skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all bunk. Hyperloop is a gadgetbahn without any practical way of deployment.

Sure, in theory there's nothing preventing one from building such a thing, but the economics just say no to the concept.

Hyperloop doesn't fail due to missing technology, but due to economics that just don't add up.

For an example in lesson's from reality, just look at Musk's Loop project in Las Vegas: slick autonomous 10+ people buses turned into Model 3s on autonomous sleds, which were replaced by autonomous Model 3s with extra wheels, and the project ended up with regular Model 3s that have drivers (you know, for safety, even though they drive autonomously).

The concept of a vactrain isn't new and whenever someone presents an old and failed idea as the next big thing, you just need to stop and ask one simple questions: what changed?

I wouldn't place too much confidence in announcements and plans - there are lots of projects in the middle east that were halted and never finished or quickly abandoned.

Announcements like that can safely be put in the same drawer as Virgin Galactic's sub orbital tourist flights.
VG even had a working prototype back in 2004(!) and didn't manage to turn it into a regular service in 16 years.

Hyperloop on the other hand doesn't even have a working prototype that demonstrates its capabilities, yet some seriously believe they can enter commercial operation in just 3 years? So far all they've ("they" being Hyperloop TT) shown was an empty shell.

Nope. I'm calling it right now: three years from now, in January 2024, there won't be an operational Hyperloop (<100 Pa vacuum tubes, MAGLEV) with passengers anywhere in world.
Until you people go after their peer, right? Then it’s “level3 is a private company”.
You’re very right on two points^:

1. I’m getting mixed up vis a vis Parler vs Trump vs Twitter vs AWS vs the rest...and you’re right that it _is_ wrong for Twitter to give the Taliban a platform to spew vile shit. That said, I think the conduct of American officials is of much greater proximate concern than the Taliban off in Afghanistan...

2. ...but that doesn’t excuse senseless deaths of foreign people. It’s not surprising that Twitter aws et al are more responsive to active threats to American lives than Afghani lives, though it is disappointing—if it’s the case. But I’m not under the impression the Taliban is actively and publicly and widespreadly planning murder and riots on Twitter.

^at least these two, I’m not passing judgement on others.
Interesting... i dont think i have the courage to measure my heart rate while playing Escape from Tarkov.
I'm a fairly active Twitter user and I experience it solely via the mobile website as I try to reduce the number of apps I install (and data I expose to said apps), so I don't actually think this is as monumental as people act. Furthermore, I downloaded Parler to see how it works and it's actually a pretty bad experience, janky UI, crazy latency, bad search - they've got bigger problems than the App Store.
Most people here already have instantly forgotten about the planned action of millions of dollars worth of damage and looting of businesses and federal buildings that were burned down during the summer riots with BLM and Antifa inciting violence during the run up to the elections last year which the content is still freely available on Twitter with it being hosted on AWS.

So I do not see how Twitter is any different to Parler here if I can still find both of this content (and the users responsible) on their platforms. Perhaps the moderation on Twitter has a bias to one camp or its users have a heavy bias to only reporting the content that they think 'violates the ToS'.

The fact is, both social networking sites here have this content hosted on AWS and either have a poor or a bias in moderation of this content.
If you believe this you need to research mRNA vaccine and the antibodies they are attempting to make and the other findings in the blood of those who really take it unlike Fauci who faked it on TV. Had shot of probably saline in his left arm then next day on TV aid no side effects just my arm is sore as he held his sore RIGHT ARM! This is copletely a different nefarious global event.

Why are the not reporting on all the deaths already occurring and Bells Palsy. Even removing the videos of healthcare workers from the sick platforms such as Twitter and Youtube whom have played the part to divide this nation using this fake two party fight. People we must unite in order to fend off what is coming. SEEK FOR YOURSELVES. You can even use Google Earth to find staging areas in rural locations of hundreds of thousands of UN armored vehicles. Wonder what those are for?
which part? " may be harmful to others" ? This is a clause so broad as to cover nearly all speech.
> if a company makes a mob outraged and the company isn't going to reform on its own, then one can naturally escalate the deplatforming effort by going after any company-related apps or service providers.

That's capitalism in action. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> I personally think they should be allowed to have their space anyway, if they can refrain from inciting violence.

If.

The whole reason why they got banned in the first place was because of the incitement.

There have been all sorts of crazy things said since the US election (and before), and there weren't any bans, just "possible misleading statement" tags.
Say more? I'm being sincere.
I don’t think there’s a big difference between “wild” bees and the “domesticated” or farmed bees that you seem to believe exists.

I’m in Ohio, and I’ve only been keeping bees for 3-4 years now, but I’ve attended lectures and talked to many longtime keepers in my area (Ohio).

I specifically asked about wild bees, and the answer I got was unexpected, but made sense once it was explained to me.

