skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can sympathize with how this will work out for non-career criminals.

How do you see this working out for repeat offenders? Seattle today has a mini-version of this FWIW: We have offenders who have 44+ counts of 'minor' arrests and a felony conviction on the street [1] getting involved in public shootings.

Overall I like the part where folks who have paid their dues get their life back through a measured re-introduction back into regular society (from jail). Even over here, we will need oversight from professionals who have insight into both the worlds who can help with the transition. I don't think commuting sentences by 90% is the answer.

[1] https://komonews.com/news/local/who-are-the-alleged-downtown...
They don't allow companies like Perler to signup. What Perler used AWS for is prohibited by the TOS and AUP that Perler agreed to. It just took a while for AWS to notice and enforce the legal agreement that Perler agreed to abide by. Perler lied right from the beginning (because they had no intention of abiding by their agreement) to get AWS to provide service they would never have provided had Perler been honest from the start.

Also the cake issue is different because discriminating based on sexual orientation was prohibited by the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. Colorado (the state I live in) has every right to pass laws to govern it's citizens. What happened to state's rights?

To me these are very clear: You either believe contracts and laws can be enforced, or you don't.
Aaron could have accomplished so much more had he not succumbed to depression. His voice would be most welcome now as tech has entered a bitter political conflict. To anyone suffering from depression at this time: You are needed. Your voice is needed. Aaron's end was a net negative, too early and robbed all of us of a brilliant and brave young soul. Improve on Aaron's accomplishments by following his lead but persisting through tough times.
You are thinking of a professional dev context.
But it is not the same thing for everyday discussions with friends.

A lot of things can look not useful and common at the current time, but have a lot of values in the future. But you can't document every step of your life.

For example, imagine that some friend tell you that his brother is currently working in Singapore and that everything goes well for him and all. But so far you have no relation to Singapore and don't travel so much.

Then 1 year later, you will unexpectedly be sent to Singapore for work and you would highly appreciate a contact there. At that point you remember that the brother of someone is there, but who was it?

You just have to search for 'singapore' in Telegram and you can get easily the reply to your question and so recontact the relevant friend.

Same thing when you are suddenly thinking about buying a Xiaomi phone, and you are wondering who was the friend that told you that he bought one 6 months ago to get his review.
Big tech can control the flow of the population to news sites (one of the reasons the two industries often fight each other). Twitter suspended NYPost account for instance. And what if tech and news industries join forces to erase someone they both don't like?
First they came for the Trump supporters, and we all got downvoted :)
Just delete/block the NYT cookies.
Not sure what I am missing here but the obvious answer is an offshore host right?
I recently bought a 50€ electric chainsaw at an Aldi discount store in Europe (against my better judgement).

After a few uses, the chain tightening bolt broke into two pieces.

I begged them to send me just the bolt, but NO. They said I'm not entitled to repair it. I was even willing to pay for it, but I couldn't find it below 15€ on the internet.

So I sent the whole chainsaw to the repair service on their dime and they sent me a brand new one. They probably tossed the perfectly fine old chainsaw into the dumpster. Because of a 0.10€ bolt.

The corporate throwaway culture is incredible.
> A saying from a nation with collective psychological trauma of over 100 years. No thanks.

Well, they do know what happens when you let Nazis and their apologists/enablers get a toehold in public discourse, so maybe they actually have something useful to contribute to the discussion.
Would that not just make politically motivated stunts like the one reported here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25731528

more likely and effective?
Could go to a foundation setup to fund development of the underlying tech.
I don't see how GDPR would break this. It would be compatible with what that hopes to acomplish. This is a technology solution which helps you to enforce GDPR redactions.
That's about where i expected it to be actually, and that's about 200k people, so it's pretty bad.
Both, For Sure. :)
I don't think the error is intentional, the site was created 10 years ago. My guess is that something happened to the repo since then.

https://bytex64.net/blog/e2302
Do you appreciate the vulnerability of the other stance? As in, do you know how absurdly lucky it is that people with a controlling stake in these payment processing companies happen to agree with you and aren't in Trump's pocket?

Imagine it were the other way around, and suddenly Twitter and Facebook just couldn't use banks anymore, or cards.

Centralized control of money is too dangerous for everyone. Whatever power exists could someday be wielded against you.

Why do you think the rioters are so afraid and angry? They were fine with Trump's making up executive powers that don't actually exist anywhere. Now they're seeing the other edge of the sword, and they're so afraid they're losing their minds.

