skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't see a difference between what was occurring on Parler vs the New York Times writing an op-ed? You're intentionally conflating reasonable discourse vs facilitating a violent mob. Do I agree with that particular NY Times op-ed? No, but publishing is a reasonable way to share your views in a way Parler was literally being used to coordinate an attack on US politicians that has lead to the death of 5 people.

Websites like 4chan, 8kun, Stormfront, etc have been pushed out of mainstream hosting providers since forever. This isn't new. What is new is venture funded hate sites. This is big money trying to make a buck on selling ads to the most radical. Literally anyone who's watched the rise and fall of these free speech zones on the internet knew that relying on infrastructure provided by companies like Amazon was beyond stupid.

You can put whatever you want on the Internet, there's lots of hosting companies around the world that are willing to help. Just don't cry when big American business wants nothing to do you with.
yes, some folks (at certain points in their lives) need more guidance to find their way. hopefully that's what we can work towards, rather than just lock-em up for as long as we can.
I definitely hope that your analysis here is the prevailing one.
A message on Twitter:

> Someone take this clown out NOW! #assassinatetrump utter evil this man! #DonaldTrump

I’m on Twitter and it seems like this stuff is not uncommon there and since they are a huge company it seems like it wouldn't be tough to moderate it.

I consider myself to be a proponent of free speech, but I also think you are crazy if you don’t put limits on it.
"Storming the capital" had as much legitimacy as the "raid on AREA 51."

Those people dressed like Huck Finn Braveheart had as much chance of overthrowing the US government as memelords did kidnapping an alien and bringing intergalactic peace.

This feels like 9/11 all over again. You got the worst legislation in US history as a result of 9/11. (the Patriotic Act)

What's going to be the Patriotic Act for the internet now everyone is convinced we are being attacked? We know they want to get rid of Section 230. How bad is the law going to be that replaces it?
Telegram has an option to add an additional password to your account precisely for that reason.
I don't quite get the advice to come up with a "big hairy audacious goal (BHAG)" for one's self. It's one thing if one already has a personal BHAG, but going through a process to develop one as a personal goal seems almost... backwards to me. I would find it difficult, if not impossible, to come up with something so specific that "sums up" the way I'd like my life to turn out, but maybe that's just my personality.
If you're doing that, it may be good for the API to be an abstraction over the existing protocols rather than creating a new protocol as well. That way you get the simplification and interoperability with the existing fediverse.
Products are having shorter lifespans with ever decreasing levels of repairability. Like what others have said here, our expectations have become so low that it is commonly expected that the things we buy will only last a year or two before we end up throwing them away. This can be easily resolved if people simply paid more money for better quality products and brands that ensure repairability and longevity. But, of course, as time has shown, cheapness has won over consumer behavior. I'd consider this a market failure. I've always thought that this failure could be corrected by simply increasing the cost of disposal ("throwing things away") via some kind of tax. When my vacuum cleaner, my toaster, or even my coffee maker dies, throwing it away costs very little money. So little money that it is better worth my time to simply dispose it in the trash and buy a new one. But if I find disposing them to be costly, I'll certainly reconsider my options.
I think the privacy angle is misguided. Most people don't really care about it. Even moreso for stuff like what songs did I listen to on Spotify.

The better angle is that we're becoming digital serfs. Google decided that they didn't want Google Music to exist anymore and poof went my listening history and playlists. Any service that I use today can do the same thing. If that data were stored somewhere I had access to I could have imported it in to Spotify.

This is an area I think Amazon or CloudFlare could step into. Sell consumers a NAS type box that keeps their data local. Sell companies on Lambda/Workers @ Home and have their applications run on that NAS.
CEO mentioned on Kara Swisher podcast that he felt he had zero responsibility for the content on this platform. So this moderation is mostly a PR point.
Doing principle component analysis on political views to try to determine the number of axes required to account for variability in political views is an interesting endeavour.

e.g.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/PRINCIPAL-COMPONENT-ANAL...

https://escholarship.org/content/qt1c192923/qt1c192923.pdf?t...
This also fits with the argument that they're not being de-platformed due to political beliefs, but because of violations of the law and the terms of service.

I know several conservatives who voted for Trump not because they love the guy, but because in the two-party system he's more closely aligned with their personal views on things like immigration, taxes, military, etc. I'd also argue that for the average American, the Trump of 2016 wasn't exactly an extremist hoping to overthrow the government.

The American political climate has polarized both sides. It's really unfortunate that in some circles, someone can't say or express conservative views without being lumped into the radical right-wing Trump Patriots. Similarly, some can't express liberal views without being lumped with radical left-wingers. And as a result of this, de-platforming the right-wing extremist is commented on as "silencing half the country" which just isn't true.
Experts are real, unfortunately knowledge in many fields is built with very poor standards of quality. The experts in those fields are vastly knowledgeable in falsehoods.

