skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single player in this saga deserves nothing but contempt. Trump is reprehensible and his supporters are brainwashed. Big Tech conglomerates now openly disenfranchise and deplatform millions of people simultaneously through a coordinated effort. The implications for the future of speech and dissent are terrifying. Just disgusting and depressing in every way. An internet utopianist's nightmare.

I don't want to live in the United States of Trump. I don't want to live in the United States of Dorsey, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Pichai. The only way out is through sweeping antitrust enforcement against the entire tech industry.
I Rejected Cooking in the Name of Feminism–Until I Had to Feed Myself
Apple's ecosystem may not be right for you. It's widely known to be curated, and it seems the majority of Apple users appreciate the curation. It's possible you didn't know the state of the ecosystem when you purchased the device and agreed to the terms, and it's unfortunate you only had 14 days to discover it before the return window closed, if you purchased directly from Apple. Perhaps they will make an exception for you. I've heard they occasionally allow returns outside of that window. Some people have luck selling their devices, and report they retain high resale value.

Non sequitur: My first VCR was a BetaMax. We got it on sale without knowing much about the technology. Once we had it a few days, I really wished it handled VHS tapes, as that's all the movie rental stores had. We returned it.
Because Apple is running the store. It's their store. And users have voluntarily and intentionally bought into an ecosystem that Apple moderates and curates, because that curation has substantial benefits.

Could we stop feigning ignorance about this?
dupe, top of front page, 294 comments and growing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706993
>"You can actually nominate particular types be stored in particular etcd servers -- GKE does this to put Events into a separate etcd from everything else."

Interesting. Is this documented anywhere?
> echo system

Unintentionally funny typo. Aren't we trying to avoid that?
How have you managed to keep your knees working?
That should clearly also be removed.
I don't think that's a fair comparison. You can switch from 10S to normal mode in a few buttons.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of...
>It will be built.

I don't think we're going to get a "red" phone. Seems more likely that we'll just see people get Parler on Android through channels other than the Play Store.

>What then?

There's a lot of additional attack vectors. We've already seen Amazon move to boot Parler off its web infrastructure. If that fails to kill the platform, we'll likely see attacks on anything related to its financing, or things like CloudFlare protection. If that fails I could see progressives abandoning net neutrality to lean on ISPs to block traffic.

In reality I don't think we'll get all the way there, but we'll get close enough that a stable "red social media" ecosystem will emerge that's out of reach of cancellation. In the long run this may work out worse for everyone.
They say in the post that it would cost almost $10M/year to license H.264, and that HEVC would cost ten times that. Do you expect them to put 20-200% of their budget into a single video codec?
Regardless of my/your thoughts on Parler, godspeed to those engineers. Assuming a majority of Parler infra is hosted on AWS, and it wasn't built to be multi-cloud, moving hosting providers in ~36 hours seems like a herculean task.
It didn't go anywhere. Even in the 90s, there were all kinds of devices on which you were completely unable to run your own software.

There still are.

Nothing has fundamentally changed.
Particularly IFR.
Do you have an example? The F1 image from the post above looks pretty convincing, if you have different data then I'd be curious to see that. For example you say larger images, but what about quality? Was that not better for the larger file size? Part of this is subjective as well (I really mind the non-smooth areas and text artifacts in jpeg, other people might mind other things).
Political ideology that is unethical deserves no platform, cheating, killing, attacking, are all examples of that. Nobody deserves to get a platform, and nobody gets to trample other peoples’ rights either.
> If the US has "lost" Asia as a partner, can it maintain its supply chain dependence?

Yes, but it has to maintain it in a different way (The same way that nearly all other nations maintain trading partners).

When there's something unusual that it wants, instead of being able to negotiate via the threat of gunboat diplomacy (or by offering protection from gunboat diplomacy), it must come to the negotiating table with concessions on offer.
Both Square and PayPal are public and support "buying" of Crypto on their platforms. Coinbase is going to be IPOing soon into much fanfare.
> I don't find it sexist, I'll keep using it.

