skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I commented yesterday on 'replacements' for Twitter and included RSS in it.

Thing is, RSS is just a bit 'technical' for a lot, especially with Google shutting down Reader which (far from ideal) was a visible entry point (and Wave, which IMHO was a Twitter-killer). If there was an easy adoption where everyone has an RSS reader app and RSS feeds were heavily promoted just 1-click then yeah.

As a stereotypical early adopter of Twitter sitting on the toilet pondering life while Tweeting, the stereotype was indeed a thing, as was the blogosphere then in my niche. Twitter complimented that blogosphere with short posts and strong social bonds from those that might not have a blog. Now the blogosphere, I feel, may be coming back. And with that super potential for a product that makes self-hosting, blogging, short posts, following, following back (
avian mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmention), super smooth and simple. But it's chicken-and-egg. I'm all for it and that's nothing to do with Trump.
They didn't censor anything, they chose not to host it.

Parler made choices as a product to host virulent seditionist rhetoric without moderation and are facing the consequences.

If they had structured their product and infrastructure better, and made an attempt to moderate themselves they wouldn't be in this position.
If you don't do anything at all it still would get worse. Look at the 1923 Beer House Coup in Germany and the lax response of the German Kaiserreich to calm Hitlers supporters.
If Mexicans shot back causing 23 times the casualties on the other hand, they clearly would not be terrorists though, as they just defended themselves.
I see a lot of people here saying, "protecting free speech is important, but ... " citing a long list of exceptions for really ugly things.

You don't get it.

Free speech isn't about protecting viewpoints that you like or find acceptable. It's about protecting ALL speech, especially including the one that you don't like.

Yes. Even incitement of violence, genocide, etc. In a society where all speech is permitted, extremist viewpoints will be naturally marginalized and lose power.
The report on which the article is based:

THE COST OF POOR SOFTWARE QUALITY IN THE US: A 2020 REPORT

- The Consortium for Information & Software Quality

https://www.it-cisq.org/the-cost-of-poor-software-quality-in...
It's impossible to present all facts, out there happens a lot more stuff than would fit in any media. Media must curate or summarize it either way. If they're any good they clearly separate facts and commentary.
I have never been able to find a wikipedia topic I could contribute to. The problem is the topics which don't have pages on wikipedia also don't tend to have a lot of referencable information on the internet.
That makes a little more sense. /etc is e-t-c for me, but I may be in the minority there.
So then, can a restaurant refuse service, to filter what kind of customers would allow to let in, let's say on criterias like: only men, only white people, everybody but gay people? It's a private business after all. Especially if they are still available to deliver without any filter.
Just say no to these attempts to post long form content as a series of tweets. What an abysmal UX. This is unreadable.

It’s a shame because given the cognitive dissonance of the most diehard Trump supporters (eg anything to do with QAnon) the parallels to ISIS aren’t out of place as you might think.

And is I think we have reached the point off deplatformatizing this particular brand of extremism and conspiracy theories.
Okay, so stepping even further back, why is social mobility considered an important metric? Why can’t I just walk away from social strata to begin with, and live my life happily as a “lower class” citizen living in the woods if I want? What if the goal of changing social strata is actually just a larger scale version of the Peter Principle?

Last year I saw a chart posted on imgur with habits and traits of lower, middle, and upper class people. I’m sure many saw that and thought “oh I need to act like X so I can stop being Y.” What I saw was contentment that I am in the social tier that feels right to me. I don’t need “more,” I would struggle with “less.”
A certain politician and a certain very high-profile doctor.

There's also this point of view :

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3858145/posts

A later, more polished and detailed version in French :

https://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/traitements-a-...

However, while I had found these arguments compelling, the issue was that they took the effectiveness of HCQ as a starting point. Which just seems to go against the available evidence at this point.
Sure, but developers and tech savy people make up a very small percentage of the userbase. Most people don't care.

If you go on the metric of how many people use the products these companies provide versus the drawbacks of using those services, both Facbook and Google are very valuable.
I worked for companies at various sizes FAANG and non-FAANG in London and I would say what FAANG pays is much better than what most of the startups or other companies such as banks pay.

Base salaries are usually similar but RSU and other benefits make the real difference. For example, most of the tech companies in London don't even provide health insurance, since they rely on NHS.

Startups try to use options to convince people but what you're given mostly wouldn't make you a millionaire in the event of exit or IPO.

I guess the other group of companies who could match what FAANG offers as a whole package would be hedge funds. I would say it's harder to enter them tho, since they still can throw your CV to the bin just because you don't have a degree from oxbridge.
Interesting example, since doctors notoriously mispronounce stuff all the time. Especially names.
For Romanians, we pronounce signal correctly, though. We have "gn" as a sound in Romanian, for example "a răstigni" (to nail to a cross"), we don't change it to "ni".

