skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One random example I ran across recently of note to HN crowd - the creator of Javscript and Brave, Founder of Mozilla Brendan Eich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

Under known for it says, “Known for JavaScript, opposition to same-sex marriage”

Really? I’m as gay as they come but this just gives me scarlet letter vibes. I sincerely doubt people know this guy for his work opposing ssm (of which there wasn’t any, he was just opposed to it back in the day). People do know firefox, brave, mozilla etc though. In the talk page it is clear there are a couple editors with a vendetta against this guy or something.

Maybe an example of personal bias more than a left/right thing but I still found it kinda weird.
what is sentience?
They just typically default enforcement guidelines to mirror them. Feel free to test that theory with burner accounts or look up moderation policies.
Yes it does. Rights without the means to exercise them are worthless.
It exists, but Apple purposely drags their feet when it comes to implementing web standards in mobile Safari that include the web notifications API, and they make it impossible to use a different browser or JavaScript engine on iOS.
I’d argue that he’s not stupid, I would argue that he is genuinely unwell. His private behavior, documented in a lawsuit by his former associates, paints a picture of a man whose behavior in private is as dangerous and unhinged as his current public behavior is. He called himself the second coming of Jesus in a private email, allegedly.

He is another case of a public figure that would’ve gotten positive coverage in the history books if he’d had the good fortune to die a while ago. Him and Giuliani, who also seems unwell.
I fully expect that people who care about this country would be willing to steal the election away from Trump if they believed the nonstop lies about Russian collusion, the "fine people" hoax, etc.
Today, go produces static binary by default, not Rust.
My experience is that Acer laptop screens start flickering and going black when touched within a year of purchase, going back several product generations.

ASUSes don't seem to fail much.

Lenovo used to be good but achieved badness.

Dell is always hit or miss. You can get lucky.
As I've suggested elsewhere, I think 1-month to 3-month suspensions are much better than lifetime bans. Suspensions keep followers hanging around the mainstream platform, where you can suggest centrist content to them.

A lifetime ban gets rid of all carrots and all future sticks the platform can offer.
The vast majority of the people there were LARPers who didn't intend any violence.

How does that change the fact that there were multiple armed groups and individuals, many of whom had very clear intentions. Given the chance, they would have absolutely taken hostages, or killed a Senator or the Vice President. And they were able to literally walk right into the Capitol, almost completely unimpeded.

Why does the fact that the majority of them were LARPing change that fact?
I found this taxonomy (helping you decide / helping you act) interesting, and I wonder whether there are other categories that it might naturally be extended with. Helping you deliberate, helping you discuss, helping you exercise command authority?

I was just watching some videos of mission control centers from space missions and they were interestingly different from any situations I've been in myself. They're about helping people talk to each other in a very structured way, as well as looking at information together (also in a very structured way) -- with defined scopes of authority and responsibility, and responding to a sometimes quickly-evolving situation.
The actual Tweet is “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country”.

I do also recall that he called out Pence during the speech leading to the riot as well.

However the thing that stood out the most to me at that speech is that his son said they would make the party the “Trump Republican Party”, which seemed to indicate a coming purge.

Now at the time, I thought it would be a nonviolent purge, but considering the riot I am not sure what was actually intended since his followers took that to mean Pence should be hanged.
I'm not seeing these people trying to kidnap Senators. I'm not seeing an organized movement to stop a democratic transition of power, nor incitement by the President in favor of such actions, not people walking with guns threatening the lives of others. Vandalism, sure? Are you going to stupidly compare one thing with another?
Given that the attempted assassination of congress members at a base/softball game was not a good place to start, I don't see how one could justify starting at the invasion of a federal building except in considering the teams involved.
Exactly, many of the people crying loudly right now are doing it from Twitter, because they have not been banned, because they did not incite any violence.
Governments is several countries have been toppled with exactly this kind of violence.
Do you have examples of ISPs doing this to companies like Parler?
January 6 was a "mostly peaceful" protest.
In a pragmatic way, you are right. This could have ended up much worse than it did. But let's not fool ourselves, the intent of these people was to intimidate officials into disrupting a peaceful transition of power.