While the general public questions if we should be funding the next big project in physics, the real question we should be asking is if we should be funding almost anything else as long as they are not willing to apply the same levels of rigor.
Possibly. Automatically creating fake user accounts[1] likely falls into that category.

I'm not in favor of vigilante justice. I hope some of these people do sued under the CFAA. If all they wanted to do was archive public posts, there are ways to do that that don't involve programmatically creating fake accounts.

[1] https://archive.is/Dupjk
I'd love Facebook to do more to prevent misuse of its platform, but I don't see why I should blame Facebook for Myanmar violence.

Facebook at its core is a tool that helps people spread information and opinions - not too different from the telephone or email. The blame for Myanmar violence should be placed squarely on the people that are spreading misinformation that incites violence. Even if Facebook does a better job policing content, don't you think these perpetrators will find an equally effective technology to spread their propaganda? If not now, then in the future surely they will?

Don't get me wrong, I do think Facebook should police clear misinformation that can lead to human suffering, but it seems like the media want to convince me to hate Facebook. I hate the people behind this misinformation. And, I would love Facebook to get involved, but I don't hate them.
I had to remove and reinstall Steam to get my auto login working again
Whoops, thank you! Fixed.
Apparently it depends on the country. Facebook deleted personal profiles of NSO group employees because they hacked WhatsApp but then an Israeli court ruled that was illegal. Sometimes Facebook does the right thing.

I think Uber should refuse service to those added to the no fly list.

Some of them aren't taking it so well: https://mobile.twitter.com/rayredacted/status/13483886011182...
You haven't given any evidence that Instagram enforces only one viewpoint. And I'd be shocked if Instagram only pays for political posts from one side of the debate in American politics. That Instagram seeks to counter what it perceives of as false political claims has been convincingly made. That it does so to advance only one certain political agenda has not been made.
That's right, unfortunately most of science has been debunked ie replication crisis. Sadly, the populace doesn't see it that way.
I lost my password, access to my email address and all information that could have been used to identify me like my paypal account. This was somewhere around 2017. It took 2 emails to get them to transfer my account to my new email address and reset my password.
Airflow allows for more complex transformations of data that SQL may not be suited for. DBT is largely stuck utilizing the SQL capabilities of the warehouse it sits on, so for instance, with Redshift you have a really bad time working with JSON based data with DBT, Airflow can solve this problem. That's one example, but last I was working with it we found DBT was great for analytical modeling type transformations but from getting whatever munged up data into a useable format in the first place Airflow was king.

We also trained our analysts to write the more analytical DBT transformations which was nice, shifted that work onto them.

Don't get me wrong though, you can get really far with just DBT + Fivetran, in fact, it removes like 80% of the really tedious, but trivial ETL work. Airflow is just there for the last 20%

(Plus you can then utilize airflow as a general job scheduler)
There are some desktop implementations of Steam TOTP client, so you don't even need a rooted phone, as long as you trust some random open source code. https://github.com/KeeTrayTOTP/KeeTrayTOTP#documentation
Somewhat outdated view. This may be the current stack, but its outdated now and is slowly being replaced. The new view is not big data pipelines and ETL jobs, its lambda architecture, live aggregations/materialized views and simple SQL queries on large data warehouses that hide the underlying details. The batch model may still apply to ML I guess, but I'm no expert there.
Internet hosting doesn’t have as strong a geologic component though. Power and water are utilities because they are “natural monopolies”. UPS and FedEx are not utilities since they have less fixed infrastructure.
The 14th amendment overrides the 1st in this case. You CAN be prosecuted for providing aid or comfort to an insurrection, even just verbal support (or, providing hosting services.)
If your country does become a one party system; join that party and change it from the inside.
Yet you seem to side with the less complex interpretation of current event being "he gave a rousing speech"
But there are a dozen other bakeries in this situation. None of which will bake them a cake. No bakery is going to make anyone a cyanide cake and no reasonable person would expect them to be legally required to do so.
I don't think this is the case with newer panels. Our boat stern mounted panels atleast had one panel shaded at anytime. The output drop was proportional to the area shaded. The bigger losses came from the angle of the sun. Output was mostly logarithmic, almost nothing at sunrise/sunset, full output at 12pm, 50% by 3pm.
Components are a bit different in that they are marketed as "obsolete for new designs", etc. and anyone making a physical product knows to plan for the eventuality that a supplier will be unreliable or that a part will be discontinued. This situation is not analogous since access to AWS is ongoing.
Your friends don't need to use friendica. It can also share with Diaspora, Mastodon, Hubzilla and others.
War, maybe. Genocide of the Jews? Seems less likely as an inevitability.
Why is Element, running on the Matrix network, always left out of these articles? https://element.io
How to create an emulator for a single instruction processor using OpenGL
They have the users password hash stored in their db so they can replicate the process server side:

login_token = hash(pwd_hash + nonce)

its nothing too wild, especially considering the age of yahoo mail.
> Something such as 'I want to be a good parent to my kid' Isn't specific, nor is it attainable. Setting a goal of 'I want to spend an hour of time a day with my child' is both specific and measurable.

