skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've made an argument that Instagram engages in some form of advancing certain viewpoints. You have not demonstrated that this is extensive and that Instagram enforces ideological conformity or that Instagram actively pays people to engage in said advancement of political agendas.

There appears to be quite a difference between what Instagram does and what Parler does. The two do not appear to be comparable.
Yeah, but when someone's "preferred" side (even if they didn't really like them) is being steam-rolled like this many of those people are not going to be okay with it - not the least of which is because of the authoritarian/dystopian precedent being set. This could be a path to a 1-party system. China and Russia are good examples of how well 1 party systems turn out. I think anybody who doesn't want a 1 party system should be concerned about all this.
I don't see in either of those threads evidence that the moderation is one-sided.

And a social media company paying the users that create the most content? Dastardly!
Now Is the Time for a Digital Bill of Rights
My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
Can't think of a better idea, that both sides of the aisle should be supportive of. Saves tax payer money for the GOP, liberalize drug laws for democrats.
I simply don't get the hate this article is getting, are some HN readers really that bad at reading comprehension?
The authors clearly mention it is "our first choice" and then they go on to present their findings with great clarity. Nowhere do they evangelize Haskell like other language like Rust for example. I never see such comments on threads on other languages, even though some of articles posted are of subpar quality.

In the end the insecurities and failures of snarky commentators don't matter to others who are in the arena solving real problems in production with an unsexy language.
Some of the arguments made by the lobbyists deserve pushback even if you're secretly in their camp just because of how absurd they are.

Given this isn't happening, I'm not 100% convinced the senators are doing this on purpose or if they're legitimately too stupid to understand the argument at play. Furthermore I remember Louis Rossmann saying in one of his videos that one senator turned out to not even be checking his official government e-mail account... that's not someone I would entrust with understanding anything even remotely related to technology.
> Once I reach 10K in yearly EU sales I am supposed to either register an office in each country where I do business to file and pay taxes there, which is crazy at a tiny scale like mine, or register for VAT "MOSS" which allows me to collect tax in the different rates depending on the countries, but still only pay the collected tax to Finland.

Sounds accurate to me. This only covers the EU as well and not other countries (assuming you want to sell worldwide), and the rules are always changing too (I'm in the UK and Brexit just happened!).
You can already have Prolog embedded in Haskell, using LogicT.

Here is the paper by Kiselyov: http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/LogicT.pdf
I would also be checking to see if they were employees or contractors of NY Times, CNN, known agents of China/Russia/Iran.

There are too many groups that are enjoying seeing the division of the American people.
> It's a system that the author put together while intoxicated to poke fun at Twitter.

The HN title is "a microblogging platform", the landing page has a section titled "But what's wrong with Twitter?", and the documentation has a "Design" [1] section. If the author intended to poke fun at Twitter as a stand-in for all microblogging platforms then leave out the engineering aspects and if the author intended to poke fun at Twitter engineering then land some technical blows. If the point of the exercise is to demonstrate how much code and documentation can be pumped out during a drinking binge then the author should state that upfront; that context is useful.

[1] https://blerg.cc/doc/#design
A New Year, A New Release of D (version 2.095.0)
On the federal level in the USA that is not possible. Firearms and violence add on points to your sentencing and are often linked with mandatory minimums. Firearms in particular really tank your chances of a short sentence. Prior to the First Step Act you couldn't even participate in RDAP with a firearm linked to your crime.

I outlined this in a different comment, but programming like RDAP should be developed and standardized to aide convicted in rehabilitation.
I am reading this comment and I can't help but to chuckle. The reason I am saying is that can be read in several different ways and so does parent's post. We can just barely communicate with one another clearly so our proxy becomes 'who are you talking about exactly'.

We need better communication tools -- language seems to be failing us.
If people are required to upload official identification before posting, why would you not want this site up? It seems like a low-effort honeypot by the FBI. Let all the radicalized people come, easily tie their online & offline identities together, then monitor them.
My dad gave me Will Prowse's book as a resource when I was rigging my van with solar - it was a great read but not a necessary buy because all the info you need is on his website.[0] His YouTube channel is a great resource that I'd definitely recommend! Interested to hear what the brand is if your tests turn out satisfactory.

[0] https://www.mobile-solarpower.com/
Fear holds justice back.
"the actual reason for the war...because they wanted a reason"
Agreed.
it's not surprising given that it's Mercer funded who basically make the Koch's look harmless.

