skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> near-overthrow of the US government

That's giving WAY too much credit. The US Government is not a room or a building. A coup is considered successful if it holds power for 7 days; these jokers didn't hold power for 7 seconds.

> insurrection to overthrow an uncontested democratic result.

This is overstating from a certain point of view. It was contested in court (and soundly affirmed). Bear with me for a moment - if what Trump was saying about the election were true, we would want this kind of reaction. I think we can all agree that rigged elections are an affront to democracy. It's just that this election wasn't rigged, as affirmed by courts many times, so the mob wasn't acting righteously. This train of thought has some nuance so I'm not going to be surprised when some folks misinterpret it.

There are two things to think about:

1) how have we let misinformation get so bad that it ultimately forms insurrection? We've got Snopes, disclaimers on social media, etc - is deplatforming the only thing left to counter fake news that calls people to violent action?

2) what are the implications of giving social media & hosting platforms the power to arbitrate what's fake news and what's not? This is incredible power and without checks & balances it is probably too much for individual private companies to hold the keys.
The British humour matches the British spelling perfectly.
Does Facebook have a moderation policy in place that will remove these posts? Does Parler?
I have not seen any indication that private messages are included in this. As the person indicates, phone numbers are only included if they were posted on Parler by the users themselves, but yes from what I can tell the IDs are the most "private" part of the leak. Although one could argue that they are still "public" given that Parler publicly exposed the information.
Why is it more future-proof?
I made one very earnest and honest libertarian-leaning comment on the Redstate forums before I was banned (this was probably 15 years ago). Well, it was "fun" while it lasted.
Not Bancorp, a Silicon Valley VC.
Here is a writeup about Ma being missing from a couple of days ago, from NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/08/954046428/alibaba-founder-jac...
The best mitigation strategy here is to engage your vendors with private contracts instead of depending on generic terms of service (ToS) alone.

Every company I've worked with has negotiated separate agreements with providers to reduce risk. Including contracts with both AWS and Azure.

If your business gets to a certain size and you are still on the generic ToS and paying by credit card you have a big risk on your hands. You could be terminated at any point.

With a private contract you can negotiate things like a termination notice. You can put in place a grace period before things are shut off. You can implement dispute procedures that are unique to your business needs so that when you and the vendor disagree it doesn't immediately disrupt your business.

None of this is easy. But if your business absolutely depends on public cloud hosting you'd be stupid not to call up your vendor and negotiate.

If you are unwilling to do that, then you need to make sure you diversify your cloud. It's much less likely that two competing cloud vendors would shut you off at exactly the same time.
I do the same kinds of things, but sometimes it helps warn them in a friendly way before scheduling the appointment. :) Often, I try to request the papers etc in advance, to make it easier on all of us, then I can take my time, ask questions, etc.
Is it just me or is this version heavily redacted while destroying the punchline by pasting it in bold at the top?

Or is this version heavily embellished: https://www.reddit.com/r/SR71/comments/2dpmw7/the_sr71_speed...
Turns out you should keep those attempting to over throw democratic elections off your service.
It was a very different country 10 years ago. It was comparable to the EU (I lived in both).
Rule: everything is driven by someone's business model.
Parler accuses Amazon of breaking antitrust law in suspending hosting services
Not a serious country
At first I didn't even think about differentiation. Well, the only thing is that I'm in love with good UI/UX, so I'm trying to make it pleasant to use.

So, few points which made me decide to work on the side project:

1. I saw few successful examples of exactly the same products, whose founders are solo founders just like me. I knew exactly that they were successful

2. I saw few examples of bad UI/UX, so I decided that I could do better (if it was that simple, sigh...)

3. I instantly got the idea what these services are all about, so I liked it

But I'm not successful, yet.
> China economically overtaking the US are overblown.

They never really stood a chance. Militarily, economically, socially, culturally and spiritually they offer no better alternative to the American one. Similar to how "China owns US treasuries and can crash the US dollar" was the common trope until recently, the US called them out the trillion dollar loan to Qing dynasty which was transferred from KMT to CCP after Chiang Kai Shek's defeat (and really a symbol of CCP's legitimacy over Taipei), and China began buying more US treasuries to increase its US dollar dependence. Without HK, the yuan-hkd-usd peg is collapsing and CCP is running low on US dollars. Kyle Bass's interview with Guo Wengui explains this in detail [1]

I even had Chinese students condescendingly tell me that China is taking over and everybody will be speaking Chinese by 2020 back in 2005.

If Winnie the Pooh, censoring wikipedia, university students protesting over Tibet, Tianmen Square massacre, organ harvesting of Falun Gong (they are "scientology" so its okay they said) causes the security apparatus kick into high gear then you really are the complete opposite of anti-fragility which is what the US is.

