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Just curios. How about uber, could they refuse to service employes from parler :) ? Or lets say refuse service some right wing people. I mean it is just a private company...
They pretty much already did. In corporate PR terms, "it contravened our Terms of Service" is essentially synonymous with "we don't want to be associated with it".
The quality of laws is also subjective, yet we've somehow managed to come up with working governments that operate somewhere between tyranny and anarchy.
One odd thing I'm not seeing discussed frequently in threads about solar:

Where are the cheap panels and storage solutions?

I have lived in my bus for most of the past five years. I have a solar array on the roof (with lots of python glue[0]). And panel (and for that matter, battery) prices that I'm seeing today are no cheaper - and in some cases, a bit more expensive - than when I architected the system five years ago.

Is all the reporting about cheap solar somehow specific to grid-tied solutions?

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRp84BlFF94
"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one."

—A. J. Liebling
Hacker space is a good place to start.
Talk about hyperbole. In no way did even 1% of the population on Parler want mass executions for people like you.
"You can't yell fire in a crowded theater..."

Is it a matter of free speech though?

If you walk into a bank and say "load the bag with money, or I'll blow up the place", do you risk prosecution on the grounds of (abusing) free speech? After all what you did, essentially, was utter some words. (The bomb might never have existed).

What if the government passed a law to the effect of "you can't say the banking system is vile and corrupt because it may encourage people to rob banks"?

It's a slippery slope of sorts, and a line should be drawn, preferably grounded in some logical principle. I don't have a good answer off the top of my head; just food for thought.
I've got a (USB2) power monitor that includes a chip (just an STM8L051F3 microcontroller) to manage power negotiation and keep data disconnected. So it negotiates power with host and device separately, without ever needing to connect the data lines from host to device directly. I expect there are or will be versions for USB 3.<whatever I've lost track>.
One major difference: Rosa Parks was an individual attempting to use a private service. Parler is a business attempting to use a private service to do business. Rosa Parks getting kicked off for being black is one thing, but what if she was on the same bus trying to sell candy bars? Weirdly, that's still a reason you can get kicked off a bus.

I mean the question of the era is what "rights" do we have online.

Do I have the "right" to have my site hosted by a private company, or is that a service? Do platforms have a "requirement" to act as neutrally as possible, or is it just better for business?
It is absolute nonsense to say that using Haskell will improve productivity or maintainability. There are problems like bad libraries, complicated performance profiles, virtually no developer adoption, limited ghc build targets, package management, lack of tooling, slow compile times. Choosing Haskell is likely a terrible choice despite the type system, which seems to be its only advantage.
Jack Dorsey: "We are the free speech wing of the free speech party"

Mark Zuckerberg: "Trump says Facebook is against him, liberals say we helped Trump. Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don’t like. That’s what running a platform for all ideas looks like.”

Matt Cutts: "We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up"
People on twitter are posting addresses and lat&long from parler users. People have also been posting on twitter statements advocating for the murder of people involved in the events in DC this week.

Of course, 99% of that is meaningless bluster but 99% of the crap on Parler was also meaningless bluster.

So I think it remains an open question as to what the consequences of this hack will be. I don't think it's impossible that someone may be literally murdered.

But if it happens I'm sure everyone in the causal chain will be as quick to claim no responsibility as the Parler CEO was...
The rules are different when the democracy is at stake, as this country's history should have taught you.
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Was about to ask the same thing. My, how the story changes when it's on the other foot. This type of thing is exactly why we can't have noce things. Regardless of how you feel about the people in question, the fact is you've got people on the side of throwing even more fuel 9n the fire for stoking divisiveness and chaos. The sheer fraction of HN posters who show no apparent awareness of this is a bit offputting.
I use unlisted and private videos. There's plenty of stuff I only want friends/families to see, but not the whole wide world. So, private or unlisted, then send the URL. It works great. So great, in fact, I can't think of anything better. Do you just not have this use case, or are you aware of a product that does this better?
There really isn’t much debate about “right to repair”, compared to the US. I think most just assume it’s not worth the hassel and cost. I would guess that the cost of repairing the average TV be at least 25 to 50% of the cost of a new TV. Highend stuff have always been repairable.

The focus needs to be on making things repairable by the consumer, and easy to recycle. Both mean that you need to be able to take the item apart, and that will require redesigning almost electronics.
If you follow the laptop/smart-phone repair community [1], the problems they run into is lack of access to technical manuals, diagnostic tools and in cases, being prevented from buying replacement parts by suppliers under the direction of Apple (for example). To me, it seems that this is where government or industry regulation would be helpful and provide most value with minimal impact on innovation and market disruption.

