skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulations like this are great and I applaud them. But they do harm innovation, because often the cost to become compliant with such new regulations is fixed. So the cost for a large corporation to be compliant is roughly similar to the cost of a startup to be compliant. This makes it comparatively harder for startups to get going and thereby gives large companies an unfair advantage. This stifles competition and innovation.

We are seeing this first-hand with our startup in the EU investment space. The costs to be compliant with the various regulations (MiFID, AML, etc...) are mostly fixed, so they're a lot harder for small firms to implement such as ourselves than for large firms. That's also why a lot of smaller firms are merging into larger firms.

As a solution, there should be relaxed regulations for startups. They would have to be fully compliant only once they reach a certain scale.
I’m not - I’m pointing out that the fact that a minority of the country thinks something simply is not evidence that it is true.

Opinion polls are not evidence of truth.
>> Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler? Zero. The planning was largely done on Facebook. This is all a bullshit pretext for silencing competitors on ideological grounds: just the start.

> This is almost certainly false. For example, see the arrest of the leader of the Proud Boys (for events prior to Capitol, but played active role on Parler encouraging proud boys violence that day):

And this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/technology/capitol-twitte...:

> Those alternative social media sites were rife with Trump supporters organizing and communicating on Wednesday. On Parler, one trending hashtag was #stormthecapitol. Many Trump supporters on the sites also appeared to believe a false rumor that Antifa, a left-wing movement, was responsible for committing violence at the protests.

> “WAKE UP AMERICA, IT’S ANTIFA and BLM operatives who are committing the violence, NOT TRUMP SUPPORTERS!,” said one Parler account member called @Trumpfans100, offering no evidence for the claims.

Even though Greenwald is wrong, he's not totally wrong. I think he's correct that the "majority" of the planning happened on Facebook, but that was kind of a funnel to Parler. My understanding is that was mostly for seemingly legit stuff, event for protests, was done on Facebook. Those pages then linked to Parler, where more extreme planning took place, out-of-reach from Facebook's policies.
So your meet in the middle position is, just to be clear, that terrorists get to dictate the makeup of the civil service by threatening to murder anyone they don't like?
No, the twitter rules don't make caveats for different positions in society. They are blanket rules that should apply to everyone equally but are not. That's the entire point I'm making.
The same as VOA, Epoch time(This one is not directly sponsored by government fund). Their main audience are not English speakers.

Some of Chinese audience see the news in somehow opposite direction: True is likely(but not certainly) False. It's a little more than "not credible".

There is another group always fighting against non-believers and saying they are "wumao"

To some point VOA (A lot of Chinese think they are the same but actually not.Just content similar) was criticized by US government that they are helping CCP. What they really did was put some objective/neutral news. It's likely that the management tried to improve their impression and make them more conceptional because Chinese editors of VOA seem quite delusional to fabricate stories. They are much better now that they misleading with some events really happened but mixed with their interpretations.

A lot of their content show up in: https://www.backchina.com/news/
You have to under Chinese though.
Is the allegation in this case that RFA is misreporting this story in order to avoid undercutting US geopolitical interests? It seems like the goalposts are moving in a way that still doesn't support the implied accusation.
I hadn't thought about it this way. I assume marijuana dispensaries/businesses are one of the examples you're referencing?
Agreed. Without sources, this story could be totally made up. That being said, who really knows what the CPC is planning to do with Alibaba right now, if anything.

> But if China goes down this route, it looks like fears of China economically overtaking the US are overblown.

Agreed also. This would be the worst possible thing the government could do to China's tech economy.
> what a high-school civics test final would be

Maybe that's the level you feel comfortable with? That's great until someone smarter than you comes along and thinks that the test is too easy and too many "uneducated" people are voting. I love history and politics, but I don't know everything and I know that there are tests that can be drafted that I can't pass. Are you willing to be on the outside looking in, willing to be presented with a test so hard you can't pass it and can't vote? Willing to be represented by officials that you can never peacefully vote out of office? How long until a narcissist decides that they're the only one smart enough to vote? That's unfortunately the fate of every country that's fallen into a dictatorship.

I see that you want an educated electorate but voting tests have been tried before and tons of innocent, smart, well-intentioned people get cut off in the process. Democracy is the only form of government we know of where we can meaningfully and non-violently express our collective opinion as a group. When you take a vote away from someone, they're left with a choice between compliance or violence, neither of which are good.

