skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, seriously, why the hell is this flagged?

We've had weeks now, of blatantly "Front page mainstream news political debating" flooding the front page, and yet one of the first technically focused takes on that, that to my eyes would be PRECISELY the question a "hacker" (in the traditional HN sense) would ask when confronted with this situation is flagged?

@dang, I'm sure you can identify who my real account is, and I will ask your forgiveness and understanding as to why I avoid any of these topics (or making this post) under that alias, so please take this as a plea from a typically moderate source that this is all going very unproductive and disappointing directions.

That every answer here is, "you can't", sidetracking into political arguments on the same tired quotes, or just blatant greying? We've GOT to be better than this.

Why aren't we discussing scihib? Why aren't we discussing bittorrent? Why aren't we discussing IPFS? Why aren't we discussing advanced forms of sneaker/mesh nets? I will gladly hold myself to this standard: I think we have seen the technical approach we need; we need to start thinking about ideological and centrally controlled platforms as points-of-failure in the same way we used to think about datacenters or network uplinks. Straddle technologies. Provide fallbacks. Build your core indexes on technologies that cannot be deplatformed readily, or are not cross-correlated in their deplatforming tendencies.

The is insane. I've been on this board over a decade, used to have such high respect for the level of discussion.

Please; please; I honestly beg of you all as one human to another hoping to pull back from our current mode of dialogue. Is anyone else in the room able to bring a steady keel back into these discussions?
Coming from someone that said safeguarding the life of elderly people like my own mother Margarita should be done at all cost

It sounds like things might be worse than projected.
I know some NPR stations stopped live coverage of some Trump briefings [1]. They still covered them, but not live.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2020/03/26/8213272...
This is clearly a violation of security good practice tenet of not implementing novel patterns.
I work on my side project https://pingr.io while having full time job.

Well, I'm not sure about validating idea. I just used the idea that was already validated by others.

My daily schedule was like:

Variant A:

- 8 AM to 11 AM work in a cafe on my side project

- 12PM - 8PM work at full-time job at office

----------

Variant B:

- 10AM - 6PM work on fulltime job at office

- 7PM - 11PM work on side project in a cafe, then go home

So actually I was able to get 3-4 hours for side project either in the mornings or in the evenings.

Plus, of course, the weekends were dedicated to the side project too.

Regarding validation, as I said, I didn't validate my idea, because the idea was already validated by others.

Pros: you know people need this
Cons: a lot of competitors
Sadly, this seems not to be happening so much in less developed countries in Central/Eastern Europe, notably Poland. My educated guess is that it's because a car is still a status symbol here, rather than a (very) costly tool for moving around.

Don't get me wrong, bike usage in Warsaw (where I am right now) is increasing, but it isn't nearly the revolution other EU cities have seen, and the support from authorities is lukewarm.
Parler Sues Amazon for Anti-Trust Violations, Breach of Contract
In my mind, the question is whether this is a speech that I would have to ban someone for on a forum, as a CM.

And my answer would be yes, it is ban-worthy, because it isn't going to lead to a productive discussion of grievances. Especially within the context of a poster who has been making the same attack across hundreds of threads, willing to lie and exaggerate repeatedly along the way.

Now, I can hear the free speech brigade on this one, so that should be addressed too. It happens to be the case that members of the armed forces are in a separate category with respect to their 1st Amendment rights. Given that the President is commander in chief of the military, he sits in a place where his speech is of at least the same consequence as a general. Using that speech to interfere with the processes of the US Government, even if credible claims are made, poses a threat to the nation as a whole.

What does he expect to happen? Is it for everyone else to say "Oh, gee, I guess you're right after all, let's do the election over?" If the process is corrupt, but you believe in the system as a whole, you aim to fix it on the next cycle, not instigate a crisis after losing.
Yes, actually reading that it makes it sound like the file manager itself is just badly architechted - of course you shouldn't load mimetypes synchronously before listing a folder in the UI, that seems obvious.

So maybe I'm not right about GIO as such. But Nautilus is also excruciatingly slow despite being more fully asynchronous.
Snippets of one of my conversations with aaronsw way back when talking about the reason I wanted to help with Open Library:

me: If it wasn't for my free city library growing up I would have
never gotten where I am today.
aaronsw: Precisely. I got into it for the same reason you did.

He was a genuinely good truth seeker. I wish I had been smarter and better able to help him more when he needed it. Please support people like him and Alexandra Elbakyan and others who are persecuted for doing the right thing for the right reasons.
If the authors were striving for objectivity, they'd skip discussion of values and interests entirely and talk solely about what effect drug policies had on certain quantifiable metrics --- all in a factual and dispassionate way.