On the other hand, I am uneasy with regulators mandating specific designs (e.g. all phones must have replaceable batteries), or specific standards (e.g. all phones need to use USB-C) or doing things like forcing Apple to include a charge cable or headphones with their devices.

[1] I'm thinking of Jessa Jones and Louis Rossmann specifically.
Well.. obviously it's speculation. Specifically a form of speculation describing Liam's belief in this technology.

With that said, depending on what specifically Liam had in mind with that quote, i don't think it's far off. Tim's technological choice might be right or wrong, but it's difficult to argue that people should be able to own more of their data than they do now. Is there some pro-Google argument that would argue they're the ideal hosts for your data?
They do not need to pay more. The equation that repairable means more expensive for the customer is propaganda. It assumes that every cent companies save by making devices worse lowers the price. That's trickle down economics and has never been true.

People can still buy new stuff earlier if they want. But their old stuff can be reused by those that do not need, want or can afford the new devices. There are many categories of devices where that's a good option for many, not only phones. Besides, it's always good to have the option to repair that thing you have when it breaks even if initially you did not think you would need that. You might have grown to like it.
Why can't we have it so that users can run code of their choosing without permanently disabling security features?
Seems like electric vehicles are not limited by this problem of power availability. One just has to be concerned by how much that power consumption for computer operation affects vehicle range.
The government of the United States itself is based on a separation of powers, with limited and specific ways for one branch to affect the other. You can see this in multiple ways, legislative, executive and judicial divisions, but also state vs federal. I would argue that government vs business vs the populace is another unstated but extremely important one. Given that the right of free speech is one of the primary tools both business and the populace use to regulate government I would argue that it's not worth loosening its protections. We already have plenty of tools to deal with excess business power already if we can get both government and the populace on board.
Correct, it doesn't make a profit for Apple to sell devices, rather than just renting them. That's why it shouldn't be up to Apple to decide whether a device sold belongs to the buyer, or still belongs to Apple. If I buy it, it is mine, and I have the moral right to put whatever OS I what to on it, regardless of Apple's ethos.
I ordered a small table from Wayfair that was defective. After submitting a report and a photo of the defect, they told me that it'd be refunded, and that I did not have to return it.

Walmart and Amazon have cash to burn to afford this. But let's not forget that VC-backed companies like Wayfair can eat costs like this as well.
You can pretty easily see for yourself they are THE bad guys. There are calls for violence and white supremacist rhetoric ever way you turn. You really have to try hard to find the non horrible parts of that site.
> To your point, based purely on the market forces (i.e. excluding carbon taxes) coal is still a very viable option.

Oh please. Based "purely on market forces" can't exclude carbon emissions. That's a non-negligible externality which your market needs to price correctly. Not doing so is in effect subsidising coal. There is nothing "pure" about this, quite to the contrary. And this has been known for decades.

It's 2021 now. We don't live in 1890 anymore.
In London they are advertising bitcoin on the side of buses and in the Underground with the slogan 'when you see bitcoin on the side of a bus, it's time to buy'.

I thought that was outrageous and actually was a sign to sell. I mentioned this to a foreign exchange trader friend and we even finished each other's sentence with the above!
the "common knowledge" (which I have no idea how true it is historically) is that wine was diluted in the "bad water", not replacing it
This is an anecdote - plenty of firms are using Scala in their data engineering stacks and it's a great tool for the job.

While maybe not strictly necessary per se, it's a great way to get a foot in the door, and provides a great way to foster advanced type systems and functional programming (I personally find it to be a really fun language to write in to boot).
Google is probably going to struggle with SEO content/link mills that now produce something better than spun gibberish.
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Agree 100% with this comment,

Old stack: Hadoop, spark, hive, hdfs.

New stack: kafka/kinesis, fivetran/stitch/singer, airflow/dagster, dbt/dataform, snowflake/redshift
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Didn't mean to pick on xfce, I haven't used it in a couple years to be fair. But when I did, it just didn't fit my workflow that well. For example, I'm used to pressing command+space and getting system-wide search for all files and apps. This is basically the default behavior on gnome, I just needed to remap the shortcut. I also often move desktops and the "activities" view makes that really simple.
>> When repair labor costs more than automated production..