People shouldn't be fooled and take this notion of 'free-speech' that is being advocated by these platforms at face value. They're not about genuine free exchange, they're funded by and organised by very well networked organisations who use them to further extremist political causes.
I’m one of the most right wing and pro free speech humans to ever set foot on this site. You are beating up the wrong person. I was merely replying to you regardless of what your parent comment said.
I'm not convinced. Leadership is somehow preventing these fixes to be merged with "design decisions".
That's capitalism for ya.
There is a censorship issue here but it isn't a first amendment censorship issue.
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Zuckerberg: "Whether you like Facebook or not, we need to recognize what is at stake and come together to stand for free expression at this critical moment."

https://about.fb.com/news/2019/10/mark-zuckerberg-stands-for...
Consumers want one cable and connector for all devices regardless of the ridiculous notion that all devices should have similar enough electrical requirements that they could use one cable. The result is USB.
This exact procedure is used for the pidgin plugin:
https://github.com/EionRobb/pidgin-opensteamworks
Full study link
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2020.1...
My personal journey with test-driven development (TDD)
The original charges are always shown in the judicial record even if they are later dropped from prosecution.
In math iteration and recursion are defined as sibling isomorphic concepts. You can desugar recursion into iteration and you can “desugar” iteration into recursion. See Turing completeness and lambda calculus. The topic at hand is which angle provides a better view of this singular isomorphic concept (iteration vs. recursion) that makes it easier to understand. The isomorphism itself (which is what your expose gets into) is already well known.
> Would it be any better if it was sent to Wikileaks and published there?

Not really. If they had sent it to a journalistic organisation à la the Panama Papers, where e.g. curious peoples’ government IDs could be stripped and criminal activity highlighted, that would have be been different.
Ah, which ones? Please, if you'd like to argue a point which I made referencing an article, please actually read the article.
Is Telegram and Signal Safe?
Someone went to prison for wget'ing ATT data. And people right here argued that when you create a script to do so, you're no longer using their intended functionality in good faith.
Ehhh, most studies in this realm have a 'results' section and 'discussion' section. I disagree that experts in their field can't have an opinion laid out in the discussion section, given that it follows from the analysis and results from the previous sections.

That being said, the page is currently timing out, so I can' even read the article...
Based on the screenshot you linked to, their "moderation" categories are "spam", "ads", "impersonation", "defamation", "nudity", "pornography", "illegal", "terrorism", "trademark" and "threat".

Can you please explain how they use that to "ensure ideological conformity in their posts"?
That's the dilemma. NLG of sufficient quality[1] won't be easily detectable as machine generated.

[1] "Quality" here meaning how it looks to Google's crawler, not actual quality content.
Recently, many high-profile social media posts and accounts have been blocked under the pretext of "inciting violence". In that context, I understood his post as saying that lurkers would also be blocked in the same way - as in "purged from social media". I'm definitely concerned with the way he worded it, though.
When you say literally, I think you can't say "hacked the election"

You instead have to say what people literally think/thought: that Russians hacked the democrats to release more emails and the like.

Nobody thought the russians hacked the actual election to change votes and the like, just that they influenced it illegally at the behest of the trump campaign
I wonder whether the solution to the problem of being overwhelmed by whackjobs / trolls is to create clients with the capability of recognizing these toxic individuals and blocking or isolating them automatically. Essentially create a filterbubble that protects you from individuals you would avoid in real life. Spam filters exist that block bad emails, that makes me think that a filter could be created to block bad posts in a decentralized social network.
They mention at the bottom of the article that they did enable side loading, that's how the app was installed.
Get an Instagram account and say something against feminism, diversity, fat people, etc and see what happens.
I would be OK with creating multiple accounts if it's allowed. It's not a big deal and I would very much prefer not polluting the main account with test data.
From reading the docs it seems that the passthrough data provided at checkout is returned with each webhook.
When the state is lying, it is not easy for reporters to find out that they are lying. They printed what was at the time a bipartisan consensus which had formed on the basis of lies.

So I guess they were involved, but the journalists in the organization in the time did not have the power or the information to swim against the currents of what was happening. Even if they had shut down their paper, we would have gone to war with Iraq.

On the other hand, Parler has purposefully created a space for people to plan violence against the state, and refused requests to be more careful about moderating.
Been seeing more footage from the scene and I think you are right. The police on scene were largely fucked over and 2 were killed.

There may have been some cops who didn't do their job, maybe even some who helped the mob, but most of them were just put in a horrible place.
An "obvious" improvement is to push blocks up, and insert new blocks below (yes, u need gearing, and maybe lean them on a slope). But you get quadratic energy per tonne.

Its amazing how much energy a 250W panel outputs. Imagine storing energy from a 1MW wind mill (free pole? ;).
That was my point, really. No one says there can’t be some level of moderation or hierarchy built in.

Decentralized != immutable != non-heirarchical.