The PhD speaker, who’s worked in pesticide research his entire career, explained that around here American Foul Brood wiped out > 95% of hives in many areas over the span of a decade (70s or 80s?) — and he said there’s no reason to believe that the “wild” bees fared any differently. In fact, he believes we still have wild bees because of natural swarming behavior — meaning our wild bees are heavily linked with the commercially managed hives.

I can’t speak to anywhere else, but it wouldn’t surprise me to discover that the wild and managed bees are essentially the same.
Exactly. What scale, or how do you judge what is a lie?

What even is a "lie?" Someone disgruntled that is an USA citizen? That is not an USA Citizen?

It's like everyone forgot Politicans jobs are to play the wind, say the right words, garner support and always stay in the limelight of what society thinks they "represent."

I've been reading old newspaper articles/time magazines from the 1940s-70's and it's amazing how different the world itself, from media really represents and how these companies all join together on a message such as this.
What kit has AV1 decode? Encode?
"If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech."

-Noam Chomsky
I don’t hear a peep from people about AWS banning Bitcoin miners. They’re providing proof of what kind of content exists on their servers. It’s the same with child porn and other criminal content.

People offended by AWS’s stance, please help explain the differences in aforementioned violations.

The only odd part of all of this is why now? AWS should have banned them during formation. They tolerated it because of Trump being in power. This is the only cowardly hypocritical thing I see with the recent bans. All of a sudden cat is acting like a Lion in the cave after the Lion has left.
That's less of a problem than having them be able to communicate, as we just saw.
the folks you don't want talking are still talking, they're just doing it where you can't see it, any more.

your plan to ban them off all of the places where you're paying attention has been clear to them for years, and as much as you like to pretend your political enemies are stupid, they are not.
For that to happen, you first have to be in violation of your contract like Parler was. They were in violation of the AWS AUP.

For many services with millions of users, if you keep your head down, it can take them quite a while to notice you're in violation of your contract... but yes, if you make a bunch of people angry, one of those people is going to notice you're on AWS, pull up the AWS AUP that's published right on their website, see that you're in violation and report you.

This should be obvious to everyone. The AUP is not a confidential agreement.. and everyone can see where your server is hosted.
No, that was not the proposition of Parler, and it was specifically against the TOS and still is.
Again, you cannot claim a slippery slope when Amazon has made clear, and explicit asks of Parler that they have /refused/ to engage with.

Parler does not want to moderate their platform of violent rhetoric, because their customer base is there to engage in violent rhetoric. If you think Parler should have the right to allow their users to continue to threaten violence to people, well, that's still not a slippery slope, because there is no precedent being set here other than "Amazon will not allow unmoderated calls for violence on their platform."

Amazon always will, and always has, had the ability to terminate users for just about any reason. This is not them doing that, since they've provided a clear solution for Parler which is "stop allowing your users to make violent threats", and they've provided apparently an abundance of examples. Examples which Parler has not taken action against.
I don't, but I'm just saying it could be done.
They obviously must have been on the fence about it during the summer and it tortured their conscience so much that this was just too much for them to bear and they no longer could believe in freedom of speech.

We'll probably hear them retracting support for Snowden soon. they're probably typing it up as we speak.
AWS is screwing itself. No one will every trust AWS ever again. Why would any legitimate business use AWS ever again? Amazon doesn't like your product, they will shut off your site.

This is the fucking end of cloud computing.
Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25707959 already.
Agreed, but like it or not, he is the flagship of this wave of censorship. His ban was the first shot over the bow by the social media giants, if you will.
It does not surprise me at all. You can meme and rage all you want, but once you translate that to physical violence no self respecting company will do business with you.

If their CEO had kept his mouth shut they might have had a chance, but they never can seem to do that.
> If that fails I could see progressives abandoning net neutrality to lean on ISPs to block traffic.

Funny considering of course that republicans abandoned net neutrality years ago.. Now maybe they will support it?
So what you're saying is you want to have Nazi policemen? I don't understand what your concern is, because they would probably be incapable of performing their duties fairly
The context here is that these people have publicly made the "Giving Pledge" to reduce their assets by half to improve society, and yet their assets have doubled in a short time. That means they are underperforming based on their own intent, and casts doubt on the selfless virtue component of the Giving Pledge.
There can be N numbers of reasons for 'why' part, but 'what' part is - working for free.
Amazon Suspended Parler from AWS Web Hosting
This was not ancient man, this was modern man in Ancient Roman times.

So not really any more intelligent nor less so compared to our best materials engineers today.

Nor any less talented at the Scientific Method or Continuous Improvement process over time.

Nobody knows how many centuries or even millennia was spent before humans had concrete about like we have today, which only lasts a few centuries, since anything much lesser has already decayed without a trace.