They didn't do so because of any actual evidence that the transition was fraudulent, but out of loyalty to one person and a cult of personality. It all just reeks of dictatorship-like behavior to me.
Intending to use against a congressman ? Did he tell that much to you ?
Ha! This is great. I would have loved to have had this insight when I worked on Midori, at one point there was an M# keyword shmutable (for shared mutable objects) and one objection was the concern (beyond the obvious objections to silly keywords) that if said as sh'mutable that it sounded very close to shimmutable which would be a critically bad confusion
It would be a big problem, but I don't think so. It wasn't in the realm of possibility on January 6, but for sake of argument.... Say the entire Sentate and House is wiped out somehow. They are not essential for day to day governance. State Governors would make emergency appointments to replace them as a first response. It would be hugely disruptive and chaotic, but I think the republic would survive. The republic is the states. The people in Washington are just the representatives.
Generating music with macOS “say” command
I always fail to understand what motivates someone that likes censorship, hates Free Speech, and generally cannot stand to coexist with anyone too diferent from himself...to go looking for an alternative medium without censorship, supportive of Free Speech, and where those way different from himself congregate? When so many options like Reddit, Quora, Raddle, Fakebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc., exist almost exclusively for 'normies', why not stay at the echo chambers dedicated to them, where all the undesirables have been banished and deplatformed? What's the irresitable lure of these alternatives?
Good old Hugo Elias :) When I first visited the UK in 2003 I made a trip to London to visit him, guy bought me lunch at a Thai restaurant. Quality bloke, and yes we all (graphics programmers from that generation) learnt so much from his page.
i don't think that mike judge set out to make a movie about the relationship between humans and technology.
Deplatforming from what I understand works in deradicalization at the population level. That is, if you want a smaller population of radicals, you deplatform them. If you want less radical behavior, you deplatform them.

(NOTE: the following paper also covers what happens to the radicals who remain radicals post-deplatforming, which is super interesting.)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02673231209220...
> > If the mob had managed to find and destroy the electoral certificates,

> Then nothing different would happen because this particular part of the vote is a formality. Well, the news would be even more one sided on this, but nothing else.

I can guarantee to you Trump would have used this an excuse to try to stay in power, or at least use it as another excuse on top of the ones he has concocted already. He's taken plenty of advantage of grey areas to wreak havoc on administrative norms. Furthermore, it would likely have emboldened his supporters to undertake further violent action more quickly.
If you are using Skynet for your project, I believe you need to run a node, which will require downloading the 23GB [1] blockchain from sia.

I really hope these blockchain based projects can solve the sharding problem. These blockchains are getting so big.

[1] https://siastats.info/blockchain_size
Yes. If you believe in a libertarian "absolute free speech" principle you should also let private companies decide who they let on their platform. You cannot have it both ways.
> Considering that Facebook and Twitter can't effectively moderate their platforms

What an odd statement.

If that were true, Parler would have no reason to exist. After all, it's raison d'etre is specifically to allow people to get away from the perceived censorship on the major social media platforms.
> I love the back and forth of terminology ("rioter" vs "terrorist" vs "attacker")

There was a mix of terrorists, insurrectionists, rioters, hooligans and protesters in the crowd. Those who entered the Capitol were no longer protesters. Those damaging or stealing property were more than hooligans. Those aiming to disrupt the election count were more than rioters. And those with aims on harming members of Congress were more than incompetent insurrectionists.
Sex robots will never compete with a warm, willing goat.

City folk will be adopting pet plumbing more widely soon enough, rendering the "house training" issue moot. (Its possible, but they can hold it for minutes at most.)
Look at the @ParlerTakes account on Twitter or r/ParlerWatch. There are thousands of examples of this on a relatively small social media site.
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the latter is considered slightly less acceptable.

I agree that both are crimes. I am more concerned with reaction of tech platforms. Remember these same tech companies were supporting BLM blindly.

Few months back exPM of Malaysia openly justified beheading in France with no reaction from tech companies.

They always suck-up to China just get a foothold into the Chinese market so thinking they are acting to uphold democracy is a funny idea.
Okay, putting the ideals of the two events aside, the fact is the police (and national guard) presence was great enough during the BLM protest to make breaching the perimeter essentially impossible, as opposed to the much lighter presence on the 6th.
No one on the left considers Democrats to be "on the left"
I believe Wikipedia is not only the greatest and most perfect website to exist, but also one of the greatest accomplishments of humankind.

I rarely use such strong, ostensibly hyperbolic language without sarcasm, but I couldn't be more sincere and genuine with that statement.

It exemplifies the information age, and the "purpose" of the internet - networked information transfer. The design is simple and usable to an almost miraculous degree. The distributed sourcing of information with mind-blowing moderation is pioneering and of upmost respectability.

Its ability to endure through the onslaught of addictive capitalist pressures and sheer ethical reasonableness is something very special, resisting ads for the sake and benefit of humanity, I almost want to cry just writing about it.

I could say so much more, but what I want to get to is - Thank you Wikipedia. You have changed countless lives and spread unthinkable knowledge to unfathomable futures. Hard to believe it's only been 20 years, I can't imagine a universe without you.