And like sibling, it need not be entirely anonymous either.

The feds would allow it if they had some level of legal access to manipulate it, which would in turn be what most people who want decentralized social networking seem to want: to at least have a somewhat democratically elected body governing it, not an arbitrary private company.
>Borrowing is taxable.

it is?
> Instagram actively pays people to engage in said advancement of political agendas.

I haven't seen evidence that Parler's payments are specifically tied to promoting certain political agendas versus just being an influential poster.

> You have not demonstrated that this is extensive

Well, I've demonstrated it as convincingly as the user above who linked to a twitter post of someone just saying they have "robust moderation."
Literally declaring yourself the winner of an election that you solidly lost and then repeating that claim over and over again as your supporters rile themselves up and prepare for violence abso-fucking-lutely qualifies. If the election really was stolen (it wasn't), then violence on a grand scale would be more than justified (it's not), so pushing a false claim to that effect when you have as much power to make it stick is one of the most directly violent acts that can be committed.

"This election was stolen" is way more dangerous than "Fire!" in a crowded theater because if the bullshit sticks then you actually end up with war.
FWIW, the app uses a variant of TOTP. Some TOTP apps (including one for Yubikeys[0]) support generating them if asked to.

[0]: https://github.com/Yubico/yubioath-desktop/issues/72
> I agree that the GP dipped a foot into nationalistic flamewar but that's no reason to jump into the entire pool.

Then why not talk to him?

> We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological flamewar and ignoring our requests to stop.

You've never done that. You asked me to be more civil a few months ago and I obliged. I've never started ideological flamewars. Just corrected them.

> That's obviously against the rules and obviously not ok and you've been flaming up a storm here.

So it's okay to start a flamebait but not to respond to or correct flamebait?

> In case anyone is worried about this, we ban accounts that abuse the site regardless of ideology.

What ideology are you speaking of? You think I'm china bot?

> Actually, the irony is how much all these sorts of account have in common with each other on both sides of the ideological divide.

What ideological divide? You think I'm a republican and this guy is a democrat? Or vice versa? You are literally making shit up.
This is troubling. I understand the 1st amendment argument, but isn't this more an anti-trust case? If a baker won't bake you a cake because you're gay there are dozens of other bakeries nearby that will, regardless of the merits or lackthereof of choosing not to bake a cake in that situation. If your service provider kicks you off their platform they've destroyed your entire business. I understand if they won't allow certain businesses to sign up, or if they give them a reasonable amount of time to transition to another provider, but revoking existing services with very little warning seems extreme.
CGP Grey has an excellent video on this exact kind of goal setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o

And another on New Year's resolutions more generally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE
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Compared to someone's record of convictions, that information is pretty inaccessible. You'd have to go all the way back to court records at the time of their conviction.
In the tweet text it says "all new users start out shadowbanned until enough of their post get approved for rightthink by their user moderators"
Since a "single post" has been provided by someone now, it would be nice to see you give them the decency and acknowledge it. There are so many comments here, and they all read in the same way, "well, what about..." and "show me proof" — only for someone to actually go and spend the time to respond, and then be ignored quietly. Discussions here (political ones) feel so childish, I wish we'd be better as a community on those.
One of these maybe? https://www.raptorcs.com/content/base/products.html
It’s more about social norms than moderation, and frankly things have gotten worse not better.

I remember when most posts that posited any “fact” were cited with references, and often any lack of sources was responded with a request for supporting documentation.

HN is slowly becoming a brainier alt-Reddit with every snide quip or uncited statement of opinion masquerading as fact.
We must mandate that all consumer devices can load open source operating systems. That manufacturers provide open design specifications and follow reasonable standards. That is after a few years, manufacturers do not have an incentive to fix the operating system of devices. Unless we can load open source operating systems, old devices will have security holes which is bad for security.

What I want to say is we should be able to fix and repair the hardware and software of devices.

I want to reach out and thank citizens of France for leading the way on repair index!
Drivers in the US are trained to yield to traffic before entering an intersection. They don't typically yield to traffic when exiting one. For pedestrians moving at walking pace, it's possible for them to see the pedestrian about to cross and yield since the pedestrian will be very close to the intersection.

A cyclist 20 to 30 feet away will not be in view of the motorist who is in the process of accelerating as they exit the intersection.

Making intersecton navigation more complex makes it more likely that someone will make a mistake.
Something Awful solved this problem twenty years ago by charging a small fee ($5) to register an account. "Banned" users could re-activate their account by paying the fee again. "Permabanned" users would have to jump through more steps like different email addresses and payment methods. This upped the investment required for casual toxic trolling.

