skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and here we see the effects of this!!! as millions of people are still free to insult others and share their opinions of twitter's actions unhindered lol...

everyone can also cherry pick out instances where moderation has failed or things have fallen through the cracks. parler's entire MO has been to breed this kind of environment for growth.

removing one of the DIRECT causes to an attack on our foundational institutions is completely warranted IMO. save the slippery slope argument for something else, please.
If your claim is that "[AWS's decision] is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter." and therefore an antitrust violation, you probably shouldn't also mention that "Parler’s rival social media apps, such as conservative-oriented Gab or
conservative media Rumble, are also experiencing record growth right now"...
> The US government should also move to immediately outlaw targeted algorithmic advertising, which would make a huge impact on Big Tech's sectarian violence cashcow.

That is an interesting proposition, but I wonder what would fill the void created. I believe advertising does not increase consumption per-se, but that it redistributes it among a different set of product and services, so who would be the winners and losers of such an effort?
"if you don't want your website shutdown for terrorism, you should probably moderate your site for terrorism" seems like a pretty clear and concise terms of use.
Here's the proper context and venue to resolve the Parler/AWS dispute: a contract dispute in court.

Parler is blowing it in the third paragraph:

> Friday night one of the top trending tweets on Twitter was “Hang Mike Pence.” But AWS has no plans nor has it made any threats to suspend Twitter’s account.

The distinction, of course, is that the it was trending because the tweets were discussing the videos of violent Trump supporters chanting "Hang Mike Pence", and not calling for violence, as was widely occurring on Parler. That weak sauce isn't going to go far in court.

P4 is speculation on Amazon's motives. Parler would need some good evidence to show this claim is true.

P5 seems the strongest. If their contract really says 30-days notice (given the disingenuous p3, I wouldn't assume that), Amazon could be forced to replatform them for a while and have some damages.
Does this mean sudden level changes in roads, like this tile road pictured here, will also trigger braking?

http://cms.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2019/jan/17/wan...
> please participate so that we can get a good picture of what people here think.

why would you expect an honest answer to this poll?
Article looks fishy. But if China goes down this route, it looks like fears of China economically overtaking the US are overblown.
I did some testing this morning when a friend shared a link to Parler content and the server did not resolve.

I don't know whether it is DNS censorship as well or just poorly configured TTL caching on some DNS servers, but if you have a link to video.parler.com and it doesn't resolve anymore, you can replace video.parler.com with the actual IP address of the server 8.240.251.252 8.240.147.124 8.240.248.252 they are still online though the DNS is beginning to fail globally.
A salient difference is that Big Tech will at least pay lip service to the idea of moderation, when push comes to shove.

Parler is founded on the idea of absolutely unmoderated speech. Even if they win this one, the writing is on the wall for them.

EDIT: This is not as true as I thought. Interesting information below!
There was a discussion here on HN perhaps 8 or 10 years ago that led me to realize I was doing essentially that. I talked about getting in shape and other goals, and got an emotional high (of a sort) from the response I got and from thinking about what I would do to get in shape and be able to do once I was in shape. But I never followed through.

Then I shut up about it, and actually got in shape. And when I ran into some people who I rarely saw, and they were shocked by my 40+ lb weight loss and how good I looked, I got that same emotional reward but also the actual reward of being in shape and being able to do the things I'd only imagined being able to do.

Now I discuss what I'm doing with some like minded friends and we keep each other accountable (Hey, how's the running going? Made it a full 10k yet?). But I don't discuss it with other people in general unless it's brought up by them. A kind of happy-medium between the talk-too-much and just-shut-up-and-work modes of operation.
will the data centers hosting your "metal" not implement the same policies?
not to pick on you...

but customers like you are probably why AWS is taking the position they are. They don't want to risk other customers just to keep parler. That actually sounds like something a profit motivated company would do.... no conspiracies required.

edit: should probably note, customers/advertisers have boycotted companies before for having a whiff of scandal around them..
SQL proficiency is something I've seen developers of all sorts neglect, which I think is a huge mistake. And relegating SQL to something that just an "analyst" does is an even bigger mistake.