Please donate if you use Wikipedia. The world needs it.
Nah, they're right. The most powerful military in the history of the solar system almost fell to a couple pipe bombs and a hand full of zip ties.
Help me understand how a lone gunman at a softball game is the equivalent of a fatal anti-democratic insurrection invading and occupying the nations capitol.
> But YOU have still an issue.

I disagree.

> There a lot of broken tools out there

A tool that incorrectly handles optional tags may handle other parts of the spec incorrectly too. Such a tool may provide incorrect results for even perfectly well-written HTML. There is no know what it takes to make all the broken parsers out there happy.

I know you made a point about ETL tools[1] where XML parsers are used to parse HTML but there is no way to cater to such absurd use cases anyway. Using an XML parser to parse HTML5 is not going to work correctly anyway even if you do retain the optional tags because it would fail on other HTML5 tags that do not have closing tags such as <meta>, <link>, <img>, etc., empty attributes like <input disabled>, <input required>, etc. Web developers from all around the world are not going to start writing self-closing <img /> tags just because these broken ETL tools have decided to use an XML parser to parse HTML5.

There are plenty of good HTML5 parsers out there for almost every mainstream programming language. Just use them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25708209
Thus, since one cannot prove a negative, we can conclude from your statement that, for all intents and purposes, all things are sentient. You sentient-murdering mosquito killer.

Grand assertions made without logical or verbal specificity tend to be of limited utility.
Ok. Can u tell me the death till associated with BLM (not attributed to police)? I can - 0.
I'm old enough to remember when a Bernie Sanders supporter shot a Republican congressman at a baseball practice. Is that an existential threat to the republic that should be laid at the feet of Bernie supporters?
They banned the app because the moderation policies allowed for said insurrection attempt to occur. There are tons of posts explicitly calling for violence that violate Parler's Terms of Service, yet have not been removed from Parler, meaning that there's a failure to moderate the platform. If Parler actually moderated its content to prevent users from plotting insurrection, the app would probably not have been removed. But the whole draw of Parler is that it never would have removed that content. Since high-profile Parler users were promoting Stop the Steal and potential violence, the app's userbase would see removal as a violation of "free speech social media" and move on from Parler to the next thing that allows them to talk about it.

It's not punishing all Parler users for the actions of a small group on Parler, it's punishing Parler itself for failing to keep that small group from breaking its own rules, along with Apple's, Google's, Amazon's, etc. I don't see anything wrong with that.
It was even worse before. When I read it, the opening line suggested that all of the rioters collectively murdered that cop. I think that was a little too biased for wikipedia. Does anyone have the revision?
The poster and I aren’t doing anything; Twitter, a private company, is refusing to publish their words to limit their legal and brand liability if another coup is attempted. It’s hard for me to argue that they shouldn’t with the laws as written without a law degree. And similarly I have a hard time arguing that the law should be changed where they are disallowed from doing so.
> Is it that different to wanted posters or publishing cctv of a crime?

I think so. That mechanism is judicially auditable. The AI is not. We should not be arresting people based on the output of an unauditable mechanism.
"All of these authoritarian powers will, ironically, be invoked and justified in the name of stopping authoritarianism — not from those who wield power but from the movement that was just removed from power. Those who spent four years shrieking to great profit about the dangers of lurking “fascism” will — without realizing the irony — now use this merger of state and corporate power to consolidate their own authority, control the contours of permissible debate, and silence those who challenge them even further"

[1] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarian...
I've found the best habits reinforce each other. Diet, exercise, better sleep.. they all interact and make each other stronger.

I have also found that a brisk morning walk in the cold (deliberately wear just a hoodie and shorts in near freezing temps) has helped as well. Maybe it's the sunlight, maybe it's the exercise, maybe it's the cold but I feel like it gets my hormones into better shape and I have more energy (specifically referring to T, and for example I have had very mild acne, which I hadn't seen in about 15 years).
But since industries used Haskell, now they are concerned with backward compatibility, which AFAIK makes some parts of Haskell ugly. I wish there would be something like RHEL/Fedora model rather than letting Simon Peyton Jones being dictated by industry by ceding towards backward compatibility.
On a somewhat related note, I'd been internally pronouncing `reflog` in `git reflog` as REE-FLOG for the longest time. It wasn't until I finally needed to use it that REF-LOG made a lot more sense!
> Really? I’m as gay as they come but this just gives me scarlet letter vibes.

I agree, I sure wouldn't want to be known for inventing JavaScript. And the name wasn't even his idea. How unfair!
Sure, it's possible (probable?) that all the people planning violence on Parler are going to continue somewhere else.