But we do have the same problem as Italians with "pseudo": the "p" is right there, why are you skipping it?!? :-p
And you decided to roll your head over your keyboard to spread lies.
I recommend trying more social activities like dancing, acroyoga, climbing or fighting(box, fencing, karate)
It is my understanding that terrorists weren’t in the business of making coups, otherwise our history books would have been full of terrorism-sympathizers, from Washington to Bolivar. Call it a coup (like you correctly do), not a terrorist attack.
Interestimg. Thx for sharing.

Dangerous not for health but due to less noticing environment, probably something irrelevant for pro atlets which have dedicated working spaces
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Then I hope you are also banning their adversary.
You can watch the news and read a newspaper. You don’t need Twitter to tell you there’s a virus out there.
Apple and Google are private companies.

It is their platform.

Free speech is freedom from the government not private companies.

It's just pure entitlement.

Users can install alternative app stores or apps directly on Android phones. Or even they could buy a Linux phone like the PinePhone and install whatever they want.

But no, they want the audiences built by private companies.

It's funny how those who decry communism so much want state control of businesses.

And to note, users on Parler are advocating blowing up AWS data centers:
https://twitter.com/JohnPaczkowski/status/134811382832466739...
This is true with regards to the Constitution and the 1st amendment. That said, the US has a strong ethos around freedom of speech that goes beyond just gov't intrusion.

Is big tech within their right to censor how they see fit? Yes.

Is it antithetical to the American ethos? Probably.
The fact that Parler did not anticipate this is crazy. How do you decide to build Parler and than tie yourself to AWS?
I say "libe", but "libb six tee fore", which is really too inconsistent.
Intuitively I always assumed that deplatforming works (and similarly that the Streisand effect doesn't actually work, it's just survivor bias). My issue is that I don't trust Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and other SV CEOs to decide what should be deplatformed. We see a lot of media around why white people are racist, bad and immoral people. Why don't we see that much media around how the wealthy class are greedy, bad and immoral? My guess is because while BLM, antifa and the like are promoted by most of the major media channels, groups like occupy wall street are being quieted.
Signal is not a social platform. It's meant for 1:1 or small groups communication (there is a hard limit of members in conversation) as if people met in real life. We can't compare it. Trump would not be able to use it the same way as social platforms, the same way he can't go and talk to every person.
It is good for individuals to work hard and invest in learning. I like the comment by John Wesley that you should make all you can, save all you can and give all you can.

I think we often experience disappointment in life when we seek much wealth. I don't want to be mega-wealthy and I don't to be poor.

I hope my government try to do their best for my society. On a personal level I also try to help those less fortunate than myself.
Only if you're lacking them.
Parler was set up specifically to provide a place where Trump supporters could discuss sedition, terrorism, and make plans to prevent a handover of power in the case that Trump lost the election.

It is common for people to get banned from Parler for things as simple as questioning the evidence “supporting” various conspiracy theories.

So don’t complain when the entire site gets taken offline due to breaching various terms of service regarding “do not use our platform for terrorism.”
"We are much less violent than 50 years ago"

I would say that the population is, on average, much older and has more to lose. Fortysomethings do not regularly engage in street chaos. This is even more visible in Europe, even in formerly violent places like the Balkans or Northern Ireland.

Once the share of the young hotheads in the population drops, you have much smaller probability of really serious riots.
> My line for free speech seems to lie in speech that incites violence

It sounds very easy when you speak in the abstract.

I could tell you a dozen examples where you can argue for both sides, and what your conclusion will be will depend on what the media says and whether or not you like the person they "persecute" and vilify.

AOC said "Are you all ready to make a ruckus? Are you all ready to fight for our rights?". "Oh no, those are fighting words, they incite violence". Would you like ban her from all platforms?

What happens to people without a party? A recent trend on the progressive left was the #ForceTheVote to ask the AOC, squad and the progressive wing of the party to withhold their vote for Nancy Pelosi's speakership in exchange for a vote on M4All (the thing they've run on, "but now is not the time"). Should they all be banned because they want to "force" the vote?

"Hold your representatives feet to the fire"? Do I want to literally do that and burn them alive? Or I want to keep them accountable?

"Heads on pikes"? Do I want to behead them, or I want them to lose their position and I want them to get fired?

What if I get frustrated at a party, and I say "the gloves are off" and decide to run against them? "Oh no, he said 'gloves are off', he wants to be beat up the congressman/congresswoman. Silence him!". What if I say, "I'm going to destroy them". Obviously, I was speaking in the political sense, but if enough people on cable say the opposite, you'll never believe me.