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

Imagine if mac butterfly keyboards were replaceable. Or for example I recently fixed my dad's washing machine, but it took a couple hours of labor to replace the pump because you had to remove about 4 other things to get to it (when they could have just made a door on the side/bottom.

It's sort of like if you had to spend an hour disassembling your case to swap the ram in your machine.
I have a big issue with the importance of Facebook in this specific story (even if something similar will almost certainly happen or already have happened elsewhere) : I have been to Myanmar. The kind of people that they are talking about overwhelmingly are too poor to afford Internet/Facebook !
Yes? I wouldn't work for Parler, but I fail to see how the phrase "free speech social network" should elicit some negative emotion. Parler sucks because they are a haven to right wing extremists, not because of their marketing.

Its like being angry at Signal because their encryption allows terrorists communicate securely.
Accusing people of doing exactly what you're doing is a well worn and bazar tactic that I'll never understand. Does it work?

You even provided a "quote" of something I never said. Good on you.

You made a statement "Oath Keepers in particular seem to have had a large and heavily militarized detachment". I asked for source video, which you now can't find and instead offer a video that doesn't corroborate your statement. So, who is moving goal posts?

What I am saying is the people causing the violence (including in the video you provided) are crazy larpers and MAGA fanatics, not oath keepers. Oath keepers are typically former military, open carry weapons, and don't look like they just broke out of mom's basement.

I am also saying I haven't seen a video of anyone who looks militarized in either organization, coordinated assault tactics, or armament. Can you cite a source video that demonstrates your statement is even close to true?
> No - There is no 'easy' way to store/restore the entire phone as I believe Apple does.

I think Android phones with the Google Services Framework installed do provide such a way. Alternatively, if you're using a custom ROM (like GrapheneOS on Pixel devices), you can use Seedvault[0] for full backups of your phone. It basically acts as a drop-in replacement of the backup service provided by Google.

[0]: https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault
No, this is from averaging it across the entire year, based mostly on locations in the south of Australia (Gippsland, Melbourne, Adelaide, Ballarat, those sorts of areas), but I looked briefly at other parts of the world also. The idea is then that a panel rated at 250W can produce an average of about 1kWh per day when pointed in the optimal direction and never shaded (but without tracking the sun); the average winter day may get you only 500W, and the average summer day over 1500W, with plenty of variation within those seasons day by day also.
Ridiculous. This is such a relevant bug optimal for exploitation globally, impacting not only publishers, journalists, rest of un-democratic world.
Agree. Parler's discovery capability was garbage. You had to search for and follow big name people to get anywhere. So if Parler was really the breeding ground for the Capitol siege there'd be a clear smoking gun on who the organizers were. That never surfaced.

Meanwhile there are lots of private conservative/Republican groups on Facebook no one wants to talk about.
Trump's lawyer was asking the rioters to execute Mike Pence first.

If I label him a terrorist, that doesn't mean I label all Trump followers terrorists.

Stop thinking so black and white. It's that way of thinking that lead to all of this.
This is more a postcard than a letter.
They have orders of magnitude more video data than they can use for training that is already public
> making things discreet and replaceable will increase costs significantly and slow progress

Nobody is asking to split the current, high pin-density SoC into eighty chips with DIP sockets, they're mostly asking for things like:

* Publishing service manuals and schematics

* Making replacement parts available (replacing the SoC isn't that big a deal, the problem is that you often can't get that SoC anywhere)

* Not selling things with an EULA that explicitly prohibits "unauthorized" repairs

"Making things discreet" is pretty much a red herring. Sure, making everything discreet would result in bulkier, pricier, and probably worse phones, but you can massively improve the general public's access to repairs without doing that.
>The 1st amendment gives all of the companies the freedom of association.

I was under the impression the First Amendment was about the government imposing laws that restricted religion or expression of the citizenry. Can you point to the part that says anything about how businesses (built off of public infrastructure) are to be run?
Also, are you going to put two ports on every phone, tablet, etc.? In times when even ultra expensive high margin devices like iPads / iPhones are dropping ports to save money?
Ok, I'll try and explain.

No it's not an "easy" problem - like I said, I get that these can be tricky. But in my 25+ years of commercial software experience, I've not bumped into one like this. I have bumped into complex technical problems, but the answers were/are always out there and findable. As I said, these kinds of problems are "known known" - you know what the problem is, there's a decent definition of what "good enough" is, and there's usually a lot of Comp Sci literature around to help.

