skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except for - you know - the Capitol Police officer that got killed. Other than that, a perfectly peaceful protest.
The popup cards when you mouse over an internal link that they added semi-recently are an awesome addition, though. Great melding of the old interface with a highly useful newer feature, in my opinion.
All reports of activity on Parler seem to indicate it’s basically a breeding ground for right wing extremism, so I think it’s incumbent on you to show why it’s more like text messaging than the aforementioned gang bar.

That said, Parler is not being shut down.

Also, Section 230 has nothing to do with AWS’s relationship with Parler.
> When you say “many” videos are AV1-encoded, it makes me wonder why other videos aren’t AV1-encoded

They will be eventually. The priority goes to the videos with the highest trending view counts because that's where the bandwidth savings are going to be the most significant. This video is five days old and has an AV1 encode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8oD9jlCFJw

Whereas this video which has been there for nearly 7 years does not yet have an AV1 encode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqf1BdsV5WE

With only 7,777 views it doesn't matter that much if it has an AV1 encode (or even a VP9 encode really). The bandwidth savings won't be that significant for the number of views it gets.
This is quite dishonest. Twitter, FB, AWS, Google condone a constant stream of harmful material, as long as it is either coming from other tech oligarchs or non-conservative outlets.

How many BLM / Antifa riots have been organized in Google drive or Gmail?

How many inner city gang feuds have spilled over into bloodshed, as a result of Instagram, Twitter or Facebook?

How much revenge porn is served on Amazon's CDNs?

Since George Floyd died, homicide rates have exploded in the United States -- dwarfing anything the far-right has done. To pretend this is about stopping violence is just a lie.
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Why you think killing random innocent on the street, burning private properties is ok but storming a government building is not?

Killing random people to make a political statement is terrorism. Isn't it?
I really can’t tell if this is sarcasm, satire, or serious. I think satire?
Amazon's letter noted 2 things: They said they were going to use volunteer moderators to fix it, and their CEO said it wasn't really their problem anyway.

So it's possible Apple also took those things into account and was able to determine it just wasn't going to work out, and there was no need to go any further.

If you read Amazon's letter where they inform Parler they're kicked off, which you can find in the Buzzfeed News article, it sounds pretty cut and dry.
For those who are keep downvoting me.

It just shows you are fucking imbecile and/or ignorant. Keep censoring people, I am eager to see how that is going to work for you.
This is the same thing an abuser says to their spouse.
I'm still trying to understand.

Freedom of speech should only apply to protected classes?
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Perhaps it is different in your country, but as an American, although both burglarizing an Apple Store and invading the Capitol while chanting that you want to hang the Vice President are crimes, the latter is considered slightly less acceptable.

Also, claiming that opposing the rioters is to claim that “people can’t revolt” is a specious argument. It’s like claiming that executing a murderer is the same thing as committing murder. Both are killings, but one imagines the two to have different motivations. Recall that the founders put down a revolt (the Whiskey Rebellion) not long after their own revolution, and that a Civil War was fought not long after.
> Either rioting for political purposes is terrorism or it isn't

That's an insane assertion.
Weird. I've never heard anyone NOT spell out fsck.
How do we handle a case where a mass shooter keep shooting people?

You get a police to arrest the aggressor first and get them to court.

We can simply get a police to issue an arrest, ban him from social network, get him to court later.

I don't think this problem is particularly hard. Not sure why a lot of people seem to think that this is impossible to resolve through legal system.

Trump is leading the riot/coup. He should be arrested immediately, no? (In some countries, that's a death sentence.)

It's either (1) Trump isn't really leading the riot/coup or (2) leading the riot/coup isn't unlawful.

I'm confused on this contradiction of reality. Somebody is lying here.
If you were to end the republic without the usual mass murder (nuclear war, pandemics, etc.) How would you do it?

If you took out the Senate and legislature, would that work? What if you could guaranteed their protection was understaffed when you attempted it?
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I spent like 20 minutes trying to find something I would legitimately want to watch on PeerTube and came up empty. I can't tell if it's because PeerTube just happens to have a different type of content than what I like to watch, or because I don't understand how to make the best use of the search functionality, or if the search functionality is just bad. Regardless, it's a real tough sell for me to replace YouTube with a video service where I can't find anything I want to watch!
Like when the American right-wing came up with the "domino theory" to justify paying any cost to defeat communists in Vietnam, since to failing to stop them would inevitably result in communists ruling the entire world.

