivial and temporary don't describe any part of their journey.

What is common, is how these people were harmed by the self-interested and misguided actions of others.
Group chats work well for a fixed set of users looking for all-to-all broadcast, but that's hardly a social network.

Something like Discord gets even closer. I'd say Discord actually makes a pretty good social network, although most people don't treat it as such. In my experience, the biggest issue with discord-as-a-social-network is the binary nature of discord server membership. I've had my one "friends group" server split into 3 or 4 servers (each with 80% membership overlap) over some people who had drama, and this makes it much less manageable as a social network because you tend to spend most of your time on one or maybe two servers.
His statements are not backed by any evidence, so I don't know what to make of them. Nonetheless an interesting opinion by someone that has done some great things that certainly tickeled my curiosity, +1
Don’t bother man, the morons on this site have already decided what they believe, and it conveniently aligns with their political beliefs.
First of all, sad to see you start your post with that Trump-disavowment, it makes me wonder whatever happened with the willingness to defend other's right to free speech no matter whether the defender agrees with that speech or not.

As to the possibility to evade censorship the answer depends on how censorious tech really gets. Evading customer-facing Twitter, Facebook, Google, Microsoft is not that hard, all it takes it not to use their services - I don't, for one. That is level 1, easily beaten. Level 2 is what Amazon just did to Parler in that they terminated their hosting contract and with that - due to Parler's lack of robustness - taking it off the 'net. They complain that they can not use any of the other hosting providers since all those big enough to host them are unwilling to take their business, I don't know whether this is true or not but being refused back-end services is the essence of level 2 of the cancellation scale which I just made up. To take Parler as an example I'd suggest they could just buy some servers, hook them up to a power supply and get a few speedy connections to the 'net to be back in business... until those IAPs start refusing to offer them connectivity. That would be level 3, more or less. There are many IAPs and it is hard to see how all of them would be unwilling to provide connectivity so even that type of cancellation would be circumventable... until ISPs start blocking their user's access to your services. They can do that clumsily by blocking DNS requests, they can do it in a more thorough way by blocking actual connectivity by blocking your IP ranges (remember that you are using your own hardware at this time so you won't be sharing IP space with others). The more tenacious ISPs can start blocking any and all access, even for those who are smart enough to use proxies to get around the IP blocks by using DPI to examine what those pesky customers are doing. Such ISPs should get their feet grilled by the likes of the EFF but as to whether that would happen remains to be seen. Be that as it may, this is more or less level 4. Level 5 would be a similar DPI treatment by backbone providers, blocking any and all access through regular means. This would be horrendously inefficient, expensive and invasive so I don't know whether this is a realistic scenario.

And then, after all that cancelling and blocking frenzy... you get to launch your services on top of IPFS or a similar dark network. If your service is popular people will flock to it. If IPFS does not cut it there are other dark networks, all with their own pros and cons. As long as there is a way to pass traffic from customer A to customer B there is a way to create a digital Samizdat, it won't be fast but it will work. You won't be streaming video, you won't be proclaiming the revolution in a live 4K stream but you will be able to reach your targets.
> “Will you and several hundred more go with me to D.C. and fight our way into the Congress and arrest every Democrat who has participated in this coup?” [Marshall, Arkansas Police] Chief Lang Holland posted Friday on Parler, a right-wing messaging site. “We may have to shoot and kill many of the Communist B.L.M. and ANTIFA Democrat foot soldiers to accomplish this!!!”

> “Death to all Marxist Democrats. Take no prisoners leave no survivors!!” Chief Holland added.

How would this have to be modified to become a "legitimate death threat"?
If you sign a long-term contract, sure. For example, Pinterest just signed a multi-year $750M contract with AWS. If AWS kicked them off, there would be repercussion for breach of contract. But just signing up for AWS’s generic TOS’s with a credit card means AWS can likely kick you off for any reason.

Pretty much any large company with appropriate risk controls (not to mention the financial incentives) will negotiate and sign custom long-term deals with AWS’s extremely large sales staff.

https://www.ciodive.com/news/underlying-pinterests-technolog...
You, like many others have some really good arguments to why the current american system doesn't work.

But where is the american movement to end the FPTP-voting system?