skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The preface to Animal Farm is pretty interesting in how it paralells the current social media censorship with the censorship imposed by the English intelligentsia of Orwell's day.
Equipment is equipment. It can only do so much regardless who has it. As I said more molotovs were thrown during the past summer’s sometimes peaceful sometimes violent demos.
"A minimalist and efficient peer-to-peer live stream

The great feature of this v3 is live streaming, and we are proud to say that it works very well !

...

The main points to remember :

The lag (between video maker and audience) varies between 30 seconds and 1mn, as expected ;

Depending on the power of the server and its load (number of simultaneous live shows, transcoding, etc.), PeerTube can provide hundreds of simultaneous views (but we’re not sure that it will scale to thousands… at least not yet !) ;

Administration options are included for people hosting the instance ;

The features are minimalist by design, and we have documented our recommendations for creating a live ;

The live can be done with most video streaming tool (we recommend the free-libre software OBS), with two options :

An « short-lived » live, with a unique identifier, will offer the possibility to save the video and display a replay on the same link ;

A « permanent » live stream, which will work more like a Twitch channel, but without the replay option."
From the perspective of a hypothetical corrupt, authoritarian government, it's an issue of control.

Of course they have their own websites. But the goal would be to promote the "official" point of view while suppressing the opposition, to maintain the illusion of broad support. It's not a free speech issue. And if the "official" point of view gets deplatformed, it's a risk to them.

I'm hesitant to use VKontakte as a real-life example because I don't speak Russian, but according to Wikipedia VK had censorship issues until it was (supposedly) taken over by Putin-friendly people.
Still accessible via the web, of course (and from what I understand Parler is a PWA that can be installed to the homescreen).
This looks really cool, I've been annoyed at how Roll 20 tries to do everything and isn't super intuitive.
Agree with you. So... managing it is more involved than dynamically generating everything, and it doesn't have rss?

I mean... I expect that putting more work into it would be a tradeoff for more features, not less
You're completely ignoring MAP_POPULATE being used to aggressively asynchronously read-ahead the data on the kernel side, which the read-based implementation isn't attempting any equivalent of (posix_fadvise(2) and readahead(2) come to mind).

Frankly TFA is relatively useless as an mmap vs. read comparison.
We have. 5 members of Congress were shot. Jimmy Carter commuted their sentences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_United_States_Capitol_sho...
YAY MORE CHINA POLITICS ON HACKER NEWS. GET THIS CRAP OUT OF HERE.
Isn't that generalizing a bit too much? There's a plethora of younger programmers, some with good discipline and some with bad discipline. I know C++ programmers with no discipline and JS/Ruby programmers with amazing discipline.
They don’t sell the absolute cheapest, but they sell a lot of low cost cars. They don’t avoid the low cost segment. $20k is low cost these days, even though the absolute cheapest US car is $14k.

Toyota just discontinued its Yaris that was $17k and Honda still sells its Fit for $16k.

There’s a ton of cars to be sold at the $25k level, profitably. The upsell of new versions down the road is just gravy.
Truthfully, the fact that your bindings don't use OpenAPI generators has tempted me to learn Rust just so that I can escape their madness.
It's their decision of whether to be regulated as a publisher in which they specifically choose what is published or exist as a platform.

The issue is when you treat a small amount of very significant content as a publisher and the majority as a platform. Twitter has the power in the public forum to literally start wars between countries. This isn't something to take lightly. Since they claim to be the authority on information they are responsible for what they post. Except they're currently not and this is a problem.
You do lose some of the benefit tho - you need mild stress for it to be functional.

Also, hot water, especially with chlorine in it (as usual, unless you have a filter) will make it evaporate and thus you will inhale it (not good). Very damaging for the skin too as you wash up natural oils that protect it.

So its not the same.
The only way to do what?
I’m with you until the last paragraph, which strikes me as fighting yesterday’s wars. “Hot” war with China, a major nuclear power, would be disastrous for the earth if it looked anything like controlling naval waters. I think they are far more important economically as a major technological partner than a military base.
So you’re saying it’s fine for only certain ideas to be able to be broadcast to the world? Forget the government’s role in it, I’m not talking about that whatsoever. I mean, philosophically, are you okay with a small number of companies controlling what can or can’t be broadcast?
File: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror.ogv [video]
> No, I would be happier if they hadn't been lied to for months

You keep asserting this as fact.

It is not.

Again, please demonstrate that Matt Braynard's evidence has been addressed.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/matt_braynards_...
Why are you advocating for government control of the internet?