Several times over my career I've been brought in on a project where the team was considering replacing their RDBMS entirely with a no-SQL data store (a huge undertaking!) because they were having "performance problems". In many cases the solution is as simple as adding an index or modifying a query to use an index, but the devs regard it as some kind of wizardry to read a query plan.
To be fair, some of those “political” opponents are considering ecological impacts of wind, including local habitat impacts and long term sustainability. The amount of fossil fuel resources to in place one turbine (steel, concrete, ongoing lubricants) for devices that may have a 20% power factor and a 25 year lifespan (ignoring the shorter blade lifespan), doesn’t always look the most attractive, especially when you drive by abandoned turbines.
As far as I understand, that is basically what happened to voat. Which (voluntarily) shut down about a month ago.
Yes exactly it proves their "monopoly" and will invite antitrust actions in near future. So few individuals shouldn't wield so much power particularly given that they aren't elected even if in this instance they may be correct.
Stripe reportedly quits processing payments for Trump campaign website
There was a case in Italy in Milan in November 2019, as we get to know today. Can we stop speculating?
How's it working in the U.S. where billionaires are dissolving the U.S. government?
zis is a blog by some german nerd.
> None of the companies involved here are monopolies, or even close to being monopolies

Then why is Amazon facing action or under investigation for antitrust from Congress, the European Union, the DOJ and 3 states?
Hopefully we'll see more Thunderbolt 4 silicon from different manufacturers as USB4 rolls out. Seems like we'll probably see that over the next year or two if it's going to happen.
It's great how collectively nobody has any clue how to balance freedom and security at scale
How would Freedom Drugs™ address addiction, safety, abuse? If at all.
I am no Trump supporter or conservative - I find it ridiculous that I feel the need to preface that - but I can’t be the only one that is surprised at how willing people are to accept Big Tech becoming the arbiter of truth and acceptable political viewpoints.

From the calls to violence on Facebook, to the terrorists on Twitter, to the hardcore pornography on Reddit, plenty of platforms break Apple’s, Google’s, or Amazon’s ToS. I don’t know how one could possibly argue that Parler isn’t being singled out.

Today it’s Parler. Tomorrow it will be whatever ideology the megacorps find inconvenient.

If anything, this whole saga underscores the need for decentralized social media and having control over our own devices and the apps we are allowed to install.

I’m genuinely surprised. HN is the last place that I’d expect to be comfortable with our snowball into a corporate dystopia.
Does that mean that they will be kicked out of the US stock market? They should.
I have a day job and just launched https://www.vim.so into early access. (Over 30 customers so far)

My day job is at a boutique consulting company that explicitly allows side projects in our employment contract.
The founders are very pro-entrepreneurship with employees and encourage us to find and work on side projects.

My schedule is usually something like:

4am/5am-8am Side project work
8am-4pm Day job work

I usually take one of the weekend days off. The other one I may work an hour or two before my family is awake.

It helps a ton if your employer allows it. Seems like it might be hard to come by employers who do this though.
You can report, but it takes weeks sometimes for the content to get actioned.
I'm baffled by your post because I honestly have made the opposite experience. I've been tracking expert advice on Covid and practically all experts have been right about almost everything related to the disease from the start of February until now. They even predicted the reactions of the population correctly over time, and the second wave in autumn in my region. There were minor disagreements about measures, but overall mostly agreement, and practically every expert has been and is still advising more stringent measures than the governments end up implementing. (Which is not surprising, given the different responsibilities at play.)

I felt not only well-informed, I actually felt and still feel a bit over-informed about the topic. My country of residence handles the crisis relatively well, so it's kind of silly and depressing to me to continue to collect data and look at daily Covid figures.

May I ask where you live? Maybe the US? Did you get your information mostly from print media, online media, or TV?
Another (absolutely horrible) reminder that mental health is complex and almost invisible, "justice" seems to mean "money to lobby" more and more, and that the parasitical industry of academic publishing aims to gatekeep knowledge (that we paid for!) from those who are unable/unwilling to pay them again.

So read, learn, do, and don't forget the failings of the mental health system, justice system, and academic publishing industry.

And as a final question: How can we do better in each of these areas? What can be made to help out?
Unreservedly no
Meanwhile Amazon hosts millions of random websites, Apple ships their phones with a web browser, and so does Google.

Whoever is responsible for moderating the internet is failing badly. Why haven't the web browsers been banned from app stores?
Left or right? No no, it's got nothing to do with that. They're in trouble because they've now got enemies in power. Did you notice things only move when those in power are threatened?
Great timing to do this if you are the CCP - the world is focused on the US right now not much oxygen for anything else in the news cycle. I think the CCP's true colors have been showing up a lot recently. I feel badly for the Chinese population as a whole as the rest of the globe finds it difficult to disentangle the two, and that the CCP applies pressure on foreign nationals (see: Australia).
I'm an email subscriber to the Flip Side newsletter and I'm a happy with the content I read. From my anecdata, in the USA we live in a world of spin and it is so easy to get caught up in one narrative or another and be manipulated into a state of moral panic. Reading the flip side emails helps me empathize with the narratives. Seemingly, everyone sees themselves as the good guys under siege from the bad guys.

Selfishly, the emails help me release pent up cognitive dissonance/frustration by seeing the work of people try to produce nuanced and empathetic content. Being in a state of 24/7 moral panic is exhausting for me and the people around me.