There are so many factors that play into being a good father that "I want to spend an hour of time a day with my child" is essentially useless.
Consequence free speech seems to be what is desired on these platforms. This was inevitable.

You can’t monetize consequence free speech. It has to be in dark places like 4chan.
you misunderstood me.

Parler’s defenders kvetching about their failure to maintain business contracts with their partners is disingenuous, and can and should be recognized for the bad faith slime that it is.

In the context of “letter from a birmingham jail”, trump and co. are more robber than robbed.
Rabobank was the one with the horrible non-native client so pretty sure he is talking about ING :)
If all you are comparing is HASH(random_string + hashed_password) then it will still work.

The server will give me random_string and I know hashed_password from the DB leak.

Obviously this assumes the login process actually works as described in the earlier post.
> Where on earth does the authority come from, which authorizes Amazon, ostensibly a private corporation, to arbitrate ANYTHING to do with public speech?

Where would the authority come from to force Amazon to support a message board they believe is for the purpose of inciting and organizing violent insurrection?

Why shouldn’t Amazon be able to make judgements about who it’s safe to do business with? Why should Parler’s decisions about who to do business with override Amazon’s?

Suppose Amazon did something Parler didn’t like, and as a result Parler decided to move to a different provider... should Parler be forced to stay with Amazon after all?
> There was always a contingent of "Never Trumpers". Politicians are fickle.

Trump isn't really a Republican, it's just that on some key issues, his position aligns better with the Republican party. The majority of the Republican party was openly anti-Trump in the beginning, then later turned around due to his massive public support.

That hasn't really changed, his approval is as stable as ever. The only people buying into the "failed coup" narrative are the ones that never supported him to begin with. Dropping Trump, as much as the party might want to, is not a recipe for success. Strategically, dividing the Republican party will be the prime objective of Democrats.
It's been a while since I used C++ but I have never seen suggestions of the same quality that the rust compiler produces. Do you have a link that shows the error messages you're talking about?

For sure though, not every error has a great message and some can be cryptic. But those cases are relatively rare these days IMO
https://www.security.nl/posting/34165/%22Beveiliging+ING+mob...

> "Het authenticatie protocol ziet er goed doordacht uit. Er wordt niet vertrouwd op SSL of TLS. In plaats daarvan gebruikt ING een extra encryptielaag waarvoor het wachtwoord wordt afgesproken via het SRP protocol. Ook genereert elk mobiel device een eigen profileId en een public/private sleutelpaar", merkt Van den Berg op.

In English:

> "SSL/TLS isn't trusted, instead, ING uses an extra encryption layer the password of which is negotiated using SRP. In addition, every mobile device generates an own profileId and a public/private keypair"

Assuming SRP refers to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...
To be fair though, Facebook is now a lot more aggressive at removing radical political groups/content.
If that would be the case what is the point of the article? Of course Google Play Protect shouldn't interfere with an side-loaded app. One major reason for side-loading (after giving explicit consent and ignoring all the warnings associated) is to allow applications Google wouldn't approve.
A shooting happening in a protest area is not the same as armed protesters attacking the seat of the federal government chanting their intention to murder politicians.
The Iraq war is a great example because it highlights how rare this is. You had to go back 15 years to find an example of the mainstream media misleading people on this scale.

It can be true that both:

- The NYT deserves a lot of blame for the lead up to the iraq war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller#The_Iraq_War)

- Newspapers generally do a really good job of fact checking the articles they print
>In a press release announcing the decision, Twilio revealed which services Parler was using. This information allowed hackers to deduct that it was possible to create users and verified accounts without actual verification.

>With this type of access, newly minted users were able to get behind the login box API used for content delivery. That allowed them to see which users had moderator rights and this in turn allowed them to reset passwords of existing users with simple “forgot password” function. Since Twilio no longer authenticated emails, hackers were able to access admin accounts with ease.

So these 'security researchers' are random hackers that illegally gained access to accounts and servers are actively doxxing people and this behaviour's now being praised?

Apart from being illegal, I seem to recall severe backlash against several instances of doxxing in the past, which is exactly what these people have done.

I wonder if people would still be cheering this on if 70TB worth of twitter information had been leaked instead.
Maybe.

But all humans are self-serving hypocrites, it is in our nature.
I don't know which particular attempts you're referring to, actual referents would assist in understanding your point.

But let's be clear: Republicans violently sacked Congress and and attempted to overthrow our government. It wasn't all Republicans, or even most.