It's shocking that hackernews has turned so far astray.
yeah, for me, breaking reader mode is a big downside.
The businesses in question found it to be bad business to keep the president on their platform so they removed him. They aren’t being altruistic.
This. I think if China wanted to go all out, it could take Taiwan via massive force but it would be extremely costly for them and I don’t think the calculus of risk vs benefit adds up for them politically or practically. They certainly can maybe sink an American carrier, maybe, if their missiles are as good as they say, but that’s a big If.
The comments on HN are getting increasingly tribalistic.
You are only smug because it supports your team, if the democrats were censored you would throw a tantrum.
It must feel pretty surreal to be someone that is constantly moving to different communication apps and instantly finding them pulled by anyone and everyone.

We've seen an escalation of this from higher-level platforms (obviously Twitter can ban an account if they desire) to medium-level platforms (I suppose Apple gets to pick what I can do on my own phone even if it feels a bit wrong), but I'm curious if this will also escalate to low-level platforms (will hosting companies, registrars, or even ISPs start taking similar actions on a regular basis?).

At this point it appears to be in a bit of a feedback loop as well, since it's obvious that deplatforming groups will make them feel persecuted and even more upset, which then makes them more likely to be deplatformed by whichever platform they move to next.

Could this escalate even past low-level companies and result in decentralized, uncensorable, and end-to-end encrypted technologies having action taken against them (as more users, including some that are radicalized, seek them out)? I certainly hope not, but I have no faith in our government's various administrations here to begin with, especially given that we are likely only at the beginning of these types of conflicts.

(Obligatory note that I am not defending any given platform, group of people, or anything of that matter, as I find it much more interesting to talk about how systems like this may play out instead)
Pity that it doesn't really support progressive loading.
No, its more about experience (both personal and various books on topic) and understanding basic skin biology and how hot water with chlorine in it affects it.
Im going to create my own twitter with blackjack and ...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/

> Of 50 patients treated with calcifediol, one required admission to the ICU (2%), while of 26 untreated patients, 13 required admission (50 %) p value X2 Fischer test p < 0.001.

Strengths: Randomized, very strong effect, strongly statistically significant.

Weaknesses: single trial, single center, relatively small sample, not blinded.

https://pmj.bmj.com/content/early/2020/11/12/postgradmedj-20...

> Greater proportion of vitamin D-deficient individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection turned SARS-CoV-2 RNA negative with a significant decrease in fibrinogen on high-dose cholecalciferol supplementation.

Strengths: Randomized, blinded trial

Weaknesses: single trial, single center, relatively small sample, secondary outcome measure
China wins in every military confrontation scenario.

They don't have to immediately pull off an invasion. Tomorrow they could begin a draconian blockade, while strategically bombing the island and begin an assassination & disruption campaign by inserting special forces. They can do it (rather inexpensively) on an indefinite basis, as long as they care to. Nobody can stop that and they have zero concern for the humanitarian disaster it would cause, with their eye on the long-term goal. Taiwan wouldn't last very long in that simple and very obvious scenario, it would rapidly degrade their condition. The world (those standing opposed to China's move) would quickly capitulate, understanding full well that the alternative is all out war with China; the UN would be begging for a settlement peace within weeks (which would result in China de facto taking over Taiwan). Mostly all that would happen to China are some sanctions, which China would shrug off (along with some dramatic, harshly worded PR releases). At the end of it, China won't need to invade with a large amphibious assault, it'll enter Taiwan largely unopposed as part of the brokered peace settlement.

China is very rapidly building up its naval capabilities. It will be able to invade Taiwan this decade. That isn't a maybe, it's a certainty.
The mirror opposite of a hypocritical set of positions is another set of equally hypocritical positions.

We’ll see how fond the left is when a new set of “counter terrorism” laws, corporate censorship, and the free market when it gets used on the next round of BLM protestors, to pick an example at random.

Not to mention how suddenly the far left is suddenly concerned about Twitter’s civil rights — something reaffirmed by their least favorite opinion: Citizen’s United.

Nobody should fool themselves: neither party has a consistent set of principles.
Against Academic Book Reviews
You can say and think what you want. But there's no situation where the United States stops supporting democratic Taiwan. The US supported Taiwan under-the-table since the 1970s which was well before democratization back when they were yet another brutal authoritarian ally of the United States (eg, Saudi Arabia etc).

Now Taiwan is a vibrant democracy with the rule-of-law, free speech and world-leading industries the United States will stay allied to Taiwan. As they say: "In international relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, only permanent interests".
Apparently nothing, as the article states Amazon has a history of doing similar things with a fundraising site associated with Gab.
Late getting back to this response, but I think it's still relevant.

> but what are you implying here? That he is still hedging a plot for a coup? Doubtful.

I think that you are giving him credit he's not due. He's not someone who creates and executes long term, complex plans. He acts on emotion; whatever he's feeling right then, and takes actions that will coerce people into feeling the same way.

He's angry that Biden won and that the certification of the vote is going to happen. Thus the certification is bad, and anyone going along with it is bad, so he says whatever will make the crowd think it's bad.