A scientific paper is a report on the state of reality and should not contain a case for any sort of action.
Our critical communications infrastructure is in danger. Are there any serious companies or organizations out there countering this wave of censorship?
Signal is a messaging service not a social network
From the second link:

PG's opinion: "Aaron's not wrong to call himself one of the founders. The company behind Reddit was a merger of two startups, one that made Reddit and one that made Infogami, and in that situation the founders of both startups are considered founders of the combined company."
You say leaked, I say additional backup :)
From what I've read, the atrocities were largely carried out by the military, who also had hundreds of people making fake Facebook accounts to spread their propaganda.

Monitoring private messages likely wasn't even possible as Facebook staff had just four employees capable of understanding the language.
You seem to be lumping all side-effects together as equally bad? I don't think you can expect to push everything out to the edges, for example partiality. I take your point that a lot of imperative programming is done in Haskell (e.g. State monads). However, I think what most Haskellers mean when they talk about pushing effects to the edge, is pushing IO and other less benign effects.
Risk assignment on IaaS .. my house, my rules
Now you have one with an in-tact screw you should take it out and figure out the size and thread-pitch so if it breaks again you can buy a generic one.

And then post the info online somewhere - even if it's a random Reddit thread Google will pick it up and a search like "Aldi chainsaw chain tightening screw replacement" should pick it up.
You can't eat your cake and have it too. Why are they calling for regulation of this sector, but claiming regulation is the death of companies, in others? The hypocrisy is infuriating.
>> It'll leave you sad and angry

Indeed.
I think that comes down to self-proclaimed experts vs experts as decided by their peers.

Many of the people I met who were considered experts and had a vast depth of knowledge never referred to themselves as experts and seemed do get embarrassed at the idea.

Whereas, i've met several self-proclaimed experts who liked to talk a lot about how great they were, but never really showed the depths of knowledge the other kind of experts showed.

At least from my experiences anyway in life.
Twitter has hosted the Revolutionary Communist Party USA for at least ten years. It would seem they have no ethical problem with hosting calls for a coup.
It should really be an open social network that government entities cannot shut down. The real test for anyone trying this will be the Great Wall of China. Until then...
Similarly, the claim that Parler was a "platform for free speech" has also gone unchallenged. Since the data breach it's come to light that new users were shadowbanned by default until approved by moderators; whether that approval hinged on posting right-wing groupthink or not, that should give one pause before parroting the claim.

https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1347939939120533506
for what its worth - some Dems are losing funding as well (I think Mariott pulled funding?) Companies don't want to piss off either side so I guess their gonna pull back from both?

Personally, I'd find it an improvement - I've been waiting for election finance reform! :-)
more importantly, moderation is an overlay. instead of worrying about what and what isn't acceptable speech, let subcommunities form with their own policies and they can curate their own worldview

that doesn't at all address bubbleism, but trying to decide which set of statements is 'ok' for everyone seems like a lost cause
>The #1 issue in the USA beyond simple conviction and incarceration is rehabilitation. At the federal level, where I have personal experience, it seems like it's entirely retribution instead of rehabilitation.

Do people generally want rehabilitation?

I find that when I talk to people, they want rehabilitation for minor crimes and retribution for major crimes, but when feel comfortable enough with talking about it, they generally don't want the minor crimes to be illegal to begin with. Once you get them to discuss the group they actually want in prison, it tends to consist of people they retribution against.

Try asking people what is a crime that deserve 2 years of prison, give or take a year. I find few are able to place crimes into that window, even though 2 years is plenty of time to rehabilitation people if one was actively working at it.
> unqualified volunteer moderation team in charge

Devils advocate here, but this does for the most part work for Reddit.
This is true, but it seems to be mostly consumer preference. That 30 year old refrigerator cost more (normalized) and does less than most of the ones you can buy today. When people offer longer lived, better built versions for more money, most people don't buy them.

The same thing happened to furniture.
Aaron was forced into a case where his options are 1) take the deal, waive your right to a trial and serve a certain sentence, or 2) exercise your right to a trial and in revenge get a much heavier sentence (some people here mention a max of 30 years - even rapists and murderers can get less than that) since the commonplace nature of plea deals over time devalues the "true" sentences as written in the law because nobody serves them.

Frankly I don't think this situation delivers justice to neither the victim nor the defendant. If we assume the defendant is guilty, why should he be allowed to get off with a sentence that's 29 years lower than what it should be? If we assume that the defendant is not guilty, is it fair to force him to pick between a fair trial and potential 30 years of prison or 6 months without trial, given that even someone that's not guilty would most likely take the deal and this perverts the course of justice by essentially jailing people based on mere allegations without a trial?
Throw away.

What I find so funny is the hypocrisy of all these co’s.

During growth, no morals at all. Once at the top, suddenly the arbiter of honesty and righteousness.