US is anti-fragile, authoritarians are not because they are susceptible to even the smallest shock in the economy or the mindset of its citizens, so they use excessive violence and fear to maintain its power. They don't last at all.

It's more likely that people who made a lot of money working with/in China have an extremely skewed view of the world.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBl05xNq_AU
There's a desktop client that may be of use to you.
I'm guessing you didn't read the article, which covers exactly what you're saying.
Just to be clear about this specific case: There is "evidence" (Twitter posts) coming out that showed that all new users of Parler were shadowbanned by default, until their posts/content were approved by a small group of "right-think" moderators.

So while your hypothetical isn't invalid in general, it's really not what was happening here with Parler.

What they said they were trying to be was not at all what they were actually doing - a common theme in extremist spaces.

But your overall concern about the concentration and centralization of our communications is legit. There's no easy answer there.
The problem of Jan 6 being that a narcissistic buffoon got elected as president of the united states?

I don't know if any amount of internet censorship can ever stop sects from forming. You have to realize that "drinking the kool aid" is an idiom that long predates the internet going mainstream [0]. You can try to push these people off of mainstream platforms, but what will that accomplish? Ultimately, someone will create an easy to use darknet chat platform, and the more radicalized people will use that. In some ways, it's best if we can shine some daylight at the neo nazis. At least then we have some idea who they are and what they are planning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid
Before I give you one of the recent examples I saw, I'm curious about why you're asking for examples in the first place. You already seem pretty disinclined to agree with me as evidenced by how you keep trying to suggest that I'm talking about condemnation of unprotected speech, which I haven't and have said so several times. My first comment was merely asking someone for clarification on how he parsed these threads; I didn't even talk about the subject at hand because I have no interest to and yet that's almost exclusively what you have tried to talk about. Not sure what exactly would be changed in this conversation by my giving you an example. You've been assuming bad faith on my part from the get go so I feel it would be just another fruitless exercise, or lead into another discussion on the merits of free speech I certainly don't want to get into, again.

By the way, you're completely free to defend these gigantic corporations deplatforming whoever they want; I wasn't talking about that in my original comment. That implication was already present in my first reply, but maybe my saying it outright will convince you that I don't mean anything bad with my comments.
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Email access is required for self-service account recovery, but there are plenty of other documented methods:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5421-QTF...
Look at their growth curve, they weren't planning from the beginning on that. I am sure they would have gone with their own DC if they did.

The legislative and judicial system didn't say anything about Parler, and that's the core of the problem. Big tech acted by themselves to appease the new king.
There are lots of horrible things on Parler from what I’ve seen (I don’t have an account, I’ve just seen screen shots). The most egregious example was the post from Trump attorney Lin Wood calling for Pence to be executed by firing squad. It was up for days, and only taken down when this all blew up.
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hey, a bugreport for you: not all sites have favicon.

I specifically chose to not have one on my site, so URLs like 'https://egorfine.com/en/articles/painless-meetings/' will render a "broken image" icon on the top right.
This is really impossible to do perfectly. If you want to share something with someone they can take a copy. Unless you are going to go down the DRM route you really just have to accept that. There are definitely some decentralized system that encourage duplicating data, but even for those that don't you can't escape some users wanting to mirror or archive everything they see.
Wow it's almost like the the founding fathers had a good idea when they drafted the bill of rights and the literal first thing that came to mind was freedom of speech.

I'm sure this experiment of ripping up the constitution in our de facto new online lives that usurp what the government is capable of doing will go just fine...
They're from free sites (pixabay currently...will add more).

https://pixabay.com/service/terms/#license

Images and videos are released under the Pixabay License and may be used freely for almost any purpose - even commercially. Attribution is appreciated, but not required.
There is not really much of a reason to believe this. Economically successful nationalization do happen. The main reason why the CCP is considering nationalizing Ant Financial is because their economists are afraid of the negative economic impacts it may have.

The same thing happened in my province, where the power generation industry was nationalized for economic reasons and ended up being a massive economic advantage, along with the lowest unsubdsidized rates everywhere in the world.