> The fact of the matter is that until yesterday, it made complete sense for Trump to cause a huge scene to scare the electors into tossing the election.

No, that's not a fact. This was never going to happen. The electors were never going to get scared and overturn the will of the voters. He's a simpleton; he didn't like that he was losing, so he demonized everyone involved with that bad thing that he doesn't like. This is something he's been doing his entire life, and it's effective as long as he has the money, influence, and smart people on the payroll to shape his vitriol and gusto into reality.
Just because companies in a free market should be legally free to censor people, doesn’t mean they should do it.

The sheer number of people who can’t grasp this basic point is staggering.
We've been completely censored for a long time now...
> social media company can't refuse to broadcast your speech.

No, they don't. You might think that they should have to, but as things are today, they don't.
I try pretty hard not to take joy in others' frustrations because it's a sure-tail sign of tribalism, but it sure seems like there are a lot of these discussions popping up on HN and if anything the tone-deafness of it all certainly isn't helping me find some middle ground.
This is even more perverse than it seems. In many parts of the UK there is no sugar industry but sugar beet are still being grown...to feed biodigesters, to generate electricity to help meet green energy targets. Subsidised of course. Subsidised to save the environment by destroying the environment.
I think there will be millions like you. And everyone likes free market when it works or start to work in their favor. So no surprise there.
Police regularly stops huge mobs of people, there are units dedicated to that.

What I still can't understand is why the police wasn't prepared for it. Isn't the FBI supposed to infiltrate dangerous groups? Or was the "march on capitol" completely unplanned before Trump suggested it? Finally, has nobody considered that something like this might have happened? (It was obvious to me, as well as at least one thinktank.)
I agree with all of this, with one nitpick intended to self-aggrandise.

You can actually nominate particular types be stored in particular etcd servers -- GKE does this to put Events into a separate etcd from everything else.

However, it still has problems. Firstly, you can only define it for inbuilt types. Secondly, it's common for different objects to cross reference each other through objectRefs and the like, which behave badly when you effectively perform a join in the API server over multiple etcds.
It was never a fair expectation that Parler would be able to scale up moderation in 24 hours.

So this was in effect a rigged deadline, somewhat analogous to a "Performance Improvement Plan".
Google Hangouts: A Eulogy
How's life been under that rock this past year?
Wait. Where were you when the baker refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple?! Smh..
> Where did you get the 10,600 number and the percentage that were peaceful

https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-vi...
cmd + f 'NATIONWIDE DEMONSTRATIONS'

> Where is the proof that damaging riots were deliberately organized.

You don't sustain riots for months without organizing.

> Why would it take decades for these businesses to file a claim with their insurance and replace their merchandise and windows?

Not their insurance but the economic damage. That's what happened after the 1960s riots.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40056402?seq=1

> Where is the proof that it was primarily minority owned businesses that were damaged?

Because the riots were mostly in low-income neighborhoods.

https://www.startribune.com/riots-arson-leave-minnesota-comm...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/minneapolis-protests-b...

https://www.businessinsider.com/black-owned-businesses-put-u...
Follow-up from Kashmir Hill, the reporter who lived on Bitcoin for a week
Two of the biggest obstacles to deploying a new codec are avoiding patents on existing codecs, and getting hardware decode support added to important mobile platforms. Software decoding is basically a non-starter for battery-powered devices.
This feels like pure conjecture honestly.

There are plenty of left wing voices that have been kicked off twitter and reddit for making calls for violence, but mainstream democrats have not caused that liability for platforms they use.
Face washing. Doing it with hot water is totally different experience. To say it another way, I do it for the cold water effect, not for cleaning.
Testosterone and no exercise produces more lean muscle, than exercising without it.

Please will you quote the section backing that claim, I've just spent a few minutes looking at it and can't find it - just the expected stuff about testosterone increasing muscle generally.

Edit: the mean cross-sectional bit muscle size? Basically, they make some muscles bigger but not stronger? It sounds like bloat, a mostly cosmetic thing (which has its uses) tbh.

The summary results could be clearer in their highlights perhaps; you would think your observation would be a headline and its not mentioned, though perhaps I've missed it.
You seriously think that Twitter decided to ban Trump because they think they will make more money if they do?

Seems very unlikely to me. Trump draws massive traffic to Twitter.
So you think HN/Reddit comments should be unmoderated?
You can put the pieces together. Why aren't we hearing about this on the news?
It’s a private company. So long as it’s not discriminating on legally defined grounds, it’s free to do whatever the hell it wants.

The official broadcasting channels of the us gov remain fully open at Mr Trump’s disposal.
Thats okay, they can just build their own network, hosting, payment processor, and app store. Totally not censorship.
I'm not a huge fan of Parler, but hopefully this move pushes the government to force Apple to allow alternate App stores and/or side loading.