But the bulk of Republicans who didn't do this should be standing up and vocally disowning those who did, before their entire party is perverted.

If you don't, I and a lot of other people will assume you support the Cruz, Hawley & Trump insurrection, with reason.
The blood is on your hands then.

Edit: The poster I'm replying to should be deplatformed immediately for inciting violence, specifically for perpetuating black markets that have devastated entire countries, for supporting raids of homes at gunpoint over possession of substances that are bought and sold without coercion, for the inconsistent doses and impurities and stigmatization that will continue to kill addicts, and for widespread incarceration which is targeted toward already disadvantaged minorities.
But who does the money go to if it's fully decentralised?
Waste: Anonymous, Encrypted P2P Collaboration Tool
The existence or the continued existence? Given that it's an island, Britain should be as good as new Zealand for covid. If it's not, the government has screwed up
I think we have all unfortunately seen what unbridled free speech on the internet looks like.

I think we have reached a good balance (for now). Government has to be hands off, and platforms can censor as they wish.

It’s hard to say whether this will work long term, though.
XMPP is an open protocol for chat, just like email.

Sheeple seem to be completely allergic to open chat so they run from one proprietary service to another like

* AIM

* ICQ

* Paltalk

* Skype

* Lynq

* MSN Messenger

* Google Talk (and I think a few others from Google)

* Skype for Business

* Facebook Messenger

* Go2Meeting

* Zoom

* What's App

* Signal

* Apple Messenger

* Discord

* Slack

This is the road to ruin however because these platforms go through a cycle like:

* Platforms reach a certain level of quality and then start to decay (remember when Skype worked as well as Zoom does now?)

* Because of the "two-sided network" effect people tend to stick with the chat services that other people use so that chat services have no reason to fight that decay;

* Every so often somebody finds an opportunity and gets a new product in, often with a new idea or two and the rough edges sanded away (remember how Skype used to "just work"; Zoom "just works" now but once it is a market leader you're going to put up with it no matter how bad it is.)

* Big companies like AOL, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, etc. periodically come out with chat programs that "innovate" by connecting to their networks, but for the most part you could squint and AOL Messenger looks the same as Facebook messenger.

* Some big companies in a further fit of mindlessness produce or buy an endless series of incompatible chat applications.

So long as you go down the road that somebody is going to administer this big server, the company is someday going to get bought and go bad.

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Most people seem to think that using an open network is like putting your hand in a toilet. (Think of the "freedom" to wreck your hands with a mouse from the Apple 1984 ad)

The simple fact is that you could get a better client for a server IF there is a competition for clients. Twitter, Discord, et al.will just shut you down if you make a better client.

In the "police/military" sector communication with chat is widespread (e.g. most cops have a computer with an XMPP client in their car) They might tap out a message and it goes into Lotus Notes, be handled with a workflow, looked at by intelligence folks, etc. XMPP has all kinds of extensions such as: fill out something like an HTML form and send it somebody that serve those people well. (e.g. fill out a form about what happened on patrol today)

Contrast the continuous decline of proprietary chat w/ interoperable phone calls, SMS, you just take it for granted you can call a Verizon phone from AT&T and it is because the government got involved.

Europeans concerned about falling behind would be well advised to mandate interoperability for chat clients and servers -- the one problem is their privacy minimalism works in the favor of centralized companies like Facebook (which legislators might think they can control) opposed to a distributed network where somebody can record what goes by and have no respect for "the right to be forgotten."
Germany and France Oppose Trump’s Twitter Exile
> I'd say I agree with the points in the article over the non-contextual, anonyomous, blanket statement that the crime bill brought ("caused") mass incarceration of Black Americans.

Perhaps it is not an appropriately nuanced claim - I would be curious if there is equal enforcement of the "contextual" clarity of claims made in all political memes though. My guess is no, and it is also a quite common view among academics that the crime bill is a large link in the story behind mass incarceration.

I haven't, for instance, seen fact-checking of memes about Russia "stealing" the election or Donald Trump being a servant of Putin, despite those claims being potentially "non-contextual."

You may agree with the points. But does that make it beyond the pale of discussion and must be "fact-checked" away?

e: Rather than downvotes, I would be curious what others' thoughts are here.
If the "most seditious followers" leave to form a third party, then the Republican Party can become a normal, center-right party. That's not a bad outcome.
So you say the Opoid Epidemic in the US was a good thing? Because that is what you will get if you let the free markets decide, but with more marketing and even more addictive stuff.
Sure, but you can only vote once and they already vote every election, so they can’t change their behavior there.

I suppose they could donate more but my neighbors still flying their Biden flags have money as well. For them, these events and tech bans have only justified their world view of how dangerous Trump is.

If the result on both sides is donating and voting and raising children that seems pretty consistent with the past few centuries of American politics. So, not much will change?