Further, nobody even knows how many more eons it took before Romans had the stuff that turned out to be the most long-lasting so far.

No matter what, it might just plain take a few millennia into the future for us to get from where we are now to where they were then, you can't be sure but you can't let that stop you.

>After the fall of the Roman empire, the recipe for making concrete was lost and a concrete of equal worth wasn’t re-invented until 1824

Not a very long term effort since then by comparison. Looks like a lot of catching up to do.

Plus many people might not have actually been trying continuously to improve it that much in one single recent century compared to previous ancient centuries.

Like Buckminster Fuller says most of the time for the masses once something novel and badly needed achieves popular adoption, further progress can halt right there.

Barely good enough is the enemy of perfect.

Now with a geologist like Jackson and her rare x-ray technique this is a 21st century workaround to try and compensate in only one lifetime for the loss of possibly millennia of previous actual human development.

This could take a while and arrangements should be made to continue for more than one lifetime, or at least as long as possible beyond one university tenure.

Even more so in this case since the materials testing phase can be expected to last more than a century itself after each cycle of continuous improvement, once cumulative progress has moved the overall longevity far enough beyond what we have now.

This is survivorship bias in action, put to use.

Many times employed in materials testing.

The ancients definitely didn't have the same technolgy we have today, but what if many more of them were giving it all they had with greater determination compounded over very much longer periods of times?

No doubt superior outcomes can be had from earlier, sometimes lost, technology.

In finance more wealth can usually be extracted more quickly from generous reservoirs while they last compared to being built and protected from the ground up.

For technology the biggest reservoir is the very long trailing edge which has more area under the curve than you are ever going to get in your little time no matter how late you come to the table and how long you stay.

As I suspected, the longer you compound your concrete knowledge the better.

With the wealth of more centuries of research behind you, it would be a lot easier to justify any increased cost of raw materials to fill a cement truck.
Yep. This is what we've seen where I live.

But I agree this can depend on the community. I even specified neighborhood rather than city because I'd imagine this is different in other neighborhoods in my own city.
Here is a previous case of someone who took action that on the face of it was only egged on in hyperbolic political talk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...
Parler still works in Safari...until AWS turns them off.
Yes, it's as simple as that. Organizations that keep criminal activity off of their site don't get hassled by their upstream providers.
This submission is about you.
While working from home, I've slotted my morning walk for a time when it's too early for me to think. ;-)
Thanks! It's definitely playable, but there's still a lot of room for improvement and a few pesky bugs that you definitely notice the longer you play.

For example, only shortly after I posted here and all the current players had guessed correctly except for one person, then that person left, the game waited the extra 60 seconds for the round to time out instead of immediately because everyone left had answered it.

Then there's things like the scoring system, game-generated hints, and all that little stuff that needs definite improvement... they mostly work at the moment, but they're, well... crap haha
The United States is done. The tools that this community is building to enable political censorship will surely come back to you.

You can call this Democracy. But this feels like Authoritarianism.

I'm so disappointed in Silicon Valley and those in the Hacker News Community that are stamping out free expression. Shame on you.
Can you give an example of a mainstream conservative who didn't advocate for violence who was deplatformed?
How the world was changed by the slogan 'Je Suis Charlie'(2016)
Netflix decided AV1 was worth it:

https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-now-streaming-av1-on-and...

https://netflixtechblog.com/svt-av1-an-open-source-av1-encod...
Yep, I just saw that. If the CEO had kept his trap shut they had a chance. He elected to bleet publicly.
Of course I'm serious. Don't think that we don't notice you conveniently ignoring being called out for your deception. Your reputation is decreasing monotonically.

Nothing in the lines you posted gives me pause, or suggests anything remotely like "invade the capitol building". To suggest otherwise is simply speculative conspiracy that frankly sounds like the QAnon crap I have to combat from the right. You're all so tiresome, but the left is far more dangerous because its conspiracy nuts have somehow installed themselves into the institutions and are brainwashing millions of people with their inanity.

I swear, I'll be spending the rest of my life alternating between "No, Donald Trump didn't incite insurrection," and "No, Joe Biden didn't communicate that he had built an organization to perpetrate voter fraud." facepalm
The app still loads for me
Maybe that’s too extreme. I’m not above lobbying them if it’s a decision I don’t agree with. Lobbying could go as far as boycotting. But fundamentally I see my role as to be either a consumer or not.
> Where do we draw the line on how we censor the internet?

Is this censorship? Looks to like someone saying they don’t want to host someone else’s crap.

It would be a form of censorship if private companies were forced to host content they didn’t want to host.

> Giant corporations aren’t simply following court orders, they are acting on their own now. This is problematic for a multitude of reasons. The precedent has been established.