The point is that there are usually hundreds of ways to frame something. If you didn't hear the context, and you only see the 5 seconds soundbite, you'll believe it's justified. You also won't look into it, because "why would you protect an aggressor? the clip was clear, he/she threatened people with violence".

FYI: I brought examples from the left so that people understand that almost every person who has given an energetic speech can be framed as "violent" and in the future can be shut down (if the power dynamics change). I used American examples, as the two-party system is simpler as a multiparty system and most people are familiar with the things that happen in the US. The same would be true in other countries, though.
But they did learn the bare basics, enough to implement something somehow working. Or I don't get what you're trying to say?
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End of last year, I made a page to compare alternative search engines:

https://www.gnod.com/search/

You can switch on Ecosia when you click on "Select Engines".
This is my personal opinion and in no way relates to my employment:

I rather think that the courts have enforced the line the legislators endorse, which supports their ends of promoting industry: It's not a mistake of the court system, inventions that apply maths to achieve technical gains are patentable and maths itself remains un-patentable. The courts seem largely to properly discern where that line lies.

Developing maths that saves bandwidth, storage, and energy, for example, is beneficial and countries use the patent system to encourage that.
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> We see a lot of media around why white people are racist, bad and immoral people. Why don't we see that much media around how the wealthy class are greedy, bad and immoral?

Imgur is full of posts about that.

edit: filter bubble ?
It's an "expression of their own free speech" that - thanks to Section 230 - comes without any of the restrictions or liability that would apply if it was actually their own speech. They're very much getting to have their cake and eat it here.
I took a look at those two pages and they are not equivalent. Wikipedia lists out a bunch of facts, demographics, and important details on the area. The towns own site is not to focused on collecting facts but more on directing people in the area to info they would need like where to pay a parking ticket or what events are on. I couldn't even find most of the info on the wikipedia page on the towns own site.
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I would hope people were putting their phones in airplane mode, and telling those around them to do the same.
Please provide source for the 90% figure.
I find it often has the opposite problem. High quality, accessibly-written off-line content by experts in the field is synthesised on Wikipedia by someone with good understanding of the subject, but then other editors delete large swathes of it for not citing every line and replace it with considerably more dubious explanations of the subject sourced to news articles and partisan think tanks which put all their content online.
While there is lots of useful advise in there, I wonder how do you measure a "successful" termination process? What differentiates a great "we have to let you go" meeting from a terrible one, output wise? What's the metric you want to optimise here? Future references?
Depends on how one pats their back and the actual reality.

Yes, Android runs on Linux, yet that is 100% meaningless for app developers targeting Android.

Web developers don't care about what OS the browser is running on.

Native Android developers have a Java Framework and Kotlin libraries to work with, which are completely unrelated to Linux.

However they also have the NDK, one would say. Yes, indeed.

So what are the public APIs?

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis

And recent versions will kill apps that try to be clever and access private APIs,

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/06/android-ch...

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/07/seccomp-fi...

As for automotive, while Automotive Grade Linux is getting some love, it is still not an option for real time requirements.
I've been using *NIXes for 15 years. I'm probably going to use them for at least 15 more. I'm never going to pronounce etc as etsy. It just sounds silly. e-t-c forever!
I think this is the central problem. Companies are overcautious in their assessments because of potential litigation and they also tend to use algorithms for them to save costs, which almost always leads to algorithmic discrimination.

In contrast to this, judges are generally able and trained to make such assessments by evaluating the circumstances and the intentions behind speech, and when they err there is a clearly regulated appeals process.

So I don't think it's a good idea for companies to be allowed to ban whole apps like Parler or persons like Trump, even though I principally endorse these measures. The wrong mechanisms are behind it. Instead there should be more oversight of corporations and how they make decisions that may massively affect someone's online life (which has become an almost essential part of life for most people). Mere accusations of crimes should not lead to a full-fledged ban.

I'm fine with limiting the number of people one can reach, e.g. Twitter disallowing retweets or Facebook sending posts only to closest friends. However, even these measures should be transparent, based on openly published and clear guidelines, and there must be an appeals process with several instances and humans in the loop.

Right now, the problem is that individuals and companies have no right of public online representation, and at the same time huge corporations have all the rights to cancel anyone's account without transparency or appeal. That is inherently unjust and will get worse the more important online features become for the rest of your life, e.g. what do employers think when you apply without Facebook account, and so on.
I don't see a way for expulsion to happen. Segregation in some sense, maybe. But that usually runs into the anti-insurrection problem where suppression becomes repression and breeds contempt, strengthening the factions being suppressed.
I feel like at this point, it's neither new (coming up on 12 years old) nor hyped (it's been used in anger a lot by now).