Learn from them. Don't become like them when your view falls out of favor. Don't create a power so great your life would be ruined if your enemy came to wield it.
Twitter deleted tweets Trump posted through the POTUS account after his personal account was deleted.
Are you saying the solution is to make sure you have a large and powerful media organization on your side?
If this is true, the adversaries of the US now probably have a considerable database of people who are vulnerable to manipulation and who can be used for active measures on US soil.

Not that I don't think they didn't have a pretty good database of this already.

But this still is the aspect of this that I find more worrisome. Russia, China and whomever else might be interested could weaponize this to great effect.
They don't need to assume, because they will have your private messages and posts.
But only one was displayed here.
Moderation, no?
This same principle has been incorporated in full blown air planes. Admittedly very short operational range at the moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IorDYGI1uqc
My plan to fix social media was something like Captcha mixed with an IQ test.

So if we can detect you said something about climate change, you see a little popup asking you if water boils at 100 degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit? If you don't get it right, you are no longer allowed to post or reply to climate change topics.

Did you just say Trump was the BEST or WORST President in History? I'd like to see if you can name 5 Presidents before 1980? If not, I don't think we need your opinions on historical ranking.

The tests wouldn't be hard. And they would easily be Googleable, but there would be 10 second time limit for them to be completed.

It would probably be the least popular social media company ever created. This is also a terrible idea, because the users that are entitled to post, probably would not be humble and might be jerks.
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Even with a gas range, you really need a wok burner for example I have an older Viking range and the wok is pretty much useless without this burner: https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/produc...

but you summation is pretty much correct, a wok is useless for most home ranges. The heat has to be directed up the walls of the wok for it to cook correctly.
Well they know corporations are going to be a colossal pain in their ass if they pass something, but that the citizens won't do anything. Might make the local news, but nothing more. If only there was a little enthusiasm in this arena, substantial progress could be made. But there are far too many flashy "causes" out there that eat up the public interest. As a people, we really deserve what we're getting here.
The article linked in the comment you're replying to seems to include both jail and prison. The comment itself didn't mention either and just said "incarcerated".
Ockam's razor man, I doubt they even considered it. And by the time they did, the app was too big to move and/or even secure another cloud provider.
I would expect nothing less after the tech cartels showed their hand
Some years ago I prepared a (very short) list of people whom I want my future kids to know about. The first name I put down was Aaron's.
It is very interesting that, with the exception of people like Berners-Lee, computer scientists around the world have decided that the problems of social networks should be addressed only within the realm of private companies. I see little to no coordinated activity targeted at open social networks for commenting, liking, and sharing. Similar pattern on open and distributed protocols for searching and sharing data. It seems to me as a failure of academia in this important area of computing.

It is important to remember that distributed protocols for social interaction is not something new that researchers had not considered before. Email is the prime example of open, distributed protocol that still is very successful. But many researchers have stoped to consider such open protocols and jumped in the walled garden bandwagon.
Cause the Stasi only collected data on bad guys...
I know of Smithereen[1] that is an attempt at a full fledged social network similar to VK on top of the ActivityPub vocabulary.

[1] https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
lol @ someone claiming to promote limited government in America putting the Cato Institute in scare quotes

Listen buddy, if none of George Bush, Lindsey Graham, David Koch, Ron Paul, or the Cato Institute represent “true conservatives” to you, then I’m glad the notion of conservatism wherever you’re from is not one shared by my fellow Americans. Have a good day and please don’t come here.
Overthrowing the government? Certainly not. But I would not think it unreasonable to say that if the mob had found the actual senate, they would have killed some of them. Let's not construct artificial goal posts about what is utterly and extremely beyond the point of acceptable behavior. They killed a cop with a fire extinguisher. I have no reason to believe they wouldn't swing weapons at Democrat political leaders. Or even Republican political leaders.
One thing about woodworking is that parts of it are easier for someone who has had a career in thinking logically and several steps ahead. If you also have had experience laying out user interfaces, that can help too. However there is the flip side, in that a number of techniques in woodworking aren't easily discoverable unless you've been working in the field for a while, and it is all too easy to get hurt (even when not using power equipment). I personally love doing projects, but on every single one I end up getting some sort of injury (typically something small like a splinter under the fingernail, or a tool slipping causing an abrasion on my hand, but annoying none the less).

But you are right, in that there can be a good bit of coin to be had with furniture building, especially if you can draw on some standardized design principles to output good customized pieces. Think things like a closet organizer that is "perfect" for a customer's bedroom. Or things like cranking out desks needed by students doing school from home.