Best of luck to the Flip Side. Keep it up!
They were likely running everything on aws including dns.
These HN bitcoin threads sure do garner a disproportionate amount of downvotes.
My opinion and advice would be to stop listening to opinions and advice on Bitcoin do your own research and follow the money. https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/explorer
"Collusion" isn't generally a thing. Providers can lawfully cooperate for all sorts of reasons; the exceptions are the cases they can't, not the cases they can. For instance, providers could run private channels for banning users that spread CSAM (and I'd be surprised if they didn't).
By the other comments, it seems was true but Twtiter moderated it quickly.

However, I remember when J.K. Rowling gave her opinion on transgender issues, RIP JK Rowling was trendin gtopic for hours, and she received a lot of hate and threats on Twitter. Not only that, a lot of people started replying to her tweets with dick pics, which was dangeours because she was in the middle of an activity with children (they could see those replies).

So yeah, definitely Twitter chooses what to moderate and what not.
You can't really "mute" a murderous mob that shows up at the capitol. This isn't about seeing stuff you don't like, this is about a platform being used to directly incite political violence.
1). AWS can suspend service for any customer immediately upon giving that customer notice. They do not have to provide a "remediation period" or give the customer any grace time at all. Every customer agrees to this as part of the AWS Customer Agreement

2). AWS can terminate an account immediately if they deem you in violation of their policies instead of a suspension - as was the case with Parler. It's all in the AWS customer agreement, which Parler agreed to.

https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/
Show HN: Generate Art with Go and WebAssembly
In preparation for my upcoming book: https://preslav.me/generative-art-in-golang/ I have built this simple proof-of concept. The idea was to grab one of my sketch generators and export it to WASM, for use inside a Web browser.

Does it work? Kind of.
Is it practical? Not really sure. While it does work, there are a few challenges that make it a second-tier solution, in my view. I’ll discuss all those in my book.
forcing voters to shut up in a time of increasing polarisation will always get you more polarisation, or worse.
> The only cheaper energy source (that include pilotability) would be nuclear.

There is no need to make any such assumptions. As I have pointed out just because you and me can't see it right now does not mean something else wont be there. World is complex.
Not who you're replying to, but I just launch the IDE from the shell. e.g. for running qtcreator:

nix-shell -p qtcreator qt5Full gnumake gcc gdb cmake

If I need other libraries in there, I can add them to it. I don't use direnv/lorri, but I assume you would have to relaunch the IDE in the case of adding more dependencies, unless the IDE has nix-shell integration (like an emacs user mentions in a sibling comment).

I made a different way of setting up a development environment[1] that would probably work just as well for e.g. VSCode, that doesn't require restarting the IDE. I did this for lisp development, where dynamically loading libraries during development is fairly idiomatic; it took me about 15 minutes to write, and could probably be adapted for other IDEs as well.

1: https://git.sr.ht/~jasom/nix-lisp-dev/tree
It depends _entirely_ on the contract terms and reason for termination / suspension.

On month to month services, 30 days is normal for almost any reason. But abuse and related ToS violations don't ever get 30 days.
Yes - Apple/Google should be able to cut off Parler from their own stores.

BUT.

Parler should still be available via 3rd party stores if the user so chooses (which isn't possible). Here we have a case of big tech acting against the will of the user "for their own good" which I fundamentally disagree with. I own the device. I should have the right to install anything I want on it, even if the company that makes the device deemed the thing I want bad for me or for society.

Amazon should not be able to kick services off of AWS they don't agree with. That's entering cloudflare/daily stormer territory and is a dangerous precedent. I prefer the "infrastructure" layers of the stack to be net neutral.
Which is why it did the right thing at the request of US intelligence services, and kept them up so they could track and gain info on them.
It isn't a valid argument. AWS is under no obligation to treat all of their customers equally.
Is anyone else getting exhausted by these discussions? This is an important topic and I have strong opinions about it and the events surrounding it but gosh, something about the tenor of the back-and-forth in here is just wearing me out.
The entire down-voting mob I've been railing against the last 2 days missed this.

"I want things that I like to be available to me and I want people who deny it to me to be held criminally liable because I don't understand the case law".

I think people are misplacing their anger that big-tech has too much control over our world. This is fine to be upset about, but you can't say "they have too much control, therefor it's illegal for them to do the things they're doing". No, the laws you want haven't been written (or repealed).

There's also a ton of pie-in-the-sky dreaming that if we could just undo the "bad-part" of 230 then magically Twitter would have to host things because reasons which is a gross misunderstanding.

TL;dr- HN commenters tend to skew towards "Engineer" understanding and not "Lawyer" understand, and it's causing them friction with reality lately.
I understand, but that doesn't really have to do with the point I'm trying to make. Even if you use "organizing an insurrection against the government" as your baseline - is a single post on Facebook/Twitter enough to justify banning? Obviously not - the question is what metrics are acceptable given a certain level of capability by the forum/company.

