skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most popular podcaster right now is Joe Rogan, who does 2-3 hour interviews. Doesn't the popularity of his content suggest that Americans are very interested in higher level discourse, but have long been denied it?
But that’s not true... it does. Maybe not of US consumption levels... but the US need to sort that out.
I thought that subreddit was banned because of the negative media attention that it received. Wasn't that years before SESTA and FOSTA were passed?
So what does this mean in the context of other things?

Can users block other users as long as they are not politicians?

Can politicians report/flag tweets to have them removed?

Can companies do the same to eliminate negative tweets about their brand?

Can companies/politicians pay for positive tweets to make up for negative tweets?

Genuinely interested, since I am not a lawyer.
> "Deep ties to US agencies" is sensationalizing the facts.

It's not sensationalizing the facts, it's minimizing the facts. It's a pure propaganda project meant to manipulate public opinion outside of the US. It's the Asian version of Radio Marti, or Radio Free Europe. Funded by the U.S. taxpayers, run by the U.S. government, to improve the image of the U.S. in the world, to strengthen friendly governments and to weaken government enemies.

It is an overt propaganda machine, but fully available for covert agencies to use as part of any project they wish. A great way to use it is to float a story, then get more legitimate outlets to report on the story using it as the source.

It's like BBC News, if the BBC didn't broadcast to British people and was explicitly conceived as a propaganda arm of the government. So not really much like BBC news.
This is all done so political trolls can spam freely before elections.

Imagine this site -> trolls come and promote a certain party (guess which) - and mods cannot delete it.
It doesnt matter that this site is about hackernews, or some other website is about cat pictures -> you still cannot delete the political spam.
For large customers, the TOS is not just a click through agreement, it's actually signed as a part of an overall MSA.

I don't see how you could argue that a TOS is not legal when both parties signed and agreed to it.
Have you ever been in a restaurant? Yes, they do.
>in 15 years, the U.S. becomes Germany, pre-WW2

>the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

The irony of censoring people being, “the price of freedom”.

Serious question, why do you think that disenfranchising groups of their ability to communicate online is going to prevent social strife and violence instead of intensifying it? Banning theDonald didn’t help, the Daily Stormer being banished from the web didn’t change anything, kicking so many reactionaries off of Twitter that they went off to make Gab didn’t help, and destroying Parler and kicking Trump off social media isn’t going to help.

How is silencing a group that feels oppressed going to help anything?

This, “conservatives are turning into literal nazis” narrative is extremely toxic to public discourse and needs to completely stop.
It's been that for as long as I can remember, but that's only a year or two.
This whole thing reminds of the 4 stages of change:

- denial: our capitalistic democratic ways work: we're not China!

- resistance: oh no, FAANG control our lives, we must fight back!

- exploration: what if mastodon blockchain webRTC could save us?

- acceptance: something must be done, X is something, therefore it must be done!

We're currently on the third step. I'd love for there to be a rational, coherent solution for the last step, but I don't have much faith that the for-karma collective in HN is going to agree to stop nitpicking, let alone come up with a remotely workable solution.

Expect to see technology startups claiming to solve the problem without understanding its human aspect, big tech growing more powerful on the back of cacophonous social media "engagement", and China's dominance in the world increasing as the rest of the world becomes less and less able to manufacture anything. That's what the fourth stage is going to be, if things keep going the way they have been.
I'd say he is reporting on culture wars, not selling them.
Can you do your research before posting statements like these? They hurt a messenger that has done a great deal of good for protestors and other political rebels.

If I take the kindest interpretation of your statements, they are factually wrong in whole but true in part. That is, the Telegram server code is closed source, yes. But Telegram clients and the protocols they use to "speak" are all either open source or documented where source code isn't applicable (MTProto 2). What's more is that reproducible builds are available for Android and iOS.

There's nothing really wrong with MTProto 2. You appear to be pointing to a very long time ago when MTProto 1 was in use. MTProto 2 is based on standard crypto primitives and is well-documented. No vulnerabilities have been announced by security researchers in the years it's been in use. It is ok that not everyone uses the Signal Protocol. Not everything needs to descend from Moxie.

I run my own Matrix homeserver and it's great. I also have it rolled out to all our employees at my workplace. It's an excellent choice. I also use Telegram because I appreciate its' balance of features and security. All of my family members love Telegram and that makes me happy because they're not using a Facebook product.

The way Matrix handles keys for E2E by default is not great: it's very easy for users to lose the key encryption phrase or not care and throw it away. I'm not sure how much better we can make E2E by default.

I am completely ok with turning on Secret Chats as I need them for chats I know to be disposable. My message history is extremely precious to me and Telegram does an admirable job protecting it and making it searchable for later reference. It truly is a sort of outboard brain for me.