Remember, this is in contrast to the people/business problems. For these, because they're involved the specific personalities involved, there is no definition of the problem (people will react to a situation according to their nature, and you can't check their source code). Often there is no good definition of what a good solution even looks like (except a broad "get everyone happy and working again" maybe). There is no literature describing the solution to the problem, or usually even addressing similar problems. And the problem always has a time limit - taking no action is seen as an action in its own right - and it's usually days at most. You literally have to make up some solution as you go along, not knowing if it's going to work or not. That's why I called these "unknown unknown" problems. In 25+ years of commercial software experience, I've bumped into at least a dozen of these (that's not including the "normal" run-of-the-mill management problems).

Your experience may vary - mine led me to conclude that the tech problems were not as difficult as the people problems, and that therefore I should get some training for the people problems.

For example: the network admin comes out as gay, starts having a relationship with someone on the night shift. The number of "emergency network outages" during the night shift suddenly spikes. A quiet word didn't seem to have any effect. The night shift supervisor is getting fed up of the disruption. Sacking the admin isn't an option. Sacking the nightshift worker isn't an option. Going down any kind of formal disciplinary process is the "nuclear" option as the company has to make absolutely sure it's not in breach of discrimination legislation. Ideally everyone would go back to work and be happy and the network would stop having problems at night (one of those where there is a well-defined "good result"). I didn't manage to solve this problem - the network manager ended up leaving in a huff (though thankfully not sueing us). I still to this day have no idea if I could have found a better solution to that problem. There is no technical problem that I've ever faced where I wonder 20 years later if I could have found a better solution (though plenty where a better solution has become available later).
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Baller alert.
Apparently, yes: https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...
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I think it's also that unmoderated forums become a magnet for people who want to spew hate, rather than anonymity inherently leading regular people into such behavior (though maybe the former causes some of the latter).
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Older than that, here’s a take from 2004: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
We see that happening all the times with devices that are open and popular enough, as much as is possible now. Have a look at the xda forum to see how it is done today.
If it appreciates indefinitely in value, yes.

I have a huge box full of precious photography film. Slide stock, Kodak Portra, beautiful B&W by Ilford... I should store it in a freezer but that would make holding costs high, and there's a going market for good and bad film at any condition (there's CVS-brand film on ebay)...

These rolls have the capacity to produce beautiful imagery in my incapable hands, and I know them to have great value -- my 120 format Portras smoke anything in your digital quiver when it comes to displaying beautiful people in outdoor-sized frames.

I can pretty much sell a handful of Ilfords in 2-3 weeks and buy my wife a nice steak dinner. Is it money?
Per Wikipedia, the count of active users was 4M. And that's about right for the community of active "MAGA head" republicans in question.

A lot of the horror and cognitive dissonance of this moment is that the mob the President aimed at Congress on Wednesday was not a weird or fringe group. They were just his fans. Look at the crowd, along with the armored people smashing windows and beating cops were smiling grandparents with flags. It's all the same group.

The overlap between "mainstream republican" and "right wing terrorist" in our society has become horrifyingly blurred. So a lot of sincere attempts to address extremism look like "censoring republicans".
I guess you'll need to convince the judge that there's reasonable doubt that you did not create the Facebook account that you use and that you were unaware of the ToS and not acting in bad faith. Not saying it's impossible, but it's not as difficult to enforce the ToS as it has been suggested. They are certainly not useless.
>Solar power doesn't pollute
Nope. The heavy metals used in solar powers are pretty awful. Perhaps they don't have the same impact as CO2, but we don't have a decent solution for what to do with the trash from old solar panels.
There is precedent -- e.g. Bootcamp -- Apple share price rose 10% or something when this was initially announced.
> there is no light in the fridge (but it still works)

I normally find these types of appliances make parts readily available. I just replaced the locking mechanism on my washing machine for example, it was cheap and easy to order the parts I needed.
How about this, along the same lines:

Manufacturers must pay 100% of the cost of safe, environmental disposal of all consumer goods they sell. This is collected in the form of a tax, for all manufacturers over some threshold sales value/volume, based on an impact assessment of disposal cost. The assessment is based on the typical practical burden to disposal facilities to process each SKU.

There's no need to individually account for every item going into waste disposal facilities. It can be assumed that every item sold will eventually be disposed of. And the problem is in primarily bulk sales of consumer items, so accounting in bulk is fine, and considerably cheaper in processing cost.
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