Maybe, the paid public education you mention would still be a good idea, just without the voting rights test.
This sound like a very credible source then.
Probably a hack or a troll. Was hoping the HN hive mind could shed some light
I said no such thing. You should not make assumptions about other people.
Doesn't mean anything besides people want to buy Apple stock, for a myriad number of reasons.
Discord is awesome but does not have support for end-to-end encryption AFAIK
Ah yes, good point. I mentioned that elsewhere in the thread… but I guess I forgot when I started doing my own research, because the notion that you could livestream your participation in a terrorist attack at the Capitol and not get arrested immediately is absolutely bananas.
Aaron's writing were often thought provoking for me. I often feel I should do more advocacy for the most important causes in this world.
It's sad to see unsubstantiated hearsay as the top comment. I'm sure every billionaire in China has multiple escape routes. Guo Wengui certainly did, nor is he a "peasant."
Have a conversation that's more reasonable. Instead of "Do black people deserve to live" which we all agree with, we can have talks of, "What are the reasons for poverty and violence in the black community." And maybe not calling everyone with a non-woke perspective a racist or an uncle Tom.
I'll probably burn some karma on this, but I have to ask as I'm genuinely trying to form a consistent opinion on these topics and understand better. Given that lots of people on HN are advocating in favor of Parler being deplatformed on the grounds it was used by groups to advocate and coordinate violence, and given that it's not a stretch to imagine that e2e encrypted communication apps like Signal have groups on them spreading "fake news" and "advocating violence" and cannot be moderated, how does one reconcile supporting Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp, but not Parler? What's the fundamental moral or technical difference that makes one ethical but not the other?
It's not political. It's an immediate refusal of service to a client that is clearly causing commercial harm to AWS. They have no obligation to host Parler!
>>147 congresspeople voted to throw out the votes from an entire state, even after their party had pursued the appropriate legal remedies

Hey wait, they had the opportunity to vote their conscience on it? Does that mean they were Constitutionally empowered to raise and decide the question?

The USA is a republic, and explicitly not a democracy, said status having been debated early on and pure democracy was found seriously wanting in the qualities needed for a just and lasting society of free people.
This I've experienced as well, plus various UI/UX glitches and inconsistencies. It's getting slowly better though it seems.
I disagree that the purpose of ethics as an academic discipline is to tell people what to do.
Not sure about today, but didn't f-droid sign all apps with an f-droid key, meaning you have to trust f-droid instead of Whisper systems?

From a security point of view it seems quite reasonable to object to f-droid handling all signatures.
The concern TFA raises isn't that these companies are obligated to do business with Parler, but rather that it's troubling that a small cabal of players can effectively blackball a business from 99% of certain important markets. In the case of the smartphone app market, it only takes two such players to completely blackball an app (modulo those users who are savvy enough and willing to install apps outside of that marketplace).
Let me congratulate you on a more balanced comment on China than 99% of the users here. It is still a little bit naive or supremacist but dont let us the perfect being enemy of the good.
That's Voice of America, VOA
Agree with most of what you've written -- thanks for the thoughtful response. Was going to respond that I recall the F-35 uses C++, but that's probably not a good argument ...

Regarding choice of language, I've reached a level of general competence where I don't really find any intractable problems that I can't handle with my toolset. So part of this may be just personal preference where there's no justification for slogging through the cost of learning yet another language, especially if I don't find it fun to program in. I used to invest a lot of time in learning new languages but I no longer find this a good use of my time.

I own a handful of Haskell books, and I was originally interested in Haskell for abstraction / DSLs. One idea was to go directly from a human-readable binary file-format description to an importer/exporter for that file type.

Questions on a couple of themes:

1) I have gone back to uni to study biophysics and learning biology deeply as well as previous machine-learning experience is making me think that fuzzy / probabilistic / redundant is actually the way to go for reliable complex systems. What we consider to be complex computer systems are actually ridiculously simple compared to biological mechanisms.

2) Are we in a transitional phase such that inventing better programming languages is an inefficient (though of course interesting and possibly instructive) path? Do we get machine-programmers soon enough that programming-language design stops mattering? By analogy think of all the effort still being spent on machine-readable data formats when we're close to having machines that read. At that point anything human-readable becomes machine-readable and your schema doesn't really matter.
This is the same Amazon AWS that has our CIA as one of its biggest customers?
fwiw, signal has a decent client for macos
You cant really be using a letter from the company that dropped them as a source. Of course they are going to say all of this. Twitter just recently let hang mike pence trend for a while until it was taken down. Did they act fast enough? This is all subject to interpretation. We just had a summer of riots that caused quite a bit of destruction, did they act fast enough there? Again, there isnt a science to this, its highly discretionary.
That's a single legal scholar's interpretation, not even a historian's.
Interesting. I actually have kinda bad experience with writing some integration for Shopify. Mainly I was under the impression that they have to be good since they are so famous, but the developer experience is lacking.