This does not need to be a turf war between Signal people and Telegram people. I have expressed many times on the Telegram subreddit the need to come together in our use of better tools for communication than the incumbents. A person choosing Telegram or Signal over WhatsApp and Discord is a huge win for all of us.
Yes they are not one entity, and yet they all more or less simultaneously decided trump (and parler) “violate our TOS.” It’s precisely this sort of collusion, with the figleaf of “our TOS” (give me a break, these were acts of political expediency not previously unknown TOS violations that all suddenly came to light) that I find alarming. If he/parler were kicked off one or two places it wouldn’t be as scary. It’s the blackout from social network to app stores all the way down to web infrastructure that I found shocking.

If it’s hard to get upset about trump/parler getting banned, just sub in your favourite political or artistic group and gauge your reaction.
All speech is not equal:

reproducible findings > peer review

peer review > reasoned debate

reasoned debate > evidence

evidence > facts

facts > principles

principles > opinion

opinion > lies

lies > cult propaganda

What level are politicians at now?
The chats are encrypted and stored encrypted on the cloud, but they have access to the key. If they didn't have access to the key they couldn't allow some of the functionality that people want like being able to see the chats from different devices. Telegram has secret chats too which are e2e encrypted and don't store anything on the cloud.
Then I'll raise my beer in admiration, to this slightly smarter and more forward thinking right-wing, populist, nationalist :)
Well, it certainly reads like one. Such pseudo-ecological BS puts wind in the sails of "eco-sceptics".

As probably did RoHS, making our electronics way less reliable and prone to silent failure modes that are apparent only after the fact (or can be diagnosed only with X-rays like with BGA solder ball voids).
Dude is stubborn in the face of reality. It's not as if there hadn't been RDRAND hardware bugs before.
lots of democratic countries have come up with workable definitions. I propose to make hate speech illegal, so banning it won't be in any way contradictory. I am not glossing over anything.
Who mentioned the US?
Unfortunately, irrational behavior applies to both sides but on different issues. I saw it first hand in terms of COVID and my liberal friends. They took the most negative possible outlook and then called you an unscientific idiot if you didn't think it was the only possible outcome. COVID has a 5% mortality rate (even when reasonable data indicated 0.5%). A vaccine is impossible (even when multiple companies said they had promising candidates). Immunity doesn't exist (even when everything except a few reports said it did). And so on.
"""Officer Sicknick was responding to the riots on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol and was injured while physically engaging with protesters. He returned to his division office and collapsed. He was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The death of Officer Sicknick will be investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch, the USCP, and our federal partners."""

- https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/loss-uscp-c...
Homemade soap is soap. The only way to make soap is the saponification process. Which involves lye. The oil used can vary, but a strong alkali is required, and any strong alkali you use is going to do the saponification process on your seasoning.

Commercial dish soap can be soap, or it could be detergent. Detergent is made differently, and doesn't necessarily involve lye.
What happened is roughly this: in Poland's Constitutional Tribunal (which is as close of an equivalent of US Supreme Court as you can get in a country with a civil law system), the judges are not elected for life, but only for fixed term. As the term of the elected government was coming to an end, so were the terms of 5 of the justices in the Tribunal. However, two of these terms ended within the elected government's term, and three after it ended. As a result, the ruling party (PO) had a clear right to nominate 2 justices, and hardly any right to nominate the other three. It decided to nominate all 5 nevertheless.

The party that won the subsequent election, PiS, refused to recognize any of the 5 justices nominated by PO, and nominated 5 of their own. What happened afterwards you can read in the Wikipedia article.
You mean geounblocking Poland.
Twitter lost 10%.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25730316
If you browse the F-Droid website they actually mention that it's possible to use the .apk distributed by the developers, if the apk is reproducible. It's cumbersome and requires a lot of goodwill from both the developers and the F-Droid maintainers, but it's not impossible.

The thing is, people using F-Droid are most likely already aware that they can install the .apk directly from https://signal.org/android/apk/ so there's not much to gain (the .apk prompts the user when an update is available too).
Also, our economy might not be able to handle the spike in productivity if it were to go away.
I use a fair amount of their equipment at home and I don't think that you need to be concerned with this. I run my controller on a server in my basement, and no part of it (besides the WAN port on my ERL) touch the internet. There is no "cloud" requirement.

The "dream machine" thing I don't get. I do like their Unifi AP line, though.
Matrix is a protocol. Servers are horrible to set up and you have to find federations to join.

Telegram, Signal and others are centralized, so you join one, you're a member of all.
I support the suspension of Trump's twitter, but I have to preface this and say that I only support the decision in the context of the system we have right now. When the official position of the white house is demonstrably false and incites violence something has to be done.