In fact, I probably could have made a killing in selling "pandemic" desks (there were absolutely no desks to be found at the beginning of the school year). I made a couple for family members, made out of real hard wood (no partical board) for about $130 in lumber and connecting hardware -- nice 3-drawer desk units. I basically used rail-and-stile frames to make the back, sides, and drawer box using pocket screws, then 1/4 inch plywood tacked from the inside of the drawer box. Took about 3 hours to cut, drill, and assemble everything but the drawers themselves. If I was out of work I probably would have made a bunch and sold them for $350 a piece.
Is it worth doing machine learning in a quantum computer?
Why should we worry about that one country and the usage of it? They tend to want to control who deals with what data and track those who access it.
There might be a relevant distinction between "without power" and "power is not available to me".
Don't know if op was indeed talking about ING, but their app was, for a time, very wrong on Android as they seemed to have rewritten it on a Cordova/Phonegap stack which subsequently tanked their rating on the play store. Looks like they have released a new native version since then - at least on the french store.
And what were the contents?
>Do we wiggle our magic fingers and generate gas out of nowhere ? Renewable gas accounts for about, at best, 10% of gas consumed in a year.

If we have excess (more or less free) electricity, i don't think we need magic fingers for this.
Hydro storage is quite expensive and difficult to build, for natural gas there is already a storage and distribution network in place. And it's quite easy tonstore for a long time.
He was offered a 6 month sentence in a low security prison. He could have served that sentence before the trial was even set to begin and resumed his life as programmer and activist. He was not murdered, he suffered from severe mentally illness.
Were you on twitter at all during any of the protests of last summer? Vague “incitement of riot” charges are going to be used against a whole lot of anti-establishment groups that were active during that time (and now).

If you think it stops at MAGA you are deceived.
Did they actively remove it, or did it just age out of trending like everything does after a relatively short amount of time?
if you don't want to be treated like a terrorist, you probably shouldn't fly to the nations capitol and storm congress.
So, let's say that Google or another big provider decides PodcastIndex.org is not moderating their content properly. How does PodcastIndex.org deal with their DNS entries disappearing from browsers defaulting to Google owned DoH servers?

Censorship proof requires looking at the whole stack.
I think you watched the wrong video sir
Show HN: Weekaz, a distraction-free time tracking solution managed inside Slack
I make a small specialty electronic device that is optimized for size and weight. Its a side hustle, so I do it just to break even.

It consists of three parts: a 2-piece plastic case, and a single circuit board with around 25 smt components. The user can replace the battery.

I'm not going to publish my schematic or board design because I already open sourced my code, and the device is designed to be stupidly easy to manufacture for my own sake. Basically I don't want people to start making their own. A competent EE could figure it out in a day or two, but a anyone with that ability could design their own in the same amount of time.

If something on the board goes bad, I'm not going to offer guidance to repair it. It isn't worth anyone's time. That said, I do offer a lifetime warranty/buyback option since the unit cost is less than $10.

This is a bit of a contrived example since there is literally only one part that can fail, but the point is that there is a very fuzzy line around how far we can go with repairability. Should I be forced to provide a full schematic/board design (giving away my IP essentially)? Should I be forced to provide 'parts' (there is really only one part, and that is the product itself)?

I'm sympathetic to the 'right to repair' movement, but I'm curious how it would be implemented across such a broad spectrum of products. Perhaps it could just be a transparency rule: planned obsolescence (unrepairable) items should be marked as such and an e-waste tax added. If you want to avoid that marking you have to offer to trade broken parts for new for 5 years after first sale at cost.
I think perhaps you are correct, but I think we have come to the realization that people like your brother are gone and not likely to come back without serious help (medication, therapy, etc.) Just being exposed to other points of view does not seem to cure them.

So given that, the only reasonable conclusion I can come up with this that this is essentially an enemy force living in our country - thousands of terrorists and perhaps millions of terrorist sympathizers. Our only goal at this point is to deny them aid, support, and the tools to organize effectively.

Like it or not, we have entered into an era of asymmetric warfare with what amounts to a terroristic cult in the United States.
To Anyone Who Thinks They’re Falling Behind (2016)
Here's what I've seen when the powers-that-be disrupt online communities... most people who were "casuals" stop paying attention when the convenient options (Twitter, Parler) disappear, and just go on with their life, watching Netflix or football instead. But the truly hardcore get pushed underground into a smaller and more virulent community (which Parler was to Twitter, and which something will be to Parler).