How do women in your industry feel about it?
Pretty hard to have a voice during COVID times without social media?
Thank you, that clarifies quite a bit for me. I've heard this happens in parts of India from quite a few people I know too.

I'd hazard a traveler's experience can highlight a culture's stereotypes more easily than it can the experience of a naturalized member of the community.

I used to love watching Bourdain's travel series for exactly this reason; he seemed to always want to get the deeper context and insight from the people he'd meet and his narration showed a firm understanding of how who he was and where he came from influenced his experience of a place/culture and the conclusions he'd draw (if any).
Yes, fascists living in their own bubble end up congregating just with fascists because most of the rest of society doesn't want anything to do with them. This is a recurring theme in history.
> At this point we are heading towards a complete mitosis of our information channels based on political ideology.

Not just information channels. This is probably going to go well beyond just news: next, businesses. The orthodoxy does not know boundaries.
> If they can do this to a sitting President of the US, they can do it to every single one of us.

I've seen this exact statement on various other platforms from conservative commentators. And it's basically horseshit. Now you're concerned? Seriously? Google accounts have been locked out with no recourse for years, apple bans apps left and right and facebook 'moderates' posts based on some interesting thresholds.

I find it disingenuous to suddenly care about this when Trump finally gets kicked off twitter and a horde of extremists are blocked from inciting violence against the government.

You wanted free markets? Here they are. If you have a problem with it, move to a different platform. Build your own platform. Host it yourself. Nobody owes you anything.

And guess what? Because of the republican led FCC, the ISPs can block your extreme right-wing website. Total freedom for the ISP to do whatever the fuck they want.
One hard lesson that quarantine taught me is how important eating protein rich meals and committing to any amount of exercise in the morning and mid-day is.

Even 10-20 pushups and a few leg lifts drastically improves my energy and focus - certainly helps deal with frustrated anxious energy that sometimes comes with having difficulty focusing or being locked inside for a while.

I might notice this more than others since I'm very ADHD but I hope to keep up with this routine one stay at home orders start to relax a bit.
Awwww... can't little mookie get himself a gay wedding cake anymore? Sad.
They can ban individual accounts calling for violence (which happens on both the extreme left and extreme right). But it's only socially acceptable to ban one of those, the other gets a free ride.
> tech companies can snuff voices out of existence

lol what? I can’t even name a single person who has no method of communicating due to “tech companies”. Even Stormfront is still online.
What part of the slides support that? All it says is 'loss of performance on some mobile devices'.
Yes. Technologies that make copyright infringement easy and consequence-free effectively reduce the duration of copyright terms to almost nothing whether the copyright industry wants it or not.
> Instead, make it a habit.

This is really the key. I workout out every morning and have for years. The exact time has bounced between first thing and mid-morning, but I do it every day. Eventually you stop thinking about it and it’s just what you do, just like brushing your teeth.
How certain are you of that? You might want to think back to January 6th when assessing your certainty.
> So your goal then is to memory hole any account that could lead to anyone using it as justification for violence

Yes, but only if he/she has massive following that can actually incite "mob violence". With great power, comes great responsibility, while Trump is a kid who has been blaming everyone else for his defeat.
Dead cops and civilians are not a political ideology. Don’t conflate incitement for free speech.
Puppetserver 6: a Debian packaging post-mortem
+1 for Children of the Magenta Line. Seminal work.
I agree IC cars can be sold for 20k profitably especially when people add options. But that’s starting at a 43% price jump from the ultra low end. However, with current battery prices a 25k EV with decent range is going to need to be cut down with near Mirage levels of options, or be closer to 30k than 25k for Tesla to profitably sell them.

Granted, Tesla could put a 150 mile battery in it but that’s also a major compromise.
The same folks who think you can't force a bakery to bake a gay cake want to force Apple to distribute an app or Twitter to publish anyone's nonsense.