We should not forget however that you could argue that the current situation was caused by Twitter/Facebook in the first place. The algorithms that optimize engagement played a large part in amplifying Trump's, and others, voices.

There is lots of discussion of whether Twitter should be thought of as a public square where every idea is free, a newspaper where opinions are curated, or something else entirely. I personally think that it is something new, and we need long policy discussions on how platforms should be regulated. No matter what happens the decision to or not to regulate platforms/big tech and how it should be done is going to be one of the most important policy decisions of the decade.
Well, it shouldn't be hard at that power level to find the transmitter if you're anywhere nearby.
Without too much detail due to contracts/NDA/etc, slipping a release date is even worse of a bother for others down-chain also. There are planned times for manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, all that fun stuff for the physical versions of titles. All that would basically need to be re-dated from scratch. You can't slip one week, you have to slip at least a month. More for platforms that don't use standard disc formats which are not made locally. (Which hilariously, CP2077 already did slip a month before release.)

Even for digital games, there's still approval processes where the first parties would have to test the game out. This process involves scheduling people for it; you can't just go to the front of the line as there are other games that have been scheduled for certain slots. (Which hilariously, it was rumored that CP2077 was given the 'don't test, push live ASAP' treatment.)

At lastly, all payments from the platforms and retailers are based on the actual release date. Unless there's a specific contract, games are not paid until months after release. Physical preorders don't pay the developers, they just help with preventing over/under stocking. (And digital preorders are... functionally worthless beyond the psychological value.) The release date starts the payment timer. When hurting for cash, releasing can start that timer.

The processes above can really benefit abusers who decide that "making street-date" is the most important thing above all other concerns.
What’s wrong with it’s creator contributions thing?
> But I firmly support the whole idea of eliminating poverty with the accumulated wealth. Essentially a form of compensation by transferring some wealth.

No wealth ever changed hands. PM Li's saying of 600m Chinese still living on CNY1000 a month is 100% real.

Why would bolos would in their sane mind empower their enemies, by transfering wealth to them?
> I was most disappointed that crafting is useless

Crafting/engineering is one of the the most OP paths you can invest in. There's a great build posted some time ago on YT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUMlmI685rc
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Speaks at Voice of America
> Jones, however, told the Washington Examiner that she is not advocating for all children to be put on such medications.

> "I was not making an argument that all youth should be given puberty blockers. This was not an actual proposal, and it is not something I advocate or endorse," Jones said.

> "This was an argument that claims of trans youth’s unreadiness to give consent to puberty blockers, if followed consistently, lead to the conclusion that all youth are likewise not ready for the experience of puberty itself. Because that conclusion is absurd — again, this was not something that I advocated or endorsed — the argument that trans youth can’t consent to puberty blockers is faulty," Jones added.

With all due respect, in this situation you’re claiming that a fringe view in the US (which even the alleged proponent says was not an actual proposal) is the accepted norm, and that anyone who objects is called a transphobe. That’s not the case at all.
It will be great for spammers.
Ideally you'd use something modern that invokes your function every hour (cron? :P) so that the rescheduling is detached from the function. I think if generation takes X hours of raw CPU computation where `X >= 1` then as long as you've got C cores and `C > X` you should be OK?
"Freedom of speech is also freedom from compelled speech."

Uh, aren't for example nutritional labels a form of compelled speech?
No one.

> (presumably, but could be any other)
What else would it be caused by?
Wire has backups and is e2e even for groups and all.
They never "simply" did this. They often did this, when the truth was good news for them, but so does RT.
I don't find this dishonest at all. Not everyone in USA agrees with the Great Suspensioning. Why would we expect everyone in Poland to agree with it?
The only mention of WhatsApp on that page is a link to https://www.syncios.com/whatsapp-transfer/

Not sure if the WhatsApp transfer is a feature of their main product or if it’s sold separately.

Either way I’d use the buy button on the page that is about WhatsApp to be sure, if I was looking to transfer WhatsApp data between iOS and Android.
Normally I use Firefox, but as it didn't run well on SailfishX/Android, an alternative was needed. Tried Brave, adapted some settings and this browser runs very well, I can recommend it. And, at least for me, Brave is very useful!
There are many ING apps in the marketplace. Almost one for each product type and country. The comments above refer to the Dutch version.
> a lot of people can feasibly rally behind.

I do not think that is the case. 'Free speech' is not new topic in EU, but most people who are talking about it are neo-nazis.