And then the US lost the war, went home in disgrace, and the promised cascade of falling dominoes never happened.
So to be clear, you want to force a private company to do business with someone? How is this any different from a store having a “no shirt, no shoes, no service” sign?
In reality we all know that you care more about bullshit voter fraud than actual voter suppression.
I always find these interesting. Like the different pronunciations of `char`*. All these strange words that we only read or type 99% of the time but still come up with some kind of pronunciation in our heads.

* I've heard "char" like "charbroiled", "care", "car" and some people always just say "character"
Politicians, including the incoming VP, did encourage and even bailed out the rioters, and did nothing to curb the violence directed at innocent civilians.

Let me be clear, even if you believe police brutality is a real problem, there can be no justification for the torching of homes and livelihoods done last summer.

Escalating to violence at the capitol was wrong, but I have little sympathy for the politicians that did not use their influence to curb that massive harm done communities across the country by the riots.
I say "C T L" as in "system C T L".

But I also capitalize command names like Ls so I'm probably out on my own here.
It's frankly astonishing the TPB still has their original .org domain.
I will assume you meant to reply to another comment because there is no double standard here. George Floyd protest were free speech and necessary.
And previously a few bad actors attempted to assassinate a number of GOP representatives, yet we didn't see a comparable reaction.

I also seem to recall there were people staging faked but realistic looking beheadings of Trump which was celebrated as free speech.
The copyright would expire as for any other work, but it's of hypothetical interest given the length of copyright terms. Once the copyright expires, anybody could use the code however they liked, without bothering with GPL requirements.
The guy who had a heart attack died because the weapon he was carrying intending to use against a congressman went off and killed himself instead.
“Coward and a traitor.”
Is that an actual quote or are you editorializing?
I read once that somebody pronounced SQL as 'squeal' which leads to mysql being pronounced as 'my-squeal'.

Rightly or wrongly, I prefer that pronunciation too. It's less cumbersome.
> if you violently attack the halls of democracy you should be banned from far more than a few private digital platforms

Not many take issue with that. It's banning the hundreds of thousands other people that's the more problematic thing.

> violently attack the halls of democracy

What makes the "attack" on the Capitol any worse than the "attack" on the White House in Sep 2020?

Mostly just how well security worked. That's it.

If security had done it's job on Jan 6, this would be done.

The currents exist either way. It boggles my mind to think that censorship is how to handle dissent.
Deplatforming is a form of censorship.
I don't think we've ever seen terrorism condoned or encouraged by anyone as admired or as powerful as Trump in the history of the country, save the Civil War.

It's not like these are some lunatics, they're obedient fans actively consuming what Trump is feeding them and violently acting on it.

Does he have the right to stand in a public park and spout his threats and lies? Absolutely.

Does he have the right to demand access to a private company platform to spout his threats and lies? No way.

Idiots get kicked out of bars for far less every day.
Oh, I thought it was /tS m O d/.

/tS/ is quite a different story due to it being an affricative.
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It seems that progressive/interlacing techniques increase the final size. https://blog.codinghorror.com/progressive-image-rendering/
What was your opinion on the BLM protests outside of the White House ?
If we're giving that the above is true then the US is basically at war with these people. It's an insurrection.

"If we cut our enemies communications then that's just fueling the fire" is not something you say mid war. You cut and code break and infiltrate and capture and kill and anything else because the time for "deplatforming" and "fuel on fire" and any other business as usual peace time political concept is irrelevant. That game isn't being played any more, the violence game is.

It's like you're playing chess with someone and they just got up and shoved you, and you punched them, and then a bunch of onlookers are all "well what if they had played knight to f4? Would you punch then!? Punching shouldn't be allowed in chess!". Except the chess game ended when they got up and shoved you. Treating these people as political opponents ended when they broke in to the Capitol building with guns and bombs with the stated intent of killing politicians. They're enemies of the state and therefore enemies of institutions that exist thanks to that state and any individual that likes that state.
My understanding is that repeatedly, the courts have shown that allegations about widespread voter fraud are unfounded. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
Conducing a fradulent vote count to elect a president that the people didn't really want.
The counter-argument is that the main draw of Parler was deplatforming (of people who weren't calling for violence) on mainstream platorms. In hindsight (and for some, in foresight), finding some pool of center-left content to suggest to viewers of far-right social media personalities, and center-right content to suggest to viewers of far-left social media personalities probably would have been a much better long-term solution. I also think you'd want to have 1-month or 3-month suspensions for suggesting violence, rather than full deplatforming, to reduce the number of followers who jump to more extreme platforms.