I'm not sure how you read real-world utility from looking at graphs of SO and GitHub. It's like claiming that garbage trucks have no real-world utility because they are vastly less popular than cars.

Clojure is hovering around the same space as Rust, and beating WASM and Cuda. All of these languages occupy a useful niche, and a more-than-cursory search will reveal a lot of companies deploying them where they can play to their respective strengths.
Post-war Europe tends to agree with you: there is a good reason why there are limitations on free speech in many Western European countries. Fascism is simply too big of a threat to tolerate.
Not OP but the feature you're looking for is OLM

https://olm.operatorframework.io/docs/
You're correct, of course. I don't know why I remember it as super user.
I've always pronounced ctl as control, personally.

You're going to end up spelling it if someone doesn't know what you're talking about anyway, might as well say the unabbreviated version so at least it has some semantic meaning.
> it only works if the bad guys don't think about it

I think the horse has left that particular barn.

Although, of course, the barrel of badguy-stupidity is bottomless, so I suppose they'll keep catching the dumber and dumber ones pretty much forever...
Thank you.

> Would love to see an LSP + autocompletion article in the same style.

I've thought about it, but right now I'm not ready to write about it.

Personally, I have been using Neovim's built-in LSP client and deoplete with LSP extension (https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete-lsp/) for autocompletion. This setup has been working great for me for quite some time. But since Neovim with built-in LSP was not yet been released, the LSP API may still change. Therefore, at some point, the new article may become outdated.
This creates a very dangerous precedent. Who is responsible for the published content then? Individuals or the whole platforms? It clearly shows that big tech has too much of power without any kind of overlook, procedures and right to appeal.
nice, thank you.
Speaking of silly pronunciations, you silly native English speakers :-p

Character/karacter but char/char? What is wrong with your language? :-(
I personally know someone who managed to exploit H1B to work a relatively low skilled job who can be done by Americans instead. The person even managed to get a permanent residence an bringing his family with him. It was a motel manager job.
https://www.gnod.com/search/
That's pretty good haha. Though there are exceptions it's generally true.
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Restricting free speech to prevent violence is like trying to keep boiling water in a pot from bubbling over by pressing a lid on it. Will work for a while but speech like the bubbles of boiling water is usually just a symptom of an underlying dynamic. So it won't go away. Worst case scenerio is of course the pot will simply explode at some point.
Wikipedia is not a place to catch up on the latest news or scandals as this stuff is usually hotly debated and often the truth isn't known for some time anyway. They usually do have pretty good summaries of the issues years after they have happened and all investigations / biases have finished.

I use wikipedia several times daily and find the information to be super useful and seemingly accurate. I find the wikipedia information on chemicals and plants to be super useful.
Probably referring to thedonald.win. Warning: It's a total shit show on there.

I believe it was created after the subreddit r/thedonald was banned from reddit.
It's like array access versus hash access;
It seems misguided to suggest that deplatforming is not a constructive approach. Platforms which are tolerant of extremism enable extremists to more-easily connect with each other, develop more-unified messaging, and reach non-radicalized people at much lower social and financial costs. In effect, providing a platform for extremism is a divisive act.
The federal judiciary has been taking criticism from both parties for decades now where both sides think that the courts have abdicated their responsibilities and let Executive authority run amok.

Of course that criticism is never consistent temporally, and always depends on which party is in which office and doing the criticism.

Either way, I'm not particularly excited about leaving things up to the courts.
They are not deplatformed for their political beliefs, but for their non-moderation of calls for violence. If this happens to be what somebodies politics is about, tough luck.
But it’s not the same as persecution.
The author kinda lost me when he claimed the social mobility in USA is "shockingly low" pointing to the article showing it's just 13 percent points behind Norway. That is not a shocking difference.
I get this a lot with this viewpoint but I've passed through the other ones to get to this one.

If it helps, I am familiar with the Veil of Ignorance, the Categorical Imperative, and every other basic tool of ethics you can think of.
> Knowledge of (including pronunciation) jargon is a classic gatekeeper

Indeed, the best example I can find is LateX. You can tell who's read the first pages of the docs from that.
Have you seen the sort of things that get people thrown away in prison for murder for decades? Absolutely flimsy evidence like an insane prosecutor that thinks some guy can go to a ball game and flee as fast as possible to go kill a person and then come back?!

Yeah... I don't trust that.
I would skip and opt for Stoics:

"Don’t want the world to work like you want it to work. Love how it actually works and you will be happy."
Hard Work is great when it benefits the person doing the work. Expecting "Free Work" however, is exploitation passing the costs to society and the workers.
Just wait until someone will come up with "Paradox of Human Rights" lol.