But this was for an old school "centralized" forum. Not sure what "paying for an account" would entail for a decentralized network.
Bitmessage: A decentralized and trustless P2P communications protocol
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if free speech is only for the enemy, I fear what victory looks like.
>they would have been wise to have a disaster recovery plan for hosting that covered this possibility.

I agree, and don't feel upset about their particular circumstances.

However, as others have noted, Twitter (moving to AWS) has vastly more controversial content. What are the guidelines as far as what content is tolerable and/or needs to been moderated, and at what rate of "urgency", for them versus Parler? These things aren't spelled out. How can a small business comply?
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I've been seeing a lot of people claiming to have been in the Capitol (with the crowd) in a "journalism" capacity who also seem to spend the rest of their time openly and vocally supporting the conspiracy theories and groups that led to the riot. I've become very torn between the dual ideas that a) it's important for people to be covering these things and b) by nature of a protest, those people being in the crowd are tacitly (or openly) contributing their voices to that movement.
I believe that actually does happen if you installed through Google Play Store, but in this case the app was sideloaded onto the device.
Terrible solution. Nuclear is singularly unsuited to being a backup power source that is rarely used. The economics would be utterly absurd.
This really is the rule, not the exception. Every time I've deigned to wade into conservative "free-speech" zones I've been booted out for ideological nonconformity.

Tolerance is a peace treaty:
https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...
The Roman Republic had that exact behavior of different rules in times of crisis. That landed them with Julius Caesar who refused to return his power, and that did not end well for republic.
While I agree with the fundamental, the is-ought divide, I think this paper is basically saying "based on a load of measurements that are obviously goals of our society, criminalisation of drug offences is acting against our own interests".
I found the best modern link, with descriptions of UN activity, in an article in the Diplomat: https://thediplomat.com/2020/08/how-facebook-is-complicit-in...
Ten predictions for 2021 (Incl. new Twitter CEO)
Monadic composition is used everywhere from simple failure (Maybe or Either) through to genuine side effects such as IO. The presence of monads does not necessarily mean side effects.

Haskell never claimed to "get rid of side effects", the idea is make them explicit in the types and to be able to reason about them.
It's adorable to go read old Scott posts and remember when I was as naieve as he is
Every tiny paradox or inconsistency can be reframed as hypocrisy, to the point where that term has lost its meaning.
> If in the future there was some method to crack the TLS or the appropriate keys/certs were leaked, any recorded traffic could be retroactively cracked.

This is incomplete. TLS does allow for ciphers that enable Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) to prevent this. Those ciphers are not the most commonly used ones, but to describe TLS the way you do implies it's a flaw in TLS.
I believe ActivityPub does allow for "Like button"-like functionality: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#liked

And, ActivityPub is already a W3C published standard...Of course, having an existing standard doesn't mean that the Facebooks's of the world will choose to adopt it.
The news are still in the "real world", but I guess it's much more expensive to do journalism there… (thankfully, investigative journalism isn't dead yet)

The comparison with radio => TV breaks down when you realize that TV is a medium much richer in information than both 140/280-character text and radio. (Of course Twitter is not just text these days.)

But anyway, I'm much more concerned about not so much journalists themselves, but rather about those people that are still trying to have discussions on Twitter. Starting with politicians, for obvious reasons.
I mean, that looks decently similar to bitmessage.
I think you generally have to read the entire article, and perhaps see the world from the perspective of a person of a different identity who has a different sort of job than most of us on HN do, to appreciate what the author is saying.

I think you also have to be fortunate in terms of your situation. There will be some families for whom this new reality is a trap. For instance, families whose elder members need assistance in terms of daily skilled care.

A lot of those family members went to some form of senior housing or assisted living pre-Pandemic. But the reality of how some states handled recovering COVID-19 patients was that spread rates were high in those settings, and a lot of families with the space and the means took their elders out of those facilities.

No matter how fortunate a family may be in terms of space and financial resources, a great deal of pressure ends up on the younger or middle-aged adults, as they are caring for both children and parents in quite a few situations.
Yeah I haven't even looked into other countries yet! So it's a mess for an indie hacker like me. I am a team of one and I don't really have the resources to keep myself compliant and up to date with this stuff...
Thank you. That's really an excellent example. I recall the early days of IRC networks being plagued by frequent "splits" as different chunks of the graph became disconnected, which was largely a result of the architecture of the servers and is probably the worst-case scenario for this sort of thing, but your example is immediately graspable.
That claim about the Crime Bill is mostly accurate. The vast, vast, vast, majority of incarceration is the fault of states and not done at a federal level. While the bill was deplorable, it didn't really contribute all that much.

https://twitter.com/johnfpfaff/status/1128369019164200960?la...