I think this kind of dogmatic viewpoint is dangerous.
So basically the US version of RT?
That was floated as an option, but it would complicate/delay BBVA's merger with PNC. Their entire whitelabel tech stack (Open Platform) is being shut down.
Okay, I see that POV--that Twitter is got a pass because it's worst content is just a by-product of their platform, and Parler didn't because it's worst content was the feature of their platform.
I am hardly Trump adjacent except, unfortunately, geographically.
Ahh, well, everyone has to eat. I know it is an increasingly popular option for folks to essentially work at FAANG companies, save up a bunch of cash and then semi-retire from big tech living modestly, RV life style, tiny homes, living remote, etc. A lot of folks, especially those that start families young, don't have those type of options, but it is worth considering if it is still an option for you :)
Peer incentives and desires can also be skewed / wrong. Just because there's some kind of consensus doesn't mean the conclusion is correct.
I don't think "convicted of crimes against humanity by the UN" violates Twitter's ToS, and I'm assuming he didn't use Twitter to commit any of the alleged crimes, so this is a pretty bad faith, whataboutism, complete non-sense, etc.. By this logic you could ban both Bush and Obama, too.
https://sinocism.com/ is one of the better US sources.
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Well Signal is free and open source. So feel free to boot up some servers on any other platform, or your own hosting and run it from there. Maybe signal the foundation needs to pay more or move platforms to support the app and make it easy to install, but again, why would or should AWS, Google, Apple be forced to host them? Don't those companies have a first amendment right to block speech they don't like?

It's like walking into the mall or public place, and saying, "You have to broadcast this message to everyone because 'freedom of speech'"".

In fact it's better to assume that private companies have such ability anywhere in the world. Signal fosters more access to defy censorship precisely because it realizes that. Making the software open source is how you allow people who need such tools to have them available.

And honestly... you've got the airwaves. It's called radio. Shortwave, can reach halfway around the world.

Again, the entitlement to these services astounds me. The internet didn't exist 40 years ago.... and now somehow the ability to assault people with misinformation, provide unfettered access for propaganda from state actors, permit the dissemination of hate speech is being called a right??

It makes no sense, and is completely devoid of historical perspective.
Endlessly peppering people with questions is sometimes called Sealioning. How about engaging with the point(s) made by the person you're replying to, and offering your own suggestions for how you'd go about things. Also, the HN guidelines (link at the bottom of the page) encourage you to respond to the strongest possible interpretation of what was said, rather than the worst.
A decentralized alternative to Facebook, Zoom, et al.
Given the interest in alternatives to centralized networks right now, I have decided to post this. Every few years we hear about the problems with huge centralized social platforms.

They mediate and moderate all our interactions
They control everyone's data, identity and brand
They concentrate all the data in one place
They get hacked / feed data to spies / advertisers
They extract rents, brands pay to reach them
They track us across the Web
They can exert huge influence over our democracy

And yet, we do not have viable alternatives to them, that would be good enough for people to switch to. I'm not talking about Matrix or Mastodon. It takes years to recreate a user experience that has all the features you would expect from these large platforms. At Qbix, we spent the last 10 years and reinvested $1MM of our revenues to do exactly this. It's now ready.

For those of you who want to back a project to see this actually happen, instead of just talking about how nice it would be, you have an opportunity to do so. Watch the video at the URL below to understand why there is a lot of demand for open, popular platform like Wordpress but for hosting customizable, communities with third party plugins. Especially now in the wake of the lockdowns and social distancing, every organization is looking how to connect their members online.

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform
`xterm` lacks Wayland support-- a more secure alternative to X11.

For a fast terminal with Wayland support, check out `alacritty` or foot:

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot

`foot` (foo terminal) benchmarks faster than alacritty and offers a client/server mode for even faster startup for new terminal windows.
> did quite a bit of research trying to find a good screenshot API.

Would be interested in this research if you’re willing to share: Chris at urlbox.io
It's odd to experience (afar) what the cold war era people were fearing.
> They're being dropped by AWS, Apple, Google etc because they allow, even encourages its users to conspire to commit violence and assassinate public officials.

How is Parler "encouraging its users to conspire to commit violence"?
Facebook runs on AWS? No they have their own infra.

Lesson of the day, if you're doing shady shit, own your own servers and stay off mine.
Huh, but don't you see the difference, one of the president, the other just a semi-obnoxious C-class celeb...
That article, which is from 1977, is about an earlier incarnation of Radio Free Asia that was originally run by the CIA, but ceased operation in 1955 (the article even mentions this). The current RFA started broadcasting in 1996 and is under direction of the US Agency for Global Media.

RFA is still run by the US Government, which is worth considering when talking about the possible biases of RFA... but the NYT article you linked has nothing to do with the current RFA.
Here is the clickable link: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

(If you want to contribute to the project, or get involved, you are welcome to get in touch also with greg at the domain qbix.com)
On Twitter for Android, I quite often open the app after a while, and the previous state is shown. Super! I start reading a tweet, and then the popup comes at the top that there are new Tweets; at the same time, that very tweet I was reading disappears from the timeline, whilst the tweets around it remain. Why??
> Thousands of individuals who by and large wanted to try out a competitor to Facebook

That is a very, very generous take. And if that's all users were doing then their data being breached is regrettable but not world ending.
We blogged about using S3 and gRPC's `longrunning.Operation` pattern to move work out of a synchronous RPC in order to support much larger payloads.
>What is the underlying project that requires collaboration?