Reddit - How long did they let /r/creepshots /r/jailbait and more run wild before shutting down? When it was convenient economically with investors and growth numbers? Only after a bad article was written?

Amazon - Make a list of all the businesses AWS have massive enterprise contracts with. How many do you think are with awful organizations/governments? How much other small business terrible content is hosted on their platform?

Twitter - Flip flop when politically convenient on basically everything. Moments, search, comments are all literally designed where if you click any important political conversation the most inflaming reply is at the top. Then pretend “enough is enough” now. That the discourse is not a result of themselves?

Facebook - Built an entire business around encouraging what Cambridge Analytica did then come out and pretend to care about privacy and shocked that ‘they abused out platform’.

Google - Their ad platform is basically Cambridge Analytica. What consent do people actually think they are giving? The company’s goal is to basically be one giant “thisisyourdigitallife” app.

YouTube - Algorithms that radicalize but generate profit are okay, but then be outraged by it. Kidding me...

Box.com (similar non-info based tech co’s) - I’ve seen them tweet politics constantly from a high horse of morals. Let’s see a list of all their enterprise clients? I’m sure none of these growth tech service co’s do business with awful people, organizations, governments?

It’s time to point the finger in the mirror folks.
The funny thing is, before the current ING app, there was a super crappy app that used an MSN chat bot on the background to query your account balance.

But indeed as you describe, since 2012 or so, the ING app is formidable and built by amazing people.

Source: I work at ING, in IT, but in a completely different area.
They key phrase is “arrested in connection... Capitol... active users of Parler”
I think the article was easy enough to pass by as I agree it didn't make GOOD arguments specifically in building production systems. I also give the author some slack because that article would be quite heavy to address the entire development cycle up to production systems.

From my reading the article makes no claim that Haskell is the best language. The purpose as I read it is to explain why Haskell is their first choice while addressing an audience that has a passing knowledge of Haskell.

You being extremely hesitant to hire the services because of their technology stack is great and fine. There are many stacks and services I completely avoid in dealing with so I agree there.

"It'd be a nightmare to maintain after their contract" is something someone would likely say to any language that is not their preference.
why the hell would anyone go on /b/? Same reason no one goes to reddit/r/nsfl

And honestly, 4chan really is a utopia compared to orange reddit. Removing identities makes conversations less about how the individual appears and more about the substance of the topic.
> No. "Rejecting democracy," a position held by myriad political currents

Terrorism is subjective relative to the system in power. And I said "linked to" not "is". Having the opinion isn't terrorism. But giving money or vocal support to people who then invite others to or themselves try to violently overthrow a form of government is - from the subjective perspective of people in the current system - closely linked to terrorism. If they had succeeded in installing Trump as the continued leader in a post-democratic US, it wouldn't have been terrorism. Because they would've been judged under the new system of government. But they didn't succeed so far. So from the perspective of a post-Trump democratic government, it was terrorism. Terrorism doesn't mean every single person is scared afterwards, so your personal feelings towards it aren't the defining factor.
I don't think the fact that it's happened to others has any bearing on its rightness or wrongness.
> 1. Yes I am fine with previously convicted murderers living in the same building as me. Teaching my children. And being my co-worker. I want to be able to trust the "justice" system to allow people back into society when they're able to.

I was talking to my friend over the weekend and a funny story came up. My friend is a chess player and made friends with an elderly gentleman at a local starbucks over a game of chess. They became chess buddies and played many games and my friend even visited his house to play a games after the man developed a severe joint disease and had difficulty moving.

It turns out he was playing chess with Nicholas “Nicky No Socks” Facciolo a convicted mobster and murder who learned and fell in love with chess while in jail. My friend told me that after learning that he continued to play with Nicky until he could no longer play due to his disease. He never felt threatened or uncomfortable. As far as he was concerned Nicky paid his debts and was no longer the person he was.
All non-violent criminals jailed on minor drug offences should be released
>Facebook recommend users to join groups, follow pages, and even shows content that is not from people you follow. So it isn't just a telephone company that allows you to make phone calls, it's a service that makes an editorial choice about what they show you.

But these all are algorithmic isn't it ? Its not like facebook decided to manually show certain content to some people, unlike the the silencing done to trump.
Isn't Germany on of the countries that at least had plans on making social media companies responsible for what their users post on their sites. If I remember correctly they were even proposing massive fines if content that they deemed illegal was not removed within an hour and even holding the executives criminally responsible for the content that any of their users post? I'm not sure did they actually go that far but they were at least proposing it.

So on the one hand they are saying that companies need to strictly control what users say on their platform and if they get it wrong they are criminals, but on the other hand they shouldn't control what is said on their platform?
> And if all the bakers in town refuse to bake you a cake, should you be able to force one to?