But do you really think that the world would be better off if they were allowed to continue on Parler? Should nothing be done?
If it’s one thing wall street likes, it’s the status quo. Jan 6 includes ratifying the electoral votes and then (maybe?) a concession from Trump about a new administration. The status quo can continue now unabated.
A. If assassination is the method to institute change, SCOTUS would be target #1, due to succession rules. (Side note: Pelican Brief.)

B. I'm not saying there wasn't any wacko who fantasized about overthrowing the the Government and throning an Emperor.

But regime change through force is an impossible task. See: The last 50 years of American foreign policy.
Yeah, this is honestly the best response to the above comment. It was an attempt to disrupt the peaceful transition of power, at the behest of a wannabe autocrat, fueled by lies and conspiracy theories. The fact that it was incompetent and disorganized, and that not everyone there shared that goal, doesn't change anything.
As in chard, but maybe we should all say it as in chardonnay
> Facebook and Twitter might do well to just ban politics entirely at this point.

So your point is to have Facebook and Twitter policing and monitoring everyone's posts for discussions on general politics. Good luck with that.

You better have a definition and where to draw the line on which posts, images, text and speech that fit your definition of 'politics'.
Thanks for posting this, I was pondering along the same lines!

> Every other utility seems to be regulated. For example even if you have a Confederate flag or a picture of Stalin outside your house, the local electric and water companies are not allowed to turn off your service as long as you are paying the bill.

TIL that this is due to the implied monopoly. I think the difference is that electricity and water are required for survival but internet isn't so it isn't regulated as such. This can also be extended to the difference in buying milk (walk in and pay cash) vs. buying alcohol (need a current govt issued ID).
I absolutely agree as far as arrests and convictions for violence, incitements to violence, and conspiracies to commit violent acts.

However, I think deplatforming is a poor long-term solution. Deplatforming on mainstream platforms inspired and fueled the rise of Parler. Deplatforming gets rid of all carrots and all future sticks the mainstream platform has against a given extremist. I think 1-month to 3-month suspensions are more likely to keep followers around, where the mainstream platform has an opportunity to suggest a mixture of center-left and center-right content to them, and provide carrots to rehabilitate extremist publishers.

As I've posted elsewhere, taking Parler offline is probably a necessary short-term solution to an acute threat, but I think it's rarely the right long-term solution.

Edit: I'm fine being downvoted, but if you have a good counter-argument, please post it or a link to it. Try to change my mind instead of just venting your anger.
> I'm distressed and saddened at how many of the free speech proponents on HN are treating the events of January 6 as if it was just another protest and not an existential threat to the republic.

You know what else is an existential threat to the republic? A growing group of congresspeople who openly question fundamental American values like the right to bear arms, freedom of association, freedom of religion, a punitive justice system, and the non-redistribution of wealth. Those seditious traitors have been growing in numbers for the past decade. (See what I did there?)

All I'm really saying is you should not act like there wasn't build up to this from both sides.

This country is trying to decide whether it likes being wealthy more than it likes being free, and for the people who were never particularly wealthy in the first place, it's hardly a choice at all. What do you expect them to do, just take it? When have Americans ever done that?
Interesting question.

I don't think these two concepts are in opposition. Of course, exposure to a toxic ideological viewpoint is poisonous for the recipient, and may in fact entice them to become more toxic themselves (if they are swayed by said reasoning). But a crucial part of the societal contract is to tolerate such toxic viewpoints so as to have the opportunity to redeem those who hold them. In other words, by eating a little bit of the poison ourselves, we are granted the opportunity to save that person from their own poison, by showing compassion and empathy towards them.

People who have hate in their hearts are not entirely bad people. Everyone was once a child, everyone has experienced the mystery of simply existing, almost everyone has experienced love (whether from their parents or someone else), most people enjoy art and music. Evoking our shared humanity and showing compassion for others allows us to break down their toxic ideologies and even reform them to be beacons of compassion themselves.

Perhaps the best and most compelling anecdote to promulgate this way of thinking is Daryl Davis, who, through his talents and love of music, has reformed many of the most hateful people in our country — members of the KKK. I would recommend this TED talk by him, titled "Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp3q1Oaezw. It really encapsulates the power of this viewpoint.

The crucial element here is ensuring that we have channels of communication that allow for this sort of compassionate understanding... I fear that the compression of thought foisted upon us by social media platforms and online communication tools obscures the basic reality of our shared suffering, joy, intrigue, and humanity. These important facets of communication can be lost to the aether of technology, and our true intentions are thereby belied by the incorrigibly weak substrate of written language.

As a note, I think we have discussed the topic of free speech in another thread before. It's good to "see" you again :)
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Alfred North Whitehead (1911)
Disagree actually. The fire analogy was fine. I would love to see a reply to that.