Gossip.

I'm not being (entirely) snide: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/106939711455438...
Preposterous, the ranks of Q anon and MAGA are filled with ex-military and law enforcement. They flashed their badges at the Capitol police force! We are that close!

Meanwhile, this political shutdown is pure theory, a straw man floated to distract us from the violence that seethes on the platforms used to organize a fascist overthrow of the government.

But even if we take your probability assessment, the damage times the probability places a violent military coup as a HUGE problem compared to Amazon stopping business with someone.
> From a risk management perspective, this does not seem like a safe assumption to make. The DailyStormer got "canceled" by vendors for not even trying to moderate content that actively promoted violence (among other horrible things). Now Parlor gets "canceled" by vendors for not doing a good enough job trying to moderate content promoting violence.

If you do a sufficiently poor job, you might as well not even be trying at all. Especially if you court the content as a growth strategy.

Everyone's free to manage their risks however they please, but I personally have no less confidence in AWS than I had before this event. I have updated my understanding of their decision heuristic as it applies to kicking people off their service. But the probability of me or any company I'd manage running afoul of it is far less than the chance of getting struck by lightning.
Can you point out what you think JSTOR did wrong?

Here's what it looked like from their end: https://docs.jstor.org/summary.html
Yeah, but I think this is case where it is at best illegal because of belief that they cannot adequately police their content... that seems like the kind of thing you could give them a lot more lead time on and give them some practical transition options (like, your content isn't deleted, but we're not going to route any traffic to public IPs). I mean, it's a belief, not even something that they have really evaluated and dealt with legal consequences. You might think they are entitled to at least prove that the belief is incorrect.
I think we agree: the material timing information here "when did AWS alert Parler to violent material" and "when did Parler remove that violent material".
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> https://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/jun/27/aclu-assist-kkk-...

I imagine the legal argument will be based on AWS providing the services & hosting for Twitter. Which would be a clear and fair argument.
Or go even a step further and directly address the fundamental problem, which is externalities. "Time to entering waste stream" still isn't the fundamental "end result" to optimize. Just require that the cost of plastic and other materials includes the cost of safe disposal or recycling, just like the cost of gasoline ought to include the cost of the externalities of burning it.
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I've found the latency of Konsole to be phenomenally low. I can definitely tell the difference between Konsole and GTK-based terminals, but I can't really tell the difference between the latency of Konsole and XTerm.
Yep. Turn on anyone who doesn't support the narrative. So sad to see someone who has been so principled for so long on all the modern topics we should care about get viciously character assasinated so readily by people without a moments hesitancy. I have had my disagreements with GG, particularly in his naive taking on of PO for the money, but this refusal to acknowledge both his dedication to truth (which often makes him look contrarian) and how correct he has been on those topics just speaks volumes about how deeply ingrained the crazy is for those who decide he's persona-non-grata due to not supporting their favorite conspiracy theories.

The same kind of people now openly railing against GG are the same kind of people who will do everything they can to not acknowledge Ray McGovern because his professional and personal past make him a harder target on the topic. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me to see plenty of them try the same charater assasination on him, but it's an obvious marker of complete rejection of truth in favor of tribalisms.

Disgusting seeing so many turn on GG et al so quickly. Ya'll should be ashamed of yourselves.
It's too out in the open to call it a conspiracy. Amazon,Google, Amazon and Apple (twitter, facebook) are putting out press releases that say this is what they are doing.

They are enforcing the supremacy of the state for the next government. If he was going back as president these companies would not be making these press releases.
"Clearly, Xi is preparing for protracted conflict between the world’s two largest economies by attempting to fireproof China from measures President-elect Joe Biden might use against him."

Perhaps he has more ambitious state actions planned that others do not think are realistic.
Not sure I follow.

How does this action demonstrate that China isn’t going to overtake the US economically?
Sorry, I should have clarified: find me a post that wasn't moderated away. Lin Wood's post was: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/09/politics/parler-lin-wood-...

Unfortunately the service is down, but I would imagine that other post was removed as well.
> There is some critical level of anger that provokes unrest and strong reaction.

Very true. I guess it's a fine line between being objective and being pragmatic. We don't want other people's anger to put pressure on our moral compass, but we don't want massive unrest either.