This proposal is obviously dictature of free speech.
The “No Regret” Fallacy
Europe imposed a standard for phone chargers and thanks to that you don't need a different charger per brand, or even per model, like it was 15 years ago. AFAIK they did not specify the exact standard, except that it has to be some common industry standard, so it did not prevent moving from micro-USB to USB-C (and whatever Apple is using).
This is why cloud login for network devices is terrible. I use an EdgeRouter at home with no cloud connection and I'm quite happy with it, but I've used UniFi in another setting, and I am not thrilled at the ease of getting internal passwords and the like set on devices from any web browser, for instance.

Another company's network products I work with technically has a self-hosted version of their management service, but it doesn't scale down well (it expects dozens of GBs of RAM and to be running on SSD storage or it's not supported). I've regularly felt pressured to move to the cloud just to avoid the jankiness.
This is what burner phones with signal on them are for. Parler isn't a tool for organizing insurrection it's a tool to push propaganda and radicalism.
If you use 186 kilowatts, you can punch through much of that.
This "justice" minister is responsible for essentially removing independent courts from the Polish legal system. The judges in Poland are forced to rule as requested by the government. This is by far THE worst shit show since the fall of communism in Poland (1989).
If anyone did, you probably won't be able to reach them this way. They wouldn't be here.
I do, but like most social media sites, I simply cannot quit.
Politics aside. Amazon shouldn't be signing up to a private service monitoring posts and removing a site because a good enough moderation system wasn't in place?

They sell disk space and bandwidth and possiblity ram. If all that Amazon is hosting is an encripted blobs I can't see how they would know what internal content they provide without spying (making an account/recording posts).
WhatsApp backup is unencrypted on both iOS/iCloud and Android/GDrive.
That’s why it’s called a paradox.
San Diego Zoo Gorillas Contract Covid-19; First Known Transmission in Great Apes
Paid app is the new perl script!

I wonder why there are paid apps an NO, ZERO information on how to do it with a text editor, some copyaste and javac/xcode. Like DeCSS, from a more civilized age
Have you heard about Wire? Groups up to 500, when they switch to MLS protocol then thousands, e2e, Swiss based and it has kind of ok UI.
Cancer cells hibernate like “bears in winter” to survive chemotherapy
> how vehemently people hate China

In my case (and others, I've observed), I don't hate China's citizens. Instead I loathe China's leadership. It's corrupt, evil to its own citizens, quick to violently oppress any form of protest, and it's racial slavery.

And I offer equal loathing towards any other leaders who look at China and go "You know what? We should try that here."
I'm a Mikrotik user, not a Ubiquiti user, but looks like the closest match would be Mikrotik's CRS (Cloud Router Switch) line. My home network is a CRS317-1G-16S+RM at the core and three CRS305-1G-4S+IN (one in each room), all running SwitchOS/SwOS instead of the stock RouterOS (they dual-boot, your choice), and I am very happy with them.
Trump got seventy two million votes a couple months ago. Are they all fascists too, or just the "MAGA subset"? How big is that subset you think?
Stop announcing release dates until its 90% finished or all major bugs are fixed and you're just 3 months away from being ready.

Publishers are a problem too, they pressure to release games around the holidays, or the console manufacturers do cause it helps sell hardware around the holidays.

From what I gathered its mostly fine on PC, they're a PC shop after all, the console versions needed probably at least 6 months of work to be polished. People were screaming for it to be released no matter what or to stop making excuses no matter how much crunch the devs were already doing. If they released it as an "early-beta" like a lot of games or just said up front, okay we're releasing it but its not finished, so you can play it but you're getting the beta now and we'll be fixing it with updates. I think hardcore gamers would understand. It would just not look good for release sales and I'm not sure if the game media would care.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

https://twitter.com/vj_chidambaram/status/107647481470831001...

Are some examples.
> When companies deliberately build products in unrepairable ways then repair labor costs more than automated production.

They don’t. They optimize for production costs, not repairability, that’s all.

And glueing 100,000 iPhones together is faster and cheaper than screwing them together.
https://time.com/5128341/poland-holocaust-law/

> The bill was proposed by the country’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) and calls for up to three years in prison or a fine for accusing the Polish state or people of involvement or responsibility for the Nazi occupation during World War II

The law has since passed, tho it was later amended to remove the prison time portion.

Now I am not a lawyer, nor am I polish, so I don't know what the situation is on the ground - but I believe the law makes repeating much of the contents of this wikipedia page illegal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboration_in_German-occupi...
What part of “violation of human rights” or “concentration camps” or “disappearing business people” requires more critical thinking? Nazi Germany did amazing things in many fields (just skipped to the end here).
Ok, so that is a good example of protected speech that we might not like. I read through the thread and you did a good job explaining the perils of censoring viewpoints.

The US has long done a “controlled burn” in banning violent speech, but we do need to be vigilant that it doesn’t turn into a wild fire.

I don’t understand why they removed the tweet instead of labeling it if they really want to be in the fact checking business.