Edit: actually, I think you'd one pool of center-left and center-right content to show to both extremes, to make the medicine taste less bitter.
YouTube used to be like that. I think most people don't realize that for years YouTube was only good for watching Simpsons and Family Guy episodes. Without that start it never would have taken off.
"Nobody signs up to be part of a class of people met with disgust, mockery, routine violence, sexual assault, job discrimination, losing their friends and families, crippling loneliness"

To me it sounds like you could just as well be describing conservatives.
First half of carrot.
There is a sub dedicated to sharing Parler content that threatens violence, among other things. https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch. You can find many more examples there.
You've said it, this ruling only applies to the government. Private companies are not bound by this case law.
Authorized by zero carriers in the USA.

Sorry man, I got burned when Verizon nuked all the EC25 devices. That's not a gamble I want to take with an $800 phone. I support their mission but without carrier authorization you're one whim away from having an expensive brick in your pocket. It sucks but that's the cell phone market.

Note how purism goes to extreme lengths to dodge the question of "which networks will your phone work on". They have these elaborate frequency tables but never name any networks, then at the bottom the fine print admitting that they have no carrier authorizations.
Can't we use a wasm plugin to do the image decoding for us?
“people can simply drive, i fully support american airlines not letting group X use their airlines”

“people can just send letters i fully support att not allowing group X to use their phone lines to spread info.”
Mozilla has recently published an article on the "decentralized web of hate." As a long time fediverse user I found the article appalling.

Who decides what "hate speech" is? You realize 100 years ago, speech advocating for homosexuals would be considered deeply offensive, deplorable and unsafe, right?

At least in the US, the law is very specific about speech: direct calls to violence are banned, and should be.

But now we have Big Tech, Mozilla and others, tells us what is and isn't hate speech. You say "Nazis" and "fascists" but it's just a stand-in now for anything and everything you disagree with. It's all Nazi Nazi Nazi and it has no real meaning.

When you ban speech, when you dictate what language people are and aren't allowed to use, you control though.

We are literally talking about though policing here. Distributed social networks help prevent though crime and Mozilla opposed them in ways that feel more fascistic than anything they're claiming the "Fascists" are doing.
Just wondering, is there a "lossless" conversion from PNG/JPEG/etc to AVIF? Kinda like Lepton[1] but just re-compressing without further loss of details.

[1] https://github.com/dropbox/lepton
Laws only describe the way things are, not the way things should be.

In other words that's a really shallow argument.
Mail in voting was passed by mainly Republicans legislatures, and also it’s good.
Depends.

Pre-COVID I was running 4-5x per week, was training up to a half marathon distance. I thought having a dog would help pass the time, motivate me to keep the habit, maybe keep me safe. The dog we adopted loves running, but play sprinting is not the same as endurance running. I want to complete this mile sub-10, she wants to mark every rock and pole on the block. She’d be much happier if she could run trails with me off-leash, though she can be wonderful on walks and does make walking a daily habit.
I sincerely hope you are correct, but it's difficult to know the following:

1. just how many citizens were sympathetic to the rioters as they saw those events on unfolding on their screens

2. how their collective behavior will change as a result

I wouldn't say that "existential threat" is hyperbole, I'd say that its accuracy depends on the answer to the above questions.

I wasn't worried about the immediate collapse of the America at the hands of the Capitol mob.
I pronounce chmod and chown same as you do. Although sometimes I'll pronounce chown as one syllable... not sure the when or the why..
A time tested key for success of what exactly?

These moves successfully de-platformed and pissed off racists and terrorists, very good.
You have to stop telling yourself that fasciscm is a political believe.
I don't think its hard to believe. Trust in media is at record lows. Since Wikipedia just repeats what the mainstream media says via its policy of using "reliable secondary sources", then wouldn't it follow that trust in Wikipedia would follow?
> This is clearly a power move to block competition

I really do not agree at all. Not all social media sites start like 4chan nor do I think this move started to squash competition. There's a legitimate need being served to preserve the commonwealth in silencing these communities, especially after recent events.

For what it's worth, what competition is Parler to AWS anyways? Aren't they a customer? Shouldn't amazon want them to grow beyond belief so they can be a whale of a customer?
Ask HN: What's your idea of a “better” social network?
If it was up to you to design a social network that is better for humanity (without dopamine driven, without selling users data) - how would you design it? How will it make money?
I mostly hear the "cuttle" variant, but with the t/d ambiguity of a lot of american pronunciation it sounds more like "cuddle" to me, and I like that
W3C? Isn't WHATWG the standard that everybody follows?
> Anyone is free to set up a computer in their basement, install a web server, open up port 80 to the world, and serve to the world whatever blog or forum they want.