You can't have it both ways. For the self-proclaimed free-marketers, how is this different?

It's about scale. We have an antitrust issue, not a free speech issue.
So was everyone on Parler guilty by default? That's an interesting way of seeing the world.
I'm over here trying to have a fun, hypothetical mind-game with arbitrary & made-up rules, and you've got to go and ruin it with "it's complicated" realities. :-)

But of course, you're correct.

And Carter (and Nixon and Ford) obviously didn't have the foresight to realize the ultimate impact of the process/decision. Yet they would have been aware it was a major, influential policy decision.

Does "starting the process" count as an ultimately-weighty-political-decision?

Along the lines of "Deciding to drop the bomb on Hiroshima," if you want to count that as a decision by one person. Of course it was also just one node of a decision tree that was a long, complicated chain-of-events.
Given the difficulty and investment involved to engineer and produce codecs - I'd argue those guys deserve every penny of their royalties.
An annexation of Taiwan would have big implications for the security of US and allies like South Korea, Japan, Thailand, (formerly) the Philippines. Taiwan is an unsinkable aircraft carrier that has immense strategic value.

Vietnam and other countries (including Russia) are worried about China's territorial expansionism and annexing the South China Sea.

Public policy experts are worried about the failed policy of "appeasement" that was used in WW2. Basically territorial ambitions increase when concessions happen.

Taiwan is continues to be free to decide to unify with China by the ballet box though. If they have a free and fair election and decide to join China, the world will go along with it.
How much money did you donate to ol donny boy?
I'm well aware that they curate. I can still complain about it try to fix it though, since I like all the other things Apple does. I don't want to switch, I just want my device to be better.
Because the definition of nazi or white supremacist widens every day. What is acceptable today is racist next week.
I would be open to a discussion about some kind of “fairness doctrine” for these companies - but as is, if it’s a private company, they are under no obligation to host speech they disagree with.

Is it problematic that people take social rejection as a reason to further radicalize? Sure - but such is human existence - and where is their personal responsibility to observe their social environment and alter their behaviors/beliefs if they are unhappy with the results they are receiving?
A band-aid? It's more like a tourniquet.
There are several points in your comment that don't match up with my experience.

> Majority of sellers on Lazada were just dropshipping from Chinese wholesalers

Before Alibaba acquisition this was not the case. In fact, it was the Alibaba integration that facilitated this. Secondly, as far as I know it's not drop shipping but they're actual Alibaba sellers that've been onboarded to Lazada.

> There is great profit incentive/arbitrage

Not sure what you mean by this exactly but there's little incentive for arbitrage because because they were Alibaba sellers but also because Alibaba delivers directly as well. So it was more of a marketing move rather than arbitrage. The integration did speed up shipping times however.

> High Tariffs. High Customs/Customs issues. Physical customs inspection. High shipping times.

I have only limited experience with import and that's with tobacco which was time consuming but orderly. For Alibaba goods however, the only one that applies is the high shipping times.

Furthermore for the vast majority of goods below a certain value none of these apply.

> last mile of fulfillment is the issue

Overall true, but there are other issues rather than just being spread out. Specifically traffic, bad infrastructure and operational inefficiencies that impact last mile delivery efficiency even in urban centers.

> consumer base being very spread out

Of course heavily depends on the country with Singapore and Malaysia being far ahead, but Indonesia and Thailand being ~50-60% in urban areas.

> bike courier is still most common way of delivery

If you mean bicycle, that's definitely not the case. If you mean motorcycle, again heavily dependent on the country as well as the use-case.

For instance in Vietnam and Indonesia motorcycles are used frequently, but in Malaysia and Singapore less so. Bicycles are only a gimmick.

Motorcycles are also frequently used for more ad-hoc fulfillment.

> Postal Mail does not work/will not deliver.