People should be able to run Parler on their phone if they want to, with full API access, not the half-measures that having a web app allow.
https://impermalink.spiffy.tech - Save Links for Later. Optimized for a triage-save-read-trash loop.

I'm a long-time Instapaper/Pocket/Wallabag user. I love scanning my RSS feeds, saving links into those apps, and clicking 'mark all as read'. Then, when I have some downtime, I pore over all the interesting articles/videos I saved. I always have something interesting to read, and I can read it with focus, not doomscrolling and hoping to luck into something good.

But Instapaper et al. aren't built for the way I use them. I put a link in, read it, and delete it. No tagging, no archiving. I usually don't even want text extraction. I just want to read something interesting, then I'm done with it. I can bookmark the link in my browser if I really want to.

Also, I want to open HN/Reddit/YouTube links in their native mobile apps. Instapaper/Wallabag make that clumsy, Pocket makes it almost impossible. These apps also have bugs with sync, but I don't care about offline access, so why am I paying the cost for buggy offline sync I don't use?

Impermalink is designed to streamline my workflow. You can share to it from other apps[0]. When you click a link to open it, it's marked for deletion and will disappear the next time you click another link. You can rescue a link from the recycle bin if you want to come back to it later. Links are grouped by domain, so it's easy to lump all those YouTube videos under a collapsed header so you can focus on other content. Links are just links - your browser will open them however it's normally configured to, including opening them in native apps on mobile.

The app's condition is "rough and ready". It works enough that I use it every day and really enjoy it. The UX has obvious areas for improvement. The home page has no content. Svelte has bugs that double-render some of the content sometimes. But it's there, and it works.

Give it a try, let me know what you think, impermalink@spiffy.tech

[0] Install the app to your home screen with Chrome on Android. Yes, Chrome, not anything else, not even Chrome derivatives. I haven't tried on iOS yet. You can use the app in any browser you want, but only Chrome on Android knows how to share links to web apps.

https://impermalink.spiffy.tech

https://github.com/spiffytech/impermalink
Some of the stuff that is nowadays attributed to temperament is actually related to certain instrumentation being preferably set in specific keys that were easy to play with the available instruments.

Also competing tunings on various instruments mean that the situation was never a "fix" target.

I am not saying tunings don't play a role, in fact you can hear that John Frusciante sometimes has played with slightly detuned guitar strings for effect. But it its also not so simple as such compilations of key - and - purpose might make you want to believe.
Go bills itself as simple, but Rust, despite it's complexity (which is hidden from you with libraries like serde and others) is simpler to use at the higher level.

Rust has a near-best-of-class type system, better abstractions, and runs on everything from embedded to the browser. Go has captured the hearts of sysadmin types and those looking for something just a step up from python (as evidenced by much of the devops code written in it -- which I'm very grateful for, I don't think I'd use kubernetes if it was in Java still), so I can see it growing in that field.

I don't see how Rust doesn't become the most important emerging systems language (C & C++ obviously aren't going anywhere just by virtue of being incumbents) of the next decade.
On China's (in)ability to successfully invade Taiwan, we can agree to disagree.
It's the application of the maths for a purpose, not the maths itself.
Great, the patriot act finally expired.
It seems to be that these platforms were quite outrageously accepting any content at all being published on their platforms, including direct personal threats and incitements to violence.

If these groups want to not be deplatformed every few years, they ought to moderate the content. That seems to be all Apple is asking for here - just moderate out the illegal content and you can come back.

That only seems hard to do for conservative groups - everyone else seems to at least try to moderate, even if they do it unevenly or not quickly enough, they try. These deplatformed companies and actors don't ever seem to even try to moderate.

I don't feel bad for them, personally.
Is this the first good news of 2021? This is huge! Is google maps going to have Taiwan displayed as a country again now?
Sorry, I meant to say: You aren’t liable for good faith efforts to filter speech. It doesn’t say anything about being liable forever more.
It's attitudes represented by this blithe dismissal of a compelling argument that will continue to divide the nation. I guess you think you're going to get something out of it, but this is a scenario that nobody wins.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Sending a mob of radicalized people with mental issues to kidnap senators is a bad decision and he got rightfully punished for it.

Can you please show me specifically where he did this?

If not, it may be time for you to take a break from politics as well, and try to view the situation objectively.

I'm very open to having my bias, if any, pointed out. If you can show me anywhere where the president did what you claim, I'd be very interested.
Apple has been trying to get them to implement moderation for months, they just gave them the 24 hours as an ultimatum after not getting anywhere with them and the real world situation escalating.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/564133
The only way they would've made this deadline would've been to delete all of their posts.

I'm not upset in the slightest about them being gone, but I can kind of see the argument about how the app store is deciding how someone uses their phones here.
this will further isolate the part of population which need to hear alternative viewpoints the most.