Yes.

edit: Well, they could also close all of their bakeries. I'm willing to allow them that option.
Spec-compliant USB-C cables are still required to have the USB2 data lines hooked up, even "power-only" cables, and Android Auto / Carplay don't need beyond USB2
One way around this is to utilize cheap micro-inverters on each panel. This makes it easier to add new panels as your usage goes up (or funds). Also easier to monitor their performance due to shading, dust, etc.
> wasn't aware of Giuliani's speech

Shouldn't you be? It's kind of important to defending him...

> In fact, from your quote alone, it seems like the NYPD bore the entire brunt of the NYC budget shortfall.

That isn't how percentages work. Say NYPD is 20% of the NYC budget, a 10% cut to NYPD would be 2% of a cut to the entire budget.
Default Photograph Names – and their distribution
Not hard to believe at all. China, Russia, DPRK, Saudi Arabia.

The. State. Will. Take. Your. Property. And. Kill. You. If. You. Step. Out. Of. Line.
Free speech existed before Parler, and it will exist after.
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We're trying to avoid descending further into hell here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I never said there had to be swaths of illegal content.

In other words you are asserting there was absolutely no illegal content on parler that would require them to moderate their content when asked. If that's the stand you want to take, cool, have a great day, I am not responding to you further. Corporate legal risk assessment is what killed Parler.
I'm very happy to see the ACLU take a stand on principles that are no doubt currently in conflict with their personal political views.
>>"I'd love to see a study where researchers take things that are seen as good/important/essential to modern life and measure the amount of public/government sponsorship that helped bring it about. "

You could be interested in this book:

https://marianamazzucato.com/entrepreneurial-state/
If it helps anyone, I put together a Twitter thread running through my top Azlo alternatives https://twitter.com/ryanzanardi/status/1348695099518169093?s...
Also, these people knew exactly how to find the offices of Senators Clybourn and Pelosi. Apparently Pelosi's office is unmarked, nondescript, and pretty well hidden down a maze of offices. And Clybourn has two offices, a "public" one, with his name tag on it that he rarely uses, and his official one, which is obscured in a manner similar to that of Pelosi's. Attackers knew which one to choose. Some are suggesting that this indicates support from someone with insider knowledge of the Capitol.

Then there's the whole topic of Boebert and her obsession with carrying a gun around Congress in the days leading up to the event then tweeting their locations live during the incident. It looks like telegraphing in hindsight; like she knew what was going down.
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24542828
I am slowly suspecting that being capable of tremendous levels of cognitive disoance, without realizing it, is one of the common denominators of radicals. Quite obvious in right wingers, but I wouldn't exclude others, I just saw it more at the right end of the political spectrum.
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1348691869971185667

Seeing a person you have always looked up to in the past now advertising how Facebook is "extremely serious about privacy"™ is pretty sad in many ways.
He is of course free to do what he wants, he chose to work for Facebook after all. Guess it is important to reevaluate your heroes from time to time, and to move on if necessary.
Actually, when using Steam on macOS, it feels like traveling back to 2005.

I like Steam, it’s convenient and it works, but I don’t think “being ahead of the curve” is in their dictionary.
Well, maybe they can learn that there are other alternatives besides the american political system during those studies, and actually do something to change your broken system...
Parler used an integer for unique database ID
There's no grounds for them to sue a platform because of the immunity granted by Section 230 which was passed 16 years before the events of Sandy Hook as part of Communications Decency Act of 1996. The above comment was about a hypothetical situation if that immunity was repealed - then we absolutely should expect every platform to be sued into ground unless (and even if) they censor everything.
Don’t forget the diesel, petrol, and propane. The dirty secret of most “off grid”.
Overton window
I think it would be better to make all communications require an acceptance. Like accepting a facebook friend, of google hangouts.

Then charge for acceptances, even $0.10 per user would likely be not a big deal for users, but prohibitive for spammers who want to message millions and only a very small fraction will be gullible enough to pay for whatever the spammer is selling.
Cortex 0.26: Machine learning inference at scale
I take written notes all the time in my data science and programming work, as well as at home. It is much easier to take "nonlinear" notes on paper than in any app I have ever tried. Penmanship is a productivity skill for me.
> Each instance can set their own moderation policies and decide what other instances they want to federate with.

Yeah, this is why the fediverse is terrible, too. Your site admin shouldn't be the one deciding who you can DM, or which people can follow your feed.

Imagine if email worked that way.
Maybe "parlor was only used for hate" but Parler, no. There is questionable content on Parler as much as is on Twitter, Facebook, etc.
First thing a read was the red message about the remote code execution, didn't really increase my trust either.
A lot of countries limit Facebook, and it makes sense that the attention on Facebook in the US is related to their US activities. India has responded to Facebook for their activities in India.

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