Only until their ISP decides to do the same thing Amazon did (or buckles under the DDoS attacks that will happen). Or their registrar or DNS provider, assuming you don't consider domains optional too.
I'm not sure why you ask, but this seems like a potential bad faith attempt at whataboutism. I don't support any form of rioting. I also don't think what happened outside of the White House was in any way a riot. Certainly not in any way comparable to what happened this week at the Capitol.
> Also your comment doesn't really point out specific flaws in their argument. All you do is tack insulting words onto it without any meaningful substance.

Oddly your comment does the same.
It’s because they banned a boatload of accounts that were dedicated to Qanon. A few high profile ones and a ton of others.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna12...
Anyone can have an opinion on the law. I doubt you would say the internment of the Japenese in WWII was legal. But the highest court in the land deemed it to be.
I just read it, and am not sure how else it could be written... do you expect Wikipedia to treat unsubstantiated conspiracy theories as anything but that? Are they supposed to pretend a conspiracy theory is possible out of 'fairness'?

Are you also upset that they don't have a section on the Earth page saying the world might be flat?
Hard core seditionists who, when they entered the Speaker of the House’s office, decided the priority was taking selfies.
I concluded the same and finally closed out my accounts and ended any subscriptions. I just can’t help feeling repulsed while using these creations. I found them cool enough to work on back in the day, but what’s the point anymore. Why does the site people use to talk to their friends have to become a tool for social control. Anybody trying to use the internet this way, please back off.
The rioters that were bailed out, were they involved in said looting and violence? What were they guilty of? Do you have links to people who took part in criminal activities that were bailed out by the VP or other politicians?

Did the VP encourage and incite violence?
Author mentions L S as an alternate/different way they've heard ls pronounced? What other way would there be? List I guess?
You've been using HN primarily for political battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of which politics they're battling for, because it destroys what this site is supposed to be for, i.e. curious, thoughtful conversation.

I hate to ban an 11-year-old account, but I had to scroll back two months in your comment history to find a post about ZFS. That's seriously uncool. Between that and the fact that we've warned you many times not to abuse the site like this, I think we have to ban your account and I've done so. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
It's funny. We just showed our kids the Pixar movie "Monsters Inc", which I hadn't realized was also 20 years old until the movie ended and the info screen came up. I think of it as a contemporary movie, "not that old".

But I think of Wikipedia as having always existed.

Funny how memory works.

Also, I've lived longer with Wikipedia than without.

I guess I'm getting old.
There are different benefits and drawbacks of mmap. I only use mmap because it simplifies my code (I write experimental code).

But the OP and commenters are mostly concerned about the extra copy of read().

For video memory, DMABUF has been used to avoid extra copying. The idea is that the hardware directly DMAs into a buffer mapped in the userspace instead of copying into a kernel buffer and then copying into userspace. A system call is still involved, but no extra copying of data.

I wonder if anyone has actually implemented a disk I/O interface using DMABUF. There are a couple of low-level disk interfaces. But I don't know if any of them uses DMABUF.
If you are going with what the founding fathers wanted then you should be comfortable with PRIVATE (as in not the government) companies doing whatever the hell they want within their terms of service. No contract has been breached when Apple, Google, Amazon deplatformed Parler. If you want to make this into "but they control speech on the internet with their reach..." then it is no longer about "what the founding fathers" wanted and you should be willing to make this a non-absolutist argument in which case it is mo longer clear cut that restricting this speech is bad.
Vice did a very interesting look into this question following the deplatforming of Alex Jones[1]. As is evident from their article title -- "Deplatforming Works" -- the data seem to say it works.

As for the specific concern you mention, they look into it as well:

"'The good that comes with deplatforming is, their main goal was to redpill or get people within mainstream communities more in line with their beliefs, so we need to get them off those platforms,” Robyn Caplan, a PhD student at Rutgers University and Data and Society affiliate, told me on the phone. “But now we’ve put them down into their holes where they were before, and they could strengthen their beliefs and become more extreme.'

The question is whether it’s more harmful to society to have many millions of people exposed to kinda hateful content or to have a much smaller number of ultra-radicalized true believers."

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-bans-...
There haven’t been left-wing terrorists in the US since the Weather Underground. (Who were so ineffectual most of them blew themselves up and we let the rest become obscure college professors.)

If you think there’s been any in the last few decades you should turn off your TV since it’s lying to you.
You aren't making any sense.
Everyone who is involved in this coup should be arrested immediately

Why isn't Trump arrested yet? since many claims he is the leader of the coup.

Even AOC calls for resignation for supporting a coup attempt. Huh?

In many countries, It's a death sentence (or max jail time) if one tries to overthrow a government.

In US, the punishment is resignation and banned from social media and AWS?

Yeah, some hyperbole is involved here.