1. This might have been true ~5+ years ago but isn't any longer.

2. Even if it was, the post wasn't as developed here as in other parts of the world so a lot of third party logistics providers sprung up to fill the gap and they've better service.
hell yeah. no #hugops from me. don’t market yourself as a haven for nazis if you don’t want people to hate you and kick you out
Historically fascists movements have always been finished through bloodshed.
You keep saying that word but I'm not sure you know what it means.
Even if you overlook the sexism angle, it's always been legally dubious since Playboy owns the copyright and never gave permission for it to be used by researchers.

Plus the canonical 1970s-era digitization is low resolution and lacking in detail compared to modern digital photography. Take all three factors together and it's clearly time to move on.
> New York City was not overwhelmed in the first wave, and had both Javits and the Mercy as unused spare capacity.

This is not in line with the facts as I understand them. Multiple health care workers I know told me in March-April that their ability to treat Covid patients were capped by constrained resources (not enough ventilators, not enough staff, not enough beds) during the first wave. Here [1] is an article that supports these anecdotes.

Also, the Navy hospital ships refused to accept patient transfers, even as the hospitals were completely full [2]. "On top of its strict rules preventing people infected with the virus from coming on board, the Navy is also refusing to treat a host of other conditions. " and "Mr. Dowling said he has had to tear his hospitals apart, retrofitting any unused space, including lobbies and conference rooms, into hospital wards.".

So no, you are incorrect. NY hospitals were absolutely overrun during the first wave. Please do not perpetuate a narrative that isn't supported by facts.

1) https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/us/brooklyn-hospital-coronavi...

2) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-u...
It is not because you can that you should.
there's also https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV

which spawned quite a lot of discussion here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22011358
I was just saying to someone I know, there is literally no amount of internet censorship that would upset me for the simple reason that I grew up before social media was a thing, so shutting it all down in a worst case scenario does not seem apocalyptic or totalitarian.

I'm not sure I want to eliminate all freedom on the public internet, but I just have been thinking that people are really exaggerating the stakes here.

And it seems especially weird for the right to be so frightened, because surely when "America was great" was before this era of Facebook and Twitter? Weren't we free then?
It likely doesn't stop with Parler. Fox News, OANN and Newsmax also have targets on their backs placed by the incoming regime.
> IIRC, H.264 is one of a few non-Google technologies that is included in Chrome, but is not included in Chromium.

That's interesting, I never missed it and use both Chromium and Firefox. Apparently we can do without this tax. Or might a nonfree codec package in Debian have something to do with it? I did hear someone complain once about my sending a nonfree video format (in a jovial manner), not sure about the details anymore but it played out of the box for me (in Chromium).
IIRC China has much more relaxed safety standards than the USA. That alone could explain the discounted price, and would not be predictive of what the car would cost Stateside.
You need to do some light reading.

If it's important enough: https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/integr...

If it's not, he can call a press conference which will be broadcasted over the internet.
Reading Amazon's reasoning, tech companies are basically setting a standard that if you want to have user-generated content, you must have professional moderators. This seems like it will be a barrier to innovation.
Can you provide a reference for this? (I believe you, I would just love to read more about it)
Risible.
I was ok with Facebook doing it, I'm not ok with a hosting kicking a paying customer out like this.
Parler is openly and proudly hosting violent content.

Their entire claim to fame is hosting the content no one else will host, but the obvious downside is no one will host you if that's your business plan.
I don't know if there was fraud or not, and haven't investigated deeply, but I thought there was at least a reasonable case from this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nuMe7DDnpY&t=3s

and from reading parts of the Texas lawsuit.

Roughly half the nation supported Trump; from polling, it's somewhere around 25%-50% of the population that thinks there was fraud. It's not reasonable to just write all of those people off as crazy cult members.

If you want a healthy, democratic society, you need to engage concerns with good faith.

How'd that quote go, that was so popular last summer?