I expect Trumpism to take a hit as a political movement but thrive as an extremist movement as a consequence of this "shunning." Expect fewer 2016 elections and more January 6th terrorism.
Superintelligence Cannot Be Contained: Lessons from Computability Theory
By the same rationale, why do you need a "social network" at all? What is wrong with email?
If I understand correctly, that's the point. Nobody should be able to read or copy your data without permission.
In these times where many people have short attention spans, condensing and presenting the relevant facts is particularly important. This article is well-done, comprehensive, and succinct.
This is an inherently political question where the context is critical. If you are working with North Koreans on detailed plans for disruption of infrastructure for example then you would encounter a different alarms and enforcement than a biotech researcher doing gene splicing experiments. Email lists are extremely easy to set up, make robust, and transfer as necessary, so using tech like that to simply skip around big tech might be an alternative.
Hey, spoiler alert for people regarding that link -- there's some very strong, graphically violent language. Don't click if you're not in a good head space at the moment.
Improve your answer on interesting projects you worked on
For new python work that might grow, I highly recommend pytype annotations. It’s not perfect but it’s as close to the best of both worlds that I have ever seen in production.
I remember this concept being mentioned elsewhere as "friendly" and "hostile" learning environments
This approach doesn't work, not even for DJB. For example, take qmail: https://www.abuseat.org/qmailhelp.html

Qmail does late bounces for a very specific reason: since it was architected and implemented long before spam became a serious problem, Daniel J. Bernstein (DJB) implemented Qmail in a highly efficient, but inflexible way. ... Qmail is essentially dead - there is no further development on the project as a whole, users of it are stuck with an old core, and lots of ad-hoc and sometimes conflicting patches. In other words, an obsolete design, and no ongoing coordinated maintenance.
The Sinclair media group is one of the biggest players in US politics and basically owns the local media landscape.
Specifically, I think that appeasement is a real stupid justification for decisions made one way or the other, and I'm not persuaded by that argument in general. (https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/dane_geld.htm..., for another fine literary reference)

In this case, justifying continuation of parler's services because "if not, the people that just shit in the rotunda are going to do something worse" is in fact a strong argument for doing the opposite and posting the national guard outside the capitol building for a week, which is what's actually happened.

In the long run, is it going to stop them? No. In the short term, is it going to really hamstring the potential for a reprise of this insanity on the 20th? Yep!
> Only 2% of federal criminal defendants go to trial, and most who do are found guilty

From pew research
The question has been raised in over 60 different legal challenges. Every single one has failed utterly to show any evidence that it was not.

At this point, claiming there is any doubt means you are asserting an unprecedentedly massive conspiracy. It doesn't make you fair-minded, nonpartisan, or somehow above the fray. It makes you either deliberately attempting to sow unfounded doubt, or so ludicrously and willfully blind that you might as well be complicit in the attempt to overthrow the government.
> The idea "I could do some bike work on my own, so bike work can't be expensive" has to die, simple as that.

If the shop charges more than I value my time, than I won't go to the shop except to buy parts and tools to fix my bike with. Not sure why you think DIY needs to die. This is a supply/demand problem and ease of repair will depress prices.

Where the workshop model might work is the fabrication of parts. The supply chain has tanked; I'd be willing to pay double on that chainring I busted and nobody can stock.
15% of the US prison population is a huge number of people.
Right.

I fully 100% support the ability of Facebook, Twitter, etc to ban accounts. They have every legal and moral right to do so. Rembember that freedom of association is also a thing.

At the same time, I recognize that sufficently powerful corporations are practically just another form of government. Does it really make practical difference to you if a government says "you can't say that", vs a monopolist/trust/cartel saying the same thing?

But that only points out the fact that, for example, Facebook should not exist in its current form. That fact that that it is basically the only significant player in its niche points to a spectacular market failure, one likely compounded by unlawful monopolistic practices by Facebook.

There should instead be multiple viable competing services in such spaces. If it takes alienating decent sized chunks of the population to eventually get a viable competitor, then so be it. And no Parler is certainly not that viable competitor. But if Facebook's actions piss of enough people who are not extremists, then a true competitor might actually start to emerge.

The same applies to Apple/Amazon/Google.

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After thought:

Seriously who is the #2 competitor to Facebook's main service? There really does not seem to be any significant competitor in the English speaking world. While on the other hand, Amazon for example has fairly clear competitors for most of its products, at least in the US. Walmart/EBay competes with the shopping, GCP/Azure compete with AWS, YouTube Gaming competes with Twitch, multiple streaming services compete with the video and music offerings, etc. Apple likewise has competitors for pretty much all of their offerings. Even Google has competition on most of their products.
I'm not sure what you are disagreeing with. Prisons and prison labor existing because of racism is what you're arguing, and I didn't say anything to disagree with it. But root cause here is the same, assuming that laws against drug use are intended to catch more non-whites than whites.