For instance, they are migrating REST API to GraphQL so something can be done using their official Python client, while some other things can't.
> Things like tabs and a proper scrollbar are a minimum for me.

I use xterm in tmux, no need for native scrollbar or tabs.
This is a terrible public notification. What is the scope of the breach? Their forum software? The accounts Unifi customers can use for cloud-based admin of their private networks? Support tickets?

It doesn't inspire one iota of confidence. Quite the opposite.
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/11/21249203/venezuela-coup-jordan...
Steam and especially CS:GO has a problem with phishing sites (with fake Steam OpenID pages) where attackers (after getting access to the Steam accounts) can automatically create permanent access to accounts by generating API keys to control those phished accounts.

This is used e.g. to swap trade offers in realtime, i.e., a trade offer with the actual account is replaced by a trade offer with a bot with a similar looking profile (all set up automatically).
All of this is done in the timeframe between the user setting up the trade offer and the actual 2FA mobile confirmation of this trade.

People are being phished like this for years and Valve fails to take the responsibility to implement a simple anti automation measure at the part of API key generation (e.g. email confirmation or captcha).

The monetary damage done to users is probably in the high thousands, if not millions, at this point in time.
Biking in the city is its own beast - no bones about that.
Bug/error.
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There is clearly some collateral damage. Relatively few protesters, versus the millions of people without a free platform to speak on.
It's not the same organization.

The RFA from the 1977 article and the RFA today were separated by 44 years.

Perhaps you're confused because they have the same name.
> Is this not an absurd standard considering section 230 exists? Where the govt literally tells platforms to not moderate?

Section 230 does not "literally [tell] platforms to not moderate". It removes some degree of liability for content not produced by the host itself.

If I, on Twitter, make a false statement (libel) against someone, Twitter is not liable for it (I am). Now, Twitter could remove that false statement (on its own or directed by a court as part of or after a suit against me by the injured party). Whether they need to remove it in order to avoid liability would depend on various other circumstances. For instance, if my content is actually illegal (by some measure) then Twitter could actually be legally obligated under other rules. But they remain free of liability for the post itself so long as they (eventually) comply with the law and remove it. But if they permit the illegal content to remain, then they could eventually become liable for it (per other statutes).

Moderation is, as a consequence of the laws in place, both permitted and occasionally mandated.
I have a link in the post on how to use a twilio number instead of your real phone number. Signal PINS is the first step to making non-phone number identification work.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...
I always used neon-light transformers.

Dirt cheap or even free, since bars often had promotional ones they didn't pay for, or ones with broken glass that they were happy to be rid of.

I also clearly remember thinking that these were a lot safer to use than old CRTs, but I have no idea why and don't recall the reasoning for it.
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Yes but if there's political/public support, Big Tech will sure jump in and get rid of their potential competitor.
Thank you!

@dang, the forum post is more appropriate here than the mailchimp link - it's source is unambiguously from UI.
At that power any spill would still be a very strong signal.

Directional antennas are like gun silencers. They cause the signal to be many times weaker and it seems a lot until you figure out that the receiver works on a log scale and whatever is left is still registered as a strong signal.
Even calling it "maintenance mode" is a bit too generous. It's effectively abandoned. Which is a shame, I really liked it and its various features.
Telegram bot to find groups which the person is member of
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Yes, many good points, but some of the same problems exist in the West and in the Asian democracies: covid, debt, aging demographics.

China does have one compelling advantage: its enormous population. Even if a horrible plague or even a civil war happened and 100m people died, they still have plenty of people to accomplish anything they want.

They have Ph.D. scientists, many trained at top Western universities, who are equal to anyone in the West. They are doing an amazing job in manufacturing and technology; virtually all high value objects are manufactured in China, and, increasingly, designed there as well.

They're pushing into automotive and aerospace and every other field. I don't see them slowing down any time soon.
Well depends on what your motives are when you are reading china related news. Do you want an accurate depiction of that's actually going on or do you want to read stuff that reaffirms your bias.
The actual article linked has provided zero evidence that CCP is trying to nationalize Alibaba. So to me that's a low quality article that I think should not appear on hn
> I'm struggling to try to understand what this means for the risks of running a business in the cloud going forward. It was not just AWS dropping them, but many of their other vendors dropped them too, essentially killing their business overnight.

Businesses that are not terror cells have nothing to worry about. Companies have always pulled away from extremist groups. You wouldn't expect Microsoft to accept a contract with ISIS, would you?