Oh, right --

"Riots are the language of the unheard."
I was curious about the math for this so I found one of my high step count days. It was 40k steps with 34.6km ran/walked, so 60k steps would be around 47-48km, let's round up to 50km. A 5km/hour pace is actually more of a stroll (for me) so 10 hours would be the high end for me for walking 60k steps. I wouldn't be able to bring it down to 5 hours without getting into a jogging or slow run pace (10km/hour), though at the time I probably could've done that (I was running long distances regularly. So for me a 60k day suggests 7.5-10 hours of walking. I looked at some other high step count days (25-35k) days and they show similar numbers to that one.
I want to be fair. I think this /is/ fair. It’s hard for me to see how giving a platform and amplification ability to avowed racists and insurrections is a good idea. They can always start their own platforms. The only point I disagree is taking apps out of app stores. Otherwise, most of what had been happening seems well principled to me. And not a post-hoc partisan beat down.
Wait, should Amazon be obligated to host an app being used to organize anti-government violence?
Sweet Jesus, a 40 watt tube amplifier with just one pair of kt88s cranked all the way up will just about make your eardrums explode. I can’t even imagine what madness led this lunatic to put 18 of them in each channel!

.. but now I want one
> his supporters are brainwashed

So, it would seem that there is a problem here. What could possible solutions be? Perhaps attempting to stem the flow of the radicalisation and brainwashing?

> Big Tech conglomerates now openly disenfranchise and deplatform millions of people simultaneously through a coordinated effort.

OK, so you don't like that approach to stopping brainwashing. What is your preferred solution?

Would you like government to instead mandate that web platforms must continue to enable the brainwashing?
I remembered when I was interning about 10 years ago at Lockheed Martin doing computer vision work, we were using the Lenna image as a testbed image inside Matlab. I remember when I was installing the repo, my manager told me to use the Lenna image, and I asked him what it was, and he said "don't google it on a work computer!".

He explained to me the origins, and actually gave me the image file from a flash drive, just to minimize the likelihood of me getting in trouble. While obviously the normal Lenna image itself is fairly innocuous, he was afraid that porn might come up if I were to look up anything in Google images, which probably would not look great on an intern's computer.

In hindsight, maybe it's best to not use images that could risk getting anyone in trouble, not to mention that it probably breeds a "boy's club" atmosphere.
Arabic uses derivatives of words for specific connotations.

"nusi" means "has been forgotten", "instasa" means "made to have been forgotten", but in this case it might be used for what was described in the article.
I misread the OP as NASA, which was careless but I still think the observation is worth noting. Also worth noting is that there is a museum on the NSA campus (National Cryptologic Museum) that anyone can visit without any clearance, and though there are vastly trickier chicanes to contend with compared to the access at NASA administrative HQ, merely visiting the cryptologic museum ushers one past several otherwise highly restricted perimeter zones.
This is smart from a strategic standpoint. Parler is highly likely to be where the next terrorist announces their crime and there will never be a more volatile time this year for that to happen (fingers crossed). Amazon gets to dodge that bad PR nearly for free.

It’s garbage from a civil rights standpoint though lol
what's the incentive to work on a sars vaccine? the outbreak was contained before a vaccine was approved so they stopped work.
>extremely relevant given everything going on

What exactly do you mean by that?
I think you're right about antitrust. Apple prevents side loading so this goes beyond them deciding not to distribute. So even if parler wanted to self distribute it can't (for iPhones at least).
The entire backbone of the internet should not be in the hands of less than 5 companies.
I don't think an unsubstantiated general predication about people making a wild assumption has much to do with the point that nothing is going to protect people from performance pitfalls who don't learn the bare basics about what they are doing.
Firefox has ~220M monthly active users [0], which would easily hit the current maximum royalty cap of $6.5M per year, so more than 10% of their yearly budget going to a single ancient codec.

[0]: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
My Roku TV has a YouTube app that works perfectly as far as I can tell.