I think this is a completely different problem that stems from anti-competitive behaviour. If we’re unhappy with a few large companies acting as extra-judicial gatekeepers, then we should break them up and increase competition and diversity in the market.

If they hold a natural monopoly, then we should make them utilities, and make it explicitly clear that government is controlling their behaviour, and concepts like the 1st amendment should apply to them.

What we shouldn’t do is try to fix this problem by having governments force private companies to host certain content. For the same reason we don’t want governments forcing private individuals to express certain speech.
Unless they had contingency plans Parler is dead. There's no realistic way to move a site like that in 7 days. ESPECIALLY if they're using all the vendor lock-in AWS features.
I spoke with a cybersecurity expert friend about this (he’s worked at major companies and top-level government security work) and long-story short he basically made it clear to me that if Signal goes down then it won’t work any longer.
I don't think Bagacrap was discussing Hong Kong at all, but anyway your argument doesn't make much sense, because if someone is "protesting in support of self determination", then they almost surely are really asking for secession.
Code word compartments cut horizontally across the Confidential/Secret/Top Secret hierarchy. I’ve seen stuff that was classified Confidential, but also in a code word protected compartment. I had a TS/SCI/SI/CT/NATO/ATOMAL clearance when I worked for the Defense Information Systems Agency in the Pentagon. Many times over the past 25+ years I have had to correct people who think the compartmented stuff is classified at a level “above Top Secret”, when in fact the compartments just cut horizontally across the hierarchy.

Below Confidential exist other “unclassified” states, like “For Official Use Only” and “No Foreign” (a.k.a., NOFORN). Then, regardless of the classification, you should also have to prove “Need to Know”.
What does "fascist" mean?
Hi,

>> ... washing your face with cold water after you wake up every morning

I've been doing this. It sure feels great and the best part is you don't even feel your face after a couple of splash and the cold doesn't bother you anyway (Yeah! It's a "Frozen" reference).

Can't really say if it has something to do with wrinkles lessness, but take it as a commitment, give you a feeling of accomplishment and a thing to brag about ;)
Show us the BLM tweet equivalent of "We need to systematically start assassinating Liberal leaders"
Certain forms of socialism ("revolutionary socialism") explicitly reject electoralism, reformism, and incrementalism as means toward change.

After a socialist regime is established, however, I know of no form of socialism that encapsulates violence as a core concept.
Not with a bang, or a whimper, but a celebration!
Democrats in charge means dangerous speech is from the right. Republicans in charge means dangerous speech is from the left. they would continually declare opposition as the most dangerous of speech and pass/repeal laws accordingly. The supreme court wouldn't be able to keep up.
Pipe bombs, molotov cocktails, mace, plenty of arms other than firearms. This article has some links to more info: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/one-of-the-trump-sup...

It'll be simplest to watch the AG charge people, since they only file those charges if they're confident in a successful prosecution. Charges will probably be trickling in for months as they identify the insurrectionists.
As a gen-xer all of this incessant labeling is so bizarre.
"The society that separates scholars from its warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and it fighting by its fools. " Thucydides
Could that be in part because newer iPhones perform H264 decoding on the GPU?
Regretfully it's not in any state to share. But basically it was:

- simple Android app capture heart rate data over bluetooth from a polar chest band

- send the data up to a server and pipe it into influxdb database

- display using grafana

It was very useful to show when I was having an episode. I tried all sorts of things to identify the triggers, in the end it turned out to be alcohol (duh!).
It does seem like a huge movement of people are getting behind it. It is a little strange to think we could have an end to end encrypted social graph.
Access isn't a right. If your violating the TOS, your out of luck. Continuing the same argument (and getting the same answer)ad-infinitum is tedious.
just to clarify, your private company is choosing not to do business with AWS for political reasons?
Big businesses will always have massive influence. Walmart refuses to stock AO rated computer games and NC17 movies. Advertisers don't want their ads running next to pornography. Corporate America supports gay rights (less some holdouts like Exxon). Some medium size cities in America only have have one newspaper left.

I'm not concerned about social media network effects. MySpace and AOL used to be dominant services.
Sure, but we should trust investigations into election fraud? It just doesn't seem like any more trustworthy of a process to me.
Read up on Section 230 and why it was passed, the whole point of it is that what you're arguing is unworkable and massively stifling innovation. ISPs aren't responsible for what it's users do.
Yeah, I don't know why investment isn't available, especially if the ROI is good. Wish I did.
Good. I am neither naive nor stupid enough to have any tolerance for that fascist scum.
Shank them before they shank you.
i wonder if his views would be the same if tens of thousands of people were chanting "hang chomsky" because they were convinced by "free speech" that he was a pedophile, through cheap and easy dissemination of photoshopped images and ai-generated voice "recordings".

it's difficult to map pre-internet ideals to 2021.