This is really not that complicated. Once you attempt to overthrow a country's government, businesses in that country don't want to work with you. This has always been true.
Lol no. Countries with the least corporations have the most corrupt politicians.
Question for you smart people:

I don't have a FB Profile hence don't have the FB App nor FB Messenger, but I do use whatsapp extensively. Do I need to be overly concerned with whatsapp's privacy changes?
Not a Yankee. And sorry for misspelling and hurting your feelings.
Thank you for mention this! I don't know why Wire is not mentioned in thread like this. It is best without meta data collection (such as phone number). You can register with just an email and it is based on the encryption protocol that Signal uses. On top of that, the server is written in Haskell!!! Yes, Signal server is in Java, btw. Which is not bad. And Wire is based in Switzerland, with GDPR in Europe it has better data privacy jurisdictions.
That sounds miserable. Fighting (an office of) City Hall is a painful experience.

You must have some idea of why they are obstructing though, right? An electrical permit is an indirect block, so I'm guessing you've fought other battles with the office in the past?

In any case, you have a right to file the permit. The office might make your life hell through documented denials or overzealous inspections, but getting the permit filed should be non-controversial. Once filed, they must approve or deny. If denied, there is a formal appeals process which can run through different people/departments. If you have the time and energy for it, of course.

Anyway, I know you are not here soliciting advice, but my next step would be to bring a lawyer to the filing office to ensure that the application is filed, and that no further assault occurs. Good luck.
You are 100% correct. We expected to see a drop in activity after the interest in show reduced, but we're still hitting records day after day. Crazy.
> A naive observer, reading the reports of falling prices for photovoltaic cells and wind turbines, might conclude that the rising shares of solar and wind power will bring a new era of falling electricity prices. Just the opposite has been true.

This is utter nonsense. The first sentence is about the future cost of power, and the argument is specifically about how the price is changing such that the future cost will be lower. The second sentence then argues that the past deployments have led to higher prices.

Even the most uninformed observer of global energy markets can pull up 2020 PPA auctions and see the staggering void that has emerged between bids from gas, coal and nuclear vendors vs bids from solar+storage and wind+storage.

As a random example, here is the draft plan Siemens is drawing up for my hometown, it includes PPA estimates for gas turbines, wind and solar+storage, current as of a few weeks ago. The recommendation from Siemens is to immediately stop all construction of anything other than solar+storage, a complete reversal from prior plans for my utility in bright-red Missouri.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e8NCSh6VNJVpiUVyw5-XVCo-o1h... (see page 7)
Some of it caused by too much reliance on tools like yacc.

Category grammars were much better but more resource demanding, just like proper ASTs instead compiling as one goes.

Ironically there were already some attempts to Smalltalk like tooling for C++ back then, but again as you mention too much resource constraints.
> 850 million people out of poverty. This is not something a reasonable person can argue against!

I'd argue against it on the grounds that the planet doesn't have enough resources for everyone to live a middle class lifestyle.
This is similar to Bannerbear's offering but better! Good job!
Except I doubt that's how it will work. They just have to get Apple and Google to bow to the pressure again and remove it from the app store. Restricting the first amendment is a lot easier if you can effectively do it without actually doing it officially.
AWS is within their legal rights. This thread is about the ethics of what they did and this is clear.

I didn't say anything about removing moderation. In fact I talked about reporting the offending posts and making sure the website owner took action within a timely fashion, action which includes reporting the details to the authorities.

Parler was one of the few sites that required a photo ID verification to make posts, precisely for that kind of reason. If they wanted to turn a blind eye, they would have kept it anonymous.
>Facebook runs on AWS?

That means you as a Infrastructure provider can jugge what normally justice will do, but when you have the money to run your own DC you can jump over that problems? Don't you see that this is the opposite of a free society? It does not matter if it's extreme right or left, Wikileaks, Wikipedia Pirate-bay or Sci-hub.

BTW: Totally not right wing, but in a free an fair society justice should have the decision if a Service is illegal and NOT Market-providers like Amazon Google or Apple.
If you read messages from the moderators, its normally not about censoring, it's more about keeping up with moderating content. That sub is heavily brigaded (I saw some based that was at 17% upvote). And any sub that has toxic comments on it will be removed by the admins. Going flare only makes their job way easier.
So... what is any better?

I mean, I guess, hiring you to find vulnerabilities, is the pitch.

I'm curious whether your team would have found this kind of steam vulnerability.
Haha by all means! =)
Why is the answer to make me the enemy just because I spoke my mind?
The best indiction is that this news (if real) would have spread like wildfire through official channels. There's no way the news media wouldn't have been informed before some change to a minor state department web page was pushed to prod.
I feel bad for normal conservatives. They clearly exist, but they're getting quiet because the brand is severely tarnished right now. Then the only people talking are the Trump supporters, and the loop is reinforced.