Only so much moderation is possible given a certain amount of moderators and company resources. Are these rules inherently biased against smaller companies?
Which one and why is live streaming (aka what TV news occasionally does) bad?
Do you believe that the idea of legal representation as a basic human right applies in the absence of pending litigation?

Does corporate personhood extend to the idea of legal representation?

Does the right to legal representation mandate that any legal firm be compelled to provide counsel to any client who demands it?
Also false equivocation. Twitter failed/refused to moderate content for years throughout their meteoric growth, and only now are they barely getting a handle on it - and even then they seem to apply the rules in an uneven fashion.

Expecting any potential competitor to instantly achieve perfect moderation seems like a perfect way to entrench FB, Twitter and others as the de-facto public square.
In Germany, we have a proverb that roughly translated says:

"Whose bread I eat, those song I sing."
Quarantine is nothing new. The medieval trading republic of Ragusa had an island in their harbor specifically for quarantining new arrivals. It’s a shame that people even contest the logic today when wholly uneducated people were fine with it hundreds of years ago.
Nice domain- any backstory to it?
Sure thing.

I'm not sure what your current level is, but I can give some general advice for people that happen upon this:

---

Haskellers are generally expected to understand most of the typeclassopedia (https://wiki.haskell.org/Typeclassopedia), don't worry about learning it all in one go. I had to read this page many times before I grokked most of it.

---

Avoid tutorials that overuse analogies. A Monad only adds one operation to Applicative:

class Monad m where
(>>=) :: m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b

This reads as: `m` is a monad if, given an `m a`, and an `a -> m b`, you can construct an `m b`.

---

It's important to be really good at using Monads that support multiple effects, to create little DSLs. If I want a component of my program to support throwing errors, creating a log, and reading an environment, (all purely), I'd use something like this:

type MyDSL
= ReaderT Environment
(WriterT [String]
(Except ErrorType))

These are monad transformers from the mtl library.

Where I work we use free monads instead of monad transformers, but that's just an implementation detail, it's used the same as a transformer stack.

---

Create a cool project, Haskell people like languages. When I was interviewing I showed off a tiny lisp-like language implemented in Haskell (https://github.com/414owen/phage). This was my first non-trivial Haskell project so don't judge it too harshly.

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Read Haskell Weekly (https://haskellweekly.news/newsletter.html). It's a great source of ideas and knowledge.

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A lot of Haskell shops use, or are migrating towards using, nix (https://nixos.org/).

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Apply! The Haskell market seems to favor the interviewee. In the end, I had more than one offer, even for my first Haskell job.

Good luck!
Hackernews starts you off shadowbanned too. It’s a way to ward off spammers and bots. I know because this account started off shadow banned for 1-2 weeks until I had made 5-10 posts. Edit: Why in earth is this getting downvoted so heavily? Every new account everyone I know ever made was shadow banned at first
there's a difference between regulation and inserting officials throughout the organization. Also the US Postal Service doesn't trade as a company, as some similar run Chinese entities.
Or remove the electoral college (which is an anti-democratic contrivance originally meant to cajole then-slave states into remaining in the Union[0]) and make voting mandatory to completely nuke the GOP's strategy of voter disempowerment (which is their best hope as demographic shifts increasingly favor the Democrats).

0: https://time.com/4558510/electoral-college-history-slavery/
Why do they need to dissolve something they already control and/or own?
I looked at the other account's history the same way I looked at yours. The comment you replied to was not great, but the account hasn't been abusing the site overall, while yours has. If that assessment were the other way around, so would the ban be.

Creating an account just to feed hellfire on HN is obviously a bannable offense—it's a way of killing what this site is supposed to exist for. We need an immune system against that. The immune system doesn't care what color the flames are.
Yes, they thought China would turn into a plutocracy. Of course they were modeling after themselves.
Not in the way that they are in China. In China, state overseen means there are government officials working within the company.
BTC is a value store.

You can use it to exchange large values without traditional middleman.

Saying that BTC is just a hash, a virtual nothing and it has no intrinsic value is silly. Its not a tulip bulb.

Talking about pretty things, how come nobody gets railed up when a painting gets sold for millions and its a single color modernistic piece? Its literally just a hearsay that it has any value and no function apart from being expensive firestarter.

Bitcoin costs money to mine like it take money to mine gold. So there is 'work' involved creating it. It has built in mechanism for fighing inflation (finite source), and security for exchanging it. Try to liquidate 100k of gold.

Also its funny to me how people claim btc has no real value when over 20% of USD were printed last year. Out of thin air. Its all about confidence of people using it. If people were confident tulip bulbs have value of 100m per one we would be trading them to this day no matter how usless they are.
Sorry for the double post but hoping someone could chime in -

How did they accumulate so much content so fast? 70TB seems insanely huge for a pretty new company, isn't it only like 5 months old?